This hasn't been my experience. I have an Abit NF7-S motherboard w/ SATA and nforce2 chipset.
It is the most solid, dependable workstation I've ever used. I have never had a problem gentoo on it, and I regularly play 3D games, etc, and other high load activities (compiling).
I am not using the SATA yet, only the PATA interfaces. When I exceed the current 200GB capacity of my LVM, I will add a SATA drive, then another. I figure by then support for SATA will be better and the drive prices will be lower.
Linux vindaloo 2.4.23_pre7-gss #1 Sat Oct 18 09:35:14 EDT 2003 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
My laptop is an HP zt1000. Unless I'm compiling stuff, it stays pretty cool. I have it sitting on my lap right now, in fact, and I have in the past let it sit on bare skin without problems. I think the celeron chip in it runs a little cooler than the other HP laptops I've encountered with athlon chips. The zt1000 was a nice little unit for under $1000. However, the battery life is a little short.
I have received many hits, from DSL users on my local subnet unaware they are even running a server to a Bank's website. With the news that hotmail's own server were compromised i think it becomes neccessary to view this worm with a careful eye.
I even got repeated hits from the "Bank of Taccoa"'s website, meaning the bank was not aware their servers were being hit. Needless to say, I didn't try the backdoor out on that IP...
Almost all of these machines are infected with the CR II varient, and most of them reside in the same class A/B subnet. I tried the root attempt myself on one of them, result are here.
I've compiled a list of IPs that have made 404 hits on default.ida. Companys like @home and speakeasy (my ISP) need to crack down on IIS users on home DSL networks and get them to install the patch. This many infected hosts is not a good thing.
This is a different issue; The KHTTPD server will serve static stuff (HTML, Images) within a kernel module and pass the rest of the requests on to a userspace server like apache, or roxen.
This is messy; I personally don't like the solution. It might work well for running on a dedicated image server, or such, but it seems to be unworthy of praise otherwise.
You misunderstand what "Begging the question" is. Begging the Question is an fallacy in logic that involves using "Circular Reasoning", IE, assuming something is true because it is true. The equivelent of saying "just because" as an argument.
Many people mis-use the expression. Take a look at this page for more info.
This is almost exactly what the opennap network is, a setup of interconnected servers and clients that connect to a server(Like IRC). But the napster network was designed from the ground up to support file sharing.
However, the existing napster network was a corporate entity, which was its major problem.
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Do not forget that there is 90% air inside most computer cases as well, and there is a very valid reason for all of this: cooling. If all the components were scrunched together, there would be intense overheating problems. Laptops utilize special cooling technologies to 'wick' the heat away from the processor without airspace.
In order to reduce noise, these soho firewall/router products are often made without fans, and without any kind of active cooling, the passive cooling(airspace) has to be rather good.
I can possibly understand the application of this in a home networking situation, especially since most broadband users are unaware of the dangers their system may be subjected to.
In a way this is good, because it enables broadband users who know nothing about security to secure their systems. However, there is great potential for abuse should someone find a backdoor or hole in the 'FireCard'.
The card makes no sense in an enterprise environ, however. This is a simply silly use of it. Why not opt for a bit of extra configurability and peace of mind and roll your own firewall configuration, as I have?
The card would be beneficial to small time home users, but it makes no sense to the enterprise network admin.
Mozilla is much, much better than one would think, i am actually using it right now (on linux). It crashes less than Netscape 4 on any platform, has less memory leak problems, etc. The only issues i have are with java support, which is rarely needed. It does not run well on a slow machine, but this is the XUL user interface, not Gecko itself. Try something like Galeon or Skipstone if you are on a Linux machine. IE would also run slow on a similar machine though, so this is not really a comparison
IE 5.0 (IIRC) on the Mac platform was actually very standards compliant, but MS quickly ditched this support in favor of the newest flashy support for useless features. Netscape 6.0 and Mozilla are also subject to this 'crepping featuritis'. Unfortunatly, for the purpose of competing with IE, netscape has prioritized features over bugfixes and standards compliance
As with the drug war, the users/citizens are the true losers in the browser wars.
The athlon is a great chip. I built my first athlon system (an 800) about half a year ago and was immediately hooked. The performance is better, the cost lower. What more could one ask for?
I'm glad that AMD has broken into Intel's market because processor research and design is happening faster now and more than ever.
AMD is now my proccessor of choice, and until intel gets ahead of them its going to stay that way.
