If I was to start up an audio stream or internet radio station using only non-riaa music that was freely downloadable (IUMA) etc, and making sure that all music used either came with a free license (gnu/bsd style) to use as I liked or explicitally granted permission by the artists and copyright holders of the music to be able to stream it.
Check out PARAGON Hard Disk Manager The full suite includes: A bootloader Partition manager (ala partition magic) Drive Back (ghost like util that handles ext2/3) and a bunch of other tools for around $59.00
Even better you can get an unlimited technicial license for around $500 to use the utils on as many machines you like. (Install the programs on one machine and create your dos based bootable program diskettes).
I've been using it for a couple months now and overall much happier with this than the last few iterations of ghost.
> You "love" OpenBSD? whats the matter with you. its inanimate. i like FreeBSD, but dont love it. Thats a sign of zealotry right off.
Okay maybe I shouldn't have said love, but I do enjoy it quite alot as an OS, along with various distributions of Linux, AIX and other unices. a zealot I'm definetly not.
What about OpenBSD sucks compared to FreeBSD? Personally, the last time I tried FBSD overall I liked it, but got very ticked at it when I wasn't able to get my simple SB16 soundcard to work correctly in it. Even with the awesome FBSD Handbook, which I consider one of the best OS docs I've read.
On the other hand OpenBSD just detects my hardware and it works. simple as that, if it's supported it works. no need for messing with modules or configuration settings, (unless your configuring your nic or X), just use the device and forget about it.
> Linux is a bear that needs a trainer, its been pissing and shitting where ever. I disagree that Gentoo is better than FreeBSD, would you bet your production on it? Where is Gentoo -CURRENT, -STABLE?
Funny I dont recall saying Gentoo was better than FBSD or any other OS. I did say they have made some improvments to the ports system and I'll stick by that. Face it the ports systems uses by any of the BSD's has been stagnent for some time, not to say that's bad in of itself, but why ignore improvments when they do come along?
Also as to your question: 1.2 is stable, 1.4rc1 is devel pretty simple actually, and yes I have moved all my companies production linux servers over to Gentoo (the others run OpenBSD). And so far, like FBSD it just works.
Where are you getting all this zealotry stuff? Personally I see it in all the distro's and/or OS's. You name it, Windows, Solaris, AIX vs HP-UX, linux vs the BSD's, BSD's vs the BSD's. Just because a vocal minority tend to go overboard doesn't really mean anything as far as the quality of the OS.
Personally I dont agree with your assessment of the the linux industry being prisoner to anyone let alone Linus. Linus controls the kernel, that's it. If the industry doesn't like what he does, they are more than welcome to 1. elect someone else to direct kernel development 2. Fork the kernel and go play in their own field 3. Replace it with somthing else entirely (see HURD).
As far as Theo, well OBSD is his project, it follows his goals and what he wants out of it. Granted it's easy for people to find him arrogant or worse, but they are more than welcome to basically follow the same choices as stated above (see projects like EMBSD, MicroBSD) or use somthing else entirely.
Right now Theo's goals and direction of OpenBSD follow along with what I want out of an OS. A stable codebase that is as simple and clean as possible with security as one of the number 1 goals of the project. It's not perfect, and no one I know says it is. It works for those of us who use it and we are happy with it.
That doesn't mean I dont think it can hurt to improve certain areas like the ports tree which was the whole point of my original post.
>>The only thing I would ever ask of them is to take some of the lessons learned from the Gentoo Portage System.
>Such as?
Integrating the entire OS with the ports tree, not just 3rd party applications. This would allow easy upgrading of the system to keep up with security patches etc (i.e. emerge -u world)
aliases or commands to access the ports tree from anywhere. Instead of having to cd/usr/ports/somedirectory/someapp; make install you could instead emerge someapp and be done with it.
portage has improved alot on the database tracking installed software and the ability to find software in the portage tree, all from the one command.
