The article says that Register Fly started issuing SSL certs in November, however I have one that we bought in March 2006 and I had an older one from them for a personal site. Not that SSL is where their issues are anyway, but I thought that I'd mention it.
If you have a Primus VoIP line and you plan to hook up a security system, fax machine, tivo, satellite dish, or anything else that uses a modem to it there are 2 things you can do to avoid most of these problems, #1 get a UPS for your cable/dsl modem and the the VoIP box so power interruptions are not an issue until they are LONG interruptions. #2 call Primus and tell them you want to use a fax on that line so they change the codec to one that eats up more internet bandwidth but gives quality sufficient to use a modem over it.
More to the point, if he had access to the episodes BEFORE they were aired, that means one of 2 things, a) he has an old Ku/C band satellite dish and just taped it (possible) or b) he or someone he knows physically stole something from FOX...which in my opinion would be far more of an offense than mere copyright infringement.
I don't understand why Rolling Stone would think Apple is calling for removal of the DRM requirements and still planning to use it themselves.
I think it was pretty clear that Jobs was calling for the end of DRM so Apple wouldn't have to use it themselves, thus making the iTunes store much more attractive. The biggest complaint they get is that the DRM is inconvenient.
Maybe reading the BIOS will tell them if you are running Skype in a virtual machine that emulates an Intel processor which keep Skype from being fooled into running 10 connections on AMD.
There are a lot of stories of overzealous or at least misinformed security guards and sometimes even police telling photographers that they can't take pictures of building X or bridge Y but the reality of it is if you can see it from a public place you can take a picture, now whether you can sell said picture or not is another issue.
um, even RAW files are only 12 bit, jpeg is 8bit. what camera are you using that you need 32bit? if you need 16bit to accommodate the extra bits from your RAW files there is CinePaint (AKA filmGIMP). CinePaint handles up to 32bit colour spaces. http://www.cinepaint.org/
I agree that there is nothing like PS, but for most people gimp works as well as PS. I recently mad the move from GIMP to PS Elements 4.0 (MAC) strictly for the RAW import so I understand where you are coming from, but that doesn't change that there are other packages that support higher bit colour spaces. Having never done a RAW conversion on a Linux machine I have no idea what you would use to import RAW files into CinePaint.
I wish I had the dough to buy CS2 (or CS3 when it's available) but Elements is all I can afford right now. I still use GIMP a lot because there are some things I'm used to in GIMP that I can't figure out how to do or even if they area possible in Elements. (layer mask for example)
The case you mentioned is not a good enough reason to open up the root account for possible network logins, that very rare occasion can be handled by booting into single user mode and fixing it at the console.
Unless your machine is in another city and you don't have someone on site that you can trust to fix it and not remote KVM (what are you crazy to let all these things happen?) there is no real advantage to having a real root network login.
In a normal root user/normal user set up you already know the username you are after is root in 99% of the cases, you only need to guess the password.
In a sudo setup with root account logins disabled you need to know the username of a sudoer AND that user's password. And even if you are waiting for the admin to get up from his chair and leave the screen unlocked, you still need his password to do anything deadly because it'll be prompted for as soon as you try to type "sudo somethingevil" at the command line.
Not at all, there are sudoers and regular users, but now sudoers aren't god until they give the computer the magic password again. (ie if you are an admin in the old style of thinking, and walk away from your computer to get a coffee someone can slip in and "accidentally" delete an important directory, using sudo they have to unput your password to do that even though they caught you leaving your terminal open.
exactly, sudo su or sudo bash will (depending on the configuration of your machine) allow you to open a bash session with root privileges but you can't log in as root. No telnet, no ssh, no console, nada. Yes you can still single user mode it, but that's it.
It is HIGHER security than usual root login because you now have to know the username and password of a user that has sudo access, not just the password of root, and scripts can't be run by accident as easily as before. Mind you you still have to be careful who you give sudo access to, but at least it is safer to give sudo to 5 people than giving out the root password to 5 people.
Considering we are midway through an XP roll out that started in 2006 I agree, 2008 is very optimistic for some industries. We are a municipality in Canada, and between training, and more importantly vendor certifications on 3rd party software (stuff that is more on the industry specific or custom level) we only got the go ahead to move to XP just in time to get it underway before MS pulled 2k support out from under us.
Ubuntu doesn't downplay the user/admin split, it takes it to a higher level. Just like MacOS X, Ubuntu uses sudo for admin activities, and the actual root account is locked by default (has no login privileges at all).
