Yes, they are different chips, but they are the same CPU. The difference is that the 8088 had an 8 bit bus to make it easier to interface with the existing 8080 line of peripheral chips. This makes it different from the perspective of hardware design, but not from software design.
Xenix certainly did run on 8086 based machines - I once had two such boxes (Altos 8800's possibly?). One with 512Kb of RAM, one with 1Mb. Both had 8" hard and floppy drives, and a huge slew of custom logic to do memory protection in hardware. If I remember correctly it had 13 bits per byte - 8 data plus 5 for the memory protection.
they don't generate this stuff for fun, they do it for income-- what's the source of the income that enables them to produce such a report?
Wrong. They produce reports on various markets as part of their own advertising: predict a trend, publish the prediction, if you are right, people will flock to you to manage their portfolios.
Ok, lets look at this:
"1: Putting nation or race above the individual"
Well, isn't that the common good above the individual? That is usually considered a good, if somewhat social(ist) policy.
"2: Dictatorship"
When? No, being a Monarchy does not count.
"3: Utilization of government force to suppress dissent"
Go on then, let's see you justify this one as well. Yes, the police (which, is not a "government" force by the way) can and have been used to control public order. But, believe me, I am currently protesting about a policy that comes from the Deputy Prime Minister no less. I haven't been supressed so far...
"4: Economic and social controls"
This is called government. To claim that it is a facet of facism alone is nonsense - I think you might find you cannot have facism without this, not that having this equates to facism. Perhaps it is you who should learn to comprehend as well as read.
Samba is often the first introduction to Open Source software many large companies have. I have worked in a company where Linux was "bad" because "no-one controlled it". Samba however was used on all the trading floors for the Sparc workstations.
PMPO = Peak Music Power Output. It uses the figure at the top of the peak, usually at a highish distortion level (1 or 2%), and then multiplies that by the number of speakers etc. to get a stupidly high figure compare to the RMS (Root Mean Square) calculation. It seems to vary from 4x to as much as 10x a sane calculation.
do you honestly think they have the resources to do that? I think it works better if the residence has never had a license...
but they dont check everyone..
Yes they do. My parents have a holiday home in Scotland. It has no TV. It has never had a TV. There is no TV signal receivable (hillsides in the way). They still get "you are watching TV without a license" letters on occasion to the address. The database that is used is of ALL addresses that do not have a license against them - so not giving your address when buying a TV is pointless, your address is already in the database unless you have bought a TV license.
beside you don't actually have to be a hacker to know how to secure your system.
Sorry, but that's not right. I have been doing information security for a living for a long time, and I can assure you that knowing how to hack is intrinsic to securing a system. I've been to sites where the admins thought they were secure (they did all the updates, they followed all the advisories, etc.), but they were clueless when it came to how a real attack works, and as such they were extremely vulnerable to a knowledgable attacker.
Since when does knowing how to hack make you a hacker - I stated you don't need to be a hacker to secure a system, you have said knowing how to hack is intrinsic to securing it. These two statements are not mutually exclusive.
Unless of course signature.inc is in a directory that is in the include path but not within the document root, or.inc files are explicitly blocked from being served at all. Adding a.php extension is not the only way to protect things.
How is being a bad hacker (they got caught!) that useful as a sysadmin... beside you don't actually have to be a hacker to know how to secure your system.
I think the point is many people run their (desktop) firewalls in a stateful "let anything out, and let anything in associated with outgoing connection back" manner so passive does appear to solve the problem for them.
Probably true, but just because it looks like it works that way to Joe User, doesn't mean it is true. A real firewall needs to understand FTP in passive mode too. Speak to anyone who has to protect a business network. Yes, I know you understand this, but the OP is wrong, and the first reply to my post above is also wrong, no matter how they might like to spin it.
Only when firewalls are explicitly configured to limit the destination ports (egress filtering) does it matter. And only technocratic control-freak nutjob network admins configure their firewalls that way. So 90% of the people on the Internet can use PASV through firewalls with little trouble.
Never worked in a corporate then? One of the points of a corporate firewall (as opposed to a personal one), is to control what you can connect to, as well as what can connect to you. And then, your firewall needs to understand FTP. As *any* decent firewall *might* be used in this way, it needs to support PASV FTP at the protocol level.
Unixheads seem to claim that it's perfectly admirable to hack around the ASCII format for everything because it makes it easier to debug, whereas all I see is wasted entropy and bandwidth.
Wait until you have to troubleshoot issues with SMTP, POP3 and the like, then you will absolutely love the fact you can simply fire up telnet, connect to a server and manually test things by typing the protocol handshakes in. Not only are they all ASCII, they are easy to remember and make lots of sense.
Take it from this SysAdmin/Programmer, you'll never want to go back to a binary protocol again.
Now as far as security, I'd say mainframe security is 99% security by obscurity.
No, some of it is decent design - when I used to use TSO (I think it was TSO, so apologies if my memory is wrong), in order to do any administration of the system you had to log on with both an administrator account and your own - that way any changes to the system had your name against the audit logs.
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Although I suppose that doesn't rule out your suggestion
Yes, they are different chips, but they are the same CPU. The difference is that the 8088 had an 8 bit bus to make it easier to interface with the existing 8080 line of peripheral chips. This makes it different from the perspective of hardware design, but not from software design.
Xenix certainly did run on 8086 based machines - I once had two such boxes (Altos 8800's possibly?). One with 512Kb of RAM, one with 1Mb. Both had 8" hard and floppy drives, and a huge slew of custom logic to do memory protection in hardware. If I remember correctly it had 13 bits per byte - 8 data plus 5 for the memory protection.
