Can people *please* start adding the processor(s) affected to security releases? Or for that matter, to hardware and software?
Does this only apply to XP on x86, or XP x64 as well?
As someone who runs a XP x64 workstation, I'm getting really tired of being ignored! Vendors list "XP" support, but never tell you if they support x64. Security mailing lists have "XP Security issues", but no one says which XP it impacts.
I'm sure myself and the handful of other users of XP x64 would really appreciate it if people started denoting which hardware platforms they support.
Here at work we still have 20+ BSDi machines. We started back in the 1.x days (still have the manuals somewhere.....) and have kept with it ever since. Over the years, we've had to do some custom hacks to fix some OSS software (Cyrus IMAP, just to mention one) but for the most part it is still a rock solid OS with the only downtime being when BSDi released a kernel mod that needed a reboot.
Of couse now we are moving to FreeBSD and Linux, but it's sad to see an old friend reach the end of it's life. There were a lot of great things in BSDi (like the IPFW firewall syntax - it rocks) but I guess all good things must come to an end.
I'm a systems administrator, but I'm also in University. When I'm in school, I do development work / basic administration over the internet, and when I come home for the summer, I admin again.
It gives you the best of both worlds - a degree, and experience. When I'm done, I'll have 5 years experence as a Senior Network Administrator, and a nice piece of paper to hang on my wall.
Sure it's hard sometimes to manage a demanding job and school, but no one ever said live was easy...
I've found that the ODBC Socket Server (odbc.sourceforge.net)
From the site: ODBC Socket Server is an open source database access toolkit that exposes Windows ODBC data sources with an XML-based TCP/IP interface.
You make the Query in XML, it converts the query back into SQL, and then returns XML again. Let's you use XML when you want to, and SQL when you want to. Also makes a great tool for accessing M$ DB's from a Unix enviroment. It's fast, stable, and Open Source. Check it out.
Were I work we were looking for a way to manage our hosting customers passwords between linux and unix so updating passwords / accounts would be easier.
My solution was Samba-TNG with LDAP, using pam-ldap on linux (with a base DN for each server) and a DN for the NT servers... Samba-TNG becomes the domain controler, and therefore lets users log in against it.....
Mandrake is still the best choice out there, and that cannot be argued
Wow. I mean Wow. That's pushing it... Mandrake is a *good* desktop, it really is, but the *best* workstation? It's too hybrid to be the *best* workstation... it's got all the server and desktop stuff.. for a real *workstation* you wouldn't have *any* server stuff in the distro...
Any why exactly can't I use Net/Free/Open/BSD, BSDi, or any other linux as a workstation? Hurm?
Wow... I'm really impressed that Mandrake updated a *working* distro (7.2) to one that sucks (8.0)
Mandrake has gone from the power users distro (RedHat for smart people) to the distro for beginners. I really liked Mandrake, but it hides so much (even from root) in it's config tools, I feel like going back to Net/Free BSD for my main desktop (my 2nd desktop is FreeBSD 4.3) Where is the good, solid linux distro for power users (Don't say Debian... I *hate* apt.. give me a ports tree, dammit!)
I want to see a linux distro for the real sysadm -A ports tree, so everything is compiled from source with your own flags (-mpentium, etc...), something like cvsup for upgrading, and an installer that won't install 200 megs of crap when I don't select any packages.
Oh wait, I have all of that. It's called BSD. My mistake.
Sorry for the troll, but Mandrake 8 really pissed me off when it broke E and xawtv...
I have done that, and I will again, but the point is they claim to support 17 window managers so you are 'free to choose'... why can't they support enlightenment? And where is eterm? I miss my transparent windows already... sniffle...
I'm not claiming E is the best, but for some people like me who don't like the 'desktop' metaphore, it's a good, solid, and very attractive option.
Improvement over 7.2??? I upgraded one of my desktops last night, and now xawtv won't work (worked out of the box on 7.2, now I have to fix by hand), it broke enlightenment (and all the menus), and for some reason, the Mandrake X config program *won't* give me the option of anything greater than 1024x768 - and if you config in in 'expert' mode, it still reverts back to 1024x768...
Don't get me wrong, I'm a Mandrake fan (Corp. Server runs great on my Sparc), but when you break my two fav. apps (enlightenment and xawtv) after an upgrade, you really piss me off... and who wants to look at a 17" monitor at 1024x768??
Oh well, back to an xterm for me (eterm is missing from the distro now, what's up with that?) to fix everything it broke...
I can see some logic in what you are saying, but I have to disagree with the groupware point.
The "usefulness" of exchange can already be replaced with a nice install of send/q mail, Apache, and any one of a number of opensource groupware products (Like PHPGroupware)
For the small/medium enterprise, the power of opensource is astounding. Costs are lower, branding is easier, support is as close as Usenet, and the list goes on. Sure for the forutine 500 MS stuff is better, but most of the companies in the world are not on that list.
