This would be a Bad Idea anyways. Anyone who designs a system to allow outside Internet users to authenticate against some sort of internal user database is asking for trouble. Even the Apache docs chastise you for even thinking about using/etc/passwd as a source for *web* authentication. My guess is that they are talking about Intranet users connecting to some sort of authenticating Intranet web system.
Why is this (outside authentication) bad? Anyone anywhere in the world can just hammer on your system trying to brute force common passwords.
Ref: http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#passwdaut h
What does this mean? It means that you can represent years from 1900-2059 using a hexidecimal number, where the first digit is a decade indicator (10 years) and the second digit is an offset in the decade.
Okay, it's definately original, but I haven't seen anyone use this method yet. You may as well just represent your two-digit date as a byte, and use "100" as the value for 2000. This is good all the way up to 2155 too! If anyone has actually seen these dates anywhere, I'd like to know. Not a clean solution in any case...
This is actually called a "cusp date". I know for a fact that Excel uses it, and has used it since at least 1995 (I did some really trivial y2k remediation stuff). DOS has been using this for ages as well (enter 1-1-00 as the date, it comes out 2000, most DOS file interrupts handles this the same way as well). As much as I hate to point to an MS product as prior art, well, it's the most readily available one in my brain right now.:)
What about offering some sort of tarball of pre-built kernels for some of the newer kernel versions? My poor 486 can barely handle the strain of compiling 2.0.3x. I'm really wary about moving up to 2.2.x, though I'm not really sure that would be a good idea anyways. I mean, if it's not broke, right?;)
I wonder how much of the kernel could be precompiled anyways for those of us who like to be on the cutting edge, but hate taking those 5 minutes out to recompile the latest unstable kernel. Oh well.. I can always use that time to get a cup of coffee or something.:)
I think the best part of internet-based voting is the reduction in voter apathy. Personally, I think this is one of the biggest problems we have nowadays. If everyone came out to vote, we could ensure that the likelihood of a stupid candidate being elected would drop.
As well, we could vote on many more small issues. The government could always "put an issue to the people" and not inconvenience us.
I'm sure I could load NT on my 486 currently running Linux. It'll take at least 5 minutes to boot right out of the box. If I add a few service packs and essential services, it should get up to at least 20... What else?
Well, the reason I believe that it's under the GPL is that it was bundled with the css-auth package (GPL'd by the author). I can't remember my GPL very well.. does this bring the reversed engineering source under the GPL as well?
Hopefully this post will clear up some of the misconceptions here. Basically, this package is the reverse engineered version of a program called DeCSS, something which can be used to authenticate with and unlock a DVD player.
DeCSS will be available under the GPL, but as its source had not been released yet, someone decided to reverse engineer it and make the source public. The author has stated that this puts this new source under the GPL, which has a good outlook for us.
Okay, please don't get this mixed up. CUPS *is indeed* under the GPL. This means that all the fun GPL stuff applies to it. If you want to distribute binaries including GNU GhostScript, *then* you need to talk to them about a license.
Just thought I'd clear that up, as most people seemed to have it confused...
It's a format with a whopping 256 color palette. It's so out of date right now that I'm surprised its survived as long as it did. I assume that people keep them around because of the possibilty of animated gifs (hooray -- annoying banner ads and cheezy clip art).
PNG is far superior in most respects. I'm surprised its taken so long to catch on. I assume that this new Unisys move is going to help it get bigger.:)
I know everyone loves getting the milestones, but the project could always use a few helping hands for stuff like QA (general bugfinding), development or even just suggestions.
Take a look at bugzilla (bugzilla.mozilla.org) and get an account there. Browse the bugs to see what the report looks like and see if you can submit an original bug, make a test case for an existing one or whatnot. We're all going to be using this browser in the end, so you may as well have some say in how it turns out.;)
Perhaps it's time for a distribution to do a line-by-line security audit of a full Linux distribution for use in secure/mission critical situations. There are a lot of OS's which promise this, but I think very few of them actually deliver this for a low cost (ie: free).
What sort of cost is involved in getting something C2 secure certified? Imagine if Linux could be considered secure, even if connected to a network?
Well, hopefully these robotic pets become popular with manufacturers so they can flood the market with them and drive them into a reasonable price range for most people.
It would be cool to have a robot dog, but not at the current price.
BTW, is there going to be another "furby/elmo-style" toy craze this Christmas?
Now Earth is going to be blacklisted on the galactic Internet. I guess we'll be considered as an open relay.
:P
PS: Can I change my ISP to another planet? This one has bad service and is *way* too busy even though the phone-to-customer ratio is something like 2:1!
I wonder if they're still making money off these two? These were the ones I was using way back when, and stuck with them until I started C/C++ with DJGPP.
Hopefully they'll release these two in a few years. I'd love to be able to go back and compile a few of my programs and demos.
Microwave energy would be cheap and clean to harvest from space. I'm sure we all remember the Simcity 2000 disaster where the microwave beam went "off-target" and traced a path of destruction across the city, however.:)
In real life, I don't believe we have to worry about such things.
