Funny, I don't know if it's still there but there was a Network Security Manager job opening at Cal ISO.
I'd have appied myself but the job description was IMHO very pooly written. I got the impression they were looking for a suit that could actually say a handfull of buzzwords but not much else.
Bet they're looking for someone a bit smarted now:).
Oh no, ipf is Darren's software and he can have a licence requiring sending him dead cats (COD of course) for all I care.
But to not talk to Linux Weekly News because "I really don't like Linux"? I fully expect a post from Darren that says, "Get used to disappointment" (which seems to be de Raadt's signature phrase)
I've seen a lot of BS here on this thread about the MAPS lists. Now here's one in (some) defense of MAPS.
One, there are THREE different MAPS lists: the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL), the Relay Spam Stopper (RSS), and the Dialup User List (DUL).
The RSS list has been a life saver for my networks, blocking KNOWN spam relays before they flood my mail servers.
To get on the RSS list you have to submit a real spam email with the relays intact and those relays get added to the RSS. If you complain and can show you've fixed the problem (the open relay) you get taken off - simple as that.
Someome said there was no recource - that's bullshit. I've seen servers land on the RSS and come off in 4 hours - after they were properly (re)configured.
(The other such anti-spam engine, ORBS, simply scans for your open relay and then blocks it - no proof, documentation, prior use or anything - where are the liberatarians yelling at THEM?)
Granted, I would really like to know what the MAPS folks were thinking when they entered the main web server for Macromedia into their RBL. The RBL was *supposed* to be reserved for serious *repeat* offenders... so I tend to think someone either goofed (and goofed big) or seriously needs to be wacked with a stick.
I do NOT however, think MAPS should be damned for the mistake. I think they should re-examine their RBL policies, but still block the servers that relay all that spam to me (aka the RSS).
It's also worth noting that an ISP doesn't need to use the MAPS lists, nor do they have to use ALL of them. Most of the serious whining about this is over the RBL, while the RSS is IMHO a great service.
First of all, I think you are assuming Mac OS X is a "stable" release. Despite what Apple marketing may say, it's not.
So, let's compare Apple's 2-3 week thing to say Debian Woody, or the BSD-current trees, or even a *stable* RedHat?
How about Gnome's updater thingy? Or Sun's patch distribution schedule of every two weeks?
What I'm saing is, this isn't new. The mantra of the Open Source/Linux/Slashdot community has always been "update often" so why is Apple ridiculed for it?
You certainy don't HAVE to update, no one is forcing you to. You just run the updater and if you like what you see, you click the checkbox and then click 'update'.
And since OS X is as shakey as it is... you'll always want to click 'update'.
This isn't all that damaging to Sean...
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>Sheeley is aware that this kind of record could
> have implications for Sean down the line.
Sean's a junior, right? About two months left to go and then he's got his senior year. Would home schooling be that bad for a year?
If Sean is so bright, then he's already taken his preSAT or SATs (heh, or the ASVAB) and is looking at colleges, no?
Are there no teachers at the offending high school that see it from his point of view? Enlist them to write letters of recommendation and get Sean his HS diploma as fast as possible.
After that he can go to college where after the first semester no one cares what HS you came from, or he can go the JC route where the HS background isn't an issue at all.
Sean looks to be close enough to the end of the school process to get out with minimal fuss.
Unfortunatly he'll be left with the memory of this lesson, but there's little you can do about that.
1) You wrote it (my favorite)
2) The vendor (Red Hat, Mandrake et al) released it (and the sig verifies)
3) The developor released it with thier software (think fetchmail)
Even then #3 can be dangerous. Since RPMs install as root you can really kill yourself if you install a fscked up RPM.
Take APC for example. They have no concept of how (Red Hat) Linux does things and the early versions of their RPMs for their PowerChute software showed. It always made me nervious when I installed their stuff.
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No! This doen't work! You can only do one at a time.
You can get along fine in less than 128MB of RAM, I do. The trick? Don't use 'Classic' applications
Well, it's not that easy.
1) the Mail app doesn't seem to support IMAP mail directories (usually set in the 'advanced' section of the prefs) so it doesn't work with my current mail server - so I need Outlook Express.
2) all my images seem to have kept their Picture View 1.1 bindings, and I don't know an easy way of changing the bindings for the several 100 images. Picture viewer FYI is the Quicktime 4 simple picture viewer.
Did you do a clean install
Yup. I'm considering a reformat + install
Open up a Terminal.app window
I did, but the swapping was murder:)
Airport does in general work. If you provided more details...