I love OpenBSD and it's ports tree, but that doesn't mean there isn't any room for improvment and/or new features. Gentoo looked at the *BSD ports systems and said "how can we make this even better" and came up with some pretty good ideas imho anyways.
Nothing wrong with the *BSD's finding ideas they like that Gentoo has improved on and then incorporating them back into their own trees.
How about Fulan Gong practitioners being able to post or read information about their religion in a country that bans and outlaws it?
How about women in the middle east being able to safely find information about women's rights in other countries, and possibly even using such a network as medium for creating political change in their own countries?
How about cuban, south african, (name your favorite country here) being able to safely speak out against atrocities performed by their own governments or provide proof of such acts without fear of retaliation?
How about americans being able to express their disagreement with current "anti-terrorist" laws or actions of the Bush administration without fear of ending up on some FBI list as a potential terrorist or disadent?
If he had talked to a Southwest Airlines represenitive, there should have been no reason he couldn't have gotten the web based price over the phone.
I do this all the time with Barnes & Noble where web prices are generally cheaper than in store prices. I'll find a book I'm interested in and take a print out of the webpage into the store with me (since it's only a couple blocks from where I work) and see if it's stock.
If not I have them order and ship it to my house where they give me the web price along with any other discounts that might be added to it.
Any sales rep or clerk who works for NW Airlines or any other company that refused to give a disabled person an advertised discounted price when they've stated they were unable to view or read the website should be fired on the spot. On the other hand it's up to the disabled person to state that they were unable to procure the tickets over the web because of their disability and would like to do so over the phone instead.
Kurt Seified has some good information on installing certs in I.E. Whats really cool is it lets you easily install certs for other apps like imaps/Outlook etc.
Network mounting the drive read-only, only makes it read only on the "webserver" that is mounting the drive.
The host server will still have full read/write access to that drive or directories that it's sharing. in this way it will functionally work exactly the same way as the two headed drive, without the need to buy extra specialized hardware.
For everyone complaining about what he is doing and how he's being unfair in making his email unreadable by Outlook Express users, lets put this into a little perspective. "All" he is doing is writing email that would go similiar to this:
For today's meeting let us
begin to address the the standard... etc etc
This is an Outlook Express "bug" that is making the email unreadable if a sentance starts with the word begin (or at least the rest of the message after that word).
I would think that instead of being outraged or ticked off that someone would have the audacity to write an email unreadable by Outlook Express, that you should instead be directing your anger at M$ for having such an obvious flaw in their email client and instead of fixing it, just deny it exists and then even go so far as to remove the "view source" button which gave people the ability to read the message anyways.
If M$ fixed their obvious bug, then this would be completly a non-issue. As far as Monkeymasters mailing list, well it's his list, and his server he fully has the right to allow whatever clients connect to it he chooses.
>>Ricochet is not a good replacement for Cable, DSL, etc. >>Ricochet IS NOT fixed wireless and it does not work well if >>you remain stationary.
While I'll agree that it might not be a good 'replacment' for DSL or Cable I used Ricochet 128K on my stationary home OpenBSD nat/firewall for about a year with great results.
Since the phone lines in my apartment complex failed the dsl qualification tests and the complex was locked into a contract with some small time cable provider that didn't offer cable internet, Ricochet was my only choice for somthing that even resembled broadband.
Hooking the modem up via USB I consitantly had 200K+ download, access was overall reliable and served as the internet connection for my home network of 5-7 computers and servers.
Occasionally I'd even take it to work with me and hook it up to my laptop there, again sitting stationary on my desk, with no problems.
Other than the occasional drop off during bad weather for short periods of time I seemed to have higher uptimes than most of my friends on cable and dsl services.
Sorry but so called "passive OPT-IN" does not equal Opt-IN. By making their opt-in boxes checked by default they are relying on people not taking the time to read the entire web page when signing up for a service or just overlooking the check boxes all together.
