I admit that you make valid points, but if youre connected to the internet, youre part of everyone's network. If you don't want that kind of traffic, pull the plug. IMHO, I think that if you are part of the internet, there are a few things that youre going to have to put up with.
More like finding a house and going to take a look at it. I just want to find a little bit about it. How it was constructed. Are they using brick or stone, gravel driveway or paved, fence or no fence. Same analogy, are they using linux or bsd(or whatever), webserver or no webserver, ssh or not...
You may think that this is stupid, but as I said in the post above, I'm just interested in what theyre running. I said in my post above that I sometimes scan on my university network. Here's two examples where port scanning has either benefited me or someone else.
1. I portscanned the mail server here and realized that it is also running a lot of services than the ones I thought. One of these was a webserver. I connected, and learned that I can config my account via the web. Not a bad thing to know because it's all done using an encrypted session. On those times that I don't have an ssh client(such as when I'm at the library), I can still configure my count without having the whole world see it.
2. When I first met my roommate this year, I decided to scan his computer. Little to his knowledge, someone had put netbus on his computer. I informed him(actually, by playing his computer while he was at it, it was quite funny) and then removed it.
Case in point. Theyre are many uses of a portscanner. Not every portscan means that the next action of the scanner will be an attack. I'm sure it's a very small percentage.
Finally we see a little intelligence from our court systems. I mean, I do not do any sort of cracking, but I love to know what people are doing with their boxes. I have port scanned many of the servers around my university just to see what they're running. Port scanning does not hurt the network at all, it just throws a few packets at each port trying to establish a connection and then moves on. When can we schedule this judge to hear the decss case??
If it's all about helping the poor and feeding the hungry, why are you posting on slashdot?? No one is required to devote their lives to causes which only you feel are noble, give me a break.
I'm a big fan of Linux. I am happy everytime it beats any other operating system in performance(especially an os from redmond). But, those stats you just linked to are the worst I've seen in the world. They mean absolutely nothing in the world. The linux computer had 4 to 8 times as much memory in those tests. If you are going to make a benchmark, all hardware has to be identical.
We offer our
students space on several file servers
Well, if this is the case, why don't you juse encourage the use of such file servers. I haven't had the use of a floppy disk in years because of the wonderfulness of file servers(Of course I just usually save it to a directory on my own box and remotely connect to it by http).
The main advantage of this is that you can forget your floppy, but if youre at a computer connected to the internet, then youre good to go. Start encouraging the students to use this...once they do, they'll never turn back.
Basically you have to use a special IPv6 router. It is called a 6to4 router, in that it works to send the ipv6 packets across ipv4 networks with no knowledge of ipv6. You have to understand that packets won't really go anywhwere if the routers don't support it. Check out this article. It was posted in a slashdot story yesterday in the bsd section.
Now lets use the same technology to make laptop batteries last longer. I know there has been research done into this, now lets implement it.I figure that whether fragging or typing I could put a little more time to the battery life.
I think in general when bugs are first found, there should be a small window of time given to the developers to fix the bug. There is no need to publish a bug only to let every script kiddy out there crack your box. 45 days is pushing it way too far. Sure it's good that CERT is going to release more information, but I think that a more realistic set of time is three days. I think I read somewhere in which someone from OpenBSD stated that most security bugs can be fixed within an hour if the bug is known. Three days would be plenty of time. I know that some open-source zealots might think that all bugs should be reported immediately, but in truth this should only be the case when it is a true community project such as the linux kernel. Just because something is put under the GPL, does not mean that it doesn't have a main set of centralized developers.
Yeah, but the cookie that logs you into amazon is unencrypted. The login is when you first go to the site. Thus, someone could easily put that very same data into a cookie file for their own browser, go to amazon.com, it would automatically log the person in, and then they could take advantage of the one click shopping. Of course all the stuff they would buy would go straight to your address because it's impossible to change your address in the amazon database without entering a password.
I would, if I had the coding experience...in fact, I will when I have enough knowledge to start or at least work on a project like this...but unfortunately I just started learning my first computer language(c++) a few months ago...I'm learning fast and want to be able to get onto some big projects once I have the knowledge...until then, I can only give encouragement(something which you seem to lack in your post) to other coders...
