I quite like windows 7. If you have solid state disks they will run MUCH better. I've found Windows7 scales significantly better with more resources, such as an i7 cpu, than XP does.. XP barely used your 3rd & 4th core, for instance.
Wherever you end up. Your work on TTY has been quite useful. I must say though, my favorite work you have ever done must be the work on carrier pigeon protocol.
Use the best program you can find for each entry point. E.g., I use:
1.) Hardware NAT device, such as a linksys or netgear router. 2.) AVG antivirus. It's free. Annoying but good. 3.) Firefox 3 browser with noscript plugin. (noscript.net). Noscript is amazing. 4.) Anti-spam software, auto-preview disabled, default all external email to plain-text ("plain text click to view").
I agree with all the others that it's really difficult to determine if you're infected. Also agree the best way to find out if you are is to look at your router's logs.
Separate the wireless piece from the router. Once you do that, you can force clients that want outbound to use a VPN connection, such as OpenVPN. If they don't, they don't get internet.
I don't even bother using wireless security because it's pitiful security compared to 4096 bit SSL keys and tls-auth.
This is the kind of thing that brings about decline in sales. When did you lose sight of the fact that the customer is more important than temporary deals?
A useful link is a useful link. It's good karma to help people. Why is the trend lately to call this karma whoring? It's not like you're making $ for 'karma points' on slashdot.
Linus Torvalds: ''Desktop Market has already started'' Preston St. Pierre of Linux Times interviews Linus Torvalds.
Linus Torvalds tells of some other programming venues than the Linux kernel, predicts a shadowy outcome for GNU/Hurd, gives some advice to anyone wanting to undertake a large software project and updates us on the latest in kernel development in this email interview by Preston St. Pierre.
Preston: Your life has been dedicated for quite some time to the Linux kernel. If this project was no longer yours, what kind of project would you most like to take on next (games, user applications, another kernel, development tools, etc)?
Linus Torvalds: I like being close to the hardware, and doing good visuals (ie games or GUI's) is not my forte, so I'd probably work on development tools or similar.
In fact, the only project I've actually spent some time on in the last year (apart from the kernel, of course) has been this source checker application that does some extended type-checking for the kernel. So very much a development tool.
Preston: What is your favorite interpreted programming language, and why?
Linus Torvalds: Heh. I don't much do interpreters. The only one I end up using consciously (ie not part of somebody else's scripts) end up being just the regular shell. It's not that I dislike things like perl/python, it's just that I tend to either just write C, or do _so_ simple things that shell works fine for me.
I might admit to having a soft spot for basic, but I haven't actually used it in closer to twenty years or so. But it was what I started with, so it will always be special;)
Preston: Do you have any advice for people starting to undertake large open source projects? What have you learned by managing the Linux kernel?
Linus Torvalds: Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small _trivial_ project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you do, you'll just overdesign and generally think it is more important than it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you might be scared away by the sheer size of the work you envision.
So start small, and think about the details. Don't think about some big picture and fancy design. If it doesn't solve some fairly immediate need, it's almost certainly over-designed. And don't expect people to jump in and help you. That's not how these things work. You need to get something half-way _useful_ first, and then others will say "hey, that _almost_ works for me", and they'll get involved in the project.
And if there is anything I've learnt from Linux, it's that projects have a life of their own, and you should _not_ try to enforce your "vision" too strongly on them. Most often you're wrong anyway, and if you're not flexible and willing to take input from others (and willing to change direction when it turned out your vision was flawed), you'll never get anything good done.
In other words, be willing to admit your mistakes, and don't expect to get anywhere big in any kind of short timeframe. I've been doing Linux for thirteen years, and I expect to do it for quite some time still. If I had _expected_ to do something that big, I'd never have started. It started out small and insignificant, and that's how I thought about it.
Preston: From a user's prospective, what improvements do you see the Linux kernel offering over Hurd? Do you think Hurd might eventually become as popular as Linux?
