I know this is not an answer to the original question, but merely a finger pointing in a different direction.;-) When you have a lot of passwords and other sensitive data to manage, give a serious thought to buying a PDA. You can get a Handspring these days for $100, and with the right application you can keep all your passwords secure.
Shortly, it's like Memo Pad, but it's password-protected and encrypted. Now there's no need to remember hundreds of passwords, you only have to remember one - the master password that protects the entire content of Keyring.;-) You cannot access anything in the Keyring unless you know the master password. The data is kept under strong crypto: Keyring uses 3DES and other crypto voodoo to make sure no one is able to snoop on your data. It's enough to pick a good master password and that's it. The application is quite carefully designed. I'm using it to keep all the root and enable passwords for all servers and routers that i'm in charge of, and also my banking accounts passwords, credit card numbers, etc. It's quite cool, give it a try.;-)
Well, it's not the first time Slashdot misses the point.:-( SGI didn't released just the Fuel workstation today. In fact, that the smallest and most insignificant part of their announcement.
The actual announcement reffers to the so-called Visual Area Networking - a concept that, basically, boils down to distributed visualising and data processing over a network.
With VAN, a user can interact with an InfinitePerformance supercomputer (usually an Onyx 3000 with several hundred processors), let the big iron do the data processing, and receive the resulting images over a network to a thin client. That "thin" client may be a Fuel workstation, a PDA, some device used by US troops to get realtime maps of the enemy positions, whatever.
The point is, many people, working from many different locations, can work together using their thin clients, but manipulating data on the same supercomputer. I've seen some impressive demos, where two people were immersed into the same VR environment, and were manipulating objects on the same scene, at the same time, over the network. Given the fact that the scene was not just a pure graphical computer-games scene, but an actual simulation with real physical laws and everything, that was pretty damn cool.
I tried to submit the actual story, but it was rejected. Instead, Slashdot caught this ridiculous story about "yet another workstation from SGI". Come on people, get real...
SGI can do 1024 processors :-P
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You think 100 processors are a lot? Take a look at SGI3000 which can come with 1024 processors at any time. Now that's a lot!;-)
If you were the big boss of a big software company threatened by Free Software, and you would think of some countermeasures, what exactly would you do?;-)
Suppose you would like to prove Free Software as being insecure...
Suppose you would just like to spread some FUD...
What's the image that comes into your mind right now?...
...you're dealing with large streams of data to/from big files, especially on multiCPU environments.
ReiserFS is fast when you're dealing with lots of small files.
Ext2 is fast during the flying season for pigs.
That's the difference.
Have you tried it?:-)
After dealing with the bugs from ReiserFS for such a long and painful time, XFS was like the promised land. No NFS madness, no weird kernel messages... It just works.
Try first, and speak only after that, please.
ReiserFS is still a work in progress. Just see how often they changed essential parts of it.
While XFS and JFS are old, long-tested file systems. And now XFS-Linux reached 1.0 (while, indeed, JFS-Linux is in a too early stage to be used).
XFS is good when you have massive data streams to/from large files, especially in a multiCPU environment. It works well with NFS and provides ACLs.
ReiserFS is good when dealing with extremely large numbers of small files. It still has problems with NFS and doesn't provide ACLs.
Ext3 is a toy. Really. It's only Ext2 with some journalling stuff thrown into.
Well, if you keep the kernels into the/boot partition, which is small and is almost never written, i think you should better format/boot as Ext2. Problem solved.;-)
More than that, you can mount/boot with the sync flag, so this way you can be sure nothing bad will ever happen.
If/boot is Ext2, you can make it bootable, and install lilo in its superblock. Double niceness.:-)
Take a geography book and read: Ural is in Russia, not in Romania!
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As i said before, "South Ural" is not a romanian location (Ural is in Russia). Birykov (the owner of Paypai.com) is NOT a romanian name, but most likely a russian one (the -ov postfix). Network Solutions are plain stoopid. If i tell them that i am John Doe Inc., located on Alpha Centauri, they eat it...
"South Ural" is not a romanian location!
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Wait a second... Ural is in Russia! And Birykov (from "Birykov Inc.", the owner of Paypai.com) appear to be a russian name (but i'm not sure) - anyway, it is NOT a romanian name. Damn Network Solutions... they eat whatever you give them...
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Radius client for Unix = PAM ;-)
I know this is not an answer to the original question, but merely a finger pointing in a different direction. ;-)
;-) You cannot access anything in the Keyring unless you know the master password. ;-)
When you have a lot of passwords and other sensitive data to manage, give a serious thought to buying a PDA. You can get a Handspring these days for $100, and with the right application you can keep all your passwords secure.
