...and of course a quick look at the docs shows that the original fnord server dates from 1997, and the IPv6-enhanced version from Januray 1999.
Of course, Microsoft already include a bunch of GPL'd software with the NT4 Resource Kit, including a horrible old build of Perl, some GNU utilities etc. IIRC these were licensed from MKS. Anyone know whether the W2K Resource Kit comes with similar goodies? Or have MS noticed that everyone who wants a usable Windows system these days gets this stuff (and tons more) from cygwin? --
"I'm not downloaded, I'm just loaded and down"
The rest of the world is more worried that the US will pick them as an Ally, and start insisting on joint training exercises... *phear*
I seem to remember that more allied forces were killed by friendly fire in the Gulf than by enemy action. And most of those were British forces killed by Americans. Odd, that.
Oh, and does anyone remember when that Iranian civilian airliner with several hundred passengers was shot down by a US Navy vessel? Imagine the ruckus if, say, China shot down an American Airlines 747 off the coast of California.
The archive files could not be accessed, probably because they are being updated. Please try again in about 30 seconds, and report the problem if it persists for more than a few minutes. The file that could not be opened is '/home/apache/htdocs/archives/domain-policy/domain -policy.ind0103' and the error code was 2.
I'm trying to persuade my company to obtain our digital signatures elsewhere, and not to book a training course someone was about to buy.
This company are Evil and Rude. --
"I'm not downloaded, I'm just loaded and down"
Restricting free software to only run on Free OSen is a really BAD idea. The ability to use Apache, perl, BIND, Sendmail, and of course the incredible Cygwin, which even lets you run XFree86 / WindowMaker on NT, allows people trapped in corporate environments that are supposedly all-Microsoft shops the chance to sneak Free stuff in under the radar, and get experience with using it. These people are more likely to push for Free software later in their careers, when theyr'e not just web-monkeys. That's how I started - sneaking Apache and Perl onto Bain's corporate intranet in place of IIS and ASP. Got fired for it in the end, but now I'm doing mod_perl stuff on Linux and OpenBSD - I'd never have had the confidence to apply for those sort of jobs without the experience of using the good stuff in stealth mode. --
"I'm not downloaded, I'm just loaded and down"
The closed-source SETI@home client *was* hacked, several times, by people trying to get faster performance (not outright cheating)... the SETI folks went pretty ballistic when they found out, sadly they had to explain in very short words that science is about repeatable experiments, and that requires that all the data is processed in *exactly* the same way. Otherwise the parameter-space searched by the programme would be subtly skewed - for example, a faster algorithm
might mean that signals at the far end of the gaussian spectrum they're looking at would be missed or included for only the hacked clients.
However there are tons of unofficial add-ons that *are* allowed: see here at
the SETI@home site.
This and much more info in the unofficial SETI FAQ... infuritatingly, I've got a copy saved at home but can't find a link to it anywhere. (Think this was the Usenet FAQ.) Anyone?
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OK, forgive me for feeding the troll, but this sort of garbage really annoys me.
Yeah, yeah, NT4 is worthless garbage, it crashes all the time, right? Monumentally insecure, right? Odd that, I haven't had a BSOD on my home machine for > 6 months (since the last time I started messing with kernel-space drivers), and it's been compromised, ooh... no times at all! Gosh I must be sooo lucky, huh? Oh yes, and it's had 90 day uptimes, runs a local web and mail server, caching-only BIND, NAT / IP gateway,... using mod_perl / Apache / BIND / all the std GNU utils (cygwin), bash, wget,... you name it.
NB: I am *not* saying IIS, or any of the other MS server products, are anything but embrace and extend in binary form, or anything other than hugely expensive pale imitations of far superior Free server products.
Sooo much better than Linux, which *never* crashes, and *never* suffers security problems, huh? So how come NTBugtraq has had less traffic this year than Bugtraq gets in a week?
Given the choice, I'll use Free software rather than Microsoft software because it's Free. Yes, it might be more flexible/secure/powerful/stable or whatever, but don't rely on that as a reason to get people to ditch MS. That's why you zealots have to contort yourself into the absurd idea that all corporate users of Microsoft software *must* be drooling morons, cos *everyone* knows Windows crashes|gets 0wned all the time, right? Try getting your information from personal experience (with a well configured NT machine, rather than a PoS win9x|ME home box.) Like anything else, it can be done well or badly. Freedom is the only reason to choose Free software. Anything else is delusion. IMHO:) --
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Hard to refute the assertion that all men judge women on the same criteria, and that all women judge men on the same criteria? On the contrary, I think it's hard to justify the original statement - indeed, it's self-evidentally nonsense. --
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> Just as men rate women on how good their figures
>are, women rate men on their success, or >"alpha-characteristics."
