I've heard it said (and see some general usage reasoning why) that the main reason for running Solaris is to use the Sparc chip & Sun hardware, not the other way round. This lends itself to being more scalable for heavy server applications to use (eg RDBMSs, etc).
It's all very well being 'able to run the same stuff' but bear in mind it's the Linux end of things where the open-source movement has blossomed, not on the commercial unixen. And frankly, configuring a linux box is a dream compared to screwing around with networking under any version of Solaris I've seen.
Linux: * is proven at home & in the "unofficial" workstation / light-usage server end of the market * has the backing of the entire 'Net for support at the touch of a button * Runs everything solaris does, and more * Has masses of stuff ported to it *...including star office
So if Solaris had been free, sure we might not've needed Linux; that doesn't really sway the fact that it's not free, nor has it been, nor do we expect it to be.
Well, I went to the link and had a quick look around, in particular in the network security section. Let's just say the word "firewall" doesn't feature in it once. While I was expecting a relatively waffly & vague & uncertain report on "security", it gets marginally better further down. I'd go as far as to say that someone with a brain wrote the original and then it got attacked by the editors...
And they *must* learn to write HTML properly, as I refuse to read the stuff that scrolls off the right of the screen.
Yur. It's the unstoppable march of progress, innit?:)
Actually I don't think the problem is so much that folks will be rather intimately integrated with "their computers", as such, but that miniaturisation will meet humanity at a compromised scale - the last thing I want to do is tank anything around the size of this full tower & 22" monitor, but if it gets smaller, it will cease to be regarded as "a computer" in the current desktop sense, and become 'an out-size organizer that happens to do computing things'.
Me, I'd want a keyboard (I might have to look into chording keyboards at some stage, for size restriction reasons), a proper headset like the thing by Sony with integral ear-pieces, and strictly NO voice-control. I don't mind being a total uber-geek waddling down the street, but I do object to looking a prat.:)
Re:Unmetered - You just have to know how.
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It appears that these 08004u people supply "software" of their own that displays an advert at all times, etc. What the website doesn't say is whether there's a linux version, or indeed whether it's really a free ISP as distinct from another AOL...
Two things. First, there are several disassemblers out there - things like Mocha for java which produces.java from.class files, rather than the other way round, etc. (There are ways of circumventing this, too.) Other stuff exists for DOS / Windoze binaries, etc, where you can get your hands on the assembler underneath. (Been there, done had, had the shareware "you've used this thing 10, 11, 12.. times" counting backwards by flipping one bit in the executable:) I don't know of anything that'll take winword.exe and give you the source though (thank heavens;) - it's only possible to get it into assembler and from there you have to have the linker's.map file.
Second, though: how much of this is just talk? If you consider the various "hack this machine & keep the box" sites around, how long have they been up for? You'd think someone with their finger on the pulse of the underground "cracking" world would actually have managed to *do* something about them by now.
So you might well be better off with gaming magazines, if that's what you want, unless you've got a/lot/ of time to spare...
There are several interesting clauses in it, to my eyes, to be found at http://www.dti.gov.uk/cii/el ec/ecbill_part_III.htm onwards. In particular, I notice sections 10 (2) where (a) and (b) might give grounds for defence / opting-out, but "require" towards the end stamps on our freedom & privacy. (3) (b) seems to allow for any means the requirer sees fit - I wonder what happens if they choose PGP-signed mail?
(11)(2) and (3) appear to leave a loop-hole; if you're required to release information believed to be held under a key system, might you only have to release "useful information" ('in an intelligible form'), not necessarily the *actual* information you've encrypted.
Big deal? Why've I gone to the trouble of looking all this up? Because while it will only apply if the police demand it, which will probably only happen if they suspect you of something, the problem is that if we don't *exert* the basic human right to *privacy*, then someone will trample all over it later and you'll wake up powerless to fix things.
I would respond, but I'm not running windoze and therefore don't have easy access to my thesaurus, but I think the phrase you're looking for is "work-around". Or something like that...:)
From what I heard, actually variety is a good thing. There's a lot to be said for having a keyboard firmly stuck in place, eg by one of those combined wrist-rest things with plastic layer that runs under the keyboard, and for switching mouse style around a bit over time.
Oh, and I use a totally different keyboard at home to the work one - work is a rather boring, quiet mushy thing (must fix that:) but at home I've got a Trust Ergonomic thing. Doesn't take much getting used to being different at all - in under a week I forgot the difference altogether.
