For servers and workstations that require high availability, though, you don't use the latest version of anything. Ever
So I should leave my exploitable wu-ftp server up and running, because I don't want a fix that is new? How about openssh? The fixed release of that is pretty new. Should I still be running my Bind 8 server? How do I tell when it is old enough that I can fix the bugs?
Try upgrading from Redhat 5.x to 7.2 sometime, and see how much work you have to put into it.
I have never done that upgrade, however, I have done several 6.x to 7.x upgrades that went flawlessly. The last one I did was a 6.1 to 7.2. This was not a base install machine, it has many compiled packages and hacks as well. None of my config files were overwritten, I didn't run into any dependancy problems, it just worked as it was supposed to. I have 1 machine that runs Debian (actually, it's a root-nfs xterm) and I have had nothing but problems with the apt-get system on it. It failed installing packages a number of times. I would apt-get the package and tar (or gzip) would be unable to decompress it. Or the install script would fail. Or the dependancies wouldn't be met. It took many tries (and some good old fashioned tar.gz compiling) before I could get the system to the state in which I wanted it.
I realize these are just my experiences, but I have found RPMs to be much more reliable and easier to work with than debs. The one feature I wish RPMs had is automatically retrieving the packages to satisfy dependencies. RedHat's up2date is OK in this regard, but I have had some problems with earlier versions of it. I would like to see package retrieval built into RPM itself, not as a separate application. Other than that, I have been very satisfied with RPM.
If we can find plants that can survive in the Martian atmosphere then we may be able to make Mars livable for humans. The plants would produce oxygen for us humans to breathe. I don't know how much time it would take (that would depend on the photosynthisis rate of the plants) but eventually they should produce enough oxygen to make Mars habitable. Now we just need to lobby NASA to increase the frequency of missions. Terraforming takes a long time, the sooner we start the sooner the planet will be habitable.
IANAL but I don't think they can really enforce this... Anyone have any test cases or examples?
Yeah, the article posted with the story had the case of Ticketmaster vs. Tickets.com where the judge ruled it was legal for Tickets.com to deep link to Ticketmaster. CmdrTaco mentions this in the story, not only did you not read the article linked, you didn't even read the/. story before posting your reaction? How did you know what the story was about, did you just read the headline?
Well it's the fucktards who run Mp3/porn/Warez servers in the first place that make the up/down caps necessary
I'm not running a MP3/porn/webserver, I am hosting the page for a small, local band. I also host ~10 mail accounts for the band. These amount to a very small amount of bandwidth. I realize that it is the illicit servers that are causing AT&T to make these restrictions, but I would much rather they filter by how much bandwidth you use, not by what services you happen to have running. Blocking port 80 will not stop warez sites. They have no qualms with running their server on port 8080 or 1337 since the URL is usually published manually to usenet or sent in an email. The band website I host, however, is often found by domain name guessing based on the name of the band, or is given to the user orally. It is much easier for me to say "we're at <band name>.com" than it is for me to sat "we're at <band name>.com, port 7666. Most of the fans are not technically inclined and most likely would not know what a port is, not to mention know how to use it in a URL. I'm not looking for sympathy, I am simply venting my frustration at being charged the same price for a reduced level of service.
Under @Home we were not allowed to run a "server" -- any server. They did not allow http or ftp or anything
The text you supplied is the EXACT same text that is in the @Home subscriber agreement. The only difference is I hear AT&T will block certain ports that @Home did not. The examples I have heard so far are 25, 80 and 21. This will really put a damper on my mail and web server, they are not commercial but they are important to me. I guess my site will remain down and all my email will bounce until I make other arrangements.
But I'm bummed at losing the static IP.
So am I.
And myname@Home sounded better than myname@ATTBI. I just hope that I'm not forced to switch to AOL or MSN
I think this would be unlikely since AT&T Worldnet is a direct competitor of those 2 companies. What I worry about is AT&T's network not being able to keep up with the strain of 850,000 additional users.
long as there is a signal carrying music to a speaker there is a signal to copy..
