"The Linux kernel properly scaled to use hardware resources (CPU, memory, disk) on SMP systems."
Sorry, but how can the scaleability of the CPU resource be proven on a 2 CPU system? Show incremental results on 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 etc. etc. and then CPU scaleability may be proven.
This is NOT an anti-Linux troll, rather the evaluation needs to justify it's outcomes or it starts to look like something from a company starting with M.
According to local NZ news, he was warned that he did not have enough fuel to make it to Argentina before he left, and that fuel was NOT available in Antartica. IMO NZ miltary and search and rescue spend way too much of taxpayers money rescueing idiots who try to cross the vast distances around us with few or no backups.
Like a guy that has just been rescued for the second time trying to row to Argentina. His boat has now been confiscated by the police to try to recover some of the rescue costs.
The site has been down since 4:20 a.m. Mountain Time (11:20 pm GMT) , when it experienced "a large scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack," SCO said in a statement. The attack affected the company's web site, e-mail, intranet and customer support operations. SCO said it is working with its Internet Service Provider to restore the site to operation.
SCO is working with law enforcement officials and its ISP to gather information to help identify the origin of these attacks. The company said the DDoS, known as a syn attack, used "several thousand servers (that) were compromised by an unknown person to overload SCO's Web site with illegitimate Web site requests.""
I would not get too optimistic about the opportunties that this accomplishment appears to offer rural communities. I am not familiar with the area, but it looks like most of the link is over water and I am sure that it is line of sight. I suspect any sort of obstruction, rain, maybe fog, dust etc. would stuff it up. In addition any sort of interference from portable phones, microwaves etc. etc. would also affect it.
Reliable rural connection would need more than 802.11b power for anything close to that range.
Bruce has put together a specification and built some bits for a device that could theoretically fly some distance in a controlled manner.
But a device to cruise some distance carrying enough ordanance to make a difference at point of impact it is not.
A pickup full of diesel and fertiliser would pose much more of a risk to the Govt of NZ and such a device is legal here, as long as intent to do harm is absent.
Building on our great pool of expertise developed from 802.11, I suspect that one bastard gets to communicate and 50 lucky bastards get to listen (or watch) in...
The cost of the license is not $100 per year. It is $100 period for a perpetual license (actually $50 at the moment as a promotional price). That cost includes 1 year of software maint and 60 days installation support.
A password is really more than just authentication in real life. It is also effectively a signature indicating a degree of voluntary co-operation to validate a transaction. It needs active brain power.
Biometrics (at least all the ones so far, except perhaps speech) need no such co-operation. So you may be able to authenticate the subject, but there is no record in any way that the subject is co-operating with the transaction.
This does raise a subtle issue. While banks in theory disapprove of the sharing of pin numbers, ATM cards etc. it is now an established part of the financial system. How can you order your spouse/partner/etc. out to stock up on booze etc. when (s)he needs to take your thumb or retina? The faces may be similar though;=)
Using all of the above would be a bad choice and reduce security, which is what the original article is about. A good password policy will allow the average user to remember their password(s) and not need to bypass security by storing it elsewhere (post it notes for example).
The key is to balance technical security with the user world. If the security is too hard, users will find a way around it. And the more security is tacked on, the more user exploitable cracks appear.
Common Criteria is about validating that the OS/Firewall/etc. etc. does what the VENDOR says it will do. Just because a bunch of products have Common Criteria Certifications does not mean that they are equally secure. HP-UX, Solaris, Win2K and soon Redhat will have achieved Common Criteria certification but it does NOT mean that they are equally secure.
Right, so insurance companies should sue oil companies who profit because burglars carry stolen goods away in cars which burn gas?
And does this "Mr Speck urged ISPs to halt the practice by blocking access to illegal music download sites and programs or "by other arrangements"." mean that all illegal music should have the TCP/IP "evil" bit set? How the fsck are the ISPs going to know if the bloody mp3s contain illegal music or not?
Hopefully the Aus legislators have more sense than those in some other parts of the world.
I am in Wellington, New Zealand and the whole city is getting ready for the World Premiere here next week. There is Lord of the Rings images, statues, effects all over the pace. An unknowing visitor at the airport would get a hell of a sock at the warriars and dragons etc. leering down at them.
Not so. All I said for sure was that NZ does not use any form of electronic voting, which is correct. However they are thinking about it. Aus, which I only expressed a thought about, has NOT used open source voting yet in a real election. They have only evaluated it.
"Australia, Canada and New Zealand use open source software for their voting machines, which are reliant on an open source operating system such as Linux or UNIX"
New Zealand does not use any form of electronic voting, it is considering some form of electronic voting in the future, but no decisions about what software etc. to use have been made. I am fairly sure Australia is in the same position.
It would be a shames if a good decision at Loas Alamos was based on lies....
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"The Linux kernel properly scaled to use hardware resources (CPU, memory, disk) on SMP systems."
Sorry, but how can the scaleability of the CPU resource be proven on a 2 CPU system? Show incremental results on 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 etc. etc. and then CPU scaleability may be proven.
This is NOT an anti-Linux troll, rather the evaluation needs to justify it's outcomes or it starts to look like something from a company starting with M.
He did contact the guys there first. They told him that fuel was NOT available there.
According to local NZ news, he was warned that he did not have enough fuel to make it to Argentina before he left, and that fuel was NOT available in Antartica. IMO NZ miltary and search and rescue spend way too much of taxpayers money rescueing idiots who try to cross the vast distances around us with few or no backups.
