Yeah, well, you can't access a shell on my Slackware boxes without using ssh or the console, either - because I edited/etc/inetd.conf and HUPed inetd. And since I run Slackware, I don't have any 'configuration tools'.
I'll happy to come over and edit your inetd.conf, HUP your inetd, and delete your lame Red Hat GUI tools for only $1500 - only half the price of HP-LX!
if it would be guaranteed to keep that pretentious blowhard John Katz from being able to post any more of his asinine, faux-intellectual adolescent bullshit.
This report is so November 22nd. Worm goes out, people notice, the IRC servers (bots.kukijiri.net) DNS gets waxed, non-event.
So, people who got infected during the very short lifetime of this thing need to basically scrub the boxes, because BackOrifice, etc. could've been installed during the interim. But this is Old News; hell, I figure even that pretentious dumbass John Katz already knew about this one before some moron put it on the front page like it was a 'scoop', or something.
Say what you will about the Germans, they've always the best uniforms, every war.
If bidding for Nazi memorabilia on yahoo.com had been shut down, where else could my girlfriend and I have turned for all our SS fetish-wear? As it is, we're really hurting for a couple more Sam Browne belts on which to holster our Lugers . . .
Besides the obvious SF/fantasy candidates (Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Robert Silverberg, Guy Gavriel Kay, Tim Powers, Kim Newman, Fritz Leiber, Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons) . . .
Paul Johnson
William Manchester
Tom Wolfe (captured zeitgeist of 60s, 80s, & 90s)
V.S Naipaul
Christopher Hitchens (he's growing up)
Jacques Barzun
Norman Mailer (infantile politics, was a good writer once)
George Macdonald Fraser
Umberto Eco
Mark Halperin
Walter Tevis
Shelby Foote
John Keegan
John Kagan
Robert Kagan
Stephen Ambrose
Henry Kissinger (_Diplomacy_ stands out)
Irving Kristol
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Roger Kimball
Hilton Kramer
Eric Hobsbawm (hate his politics, but he's a must-read, and always will be so)
James Lee Burke (hate his politics, but he writes well - or wrote, seems to be in a rut of late)
'. . . is it turning us all into vapid children?'
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No, Jon, that's just the effect it seems to've had on -you-.
The best way to ensure they lock -all- of us up
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is to put morons like John Katz in the faces of our duly elected representatives.
"Mr. Katz, I understand your group has some objections to this bill outlawing Linux?"
"Senator, the zeitgeist of the age we inhabit is literally filled with the pathos-ridden desiderata of a people whose very conception of reality is marked by a lingering sense of technophobic alienation . . . "
"Sergeant-at-Arms! Sergeant-at-Arms! Get this pretentious lackwit out of here before he makes my ears bleed! God, where does he -get- this stuff? If this is what Linux does to America's youth, then by God we ought to lock up that Torvalds fellow (that's a foreign name, innnit?) and throw away the key. Where's Ashcroft, we need -more- legislation to erase this horror from the Earth - for the sake of the
children . . . "
If it shuts John Katz up, I'm all for it.
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Hell, I'd be willing to pray facing Mecca three times daily, if that's what it takes to save me from his tendentious, pretentious, uninformed pseudo-profundities.
What the hell is the deal with all these robot stories, lately? Is it time for a name-change? Are these robots even running embedded Linux or -shudder- *BSD?
I have slashbot.com, slashbot.org, and slashbot.net available for -free- to anyone who can authoritatively guarantee me that John Katz will no longer have the ability to post his pretentious, pseudo-intellectual rants on subjects of which he is completely ignorant (which pretty much rules out everything he writes, including 'and' and 'the').
I've had a lot of success using the AT&T CDPD network via www.goamerica.com & Novatel's CDPD PCMCIA modem (http://www.novatelwireless.com/pcproducts/merlinp latinum.htm#specs).
It works just like the Ricochet - i.e., you use it via pppd scripts. I just signed up for the #@!^ing Ricochet, though, because I thought their
latest big marketing push meant that they were
finally starting to do alright!
More the fool me, heh. At least you can use the CDPD whilst moving, whereas the Ricochet doesn't
like that very much.
If John Katz likes it . . .
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The Cuban Missile crisis came about as a direct result of the weakness and immaturity Krushchev perceived in JFK as a result of JFK's irresolution during the Bay of Pigs debacle and the Berlin Crisis of 1961, when what became the Berlin Wall was put up by the Communists (it was just strings of barbed-wire at the time; decisive action by JFK at the time could've prevented the USSR and the East Germans from violating the the Four-Powers Treaty and thereby consolidating their stranglehold on the freedoms of Berliners living in the Soviet Sector of the city).
