Talk about notalgia... I vaguely remember an etherserver card on thin ethernet (coax) back in the mid-late '80s - they and bass-ungermann had the ethernet market (aside from Novell that is).
I, too, wondered about 3com but like Apple, they had it and they lost it.
I remember the best times were had with things we could *do*, not just look at static pictures with a voice-over. At the Powerhouse museum in Sydney they had a senses exhibit where you stuck your hand in a box and try to work out what was in it. At another museum we put together a full size 2d dinosaur puzzle that was 2M high.
How about doing something with the OLPC / Sugar? They could hand them out at the entrance and collect them on the way out, why have static stations? You could use them to find stuff at the site, you could 'advertise' demos or lectures.
Have a what-to-do diagnostic key - the kids would enter their age, interests, who they are with, etc and it could return a list of suggested exhibits or whatever with directions.
Or something done entirely on the web - why do you have to physically attend the site?
I've just had a quick look at the standard - the problem here isn't the mechanism of the signature, but the security of the signature itself. Should the computer on which the signature resides be compromised, the attacker can create and sign documents at will. Also as the standard allows for "serial signatures" which means multiple related signatures for serial authorisation/authentication, it also presents the potential of a man-in-the-middle attack. Why should a company actually trust such a system? I can't see this replacing binding contracts between the parties.
True, he could also just run a second browser session with the already authenticated URL. But I agree with the grandparent that the article is wrong - I tried logging in twice using the same token sequence, it consistently fails on the second attempted session.
It is good that Verisign have taken steps in their own baliwick to deal with illegal characters in their certificates, but their practices, including EV Certificates, won't stop other CA's from spoofing anyone's certificate, including Verisign. No holes are filled. This is a system-wide problem that must be fixed at the browser level.
No, it will exude body cleanser or shampoo depending on whether it is in contact with skin or hairy area. Turning into a bar of soap, now that is silly....
My wife and I were discussing this last night in relation to a former member of parliament who was exposed lobbying for a company whose business fell within his responsibilities when he was a minister. He was paid a substantial sum to lobby for that company to the govt he had recently left.
I imagined that when he is confronted by the press, he will say "I did nothing wrong." (as have many others in his position). In terms of Australian law, that might be correct, but that phrase is normally used in a moral sense and that is the meaning that he would want to convey without literally lying.
And of course some individual mosquitoes would develop immunity to the effects of this gene and eventually negate the benefit.
Why not breed mosquitoes that are immune to, or can't be carriers of, the Dengue virus? I don't know the disease cycle, but as it is a virus, there must be some interaction with the mosquito, otherwise other species/genera would be vectors. Speculating more, it is possible that immunity to the virus would be an advantage to the mosquito as well, so once that genetic change made it into the population, it would spread. Otherwise just put the altered mosquitoes out en mass as with these. At least it would be effective in controlling the disease.
Yes this isn't as rare as they hype it - Century plants are called that because of this - is that what you had? Very thick, grey green leaves, spikes all along the edges of the leaf and at the tip. Bamboo also (rarely) flower and die. Well, really that is what annuals do, hence the name.
I'll bite - it has been Microsoft, ECMA and ISO that have made this political, not us armchair critics. DIS29500 is a shit document that doesn't stand scrutiny - why else has MS had to go through all these pathetic gyrations to get it recognised?
I agree, let people get on with their admirable task of development but from an honest need, not the machinations of a company bent on destroying open source software.
A hardware keylogger will only be able to capture my USB stick password
Assuming a) you have access to a USB port and b) the system allows boots off USB, I'm intrigued. You are still using the keyboard after you boot off the USB - why wouldn't it then record anything you type in? The recording can be held in the hardware device.
Banyan was a PC networking company - their server ran a tweaked Unix. It was brilliant. Their streettalk directory service was (and maybe still is) WAY better than Netware's bindery or netbios or whatever. Huge networks (I heard tell the US Army had 30,000 servers on it) on then slow WAN comms. We used to have 8 sites with 256K links (fast for those days). We had one centralised menu system that all sites shared. You could authenticate across a WAN, shared services were simple to use, integrated SNA and other gateways, etc, etc. Way ahead of their time.
They crapped out in the mid nineties - bad marketing or maybe MS or Novell just squeezed them. From memory one of those bought the rump of the company after it had just about died. A real loss.
I lived in Tonga for 2.5 years - they have no concept of privacy whatsoever. It is a communal society and they thought I, the european, was rather strange to want to be alone at all. My wife used to have her students accompany her to the outdoor toilet. It was pretty frustrating trying to get any alone time at all....
Their sense of privacy may extend to the village level, but this is a bit of a stretch. I really don't think the idea arises in that culture.
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The other distros are the undead...
Talk about notalgia... I vaguely remember an etherserver card on thin ethernet (coax) back in the mid-late '80s - they and bass-ungermann had the ethernet market (aside from Novell that is).
I, too, wondered about 3com but like Apple, they had it and they lost it.
I remember the best times were had with things we could *do*, not just look at static pictures with a voice-over. At the Powerhouse museum in Sydney they had a senses exhibit where you stuck your hand in a box and try to work out what was in it. At another museum we put together a full size 2d dinosaur puzzle that was 2M high.
