This is one time Linux dhcpcd is a bad thing- it's one of the few DHCP clients that actually plays by the rules, releasing your IP when you shutdown. Windows doesn't bother.
F.Y.I. There is no requirement in the RFC for a client to release the IP address.
MacOS 9 and before will release the lease upon shutdown and there is nothing more annoying then 50 angry mac users screaming at you at 8:30AM because the DHCP server went ass-up the night before and none of them have IP addresses.
"...where the client retains its network
address locally, the client will not normally relinquish its lease during a graceful shutdown. Only in the case where the client explicitly needs to relinquish its lease, e.g., the client
is about to be moved to a different subnet, will the client send a DHCPRELEASE message."
Am I the only one that is sick to death of hearing about "joe sixpack"? I don't give a shit about joe sixpack! I care about what OS other's use about as much as I care about what kind of car other people drive. Zilch.
... and this is why Microsoft will always dominate the Desktop.
If you take anything away from this article, this is quote is it. It is so important for the Linux community to understand if they are going to have a chance of breaking Microsoft's strong hold of Jo Six-packs computer.
Both Linux and FreeBSD are in the same boat there... the only way to drive desktop acceptance is to ship machines pre-installed with the OS (whatever OS) and preconfigured with a desktop so when you turn the thing on, you are ready to rock. The only way to do that is for the PC vendors to pre-install Linux (or FreeBSD, or whatever).
But what if the app that I want to open the file with does not allow saving of said file?
EG: In quark I have a PDF import extension. Occasaionaly I will get an e-mailed.PDF file that I need to bring into a Quark document. With my easy to use mac I have to open Illustrator (20% of the time I need to quark first or else the entire system will crash), open the PDF file, re-save it as a PDF then Quark will think it really is a PDF file!
Where as on a PC, in the file/open window I can choose any type of file I want (only after its chosen will the app try to see if its a real PDF).
On a Mac it takes around an extra 3 minutes. How is this possably better?
After reading this artical I did a google search on my old Alias & a few other unique terms to the Melbourne group that I used to hang out with, and to my amazement came up with the following: (which was published in the Sydney Morning Herald, 5th April, 1993)
The names the hackers use are, as always, interesting. In a review by
iNFiNiTY, a bulletin board management program, credit is given to
Transvamp, Country Distortion, Death Wish, Bit Byter and others.
I actaully wrote the Infinity BBS software with a few other people in Turbo Pascal, which I was coding when I was around 14-16 years old, and my alias as one of the ones above.
The moral of this story, type your old Nic into google and see what you come up with!
I don't think its a matter of not caring about security, I think its more because Micosoft tries to package EVERYTHING into their software. Print Management via IIS, indexing services, etc, etc. The more features that you cram into software the greater the chance of bugs & security holes. I dare say that if Linux did as much as Windows 2000 does (with such a short development time) it would have just as many problems!
It seems to me that IIS (and Win2k server) has two main problems.
1. It ships with everything enabled by default.
2. The number of security patches you need to apply to your servers on an ongoing basis.
Why can't Microsoft write a tool to make both of these tasks easy and painless?
When first run this app could list everything turned on by default, tell you what it does then give your the option to turn it off. This app should be able to drill right down to individual ISAPI extensions & sample code.
The app should also come with a service that acts like the HFNetChk tool, but works automaticly: At a specified time period it should connect to microsoft's update servers, D/L the patches, e-mail the administrator telling them that these patches are now available. The admin opens up their Microsoft Security Console, which shows all servers, what new patches are available the admin click a button to apply patches....
Yes: an admin can (and prob. should) do all of the above manually, but at the end of the day, a set of apps like this would go along way to improving IISs reputation)
If you had 300 machines & you had 1/2 a clue you would either:
1. Run Windows Update in a Network logon script or run it using the schedular.
2. Use Systems Managment Server.
FrontPage Web components refer to 'widgets' of fununtionality that can be dropped into a site.
They do not refer to front page itself
IE, In front page you can INSERT => Web Component => MSNBC News.
This gives you a part in your web page that actually displays HTML content from the MSNBC site! Surely it is fair that if you are using MSNBC dynamic content you page, you can't go along and defame the same content.
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After all, the only thing gun control has done for us in the US is make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to get a firearm. Criminals continue to acquire their weapons illegally
What a load of crap. In Australia we have 'gun control'. Our 'innocent citizens' do NOT have the right to be armed, & in my opinion this is a great thing.
For one it means that I can't wake up tomorrow morning, decide I need some cash, take my gun out of my draw and shoot someone for it.
Yes, SOME criminals can get guns in Australia, but they have to go to effort to get them.
