No matter what you use daily, you still need vi
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because one day you might need to restore your system from a boot disk, and vi is about the only thing that can fit along with the stuff you need to boot your system with. I suppose you could use edlin for this as well, but hardly anyone uses it. Additionally, vi is the one thing you can count on being on every system.
Therefore, no matter what you use on a regular basis, you should still learn how to use vi.
The only way cryptography has ever been defeated historically has been to develop a technology that can beat it. For example, the first modern computer was built to defeat the enigma in WWII. If the govt. wants to do this, the proper course is to develop quantum computing. This of course will be very expensive to do, but if the government wants to break current crypto, its the only way. Of course, it would have to be developed in the labs and not leaked to the public.
Put backdoors on current cryptography programs, and you will ensure that only the criminals have real crypto. For more information, see The Code Book.
you couldn't do kernel-level programming with VB until version 5, which was released in 1997. Before that, it was solely an interpreted, not compiled language.
gcc is not up to version 3.1. yet.
nice attempt though. taunting the linux users while proclaming yourself to be a 1337 VB hacker is always a good way to go.
The code in question looks to be about 100 lines long, and is very specific in how it addresses the hardware. Most of this file is a bunch of #defines.
How could this could be written much differently and still work?
Also, why are we looking at the.h files? Shouldn't we be examining the actual implementation? I don't see much of a problem here. Show me where he ripped off the.c files and I'll agree, there is a problem.
That was very helpful. Thanks. After implementing your suggestion I was able to create the indexes. However, its still weird that mySQL was able to take down the whole machine. I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction.
using Internet-exposed IIS Web servers securely has a high cost of ownership. Enterprises using Microsoft's IIS Web server software have to update every IIS server with every Microsoft security patch that comes out -- almost weekly.
I imagine you would need to patch Apache fairly regularly as well. Its not like its immune to worms or security holes. In fact, apache.org was compromised this year due to a security hole.
I am in the process of converting from a Windows based web server to Debian/Apache, and the process is not without its problems. On the first try, Debian did not pick up both processors on my machine. Also, using mySQL, I can consistently crash my machine by trying to index a 5 million row table.
So, I have some problems. As you might when converting from Windows to Linux. Where do I go? I can't just call my Debian rep and ask him to help me fix my problems. I have to hunt for the answers and spend a lot of time figuring out just what the heck is wrong with my system.
So keep this in mind if you are switching because of TCO costs. Yes, you will need to patch once a week sticking with Windows. However, I don't think this report fully explains everything that may be involved when figuring out the TCO for a Linux system.
That said, I expect to be able to solve my problems and end up with a very nice server.
First, they try to shake down small to medium sized businesses. If they find a violation, their reaction is not to help the business come in to compliance, but to hurt them financially.
Now they won't sell Front Page to the porn industry? I bet 90% of the porn sites out there were created by it.
Microsoft continues to damage the economy by their actions.:(
If that's what we have, and the vast majority wants to trade their freedom for a little more security, who are we to say that that government shouldn't provide it for them?
What are we do do when the vast majority of the population desires a government that is in stark contrast to its Constitution?
I just found a very interesting tool at Microsoft's website, UrlScan. It is able to identify malformed requests, and thus is able to prevent against future, unknown worms. It discards the requests before they can be executed.
Anyone know if something like this exists for Apache? A tool like this, if widespread, could effectively contain future buffer-overrun type attacks.
Email me with the IP address and root passwords of both boxes, and I'll get it going in a couple of hours.;)
Kidding! And really the OSI is just a model. Other than the fact that you have to get a CA to sign your certificate, you are really just looking at two different encryption algorithms(SSL vs. PGP). I'm not convinced you would get any better security using SSL for your mail - unless each party has certificates and it is important to you that you can verify the other party with certainty. It won't make your mail any more secure, but it will enable you to verify the person sending you mail. However, if you set up two machines that are mailing each other, you don't really need certificates(you already know the identity of each end). PGP should be just fine.
the US is seen by tens of millions as
the main enemy of their human and democratic rights
Is that so? Tell me, what country that we have gone to war with in the last 20 years or so has been interested in the human and democratic rights of its citizens.
They hate us because we are rich and powerful enough to promote our interests(democracy and freedom). We don't have a beef with free, democratically elected countries. The countries that hate us all have autocratic governments that severely limit their citizens freedoms. Without the essential freedoms, their governments brainwash their citizens into hating us. They hate us because we are different, and because we are rich and powerful.
Our country doesn't celebrate when we bomb the Iraqis. I am not saying we are perfect, obviously we are not. However I am saying that we are "basically good", and also saying that a militant, extremist culture that wants to rid the world of the U.S. and Israel is, well, basically bad.
