Does anyone still remember when the url was actually altavista.digital.com? I believe the reason was someone else already had the altavista.com domain and didn't want to give it up.
For me, the most annoying thing about Flash ads is that they lock up Mozilla if something else is using the sound device. (for example if I'm playing mp3s in xmms) Mozilla will just hang until I free the sound device, no matter if the flash ad is really using sound or not.
Your story sounds a lot like mine. I have a Creative Geforce3 card in my system. One day my PC started emitting strange loud noises, very much like a lawnmower:) I couldn't really localize it at first, so I thought it was either the powersupply fan or the CPU fan, perhaps even one of the disks. It didn't really occur to me that the graphics card had a fan too (the card is "inverted", so it's not immediately visible when I open my case)
The system was still under warranty, so I took it in and they found out it was actually the Geforce3's fan that had failed or was failing. There were already burning marks on the silicon, so I guess I was lucky my entire system didn't go down in flames.
At the shop they blamed the fan failure on excessive dust build-up, but I didn't really buy that. In any case, they were pretty nice about it and replaced the card, even giving me a Geforce4MX as a temporary solution so they could send the card back to Creative.
Anyway, from now on I don't leave my system on anymore when I'm not home out of fear it might start a fire. I used to leave it on all the time so I could ssh in from work or wherever I was.
Not meant as flamebait... but we're damn lucky that there hasn't been a similar worm that exploits Apache servers with the vulnerability that was found a few weeks ago. There are probably thousands of Apache servers running that still haven't been patched.
We were probably saved by the fact that the exploit code that was released was for OpenBSD specifically, and not *that* many servers run on OpenBSD. This proves again of course that diversity is a good thing...
Only problem is that the older ICQ clients are riddled with security holes....
On windows I use trillian exclusively nowadays. It can do MS Messenger, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger and IRC... all in one nice little program. Oh and it has no ads or spyware (also important these days sadly)
Yup I do that too... one server on the network gets the time through rdate from a public internet timeserver. All my other unix servers sync to this server every hour or so through cron.
I also run samba on this server so I can let Windows workstations and servers get the time with the "net time" command. To automate this I put "net time \\server/set/y" in the logon scripts of the Windows workstations.
This setup works just fine if you only require the accuracy to be in the order of a few seconds and it is much simpler to setup than NTP.
Unfortunately in the real world I have to deal with other systems too, like AIX and older RedHat systems (We have to stay on RedHat 6.2 on some systems for application compatibility with a 3rd party app)
So I do have to install from source a lot of the time. The upside is you get to know better what gets installed on your system but on the other hand it does get old installing OpenSSH for the umpteenth time.
> The result of all this horn-tooting is that I don't care anymore. Whenever someone utters the words > "security advisory" I simply stop listening, because 99% of advisories are crap.
Just a little anecdote: When I was visiting my girlfriend in the US we took a horse carriage ride through Charleston and she accidentally tipped the driver with a 50 dollar bill... She only found out later when checking her money.
No need to say she was a bit pissed over that (mostly at herself for being so stupid), though I think the driver didn't mind;)
But my point is... I don't think she would have made that mistake if you had bills in different sizes and colors.
You're right Aliens TC was done with a dehacked patch that modified the original doom.exe file. Most modern Doom engines allow the loading of dehacked files on the command line, without the need to patch the original exe file... (in prboom it's done with the -deh switch) So actually it has become easier than it used to be:)
You should be able to work something out with Aliens TC but I haven't tried this myself.
Aside from the usual open source/proprietary rhetoric, it just seems very logic to me that you want the system that you use for democratic elections to be as transparent and open as possible.
> I will have to disagree. These people need > something like Notepad, not VI.
Good luck finding a "notepad" lookalike that's available on any Unix system. I think you are thinking too Linux centric when you're suggesting emacs or pico. While these tools are probably closer to what they are used to, they are just not going to be available on a standard install of say Solaris, AIX or another commercial Unix. Even on a lot of Linux systems they will not be available. OTOH It's a pretty safe bet that vi *will* be available.
Anyway, I thought the purpose was to teach them things they don't know yet (like vi) as opposed to things they already do know (like notepad).
Teach them vi, or at least the basics... Don't want to start an editor flameware but vi is the only text editor you will find on just about any Unix system.
One of the things that frustrated me the most when getting started with Linux/Unix was that all the howtos told me to "edit this, edit that" without telling me *how*
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Does anyone still remember when the url was actually altavista.digital.com? I believe the reason was someone else already had the altavista.com domain and didn't want to give it up.
For me, the most annoying thing about Flash ads is that they lock up Mozilla if something else is using the sound device. (for example if I'm playing mp3s in xmms) Mozilla will just hang until I free the sound device, no matter if the flash ad is really using sound or not.
download once
use the patches for incremental upgrades
problem solved
Your story sounds a lot like mine. I have a Creative Geforce3 card in my system. One day my PC started emitting strange loud noises, very much like a lawnmower :) I couldn't really localize it at first, so I thought it was either the powersupply fan or the CPU fan, perhaps even one of the disks. It didn't really occur to me that the graphics card had a fan too (the card is "inverted", so it's not immediately visible when I open my case)
The system was still under warranty, so I took it in and they found out it was actually the Geforce3's fan that had failed or was failing. There were already burning marks on the silicon, so I guess I was lucky my entire system didn't go down in flames.
