(Apologies to Frater 219, for some reason I could not find a link to the individual post.)
What follows is a post that discussed this very issue over a year ago. I took it to heart and have enjoyed college ever since. It has opened my eyes up to a whole new world, one I would have never seen if I'd kept my nose buried in a keyboard. People should not go to college just to help them start a career. They should go to college to learn about life.
Geeks, go to college. (Score:5)
by Frater 219 on Monday April 12, @01:05PM EDT
(User Info) http://
Don't go to college to learn to be a better geek. Academic computer science won't turn you into a system administrator, Web designer, or Perl hacker. You won't learn how to optimize a kernel configuration, recover files from a crashed disk, build a fast database, or tell your boss nicely that his ideas about information technology are stupid or violate the laws of physics. You may learn a lot of good theory -- but you could pick that up elsewhere, too.
Go to college to learn about culture, or history, or philosophy, or literature. Go to college to sit up late nights screaming at your best friends about what an idiot Rene Descartes was. Go to college to watch your best friends do the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Go to college to find out what the hell this postmodernism thing is that Larry Wall's always on about. Go to college to refute postmodernism, and to be called postmodern for doing it. Go to college to meet people who will be impressed with your intelligence instead of thinking of it as threatening.
Don't go to an easy college, and don't go to a place that lets you get by doing nothing but technical stuff. Go to a place that makes you do a lot of heavy reading and writing. Take tough courses. Learn to write well; not only will it help when your boss asks you to document your project, but it'll also help you sound better on Slashdot and USENET. Don't scorn "well-roundedness" or "communications skills"; the stars of geek culture are no bunch of illiterates.
Study music. Music, as Pythagoras demonstrated, is a form of mathematics, and musicians, like hackers, keep pounding on their work in search of the Right Thing. Study psychology and sociology. They represent our attempts to figure out how the systems called the human mind and human society work, so that we can make them work better.
Read Nietzsche. Refute your parents' religion. Then refute your refutation.
Get into politics. Which politics don't really matter -- be a socialist, or a libertarian, or even a Republican if you have to. Go to activist events. Take politics courses. Insist on bringing up free software in the middle of your classes. Derive the Debian Free Software Guidelines from the works of John Locke.
Though this is a good idea to write abook about complex Linux-based networks, I'd like to highlight the fact that in real-life, the most frequent situation a sysadmin might encounter consists of complex hybrid networks
I couldn't agree more. For network configuration and admin, ORA's TCP/IP Network Administration is almost essential for multi-vendor networks. For Linux specific issues, I use ORA's Running Linux. Between those two, there is not much new material that is covered by The Linux Network Administrator's Guide. While it is a good book in itself, I found that the information contained in it was already covered by other ORA books I own.
Who would have thought that the biggest threat to computer security would be a document. One of Office 2000's benefits is - "Web-enabled collaboration and information sharing." Link
I can't wait to find out what other "innovation" gems are still out there.
With the number of times that posters on/. have posted the code, posted links to the code, placed the code in their Public Key on their User Info page, it will only be a matter of time before/. receives it's very own letter?
So who is responsible here? Can the posters be sued for their posts? Or is/. the one who is going to be sued, for allowing the posts?
Here is one of his articles that ended up in a printed mag. It discusses PAM and attempts to discredit shadowed passwords in the process. The information is misleading and inaccurate. The article sounds more like it was released from a marketing dept instead of a self-proclaimed security expert.
When he discribes limiting access to ftp, he is basically saying only a good password will limit who can access the system. What about,/etc/ftpaccess or/etc/login.access. Not to mention using tcp wrappers and/etc/hosts.deny.
When he discribes using limits on users, he tries to imply only PAM can do this. Yet he fails to mention/etc/limits. If you 'man limits', you will see the available options are EXACTLY the same the ones he mentions are in PAM.
I see Kurt post to a few security mailing lists, Suse , BUGTRAQ, Linux Security Auditing Project, Bastille, etc. For the most part, his posts are worthless. Claiming PAM is the greatest thing since sliced bread, flaming others for off topic posts, repeating well known information, etc. His new project, LSKB lacks any kind of useful information and is more of a waste of time than anything else.
I have no respect for him and try to ignore him as much as possible.
I've seen Linux used in the Army to do things that were just not possible with M$ products, cost being a BIG factor. With all the cutbacks with the military budget, it's just not possible for units to spend several thousand dollars on software. Or the several thousand dollars on licenses. When people (i.e. officers) are shown how flexible linux is (not to mention free), it's not uncommon to hear them make suggestions to problems by saying, "Well, can't you just download something off of the internet?"
Hey, cool... I get to see it for a total of 5 minutes spread over two days. Since it's monsoon season here in Arizona, the chances of me actually seeing it are slim to none. I think I'll stick to Nasa's gallery...