Linus Torvalds: I think Hurd is dead. See above on why. It has a "big vision", and people forgot about the details, and forgot about admitting when they went wrong. So the project stumbled, and _still_ didn't bother to look down on the ground. But hey, I might be wrong. I haven't actually followed Hurd in any detail, and maybe the project is more down-to-earth now, and more concerned about getting things working, and less about "design". And less conceited.
Preston: When do you think Linux will take over desktop market from Micr
In counter-strike aim, anticipation, and teamwork are the most useful. Headshots are usually instant kills, so aim is very important. Anticipation is knowing the maps and position your characters accordingly. The person that knows where their enemy is coming from is going to get that split-second advantage that determines life and death. Teamwork is also critical. In CS you have objectives - plant the bomb, rescue the hostages, stop the other team, etc.; you can't complete the objective without teamwork.
Bobby played in a tournament just a few years ago. He's not nearly the player he once was; Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Short, or pretty much any grandmaster would wipe the floor with him today.
If you read the article you can clearly see MS is not talking about charging for security patches, they're talking about charging for new features!
Throughout the day, a parade of Microsoft's executives summarized each of the company's businesses, describing new products and strategies and outlining competitive threats.
A number of them described the company's overall strategy as "integrated innovation," a reference to the drive to add a continual stream of features and services to Microsoft's Windows and Office software businesses.
"It shouldn't be necessary for people to buy additional products for their secure infrastructures," Mr. Gates said.
Microsoft's plans in the computer security field have created both fear and skepticism in that industry. Its competitors have said they fear that Microsoft will govern that arena in the same way it attacked Netscape and came to dominate browser software.
But despite a concerted effort to improve the reputation of its products for security and stability, Microsoft has been plagued by a series of embarrassing computer security flaws, including a new security hole in a program used to play video and audio files that it made public on Wednesday.
Mr. Gates acknowledged today that the company's error reporting service indicated that 5 percent of all Windows-based computers now crash more than twice each day.
He said that Microsoft would pursue the computer security market aggressively. "Because it's a growth area, we're not being that coy with them about what we intend to do," he said.
Mr. Gates stressed that the company's biggest bet is on the next version of Windows, which is under development and has the code name Longhorn. The company has been vague about when it will begin selling that version, but today a Microsoft executive said that a test version of the program would be available for developers this fall and would be widely distributed next year.
Some analysts have said that Longhorn may not arrive on the market until 2006. Company executives also said today that a number of important features and updates to Windows XP would be added before Longhorn was available.
Mr. Gates said the company was considering the possibility of charging for some of its software updates that are now made available free over the Internet.
Anyone who thinks CS is dying obviously hasn't seen the upcoming 1.6. Among the new features : 2 new guns (they both look sweet!), a counter-terrorist bodyshield, instant messaging system, demo viewer, auto-update, bugfixes, and more!
Click
Here To See 1.6
... so a company like cp.net that has unix/linux daemons that replace exchange server functionality for less doesn't count?... cheaper and more uptime!
I had two brand new PCs shipped in (UPS ground I believe) and they came in much like your boxes. I called them up and the _OFFICIAL_ reason was that a 'tequila party' had occurred.
RedHat seems to have quite a reputation among software developers for "doing things on a whim". By this I mean things such as the gcc/RH7.0 fiasco. How is RedHat planning on enhancing its QA focus to stop things like that from happening again?
don't suppose you'd be interested in hosting a counter-strike server with that nice phat pipe? I can do all the work for you if you'd like. oh please oh please:)
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The money from this movie that the Tolkein trust makes (7.5% of profit) goes to charities.
RTFA....
I quite like windows 7. If you have solid state disks they will run MUCH better. I've found Windows7 scales significantly better with more resources, such as an i7 cpu, than XP does.. XP barely used your 3rd & 4th core, for instance.
Wherever you end up. Your work on TTY has been quite useful. I must say though, my favorite work you have ever done must be the work on carrier pigeon protocol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
Regards
Use the best program you can find for each entry point. E.g., I use:
1.) Hardware NAT device, such as a linksys or netgear router.