Troll, -1... and one of the saddest things I can remember seeing on Slashdot.
Get some therapy. --
"I'm not downloaded, I'm just loaded and down"
Southwark Council includes encrypted mail along with rascist, sexist, defamatory content in their list of inappropriate content. Say *what*?? The world's general ignorance of PGP and encruyption is very depressing. Someone (a C++ programmer, no less!) even asked me why my mail sig is "SHA1"... --
"I'm not downloaded, I'm just loaded and down"
Considering the vast majority of broadband ISPs don't even filter for ports 137/139, let alone actively look for them and warn customers that they're sharing their entire Windows machine with the world, do you think they go checking up? I doubt it. They're probably not going to notice, unless you get slashdotted... --
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Re:Juniper, not Jupiter
on
Smart Routers
·
· Score: 2
How hilarious - and how slashdot that 24 posts didn't notice... --
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Speaking as a UK citizen who was once (looong ago:) politically active in one of the mainstream political parties, I find that I'm getting more, not less, radicalised as I get older (I'm in my early 30s now.) I think there are broad generalised conclusions we can all draw, which more-or-less hold true throughout the developed world:
Politicians don't understand the internet;
The more they find out about it (mostly from to highly tendentious briefings from the organisations of state and corporate control - see below), the more frightening they find it.
Police and spook organisations see it as a magic carpet to increased powers, greater control, and bigger budgets.
We who see that freedom of speech, increased communication across borders (geographical, political, cultural) have a moral duty to educate others, agitate against such terrible laws as much as practical, and push the boundaries of freedom back.
Like RIP (trust PGP communication with a UK citizen? Sucker!), there are a lot of laws stacking up that are impractical, or too unpopular, to be enforced yet. These are *more* repressive - when enforcement of the law becomes discretionary, the scene is set for corruption and repression. The drug laws are a good example: as a 30-something white middle class male in regular employment and no record, recreational drugs are de-facto decriminalised for me. But if the cops want to "get" some working class black kid who gets up their nose by (say) protesting about deaths in custody... guess how easy it is for him to "disappear" into prison, with the likely destruction of his future prospects even if it's a short sentence? Pure evil. These things are going onto the statute books so that they can be pulled out of their sleeves when they're needed by the powers-that-be.
We've got an election in progress here at present, let's try to raise these issues at every opportunity. --
"I'm not downloaded, I'm just loaded and down"
I believe this has already been taken into account.
As an example of the sort of phenomena which can add up to a noticeable effect over long periods of time, check out the results from NEAR Shoemaker probve to Eros (you rmemeber, probe that orbited & finally landed on asteroid Eros.) ON eof severla unexpected results is that there are disproportionately fewer small impact craters than would be expected, given the number (density) of larger ones. One possible explanation for this is is that small (c. 1cm diameter) orbiting rocks may be preferentially expelled from the inner solar system, due to the fact that as they spin, the side that has just moved from sunlit to dark side re-radiates some of the energy it's absorbed from the sun. This leads (in some obscure but very clever theory which I can't find a link for right this moment) to these objects drifting slowly away from the sun.
This doesn't affect larger objects because their ratio of surface area to volume is different... --
IIRC, some ground-breaking automated surveys
going on at present are producing three dimensional
maps of our local galactic environment (the SMC and LMC, local group etc), and that they're finding 'stuff' (objects, phenomena) that weren't previously
known. Could any such things produce a systematic error in the observations that set currently accepted values for physical constants?
--
Sod's law suggests that it's 99%
likely to be one of (a|b|c|d|g|h). However, astronomers and physicists are generally rather
good at methodically excluding likely explanations, starting with the least unlikely, until all that's left, however unlikely,..
We know that, at some level, the standard model is inconsistent - quantum physics and relativity are mutually incompatible. One tantalising observation for which there's no generally accepted explanation is that gravity is many, many orders of magnitude less powerful than the other fundamental forces.
I'd love ot believe that this phenomena, which has been bobbing around for a few years now, is a pointer to some Theory of Everything. But, after 25 years in space, the tiniest force acting on the probes which is not accounted for, can stack up to an observable difference of position from prediction.
