Linux offered a Unix-type operating system with fully available source code that you were free to modify to your heart's content. Not only that, it was GPLed - any work that you contributed couldn't be swiped by someone else and used as part of their commercial product. Linux offered something new and exciting. And free, of course.
Cyrix on the other hand - well. A Cyrix processor isn't any more free than an Intel one in either meaning of the word. If they were releasing the chip design so that anyone could attempt to improve it then I'd see your point, but as it is all Cyrix really has over Intel is that they're probably guilty of fewer grossly immoral activities. It's not a paradigm shift in the same way that Linux promised to be.
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PuTTY is great. It's open source, works well and includes an SCP client so you don't have to use FTP to transfer files and send your password unencrypted anyway. Did I mention how great it is?
Maybe there's nothing that you care about on the machine. I had a thought I don't know about you but perhaps if you security gets compromised and someone was doing one of these fabled attacks then perhaps you could just shut down the machine or turn it off in the first place?
If a single machine on a network is compromised, the entire network's security is greatly decreased. If someone cracks my machine, 600 other machines become hugely more vulnerable because the first thing any even vaguely competent script-kiddie is going to do is install a packet sniffer. As for turning machines off if they start being used for DoS attacks - great. I'm sure the remote site will be thrilled that it only took a few hours for you to wake up/get home/notice before pulling the plug. Security is not something that should be dealt with half-heartedly, and if you're not going to care about security then your machine should not be allowed anywhere near the internet.
Who transfers to the root partition as part of their normal access or for su'ing?
That's what su - does.
Assuming you edit the file/etc/login.access or something like that you could just remove logins for root or anyone else from certain times. Bango you have removed the problem without expending any problems at all.
You mean block root access at certain times of day? But that would prevent me from doing remote administration at certain times of day, and still does nothing to prevent someone packet sniffing my root password when I do use it. From that point on, I've lost. You should never transmit your root password via telnet unless you trust all the other hosts on your network.
Umm, how is OF "broken"? I remember hearing about OF and thinking how cool that would be.
Some Powermacs don't have support for graphics inside Open Firmware, which means you have to configure it through a serial terminal. Others kindly put the Open Firmware framebuffer in the same place that the kernel gets loaded into (I've seen at least one APUS that did this). None of them seem overly happy about booting off floppy (the first 4 times it won't work. Then it'll work. Then it won't work again for three weeks, then it'll work every time you try it over a two month period. Then it'll stop again. No matter how new the disk, or how much it's been tested as being good.).
However, they have the astonishingly wonderful feature that holding down the "N" key during boot causes the Mac to TFTP a file off a server and execute it. If you make this file a second-stage loader of some sort (YaBoot, for instance) then you can boot Linux over the network without having to touch the local hard drive. Grab a root file system over NFS and you have wonderful X terminals that double up as Macs. The main problem once you reach that stage is that the mice Apple ship are absolutely dreadful...
Sort of like "apt-get source -c packagename" which downloads the source and compiles it?:) It's not quite as impressive (all the source is kept on the Debian servers rather than scattered over most of the planet) but works pretty well.
When you do a 'make install' in the directory of the package you wish to install, the system will download the source (if available), compile it, and install it.
Why is this preferable to doing things the way Debian does? apt-get install packagename grabs the package off the configured server and installs it. Pretty similar end result, and you don't have to waste time compiling things. The ports thing is very technically impressive and great for showing off, but in the end I'd prefer to grab a ready-compiled package and be running within 30 seconds or so.
This code is intended to build with gcc 2.7.2 and egcs 1.1.2. Patches for building with gcc 2.95 are merged but less tested than other compilers. Caution is recommended when using gcc 2.95 and feedback is sought.
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And, no, I can't just "switch" to another provider. There *is* *no* *other* cablemodem ISP in the area. And no DSL either. So shut the fuck up. You don't know squat.
So tell your ISP to get their act together, otherwise eventually everyone else will get fed up with their constant misbehaviour and general annoyingness and stop letting them play. If all else fails, you can buy yourself a shell account somewhere outside the @Home network and post news from that. As long as people don't start dropping all traffic from @Home, that is.
RFC 2505 (which I've just found with the search engine on faqs.org - I'll admit to not having read any of these things:) ) mentions sending mail through a remote relay with no local SMTP server and the transaction being handled by the MUA. To all intents and purposes, this seems like much the same thing.