If I signed up for a webmail services and happend to miss a checkbox that automatically signed me up for a daily rush of unwanted mail to my account, does NOT mean that I either asked to be on it, or even wanted to be on it in the first place.
Also remember that people subscribing to and using services like MAPS, are simply deciding what type or who they will accept email from onto their own "private" servers. Even alot of TOS's of isp's will state that not only do they not allow sending spam from their servers, they don't have to accept it on their servers either. If a customer doesnt like it they are more than able to use another mail service, whether thats web based, remote pop3 or just switching to another isp all together.
The last thing I ever want is some government organisation telling me what I'm allowed or not allowed to accept or block on servers that I own and my private property.
Here's a list that I use in my firewall after pinging ad.doubleclick.net, usually the ip address would change after I blocked a specific address waited 5-10min and tried again. Don't know if it's all of them but it's quite a few of them. Also as a fall back I just had doublick.net to my local hosts file and point it to 127.0.0.1
# Stop doubleclick information gathering and ads block out quick on tun0 from any to 199.95.207.0/24 block out quick on tun0 from any to 199.95.208.0/24 block out quick on tun0 from any to 204.253.104.0/24 block out quick on tun0 from any to 207.239.35.0/24 block out quick on tun0 from any to 208.32.211.0/24 block out quick on tun0 from any to 208.184.29.0/24 block out quick on tun0 from any to 209.67.38.0/24 block out quick on tun0 from any to 208.211.225.89 block in quick on tun0 from 199.95.207.0/24 to any block in quick on tun0 from 199.95.208.0/24 to any block in quick on tun0 from 204.253.104.0/24 to any block in quick on tun0 from 207.239.35.0/24 to any block in quick on tun0 from 208.32.211.0/24 to any block in quick on tun0 from 208.184.29.0/24 to any block in quick on tun0 from 209.67.38.0/24 to any block in quick on tun0 from 208.211.225.89 to any
Linux Mandrake "6.5" is Macmillans version of mandrake 6.1 but renumbered by Macmillan and other than being based off the Mandrake distro really has nothing to do with Linux Mandrake directly. Also the install interface between Mandrake 6.0/6.1 and 7.0 is completely different with the Drak install routine. I've been running 7.0 beta 5 now for about 4 days and am highly impressed with all the Drak programs for system configuration etc available on the system now.
As far as differences between Mandrake and RH go? well at version 5.2 of both the only difference was that Mandrake included KDE as the default X Window enviornment while at the time RH said they would refuse to use it at all do to the QT license at the time.
6.0 still pretty close in what apps they carry etc though Mandrake throws in a few extra I believe. A big difference here is that RH safely compiles all their apps and kernel for i386 making it compatible with any iX86 machine out their. Mandrake re-compiled all the applications etc for i586 or higher, so while your not going to install it on that left over 486 computer on penitum class machines there will be some speed improvments over standard RH. Another difference again is desktop enviornment RH still concentrates on Gnome + Enlightment and inlcudes KDE as an after fact, while Mandrake bascially reverses that. This lets Gnome people have a preferable distro while letting those people like me who actually like KDE have a distro we can enjoy.
6.1 small improvments by both company's to their own distro's. Note though that at this point Mandrake is no longer just copying and building off of RedHat (in fact they released 6.1 before RH did in this case), but is now concentrating on making their own quality distro in their own right. At this point they've opened up development of the upcoming 7.0 distro to beta tester's and the public allowing the community itself help desinge and build it.
Mandrake 7.0 (beta 5 since that's what I'm actually running until I download the new ISO): While Mandrake still shares base filesystem etc compatibility with RH this just means that rpm's made for each distro are very compatible with each other. 7.0 comes with a whole slew of new tools for installing and managing the computer, the Drakconf and drakxtools packages are by far the easiest things I've seen for changing system settings. Also comes with kernel 2.2.14 and X 3.3.6 so there's some nice improvments their right out of the box.