Not when they send the signal down the line encrypted. The speaker has an onboard processor that decrypts the stream. The RIAA has been kicking around this idea for quite some time. It would be hard for them to implement, since it would involve eventually replacing every speaker in existance, but the big music consortiums are starting to realize how outdated they are and they are starting to panic. I think they will try something like this eventually (maybe not until they see their deaths looming large). If they do manage to implement encrypted speaker feeds, you could still put a mike in front of the speaker and capture the audio but it would be a much more severe loss of quality.
It turns out most planets are Jovian, no solid ground means no life (intelligent anyway).
No solid ground DOES NOT mean there can't be life. But there are most likely earth-sized planets out there as well, which certainly would give a better chance of life as we know it. The reason they have only found large planets is because large planets are much easier to find. It's like looking for something in a carpet. It is much easier to find a bowling ball than it is to find a BB.
Also they've found out that life bearing planets can only thrive within a certain, and very small, strip of the galaxy
I don't know the "they" to which you refer, could you provide a reference for such an astounding assertation? The galaxy is a huge place, and there are a myriad of other galaxies around us. Even if your claim were true, there would be plenty of room in the Universe for other life to develop.
We have looked to GKG.NET, and they seem reasonable. I would like to explore their affiliate/partner programs more.
FWIW, my company is an affiliate of GKG and I would recommend them. The API to interface with their systems is in perl, so it is easy to customize to your own needs. Right now I have a domain transfer pending with them (NSI to GKG). This is how the procedure has gone so far:
1. I requested the domain be transferred at GKG's Site.
2. GKG sent a confirmation message to the email account listed as the contact on the domain. This comfirmation consisted of following a link and pasting in a key.
3. NSI sent me a confirmation as well. Their method involves replying to the mail and pasting a key into the subject line.
I started the transfer monday morning and did both confirmations monday afternoon. I haven't heard back from either registrar yet, but I am keeping my fingers crossed. I have been trying to change my DNS servers with NSI for over a year and have been unable to do so. I have chatted and spoken with their support many times, and still have been unable to resolve the issue. My domain expires December 6th, I just hope I can get it transferred before then so it doesn't go into "limbo".
Can anyone tell me how having my passphrase obtained via keylogging will allow the FBI to unencrypt my private messages? Unless I'm much mistaken, you need my (well ok, the message receivers) private key in order to do that. I have never actually *typed* a private key, it is generated by gpg.
They plan to get your private keys when they arrest you. Your private key is on your machine, encrypted with conventional (symmetric) encryption. This encryption is keyed on a passphrase, the one that you entered when you generated your gpg key pair. Once the FBI has decrypted your private key, they can do anyhting they like with it. They can decrypt messages destined for you, and they can sign messages to make them appear to be from you. The only thing that protects your private key(other than your system security) is the passphrase to the symmetric encryption.
In the Scarfo Case the FBI got a warrant to break into the home of the accused and install a keylogger on his machine. This gave the FBI the passphrase to the encryption around his private key. And they also had the encrypted key itself (as well as all the encrypted files) from the seizure of his computer upon his arrest. They decrypted the private key with the passphrase they captured, then decrypted all the messages with the freshly decrypted private key.
write it so it disables the zone alarm notify process. Now zona alarm simply will be "INFECTED" with the virus itself and shut down
This might work for some, but for many people the firewall that is protecting them is not running on their machine, it is running on a gateway machine. Perimeter firewalls are very common in business and also quite common for the home network. I watch my firewall logs and would certainly notice an outbound connect attempt on an unfamiliar port. Now, they certainly could connect through an already open port, masquerading as a email, http request or(ideally) a connection to port 443 on the remote server. If they used port 443, they could encrypt the stream and even if you were watching every packet go by nothing would look out of the ordinary. The outbound connection would look just like a normal HTTPS transaction, and additionaly be protected from prying eyes (yours and any networks it must transit before it reaches its destination). Hopefully someone will "catch" one of these in the wild, and we will be able to dissect it. I would wager it has some very interesting methods of sending the information and keeping hidden.
Or maybe Linux needs to split into three branches: "flimsy" for experimentation and VM wars, "unstable" for up-to-date hardware support but no new features, and "stable" which only gets bug and security fixes.
