I'm running djbdns. Would you like to secondary my domain? I had a tough time getting djbdns to allow it, but I finally did it: I had to run "axfrd-conf". You know how hard it is to run a single command....
-russ
p.s. Sheesh!
djbdns contains two programs: an authoritative server, and a caching server. The authoritative server does not answer TCP queries because it never serves up records that require TCP queries. The caching server will issue TCP queries if needed.
-russ
The security guarantee is limited to $500, and is only given to the first party to find a security hole. So far, it's gone unclaimed. Is there any kind of security guarantee for BIND v9? Do the authors trust their software as much as Dan does?
djbdns doesn't do AXFR transfers. You have to run the included axfrd to serve AXFR, or run axfr-get to retrieve records using AXFR.
-russ
My daughter found a bug in my text editor when she was less than 1 year old. This was a stable program which people had been using for years. She went bang, bang, and bang, the program crashed. I knew roughly where she had been hitting, and saw what was on the screen. Sure enough, the search/replace algorithm didn't work if both search and replace strings were null. Oops. No adult had ever discovered that.
-russ
If you want secure servers, run Dan Bernstein's software. Three of the top ten programs on SANS's list of security holes include bind, sendmail, and ftp servers. Dan has secure replacements for all of them.
-russ
Right, well, if you know anything about physics you'll know that forces produce motion unless they're balanced. When you push against corporations, they're either going to be pushed over or push back. The ones that got pushed over don't exist anymore. All of the existing corporations are pushing back against government control. In a free society that means lobbying. Trying to stop lobbying means trying to stop free speech.
This whole mess (corporate control of government) got started because we used politics to interfere with them. We need to get back to using markets to control corporations. Why? Because corporations are set against each other in markets, whereas in politics they unify against the common enemy: government.
That's a nice sentiment, but where do you think corporations get all their money from? Customers. You're just talking about transferring money from customers to employees. For many products, they're the same thing! The only time workers don't buy what they produce is when they make luxury goods, like yachts. And gee, when the government slapped a hefty luxury tax on yachts, guess who lost their jobs? Yep, the workers.
A unified world government just means unified destruction of jobs. Instead of just having them destroyed in one country, they'll be destroyed in every country. Who is likely to be hurt the most? Yep, the people in Third World countries who have the least access to other jobs.
In any case, remember that multinationals typically pay twice the going wage rate. Stop them from doing that, and you mire the Third World in poverty. Clever thinking on your part, huh?
-russ
When government seeks to dominate corporations, corporations seek to dominate government. In the meantime, our freedoms go out the window. No wonder people are pissed.
ARM7, from Cirrus. When you see it looking like a wristwatch (with a clock), it's running X. No, that amount of memory isn't that much. Yes, everything inside it is tiny, tiny, tiny. And yes, it's real, I was able to run commands on it at LWE last month.
-russ
Oh, one more thing: Perhaps Mark Twang *is* on the net, in good order and properly ripped and named. It's *almost* cheaper and easier to buy the CD and rip it. It would *certainly* be cheaper to just go buy the MP3.
Plus it would make for interesting collections of songs: for example covers of the traditional Irish song Dulaman (which happens to be playing on NPR's A Thistle and Shamrock right now). We'll get interesting synergies when people can link straight to individual tunefiles.
-russ
Very often people think that the people around them will be less moral than they will. This shows up in polls again and again. Guess what? God is alive, and He works in people's lives, to direct them to do what is correct, proper, and moral. I know, you probably think I'm nutso, but there's a REASON why I'm webmaster@quaker.org.
-russ
What you are neglecting here is that you have a right to your body and everything you can protect. If you need to make a deal with the people -- that you'll eventually make your content available for free in return for them not copying your content -- then you have to live up to your end. Tell me, please, what copyrights have expired in the last fifty years?
Copyright's dead, but not because of anything we did.
-russ
Do you honestly believe that the amount of theft or unauthorized, uncompensated copying would decrease if the record
companies sold "ISO9660 CDROM with professionally encoded MP3's?"
Yes, I do. Try, for example, to download a good (that is, one which mpg123 returns no errors on) copy of the entire Mark Twang album by John Hartford. How long does it take you? How much is your time worth? How much money did it save you? Oh, but I forgot -- you can't buy what you just downloaded. It's literally priceless!
-russ
Content is not content. There's a world of difference between buying a professionally encoded MP3 and downloading a file somebody encoded using God knows what software, or pasted together from usenet files, or truncated, or named according to some standard they made up on the spot.
-russ
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I'm running djbdns. Would you like to secondary my domain? I had a tough time getting djbdns to allow it, but I finally did it: I had to run "axfrd-conf". You know how hard it is to run a single command....
-russ
p.s. Sheesh!
Yes, support for AXFR is optional. If you want to use it, you have to actually go to the effort of installing it. Gasp!
-russ
djbdns contains two programs: an authoritative server, and a caching server. The authoritative server does not answer TCP queries because it never serves up records that require TCP queries. The caching server will issue TCP queries if needed.
-russ
Too bad for your objection -- djbdns actually *does* supports cname records. It just doesn't encourage them.