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> Maybe a legitimate space scientist or two will
> post with something that might actually be useful.
Curiously enough, that was exactly what I was hoping .
Now that I've finally lain the karma-whore ghost,
I'm reading at -1, and, well, it's embarrassing to
admit but I've been laughing my arse off.
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Ironically, at about the same time it looked like we'd got the go-ahead to Free & release a part of the application server developed in-house - that motivated us to finally get round to giving it a proper audit, which turned up several more interesting features...
knowing there's a possibility that one's peers may deign to cast an eye over one's code == much more care and attention. Not that I'd ever write buggy or insecure code of course;) --
Seriously... I'm finding it hard to express how upset I am about this. I got into Hithc-hiker's Guide more than twenty years ago (my father made me listen to it on the radio because they went to the same school)... devoured the books, taped as much as I could manage when the radio series were repeated in 1985-6, then listened to those obsessively ever since.
Douglas Adams, his unfortunate obsesion with Macs aside, was always interested in computers, ever since the original InfoGames adaption of HHG as a text adventure. I saw a piece on that on the BBC's 'Microcoputers' show & taped the audio for that, too - I remember him saying that he offered to do the actual programming, to which the developers "politely told me that they'd like it to come out this century, and if I could stick to writing the jokes,..."
If you haven't heard the original radio shows, do yourself a big favour and get them now *NOT* the audio book - IMHO they're better than the books, as well as following a different (and more coherent) plot as well. And there's lots of stuff that didn't make it to the books: Zaphod and Ford falling from a mysterious cold white cave, fifteen miles up in the air...
Ford: I can't stand heights!
ZB: Don't worry, we're on our way down... listen, we may be alright, we might land in the water you know? Can you swim?
Ford: I don't know.
ZB: You don't *know*?
Ford: Well, I never liked to go into water in any great detail...
ZB: What kind of traveller are you, man? Don't like heights, don't like water...
Ford: Simply natural. I just get a kick out of being on the ground.
ZB: Well any minute now you'll have the biggest kick of your life...
I feel as if I've lost a member of my family. It's only 90 minutes since I heard this, and it still hasn't sunk in.
I really hope the HHG site doesn't get any more messed up by the BBC (see this week's NTK... and I hope the film still happens, as he was sounding really upbeat about it last I heard (his Ask Slashdot interview I think.)
Slashdot Mirror
Multicast is being replaced by Anycast for very good technical reasons - it's better technology :)
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Yeah, and the icon is a pyramid with an eye in it. *shiver*
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"I'm not downloaded, I'm just loaded and down"
Of course, Microsoft already include a bunch of GPL'd software with the NT4 Resource Kit, including a horrible old build of Perl, some GNU utilities etc. IIRC these were licensed from MKS. Anyone know whether the W2K Resource Kit comes with similar goodies? Or have MS noticed that everyone who wants a usable Windows system these days gets this stuff (and tons more) from cygwin?
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Score: 0, Off-topic
a large, well equipped, well trained standing army
You're kidding, right?
The rest of the world is more worried that the US will pick them as an Ally, and start insisting on joint training exercises... *phear*
I seem to remember that more allied forces were killed by friendly fire in the Gulf than by enemy action. And most of those were British forces killed by Americans. Odd, that.
Oh, and does anyone remember when that Iranian civilian airliner with several hundred passengers was shot down by a US Navy vessel? Imagine the ruckus if, say, China shot down an American Airlines 747 off the coast of California.
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Error - cannot access archive files
The archive files could not be accessed, probably because they are being updated. Please try again in about 30 seconds, and report the problem if it persists for more than a few minutes. The file that could not be opened is '/home/apache/htdocs/archives/domain-policy/domain -policy.ind0103' and the error code was 2.
I'm trying to persuade my company to obtain our digital signatures elsewhere, and not to book a training course someone was about to buy. This company are Evil and Rude.
--
"I'm not downloaded, I'm just loaded and down"
Restricting free software to only run on Free OSen is a really BAD idea. The ability to use Apache, perl, BIND, Sendmail, and of course the incredible Cygwin, which even lets you run XFree86 / WindowMaker on NT, allows people trapped in corporate environments that are supposedly all-Microsoft shops the chance to sneak Free stuff in under the radar, and get experience with using it. These people are more likely to push for Free software later in their careers, when theyr'e not just web-monkeys. That's how I started - sneaking Apache and Perl onto Bain's corporate intranet in place of IIS and ASP. Got fired for it in the end, but now I'm doing mod_perl stuff on Linux and OpenBSD - I'd never have had the confidence to apply for those sort of jobs without the experience of using the good stuff in stealth mode.