I think some of the *major* HA vendors do stuff like that. You'd need some pretty expensive hardware, but I think it would work. If you're building an enterprise app, you can do stuff like this using databases, complex transactions and sessions so that the user doesn't see that the server has gone down and he's been switched over to an alternate.
Yeah, Linux is still in the basic stages of HA, but you *can* actually do it at this point in time, and I'm pretty sure it's reliable. There's some cool stuff going on in HA and virtual servers right now...
Actually, Linux does have failover capability already. There is a Linux HA project currently in progress. Here's a few quick links that I pulled out of freshmeat:
Wasn't Microsoft saying that Open Source was the one that didn't innovate? It looks to me like NT is the one playing catch-up right now. We've had Linux High Availability stuff accessible for a long time right now. As well, Linux boxes have been consistantly showing higher uptimes on average than NT boxes.
I think the statement about OSS not innovating was just another piece of MS FUD. Linux didn't have the userbase to support the rapid development of applications that are growing right now a few years ago, but now that it does, it has the ability to maintain it's technological leadership.
Interesting how this battle is waging. I'm sure there will be textbooks written on the OSS vs. the capitalist monopoly stories decades from now. It's quite a classic -- heroes, villans and crusades!
I bet there will be a large number of people happy that they don't need to pay their per-minute charges on local calls, on top of what they pay their ISP, for Internet service. As well, having DSL available for the whole country should really bring the UK into the online community as a major player.
I don't pretend to understand the pricing for the local calls or television tax (license) in the UK, but I know I enjoy having both at least appear to be free.
As for hidden costs, maybe we're actually paying more?:)
This is such an amazing concept that I'm surprised it hasn't taken off yet. The ability to record all your favorite shows "whenever" and then play them back at your leisure is something that almost everyone on this planet could want.
It's probably going to change the landscape of TV and advertising dramatically. I mean, if I don't have to watch some lame puppet sell used cars or furniture, am I really going to play it? I may as well set this thing up to record Stargate SG-1 every friday and just catch it Saturday morning or something. This won't kill TV. All the doomsayers in the market will talk and talk, but capitalism will find a new way to make money through this.
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It's like the Giant Java Tree... I don't see any reason why it would be a bad idea. The worst that could happen is that a few projects get a new home.
This would be a Bad Idea anyways. Anyone who designs a system to allow outside Internet users to authenticate against some sort of internal user database is asking for trouble. Even the Apache docs chastise you for even thinking about using /etc/passwd as a source for *web* authentication. My guess is that they are talking about Intranet users connecting to some sort of authenticating Intranet web system.
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Why is this (outside authentication) bad? Anyone anywhere in the world can just hammer on your system trying to brute force common passwords.
Ref: http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#passwdau
Whoops! My bad. I read the title of that patent and thought it had to do with sorting dates. I guess this shows exactly how vague the patent is...
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If you want a laugh, I think another patent covers 2-digit dates as well. It's also vague, so who knows.
http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?&pn=US057583
This is the wrong patent.. The patent in question is the actual windowing one at:
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http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?&pn10=US0566
but still stupid.
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Here's the patent in question:
http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?&pn10=US0566
What does this mean? It means that you can represent years from 1900-2059 using a hexidecimal number, where the first digit is a decade indicator (10 years) and the second digit is an offset in the decade.
Okay, it's definately original, but I haven't seen anyone use this method yet. You may as well just represent your two-digit date as a byte, and use "100" as the value for 2000. This is good all the way up to 2155 too! If anyone has actually seen these dates anywhere, I'd like to know. Not a clean solution in any case...
Welcome to the year 19a0 everyone!
This is actually called a "cusp date". I know for a fact that Excel uses it, and has used it since at least 1995 (I did some really trivial y2k remediation stuff). DOS has been using this for ages as well (enter 1-1-00 as the date, it comes out 2000, most DOS file interrupts handles this the same way as well). As much as I hate to point to an MS product as prior art, well, it's the most readily available one in my brain right now. :)
This patent will fall hard. Don't worry.
What about offering some sort of tarball of pre-built kernels for some of the newer kernel versions? My poor 486 can barely handle the strain of compiling 2.0.3x. I'm really wary about moving up to 2.2.x, though I'm not really sure that would be a good idea anyways. I mean, if it's not broke, right? ;)
:)
I wonder how much of the kernel could be precompiled anyways for those of us who like to be on the cutting edge, but hate taking those 5 minutes out to recompile the latest unstable kernel. Oh well.. I can always use that time to get a cup of coffee or something.
I think the best part of internet-based voting is the reduction in voter apathy. Personally, I think this is one of the biggest problems we have nowadays. If everyone came out to vote, we could ensure that the likelihood of a stupid candidate being elected would drop.
As well, we could vote on many more small issues. The government could always "put an issue to the people" and not inconvenience us.
I'm sure I could load NT on my 486 currently running Linux. It'll take at least 5 minutes to boot right out of the box. If I add a few service packs and essential services, it should get up to at least 20... What else?
Well, the reason I believe that it's under the GPL is that it was bundled with the css-auth package (GPL'd by the author). I can't remember my GPL very well.. does this bring the reversed engineering source under the GPL as well?