Here's the magical application: http://gnukeyring.sourceforge.net/
Shortly, it's like Memo Pad, but it's password-protected and encrypted. Now there's no need to remember hundreds of passwords, you only have to remember one - the master password that protects the entire content of Keyring.
The data is kept under strong crypto: Keyring uses 3DES and other crypto voodoo to make sure no one is able to snoop on your data. It's enough to pick a good master password and that's it.
The application is quite carefully designed. I'm using it to keep all the root and enable passwords for all servers and routers that i'm in charge of, and also my banking accounts passwords, credit card numbers, etc.
It's quite cool, give it a try.
'nuff said.
Well, it's not the first time Slashdot misses the point. :-( SGI didn't released just the Fuel workstation today. In fact, that the smallest and most insignificant part of their announcement.
The actual announcement reffers to the so-called Visual Area Networking - a concept that, basically, boils down to distributed visualising and data processing over a network.
With VAN, a user can interact with an InfinitePerformance supercomputer (usually an Onyx 3000 with several hundred processors), let the big iron do the data processing, and receive the resulting images over a network to a thin client. That "thin" client may be a Fuel workstation, a PDA, some device used by US troops to get realtime maps of the enemy positions, whatever.
The point is, many people, working from many different locations, can work together using their thin clients, but manipulating data on the same supercomputer. I've seen some impressive demos, where two people were immersed into the same VR environment, and were manipulating objects on the same scene, at the same time, over the network. Given the fact that the scene was not just a pure graphical computer-games scene, but an actual simulation with real physical laws and everything, that was pretty damn cool.
I tried to submit the actual story, but it was rejected. Instead, Slashdot caught this ridiculous story about "yet another workstation from SGI". Come on people, get real...
You think 100 processors are a lot? Take a look at SGI3000 which can come with 1024 processors at any time. Now that's a lot! ;-)
WTC was the worst target possible these days! Think of the economic slowdown, and how things will be much worse now!
:-(
Anything but WTC...
EXACTLY! I posted the same thing, at approximately the same moment, and it was also rejected. :-(
Slashdot starts to suck...
...but you rejected it. :-(
So much for Slashdot's efficiency.
Ya know, when a whole bunch of highly trained SGI graphics wizards get together to start a new company, then really odd things happen! ;-)
If you were the big boss of a big software company threatened by Free Software, and you would think of some countermeasures, what exactly would you do? ;-)
Suppose you would like to prove Free Software as being insecure...
Suppose you would just like to spread some FUD...
What's the image that comes into your mind right now?...
Here:
http://linux-xfs.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html
...you're dealing with large streams of data to/from big files, especially on multiCPU environments.
ReiserFS is fast when you're dealing with lots of small files.
Ext2 is fast during the flying season for pigs.
That's the difference.
Here is the link. You can download the whole ISO image, burn it into a CD, boot the installer from it, then use the stock RH7.1 CDs to get a nice RH7.1-on-XFS ;-)e r.html
http://linux-xfs.sgi.com/projects/xfs/1.0_install
Have you tried it? :-)
After dealing with the bugs from ReiserFS for such a long and painful time, XFS was like the promised land. No NFS madness, no weird kernel messages... It just works.
Try first, and speak only after that, please.
ReiserFS is still a work in progress. Just see how often they changed essential parts of it.
While XFS and JFS are old, long-tested file systems. And now XFS-Linux reached 1.0 (while, indeed, JFS-Linux is in a too early stage to be used).
XFS is good when you have massive data streams to/from large files, especially in a multiCPU environment. It works well with NFS and provides ACLs.
ReiserFS is good when dealing with extremely large numbers of small files. It still has problems with NFS and doesn't provide ACLs.
Ext3 is a toy. Really. It's only Ext2 with some journalling stuff thrown into.
Well, if you keep the kernels into the /boot partition, which is small and is almost never written, i think you should better format /boot as Ext2. Problem solved. ;-) /boot with the sync flag, so this way you can be sure nothing bad will ever happen. /boot is Ext2, you can make it bootable, and install lilo in its superblock. Double niceness. :-)
More than that, you can mount
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I still do not see any answer to the main question: why gcc 2.96 ???
Take a geography book and read: Ural is in Russia, not in Romania!
As i said before, "South Ural" is not a romanian location (Ural is in Russia). Birykov (the owner of Paypai.com) is NOT a romanian name, but most likely a russian one (the -ov postfix).
Network Solutions are plain stoopid. If i tell them that i am John Doe Inc., located on Alpha Centauri, they eat it...
Wait a second... Ural is in Russia! And Birykov (from "Birykov Inc.", the owner of Paypai.com) appear to be a russian name (but i'm not sure) - anyway, it is NOT a romanian name. Damn Network Solutions... they eat whatever you give them...