Maildir has done very well for me. Fast and reliable. A filesystem IS a database. I don't think there is much need to put email into any other sort of database. It just adds another unnecessary layer of complexity. I wouldn't mind seeing a database used to store metadata so the mail can be quickly searched but I'd prefer to leave the emails themselves in the filesystem and have the database of metadata contain pointers to the filenames in the filesystem.
It's about time we compared different chip architectures on their actual performance instead of an apples and oranges comparison of clock speed. When it comes to advertising I am one of the most critical people you are likely to meet but I think this will help other potentially better cpu architectures gain a foothold. We should be rating cpu speeds in terms of real things we actually do, not clockspeed.
www.lids.org Very nice implementation of MAC. Not as flexible as the NSA's scheme but it's useable right now and greatly limits the amount of damage an intruder with root access can do. Highly recommended for any system.
I know when I started my current job I had to sign something listing all of my intellectual property to date as being mine and saying that anything I create going forward (on company time or personal time) will be the property of the company. There was a slashdot article on this subject in recent months. If he signed something similar, his project already belongs to the company and he doesn't have a choice in the matter.
I am running it on a test system and I am extremely impressed. It implements capabilities allowing you to assign least priviledge so if someone gets root on the box they still can't do anything. No longer do you need to open yourself up to attack just because a program needs to bind to a low number port, for example. It's a huge boost to the security of any Linux system. This plus the standard techniques used to secure a box can really lock things down.
They were spying on Bob Young!
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Anyone notice during the scenes of Milo flipping through the spy-cams while in the daycare center that one of them showed a man wearing a red fedora with his feet up on his desk?:)
Also, I thought the movie was fairly decent for a first shot at open source in hollywood. We can't expect a big summer "blockbuster" the first time out. Take it for what it is: Good press. And invite all of your friends to see it.
As I was leaving the theater last night I noticed a fair number of old people. I really wonder how many of them (or of the audience in general) understood what was going on. We need a real solid documentary on open source that is light enough that the average person can find it entertaining.
Suspicious members of the programming community?!?
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"The hacker boycott of SDM organized by suspicious members of the programming community has turned out to be irrelevant."
What the heck do they mean by this? I'm quite amused that some SDMI members are finally facing the reality that it might not be possible to protect music.
Home computers (Linux systems) CAN share disks like this if you want to invest in fibrechannel (which may not be as expensive as you think). Check out:
Slashdot Mirror
MP3.com has many terrabytes of disk on reiserfs for over 18 months with great success. Again, hard data that reiserfs works. And it works well!
Maildir has done very well for me. Fast and reliable. A filesystem IS a database. I don't think there is much need to put email into any other sort of database. It just adds another unnecessary layer of complexity. I wouldn't mind seeing a database used to store metadata so the mail can be quickly searched but I'd prefer to leave the emails themselves in the filesystem and have the database of metadata contain pointers to the filenames in the filesystem.
gawk; talk; nice; date; wine; grep; touch; unzip; finger; gasp; suck; lyx;\
slurp; mount; fsck; more; yes; gasp; umount; make clean; make mrproper;\
sleep
Perhaps I should move my freenet cache over to a RAM drive.
It's about time we compared different chip architectures on their actual performance instead of an apples and oranges comparison of clock speed. When it comes to advertising I am one of the most critical people you are likely to meet but I think this will help other potentially better cpu architectures gain a foothold. We should be rating cpu speeds in terms of real things we actually do, not clockspeed.
No, he did NOT break the MP3.com beam-it protocol. He concluded that it was quite secure.
YEAY!
www.lids.org
Very nice implementation of MAC. Not as flexible as the NSA's scheme but it's useable right now and greatly limits the amount of damage an intruder with root access can do. Highly recommended for any system.
I know when I started my current job I had to sign something listing all of my intellectual property to date as being mine and saying that anything I create going forward (on company time or personal time) will be the property of the company. There was a slashdot article on this subject in recent months. If he signed something similar, his project already belongs to the company and he doesn't have a choice in the matter.
www.lids.org
I am running it on a test system and I am extremely impressed. It implements capabilities allowing you to assign least priviledge so if someone gets root on the box they still can't do anything. No longer do you need to open yourself up to attack just because a program needs to bind to a low number port, for example. It's a huge boost to the security of any Linux system. This plus the standard techniques used to secure a box can really lock things down.
I switched to djbdns a few months ago because I just KNEW something like this would happen. Now I am glad I did! Bind is such a clusterf*ck. :(
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
Anyone notice during the scenes of Milo flipping through the spy-cams while in the daycare center that one of them showed a man wearing a red fedora with his feet up on his desk? :)
Also, I thought the movie was fairly decent for a first shot at open source in hollywood. We can't expect a big summer "blockbuster" the first time out. Take it for what it is: Good press. And invite all of your friends to see it.
As I was leaving the theater last night I noticed a fair number of old people. I really wonder how many of them (or of the audience in general) understood what was going on. We need a real solid documentary on open source that is light enough that the average person can find it entertaining.
"The hacker boycott of SDM organized by suspicious members of the programming community has turned out to be irrelevant."
What the heck do they mean by this? I'm quite amused that some SDMI members are finally facing the reality that it might not be possible to protect music.
Any volunteers to write an adserver plugin for this? If we're gonna get 0wn3d we may as well make some money, right? :)
http://www.globalfilesystem.org
Very cool technology. I have been following this for quite a while and it shows tremendous promise for solving all kinds of disk scalability problems.
It's an executable.
That's funny, my mom uses Linux just fine. So does my 8 year old little brother. Check out: http://www.ultraviolet.org/treed/easy.ht ml