--
"I'm not downloaded, I'm just loaded and down"
Got it: the other SETI FAQ.
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"I'm not downloaded, I'm just loaded and down"
However there are tons of unofficial add-ons that *are* allowed: see here at the SETI@home site.
This and much more info in the unofficial SETI FAQ... infuritatingly, I've got a copy saved at home but can't find a link to it anywhere. (Think this was the Usenet FAQ.) Anyone?
--
"I'm not downloaded, I'm just loaded and down"
Yeah, yeah, NT4 is worthless garbage, it crashes all the time, right? Monumentally insecure, right? Odd that, I haven't had a BSOD on my home machine for > 6 months (since the last time I started messing with kernel-space drivers), and it's been compromised, ooh... no times at all! Gosh I must be sooo lucky, huh? Oh yes, and it's had 90 day uptimes, runs a local web and mail server, caching-only BIND, NAT / IP gateway,... using mod_perl / Apache / BIND / all the std GNU utils (cygwin), bash, wget,... you name it.
NB: I am *not* saying IIS, or any of the other MS server products, are anything but embrace and extend in binary form, or anything other than hugely expensive pale imitations of far superior Free server products.
Sooo much better than Linux, which *never* crashes, and *never* suffers security problems, huh? So how come NTBugtraq has had less traffic this year than Bugtraq gets in a week?
Given the choice, I'll use Free software rather than Microsoft software because it's Free . Yes, it might be more flexible /secure/powerful/stable or whatever, but don't rely on that as a reason to get people to ditch MS. That's why you zealots have to contort yourself into the absurd idea that all corporate users of Microsoft software *must* be drooling morons, cos *everyone* knows Windows crashes|gets 0wned all the time, right? Try getting your information from personal experience (with a well configured NT machine, rather than a PoS win9x|ME home box.) Like anything else, it can be done well or badly. Freedom is the only reason to choose Free software. Anything else is delusion. IMHO :)
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"I'm not downloaded, I'm just loaded and down"
Hard to refute the assertion that all men judge women on the same criteria, and that all women judge men on the same criteria? On the contrary, I think it's hard to justify the original statement - indeed, it's self-evidentally nonsense.
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>are, women rate men on their success, or
>"alpha-characteristics." Troll, -1... and one of the saddest things I can remember seeing on Slashdot.
Get some therapy.
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Nice sig. :-)
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"I'm not downloaded, I'm just loaded and down"
Southwark Council includes encrypted mail along with rascist, sexist, defamatory content in their list of inappropriate content. Say *what*?? The world's general ignorance of PGP and encruyption is very depressing. Someone (a C++ programmer, no less!) even asked me why my mail sig is "SHA1" ...
--
"I'm not downloaded, I'm just loaded and down"
Considering the vast majority of broadband ISPs don't even filter for ports 137/139, let alone actively look for them and warn customers that they're sharing their entire Windows machine with the world, do you think they go checking up? I doubt it. They're probably not going to notice, unless you get slashdotted...
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"I'm not downloaded, I'm just loaded and down"
How hilarious - and how slashdot that 24 posts didn't notice...
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"I'm not downloaded, I'm just loaded and down"
Speaking as a UK citizen who was once (looong ago :) politically active in one of the mainstream political parties, I find that I'm getting more, not less, radicalised as I get older (I'm in my early 30s now.) I think there are broad generalised conclusions we can all draw, which more-or-less hold true throughout the developed world:
These proposals are up there with the current proposal here in the UK to enforce compulsory licenses for all sysadmins. No, really!! http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/18879.html
Like RIP (trust PGP communication with a UK citizen? Sucker!), there are a lot of laws stacking up that are impractical, or too unpopular, to be enforced yet. These are *more* repressive - when enforcement of the law becomes discretionary, the scene is set for corruption and repression. The drug laws are a good example: as a 30-something white middle class male in regular employment and no record, recreational drugs are de-facto decriminalised for me. But if the cops want to "get" some working class black kid who gets up their nose by (say) protesting about deaths in custody... guess how easy it is for him to "disappear" into prison, with the likely destruction of his future prospects even if it's a short sentence? Pure evil. These things are going onto the statute books so that they can be pulled out of their sleeves when they're needed by the powers-that-be.
