This could be fixed by making the tanks irda compliant with the palm and having a simple serial port i/o prog to do the control..but then it would loose its kewlness factor.
largest drive = 500 megs probly. cheap. extra software for pilot = no. a simple serial port program will do it..available free. optimal model = a palm pro with an upgrade card. the upgrade has a more powerful LED than the standard palm iii or iv or whatever. MP3..look on freshmeat.lots available. yep. ive done something similar..i actually mounted a palmpilot as a linux drive off the irda port. IR comm issues = range..its not too far.
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difficult..but not impossible. of course newbies will think of ways to screw up something like this too.:)
bruce i usually agree with most of your posts but on this one i must disagree. As an admin i have found redhat is full of holes when users install it (ive not worked on debian). By having a default newbie friendly install redhat would do well to improve user security. Why dont distros install ssh by default ? stop httpd/ftpd running by default ? add a simple integrity checking system at install time ? its silly to assume the user will know what the checkbox is for or even what "servers" do at install time. a simplified installation with all paranoid on and hosts.deny with an all:all on will really help.
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see my post above. basically read the linux security handbook. install all the updates (do this when after you custom install your redhat system)..you can get em from updates.redhat.com. install ssh (redhat crypto carries it). edit the/etc/inetd.conf file and turn off or comment everything. remove all the servers (httpd, samba etc) which are not controlled by inetd. delete telnet from your system (use only ssh). write out your firewall rules and use ipchains to implement em. turn on MD5 and shadow password if you have not done so at install time. install tripwire or my own sentinel utility or fcheck or something similar. check your logs regularly.
bullshit. he recalls correctly. inetd *is* turned on by default..i keep having to shut the damn thing down when i install linux on my machines..its a ritual - install redhat, switch off inetd, load patches, put ALL:ALL in hosts.deny, load ssh...this is bullshit. by cant redhat be packaged more securely ? its real simple to compile all the packages with buffer overflow checking, switch off inetd services, deny everything from hosts.deny.
The real problem i have with these rating systems is that they quickly stop being voluntary. What happens if your ISP refuses to host pages which have a rating of more than 5 on violence or some such stupidity ? What happens if your ISP is forced to charge you extra for "self-regulating" your own pages ? We have seen how maovies in the US with a rating higher than R never get shown in theatres or how producers self censor movies to get the R rating (stanley kubricks latest is a fairly good example).
i believe linux.com has an article about serving up webpages and heavily used filesystems using RAMDISKs..you might want to look at that. Also Abit BP6 does dual celerons for $300 or so (motherboard + 2 socket 370 celerons)..should handle anything you can throw at it.
what im curious about is why poeple use FreeBSD which has a lot more holes than OpenBSD and then claim its "more secure" than linux. thats a bunch of bullshit, IMHO. If you want security - go with OpenBSD..there is *no* other alternative among the BSDs which has the level of auditing openbsd has..or any other os has for that matter.
i believe the BIND crew are coming out with a BIND that does not have the RSA authentication mechanism in it. I dont believe DENTS can conform to the RFCs which require RSA style authentication without falling under the patent issues..
*shrug* JavaOS, Microware OS/9, RTLinux..millions of them. i wish these ppl would pour some cash into improving mklinux or rtlinux so we can use em in more embedded devices.
thats what the crontab command is for. alternatively theres an auto updating rpm utility to do it somewhere on rufus.w3.org....if d/ling the kernel as an rpm. note that you need to save your configs between kernel version so a small script might help if youre using tar.gz
if youre in the US you dont need to bother about restrictions. just whack it up with a disclaimer saying only us citizens can d/l it. someone outside will mirror it if its worth anything.
NO. as pointed out earlier the trolls sometimes trigger resasonably sane discussions and useful ones at times (see the flamebait BSD should be GPLed comment and successive legal debate). by marking it down youre not giving everyone a chance to see the higher comments. BTW, alan i thought you lost your username (at least according to your diary entry)
your cable and null modem terminator is probably bought from radio shack (most are). If so then radio shack doesnt give 8 bit clean serial cables/modem terminators. you need an 8 bit clean line to do PPP. Alternatively if you can get the NT system to dual boot linux try using 6 bit SLIP..works great...
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anyone noticed that they referred to a PBM instead of PVM ? Its parrallel Virtual machine you boneheads...no B there.
i actually dislike wm and like AfterStep. so there !
This could be fixed by making the tanks irda compliant with the palm and having a simple serial port i/o prog to do the control..but then it would loose its kewlness factor.
largest drive = 500 megs probly. cheap.
extra software for pilot = no. a simple serial port program will do it..available free.
optimal model = a palm pro with an upgrade card. the upgrade has a more powerful LED than the standard palm iii or iv or whatever.
