I hadn't thought about MySQL, but It would make sense. I use mod_perl on a 200Mhz site and it's never sluggish, no matter how many CGI requests it gets. Thanks for the insight.
Slashdot uses Perl, but have you noticed how slow Slashdot is? Not to flame, but Slashdot is getting real slow, and it's not because of bandwidth. I get 64ms ping times to Slashdot. But Perl, even with mod_perl, is sluggish, no matter how many BogoMIPS you throw at it.
I do love Perl though, and use it a lot on my own websites. But when the websites get too many hits, Perl can't scale the traffic.
This is what I feared when RedHat filed for an IPO, then it all followed. Initial excitement, everybody wants some, over-inflated stock values, many people wanting to "get rich quick".
It all blew up. Red Hat is down under $30, VA Linux is the laughing stock, Corel rose up and is slowly falling (although I thing they'll go back up, slowly but surely).
Linuxcare doesn't want to be part of this laughning statistic, and I understand them.
Well, maybe for you it is, but yelling is not intellectual property. But the posts on this page are OWNED by the poster, and they are intellectual property.
Screaming is not copyrightable, but intellectual property is...
I just read the link the parent poster refers to (Slashdot publishing our posts without our authorization) and if these statements are true, who is Slashdot to editorialize a subject concerning privacy and copyrights???
If Metallica play a concert publicly, their live performance does not become public domain.
Honestly, I dislike M$ as much as the next guy, but I really can't get to appreciate Mozilla a whole lot. It crashed often, seems bug-filled, it's huge, come on! What are these programmers doing?
Call this a flame if you want, but I want a slim browser that supports all the latest features. KDE seem to be on a good path to that end.
I use LILO, but one must be aware of the potential vulnerabilities that give ROOT ACCESS to anyone who can acces the console.
When you see LILO appear, press TAB too see the image names. Then type the image name to boot followed by 'single' and BOOM! you have single-user root access to the box. This can be restricted via lilo.conf with the 'restricted' keyword and the 'password=' keyword.
The other way (if single user is restricted) if to use init=/bin/bash rw appended to the image name. On most linux systems, the default image name is 'linux', so one would use:
linux single OR linux init=/bin/bash rw
If you have console access, getting root access is just 13 keystrokes away (including ENTER). All this thanks to LILO!
I _used_ to be an ATI fan, because I wasn't all into serious gaming. Heck, if the card did 1024x768, 24bit 2D, I was happy... New driver out? Why should I change. ATI was the best card there was.
Then I started gaming. Wow, is this slow. Let's try this new ATI Rage Fury, 1st time out. Wow, it crashed Win98. No Linux support. Had to flash my BIOS. It crashes because it overheats. New driver? Cool. Installed it. Had to reinstall Win98 cuz it doesn't like the driver. Linux support? No way...
Let's try this Voodoo 3 3000. Wow, easy install. New driver? Not a problem. Linux support, playing Q3 and UT @ 1024X768. Never crashes. 3DFx is the sweetest thing on the planet. It may not be the fastest, but it's damn fast and it's trouble free -- and compatible.
When the Voodoo 5 gets the same Linux support, count me in as a loyal customer. The ATI will have Linux support? Doesn't phase me a bit.
Software isn't perfect. If you say you can program and make no bugs, you've got to be some kind of God. I've programmed many years, and the more lines of code that go into a program, the more bugs you'll end up having. Sometimes you lose perspective on some aspects of your program. But in a closed-source environment, the only peer-review is that -- your peers. And they don't always have more insight on what the program's doing.
OSS shines. Let the world review the code (I do look at the source, not exactly everything, but I do look for the obvious buffer problems and other bug-prone parts of code). This way everyone wins. and patches get released much faster.
I speak for myself when I say...
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That a lot of people are switching from PIII's to Athlons. Our company just installed over 250 Athlon-based systems, that were supposed to be PIII's. Even all my friends, who have been Pentium fans since the beginning, are buying Athlons.
Look, they're cheaper, they're faster, and they're cooler than PIII's. Why buy a Pentium????
I fail to see how they can trace this type of DDoS back to a single individual. With all the firewalls, DHCP's and other addressing schemes, good luck finding him. I think that it's all made up for the media, and to put businesses and people at ease, thinking that "if you screw the Internet you can get caught."
I have common files for page headers and footers, and seperate language files for the body. The body files contain html for language-specific graphics (that contain text).
I then use a perl script to combine the header + body + footer together.
This is rather painful tho, as there is a lot of redundancy, and page changes are quite painful.
People say NT is unreliable. That's crap. People say NT is insecure. Kinda. People say NT has backdoors. Ooooh yea.