Like a guy that has just been rescued for the second time trying to row to Argentina. His boat has now been confiscated by the police to try to recover some of the rescue costs.
"DDoS takes SCO Site down...
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The site has been down since 4:20 a.m. Mountain Time (11:20 pm GMT) , when it experienced "a large scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack," SCO said in a statement. The attack affected the company's web site, e-mail, intranet and customer support operations. SCO said it is working with its Internet Service Provider to restore the site to operation.
SCO is working with law enforcement officials and its ISP to gather information to help identify the origin of these attacks. The company said the DDoS, known as a syn attack, used "several thousand servers (that) were compromised by an unknown person to overload SCO's Web site with illegitimate Web site requests.""
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/12/10/dd
I would not get too optimistic about the opportunties that this accomplishment appears to offer rural communities. I am not familiar with the area, but it looks like most of the link is over water and I am sure that it is line of sight. I suspect any sort of obstruction, rain, maybe fog, dust etc. would stuff it up. In addition any sort of interference from portable phones, microwaves etc. etc. would also affect it.
Reliable rural connection would need more than 802.11b power for anything close to that range.
Bruce has put together a specification and built some bits for a device that could theoretically fly some distance in a controlled manner.
But a device to cruise some distance carrying enough ordanance to make a difference at point of impact it is not.
A pickup full of diesel and fertiliser would pose much more of a risk to the Govt of NZ and such a device is legal here, as long as intent to do harm is absent.
Building on our great pool of expertise developed from 802.11, I suspect that one bastard gets to communicate and 50 lucky bastards get to listen (or watch) in...
The cost of the license is not $100 per year. It is $100 period for a perpetual license (actually $50 at the moment as a promotional price). That cost includes 1 year of software maint and 60 days installation support.
The picture in the Telegraph article looks suspiciously like an IBM PC XT. Are they a typical workstation in India? If so, I see some problems...
A password is really more than just authentication in real life. It is also effectively a signature indicating a degree of voluntary co-operation to validate a transaction. It needs active brain power.
;=)
Biometrics (at least all the ones so far, except perhaps speech) need no such co-operation. So you may be able to authenticate the subject, but there is no record in any way that the subject is co-operating with the transaction.
This does raise a subtle issue. While banks in theory disapprove of the sharing of pin numbers, ATM cards etc. it is now an established part of the financial system. How can you order your spouse/partner/etc. out to stock up on booze etc. when (s)he needs to take your thumb or retina? The faces may be similar though
Just when the big stock dump happens...
"These controversies will rage for at least another 18 months, until our original case comes to trial. "
So IronPort make both Spam mailers and anti-spam products.
Will they use their spam mailer expertise to make better anti-spam products, or use their anti-spam expertise to make better spam emailer products?
Why do I think I know the answer aleady.....
Using all of the above would be a bad choice and reduce security, which is what the original article is about. A good password policy will allow the average user to remember their password(s) and not need to bypass security by storing it elsewhere (post it notes for example).
The key is to balance technical security with the user world. If the security is too hard, users will find a way around it. And the more security is tacked on, the more user exploitable cracks appear.
Common Criteria is about validating that the OS/Firewall/etc. etc. does what the VENDOR says it will do. Just because a bunch of products have Common Criteria Certifications does not mean that they are equally secure. HP-UX, Solaris, Win2K and soon Redhat will have achieved Common Criteria certification but it does NOT mean that they are equally secure.
There is also the small matter of a different approach to colonisation from Britain ;=)
Right, so insurance companies should sue oil companies who profit because burglars carry stolen goods away in cars which burn gas?
And does this "Mr Speck urged ISPs to halt the practice by blocking access to illegal music download sites and programs or "by other arrangements"." mean that all illegal music should have the TCP/IP "evil" bit set? How the fsck are the ISPs going to know if the bloody mp3s contain illegal music or not?
Hopefully the Aus legislators have more sense than those in some other parts of the world.
Maybe a time zone problem.... It is next week NZ time.
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2736653a220
We didn't lose it. But we also did not win it :(
However the best team did win, and half the players on the field were carrying the logo of my home province (Canterbury)
Well just about at Middle Earth.
I am in Wellington, New Zealand and the whole city is getting ready for the World Premiere here next week. There is Lord of the Rings images, statues, effects all over the pace. An unknowing visitor at the airport would get a hell of a sock at the warriars and dragons etc. leering down at them.
As secure as a Diebold ATM, perhaps....
Pay how much for Solaris? It is a free download for SPARC and $10 for x86
The security enhancements sound a bit like Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Initiative. Didn't that start 2 years ago...
Let me seee...
1 hour to get to airport,
1.5 hours check in before departure,
2 hours flight time,
30 minutes to get baggage
1 hour custums and immagration.
Yep, we need faster air travel.
Particularly this morning when my flight was delayed an hour because the pilot had not arrived and a replacement needed to be found.
Not so. All I said for sure was that NZ does not use any form of electronic voting, which is correct. However they are thinking about it. Aus, which I only expressed a thought about, has NOT used open source voting yet in a real election. They have only evaluated it.
"Australia, Canada and New Zealand use open source software for their voting machines, which are reliant on an open source operating system such as Linux or UNIX"
New Zealand does not use any form of electronic voting, it is considering some form of electronic voting in the future, but no decisions about what software etc. to use have been made. I am fairly sure Australia is in the same position.
It would be a shames if a good decision at Loas Alamos was based on lies....