We already have the "stable" branch, it's version number is 2.2.x.
He chose some pretty bad examples of bad error handling
In addition, most of the examples he gave were not programs crashing. I think the problem is open-source software generally is more verbose in error checking. Proprietary software generally gives you NO ERROR MESSAGES, it just crashes indiscriminately. At least OSS programs give me an explanation of what might have happened, and often directions on how to fix the problem. Windows, for example, has given me error messages like: "An unknown error has occured in <unknown application>. The program will be terminated." I never get error messages like this in Linux. The error messages being verbose doesn't mean it is bad software, it means it is good software.
I'm glad that here in the UK when government Ministers start lying we start throwing them in jail
actually funny to watch our current government try to do "spin" like the Americans and fail miserably
Isn't this the country that passed the RIP act with almost no opposition? Sounds like you are being "spun" and don't even realize it.
As a paid individual, you are basically forking over your person to a company or agency.
This simply is not true, although the Corporations would like you to believe this. The content of your comment is true (the Constitution does not protect you from your employer) but your reasoning is flawed. The Constitution (and the Bill of Rights) exist to protect us from the Government, not from each other. The Government is given the task of protecting us from each other, in the form of legislative and judicial powers.
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That "$Save Now" is actually another application. It is not replacing popups, it is generating its own popups. It can be uninstalled. I don't know what application it was installed with but it is very annoying, and takes significant system resources.
1. a. The condition of being free from restriction or control.
2. Freedom from unjust or undue governmental control.
It would seem liberty would include all civil liberties. Putting restrictions on strong crypto, incercepting my communications(without a warrant as provided by the fourth amendment) and allowing "Sneak and Peek Searches" are all examples of undue governmental control over citizens.
You could always try running the upgrade from a RedHat 7.1 disk. It has worked well for me in upgrading 6.2 boxes. It is also a hell of a lot easier than upgrading all the individual packages. IIRC RH 7.1 ships with the 2.4.2 kernel, an upgrade ro 2.4.x from that is a snap. Of the boxes I've upgraded, some have new, custom kernels and some are still running the stock RH kernel, which seems pretty solid. I did do an upgrade on one of the systems manually (not quite manually, lotta RPMs involved, some compiling) and it took at least 5 times as long as simply running the upgrade from a current CD.
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Wouldn't that then be the "Latest Version" which the parent said should never be used on mission critical servers?
So I should leave my exploitable wu-ftp server up and running, because I don't want a fix that is new? How about openssh? The fixed release of that is pretty new. Should I still be running my Bind 8 server? How do I tell when it is old enough that I can fix the bugs?
I have never done that upgrade, however, I have done several 6.x to 7.x upgrades that went flawlessly. The last one I did was a 6.1 to 7.2. This was not a base install machine, it has many compiled packages and hacks as well. None of my config files were overwritten, I didn't run into any dependancy problems, it just worked as it was supposed to. I have 1 machine that runs Debian (actually, it's a root-nfs xterm) and I have had nothing but problems with the apt-get system on it. It failed installing packages a number of times. I would apt-get the package and tar (or gzip) would be unable to decompress it. Or the install script would fail. Or the dependancies wouldn't be met. It took many tries (and some good old fashioned tar.gz compiling) before I could get the system to the state in which I wanted it.
I realize these are just my experiences, but I have found RPMs to be much more reliable and easier to work with than debs. The one feature I wish RPMs had is automatically retrieving the packages to satisfy dependencies. RedHat's up2date is OK in this regard, but I have had some problems with earlier versions of it. I would like to see package retrieval built into RPM itself, not as a separate application. Other than that, I have been very satisfied with RPM.
We have plenty of colonies in the antarctic, here is a map of most of them.
If we can find plants that can survive in the Martian atmosphere then we may be able to make Mars livable for humans. The plants would produce oxygen for us humans to breathe. I don't know how much time it would take (that would depend on the photosynthisis rate of the plants) but eventually they should produce enough oxygen to make Mars habitable. Now we just need to lobby NASA to increase the frequency of missions. Terraforming takes a long time, the sooner we start the sooner the planet will be habitable.