This is mainly an issue with ORBit and it's COBRA compliance. ORBit can be compiled to either listen to TCP sockets or UNIX pipes. From what I've heard, Debian is the only one to compile it with UNIX pipes. A fix for everyone else:
This would be great for hot swapping. You could literally have 100's of spares, waiting for a problem.
You could even implement a good response system to security break-ins. Any time someone logs in as or su's to root, indicate there is an error and swap to one of the hot spares. So what if the cracker trashes the one he is on. Switch to a backup.
Of course in this situation, you would need 100's of spares if someone is a little persistant.
That's hard to do without breaking (pissing people off) a few things. Yes you can filter things based off the ISP's IP blocks. Everything who's destination is not their network can be blocked. Likewise, everything originating from, but not using the right IP, can be blocked. This will stop spoofed traffic from getting out, but will not stop it from getting in.
Let's say a script kiddy uses Nmap with the spoof function turned on. How are you going to stop the randomly choosen IP's from entering the network? It will stop someone using it from within your network (and be a shock to that person when they get caught because only one source IP was getting to their intended target).
One thing that I've always wanted to try was to filter traffic based on the addresses contained in the MAPS-DUL. I've never tried it because of concerns for slowing down the network (it is a long list) and pissing people off. The problem is a number of things would break. Things like ICQ would have to go through the main server. It would break multiplayer Rainbow6, PCAnywhere. or any other program that expects a direct connection with another other home uses to work. This might be fine on a limited basis were you can actively control what gets in and out of your network. But on the scale of ISP's.....
If everyone started filtering traffic from within their network to stop spoofed traffic from getting out, then spoofing throughout the internet would drop. But everyone would have to do it.
And like everything else, someone will find a way around it.....
Nothing like a conspiracy theory to add life to an otherwise slow day. Here's one for you: Andover.net keeps close tabs on the hit count and comment submissions. They threaten to do Bad Things(TM) if it drops too low. Soooo.....CmdrTaco makes something up to bring out the flamers/trolls/conspiracy theorists/etc....
MODERATORS!!!! Mark this as Redundant!!! He has reposted this several times, with only minor changes each time. User Info. He has already receiced a +5 for it. It lookes like someone is trying to get all the Karma points out of one message that he can.
anyone who's used Office extensively knows, Word will display the document differently depending on which version you're using, what printer you have connected, phases of the moon, etc.
You forgot to add, Word will display the document differently depending on which computer you are using. Even if the hardware and the versions of Office are identical. I encounter this at work on a daily bases.
Not all press coverage is good coverage. Look at this recent article on Upside, "Slashdot gets trashed."
Despite all of the recent bad press, M$ still has a dominate control of the market. And with that will come followers that will, not matter how ill informed, stand up behind them. Not all reporters will see this as "Microsoft subverts standards and strongarms little guys."
Electronic Communication Techniques, 4th Edition, By Paul H. Young, ISBN: 0-13-779984-5
Quote: In late 1992, the FCC released a channel plan whereby existing broadcasts of the standard NTSC television format will be assigned a second channel for high-definition TV (HDTV) broadcasting. Thus, TV broadcast stations that want to transmit HDTV in the next 10 years will be required to broadcast simultaneously using the NTSC standard and the HDTV standard on a seperate channel. However, near the year 2007, the NTSC standard will be phased out and the channels allocated to NTSC will have to be given back to the FCC for HDTV allocations. End Quote
(The following are NOT facts. If anyone can counter them, please do.)
From my understanding, a standard format for HDTV has yet to be agreed upon and SET IN STONE. A number of TV manufacturers are selling HDTV's under what they assume the agreed standard will be. This leaves the consumer with the possibility of buying a current HDTV that will NOT work when the FCC reallocates the bandwidth. Personally, I'm going to wait until 2005-2006 before I even consider buying an HDTV.
However, I heard that Microsoft was actually offering a number of substantial concessions, including releasing source code for Windows.
Can you imagine the resulting lawsuits? When every Tom, Dick, and Harry discovers their code has been integrated into Windows without permission? And what about all of the code written just to break the competitors programs? By the time the dust settles, there will be nothing left of MS.
Microsoft programmer - There seems to be a bug in this section of code, but none of it makes any sense to me...
Microsoft manager - Who wrote it?
Microsoft programmer - It is something we appropriated.
Microsoft manger - Then it's not a bug. It's improved functionality...
Not likely. Doing so would require specialized and intimate knowledge of the system(s) in question. This would mean actually having worked with the system(s) or working for the contractor which built them.
It would also require physical access or having a close proximity to these system(s). This is NOT something that Joe Hacker could do from his home.
