Postfix should be more resistant to hackers than Sendmail or Exim.
Yeah, you know, Sendmail's configuration format is very, very, hairy and the "hackers" will find that a worthy challenge. You Know You Are A True Guru If You Can Make Sense Of Sendmail.cf! And the design is ancient, ancient, ancient and probably fitted to run on more and more systems. A true example of cross-UNIX development. (I'm guessing here, but since I haven't heard of UNIX system that wouldn't be able to run Sendmail, I guess this is true.)
Postfix, then on the other hand, is much more boring. Configure, make it run, it runs. Bleah. Boooooriiiing!
alt.binaries.* usually means piracy - and it is illegal.
Yeah, that's true.
Of course, I have noticed that alt.binaries.* usually means pr0n spam, something that isn't illegal (well, the "spam" part probably is, but otherwise, no).
=)
I don't subscribe to any of the alt.binaries.* groups because I'm living behind an ISDN link and downloading 99% of pr0n vs. 1% of actual content is frustrating. However, for the short while I read sfnet.tiedostot (the local binary group), I noticed a lot of people posted legitimate stuff (strange pictures, screenshots about situations discussed in other groups, and so on) and some did post illegal (copyrighted) stuff. Like all other file sharing mechanisms, it can be used for both.
Of course, in this case, the very group names themselves say that stuff that goes there is probably illegal...
Don't actually write your password, just something to remind you what the password is.
That doesn't solve the "zillion sites" problem, though.
I used to write all of my passwords on a notebook - just the passwords! There were hundreds of passwords there, all on different parts of the page. Most of the passwords had been changed and forgotten ages ago.
(The reason I stored the passwords was that "reminder" tends to get obscure when all passwords look like b6NqX01xZ and n4s0rN04.... That's how people have told me to choose the passwords, to make hard-cracking harder =)
The problems came when I needed to remember the place where my password was stored. Eventually ended up trying a lot of different combinations...
Yesterday's Tux benchmark wasn't worthless (at least not if you serve static content).
::deep sigh::
Once more, in case someone missed: Tux does serve dynamic content. (People seem to be thinking of kttpd... khttpd, the thing that comes with the kernel, serves only static pages.)
The problem is not what goes into the binary but what dependencies are there. Device drivers in linux are tied to the kernel. Thats what makes Linux monolithic.
Um, kernel modules can be effortlessly separated from main source tree and compiled separately (assuming, of course, they depend only on the kernel headers)...
For example, right at the moment I have one device (QuickCam Express) that is built completely separately from main kernel tree. A couple of weeks ago, I had two such modules (Aureal Vortex2 needed a separate driver).
that you've got to think ahead when you create a website for your company. You need to register:
..snip..
And so on and so on...
Uhm, quite true. =) Personally I think this is just a symptom of how rotten to the core the.com/.net/.org domain space is these days. I think it's nice that anyone who needs a domain can get one, but the problem is, domains get registered when there's no need.
How many of those you listed a real company would need? One. companyname.com, under which E-mail, corporate information, product information and all that will go nicely. How many most companies seem to register? All you listed, and then some (you forgot every product the company makes, too =)
(I like.fi domains: Individuals can't register domains (subdomain is being planned), and corporations can get only one domain name per name that appears in National Board of Patents and Registration databases... I really can't speak of DNS pollution here!)
Infocom compiled all of their games to a virtual machine to make porting easier. Clearly, if this is going to be a proper text adventure, it should be available for that VM. That way, if you want to configure your kernel on, say, your pilot or your VIC-20, it would be no problem.
Humm. Kernel config -> Inform -> Z-Machine code? This shouldn't be too hard, but the problem is, Z-Machine (AFAIK) can't save stuff to a file in an arbitrary format...
Do they ban only Nazi related items, or anything with a swastika on it? As you may know, the swastika was an ancient symbol with positive connotations before the 3rd reich.