Krushchev was in an odd position at the time; he'd been the one to expose the crimes of Stalin at the 20th Party Congress (it wasn't done out of a sense of humanity or decency, since Krushchev didn't do anything dramatic like, say, disbanding the KGB; it was more of a tactical maneuver designed to smash the last vestiges of 'Father Joe'-worship within the Party apparat, removing Stalin as the measuring-stick against which Krushchev would be compared by the nomenklatura), and, like Gorbachev, realized that something had to be done in order to provide for economic expansion of the USSR. Also like Gorbachev, he was still a committed socialist - he wanted to find some way of 'humanizing' socialism without allowing the populace the complete freedom of choice which is the growth-engine of free-market societies.
Indeed, we could've had glasnost and perestroika - with the inevitable crumbling of the apparatus of repression, since once people have tasted a little freedom, their hunger for it becomes insatiable - if not for the hollow blustering of the Kennedys. You must remember, JFK was a conservative Democrat who ran to the right of Richard Nixon on national-security issues and the illusory 'missile gap'. Someone with maturity and a nuanced view of the world (someone like Richard Nixon, perhaps, before the stealing of the 1960 election embittered him to the point of paranoia) might've understood this, and given Krushchev the breathing-room he needed to try and implement some kind of reform.
Instead, JFK's apocalyptic rhetoric, coupled with his inner callowness, which Krushshev had sensed, a) forced Krushchev to play the bully in order to maintain his precarious grip on power, and b) by doing so, made it impossible for Krushchev to do anything regarded as 'soft' by the Politburo and the Central Committee.
Being tough, and meaning it, is a legitimate tactic; Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan used it to great effect. Acting tough, but not meaning it, marks one as being unserious, an unworthy adversary who will crumble when push comes to shove. Thus was JFK.
Finally, you need to remember something else not hinted at in the movie - in exchange for removing the IRBMs from Cuba, the US secretly agreed to remove IRBMs pointed at the USSR from Turkey. When all was said and done, Krushchev had achieved a major geopolitical gain for the USSR by playing the game of nuclear brinksmanship during those 13 days in October.
Firstly, all the comments about securing boxes are sound.
Secondly, you really need to get your network infrastructure configured to withstand this sort of stuff. Putting up ACLs on a normal router, even a Cisco 7500-series, isn't going to do much good - all the denys will drive your CPU utilization up to 100%, and the router will stop routing.
Instead, you need to implement layer-3 switching with Cisco Catalyst 5500s or 6000/6500s, with the NFFC II (in the 5500 series) or the PFC2 (in the 6000/6500 series) at key points in your network. This allows you to offload ACL processing from the routing engine (either a dedicated route processor or an external router like a 7206 used as the layer-3 brains of the switch) to the ASICs on the switch. This will allow the layer-3 route processor to keep handling packets whilst the rest of the traffic is denied.
Setting up a QoS scheme to rate-limit certain types of traffic, like ICMP, is also another effective measure. While these aren't perfect defenses, they've allowed me to set up networks which have continued delivering services on the public Internet even whilst being DDoSed at 30mb/sec.
Because most of you are a bunch of fucking communists who haven't any real ideas about the way the world works other than "I hate Microsoft!" and "Information should be free!". You want to be paid for -your- efforts, but if someone else wishes to be paid for -his-, you cry foul and decry him for his slavishness to the supposedly evil profit motive.
Microsoft donated millions of dollars to the Democrats over the years - and what did it get them? An anti-trust suit.
If you believe in freedom to code as you choose, to run what operating system(s) you choose, etc., you'd best take a cold, hard look at the Left end of the political spectrum and its overall thrust. The Moral Majority isn't your problem - it's the Clinton Administration.
Do you really think a man (i.e., Al Gore) who professes to believe that the invention of the internal combustion engine is the most awful event in human history is a real booster of high-tech?
Below you'll find a few points that will hopefully clear any confusion resulting from the article "Microsoft Research Innovations Enhance Windows 2000" posted on PressPass on Monday, February 28, 2000 (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/200 0/02-28w2k.asp).