It's possible a disgruntal contractor or military person could pass information to a hostile government. Even then, the chances of the system(s) being remotely hacked is not likely. And since all communications are encrypted ( No! The internet does NOT count! ) it would be almost impossible to do.
Slashdot Mirror
(Apologies to Frater 219, for some reason I could not find a link to the individual post.)
What follows is a post that discussed this very issue over a year ago. I took it to heart and have enjoyed college ever since. It has opened my eyes up to a whole new world, one I would have never seen if I'd kept my nose buried in a keyboard. People should not go to college just to help them start a career. They should go to college to learn about life.
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Geeks, go to college. (Score:5)
by Frater 219 on Monday April 12, @01:05PM EDT
(User Info) http://
Don't go to college to learn to be a better geek. Academic computer science won't turn you into a system administrator, Web designer, or Perl hacker. You won't learn how to optimize a kernel configuration, recover files from a crashed disk, build a fast database, or tell your boss nicely that his ideas about information technology are stupid or violate the laws of physics. You may learn a lot of good theory -- but you could pick that up elsewhere, too.
Go to college to learn about culture, or history, or philosophy, or literature. Go to college to sit up late nights screaming at your best friends about what an idiot Rene Descartes was. Go to college to watch your best friends do the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Go to college to find out what the hell this postmodernism thing is that Larry Wall's always on about. Go to college to refute postmodernism, and to be called postmodern for doing it. Go to college to meet people who will be impressed with your intelligence instead of thinking of it as threatening.
Don't go to an easy college, and don't go to a place that lets you get by doing nothing but technical stuff. Go to a place that makes you do a lot of heavy reading and writing. Take tough courses. Learn to write well; not only will it help when your boss asks you to document your project, but it'll also help you sound better on Slashdot and USENET. Don't scorn "well-roundedness" or "communications skills"; the stars of geek culture are no bunch of illiterates.
Study music. Music, as Pythagoras demonstrated, is a form of mathematics, and musicians, like hackers, keep pounding on their work in search of the Right Thing. Study psychology and sociology. They represent our attempts to figure out how the systems called the human mind and human society work, so that we can make them work better.
Read Nietzsche. Refute your parents' religion. Then refute your refutation.
Get into politics. Which politics don't really matter -- be a socialist, or a libertarian, or even a Republican if you have to. Go to activist events. Take politics courses. Insist on bringing up free software in the middle of your classes. Derive the Debian Free Software Guidelines from the works of John Locke.
I couldn't agree more. For network configuration and admin, ORA's TCP/IP Network Administration is almost essential for multi-vendor networks. For Linux specific issues, I use ORA's Running Linux. Between those two, there is not much new material that is covered by The Linux Network Administrator's Guide. While it is a good book in itself, I found that the information contained in it was already covered by other ORA books I own.
I can't wait to find out what other "innovation" gems are still out there.
So who is responsible here? Can the posters be sued for their posts? Or is /. the one who is going to be sued, for allowing the posts?
Here is one of his articles that ended up in a printed mag. It discusses PAM and attempts to discredit shadowed passwords in the process. The information is misleading and inaccurate. The article sounds more like it was released from a marketing dept instead of a self-proclaimed security expert.
When he discribes limiting access to ftp, he is basically saying only a good password will limit who can access the system. What about, /etc/ftpaccess or /etc/login.access. Not to mention using tcp wrappers and /etc/hosts.deny.
When he discribes using limits on users, he tries to imply only PAM can do this. Yet he fails to mention /etc/limits. If you 'man limits', you will see the available options are EXACTLY the same the ones he mentions are in PAM.
I see Kurt post to a few security mailing lists, Suse , BUGTRAQ, Linux Security Auditing Project, Bastille, etc. For the most part, his posts are worthless. Claiming PAM is the greatest thing since sliced bread, flaming others for off topic posts, repeating well known information, etc. His new project, LSKB lacks any kind of useful information and is more of a waste of time than anything else.
I have no respect for him and try to ignore him as much as possible.
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Since this post contains a link to DeCSS, who's breaking the law? Am I breaking it for posting the link, or is Slashdot for allowing the post?
I've seen Linux used in the Army to do things that were just not possible with M$ products, cost being a BIG factor. With all the cutbacks with the military budget, it's just not possible for units to spend several thousand dollars on software. Or the several thousand dollars on licenses. When people (i.e. officers) are shown how flexible linux is (not to mention free), it's not uncommon to hear them make suggestions to problems by saying, "Well, can't you just download something off of the internet?"
