Good luck to you and your unpatched Redhat, it doesn't have the volume of attacks a Windows box has - but don't assume it won't get rooted - it will.
It has always been good practice to have a firewall, or at least a NAT router in front of any server, be it Redhat / Windows / BSD / OSX / Solaris whatever. Thats only one piece of the puzzle of course, but a very important one.
However, for your average desktop machine there has to be a balance between security and usability, a balance that the builtin firewall, some free AV and Windows Defender pretty much meets, the current trend towards non privildeged user accounts in mainstream OS's like Vista / OSX cements that.
Or plug in the Ethernet cable after you have turned on the firewall built into XP - assuming you aren't using a SP2 install where it's enabled by default.
Its funny, some countries you can show graphic footage of people being peppered by bullets or having their skulls crushed, but as soon as a nipple is shown there's uproar. Even the most prudish / repressed of Europeans, the Brits don't worry too much about partial nudity.
I believe they are, there are grants and inititaives in place to fund set top boxes for the poorer segments. My mother would have been entitled to such a deal, but she switched to cable for cheaper phone calls and cheaper broadband. The animated smily icons and such she attaches to her emails are fairly bandwidth intensive.
It's not tho, the signal is free to air. *all* modern tv sets / tv tuners have the ability to decode it built in. The digibox is a transition measure, and for a nominal fee - £30-60 here, depending on quality you can transform any reciever into digital capable. There are subscription channels broadcast also, but the basic service with all the primary channels is free. I was comparing it with my parents SKY box, and they had very little extra content I actually wanted - maybe UKTV, Sky One, Discovery. And when the analogue signal is switched off it frees a huge amount of bandwidth for extra channels.
It's allowed in most of the developed world already. The prolife / prochoice debate is almost uniquely a catholic / american thing. Its not an issue throughout most of Northern Europe or Asia.
(In NW Europe, the only country blocking this is Ireland)
That site is bullshit, apparently my wages put me in the top 1% of people on this planet, but I cant afford to buy my own house, i'm constantly juggling money to pay for food and have the bailiffs around to chase on unpaid utility bills. Any simplistic measure of income is absolutely useless without correlating it to the actual cost of living.
I have a job that puts me in the top percentile of people in the world, but to have that job I have to pay the top percentile of living expenses
Both the ISS and the shuttles operate well within the protection of the earths magnetic fields, i'm not an expert on this kind of thing, but a quick wiki suggests the magnetosphere extends 70,000 km, the moon orbits at 350,000km and the ISS at around 300km. The ISS or current space suits dont need the protection that would be required for a permanent moon base, or any reasonable distance interplanetary travel.
Quick trips to the moon can be scheduled when it's in the trailing edges of the earths shield to mitigate the risks, but a permanent outpst there will need some form of shielding for when the Sun decides to have a big flare up.
I guess the reason, or one of the reasons for the pole is have access to permanently shielded geology (lunology?) that is within a reasonable distance to lit areas for cabling solar panels.
With no magnetic field to shield them what kind of strategies will the base need to use to cope with solar radiation and not have the astronauts fried? Is it as simple as building the base in a crater permanently in shadow?
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I think you have to give the nod to Dell for the "black" revolution here; I know many server admins who bought Dell's crappy hardware in the early 2000's just because they thought it looked sexier in the fucking server room. (Yeah, like any eligible female would ever make a trip down there.)Couldn't give a fuck what they looked like, bought Dell servers because they were cheap, had relatively standard hardware and could throw the POST out on a serial line. Admittedly, we just installed FreeBSD on them and used them for apache / bind / sendmail etc and didn't give a crap if they blew up. Only had one fail on us over a 3 year period, and that was no big deal as we had redundancy in place.
These days (new job) we have IBM and Sun servers, the IBM stuff sucks really badly. Very very rarely have a problem with the Sun boxes.
They are legal to sell in the UK, it was just using it that was illegal. Went into my local HMV a couple of days ago to get a dock and they had them there.
expert-sexchange can rot in hell, had enough of googling stuff and being linked to some webpage that will answer my question for a low low subscription rate.
I have a 10 year old 4:3 Sony Trintron 26" It still works fine, the sound quality is still decent enough and the picture is good. I see no reason to replace it.
Edge and Pcgamer are the only magazines i still buy, Edge because it actually has journalism and good writers. PC Gamer to save a few GB's of driver downloads. Edge is dying tho, the news is increasingly irrelevent and outdated - which is a shame. Sadly, their transition to online plan is non existent.
I subbed to GD mag for a year and didnt bother resubscribing, it's flimsy and not worth the money - their gamasutra website is far better than the print publication.
Oh come off it, SSHD runs perfectly fine on Windows - not out of the box granted, I have a ssh session open to my desktop at the moment. And if you really need to be rebooting stuff remotely, then you really need to look into having a serial console going. SSHD isn't the be all and end all on Linux either, the amount of times it crashes or a box is unresponsive over the network. It won't be running if the kernels panicked.
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Good luck to you and your unpatched Redhat, it doesn't have the volume of attacks a Windows box has - but don't assume it won't get rooted - it will.
It has always been good practice to have a firewall, or at least a NAT router in front of any server, be it Redhat / Windows / BSD / OSX / Solaris whatever. Thats only one piece of the puzzle of course, but a very important one.
