I'm trying Netscape 6 PR3 (2000092908) right now and it's performing nicely. Previous PR crashed like hell but this one is pretty good and I'll think I'll stick to it... What specific problems did you have with it?
Due to my own laziness, one of my personal Linux home server was rootkit'ed and was so for at least a month before I discovered it by accident while investigating why top crashed (utmp was corrupted). It seemed that someone was running what looked like a covert IRC channel on my computer.
Once I reinstalled and locked it down (tcpwrapper, ipchains, scanlogd, disabling of services, packages updates, etc) I still got an awful lots of unexplained connections to port 40118:40120 (I still do, two months after, if someone can tell me what it is I'd be happy). I also warned any owner of those IP that did that, but they didn't seem to care too much.
I don't have an hard time believing that a very large number of Linux servers out there are compromised: after all, a bunch of them are probably not even very much up-to-date and it takes a lots of time and experience to secure properly a Linux server.
I always thought that RedHat (prime culprit because it is the largest deployed distribution out there) doesn't take network security seriously, especially now that RH can be installed and configured to offer various network services by virtual newbies.
Things that could be done by RH (and others) IMO:
1) Create a single reference called security.redhat.com where you could register to receive updates and/or have one of your server registered to be regurlarly and automatically evaluated (nmap'd for example) from a security standpoint.
2) Automatically install some of the pretty good detection and prevention tools!!
Sorry, I kind of jumped the gun on that one... Of course, I thought you meant ozone generator, not ionizer.
From what I've read, negative ions could be good for your health (although there doesn't seem to be any study on it). It's just that they tend to be bundled with ozone generators, that's why I posted this;-).
As for cleaning ability, doesn't it create a fine dust that gets all over the floor? Must be troublesome to clean!
Wow, first of all I must share my excitement: this is the first time ever one of my article get posted (even if it is only on Ask Slashdot!).
Seriously now, I originally began researching the subject because I live in a downtown appartment and the building is so badly built that we smell the cigarette smoke from adjacent rooms.
Once I got to the EPA information however, it kind of made me think about how (bad) air quality could affect my overall health, particularly my sleep.
After all, I have a Brita water filter - but nothing to purify the air.
I shopped around and discovered that good air purifiers are very expensive: I think I'd go for either the Austin Air or Blue Air which are both around 400$US.
But who knows: are they really worth that price? Are they any good? It's difficult to know what's bullshit and what's good in those kind of things. Objective reviews on the net are rare and snake oil quite frequent.
I kind of trusted Allergy Buyers Club until I discovered that the guy behind it kept spamming Usenet pretty badly.
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I've always been a fan of the quality and stability behind KDE and the license has never been an issue for me.
But I understand why it is one for others and TrollTech changed the license too late.
Sun and HP backing Gnome changes the whole balance and it is now HIGHLY probable that GNOME will be the _corporate_ standard (which will of course ripple thru home usage).
The only thing that could counter this would be for IBM or another big player to "adopt" KDE has their official GUI. I doubt it however: IBM will probably switch to GNOME across their Unix product line very soon...
Just survey who would buy the book on release, with name, address and email. Once you get enough names just go get the publisher, who shouldn't have any problem then financing the book.
Here I sit in front of my Taiwanese wife computer with Windows Millenium in Chinese (strangely, Millenium is already widely available in Asia) with a small chinese written recognition pad (available for less then a 100$CAN) sitting just next to my keyboard.
The program that handles the recognition for that pad is VERY advanced and works very well (I know, since I'm learning chinese and it can recognize my butched characters).
For example, this is my name in chinese (written using the above mentionned pad):
¥îäO
The chinese characters display quite well on MY computer (at least in preview mode...) and that's whats important. My understanding is that they are encoded in UTF-8 too. Is Japanese display tech inferior?;-)
Don't underestimate the technology available to chinese (particularly the technology produced in Taiwan where your MONITOR and MOTHERBOARD were probably manufactured) in their native tongue.
