To the best of my knowledge, there is no SSH 3 protocol (although I could be wrong). AFAIK, OpenSSH 3+ only supports protocol 1 and 2, so don't be mislead by the version. If you want to support less secure methods, that's your choice (note that OpenSSH is available in source tarballs).
Keeping up to date with the latest OpenSSH releases always helps, but if you want to put an end to those SSH1 attacks (which can affect OpenSSH 2 and above in some cases, and may do so again in the future), add this line to your sshd_config (in/etc or/usr/local/etc):
Protocol 2
This will deny all SSH1 connections and force everyone to use SSH2 to connect.
Cygwin is horribly slow. I once tried to compile OpenSSL in Windows98/Cygwin on a 450MHz P3 and I gave up after 3 hours. They should work with mingw32...
Then again, the average person in the age of agriculture probably knew a hell of a lot more about plowing than the average person now knows about kernel hacking. Back then the serfs might have just been doing the manual labor for people who didn't want to waste their time with it, but now geeks are doing work that other people don't want to waste their time learning about.
Well that could open some new possibilities - I love mass destruction:) Then again, the fun part of taking out 5 people with a panzerfaust is that you miss completely half the time.
Imagine getting killed before you can think as you spawn in the middle of a firefight involving the population of a small country:)
With that much going on in one place, I don't think it would be much fun because the overall hit rate would preclude survival for a significant amount of time.
You seem to be repeating the same stupid argument that comes up every time a discussion about competition and the advancement of Linux: everyone should work on one thing. Why don't you try applying this? Why don't you send a polite letter to Miguel de Icaza saying "I appreiciate your work, but you would help more if you worked on KDE". Maybe because he would reply with something to the effect of "screw off!"? It is completely ridiculous to think that when someone is working on a project and giving away their work for free, they will abandon it and work on another project just because it has better chances of success and one or two people think they should do that.
KDE certainly doesn't seem to need much help; they are improving very fast (each release of the KDE/KOffice/other associated packages seems to contain as many improvements or more than a release of Microsoft Whatever, which takes longer to come out). Not that I would know, I just use KDE applications whenever possible.
In any case, according to you, it's hopelss. Windows has more customers, and a "functional" Windows XP Advanced Server installation probably involves more lines of code than a functional Linux install with a variety of desktop and server applications, so let's all contribute code to Microsoft!
Hey wait, he's arguing against freedom for coders... could it be RMS???
Download the Linux binaries. I'm sure they're counting every sale as a windows game, but if their servers get slashdotted for a month straight by people downloading the Linux version they might notice:)
Trying to succeed is one things. Succeeding at any cost is another. I don't believe Microsoft is going for the first - they want to get as much money as possible in any way they can.
They probably put more work into the windows drivers, which is part of the reason I wish the drivers were open source (the other part is that even if they put all the windows developers on the Linux drivers i'd still trust open source more).
I just want open source drivers and a card with reasonably high performance. I have a lot more X crashes with games than anywhere else using the nVidia drivers, so when it's time to upgrade the graphics card i'll look for something with Open Source drivers. It's nice of nVidia to make Linux drivers at all, but I'd prefer reliable drivers.
The bug was originally caused by a change to the filesystem code, and the AA patch undoes this change, but there is also a discussion on whether the change should be made.
You would still have to be careful until then - people who regularly mount and unmout read/write might want to be careful. I wonder if mounting read-only would help, or if the bug is below that level (from the discussion, it doesn't sound like it)?
I recomment turning your computer off with the power switch or by unplugging it, after you've made sure you can boot an older kernel. Since umounting is done when you shut down cleanly, you don't want to do that.
You can of course make up your own license that covers this. As for you first question, that was recently done with Tux Racer - an Open Source project was moved to a closed source license. They can do that, but all the old code remains freely available and was used to start (or continue) an open version.
It's like if Microsoft released the Windows XP code under the GPL (ha!). Free developers could take it and improve it, but in a couple of years there would be two or more improved versions of the same starting code base competing, because the GPL release would not have any effect on further development under a closed license.
"The more you tighten your grip, the more systems that will slip through your hands"
I don't believe Canada is a bad as the US yet (although being so close would have some influence), but if things go bad, staying will become an option (meaning I can choose not to) to me within a few years. People with freedom seem to think it their duty to spread it to everyone. If the US turns into a police state, other people will turn against them more than they already do. That's probably an extreme case that's unlikely to happen, at least in the near future, but we've seen similar things in the past (from long ago to under a month ago, with internal and external influences). People who seek all power will end up with none.
I'd bet a thousand times the cost of a theoretical development license on that.
I've been playing the multiplayer test 2 a lot lately, but I'll wait for the linux binaries to show up before buying it (even if I have money before then:). I think they grey walls with dark metal doors are part of the atmosphere - they didn't spray-paint thinks neon colors to raise the morale, and it would be unrealistic running through a German bunker that looks like a kid's TV show. Of course, if they overuse that throughout the whole game it could get a bit tiring.
I think you're missing one thing: he can't attack open source software as a whole. As long a people want to develop freely available software, they will, and there is absolutely nothing he can do to stop this. He finally has an ennemy he can't stop.
I'm just waiting for someone to port Linux to the X-Box. That would be, without question, the greated console hack ever, difficulty of porting nonwithstanding.
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There's probably an option for that, check the manpages and manual.
But I have to slow down now and not be informative more than once every two minutes...
To the best of my knowledge, there is no SSH 3 protocol (although I could be wrong). AFAIK, OpenSSH 3+ only supports protocol 1 and 2, so don't be mislead by the version. If you want to support less secure methods, that's your choice (note that OpenSSH is available in source tarballs).
