I might be.. we use an in-memory Java objectbase solution for Ganymede.. when coupled with an on-disk transaction log, we get extremely high performance, transactional integrity, and the ability to run wherever there's a Java VM.
While I wouldn't claim that this kind of solution will scale indefinitely, it works very well indeed for our application and our dataset size.
It's not Prevayler, though, so I can't comment on his API or code quality.
Jupiter's already on continuous fire, most likely.. the only reason Earth has a high-fraction oxygen atmospher is because we have living systems cracking carbon dioxide and producing more oxygen all the time. In other places without life (like Mars), whatever oxygen might have been present chemically burns against other elements.. that's why Mars is so red, all the rust is iron burned with oxygen.
Chemical burning of that sort is going on here on Earth, of course, but life is faster and more energetic at producing oxygen than chemical burning is at getting rid of it.
The number of users of lsh today is immaterial to the question of justification for the lsh team's efforts, really. Ssh is critical stuff to have.. we have alternatives in mail transport servers, ftp servers and clients, web servers, programming languages.. why in the world not for free ssh implementations?
It's good to have competing implementations of critical protocols like this, to avoid monoculture.
See, if everyone had been using OpenSSH, then an exploit against an OpenSSH vulnerability would have worked everywhere. This way, the script kiddies need to come up with two separate exploits, and try to figure out which one is applicable for any given system.
Of course, it looks like this lsh vulnerability is much worse than the OpenSSH theoretical vulnerability was, but the ecological argument still pertains.
But surely a memset(buffer->buf, 0, buffer->alloc) is at most a DOS? Hard to imagine a penetration exploit that would result from overrunning a buffer with zero bytes.
Hm, I think the DEC ones I used were of a different design. These were late model VAXstations, and they actually had round balls in them, I'm pretty sure.
The 68k based HPUX systems had worse ones, for sure.
Im fairly sure Microsoft can be secure, but unlike Unix it tends towards insecurity. Ive often compared running Microsoft boxes to herding sheep. You spend all your time keeping them alive and free of viruses. Unix on the other hand is the sheep dog, consistent , loyal and dependent.
Windows NT/2k/XP/2k3 actually has a superior security model to most Unices and most versions of Linux. As you suggest, though, a lot of Microsoft's integration efforts and the desire to continue giving users the illusion that it is reasonable to do anything while logged in to their system under their default user account, leads to problems.
Really, though, Microsoft's number one problem is its monoculture-level popularity. I went camping a couple of weeks ago up in Alaska.. one campground in Fairbanks had an internet terminal.. a Win2k box on a dialup. I went in to use it and found that it was infected with Blaster and merrily trying to infect other systems out on the net.
If Linux was so widely distributed and standardized, the same problems would occur. It is very helpful that if you look at any one hundred Linux systems, you'll find a dozen different configurations, each with its own set of vulnerabilities.
Nice job on not reading the story. Shred calculates a panoply of md5 hashes for each text file.. essentially it creates an md5 hash of each 3 line segment of code, starting at every line offset.
I've got the version they have on freshrpms.net. I'm not using any of the win32 dll using codecs, though.. my system (and my home network) is a wholly Windows-free zone.
No, what you're missing is that SCO only cares about charging _customers_. See, customers are those creatures whose purpose in life is to shed dollars to companies like SCO. SCO's purpose in life is not to shed dollars to folks like the Samba developers, silly!
So long as the money flows to SCO, SCO could give a rats ass about whether anyone else is making money or having their rights honored.
Not strictly true. Although simple, the X-Jet design is not really "very low-tech" -- a lot of time and money has been invested in analysing a phenomenon called "high magnitude combustion" which, while not "detonation" still provides combustion efficiencies almost three times higher than the deflagration that occurs in a conventional pulsejet.
Are we still talking about the simple tube jets that Bruce Simpson has been building down in New Zealand?
Any paraticular reason you seem to be so angry about this? Sheesh.
I might ask the same question of you. I'm not angry about it, I don't think, and I apologize for putting words into your mouth, but it did seem as though you were evincing skepticism due to the purported lack of contrary opinion in the peer-reviewed press, rather than due to any actual positive argument.
But there are respected scientists arguing the counter case, including John Christy most prominently.
You don't have permafrost? Anchorage is at about the same latitude and is partially built on permafrost, though that is abating with the warming trend.
I hadn't realized the scandanavian countries were so warmed by the gulf stream as that.
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Hell no! Are you stupid?
I might be.. we use an in-memory Java objectbase solution for Ganymede.. when coupled with an on-disk transaction log, we get extremely high performance, transactional integrity, and the ability to run wherever there's a Java VM.
While I wouldn't claim that this kind of solution will scale indefinitely, it works very well indeed for our application and our dataset size.
It's not Prevayler, though, so I can't comment on his API or code quality.
Jupiter's already on continuous fire, most likely.. the only reason Earth has a high-fraction oxygen atmospher is because we have living systems cracking carbon dioxide and producing more oxygen all the time. In other places without life (like Mars), whatever oxygen might have been present chemically burns against other elements.. that's why Mars is so red, all the rust is iron burned with oxygen.