What this site needs to become is sort of like a Weather Underground for auroras. It certainly would be nice to know a forecast for stuff like this as it is hard to encounter unless you spend your days staring at the sky (as this guy's computer can).
Keep up the good work, its neat to see genuinely useful sites like this.
The best browser package i've seen in a long time is Skipstone, a galeon-like browser that uses Gecko as its rendering engine. The result is a browser that runs fast (Gecko), without all the user interface cruft mozilla has.
With the creation of the mozilla-gtk widget many new mozilla-likes have sprouted up, but i think Skipstone may be one of the greatest of lightweight browsers. (Of course a full mozilla/netscape session is needed for SSL or other features)
Part of the problem with this is as you propose it is that people are used to the TLD part at the end, unless they are usenet geeks. Personally, i am in favor of doing this in a similar way, a la:
thematrix.movies.net vs. whatisthematrix.com
or...
dpn.random-moronic-personal-sites.com instead of dpn.com
This is similar to the usenet system, and would still be intuitive to most internet users (IE, slashdot.news.org, nytimes.news.org). Many sites already do this, but it needs to be accepted by the business oriented folk to catch on.
Adding more TLDs will only compound an existing problem. Anyone who has ever registered a domain would note that most registrars encourage registering of domains in every possible TLD. Here is where the problem is. If people were forced to actually obey the 'rules',.com for companies,.net for networks,.org for non-profit, etc, then the domain situation would perhaps be better off.
With new TLDs, every company is going to register in any TLD they can. This will lead to exactly the same problem.
Although i think centralized sharing systems like napster are superior to distributed systems like gnutella, who would pay $5 a month to use these benefits when opennap has them for free?
Opennap is far better anyways, as it is far less populated with junk (gnutella) or crappy songs(napster). Honestly, i don't care about napster, corp. Simply them trying to make money off of sharing is a bit atrocious.
I have never quite understood why people want 'desktops' on their Linux boxen. I've tried KDE and GNOME both, and was disapointed to find they are highly inefficient and tend to get in my way.
Currently, i use fvwm2, though i like enlightenment and may switch when i get a better machine. fvwm2 is fast, easy to use and incredibly productive.
When i started coding some basic user stuff for isomerica.net, i used plaintext passwords because it was late and i was tired and didn't want to bother with MD5.
The MD5 passwords really are quite easy to do(i am refering to mod_perl stuff, thats what i do). However, converting passwords from plaintext to md5 is extremely annoying.
As far as sessionids, i use an md5 hash of a random number and the visitors IP. This seems to be secure enough (for what i'm doing anyways).
I can see the use of certifications for a inexperienced company hiring a prospective sys-admin. However, what does taking a written prove about a person's computer abilities at all?
A more accurate method of determining a person's skills in a computer field (or any technology field, for that matter) would be to measure their experience in the field. True mastery of any computer system comes from thousands of hours of fooling around with it.
you just can't gauge a person's experience/level of intelligence by whether or not they passed a written test, whether the test is about Linux, GNU software, Microsoft, novell, cisco, anything.
Indeed,.rpms are more readily available. However, the 'alien' tool is surprisingly good and enables one to convert almost any rpm to a.deb package. This is extremely powerful, as it combines the advantages of both package systems (ease of.deb, availability of.rpms)
I used to be a RedHat user, up until 6.1 came out. After that i have switched over to Debian and have been incredibly pleased with it. RedHat's early releases weren't bad, however, as their distro's version number increased so did the number of problem's i've had with it.
When RedHat went public, i knew i had to switch. On advice from friends, i tryed out debian. The best decision of my life, i must say.
RedHat may try and be the 'easy to administrate' linux distro, but debian's apt-get update/upgrade makes security updates a flash(and we all know how important that is). I have had many more problems with other distros, especially security problems. If you write a cron job to automagically update the security related packages, you'll always be one step ahead of the crackers.
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This hasn't been my experience. I have an Abit NF7-S motherboard w/ SATA and nforce2 chipset.
It is the most solid, dependable workstation I've ever used. I have never had a problem gentoo on it, and I regularly play 3D games, etc, and other high load activities (compiling).
I am not using the SATA yet, only the PATA interfaces. When I exceed the current 200GB capacity of my LVM, I will add a SATA drive, then another. I figure by then support for SATA will be better and the drive prices will be lower.
Linux vindaloo 2.4.23_pre7-gss #1 Sat Oct 18 09:35:14 EDT 2003 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
My laptop is an HP zt1000. Unless I'm compiling stuff, it stays pretty cool. I have it sitting on my lap right now, in fact, and I have in the past let it sit on bare skin without problems. I think the celeron chip in it runs a little cooler than the other HP laptops I've encountered with athlon chips. The zt1000 was a nice little unit for under $1000. However, the battery life is a little short.