There's still a couple differences here. AOL only used the buffer overflow exploit as a last resort, after allready trying twice to use normal identification methods to determine what client was connecting and block the appropriate one. It was only after MS started bypassing AOL's security features that they resorted to the buffer overflow.
Two: AOL had and still has a public and open method of talking to their servers using the TIC protocol. This is what MS should have been using in the first place, instead they reverse engineered AOL's Oscar protocol to gain direct access to the centeral servers whereas the TIC servers would be considered a safe firewall by AOL.
As far as Samba goes, yes maybe MS doesn't particularly want Unix clients to be able to talk to their networks but when I implement my own network using my own equiptment and money then I dont care what Server OS's I'm running I want them to be able to communicate. Samba lets me as an end user or system administrator define my network the way I want it. Now if I was to continually try to get my samba client to connect to an internal microsoft server over the internet that had an "obscure" windows share, then I could fully expect a police officer knocking on my door.
What I do with my servers is my business. Trying to "force" a connection with other peoples servers is against the law.
Remember that AOL's main servers (that use Oscar) for their own clients have "never" been public use servers. They were desinged strictly for their own aol client interface. They do have a public use system that interacts with their internal servers that by all right MS, AT&T etc should be freely able to use. In the case of MS at least they didn't use the public system, instead they purposlly bypassed security and other measures to get their own way. As far as I can see while I dont even like AOL I can find no fault or blame with them for protecting their systems.
They're developing an OSS platform independent and decentralized server I.M. platform. With module interfaces to other I.M. systems it will also transparently work with ICQ, AIM etc, all from one client.
Wrong, contrary to what Microsoft tells you (or told the judge at the trial for that matter), it is quite trivial to completely remove I.E. from Win98. See the above post by Ed Davis to find the software to do it.
I used the original Revenge of Mozilla and ran Win98 with I.E. 3.02 instead of 4.
You seemed to miss the point made in the article you replied. Some states have no sales tax, and in the case of new internet taxes where they tax the state the vendor is in, you better believe I'll be making all my purchases from Oregon.
Also taxe's do vary by cities and counties, they add a percentage onto the state tax (at least here in Washington). My home town has a 7.8% sales tax whereas some areas of Seattle can have high as 8.5% or more.
I'm running 6.1 (Cassini) beta, that I upgraded from 6.0 so while I can't quite comment on the final 6.1 version I can say that my upgrade on two different machines went flawlessly.
Upgrading is rather a painless process, boot off the cd or diskette like a normal install and then tell it you want to upgrade instead of install a new version of Mandrake. The install routine will check all the packages you currently have installed can chose those as out of the newer version as the default (along with any new dependency's or libraries required), from that point you can either continue as is or add / remove packages from the upgrade process. Tell it to run and 10-20min later your rebooting into your new system.
post install left 98% of my systems intact, a few changes were a couple new icons on my kde desktops. It replaced my.bashrc in/root but left my/home/"user" directorys alone. Some extra libraries that I had installed were gone (jdk etc), which was okay since I had the wrong version anyways and it never worked, now I finally downloaed and installed the correct version. Left everything in/usr/local alone.
Since I use XIG's Accelerated X I did have uninstall / re-install XFree86 and X a couple times to get everything working the way I wanted it again. Overall after the initial upgrade probably about 1hr of tweaking for each machine to fix the minor changes in my system(s).
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http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-pf&m
It contains a little more of the pf rules than the article does, and has all the relevant information you need except for the nice
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If I was to start up an audio stream or internet radio station using only non-riaa music that was freely downloadable (IUMA) etc, and making sure that all music used either came with a free license (gnu/bsd style) to use as I liked or explicitally granted permission by the artists and copyright holders of the music to be able to stream it.
How would this law effect me?