Yeah, for example, before the wars the swastika was the symbol of Finnish Air Force. I found it strange that some American online flight sim maker (can't remember which) wanted to use the FAF's modern symbol (just circles) on historical planes...
Packet sniffers would probably work great for spot checking if you have a kid developing early signs of 7337n335. The appropriatly filtered log of a packet sniff of junior's workstation might make him rethink his so-called leetness.
It would be far easier to firewall all outgoing 31337 +r8f1c and generate log entries from them.
For extra effect, I suggest following:
A daemon that monitors/var/log/kern.log for netfilter log lines that match certain pattern (Like "Blocked a l33t script attempt:...")
A connector card of some sort, a recorder and alarms.
Now, when the kid uses some l33t skR1pt, the alarms go off. Loud. "Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert! Computer System Security Compromised!" If possible, automatically lock doors with this system if it's remote-controlledly possible. Flashing lights. Police siren. Ringing bells.
Let's see if the kid will then develop more signs of l33tness. =)
My guess is that most Windows users won't have switched off the 'check for updates' stuff (for Windows and IE), and that's where Microsoft will be getting a ton of their 'hits'.
Yeah, I was thinking that, but I forgot to add that to the comment. (It *was* in the comment, but this old copy of Mozilla crashed...)
I guess the reason for these high numbers is simple: People don't change the default homepages, they just use what browser makers or their ISP recommends.
I wonder why sites like Microsoft's get so many hits. Microsoft.com is a relatively boring functional software site, not a "portal" or some place where people would go for fun or for finding non-specific technical information. It's a huge site, with lots of changing information, links to the content die often, finding stuff is ocassinally tricky... I won't go there unless forced to or if I need to find some miracle cure for a MS product.
Or are they speaking of MSN, Microsoft's portal?
Yahoo! would qualify (portal / news / search engine / web directory / coffee maker), and other listed sites, but microsoft.com?
Huh? There are actually people who still have one?
::grin::
I have two C64s (I bought the other last summer - damn, that newish creamy case of C64G is sexy!) and one VIC-20... I still use the C64s a lot, but somehow I only use VIC-20 for playing Jupiter Lander.
You could always change it to a bogus version number, after all who would believe someone logged in using MSIE9?
Yeah, but remember that Microsoft started this trend by saying they're a bogus "compatible" version of Netscape... (I think MS still says their browser is "Mozilla/x.xx (compatible...)")
I just wish people would use real user agent information and not try using really silly stuff like some people seem to do ("Lynx on ENIAC" and "Commodore 64 with 32 megs of RAM" seem to be popular - as a side note, I would like to get a SuperCPU and RAM expansion for my C64 so I could browse web better on that... =)
(...or, at least, if they're using silly bogus User-Agents, they should at least be creative. That "Bond/007 (James Bond; 007; UK; Licence To Kill)" was pretty cool =)
The poster missed the fact that you can still use Opera for that website, as long as you set it to identify itself as MSIE5.
...or use things like Junkbuster to mess with the User-Agent header.
I don't like this behavior, personally, because this skewers statistics. Now, webmasters think 90% of web users use MSIE, so they start "optimizing" their pages for MSIE.
But do all people really use MSIE? I think not. Especially when many "small" browsers lie that they're MSIE...
"nn percent of web surfers use MSIE. The rest lie they do." =)
Mozilla 0.9: 9.5 (Slightly sluggish at times, but definitely bearable and otherwise the usage is frictionless)
Opera 5: 3 (MDI was invention of Satan, defaults *all* wrong and configuration is confusing - oh, and that banner renders me insane!)
IE 5: 6 (All new windows aren't the same size, and I saw no reference to mouse customization - because middle button should be "Open link in new window"! Also, mouse wheel scroll is slow.)
All this is just opinion (except for the MDI part, which is theological).
"11 out of 12 users misundersood the logout icon, thinking it was for:
"power saving"
"use less energy"
"set a screensaver"
"monitor settings"
"put the monitor to sleep"'
Phew! Glad I'm not the only one who thought the imagery on GNOME Panel menu is slightly confusing.