Microsoft's Single Instance Store (SIS), a new feature in Windows 2000 developed by Microsoft Research that helps improve file system performance by reducing the amount of redundant data stored on a server, is similar to the "symbolic link" feature implemented in UNIX and other operating systems. Microsoft researchers were aware of symbolic links and other previous file system innovations; with SIS, they developed a new file system feature that differs from symbolic links in several fundamental ways:
1. If a user has two files sharing disk storage via SIS and someone modifies one of the files, users of the other file do not see the changes. For example, if files called "foo.txt" and "bar.txt" have the same content and are sharing disk storage because of SIS, and a user makes a change to one of these files, the change is not reflected in the other file. The two files are "linked" only as long as they are identical. With symbolic links, changes made through one of the links are visible to users of all the other links or the underlying file.
2. The underlying shared disk storage that backs up SIS links is maintained by the system and is only deleted if all the SIS links pointing to it are deleted. In contrast, symbolic links can "break" if a user deletes the underlying file.
3. SIS works automatically without any user involvement, in contrast to symbolic links, which must be set up and maintained by the user.
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While symbolic links aren't necessarily set by the -user- (the sysadmin is more likely to be doing this sort of thing in a situation where read-only files are accessed by multiple users and/or apps), it seems they've come up with a worthwhile innovation for their filesystem.
What these guys fail to appreciate is that perceived self-organizing crtiticality is just that - a perception arising from incomplete information. Goedel and Chaitin are important because they both firmly established the notion of incompleteness within any sort of formalized system, contra Russell and Whitehead in _Principia Mathematica_. The reason we can't predict the precise number, size, and shape of grains of sand which ultimately produce the ineveitable avalanche down the side of a sand-pile is because we have incomplete information about all the factors affecting the sand-pile.
Even with incomplete information, however, we can generate a set of reasonably-accurate predictive models; witness meterology, for example. When you're talking about Planck-length and Planck-time, non-locality is indeed a factor - but when you're talking about the San Fernando Valley, there is enough abstraction of scale that we can use macro-level techniques to achieve useful micro-level results. The fundamental challenge underlying all of physics is to determine the stops, if you will, on this sliding scale of locality, and then attempting to deduce the structure of space time from there.
This is a classic case of mistaking an artifact of a data-collection process for the data itself. While I'm interested in their underlying mathematics, I consider this episode to be a prime example of reductio ad absurdium.
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Yeah, well, you can't access a shell on my Slackware boxes without using ssh or the console, either - because I edited /etc/inetd.conf and HUPed inetd. And since I run Slackware, I don't have any 'configuration tools'.
I'll happy to come over and edit your inetd.conf, HUP your inetd, and delete your lame Red Hat GUI tools for only $1500 - only half the price of HP-LX!
Why do we need an announcement for a game which is Windows-only? There are plenty of gaming sites for that sort of thing.
if it would be guaranteed to keep that pretentious blowhard John Katz from being able to post any more of his asinine, faux-intellectual adolescent bullshit.
This report is so November 22nd. Worm goes out, people notice, the IRC servers (bots.kukijiri.net) DNS gets waxed, non-event.
So, people who got infected during the very short lifetime of this thing need to basically scrub the boxes, because BackOrifice, etc. could've been installed during the interim. But this is Old News; hell, I figure even that pretentious dumbass John Katz already knew about this one before some moron put it on the front page like it was a 'scoop', or something.
If you go to work for Worldcom-MCI, you'll be the smartest person there.
Say what you will about the Germans, they've always the best uniforms, every war.
If bidding for Nazi memorabilia on yahoo.com had been shut down, where else could my girlfriend and I have turned for all our SS fetish-wear? As it is, we're really hurting for a couple more Sam Browne belts on which to holster our Lugers . . .
Besides the obvious SF/fantasy candidates (Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Robert Silverberg, Guy Gavriel Kay, Tim Powers, Kim Newman, Fritz Leiber, Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons) . . .
Paul Johnson
William Manchester
Tom Wolfe (captured zeitgeist of 60s, 80s, & 90s)
V.S Naipaul
Christopher Hitchens (he's growing up)
Jacques Barzun
Norman Mailer (infantile politics, was a good writer once)
George Macdonald Fraser
Umberto Eco
Mark Halperin
Walter Tevis
Shelby Foote
John Keegan
John Kagan
Robert Kagan
Stephen Ambrose
Henry Kissinger (_Diplomacy_ stands out)
Irving Kristol
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Roger Kimball
Hilton Kramer
Eric Hobsbawm (hate his politics, but he's a must-read, and always will be so)
James Lee Burke (hate his politics, but he writes well - or wrote, seems to be in a rut of late)
I run Mozilla is 'Mozilla Bug Week'.
No, Jon, that's just the effect it seems to've had on -you-.
is to put morons like John Katz in the faces of our duly elected representatives.
