No, that's not the problem, I have just normal ADSL. The problem is that the backup generates two 500MB files. When I was on 10Mbps it was a real pain to transfer that to the main computer for burning to CD-RW. Now it got better, but still not as well as I hoped. Ideally the transfer speed should be high enough to burn from the network. For the CD-RWs it should already work, but I'm not so sure about burning CD-R at 24x.
In general, I transfer quite a lot of large stuff like CD images by the network and due to security and RAM usage reasons I only use SSH. I could run a FTP server, but it doesn't make much sense and it'd be another server to take care of.
What about easier solutions, like keeping your profile on your web server at home? Then download $HOME by SSH, or sync it at home. No need to trust propietary vendors, if something goes wrong you're the only one to blame, and you can add all the features you want
Really? According to 'openssl speed' my Cyrix 233 server can encrypt with blowfish 4MB/s. Which is definitely not as good as it could be since I have a 100Mbps full duplex switched network. A good encryption method that's faster would certainly be welcome.
Do you know that the age of consent is different in other countries? I'm pretty sure the age at which you can act in a porn movie is different as well. I don't know about you, but I don't want to live in a country that censors everything from the outside world that doesn't match their views, such as China, or pretty soon the US, it seems.
That it's not an EULA. EULA stands for "end user license agreement". The GPL doesn't require an user to do anything at all. You can download a GPLd program and use it without agreeing to anything. However, unless you agree to the GPL you can't redistribute the program due to the copyright law.
EULAs impose restrictions on you that aren't present in copyright law, GPL gives you additional freedom if you agree to it.
I never understood the embedding approach. It's just wrong IMO. Programmers should write code and web designers do the HTML, and both things kept as separated as possible. What I do is having HTML templates like this:
<html> There are currently $user_count users online </html>
This way, whoever does the HTML has to deal with an absolute minimum of the programming part, and I can just insert those placeholders where I need. Then the Perl script replaces them by the actual values. Of course this isn't the fastest approach, but there's not so much data that changes every second, so with some caching it should be just as fast as embedded code.
There aren't that many possible security exploits. For example, the most common buffer overflows probably can be fixed simply installing the grsecurity patch. Other errors such as letting people execute stuff by using stuff like "cgi.pl?file=foo;rm -rf/" are also widely known. If suddenly everybody started attacking Linux we'd have a hard time for a while, but most of that would get patched really quickly.
Besides, from what I've heard, even FreeBSD gets quite a lot of break in attempts, and I wouldn't say it's very popular.
It can be very useful, when used right. I've been using it for a while, but now I'm moving away from it, excepting for UI elements. I find it useful to have mnuSave(menu) and cmdSave(button), for example. It also saves some clutter in IntelliSense, for example when I know there's a button for exiting, but I'm not sure if it's called cmdExit or cmdQuit.
Now, when writing code I almost never use it, excepting cases when I want to make something obvious, for example bDone would be a Boolean value. It makes it absolutely obvious to everybody else that it's not a counter of how many files have been processed or something of that kind.
I find going any further than that extremely messy. I remember seeing a variable with a 10 character hungarian prefix somewhere. Yuck!
Of course, I understand there's some complexity involved. But things like initializing a database aren't what I was talking about. In my experience, Windows is an annoying thing to make an installer for. There's no reason why I should have to worry about that my installer is going to install a newer version of a DLL that makes a program that used an older version crash. Of course, this problem exists in Linux too but in a lesser way, because of library names like libc-2.2.5.so. If a program absolutely requires 2.2.4, that's not a problem. Try that in Windows. Then there's the lack of dependencies problem, solved by programmers either by including everything and making a 10MB download for a 100K program, or telling the users "If it complains about the lack of MSVBVM60.DLL download it here". Of course by this users bypass all version checking, with the resulting DLL hell.
Windows might have a pretty UI, but I have yet to see a better way of installing programs than typing "apt-get install mozilla". No EULAs, no library problems, no ugly installer that grabs your screen, and usually no questions. Just wait until it finishes the download and it's done. Looks like you'd agree with me:-)
Man, it's sad that there are people who need to spend days configuring installers. Making an installer should consist of making a list of files and dependencies, and not of routing around Windows brain damage. Yeah, you can install the DLL's in the program's folder, but then DLLs don't make much sense.