The "Lock" for "Lock screen" is in category "cute but misleading" - I haven't yet seen a monitor that I need to lock with a padlocks to turn on a screen saver.
And "logout" icon (the night sky in monitor thing) was sort of confusing too, yes. It would fit on a screensaver better, I think. (And term "lock screen" sounds rather, uh, harsh - "Screen saver with password" might be too long, though.)
Er, neat idea, but considering the average Half-Life environments, I think it would not make sense.
I mean, Lara chose to do the archeologing stuff wearing relatively light clothes - no need for anything more complicated; Freeman wanted the protective suit, and I think he, as a scientist, had a good for that. "Common Sense Says We Shouldn't Go Naked To Test Chamber That Has Some Dangerous Stuff In It That Creates Interdimensional Gates And Stuff Like That"...
(Well, personally, I play HL deathmatch with the Kain-9 player model - a wolf guy who doesn't need clothes, he already has a good fur =)
Now the real question, where can I get a ethernet card for my '82 Pinto?
After you solve that problem, the next problem would be to find a long enough cable.
...or perharps you should just go WLAN... =)
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I maintain a list of my own Netscape/Mozilla bookmarks at http://www.iki.fi/wwwwolf/aroo/ - and in case someone noticed (which is unlikely =) it has not been updated too furiously. I guess it will be now, though...
Why? Well, Previous Mozilla versions have had SEVERE trouble with bookmark management. For example, for a long time they had none of the luxury of NS4's "File bookmark" thing. I recently noticed Mozilla 0.8.1 had it somewhere, it had just not worked for me. It seems to work in 0.9 now has even better stuff in Manage Bookmarks thing - No need to drag the stuff around gigantic screens, I can now click on a bookmark and choose File Bookmark from the menus to send a bookmark to another folder. Way cool.
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Imagine getting XML & Webservices over freenet, instead of getting sql and anoying stuff...
Yeah, and also imagine getting a Buzzword and another Buzzword there... Now that free-speech-concerned people are interested about Freenet, with things like these we could get politicians and The Management interested about Freenet!
"Yes, you can get Freenet with a red and green browser - and blue, if you pay a bit extra!" =)
Don't they realise there is only one sure protection against copying? They should be lobbying the gov't to ban DVDs!
No... After these news after genetically modified humans, they'd probably start talking with the genetic engineering folks to produce humans with no ears, eyes or any other senses.
Yet, even that is bound to fail. There's no scientific explanations for sixth sense, and with all other senses removed, such modified humans would develop psychic skills with which they could a) guess what happens in the movie and b) burn DVDs with just those psychic powers.
SDL version of Abuse! Woohoo, my life is complete! I thought my world ended when I gave my old machine to my mother and this graphics card was no longer supported by SVGALIB (no way I would have used the 8bpp-only Abuse binary). Now I again have one way of letting out the steam =)
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Yeah, you know, Sendmail's configuration format is very, very, hairy and the "hackers" will find that a worthy challenge. You Know You Are A True Guru If You Can Make Sense Of Sendmail.cf! And the design is ancient, ancient, ancient and probably fitted to run on more and more systems. A true example of cross-UNIX development. (I'm guessing here, but since I haven't heard of UNIX system that wouldn't be able to run Sendmail, I guess this is true.)
Postfix, then on the other hand, is much more boring. Configure, make it run, it runs. Bleah. Boooooriiiing!
(yeah, I know you meant "crackers" =)
Yeah, that's true.
Of course, I have noticed that alt.binaries.* usually means pr0n spam, something that isn't illegal (well, the "spam" part probably is, but otherwise, no).
=)
I don't subscribe to any of the alt.binaries.* groups because I'm living behind an ISDN link and downloading 99% of pr0n vs. 1% of actual content is frustrating. However, for the short while I read sfnet.tiedostot (the local binary group), I noticed a lot of people posted legitimate stuff (strange pictures, screenshots about situations discussed in other groups, and so on) and some did post illegal (copyrighted) stuff. Like all other file sharing mechanisms, it can be used for both.
