The real value here is it enables much more granular logging.
I object to this article, however, on grounds that this is not news. It's a press release, and crap like this is why I only visit slashdot every few months any more.
Wish this had made the real news. We know this sort of thing happens, but airline industries are highly effective at having this never reach public discussion.
Anyone can be seriously "offensive" in this business. All it takes is $100 laptop and msf.
Defense? That, my friends, is the multi-tens-of-billions industry we're in.
Cyber Command? Show me your defensive game and stop wasting my tax money.
why is this release announcement buried?
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NetBSD 6.0 Has Shipped
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Apparently, I'll never understand Slashdot. The latest junk from Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Oracle, et al. make the front page, but one of the highest quality open source releases gets buried. (It's almost like people self-medicate their marketing these days, but separate issue.)
I got 6 years of uptime once off of NetBSD on sparc. This stuff is gold. It's platinum. It's so stable, you have to worry about making sure you get around to patching your apps because the OS just never dies... stick this on solid state storage with the new NAND support, and you don't even have to worry about spinning disk fails. As a network device OS, this will be an awesome high-uptime packet sensor or embedded packet router.
Bravo NetBSD! Keep up the good work. This is top headline stuff.
More like Logan's Run.
I have been Michael's number two guy for about 5 years. And we make a great team. We're like one of those classic famous teams. He's like Mozart and I'm like... Mozart's friend. No. I'm like Butch Cassidy and Michael is like... Mozart. You try and hurt Mozart? You're gonna get a bullet in your head courtesy of Butch Cassidy. - Dwight Schrute
Step 1. Download UNetBootin from SourceForge (2 minutes)
Step 2. Stick in a blank USB thumb drive and use UNetBootin to install Linux Mint version 6 or Puppy Linux version 4 onto the drive. (3 to 30 minutes depending on network speed)
Step 3. Reboot and tell your BIOS to make your newly bootable USB thumb drive the boot drive. (2 minutes)
Great scanning/tracking tool for network infrastructure inventory control. Automated management of what lies below layer 3 is always a challenge, though.
This is a pair of tools for building (bsdiff) and applying (bspatch) binary patches. When applied to two versions of the same executable the patches produced are significantly smaller than those generated by other binary diff tools (eg, xdelta).
An exploit with feature-complete proof of concept was released for x86_64 linux kernel ia32syscall emulation by cliph at isec in Poland.
Exploit code was wildly popular on milw0rm, indicating that this local exploit has lots of potential.
Oracle is absolutely full of sh*t. I've been to LinuxWorld, I've been to OpenWorld, and I've seen their PHP talent. As someone who's supported and developed PHP for 8 years (since php3) I encourage you to maintain a strong distrust for this company's claims about their software. Ellison is not to be trusted with application software, just look at how many application stacks he's wasted. At this point, Larry is a has-been yacht salesman. The sales team at Red Hat will decimate ORCL in the next few years. Wait and watch. Heck, even Cisco is on the JBoss+RedHat bandwagon (CAS/CAM/NAC/MARS/etc.) and soon all if Cisco's clients will be too.
So you want to disclose a bug to a company without fear of reprisal? Good! Don't want to take on any liability for private disclosure of a newly discovered vulnerability and disclosure is the right course of action? Here's how:
step 1: get a bootable CD that supports wireless like AnonymOS or Knoppix or Auditor Linux
step 2: find a way to randomize your laptop's wifi MAC address
step 3: go to a random coffee shop or access point for which physical access is hard to track
step 4: generate a gpg key for future use
step 5: log on to the interweb and set yourself up with a gmail or hotmail or yahoo email address with a fictional name
step 6: email your gpg private and public key to yourself for future use
step 7: notify the company using the above fictional name
step 8: sign your disclosure email with gpg, and include the public key so you can prove later it was you
step 9: don't expect to be contacted, but do check that email address from a similarly anonymous point on the network in a month or two.
The FBI and the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section of the United States Department of Justice have essentially "tagged" the web site of a piracy guy. That's the first time I've seen them do that and I hope it is an effective way to keep raise awareness of the consequences of disregarding the law. see: www.ibackups.net
The individual responsible for the operation of the iBackups website has pleaded guilty to two counts
of criminal copyright infringement in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
and faces up to 10 years in prison, a $500,000 fine, and restitution of over $5 million.
They're basically tap dancing on this guy's grave. Sweet!
MIPS is alive and ticking. TiVo is still MIPS-based, right? More importantly, at LinuxWorld last month, a company called Movidis was demo'ing a cool 16-processor box in a 2U form factor that features no less than 8 gigs or RAM and 8 gigabit nics. From the white paper: OCTEON CN3860, a 16-core, 64-bit MIPS processor, executes nearly 20-billion instructions per second, using less than 50 watts of power... Each core is clocked around 500 to 600 mghz. So you can supposedly pipe 400 Mbytes/sec through this thing and it'll likely remain cool. I'm thinking this could be useful for store and forward packet manipulation. Linux 2.16 kernel comes with the thing so you actually have a chance of keeping it secure, unlike IRIX, details on the boxes at www.movidis.com. They're based in Santa Barbara. Now how can I come up with $5k to get one of these things to play with? Hey, if they'll spiff Slashdot a demo unit, I'll review it. ; )
The good news is that darwinports, while related to OpenDarwin, is a separate project, and James Berry indicated on the mailing list that porting efforts could continue on.