These guys are NOT freedom fighters. They would have you live in a society where you get your hand lopped off for stealing or stoned to death for exposing your ankle. Lets not give these people too much credit, OK?
No, I don't wan't people to die. I want people to live, in a world of political and religious freedom. I want people to have the right to speak their mind. I want justice for all. I want equal rights for women and minorities.
However, there are those *evil* people - I will say it the evil people here are the extremist militant Muslims - that do not want equality, do not want fairness, do not want freedom - they want to wipe us off the face of the earth.
That is the battle I am prepared to fight my friend, and if you think that is evil, well I'm sorry. I welcome you into my world of freedom and prosperity, but I will kill you in a heartbeat if you threaten my way of life. Yes, I think my way of life is *better* than that of an extremist militant Muslim. Sorry if you don't agree with the truth.
Not to speak of much worse cases, which easily come to mind.
They don't come to mind, because there are none. Funny how much you left out, such as the fact the pharmacy in question was owned by Osama Bin Laden.
This attack further justifies the promotion of missile defense, not the other way around. This is the first battle in the first real war of the 21st century, in which we won't have the luxury of fighting organized militaries, only nutcase terrorists. The terrorists will gain access to weapons of imaginable destruction. We have to root them out, and we have to defend ourselves against them.
Chomskys arguments make me sick. This incident proved who is on the side of good and who is on the side of evil. When we (justifiably) bombed Iraq, there were not parties in the street celebrating the deaths of Iraqis. We simply don't act like they do; respect for life is built into our culture.
Since the event, I have a much greater appreciation of the Israelis plight. They looked bad to us when we were comfortably enjoying life, but now that this tragedy has hit home its clear why the Israelis act so harshly toward the Palestinians. The extremist militant Islam factions WANT US DEAD. Their goal is not to establish peace with Israel, but to drive them into the sea. We can add America to that list.
I don't see how we can establish peace with or negotiate with those who want to destroy our way of life and replace it with a much more oppressive one. How can you have respect for societies that cut off the hands of theives or stone women to death for exposing their ankles? They hate us. They want us dead. I say, kill them first. Establish peace and democracy throughout the world.
Its pretty clear to me that this is now a battle between good and evil, and who is who in this world.
I can't make it there, but here are my suggestions for very quickly setting up a 50 PC Microsoft-based network.
The easiest way to get this network going? I'd go with DCHP and set up a firewall. Once you get those, the PC's should all automatically connect.
Then a quick file and print server. Get SQL Server going, and load your database(I am assumming the clients are using Access).
A couple of other suggestions. Forget Exchange if all you need is email. Install SLMail instead. If you really want to get this done quickly, use a ghost program like Symantec's. Put everything you need on the first computer, set up the DHCP client and ODBC connection, then let it replicate across the network. Each user can set up his/her own email address with a copied set of instructions.
This could be done in four hours or less by a few good MS-techs.
and may I remind you, that the US has declared martial law before, and suspended habeous corpus and other civil liberties.
Abraham Lincoln declared martial law during the Civil War. It was necessary then, it may be necessary in the near future.
Don't bother with your "Those who would give up their freedom for safety" quotes. When we are in the midst of defending our lives and our freedom, keeping people alive must come first.
We declare martial law in order to preserve freedom, not destroy it. You need to look at the bigger picture.
I always ask former employers if the applicant would be rehired at the old job. If they refuse to answer (or say "no"), it is a red flag to me that the applicant might be a trouble maker or undesireable.
I absolutely agree that you should line something up first. However, your criteria won't always work. In my case, if I left the company I work for it would hurt them severely. My boss has asked me for several months notice in advance if I was to leave. Obviously he his happy with my work, but would he give me a glowing recommendation so that I could leave, thus hurting his company? I would like to think so, but to tell the truth I can't be sure.
...abandon HPUX, Tru64 et al and embrace Linux as the one-and-only *nix OS.
And supposedly IBM will do this as well, along with making AIX "100% Linux compatible". Trouble is, I've been hearing this for years - and AIX still ships without a C compiler and behaves erratically when you try to install GCC, Perl, etc from anything other than pre-compiled binaries. And where is SMIT for Linux? I'm having a hard time finding evidence of IBM's billion dollar commitment.
It would be a great move for all these companies to get behind Linux - maybe Sun will go the same way if it finally happens. It would be awfully nice to use the same tools to admin RS/6000s as you do to HP or Sun servers, not to mention your Intel boxes at home. Trouble is, all we've seen yet is lip service paid to Linux.