And yes, there's a LOTS of chinese dialect (apart from mandarin, my wife speaks cantonese and taiwanese) BUT everyone learns mandarin now so it should be quite widespread by the next generation of chinese. Plus, who cares how you talk it: the written language itself is standardized and that's what's important.
The real problem here is that it is most probably a database administered by personnel not competent in security issues. What would have been necessary is a throughout security review by an external firm (by IBM tiger team for example?)...
Ok, who the heck wants to have a comparison between crappy Win'98 and Linux? Give us a Win2000 vs Linux!! That would be a really good comparison as they approach each other in function and security... Let's see if the all new, all good NT kernel is better.
Hey fellow Canucks, I'm sending them an email requesting that they give me what they have on file about myself. If anyone is interested in doing the same or if you have already done it, please contact me... Thanks!
Hmmm, what you are proposing sounds like what Sun did with Solaris: they have a bastard child Solaris x86 with poor driver support. It doesn't work well and I don't see them making a ton of money off it.
Obviously, having a bunch of developer porting a product in an environment where every other Mac developer hates x86 guts wouldn't be very productive.
Finally, would you really buy an inferior product when you have x86 OS that take full advantage of the hardware?
"My opinion: Mattel is heading toward a public relations disaster with the whole on-line community thru its handling in the case you make against Matthew Skala, managing to pissed off a major part of IT guys and to look like a big US corporation stumping on people all over the world.
Having an army of lawyers obtaining court injunctions after citizens does not make you the winner!"
Ok, let's say I have 20 servers and 80 workstations to install. Let's suppose also that I'll hire an extra guy to do the job and that I already have someone in place.
Assume they require the same kind of hardware.
Should I go either:
1) Install them individually with Microsoft (conservative estimates, I'm putting those as low as possible...):
+ 20 servers * 1000$ worth of software (NT Server) + 80 workstations * 1000$ worth of software (NT Workstation + Office) + 2000$*2(cert cost) = 104000$
2) Kickstart them using RedHat Linux:
+ 150$ RedHat Linux Professionnal (this could also be 0$) + 80$ RedHat Deluxe (for workstations) + 55000$ RH platinum support for the first year (unlimited incidents for the servers plus training for 2, check it out!) + 40000$ an extra (on a baseline salary of x) of 40000$ to the top gun Unix IT guy I'll hire and keep = 95230$
Hmm. Let me think... Seems to me that the Linux solutions gives me more room to buy proprietary software, more hardware, more support, more books... AND I'd have a better, more intelligent architecture that is automated.
One of the biggest problem with C++ is the lack of a featureful (freely available!) standard library to cover the range of things that Java covers (including the GUI).
Obviously, that sounds like "everything and the kitchen sink" but at least you don't have to search days and night to find poorly designed/implemented libraries... And it can always be made "standard but optional".
That is one of the reason why Qt is so popular: C++ is a great language when it has the appropriate libraries. But there is still some lacks as evidenced by the hack that Troll Tech has built.
This is why the next big thing in OO won't be C++ but a free, efficient Java native compiler.
Hey guys, how about games that are not ports but truly innovative games native to Linux? That would make Windows users sit and think (I can already see Windows users petitionning for a port to Windows;-))
Then, the question is not WHICH game to port but what WOULD YOU WANT in a new game?
I guess Sun just think that Linux was going to kill Solaris on x86 and they're moving toward crushing it. How long before StarOffice (which is rumored to have been bought by Sun) is no longer available on Linux?
Anyway, they'll obviously fail... If they think that running after something they can't compete with on the low-end and pissing off Unix geeks who like Linux is good, wait till they hit the wall.
Linux was their only chance to open a breach in the Microsoft monopoly and they're not even taking advantage of it!
Just one more reason why GPL'd software is better... Hey, KOffice will be better then StarOffice anyway!
I'll admit however that this is probably more the ZD FUD machine at work, but still, Sun should have kept the *promised* Linux port (how hard can it be?) just for appearance sake.