Apple Airport card, Lucent RG-1000 base station. All up to date. Using WEP. Whats more to give? Everything works except OS X.
But then I have to point out that what Quartz (the lightweight windowing system) is doing here is a whole head-and-sholders above any other windowing system out there.
I had enlightement running faster on a PPro box:(
I understand that firstime OSes are sometimes hard for users to adjust to. I expect the same with OS X.
I understand the speed issues (well except for running out of 128 megs of RAM) I mean the G3 is a bit long in the tooth but what I find troubling is the little things. The trouble with the Mail app, the Airport oddness, the bindings issues. These are little things that add up.
When you start swapping so much in the first 15 minutes of use that basic app launching virtually stops you tend to get a little frustrated.
I still think OS X is a little half-baked, but I will continue to work with it (leaving the default boot to OS 9.1 for my wife) and maybe with another 128 meg stick and some tweaking I'll get it to be marginal, and maybe even useable.
I'm sorry if I sound angry, but I was up until all hours trying to get OS X to work in my iMac DV (400mhz G3, 128 megs RAM).
Mac OS X blows.
I'm a long time MacOS, Unix & Windows user and I've never seen such a mess as OS X.
First off, it's S-L-O-W. I mean, c'mon, the 400mhz G3 is a bit old, but not THAT old.
Second, 128megs of RAM is NOT enough. Kids, don't try this at home unless you've got 256.
Third, I really wanted to like the dock... I don't, it's painful.
MacOS X is NOT Unix. Uhg, I wouldn't recommend this to my Unix friends. Damn, even 'root' is disbled until by reading the Ars artical to figure out how to turn it on - and you WILL need to turn it on.
Why the %#$^$* doesn't my Airport work?!?! - it worked in OS 9.0 and OS 9.1.
This OS is certainly half baked. It's not user friendly (not to Macphiles and not to Unix geeks and oh man, not to non-computer users), it's certainly not intuative, and it's slow as a dog.
But hey, it boots into OS 9.1 so at least it's not a total loss:).
No irony.... he's a Marine, they ARE fanatics pledged to kill you. And they don't (usually) run away....
I wanted to like the design but...
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Well, I liked FM's last redesign but I found this one, well, dorky.
But you know what? I'm not that bent over it. I'm not going to flame anyone over it. I'll probably still occasionally search FM when I need some software info and that'll be that.
I do wish scoop didn't make the pages fixed width though... that's such a PITA
Don't you get it? This isn't about *BSD users being obnoxious, it's about Tucows not knowing what they're doing and getting pissed when people tell them.
Look, most of the links mentioned in the/. post were of a universal rant. Not FreeBSD users complaining about one thing and OpenBSD users complaining about another, but rather Tucows pissing them *all* off universally.
There's this holy Linux attitude in most of the/. posts I've read about this and it's disturbing. What would the/. readers do if Tucows starts writing about how.debs suck because 'apt' is too confusing or how Linux is not secure because it's Open Source or any of the other Linux sacred cow issues? Hell, the/. community alone would tear them up... and guess what, they'd drop their Linux section too.
Now, does it really matter? No, not really. I mean who uses Tucows besides Windows people? But the point is that Tucows screwed up and the/. community seems to be berating the *BSD crowd for it when it could have just as easily been the Linux crowd as well.
My best teacher was a high-school history teacher. He was hard core and didn't take crap from anyone, but he made history *fun*.
He was an ex-Ranger and everything else (we were sure he was also DB Cooper).
If you asked a stupid question, he told you it was stupid -- a trait missed, I think, today.
Unfortunatly he, like many of my high school teachers, simply gave up. They were old and even the best teachers finally burn out. I think every generation finally gives up on "the kids today" which is too bad.
I live in a technically starved area. No DSL, no cable. Currently the best I can do is on-demand ISDN, which is expensive as hell.
One ISP offers wireless in my area. This is great. However, at $1000 install and $200/month for their lowest level of service (256k) I'm probably not going to bite.
They think they are competing with dedicated connections like frames and T1s, not the cable and DSL crowd. The problem as I see it is that anyone whose looking for a fractional/full T1 who would consider wireless would probably opt for a cheaper cable/DSL connection (home users, small business etc.).
Those who would buy a wireless connection at those rates probably wouldn't mind getting the real deal for a little more and not worry about wirelesses pitfalls.
I think these guys will fail if they don't figure that out.
How can a system like Debian throw away all its guidelines to create a generic distribution? I won't give up apt, and I sure don't see RH accepting it. Why should Peter let the uber-stable power user-oriented Slackware head towards the bug infested hail-the-script-kiddies Red Hat?