Okay, I have the lastest service packs and updates for everything, my temperature is almost always at 37-40C, my main computer is well ventilated. All the drivers are the latest ones. I ran a memory checker (memtest86), it says it's fine.
BTW, I don't see where I mentioned patches, so I don't see how did you think I didn't install them. All those computers are up to date. The only difference is that Linux works and Windows fails every few days.
There's no BSOD in Win2K, it just freezes. I'm mainly a programmer, but my administration skills aren't too bad, I think. My 3 Debian systems are working just fine and I almost never have to touch anything on them.
Yup. I do. Let me think about the computers I know.
My main one: Win98: won't shutdown properly, will blue screen every few days Win2K: VB will crash when run by a normal user, works as Administrator. System freezes often. All the annoyances that come with SMB. Linux: Works fine
Server, Linux: Works fine, froze after a month of uptime, probably because it's in my wardrobe with almost no ventilation.
Brother's computer: blue screens, freezes, won't shutdown, got better after I removed 23 spyware programs
Friend's computer: about the same
At work my computer with Win2K works fine, but then it doesn't have almost anything installed. The other computers freeze/blue screen every few days. We had to reinstall a couple.
So yeah, everybody has problems. Windows kinda works until you start installing stuff. And then it starts breaking. But somehow I have 717 packages on my main Linux system and it works just fine.
Heh, if a company considers it's okay to ignore 10% of its possible clients then I'm pretty sure it'll go bankrupt soon. How do you know that among those 10% there isn't a really big company that would buy a ton of your stuff?
Well, I didn't really have filesystems in mind. Even something as stupid as MS fdisk would work. The idea is that it'd be really handy when you mess with LILO too much and leave the computer unbootable. If the BIOS let me activate another partition I could just boot something and fix it instead of searching for a boot floppy or CD.
Same for memtest86, if you have just one computer and the OS won't boot downloading it would be pretty hard. If some manufacturer made a decent board with embedded diagnostic and recovery tools I'd buy it as soon as I could
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Why? AFAIK BIOS is in ROM and memory is really cheap these days.
What I'd love to see in BIOS is a good disk partitioning tool and a memtest86 or something like it.
No, farmers can't grow what they want. They can buy seeds and plant them, but they can't do anything about stuff that plants itself in the field, like weeds and Monsanto's crops. Do you think that crops are cultivated in an environment that's isolated from the rest of the world? Nope. Seeds have been known to cross countries and even *oceans*.
There's no reason why Monsanto seeds couldn't fly a few hundred km, grow there, fly extend some more, and so on until they end in a completely different place.
Now, picture this. You're a quite poor farmer who doesn't even necessarly live near Monsanto. One day a few Monsanto seeds plant themselves in your field, and after a few years you've got the Monsanto genes in most of your crops. Then Monsanto's lawyers come, do an analysis... get it now?
I'm really surprised by the amount of these strange units. For some reason this is quite common:
Small things are compared with strands of hair Data storage capacity is compared to the library of congress (which I've never seen and have no idea of how big is it) Asteroids are compared with Texas
How long until fast events are compared to the time it takes to blink?
Suppose I have/home/vadim/. All I'd have to do to protect it is to copy it to/home/backup, making sure it's stored as a different user. In a cron job this should reduce a deleting trojan's damage a lot.
But of course, there's nothing like a decent automated backup that leaves ready to burn ISO images every day.
Nope, it makes perfect sense. Most CD drives and burners use ATAPI. From the google glossary at labs.google.com:
Advanced Technology Packet Interface: a specification that defines device side characteristics for an IDE connected peripheral, such as CD-ROM or tape drives. ATAPI is essentially an adaptation of the SCSI command set to the IDE interface.
ide-scsi is not really SCSI emulation. It is just SCSI over IDE. And Windows works the same, it just doesn't tell you about it.
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No, that's not the problem, I have just normal ADSL. The problem is that the backup generates two 500MB files. When I was on 10Mbps it was a real pain to transfer that to the main computer for burning to CD-RW. Now it got better, but still not as well as I hoped. Ideally the transfer speed should be high enough to burn from the network. For the CD-RWs it should already work, but I'm not so sure about burning CD-R at 24x.
