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It would take more then Apple drowning in a bucket before PPC goes away. Apple has been selling it up, even in the bad economy.
cisco Systems is also using PowerPC chips in their new routers, plus Nintendo in their GameCubes. So that isn't going to happen.
Pat
Re:64-bit architecture
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Don't forget Apple, who will have more Unix desktops deployed then all three in another few years. (Specualation and opinion, but I'm open for flamage anyways. )
Enjoy your holiday. This merger is cool news for an otherwise boring news-less day.
stripes, thanks for your reply. I've been able to use CVS to grab projects from SourceForge with no problem.
More specifically, I was looking at how I can use ProjectBuilder.app's CVS integration. It has a whole menu for revision control and it is supposed to be integrated with ProjectBuilder.
I'd like to use it to commit my changes to an upstream CVS server, is it looking for an environment variable to be set or something?
I'm surprised no one has suggested this, but when I perform auditing on various shell users, I found the best way to keep session logs is to use the "script" command. It should be available on your system. You can make it "exec script" so that if the user attempts to kill it or exit script, it logs them out. Or put script into a wrapper, and use it as their default login shell.
If you do use it for root, make sure it is available in single user mode, or on your primary disk so that you are able to access your system if it goes down. Just a little warning. You can include the script command in your shell rc files in/etc, or place it directly on the user, and have it save the script to/var/log/scripts/(user).(date). This will show everything in the session, including VT100 interactive applications, like IRC and such.
Great way to have time stamped logs, and it's even great to know what changes you made at midnight the night before, in case you forget the next day. Look into it!
Is anyone here using CVS with Project Builder.app on Mac OS X 10.0.4 and the release Development Tools? I am a new Carbon C developer and I'd like to set up a centralized repository for version management and file recovery.
When I use Project Builder, the capability to use CVS is dimmed out. I checked in Terminal.app and cvs is installed and working correctly. (cvs -h works) How do I configure it to setup to connect to a CVS server and corresponding project so that I can commit my sources?
While these are good conceptual ideas, once a packet filter is implemented on a router, it consumes a huge amount of processing power and memory to then process every individual packet through that filter. This will lower an ISPs throughput significantly as each packet hits the filter.
Now, imagine these LARGE NSPs that host IRC servers on EFnet with multiply redundant BGP-4 routed DS3 and ATM circuits placing these access lists on their core routers. It wouldn't work.
It would cripple them worse then the DDoS's will.
You could use a Firewall as a solution, but they are cost prohibitive to pay per connection for every IRC client. This is why it is hard to "just filter" attackers on core routers.
And as far as holding ISPs accountable goes, that is a can of worms that won't be opened. Other then our DMCA and other laws.. I can't imagine this happening.
It uses SNTP, a derivative of NTP. Most NTP servers seem to have problems out of the box working correctly with SNTP. To set an SNTP server in Windows XP, use the following commands:
C:\> net time/setsntp:tick.usno.navy.mil
C:\> net start w32time
To get statistics on your SNTP operations and servers, use the w32tm.exe tool as such:
w32tm/resync - Resync your SNTP time
w32tm/stripchart - Display time differences
Darwin Installation Manuals for both the Intel and PPC platform can be found at http://www.futureunix.net/darwin/ - soon to be available from Apple. Your feedback is encouraged so if you get Darwin up and running and have some ideas or tips to contribute to the documentation. Let us know!
NetBEUI was originally built as a transport protocol by IBM to carry NetBIOS connectivity for mainframe traffic. Before Windows File and Print existed. Before Windows was 32-bit.
He was saying his NetBEUI was being hax0red on his NetBIOS ports. NetBEUI doesn't have TCP/IP ports. Your reply has nothing to do with the original post. Read it.
Whoever modded this as Insightful is really full of crap. First you say,
"Who's going to teach people?"
and then you say,
"I guess the addage is true: Some people really are too stupid to use the internet..."
You wouldn't work for me for very long. You start by talking down and being condescending to novice administrators, then proceed to bash the MCSE certification and all the while saying.. Some people are too stupid to use the internet.
Not a very well thought out and educated post. You'd rather talk down to your fellow administrators then help educate them? Let me guess, you are one of those types that sit on #linux and laugh at every question asked and say RTFM?
I might suggest some firewall and packet filtering resources, even prepare some type of form letter to send out to administrators that inquire as to the source of packets to their network. Or prepare a web link documenting the services (active FTP, Gnutella, etc.) These are all quite constructive options.
Do me a favor, save Slashdot and our readers bandwidth and don't post.
