Look at the course outline: NTP, BIND, Kerberos, OpenSSH, Sendmail, Postfix, FTP, Apache, CVS, LDAP, PAM, . How is knowing how to configure and secure those apps going to lock you into RedHat. Do you really think admins are too dumb to find the config files when they're in another directory (shudder). I mean, sure, there's going to be some vendor-specific lessons, but a server app is almost identicle across distros, especially since most admins will package up their own preconfigured packages.
Of course it was called Oak back then. I guess I should update my resume to show 13 years Java experience instead of the lackluster 9 I lied about on my current one. Take that all you Java coders trying to find a job!
Personally, I don't care if MS makes virus protection software. More power to 'em. It'll make the other virus protection vendors work harder and we'll get a better product.
What I want is to have Microsoft add a virus protection requirement to their OS. It shouldn't care what software you use, but it shouldn't let you turn on your network adapter without making sure your virus definition are up to date (ok, you can turn on networking but only to download the new defs).
The internet would be a much happier place, and all the virus software makers (MS included) would get a major boost in sales.
I think the next fortune 500 company to be nailed by a DDOS from a MS virus should sue MS to get something like this into the next Windows release.
Actually, in the Wired screenshots you see people arrive from askjeves.com in a bus with the askjeves.comlogo on the top. I would immagine/. would look more like that scene in Troy of the 10,000 boats arriving full of angry soldiers.
Properly shredding data on disk requires writing known values that also set the ECC bits to all possible values. That requires knowledge of the ECC being used on the disk. Many disk scrubbers actually write so many known vlues because they are attempting to catch all of the common ECCs.
You can bet it's the home phone number of the guy who put in the backdoor in the first place. What better way to reward an employee for putting a backdoor in their product?
I already posted this elsewhere in the thread, but it's pertinant here. My password generator takes a printf-like format string and generates passwords for you. It also outputs the strength of the generated password (assuming/dev/random is a perfect random generator, which it ain't). You can compare things like a 12 digit alphanum (71.4504 bits), or a 6 word password from the s-key word list (66 bits). A 20 character password selected from all graphical characters (isgraph(c)) is 131.092 bits. If you like you can download it and play with it.
<sig>Sick of paying to rent DVDs or losing your O'Reilly books to your coworkers? Try office-exchange.com today!</sig>
I wrote this a long time ago and figured now would be a good time to post it on the internet. It uses a uniform random number generator based on/dev/random and generates passwords of arbitrary length based on printf-like format specifier. It also prints the strength of the generated password, assuming that/dev/random is truly random (pffft).
My favorite part is that it can use the short-word list from skey (a OTP system) to generate easy to remember passwords. A format specifier of %6s will spit out something like "at bum his dud fay bid" which is actually 66 bits strong and alot easier to remember (for me) than the equivalent 11 character alphanum string.
<sig>Sick of playing to rent DVDs or losing your O'Reilly books to your coworkers. Try office-exchange.com today!</sig>
We need a group of people to start discussing how cheap Viagra, a larger penis, and low-interest home mortages can be used for terrorism. Blip! Suddenly all the spam vanishes off the internet. I always hoped the NSA could be used for good as well as evil.
.biz was the best thing I've seen for reducing the amount of spam in my inbox. I've filtered thousands of spam and have received zero legitimate emails from.biz addresses. Lets add more stupid TLDs so we can identify spam more easily!
I seriously cannot even begin to trust a company who's lawfirm is MoFo.com. They might as well hire "I can't believe it's a lawfirm". At least then they'll be left with a briefcase full of newspaper shreddings.
It's amazing how by simply licensing WinZip and incorporating it into Windows, it suddenly crashes when zipping to a samba share. Microsoft doesn't even need to write the code to make it crash, they just have the Midas touch.
The rumors site are going wild over this new 1 TB drive. Seems there's been some discussion of a big brother to the iPod, the "iPod MEGA!". Prototypes are about the size of a shoe box and purportedly store over a year of music. The external lead-acid battery weights about 80 pounds and fits snugly next to the iPod MEGA! in the included backpack. Introductory price of about $28,000. Steve Jobs is at it again!
If we're going to be starting another distro war, I think everyone should take a look at these three projects which aim to release a free edition of RedHat Enterprise Linux. Once you've got one of these running, even if these distro go under, you can still get SRPMS security updates from RH and build them yourself through 2008.
Slashdot Mirror
Look at the course outline: NTP, BIND, Kerberos, OpenSSH, Sendmail, Postfix, FTP, Apache, CVS, LDAP, PAM, . How is knowing how to configure and secure those apps going to lock you into RedHat. Do you really think admins are too dumb to find the config files when they're in another directory (shudder). I mean, sure, there's going to be some vendor-specific lessons, but a server app is almost identicle across distros, especially since most admins will package up their own preconfigured packages.