2.) AVG antivirus. It's free. Annoying but good.
3.) Firefox 3 browser with noscript plugin. (noscript.net). Noscript is amazing.
4.) Anti-spam software, auto-preview disabled, default all external email to plain-text ("plain text click to view").
I agree with all the others that it's really difficult to determine if you're infected. Also agree the best way to find out if you are is to look at your router's logs.
Separate the wireless piece from the router. Once you do that, you can force clients that want outbound to use a VPN connection, such as OpenVPN. If they don't, they don't get internet.
I don't even bother using wireless security because it's pitiful security compared to 4096 bit SSL keys and tls-auth.
This is the kind of thing that brings about decline in sales. When did you lose sight of the fact that the customer is more important than temporary deals?
A useful link is a useful link. It's good karma to help people. Why is the trend lately to call this karma whoring? It's not like you're making $ for 'karma points' on slashdot.
Linus Torvalds: ''Desktop Market has already started''
;)
Preston St. Pierre of Linux Times interviews Linus Torvalds.
Linus Torvalds tells of some other programming venues than the Linux kernel, predicts a shadowy outcome for GNU/Hurd, gives some advice to anyone wanting to undertake a large software project and updates us on the latest in kernel development in this email interview by Preston St. Pierre.
Preston: Your life has been dedicated for quite some time to the Linux kernel. If this project was no longer yours, what kind of project would you most like to take on next (games, user applications, another kernel, development tools, etc)?
Linus Torvalds: I like being close to the hardware, and doing good visuals (ie games or GUI's) is not my forte, so I'd probably work on development tools or similar.
In fact, the only project I've actually spent some time on in the last year (apart from the kernel, of course) has been this source checker application that does some extended type-checking for the kernel. So very much a development tool.
Preston: What is your favorite interpreted programming language, and why?
Linus Torvalds: Heh. I don't much do interpreters. The only one I end up using consciously (ie not part of somebody else's scripts) end up being just the regular shell. It's not that I dislike things like perl/python, it's just that I tend to either just write C, or do _so_ simple things that shell works fine for me.
I might admit to having a soft spot for basic, but I haven't actually used it in closer to twenty years or so. But it was what I started with, so it will always be special
Preston: Do you have any advice for people starting to undertake large open source projects? What have you learned by managing the Linux kernel?
Linus Torvalds: Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small _trivial_ project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you do, you'll just overdesign and generally think it is more important than it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you might be scared away by the sheer size of the work you envision.
So start small, and think about the details. Don't think about some big picture and fancy design. If it doesn't solve some fairly immediate need, it's almost certainly over-designed. And don't expect people to jump in and help you. That's not how these things work. You need to get something half-way _useful_ first, and then others will say "hey, that _almost_ works for me", and they'll get involved in the project.
And if there is anything I've learnt from Linux, it's that projects have a life of their own, and you should _not_ try to enforce your "vision" too strongly on them. Most often you're wrong anyway, and if you're not flexible and willing to take input from others (and willing to change direction when it turned out your vision was flawed), you'll never get anything good done.
In other words, be willing to admit your mistakes, and don't expect to get anywhere big in any kind of short timeframe. I've been doing Linux for thirteen years, and I expect to do it for quite some time still. If I had _expected_ to do something that big, I'd never have started. It started out small and insignificant, and that's how I thought about it.
Preston: From a user's prospective, what improvements do you see the Linux kernel offering over Hurd? Do you think Hurd might eventually become as popular as Linux?
Linus Torvalds: I think Hurd is dead. See above on why. It has a "big vision", and people forgot about the details, and forgot about admitting when they went wrong. So the project stumbled, and _still_ didn't bother to look down on the ground. But hey, I might be wrong. I haven't actually followed Hurd in any detail, and maybe the project is more down-to-earth now, and more concerned about getting things working, and less about "design". And less conceited.