I have to call you on this and correct your rather obvious mistakes. Unless you have the bindings for Windows File and Print Services disabled, or you have uninstalled them completely on your workstation or server - there WILL be something always listening on TCP/IP ports 137-139 on your Windows machine. Now, I think your intention is to say that there was a live -connection- to your ports 137-139. Now I continue.
NetBEUI is a non-routable transport protocol.
NetBEUI has nothing to do with this picture that you are presenting. NetBEUI has nothing to do with Windows File and Print Services, other then that fact that it is a protocol that can carry NetBIOS traffic. NetBEUI does not use port numbers like TCP/IP does and netstat.exe would not have showed any live connections to your machine anyways. netstat.exe is a TCP/IP utility.
NetBIOS/SMB is the communication layer that Windows products use to communicate over a network. Do not get them confused. Block the NetBIOS ports (or do not specifically forward them) on your NAT gateway and DISABLE the services or remove the bindings on your Windows machine to stop the problem. Again, NetBEUI has nothing to do with this.
Hope this helps. Get a Windows networking primer book. It might help you sleep at night.
Excellent list. Do not forget that KAME, the IPv6 IP stack being used in most *BSD's (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) is largely written by Japanese programmers.
-Pat
If you are adversely affected by the loss of the newsgroups that @Home cut, use a commercial news provider. They are quite inexpensive now. Supernews is $12/month with up to 2.5 Gigs of downloads a month. You get a cool interface to check retention on groups, they are much better then your ISP or cable provider in providing quality news. You can also check how much data you've downloaded AND you can access your prime quality newsfeed from anywhere. If you are at your buddies or want to browse your favorite groups from work.
Commercial news providers provide higher reliability, more groups and better retention. While I am content using AT&T Broadband's news services, when it comes to binaries I chose Supernews. The retention is a lot better and there are less lost posts. Commercial news providers are less likely to remove groups - I don't know how they satisfy DMCA requests, but I doubt they will destroy popular binary groups that give them customers. Just thought I'd share that.. sorry if it sounds like a commercial.
I agree with you. Prof. Felten's planning was cool and calculated the whole way through. This will be a groundbreaking fight which will show us precisely the worth of the DMCA.
I will be very interested in this case and follow it closely, but I encourage all the Slashdot readers to take the time to donate to the EFF.
Even though you are posting anonymously, I agree with you. I think it is a great that an ISP has access lists and tools like the RBL to prevent their end users from being spammed, and their local servers from being used as relay servers.
Score +1 for Above.net. Now if only AT&T Broadband could filter some of that spam out of my mailbox... oh wait, those spammers get free connections, never mind.:)
As an amateur weather hobbyist, I've used (and even coded) a few weather tools that may be helpful to you. I would recommend looking at Freshmeat for the following packages:
wx200d - a client/server based data collection and retrieval platform for Weather Station hardware.
This solution requires a weather station, preferably an Oregon Scientific WM-918 or one of its variants (Radio Shack, etc.) You can write your own clients or use the shipping text-based, web-based or X-based client.
gwx - X-based wx200d client
This provides the same interface that the weather station hardware presents and connects to the wx200d server. It is multiuser and can support multiple monitor stations.
wmWeather - a WindowMaker METAR retrieval system.
This will retrieve live information from the National Weather Service right to your WindowMaker desktop. It sits on your dockbar and can query the station ID for your local city. No hardware is required.
I really like wx200d, it is a killer Unix package and has cron scripts that can massage and average your weather data. It also has a Web-based graphing engine with GNU plot so you can look at data over time. I coded the *BSD port for this package and revamped it to use termios.
I don't know if you've ever installed any Windows variant before, (maybe your IT guy does it for you, or you take it to a computer store) but at install time you select the type of `distribution' you want, Typical, Minimal Custom, Full and Laptop (if you're on 98 or SE).
It is very easy to click Minimal and not get any games, calculator, terminal programs installed and all Windows's based OS's have always had this feature. Also, if you are a corporate customer or power user you can take the INFs (install scripts) that ship with the Windows installers to create your OWN distribution with your own programs and drivers.
Unfortunately, that is not what Red Hat is looking for. If you would have read the attached article, it stated they were looking for is their model fits in with Red Hat's goals.
"Mozilla has the exact same look and feel of the current Netscape browser, but officials said that the reason to go strictly with Mozilla is that its open-source development model has a better fit with Red Hat's philosophy."
Even if they signed an agreement with Opera, to distribute a fast closed-source ad ridden browser with Red Hat - I doubt their corporate customers would dig having to support it. Seeing as Red Hat can't provide security fixes or patches to it to repair or improve it, it doesn't align with their open source philosophy.
