Since this article is authored in sweden I would treat it very suspiciously... Everything, from potato chips to cellular phones will most certainly kill you if you listen to the swedish academia/authorities.
Most of the time when an alarm report like this gets puplished it is usaually time to settle the budget for the comming years and the university/authority facing the biggest budget cut releases something like this to prove their value to the public.
This will stop some geeks in some western countries, but it will not stop those who make money out redistributing the things in other parts of the world.
I go to diffrent parts of asia two or three times a year and always returns with a bag full of new VCD records home.
And I very much doubt that any kind of copy protection stuff that hollywood makes up will change that.
Rudyard Kipling wrote:
An' I'm learnin' 'ere in London what the ten-year soldier tells:
"If you've 'eard the East a-callin', you won't never 'eed naught else."
And IMHO, the chinese subtitles adds value to the experience of watching it.;)
I *really* don't think that you got stuck on RBL list. They are far more conservative then that. An open relay is not reason alone to get on their list. <p> You probably got on the <a href="http://www.orbs.org/">ORBS</a> list, Open Relay Behavior modifaction System. <p> Some people think that ORBS is a bunch of assholes, other think that they are doing the only right thing. <p>
Last time I checked the EULA that came with oracle it prohibited to make benchmark and publish the results without getting the aproval of oracle first.
I think that it could be worthwhile to reconsider Ken Thompsons all time classic Reflections on Trusting Trust in this context.
Peer review (as one of the streanths in opensource) won't alone give you a secure system, there are far to many other factors to be considerd. Peer review is however one very important factor.
Or you could register at developer.microsoft.com (yes, I know, that hurts...) and read the spec online.
But since not even m$ can get diffrent versions of word to read each others files, there is a only a slim chance that someone else will get it right. So far I haven't seen anyone that have got it right.
The dream of one unified tool to manage your system is but a dream.
Todays computer systems are complex things, just tcp/ip reqiures a 600 pages book to cover the basics, and people think that thinks that it could be melted down to one single "network control panel" are dreaming.
The traditional unix way of handling complexity is to break things down into smaller packages which could be managed on their own, imho a sensible aproach, top-down. But the drawback is obvious, you get the 2367 config files/etc.
I hope not for one tool to manage my system but rather a set of tools, perhaps integrated by a "front-end", the best aproach I have on this so far is made by http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ , things like http://www.linux-mandrake.com/lothar/ , the lothar project seems to be heading in the right direction. But as with all software theese things take time to mature and become really usable.
The dream of one unified tool to manage your system is but a dream.
Todays computer systems are complex things, just tcp/ip reqiures a 600 pages book to cover the basic, and people think that thinks that it could be melted down to one single "network control panel" are dreaming.
The traditional unix way of handling complexity is to break things down into smaller packages which could be managed on their own, imho a sensible aproach, top-down. But the drawback is obvious, you get the 2367 config files/etc.
I hope not for one tool to manage my system but rather a set of tools, perhaps integrated by a "front-end", the best aproach I have on this so far is made by http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ , things like http://www.linux-mandrake.com/lothar/ , the lothar project seems to be heading in the right direction. But as with all software theese things take time to mature and become really usable.
Even though I have always been a great fan of Mandrake I think it is sad that they couldn't wait a couple of days before releasing this, it just isn't ready.
Hardware that claims to be supported (such as i810) just doesn't work. Many of the configurations tool are really buggy. There is no text based installer. Support for kickstart installing is missing.
If the mandrake guys just had waited a couple of weeks more to squeze out the bugs this would have been a _great_ distribution. But today it isn't , it is just another example of "feeping cretureism"
(And YES, I have tried it, I have been on the cooker beta-tester list for more then half a year now).
I hope there will be a mdk 7.1 within a couple of months where most issues have been worked out.
guest22: What are your favorite websites? gillianbonner: I really like shockwave.com. It's a very cool site. I also like slashdot.org. It is computer-based. Another site that I really like is called astroabby.com because I am an astrology junkie!
"Supermount is a pseudo-filesystem which manages filesystems on removable media like floppy disks and CD-ROMs. It aims to make management of removable media as easy as it is under DOS."
I thought that this kind of flamebaits was behind us theese days.
Read the QPL license and stop FUDding around.
Even Bruce Perens considers Qt to be free software theese days.
What's next? "I don't use KDE since it only can use kwm" and all the others lies about kde that people looking for flamewars been repeating over and over since gnome started.
