Make sure you have security.debian.org as one of your sources. From then on, if you are running stable, a periodic `aptitude update && aptitude upgrade` should patch all your systems.
If you are running unstable, you're a developer so you should be getting the latest packages all the time, anyway.
If you are running testing, all bets are off. Make sure you get security fixes from unstable as they are made available as it make take a while for them to filter into testing.
Well, perhaps you just need to learn how to chroot a web server. It's not that difficult, and is just down right simple in some distributions.
Debian users, check out the debootstrap package.
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This used to be called Interix, which occupied a space similar to Cygwin (now owned by RedHat.) They packaged up some GNU tools, and got a build environment working.
The interesting artifact is that Services for UNIX provides versions of GCC and GDB and other GNU goodness. The source code for these products is faithfully available on Microsoft's website. I would like to note that you should not buy this product, as it contains non-free software.
If you want to run POSIX programs on Windows, try Cygwin. It's great, and Free!
Everybody goes on and on about the wonders of apt-get, as if it were the only good thing about Debian. (By the way, you guys should be using aptitude now. Aptitude tracks "auto" packages which have been only been installed to meet dependencies.)
Debian's most valuable asset is its devotion to its users. We are the only GNU/Linux distribution to work on this many architectures. Debian is the testing ground for non-i386 XFree86.
Debian is also invaluable to the developer community because the Project submits bugs upstream! Yes, when a package does not compile on PA-RISC because the code is poor and/or non-portable, a bug report (and likely a patch) is forwarded upstream. Not only does this fix a lot of bugs, but it improves software quality across all architectures. Plus, system administration across the Debian platform is extremely consistent.
Debian considers itself the Universal Operating System. That is why projects such as Debian NetBSD, Debian OpenBSD, Debian FreeBSD and even Debian GNU/Hurd are in active development. I know the GNU/Hurd port has been doing a very good job of making sure programs are truly POSIX compliant.
You're joking that you love Perl 5 regular expressions, right? They are extremely ugly and difficult to parse. Perl 6 regular expressions will be incredibly nice. Just compare something like: s{:(.*?):}{split ";", \1}ge with s:e{: (.*?):}{$(split ";", $1)} for clarity? Of course, if you are really enamoured with Perl 5 regexps, you can either use re perl5; globally, or for individual regexps, s:p5{PATTERN}{EXPR}
Yes, WD40 is flammable. However, I'm assuming our friend here used it in a well-ventilated room and didn't leave a fine mist inside a computer case where a random spark could ignite it.
Can you repair your own car? Build your own house? Hell, can you cook your own food? Then why are these people dumb because they aren't computer experts?
A person can do all those things. To quote R.A.H., "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders,
solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer,
cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
The best thing in the newest version of OpenSSH just has to be the `-D ' switch. It provides a SOCKS4 proxy on the local port which dynamically proxies to the remote machine. How cool is that? It provides an instant VPN tunnel to your remote network!
FooCorp owns this patent. Because the GPL is meant to protect Free Software from licensing issues, FooCorp must make this patent free for use; so that derivatives of their work can make use of this patented technology. So the third response is the correct one.
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But of course! There's Stroustroup's "The C++ Programming Language" which is a thorough reference to the language itself, and how to use it effectively. As well, there is Josuttis' "The C++ Standard Library." Together, they make a great set.
I had some issues with my screen as well. What usually happens is the cable that connects the screen to the mainboard has a poor contact. What I did was open up the back of my Palm III, and take out the cable. Then, I used contact cleaner on the terminals and reseated the thing. Put a drop of hot glue to hold the cable and the jack together, and then I reassembled the whole thing. Haven't had any trouble since.
Businesses always forget that maxim. Especially Marketing departments! The customer is always right about what he wants. There's very little benefit in trying to convince him that he wants what you tell him to want; as an intelligent person, he will decide for himself
Now, that's not to say that advertising is irrelevant, far from it! I think most people will agree with me when advertising is unintrusive, and actually useful. From what I gather, what annoys people about commercials is that it wastes their time! So, what should a company do? Let people choose whether they want to watch an advertisement. If you're advertising campaign is good, even people with ReplayTV machines will stop to watch. If it's lousy, then you just blew a whack of money on something nobody likes. It's as simple as that.
