These guys are crack smokers, especially Saul Backal. They tried to sell the company I was working on at the time on this VME bullshit. (I have an unopened copy if anybody wants it . ..)
Maybe they came up with something, maybe they didn't. After meeting him and going through their presentation and watching him stumble over some basic questions, I will never trust that company. Some memorable things from that meeting: Bruce Schneier doesn't know what he is talking about. We don't need peer review to know our algorithm is secure. No you can't analyze the source or the algorithm.
For those who may not know, the measure of a truly secure algorithm is that it is secure even when the algorithm is known.
-b
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Why do you call having an affordable alternative to MS Windows and Outlook useless? Just because you have no use for it doesn't mean that nobody else can!
They win on all points, their money stays in their country, they are free to audit the source of every component on their PCs, I am sure this cost less than outfitting all governement PCs with Windows and Outlook would have cost, etc.
Besides, if you want to look at it this way, their government is protecting them. They are protecting them from market lock in, they are protecting them from security events such as Code Red, they are protecting them from forced upgrade costs, they are protecting them from the possibility of intentional backdoors in their software, etc.
I love the fact that the US government is funding some areas of open source development. I wish they would do more.
The point of fiction is the suspension of reality, as in "imagine if you could catch a virus from your computer . . .." What matters is how consistant it is internally. As I haven't read the book yet, I can't comment there.
And it's a stain on your character that you regard that as an insult. Get your panties out of a bunch! If it was an insult I would have said that you were too stupid to understand.
It is also quite revealing that because one person has experience somewhat different than yours that the only thing you could think to write in your original post was an insult to that person's employer.
I think I probably understand IBM mainframes than 90% of the slashdot readers. And this is relevant how?
The point is, IBM big iron is a very different beast than the rest of the computing world. On AIX, for example, the admin doesn't partition drives and maintain directory structures. There isn't even a firm separation between memory and disk space. Why then would the admin need to know what a directory was?
"Usability" is a stupid term anyway since it relies exclusively on the individual using it (though there are some designs that everyone will find unusable and potentially some that everyone will find usable). The best "usability" solution in my opinion is one that can be customized to how any user wants to use it. Not pretty eye candy (even if it does look nice). Too bad pretty eye candy (and its screenshots) sells and customizability doesn't (at least not as well).
Oh, well. As long as I can still use Linux, I'm happy:)
Well, just don't expect to use gnome for much longer. The gnome2 team, led by the all-knowing Havoc Pennington, have ignored hundreds of end user "useability reports" and ripped out all the customizability that you and I love, saying that they know better that we what is good for us.
If an application asks the kernel to elevate its privileges, how is the kernel to decide if it should grant that request? My mind-set tells me that it should check the effective user id of the running process but then isn't this setuid and setgid again?
In my humble opinion, this is exactly how it should be done. This would mean that only certain syscalls of certain binaries would be allowed elevated privs.
In other words, suid application X can do A and B, but not C. Suid application Y can do C and D, but not A or B and application Z can do none of the above because it is not suid.
Hahahahah! I like the ad at the bottom of his page too! (notice that the link points to his own website . . wtf?)
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Does anyone (except porn sites) actually use them anymore?
Yes, the guy who argues that they are useless.
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Yeah, we know you stuck an extra zero on the end. Your post reveals your education level.
I got a 1600 on my SATs.
You got A 1600 on your how many SATs?
So I consider myself to be a pretty open-minded and science-accepting person.
Science-accepting means much less than science-knowledgeable, which you obviously are not.
But who seriously believed the asteriod was going to crash into Earth.
A question traditionally has a question mark on the end.
Simple math shows us that it would have to be going in speeds exceeding 300 MPH to crash into us in 2019.
Simple science knowledge reveals that the asteroid is already traveling much faster than 300MPH. Remember, speed is relative. 300MPH is not really that fast.
Any asteroid going 300 MPH would most definitely burn up before it reached the atmosphere.
Gtk# doesn't currently work on Windows as the Microsoft runtime is incompatible with Gtk+ libraries that aren't linked with MSVC's lib.exe tool. Tor Lillqvist's Gtk+ for Windows won't work.
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And other times, like now, I am glad that I don't live in a place like New York City.
Did I read that right that you put $25,000 into this jeep? There's no way that can be right, and if it is, you're out of your mind. $2,500 or $250.00?
These guys are crack smokers, especially Saul Backal. They tried to sell the company I was working on at the time on this VME bullshit. (I have an unopened copy if anybody wants it . . .)
Maybe they came up with something, maybe they didn't. After meeting him and going through their presentation and watching him stumble over some basic questions, I will never trust that company. Some memorable things from that meeting: Bruce Schneier doesn't know what he is talking about. We don't need peer review to know our algorithm is secure. No you can't analyze the source or the algorithm.
For those who may not know, the measure of a truly secure algorithm is that it is secure even when the algorithm is known.
-b
Why do you call having an affordable alternative to MS Windows and Outlook useless? Just because you have no use for it doesn't mean that nobody else can!
They win on all points, their money stays in their country, they are free to audit the source of every component on their PCs, I am sure this cost less than outfitting all governement PCs with Windows and Outlook would have cost, etc.
