True, it doesn't solve everything, but is is the first step. Naturally all not trusted scripts should not be allowed to touch anything at all. chroot or sandbox it.
The real problem isn't that scripts are so easily started (it does contribute to the problem though) but that such a script has access to the whole system, it has access to the registry, all files, can start outlook. You really need a multiuser environment to prevent such things. Every unix user with an IQ higher than that of a rabbit knows you should run everything as root.
Remember Linux for Apple ][ or 8080 - not a lot of use but was done just for the sake of it.
I know ELKS runs on old x86 hardware and coldfire on a lot of 32bit processors whithout mmu but I believe the ports you mentioned were just a april first joke.....
No our country is not well-liked because we are more powerful than everyone else. It is a simple case of jealousy - they want what we have. And it is not "gung-ho" - it is merely a precautionary measure designed to intimidate other nations into peace - surely you've heard the phrease "prevention is better than a cure"
If you were really trying to prevent something you wouldn't have to use military force. And no I am not jealous at any american, I am glad I am NOT an american.
Rubbish - the US is at the vanguard of the United Nation's efforts at peacekeeping in places where civil strife have become war, and what thanks do we get for risking our soldier's lives? None, instead we get vilified by liberals and foreigners for being oppressive, like it was some kind of unilateral action. The US is magnanimous enough to use our might to try and help other nations that are in need, and for all the thanks we get for it we might as well not bother.
The US doesn't even pay its UN contribution. And the only thing the US want's to do is to dump a payload of bombs on this weeks bad guys and they might even consider to help a peace keeping force long after the conflict is over.
Almost all (if not all) of the examples you mentioned were a direct result of local revolutions against totalitairian regimes (most supported by the US). The sovjet union simply aided the local communists, instead of the local dictator.
And how about the numerous dictators around the world that would get all the support from the US they wanted just by being anti communistic? Never mind the fact that they were slaying entire populations, they were on our side!!!!
Countries and organisations that have spent their resources on an information infrastructure should feel no need to help others to join it. The poorer countries of the world are already far too dependent upon handouts from the West, and should be encouraged to sort out their problems on their own before joining the rest of us in the Information Age. If we try and force them they will resist - just look at all the trouble caused when Britain gave them an Industrial age infrastructure during the days of their Empire.
You are forgetting a very important thing: The fact that those countries are poor is a direct result of abuse by the 'western world'. They might have gotten an infrastructure a hundred years ago, but they didn't get the education to use it. It was used by the british for the british!
By the way, not only the british were bad guys, nearly every country that is now part of the 'great western world' did this or is still doing it.
are not going to care about the internet or access to information when their children are starving while they assemble sports equipment.
Information won't solve all problems at once, but it is very important. If they wan't a better live they will have to improve their methods of producing goods, education and thus information is essential for that.
Free information will also prevent people from exploiting them, just look at the recent things around AIDS drugs.
The GPL makes sure that source code, once released under it stays free, and that anybody that want's to use it can. Nobody can make derivative work of it and deny you the right to spread it yourself.
I think a lot of people don't understand how opensource works. They don't have to release code (unless they are spreading gpl'ed binaries). They also don't have to give any kind of support, this is stateted very clear in the gpl.
I can release any kind of source under the gpl, even if it is totally useless. I would be nice if I reacted nice to people sending patches, but I don't have to. And if you don't agree with my visions you can just fork the program and do a better job yourself
The current "plan-of-record" is to specify RPM as the file format. It is supported either directly, or indirectly by the widest number of distributions, and so far, no one has pointed out any deficiencies.
And personally I find the sysV init scripts a braindead idea, who needs to stop a server? Who needs a restart? What does it add that I can't do with 'killall -HUP.....'?
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That would be an ultra sparc, 'regular' sparcs are 32 bit.
Somebody moderate this NAZI down to -10000
Is that moved on far enough?
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LOL, somebody moderate this down before I kill myself laughing.....
Microsoft is dead, long live linux
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Insert 'NOT' in the last line
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I know ELKS runs on old x86 hardware and coldfire on a lot of 32bit processors whithout mmu but I believe the ports you mentioned were just a april first joke.....
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They are not talking about hooking bees and ants to the internet! They are trying to implement their communication protocols on electronic networks.
If you were really trying to prevent something you wouldn't have to use military force. And no I am not jealous at any american, I am glad I am NOT an american.
Rubbish - the US is at the vanguard of the United Nation's efforts at peacekeeping in places where civil strife have become war, and what thanks do we get for risking our soldier's lives? None, instead we get vilified by liberals and foreigners for being oppressive, like it was some kind of unilateral action. The US is magnanimous enough to use our might to try and help other nations that are in need, and for all the thanks we get for it we might as well not bother.
The US doesn't even pay its UN contribution. And the only thing the US want's to do is to dump a payload of bombs on this weeks bad guys and they might even consider to help a peace keeping force long after the conflict is over.
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Never mind the fact that they were slaying entire populations, they were on our side!!!!
Jeroen
You are forgetting a very important thing: The fact that those countries are poor is a direct result of abuse by the 'western world'. They might have gotten an infrastructure a hundred years ago, but they didn't get the education to use it. It was used by the british for the british!
By the way, not only the british were bad guys, nearly every country that is now part of the 'great western world' did this or is still doing it.
Jeroen
Information won't solve all problems at once, but it is very important. If they wan't a better live they will have to improve their methods of producing goods, education and thus information is essential for that.
Free information will also prevent people from exploiting them, just look at the recent things around AIDS drugs.
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They think the MPAA is right because of the judgement in California, funny thing is that I am on the other side of the Atlantic.....
And I plan to fight this till my last breath. (Or until they disconnect me....)
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US domains?????????? I don't think so
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I can release any kind of source under the gpl, even if it is totally useless. I would be nice if I reacted nice to people sending patches, but I don't have to.
And if you don't agree with my visions you can just fork the program and do a better job yourself
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The current "plan-of-record" is to specify RPM as the file format. It is supported either directly, or indirectly by the widest number of distributions, and so far, no one has pointed out any deficiencies.
Linux Standard Base Specification 0.2pre - chapter 13
And personally I find the sysV init scripts a braindead idea, who needs to stop a server? Who needs a restart? What does it add that I can't do with 'killall -HUP .....'?
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I do get a lot of reactions, but I get the idea that most people although they agree don't actually send the message......
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