Check out PARAGON Hard Disk Manager
The full suite includes:
A bootloader
Partition manager (ala partition magic)
Drive Back (ghost like util that handles ext2/3)
and a bunch of other tools for around $59.00
Even better you can get an unlimited technicial license for around $500 to use the utils on as many machines you like. (Install the programs on one machine and create your dos based bootable program diskettes).
I've been using it for a couple months now and overall much happier with this than the last few iterations of ghost.
> You "love" OpenBSD? whats the matter with you. its inanimate. i like FreeBSD, but dont love it. Thats a sign of zealotry right off.
Okay maybe I shouldn't have said love, but I do enjoy it quite alot as an OS, along with various distributions of Linux, AIX and other unices. a zealot I'm definetly not.
What about OpenBSD sucks compared to FreeBSD?
Personally, the last time I tried FBSD overall I liked it, but got very ticked at it when I wasn't able to get my simple SB16 soundcard to work correctly in it. Even with the awesome FBSD Handbook, which I consider one of the best OS docs I've read.
On the other hand OpenBSD just detects my hardware and it works. simple as that, if it's supported it works. no need for messing with modules or configuration settings, (unless your configuring your nic or X), just use the device and forget about it.
> Linux is a bear that needs a trainer, its been pissing and shitting where ever. I disagree that Gentoo is better than FreeBSD, would you bet your production on it? Where is Gentoo -CURRENT, -STABLE?
Funny I dont recall saying Gentoo was better than FBSD or any other OS. I did say they have made some improvments to the ports system and I'll stick by that. Face it the ports systems uses by any of the BSD's has been stagnent for some time, not to say that's bad in of itself, but why ignore improvments when they do come along?
Also as to your question: 1.2 is stable, 1.4rc1 is devel pretty simple actually, and yes I have moved all my companies production linux servers over to Gentoo (the others run OpenBSD). And so far, like FBSD it just works.
Where are you getting all this zealotry stuff? Personally I see it in all the distro's and/or OS's. You name it, Windows, Solaris, AIX vs HP-UX, linux vs the BSD's, BSD's vs the BSD's. Just because a vocal minority tend to go overboard doesn't really mean anything as far as the quality of the OS.
Personally I dont agree with your assessment of the the linux industry being prisoner to anyone let alone Linus. Linus controls the kernel, that's it. If the industry doesn't like what he does, they are more than welcome to 1. elect someone else to direct kernel development 2. Fork the kernel and go play in their own field 3. Replace it with somthing else entirely (see HURD).
As far as Theo, well OBSD is his project, it follows his goals and what he wants out of it. Granted it's easy for people to find him arrogant or worse, but they are more than welcome to basically follow the same choices as stated above (see projects like EMBSD, MicroBSD) or use somthing else entirely.
Right now Theo's goals and direction of OpenBSD follow along with what I want out of an OS. A stable codebase that is as simple and clean as possible with security as one of the number 1 goals of the project. It's not perfect, and no one I know says it is. It works for those of us who use it and we are happy with it.
That doesn't mean I dont think it can hurt to improve certain areas like the ports tree which was the whole point of my original post.
>>The only thing I would ever ask of them is to take some of the lessons learned from the Gentoo Portage System.
/usr/ports/somedirectory/someapp; make install you could instead emerge someapp and be done with it.
>Such as?
Integrating the entire OS with the ports tree, not just 3rd party applications. This would allow easy upgrading of the system to keep up with security patches etc (i.e. emerge -u world)
aliases or commands to access the ports tree from anywhere. Instead of having to cd
portage has improved alot on the database tracking installed software and the ability to find software in the portage tree, all from the one command.
I love OpenBSD and it's ports tree, but that doesn't mean there isn't any room for improvment and/or new features. Gentoo looked at the *BSD ports systems and said "how can we make this even better" and came up with some pretty good ideas imho anyways.
Nothing wrong with the *BSD's finding ideas they like that Gentoo has improved on and then incorporating them back into their own trees.
