It was also the CSIS databases as well, not just teh RCMP. Actually, I think the main concern was over the CSIS database.
according to the various news stories, CSIS did an audit of their systems years ago, and found they were not running said product in question.
-legolas
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not quite... nmap is a port scanner, not port scan detection software. (although, i must say... a machine doesn't really feel setup until i have a copy of it on. =^) i frequently use nmap to see what open ports i have and firewall out or shutdown programs as need be.
for detecting portscans, the first program to come to my mind (and that i have had some experience using) is portsentry. It binds itself to a number of unused but frequently scanned ports (1, 12345, 31337, etc) and you can change the list. you can also set it up to automatically respond (add the person to ipchains or whatnot). care should be used in setting up portsentry, though. i've seen attacks where people make scans with forged ips, and the automatic reponce automatically firewalls out your own ip, your router, your nameserver, you mailserver, etc.
hope this is useful.
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
From now on my programs will be released under a similar license: The software will be completely free, but you will only be allowed to run it on MacOS.
what? free software on a mac? this is a first... almost anything useful i can find for macos is usually shareware/crippleware/etc.
in all seriousness, though, macintosh is a consumer based platform. the most likely reason that there is no free software for it is simply the fact that people who use that platform aren't interested in developing free commercial quality utilities in their spare time for fun (with is more of the case on free *nix based platform.) Therefore, it would almost be futile, at least for the time being, to release onto that platform.
Additionally, a fear many companies have with releasing source is that 'why would anybody pay for the product when the source is avaliable'. I know i would most likely have simular worries. This licence gives the developer a chance to both a) release the source to a community which would most likely go though it, find security problems, improve it, etc., and b) test the open source concept with a smaller group, while not 'risking' their main income (being the windows folks). Having a way to cautiously try open source before releasing everything open, as to assure themselves that it is a Good Thing, may be the key thing many companies need to disclose their code, which really helps us all. This is why i see this licence as a potentially good thing.
-legolas
(ps RMS ate my balls... i love GNU software, and i'm a fan of the GNU licence, which is what i release anything i make under it. And which is one of the reasons I run Linux instead of Windows. However, not everybody in the world is so 'enlightened';^)
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
This is an interesting sounding licence. It works such that the program and it's source is free as beer for operating systems that the main system componets and their source can be freely downloaded (linux/*bsd/freedos/etc.), and not free for commercial OSs (irix, aix, windows, etc.), which also includes emulation of a free system on a not free platform.
this approach has an interesting motivation - this way, they can experiment with open source on the more 'hackerish' OSs, while still maintaining their commercial customer base on the commercial systems.
This licence seems to be borrowing various parts from the GNU licence and the FSF licence. I think this is somewhat a good thing, because it gives us who like to tinker with the code a chance to get at it (and for free!) while not risking the majority of their income (from serious commercial vendors). Perhaps we may see this approach to opensource used more in the near future. and it may encourage more and more companies to release their source, which is kinda cool, i think. also, it could be a starting step for companies to start releasing source, between not-at-all and full-disclosure.
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
actually, i decided to send it into Apple for some warranty work when the power cable actually snapped from the tension.;^) I was fairly impressed... i live in the righthand corner of Canada, but still i had a FedEx box the next day, and the laptop was back from Texas, fixed, within a week.
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
interesting... i have an Apple iBook, and a number of us at work (me included) also had problems with a broken ac port - for some reason, possibly after a light fall, the ac port would not function unless there was downward tension on the cable.
these iBooks are a mixed blessing, to say the least. They are quite fast, and run Linux nicely, but we've had a variety of hardware problems on them - my keyboard's shift, control, alt, and apple keys are being really flakey at the moment - and some of them have random type errors that only happen from time to time, and indicate flakey hardware (i had a kernel panic on bootup once for no apperent reason at all).
