I don't think security was ever a concern when SS7 was implemented - after all, the end user never gets to see SS7, there will always be an access protocol like DASS2 (for ISDN) between the user and SS7.
At the end of the day, we have to trust the network ops that have access, in the same way we would trust banks etc.
I was rather suprised when the second key it generated for me was the exact one I used to install my *cough*legal copy of XP ! Thought it was rather too much of a coincidence:)
I have a GPRS phone and account on Vodafone here in the UK - they have recently opened up full internet - and I was able to telnet and surf the web from my Palm m505 / Nokia 8210 using GRPS
I don't get it. I'm laying in bed, on my laptop with wireless lan. i'm very drunk, and linus torvalds is laying next to me. He gets fed pouches (of food) rather than patches from alan. alan is another cat but ive lost his picture hehe...
linus just seems to want to sleep! How is he supposed to hack VM being just a cat?
On a more sane note - I think Alan has done a wonderful job. I use -ac kernels almost exclusively, apart from my main machine where I use LVM which doesn't apply very well to the -ac kernels.
I read alan's diary regularly, if only for the british humour that american's just don't get:)
I personally would love a job where I could rise after mid-day and hack on kernels all night and eat lots of fish fingers.
I am however quite glad that Alan will be able to concentrate on other things - from what I've seen of his diary, he seems more suited to hacking around, trying new things for the hell of it, rather than just keeping something working.
Best of luck to Marcelo, I am sure you have Interesting Times ahead!
There's one slight problem with vibrate mode. It's fine in your pocket, in fact sometimes quite enjoyable, but if you were to place the phone on a desk and it started to vibrate, the noise scares the shit out of anyone nearby, and more often or not the phone falls off the desk!
Sounds like the same problem I had, it's because the format of/proc/mounts has changed slightly in 2.3.x, and Redhat's halt scripts use this file to work out what needs to be unmounted. It's trivial to fix:)
However this won't really help if the area you are in doesn't yet have GSM. I was stung by this when I went to Chicago on business - I wrongly assumed a country as technologically advanced as the USA would have pretty much total GSM coverages, or at least in the Cities!
Fortunately I was working with Aerial (an operator in the states) and they had a GSM microcell in the building I was in:)
I've been using LVM for ages now and I think it's great. Works pretty much like HPUX's LVM but I don't know how that compares to AIX as i've never used it!
OK so it's not really _in_ the kernel yet (SIGN THE PETITION!:) ) but I love it and find it really useful - and I think its going to have to be integrated into the real kernel sometime soon if linux is really going to be successful in an enterprise environment. This implementation of LVM is really good imho. Check it out!
Well I'm in a hotel in Dusseldorf keeping an eye on CNN and wishing I could have a drink tonight. I'm supposed to be here in case of y2k problems with our systems but all that's happened so far is that I've realised just how bad CNN actually is... and I can't get BBC here!
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I don't think security was ever a concern when SS7 was implemented - after all, the end user never gets to see SS7, there will always be an access protocol like DASS2 (for ISDN) between the user and SS7.
At the end of the day, we have to trust the network ops that have access, in the same way we would trust banks etc.
James
Why are most of the names in the article Bob, Rob, or Robert? Seems a bit fishy to me... :)
Why are slashdot readers so vain? Always asking for mirrors!! :)
Linus? There's a chap who can't get on anyone's nerves, he's too nice! :)
I was rather suprised when the second key it generated for me was the exact one I used to install my *cough*legal copy of XP ! Thought it was rather too much of a coincidence
James
shouldnt that be a beowulf convoy? :)
I don't get it. I'm laying in bed, on my laptop with wireless lan. i'm very drunk, and linus torvalds is laying next to me. He gets fed pouches (of food) rather than patches from alan. alan is another cat but ive lost his picture hehe... :)
linus just seems to want to sleep! How is he supposed to hack VM being just a cat?
On a more sane note - I think Alan has done a wonderful job. I use -ac kernels almost exclusively, apart from my main machine where I use LVM which doesn't apply very well to the -ac kernels.
I read alan's diary regularly, if only for the british humour that american's just don't get
I personally would love a job where I could rise after mid-day and hack on kernels all night and eat lots of fish fingers.
I am however quite glad that Alan will be able to concentrate on other things - from what I've seen of his diary, he seems more suited to hacking around, trying new things for the hell of it, rather than just keeping something working.
Best of luck to Marcelo, I am sure you have Interesting Times ahead!
Perhaps I'm being thick here, but isn't it kind of obvious that any available bandwidth will be used up eventually? How can we have "too much" fiber?
There's one slight problem with vibrate mode. It's fine in your pocket, in fact sometimes quite enjoyable, but if you were to place the phone on a desk and it started to vibrate, the noise scares the shit out of anyone nearby, and more often or not the phone falls off the desk!
All those numbers are odd. I had an idea about dividing by 2 :)
Sounds like the same problem I had, it's because the format of /proc/mounts has changed slightly in 2.3.x, and Redhat's halt scripts use this file to work out what needs to be unmounted. It's trivial to fix :)
However this won't really help if the area you are in doesn't yet have GSM. I was stung by this when I went to Chicago on business - I wrongly assumed a country as technologically advanced as the USA would have pretty much total GSM coverages, or at least in the Cities!
:)
Fortunately I was working with Aerial (an operator in the states) and they had a GSM microcell in the building I was in
I've been using LVM for ages now and I think it's great. Works pretty much like HPUX's LVM but I don't know how that compares to AIX as i've never used it!
OK so it's not really _in_ the kernel yet (SIGN THE PETITION! :) ) but I love it and find it really useful - and I think its going to have to be integrated into the real kernel sometime soon if linux is really going to be successful in an enterprise environment. This implementation of LVM is really good imho. Check it out!
Well I'm in a hotel in Dusseldorf keeping an eye on CNN and wishing I could have a drink tonight. I'm supposed to be here in case of y2k problems with our systems but all that's happened so far is that I've realised just how bad CNN actually is... and I can't get BBC here!
There can't be much of a shortage here. I just signed up with demon internet and got a static IP without even asking for one!
James
is why is that Control Panel there at all? Isn't it just a relic from RH3.0.3? I thought that this was completely obsoleted by linuxconf?
Anyway it doesn't matter to me as I normally edit the config files by hand.
James
Come one! Get a sense of humour! Bloody americans! :)
[root@fuse linux]# cat .config | grep BSD
# CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT is not set
# CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL is not set
[root@fuse linux]#
That'll be why 2.2.4 compile on mine - I'm not using BSD process accounting.
James