If you run an OpenSolaris distribution on the laptop (the server can be any NFSv3 compliant server) then CacheFS will do exactly this for you. You can even prime the cache using cachefspack initially. It works in disconnected and connected mode and is automatic.
An alternative tool on OpenSolaris distributions is filesync, it uses the same config syntax as cachefspack does but works by simply using cp/mv/rm/chmod/chown and doesn't include its own transport layer (so needs to use NFS or similar).
The damage a trojan can do as a user is much worse than root. Running as root it will probably only damage the system config which can easily be recovered from original media. As a user it can damage or forward your data thats a much worse situtation; it can also impersonate you and damage your reputation.
I personally disagree, in my experience you actually in the longer term get a productivity increase. Why ? because the people are more relaxed and more refreshed with a balanced lifestyle that isn't all "work work work". People who constantly take work home are marters to the job or just really bad at planning.
Backwards compatibile does not imply slowness
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Solaris 10 has probably the best officially supported backwards compatibility guarantee of any operating system out there. Yet it also holds many world record benchmarks. I had a customer mention only a few days ago that they are still running SunOS 4.x binaries on Solaris 10, those were built over 10 years ago and still "just work", whats more they now run faster on modern hardware and get to take advantage of many of the performance improvements un the underlying system.
So exactly how is this different to US politicians pushing for a TLD for all "sex" stuff. The only reason you would want to do that is for filtering/blocking.
The regulations on export of crypto changed significantly in the last few years. There is now generally no problem exporting AES256 or even Blowfish448 from the US.
There are also regulations about how much content is of US origin, if there is less than 10% the regulations can be relaxed. Off shoring doesn't help if the parent company is still a US entity.
These days the bigger problem with stronger crypto like AES256 is import into some countries rather than export from the US.
Not just MacOS X: Solaris has similar concept
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Solaris 10 has something very similar to launchd called SMF: Service Management Framework. It doesn't replace cron but it does replace init.d and inetd. It also provides backwards compatibility so that existing init.d scripts and run and existing inetd entries are migrated to SMF on upgrade.
SMF also does dependancy checks and auto matic restart on failure (or some other conditions). It also uses XML for its configuration but imports that into an SQlite database so that it doesn't need to reparse the XML on every service restart or system boot.
For more information on SMF in Solaris see the links in the main architect/developers blog .
The article on ZDNET is not my idea of comprehensive. It is also very wrong in certain areas. For example it claims that the cryptographic framework came from Trusted Solaris, it didn't [ I know it didn't because I was one of the lead architects and developers for it ] it is a completely new Solaris 10 features.
This is very likely in response not just to Citrix but to Sun's SunRay technology which is the ultimate thinclient - there is no OS on a SunRay it is basically a remote keyboard/mouse/usb hub/audio/framebuffer-display all hanging off a network interface.
SunRay is very heavily used in US Military applications because they really like the zero state on the desktop and no ability for state to be put there. It is even used with Trusted Solaris (which provides Mandatory Access Controls), to access Citrix services.
SunRay also has very simple and very effective desktop mobility, pull out smartcard move to new SunRay unit plug in card, reauthenticate, and off you go.
SunRay however does require dedicated Sun specific hardware, but that hardware is pretty cheap.
You can (and infact Sun does) compile Solaris with gcc. Our production AMD64 kernel and a large number of the AMD64 libraries are compiled with gcc . However the makefile assume the Sun C compiler but the build environment has a wrapper around gcc to make it look like the Sun compiler.
multi letter keys, bah you want whole words that are used in the native programming language of the system you are using. Press 'P' and you get PRINT....
I remeber using an IBM keyboard with a 3270 terminal that did have a "Next" field, it also has "Previous field" and tab was separate. These were both part of the numeric keypad - this was a data entry keyboard.
This is a UK product the RIAA can take a hissy fit all it likes but is has no juristiction in the UK what so ever that last A is America.
Add to this that a lot (though not all) of the DAB content being broadcast in the UK belongs to the BBC (and thus to the British public indirectly) gives a whole different twist to this. The BBC is well known for embrassing new technology rather than just complaing about it. You can already replay Real Audio streams of past FM broadcasts legally from the bbc website.
Metric has been taught in UK schools for a long time. I started school in the UK in 1978 and it had started long before that.
While very thing in school was done in metric our parents still spoke and worked in imperial. It wasn't until the 1999 (I might be off 1 year either side) that the UK officially required that legal weights and measures be metric - remember that even our currency wasn't metric until 1971!
Today in the UK there is a very strange situation. You by fuel for your car in metric but we all still talk about miles per (imperial) gallon. If you go into a pub you buy beer by the imperial pint, but spirts in metric, if you are underage your milk can be in a pint but your soft drink is in metric.