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
i would be fairly sure that, like today, the majority of movies/music/tv/etc. was poor quality crap, and we only remember the good stuff, and think back about how much better things were then. I've rented movies from the late 80s and early 90s - the original copies with the original previews. i am always amazed at how few of the movies in the previews i remember. even, say, the movies from 6 months or a year ago... i can only remember the really good/popular ones. People are going to remember Forrest Gump because it was an amazingly unique and profound movie. The Brady Bunch movie, a rehash of an old gendre, is going to be forgotten forever (don't ask me where that example came from).
Also, for some truly new music, i recommend really good techno and other electronic music (drums&bass, big beat - ala fatboy slim, etc). The gendre is constantly evolving, and i've heard some of the most amazingly unique things in my techno music collection.
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
My solution to rewiring our entire house for ethernet was the cold air return ducts for our heating system. This is how i got the phoneline (for dsl) up to my bedroom (with the dmz/firewall/my personal box) and the cat5 down to lower levels of our house. From my bedroom to the duct down the hall, we just routed the cable under the carpet along the wall. It seems to be working really great... and there is something satisfying about seeing a massive bundle of network cables coming out from under the carpet into my room. =^)
(yeah, much frustration and blood was spent routing the wires, drilling holes in floor joists, etc., but it was definately worth it in the end. Also, my dad added a computer in his office a few weeks ago, and stringing another piece of cat5 was no problem at all.)
-legolas
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hopefully the airspace between the ground laser and the space station will classified as restricted. i'd hate to be flying my little cessna over it when the space station needs some help.;^)
of course, that would be an interesting addition to the next version of ms flight sim...
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
Alternatively, what is stopping them from writing a new MSLinux kernel from scratch using no GPL code at all? I mean, if people can make Wine to emulate the windows code, i can't see why this isn't possible. Having the source code freely avaliable will make this reverse compiling quite a bit easier, and they could rebuilt it to have native Windows/dos/etc support. Or add compatibility layers, much like what Apple did with MacOS X. Just because it'll run Linux apps, it doesn't have to just be a repackaged version of Slackware with a few ms programs tagged on.
-legolas
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hmph... but 97.4% still means that out of every 100, 3 or so would be not using Netscape or IE. That means out of 1000, 26, and so on and so on...
white it's not the majority, that is certainly a fair number of people.
heh.. sorry. I'm just annoyed when a page is completely unreadable with lynx, because it's usually faster then booting up with Netscape. It's aweful how bad securityfocus is... it even seems to crash any version of Netscape for Linux i use on it (on different systems).
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
heh... and, in a few years, suddenly we'll have pre-emptive multitasking, multiuser cellphones based on some new reincarnation of unix. they're already networked... but now, your cellphone can also be a firewall, mailserver, and host shell accounts.
the scary thing is that i'd buy this. if IBM's labs put linux on a watch, this isn't too far fetched.
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
hehe... i'm quite aware that the large servers kept going with UNIX/VAX/etc. However, once the pc appeared, the average user didn't have to log into the mainframe to wordprocess.
we have an sgi iris file from 1992 at our work. despite it's age, it's a pretty impressive piece of equipment.
My point was simply this - the focus of the average user went from large timesharing systems to the personal computer, and now it's almost as if networked, timesharing systems have come back into vouge. i know, the whole while, there were multiuser computers running networks and databases and whatnot, but now we're even getting that sort of os on our desktop (i forgot to mention winnt as a multiuser os.)
it was just a dumb thought provoking-type comment. don't worry too much about it. =^)
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
how it started with single process, single user computers, built up to multiuser, multitasking networked computers (with cross platform support), then, with the pcs and macs, we went back to single user, single process computers, then multitasking, and now we're back to networked, multiuser (with the recent rise in populatity of Linux/*bsd/etc), cross platform OSs on the computers on our desktops. not to mention using services that reside on other computers.