I switched many of my server from NT to Linux, the main reason being that Open Source OS's tend to have fewer bugs, and when the bugs are found, patches and updates occur very quickly.
You can be sure there are no backdoors in OSS... I mean, if someone had the balls to but backdoors in OSS they'd be ridiculed 2 minutes after the software release.
The second reason I don't use NT anymore is the bloat factor. One of my SMB servers was a P166/64MB RAM, and as soon as I installed SP6 and Option Pack 4, the hardware was rendered useless. A nice install of Linux quickly put the extra "umph" that machine needed.
Be it for backdoors, security or updates, nothing beats OSS.
And I must say I'm quite impressed with what Corel's pumping out for Linux. I myself ordered WP 2000 Deluxe (including Paradox) and I anxiously await it. The apps are really seamless and integrated. The perfmance seems a bit off, tho, because of Winelib.
I'm currently beta-testing Corel DRAW and PhotoPAINT for Linux (photopaint being my favorite graphics proggie) and even in their Beta 1 state the apps are pretty and polished. Again, there is a performance issue using wine. I have an Athlon 610 MHz w/ 256 MB RAM, and just applying a basic pinch, perspective or other effect on a simple object can seem painful. I did submit this in to Corel, tho.
These professional apps, along with Corel's OS will finally make Linux on the desktop a much easier reality. With Office and PhotoPAINT, my boots to Win98 will be almost nil.
BTW, did you know COREL stands for COwpland REsearch Labs? I got that at the roadshow also.
How to render a human less human, and more dependant on machines. Maybe by 2025 the movie The Matrix will not be in the Sci-Fi category anymore, it'll be a Drama or a Real-Life Story...
I think this article will be a good eye-opener for many who seem to think that securing a system means checking the bug lists and applying the appropriate patches, or by throwing in a buzz-word Firewall. Although that is an excellent start, You can see the big difference with NT and OpenBSD.
NT has a decent security model. But Microsoft's goals with NT is functionality, not security. So with file permission defaults such as Everyone: FULL CONTROL and Exchange KM Server Admin passwords being "Password", it's not hard to see that M$ wants Admins to have an easy job. Everything works, but it ain't secure. Although one can configure NT to be secure, it will take many hours of work and tests.
On the other side of the spectrum, consider OpenBSD. Paranoid? Obviously. Everything's off, users have no access to anything, users can't su unless they're allowed. Here, security is well taken care of, but the admin's big job here is opening up the system so users can get some functionality.
Then put Linux in the middle. A relatively secure OS, with (as most distros) almost all daemons running without even asking for them. Shut off sendmail, wu-ftpd, httpd, etc, and boom, magnitudes more security.
Then consider the admin who uses the root account straight through telnet. One co-worker I knew does this on a regular basis, then brags that he's never been cracked!!! Patching bugs is the easy part...
I can see how a "write once run many" theory can be employed with apps, as apps can use abstractions layers (winelib etc) to abstract the running code.
As far as drivers go, with all the changes in the kernels, different compilers, different platforms (x86, ppc, alpha,...), I just don't see how this can be easily accomplished.
Heck, I consider myself a Power User like the next guy, but typing damn smbmount commands everytime I want to connect to a measly share is quite a pain. I did give Corel's distro a good try, and although I didn't like the fact that it "hides" a lot of technical info, it's a pleasure to use.
Being a Power User also means that you have plenty of non-compiling-related work done, and you don't want to waste that time entering million-character commands that you already know well. Just the fact that a person is using Corel Linux instead of Windows 98 already proves that that person is different and bold, even if Corel Linux is "The Linux for the folks".
I use it. And I grew up on Slackware. To each his own.
What researchers once thought was the 4th planet of our solar system happens to be a dead beetle on the telescope lens. Still no news on how the germful meteorite struck earth, but NASA is currently invesigating in a new product called Windex...
The root of the problem is really not in video games -- I think the real problem is parents and the lack of discipline towards their children. You don't let a 10-year-old play Q3, it's just not right for him to "have fun blowing people up". The game is rated 17+, so if kiddies are playing Q3, it really cannot be ID's fault.
If kids start having sex at 8, are we to sue pr0n movie makers, although they do state that the movies are for adults???
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I hadn't thought about MySQL, but It would make sense. I use mod_perl on a 200Mhz site and it's never sluggish, no matter how many CGI requests it gets. Thanks for the insight.
Slashdot uses Perl, but have you noticed how slow Slashdot is? Not to flame, but Slashdot is getting real slow, and it's not because of bandwidth. I get 64ms ping times to Slashdot. But Perl, even with mod_perl, is sluggish, no matter how many BogoMIPS you throw at it.