How about doing something with the OLPC / Sugar? They could hand them out at the entrance and collect them on the way out, why have static stations? You could use them to find stuff at the site, you could 'advertise' demos or lectures.
Have a what-to-do diagnostic key - the kids would enter their age, interests, who they are with, etc and it could return a list of suggested exhibits or whatever with directions.
Or something done entirely on the web - why do you have to physically attend the site?
Yes, I realised that, but why have that arbitrary limit? The strength of Open Source is much greater than end user apps.
OK, I'll bite.
apache / IIS
gcc
tcp/ip stack, bgp, etc / NETBIOS, SNA, LAT, etc
postfix / Exchange
awstats
squid / whatever the MS proxy is
ntp
snort
nmap
samba / CIFS
Not to mention OSes. I don't know alot of the commercial stuff but those are pretty irrelevant in this environment.
I've just had a quick look at the standard - the problem here isn't the mechanism of the signature, but the security of the signature itself. Should the computer on which the signature resides be compromised, the attacker can create and sign documents at will. Also as the standard allows for "serial signatures" which means multiple related signatures for serial authorisation/authentication, it also presents the potential of a man-in-the-middle attack. Why should a company actually trust such a system? I can't see this replacing binding contracts between the parties.
True, he could also just run a second browser session with the already authenticated URL. But I agree with the grandparent that the article is wrong - I tried logging in twice using the same token sequence, it consistently fails on the second attempted session.
It is good that Verisign have taken steps in their own baliwick to deal with illegal characters in their certificates, but their practices, including EV Certificates, won't stop other CA's from spoofing anyone's certificate, including Verisign. No holes are filled. This is a system-wide problem that must be fixed at the browser level.
"We had to destroy the server to save it."
That's OK, you look. I don't want to damage my eyes.
Well, when I was in High School, my Principal had principles.....
No, it will exude body cleanser or shampoo depending on whether it is in contact with skin or hairy area. Turning into a bar of soap, now that is silly....
My wife and I were discussing this last night in relation to a former member of parliament who was exposed lobbying for a company whose business fell within his responsibilities when he was a minister. He was paid a substantial sum to lobby for that company to the govt he had recently left.
I imagined that when he is confronted by the press, he will say "I did nothing wrong." (as have many others in his position). In terms of Australian law, that might be correct, but that phrase is normally used in a moral sense and that is the meaning that he would want to convey without literally lying.
And of course some individual mosquitoes would develop immunity to the effects of this gene and eventually negate the benefit.
Why not breed mosquitoes that are immune to, or can't be carriers of, the Dengue virus? I don't know the disease cycle, but as it is a virus, there must be some interaction with the mosquito, otherwise other species/genera would be vectors. Speculating more, it is possible that immunity to the virus would be an advantage to the mosquito as well, so once that genetic change made it into the population, it would spread. Otherwise just put the altered mosquitoes out en mass as with these. At least it would be effective in controlling the disease.
"Fool me once, shame on me; fool me twice...."
Shouldn't that sig read:
God is dead -- Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead -- God
Kill them all! -- Zombie Nietzsche
Yes this isn't as rare as they hype it - Century plants are called that because of this - is that what you had? Very thick, grey green leaves, spikes all along the edges of the leaf and at the tip. Bamboo also (rarely) flower and die. Well, really that is what annuals do, hence the name.
I'll bite - it has been Microsoft, ECMA and ISO that have made this political, not us armchair critics. DIS29500 is a shit document that doesn't stand scrutiny - why else has MS had to go through all these pathetic gyrations to get it recognised?
I agree, let people get on with their admirable task of development but from an honest need, not the machinations of a company bent on destroying open source software.
A hardware keylogger will only be able to capture my USB stick password
Assuming a) you have access to a USB port and b) the system allows boots off USB, I'm intrigued. You are still using the keyboard after you boot off the USB - why wouldn't it then record anything you type in? The recording can be held in the hardware device.
Banyan was a PC networking company - their server ran a tweaked Unix. It was brilliant. Their streettalk directory service was (and maybe still is) WAY better than Netware's bindery or netbios or whatever. Huge networks (I heard tell the US Army had 30,000 servers on it) on then slow WAN comms. We used to have 8 sites with 256K links (fast for those days). We had one centralised menu system that all sites shared. You could authenticate across a WAN, shared services were simple to use, integrated SNA and other gateways, etc, etc. Way ahead of their time.
They crapped out in the mid nineties - bad marketing or maybe MS or Novell just squeezed them. From memory one of those bought the rump of the company after it had just about died. A real loss.
I lived in Tonga for 2.5 years - they have no concept of privacy whatsoever. It is a communal society and they thought I, the european, was rather strange to want to be alone at all. My wife used to have her students accompany her to the outdoor toilet. It was pretty frustrating trying to get any alone time at all....
Their sense of privacy may extend to the village level, but this is a bit of a stretch. I really don't think the idea arises in that culture.
Well, luckily my wife doesn't need to be shocking. She's battery powered.
Well, if she is a battery hen, you could just setup a biogas generator.
terminals, terminal servers, multiplexers, terminal printing, cabling, pinouts, handshaking - alot of knowledge there no longer is use (thanks be).
Not to mention coaxial ethernet...
Maybe there should be a site where teachers can rate students....
Do you line up the injection point and angle? What about in the blood stream - how do you target a specific area? Or is just general movement to goal?