And don't bash Apache which "does something simple".. show me *ONE* thing IIS does that Apache won't. C'mon, I dare you.
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It's true... I've got a generic AMD 2/400 that will run Linux and *BSD fine, but Win2k won't install. Peroid.
And don't get me started on their "Web Services"... Needed a Windows machine to do some ASP's, so I took my copy of NT 4 off the self... No, that's only ASP 2.0.. can't get ASP 3 on NT 4... need to go out and spend thousands of dollars on Win2k, and then be limited to 10 connections because you only bought pro.
I'll stick with writing PHP code for the Linux/*BSD world thanks... Linux/*BSD runs on *ALL* my hardware, whereas Windows, with it's "better driver support" won't even install.
Why not just take a P-90-133, install Linux or a BSD, and use one of the many cool mp3 server programs, like MP3SB?
Personaly, I just use a P-100, 24M ram, and a 20 Gig HDD for my mp3's... telnet, web, wap, ir, lcd - it suports them all, plus I can upgrade it anytime I want.
Why waste time hacking a comerical product when you can make your own for less?
I'm not going to dodge - I'll admit I have not studied this enough to know where I stand. I certainly am against the monstrous profits going to studio chiefs, but I also want to make damn sure that poor writers are ripped off.
I'm a socialist, and I sure as hell hope that that was a typo.... He wants to make sure poor writers are ripped off? I don't think so......
I tottaly disagree. The power of linux steams from the vast array of machines I can use it on, from my XT (I have a boot disk for the 1.0 kernel series), to my 486 NAT box, to my mail/ldap server (AMD/400).
What is bothering me about the current distributions is that they are forgetting about old hardware. I can't install Mandrake on a system with 8 megs of ram, but the system will run.. How screwed it that - the installer needs more ram than the OS!
If this Linux bloat continues, I'll just keep moving more of my boxes to the BSD's (Free and Net are my personal fav's - gotta love the deamon!)
Just don't forget that linux has prided itself on excelling on hardware that most people would call "old". As we go forward, we can't forget the past.
It uses XML to talk to a Jabber server, and in turn provides access to ICQ, AIM, Jabber client, and a host of others all from on central interface, and its open source!
I use it at the cyber-cafe I do work for to cut down on the number of different IM clients I need to install for people to use. The windows client is great, as are the *NIX/BSD clients.
Don't wait for AOL to combine the two, just do it yourself with the power of XML.
Rothken says that bringing AOL and Time Warner into the case is the natural response of a defendant, much as someone sued for causing a car accident might in turn sue the manufacturer of the car or the maker of the car's tires for bearing
some responsibility.
So what now? We sue database software companies for creating an easly way of storing results, the developers of PERL/PHP/ASP/Insert fave web progaming tool here/ for suppling code that allows us to search? C'mon...
The car idea kinda makes sense - A car has one purpose - to drive on a road/surface and transport things/people from A->B. If there is a defect in its normal operations, the manufacture can be held responcible.
The difference is that gnutella was not designed to transfer MP3 files - it was created to share recipies.
It's like Ford being sued because while driving your car underwater, it failed and you killed someone. There not libel because you used it outside it's intened use. Same with gnutella - those who use it for MP3s are OUTSIDE IT'S INTENDED USE, and AOL is not lible.
Now I'm off to search gnutella for a recipe for "KoRn Flakes"..........
I really don't like these "deals" - you know, if I put *my* music in my digital locker, then why should anyone have to anything?
Am I missing something here, or are we *paying* for fair use?
Here in Canada, port scanning is actually illegal - it's called "Theft of Computer Services"
This makes perfect sense to me - the person doing the scanning is forcing *my* computer, that I own, to respond to their scans by updating my IPCHAINS rules to block them forever. I don't want to waste my processer time defending my system.
Does anyone know if this si illigal in the US?
If so, we should start nailing every script kiddie to the wall - that will teach them to "probe" me...
After downloading the tarball, i just ran the execuatable, and - wow - it ran without any reconfiguration of Mesa/GL/X.... it even ran off my voodoo 2 instead of my Rage128, something Q3 won't even do right.....
I'm glad to see the usability of linux games is getting better. I'm not one to wine about having to compile from source or mess around with my system, but for the average person, this is a step in the right direction. Just wish it had a nice installer like Mozilla.......
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Can people *please* start adding the processor(s) affected to security releases? Or for that matter, to hardware and software?
Does this only apply to XP on x86, or XP x64 as well?
As someone who runs a XP x64 workstation, I'm getting really tired of being ignored! Vendors list "XP" support, but never tell you if they support x64. Security mailing lists have "XP Security issues", but no one says which XP it impacts.