Besides, I thought Debian was the "uber-stable power user-oriented" one and Slackware was the script kiddie one.:)
Wow, every l33t d00d loves it when some one wants to "play" with Linux and installs a stock Red Hat 6.0 on a box and puts it on their DSL line.
Crack city.
Now Apple is going to give every housewife, PAX family and elementary school a BSD box. Is this a good idea?
Actually, I think is IS a good idea but I think Apple is going to learn some painful lessons in OS security along the way. I'm betting Apple doesn't have the security infrastructure in place (not to mention the support infrastructure) to support a (potentially) full featured Unix based OS.
I mean, look at Sun. Sun has been in the Unix business MUCH longer than Apple and Sun still has problems keeping a head of the Bad Guys. How can Apple ramp up that fast?
OS 9 had two pretty serious DoS holes in it when it first shipped. Yes, these were fixed but how many Mac users knew to patch their systems? Yeah, there's Software Update but I've seen MANY cases where Software Update is never used (and then don't get me started on fooling Software Update).
Why is it that people can still post images of 8-year-olds giving blowjobs but dear God, you post a Metallica MP3 and they call out the National Gurad.
Slashdot Mirror
Funny, I don't know if it's still there but there was a Network Security Manager job opening at Cal ISO.
:).
I'd have appied myself but the job description was IMHO very pooly written. I got the impression they were looking for a suit that could actually say a handfull of buzzwords but not much else.
Bet they're looking for someone a bit smarted now
Oh no, ipf is Darren's software and he can have a licence requiring sending him dead cats (COD of course) for all I care.
But to not talk to Linux Weekly News because "I really don't like Linux"? I fully expect a post from Darren that says, "Get used to disappointment" (which seems to be de Raadt's signature phrase)
Since supposedly ipfilter is somewhat modified under OpenBSD which is against Darren's new licence.
Does any one know what OpenBSD is going to do? (according to some sources there's little love lost between the ipf and OpenBSD camps anyway)
Anyone else notice that Darren Reed and Theo de Raadt have similar personalities.
:).
I can't think of two people better to be to be mad at each other
I've seen a lot of BS here on this thread about the MAPS lists. Now here's one in (some) defense of MAPS.
One, there are THREE different MAPS lists: the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL), the Relay Spam Stopper (RSS), and the Dialup User List (DUL).
The RSS list has been a life saver for my networks, blocking KNOWN spam relays before they flood my mail servers.
To get on the RSS list you have to submit a real spam email with the relays intact and those relays get added to the RSS. If you complain and can show you've fixed the problem (the open relay) you get taken off - simple as that.
Someome said there was no recource - that's bullshit. I've seen servers land on the RSS and come off in 4 hours - after they were properly (re)configured.
(The other such anti-spam engine, ORBS, simply scans for your open relay and then blocks it - no proof, documentation, prior use or anything - where are the liberatarians yelling at THEM?)
Granted, I would really like to know what the MAPS folks were thinking when they entered the main web server for Macromedia into their RBL. The RBL was *supposed* to be reserved for serious *repeat* offenders... so I tend to think someone either goofed (and goofed big) or seriously needs to be wacked with a stick.
I do NOT however, think MAPS should be damned for the mistake. I think they should re-examine their RBL policies, but still block the servers that relay all that spam to me (aka the RSS).
It's also worth noting that an ISP doesn't need to use the MAPS lists, nor do they have to use ALL of them. Most of the serious whining about this is over the RBL, while the RSS is IMHO a great service.
First of all, I think you are assuming Mac OS X is a "stable" release. Despite what Apple marketing may say, it's not.
So, let's compare Apple's 2-3 week thing to say Debian Woody, or the BSD-current trees, or even a *stable* RedHat?
How about Gnome's updater thingy? Or Sun's patch distribution schedule of every two weeks?
What I'm saing is, this isn't new. The mantra of the Open Source/Linux/Slashdot community has always been "update often" so why is Apple ridiculed for it?
You certainy don't HAVE to update, no one is forcing you to. You just run the updater and if you like what you see, you click the checkbox and then click 'update'.
And since OS X is as shakey as it is... you'll always want to click 'update'.
>Sheeley is aware that this kind of record could
> have implications for Sean down the line.
Sean's a junior, right? About two months left to go and then he's got his senior year. Would home schooling be that bad for a year?
If Sean is so bright, then he's already taken his preSAT or SATs (heh, or the ASVAB) and is looking at colleges, no?