You forgot to mention that it is heavy weight, people who complain that kde/gnome eats a lot of memory/cpu, you have seen nothing!;)
And as a sysadmin I can easily say that KDE is 10 times more easy to manage compared to CDE. I had spent a lot of time with dtactions and dttypes before I got to take a look at KDE's way of doing things, and belive me, it is much better then CDE.
Last time I looked at XFCE my reaction was "This is like CDE, just 10 times faster/smaller and less bugs" and then lost my intrest for xfce.
I am also a long time perl coder who recently "discoverd" php3.
There are two things that I really miss in php, as you pointed out, DBI rocks. And the second thing is that the regex implementation in php3 is useless (more or less). The array and hash types in php3 is lacking the beauty of the perl version.
Otherwise I kind of like php3 , it's really "easy-to-use", and supports the most stuff you would like to do in a web application. You get results fast and easy.
The biggest disadvantage of perl is that is harder to get started in, it's to much of a "smorgasbord", you don't know what to pick and when you get started your plate is full before you get to the really good parts.
BUT, if you are a profesional staff with time. knowledge and experience building something big that is suposed to be extendable, maintainable and contain all the bells and whistles I would suggest to go for perl. Take a look at mod_perl and all the zilions of addons that is available and you will understand why.
Which failes at random, ever seen "UNC pathnames not supported" in your userlogon.cmd window? I have, many times.
> A single-user mentality: not a problem.
Oh, but it is. User applications are *NOT* supposed to store user settings somewhere below %SystemRoot%, and they do frequently. User *SHALL NOT* have to have write access to %SystemRoot%\Whatever directories, and they do. Ever tried installing acrobat writer? WinNT suffers badly from the single user mentality...
> Disorganized directory structre: not a problem
It is a problem, not to mention Disorganized registry structure. People who claim that *nix is hard to administer have obviosly never tried to manage WinNT. Sure, "User manager for domains" looks nice, but HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-699738436-327681741-111032338- 1324\Software\Microsoft\Windows_NT\Curre ntVersion\Network\Persistent Connections does not look so good IMHO.
> System crashes: not a problem.
When using WinNT I get some kind of crash that requires me to reboot (not always a BSOD) once a week at average. On a desktop system this is OK, on a server it isn't.
> API: not even an issue
I very seldom write programs that uses the win32-api, but when I do, I always get pissed of by doing so. Obfuscated and lacking good documentation at best.
I will give you one of six, backslash or forward slash doesn't really matter.
We have named all of our NT servers after nuclear disasters, tjernobyl, harrisburg, sellafield. I expect more nuclear plants to blow up by the time we get new nt-servers.
Our unix boxes come from Calvin and hobbes, workstatations are named from diffrent kind bears, dogs and petrol stations.
Anybody heard of the command `finger`?
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Myself work as sysadmin in the academic world, where most people know of and like linux. In this context there is no need to be "redhat-specific".
A couple of my friends works at a consulting firm here in sweden. They have recently begun working on some more linux/opensource specific project. Some of the "concepts" that they have presented to some of their customers are based on linux. Hot2000 - pxe/netbooted thin clients with acces to legacy aplications using citrix metaframe. "Full rulle (lot's of speed)" - a webproxy/border manager using squid/ip-chains. It has been somewhat successfull.
They are all "out there" in the corporate world. And the main leasson they have learned is that people are scared of linux, mainly because they don't know what it is. And the only thing people ever have heard of is redhat.
Hence I think that 3com is doing the right thing here, realesing drivers for redhat. It keeps the corporate people happy and increases linux chances of succces in that world.
And we, the linux comunity, that do have some clue should be able to read through the lines of the anouncement. The driver is GPL dammit. And could easily be integrated into the mainstream kernel (if there is need for that). This is code! And it's GPL'd. Honestly, what more could we ask for?
(The ability to team multiple network cards into a group perhaps, but that is another story;)
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When fingerprinting of all visitors was introduced - I decided that I won't visit US as long as you guys keep doing this to me.
I have politely declined to visit two conferences in the US when invited by my employer.
And I really don't have any second thoughts about not visiting US when I read about this.
http://driveslag.eecue.com/ - It would be a fun field day - it can be adapted to fulfill your need as a bulk eraser!
Since this article is authored in sweden I would treat it very suspiciously ... Everything, from potato chips to cellular phones will most certainly kill you if you listen to the swedish academia/authorities.
Most of the time when an alarm report like this gets puplished it is usaually time to settle the budget for the comming years and the university/authority facing the biggest budget cut releases something like this to prove their value to the public.
Nothing to see here - carry on!
This will stop some geeks in some western countries, but it will not stop those who make money out redistributing the things in other parts of the world.
