In a large Dutch paper the same problem was mentioned for Amsterdam too.
The problem there seemed to be the excessive growth of server storage parks. (Amsterdam is where most Dutch international internet connectivity is located)
I think that servers like the US military (or NATO in general, IIRC Nato HQ in Brussels also had some being hacked problems from time to time), and sites like Microsoft.com, are simply grand prizes for hackers.
And where real hackers are interested, the script kiddies follow (because it is kewl).
>A monolithic kernel has some drawbacks in that >there is a lot more sensitive code that can bring >the whole system to a screaching halt.
In theory yes, but in practice the server processes in a microkernel OS also can kill the OS.
Example: Kick out msgsrv32 in windows.
LaTeX2HTML is a pain when documents get big or complicated. We use it on a 800 page document, and each release we have to strain and patch to get it converted
Each version of l2h (and each Perl version) behaves differently, though the recent remodularisation of L2h gave some breathing room.
Can somebody please reprogram it in C or another real programming language ?:-)
Actually, that is the reason for the very existance of Linux IIRC.
The unwillingness of Tanenbaum to incorporate change to Minix in the painfully slow messagehandling made Linus break away, and create his own kernel. (remember, the post that started Linux was in a Minix NG!)
(Minix is dog slow on a 486, while a moderate Linux (like Slackware) can cope)
What strikes me from the tone of articles about Hurd lately, is that the tone has changed from "the OS that is going to replace Linux" to "A clean implementation (at least cleaner than Linux/FreeBSD) to dissect in the classroom)
I.o.w. when it first was positioned as successor to Linux, it now seems to be the successor to Minix.
In one paragraph he names the grouping of instances of the same application confusing for beginners, and in the next he wants to introduce more than one virtual desktops into Windows:-)
Utterly impossible to enforce. Take for example VB:
- Too strict control: I can't even run a binary generated by Visual Basic to test it?
- Too loose: If everything from VB is auto signed, the safety argument is bogus. 99% of all hazardous stuff sent around with Outlook and published on webpages(ActiveX etc), is generated by M$ applications.
I think the ZDNET commenter is far too optimistic. It doesn't even last a week. unless the admin is willing to barricade his door.
They got a financial injection from M$ (probably because they wanted to show some competitors in the compiler field to the DoJ, but I forgive M$ that for once), which now owns 10%
I also heard that it (at least for the Thunderbird) is mainly a mainboard problem.
The register (www.theregister.co.uk) had a link to an Australian site one or two months ago, that had
a link to an high-ascii site in Asia with pictures
of experimental dual-athlon mobo's
I don't know if The register has an history option, but Slashdot could probably pull some strings there:-)
Probably a hoax.
Detectors would be imensely expensive, slow (a DNA examination takes a few hours IIRC).
Also the sample needs to be prepped,and I wouldn't be surprised if the autoinjection etc stuff makes the sequencer to big to carry
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In a large Dutch paper the same problem was mentioned for Amsterdam too.
The problem there seemed to be the excessive growth of server storage parks. (Amsterdam is where most Dutch international internet connectivity is located)
I think that servers like the US military (or NATO in general, IIRC Nato HQ in Brussels also had some being hacked problems from time to time), and sites like Microsoft.com, are simply grand prizes for hackers.
And where real hackers are interested, the script kiddies follow (because it is kewl).
I was refering to successor in function (being used to teach OS building) instead of successor in an OS pedigree.
>A monolithic kernel has some drawbacks in that >there is a lot more sensitive code that can bring >the whole system to a screaching halt. In theory yes, but in practice the server processes in a microkernel OS also can kill the OS. Example: Kick out msgsrv32 in windows.
LaTeX2HTML is a pain when documents get big or complicated. We use it on a 800 page document, and each release we have to strain and patch to get it converted
Each version of l2h (and each Perl version) behaves differently, though the recent remodularisation of L2h gave some breathing room.
Can somebody please reprogram it in C or another real programming language ?
Actually, that is the reason for the very existance of Linux IIRC. The unwillingness of Tanenbaum to incorporate change to Minix in the painfully slow messagehandling made Linus break away, and create his own kernel. (remember, the post that started Linux was in a Minix NG!) (Minix is dog slow on a 486, while a moderate Linux (like Slackware) can cope)
What strikes me from the tone of articles about Hurd lately, is that the tone has changed from "the OS that is going to replace Linux" to "A clean implementation (at least cleaner than Linux/FreeBSD) to dissect in the classroom)
I.o.w. when it first was positioned as successor to Linux, it now seems to be the successor to Minix.
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In one paragraph he names the grouping of instances of the same application confusing for beginners, and in the next he wants to introduce more than one virtual desktops into Windows :-)
Utterly impossible to enforce. Take for example VB: - Too strict control: I can't even run a binary generated by Visual Basic to test it? - Too loose: If everything from VB is auto signed, the safety argument is bogus. 99% of all hazardous stuff sent around with Outlook and published on webpages(ActiveX etc), is generated by M$ applications. I think the ZDNET commenter is far too optimistic. It doesn't even last a week. unless the admin is willing to barricade his door.
They got a financial injection from M$ (probably because they wanted to show some competitors in the compiler field to the DoJ, but I forgive M$ that for once), which now owns 10%
Unix is a family of OSes rather than a specific one?
I also heard that it (at least for the Thunderbird) is mainly a mainboard problem.
The register (www.theregister.co.uk) had a link to an Australian site one or two months ago, that had
a link to an high-ascii site in Asia with pictures
of experimental dual-athlon mobo's
I don't know if The register has an history option, but Slashdot could probably pull some strings there
Probably a hoax. Detectors would be imensely expensive, slow (a DNA examination takes a few hours IIRC). Also the sample needs to be prepped,and I wouldn't be surprised if the autoinjection etc stuff makes the sequencer to big to carry