Yeah, the article posted with the story had the case of Ticketmaster vs. Tickets.com where the judge ruled it was legal for Tickets.com to deep link to Ticketmaster. CmdrTaco mentions this in the story, not only did you not read the article linked, you didn't even read the /. story before posting your reaction? How did you know what the story was about, did you just read the headline?
Here is a story about the "Dumb Motherfucker" link on Google.
I'm not running a MP3/porn/webserver, I am hosting the page for a small, local band. I also host ~10 mail accounts for the band. These amount to a very small amount of bandwidth. I realize that it is the illicit servers that are causing AT&T to make these restrictions, but I would much rather they filter by how much bandwidth you use, not by what services you happen to have running. Blocking port 80 will not stop warez sites. They have no qualms with running their server on port 8080 or 1337 since the URL is usually published manually to usenet or sent in an email. The band website I host, however, is often found by domain name guessing based on the name of the band, or is given to the user orally. It is much easier for me to say "we're at <band name>.com" than it is for me to sat "we're at <band name>.com, port 7666. Most of the fans are not technically inclined and most likely would not know what a port is, not to mention know how to use it in a URL. I'm not looking for sympathy, I am simply venting my frustration at being charged the same price for a reduced level of service.
The text you supplied is the EXACT same text that is in the @Home subscriber agreement. The only difference is I hear AT&T will block certain ports that @Home did not. The examples I have heard so far are 25, 80 and 21. This will really put a damper on my mail and web server, they are not commercial but they are important to me. I guess my site will remain down and all my email will bounce until I make other arrangements.
But I'm bummed at losing the static IP.
So am I.
And myname@Home sounded better than myname@ATTBI. I just hope that I'm not forced to switch to AOL or MSN
I think this would be unlikely since AT&T Worldnet is a direct competitor of those 2 companies. What I worry about is AT&T's network not being able to keep up with the strain of 850,000 additional users.
Not when they send the signal down the line encrypted. The speaker has an onboard processor that decrypts the stream. The RIAA has been kicking around this idea for quite some time. It would be hard for them to implement, since it would involve eventually replacing every speaker in existance, but the big music consortiums are starting to realize how outdated they are and they are starting to panic. I think they will try something like this eventually (maybe not until they see their deaths looming large). If they do manage to implement encrypted speaker feeds, you could still put a mike in front of the speaker and capture the audio but it would be a much more severe loss of quality.
What's an intelligent statment? Does it have something to do with statistics?
No solid ground DOES NOT mean there can't be life. But there are most likely earth-sized planets out there as well, which certainly would give a better chance of life as we know it. The reason they have only found large planets is because large planets are much easier to find. It's like looking for something in a carpet. It is much easier to find a bowling ball than it is to find a BB.
Also they've found out that life bearing planets can only thrive within a certain, and very small, strip of the galaxy
I don't know the "they" to which you refer, could you provide a reference for such an astounding assertation? The galaxy is a huge place, and there are a myriad of other galaxies around us. Even if your claim were true, there would be plenty of room in the Universe for other life to develop.
Why even ask the /. crowd this question? Is there any doubt in anyone's mind on how it will be answered?
I'm sure one can paint the cars that way that they are nearly invisible, some flat LCD which changes it color from blue to white
<sarcasm>Oh, that's a good idea! What we need is 200 million stealth cars flying around.</sarcasm>
FWIW, my company is an affiliate of GKG and I would recommend them. The API to interface with their systems is in perl, so it is easy to customize to your own needs. Right now I have a domain transfer pending with them (NSI to GKG). This is how the procedure has gone so far:
1. I requested the domain be transferred at GKG's Site.
2. GKG sent a confirmation message to the email account listed as the contact on the domain. This comfirmation consisted of following a link and pasting in a key.
3. NSI sent me a confirmation as well. Their method involves replying to the mail and pasting a key into the subject line.