This is not getting rid of root, it's making it more restricted in that you still have to have root access to do admin jobs, but you cannot, by default log in as root. Instead, you (if you are on the sudoers list) request root level access on an application by application basis, this way you cannot accidentally run something with elevated privileges, and you don't have to log out of your safe user account to do something as an admin.
My comment was in response to the claim that News media woulld be effected by drops in audio/video feeds due to background sounds. If you are running a news station and aren't hiring professionals and supplying them with professional equipment then shame on you.
One thing you missed in your example is Professional recording equipment does not normally have the same DRM limitations as consumer equipment.
eg: when macrovision was around pro VTRs would not go bonkers like your home VCR did if a macrovision signal was fed into it. Also Sony's Minidiscs were only allowed to make 1 generation of copies, but the pro gear ignored that limitation.
I think part of his point was if you are a company that has to worry about this you DO have in-house council and they should have informed you long ago about this.
How do you think it gets from the BES server in your corporate LAN onto the cell network? Your BES doesn't have a cell network router attached to it does it? Did you put up your own cell phone towers? Probably not.
Why wipe the root password? that would let the legitimate root user know you were there as soon as he/she tried to log in as root again. what you do is create another account, call it root2 or backupop or something like that, set your own password for it and make it user 0 as well as root.
Now you have root access with a different username and password that doesn't look as suspicious. This is also good for admins with bad memories who change root passwords often. Set up a second root account with a complex password that you keep in the safe and log that account's actions so you know if someone else manages to use it.
Does it really make any sense to use the 52 character domain name vs the 25 character IPV6 address?
considering that the IPV6 address should remain constant (we have plenty of them to go around, so there is no reason not to have static IP addresses in IPV6) what advantage did he gain there?
One disadvantage is that I have to rely on the dedicated TV cappers.. I don't know why they bother with all the hassle of getting HDTV capture equipment, then skillfully encoding the video and audio and putting it on the net for free, but I'm sure glad they do!
Because they know that if the online "tape trading" community was all leeches like you they wouldn't be able to get the shows that they missed. There has to be some give as well as take.
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...but will they still in 3 years when ALL LCD TVs are 1080P???
lol
What's that tourists bad??? now I'm beginning to understand American policy.
The article says that Register Fly started issuing SSL certs in November, however I have one that we bought in March 2006 and I had an older one from them for a personal site.
Not that SSL is where their issues are anyway, but I thought that I'd mention it.
If you have a Primus VoIP line and you plan to hook up a security system, fax machine, tivo, satellite dish, or anything else that uses a modem to it there are 2 things you can do to avoid most of these problems, #1 get a UPS for your cable/dsl modem and the the VoIP box so power interruptions are not an issue until they are LONG interruptions. #2 call Primus and tell them you want to use a fax on that line so they change the codec to one that eats up more internet bandwidth but gives quality sufficient to use a modem over it.
More to the point, if he had access to the episodes BEFORE they were aired, that means one of 2 things, a) he has an old Ku/C band satellite dish and just taped it (possible) or b) he or someone he knows physically stole something from FOX ...which in my opinion would be far more of an offense than mere copyright infringement.
I don't understand why Rolling Stone would think Apple is calling for removal of the DRM requirements and still planning to use it themselves.
I think it was pretty clear that Jobs was calling for the end of DRM so Apple wouldn't have to use it themselves, thus making the iTunes store much more attractive. The biggest complaint they get is that the DRM is inconvenient.
Maybe reading the BIOS will tell them if you are running Skype in a virtual machine that emulates an Intel processor which keep Skype from being fooled into running 10 connections on AMD.
But a litebrite might have the bomb squad knocking on your door too.
There are a lot of stories of overzealous or at least misinformed security guards and sometimes even police telling photographers that they can't take pictures of building X or bridge Y but the reality of it is if you can see it from a public place you can take a picture, now whether you can sell said picture or not is another issue.
um, even RAW files are only 12 bit, jpeg is 8bit. what camera are you using that you need 32bit?
if you need 16bit to accommodate the extra bits from your RAW files there is CinePaint (AKA filmGIMP).
CinePaint handles up to 32bit colour spaces.
http://www.cinepaint.org/
I agree that there is nothing like PS, but for most people gimp works as well as PS.
I recently mad the move from GIMP to PS Elements 4.0 (MAC) strictly for the RAW import so I understand where you are coming from, but that doesn't change that there are other packages that support higher bit colour spaces. Having never done a RAW conversion on a Linux machine I have no idea what you would use to import RAW files into CinePaint.