I never knew this was gone...this is the first time I've heard of it...but I'm glad it's here...one of the problems which makes people less enthusiastic about linux is its lack of games. Granted, these aren't the market killing games out there for other platforms like Diablo or Halflife, but this is a good way to attract attention to the gaming side of linux. I think that a good thing to do would be to start open source gaming projects. It would be a lot of fun, and if enough people got into it, a great game could be created. With the advent of cross-platform gaming libraries, we might be able to see such things.
If youre interested in starting up a group, start one, make games...this is the way linux will succeed...don't sit around saying to yourself that this is what needs to be done, do it...
Open source projects like gnupg make sure that all of their content is created and distributed outside the U.S. The OpenBSD project and the OpenSSH project have their ftp servers outside the U.S. so they'll not have to deal with U.S. laws regarding encryption. Not really new news, just a new application what other people have been doing for a long time.
I think that's a very good point. Everybody gets excited when they have the ability to get lyrics from russia because now the site is not breaking any laws. But what if someone were to take linux, find some flaws and improve them, then distribute it binary only from russia? would we have any power to stop them?
It works both ways. Foreign countries have laws that can both help the what some of us believe in hurt it also. Don't forget that.
As a side note, I have some mp3's...theyre illegal too. I don't believe I have some right to these mp3's. In fact I know that I don't. I do have a problem with how artists are treated by the recording industry, but nonetheless, I believe they have a right to control their ip just as much as the next guy. Not everything in the world should be gpl'ed...even rms says that.
Personally, I agree that breaking up microsoft is not the right action at all. They did some pretty messed-up stuff, but I think that that's in the past and breaking them up now would just be retaliatory. Breaking them up now will not do much in my opionion except hurt a lot of people and a lot of other tech companies. Instead I propose baby-sitters for Microsoft. Someone needs to make sure that Microsoft isn't doing anything illegal. Besides that, I don't think that there is any need to break them up. I see other OS's becoming more popular. I see OSX becoming very popular for mac users and that same insurgence in the Mac industry will see it's way into the pc industry. People will like the idea of more compatibilty with macs and new linux companies will start creating distros meant for the home user. Look at the corel distro for instance. I see companies making home distros as a big thing in the future. The average home user does not need running httpd, ftpd, and other similar services after installation. The average user wants a computer that connects easily to the internet, has an easy-to-use browser and mail program, and has an installer that is easy to use so that the user can install any program they want. That's what made Microsoft so popular(besides some of their monopolistic practices). The end user does not want to learn how to create a great system, they want a pre-made, seamlessly integrated system. Only that way will any OS beat microsoft.
If any of you are wondering who Jason Haas is, go to the original slashdot story here...also, if youre interested in other stuff about him, go here. It has a bunch of links that tell you about what happened to him
How the heck is this off topic? I know some of you hate it when people rant on the quality of moderation. But this is a very-related question. The whole discussion does not have to be based on people giving their insight into the best registrar. Questions like this further the discussion as a whole. This question cleared up my confusion and most likely other peoples' confusion regarding registration. DNS is a very important part of registration. For this reason I first think that this post should have gotten more than one point since today I've seen a few posts that were one line trolls that got more points. Also, I definitely think that this shouldnt have been marked as offtopic since it was definitely on topic. Leave offtopic to things that have nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Here's a question I'm hoping the/. community can help me with. When you register a domain, youre just buying the rights to a domain, right? Or wrong? I'm trying to figure out where the DNS comes in. Why do I need DNS servers? Is it so I tell them my site name and IP and then they put it in their database and then the information gets sent to all the other DNS servers in the world. Are we updating people's DNS servers everytime we request a page that our DNS server is unsure about and and then has to query another DNS server out there until it finds an answer? Or does the DNS that I would need have to do with all the subdomains I would add to my domain. This is all really confusing to me and I could use some answers.
What I really want to know is which registrar provides the least amount of services. You may find this wierd, but I like doing things myself. I've found that that's the only way to get things done right. I like to host my own own servers, I like setting up things on my *nix boxes myself. Anyone who provides email for my domain is going way too far. That's my responsibility, my perogative. So, here's my question, who out there has the cheapest service with the least amount of services. All I want is my domain registered and that's pretty much it. Maybe they could put me on their DNS servers, but that would be an added plus.
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I admit that you make valid points, but if youre connected to the internet, youre part of everyone's network. If you don't want that kind of traffic, pull the plug. IMHO, I think that if you are part of the internet, there are a few things that youre going to have to put up with.