However, for your average desktop machine there has to be a balance between security and usability, a balance that the builtin firewall, some free AV and Windows Defender pretty much meets, the current trend towards non privildeged user accounts in mainstream OS's like Vista / OSX cements that.
Or plug in the Ethernet cable after you have turned on the firewall built into XP - assuming you aren't using a SP2 install where it's enabled by default.
Its funny, some countries you can show graphic footage of people being peppered by bullets or having their skulls crushed, but as soon as a nipple is shown there's uproar. Even the most prudish / repressed of Europeans, the Brits don't worry too much about partial nudity.
I believe they are, there are grants and inititaives in place to fund set top boxes for the poorer segments. My mother would have been entitled to such a deal, but she switched to cable for cheaper phone calls and cheaper broadband. The animated smily icons and such she attaches to her emails are fairly bandwidth intensive.
It's not tho, the signal is free to air. *all* modern tv sets / tv tuners have the ability to decode it built in. The digibox is a transition measure, and for a nominal fee - £30-60 here, depending on quality you can transform any reciever into digital capable. There are subscription channels broadcast also, but the basic service with all the primary channels is free. I was comparing it with my parents SKY box, and they had very little extra content I actually wanted - maybe UKTV, Sky One, Discovery. And when the analogue signal is switched off it frees a huge amount of bandwidth for extra channels.
Is a ex-footballer, now minor sleb. Probably never heard of Zelda as he's not a gamer.
London, one of the most expensive places in the world to live in.
It's allowed in most of the developed world already. The prolife / prochoice debate is almost uniquely a catholic / american thing. Its not an issue throughout most of Northern Europe or Asia.
(In NW Europe, the only country blocking this is Ireland)
shush. we've all read enough 10000 word run-on posts on the net, dont harass the man for over punctuating - the alternative is far worse.
That site is bullshit, apparently my wages put me in the top 1% of people on this planet, but I cant afford to buy my own house, i'm constantly juggling money to pay for food and have the bailiffs around to chase on unpaid utility bills. Any simplistic measure of income is absolutely useless without correlating it to the actual cost of living.
I have a job that puts me in the top percentile of people in the world, but to have that job I have to pay the top percentile of living expenses
Isn't the weakest point of a laptop the LCD screen rather than the hard-disk?
Both the ISS and the shuttles operate well within the protection of the earths magnetic fields, i'm not an expert on this kind of thing, but a quick wiki suggests the magnetosphere extends 70,000 km, the moon orbits at 350,000km and the ISS at around 300km. The ISS or current space suits dont need the protection that would be required for a permanent moon base, or any reasonable distance interplanetary travel.
Quick trips to the moon can be scheduled when it's in the trailing edges of the earths shield to mitigate the risks, but a permanent outpst there will need some form of shielding for when the Sun decides to have a big flare up.
I guess the reason, or one of the reasons for the pole is have access to permanently shielded geology (lunology?) that is within a reasonable distance to lit areas for cabling solar panels.
(PS, it gets very hot in daylight on the Moon).
With no magnetic field to shield them what kind of strategies will the base need to use to cope with solar radiation and not have the astronauts fried? Is it as simple as building the base in a crater permanently in shadow?
I think you have to give the nod to Dell for the "black" revolution here; I know many server admins who bought Dell's crappy hardware in the early 2000's just because they thought it looked sexier in the fucking server room. (Yeah, like any eligible female would ever make a trip down there.)Couldn't give a fuck what they looked like, bought Dell servers because they were cheap, had relatively standard hardware and could throw the POST out on a serial line. Admittedly, we just installed FreeBSD on them and used them for apache / bind / sendmail etc and didn't give a crap if they blew up. Only had one fail on us over a 3 year period, and that was no big deal as we had redundancy in place.
These days (new job) we have IBM and Sun servers, the IBM stuff sucks really badly. Very very rarely have a problem with the Sun boxes.
They are legal to sell in the UK, it was just using it that was illegal. Went into my local HMV a couple of days ago to get a dock and they had them there.
No hard numbers to back it up, but i'd imagine negligable. The Korean gaming industry is PC based.
dont you mean accusations of warcraft?
I object to the disparaging remark about gnawing on your grandmothers bones.
expert-sexchange can rot in hell, had enough of googling stuff and being linked to some webpage that will answer my question for a low low subscription rate.
It's a nice feature to have, not that it hardly ever works outside of tightly controlled lab situations - but hey.
I have a 10 year old 4:3 Sony Trintron 26" It still works fine, the sound quality is still decent enough and the picture is good. I see no reason to replace it.
A lot of *DVD* content is upsampled from old video tapes.
Edge and Pcgamer are the only magazines i still buy, Edge because it actually has journalism and good writers. PC Gamer to save a few GB's of driver downloads. Edge is dying tho, the news is increasingly irrelevent and outdated - which is a shame. Sadly, their transition to online plan is non existent.
I subbed to GD mag for a year and didnt bother resubscribing, it's flimsy and not worth the money - their gamasutra website is far better than the print publication.
Oh come off it, SSHD runs perfectly fine on Windows - not out of the box granted, I have a ssh session open to my desktop at the moment. And if you really need to be rebooting stuff remotely, then you really need to look into having a serial console going. SSHD isn't the be all and end all on Linux either, the amount of times it crashes or a box is unresponsive over the network. It won't be running if the kernels panicked.
not forgetting the part about releasing in numbers closer to satisfying demans, and in some territories 6 months ahead.