I guess Sun just think that Linux was going to kill Solaris on x86 and they're moving toward crushing it. How long before StarOffice (which is rumored to have been bought by Sun) is no longer available on Linux?
Anyway, they'll obviously fail... If they think that running after something they can't compete with on the low-end and pissing off Unix geeks who like Linux is good, wait till they it the wall.
Linux was their only chance to open a breach in the Microsoft monopoly and they're not even taking advantage of it!
Just one more reason why GPL'd software is better... Hey, KOffice will be better then StarOffice anyway!
I'll admit however that this is probably more the ZD FUD machine at work, but still, Sun should have kept the Linux port (how hard can it be?) just for appearance.
Ouch! That hurts! But from what I gather, the link offered for this story is mostly a biased synthetisis of the PCWeek report from a pissed off MCSE.
The real report still has some nice things to say about Linux, and hopefully this whole mess will give us the kick in the butt to start making everything go faster and be better.
As customers, we especially need that all the Linux distributors and hardware resellers start working together instead of wasting time "fighting" each other. An industry-wide consortium to develop better hardware with everyone contributing a fixed percentage of their net profit would be nice. That money could be funnelled to the developers to something such as sourcexchange (http://www.sourcexchange.com).
Still, it wouldn't have been possible just a few months ago to have a comparison of Linux with Solaris, NT, Novell... And since those "mainstream" NOS are often only affordable to bigger corporations, Linux has it's market cut out!
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I'm trying Netscape 6 PR3 (2000092908) right now and it's performing nicely. Previous PR crashed like hell but this one is pretty good and I'll think I'll stick to it... What specific problems did you have with it?
> 3.) Stop being so Lazy
Obviously, yes, but are you going some of the people installing Linux out there wouldn't even be able to secure their box even if they WEREN'T lazy...
With 24hours/day Net connectivity and Linux install widespread, this is a real problem.
Due to my own laziness, one of my personal Linux home server was rootkit'ed and was so for at least a month before I discovered it by accident while investigating why top crashed (utmp was corrupted). It seemed that someone was running what looked like a covert IRC channel on my computer.
Once I reinstalled and locked it down (tcpwrapper, ipchains, scanlogd, disabling of services, packages updates, etc) I still got an awful lots of unexplained connections to port 40118:40120 (I still do, two months after, if someone can tell me what it is I'd be happy). I also warned any owner of those IP that did that, but they didn't seem to care too much.
I don't have an hard time believing that a very large number of Linux servers out there are compromised: after all, a bunch of them are probably not even very much up-to-date and it takes a lots of time and experience to secure properly a Linux server.
I always thought that RedHat (prime culprit because it is the largest deployed distribution out there) doesn't take network security seriously, especially now that RH can be installed and configured to offer various network services by virtual newbies.
Things that could be done by RH (and others) IMO:
1) Create a single reference called security.redhat.com where you could register to receive updates and/or have one of your server registered to be regurlarly and automatically evaluated (nmap'd for example) from a security standpoint.
2) Automatically install some of the pretty good detection and prevention tools!!
Sorry, I kind of jumped the gun on that one... Of course, I thought you meant ozone generator, not ionizer.
;-).
From what I've read, negative ions could be good for your health (although there doesn't seem to be any study on it). It's just that they tend to be bundled with ozone generators, that's why I posted this
As for cleaning ability, doesn't it create a fine dust that gets all over the floor? Must be troublesome to clean!
Aren't ionizers bad for your health?
Of course, there's always the popular conspiracy theory!
But I'd be interested in hearing what particular air filter you've used... Do you think they are all the same (ie: ineffective)?
Wow, first of all I must share my excitement: this is the first time ever one of my article get posted (even if it is only on Ask Slashdot!).
Seriously now, I originally began researching the subject because I live in a downtown appartment and the building is so badly built that we smell the cigarette smoke from adjacent rooms.
Once I got to the EPA information however, it kind of made me think about how (bad) air quality could affect my overall health, particularly my sleep.