They can make a Red Hat `branded' version of Mozilla using its components once it goes 1.0 and I would not be surprised to see them do it. Either way, Mozilla is looking really nice 0.9 and I am typing this post using it right now.
-Pat
Windows Mozilla .. Rocking the House
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I just upgraded to Mozilla 0.9 on Windows 2000 Professional Retail. I can say that it runs quite a bit faster and is very usable. By default, it uses the Classic theme, which may contribute to it running quicker.
Mail and News seems to have major speed improvements as well. I was able to attach to my Outlook PST and import all my e-mail over without it crashing too!
The IRC client looks much better too, still lacking DCC support or a server navigator window. It uses an/attach command to connect to a network, or you can use the standard/server command.
I've been running it for about 2 hours and it hasn't crashed yet. Definitely worth grabbing, IE won't get much use in the Recycle Bin.
I can name a few Linux-based audio conferencing tools, depending on how your networking infrastructure is laid out. If all of your consultants share a common provider, a multicast solution would work well. It would feature a decent quality of service and communication, be fast, and use less bandwidth.
There is a suite of free university-developed multicast enabled tools that are time tested and have been in use since 1992. Research rat (robust audio tool) and sdr (session directory) on Freshmeat or Google.
There is also a suite of point-to-point H.323 audio conferencing tools called openh323 which you can find more information out at www.openh323.org. It provides great interoptability with Windows products (Intel, iPhone and Microsoft NetMeeting) as well and can use cisco Systems Voice over IP gatekeepers if you want to link your phone system trunks in.
I really like your take on it and I agree with you. This follows with the idea that you have three different types of tools - a driver, a ratchet and a wrench can all adjust the same type of bolt. You just pick which one does it faster or with less effort, or is cheaper to purchase.
You have a few choices for web-based reporting products. Most of them can be integrated using ASP scripting and will connect to your database products via ODBC. Also, functionality can be integrated using SDKs for some of the reporting tools. Two of the most popular choices that my customers work with are Seagate Crystal Reports and Business Objects.
Crystal Reports can be integrated into your application itself as well and features a killer report designer and query builder interface and great printed reports. Crystal Reports can publish report datastraight to the web as well. For more information, check out Seagate's web site.
Business Objects is very popular for its interactive report functionality, where you can drill down into your query getting different levels of information. It helps you avoid information overload in large reports and is generally the tool of choice for doing crossreporting on related queries. For more information, check out Business Object's web site.
Here is the Windows bootable CD HOWTO article in English. The lowdown:
Regular backups often only offer a false feeling of security: After a system crash Windows frequently doesn't even start up anymore, and this puts the restore program out of reach, too. Therefore, a bootable and virus-proof Windows installation on CD ROM should really be found in every well-stocked emergency kit.
'To start Windows 95 or 98 in GUI mode, it must be installed on a writeable medium. You cannot start Windows from CD.' Similar statements have been published in various PC magazines, and c't has said it, too. The time has come to revise this statement.
The reason for this assumption lies in the fact that Windows spits out masses of error messages when unable to access the registry during startup. However, this is essentially only cosmetic: If you can live with it, Windows 9x can indeed be started from a CD ROM. This article will deal with how to eliminate the error messages and optimize CD ROM booting.
My understanding, as a consultant, is that a lot of these companies base their prices on the market that they are selling to, i.e. a Fortune 500 firm or an e-commerce company. Oracle's pricing should be widely available from a reseller or solutions vendor. They generally have pretty solid pricing and sales practices.
Companies like SAP and PeopleSoft want to build a relationship to give you the software as well as the services necessary to implement it. This may or may not be a good thing - as it can cost a lot, even for corporations to implement their services, but you can get service level agreements and quality assurances if you do choose to use their services and software.
Hope that helps to give you a better understanding. I would recommend talking to one of their Account Manager's for your area and asking them about their sales practices - tell them you are considering buying their products.
There are a few cross-platform compatible management suites you may obtain. If you were in a Windows only environment, I would suggest using Microsoft's Systems Management Server platform. It has a built-in hardware and software inventory database using SQL on the back end. It comes with Crystal Reports to run full featured reports on hardware, software utilization. Seeing as you only have a few UNIX workstations, this may work fine.
Intel makes the LANdesk product, which features Windows and UNIX agents for inventory, remote control and tracking. In some ways SMS is a clone of LANdesk, so there is not a very high learning curve to deploy their product. The company I work for does a lot of corporate LANdesk rollouts, apparently it is a decent product.
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cisco Systems is also using PowerPC chips in their new routers, plus Nintendo in their GameCubes. So that isn't going to happen.