I do love Perl though, and use it a lot on my own websites. But when the websites get too many hits, Perl can't scale the traffic.
This is what I feared when RedHat filed for an IPO, then it all followed. Initial excitement, everybody wants some, over-inflated stock values, many people wanting to "get rich quick".
It all blew up. Red Hat is down under $30, VA Linux is the laughing stock, Corel rose up and is slowly falling (although I thing they'll go back up, slowly but surely).
Linuxcare doesn't want to be part of this laughning statistic, and I understand them.
Well, maybe for you it is, but yelling is not intellectual property. But the posts on this page are OWNED by the poster, and they are intellectual property.
Screaming is not copyrightable, but intellectual property is...
I just read the link the parent poster refers to (Slashdot publishing our posts without our authorization) and if these statements are true, who is Slashdot to editorialize a subject concerning privacy and copyrights???
If Metallica play a concert publicly, their live performance does not become public domain.
Honestly, I dislike M$ as much as the next guy, but I really can't get to appreciate Mozilla a whole lot. It crashed often, seems bug-filled, it's huge, come on! What are these programmers doing?
Call this a flame if you want, but I want a slim browser that supports all the latest features. KDE seem to be on a good path to that end.
I use LILO, but one must be aware of the potential vulnerabilities that give ROOT ACCESS to anyone who can acces the console.
When you see LILO appear, press TAB too see the image names. Then type the image name to boot followed by 'single' and BOOM! you have single-user root access to the box. This can be restricted via lilo.conf with the 'restricted' keyword and the 'password=' keyword.
The other way (if single user is restricted) if to use init=/bin/bash rw appended to the image name. On most linux systems, the default image name is 'linux', so one would use:
linux single OR
linux init=/bin/bash rw
If you have console access, getting root access is just 13 keystrokes away (including ENTER). All this thanks to LILO!
I _used_ to be an ATI fan, because I wasn't all into serious gaming. Heck, if the card did 1024x768, 24bit 2D, I was happy... New driver out? Why should I change. ATI was the best card there was.
Then I started gaming. Wow, is this slow. Let's try this new ATI Rage Fury, 1st time out. Wow, it crashed Win98. No Linux support. Had to flash my BIOS. It crashes because it overheats. New driver? Cool. Installed it. Had to reinstall Win98 cuz it doesn't like the driver. Linux support? No way...
Let's try this Voodoo 3 3000. Wow, easy install. New driver? Not a problem. Linux support, playing Q3 and UT @ 1024X768. Never crashes. 3DFx is the sweetest thing on the planet. It may not be the fastest, but it's damn fast and it's trouble free -- and compatible.
When the Voodoo 5 gets the same Linux support, count me in as a loyal customer. The ATI will have Linux support? Doesn't phase me a bit.
Software isn't perfect. If you say you can program and make no bugs, you've got to be some kind of God. I've programmed many years, and the more lines of code that go into a program, the more bugs you'll end up having. Sometimes you lose perspective on some aspects of your program. But in a closed-source environment, the only peer-review is that -- your peers. And they don't always have more insight on what the program's doing.
OSS shines. Let the world review the code (I do look at the source, not exactly everything, but I do look for the obvious buffer problems and other bug-prone parts of code). This way everyone wins. and patches get released much faster.
That a lot of people are switching from PIII's to Athlons. Our company just installed over 250 Athlon-based systems, that were supposed to be PIII's. Even all my friends, who have been Pentium fans since the beginning, are buying Athlons.
Look, they're cheaper, they're faster, and they're cooler than PIII's. Why buy a Pentium????
I fail to see how they can trace this type of DDoS back to a single individual. With all the firewalls, DHCP's and other addressing schemes, good luck finding him. I think that it's all made up for the media, and to put businesses and people at ease, thinking that "if you screw the Internet you can get caught."
Do you remember KARR? What did KARR stand for, if KITT was Knight Industries Two Thousand?
I have common files for page headers and footers, and seperate language files for the body. The body files contain html for language-specific graphics (that contain text).
I then use a perl script to combine the header + body + footer together.
This is rather painful tho, as there is a lot of redundancy, and page changes are quite painful.
is here
He basically points out that OSS is not perfect, but can be considered better than closed-source.
People say NT is unreliable. That's crap. People say NT is insecure. Kinda. People say NT has backdoors. Ooooh yea.
I switched many of my server from NT to Linux, the main reason being that Open Source OS's tend to have fewer bugs, and when the bugs are found, patches and updates occur very quickly.