Firstly, it's not really censorship - it's not content based, and it's not preventing you from sending mail. Secondly, there's a growing number of ISPs subscribing to the DUL (a list of IP addresses corresponding to dial-up internet connections) who block mail from know dial-up connections. Thirdly, if you don't trust your ISP to deliver your mail, do you trust them to run anything on the network?:)
I've seen very little spam with forged @home addresses, but a good deal coming from *.home.com. Given the apparant state of their network, blocking outgoing port 25 connections is probably the easiest way to deal with this. There are very few legitimate reasons for wanting to send mail through a mail server other than your ISP's, and pretty much none for sending it directly rather than using a smarthost. For the small number of people who can demonstrate a legitimate requirement for external port 25 access, it should be feasible to provide a waiver thing like I seem to recall they have for 139.
Of course, this would mean extra hassle for the @Home network people and tech support as they have to deal with thousands of users with misconfigured mail setups who want to know why they can't send mail any more. Which probably means that the chances of it ever happening are zero, because everyone knows that getting your people to do work to avoid other people (who aren't on your payroll) having to clean up your mess is stupid. Sigh.
Usenet is not a public resource. Usenet is made up of servers owned by private entities, each of whom has the right to choose which traffic their machine will accept. If I have caller ID, I'm well within my rights never to pick up the phone if I see that it's you ringing. This is the same.
Because the spam that is being sent is costing network administrators real time and real money that could otherwise be spent on other things. Spam is a real problem, not something that should just be ignored.
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F3 brought up the save dialog. You could enter a path by hand if you wanted.
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One of the nicest results of this was that you could drag the icon from a save dialog in one program into another program entirely, resulting in the file being opened in the new one without having to bother saving it to disk in the mean time. I miss it...
If your ISP didn't pay their electricity bills, they'd be cut off. Would you blame their electricity company for denying you the ability to send mail, or would you blame your ISP for not paying their electricity bills?
Your ISP shouldn't be aiding spam in any way, be it hosting web sites, failing to deal with abusers or having mail servers that are open to relaying. It's their fault.
To pester their poor sysadmins to "do something"? _They_ didn't send the spam.
No, but they had an open relay. There's no excuse for this. People aren't put on the RBL purely for making mistakes - they're put on the RBL for failing to fix something that's broken after being asked to fix it. If your ISP is unwilling to behave in a responsible fashion, don't act surprised when people start refusing to deal with them any more.
My girlfriend has a PC Chips based machine that had no trouble running Linux. It was a super-cheap thing with a Cyrix, but the onboard graphics and sound were standard enough that they worked under Linux. In fact, the only problem was that a BIOS upgrade was required for it to get round to booting if more than 128MB of RAM was present. Sigh. Still, for the sort of money that this thing cost I certainly wouldn't complain.
(Oh, and it's FreeBSD now having been replaced with something that's annoyingly faster than my machine. Curse her.)
Lack of empathy doesn't mean being unable to feel. I'm lacking in emotional empathy (sure, I can logically deduce what someone else is probably feeling - but I don't get a "gut feeling". There's a difference) but the idea of killing anything without a reason (and killing humans even with a reason) disgusts me. Suggesting that the two are related to that extent shows that you don't really understand the issue.
We are both alienating and alienated, but not autistic.
"We"? That's a fairly broad statement. I've certainly no doubt that the number of similarities between my personality and the classic Asperger's traits are probably more than coincidence. My girlfriend is certainly not someone that could be called anything other than a geek, and her entire family has been diagnosed. I've no doubt whatsoever that some people I've met fall into the same catagory - certainly not everyone who I'd call a geek, but easily more geeks than the population at large.
Does this bother me? Not really. I see myself as different to other people. Not better, not worse. Just different. And since I began to accept that, my life has improved. I am a geek, regardless of whether I admit it or deny it - it's part of my nature that I'm unable to change. I find it hard to relate to people. I don't enjoy social situations involving large numbers of people that I've never met before. I'm hugely over-literal in conversation. No matter how hard I try, I will never be able to fit into society seamlessly. And frankly, I don't care.
I'm happy to accept that I'm not going to be a part of mainstream society, and mainstream society seems happy enough with that. I don't expect them to understand me in the same way that I don't expect to be able to understand the way an alien behaves. My thought processes don't fit into the social norms, and attempting to pretend that that isn't the case would be going against my own personality.
I'm a geek. And I'm not worried about who knows it.
Is OF booting working on the iMac/B&W G3s yet? I've a couple of G3s here that I'd like to be able to netboot using the "Hold down the N key" feature which makes OF send TFTP requests. Last time I tried, this didn't work with Linux because the code needed to be updated to work with the newer firmware. As a result, we've ended up with them running NetBSD. Has this been fixed yet?
Speaking as a medical student, it's certainly viruses rather than virii. I also have a vague feeling that it's Greek rather than Latin, but I couldn't swear to it.