;)
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I go to diffrent parts of asia two or three times a year and always returns with a bag full of new VCD records home.
And I very much doubt that any kind of copy protection stuff that hollywood makes up will change that.
Rudyard Kipling wrote:
An' I'm learnin' 'ere in London what the ten-year soldier tells:
"If you've 'eard the East a-callin', you won't never 'eed naught else."
And IMHO, the chinese subtitles adds value to the experience of watching it.
Moderators, up this one please!
I *really* don't think that you got stuck on RBL list. They are far more conservative then that. An open relay is not reason alone to get on their list.
<p>
You probably got on the <a href="http://www.orbs.org/">ORBS</a> list, Open Relay Behavior modifaction System.
<p>
Some people think that ORBS is a bunch of assholes, other think that they are doing the only right thing.
<p>
warez.it.kth.se is 127.0.0.1 , could be used ..
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Last time I checked the EULA that came with oracle it prohibited to make benchmark and publish the results without getting the aproval of oracle first.
/N
I think that it could be worthwhile to reconsider Ken Thompsons all time classic Reflections on Trusting Trust in this context.
Peer review (as one of the streanths in opensource) won't alone give you a secure system, there are far to many other factors to be considerd. Peer review is however one very important factor.
Eric Allman is the sendmail hacker, ESR wrote fetchmail
And yes, sendmail sucks. run qmail or postfix instead.
(I can't belive that I actually reply to such a blunt flamebait ... )
> documented on the MSDN CD's
...) and read the spec online.
Or you could register at developer.microsoft.com (yes, I know, that hurts
But since not even m$ can get diffrent versions of word to read each others files, there is a only a slim chance that someone else will get it right. So far I haven't seen anyone that have got it right.
Is this another one of these "all american pie" things?
Can someone please explain slow and easy what this fuzz is all about to a european?
The dream of one unified tool to manage your system is but a dream.
/etc.
Todays computer systems are complex things, just tcp/ip reqiures a 600 pages book to cover the basics, and people think that thinks that it could be melted down to one single "network control panel" are dreaming.
The traditional unix way of handling complexity is to break things down into smaller packages which could be managed on their own, imho a sensible aproach, top-down. But the drawback is obvious, you get the 2367 config files
I hope not for one tool to manage my system but rather a set of tools, perhaps integrated by a "front-end", the best aproach I have on this so far is made by http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ , things like http://www.linux-mandrake.com/lothar/ , the lothar project seems to be heading in the right direction. But as with all software theese things take time to mature and become really usable.
/N
The dream of one unified tool to manage your system is but a dream.
/etc.
Todays computer systems are complex things, just tcp/ip reqiures a 600 pages book to cover the basic, and people think that thinks that it could be melted down to one single "network control panel" are dreaming.
The traditional unix way of handling complexity is to break things down into smaller packages which could be managed on their own, imho a sensible aproach, top-down. But the drawback is obvious, you get the 2367 config files
I hope not for one tool to manage my system but rather a set of tools, perhaps integrated by a "front-end", the best aproach I have on this so far is made by http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ , things like http://www.linux-mandrake.com/lothar/ , the lothar project seems to be heading in the right direction. But as with all software theese things take time to mature and become really usable.
/N
Even though I have always been a great fan of Mandrake I think it is sad that they couldn't wait a couple of days before releasing this, it just isn't ready.
Hardware that claims to be supported (such as i810) just doesn't work. Many of the configurations tool are really buggy. There is no text based installer. Support for kickstart installing is missing.
If the mandrake guys just had waited a couple of weeks more to squeze out the bugs this would have been a _great_ distribution. But today it isn't , it is just another example of "feeping cretureism"
(And YES, I have tried it, I have been on the cooker beta-tester list for more then half a year now).
I hope there will be a mdk 7.1 within a couple of months where most issues have been worked out.
Mdk 6.1 was a great distro though.
Taken from a chat with gillian ...
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guest22: What are your favorite websites?
gillianbonner: I really like shockwave.com. It's a very cool site. I also like slashdot.org. It is computer-based. Another site that I really like is called astroabby.com because I am an astrology junkie!
And yes, I only read it for the articles
It's a thingie by Stephen C Tweedie (ext3
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/sct/supermount
I quote:
"Supermount is a pseudo-filesystem which manages filesystems on removable media like floppy disks and CD-ROMs. It aims to make management of removable media as easy as it is under DOS."
I thought that this kind of flamebaits was behind us theese days.
...
Read the QPL license and stop FUDding around.
Even Bruce Perens considers Qt to be free software theese days.