You can be sure there are no backdoors in OSS... I mean, if someone had the balls to but backdoors in OSS they'd be ridiculed 2 minutes after the software release.
The second reason I don't use NT anymore is the bloat factor. One of my SMB servers was a P166/64MB RAM, and as soon as I installed SP6 and Option Pack 4, the hardware was rendered useless. A nice install of Linux quickly put the extra "umph" that machine needed.
Be it for backdoors, security or updates, nothing beats OSS.
And I must say I'm quite impressed with what Corel's pumping out for Linux. I myself ordered WP 2000 Deluxe (including Paradox) and I anxiously await it. The apps are really seamless and integrated. The perfmance seems a bit off, tho, because of Winelib.
I'm currently beta-testing Corel DRAW and PhotoPAINT for Linux (photopaint being my favorite graphics proggie) and even in their Beta 1 state the apps are pretty and polished. Again, there is a performance issue using wine. I have an Athlon 610 MHz w/ 256 MB RAM, and just applying a basic pinch, perspective or other effect on a simple object can seem painful. I did submit this in to Corel, tho.
These professional apps, along with Corel's OS will finally make Linux on the desktop a much easier reality. With Office and PhotoPAINT, my boots to Win98 will be almost nil.
BTW, did you know COREL stands for COwpland REsearch Labs? I got that at the roadshow also.
How to render a human less human, and more dependant on machines. Maybe by 2025 the movie The Matrix will not be in the Sci-Fi category anymore, it'll be a Drama or a Real-Life Story...
I think this article will be a good eye-opener for many who seem to think that securing a system means checking the bug lists and applying the appropriate patches, or by throwing in a buzz-word Firewall. Although that is an excellent start, You can see the big difference with NT and OpenBSD.
NT has a decent security model. But Microsoft's goals with NT is functionality, not security. So with file permission defaults such as Everyone: FULL CONTROL and Exchange KM Server Admin passwords being "Password", it's not hard to see that M$ wants Admins to have an easy job. Everything works, but it ain't secure. Although one can configure NT to be secure, it will take many hours of work and tests.
On the other side of the spectrum, consider OpenBSD. Paranoid? Obviously. Everything's off, users have no access to anything, users can't su unless they're allowed. Here, security is well taken care of, but the admin's big job here is opening up the system so users can get some functionality.
Then put Linux in the middle. A relatively secure OS, with (as most distros) almost all daemons running without even asking for them. Shut off sendmail, wu-ftpd, httpd, etc, and boom, magnitudes more security.
Then consider the admin who uses the root account straight through telnet. One co-worker I knew does this on a regular basis, then brags that he's never been cracked!!! Patching bugs is the easy part...
Actually, you might want to check the devel kernels, as I think preliminary winmodem support is built-in.
Go to edge.kernelnores.org for all da juicy details!
I can see how a "write once run many" theory can be employed with apps, as apps can use abstractions layers (winelib etc) to abstract the running code.
As far as drivers go, with all the changes in the kernels, different compilers, different platforms (x86, ppc, alpha,...), I just don't see how this can be easily accomplished.
This is corny, but at Corel's WordPerfect Office 2000 road show, I learned that Corel stands for
COwpland REsearch Labs...
Cool huh?
... and I also bought a copy of WP Office 2000. Don't warez Linux software. Buy it. It's supporting the community!
Heck, I consider myself a Power User like the next guy, but typing damn smbmount commands everytime I want to connect to a measly share is quite a pain. I did give Corel's distro a good try, and although I didn't like the fact that it "hides" a lot of technical info, it's a pleasure to use.
Being a Power User also means that you have plenty of non-compiling-related work done, and you don't want to waste that time entering million-character commands that you already know well. Just the fact that a person is using Corel Linux instead of Windows 98 already proves that that person is different and bold, even if Corel Linux is "The Linux for the folks".
I use it. And I grew up on Slackware. To each his own.
What researchers once thought was the 4th planet of our solar system happens to be a dead beetle on the telescope lens. Still no news on how the germful meteorite struck earth, but NASA is currently invesigating in a new product called Windex...
The root of the problem is really not in video games -- I think the real problem is parents and the lack of discipline towards their children. You don't let a 10-year-old play Q3, it's just not right for him to "have fun blowing people up". The game is rated 17+, so if kiddies are playing Q3, it really cannot be ID's fault.
If kids start having sex at 8, are we to sue pr0n movie makers, although they do state that the movies are for adults???
From NT4 SP4:
Q170817 Windows NT Causes APC Smart UPS Battery to Discharge
Isn't this just crazy?