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Linux offered a Unix-type operating system with fully available source code that you were free to modify to your heart's content. Not only that, it was GPLed - any work that you contributed couldn't be swiped by someone else and used as part of their commercial product. Linux offered something new and exciting. And free, of course.
Cyrix on the other hand - well. A Cyrix processor isn't any more free than an Intel one in either meaning of the word. If they were releasing the chip design so that anyone could attempt to improve it then I'd see your point, but as it is all Cyrix really has over Intel is that they're probably guilty of fewer grossly immoral activities. It's not a paradigm shift in the same way that Linux promised to be.
PuTTY is great. It's open source, works well and includes an SCP client so you don't have to use FTP to transfer files and send your password unencrypted anyway. Did I mention how great it is?
Maybe there's nothing that you care about on the machine. I had a thought I don't know about you but perhaps if you security gets compromised and someone was doing one of these fabled attacks then perhaps you could just shut down the machine or turn it off in the first place?
/etc/login.access or something like that you could just remove logins for root or anyone else from certain times. Bango you have removed the problem without expending any problems at all.
If a single machine on a network is compromised, the entire network's security is greatly decreased. If someone cracks my machine, 600 other machines become hugely more vulnerable because the first thing any even vaguely competent script-kiddie is going to do is install a packet sniffer. As for turning machines off if they start being used for DoS attacks - great. I'm sure the remote site will be thrilled that it only took a few hours for you to wake up/get home/notice before pulling the plug. Security is not something that should be dealt with half-heartedly, and if you're not going to care about security then your machine should not be allowed anywhere near the internet.
Who transfers to the root partition as part of their normal access or for su'ing?
That's what su - does.
Assuming you edit the file
You mean block root access at certain times of day? But that would prevent me from doing remote administration at certain times of day, and still does nothing to prevent someone packet sniffing my root password when I do use it. From that point on, I've lost. You should never transmit your root password via telnet unless you trust all the other hosts on your network.
Umm, how is OF "broken"? I remember hearing about OF and thinking how cool that would be.
Some Powermacs don't have support for graphics inside Open Firmware, which means you have to configure it through a serial terminal. Others kindly put the Open Firmware framebuffer in the same place that the kernel gets loaded into (I've seen at least one APUS that did this). None of them seem overly happy about booting off floppy (the first 4 times it won't work. Then it'll work. Then it won't work again for three weeks, then it'll work every time you try it over a two month period. Then it'll stop again. No matter how new the disk, or how much it's been tested as being good.).
However, they have the astonishingly wonderful feature that holding down the "N" key during boot causes the Mac to TFTP a file off a server and execute it. If you make this file a second-stage loader of some sort (YaBoot, for instance) then you can boot Linux over the network without having to touch the local hard drive. Grab a root file system over NFS and you have wonderful X terminals that double up as Macs. The main problem once you reach that stage is that the mice Apple ship are absolutely dreadful...
Uhm - did you mean to reply to the message above mine?
Sort of like "apt-get source -c packagename" which downloads the source and compiles it? :) It's not quite as impressive (all the source is kept on the Debian servers rather than scattered over most of the planet) but works pretty well.
When you do a 'make install' in the directory of the package you wish to install, the system will download the source (if available), compile it, and install it.
Why is this preferable to doing things the way Debian does? apt-get install packagename grabs the package off the configured server and installs it. Pretty similar end result, and you don't have to waste time compiling things. The ports thing is very technically impressive and great for showing off, but in the end I'd prefer to grab a ready-compiled package and be running within 30 seconds or so.
This code is intended to build with gcc 2.7.2 and egcs 1.1.2. Patches for building with gcc 2.95 are merged but less tested than other compilers. Caution is recommended when using gcc 2.95 and feedback is sought.
So tell your ISP to get their act together, otherwise eventually everyone else will get fed up with their constant misbehaviour and general annoyingness and stop letting them play. If all else fails, you can buy yourself a shell account somewhere outside the @Home network and post news from that. As long as people don't start dropping all traffic from @Home, that is.
RFC 2505 (which I've just found with the search engine on faqs.org - I'll admit to not having read any of these things :) ) mentions sending mail through a remote relay with no local SMTP server and the transaction being handled by the MUA. To all intents and purposes, this seems like much the same thing.
Firstly, it's not really censorship - it's not content based, and it's not preventing you from sending mail. Secondly, there's a growing number of ISPs subscribing to the DUL (a list of IP addresses corresponding to dial-up internet connections) who block mail from know dial-up connections. Thirdly, if you don't trust your ISP to deliver your mail, do you trust them to run anything on the network? :)
I've seen very little spam with forged @home addresses, but a good deal coming from *.home.com. Given the apparant state of their network, blocking outgoing port 25 connections is probably the easiest way to deal with this. There are very few legitimate reasons for wanting to send mail through a mail server other than your ISP's, and pretty much none for sending it directly rather than using a smarthost. For the small number of people who can demonstrate a legitimate requirement for external port 25 access, it should be feasible to provide a waiver thing like I seem to recall they have for 139.
