I'm asking since I haven't read it, and my local resellers don't have it in stock yet. Again, I ask if anyone has READ the book, not read the description of the book.....
Has anyone read the new O'Reilly book on securing 802.11b networks? Does it offer any cross-platform, cross-vendor solutions to general 802.11b insecurity?
It's great to see all this documentation coming out. For the first couple of years, it was difficult at best to find any information about the internals of MacOS X. I still don't know of any decent reference for NetInfo administration. O'Reilly's helped alot though.....
He slams the Mac constantly for not being enough like Windows. It's innovating in a different direction, and that's an issue. Now Linux is copying Windows too much, and that's an issue.
I think this guy just bashes everything to get people riled up and to have people read his articles.
Check out RedHat. You can download everything for free, even in ISO image format. Or you can go to Fry's and plunk down $50 for the exact same thing. This business model actually works. Not everyone wants to go get a compiler and compile the source from scratch.
OK, as a corporate user with a Win2k machine using Outlook, is there any significant reason to upgrade to 8.0 from whatever I'm using now and have used for a year or so? I know the article says there aren't significant changes, but I'd be interested in what specifically is better / improved.
Whatever the solution, I'd feel much more secure with Sun hardware / software than I would with MS. They don't reinvent the wheel every 6 months in an attempt to correct all the mistakes they made in the previous version of the wheel.....
I worked at SGI for a while - they had stereo goggles years ago, even had a couple of pairs lying around. No one used them at all because they gave people SEVERE headaches....
Been a Mac user since my Mac SE. One thing I've gotten used to is the fact that popular software usually comes out years later, if ever, for the Mac platform. And then only after sending repeated e-mails to the developers to let them know there's interest. Yeah, it's frustrating. Yes, it's sad. But that's what I put up with to stay with the platform of my choice.
Designation: 1396
Sponsor: Computer Society/Microprocessors and Microcomputers
Title: Standard for Communication Bus (TELECOM Bus): Reference Models
Status: Withdrawn PAR. Standards project no longer endorsed by the IEEE.
Technical Contact: Gary A Nelson, Phone:708 304 0000, Email:gnelson@zynrgy.com
History: PAR APP: Mar 19, 1992
Project Scope: To provide a guide to the configurations and uses targeted for
the TELECOM Bus family of standards.
Project Purpose: To provide a firm background and overview to the environments
for which TELECOM Bus systems are envisioned.
Key Words: communication, bus, hybrid, switching, applications
In the SGI O3K server systems, each brick has an L1 controller, and each rack has an L2 controller. The L2 controller is about the size of a cable modem, sits in the top of the rack, uses an embedded PPC processor, and runs a stripped down Linux. Uses flash for storage. Never opened one up, but thought it was cool.
Before, when the battery ran low, the clock got all out of whack. Syncing the iPod with iTunes didn't set the clock, you had to do that manually on the iPod.
Now, syncing with iTunes sets the clock correctly.... Woo-hoo!
From what I see in the German brief on the exploit, this can write to the memory of the system. So does this mean the worst that can happen is to crash a Windows box?
Also, does this apply only to Windows systems using PPTP or to VPN hardware devices as well?
Nothing worse than frames preventing the proper use of URL's in web browsers. I'd just plain not use it. Either that, or I'd use it for network services that don't have banner ads, such as e-mail, IRC, Gnutella, etc.
You used to be able to download pre-alpha copies of Copland from Hotline back in 1997. I never had the hardware for it (think it was only one model that was bootable, like a Mac IIci or something). Same look and feel of System 7, with 3D icons, from the screenshots I saw.
I don't think this is about SGI holding patents over their heads, but the kernel developers diligently checking existing patents before violating them.
Not sure how much you truly know about that rant, but I know one thing. I have booted from a firewire device - my iPod. The first thing I did after loading it up with songs was install OS X.1 on the thing. Then set the startup disk for my Pismo to the iPod (external firewire drive), rebooted, and there it was booting off the iPod.
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I'm asking since I haven't read it, and my local resellers don't have it in stock yet. Again, I ask if anyone has READ the book, not read the description of the book.....
Has anyone read the new O'Reilly book on securing 802.11b networks? Does it offer any cross-platform, cross-vendor solutions to general 802.11b insecurity?
It's great to see all this documentation coming out. For the first couple of years, it was difficult at best to find any information about the internals of MacOS X. I still don't know of any decent reference for NetInfo administration. O'Reilly's helped alot though.....