All roads are still in miles. Temperature is given in C but most people 30 and over still understand F as well.
My wife is an Aussie and grew up completely metricated. While we were living in the UK the imperial to metric switch happened and she was happy to be familar with weights and measures again. 6 months later we moved to the US and their "English" system!
and thinks like Rhythmbox are not corporate applications, they are "home user" applications, just like iTunes isn't an application that you need on your corporate MacOS or Windows desktop.
One easy way to get around this is to use themes, I don't believe Mozilla themes names are ever passed across the wire in HTTP headers. This is even more likely to help you if you use a theme that you designed and you didn't distribute anywhere.
Chroot is not secure, all it really does it change the location of what the application thinks is the root of the filesystem. root in a choot is the same root as the rest of the system. You can break out of chroot environments.
Zones are full application environments with their own network addresses, their own filesystems, etc etc. They look to users and applications like separate machines, but their are acutally all running on a single Solaris kernel that ensures resource and security isolation between them. They can be independantly administered, (re)installed and rebooted.
Nope it is nothing what so ever like that. It looks to the applications like a totally separate machine, with its own network interfaces, its own filesystems and its own CPUs.
Unlike LPARS or Sun Fire Domains this does NOT require any additional hardware for a Zone. You could hosts hundreds of Zones on a single CPU machine with a single disk and single network interface, you are limited only by what they do.
Sorry but that is wrong. Both in Trusted Solaris and in Zones there is a single Solaris kernel that is responsbile for the isolation. This is separate userlands with their own nameservice their own filesystems and their own root account.
Zones can't load kernel modules (except indirectly as protocol modules (eg telmod, rlmod), Zones can't (by default) access any raw devices and can't add new network interfaces by themselves.
Except on Sun workstation machines which have had a Help key on the keyboard for years - and still do. Just above the dedicated again/undo/copy/cut/paste keys on the left handside of the keyboard.
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If you run an OpenSolaris distribution on the laptop (the server can be any NFSv3 compliant server) then CacheFS will do exactly this for you.
You can even prime the cache using cachefspack initially. It works in disconnected and connected mode and is automatic.
An alternative tool on OpenSolaris distributions is filesync, it uses the same config syntax as cachefspack does but works by simply using
cp/mv/rm/chmod/chown and doesn't include its own transport layer (so needs to use NFS or similar).
The damage a trojan can do as a user is much worse than root. Running as root it will probably only damage the system config which can easily be recovered from original media. As a user it can damage or forward your data thats a much worse situtation; it can also impersonate you and damage your reputation.
"Results? Productivity drop."
I personally disagree, in my experience you actually in the longer term get a productivity increase. Why ? because the people are more relaxed and more refreshed with a balanced lifestyle that isn't all "work work work". People who constantly take work home are marters to the job or just really bad at planning.
Solaris 10 has probably the best officially supported backwards compatibility guarantee of any operating system out there. Yet it also holds many world record benchmarks. I had a customer mention only a few days ago that they are still running SunOS 4.x binaries on Solaris 10, those were built over 10 years ago and still "just work", whats more they now run faster on modern hardware and get to take advantage of many of the performance improvements un the underlying system.
So exactly how is this different to US politicians pushing for a TLD for all "sex" stuff. The only reason you would want to do that is for filtering/blocking.
FairPlay is what Apple uses see this page on iTMS for DRM authorisations.
Also FairPlay is one word with the 'p' capitalised it is an Apple trademark
All I had to do to find this out was go to apple.com and type fairplay into the search box.
Audi already has something like this on to run the aircon on hot days while the car is parked up without the engine running.
The regulations on export of crypto changed significantly in the last few years. There is now generally no problem exporting AES256 or even Blowfish448 from the US.
There are also regulations about how much content is of US origin, if there is less than 10% the regulations can be relaxed. Off shoring doesn't help if the parent company is still a US entity.
These days the bigger problem with stronger crypto like AES256 is import into some countries rather than export from the US.
Solaris 10 has something very similar to launchd called SMF: Service Management Framework. It doesn't replace cron but it does replace init.d and inetd. It also provides backwards compatibility so that existing init.d scripts and run and existing inetd entries are migrated to SMF on upgrade.
SMF also does dependancy checks and auto matic restart on failure (or some other conditions). It also uses XML for its configuration but imports that into an SQlite database so that it doesn't need to reparse the XML on every service restart or system boot.
For more information on SMF in Solaris see the links in the main architect/developers blog .
The article on ZDNET is not my idea of comprehensive. It is also very wrong in certain areas. For example it claims that the cryptographic framework came from Trusted Solaris, it didn't [ I know it didn't because I was one of the lead architects and developers for it ] it is a completely new Solaris 10 features.