Also, being a speedy (if not exactly touch-) typist probably helps, I think.
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I don't see why you have to take it *so* seriously and find it distateful... So what if "no sensible Christian" would create it, all that's required is a sense of humour and understanding, both on the part of the author *and* reader.
I think there's something about the hacker mentality that's compatible with "anything is allowed, just be well thought-out". Maybe this is more prevalent in guys and more guys are hackers than females... I don't know that there's anything beyond what you suggest in it, anyway.
Ah. Masquerading then, with a properly firewalled masquerading host. That makes it a bit harder...
And I'm sure I saw an IP# cloaking mechanism on devnull.slashnet.org or wherever it was, too... server-side then; meant everyone who'd enabled it came from 'ident-user@cloaked.domain.name' or whatever.
Didn't there use to be a TV advert (maybe in the UK only) with a catch-line "less... is most definitely more"?
No comments about exactly *what* advert it was, or how the gnu text utils might be for half the population, if my memory served correctly, though!:)
Re:Hoax or not, there's a point here...
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It's a "two-line addition to each file system driver"?
If it's a linux-type system you have in mind, or other generic unix-type box, why not just set up file permissions properly, keeping each user to themselves, and making sure they have a umask of 022 while you have 077 (and the homedirectories are 711 and 755 respectively)? Anything expressly hidden could be found with minimal effort, using a root-run find command...
Wow. Having read the latest 3 or 4 comments above, the most common sense so far comes from an atheist:8]
(Yeah, I fall on the Christian-but-tries-to-use-Brains side of things:)
Of course it's a hoax. And definitely, those who fail to spot this need to sort themselves out somewhat. I actually thought it was a fairly clever spoof...
Seriously, it's a fact of life. Paper will not disappear. Can you hastily scribble something on even a Palm Pilot? Well, you got to boot it up first. Paper doesn't need to go through a boot-up sequence.
How long does your palm pilot take to boot up? Mine's instantaneous, bar the reminder alarms hanging around...
Obviously, printing out of documents and emails is a frivolous waste; what I don't understand is why some online applications (eg for bank accounts) also require a printed & signed paper copy to be sent back - won't a PGP-siged PNG image of my signature suffice?
Sounds like a good idea. But I think I'd need a jolly decent security layer on top of the card, something involving a lot of bits' encryption, before I was happy about losing it at the drop of a hat..
We do differentiate between 'programmes', what you sit and watch on the microwave^Wtelly, and programs, what you sit and write on the spodbox...
Otherwise, yeah, it's arguably a different mentality where recognition for code-writing ability is more important than financial drive.
Maybe there ought to be more emphasis on the training & support fronts, so that folks Out There get a chance to become slightly more net- and linux-enabled, as it were; I know it's not me, as I can't stand answering the same old questions (what's a url? mummy, what do I put in for the Name Server field??, blah) all day long; others don't mind doing that, though.
Yup. For some reason, this reminds me of some of the 'personal ID card' debates I encountered a while ago; the thing with the authorities-that-be knowing where you are and what you do isn't that out of the ordinary, when you consider that the banks know exactly where & when & how much you spend on your switch / credit / AmEx card...
Monitoring access to resultant databases, or blocking it off properly?
I think it's a fairly simple conflict between privacy, as a nice ideal state of play, and safety & justice on the other hand, as required in a non-ideal world.
So yeah, I'd be quite happy if I didn't turn up on cameras all over the shop, but no I'm hardly worried about it if I do - but I'm not going to be complacent and let the governmnet walk all over the issue in the future..
Quite so. I fail to see why cookies should be generally removed anyway - as long as you're not viewing dodgy sites, what harm comes from them? Given that they're useful for slashdot, my.netscape, amazon, millions of other online-ordering places, why restrict them at all?
Open-source software, licensing, in particular GPL (no, I didn't say it's the only license out there!), free OS, choice of linux. That's how it gets refined into what people have on their desks. My point is that although BSD, FreeBSD, things using the Artistic License, are all open-source-compatible, they're not the ones the majority of folks appear to be using. Hence, good one Linus.
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I've heard it said (and see some general usage reasoning why) that the main reason for running Solaris is to use the Sparc chip & Sun hardware, not the other way round. This lends itself to being more scalable for heavy server applications to use (eg RDBMSs, etc).
...including star office
It's all very well being 'able to run the same stuff' but bear in mind it's the Linux end of things where the open-source movement has blossomed, not on the commercial unixen. And frankly, configuring a linux box is a dream compared to screwing around with networking under any version of Solaris I've seen.