Keeping up to date with the latest OpenSSH releases always helps, but if you want to put an end to those SSH1 attacks (which can affect OpenSSH 2 and above in some cases, and may do so again in the future), add this line to your sshd_config (in /etc or /usr/local/etc):
Protocol 2
This will deny all SSH1 connections and force everyone to use SSH2 to connect.
Cygwin is horribly slow. I once tried to compile OpenSSL in Windows98/Cygwin on a 450MHz P3 and I gave up after 3 hours. They should work with mingw32...
Then again, the average person in the age of agriculture probably knew a hell of a lot more about plowing than the average person now knows about kernel hacking. Back then the serfs might have just been doing the manual labor for people who didn't want to waste their time with it, but now geeks are doing work that other people don't want to waste their time learning about.
Well that could open some new possibilities - I love mass destruction :) Then again, the fun part of taking out 5 people with a panzerfaust is that you miss completely half the time.
Imagine getting killed before you can think as you spawn in the middle of a firefight involving the population of a small country :)
With that much going on in one place, I don't think it would be much fun because the overall hit rate would preclude survival for a significant amount of time.
You seem to be repeating the same stupid argument that comes up every time a discussion about competition and the advancement of Linux: everyone should work on one thing. Why don't you try applying this? Why don't you send a polite letter to Miguel de Icaza saying "I appreiciate your work, but you would help more if you worked on KDE". Maybe because he would reply with something to the effect of "screw off!"? It is completely ridiculous to think that when someone is working on a project and giving away their work for free, they will abandon it and work on another project just because it has better chances of success and one or two people think they should do that.
KDE certainly doesn't seem to need much help; they are improving very fast (each release of the KDE/KOffice/other associated packages seems to contain as many improvements or more than a release of Microsoft Whatever, which takes longer to come out). Not that I would know, I just use KDE applications whenever possible.
In any case, according to you, it's hopelss. Windows has more customers, and a "functional" Windows XP Advanced Server installation probably involves more lines of code than a functional Linux install with a variety of desktop and server applications, so let's all contribute code to Microsoft!
Hey wait, he's arguing against freedom for coders... could it be RMS???
Not to mention that efficient core business operations can't be stopped by a good configuration of Konqueror on the client side...
I've heard of karma whoring, but isn't repeating what I just said a little obvious?
Download the Linux binaries. I'm sure they're counting every sale as a windows game, but if their servers get slashdotted for a month straight by people downloading the Linux version they might notice :)
Wu-FTPd is indeed available with many linux distribution. I've been seeing bugtraq announcements from various linux distros for at least a few days.
Trying to succeed is one things. Succeeding at any cost is another. I don't believe Microsoft is going for the first - they want to get as much money as possible in any way they can.
They probably put more work into the windows drivers, which is part of the reason I wish the drivers were open source (the other part is that even if they put all the windows developers on the Linux drivers i'd still trust open source more).
I just want open source drivers and a card with reasonably high performance. I have a lot more X crashes with games than anywhere else using the nVidia drivers, so when it's time to upgrade the graphics card i'll look for something with Open Source drivers. It's nice of nVidia to make Linux drivers at all, but I'd prefer reliable drivers.
The problem is cygwin. Cygwin is very slow for some things (probably what has to go through the emulated API).
The bug was originally caused by a change to the filesystem code, and the AA patch undoes this change, but there is also a discussion on whether the change should be made.
You would still have to be careful until then - people who regularly mount and unmout read/write might want to be careful. I wonder if mounting read-only would help, or if the bug is below that level (from the discussion, it doesn't sound like it)?
I recomment turning your computer off with the power switch or by unplugging it, after you've made sure you can boot an older kernel. Since umounting is done when you shut down cleanly, you don't want to do that.
It was on slashdot... You can read it here
You can of course make up your own license that covers this. As for you first question, that was recently done with Tux Racer - an Open Source project was moved to a closed source license. They can do that, but all the old code remains freely available and was used to start (or continue) an open version.
It's like if Microsoft released the Windows XP code under the GPL (ha!). Free developers could take it and improve it, but in a couple of years there would be two or more improved versions of the same starting code base competing, because the GPL release would not have any effect on further development under a closed license.
"The more you tighten your grip, the more systems that will slip through your hands"
I don't believe Canada is a bad as the US yet (although being so close would have some influence), but if things go bad, staying will become an option (meaning I can choose not to) to me within a few years. People with freedom seem to think it their duty to spread it to everyone. If the US turns into a police state, other people will turn against them more than they already do. That's probably an extreme case that's unlikely to happen, at least in the near future, but we've seen similar things in the past (from long ago to under a month ago, with internal and external influences). People who seek all power will end up with none.
I'd bet a thousand times the cost of a theoretical development license on that.
I've been playing the multiplayer test 2 a lot lately, but I'll wait for the linux binaries to show up before buying it (even if I have money before then :). I think they grey walls with dark metal doors are part of the atmosphere - they didn't spray-paint thinks neon colors to raise the morale, and it would be unrealistic running through a German bunker that looks like a kid's TV show. Of course, if they overuse that throughout the whole game it could get a bit tiring.
I think you're missing one thing: he can't attack open source software as a whole. As long a people want to develop freely available software, they will, and there is absolutely nothing he can do to stop this. He finally has an ennemy he can't stop.
I'm just waiting for someone to port Linux to the X-Box. That would be, without question, the greated console hack ever, difficulty of porting nonwithstanding.