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gal lery/images/station/
http://www.gnome.org/resources/mailing-lists.html
http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gnome-list/2000-Ju ne/039518.html
This is mainly an issue with ORBit and it's COBRA compliance. ORBit can be compiled to either listen to TCP sockets or UNIX pipes. From what I've heard, Debian is the only one to compile it with UNIX pipes. A fix for everyone else:
http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gnome-list/2000-Ju ne/039645.html
You could even implement a good response system to security break-ins. Any time someone logs in as or su's to root, indicate there is an error and swap to one of the hot spares. So what if the cracker trashes the one he is on. Switch to a backup.
Of course in this situation, you would need 100's of spares if someone is a little persistant.
Does that come with a phaser and a communicator? Will I need to call Jordi when it breaks?
Let's say a script kiddy uses Nmap with the spoof function turned on. How are you going to stop the randomly choosen IP's from entering the network? It will stop someone using it from within your network (and be a shock to that person when they get caught because only one source IP was getting to their intended target).
One thing that I've always wanted to try was to filter traffic based on the addresses contained in the MAPS-DUL. I've never tried it because of concerns for slowing down the network (it is a long list) and pissing people off. The problem is a number of things would break. Things like ICQ would have to go through the main server. It would break multiplayer Rainbow6, PCAnywhere. or any other program that expects a direct connection with another other home uses to work. This might be fine on a limited basis were you can actively control what gets in and out of your network. But on the scale of ISP's.....
If everyone started filtering traffic from within their network to stop spoofed traffic from getting out, then spoofing throughout the internet would drop. But everyone would have to do it.
And like everything else, someone will find a way around it.....
You can read BUQTRAQ all you want, but you still have to wait for M$ to release the bugfix.
I have a couple of LART's you can borrow...
The only problem is when they look at it before you finish downloading what you want.
warezd00d: This is corrupted!!
me: Hold on. I'll send it again.
Nothing like a conspiracy theory to add life to an otherwise slow day. Here's one for you: Andover.net keeps close tabs on the hit count and comment submissions. They threaten to do Bad Things(TM) if it drops too low. Soooo.....CmdrTaco makes something up to bring out the flamers/trolls/conspiracy theorists/etc....
MODERATORS!!!! Mark this as Redundant!!! He has reposted this several times, with only minor changes each time. User Info. He has already receiced a +5 for it. It lookes like someone is trying to get all the Karma points out of one message that he can.
You forgot to add, Word will display the document differently depending on which computer you are using. Even if the hardware and the versions of Office are identical. I encounter this at work on a daily bases.
Despite all of the recent bad press, M$ still has a dominate control of the market. And with that will come followers that will, not matter how ill informed, stand up behind them. Not all reporters will see this as "Microsoft subverts standards and strongarms little guys."
Electronic Communication Techniques, 4th Edition, By Paul H. Young, ISBN: 0-13-779984-5
Quote: In late 1992, the FCC released a channel plan whereby existing broadcasts of the standard NTSC television format will be assigned a second channel for high-definition TV (HDTV) broadcasting. Thus, TV broadcast stations that want to transmit HDTV in the next 10 years will be required to broadcast simultaneously using the NTSC standard and the HDTV standard on a seperate channel. However, near the year 2007, the NTSC standard will be phased out and the channels allocated to NTSC will have to be given back to the FCC for HDTV allocations. End Quote
(The following are NOT facts. If anyone can counter them, please do.)
From my understanding, a standard format for HDTV has yet to be agreed upon and SET IN STONE. A number of TV manufacturers are selling HDTV's under what they assume the agreed standard will be. This leaves the consumer with the possibility of buying a current HDTV that will NOT work when the FCC reallocates the bandwidth. Personally, I'm going to wait until 2005-2006 before I even consider buying an HDTV.
No. Here is a good explanation.
Some good links on the sublect:
http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/network-intrusion -detection.html#11
http://www.sans.org/newlook/resources/IDFAQ/ID_FAQ .htm
Can you imagine the resulting lawsuits? When every Tom, Dick, and Harry discovers their code has been integrated into Windows without permission? And what about all of the code written just to break the competitors programs? By the time the dust settles, there will be nothing left of MS.
Microsoft programmer - There seems to be a bug in this section of code, but none of it makes any sense to me...
Microsoft manager - Who wrote it?
Microsoft programmer - It is something we appropriated.
Microsoft manger - Then it's not a bug. It's improved functionality...
Not likely. Doing so would require specialized and intimate knowledge of the system(s) in question. This would mean actually having worked with the system(s) or working for the contractor which built them.
It would also require physical access or having a close proximity to these system(s). This is NOT something that Joe Hacker could do from his home.
It's possible a disgruntal contractor or military person could pass information to a hostile government. Even then, the chances of the system(s) being remotely hacked is not likely. And since all communications are encrypted ( No! The internet does NOT count! ) it would be almost impossible to do.
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Remember, encryption of drives works better if you don't want to be caught.
If they can recover information after eight formats, do you really think that encrypting your HD will stop them?