We tried hotswapping every single part of a machine. That includes, RAM, disks, CPU, BIOS, SouthBridge, NorthBridge, PCI cards, AGP cards. The box is still alive, but it's a little unstable, hummzz how would that come:)
I was wondering if there would be more Vintage computer Events round the world. As I have grown up in the C64/MSX age I would like to see some of those old memories re-awakened!
And as I'm an european I was wondering if there would be any over here ?
Sorry, i'm laughing my ass off. How ridiculous can company's get ? However i'm very interested in how this case continues, as it clearly isn't an infringment off the protection scheme. But more or less disabling a feature in Windows and NOT in SunComm's crappy cheap-ass 'i can not think' clueless solution.
Yes, I'm know running 10.3 on my iBook for evaluation. If it seems to work out OK, i'll be upgrading my PowerBook to 10.3. Which is still running 10.2.8 for stability as it's my main workstation.
Looks like most of the update is Security Fixes in 3rd party software (openssl/openssh/sendmail) instead of a lot of bug fixes and some backports from 10.3.
Oooeeh what's next, SCO revokes own UNIX license and starts focussing on Microsoft products ? I bet microsoft is between this deal, it's just all to suspicious.
This same thing happened a while back regarding OpenOffice mirrors. Mirror hosters where receiving similair mails regarding there hosting of pirated MS Office applications.
As I work for an ISP in The Netherlands we usually ignore these e-mails, however they often are amusing.
Well actually people can read the article before they CAN post comments. Thanks to Slashdot subscription (which is always a nice way to read slashdot articles without slashdotted links:)
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It might look dreddful, but I see some applications for visually impaired people. Bigger letters are more visible to people that can see very difficult.
Anyone has an idea about how this ASCII X-server would work for blind people using a braille term ?
There is no real cure to make tools only available to system administrators and not to script-kiddies. One way that would work is making it very difficult to use, but there will be obviously a nicer frontend for such a tool within weeks (if not days).
I must confess that one of the advantages of closed source is that a vendor could integrate a security measure that would bind a certain serialcode or flexlm key to a certain pool of machines that may be checked by such a tool. This would also slow down script kiddies in getting such a tool to work, but would never be foolproof.
The best way to retain script kiddies from such tools, is educating youngsters before they become 'script-kiddies'. I know of a couple of projects that are trying to do this (for example the Mostly Harmless team in the Netherlands).
I'm seeing the same movement lately. About the same as people that migrated in the late 90s to Linux because Windows was to mainstream and to bloated in there opinion. Now the move is being taken to BSD (with FreeBSD as the main leader). It's obviously good for BSD, but probably there will be another movement in 5 years.
If there is no support on the Windows (Client) platform most manufacturers of non-standardized software will not modify there software to support IPv6 (i'm think kazaa, msn, etc). One of the benefits I see in Windows XP (besides all the cons) is that they have a working IPv6 stack inside (not enabled by default however). This approach by Microsoft will be eventually good for the IPv6 community as it will make it easier for software producers to test there application in an IPv6 enviroment. Remember that servers without clients are useless.
That would not be entirely true. Internet Explorer for example won't work this way. It also needs an update of the inetinfo.dll to work correctly. And if I remember correctly (this was years ago) the structures for WinSock do specific length things concerning IP addresses. The Windows 2000 IPv6 Beta patch does not only patch the winsock libraries but also all sorts of programs including inetinfo.dll.
The Trumpet Winsock IPv6 implementation (for 9x) does some kind of proxying for IPv6 which enables almost all native v4 apps to function with v6 as the resolver library automatically does the proxying towards an internal v4 address that gets translated to v6.
It's a pretty useful list for UNIX users, however I don't see any Windows program that actually is doing IPv6 (for example Putty). It would be nice to also have such a list as I personally see IPv6 Win32 applications as the real breaktrough for IPv6.
Balkenende loves to lick the American's Balls. However I find it a little sarcastic. The dutch government surely wants to support the US government, but only political (in case of the Iraq issue). While the US government creates a law that makes it legitimately (only for the US) to invade the Netherlands if we ever take a US Citizen/Soldier in custody because they commited war crimes.
I hope the balkenende government breaks apart so we can maybe choose someone that doesn't lick american balls.
I hope this rebellion that these states and cities shake up the US administration. From an outsiders point of view (I'm from the Netherlands) I find the actions taking by the US Administration very shocking. These movements taken by internal states and cities hopefully do them some good.
A little wardriving I conducted last week using the excellent KisMac tool discovered about 25 wireless accesspoints in my town. 20 of them did not utilize WEP or any other security measures. One of these was a local insurance company.
However I wouldn't know if some people put open their accesspoints on purpose so that everybody can use their hotspot. Still it's disturbing that a Insurance Company has an Open wireless spot.
I'll be conducting the same wardrive later on this week to check if situations where temporary configuration errors, or are permanent hotspots. If so i'm probably going to inform the owners (if they can be located).
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Knowing hans since 1999 this is a real shock :( Condoleances to everybody who knew him :(
We'll miss you!
I've replaced all my NAT boxes (the one at my parents and at my home) by Cisco SOHO routers. They feature almost the same features as a UNIX NAT box.
But they are much more silent, eat up less power and can be stuffed away more easily in the house.