Of course, this would mean extra hassle for the @Home network people and tech support as they have to deal with thousands of users with misconfigured mail setups who want to know why they can't send mail any more. Which probably means that the chances of it ever happening are zero, because everyone knows that getting your people to do work to avoid other people (who aren't on your payroll) having to clean up your mess is stupid. Sigh.
Usenet is not a public resource. Usenet is made up of servers owned by private entities, each of whom has the right to choose which traffic their machine will accept. If I have caller ID, I'm well within my rights never to pick up the phone if I see that it's you ringing. This is the same.
Because the spam that is being sent is costing network administrators real time and real money that could otherwise be spent on other things. Spam is a real problem, not something that should just be ignored.
F3 brought up the save dialog. You could enter a path by hand if you wanted.
One of the nicest results of this was that you could drag the icon from a save dialog in one program into another program entirely, resulting in the file being opened in the new one without having to bother saving it to disk in the mean time. I miss it...
If your ISP didn't pay their electricity bills, they'd be cut off. Would you blame their electricity company for denying you the ability to send mail, or would you blame your ISP for not paying their electricity bills?
Your ISP shouldn't be aiding spam in any way, be it hosting web sites, failing to deal with abusers or having mail servers that are open to relaying. It's their fault.
To pester their poor sysadmins to "do something"? _They_ didn't send the spam.
No, but they had an open relay. There's no excuse for this. People aren't put on the RBL purely for making mistakes - they're put on the RBL for failing to fix something that's broken after being asked to fix it. If your ISP is unwilling to behave in a responsible fashion, don't act surprised when people start refusing to deal with them any more.
In general, WINE works much better with 3.1 software than 9x. That's no guarantee, though - the only way of being sure is to test it.
My girlfriend has a PC Chips based machine that had no trouble running Linux. It was a super-cheap thing with a Cyrix, but the onboard graphics and sound were standard enough that they worked under Linux. In fact, the only problem was that a BIOS upgrade was required for it to get round to booting if more than 128MB of RAM was present. Sigh. Still, for the sort of money that this thing cost I certainly wouldn't complain.
(Oh, and it's FreeBSD now having been replaced with something that's annoyingly faster than my machine. Curse her.)
Lack of empathy doesn't mean being unable to feel. I'm lacking in emotional empathy (sure, I can logically deduce what someone else is probably feeling - but I don't get a "gut feeling". There's a difference) but the idea of killing anything without a reason (and killing humans even with a reason) disgusts me. Suggesting that the two are related to that extent shows that you don't really understand the issue.
"We"? That's a fairly broad statement. I've certainly no doubt that the number of similarities between my personality and the classic Asperger's traits are probably more than coincidence. My girlfriend is certainly not someone that could be called anything other than a geek, and her entire family has been diagnosed. I've no doubt whatsoever that some people I've met fall into the same catagory - certainly not everyone who I'd call a geek, but easily more geeks than the population at large.
Does this bother me? Not really. I see myself as different to other people. Not better, not worse. Just different. And since I began to accept that, my life has improved. I am a geek, regardless of whether I admit it or deny it - it's part of my nature that I'm unable to change. I find it hard to relate to people. I don't enjoy social situations involving large numbers of people that I've never met before. I'm hugely over-literal in conversation. No matter how hard I try, I will never be able to fit into society seamlessly. And frankly, I don't care.
I'm happy to accept that I'm not going to be a part of mainstream society, and mainstream society seems happy enough with that. I don't expect them to understand me in the same way that I don't expect to be able to understand the way an alien behaves. My thought processes don't fit into the social norms, and attempting to pretend that that isn't the case would be going against my own personality.
I'm a geek. And I'm not worried about who knows it.
Some time after the announcement, NSI finally seem to have got round to doing something about it. Nice work, guys.
Is OF booting working on the iMac/B&W G3s yet? I've a couple of G3s here that I'd like to be able to netboot using the "Hold down the N key" feature which makes OF send TFTP requests. Last time I tried, this didn't work with Linux because the code needed to be updated to work with the newer firmware. As a result, we've ended up with them running NetBSD. Has this been fixed yet?
Yup. Realised that as soon as I went to check. Someday I really should get used to doing that first :)
Speaking as a medical student, it's certainly viruses rather than virii. I also have a vague feeling that it's Greek rather than Latin, but I couldn't swear to it.