How about Fulan Gong practitioners being able to post or read information about their religion in a country that bans and outlaws it?
How about women in the middle east being able to safely find information about women's rights in other countries, and possibly even using such a network as medium for creating political change in their own countries?
How about cuban, south african, (name your favorite country here) being able to safely speak out against atrocities performed by their own governments or provide proof of such acts without fear of retaliation?
How about americans being able to express their disagreement with current "anti-terrorist" laws or actions of the Bush administration without fear of ending up on some FBI list as a potential terrorist or disadent?
If he had talked to a Southwest Airlines represenitive, there should have been no reason he couldn't have gotten the web based price over the phone.
I do this all the time with Barnes & Noble where web prices are generally cheaper than in store prices. I'll find a book I'm interested in and take a print out of the webpage into the store with me (since it's only a couple blocks from where I work) and see if it's stock.
If not I have them order and ship it to my house where they give me the web price along with any other discounts that might be added to it.
Any sales rep or clerk who works for NW Airlines or any other company that refused to give a disabled person an advertised discounted price when they've stated they were unable to view or read the website should be fired on the spot. On the other hand it's up to the disabled person to state that they were unable to procure the tickets over the web because of their disability and would like to do so over the phone instead.
Kurt Seified has some good information on installing certs in I.E. Whats really cool is it lets you easily install certs for other apps like imaps/Outlook etc.
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You dont know what he's talking about do you?
Network mounting the drive read-only, only makes it read only on the "webserver" that is mounting the drive.
The host server will still have full read/write access to that drive or directories that it's sharing. in this way it will functionally work exactly the same way as the two headed drive, without the need to buy extra specialized hardware.
For everyone complaining about what he is doing and how he's being unfair in making his email unreadable by Outlook Express users, lets put this into a little perspective. "All" he is doing is writing email that would go similiar to this:
For today's meeting let us
begin to address the the standard... etc etc
This is an Outlook Express "bug" that is making the email unreadable if a sentance starts with the word begin (or at least the rest of the message after that word).
I would think that instead of being outraged or ticked off that someone would have the audacity to write an email unreadable by Outlook Express, that you should instead be directing your anger at M$ for having such an obvious flaw in their email client and instead of fixing it, just deny it exists and then even go so far as to remove the "view source" button which gave people the ability to read the message anyways.
If M$ fixed their obvious bug, then this would be completly a non-issue. As far as Monkeymasters mailing list, well it's his list, and his server he fully has the right to allow whatever clients connect to it he chooses.
>>Ricochet is not a good replacement for Cable, DSL, etc. >>Ricochet IS NOT fixed wireless and it does not work well if >>you remain stationary.
While I'll agree that it might not be a good 'replacment' for DSL or Cable I used Ricochet 128K on my stationary home OpenBSD nat/firewall for about a year with great results.
Since the phone lines in my apartment complex failed the dsl qualification tests and the complex was locked into a contract with some small time cable provider that didn't offer cable internet, Ricochet was my only choice for somthing that even resembled broadband.
Hooking the modem up via USB I consitantly had 200K+ download, access was overall reliable and served as the internet connection for my home network of 5-7 computers and servers.
Occasionally I'd even take it to work with me and hook it up to my laptop there, again sitting stationary on my desk, with no problems.
Other than the occasional drop off during bad weather for short periods of time I seemed to have higher uptimes than most of my friends on cable and dsl services.
Sorry but so called "passive OPT-IN" does not equal Opt-IN. By making their opt-in boxes checked by default they are relying on people not taking the time to read the entire web page when signing up for a service or just overlooking the check boxes all together.
If I signed up for a webmail services and happend to miss a checkbox that automatically signed me up for a daily rush of unwanted mail to my account, does NOT mean that I either asked to be on it, or even wanted to be on it in the first place.