Linux:
* is proven at home & in the "unofficial" workstation / light-usage server end of the market
* has the backing of the entire 'Net for support at the touch of a button
* Runs everything solaris does, and more
* Has masses of stuff ported to it
*
So if Solaris had been free, sure we might not've needed Linux; that doesn't really sway the fact that it's not free, nor has it been, nor do we expect it to be.
Well, I went to the link and had a quick look around, in particular in the network security section.
Let's just say the word "firewall" doesn't feature in it once.
While I was expecting a relatively waffly & vague & uncertain report on "security", it gets marginally better further down. I'd go as far as to say that someone with a brain wrote the original and then it got attacked by the editors...
And they *must* learn to write HTML properly, as I refuse to read the stuff that scrolls off the right of the screen.
Yur. It's the unstoppable march of progress, innit? :)
:)
Actually I don't think the problem is so much that folks will be rather intimately integrated with "their computers", as such, but that miniaturisation will meet humanity at a compromised scale - the last thing I want to do is tank anything around the size of this full tower & 22" monitor, but if it gets smaller, it will cease to be regarded as "a computer" in the current desktop sense, and become 'an out-size organizer that happens to do computing things'.
Me, I'd want a keyboard (I might have to look into chording keyboards at some stage, for size restriction reasons), a proper headset like the thing by Sony with integral ear-pieces, and strictly NO voice-control.
I don't mind being a total uber-geek waddling down the street, but I do object to looking a prat.
It appears that these 08004u people supply "software" of their own that displays an advert at all times, etc.
What the website doesn't say is whether there's a linux version, or indeed whether it's really a free ISP as distinct from another AOL...
Two things. .java from .class files, rather than the other way round, etc. (There are ways of circumventing this, too.) Other stuff exists for DOS / Windoze binaries, etc, where you can get your hands on the assembler underneath. :) ;) - it's only possible to get it into assembler and from there you have to have the linker's .map file.
/lot/ of time to spare...
First, there are several disassemblers out there - things like Mocha for java which produces
(Been there, done had, had the shareware "you've used this thing 10, 11, 12.. times" counting backwards by flipping one bit in the executable
I don't know of anything that'll take winword.exe and give you the source though (thank heavens
Second, though: how much of this is just talk? If you consider the various "hack this machine & keep the box" sites around, how long have they been up for? You'd think someone with their finger on the pulse of the underground "cracking" world would actually have managed to *do* something about them by now.
So you might well be better off with gaming magazines, if that's what you want, unless you've got a
There are several interesting clauses in it, to my eyes, to be found at http://www.dti.gov.uk/cii/el ec/ecbill_part_III.htm onwards.
In particular, I notice sections 10 (2) where (a) and (b) might give grounds for defence / opting-out, but "require" towards the end stamps on our freedom & privacy.
(3) (b) seems to allow for any means the requirer sees fit - I wonder what happens if they choose PGP-signed mail?
(11)(2) and (3) appear to leave a loop-hole; if you're required to release information believed to be held under a key system, might you only have to release "useful information" ('in an intelligible form'), not necessarily the *actual* information you've encrypted.
Big deal? Why've I gone to the trouble of looking all this up?
Because while it will only apply if the police demand it, which will probably only happen if they suspect you of something, the problem is that if we don't *exert* the basic human right to *privacy*, then someone will trample all over it later and you'll wake up powerless to fix things.
I would respond, but I'm not running windoze and therefore don't have easy access to my thesaurus, but I think the phrase you're looking for is "work-around". Or something like that... :)
From what I heard, actually variety is a good thing.
:) but at home I've got a Trust Ergonomic thing. Doesn't take much getting used to being different at all - in under a week I forgot the difference altogether.
There's a lot to be said for having a keyboard firmly stuck in place, eg by one of those combined wrist-rest things with plastic layer that runs under the keyboard, and for switching mouse style around a bit over time.
Oh, and I use a totally different keyboard at home to the work one - work is a rather boring, quiet mushy thing (must fix that
Also, being a speedy (if not exactly touch-) typist probably helps, I think.
I don't see why you have to take it *so* seriously and find it distateful...
So what if "no sensible Christian" would create it, all that's required is a sense of humour and understanding, both on the part of the author *and* reader.
Howdo :)
(No, it shouldn't.)
I think there's something about the hacker mentality that's compatible with "anything is allowed, just be well thought-out".