We tried hotswapping every single part of a machine. That includes, RAM, disks, CPU, BIOS, SouthBridge, NorthBridge, PCI cards, AGP cards. The box is still alive, but it's a little unstable, hummzz how would that come :)
I was wondering if there would be more Vintage computer Events round the world. As I have grown up in the C64/MSX age I would like to see some of those old memories re-awakened!
And as I'm an european I was wondering if there would be any over here ?
Sorry, i'm laughing my ass off. How ridiculous can company's get ? However i'm very interested in how this case continues, as it clearly isn't an infringment off the protection scheme. But more or less disabling a feature in Windows and NOT in SunComm's crappy cheap-ass 'i can not think' clueless solution.
Yes, I'm know running 10.3 on my iBook for evaluation. If it seems to work out OK, i'll be upgrading my PowerBook to 10.3. Which is still running 10.2.8 for stability as it's my main workstation.
Thank God for creating more countries than the US. Luckily here in The Netherlands we don't have ridiculous acts like the DMCA.
Looks like most of the update is Security Fixes in 3rd party software (openssl/openssh/sendmail) instead of a lot of bug fixes and some backports from 10.3.
:)
Hopefully 10.3 goes gold quickly
Oooeeh what's next, SCO revokes own UNIX license and starts focussing on Microsoft products ? I bet microsoft is between this deal, it's just all to suspicious.
;)
But who am I, just an UNIX-loving bastard
It looks like the Bongo's can't hold up the Slashdot effect :(
This same thing happened a while back regarding OpenOffice mirrors. Mirror hosters where receiving similair mails regarding there hosting of pirated MS Office applications.
As I work for an ISP in The Netherlands we usually ignore these e-mails, however they often are amusing.
Well actually people can read the article before they CAN post comments. Thanks to Slashdot subscription (which is always a nice way to read slashdot articles without slashdotted links :)
It looks like the site is already slashdotted. I have mirrored the page at http://www.sais.nl/linux_vs_sco_matrix.html
It might look dreddful, but I see some applications for visually impaired people. Bigger letters are more visible to people that can see very difficult.
Anyone has an idea about how this ASCII X-server would work for blind people using a braille term ?
There is no real cure to make tools only available to system administrators and not to script-kiddies. One way that would work is making it very difficult to use, but there will be obviously a nicer frontend for such a tool within weeks (if not days).
I must confess that one of the advantages of closed source is that a vendor could integrate a security measure that would bind a certain serialcode or flexlm key to a certain pool of machines that may be checked by such a tool. This would also slow down script kiddies in getting such a tool to work, but would never be foolproof.
The best way to retain script kiddies from such tools, is educating youngsters before they become 'script-kiddies'. I know of a couple of projects that are trying to do this (for example the Mostly Harmless team in the Netherlands).
I'm seeing the same movement lately. About the same as people that migrated in the late 90s to Linux because Windows was to mainstream and to bloated in there opinion. Now the move is being taken to BSD (with FreeBSD as the main leader). It's obviously good for BSD, but probably there will be another movement in 5 years.
But she was inside the Matrix, the emulated 20th century. You know when IPv6 wasn't at it's peak moment.
If there is no support on the Windows (Client) platform most manufacturers of non-standardized software will not modify there software to support IPv6 (i'm think kazaa, msn, etc). One of the benefits I see in Windows XP (besides all the cons) is that they have a working IPv6 stack inside (not enabled by default however). This approach by Microsoft will be eventually good for the IPv6 community as it will make it easier for software producers to test there application in an IPv6 enviroment. Remember that servers without clients are useless.
That would not be entirely true. Internet Explorer for example won't work this way. It also needs an update of the inetinfo.dll to work correctly. And if I remember correctly (this was years ago) the structures for WinSock do specific length things concerning IP addresses. The Windows 2000 IPv6 Beta patch does not only patch the winsock libraries but also all sorts of programs including inetinfo.dll.
The Trumpet Winsock IPv6 implementation (for 9x) does some kind of proxying for IPv6 which enables almost all native v4 apps to function with v6 as the resolver library automatically does the proxying towards an internal v4 address that gets translated to v6.
Nice story :) I Liked it :)
Mac OS X has also IPv6 support, but however it's UNIX derived. I'm not sure about older Mac OS versions but I think they lack IPv6 support.
It's a pretty useful list for UNIX users, however I don't see any Windows program that actually is doing IPv6 (for example Putty). It would be nice to also have such a list as I personally see IPv6 Win32 applications as the real breaktrough for IPv6.
Balkenende loves to lick the American's Balls. However I find it a little sarcastic. The dutch government surely wants to support the US government, but only political (in case of the Iraq issue). While the US government creates a law that makes it legitimately (only for the US) to invade the Netherlands if we ever take a US Citizen/Soldier in custody because they commited war crimes.
I hope the balkenende government breaks apart so we can maybe choose someone that doesn't lick american balls.
I hope this rebellion that these states and cities shake up the US administration. From an outsiders point of view (I'm from the Netherlands) I find the actions taking by the US Administration very shocking. These movements taken by internal states and cities hopefully do them some good.
A little wardriving I conducted last week using the excellent KisMac tool discovered about 25 wireless accesspoints in my town. 20 of them did not utilize WEP or any other security measures. One of these was a local insurance company.
However I wouldn't know if some people put open their accesspoints on purpose so that everybody can use their hotspot. Still it's disturbing that a Insurance Company has an Open wireless spot.
I'll be conducting the same wardrive later on this week to check if situations where temporary configuration errors, or are permanent hotspots. If so i'm probably going to inform the owners (if they can be located).