More like finding a house and going to take a look at it. I just want to find a little bit about it. How it was constructed. Are they using brick or stone, gravel driveway or paved, fence or no fence. Same analogy, are they using linux or bsd(or whatever), webserver or no webserver, ssh or not...
You may think that this is stupid, but as I said in the post above, I'm just interested in what theyre running. I said in my post above that I sometimes scan on my university network. Here's two examples where port scanning has either benefited me or someone else.
1. I portscanned the mail server here and realized that it is also running a lot of services than the ones I thought. One of these was a webserver. I connected, and learned that I can config my account via the web. Not a bad thing to know because it's all done using an encrypted session. On those times that I don't have an ssh client(such as when I'm at the library), I can still configure my count without having the whole world see it.
2. When I first met my roommate this year, I decided to scan his computer. Little to his knowledge, someone had put netbus on his computer. I informed him(actually, by playing his computer while he was at it, it was quite funny) and then removed it.
Case in point. Theyre are many uses of a portscanner. Not every portscan means that the next action of the scanner will be an attack. I'm sure it's a very small percentage.
Finally we see a little intelligence from our court systems. I mean, I do not do any sort of cracking, but I love to know what people are doing with their boxes. I have port scanned many of the servers around my university just to see what they're running. Port scanning does not hurt the network at all, it just throws a few packets at each port trying to establish a connection and then moves on. When can we schedule this judge to hear the decss case??
If it's all about helping the poor and feeding the hungry, why are you posting on slashdot?? No one is required to devote their lives to causes which only you feel are noble, give me a break.
10mb for the program...other hd space required for storing data
Sure, exchange is useful for a lot of things...
1. Crashing and burning.
2. introducing a new virus into the whole company
3. Reducing compatibility
If youre interested in any of the above options, pick it... it's great!!!
I'm a big fan of Linux. I am happy everytime it beats any other operating system in performance(especially an os from redmond). But, those stats you just linked to are the worst I've seen in the world. They mean absolutely nothing in the world. The linux computer had 4 to 8 times as much memory in those tests. If you are going to make a benchmark, all hardware has to be identical.
We offer our students space on several file servers
Well, if this is the case, why don't you juse encourage the use of such file servers. I haven't had the use of a floppy disk in years because of the wonderfulness of file servers(Of course I just usually save it to a directory on my own box and remotely connect to it by http).
The main advantage of this is that you can forget your floppy, but if youre at a computer connected to the internet, then youre good to go. Start encouraging the students to use this...once they do, they'll never turn back.
Google is better than yahoo...i'm not sure if yahoo is using the google engine now, but the google engine is superb...also, no pesky ads on google.
Yeah, great, but in the process of doing this one could easily spend a lot of money as well....a $250 prize isn't all that great then...
Basically you have to use a special IPv6 router. It is called a 6to4 router, in that it works to send the ipv6 packets across ipv4 networks with no knowledge of ipv6. You have to understand that packets won't really go anywhwere if the routers don't support it. Check out this article. It was posted in a slashdot story yesterday in the bsd section.
Now lets use the same technology to make laptop batteries last longer. I know there has been research done into this, now lets implement it.I figure that whether fragging or typing I could put a little more time to the battery life.
I think in general when bugs are first found, there should be a small window of time given to the developers to fix the bug. There is no need to publish a bug only to let every script kiddy out there crack your box. 45 days is pushing it way too far. Sure it's good that CERT is going to release more information, but I think that a more realistic set of time is three days. I think I read somewhere in which someone from OpenBSD stated that most security bugs can be fixed within an hour if the bug is known. Three days would be plenty of time. I know that some open-source zealots might think that all bugs should be reported immediately, but in truth this should only be the case when it is a true community project such as the linux kernel. Just because something is put under the GPL, does not mean that it doesn't have a main set of centralized developers.
Yeah, but the cookie that logs you into amazon is unencrypted. The login is when you first go to the site. Thus, someone could easily put that very same data into a cookie file for their own browser, go to amazon.com, it would automatically log the person in, and then they could take advantage of the one click shopping. Of course all the stuff they would buy would go straight to your address because it's impossible to change your address in the amazon database without entering a password.
...or you might want to think about the fact that cookies go across the wire unencrypted, numbnuts...
I would, if I had the coding experience...in fact, I will when I have enough knowledge to start or at least work on a project like this...but unfortunately I just started learning my first computer language(c++) a few months ago...I'm learning fast and want to be able to get onto some big projects once I have the knowledge...until then, I can only give encouragement(something which you seem to lack in your post) to other coders...
