Goatse.cx only appears robust because it is running Windows XP server edition on the latest Sun Microsystems hardware. If you run it on a shitty OS on shitty hardware, it would be as bad as Slashdot.
30's I belive. And it was a PITA doing it too. Imagine how much work it is to amend the constitution, and then make another amendment reversing the previous amendment, back in the 1930's. Now imagine how much harder it would be to do anything like that today.
A big corporation to go down easily. They have lots of money to fight, even if it is obvious that they are the ones who are wrong and are going to loose someday. I am pointing at you Microsoft.
The idea is that it does all of the heavy crypto work to take the load off the main cpu, and be completely tamper proof (not sure what this means, but you wont be able to steal the key by pulling it out of the box or plugging some wires into it). Linux comes into it because it is running on the coprocessor. I did not see it on the list of OSs that you can use with the coprocessor, but it would be a logical step.
IBM Research Demonstrates Linux Running on Secure Cryptographic Coprocessor
IBM Research has demonstrated Linux running on the IBM 4758 secure cryptographic coprocessor, a hardware security module. This is the first general purpose operating system (OS) running on a secure coprocessor. The IBM 4758 cryptographic coprocessor is an advanced, tamper-sensing and responding, programmable PCI card. Its specialized cryptographic electronics, along with a microprocessor, memory and random number generator are housed within a tamper-responding environment to provide a highly secure subsystem in which data processing and cryptography can be performed.
By running Linux, it enables much easier migration and porting of applications into the secure environment than with the current CP/Q operating system. As a key product for secure e-business, its main applications are financial-related solutions, such as electronic coupon dispensers, Internet postage meters, intellectual property protection (web subscription services), signatures for digital documents and certificate authorities.
The Linux-based IBM 4758 also offers significantly better performance, including eight times improved communication latency and four times faster throughput, over the current custom OS based product offering. In addition, Linux provides better support for new features, which are not supported by the custom OS such as running multiple potentially hostile applications on the same 4758 coprocessor card and allowing cross card communications that enables load balancing among multiple cards.
IBM Research developed the 4758 coprocessor hardware, along with its internal operating system, secure configuration and bootstrap software, and custom software development tools that can run on multiple platforms, including all IBM servers and non-IBM servers, about five years ago. By creating the Linux version, IBM hopes to provide Linux developers the opportunity to create high security applications, and to encourage such development and interest in industry. We are working on making this software package available as a free download for existing 4758 coprocessor users. Parts of the Linux port were jointly developed with Cryptographic Appliances, Sacramento, California.
The 4758 secure coprocessor was the first device ever to earn the highest possible certification for commercial security granted by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards (NIST) and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) of the Government of Canada.
For further information, visit the IBM Research Mycroft Website at
http://www.research.ibm.com/mycroft
Anyone know how Yellowdog and Debian PPC compare? Judging from the fact that Debian (I386)is far superior to RedHat, I would expect Debian for PPC to come out on top. But there are lot of differences. So someone with more info please speak up.
So you can have a candy shell on the outside to look pretty and root priviledges on the inside to packet whitehouse.gov. Oh wait...Microsoft does that too...
If you are running a mission critical machine, it generally isn't wise to just install updates without waiting to see if there are any hidden problems in them. Of course, this doesn't apply to security fixes. Of course, that's why many things have multiple branches: stable, unstable, etc. The 'stable' code ought to be good enough to blindly install on mission critical boxes.
ROFL. Hourly updates via cron? Sounds quite a bit exessive to me. Weekly ought to be enough for anyone. Anyway, props to a good system for keeping systems up to date without doing any real work at all.