At the shop they blamed the fan failure on excessive dust build-up, but I didn't really buy that. In any case, they were pretty nice about it and replaced the card, even giving me a Geforce4MX as a temporary solution so they could send the card back to Creative.
Anyway, from now on I don't leave my system on anymore when I'm not home out of fear it might start a fire. I used to leave it on all the time so I could ssh in from work or wherever I was.
Only problem with this plan is they plan to charge you just as much whether you buy one with windows or not.
Yeah, he probably meant inetd.conf, which I think still is nasty in redhat default
So what?? If you don't know how to put "#" signs before every line that you don't need, you shouldn't be running a Unix variant in the first place.
Besides RedHat by default also installs a firewall scripts that blocks off all incoming ports (except ssh and smtp if you chose to do so).
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
Not meant as flamebait ... but we're damn lucky that there hasn't been a similar worm that exploits Apache servers with the vulnerability that was found a few weeks ago. There are probably thousands of Apache servers running that still haven't been patched.
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We were probably saved by the fact that the exploit code that was released was for OpenBSD specifically, and not *that* many servers run on OpenBSD. This proves again of course that diversity is a good thing
Only problem is that the older ICQ clients are riddled with security holes ....
... all in one nice little program. Oh and it has no ads or spyware (also important these days sadly)
On windows I use trillian exclusively nowadays. It can do MS Messenger, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger and IRC
So what if you RENT a house and they send snapshot pictures of your bedroom every 5 minutes?
By your logic they are allowed to do this because, you're just renting the house, you don't own it right?
Yup I do that too ... one server on the network gets the time through rdate from a public internet timeserver. All my other unix servers sync to this server every hour or so through cron.
/set /y" in the logon scripts of the Windows workstations.
I also run samba on this server so I can let Windows workstations and servers get the time with the "net time" command. To automate this I put "net time \\server
This setup works just fine if you only require the accuracy to be in the order of a few seconds and it is much simpler to setup than NTP.
Not only the beta version. The 0.52 release does port forwarding quite nicely!
Here's a download link link for the lazy.
Well my Apache server has been patched for more than a week. All that time an exploit has been out in the wild....
That's all nice and dandy if you run Debian ...
Unfortunately in the real world I have to deal with other systems too, like AIX and older RedHat systems (We have to stay on RedHat 6.2 on some systems for application compatibility with a 3rd party app)
So I do have to install from source a lot of the time. The upside is you get to know better what gets installed on your system but on the other hand it does get old installing OpenSSH for the umpteenth time.
> The result of all this horn-tooting is that I don't care anymore. Whenever someone utters the words
... and what was your ip address again? :)
> "security advisory" I simply stop listening, because 99% of advisories are crap.
Hmm
> I had decided to upgrade all the boxes I'm responsible for, this would have taken me maybe about 36 hours and many remote reboots
....
... all you have to do is install the new version over the old one, kill $(cat /var/run/sshd.pid) and restart sshd.
If you need a remote reboot to upgrade ssh you need to work on your Unix skills I'd say
Seriously
I just did 3 systems like that in under 30 minutes (started the compile in parallel of course).
No it is NOT fixed by 3.3 ... read the mail carefully.
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3.3 DOES have a feature (Privilege separation) that allows you to work around the bug.
The mail advises everyone to TURN ON this feature and rightly so
Just a little anecdote: ... She only found out later when checking her money.
;)
... I don't think she would have made that mistake if you had bills in different sizes and colors.
When I was visiting my girlfriend in the US we took a horse carriage ride through Charleston and she accidentally tipped the driver with a 50 dollar bill
No need to say she was a bit pissed over that (mostly at herself for being so stupid), though I think the driver didn't mind
But my point is
You might also ask why there are even white farmers in the US of A ....
The problem isn't IE vs Mozilla ... the problem is applets written for Microsoft's bastardized Java VM vs the official SUN implementation.
You're right Aliens TC was done with a dehacked patch that modified the original doom.exe file. Most modern Doom engines allow the loading of dehacked files on the command line, without the need to patch the original exe file... (in prboom it's done with the -deh switch) So actually it has become easier than it used to be :)
You should be able to work something out with Aliens TC but I haven't tried this myself.
Aside from the usual open source/proprietary
rhetoric, it just seems very logic to me that
you want the system that you use for democratic elections to be as transparent and open as possible.
Well ... it is not a *Russian* company ;)
> I will have to disagree. These people need
> something like Notepad, not VI.
Good luck finding a "notepad" lookalike that's available on any Unix system. I think you are thinking too Linux centric when you're suggesting emacs or pico. While these tools are probably closer to what they are used to, they are just not going to be available on a standard install of say Solaris, AIX or another commercial Unix. Even on a lot of Linux systems they will not be available. OTOH It's a pretty safe bet that vi *will* be available.
Anyway, I thought the purpose was to teach them things they don't know yet (like vi) as opposed to things they already do know (like notepad).
Teach them vi, or at least the basics ... Don't want to start an editor flameware but vi is the only text editor you will find on just about any Unix system.
One of the things that frustrated me the most when getting started with Linux/Unix was that all the howtos told me to "edit this, edit that" without telling me *how*