I never knew this was gone...this is the first time I've heard of it...but I'm glad it's here...one of the problems which makes people less enthusiastic about linux is its lack of games. Granted, these aren't the market killing games out there for other platforms like Diablo or Halflife, but this is a good way to attract attention to the gaming side of linux. I think that a good thing to do would be to start open source gaming projects. It would be a lot of fun, and if enough people got into it, a great game could be created. With the advent of cross-platform gaming libraries, we might be able to see such things.
If youre interested in starting up a group, start one, make games...this is the way linux will succeed...don't sit around saying to yourself that this is what needs to be done, do it...
Doesn't this already happen with cryptography...
Open source projects like gnupg make sure that all of their content is created and distributed outside the U.S. The OpenBSD project and the OpenSSH project have their ftp servers outside the U.S. so they'll not have to deal with U.S. laws regarding encryption. Not really new news, just a new application what other people have been doing for a long time.
I think that's a very good point. Everybody gets excited when they have the ability to get lyrics from russia because now the site is not breaking any laws. But what if someone were to take linux, find some flaws and improve them, then distribute it binary only from russia? would we have any power to stop them?
It works both ways. Foreign countries have laws that can both help the what some of us believe in hurt it also. Don't forget that.
As a side note, I have some mp3's...theyre illegal too. I don't believe I have some right to these mp3's. In fact I know that I don't. I do have a problem with how artists are treated by the recording industry, but nonetheless, I believe they have a right to control their ip just as much as the next guy. Not everything in the world should be gpl'ed...even rms says that.
Personally, I agree that breaking up microsoft is not the right action at all. They did some pretty messed-up stuff, but I think that that's in the past and breaking them up now would just be retaliatory. Breaking them up now will not do much in my opionion except hurt a lot of people and a lot of other tech companies. Instead I propose baby-sitters for Microsoft. Someone needs to make sure that Microsoft isn't doing anything illegal. Besides that, I don't think that there is any need to break them up. I see other OS's becoming more popular. I see OSX becoming very popular for mac users and that same insurgence in the Mac industry will see it's way into the pc industry. People will like the idea of more compatibilty with macs and new linux companies will start creating distros meant for the home user. Look at the corel distro for instance. I see companies making home distros as a big thing in the future. The average home user does not need running httpd, ftpd, and other similar services after installation. The average user wants a computer that connects easily to the internet, has an easy-to-use browser and mail program, and has an installer that is easy to use so that the user can install any program they want. That's what made Microsoft so popular(besides some of their monopolistic practices). The end user does not want to learn how to create a great system, they want a pre-made, seamlessly integrated system. Only that way will any OS beat microsoft.
If any of you are wondering who Jason Haas is, go to the original slashdot story here...also, if youre interested in other stuff about him, go here. It has a bunch of links that tell you about what happened to him
How the heck is this off topic? I know some of you hate it when people rant on the quality of moderation. But this is a very-related question. The whole discussion does not have to be based on people giving their insight into the best registrar. Questions like this further the discussion as a whole. This question cleared up my confusion and most likely other peoples' confusion regarding registration. DNS is a very important part of registration. For this reason I first think that this post should have gotten more than one point since today I've seen a few posts that were one line trolls that got more points. Also, I definitely think that this shouldnt have been marked as offtopic since it was definitely on topic. Leave offtopic to things that have nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Here's a question I'm hoping the /. community can help me with. When you register a domain, youre just buying the rights to a domain, right? Or wrong? I'm trying to figure out where the DNS comes in. Why do I need DNS servers? Is it so I tell them my site name and IP and then they put it in their database and then the information gets sent to all the other DNS servers in the world. Are we updating people's DNS servers everytime we request a page that our DNS server is unsure about and and then has to query another DNS server out there until it finds an answer? Or does the DNS that I would need have to do with all the subdomains I would add to my domain. This is all really confusing to me and I could use some answers.
What I really want to know is which registrar provides the least amount of services. You may find this wierd, but I like doing things myself. I've found that that's the only way to get things done right. I like to host my own own servers, I like setting up things on my *nix boxes myself. Anyone who provides email for my domain is going way too far. That's my responsibility, my perogative. So, here's my question, who out there has the cheapest service with the least amount of services. All I want is my domain registered and that's pretty much it. Maybe they could put me on their DNS servers, but that would be an added plus.