Also remember that people subscribing to and using services like MAPS, are simply deciding what type or who they will accept email from onto their own "private" servers. Even alot of TOS's of isp's will state that not only do they not allow sending spam from their servers, they don't have to accept it on their servers either. If a customer doesnt like it they are more than able to use another mail service, whether thats web based, remote pop3 or just switching to another isp all together.
The last thing I ever want is some government organisation telling me what I'm allowed or not allowed to accept or block on servers that I own and my private property.
Here's a list that I use in my firewall after pinging ad.doubleclick.net, usually the ip address would change after I blocked a specific address waited 5-10min and tried again. Don't know if it's all of them but it's quite a few of them. Also as a fall back I just had doublick.net to my local hosts file and point it to 127.0.0.1
# Stop doubleclick information gathering and ads
block out quick on tun0 from any to 199.95.207.0/24
block out quick on tun0 from any to 199.95.208.0/24
block out quick on tun0 from any to 204.253.104.0/24
block out quick on tun0 from any to 207.239.35.0/24
block out quick on tun0 from any to 208.32.211.0/24
block out quick on tun0 from any to 208.184.29.0/24
block out quick on tun0 from any to 209.67.38.0/24
block out quick on tun0 from any to 208.211.225.89
block in quick on tun0 from 199.95.207.0/24 to any
block in quick on tun0 from 199.95.208.0/24 to any
block in quick on tun0 from 204.253.104.0/24 to any
block in quick on tun0 from 207.239.35.0/24 to any
block in quick on tun0 from 208.32.211.0/24 to any
block in quick on tun0 from 208.184.29.0/24 to any
block in quick on tun0 from 209.67.38.0/24 to any
block in quick on tun0 from 208.211.225.89 to any
>but it does bridge the gap for those in business who [unfortunately] have .doc files from a unix host.
.doc files people send me in my native linux version of StarOffice.
>to be able to read those stoopid
Funny I have no problem at all reading those stoopid
Linux Mandrake "6.5" is Macmillans version of mandrake 6.1 but renumbered by Macmillan and other than being based off the Mandrake distro really has nothing to do with Linux Mandrake directly. Also the install interface between Mandrake 6.0/6.1 and 7.0 is completely different with the Drak install routine. I've been running 7.0 beta 5 now for about 4 days and am highly impressed with all the Drak programs for system configuration etc available on the system now.
As far as differences between Mandrake and RH go? well at version 5.2 of both the only difference was that Mandrake included KDE as the default X Window enviornment while at the time RH said they would refuse to use it at all do to the QT license at the time.
6.0 still pretty close in what apps they carry etc though Mandrake throws in a few extra I believe. A big difference here is that RH safely compiles all their apps and kernel for i386 making it compatible with any iX86 machine out their. Mandrake re-compiled all the applications etc for i586 or higher, so while your not going to install it on that left over 486 computer on penitum class machines there will be some speed improvments over standard RH. Another difference again is desktop enviornment RH still concentrates on Gnome + Enlightment and inlcudes KDE as an after fact, while Mandrake bascially reverses that. This lets Gnome people have a preferable distro while letting those people like me who actually like KDE have a distro we can enjoy.
6.1 small improvments by both company's to their own distro's. Note though that at this point Mandrake is no longer just copying and building off of RedHat (in fact they released 6.1 before RH did in this case), but is now concentrating on making their own quality distro in their own right. At this point they've opened up development of the upcoming 7.0 distro to beta tester's and the public allowing the community itself help desinge and build it.
Mandrake 7.0 (beta 5 since that's what I'm actually running until I download the new ISO):
While Mandrake still shares base filesystem etc compatibility with RH this just means that rpm's made for each distro are very compatible with each other. 7.0 comes with a whole slew of new tools for installing and managing the computer, the Drakconf and drakxtools packages are by far the easiest things I've seen for changing system settings. Also comes with kernel 2.2.14 and X 3.3.6 so there's some nice improvments their right out of the box.
There's still a couple differences here.