Maybe this is more prevalent in guys and more guys are hackers than females... I don't know that there's anything beyond what you suggest in it, anyway.
Ah. Masquerading then, with a properly firewalled masquerading host. That makes it a bit harder...
And I'm sure I saw an IP# cloaking mechanism on devnull.slashnet.org or wherever it was, too... server-side then; meant everyone who'd enabled it came from 'ident-user@cloaked.domain.name' or whatever.
I presume this is irony...
Somthing to do with tkIRC supporting hostname cloaking.. amongst other things.
And frankly, if the users were on dynamic IP#s, who gives a fig?
"I would request that the Jesux distribution find an altertive to Emacs/Elisp to run "pastor."
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/usr/local/pastor/bin or /usr/lib/pastor ? ;)
Hallelujah! Praise be, vim wins again..
"I belive the authors of Common Lisp walk the straight and narrow, possibly pastor can be executed by their hevenily enviroment"
But where would they install it -
Satan has a lot of people here by the you-know-what
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:)
Erm, by the HD controller? By the pringles box?
By the SCSI lead?
OK, paws up, I'm sort of one too
Didn't there use to be a TV advert (maybe in the UK only) with a catch-line "less... is most definitely more"?
:)
No comments about exactly *what* advert it was, or how the gnu text utils might be for half the population, if my memory served correctly, though!
It's a "two-line addition to each file system driver"?
If it's a linux-type system you have in mind, or other generic unix-type box, why not just set up file permissions properly, keeping each user to themselves, and making sure they have a umask of 022 while you have 077 (and the homedirectories are 711 and 755 respectively)?
Anything expressly hidden could be found with minimal effort, using a root-run find command...
Wow. Having read the latest 3 or 4 comments above, the most common sense so far comes from an atheist :8]
:)
(Yeah, I fall on the Christian-but-tries-to-use-Brains side of things
Of course it's a hoax. And definitely, those who fail to spot this need to sort themselves out somewhat.
I actually thought it was a fairly clever spoof...
Seriously, it's a fact of life. Paper will not disappear. Can you hastily scribble something on even a Palm Pilot? Well, you got to boot it up first. Paper doesn't need to go through a boot-up sequence.
How long does your palm pilot take to boot up? Mine's instantaneous, bar the reminder alarms hanging around...
Obviously, printing out of documents and emails is a frivolous waste; what I don't understand is why some online applications (eg for bank accounts) also require a printed & signed paper copy to be sent back - won't a PGP-siged PNG image of my signature suffice?
Sounds like a good idea. But I think I'd need a jolly decent security layer on top of the card, something involving a lot of bits' encryption, before I was happy about losing it at the drop of a hat..
We do differentiate between 'programmes', what you sit and watch on the microwave^Wtelly, and programs, what you sit and write on the spodbox...
Otherwise, yeah, it's arguably a different mentality where recognition for code-writing ability is more important than financial drive.
Maybe there ought to be more emphasis on the training & support fronts, so that folks Out There get a chance to become slightly more net- and linux-enabled, as it were; I know it's not me, as I can't stand answering the same old questions (what's a url? mummy, what do I put in for the Name Server field??, blah) all day long; others don't mind doing that, though.
Yup.
For some reason, this reminds me of some of the 'personal ID card' debates I encountered a while ago; the thing with the authorities-that-be knowing where you are and what you do isn't that out of the ordinary, when you consider that the banks know exactly where & when & how much you spend on your switch / credit / AmEx card...
Monitoring access to resultant databases, or blocking it off properly?
I think it's a fairly simple conflict between privacy, as a nice ideal state of play, and safety & justice on the other hand, as required in a non-ideal world.
So yeah, I'd be quite happy if I didn't turn up on cameras all over the shop, but no I'm hardly worried about it if I do - but I'm not going to be complacent and let the governmnet walk all over the issue in the future..
Quite so.
I fail to see why cookies should be generally removed anyway - as long as you're not viewing dodgy sites, what harm comes from them? Given that they're useful for slashdot, my.netscape, amazon, millions of other online-ordering places, why restrict them at all?
51% noted :)
:)
But how does one go about awarding "a community" for something?
Good one Linus, good one everybody
You've almost got the idea! ;]
Open-source software, licensing, in particular GPL (no, I didn't say it's the only license out there!), free OS, choice of linux. That's how it gets refined into what people have on their desks.
My point is that although BSD, FreeBSD, things using the Artistic License, are all open-source-compatible, they're not the ones the majority of folks appear to be using. Hence, good one Linus.