So HP, if you're listening, hopefully you won't drag your feet like IBM has. You're not that far behind, because so far IBM has done very little.
You apparently don't remember the crowds that gathered at midnight on August 24, 1995 to buy Windows 95, which at the time was a huge change in the way most of us used PC's.
I agree. It doesn't have to be an either/or proposition. Proprietary software and Free software both have different purposes and as far as I am concerned both have their place.
What really gets me is the type that says proprietary software shouldn't even exist. They are telling me that I have no right to charge for my hard work and effort in creating a software product. Or, if they don't explicitly deny this right, they maintain that no one will buy software in the future because free software will fulfill everyones needs.
I don't buy it. As long as people have invented things there has been shared knowledge and proprietary knowledge living side by side. People can, have, and will continue to sell their intellectual property. As long as people create new things that other people want, we will have proprietary software.
Re:It stems from something beyond software.
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Stallman knew that if source code were kept secret, innovation would suffer for it.
It's also been said by others that innovation will suffer if you remove the financial incentive.
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Therefore, no matter what you use on a regular basis, you should still learn how to use vi.
Put backdoors on current cryptography programs, and you will ensure that only the criminals have real crypto. For more information, see The Code Book.
gcc is not up to version 3.1. yet.
nice attempt though. taunting the linux users while proclaming yourself to be a 1337 VB hacker is always a good way to go.
How could this could be written much differently and still work?
Also, why are we looking at the
That was very helpful. Thanks. After implementing your suggestion I was able to create the indexes. However, its still weird that mySQL was able to take down the whole machine. I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction.
using Internet-exposed IIS Web servers securely has a high cost of ownership. Enterprises using Microsoft's IIS Web server software have to update every IIS server with every Microsoft security patch that comes out -- almost weekly.
I imagine you would need to patch Apache fairly regularly as well. Its not like its immune to worms or security holes. In fact, apache.org was compromised this year due to a security hole.
I am in the process of converting from a Windows based web server to Debian/Apache, and the process is not without its problems. On the first try, Debian did not pick up both processors on my machine. Also, using mySQL, I can consistently crash my machine by trying to index a 5 million row table.
So, I have some problems. As you might when converting from Windows to Linux. Where do I go? I can't just call my Debian rep and ask him to help me fix my problems. I have to hunt for the answers and spend a lot of time figuring out just what the heck is wrong with my system.
So keep this in mind if you are switching because of TCO costs. Yes, you will need to patch once a week sticking with Windows. However, I don't think this report fully explains everything that may be involved when figuring out the TCO for a Linux system.
That said, I expect to be able to solve my problems and end up with a very nice server.
Now they won't sell Front Page to the porn industry? I bet 90% of the porn sites out there were created by it.
Microsoft continues to damage the economy by their actions.
What are we do do when the vast majority of the population desires a government that is in stark contrast to its Constitution?
I wish I knew the answer.
Anyone know if something like this exists for Apache? A tool like this, if widespread, could effectively contain future buffer-overrun type attacks.
Kidding! And really the OSI is just a model. Other than the fact that you have to get a CA to sign your certificate, you are really just looking at two different encryption algorithms(SSL vs. PGP). I'm not convinced you would get any better security using SSL for your mail - unless each party has certificates and it is important to you that you can verify the other party with certainty. It won't make your mail any more secure, but it will enable you to verify the person sending you mail. However, if you set up two machines that are mailing each other, you don't really need certificates(you already know the identity of each end). PGP should be just fine.
the main enemy of their human and democratic rights
Is that so? Tell me, what country that we have gone to war with in the last 20 years or so has been interested in the human and democratic rights of its citizens.
They hate us because we are rich and powerful enough to promote our interests(democracy and freedom). We don't have a beef with free, democratically elected countries. The countries that hate us all have autocratic governments that severely limit their citizens freedoms. Without the essential freedoms, their governments brainwash their citizens into hating us. They hate us because we are different, and because we are rich and powerful.
Our country doesn't celebrate when we bomb the Iraqis. I am not saying we are perfect, obviously we are not. However I am saying that we are "basically good", and also saying that a militant, extremist culture that wants to rid the world of the U.S. and Israel is, well, basically bad.
These guys are NOT freedom fighters. They would have you live in a society where you get your hand lopped off for stealing or stoned to death for exposing your ankle. Lets not give these people too much credit, OK?
Connected to the internet? The Sandia National Labs Red Team can break into your computer, right now. Deal with it.
However, there are those *evil* people - I will say it the evil people here are the extremist militant Muslims - that do not want equality, do not want fairness, do not want freedom - they want to wipe us off the face of the earth.