Of course, in this case, the very group names themselves say that stuff that goes there is probably illegal...
That doesn't solve the "zillion sites" problem, though.
I used to write all of my passwords on a notebook - just the passwords! There were hundreds of passwords there, all on different parts of the page. Most of the passwords had been changed and forgotten ages ago.
(The reason I stored the passwords was that "reminder" tends to get obscure when all passwords look like b6NqX01xZ and n4s0rN04.... That's how people have told me to choose the passwords, to make hard-cracking harder =)
The problems came when I needed to remember the place where my password was stored. Eventually ended up trying a lot of different combinations...
These days, I use a nifty little PalmOS program that keeps the passwords on one place, encrypted...
::deep sigh::
Once more, in case someone missed: Tux does serve dynamic content. (People seem to be thinking of kttpd... khttpd, the thing that comes with the kernel, serves only static pages.)
Um, kernel modules can be effortlessly separated from main source tree and compiled separately (assuming, of course, they depend only on the kernel headers)...
For example, right at the moment I have one device (QuickCam Express) that is built completely separately from main kernel tree. A couple of weeks ago, I had two such modules (Aureal Vortex2 needed a separate driver).
(Disclaimer: I'm not a kernel hacker.)
No, but personally, I chose to just get used to it. There are some things that people just won't learn, no matter how much you try to teach them. =)
Uhm, quite true. =) Personally I think this is just a symptom of how rotten to the core the .com/.net/.org domain space is these days. I think it's nice that anyone who needs a domain can get one, but the problem is, domains get registered when there's no need.
How many of those you listed a real company would need? One. companyname.com, under which E-mail, corporate information, product information and all that will go nicely. How many most companies seem to register? All you listed, and then some (you forgot every product the company makes, too =)
(I like .fi domains: Individuals can't register domains (subdomain is being planned), and corporations can get only one domain name per name that appears in National Board of Patents and Registration databases... I really can't speak of DNS pollution here!)
Humm. Kernel config -> Inform -> Z-Machine code? This shouldn't be too hard, but the problem is, Z-Machine (AFAIK) can't save stuff to a file in an arbitrary format...
Yeah, for example, before the wars the swastika was the symbol of Finnish Air Force. I found it strange that some American online flight sim maker (can't remember which) wanted to use the FAF's modern symbol (just circles) on historical planes...
Well, Visual Fortran seems to be at version 5 alread...
It would be far easier to firewall all outgoing 31337 +r8f1c and generate log entries from them.
For extra effect, I suggest following:
Now, when the kid uses some l33t skR1pt, the alarms go off. Loud. "Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert! Computer System Security Compromised!" If possible, automatically lock doors with this system if it's remote-controlledly possible. Flashing lights. Police siren. Ringing bells.
Let's see if the kid will then develop more signs of l33tness. =)
I guess the reason for these high numbers is simple: People don't change the default homepages, they just use what browser makers or their ISP recommends.
I wonder why sites like Microsoft's get so many hits. Microsoft.com is a relatively boring functional software site, not a "portal" or some place where people would go for fun or for finding non-specific technical information. It's a huge site, with lots of changing information, links to the content die often, finding stuff is ocassinally tricky... I won't go there unless forced to or if I need to find some miracle cure for a MS product.
Or are they speaking of MSN, Microsoft's portal?
Yahoo! would qualify (portal / news / search engine / web directory / coffee maker), and other listed sites, but microsoft.com?
::grin::
I have two C64s (I bought the other last summer - damn, that newish creamy case of C64G is sexy!) and one VIC-20... I still use the C64s a lot, but somehow I only use VIC-20 for playing Jupiter Lander.
Yeah, but remember that Microsoft started this trend by saying they're a bogus "compatible" version of Netscape... (I think MS still says their browser is "Mozilla/x.xx (compatible...)")