No, no, it's i-Nventing isn't it?
they don't generate this stuff for fun, they do it for income-- what's the source of the income that enables them to produce such a report?
Wrong. They produce reports on various markets as part of their own advertising: predict a trend, publish the prediction, if you are right, people will flock to you to manage their portfolios.
The original company name is MicroSoft, hence the abbreviation to MS. Go look at some old MS products, and you will see the original logo.
Ok, lets look at this: "1: Putting nation or race above the individual" Well, isn't that the common good above the individual? That is usually considered a good, if somewhat social(ist) policy. "2: Dictatorship" When? No, being a Monarchy does not count. "3: Utilization of government force to suppress dissent" Go on then, let's see you justify this one as well. Yes, the police (which, is not a "government" force by the way) can and have been used to control public order. But, believe me, I am currently protesting about a policy that comes from the Deputy Prime Minister no less. I haven't been supressed so far... "4: Economic and social controls" This is called government. To claim that it is a facet of facism alone is nonsense - I think you might find you cannot have facism without this, not that having this equates to facism. Perhaps it is you who should learn to comprehend as well as read.
Learn to use Google for yourself.
You might want to go away and research that - the USA was not the first country to write freedom of speech into law.
I still have copies of either 1.01 or 1.03 somewhere (5 1/4" disks, naturally).
A big flashing light on top of the keypad unit perhaps?
Samba is often the first introduction to Open Source software many large companies have. I have worked in a company where Linux was "bad" because "no-one controlled it". Samba however was used on all the trading floors for the Sparc workstations.
PMPO = Peak Music Power Output. It uses the figure at the top of the peak, usually at a highish distortion level (1 or 2%), and then multiplies that by the number of speakers etc. to get a stupidly high figure compare to the RMS (Root Mean Square) calculation. It seems to vary from 4x to as much as 10x a sane calculation.
do you honestly think they have the resources to do that? I think it works better if the residence has never had a license ...
but they dont check everyone..
Yes they do. My parents have a holiday home in Scotland. It has no TV. It has never had a TV. There is no TV signal receivable (hillsides in the way). They still get "you are watching TV without a license" letters on occasion to the address. The database that is used is of ALL addresses that do not have a license against them - so not giving your address when buying a TV is pointless, your address is already in the database unless you have bought a TV license.
beside you don't actually have to be a hacker to know how to secure your system.
Sorry, but that's not right. I have been doing information security for a living for a long time, and I can assure you that knowing how to hack is intrinsic to securing a system. I've been to sites where the admins thought they were secure (they did all the updates, they followed all the advisories, etc.), but they were clueless when it came to how a real attack works, and as such they were extremely vulnerable to a knowledgable attacker.
Since when does knowing how to hack make you a hacker - I stated you don't need to be a hacker to secure a system, you have said knowing how to hack is intrinsic to securing it. These two statements are not mutually exclusive.Unless of course signature.inc is in a directory that is in the include path but not within the document root, or .inc files are explicitly blocked from being served at all. Adding a .php extension is not the only way to protect things.
How is being a bad hacker (they got caught!) that useful as a sysadmin... beside you don't actually have to be a hacker to know how to secure your system.
It's the same reason they still drive on the wrong side of the road, I suppose. Great whiskey, though. Ach!
No, we still drive on the correct side of the road, despite what Napoleon thought. Oh, and it's Whisky not Whiskey.
Yes, because you don't have to spend any of your valuable time supporting paid-for operating systems.
I think the point is many people run their (desktop) firewalls in a stateful "let anything out, and let anything in associated with outgoing connection back" manner so passive does appear to solve the problem for them.
Probably true, but just because it looks like it works that way to Joe User, doesn't mean it is true. A real firewall needs to understand FTP in passive mode too. Speak to anyone who has to protect a business network. Yes, I know you understand this, but the OP is wrong, and the first reply to my post above is also wrong, no matter how they might like to spin it.
Only when firewalls are explicitly configured to limit the destination ports (egress filtering) does it matter. And only technocratic control-freak nutjob network admins configure their firewalls that way. So 90% of the people on the Internet can use PASV through firewalls with little trouble.
Never worked in a corporate then? One of the points of a corporate firewall (as opposed to a personal one), is to control what you can connect to, as well as what can connect to you. And then, your firewall needs to understand FTP. As *any* decent firewall *might* be used in this way, it needs to support PASV FTP at the protocol level.
PASSV doesn't remove the need for a second TCP connection on a different port, but it does eliminate the need for special firewall support.
Wrong. The firewall still needs to track the FTP protocol to know which additional ports to allow through.
In passive mode, the server opens the second port and reports it to the client.
See, you explained this requirement yourself.
If you think SMTP is badly designed, then you are way off. It is an extremely elegant protocol.
Unixheads seem to claim that it's perfectly admirable to hack around the ASCII format for everything because it makes it easier to debug, whereas all I see is wasted entropy and bandwidth.
Wait until you have to troubleshoot issues with SMTP, POP3 and the like, then you will absolutely love the fact you can simply fire up telnet, connect to a server and manually test things by typing the protocol handshakes in. Not only are they all ASCII, they are easy to remember and make lots of sense.
Take it from this SysAdmin/Programmer, you'll never want to go back to a binary protocol again.
Now as far as security, I'd say mainframe security is 99% security by obscurity.
No, some of it is decent design - when I used to use TSO (I think it was TSO, so apologies if my memory is wrong), in order to do any administration of the system you had to log on with both an administrator account and your own - that way any changes to the system had your name against the audit logs.