"Mr. Katz, I understand your group has some objections to this bill outlawing Linux?"
"Senator, the zeitgeist of the age we inhabit is literally filled with the pathos-ridden desiderata of a people whose very conception of reality is marked by a lingering sense of technophobic alienation . . . "
"Sergeant-at-Arms! Sergeant-at-Arms! Get this pretentious lackwit out of here before he makes my ears bleed! God, where does he -get- this stuff? If this is what Linux does to America's youth, then by God we ought to lock up that Torvalds fellow (that's a foreign name, innnit?) and throw away the key. Where's Ashcroft, we need -more- legislation to erase this horror from the Earth - for the sake of the
children . . . "
Hell, I'd be willing to pray facing Mecca three times daily, if that's what it takes to save me from his tendentious, pretentious, uninformed pseudo-profundities.
What the hell is the deal with all these robot stories, lately? Is it time for a name-change? Are these robots even running embedded Linux or -shudder- *BSD?
I have slashbot.com, slashbot.org, and slashbot.net available for -free- to anyone who can authoritatively guarantee me that John Katz will no longer have the ability to post his pretentious, pseudo-intellectual rants on subjects of which he is completely ignorant (which pretty much rules out everything he writes, including 'and' and 'the').
I've had a lot of success using the AT&T CDPD network via www.goamerica.com & Novatel's CDPD PCMCIA modem (http://www.novatelwireless.com/pcproducts/merlinp latinum.htm#specs).
It works just like the Ricochet - i.e., you use it via pppd scripts. I just signed up for the #@!^ing Ricochet, though, because I thought their
latest big marketing push meant that they were
finally starting to do alright!
More the fool me, heh. At least you can use the CDPD whilst moving, whereas the Ricochet doesn't
like that very much.
Then I -know- it sucks.
*Scratches 'See A.I.' from his list of to-dos.*
I'm getting a suntan just bringing up this site on my 21" Trinitron. Are you marketing Web design services for the colorblind, or something?
The Cuban Missile crisis came about as a direct result of the weakness and immaturity Krushchev perceived in JFK as a result of JFK's irresolution during the Bay of Pigs debacle and the Berlin Crisis of 1961, when what became the Berlin Wall was put up by the Communists (it was just strings of barbed-wire at the time; decisive action by JFK at the time could've prevented the USSR and the East Germans from violating the the Four-Powers Treaty and thereby consolidating their stranglehold on the freedoms of Berliners living in the Soviet Sector of the city).
Krushchev was in an odd position at the time; he'd been the one to expose the crimes of Stalin at the 20th Party Congress (it wasn't done out of a sense of humanity or decency, since Krushchev didn't do anything dramatic like, say, disbanding the KGB; it was more of a tactical maneuver designed to smash the last vestiges of 'Father Joe'-worship within the Party apparat, removing Stalin as the measuring-stick against which Krushchev would be compared by the nomenklatura), and, like Gorbachev, realized that something had to be done in order to provide for economic expansion of the USSR. Also like Gorbachev, he was still a committed socialist - he wanted to find some way of 'humanizing' socialism without allowing the populace the complete freedom of choice which is the growth-engine of free-market societies.
Indeed, we could've had glasnost and perestroika - with the inevitable crumbling of the apparatus of repression, since once people have tasted a little freedom, their hunger for it becomes insatiable - if not for the hollow blustering of the Kennedys. You must remember, JFK was a conservative Democrat who ran to the right of Richard Nixon on national-security issues and the illusory 'missile gap'. Someone with maturity and a nuanced view of the world (someone like Richard Nixon, perhaps, before the stealing of the 1960 election embittered him to the point of paranoia) might've understood this, and given Krushchev the breathing-room he needed to try and implement some kind of reform.
Instead, JFK's apocalyptic rhetoric, coupled with his inner callowness, which Krushshev had sensed, a) forced Krushchev to play the bully in order to maintain his precarious grip on power, and b) by doing so, made it impossible for Krushchev to do anything regarded as 'soft' by the Politburo and the Central Committee.
Being tough, and meaning it, is a legitimate tactic; Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan used it to great effect. Acting tough, but not meaning it, marks one as being unserious, an unworthy adversary who will crumble when push comes to shove. Thus was JFK.
Finally, you need to remember something else not hinted at in the movie - in exchange for removing the IRBMs from Cuba, the US secretly agreed to remove IRBMs pointed at the USSR from Turkey. When all was said and done, Krushchev had achieved a major geopolitical gain for the USSR by playing the game of nuclear brinksmanship during those 13 days in October.