I started the transfer monday morning and did both confirmations monday afternoon. I haven't heard back from either registrar yet, but I am keeping my fingers crossed. I have been trying to change my DNS servers with NSI for over a year and have been unable to do so. I have chatted and spoken with their support many times, and still have been unable to resolve the issue. My domain expires December 6th, I just hope I can get it transferred before then so it doesn't go into "limbo".
They plan to get your private keys when they arrest you. Your private key is on your machine, encrypted with conventional (symmetric) encryption. This encryption is keyed on a passphrase, the one that you entered when you generated your gpg key pair. Once the FBI has decrypted your private key, they can do anyhting they like with it. They can decrypt messages destined for you, and they can sign messages to make them appear to be from you. The only thing that protects your private key(other than your system security) is the passphrase to the symmetric encryption.
In the Scarfo Case the FBI got a warrant to break into the home of the accused and install a keylogger on his machine. This gave the FBI the passphrase to the encryption around his private key. And they also had the encrypted key itself (as well as all the encrypted files) from the seizure of his computer upon his arrest. They decrypted the private key with the passphrase they captured, then decrypted all the messages with the freshly decrypted private key.
Now zona alarm simply will be "INFECTED" with the virus itself and shut down
This might work for some, but for many people the firewall that is protecting them is not running on their machine, it is running on a gateway machine. Perimeter firewalls are very common in business and also quite common for the home network. I watch my firewall logs and would certainly notice an outbound connect attempt on an unfamiliar port. Now, they certainly could connect through an already open port, masquerading as a email, http request or(ideally) a connection to port 443 on the remote server. If they used port 443, they could encrypt the stream and even if you were watching every packet go by nothing would look out of the ordinary. The outbound connection would look just like a normal HTTPS transaction, and additionaly be protected from prying eyes (yours and any networks it must transit before it reaches its destination). Hopefully someone will "catch" one of these in the wild, and we will be able to dissect it. I would wager it has some very interesting methods of sending the information and keeping hidden.
It is patriotic to spend money. We all need to buy foolish things now to "keep the economy going". Ending is better than mending
We already have the "stable" branch, it's version number is 2.2.x.
In addition, most of the examples he gave were not programs crashing. I think the problem is open-source software generally is more verbose in error checking. Proprietary software generally gives you NO ERROR MESSAGES, it just crashes indiscriminately. At least OSS programs give me an explanation of what might have happened, and often directions on how to fix the problem. Windows, for example, has given me error messages like: "An unknown error has occured in <unknown application>. The program will be terminated." I never get error messages like this in Linux. The error messages being verbose doesn't mean it is bad software, it means it is good software.
actually funny to watch our current government try to do "spin" like the Americans and fail miserably
Isn't this the country that passed the RIP act with almost no opposition? Sounds like you are being "spun" and don't even realize it.
This simply is not true, although the Corporations would like you to believe this. The content of your comment is true (the Constitution does not protect you from your employer) but your reasoning is flawed. The Constitution (and the Bill of Rights) exist to protect us from the Government, not from each other. The Government is given the task of protecting us from each other, in the form of legislative and judicial powers.
That "$Save Now" is actually another application. It is not replacing popups, it is generating its own popups. It can be uninstalled. I don't know what application it was installed with but it is very annoying, and takes significant system resources.
n. pl. liberties
1. a. The condition of being free from restriction or control.
2. Freedom from unjust or undue governmental control.
It would seem liberty would include all civil liberties. Putting restrictions on strong crypto, incercepting my communications(without a warrant as provided by the fourth amendment) and allowing "Sneak and Peek Searches" are all examples of undue governmental control over citizens.
You could always try running the upgrade from a RedHat 7.1 disk. It has worked well for me in upgrading 6.2 boxes. It is also a hell of a lot easier than upgrading all the individual packages. IIRC RH 7.1 ships with the 2.4.2 kernel, an upgrade ro 2.4.x from that is a snap. Of the boxes I've upgraded, some have new, custom kernels and some are still running the stock RH kernel, which seems pretty solid. I did do an upgrade on one of the systems manually (not quite manually, lotta RPMs involved, some compiling) and it took at least 5 times as long as simply running the upgrade from a current CD.