But best of all! You can switch users! It's excellent! I don't mean you can log out and log in as someone else, but rather you can log in a second time, and the first user's applications are still running in the background. I can't tell you how annoying it used to be to have to stop listening to music, log off of IM, and lose all my IE windows if I wanted to muck around as administrator. I realize, this feature could have/should have been here since NT4, but it wasn't.
You really shouldn't be doing that, since we don't know how secure the Fast Switching feature is. As well, it only works on the Workgroup model. As soon as you use Domain Authentication, this feature goes away.
What to do? Use the runas command. It basically allows you to change the privledges of a process and all its children by running them as another user. If you don't have this command (It's bundled in the Windows 2000 Resource Kit) then you can still make a shortcut that runs a program with a different user. Go to the Properties menu for the shortcut and check the "Run as different user" box.
The GNU kernel is currently the HURD. It's a beautiful system that's built on top of GNU Mach. I've a friend who's running it at this very moment. It's his primary development machine.
Being aware of the uniqueness of disks may not be optimal. We'll have a whole new crop of problems if some silly person ejects a disk while it's still mounted, walks over to another computer and writes to the disk, and then brings it back to the first computer to read it. Macs are notorious at refusing disks that have been treated this way.
P.S. Yes, I know. Hit Command-. several times to make the dialogue box go away.
"You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! ---Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur-king, you and all your silly English knnnniggets. Thppppt!"
This rule is a hold-over from the time that bandwidth usage was not monitored auto-magically at the hardware level. Cheryl, our Chief ResNet Lady, would have to scan through usage logs and call up people who violated their usage limits. Obviously, running a server would mean that it would be extremely easy to run over the limit, causing Cheryl to get really angry. Nowadays, it isn't that much of a problem because once the host computer serves out too much data, they just disappear from sight.
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Move along folks, nothing to see here. alpha.gnu.org was cracked many months ago.
Why don't you try the GNU Free Software Directory? Take a look, there's some math packages here on it already!
Make sure you have security.debian.org as one of your sources. From then on, if you are running stable, a periodic `aptitude update && aptitude upgrade` should patch all your systems.
If you are running unstable, you're a developer so you should be getting the latest packages all the time, anyway.
If you are running testing, all bets are off. Make sure you get security fixes from unstable as they are made available as it make take a while for them to filter into testing.
Well, perhaps you just need to learn how to chroot a web server. It's not that difficult, and is just down right simple in some distributions.
Debian users, check out the debootstrap package.
This used to be called Interix, which occupied a space similar to Cygwin (now owned by RedHat.) They packaged up some GNU tools, and got a build environment working.
The interesting artifact is that Services for UNIX provides versions of GCC and GDB and other GNU goodness. The source code for these products is faithfully available on Microsoft's website. I would like to note that you should not buy this product, as it contains non-free software.
If you want to run POSIX programs on Windows, try Cygwin. It's great, and Free!
Everybody goes on and on about the wonders of apt-get, as if it were the only good thing about Debian. (By the way, you guys should be using aptitude now. Aptitude tracks "auto" packages which have been only been installed to meet dependencies.)
Debian's most valuable asset is its devotion to its users. We are the only GNU/Linux distribution to work on this many architectures. Debian is the testing ground for non-i386 XFree86.
Debian is also invaluable to the developer community because the Project submits bugs upstream! Yes, when a package does not compile on PA-RISC because the code is poor and/or non-portable, a bug report (and likely a patch) is forwarded upstream. Not only does this fix a lot of bugs, but it improves software quality across all architectures. Plus, system administration across the Debian platform is extremely consistent.
Debian considers itself the Universal Operating System. That is why projects such as Debian NetBSD, Debian OpenBSD, Debian FreeBSD and even Debian GNU/Hurd are in active development. I know the GNU/Hurd port has been doing a very good job of making sure programs are truly POSIX compliant.
You're joking that you love Perl 5 regular expressions, right? They are extremely ugly and difficult to parse. Perl 6 regular expressions will be incredibly nice. Just compare something like: s{:(.*?):}{split ";", \1}ge with s:e{: (.*?) :}{$(split ";", $1)} for clarity? Of course, if you are really enamoured with Perl 5 regexps, you can either use re perl5; globally, or for individual regexps, s:p5{PATTERN}{EXPR}
You think you're joking huh? Check out template metaprogramming.