Are there no teachers at the offending high school that see it from his point of view? Enlist them to write letters of recommendation and get Sean his HS diploma as fast as possible.
After that he can go to college where after the first semester no one cares what HS you came from, or he can go the JC route where the HS background isn't an issue at all.
Sean looks to be close enough to the end of the school process to get out with minimal fuss.
Unfortunatly he'll be left with the memory of this lesson, but there's little you can do about that.
Duh,
Never install an RPM unless:
1) You wrote it (my favorite)
2) The vendor (Red Hat, Mandrake et al) released it (and the sig verifies)
3) The developor released it with thier software (think fetchmail)
Even then #3 can be dangerous. Since RPMs install as root you can really kill yourself if you install a fscked up RPM.
Take APC for example. They have no concept of how (Red Hat) Linux does things and the early versions of their RPMs for their PowerChute software showed. It always made me nervious when I installed their stuff.
No! This doen't work! You can only do one at a time.
Rackspace may be fine today, I don't know. But it wasn't that long ago that almost all of their servers were vulnerable to Bind NXT attacks.
:)
I sent them email on it and got no response at all.
So basically, because of that I wouldn't be surprised if they really are just as clueless as Communitech, just bigger
Er.. yeah...
You can get along fine in less than 128MB of RAM, I do. The trick? Don't use 'Classic' applications
Well, it's not that easy.
1) the Mail app doesn't seem to support IMAP mail directories (usually set in the 'advanced' section of the prefs) so it doesn't work with my current mail server - so I need Outlook Express.
2) all my images seem to have kept their Picture View 1.1 bindings, and I don't know an easy way of changing the bindings for the several 100 images. Picture viewer FYI is the Quicktime 4 simple picture viewer.
Did you do a clean install
Yup. I'm considering a reformat + install
Open up a Terminal.app window
I did, but the swapping was murder :)
Airport does in general work. If you provided more details...
Apple Airport card, Lucent RG-1000 base station. All up to date. Using WEP. Whats more to give? Everything works except OS X.
But then I have to point out that what Quartz (the lightweight windowing system) is doing here is a whole head-and-sholders above any other windowing system out there.
I had enlightement running faster on a PPro box :(
I understand that firstime OSes are sometimes hard for users to adjust to. I expect the same with OS X.
I understand the speed issues (well except for running out of 128 megs of RAM) I mean the G3 is a bit long in the tooth but what I find troubling is the little things. The trouble with the Mail app, the Airport oddness, the bindings issues. These are little things that add up.
When you start swapping so much in the first 15 minutes of use that basic app launching virtually stops you tend to get a little frustrated.
I still think OS X is a little half-baked, but I will continue to work with it (leaving the default boot to OS 9.1 for my wife) and maybe with another 128 meg stick and some tweaking I'll get it to be marginal, and maybe even useable.
I'm sorry if I sound angry, but I was up until all hours trying to get OS X to work in my iMac DV (400mhz G3, 128 megs RAM).
:).
Mac OS X blows.
I'm a long time MacOS, Unix & Windows user and I've never seen such a mess as OS X.
First off, it's S-L-O-W. I mean, c'mon, the 400mhz G3 is a bit old, but not THAT old.
Second, 128megs of RAM is NOT enough. Kids, don't try this at home unless you've got 256.
Third, I really wanted to like the dock... I don't, it's painful.
MacOS X is NOT Unix. Uhg, I wouldn't recommend this to my Unix friends. Damn, even 'root' is disbled until by reading the Ars artical to figure out how to turn it on - and you WILL need to turn it on.
Why the %#$^$* doesn't my Airport work?!?! - it worked in OS 9.0 and OS 9.1.
This OS is certainly half baked. It's not user friendly (not to Macphiles and not to Unix geeks and oh man, not to non-computer users), it's certainly not intuative, and it's slow as a dog.
But hey, it boots into OS 9.1 so at least it's not a total loss
No irony.... he's a Marine, they ARE fanatics pledged to kill you. And they don't (usually) run away....
Well, I liked FM's last redesign but I found this one, well, dorky.
But you know what? I'm not that bent over it. I'm not going to flame anyone over it. I'll probably still occasionally search FM when I need some software info and that'll be that.
I do wish scoop didn't make the pages fixed width though... that's such a PITA
Yeah, the Courier-IMAP description looks great. I wanted to use it on an OpenBSD setup but it didn't handle folders correctly.
What turned me off was that their FAQ on the topic was no help - just an unintelligible rant on IMAP clients.
