AFAIK Medusa only indexes if you're idle. Also the hard disk doesn't really goes crazy on my system like you say, much more the same effect as when I execute "find/".
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does anyone see something weird too ? X-Windows is huge, big, feature rich and probably more bloated than any other piece of open-source software available on earth.
The thing will have 64M RAM, that's more than enough memory to run X. X isn't really bloated anyway, it just looks bloated in top but a lot of that memory is either shared or on the framebuffer (IIRC).
Nonsense and here is why. With a secure OS installed you're less likely to worry about issues until you begin to install third party sw, this is one of the biggest problem with security, and often there are limits to even most third party security issues.
Which is my point exactly... with a security module you could install third party software and give it very few permissions (less than is possible in Unix).
With OS's like Free, Open, Net, again many security risks are minimized, and sorry to say but I truly feel tihs can be attributed to the fact that people take their time, and try to get it as right as possible before a release IS released, as opposed to a kernel every other week.
I think you're totally missing the point here. This security module is not there because the kernel is insecure, it's there because third-party software might be insecure. And it is also foolish to think the OpenBSD team will catch *all* bugs (though they come very close), additional security is a Good Thing.
Don't be fooled into thinking that you won't be able to run XXX program or XXX version will be obsolete, a good admin can find a fix for most issues, either by finding a suitable program which will work, tweaking code, and ensuring the program is installed in a secure fashion, even if it means chroot'ing every 3rd party binary.
Well, there's more to computing than servers is there not? The software available for desktops is far to great to audit all and normal users don' have the option to chroot every 3rd party binary. In fact, chroot can be escaped IIRC.
I'm not a kernel hacker but I think the loadable module is to provide a security model for user space apps and not for the kernel itself. Thus providing protection against bugs in applications.
Say I run an IRC client and there's a bug in it that allows people access to my files. With a better security model I could not allow the IRC app access to my files and the bug would not cause damage.
Another approach would be to audit all applications you run like OpenBSD does but I guess that limits your choice of applications and you end up with very old versions.
Nevermind. My ISP assured me that I'm not remotely vulnerable (and I believe them, go figure) so I can't say that I care much anymore.
Further the reason that I didn't get a response from the modem seems to be that I wasn't configured in the right IP/submask.
On a sidenote.. my ISP said people in the Netherlands are vulnerable because they use pptp (whatever that is) and their public IP is on the modem.
Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA22 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Host (10.0.0.138) appears to be down, skipping it.
Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -P0
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 30 seconds
Does this mean my modem isn't vulnerable or is the IP different? Comments would be appreciated.
Bonobo is the GNOME component framework. Gnumeric and Evolution both make heavy use of Bonobo components, which can be reused to solve new problems in the future.
Nautilus uses it too BTW. The icon-, list-, music-, Mozilla-view are all Bonobo components. The cool thing about it is that if you'd write your own component you'd just have to set up the MIME type and it could be used in Nautilus.
This is of course quite cool as Evolution, Nautilus, etc. are for a large part just frameworks for Bonobo applications. Trolls might want to remember that before they complain that Nautilus, Evolution, etc. are bloated.
While I do agree that the post is lame I'd like to comment on some things you said:
I thought the purpose of gnome (other than to KILL KDE) was to emulate the windows look and feel?
The purpose of GNOME is not to emulate Windows, it's to build a better GUI than Windows. Unlike Qt/KDE that seem to be much more based on Windows (although KDE does aim to be better!).
And about that trying to KILL KDE, GNOME would have never existed if KDE didn't make the license mistake, don't take it personal.
American? Linux isn't even american...it's global.
I agree, even though one could argue that KDE was started in Germany and GTK in the US. Though people arguing that are very short-sighted IMHO.
and GTK+ (and gnome) have been ported to win32 as well so what does that mean?
AFAIK GTK for Windows doesn't integrate well with the rest of the system. That is because it wasn't designed to look like other toolkits.
if you don't like qt or kde then don't use it, that's why we have choices.
not to start any flame wars here, i respect and use both environments...but qt/kde already represents a greater market share than gnome, is further along than gnome, and quite simply not quite as ugly as gnome....
so it should read...if gnome is to have any chance against QT3.....
Yes, KDE is far more mature than GNOME but GNOME has much more supporters these days so I don't think that the market share will last. Not that it matters in the end, thanks to X we have a choice;).
You can install pacakes from other sources as long as those sources behave, if they have packages with names identical to ones from the official Debian sources then those packages should provide the same files, have the same dependencies and correct version number, etc.
My main beef is apt-get upgrade asking you every time if you really want to do it - that's just silly and there should at least be a way to configure that feature off.
I have the habit of typing "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade -y", this way I don't have to sit by the keyboard to answer "y".
The only way to securely store the key on your computer is probably to encrypt it. Unfortunately that's about as flexibable as storing it on some removable media.
So I suggest making a loopback encrypted filesystem, placing the key on it and only mounting it when you need the key. It would be nice though if a password dialog would pop up automaticly when the key is needed by some program (say when evolution needs it for gpg).
I dunno... a stongly typed compiled OOP language and design by contract would seem great for mission critical things. I assume that's why ADA is used so much for it (if I understand correctly).
With C or assembler, unless you're using function pointers, these types of things are a lot less likely to happen.