In general, I transfer quite a lot of large stuff like CD images by the network and due to security and RAM usage reasons I only use SSH. I could run a FTP server, but it doesn't make much sense and it'd be another server to take care of.
What about easier solutions, like keeping your profile on your web server at home? Then download $HOME by SSH, or sync it at home. No need to trust propietary vendors, if something goes wrong you're the only one to blame, and you can add all the features you want
Really? According to 'openssl speed' my Cyrix 233 server can encrypt with blowfish 4MB/s. Which is definitely not as good as it could be since I have a 100Mbps full duplex switched network. A good encryption method that's faster would certainly be welcome.
Do you know that the age of consent is different in other countries? I'm pretty sure the age at which you can act in a porn movie is different as well. I don't know about you, but I don't want to live in a country that censors everything from the outside world that doesn't match their views, such as China, or pretty soon the US, it seems.
That it's not an EULA. EULA stands for "end user license agreement". The GPL doesn't require an user to do anything at all. You can download a GPLd program and use it without agreeing to anything. However, unless you agree to the GPL you
can't redistribute the program due to the copyright law.
EULAs impose restrictions on you that aren't present in copyright law, GPL gives you additional freedom if you agree to it.
I never understood the embedding approach. It's just wrong IMO. Programmers should write code and web designers do the HTML, and both things kept as separated as possible. What I do is having HTML templates like this:
<html>
There are currently $user_count users online
</html>
This way, whoever does the HTML has to deal with an absolute minimum of the programming part, and I can just insert those placeholders where I need. Then the Perl script replaces them by the actual values. Of course this isn't the fastest approach, but there's not so much data that changes every second, so with some caching it should be just as fast as embedded code.
No, been using it for several years, why do you ask?
There aren't that many possible security exploits. For example, the most common buffer overflows probably can be fixed simply installing the grsecurity patch. Other errors such as letting people execute stuff by using stuff like "cgi.pl?file=foo;rm -rf /" are also widely known. If suddenly everybody started attacking Linux we'd have a hard time for a while, but most of that would get patched really quickly.
Besides, from what I've heard, even FreeBSD gets quite a lot of break in attempts, and I wouldn't say it's very popular.
It can be very useful, when used right. I've been using it for a while, but now I'm moving away from it, excepting for UI elements. I find it useful to have mnuSave(menu) and cmdSave(button), for example. It also saves some clutter in IntelliSense, for example when I know there's a button for exiting, but I'm not sure if it's called cmdExit or cmdQuit.
Now, when writing code I almost never use it, excepting cases when I want to make something obvious, for example bDone would be a Boolean value. It makes it absolutely obvious to everybody else that it's not a counter of how many files have been processed or something of that kind.
I find going any further than that extremely messy. I remember seeing a variable with a 10 character hungarian prefix somewhere. Yuck!
I'm sure people will find a workaround. Wireless, sharing over https, SSH, anything encrypted with SSL... it shouldn't be hard to get around it.
Already got it, just feeling curious
Are servers running kernels with the grsecurity patch and stack execution disabled affected by this exploit?
Of course, I understand there's some complexity involved. But things like initializing a database aren't what I was talking about. In my experience, Windows is an annoying thing to make an installer for. There's no reason why I should have to worry about that my installer is going to install a newer version of a DLL that makes a program that used an older version crash. Of course, this problem exists in Linux too but in a lesser way, because of library names like libc-2.2.5.so. If a program absolutely requires 2.2.4, that's not a problem. Try that in Windows. Then there's the lack of dependencies problem, solved by programmers either by including everything and making a 10MB download for a 100K program, or telling the users "If it complains about the lack of MSVBVM60.DLL download it here". Of course by this users bypass all version checking, with the resulting DLL hell.
:-)
Windows might have a pretty UI, but I have yet to see a better way of installing programs than typing "apt-get install mozilla". No EULAs, no library problems, no ugly installer that grabs your screen, and usually no questions. Just wait until it finishes the download and it's done. Looks like you'd agree with me
Man, it's sad that there are people who need to spend days configuring installers. Making an installer should consist of making a list of files and dependencies, and not of routing around Windows brain damage. Yeah, you can install the DLL's in the program's folder, but then DLLs don't make much sense.