Does this mean that Sun is endorsing the Debian package management system over RPM-based approaches? IMNSHO, it's high-time that an enterprise IT vendor saw value in dpkg.
As citizens of this democracy, workers in this nation, and technologist hobbyists, it's hard for all of us to find time to read anything from start to finish. So they're right on that point: the headline is often all you really get out of news. Funny thing is, I know lots of people who are more interested in Matt Drudge's headlines than the NYTimes headlines. He writes better headlines than the NYTimes. They're more timely, more revelent, and often more witty.
The clones aren't on the way, they're already here. Note that this has a voice recording feature, uses easily-replaceable batteries, and supports more format (wma, which admittedly I won't be using.) than Apple's iPod nano. CompUSA has these things for $100.
SanDisk Sansa c140 1GB* MP3 Player
Model: SDMX5-1024
Not only can you jam to your favorite downloaded tracks on this sleek MP3 player but you can also enjoy your favorite radio stations on the FM tuner with 20 station presets.
1GB* internal flash memory stores up to 500 songs
Ultracompact design measures just 1" deep and weighs only 1.7 ounces
Supports MP3, WMA and DRM WMA audio formats, plus JPEG, BMP, TIFF, GIF and PNG image formats
Color display with easy-to-use controls
Built-in digital FM tuner with FM recording and 20 station preset; integrated voice recorder
Picture mode displays small photos and supports JPEG, BMP, TIFF, GIF and PNG image formats
EQ modes include rock, jazz, classical, pop and custom for an improved listening experience
High-speed USB 2.0 interface for blazing transfer speeds
Liquidmetal back casing protects against scratches and cracks
1 AAA battery provides up to 15 hours of playback
PlaysForSure compatible
PC compatible
Upgradable to future formats and features
Slashdot Mirror
....find another client.
The real value here is it enables much more granular logging.
I object to this article, however, on grounds that this is not news. It's a press release, and crap like this is why I only visit slashdot every few months any more.
Wish this had made the real news. We know this sort of thing happens, but airline industries are highly effective at having this never reach public discussion.
So... "fun gimmick, or a serious commentary on an increasingly surveillance based society?"
Really?
How about both. Are having a sense of humor and making a serious comment mutually opposed? Slashdot deserves better.
Not 100% sure this is WebKit-free. On MacOSX there's still a reference to webkit in the UserAgent string as: "AppleWebKit" anyway.
Anyone can be seriously "offensive" in this business. All it takes is $100 laptop and msf.
Defense? That, my friends, is the multi-tens-of-billions industry we're in.
Cyber Command? Show me your defensive game and stop wasting my tax money.
Apparently, I'll never understand Slashdot. The latest junk from Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Oracle, et al. make the front page, but one of the highest quality open source releases gets buried. (It's almost like people self-medicate their marketing these days, but separate issue.)
I got 6 years of uptime once off of NetBSD on sparc. This stuff is gold. It's platinum. It's so stable, you have to worry about making sure you get around to patching your apps because the OS just never dies... stick this on solid state storage with the new NAND support, and you don't even have to worry about spinning disk fails. As a network device OS, this will be an awesome high-uptime packet sensor or embedded packet router.
Bravo NetBSD! Keep up the good work. This is top headline stuff.
More like Logan's Run. I have been Michael's number two guy for about 5 years. And we make a great team. We're like one of those classic famous teams. He's like Mozart and I'm like... Mozart's friend. No. I'm like Butch Cassidy and Michael is like... Mozart. You try and hurt Mozart? You're gonna get a bullet in your head courtesy of Butch Cassidy. - Dwight Schrute
C'mon, this has HISTORY behind it.
Step 1. Download UNetBootin from SourceForge (2 minutes)
Step 2. Stick in a blank USB thumb drive and use UNetBootin to install Linux Mint version 6 or Puppy Linux version 4 onto the drive. (3 to 30 minutes depending on network speed)
Step 3. Reboot and tell your BIOS to make your newly bootable USB thumb drive the boot drive. (2 minutes)
RedSeal is at: www.redseal.net
Great scanning/tracking tool for network infrastructure inventory control. Automated management of what lies below layer 3 is always a challenge, though.
Having Atheros chips in a Mac Book would be downright awesome.
Seriously.
Does this book have the osascript bug in it?
osascript -e 'tell app "ARDAgent" to do shell script "whoami"';
A local root escalation issue that's on more than 40% of typically configured machines is something you'd want to know about.
No INFOSEC book is ever complete. We're all still writing it.