Firstly, all the comments about securing boxes are sound.
Secondly, you really need to get your network infrastructure configured to withstand this sort of stuff. Putting up ACLs on a normal router, even a Cisco 7500-series, isn't going to do much good - all the denys will drive your CPU utilization up to 100%, and the router will stop routing.
Instead, you need to implement layer-3 switching with Cisco Catalyst 5500s or 6000/6500s, with the NFFC II (in the 5500 series) or the PFC2 (in the 6000/6500 series) at key points in your network. This allows you to offload ACL processing from the routing engine (either a dedicated route processor or an external router like a 7206 used as the layer-3 brains of the switch) to the ASICs on the switch. This will allow the layer-3 route processor to keep handling packets whilst the rest of the traffic is denied.
Setting up a QoS scheme to rate-limit certain types of traffic, like ICMP, is also another effective measure. While these aren't perfect defenses, they've allowed me to set up networks which have continued delivering services on the public Internet even whilst being DDoSed at 30mb/sec.
I hope this information is useful to someone.
You know, 'them'.
Because most of you are a bunch of fucking communists who haven't any real ideas about the way the world works other than "I hate Microsoft!" and "Information should be free!". You want to be paid for -your- efforts, but if someone else wishes to be paid for -his-, you cry foul and decry him for his slavishness to the supposedly evil profit motive.
Microsoft donated millions of dollars to the Democrats over the years - and what did it get them? An anti-trust suit.
If you believe in freedom to code as you choose, to run what operating system(s) you choose, etc., you'd best take a cold, hard look at the Left end of the political spectrum and its overall thrust. The Moral Majority isn't your problem - it's the Clinton Administration.
Do you really think a man (i.e., Al Gore) who professes to believe that the invention of the internal combustion engine is the most awful event in human history is a real booster of high-tech?
I got this back from Microsoft:
0 0/02-28w2k.asp).
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*email address deleted*
Below you'll find a few points that will hopefully clear any confusion
resulting from the article "Microsoft Research Innovations Enhance Windows
2000" posted on PressPass on Monday, February 28, 2000
(http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/20
Microsoft's Single Instance Store (SIS), a new feature in Windows 2000
developed by Microsoft Research that helps improve file system performance
by reducing the amount of redundant data stored on a server, is similar to
the "symbolic link" feature implemented in UNIX and other operating systems.
Microsoft researchers were aware of symbolic links and other previous file
system innovations; with SIS, they developed a new file system feature that
differs from symbolic links in several fundamental ways:
1. If a user has two files sharing disk storage via SIS and someone modifies
one of the files, users of the other file do not see the changes. For
example, if files called "foo.txt" and "bar.txt" have the same content and
are sharing disk storage because of SIS, and a user makes a change to one of
these files, the change is not reflected in the other file. The two files
are "linked" only as long as they are identical. With symbolic links,
changes made through one of the links are visible to users of all the other
links or the underlying file.
2. The underlying shared disk storage that backs up SIS links is maintained
by the system and is only deleted if all the SIS links pointing to it are
deleted. In contrast, symbolic links can "break" if a user deletes the
underlying file.
3. SIS works automatically without any user involvement, in contrast to
symbolic links, which must be set up and maintained by the user.
-----
While symbolic links aren't necessarily set by the -user- (the sysadmin is more likely to be doing this sort of thing in a situation where read-only files are accessed by multiple users and/or apps), it seems they've come up with a worthwhile innovation for their filesystem.
What these guys fail to appreciate is that perceived self-organizing crtiticality is just that - a perception arising from incomplete information. Goedel and Chaitin are important because they both firmly established the notion of incompleteness within any sort of formalized system, contra Russell and Whitehead in _Principia Mathematica_. The reason we can't predict the precise number, size, and shape of grains of sand which ultimately produce the ineveitable avalanche down the side of a sand-pile is because we have incomplete information about all the factors affecting the sand-pile.
Even with incomplete information, however, we can generate a set of reasonably-accurate predictive models; witness meterology, for example. When you're talking about Planck-length and Planck-time, non-locality is indeed a factor - but when you're talking about the San Fernando Valley, there is enough abstraction of scale that we can use macro-level techniques to achieve useful micro-level results. The fundamental challenge underlying all of physics is to determine the stops, if you will, on this sliding scale of locality, and then attempting to deduce the structure of space time from there.
This is a classic case of mistaking an artifact of a data-collection process for the data itself. While I'm interested in their underlying mathematics, I consider this episode to be a prime example of reductio ad absurdium.