Okay, I have the lastest service packs and updates for everything, my temperature is almost always at 37-40C, my main computer is well ventilated. All the drivers are the latest ones. I ran a memory checker (memtest86), it says it's fine.
BTW, I don't see where I mentioned patches, so I don't see how did you think I didn't install them. All those computers are up to date. The only difference is that Linux works and Windows fails every few days.
There's no BSOD in Win2K, it just freezes. I'm mainly a programmer, but my administration skills aren't too bad, I think. My 3 Debian systems are working just fine and I almost never have to touch anything on them.
Yup. I do. Let me think about the computers I know.
My main one:
Win98: won't shutdown properly, will blue screen every few days
Win2K: VB will crash when run by a normal user, works as Administrator. System freezes often. All the annoyances that come with SMB.
Linux: Works fine
Server, Linux: Works fine, froze after a month of uptime, probably because it's in my wardrobe with almost no ventilation.
Brother's computer: blue screens, freezes, won't shutdown, got better after I removed 23 spyware programs
Friend's computer: about the same
At work my computer with Win2K works fine, but then it doesn't have almost anything installed. The other computers freeze/blue screen every few days. We had to reinstall a couple.
So yeah, everybody has problems. Windows kinda works until you start installing stuff. And then it starts breaking. But somehow I have 717 packages on my main Linux system and it works just fine.
Heh, if a company considers it's okay to ignore 10% of its possible clients then I'm pretty sure it'll go bankrupt soon. How do you know that among those 10% there isn't a really big company that would buy a ton of your stuff?
Well, I didn't really have filesystems in mind. Even something as stupid as MS fdisk would work. The idea is that it'd be really handy when you mess with LILO too much and leave the computer unbootable. If the BIOS let me activate another partition I could just boot something and fix it instead of searching for a boot floppy or CD.
Same for memtest86, if you have just one computer and the OS won't boot downloading it would be pretty hard. If some manufacturer made a decent board with embedded diagnostic and recovery tools I'd buy it as soon as I could
Why? AFAIK BIOS is in ROM and memory is really cheap these days.
What I'd love to see in BIOS is a good disk partitioning tool and a memtest86 or something like it.
D'oh. My english needs some improvement.
Seems you need to get back to the biology class.
No, farmers can't grow what they want. They can buy seeds and plant them, but they can't do anything about stuff that plants itself in the field, like weeds and Monsanto's crops. Do you think that crops are cultivated in an environment that's isolated from the rest of the world? Nope. Seeds have been known to cross countries and even *oceans*.
There's no reason why Monsanto seeds couldn't fly a few hundred km, grow there, fly extend some more, and so on until they end in a completely different place.
Now, picture this. You're a quite poor farmer who doesn't even necessarly live near Monsanto. One day a few Monsanto seeds plant themselves in your field, and after a few years you've got the Monsanto genes in most of your crops. Then Monsanto's lawyers come, do an analysis... get it now?
I'm really surprised by the amount of these strange units. For some reason this is quite common:
Small things are compared with strands of hair
Data storage capacity is compared to the library of congress (which I've never seen and have no idea of how big is it)
Asteroids are compared with Texas
How long until fast events are compared to the time it takes to blink?
I can think of a simple workaround to that.
/home/vadim/. All I'd have to do to protect it is to copy it to /home/backup, making sure it's stored as a different user. In a cron job this should reduce a deleting trojan's damage a lot.
Suppose I have
But of course, there's nothing like a decent automated backup that leaves ready to burn ISO images every day.
Nope, it makes perfect sense. Most CD drives and burners use ATAPI.
From the google glossary at labs.google.com:
Advanced Technology Packet Interface: a specification that defines device side characteristics for an IDE connected peripheral, such as CD-ROM or tape drives. ATAPI is essentially an adaptation of the SCSI command set to the IDE interface.
ide-scsi is not really SCSI emulation. It is just SCSI over IDE. And Windows works the same, it just doesn't tell you about it.
Heh, you mean you have really weak horses if you need four times more of them to get the same power.