Chemical burning of that sort is going on here on Earth, of course, but life is faster and more energetic at producing oxygen than chemical burning is at getting rid of it.
The number of users of lsh today is immaterial to the question of justification for the lsh team's efforts, really. Ssh is critical stuff to have.. we have alternatives in mail transport servers, ftp servers and clients, web servers, programming languages.. why in the world not for free ssh implementations?
It's good to have competing implementations of critical protocols like this, to avoid monoculture.
See, if everyone had been using OpenSSH, then an exploit against an OpenSSH vulnerability would have worked everywhere. This way, the script kiddies need to come up with two separate exploits, and try to figure out which one is applicable for any given system.
Of course, it looks like this lsh vulnerability is much worse than the OpenSSH theoretical vulnerability was, but the ecological argument still pertains.
And a new Slashdot troll meme is born.
Aw, sweet I'm so there.
But surely a memset(buffer->buf, 0, buffer->alloc) is at most a DOS? Hard to imagine a penetration exploit that would result from overrunning a buffer with zero bytes.
Hm, I think the DEC ones I used were of a different design. These were late model VAXstations, and they actually had round balls in them, I'm pretty sure.
The 68k based HPUX systems had worse ones, for sure.
HP and DEC both used to sell roundish mice with their late 80's workstation systems.
Ick, I say.
Im fairly sure Microsoft can be secure, but unlike Unix it tends towards insecurity. Ive often compared running Microsoft boxes to herding sheep. You spend all your time keeping them alive and free of viruses. Unix on the other hand is the sheep dog, consistent , loyal and dependent.
Windows NT/2k/XP/2k3 actually has a superior security model to most Unices and most versions of Linux. As you suggest, though, a lot of Microsoft's integration efforts and the desire to continue giving users the illusion that it is reasonable to do anything while logged in to their system under their default user account, leads to problems.
Really, though, Microsoft's number one problem is its monoculture-level popularity. I went camping a couple of weeks ago up in Alaska.. one campground in Fairbanks had an internet terminal.. a Win2k box on a dialup. I went in to use it and found that it was infected with Blaster and merrily trying to infect other systems out on the net.
If Linux was so widely distributed and standardized, the same problems would occur. It is very helpful that if you look at any one hundred Linux systems, you'll find a dozen different configurations, each with its own set of vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Network works great for that, you just have to pay for it.
Which is reasonable, given that Red Hat is and always was a commercial distribution.
Nice job on not reading the story. Shred calculates a panoply of md5 hashes for each text file.. essentially it creates an md5 hash of each 3 line segment of code, starting at every line offset.
You'd have to transform the segments, basically boiling them down to a canonical form before generating the MD5 hash.
So you might turn all contiguous whitespace (tabs, spaces, etc.) into a single space char before generating the hashes, for instance.
if the GNU/Linux took ideas from the SCO kernel, SCO may be as eligible for compensation as if it were directly copied from SCO.
IANAL, but I don't believe this is so in the general case. Copyright protects only specific expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves.
If SCO had valid patents on some of this stuff, they'd have a point of legal leverage, but they don't from all reports.
Thank you, Spider.
Of course, ripping and then reselling the CD is a copyright violation.
Which we do care about, don't we?
I've got the version they have on freshrpms.net. I'm not using any of the win32 dll using codecs, though.. my system (and my home network) is a wholly Windows-free zone.
Xine v0.9.22 worked great for me.
Surprisingly, mplayer did not. I always thought mplayer was ahead of xine in the codec race, but apparently not.
I'm still very impressed with BitTorrent. Very ice design, kids.
No, what you're missing is that SCO only cares about charging _customers_. See, customers are those creatures whose purpose in life is to shed dollars to companies like SCO. SCO's purpose in life is not to shed dollars to folks like the Samba developers, silly!
So long as the money flows to SCO, SCO could give a rats ass about whether anyone else is making money or having their rights honored.
Unreal Tournament 2003 and Enemy Territory play plenty fine on Linux, and they're fairly modern.
Neverwinter Nights, Tribes 2, Quake3 and oldschool Unreal Tournament are the others I play much of.
Baha!!
Not strictly true. Although simple, the X-Jet design is not really "very low-tech" -- a lot of time and money has been invested in analysing a phenomenon called "high magnitude combustion" which, while not "detonation" still provides combustion efficiencies almost three times higher than the deflagration that occurs in a conventional pulsejet.
Are we still talking about the simple tube jets that Bruce Simpson has been building down in New Zealand?
Bruce's pulse jets are very low-tech, deflagration engines. The PopSci article is about detonation pulse engines.
Any paraticular reason you seem to be so angry about this? Sheesh.
I might ask the same question of you. I'm not angry about it, I don't think, and I apologize for putting words into your mouth, but it did seem as though you were evincing skepticism due to the purported lack of contrary opinion in the peer-reviewed press, rather than due to any actual positive argument.
But there are respected scientists arguing the counter case, including John Christy most prominently.
You don't have permafrost? Anchorage is at about the same latitude and is partially built on permafrost, though that is abating with the warming trend.
I hadn't realized the scandanavian countries were so warmed by the gulf stream as that.