An exploit with feature-complete proof of concept was released for x86_64 linux kernel ia32syscall emulation by cliph at isec in Poland. Exploit code was wildly popular on milw0rm, indicating that this local exploit has lots of potential.
For the price of five 1 GByte USB sticks and one 80 GByte portable hard disc from Teac, you can give 25,000 Linux users give you their email address.
Oracle is absolutely full of sh*t. I've been to LinuxWorld, I've been to OpenWorld, and I've seen their PHP talent. As someone who's supported and developed PHP for 8 years (since php3) I encourage you to maintain a strong distrust for this company's claims about their software. Ellison is not to be trusted with application software, just look at how many application stacks he's wasted. At this point, Larry is a has-been yacht salesman. The sales team at Red Hat will decimate ORCL in the next few years. Wait and watch. Heck, even Cisco is on the JBoss+RedHat bandwagon (CAS/CAM/NAC/MARS/etc.) and soon all if Cisco's clients will be too.
So you want to disclose a bug to a company without fear of reprisal? Good! Don't want to take on any liability for private disclosure of a newly discovered vulnerability and disclosure is the right course of action? Here's how:
step 1: get a bootable CD that supports wireless like AnonymOS or Knoppix or Auditor Linux
step 2: find a way to randomize your laptop's wifi MAC address
step 3: go to a random coffee shop or access point for which physical access is hard to track
step 4: generate a gpg key for future use
step 5: log on to the interweb and set yourself up with a gmail or hotmail or yahoo email address with a fictional name
step 6: email your gpg private and public key to yourself for future use
step 7: notify the company using the above fictional name
step 8: sign your disclosure email with gpg, and include the public key so you can prove later it was you
step 9: don't expect to be contacted, but do check that email address from a similarly anonymous point on the network in a month or two.
The FBI and the Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section of the United States Department of Justice have essentially "tagged" the web site of a piracy guy. That's the first time I've seen them do that and I hope it is an effective way to keep raise awareness of the consequences of disregarding the law. see: www.ibackups.net
The individual responsible for the operation of the iBackups website has pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal copyright infringement in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and faces up to 10 years in prison, a $500,000 fine, and restitution of over $5 million.
They're basically tap dancing on this guy's grave. Sweet!
MIPS is alive and ticking. TiVo is still MIPS-based, right? More importantly, at LinuxWorld last month, a company called Movidis was demo'ing a cool 16-processor box in a 2U form factor that features no less than 8 gigs or RAM and 8 gigabit nics. From the white paper: OCTEON CN3860, a 16-core, 64-bit MIPS processor, executes nearly 20-billion instructions per second, using less than 50 watts of power... Each core is clocked around 500 to 600 mghz. So you can supposedly pipe 400 Mbytes/sec through this thing and it'll likely remain cool. I'm thinking this could be useful for store and forward packet manipulation. Linux 2.16 kernel comes with the thing so you actually have a chance of keeping it secure, unlike IRIX, details on the boxes at www.movidis.com. They're based in Santa Barbara. Now how can I come up with $5k to get one of these things to play with? Hey, if they'll spiff Slashdot a demo unit, I'll review it. ; )
The good news is that darwinports, while related to OpenDarwin, is a separate project, and James Berry indicated on the mailing list that porting efforts could continue on.
Does this mean that Sun is endorsing the Debian package management system over RPM-based approaches? IMNSHO, it's high-time that an enterprise IT vendor saw value in dpkg.
As citizens of this democracy, workers in this nation, and technologist hobbyists, it's hard for all of us to find time to read anything from start to finish. So they're right on that point: the headline is often all you really get out of news. Funny thing is, I know lots of people who are more interested in Matt Drudge's headlines than the NYTimes headlines. He writes better headlines than the NYTimes. They're more timely, more revelent, and often more witty.
Stick that in your Google and search it.
The clones aren't on the way, they're already here. Note that this has a voice recording feature, uses easily-replaceable batteries, and supports more format (wma, which admittedly I won't be using.) than Apple's iPod nano. CompUSA has these things for $100.
SanDisk Sansa c140 1GB* MP3 Player
Model: SDMX5-1024
Not only can you jam to your favorite downloaded tracks on this sleek MP3 player but you can also enjoy your favorite radio stations on the FM tuner with 20 station presets.
1GB* internal flash memory stores up to 500 songs
Ultracompact design measures just 1" deep and weighs only 1.7 ounces
Supports MP3, WMA and DRM WMA audio formats, plus JPEG, BMP, TIFF, GIF and PNG image formats
Color display with easy-to-use controls
Built-in digital FM tuner with FM recording and 20 station preset; integrated voice recorder
Picture mode displays small photos and supports JPEG, BMP, TIFF, GIF and PNG image formats
EQ modes include rock, jazz, classical, pop and custom for an improved listening experience
High-speed USB 2.0 interface for blazing transfer speeds
Liquidmetal back casing protects against scratches and cracks
1 AAA battery provides up to 15 hours of playback
PlaysForSure compatible
PC compatible
Upgradable to future formats and features
Slagheap: how did you find that?