What's next? "I don't use KDE since it only can use kwm" and all the others lies about kde that people looking for flamewars been repeating over and over since gnome started.
I'm tired of this
>After all, like Linus says, "Release early,
/. , one mistake every once in a while is acceptable, as long as it gets corrected when proved to be wrong.
>release often!"
Or like the normal reporter would say:
"Never check a good story"
I like the fast reporting of
Keep up the good work everyone. And keep hacking on wine.
>No, it isn't, and no you shouldn't
...
;)
I couldn't agree more, but
You forgot to mention that it is heavy weight, people who complain that kde/gnome eats a lot of memory/cpu, you have seen nothing!
And as a sysadmin I can easily say that KDE is 10 times more easy to manage compared to CDE. I had spent a lot of time with dtactions and dttypes before I got to take a look at KDE's way of doing things, and belive me, it is much better then CDE.
Last time I looked at XFCE my reaction was "This is like CDE, just 10 times faster/smaller and less bugs" and then lost my intrest for xfce.
I am also a long time perl coder who recently "discoverd" php3.
There are two things that I really miss in php, as you pointed out, DBI rocks. And the second thing is that the regex implementation in php3 is useless (more or less). The array and hash types in php3 is lacking the beauty of the perl version.
Otherwise I kind of like php3 , it's really "easy-to-use", and supports the most stuff you would like to do in a web application. You get results fast and easy.
The biggest disadvantage of perl is that is harder to get started in, it's to much of a "smorgasbord", you don't know what to pick and when you get started your plate is full before you get to the really good parts.
BUT, if you are a profesional staff with time. knowledge and experience building something big that is suposed to be extendable, maintainable and contain all the bells and whistles I would suggest to go for perl. Take a look at mod_perl and all the zilions of addons that is available and you will understand why.
> Drive letters: not a problem. UNC pathnames.
...
- 1324\Software\Microsoft\Windows_NT\Curre ntVersion\Network\Persistent Connections does not look so good IMHO.
Which failes at random, ever seen "UNC pathnames not supported" in your userlogon.cmd window? I have, many times.
> A single-user mentality: not a problem.
Oh, but it is. User applications are *NOT* supposed to store user settings somewhere below %SystemRoot%, and they do frequently. User *SHALL NOT* have to have write access to %SystemRoot%\Whatever directories, and they do. Ever tried installing acrobat writer? WinNT suffers badly from the single user mentality
> Disorganized directory structre: not a problem
It is a problem, not to mention Disorganized registry structure. People who claim that *nix is hard to administer have obviosly never tried to manage WinNT. Sure, "User manager for domains" looks nice, but HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-699738436-327681741-111032338
> System crashes: not a problem.
When using WinNT I get some kind of crash that requires me to reboot (not always a BSOD) once a week at average. On a desktop system this is OK, on a server it isn't.
> API: not even an issue
I very seldom write programs that uses the win32-api, but when I do, I always get pissed of by doing so. Obfuscated and lacking good documentation at best.
I will give you one of six, backslash or forward slash doesn't really matter.
Well,
We have named all of our NT servers after nuclear disasters, tjernobyl, harrisburg, sellafield. I expect more nuclear plants to blow up by the time we get new nt-servers.
Our unix boxes come from Calvin and hobbes, workstatations are named from diffrent kind bears, dogs and petrol stations.
Thoose of you who haven't can check out John Carmacks latest plan at http://w3.informatik.gu.se/~niklas/joh nc.txt
Myself work as sysadmin in the academic world, where most people know of and like linux. In this context there is no need to be "redhat-specific".
;)
A couple of my friends works at a consulting firm here in sweden. They have recently begun working on some more linux/opensource specific project. Some of the "concepts" that they have presented to some of their customers are based on linux. Hot2000 - pxe/netbooted thin clients with acces to legacy aplications using citrix metaframe. "Full rulle (lot's of speed)" - a webproxy/border manager using squid/ip-chains. It has been somewhat successfull.
They are all "out there" in the corporate world. And the main leasson they have learned is that people are scared of linux, mainly because they don't know what it is. And the only thing people ever have heard of is redhat.
Hence I think that 3com is doing the right thing here, realesing drivers for redhat. It keeps the corporate people happy and increases linux chances of succces in that world.
And we, the linux comunity, that do have some clue should be able to read through the lines of the anouncement. The driver is GPL dammit. And could easily be integrated into the mainstream kernel (if there is need for that). This is code! And it's GPL'd. Honestly, what more could we ask for?
(The ability to team multiple network cards into a group perhaps, but that is another story