I even got repeated hits from the "Bank of Taccoa"'s website, meaning the bank was not aware their servers were being hit. Needless to say, I didn't try the backdoor out on that IP...
Here is a complete list to date
I've compiled a list of IPs that have made 404 hits on default.ida. Companys like @home and speakeasy (my ISP) need to crack down on IIS users on home DSL networks and get them to install the patch. This many infected hosts is not a good thing.
This is why satellites eventually lose their orbit and burn up in the atmosphere. They experience decceleration due to air resistance.
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This is messy; I personally don't like the solution. It might work well for running on a dedicated image server, or such, but it seems to be unworthy of praise otherwise.
Many people mis-use the expression. Take a look at this page for more info.
However, the existing napster network was a corporate entity, which was its major problem.
In order to reduce noise, these soho firewall/router products are often made without fans, and without any kind of active cooling, the passive cooling(airspace) has to be rather good.
In a way this is good, because it enables broadband users who know nothing about security to secure their systems. However, there is great potential for abuse should someone find a backdoor or hole in the 'FireCard'.
The card makes no sense in an enterprise environ, however. This is a simply silly use of it. Why not opt for a bit of extra configurability and peace of mind and roll your own firewall configuration, as I have?
The card would be beneficial to small time home users, but it makes no sense to the enterprise network admin.
IE 5.0 (IIRC) on the Mac platform was actually very standards compliant, but MS quickly ditched this support in favor of the newest flashy support for useless features. Netscape 6.0 and Mozilla are also subject to this 'crepping featuritis'. Unfortunatly, for the purpose of competing with IE, netscape has prioritized features over bugfixes and standards compliance
As with the drug war, the users/citizens are the true losers in the browser wars.
I'm glad that AMD has broken into Intel's market because processor research and design is happening faster now and more than ever.
AMD is now my proccessor of choice, and until intel gets ahead of them its going to stay that way.
Thanks, here is a clickable version of that link. Its good to see there are a few /. readers who care about something more than their karma.
Keep up the good work, its neat to see genuinely useful sites like this.
With the creation of the mozilla-gtk widget many new mozilla-likes have sprouted up, but i think Skipstone may be one of the greatest of lightweight browsers. (Of course a full mozilla/netscape session is needed for SSL or other features)
thematrix.movies.net vs. whatisthematrix.com
or...
dpn.random-moronic-personal-sites.com instead of dpn.com
This is similar to the usenet system, and would still be intuitive to most internet users (IE, slashdot.news.org, nytimes.news.org). Many sites already do this, but it needs to be accepted by the business oriented folk to catch on.
With new TLDs, every company is going to register in any TLD they can. This will lead to exactly the same problem.
Opennap is far better anyways, as it is far less populated with junk (gnutella) or crappy songs(napster). Honestly, i don't care about napster, corp. Simply them trying to make money off of sharing is a bit atrocious.
Currently, i use fvwm2, though i like enlightenment and may switch when i get a better machine. fvwm2 is fast, easy to use and incredibly productive.
And, of course, Real Men Use Shells.
The MD5 passwords really are quite easy to do(i am refering to mod_perl stuff, thats what i do). However, converting passwords from plaintext to md5 is extremely annoying.
As far as sessionids, i use an md5 hash of a random number and the visitors IP. This seems to be secure enough (for what i'm doing anyways).
A more accurate method of determining a person's skills in a computer field (or any technology field, for that matter) would be to measure their experience in the field. True mastery of any computer system comes from thousands of hours of fooling around with it.
you just can't gauge a person's experience/level of intelligence by whether or not they passed a written test, whether the test is about Linux, GNU software, Microsoft, novell, cisco, anything.
Indeed, .rpms are more readily available. However, the 'alien' tool is surprisingly good and enables one to convert almost any rpm to a .deb package. This is extremely powerful, as it combines the advantages of both package systems (ease of .deb, availability of .rpms)
When RedHat went public, i knew i had to switch. On advice from friends, i tryed out debian. The best decision of my life, i must say.
RedHat may try and be the 'easy to administrate' linux distro, but debian's apt-get update/upgrade makes security updates a flash(and we all know how important that is). I have had many more problems with other distros, especially security problems. If you write a cron job to automagically update the security related packages, you'll always be one step ahead of the crackers.