That is the battle I am prepared to fight my friend, and if you think that is evil, well I'm sorry. I welcome you into my world of freedom and prosperity, but I will kill you in a heartbeat if you threaten my way of life. Yes, I think my way of life is *better* than that of an extremist militant Muslim. Sorry if you don't agree with the truth.
They don't come to mind, because there are none. Funny how much you left out, such as the fact the pharmacy in question was owned by Osama Bin Laden.
This attack further justifies the promotion of missile defense, not the other way around. This is the first battle in the first real war of the 21st century, in which we won't have the luxury of fighting organized militaries, only nutcase terrorists. The terrorists will gain access to weapons of imaginable destruction. We have to root them out, and we have to defend ourselves against them.
Chomskys arguments make me sick. This incident proved who is on the side of good and who is on the side of evil. When we (justifiably) bombed Iraq, there were not parties in the street celebrating the deaths of Iraqis. We simply don't act like they do; respect for life is built into our culture.
Since the event, I have a much greater appreciation of the Israelis plight. They looked bad to us when we were comfortably enjoying life, but now that this tragedy has hit home its clear why the Israelis act so harshly toward the Palestinians. The extremist militant Islam factions WANT US DEAD. Their goal is not to establish peace with Israel, but to drive them into the sea. We can add America to that list.
I don't see how we can establish peace with or negotiate with those who want to destroy our way of life and replace it with a much more oppressive one. How can you have respect for societies that cut off the hands of theives or stone women to death for exposing their ankles? They hate us. They want us dead. I say, kill them first. Establish peace and democracy throughout the world.
Its pretty clear to me that this is now a battle between good and evil, and who is who in this world.
The easiest way to get this network going? I'd go with DCHP and set up a firewall. Once you get those, the PC's should all automatically connect.
Then a quick file and print server. Get SQL Server going, and load your database(I am assumming the clients are using Access).
A couple of other suggestions. Forget Exchange if all you need is email. Install SLMail instead. If you really want to get this done quickly, use a ghost program like Symantec's. Put everything you need on the first computer, set up the DHCP client and ODBC connection, then let it replicate across the network. Each user can set up his/her own email address with a copied set of instructions.
This could be done in four hours or less by a few good MS-techs.
Anyone else?
Abraham Lincoln declared martial law during the Civil War. It was necessary then, it may be necessary in the near future.
Don't bother with your "Those who would give up their freedom for safety" quotes. When we are in the midst of defending our lives and our freedom, keeping people alive must come first.
We declare martial law in order to preserve freedom, not destroy it. You need to look at the bigger picture.
Sandia National Labs closed too...everyone got sent home, thankfully.
But, I have to ask, what does that have to do with the billenium?
Far be it from me to knock you - when will things start to improve?
I absolutely agree that you should line something up first. However, your criteria won't always work. In my case, if I left the company I work for it would hurt them severely. My boss has asked me for several months notice in advance if I was to leave. Obviously he his happy with my work, but would he give me a glowing recommendation so that I could leave, thus hurting his company? I would like to think so, but to tell the truth I can't be sure.
And supposedly IBM will do this as well, along with making AIX "100% Linux compatible". Trouble is, I've been hearing this for years - and AIX still ships without a C compiler and behaves erratically when you try to install GCC, Perl, etc from anything other than pre-compiled binaries. And where is SMIT for Linux? I'm having a hard time finding evidence of IBM's billion dollar commitment.
It would be a great move for all these companies to get behind Linux - maybe Sun will go the same way if it finally happens. It would be awfully nice to use the same tools to admin RS/6000s as you do to HP or Sun servers, not to mention your Intel boxes at home. Trouble is, all we've seen yet is lip service paid to Linux.
So HP, if you're listening, hopefully you won't drag your feet like IBM has. You're not that far behind, because so far IBM has done very little.
You apparently don't remember the crowds that gathered at midnight on August 24, 1995 to buy Windows 95, which at the time was a huge change in the way most of us used PC's.
It all depends on what the change is to.
What really gets me is the type that says proprietary software shouldn't even exist. They are telling me that I have no right to charge for my hard work and effort in creating a software product. Or, if they don't explicitly deny this right, they maintain that no one will buy software in the future because free software will fulfill everyones needs.
I don't buy it. As long as people have invented things there has been shared knowledge and proprietary knowledge living side by side. People can, have, and will continue to sell their intellectual property. As long as people create new things that other people want, we will have proprietary software.
It's also been said by others that innovation will suffer if you remove the financial incentive.