Pat
Enjoy your holiday. This merger is cool news for an otherwise boring news-less day.
Pat
More specifically, I was looking at how I can use ProjectBuilder.app's CVS integration. It has a whole menu for revision control and it is supposed to be integrated with ProjectBuilder. I'd like to use it to commit my changes to an upstream CVS server, is it looking for an environment variable to be set or something?
Thanks for your help.
-Pat
If you do use it for root, make sure it is available in single user mode, or on your primary disk so that you are able to access your system if it goes down. Just a little warning. You can include the script command in your shell rc files in /etc, or place it directly on the user, and have it save the script to /var/log/scripts/(user).(date). This will show everything in the session, including VT100 interactive applications, like IRC and such.
Great way to have time stamped logs, and it's even great to know what changes you made at midnight the night before, in case you forget the next day. Look into it!
Hope this helps,
Pat
When I use Project Builder, the capability to use CVS is dimmed out. I checked in Terminal.app and cvs is installed and working correctly. (cvs -h works) How do I configure it to setup to connect to a CVS server and corresponding project so that I can commit my sources?
Thanks for all your help. Have a good morning!
Pat
Now, imagine these LARGE NSPs that host IRC servers on EFnet with multiply redundant BGP-4 routed DS3 and ATM circuits placing these access lists on their core routers. It wouldn't work. It would cripple them worse then the DDoS's will.
You could use a Firewall as a solution, but they are cost prohibitive to pay per connection for every IRC client. This is why it is hard to "just filter" attackers on core routers.
And as far as holding ISPs accountable goes, that is a can of worms that won't be opened. Other then our DMCA and other laws.. I can't imagine this happening.
-Pat
C:\> net time /setsntp:tick.usno.navy.mil
C:\> net start w32time
To get statistics on your SNTP operations and servers, use the w32tm.exe tool as such:
w32tm /resync - Resync your SNTP time /stripchart - Display time differences
w32tm
Hope that helps!
-Pat
-Pat
He was saying his NetBEUI was being hax0red on his NetBIOS ports. NetBEUI doesn't have TCP/IP ports. Your reply has nothing to do with the original post. Read it.
-Pat
"Who's going to teach people?"
and then you say,
"I guess the addage is true: Some people really are too stupid to use the internet..."
You wouldn't work for me for very long. You start by talking down and being condescending to novice administrators, then proceed to bash the MCSE certification and all the while saying .. Some people are too stupid to use the internet.
Not a very well thought out and educated post. You'd rather talk down to your fellow administrators then help educate them? Let me guess, you are one of those types that sit on #linux and laugh at every question asked and say RTFM?
I might suggest some firewall and packet filtering resources, even prepare some type of form letter to send out to administrators that inquire as to the source of packets to their network. Or prepare a web link documenting the services (active FTP, Gnutella, etc.) These are all quite constructive options.
Do me a favor, save Slashdot and our readers bandwidth and don't post.
-Pat
NetBEUI is a non-routable transport protocol. NetBEUI has nothing to do with this picture that you are presenting. NetBEUI has nothing to do with Windows File and Print Services, other then that fact that it is a protocol that can carry NetBIOS traffic. NetBEUI does not use port numbers like TCP/IP does and netstat.exe would not have showed any live connections to your machine anyways. netstat.exe is a TCP/IP utility.
NetBIOS/SMB is the communication layer that Windows products use to communicate over a network. Do not get them confused. Block the NetBIOS ports (or do not specifically forward them) on your NAT gateway and DISABLE the services or remove the bindings on your Windows machine to stop the problem. Again, NetBEUI has nothing to do with this.
Hope this helps. Get a Windows networking primer book. It might help you sleep at night.
-Pat
Excellent list. Do not forget that KAME, the IPv6 IP stack being used in most *BSD's (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) is largely written by Japanese programmers. -Pat
Commercial news providers provide higher reliability, more groups and better retention. While I am content using AT&T Broadband's news services, when it comes to binaries I chose Supernews. The retention is a lot better and there are less lost posts. Commercial news providers are less likely to remove groups - I don't know how they satisfy DMCA requests, but I doubt they will destroy popular binary groups that give them customers. Just thought I'd share that.. sorry if it sounds like a commercial.
-Pat
I will be very interested in this case and follow it closely, but I encourage all the Slashdot readers to take the time to donate to the EFF.
-Pat
Score +1 for Above.net. Now if only AT&T Broadband could filter some of that spam out of my mailbox... oh wait, those spammers get free connections, never mind. :)
-Pat
- wx200d - a client/server based data collection and retrieval platform for Weather Station hardware.