Its because of this thinking that Australia is a safer place
This is my point. If the FBI can't respond to reported terrorist attacks (which turn out to be an actual atack that killed 5000 people) then how do you seriously expect me to beleive that the FBI reading all of my e-mails would stop terrorist attacks?
I just dont understand why it is ok for the US to terrorize other countries but not ok for terrorists to attack the US
Don't you get it? With the US its Do as I say not as I do.
Its OK for the US to bomb another country back to the stone age, killing thousands of innocent people, but as soon as the tables are turned, its world war 3/
would you give up email privacy in exchange for Los Angeles?
Of course I would (and I'm in Australia) As long as you can prove to me that letting the FBI read my e-mail will make a difference.
I heard a news report this morning that there was a person in First Class on the same flight from Boston a week earler. On this flight there were 4 people of middle eastern extraction in first class with him that were acting very strangly. If this is true, they were probably doing a dry run for the atack. Anyway, this person actually reported it to the FBI.
In other words, if this news artical was true, the FBI knew something was wrong a week before, and it still did not stop them.
So I repeat: As long as you can prove to me that letting the FBI read my e-mail will make a difference.
How would taking my right to free speach away stop this from happening & which freedoms would you take away from me to ensure that this would not happen again. How is (for example) taking my right to send encrypted e-mails away stop anything?
It's bad enough running across the BSOD in my research, but I for one would not want to be seeing the BSOD in the middle of a fight. "Hang on Commander, we need to reboot before we can engage incoming targets." Screw that noise.
When was the last time you saw a BSOD on Win2k running on quality hardware?
I admin 7 win2k servers & 200 workstations (all on Compaq hardware) since Feb 2000 and have yet to see a BSOD on any of these machines. Thats over 300 processor years without a BSOD.
Slashdot reported a 5th plane crashed in an undisclosed location. Australian news also speaks of 5 plans. BUT MSNBC & CNN all report 4 planes. Where did the 5th plane go?
Slashdot Mirror
This is one time Linux dhcpcd is a bad thing- it's one of the few DHCP clients that actually plays by the rules, releasing your IP when you shutdown. Windows doesn't bother.
F.Y.I. There is no requirement in the RFC for a client to release the IP address.
MacOS 9 and before will release the lease upon shutdown and there is nothing more annoying then 50 angry mac users screaming at you at 8:30AM because the DHCP server went ass-up the night before and none of them have IP addresses.
FROM: http://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2131.txt"...where the client retains its network address locally, the client will not normally relinquish its lease during a graceful shutdown. Only in the case where the client explicitly needs to relinquish its lease, e.g., the client is about to be moved to a different subnet, will the client send a DHCPRELEASE message."
Am I the only one that is sick to death of hearing about "joe sixpack"? I don't give a shit about joe sixpack! I care about what OS other's use about as much as I care about what kind of car other people drive. Zilch.
... and this is why Microsoft will always dominate the Desktop.
... but can I even run Quark & PS on OS-X?
If you take anything away from this article, this is quote is it. It is so important for the Linux community to understand if they are going to have a chance of breaking Microsoft's strong hold of Jo Six-packs computer.
Both Linux and FreeBSD are in the same boat there... the only way to drive desktop acceptance is to ship machines pre-installed with the OS (whatever OS) and preconfigured with a desktop so when you turn the thing on, you are ready to rock. The only way to do that is for the PC vendors to pre-install Linux (or FreeBSD, or whatever).
But what if the app that I want to open the file with does not allow saving of said file?
.PDF file that I need to bring into a Quark document. With my easy to use mac I have to open Illustrator (20% of the time I need to quark first or else the entire system will crash), open the PDF file, re-save it as a PDF then Quark will think it really is a PDF file!
EG: In quark I have a PDF import extension. Occasaionaly I will get an e-mailed
Where as on a PC, in the file/open window I can choose any type of file I want (only after its chosen will the app try to see if its a real PDF).
On a Mac it takes around an extra 3 minutes. How is this possably better?
After reading this artical I did a google search on my old Alias & a few other unique terms to the Melbourne group that I used to hang out with, and to my amazement came up with the following: (which was published in the Sydney Morning Herald, 5th April, 1993)
The names the hackers use are, as always, interesting. In a review by iNFiNiTY, a bulletin board management program, credit is given to Transvamp, Country Distortion, Death Wish, Bit Byter and others.
I actaully wrote the Infinity BBS software with a few other people in Turbo Pascal, which I was coding when I was around 14-16 years old, and my alias as one of the ones above.
The moral of this story, type your old Nic into google and see what you come up with!