We've got an election in progress here at present, let's try to raise these issues at every opportunity.
-- "I'm not downloaded, I'm just loaded and down"
As an example of the sort of phenomena which can add up to a noticeable effect over long periods of time, check out the results from NEAR Shoemaker probve to Eros (you rmemeber, probe that orbited & finally landed on asteroid Eros.) ON eof severla unexpected results is that there are disproportionately fewer small impact craters than would be expected, given the number (density) of larger ones. One possible explanation for this is is that small (c. 1cm diameter) orbiting rocks may be preferentially expelled from the inner solar system, due to the fact that as they spin, the side that has just moved from sunlit to dark side re-radiates some of the energy it's absorbed from the sun. This leads (in some obscure but very clever theory which I can't find a link for right this moment) to these objects drifting slowly away from the sun. This doesn't affect larger objects because their ratio of surface area to volume is different...
--
IIRC, some ground-breaking automated surveys going on at present are producing three dimensional maps of our local galactic environment (the SMC and LMC, local group etc), and that they're finding 'stuff' (objects, phenomena) that weren't previously known. Could any such things produce a systematic error in the observations that set currently accepted values for physical constants?
--
Sod's law suggests that it's 99% likely to be one of (a|b|c|d|g|h). However, astronomers and physicists are generally rather good at methodically excluding likely explanations, starting with the least unlikely, until all that's left, however unlikely,..
We know that, at some level, the standard model is inconsistent - quantum physics and relativity are mutually incompatible. One tantalising observation for which there's no generally accepted explanation is that gravity is many, many orders of magnitude less powerful than the other fundamental forces.
I'd love ot believe that this phenomena, which has been bobbing around for a few years now, is a pointer to some Theory of Everything. But, after 25 years in space, the tiniest force acting on the probes which is not accounted for, can stack up to an observable difference of position from prediction.
--
> post with something that might actually be useful.
Curiously enough, that was exactly what I was hoping . Now that I've finally lain the karma-whore ghost, I'm reading at -1, and, well, it's embarrassing to admit but I've been laughing my arse off.
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and ``debug''
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knowing there's a possibility that one's peers may deign to cast an eye over one's code == much more care and attention. Not that I'd ever write buggy or insecure code of course ;)
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# FIXME: can't test on dev server, assume works for now
return 1; # cc validation goes here...
The site was less than a week from going live when we found that.
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Readers in the UK of a certain age will understand when I say that there can be only one response to this news! (RA)
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The BBC already used that one... prepare for the writ ;)
Seriously... I'm finding it hard to express how upset I am about this. I got into Hithc-hiker's Guide more than twenty years ago (my father made me listen to it on the radio because they went to the same school)... devoured the books, taped as much as I could manage when the radio series were repeated in 1985-6, then listened to those obsessively ever since.
Douglas Adams, his unfortunate obsesion with Macs aside, was always interested in computers, ever since the original InfoGames adaption of HHG as a text adventure. I saw a piece on that on the BBC's 'Microcoputers' show & taped the audio for that, too - I remember him saying that he offered to do the actual programming, to which the developers "politely told me that they'd like it to come out this century, and if I could stick to writing the jokes,..."
If you haven't heard the original radio shows, do yourself a big favour and get them now *NOT* the audio book - IMHO they're better than the books, as well as following a different (and more coherent) plot as well. And there's lots of stuff that didn't make it to the books: Zaphod and Ford falling from a mysterious cold white cave, fifteen miles up in the air...
Ford: I can't stand heights!
ZB: Don't worry, we're on our way down... listen, we may be alright, we might land in the water you know? Can you swim?
Ford: I don't know.
ZB: You don't *know*?
Ford: Well, I never liked to go into water in any great detail...
ZB: What kind of traveller are you, man? Don't like heights, don't like water...
Ford: Simply natural. I just get a kick out of being on the ground.
ZB: Well any minute now you'll have the biggest kick of your life...
I feel as if I've lost a member of my family. It's only 90 minutes since I heard this, and it still hasn't sunk in.
I really hope the HHG site doesn't get any more messed up by the BBC (see this week's NTK... and I hope the film still happens, as he was sounding really upbeat about it last I heard (his Ask Slashdot interview I think.)
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