I wish I had the dough to buy CS2 (or CS3 when it's available) but Elements is all I can afford right now. I still use GIMP a lot because there are some things I'm used to in GIMP that I can't figure out how to do or even if they area possible in Elements. (layer mask for example)
actually I'd advise against doing that.
The case you mentioned is not a good enough reason to open up the root account for possible network logins, that very rare occasion can be handled by booting into single user mode and fixing it at the console.
Unless your machine is in another city and you don't have someone on site that you can trust to fix it and not remote KVM (what are you crazy to let all these things happen?) there is no real advantage to having a real root network login.
That's exactly my point, sarathmenon.
In a normal root user/normal user set up you already know the username you are after is root in 99% of the cases, you only need to guess the password.
In a sudo setup with root account logins disabled you need to know the username of a sudoer AND that user's password. And even if you are waiting for the admin to get up from his chair and leave the screen unlocked, you still need his password to do anything deadly because it'll be prompted for as soon as you try to type "sudo somethingevil" at the command line.
Not at all, there are sudoers and regular users, but now sudoers aren't god until they give the computer the magic password again. (ie if you are an admin in the old style of thinking, and walk away from your computer to get a coffee someone can slip in and "accidentally" delete an important directory, using sudo they have to unput your password to do that even though they caught you leaving your terminal open.
exactly, sudo su or sudo bash will (depending on the configuration of your machine) allow you to open a bash session with root privileges but you can't log in as root. No telnet, no ssh, no console, nada. Yes you can still single user mode it, but that's it.
It is HIGHER security than usual root login because you now have to know the username and password of a user that has sudo access, not just the password of root, and scripts can't be run by accident as easily as before. Mind you you still have to be careful who you give sudo access to, but at least it is safer to give sudo to 5 people than giving out the root password to 5 people.
Considering we are midway through an XP roll out that started in 2006 I agree, 2008 is very optimistic for some industries.
We are a municipality in Canada, and between training, and more importantly vendor certifications on 3rd party software (stuff that is more on the industry specific or custom level) we only got the go ahead to move to XP just in time to get it underway before MS pulled 2k support out from under us.
Ubuntu doesn't downplay the user/admin split, it takes it to a higher level. Just like MacOS X, Ubuntu uses sudo for admin activities, and the actual root account is locked by default (has no login privileges at all).
This is not getting rid of root, it's making it more restricted in that you still have to have root access to do admin jobs, but you cannot, by default log in as root. Instead, you (if you are on the sudoers list) request root level access on an application by application basis, this way you cannot accidentally run something with elevated privileges, and you don't have to log out of your safe user account to do something as an admin.
what about .fu is that taken?
My comment was in response to the claim that News media woulld be effected by drops in audio/video feeds due to background sounds.
If you are running a news station and aren't hiring professionals and supplying them with professional equipment then shame on you.
One thing you missed in your example is Professional recording equipment does not normally have the same DRM limitations as consumer equipment.
eg: when macrovision was around pro VTRs would not go bonkers like your home VCR did if a macrovision signal was fed into it. Also Sony's Minidiscs were only allowed to make 1 generation of copies, but the pro gear ignored that limitation.
I think part of his point was if you are a company that has to worry about this you DO have in-house council and they should have informed you long ago about this.
How do you think it gets from the BES server in your corporate LAN onto the cell network?
Your BES doesn't have a cell network router attached to it does it? Did you put up your own cell phone towers?
Probably not.
Why wipe the root password? that would let the legitimate root user know you were there as soon as he/she tried to log in as root again.
what you do is create another account, call it root2 or backupop or something like that, set your own password for it and make it user 0 as well as root.
Now you have root access with a different username and password that doesn't look as suspicious.
This is also good for admins with bad memories who change root passwords often. Set up a second root account with a complex password that you keep in the safe and log that account's actions so you know if someone else manages to use it.
Does it really make any sense to use the 52 character domain name vs the 25 character IPV6 address?
considering that the IPV6 address should remain constant (we have plenty of them to go around, so there is no reason not to have static IP addresses in IPV6) what advantage did he gain there?
One disadvantage is that I have to rely on the dedicated TV cappers.. I don't know why they bother with all the hassle of getting HDTV capture equipment, then skillfully encoding the video and audio and putting it on the net for free, but I'm sure glad they do!
Because they know that if the online "tape trading" community was all leeches like you they wouldn't be able to get the shows that they missed. There has to be some give as well as take.