The next guy who talked was Jose Munoz from DOE. He did a Dave Letterman by going through the top 10 reason why Open Source software is bad in reverse order. The last one being, or rather item #1, the question "Would you want to fly in an airplane whose complete flight system was developed using Open Source by the lowest bidder?", followed by a bullet reading "Whom do you sue when the thing goes wrong? (assuming you're a survivor)". It's unfortunate that the guy who works for the same government agency which provides my paycheck gave such a negative perspective to this issue. It was good to listen to one of the members of the audience make a statement, at the end of the session, that if given a choice between the plane running open source software or something running under a Microsoft OS, he would much prefer the open source one, given the track record of Microsoft software. There were a couple of chuckles in the audience and a blushed smile from Todd of Microsoft. Note: You can find Jose Munoz's full presentation in this.pdf file.
Anyway, I would be more worried about this. If thats what they do with fibers on the ground, imagine what the inside of a satillite looks like.
Konqueror was not impressed by your web site, and neither was I. So it is with great pleasure that I take the opportunity the be the first one to scream:
TOTALLY GAY GOATSE.CX LINK WITH JAVASCRIPT POPUP WINDOW ATTACK!!! SOMEONE GET THIS GUYS BALLS!!!
Thank you for your time.
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The standard edition isnt optimized? WTF. I was going to buy it too, since I am going to take a high school VC++ class. Perhaps I could get a discount on the pro edition?
Perhaps, but that would be a pretty long game. The Visor's CPU would have to work for a few years to beat one of those machines that only puts a few minutes or second into a move. Good luck.
Well, anything that the majority of slashdot readers would dislike could be considered flamebait, since most of them flame people posting that kind of thing.
That particular troll is also full of shit (as usual). Check out his numbers...
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Ugh...That almost sapped me of the will to reply. I think it is time for bed kiddo. You are not in top form right now.
Pretty weak considering that you didn't even have to type an URL to get that.
Interesting that Microsoft has the grapes to link to The Register though.
Goatse.cx only appears robust because it is running Windows XP server edition on the latest Sun Microsystems hardware. If you run it on a shitty OS on shitty hardware, it would be as bad as Slashdot.
30's I belive. And it was a PITA doing it too. Imagine how much work it is to amend the constitution, and then make another amendment reversing the previous amendment, back in the 1930's. Now imagine how much harder it would be to do anything like that today.
A big corporation to go down easily. They have lots of money to fight, even if it is obvious that they are the ones who are wrong and are going to loose someday. I am pointing at you Microsoft.
:)
I see I am a little too late for FP tonight.
Thank you. It is my opinion that Slashdot needs more moderation categories. Adding the ones that Geekizoid uses to the current list would satisfy me.
I hope they aren't trolls.
Don't ATI and NVidia make better portable video chips anyway? Just don't buy a laptop with a Trident chip...
If you had a terminator on your SCSI bus you wouldn't be getting data corruption like that.
The idea is that it does all of the heavy crypto work to take the load off the main cpu, and be completely tamper proof (not sure what this means, but you wont be able to steal the key by pulling it out of the box or plugging some wires into it). Linux comes into it because it is running on the coprocessor. I did not see it on the list of OSs that you can use with the coprocessor, but it would be a logical step.
IBM Research Demonstrates Linux Running on Secure Cryptographic Coprocessor
IBM Research has demonstrated Linux running on the IBM 4758 secure cryptographic coprocessor, a hardware security module. This is the first general purpose operating system (OS) running on a secure coprocessor. The IBM 4758 cryptographic coprocessor is an advanced, tamper-sensing and responding, programmable PCI card. Its specialized cryptographic electronics, along with a microprocessor, memory and random number generator are housed within a tamper-responding environment to provide a highly secure subsystem in which data processing and cryptography can be performed.
By running Linux, it enables much easier migration and porting of applications into the secure environment than with the current CP/Q operating system. As a key product for secure e-business, its main applications are financial-related solutions, such as electronic coupon dispensers, Internet postage meters, intellectual property protection (web subscription services), signatures for digital documents and certificate authorities.
The Linux-based IBM 4758 also offers significantly better performance, including eight times improved communication latency and four times faster throughput, over the current custom OS based product offering. In addition, Linux provides better support for new features, which are not supported by the custom OS such as running multiple potentially hostile applications on the same 4758 coprocessor card and allowing cross card communications that enables load balancing among multiple cards.