It's not only clothing that repeats itself. =^)
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
hi,
heh... no, i didn't say that non-sarcastic people were fake. i just indicated they were a better target to say 'sux' then the poor, poor sarcastic cynics.;^)
personally, i find sarcasm a great way to express what i really feel, instead of being fake on the outside. yes, it is easy to be carried away, but people can know that when i say something, i'm not lying to them.
and, also, sarcastic conversation (between many people who enjoy it) can be quite enjoyable. it turns a bland business meeting into exciting free-for-all. i have to pay close attention to make sure i'm not suckered into the sarcasm. good fun.
I would have to argue that sarcasm does *not* suck. I find it an amazing way to communicate with people - it can make for very interesting (vs. bland) conversation, and at the very least, sarcastic people seem to be brutally honest. It can also be very entertaining (although sometimes frustrating) with people who don't understand the concept.
In conclusion,
sarcasm: YAI! fake people: BOO!
Love legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
... there must be some appeal in the rather large-breasted anime women.;^)
that, and it's great entertainment for us anti-pop-culture types too. ummm... and perhaps something in how anime has storylines, while many north american movies/tv shows have none.
just my $0.02.
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
a 486/50 with 16 mb of ram. Running Samba, Netatalk, Sendmail, Apache, acting as a gateway, firewall, etc. etc. etc.
With still enough power to run Wordperfect at a reasonable speed.
It's a shame that as computers get more powerful, the software gets more bloated. My dad bought an eMachine recently, and the amount of crap on it slowing it down is boggling. You'd think people would want to optimize every last cycle in that new machine to make it go as fast as possible. -legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
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according to the various news stories, CSIS did an audit of their systems years ago, and found they were not running said product in question.
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
for detecting portscans, the first program to come to my mind (and that i have had some experience using) is portsentry. It binds itself to a number of unused but frequently scanned ports (1, 12345, 31337, etc) and you can change the list. you can also set it up to automatically respond (add the person to ipchains or whatnot). care should be used in setting up portsentry, though. i've seen attacks where people make scans with forged ips, and the automatic reponce automatically firewalls out your own ip, your router, your nameserver, you mailserver, etc.
hope this is useful.
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
what? free software on a mac? this is a first... almost anything useful i can find for macos is usually shareware/crippleware/etc.
in all seriousness, though, macintosh is a consumer based platform. the most likely reason that there is no free software for it is simply the fact that people who use that platform aren't interested in developing free commercial quality utilities in their spare time for fun (with is more of the case on free *nix based platform.) Therefore, it would almost be futile, at least for the time being, to release onto that platform.
Additionally, a fear many companies have with releasing source is that 'why would anybody pay for the product when the source is avaliable'. I know i would most likely have simular worries. This licence gives the developer a chance to both a) release the source to a community which would most likely go though it, find security problems, improve it, etc., and b) test the open source concept with a smaller group, while not 'risking' their main income (being the windows folks). Having a way to cautiously try open source before releasing everything open, as to assure themselves that it is a Good Thing, may be the key thing many companies need to disclose their code, which really helps us all. This is why i see this licence as a potentially good thing.
-legolas
(ps RMS ate my balls... i love GNU software, and i'm a fan of the GNU licence, which is what i release anything i make under it. And which is one of the reasons I run Linux instead of Windows. However, not everybody in the world is so 'enlightened' ;^)
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
sorry... that's the first thing that came into my mind with the subject of your post. =^)
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
this approach has an interesting motivation - this way, they can experiment with open source on the more 'hackerish' OSs, while still maintaining their commercial customer base on the commercial systems.
This licence seems to be borrowing various parts from the GNU licence and the FSF licence. I think this is somewhat a good thing, because it gives us who like to tinker with the code a chance to get at it (and for free!) while not risking the majority of their income (from serious commercial vendors). Perhaps we may see this approach to opensource used more in the near future. and it may encourage more and more companies to release their source, which is kinda cool, i think. also, it could be a starting step for companies to start releasing source, between not-at-all and full-disclosure.