Yes, WD40 is flammable. However, I'm assuming our friend here used it in a well-ventilated room and didn't leave a fine mist inside a computer case where a random spark could ignite it.
Can you repair your own car? Build your own house? Hell, can you cook your own food? Then why are these people dumb because they aren't computer experts?
A person can do all those things. To quote R.A.H., "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
The best thing in the newest version of OpenSSH just has to be the `-D ' switch. It provides a SOCKS4 proxy on the local port which dynamically proxies to the remote machine. How cool is that? It provides an instant VPN tunnel to your remote network!
Sorry, please try again.
FooCorp owns this patent. Because the GPL is meant to protect Free Software from licensing issues, FooCorp must make this patent free for use; so that derivatives of their work can make use of this patented technology. So the third response is the correct one.
But of course! There's Stroustroup's "The C++ Programming Language" which is a thorough reference to the language itself, and how to use it effectively. As well, there is Josuttis' "The C++ Standard Library." Together, they make a great set.
He once virtually ran "like hell" from Tove...
I had some issues with my screen as well. What usually happens is the cable that connects the screen to the mainboard has a poor contact. What I did was open up the back of my Palm III, and take out the cable. Then, I used contact cleaner on the terminals and reseated the thing. Put a drop of hot glue to hold the cable and the jack together, and then I reassembled the whole thing. Haven't had any trouble since.
Businesses always forget that maxim. Especially Marketing departments! The customer is always right about what he wants. There's very little benefit in trying to convince him that he wants what you tell him to want; as an intelligent person, he will decide for himself
Now, that's not to say that advertising is irrelevant, far from it! I think most people will agree with me when advertising is unintrusive, and actually useful. From what I gather, what annoys people about commercials is that it wastes their time! So, what should a company do? Let people choose whether they want to watch an advertisement. If you're advertising campaign is good, even people with ReplayTV machines will stop to watch. If it's lousy, then you just blew a whack of money on something nobody likes. It's as simple as that.
You really shouldn't be doing that, since we don't know how secure the Fast Switching feature is. As well, it only works on the Workgroup model. As soon as you use Domain Authentication, this feature goes away.
What to do? Use the runas command. It basically allows you to change the privledges of a process and all its children by running them as another user. If you don't have this command (It's bundled in the Windows 2000 Resource Kit) then you can still make a shortcut that runs a program with a different user. Go to the Properties menu for the shortcut and check the "Run as different user" box.
bash-2.00# apt-get builddep program
.deb package for you
# This gets your build dependencies
bash-2.00# dpkg-deb -e program.deb
bash-2.00# dpkg-deb -x program.deb
# Extract the package itself, and it's control files
# Now, edit the configuration, patch files, edit control files, edit make files
bash-2.00# dpkg-deb -b source-dir
# This will build a
bash-2.00# dpkg -i program.deb
For more information, look at the GNU Hurd site. You should also check out Debian GNU/Hurd.
TightVNC code has been folding into TridiaVNC.
FreeAmp has been doing this for a while, now. There's an option to check for updates automatically on start.
http://www.freeamp.org
Being aware of the uniqueness of disks may not be optimal. We'll have a whole new crop of problems if some silly person ejects a disk while it's still mounted, walks over to another computer and writes to the disk, and then brings it back to the first computer to read it. Macs are notorious at refusing disks that have been treated this way.
P.S. Yes, I know. Hit Command-. several times to make the dialogue box go away.
Let me get this straight. You're proposing that moderators categorize the comment. So you would know how it's biased and by how much.
That's a very interesting idea, but wouldn't that get a little absurd, especially if people start demanding fine-grained classification?
"You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! ---Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur-king, you and all your silly English knnnniggets. Thppppt!"
This rule is a hold-over from the time that bandwidth usage was not monitored auto-magically at the hardware level. Cheryl, our Chief ResNet Lady, would have to scan through usage logs and call up people who violated their usage limits. Obviously, running a server would mean that it would be extremely easy to run over the limit, causing Cheryl to get really angry. Nowadays, it isn't that much of a problem because once the host computer serves out too much data, they just disappear from sight.