I wouldn't trust mission critical stuff to C OTOH, the use of pointers (and thus arrays) in it is inherintly dangerous. Compiled Java (a.o.) would seem far safer.
IMHO OOP will one of the leading contributors to errors in safety oriented software that's used in advanced hardware-- my reasoning being that most OOP software (like Borland Pascal or Borland C++, for example) use VMT that are basically just pointers to functions that correspond to virtual functions or static functions. One poorly used pointer or overwritten memory address and suddenly you're calling the wrong code.
Are you talking about compiler errors here? It so then why treat it differently than procedural languages? If not then what's the difference with pointers as they are used in C for example? Further some OOP languages like Java don't allow direct manipulation of pointers, now why blame OOP in general?
How do you make a bug-free Hello World program? I'm a senior in Computer Science and have yet to hear any credible evidence of such a program existing.
I'm sorry but I don't understand the logic behind that argument? How could it be proven to be bug-free? The answer is that it can't be, you can only prove that it does contain bugs.
I really don't understand all the people here saying that even a hello world program can't be bug-free. Is there any reasoning behind it? I mean, if you write an assembler program for one specific computer and run it only on that computer, assuming that the hardware is working 100% OK (we're talking software here after all) then why wouldn't it be possible to have a bug free hello world program?
I would venture to guess that the software controlling many nuclear powerplants and nuclear weapons, while probably not as rigerous, are probably written and monitored quite well.
Hehe, that reminds me of the EULA of Sun's JDK. It says that you cannot use it in airplanes or nuclear power plants. Go figure.
BeOS personal edition could be taken as an OS that runs on WinXX and Linux. Since you install it and launch it from WinXX and/or Linux.
On Windows 95/98/ME BeOS personal edition exits Windows and starts as a real OS. On Linux it even doesn't do that, you can install it in/beos (IIRC) and start it from LILO but it can not be started from Linux itself.
The different with the Amiga 'OS' is that the Amiga OS is a layer on top of the OS as to provide platform independence much like Java and the C# VM/API (if one would believe MS, that is).
I do agree with you here but I wonder if it's applicable to space aliens. Should we, e.g. dictate them that they shouldn't eat each other?
There could be huge cultural difference between species from different planets, it might not be possible to solve it by giving them basic human rights.
I'd say that person gets only one vote but is encouraged to work in politics. That is, I believe that would be the politicians point of view (assuming they don't feel threatened).
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How long has it been since you tried Medusa?
(Don't get me wrong, Red Carpet is great but console is nice too :-)
Too bad one needs a credit card for Paypal. If I were to convince someone to let me use his/her credit card, would you send the T-Shirt to Europe?
People should really enter x@x.x or something when e-mail addresses are required.
Say I run an IRC client and there's a bug in it that allows people access to my files. With a better security model I could not allow the IRC app access to my files and the bug would not cause damage.
Another approach would be to audit all applications you run like OpenBSD does but I guess that limits your choice of applications and you end up with very old versions.
On a sidenote.. my ISP said people in the Netherlands are vulnerable because they use pptp (whatever that is) and their public IP is on the modem.
I tried the nmap thing but got this:
bash-2.05# nmap -sS -sU -O -v 10.0.0.138
Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA22 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Host (10.0.0.138) appears to be down, skipping it.
Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -P0
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 30 seconds
Does this mean my modem isn't vulnerable or is the IP different? Comments would be appreciated.
This is of course quite cool as Evolution, Nautilus, etc. are for a large part just frameworks for Bonobo applications. Trolls might want to remember that before they complain that Nautilus, Evolution, etc. are bloated.
Yes, but I was talking about GTK. The GIMP Toolkit, which I think was started in the US.
And about that trying to KILL KDE, GNOME would have never existed if KDE didn't make the license mistake, don't take it personal.
I agree, even though one could argue that KDE was started in Germany and GTK in the US. Though people arguing that are very short-sighted IMHO. AFAIK GTK for Windows doesn't integrate well with the rest of the system. That is because it wasn't designed to look like other toolkits. Yes, KDE is far more mature than GNOME but GNOME has much more supporters these days so I don't think that the market share will last. Not that it matters in the end, thanks to X we have a choiceFor a list of unofficial sources see http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-so urces/.
So I suggest making a loopback encrypted filesystem, placing the key on it and only mounting it when you need the key. It would be nice though if a password dialog would pop up automaticly when the key is needed by some program (say when evolution needs it for gpg).
I really don't understand all the people here saying that even a hello world program can't be bug-free. Is there any reasoning behind it? I mean, if you write an assembler program for one specific computer and run it only on that computer, assuming that the hardware is working 100% OK (we're talking software here after all) then why wouldn't it be possible to have a bug free hello world program?
On Windows 95/98/ME BeOS personal edition exits Windows and starts as a real OS. On Linux it even doesn't do that, you can install it in /beos (IIRC) and start it from LILO but it can not be started from Linux itself.
The different with the Amiga 'OS' is that the Amiga OS is a layer on top of the OS as to provide platform independence much like Java and the C# VM/API (if one would believe MS, that is).
I surely hope you meant "trying to blow up the alien ship"... or should I assume they (you?) are here already?
There could be huge cultural difference between species from different planets, it might not be possible to solve it by giving them basic human rights.
I'd say that person gets only one vote but is encouraged to work in politics. That is, I believe that would be the politicians point of view (assuming they don't feel threatened).