IBM Research developed the 4758 coprocessor hardware, along with its internal operating system, secure configuration and bootstrap software, and custom software development tools that can run on multiple platforms, including all IBM servers and non-IBM servers, about five years ago. By creating the Linux version, IBM hopes to provide Linux developers the opportunity to create high security applications, and to encourage such development and interest in industry. We are working on making this software package available as a free download for existing 4758 coprocessor users. Parts of the Linux port were jointly developed with Cryptographic Appliances, Sacramento, California.
The 4758 secure coprocessor was the first device ever to earn the highest possible certification for commercial security granted by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards (NIST) and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) of the Government of Canada.
For further information, visit the IBM Research Mycroft Website at
http://www.research.ibm.com/mycroft
Sorry. That is a matter of opinion.
I infer your preference is Yellowdog, or at least Redhat. Do you have any thoughts on that, or are you yourself a flamebaiter?
Anyone know how Yellowdog and Debian PPC compare? Judging from the fact that Debian (I386)is far superior to RedHat, I would expect Debian for PPC to come out on top. But there are lot of differences. So someone with more info please speak up.
So you can have a candy shell on the outside to look pretty and root priviledges on the inside to packet whitehouse.gov. Oh wait...Microsoft does that too...
I am glad to see Linux distributions for the G4 machines maturing. You can't use OS X for everything.
If you are running a mission critical machine, it generally isn't wise to just install updates without waiting to see if there are any hidden problems in them. Of course, this doesn't apply to security fixes. Of course, that's why many things have multiple branches: stable, unstable, etc. The 'stable' code ought to be good enough to blindly install on mission critical boxes.
ROFL. Hourly updates via cron? Sounds quite a bit exessive to me. Weekly ought to be enough for anyone. Anyway, props to a good system for keeping systems up to date without doing any real work at all.
Spoke too soon.
.pdf file.
The next guy who talked was Jose Munoz from DOE. He did a Dave Letterman by going through the top 10 reason why Open Source software is bad in reverse order. The last one being, or rather item #1, the question "Would you want to fly in an airplane whose complete flight system was developed using Open Source by the lowest bidder?", followed by a bullet reading "Whom do you sue when the thing goes wrong? (assuming you're a survivor)". It's unfortunate that the guy who works for the same government agency which provides my paycheck gave such a negative perspective to this issue. It was good to listen to one of the members of the audience make a statement, at the end of the session, that if given a choice between the plane running open source software or something running under a Microsoft OS, he would much prefer the open source one, given the track record of Microsoft software. There were a couple of chuckles in the audience and a blushed smile from Todd of Microsoft.
Note: You can find Jose Munoz's full presentation in this
Anyway, I would be more worried about this. If thats what they do with fibers on the ground, imagine what the inside of a satillite looks like.
ROFL. Probably a lot of shit though. NASA funds a lot of Open Source work.
Konqueror was not impressed by your web site, and neither was I. So it is with great pleasure that I take the opportunity the be the first one to scream:
TOTALLY GAY GOATSE.CX LINK WITH JAVASCRIPT POPUP WINDOW ATTACK!!! SOMEONE GET THIS GUYS BALLS!!!
Thank you for your time.
Does it have a big laser like the Death Star?
Crackpot trolls...not even trying.
The standard edition isnt optimized? WTF. I was going to buy it too, since I am going to take a high school VC++ class. Perhaps I could get a discount on the pro edition?
Perhaps, but that would be a pretty long game. The Visor's CPU would have to work for a few years to beat one of those machines that only puts a few minutes or second into a move. Good luck.
Well, anything that the majority of slashdot readers would dislike could be considered flamebait, since most of them flame people posting that kind of thing.
That particular troll is also full of shit (as usual). Check out his numbers...
I won't give a shit even then. I got a 2.5 (5 really) Travan drive for $30. A small pile of tapes is all I need to store the important stuff.
Put 100(0) Gigs on a disc, or better yet, some sort of holographic cube, and I will be interested.