After all, I have a Brita water filter - but nothing to purify the air.
I shopped around and discovered that good air purifiers are very expensive: I think I'd go for either the Austin Air or Blue Air which are both around 400$US.
But who knows: are they really worth that price? Are they any good? It's difficult to know what's bullshit and what's good in those kind of things. Objective reviews on the net are rare and snake oil quite frequent.
I kind of trusted Allergy Buyers Club until I discovered that the guy behind it kept spamming Usenet pretty badly.
I've always been a fan of the quality and stability behind KDE and the license has never been an issue for me.
But I understand why it is one for others and TrollTech changed the license too late.
Sun and HP backing Gnome changes the whole balance and it is now HIGHLY probable that GNOME will be the _corporate_ standard (which will of course ripple thru home usage).
The only thing that could counter this would be for IBM or another big player to "adopt" KDE has their official GUI. I doubt it however: IBM will probably switch to GNOME across their Unix product line very soon...
Just survey who would buy the book on release, with name, address and email. Once you get enough names just go get the publisher, who shouldn't have any problem then financing the book.
Here I sit in front of my Taiwanese wife computer with Windows Millenium in Chinese (strangely, Millenium is already widely available in Asia) with a small chinese written recognition pad (available for less then a 100$CAN) sitting just next to my keyboard.
;-)
The program that handles the recognition for that pad is VERY advanced and works very well (I know, since I'm learning chinese and it can recognize my butched characters).
For example, this is my name in chinese (written using the above mentionned pad):
¥îäO
The chinese characters display quite well on MY computer (at least in preview mode...) and that's whats important. My understanding is that they are encoded in UTF-8 too. Is Japanese display tech inferior?
Don't underestimate the technology available to chinese (particularly the technology produced in Taiwan where your MONITOR and MOTHERBOARD were probably manufactured) in their native tongue.
And yes, there's a LOTS of chinese dialect (apart from mandarin, my wife speaks cantonese and taiwanese) BUT everyone learns mandarin now so it should be quite widespread by the next generation of chinese. Plus, who cares how you talk it: the written language itself is standardized and that's what's important.
The real problem here is that it is most probably a database administered by personnel not competent in security issues. What would have been necessary is a throughout security review by an external firm (by IBM tiger team for example?)...
Ok, who the heck wants to have a comparison between crappy Win'98 and Linux? Give us a Win2000 vs Linux!! That would be a really good comparison as they approach each other in function and security... Let's see if the all new, all good NT kernel is better.
Hey fellow Canucks, I'm sending them an email requesting that they give me what they have on file about myself. If anyone is interested in doing the same or if you have already done it, please contact me... Thanks!
Hmmm, what you are proposing sounds like what Sun did with Solaris: they have a bastard child Solaris x86 with poor driver support. It doesn't work well and I don't see them making a ton of money off it.
Obviously, having a bunch of developer porting a product in an environment where every other Mac developer hates x86 guts wouldn't be very productive.
Finally, would you really buy an inferior product when you have x86 OS that take full advantage of the hardware?
What I wrote to Mattel:
"My opinion: Mattel is heading toward a public relations disaster with the whole on-line community thru its handling in the case you make against Matthew Skala, managing to pissed off a major part of IT guys and to look like a big US corporation stumping on people all over the world.
Having an army of lawyers obtaining court injunctions after citizens does not make you the winner!"
Ok, let's say I have 20 servers and 80 workstations to install. Let's suppose also that I'll hire an extra guy to do the job and that I already have someone in place.
Assume they require the same kind of hardware.
Should I go either:
1) Install them individually with Microsoft (conservative estimates, I'm putting those as low as possible...):
+ 20 servers * 1000$ worth of software (NT Server)
+ 80 workstations * 1000$ worth of software (NT Workstation + Office)
+ 2000$*2(cert cost)
= 104000$
2) Kickstart them using RedHat Linux:
+ 150$ RedHat Linux Professionnal (this could also be 0$)
+ 80$ RedHat Deluxe (for workstations)
+ 55000$ RH platinum support for the first year (unlimited incidents for the servers plus training for 2, check it out!)
+ 40000$ an extra (on a baseline salary of x) of 40000$ to the top gun Unix IT guy I'll hire and keep
= 95230$
Hmm. Let me think... Seems to me that the Linux solutions gives me more room to buy proprietary software, more hardware, more support, more books... AND I'd have a better, more intelligent architecture that is automated.
Tough choice!
Can somebody explain to me why they start so low when they'll obviously be over 50$ the first day? It doesn't make sense.
Is Lineo included in this? If so, it might be a good investment.
One of the biggest problem with C++ is the lack of a featureful (freely available!) standard library to cover the range of things that Java covers (including the GUI).
Obviously, that sounds like "everything and the kitchen sink" but at least you don't have to search days and night to find poorly designed/implemented libraries... And it can always be made "standard but optional".
That is one of the reason why Qt is so popular: C++ is a great language when it has the appropriate libraries. But there is still some lacks as evidenced by the hack that Troll Tech has built.
This is why the next big thing in OO won't be C++ but a free, efficient Java native compiler.
Hey, SUN PHBs, hire the blackdown team so they can work full time on the JDK port - OK? Better do it before IBM hires them ;-)
Hey guys, how about games that are not ports but truly innovative games native to Linux? That would make Windows users sit and think (I can already see Windows users petitionning for a port to Windows ;-))
Then, the question is not WHICH game to port but what WOULD YOU WANT in a new game?
According to this link, the use of hydrogen wasn't the cause of it burning up - the coating was!
http://engineer.ea.ucla.edu/releases/blimp.htm
Correct me if I wrong, but Linux doesn't have video editing software, does it?
Too bad it was on April 1st, it kind of take out the idea of being taken seriously by spammers ;-)
I guess Sun just think that Linux was going to kill Solaris on x86 and they're moving toward crushing it. How long before StarOffice (which is rumored to have been bought by Sun) is no longer available on Linux?
Anyway, they'll obviously fail... If they think that running after something they can't compete with on the low-end and pissing off Unix geeks who like Linux is good, wait till they hit the wall.
Linux was their only chance to open a breach in the Microsoft monopoly and they're not even taking advantage of it!
Just one more reason why GPL'd software is better... Hey, KOffice will be better then StarOffice anyway!
I'll admit however that this is probably more the ZD FUD machine at work, but still, Sun should have kept the *promised* Linux port (how hard can it be?) just for appearance sake.
I guess Sun just think that Linux was going to kill Solaris on x86 and they're moving toward crushing it. How long before StarOffice (which is rumored to have been bought by Sun) is no longer available on Linux?
Anyway, they'll obviously fail... If they think that running after something they can't compete with on the low-end and pissing off Unix geeks who like Linux is good, wait till they it the wall.
Linux was their only chance to open a breach in the Microsoft monopoly and they're not even taking advantage of it!
Just one more reason why GPL'd software is better... Hey, KOffice will be better then StarOffice anyway!
I'll admit however that this is probably more the ZD FUD machine at work, but still, Sun should have kept the Linux port (how hard can it be?) just for appearance.
Ouch! That hurts! But from what I gather, the link offered for this story is mostly a biased synthetisis of the PCWeek report from a pissed off MCSE.
The real report still has some nice things to say about Linux, and hopefully this whole mess will give us the kick in the butt to start making everything go faster and be better.
As customers, we especially need that all the Linux distributors and hardware resellers start working together instead of wasting time "fighting" each other. An industry-wide consortium to develop better hardware with everyone contributing a fixed percentage of their net profit would be nice. That money could be funnelled to the developers to something such as sourcexchange (http://www.sourcexchange.com).
Still, it wouldn't have been possible just a few months ago to have a comparison of Linux with Solaris, NT, Novell... And since those "mainstream" NOS are often only affordable to bigger corporations, Linux has it's market cut out!