AOL only used the buffer overflow exploit as a last resort, after allready trying twice to use normal identification methods to determine what client was connecting and block the appropriate one. It was only after MS started bypassing AOL's security features that they resorted to the buffer overflow.
Two: AOL had and still has a public and open method of talking to their servers using the TIC protocol. This is what MS should have been using in the first place, instead they reverse engineered AOL's Oscar protocol to gain direct access to the centeral servers whereas the TIC servers would be considered a safe firewall by AOL.
As far as Samba goes, yes maybe MS doesn't particularly want Unix clients to be able to talk to their networks but when I implement my own network using my own equiptment and money then I dont care what Server OS's I'm running I want them to be able to communicate. Samba lets me as an end user or system administrator define my network the way I want it. Now if I was to continually try to get my samba client to connect to an internal microsoft server over the internet that had an "obscure" windows share, then I could fully expect a police officer knocking on my door.
What I do with my servers is my business. Trying to "force" a connection with other peoples servers is against the law.
Remember that AOL's main servers (that use Oscar) for their own clients have "never" been public use servers. They were desinged strictly for their own aol client interface. They do have a public use system that interacts with their internal servers that by all right MS, AT&T etc should be freely able to use. In the case of MS at least they didn't use the public system, instead they purposlly bypassed security and other measures to get their own way. As far as I can see while I dont even like AOL I can find no fault or blame with them for protecting their systems.
Yes it's possible http://jabber.org
Check out http://jabber.org
They're developing an OSS platform independent and decentralized server I.M. platform. With module interfaces to other I.M. systems it will also transparently work with ICQ, AIM etc, all from one client.
Wrong, contrary to what Microsoft tells you (or told the judge at the trial for that matter), it is quite trivial to completely remove I.E. from Win98. See the above post by Ed Davis to find the software to do it.
I used the original Revenge of Mozilla and ran Win98 with I.E. 3.02 instead of 4.
About eight months ago, uninstalled just fine and ran Win98 with I.E. 3.02.
I keep all my passwords in my head, so I try to make them as easy to remember as possible but still somewhat secure.
For general everyday logins, websites etc I use a two word scheme bound by a character or number. I.e. perl@Palace Kane*epics pyle&hume etc.
I even wrote up a simple little perl script to generate them for me.
So far the passwords have withstood various tools like lopthcrack etc without being comprimised.
Check out bestcrypt for Linux from www.jetico.com
You seemed to miss the point made in the article you replied. Some states have no sales tax, and in the case of new internet taxes where they tax the state the vendor is in, you better believe I'll be making all my purchases from Oregon.
Also taxe's do vary by cities and counties, they add a percentage onto the state tax (at least here in Washington). My home town has a 7.8% sales tax whereas some areas of Seattle can have high as 8.5% or more.
I'm running 6.1 (Cassini) beta, that I upgraded from 6.0 so while I can't quite comment on the final 6.1 version I can say that my upgrade on two different machines went flawlessly.
.bashrc in /root but left my /home/"user" directorys alone. Some extra libraries that I had installed were gone (jdk etc), which was okay since I had the wrong version anyways and it never worked, now I finally downloaed and installed the correct version. Left everything in /usr/local alone.
Upgrading is rather a painless process, boot off the cd or diskette like a normal install and then tell it you want to upgrade instead of install a new version of Mandrake. The install routine will check all the packages you currently have installed can chose those as out of the newer version as the default (along with any new dependency's or libraries required), from that point you can either continue as is or add / remove packages from the upgrade process. Tell it to run and 10-20min later your rebooting into your new system.
post install left 98% of my systems intact, a few changes were a couple new icons on my kde desktops. It replaced my
Since I use XIG's Accelerated X I did have uninstall / re-install XFree86 and X a couple times to get everything working the way I wanted it again. Overall after the initial upgrade probably about 1hr of tweaking for each machine to fix the minor changes in my system(s).