-russ
The security guarantee is limited to $500, and is only given to the first party to find a security hole. So far, it's gone unclaimed. Is there any kind of security guarantee for BIND v9? Do the authors trust their software as much as Dan does?
djbdns doesn't do AXFR transfers. You have to run the included axfrd to serve AXFR, or run axfr-get to retrieve records using AXFR.
-russ
My daughter found a bug in my text editor when she was less than 1 year old. This was a stable program which people had been using for years. She went bang, bang, and bang, the program crashed. I knew roughly where she had been hitting, and saw what was on the screen. Sure enough, the search/replace algorithm didn't work if both search and replace strings were null. Oops. No adult had ever discovered that.
-russ
Agreed with all of it, BUT his software has never been broken into either. Hard to argue with success if you define success as "secure".
-russ
If you want secure servers, run Dan Bernstein's software. Three of the top ten programs on SANS's list of security holes include bind, sendmail, and ftp servers. Dan has secure replacements for all of them.
-russ
In the same vein, 6% of the general public thought that employees of large companies are badly treated, but how many employees feel that way?
-russ
Right, well, if you know anything about physics you'll know that forces produce motion unless they're balanced. When you push against corporations, they're either going to be pushed over or push back. The ones that got pushed over don't exist anymore. All of the existing corporations are pushing back against government control. In a free society that means lobbying. Trying to stop lobbying means trying to stop free speech.
This whole mess (corporate control of government) got started because we used politics to interfere with them. We need to get back to using markets to control corporations. Why? Because corporations are set against each other in markets, whereas in politics they unify against the common enemy: government.
Divide and conquer. Works for me.
-russ
That's a nice sentiment, but where do you think corporations get all their money from? Customers. You're just talking about transferring money from customers to employees. For many products, they're the same thing! The only time workers don't buy what they produce is when they make luxury goods, like yachts. And gee, when the government slapped a hefty luxury tax on yachts, guess who lost their jobs? Yep, the workers.
A unified world government just means unified destruction of jobs. Instead of just having them destroyed in one country, they'll be destroyed in every country. Who is likely to be hurt the most? Yep, the people in Third World countries who have the least access to other jobs.
In any case, remember that multinationals typically pay twice the going wage rate. Stop them from doing that, and you mire the Third World in poverty. Clever thinking on your part, huh?
-russ
When government seeks to dominate corporations, corporations seek to dominate government. In the meantime, our freedoms go out the window. No wonder people are pissed.
#define IRONY "Bruce Willis was a robot"
Did anybody else play Bill Frolik's and Rob Lucky's Warp adventure game?
-russ
The iPAQ is pretty much the consumer version of the Itsy. Go get one and hack the hell out of it doing things Compaq never expected.
-russ
Don't wait for a Yopy -- get yerself an iPAQ, reflash it with Linux, and start hacking.
-russ
ARM7, from Cirrus. When you see it looking like a wristwatch (with a clock), it's running X. No, that amount of memory isn't that much. Yes, everything inside it is tiny, tiny, tiny. And yes, it's real, I was able to run commands on it at LWE last month.
-russ
http://quaker.org . (I can't say any more than that lest I lose my Quaker badge, because we try very hard not to evangelize.)
-russ
Oh, one more thing: Perhaps Mark Twang *is* on the net, in good order and properly ripped and named. It's *almost* cheaper and easier to buy the CD and rip it. It would *certainly* be cheaper to just go buy the MP3.
Plus it would make for interesting collections of songs: for example covers of the traditional Irish song Dulaman (which happens to be playing on NPR's A Thistle and Shamrock right now). We'll get interesting synergies when people can link straight to individual tunefiles.
-russ
Very often people think that the people around them will be less moral than they will. This shows up in polls again and again. Guess what? God is alive, and He works in people's lives, to direct them to do what is correct, proper, and moral. I know, you probably think I'm nutso, but there's a REASON why I'm webmaster@quaker.org.
-russ
Dark Side of the Moon? In MP3 format? URL??
-russ
What you are neglecting here is that you have a right to your body and everything you can protect. If you need to make a deal with the people -- that you'll eventually make your content available for free in return for them not copying your content -- then you have to live up to your end. Tell me, please, what copyrights have expired in the last fifty years?
Copyright's dead, but not because of anything we did.
-russ
Do you honestly believe that the amount of theft or unauthorized, uncompensated copying would decrease if the record
companies sold "ISO9660 CDROM with professionally encoded MP3's?"
Yes, I do. Try, for example, to download a good (that is, one which mpg123 returns no errors on) copy of the entire Mark Twang album by John Hartford. How long does it take you? How much is your time worth? How much money did it save you? Oh, but I forgot -- you can't buy what you just downloaded. It's literally priceless!
-russ
It's not a market if there's no exchange of consideration. Why do you think land is always sold for no less than $1?
-russ
Content is not content. There's a world of difference between buying a professionally encoded MP3 and downloading a file somebody encoded using God knows what software, or pasted together from usenet files, or truncated, or named according to some standard they made up on the spot.
-russ