Besides, if you want to look at it this way, their government is protecting them. They are protecting them from market lock in, they are protecting them from security events such as Code Red, they are protecting them from forced upgrade costs, they are protecting them from the possibility of intentional backdoors in their software, etc.
I love the fact that the US government is funding some areas of open source development. I wish they would do more.
;; signal/noise ratio is getting worse; I now read posts at +3 or above
;)
Heh, how ironic that your post is only at 2 now
Uh, you didn't take GENED 110, did you?
The Tao is "the Way."
Ok, people, repeat after me:
." What matters is how consistant it is internally. As I haven't read the book yet, I can't comment there.
The point of fiction is the suspension of reality, as in "imagine if you could catch a virus from your computer . . .
On AIX, for example
;)
Err, actually I meant OS/400 here. . . .
Here, let me put it in plain English for you:
Damn. Lay off the medication. You are imagining any hostility here.
And it's a stain on your character that you regard that as an insult. Get your panties out of a bunch! If it was an insult I would have said that you were too stupid to understand.
It is also quite revealing that because one person has experience somewhat different than yours that the only thing you could think to write in your original post was an insult to that person's employer.
I think I probably understand IBM mainframes than 90% of the slashdot readers.
And this is relevant how?
The point is, IBM big iron is a very different beast than the rest of the computing world. On AIX, for example, the admin doesn't partition drives and maintain directory structures. There isn't even a firm separation between memory and disk space. Why then would the admin need to know what a directory was?
Ahh, just shows you don't understand how IBM mainframes work. If you sat in front of one of them, you'd be just as clueless.
They say the same for their own site, the dumbasses.
Uhh, Ever see any PC TV tuner hardware where this is not required?
Uhh, yes. My Voodoo3500 TV card. The CDROM plugs to the TV card then the TV card plugs to the sound card.
It gives me a beautiful, fully indexed 3-D document that says, "No web site is configured at this address."
"Usability" is a stupid term anyway since it relies exclusively on the individual using it (though there are some designs that everyone will find unusable and potentially some that everyone will find usable). The best "usability" solution in my opinion is one that can be customized to how any user wants to use it. Not pretty eye candy (even if it does look nice). Too bad pretty eye candy (and its screenshots) sells and customizability doesn't (at least not as well).
:)
Oh, well. As long as I can still use Linux, I'm happy
Well, just don't expect to use gnome for much longer. The gnome2 team, led by the all-knowing Havoc Pennington, have ignored hundreds of end user "useability reports" and ripped out all the customizability that you and I love, saying that they know better that we what is good for us.
$ apt-get remove gnome
If an application asks the kernel to elevate its privileges, how is the kernel to decide if it should grant that request? My mind-set tells me that it should check the effective user id of the running process but then isn't this setuid and setgid again?
In my humble opinion, this is exactly how it should be done. This would mean that only certain syscalls of certain binaries would be allowed elevated privs.
In other words, suid application X can do A and B, but not C. Suid application Y can do C and D, but not A or B and application Z can do none of the above because it is not suid.
Hahahahah! I like the ad at the bottom of his page too! (notice that the link points to his own website . . wtf?)
Special Offer: Are you targeting the right keywords?
How do you know if people are searching on your keywords? Use WordTracker, and you'll get inside information on what people are really searching for. With this top secret information, you can optimize your site the right way the first time and see immediate results!
Does anyone (except porn sites) actually use them anymore?
Yes, the guy who argues that they are useless.
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<title>An End to Metatags (Enough Already, Part 1) - Traffick.com</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="metatags are evil, metatags must die, death to the meta tags">
<meta name="description" content="If you can read this meta description tag, then the author's wish for the end of metatags has not yet come true. Someday, it will.">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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and I've never even met anyone who has encountered stability problems with WinNT.
Holy shit! You need to crawl out from under your rock and meet the real world.
Yeah, we know you stuck an extra zero on the end. Your post reveals your education level.
I got a 1600 on my SATs.
You got A 1600 on your how many SATs?
So I consider myself to be a pretty open-minded and science-accepting person.
Science-accepting means much less than science-knowledgeable, which you obviously are not.
But who seriously believed the asteriod was going to crash into Earth.
A question traditionally has a question mark on the end.
Simple math shows us that it would have to be going in speeds exceeding 300 MPH to crash into us in 2019.
Simple science knowledge reveals that the asteroid is already traveling much faster than 300MPH. Remember, speed is relative. 300MPH is not really that fast.
Any asteroid going 300 MPH would most definitely burn up before it reached the atmosphere.
Why? There is no air resistance in space.
all right, when I got to this sentence I pretty much knew what the story would be:
Cats and dogs fornicate in the street as the sky turns black as sackcloth.
She doesn't have KDE. Each program on her system was handpicked.
- Why are there 6 programs that do the same thing?
There is exactly one program for each task she needs to accomplish.
- Why does it keep asking for my root password?
Why would she need root's password?
- Why is there no sound?
Sound works just fine, thank you.
- Why can't I find anything at the store for my computer?
She has never in her life shopped for computer items.
- Why don't the websites I visit look right?
She completely understands why non standard compliant websites don't work and chooses not to frequent them. (by her own choice, not mine.)