- gwx - X-based wx200d client
- wmWeather - a WindowMaker METAR retrieval system.
I really like wx200d, it is a killer Unix package and has cron scripts that can massage and average your weather data. It also has a Web-based graphing engine with GNU plot so you can look at data over time. I coded the *BSD port for this package and revamped it to use termios.This solution requires a weather station, preferably an Oregon Scientific WM-918 or one of its variants (Radio Shack, etc.) You can write your own clients or use the shipping text-based, web-based or X-based client.
This provides the same interface that the weather station hardware presents and connects to the wx200d server. It is multiuser and can support multiple monitor stations.
This will retrieve live information from the National Weather Service right to your WindowMaker desktop. It sits on your dockbar and can query the station ID for your local city. No hardware is required.
Hope this helps. Have a good weekend!
-Pat
It is very easy to click Minimal and not get any games, calculator, terminal programs installed and all Windows's based OS's have always had this feature. Also, if you are a corporate customer or power user you can take the INFs (install scripts) that ship with the Windows installers to create your OWN distribution with your own programs and drivers.
Hope that makes sense.
-Pat
"Mozilla has the exact same look and feel of the current Netscape browser, but officials said that the reason to go strictly with Mozilla is that its open-source development model has a better fit with Red Hat's philosophy."
Even if they signed an agreement with Opera, to distribute a fast closed-source ad ridden browser with Red Hat - I doubt their corporate customers would dig having to support it. Seeing as Red Hat can't provide security fixes or patches to it to repair or improve it, it doesn't align with their open source philosophy.
They can make a Red Hat `branded' version of Mozilla using its components once it goes 1.0 and I would not be surprised to see them do it. Either way, Mozilla is looking really nice 0.9 and I am typing this post using it right now.
-Pat
Mail and News seems to have major speed improvements as well. I was able to attach to my Outlook PST and import all my e-mail over without it crashing too!
The IRC client looks much better too, still lacking DCC support or a server navigator window. It uses an /attach command to connect to a network, or you can use the standard /server command.
I've been running it for about 2 hours and it hasn't crashed yet. Definitely worth grabbing, IE won't get much use in the Recycle Bin.
-Pat
There is a suite of free university-developed multicast enabled tools that are time tested and have been in use since 1992. Research rat (robust audio tool) and sdr (session directory) on Freshmeat or Google.
There is also a suite of point-to-point H.323 audio conferencing tools called openh323 which you can find more information out at www.openh323.org. It provides great interoptability with Windows products (Intel, iPhone and Microsoft NetMeeting) as well and can use cisco Systems Voice over IP gatekeepers if you want to link your phone system trunks in.
That should get you started! Have fun!
-Pat
Give him his +1.
-Pat
Crystal Reports can be integrated into your application itself as well and features a killer report designer and query builder interface and great printed reports. Crystal Reports can publish report datastraight to the web as well. For more information, check out Seagate's web site.
Business Objects is very popular for its interactive report functionality, where you can drill down into your query getting different levels of information. It helps you avoid information overload in large reports and is generally the tool of choice for doing crossreporting on related queries. For more information, check out Business Object's web site.
-Pat
Regular backups often only offer a false feeling of security: After a system crash Windows frequently doesn't even start up anymore, and this puts the restore program out of reach, too. Therefore, a bootable and virus-proof Windows installation on CD ROM should really be found in every well-stocked emergency kit.
'To start Windows 95 or 98 in GUI mode, it must be installed on a writeable medium. You cannot start Windows from CD.' Similar statements have been published in various PC magazines, and c't has said it, too. The time has come to revise this statement.
The reason for this assumption lies in the fact that Windows spits out masses of error messages when unable to access the registry during startup. However, this is essentially only cosmetic: If you can live with it, Windows 9x can indeed be started from a CD ROM. This article will deal with how to eliminate the error messages and optimize CD ROM booting.
Have fun!
-Pat
Companies like SAP and PeopleSoft want to build a relationship to give you the software as well as the services necessary to implement it. This may or may not be a good thing - as it can cost a lot, even for corporations to implement their services, but you can get service level agreements and quality assurances if you do choose to use their services and software.
Hope that helps to give you a better understanding. I would recommend talking to one of their Account Manager's for your area and asking them about their sales practices - tell them you are considering buying their products.
-Pat
Intel makes the LANdesk product, which features Windows and UNIX agents for inventory, remote control and tracking. In some ways SMS is a clone of LANdesk, so there is not a very high learning curve to deploy their product. The company I work for does a lot of corporate LANdesk rollouts, apparently it is a decent product.
-Pat