MP3..look on freshmeat.lots available.
yep. ive done something similar..i actually mounted a palmpilot as a linux drive off the irda port. IR comm issues = range..its not too far.
difficult..but not impossible. of course newbies will think of ways to screw up something like this too. :)
bruce i usually agree with most of your posts but on this one i must disagree. As an admin i have found redhat is full of holes when users install it (ive not worked on debian). By having a default newbie friendly install redhat would do well to improve user security. Why dont distros install ssh by default ? stop httpd/ftpd running by default ? add a simple integrity checking system at install time ? its silly to assume the user will know what the checkbox is for or even what "servers" do at install time. a simplified installation with all paranoid on and hosts.deny with an all:all on will really help.
see my post above. basically read the linux security handbook. install all the updates (do this when after you custom install your redhat system)..you can get em from updates.redhat.com. install ssh (redhat crypto carries it). edit the /etc/inetd.conf file and turn off or comment everything. remove all the servers (httpd, samba etc) which are not controlled by inetd. delete telnet from your system (use only ssh). write out your firewall rules and use ipchains to implement em. turn on MD5 and shadow password if you have not done so at install time. install tripwire or my own sentinel utility or fcheck or something similar. check your logs regularly.
bullshit. he recalls correctly. inetd *is* turned on by default..i keep having to shut the damn thing down when i install linux on my machines..its a ritual - install redhat, switch off inetd, load patches, put ALL:ALL in hosts.deny, load ssh...this is bullshit. by cant redhat be packaged more securely ? its real simple to compile all the packages with buffer overflow checking, switch off inetd services, deny everything from hosts.deny.
The real problem i have with these rating systems is that they quickly stop being voluntary. What happens if your ISP refuses to host pages which have a rating of more than 5 on violence or some such stupidity ? What happens if your ISP is forced to charge you extra for "self-regulating" your own pages ? We have seen how maovies in the US with a rating higher than R never get shown in theatres or how producers self censor movies to get the R rating (stanley kubricks latest is a fairly good example).
i believe linux.com has an article about serving up webpages and heavily used filesystems using RAMDISKs..you might want to look at that. Also Abit BP6 does dual celerons for $300 or so (motherboard + 2 socket 370 celerons)..should handle anything you can throw at it.
vfat has been working ok since 2.0.x..dunno bout alsa
he has the web browser disc loaded i believe. try it with that and let us know.
TiVo's giving the code to its customers on CDROM for $24..see the manual.
but not *legally*. thats the whole point of the GPL. If caught the company has to open *all* its code - and no one wants to do that.
what im curious about is why poeple use FreeBSD which has a lot more holes than OpenBSD and then claim its "more secure" than linux. thats a bunch of bullshit, IMHO. If you want security - go with OpenBSD..there is *no* other alternative among the BSDs which has the level of auditing openbsd has..or any other os has for that matter.
i believe the BIND crew are coming out with a BIND that does not have the RSA authentication mechanism in it. I dont believe DENTS can conform to the RFCs which require RSA style authentication without falling under the patent issues..
GDROMs are regular CDROMs with less error checking IMHO. You can burn GDROMs from Yamaha(?) Cd writers.
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*shrug* JavaOS, Microware OS/9, RTLinux..millions of them. i wish these ppl would pour some cash into improving mklinux or rtlinux so we can use em in more embedded devices.
thats what the crontab command is for. alternatively theres an auto updating rpm utility to do it somewhere on rufus.w3.org....if d/ling the kernel as an rpm. note that you need to save your configs between kernel version so a small script might help if youre using tar.gz
use the cdrom and redhats cd to boot the beast. wipe the drive (no root password required for wiping) and be happy.
if youre in the US you dont need to bother about restrictions. just whack it up with a disclaimer saying only us citizens can d/l it. someone outside will mirror it if its worth anything.
NO. as pointed out earlier the trolls sometimes trigger resasonably sane discussions and useful ones at times (see the flamebait BSD should be GPLed comment and successive legal debate). by marking it down youre not giving everyone a chance to see the higher comments. BTW, alan i thought you lost your username (at least according to your diary entry)
just read that you have unix boxes..try using one of them to do 6 bit slip + appropriate packet forwards.
your cable and null modem terminator is probably bought from radio shack (most are). If so then radio shack doesnt give 8 bit clean serial cables/modem terminators. you need an 8 bit clean line to do PPP. Alternatively if you can get the NT system to dual boot linux try using 6 bit SLIP..works great...