So screw 'em - I installed imap-uw-2000 and never had a problem.
Don't you get it? This isn't about *BSD users being obnoxious, it's about Tucows not knowing what they're doing and getting pissed when people tell them.
/. post were of a universal rant. Not FreeBSD users complaining about one thing and OpenBSD users complaining about another, but rather Tucows pissing them *all* off universally.
/. posts I've read about this and it's disturbing. What would the /. readers do if Tucows starts writing about how .debs suck because 'apt' is too confusing or how Linux is not secure because it's Open Source or any of the other Linux sacred cow issues? Hell, the /. community alone would tear them up... and guess what, they'd drop their Linux section too.
/. community seems to be berating the *BSD crowd for it when it could have just as easily been the Linux crowd as well.
Look, most of the links mentioned in the
There's this holy Linux attitude in most of the
Now, does it really matter? No, not really. I mean who uses Tucows besides Windows people? But the point is that Tucows screwed up and the
My best teacher was a high-school history teacher. He was hard core and didn't take crap from anyone, but he made history *fun*.
He was an ex-Ranger and everything else (we were sure he was also DB Cooper).
If you asked a stupid question, he told you it was stupid -- a trait missed, I think, today.
Unfortunatly he, like many of my high school teachers, simply gave up. They were old and even the best teachers finally burn out. I think every generation finally gives up on "the kids today" which is too bad.
My $.02
Bail! Bail like your life depends on it!
Don't worry, your friends, the smart ones, are already leaving.
The most popular is undoubtedly GNUStep is a fairly complete clone which is also the "official" GNOME WM
.90 and it sucks too. What ascd was written back in, what, 1960 (grin)
Oh, when did GNUStep change it's name to Sawmill? (or is it Sawmill?)
Taco is the author of the dockable CD applet "ascd"
Good God, and Linus is the author of Linux
I live in a technically starved area. No DSL, no cable. Currently the best I can do is on-demand ISDN, which is expensive as hell.
One ISP offers wireless in my area. This is great. However, at $1000 install and $200/month for their lowest level of service (256k) I'm probably not going to bite.
They think they are competing with dedicated connections like frames and T1s, not the cable and DSL crowd. The problem as I see it is that anyone whose looking for a fractional/full T1 who would consider wireless would probably opt for a cheaper cable/DSL connection (home users, small business etc.).
Those who would buy a wireless connection at those rates probably wouldn't mind getting the real deal for a little more and not worry about wirelesses pitfalls.
I think these guys will fail if they don't figure that out.
Ok, I'm no skydiver (8 jumps - 5 Army, 3 civilian) but a couple of things strike me.
:).
1) Mach 1.5? Wouldn't that get a little warm? What if she sneezes or something, wouldn't the airspeed tear her arm off or something.
2) Airspeed, heh... there's not much air up there, what if she get's into a spin and can't control it?
3) That's got to get boring after a while. After she loses the sensation of falling I'd think she'd fall asleep
Gees, talk about you FUD:
:)
How can a system like Debian throw away all its guidelines to create a generic distribution? I won't give up apt, and I sure don't see RH accepting it. Why should Peter let the uber-stable power user-oriented Slackware head towards the bug infested hail-the-script-kiddies Red Hat?
Besides, I thought Debian was the "uber-stable power user-oriented" one and Slackware was the script kiddie one.
Unless you go with a USB NIC, these won't support a 2nd NIC.
They wont work as a router,
Wow, every l33t d00d loves it when some one wants to "play" with Linux and installs a stock Red Hat 6.0 on a box and puts it on their DSL line.
:).
Crack city.
Now Apple is going to give every housewife, PAX family and elementary school a BSD box. Is this a good idea?
Actually, I think is IS a good idea but I think Apple is going to learn some painful lessons in OS security along the way. I'm betting Apple doesn't have the security infrastructure in place (not to mention the support infrastructure) to support a (potentially) full featured Unix based OS.
I mean, look at Sun. Sun has been in the Unix business MUCH longer than Apple and Sun still has problems keeping a head of the Bad Guys. How can Apple ramp up that fast?
OS 9 had two pretty serious DoS holes in it when it first shipped. Yes, these were fixed but how many Mac users knew to patch their systems? Yeah, there's Software Update but I've seen MANY cases where Software Update is never used (and then don't get me started on fooling Software Update).
It's definitly going to be interesting
Why is it that people can still post images of 8-year-olds giving blowjobs but dear God, you post a Metallica MP3 and they call out the National Gurad.