Did you see how tacky it looks sitting next to the beige CRT monitor? Can't they make a half-sphere green thing to go with it?
He slams the Mac constantly for not being enough like Windows. It's innovating in a different direction, and that's an issue. Now Linux is copying Windows too much, and that's an issue.
I think this guy just bashes everything to get people riled up and to have people read his articles.
PGP won't even run on many platforms, so any ease-of-use claims should be dimissed out of hand on that basis alone.
Yeah, I can't get PGP to run on my Atari 400, my Amiga, or my TI-85 calculator. Therefore it's worthless and I should use GPG instead.
Check out RedHat. You can download everything for free, even in ISO image format. Or you can go to Fry's and plunk down $50 for the exact same thing. This business model actually works. Not everyone wants to go get a compiler and compile the source from scratch.
OK, as a corporate user with a Win2k machine using Outlook, is there any significant reason to upgrade to 8.0 from whatever I'm using now and have used for a year or so? I know the article says there aren't significant changes, but I'd be interested in what specifically is better / improved.
Whatever the solution, I'd feel much more secure with Sun hardware / software than I would with MS. They don't reinvent the wheel every 6 months in an attempt to correct all the mistakes they made in the previous version of the wheel.....
I worked at SGI for a while - they had stereo goggles years ago, even had a couple of pairs lying around. No one used them at all because they gave people SEVERE headaches....
I ran this thru googles translator as French, German and Italian, and they all stayed the same! Is this the new Universal Language© that I've been hearing about?! :)
Have you tried Dutch?
That's not what they mean by Firewire.
How cool is that - the anti Picard. Wonder if that can be used to power some kind of warp drive....
Been a Mac user since my Mac SE. One thing I've gotten used to is the fact that popular software usually comes out years later, if ever, for the Mac platform. And then only after sending repeated e-mails to the developers to let them know there's interest. Yeah, it's frustrating. Yes, it's sad. But that's what I put up with to stay with the platform of my choice.
Taken from the IEEE Project Status Page:
Designation: 1396
Sponsor: Computer Society/Microprocessors and Microcomputers
Title: Standard for Communication Bus (TELECOM Bus): Reference Models
Status: Withdrawn PAR. Standards project no longer endorsed by the IEEE.
Technical Contact: Gary A Nelson, Phone:708 304 0000, Email:gnelson@zynrgy.com
History: PAR APP: Mar 19, 1992
Project Scope: To provide a guide to the configurations and uses targeted for
the TELECOM Bus family of standards.
Project Purpose: To provide a firm background and overview to the environments
for which TELECOM Bus systems are envisioned.
Key Words: communication, bus, hybrid, switching, applications
In the SGI O3K server systems, each brick has an L1 controller, and each rack has an L2 controller. The L2 controller is about the size of a cable modem, sits in the top of the rack, uses an embedded PPC processor, and runs a stripped down Linux. Uses flash for storage. Never opened one up, but thought it was cool.
So what happens when two different EULA's claim 100% control of your machine?
Pretty sure this is new to this release...
Before, when the battery ran low, the clock got all out of whack. Syncing the iPod with iTunes didn't set the clock, you had to do that manually on the iPod.
Now, syncing with iTunes sets the clock correctly.... Woo-hoo!
From what I see in the German brief on the exploit, this can write to the memory of the system. So does this mean the worst that can happen is to crash a Windows box?
Also, does this apply only to Windows systems using PPTP or to VPN hardware devices as well?
How many times to people have to bring up this tired, talked-to-death speculation?
Nothing worse than frames preventing the proper use of URL's in web browsers. I'd just plain not use it. Either that, or I'd use it for network services that don't have banner ads, such as e-mail, IRC, Gnutella, etc.
Sounds like a hoax to me, an experiment to see how quickly the internet can spread false information with no backup whatsoever.
You used to be able to download pre-alpha copies of Copland from Hotline back in 1997. I never had the hardware for it (think it was only one model that was bootable, like a Mac IIci or something). Same look and feel of System 7, with 3D icons, from the screenshots I saw.
I don't think this is about SGI holding patents over their heads, but the kernel developers diligently checking existing patents before violating them.
Not sure how much you truly know about that rant, but I know one thing. I have booted from a firewire device - my iPod. The first thing I did after loading it up with songs was install OS X.1 on the thing. Then set the startup disk for my Pismo to the iPod (external firewire drive), rebooted, and there it was booting off the iPod.