I'm sure myself and the handful of other users of XP x64 would really appreciate it if people started denoting which hardware platforms they support.
Here at work we still have 20+ BSDi machines. We started back in the 1.x days (still have the manuals somewhere.....) and have kept with it ever since. Over the years, we've had to do some custom hacks to fix some OSS software (Cyrus IMAP, just to mention one) but for the most part it is still a rock solid OS with the only downtime being when BSDi released a kernel mod that needed a reboot.
Of couse now we are moving to FreeBSD and Linux, but it's sad to see an old friend reach the end of it's life. There were a lot of great things in BSDi (like the IPFW firewall syntax - it rocks) but I guess all good things must come to an end.
Fiarwell, my old friend.
I'm a systems administrator, but I'm also in University. When I'm in school, I do development work / basic administration over the internet, and when I come home for the summer, I admin again.
It gives you the best of both worlds - a degree, and experience. When I'm done, I'll have 5 years experence as a Senior Network Administrator, and a nice piece of paper to hang on my wall.
Sure it's hard sometimes to manage a demanding job and school, but no one ever said live was easy...
Actually, I work for an ISP, and in the past, spammers got our userlist with one very simple command on our shell server:
/etc/passwd | cut -f1 -d: > userlist.txt
cat
I don't know if that's what this ISP did, but I know it happened to alot of ISP's....
Wow, there really must have been something in the air on Saturday.
I went out and got the iBook (600) and haven't touched my desktop since.
Within an hour of having it, I had fink installed, XDarwin, and rdesktop so I could connect to my NT Development machines.
Only beef so far is that the SMB support doesn't seem to be perfect, and I'm probally going to have to splurge on Dave.....
I've found that the ODBC Socket Server (odbc.sourceforge.net)
From the site: ODBC Socket Server is an open source database access toolkit that exposes Windows ODBC data sources with an XML-based TCP/IP interface.
You make the Query in XML, it converts the query back into SQL, and then returns XML again. Let's you use XML when you want to, and SQL when you want to. Also makes a great tool for accessing M$ DB's from a Unix enviroment. It's fast, stable, and Open Source. Check it out.
Were I work we were looking for a way to manage our hosting customers passwords between linux and unix so updating passwords / accounts would be easier.
My solution was Samba-TNG with LDAP, using pam-ldap on linux (with a base DN for each server) and a DN for the NT servers... Samba-TNG becomes the domain controler, and therefore lets users log in against it.....
Just my $0.02
Mandrake is still the best choice out there, and that cannot be argued
Wow. I mean Wow. That's pushing it... Mandrake is a *good* desktop, it really is, but the *best* workstation? It's too hybrid to be the *best* workstation... it's got all the server and desktop stuff.. for a real *workstation* you wouldn't have *any* server stuff in the distro...
Any why exactly can't I use Net/Free/Open/BSD, BSDi, or any other linux as a workstation? Hurm?
Wow... I'm really impressed that Mandrake updated a *working* distro (7.2) to one that sucks (8.0)
Mandrake has gone from the power users distro (RedHat for smart people) to the distro for beginners. I really liked Mandrake, but it hides so much (even from root) in it's config tools, I feel like going back to Net/Free BSD for my main desktop (my 2nd desktop is FreeBSD 4.3) Where is the good, solid linux distro for power users (Don't say Debian... I *hate* apt.. give me a ports tree, dammit!)
I want to see a linux distro for the real sysadm -A ports tree, so everything is compiled from source with your own flags (-mpentium, etc...), something like cvsup for upgrading, and an installer that won't install 200 megs of crap when I don't select any packages.
Oh wait, I have all of that. It's called BSD. My mistake.
Sorry for the troll, but Mandrake 8 really pissed me off when it broke E and xawtv...
I have done that, and I will again, but the point is they claim to support 17 window managers so you are 'free to choose'... why can't they support enlightenment? And where is eterm? I miss my transparent windows already... sniffle...
I'm not claiming E is the best, but for some people like me who don't like the 'desktop' metaphore, it's a good, solid, and very attractive option.
Improvement over 7.2??? I upgraded one of my desktops last night, and now xawtv won't work (worked out of the box on 7.2, now I have to fix by hand), it broke enlightenment (and all the menus), and for some reason, the Mandrake X config program *won't* give me the option of anything greater than 1024x768 - and if you config in in 'expert' mode, it still reverts back to 1024x768...
Don't get me wrong, I'm a Mandrake fan (Corp. Server runs great on my Sparc), but when you break my two fav. apps (enlightenment and xawtv) after an upgrade, you really piss me off... and who wants to look at a 17" monitor at 1024x768??
Oh well, back to an xterm for me (eterm is missing from the distro now, what's up with that?) to fix everything it broke...
Heres another one: Put it in a large comment block in your web pages... I wonder if the MPAA has the brains to look there ;0)
Imagine getting back search results for decss and finding nothing but homepages with no source in sight....