Hopefully this post will clear up some of the misconceptions here. Basically, this package is the reverse engineered version of a program called DeCSS, something which can be used to authenticate with and unlock a DVD player.
DeCSS will be available under the GPL, but as its source had not been released yet, someone decided to reverse engineer it and make the source public. The author has stated that this puts this new source under the GPL, which has a good outlook for us.
Wow.. looks nice.. i'm going to burn my copy of the iso and see these for myself now. :)
Okay, please don't get this mixed up. CUPS *is indeed* under the GPL. This means that all the fun GPL stuff applies to it. If you want to distribute binaries including GNU GhostScript, *then* you need to talk to them about a license.
Just thought I'd clear that up, as most people seemed to have it confused...
It's a format with a whopping 256 color palette. It's so out of date right now that I'm surprised its survived as long as it did. I assume that people keep them around because of the possibilty of animated gifs (hooray -- annoying banner ads and cheezy clip art).
:)
PNG is far superior in most respects. I'm surprised its taken so long to catch on. I assume that this new Unisys move is going to help it get bigger.
I know everyone loves getting the milestones, but the project could always use a few helping hands for stuff like QA (general bugfinding), development or even just suggestions.
;)
:)
Take a look at bugzilla (bugzilla.mozilla.org) and get an account there. Browse the bugs to see what the report looks like and see if you can submit an original bug, make a test case for an existing one or whatnot. We're all going to be using this browser in the end, so you may as well have some say in how it turns out.
Enjoy M9!
Perhaps it's time for a distribution to do a line-by-line security audit of a full Linux distribution for use in secure/mission critical situations. There are a lot of OS's which promise this, but I think very few of them actually deliver this for a low cost (ie: free).
What sort of cost is involved in getting something C2 secure certified? Imagine if Linux could be considered secure, even if connected to a network?
Well, hopefully these robotic pets become popular with manufacturers so they can flood the market with them and drive them into a reasonable price range for most people.
It would be cool to have a robot dog, but not at the current price.
BTW, is there going to be another "furby/elmo-style" toy craze this Christmas?
Now Earth is going to be blacklisted on the galactic Internet. I guess we'll be considered as an open relay.
:P
PS: Can I change my ISP to another planet? This one has bad service and is *way* too busy even though the phone-to-customer ratio is something like 2:1!
I wonder if they're still making money off these two? These were the ones I was using way back when, and stuck with them until I started C/C++ with DJGPP.
Hopefully they'll release these two in a few years. I'd love to be able to go back and compile a few of my programs and demos.
Microwave energy would be cheap and clean to harvest from space. I'm sure we all remember the Simcity 2000 disaster where the microwave beam went "off-target" and traced a path of destruction across the city, however. :)
In real life, I don't believe we have to worry about such things.
I think some of the *major* HA vendors do stuff like that. You'd need some pretty expensive hardware, but I think it would work. If you're building an enterprise app, you can do stuff like this using databases, complex transactions and sessions so that the user doesn't see that the server has gone down and he's been switched over to an alternate.
Yeah, Linux is still in the basic stages of HA, but you *can* actually do it at this point in time, and I'm pretty sure it's reliable. There's some cool stuff going on in HA and virtual servers right now...
Actually, Linux does have failover capability already. There is a Linux HA project currently in progress. Here's a few quick links that I pulled out of freshmeat:
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Linux-HA:
http://www.henge.com/~alanr/ha/
failoverd:
http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/04/08/92
Heart:
http://www.lemuria.org/Heart/
Wasn't Microsoft saying that Open Source was the one that didn't innovate? It looks to me like NT is the one playing catch-up right now. We've had Linux High Availability stuff accessible for a long time right now. As well, Linux boxes have been consistantly showing higher uptimes on average than NT boxes.
I think the statement about OSS not innovating was just another piece of MS FUD. Linux didn't have the userbase to support the rapid development of applications that are growing right now a few years ago, but now that it does, it has the ability to maintain it's technological leadership.
Interesting how this battle is waging. I'm sure there will be textbooks written on the OSS vs. the capitalist monopoly stories decades from now. It's quite a classic -- heroes, villans and crusades!
:)
I bet there will be a large number of people happy that they don't need to pay their per-minute charges on local calls, on top of what they pay their ISP, for Internet service. As well, having DSL available for the whole country should really bring the UK into the online community as a major player.
:)
I don't pretend to understand the pricing for the local calls or television tax (license) in the UK, but I know I enjoy having both at least appear to be free.
As for hidden costs, maybe we're actually paying more?
This is such an amazing concept that I'm surprised it hasn't taken off yet. The ability to record all your favorite shows "whenever" and then play them back at your leisure is something that almost everyone on this planet could want.
It's probably going to change the landscape of TV and advertising dramatically. I mean, if I don't have to watch some lame puppet sell used cars or furniture, am I really going to play it? I may as well set this thing up to record Stargate SG-1 every friday and just catch it Saturday morning or something. This won't kill TV. All the doomsayers in the market will talk and talk, but capitalism will find a new way to make money through this.