If you are a true linux dude (like me) you will read over the source line by line. Afterall, thats why god gave us the GPL
I don't think its a matter of not caring about security, I think its more because Micosoft tries to package EVERYTHING into their software. Print Management via IIS, indexing services, etc, etc. The more features that you cram into software the greater the chance of bugs & security holes. I dare say that if Linux did as much as Windows 2000 does (with such a short development time) it would have just as many problems!
It seems to me that IIS (and Win2k server) has two main problems.
1. It ships with everything enabled by default.
2. The number of security patches you need to apply to your servers on an ongoing basis.
Why can't Microsoft write a tool to make both of these tasks easy and painless?
When first run this app could list everything turned on by default, tell you what it does then give your the option to turn it off. This app should be able to drill right down to individual ISAPI extensions & sample code.
The app should also come with a service that acts like the HFNetChk tool, but works automaticly: At a specified time period it should connect to microsoft's update servers, D/L the patches, e-mail the administrator telling them that these patches are now available. The admin opens up their Microsoft Security Console, which shows all servers, what new patches are available the admin click a button to apply patches....
Yes: an admin can (and prob. should) do all of the above manually, but at the end of the day, a set of apps like this would go along way to improving IISs reputation)
If you had 300 machines & you had 1/2 a clue you would either:
1. Run Windows Update in a Network logon script or run it using the schedular.
2. Use Systems Managment Server.
FrontPage Web components refer to 'widgets' of fununtionality that can be dropped into a site.
They do not refer to front page itself
IE, In front page you can INSERT => Web Component => MSNBC News.
This gives you a part in your web page that actually displays HTML content from the MSNBC site!
Surely it is fair that if you are using MSNBC dynamic content you page, you can't go along and defame the same content.
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But I can download a copy of the 'terrorist handbook' from any one of thousands of
How does encryption stop this?
After all, the only thing gun control has done for us in the US is make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to get a firearm. Criminals continue to acquire their weapons illegally
What a load of crap. In Australia we have 'gun control'. Our 'innocent citizens' do NOT have the right to be armed, & in my opinion this is a great thing.
For one it means that I can't wake up tomorrow morning, decide I need some cash, take my gun out of my draw and shoot someone for it.
Yes, SOME criminals can get guns in Australia, but they have to go to effort to get them.
Its because of this thinking that Australia is a safer place
This is my point. If the FBI can't respond to reported terrorist attacks (which turn out to be an actual atack that killed 5000 people) then how do you seriously expect me to beleive that the FBI reading all of my e-mails would stop terrorist attacks?
I don't hate the us. All I am saying is you reap what you sow.
I just dont understand why it is ok for the US to terrorize other countries but not ok for terrorists to attack the US
Don't you get it? With the US its Do as I say not as I do.
Its OK for the US to bomb another country back to the stone age, killing thousands of innocent people, but as soon as the tables are turned, its world war 3/
would you give up email privacy in exchange for Los Angeles?
Of course I would (and I'm in Australia) As long as you can prove to me that letting the FBI read my e-mail will make a difference.
I heard a news report this morning that there was a person in First Class on the same flight from Boston a week earler. On this flight there were 4 people of middle eastern extraction in first class with him that were acting very strangly. If this is true, they were probably doing a dry run for the atack. Anyway, this person actually reported it to the FBI.
In other words, if this news artical was true, the FBI knew something was wrong a week before, and it still did not stop them.
So I repeat: As long as you can prove to me that letting the FBI read my e-mail will make a difference.
How would taking my right to free speach away stop this from happening & which freedoms would you take away from me to ensure that this would not happen again. How is (for example) taking my right to send encrypted e-mails away stop anything?
I'll respond to this troll
It's bad enough running across the BSOD in my research, but I for one would not want to be seeing the BSOD in the middle of a fight. "Hang on Commander, we need to reboot before we can engage incoming targets." Screw that noise.
When was the last time you saw a BSOD on Win2k running on quality hardware?
I admin 7 win2k servers & 200 workstations (all on Compaq hardware) since Feb 2000 and have yet to see a BSOD on any of these machines. Thats over 300 processor years without a BSOD.
Therefore, I doubt they care about what happens to Microsoft.
Hollywood love Microsoft because Microsoft can protect their incomes with Digital Rights Management by inforcing copyright on MP3s, etc.
The perception is that the Linux community wants to take copyright rights away from artists/movie companies.
Australian news is reporting that the 4th plane was possably headed for Camp David.
Slashdot reported a 5th plane crashed in an undisclosed location. Australian news also speaks of 5 plans. BUT MSNBC & CNN all report 4 planes. Where did the 5th plane go?
Yeah, VI rulez dude!
A USB lan would be a great idea for simple home networking. Imagine it, just take this USB cable to connect your two computers together and your away!