I'm off to insert a nice comment into my homepage.....
I can see some logic in what you are saying, but I have to disagree with the groupware point.
The "usefulness" of exchange can already be replaced with a nice install of send/q mail, Apache, and any one of a number of opensource groupware products (Like PHPGroupware)
For the small/medium enterprise, the power of opensource is astounding. Costs are lower, branding is easier, support is as close as Usenet, and the list goes on. Sure for the forutine 500 MS stuff is better, but most of the companies in the world are not on that list.
And don't bash Apache which "does something simple".. show me *ONE* thing IIS does that Apache won't. C'mon, I dare you.
It's true... I've got a generic AMD 2/400 that will run Linux and *BSD fine, but Win2k won't install. Peroid.
And don't get me started on their "Web Services"... Needed a Windows machine to do some ASP's, so I took my copy of NT 4 off the self... No, that's only ASP 2.0.. can't get ASP 3 on NT 4... need to go out and spend thousands of dollars on Win2k, and then be limited to 10 connections because you only bought pro.
I'll stick with writing PHP code for the Linux/*BSD world thanks... Linux/*BSD runs on *ALL* my hardware, whereas Windows, with it's "better driver support" won't even install.
This artice is pure FUD. Peroid.
Personaly, I just use a P-100, 24M ram, and a 20 Gig HDD for my mp3's... telnet, web, wap, ir, lcd - it suports them all, plus I can upgrade it anytime I want.
Why waste time hacking a comerical product when you can make your own for less?
I'm not going to dodge - I'll admit I have not studied this enough to know where I stand. I certainly am against the monstrous profits going to studio chiefs, but I also want to make damn sure that poor writers are ripped off.
I'm a socialist, and I sure as hell hope that that was a typo.... He wants to make sure poor writers are ripped off? I don't think so......
Why should I waste money on a new system when the 486 that runs my firewall is running fine, the 386 that I screw around with works great, etc....
Buying new hardware is a waste if the old hardware will do it.... throwing computers out creates alot of garbage in landfills...
Perhaps we need the slogan "make faster code, not waste!"
What is bothering me about the current distributions is that they are forgetting about old hardware. I can't install Mandrake on a system with 8 megs of ram, but the system will run.. How screwed it that - the installer needs more ram than the OS!
If this Linux bloat continues, I'll just keep moving more of my boxes to the BSD's (Free and Net are my personal fav's - gotta love the deamon!)
Just don't forget that linux has prided itself on excelling on hardware that most people would call "old". As we go forward, we can't forget the past.
It uses XML to talk to a Jabber server, and in turn provides access to ICQ, AIM, Jabber client, and a host of others all from on central interface, and its open source!
I use it at the cyber-cafe I do work for to cut down on the number of different IM clients I need to install for people to use. The windows client is great, as are the *NIX/BSD clients.
Don't wait for AOL to combine the two, just do it yourself with the power of XML.
Rothken says that bringing AOL and Time Warner into the case is the natural response of a defendant, much as someone sued for causing a car accident might in turn sue the manufacturer of the car or the maker of the car's tires for bearing some responsibility.
So what now? We sue database software companies for creating an easly way of storing results, the developers of PERL/PHP/ASP/Insert fave web progaming tool here/ for suppling code that allows us to search? C'mon...
The car idea kinda makes sense - A car has one purpose - to drive on a road/surface and transport things/people from A->B. If there is a defect in its normal operations, the manufacture can be held responcible.
The difference is that gnutella was not designed to transfer MP3 files - it was created to share recipies.
It's like Ford being sued because while driving your car underwater, it failed and you killed someone. There not libel because you used it outside it's intened use. Same with gnutella - those who use it for MP3s are OUTSIDE IT'S INTENDED USE, and AOL is not lible.
Now I'm off to search gnutella for a recipe for "KoRn Flakes"..........
I really don't like these "deals" - you know, if I put *my* music in my digital locker, then why should anyone have to anything? Am I missing something here, or are we *paying* for fair use?
Here in Canada, port scanning is actually illegal - it's called "Theft of Computer Services"
This makes perfect sense to me - the person doing the scanning is forcing *my* computer, that I own, to respond to their scans by updating my IPCHAINS rules to block them forever. I don't want to waste my processer time defending my system.
Does anyone know if this si illigal in the US? If so, we should start nailing every script kiddie to the wall - that will teach them to "probe" me...
I'm glad to see the usability of linux games is getting better. I'm not one to wine about having to compile from source or mess around with my system, but for the average person, this is a step in the right direction. Just wish it had a nice installer like Mozilla.......
260+ k/sec off a cable modem?
That's sweet! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
www.studentaction.ca:8080/slashdot/ just the first page of the article, the rest were "404"'d.... enjoy!