Preston: When do you think Linux will take over desktop market from Micr
I believe you mean Radeon 9800. According to ID 'Ultra' should really only be played on 512mb video cards, none of which are on the market right now.
In counter-strike aim, anticipation, and teamwork are the most useful. Headshots are usually instant kills, so aim is very important. Anticipation is knowing the maps and position your characters accordingly. The person that knows where their enemy is coming from is going to get that split-second advantage that determines life and death. Teamwork is also critical. In CS you have objectives - plant the bomb, rescue the hostages, stop the other team, etc.; you can't complete the objective without teamwork.
Bobby played in a tournament just a few years ago. He's not nearly the player he once was; Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Short, or pretty much any grandmaster would wipe the floor with him today.
QoS, Syn-flooding, Router & ISP filtering and hardening, and multiple POPs help. Spreading out your content with an Akamai-like solution also helps.
If you read the article you can clearly see MS is not talking about charging for security patches, they're talking about charging for new features!
Throughout the day, a parade of Microsoft's executives summarized each of the company's businesses, describing new products and strategies and outlining competitive threats.
A number of them described the company's overall strategy as "integrated innovation," a reference to the drive to add a continual stream of features and services to Microsoft's Windows and Office software businesses.
"It shouldn't be necessary for people to buy additional products for their secure infrastructures," Mr. Gates said.
Microsoft's plans in the computer security field have created both fear and skepticism in that industry. Its competitors have said they fear that Microsoft will govern that arena in the same way it attacked Netscape and came to dominate browser software.
But despite a concerted effort to improve the reputation of its products for security and stability, Microsoft has been plagued by a series of embarrassing computer security flaws, including a new security hole in a program used to play video and audio files that it made public on Wednesday.
Mr. Gates acknowledged today that the company's error reporting service indicated that 5 percent of all Windows-based computers now crash more than twice each day.
He said that Microsoft would pursue the computer security market aggressively. "Because it's a growth area, we're not being that coy with them about what we intend to do," he said.
Mr. Gates stressed that the company's biggest bet is on the next version of Windows, which is under development and has the code name Longhorn. The company has been vague about when it will begin selling that version, but today a Microsoft executive said that a test version of the program would be available for developers this fall and would be widely distributed next year.
Some analysts have said that Longhorn may not arrive on the market until 2006. Company executives also said today that a number of important features and updates to Windows XP would be added before Longhorn was available.
Mr. Gates said the company was considering the possibility of charging for some of its software updates that are now made available free over the Internet.
nice link. heh!
Anyone who thinks CS is dying obviously hasn't seen the upcoming 1.6. Among the new features : 2 new guns (they both look sweet!), a counter-terrorist bodyshield, instant messaging system, demo viewer, auto-update, bugfixes, and more! Click Here To See 1.6
gang,
:).
there IS a full working version of exchange already out. it's not open source, but it is a lot more reliable and scalable... and of course cheaper
http://www.cp.net/solutions/platform-msgs.html
... so a company like cp.net that has unix/linux daemons that replace exchange server functionality for less doesn't count? ... cheaper and more uptime!
I had two brand new PCs shipped in (UPS ground I believe) and they came in much like your boxes. I called them up and the _OFFICIAL_ reason was that a 'tequila party' had occurred.
Yes, I'm serious.
RedHat seems to have quite a reputation among software developers for "doing things on a whim". By this I mean things such as the gcc/RH7.0 fiasco. How is RedHat planning on enhancing its QA focus to stop things like that from happening again?
mod this up
(globalcenter)- 09:43:41 (229.22 KB/s) - `linux-2.4.3.tar.gz' saved [25755214/25755214] (exodus) - 09:46:11 (163.64 KB/s) - `linux-2.4.3.tar.gz' saved [25755214/25755214]
don't suppose you'd be interested in hosting a counter-strike server with that nice phat pipe? I can do all the work for you if you'd like. oh please oh please :)
link is broken!
go pick up the MST3k dvd...
mod it you bastards.. a different viewpoint is good.