Of course it was called Oak back then. I guess I should update my resume to show 13 years Java experience instead of the lackluster 9 I lied about on my current one. Take that all you Java coders trying to find a job!
Personally, I don't care if MS makes virus protection software. More power to 'em. It'll make the other virus protection vendors work harder and we'll get a better product.
What I want is to have Microsoft add a virus protection requirement to their OS. It shouldn't care what software you use, but it shouldn't let you turn on your network adapter without making sure your virus definition are up to date (ok, you can turn on networking but only to download the new defs).
The internet would be a much happier place, and all the virus software makers (MS included) would get a major boost in sales.
I think the next fortune 500 company to be nailed by a DDOS from a MS virus should sue MS to get something like this into the next Windows release.
Actually, in the Wired screenshots you see people arrive from askjeves.com in a bus with the askjeves.comlogo on the top. I would immagine /. would look more like that scene in Troy of the 10,000 boats arriving full of angry soldiers.
Properly shredding data on disk requires writing known values that also set the ECC bits to all possible values. That requires knowledge of the ECC being used on the disk. Many disk scrubbers actually write so many known vlues because they are attempting to catch all of the common ECCs.
You can bet it's the home phone number of the guy who put in the backdoor in the first place. What better way to reward an employee for putting a backdoor in their product?
Select the url you want to paste, type Ctrl-L to highlight the old URL without putting it in the clipboard, hit delete, then middle click to paste.
I already posted this elsewhere in the thread, but it's pertinant here. My password generator takes a printf-like format string and generates passwords for you. It also outputs the strength of the generated password (assuming /dev/random is a perfect random generator, which it ain't). You can compare things like a 12 digit alphanum (71.4504 bits), or a 6 word password from the s-key word list (66 bits). A 20 character password selected from all graphical characters (isgraph(c)) is 131.092 bits. If you like you can download it and play with it.
<sig>Sick of paying to rent DVDs or losing your O'Reilly books to your coworkers? Try office-exchange.com today!</sig>
I wrote this a long time ago and figured now would be a good time to post it on the internet. It uses a uniform random number generator based on /dev/random and generates passwords of arbitrary length based on printf-like format specifier. It also prints the strength of the generated password, assuming that /dev/random is truly random (pffft).
My favorite part is that it can use the short-word list from skey (a OTP system) to generate easy to remember passwords. A format specifier of %6s will spit out something like "at bum his dud fay bid" which is actually 66 bits strong and alot easier to remember (for me) than the equivalent 11 character alphanum string.
<sig>Sick of playing to rent DVDs or losing your O'Reilly books to your coworkers. Try office-exchange.com today!</sig>
I think they already did.
We need a group of people to start discussing how cheap Viagra, a larger penis, and low-interest home mortages can be used for terrorism. Blip! Suddenly all the spam vanishes off the internet. I always hoped the NSA could be used for good as well as evil.
You're right! You think they need any venture capital?
.biz was the best thing I've seen for reducing the amount of spam in my inbox. I've filtered thousands of spam and have received zero legitimate emails from .biz addresses. Lets add more stupid TLDs so we can identify spam more easily!
>
747 Captain: Commencing laser firing using floating relay mirror. Crap! Did anybody else hear a loud Pop?
I seriously cannot even begin to trust a company who's lawfirm is MoFo.com. They might as well hire "I can't believe it's a lawfirm". At least then they'll be left with a briefcase full of newspaper shreddings.
In case you haven't got enough of them, here's the original rat song, "We like the moon"!
http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/
No!
/. for you.
CowboyNeal says rune2 says a Toronoto newspaper says that Steve Balmer says that Munich is having trouble switching to Linux.
Boy, that's
You know that "Step 2: ???", it usually takes a lot of driving.
It's amazing how by simply licensing WinZip and incorporating it into Windows, it suddenly crashes when zipping to a samba share. Microsoft doesn't even need to write the code to make it crash, they just have the Midas touch.
I think this time they changed the default root password to something better than "root".
Nah, it's a toy laptop with farm animal buttons that makes sounds. "Which one do I use to trade stocks, the pig or the sheep?"
The rumors site are going wild over this new 1 TB drive. Seems there's been some discussion of a big brother to the iPod, the "iPod MEGA!". Prototypes are about the size of a shoe box and purportedly store over a year of music. The external lead-acid battery weights about 80 pounds and fits snugly next to the iPod MEGA! in the included backpack. Introductory price of about $28,000. Steve Jobs is at it again!
Brothers should put that in their ads. "The fax machine that pays for itself."
If we're going to be starting another distro war, I think everyone should take a look at these three projects which aim to release a free edition of RedHat Enterprise Linux. Once you've got one of these running, even if these distro go under, you can still get SRPMS security updates from RH and build them yourself through 2008.
Tao Linux
White Box Linux
cAos
Woah! They made Michael Jackson out of cheese!?
Oh wait, that's just some ad.