Actually, I have one, too, I just haven't gotten to putting it up on the site yet... That, a whole canned chicken ("Sweet Sue's", with born-on dating), and a bunch of outher nasty stuff.
I hope Google or another search engine backs things up. Google has a caching mechanism that would enable people to retrieve the documents that have been destroyed, so I hope we can retrieve them and publish them again.
Unfortunately, our government is acting on their belief that the people they serve are a danger to the publicly-elected officials.
The system uptime rolls at 471 days anyhow... upgrade.:-) (I wish the uptime didn't do that -- Netcraft said I had the world's best ISP, uptime-wise, until two of my machines rolled).
But you're on to something -- sense of humor. I love working where I do because the people around me are fun. Yes, they are technically competent (which is just as important), but they are a pleasure to work with. And doing an interview in a weird way like this might help you figure out if the person "can think outside of the box" and be flexible. Plus it's more interesting for the interviewer, who's undoubtably done a few of these and gets bored.
CPUs made by IBM and Sun for their high-end servers have enormous amounts of backside cache. IBM puts 8MB of cache on the CPU itself. This helps tremendously. Coupled with its advanced design, a 600 MHz POWER3 CPU from IBM can chew through more data than most Intel CPUs, and most Sun CPUs (until now). These new Sun CPUs have SPEC ratings that are very comparable to the IBM CPUs, though IBM will be releasing the POWER4 CPUs soon enough, placing them back at the top of the pile.
they aim to be the most secure server operating system
...but don't succeed for the same reasons everybody else doesn't succeed -- people use their distribution. Admins put their own software on it, and don't keep the bundled software up to date (because of downtime concerns, or laziness, or lack of knowledge). Admins let users touch the machines. All of these things that make a machine useful totally undermine the security. I'm not saying that it isn't useful to start with an OS that has had a decent security audit, just that unless you can audit what the admins install and the users do it doesn't matter if you're running OpenBSD or Linux or AIX, etc.
The OpenBSD project has brought a number of useful things into the world, though. Even Red Hat uses OpenSSH now, and if you don't use OpenBSD anywhere, you probably are using code they've audited or written. Thanks guys!
How much work is it to just update the package to the latest version anyhow? Sure, some things change, but when it comes right down to it, people want to look at a machine and say "Yes, I've got Apache 1.3.12, and I'm safe" rather than digging through the bug reports for obscure information. Upgrading Apache to 1.3.12 from 1.3.9 isn't such a big deal, and ProFTPd from 1.2.0pre10 to 1.2.0rc2 is even less of a big deal.
When there's a new release of software there are other bugs fixed and rough spots cleaned up that don't make it into the changelog, either because they're perceived to be trivial, the changelog entry is forgotten, or the author is embarrassed that they were there to begin with.
People will pick the Linux distribution that they have to mess with the least to have a working system. If people perceive Debian to be out-of-date (and it would seem that way) they won't install it, just like a Red Hat fan wouldn't install Red Hat 5.2 or 6.0.
I agree. I dislike the fact that Slashdot was brought in the middle of this entire debate. Is that fair? But on the other hand, maybe he'll feel pressured into responding, or doing the Right Thing. At this point he seems like a dork, but we haven't heard his story yet.
Oh, and why should we trust that the real OpenSSH guys aren't mining data or building a list of security conscious users?
Why do we trust that they haven't inserted bogus code in the OpenSSH source? When is the last time you looked at the code, and compiled it yourself, rather than downloading the precompiled packages?
I spoke with Jonathan there and he said that they are developing a PCI version of this card that is VGA-compliant, as well as a pass-through one (so this doesn't have to be the only graphics card, which is currently true). 6-8 weeks before anybody knows more. That's what I'm holding out for.
I bet the VGA thing is what's causing Dells to freak out.
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Try rhupdate: http://www.jjminer.org/rhupdate/
Actually, I have one, too, I just haven't gotten to putting it up on the site yet... That, a whole canned chicken ("Sweet Sue's", with born-on dating), and a bunch of outher nasty stuff.
Dude, somewhere in Michigan is the elusive PREM, which is a clone of SPAM made by Swift & Co...
Unfortunately, our government is acting on their belief that the people they serve are a danger to the publicly-elected officials.
The system uptime rolls at 471 days anyhow... upgrade. :-) (I wish the uptime didn't do that -- Netcraft said I had the world's best ISP, uptime-wise, until two of my machines rolled).
But you're on to something -- sense of humor. I love working where I do because the people around me are fun. Yes, they are technically competent (which is just as important), but they are a pleasure to work with. And doing an interview in a weird way like this might help you figure out if the person "can think outside of the box" and be flexible. Plus it's more interesting for the interviewer, who's undoubtably done a few of these and gets bored.
CPUs made by IBM and Sun for their high-end servers have enormous amounts of backside cache. IBM puts 8MB of cache on the CPU itself. This helps tremendously. Coupled with its advanced design, a 600 MHz POWER3 CPU from IBM can chew through more data than most Intel CPUs, and most Sun CPUs (until now). These new Sun CPUs have SPEC ratings that are very comparable to the IBM CPUs, though IBM will be releasing the POWER4 CPUs soon enough, placing them back at the top of the pile.
What's Sun stock at these days, anyhow?
Yup, according to their FAQ it will also run Windows 98 SE.
The OpenBSD project has brought a number of useful things into the world, though. Even Red Hat uses OpenSSH now, and if you don't use OpenBSD anywhere, you probably are using code they've audited or written. Thanks guys!
Yup, it is. And it's not very busy right now, either. Game on.
Try http://mirror.sit.wisc.edu/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ instead of the www.sit.wisc.edu. Also damn fast, if you're attached to Internet2.
Did they start the Open Source revolution before or after Al Gore invented the Internet?
How much work is it to just update the package to the latest version anyhow? Sure, some things change, but when it comes right down to it, people want to look at a machine and say "Yes, I've got Apache 1.3.12, and I'm safe" rather than digging through the bug reports for obscure information. Upgrading Apache to 1.3.12 from 1.3.9 isn't such a big deal, and ProFTPd from 1.2.0pre10 to 1.2.0rc2 is even less of a big deal. When there's a new release of software there are other bugs fixed and rough spots cleaned up that don't make it into the changelog, either because they're perceived to be trivial, the changelog entry is forgotten, or the author is embarrassed that they were there to begin with. People will pick the Linux distribution that they have to mess with the least to have a working system. If people perceive Debian to be out-of-date (and it would seem that way) they won't install it, just like a Red Hat fan wouldn't install Red Hat 5.2 or 6.0.
Oh, and why should we trust that the real OpenSSH guys aren't mining data or building a list of security conscious users?
Why do we trust that they haven't inserted bogus code in the OpenSSH source? When is the last time you looked at the code, and compiled it yourself, rather than downloading the precompiled packages?
I bet the VGA thing is what's causing Dells to freak out.