I just wish people would use real user agent information and not try using really silly stuff like some people seem to do ("Lynx on ENIAC" and "Commodore 64 with 32 megs of RAM" seem to be popular - as a side note, I would like to get a SuperCPU and RAM expansion for my C64 so I could browse web better on that... =)
(...or, at least, if they're using silly bogus User-Agents, they should at least be creative. That "Bond/007 (James Bond; 007; UK; Licence To Kill)" was pretty cool =)
...or use things like Junkbuster to mess with the User-Agent header.
I don't like this behavior, personally, because this skewers statistics. Now, webmasters think 90% of web users use MSIE, so they start "optimizing" their pages for MSIE.
But do all people really use MSIE? I think not. Especially when many "small" browsers lie that they're MSIE...
"nn percent of web surfers use MSIE. The rest lie they do." =)
...and my opinion:
Usability:
Mozilla 0.9: 9.5 (Slightly sluggish at times, but definitely bearable and otherwise the usage is frictionless)
Opera 5: 3 (MDI was invention of Satan, defaults *all* wrong and configuration is confusing - oh, and that banner renders me insane!)
IE 5: 6 (All new windows aren't the same size, and I saw no reference to mouse customization - because middle button should be "Open link in new window"! Also, mouse wheel scroll is slow.)
All this is just opinion (except for the MDI part, which is theological).
The entry is copied from the Jargon File. Maybe you can try asking ESR to add your example... =)
Phew! Glad I'm not the only one who thought the imagery on GNOME Panel menu is slightly confusing.
The "Lock" for "Lock screen" is in category "cute but misleading" - I haven't yet seen a monitor that I need to lock with a padlocks to turn on a screen saver.
And "logout" icon (the night sky in monitor thing) was sort of confusing too, yes. It would fit on a screensaver better, I think. (And term "lock screen" sounds rather, uh, harsh - "Screen saver with password" might be too long, though.)
Er, neat idea, but considering the average Half-Life environments, I think it would not make sense.
I mean, Lara chose to do the archeologing stuff wearing relatively light clothes - no need for anything more complicated; Freeman wanted the protective suit, and I think he, as a scientist, had a good for that. "Common Sense Says We Shouldn't Go Naked To Test Chamber That Has Some Dangerous Stuff In It That Creates Interdimensional Gates And Stuff Like That"...
(Well, personally, I play HL deathmatch with the Kain-9 player model - a wolf guy who doesn't need clothes, he already has a good fur =)
...or perharps you should just go WLAN... =)
Why? Well, Previous Mozilla versions have had SEVERE trouble with bookmark management. For example, for a long time they had none of the luxury of NS4's "File bookmark" thing. I recently noticed Mozilla 0.8.1 had it somewhere, it had just not worked for me. It seems to work in 0.9 now has even better stuff in Manage Bookmarks thing - No need to drag the stuff around gigantic screens, I can now click on a bookmark and choose File Bookmark from the menus to send a bookmark to another folder. Way cool.
Yeah, and also imagine getting a Buzzword and another Buzzword there... Now that free-speech-concerned people are interested about Freenet, with things like these we could get politicians and The Management interested about Freenet!
"Yes, you can get Freenet with a red and green browser - and blue, if you pay a bit extra!" =)
No... After these news after genetically modified humans, they'd probably start talking with the genetic engineering folks to produce humans with no ears, eyes or any other senses.
Yet, even that is bound to fail. There's no scientific explanations for sixth sense, and with all other senses removed, such modified humans would develop psychic skills with which they could a) guess what happens in the movie and b) burn DVDs with just those psychic powers.
=)
Wow. Thanks for the link. =)
SDL version of Abuse! Woohoo, my life is complete! I thought my world ended when I gave my old machine to my mother and this graphics card was no longer supported by SVGALIB (no way I would have used the 8bpp-only Abuse binary). Now I again have one way of letting out the steam =)