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
these iBooks are a mixed blessing, to say the least. They are quite fast, and run Linux nicely, but we've had a variety of hardware problems on them - my keyboard's shift, control, alt, and apple keys are being really flakey at the moment - and some of them have random type errors that only happen from time to time, and indicate flakey hardware (i had a kernel panic on bootup once for no apperent reason at all).
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
i would be fairly sure that, like today, the majority of movies/music/tv/etc. was poor quality crap, and we only remember the good stuff, and think back about how much better things were then. I've rented movies from the late 80s and early 90s - the original copies with the original previews. i am always amazed at how few of the movies in the previews i remember. even, say, the movies from 6 months or a year ago... i can only remember the really good/popular ones. People are going to remember Forrest Gump because it was an amazingly unique and profound movie. The Brady Bunch movie, a rehash of an old gendre, is going to be forgotten forever (don't ask me where that example came from).
Also, for some truly new music, i recommend really good techno and other electronic music (drums&bass, big beat - ala fatboy slim, etc). The gendre is constantly evolving, and i've heard some of the most amazingly unique things in my techno music collection.
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
(yeah, much frustration and blood was spent routing the wires, drilling holes in floor joists, etc., but it was definately worth it in the end. Also, my dad added a computer in his office a few weeks ago, and stringing another piece of cat5 was no problem at all.)
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
besides the UNIX and OS/2 stuff, doesn't that describe WinNT/2k/etc.?
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
of course, that would be an interesting addition to the next version of ms flight sim...
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
white it's not the majority, that is certainly a fair number of people.
heh.. sorry. I'm just annoyed when a page is completely unreadable with lynx, because it's usually faster then booting up with Netscape. It's aweful how bad securityfocus is... it even seems to crash any version of Netscape for Linux i use on it (on different systems).
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
the scary thing is that i'd buy this. if IBM's labs put linux on a watch, this isn't too far fetched.
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
we have an sgi iris file from 1992 at our work. despite it's age, it's a pretty impressive piece of equipment.
My point was simply this - the focus of the average user went from large timesharing systems to the personal computer, and now it's almost as if networked, timesharing systems have come back into vouge. i know, the whole while, there were multiuser computers running networks and databases and whatnot, but now we're even getting that sort of os on our desktop (i forgot to mention winnt as a multiuser os.)
it was just a dumb thought provoking-type comment. don't worry too much about it. =^)
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
It's not only clothing that repeats itself. =^)
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
heh... no, i didn't say that non-sarcastic people were fake. i just indicated they were a better target to say 'sux' then the poor, poor sarcastic cynics.
personally, i find sarcasm a great way to express what i really feel, instead of being fake on the outside. yes, it is easy to be carried away, but people can know that when i say something, i'm not lying to them.
and, also, sarcastic conversation (between many people who enjoy it) can be quite enjoyable. it turns a bland business meeting into exciting free-for-all. i have to pay close attention to make sure i'm not suckered into the sarcasm. good fun.
my conclusion (this time): :( :( :)
boring conversation =
fake people's conversation =
exciting, sarcastic conversation =
love legolas
(ps argh... apple must die for the crappy keyboard on this ibook. the shift, ctrl, and apple keys are barely working. must ship it back to tx =^/ )
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
In conclusion,
sarcasm: YAI! fake people: BOO!
Love legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
that, and it's great entertainment for us anti-pop-culture types too. ummm... and perhaps something in how anime has storylines, while many north american movies/tv shows have none.
just my $0.02.
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...
With still enough power to run Wordperfect at a reasonable speed.
It's a shame that as computers get more powerful, the software gets more bloated. My dad bought an eMachine recently, and the amount of crap on it slowing it down is boggling. You'd think people would want to optimize every last cycle in that new machine to make it go as fast as possible.
-legolas
i've looked at love from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow...