I haven't been able to read the report yet, but the government often employs really smart people to produce some excellent information on information security, which they then ignore.
I saw the headline, and thought.. oh yeah, I've got a Sparc 5 in the garage. I've got a Sparc 20 running Solaris 7 with a nice external 18GB drive, and..
Oh. You mean an *ULTRA* 5. Pfft. Call me when you've got some old hardware. I'd like to have some Sun hardware as recent as an Ultra 5.
We were discussing that. I assume it has to look to the host like one logical drive. I don't suppose there's any chance they actually did RAID 5 with 5 drives for 4x250 drives worth of space.
I think yours is the closet to correct. The Sports legos, Star Wars, Harry Potter... all have license fees.
Bionicles are very popular with the kids, but not people like me. Then there's comics, Lego magazine, DVDs, games, etc... all stuff that's kinda off-core product.
Nor 5. It's illegal for one to profit from their crimes, Son of Sam law. He can't write his own story, at least not for several more years, which is why he needs stories from other people.
That would still be a hardware platform. Since it will be specialized (read: stripped down) to support the new software set, it will fail in the market, and I will be able to buy them cheap.
It will go nicely with my i-Opener and my Barbie PC.
As long as the patents don't cover something that is used in those. Given how simple FAT is, I kinda have to think they've got some patent they could start harrasing almost any filesystem developer with.
Unfortunately, I don't think it will work that way. The FCC won't be particularly interested in how the overall economy is affected. The FCC is interested in the FCC's budget, which comes from these kinds of taxes. In other words, we're giving the people who run the FCC the option to vote themselves out of existance and give up their jobs.
Well, let's see... the Federal Government is in charge of deciding whether to regulate it... and the Federal Government stands to lose billions in revenue if they don't regulate it...
Mostly because you need a.torrent to use BT, so it's a bit silly to use BT to distribute.torrents. If you really, really wanted, you could make one smaller.torrent to get a somehwat larger.torrent, and then use that one to get the real file. That's probably as deep as you could go, since the chunk size is 256K, and as soon as you have a.torrent that only points to one chunk, it doesn't get any smaller than that.
Still,.torrent file are relatively small to begin with, so it's generally not worth worrying about. BT also need a little time to ramp up, so it probably won't get you the.torrent file any faster to begin with.
They download at least a snippet of one song. I recall at one point when I got one of the chat notices in Kazaa, I checked my logs. They downloaded the first 256K of a Fleetwood mac song in my directory, presumably enough to give it a quick listen.
I know he's being sarcastic, but how long until he's correct ?
Just until the first prosecution sticks. It was almost Skylarov, but he got off, and "only" had to be incarcerated for a while, and was kept from his home country and family for 9 months.
Well great, more POP psychology to brand us as evil if we demonstrate different "judgement processes", don't share "mainstream ethical norms" or maintream reward systems.
Yeah, that whole "don't hurt other people" thing is just the MAN'S way of keeping us down. Think different.
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Heh, rather amusing since you're guilty of exactly the thing you accuse me of.:)
At most 2, if the first one found is shown to be exploitable at some point. The other one was in the portable (i.e. non-OpenBSD) version of OpenSSH only.
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1 point for sarcasm, -2 points for not knowing that the p designation refers to the portable version of OpenSSH, not patch release.
Me too. I had pre-ordered 3.4 a month or so ago when the idiots were crowing about the OpenSSH patches, as a way to support the OpenBSD project. I think they showed up last weekend.
Buy the CDs people, and support the project. Plus, you get the OpenBSD songs in full Redbook glory, and stickers!
In short, there's a central console under control of the administrators, and there's an agent running on each client machine. The administrators decide which patches to roll out to which machines, and at what time. It also continually checks that the patches are still installed properly afterwards, and indicates if the patch is no longer applied, or is corrupted.
That's the patching piece, it does other things as well.
The users get to make some choices, at the discretion of the administrator. The most common being when to reboot. For patches that require a reboot, the admin can cause a popup to appear on the desktop requesting that the user save all documents, and click here to reboot. The admin can also force the reboot if they choose.
That's true, I fully agree with you there. I'd much rather read a book printed on paper, and keep it around, etc... I'd often like to have some reference or technical books in electronic format as well, for portability, cut-and-paste, and searchability reasons, but I'd usually be willing to get a second copy for that purpose. (Think the Perl Bookshelf CD-ROM.)
For someone intent on getting and enjoying a copy of a book without paying for it (the only situation to worry about) they don't have much choice besides e-books, do they? Not unless they want to steal from bookstores, or spend a lot of time in front of the photocopier.
For music, yes, CDs you would normally listen to with speakers, but with MP3s, you use speakers.:)
Yup. What a shame for you that OSC won the "allowed to be an author" lottery, and you didn't. Tough break that you're stuck in the "only permitted to work 40 hours a week for wages" class.
If only there were a system that would somehow allow anyone who wants to write to submit their work to various publishers to see if it were fit for public consumption.
Me? I'm the weirdo who does both, holds a standard job, and writes instead of all that sleeping.
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I haven't been able to read the report yet, but the government often employs really smart people to produce some excellent information on information security, which they then ignore.
Exactly.
I saw the headline, and thought.. oh yeah, I've got a Sparc 5 in the garage. I've got a Sparc 20 running Solaris 7 with a nice external 18GB drive, and..
Oh. You mean an *ULTRA* 5. Pfft. Call me when you've got some old hardware. I'd like to have some Sun hardware as recent as an Ultra 5.
We were discussing that. I assume it has to look to the host like one logical drive. I don't suppose there's any chance they actually did RAID 5 with 5 drives for 4x250 drives worth of space.
"All the space, and 1/4 the reliability!!!"
I think yours is the closet to correct. The Sports legos, Star Wars, Harry Potter... all have license fees.
Bionicles are very popular with the kids, but not people like me. Then there's comics, Lego magazine, DVDs, games, etc... all stuff that's kinda off-core product.
Ah, thanks for the correction (Pricewatch's miscategorization really, not mine.)
Still, demonstrates my point that this new drive is by far cheaper than anything else so far in the same class.
http://www.pricewatch.com/menus/m226.htm
The cheapest 2GB I see there is $175.
Nor 5. It's illegal for one to profit from their crimes, Son of Sam law. He can't write his own story, at least not for several more years, which is why he needs stories from other people.
That would still be a hardware platform. Since it will be specialized (read: stripped down) to support the new software set, it will fail in the market, and I will be able to buy them cheap.
It will go nicely with my i-Opener and my Barbie PC.
Another hardware platform to hack after it fails miserably in the market and I can buy them for $40.
ext2fs
ext3fs
jfs
xfs
reiserfs
As long as the patents don't cover something that is used in those. Given how simple FAT is, I kinda have to think they've got some patent they could start harrasing almost any filesystem developer with.
Unfortunately, I don't think it will work that way. The FCC won't be particularly interested in how the overall economy is affected. The FCC is interested in the FCC's budget, which comes from these kinds of taxes. In other words, we're giving the people who run the FCC the option to vote themselves out of existance and give up their jobs.
Well, let's see... the Federal Government is in charge of deciding whether to regulate it... and the Federal Government stands to lose billions in revenue if they don't regulate it...
Well, I'm sure they will do the right thing.
Mostly because you need a .torrent to use BT, so it's a bit silly to use BT to distribute .torrents. If you really, really wanted, you could make one smaller .torrent to get a somehwat larger .torrent, and then use that one to get the real file. That's probably as deep as you could go, since the chunk size is 256K, and as soon as you have a .torrent that only points to one chunk, it doesn't get any smaller than that.
.torrent file are relatively small to begin with, so it's generally not worth worrying about. BT also need a little time to ramp up, so it probably won't get you the .torrent file any faster to begin with.
Still,
They download at least a snippet of one song. I recall at one point when I got one of the chat notices in Kazaa, I checked my logs. They downloaded the first 256K of a Fleetwood mac song in my directory, presumably enough to give it a quick listen.
Most people didn't notice, but Bugtraq was moved to Canada, and turned over to a Canadian moderator a couple of years ago.
I know he's being sarcastic, but how long until he's correct ?
Just until the first prosecution sticks. It was almost Skylarov, but he got off, and "only" had to be incarcerated for a while, and was kept from his home country and family for 9 months.
Well great, more POP psychology to brand us as evil if we demonstrate different "judgement processes", don't share "mainstream ethical norms" or maintream reward systems.
Yeah, that whole "don't hurt other people" thing is just the MAN'S way of keeping us down. Think different.
Heh, rather amusing since you're guilty of exactly the thing you accuse me of. :)
At most 2, if the first one found is shown to be exploitable at some point. The other one was in the portable (i.e. non-OpenBSD) version of OpenSSH only.
1 point for sarcasm, -2 points for not knowing that the p designation refers to the portable version of OpenSSH, not patch release.
Me too. I had pre-ordered 3.4 a month or so ago when the idiots were crowing about the OpenSSH patches, as a way to support the OpenBSD project. I think they showed up last weekend.
Buy the CDs people, and support the project. Plus, you get the OpenBSD songs in full Redbook glory, and stickers!
Note: I'm contracting at BigFix at the moment.
In short, there's a central console under control of the administrators, and there's an agent running on each client machine. The administrators decide which patches to roll out to which machines, and at what time. It also continually checks that the patches are still installed properly afterwards, and indicates if the patch is no longer applied, or is corrupted.
That's the patching piece, it does other things as well.
The users get to make some choices, at the discretion of the administrator. The most common being when to reboot. For patches that require a reboot, the admin can cause a popup to appear on the desktop requesting that the user save all documents, and click here to reboot. The admin can also force the reboot if they choose.
http://freelamo.com/
That's true, I fully agree with you there. I'd much rather read a book printed on paper, and keep it around, etc... I'd often like to have some reference or technical books in electronic format as well, for portability, cut-and-paste, and searchability reasons, but I'd usually be willing to get a second copy for that purpose. (Think the Perl Bookshelf CD-ROM.)
:)
For someone intent on getting and enjoying a copy of a book without paying for it (the only situation to worry about) they don't have much choice besides e-books, do they? Not unless they want to steal from bookstores, or spend a lot of time in front of the photocopier.
For music, yes, CDs you would normally listen to with speakers, but with MP3s, you use speakers.
Yup. What a shame for you that OSC won the "allowed to be an author" lottery, and you didn't. Tough break that you're stuck in the "only permitted to work 40 hours a week for wages" class.
If only there were a system that would somehow allow anyone who wants to write to submit their work to various publishers to see if it were fit for public consumption.
Me? I'm the weirdo who does both, holds a standard job, and writes instead of all that sleeping.