This is very likely in response not just to Citrix but to Sun's SunRay technology which is the ultimate thinclient - there is no OS on a SunRay it is basically a remote keyboard/mouse/usb hub/audio/framebuffer-display all hanging off a network interface.
SunRay is very heavily used in US Military applications because they really like the zero state on the desktop and no ability for state to be put there. It is even used with Trusted Solaris (which provides Mandatory Access Controls), to access Citrix services.
SunRay also has very simple and very effective desktop mobility, pull out smartcard move to new SunRay unit plug in card, reauthenticate, and off you go.
SunRay however does require dedicated Sun specific hardware, but that hardware is pretty cheap.
You can (and infact Sun does) compile Solaris with gcc. Our production AMD64 kernel and a large number of the AMD64 libraries are compiled with gcc . However the makefile assume the Sun C compiler but the build environment has a wrapper around gcc to make it look like the Sun compiler.
multi letter keys, bah you want whole words that are used in the native programming language of the system you are using. Press 'P' and you get PRINT....
I remeber using an IBM keyboard with a 3270 terminal that did have a "Next" field, it also has "Previous field" and tab was separate. These were both part of the numeric keypad - this was a data entry keyboard.
Ctrl-C for Copy, Ctrl-Z for Undo are totally alien to UNIX users.
Ctrl-C means send SIGINT
Ctrl-C means suspend the process and return to the shell (CLI).
Solaris (SunOS) and Sun hardware has supported Copy/Cut/Paste keys longer than Windows has been popular.
Sun Type 6 USB keyboards work just fine on Linux - I'm tying this on one. I'have 10 extra keys on the left hand side of the keyboard.
This is a UK product the RIAA can take a hissy fit all it likes but is has no juristiction in the UK what so ever that last A is America.
Add to this that a lot (though not all) of the DAB content being broadcast in the UK belongs to the BBC (and thus to the British public indirectly) gives a whole different twist to this. The BBC is well known for embrassing new technology rather than just complaing about it. You can already replay Real Audio streams of past FM broadcasts legally from the bbc website.
Metric has been taught in UK schools for a long time. I started school in the UK in 1978 and it had started long before that.
While very thing in school was done in metric our parents still spoke and worked in imperial. It wasn't until the 1999 (I might be off 1 year either side) that the UK officially required that legal weights and measures be metric - remember that even our currency wasn't metric until 1971!
Today in the UK there is a very strange situation. You by fuel for your car in metric but we all still talk about miles per (imperial) gallon. If you go into a pub you buy beer by the imperial pint, but spirts in metric, if you are underage your milk can be in a pint but your soft drink is in metric.
All roads are still in miles. Temperature is given in C but most people 30 and over still understand F as well.
My wife is an Aussie and grew up completely metricated. While we were living in the UK the imperial to metric switch happened and she was happy to be familar with weights and measures again. 6 months later we moved to the US and their "English" system!
and thinks like Rhythmbox are not corporate applications, they are "home user" applications, just like iTunes isn't an application that you need on your corporate MacOS or Windows desktop.
One easy way to get around this is to use themes, I don't believe Mozilla themes names are ever passed across the wire in HTTP headers. This is even more likely to help you if you use a theme that you designed and you didn't distribute anywhere.
Themes aren't just for eye-candy anymore!
The problem was in the PAM module NOT in the passwd(1) command which is acutally quite a simple command because of PAM.
Chroot is not secure, all it really does it change the location of what the application thinks is the root of the filesystem. root in a choot is the same root as the rest of the system. You can break out of chroot environments.
Zones are full application environments with their own network addresses, their own filesystems, etc etc. They look to users and applications like separate machines, but their are acutally all running on a single Solaris kernel that ensures resource and security isolation between them. They can be independantly administered, (re)installed and rebooted.
Nope it is nothing what so ever like that. It looks to the applications like a totally separate machine, with its own network interfaces, its own filesystems and its own CPUs.
Unlike LPARS or Sun Fire Domains this does NOT require any additional hardware for a Zone. You could hosts hundreds of Zones on a single CPU machine with a single disk and single network interface, you are limited only by what they do.
Sorry but that is wrong. Both in Trusted Solaris and in Zones there is a single Solaris kernel that is responsbile for the isolation. This is separate userlands with their own nameservice their own filesystems and their own root account.
Zones can't load kernel modules (except indirectly as protocol modules (eg telmod, rlmod), Zones can't (by default) access any raw devices and can't add new network interfaces by themselves.
Except on Sun workstation machines which have had a Help key on the keyboard for years - and still do. Just above the dedicated again/undo/copy/cut/paste keys on the left handside of the keyboard.
BMW fleet cars. Sure you do if you work for the correct company. I had one and before that I had an Audi. Sorry to gloat but you do see them.