As opposed to a Windows XP box that is vulnerable the very second you install it. The difference being, and this is explicitly mentioned on the OpenBSD website, is that OpenBSD strives to have very sane defaults so the system is NOT vulnerable the second the machine comes up from its initial install. Thus allowing the knowledgable system administrator to patch the services *before enabling them* and having a reasonably high degree of confidence that the system has not been rooted before the first patch goes on. SSHD being the only service enabled by default would be removed if it wasn't so depended upon for remote installs/management.
Now it is incumbent upon the system administrator to understand exactly what he/she is enabling and ensuring that they have applied all known patches for that particular service.
It really isn't rocket science and I don't know why everybody gets into such a fit over it.
My personal biggest issue with the OpenBSD group is that I cannot find an authoritative list of key fingerprints for their mirrors, so when I go to do a cvsup using ssh, I have no idea if I am talking to who I think I am or not. Which is surprising because OpenBSDs earliest claim to fame was "strong crypto -- everywhere".
That marijuana law has its upside and downside. Most cops really wouldn;t do anything about possession before necause the penalty was too severe. The cops weren't going to send everyone to jail for smoking a little grass so they would just "confiscate" it and send you on your way. Now they don't hesitate to cite you for it because $100 is no big deal, right?
But, it does keep that asshole cop from being a perv to little girls or something because he can't hold that drug charge over their heads.
Also, the statistics are gonna come out and they will probably show a massive increase for this offense which of course will be fuel for the fire of the right wing protectors of our own best interests.
This is true but when you make a Xerox of something you are more likely to be using a copier made by Konica, Ricoh, Sharp, etc. Brand name awareness doesn't necessarily mean dominance. That is exactly the attitude that brought Xerox down in the 70's/80's.
Springer may be a dem but that was the late 70's.
In the last election, according to opensecrets.org, George Bush received $832,056 in funds compared to $109,100 for Al Gore.
Bush won in Cincinnati by 23 percentage points, the largest victory by Bush in any midwestern city. This is especially telling since Bush actually lost the midwest overall.
However, afaik that was the only scandal involving Jerry which is actually pretty damn good considering the luck folks have had with their mayor in this town.
He's a scam artist, word was he 'borrowed' from his family just before he skipped town. I'm wondering if he got himself in a jam with owing somebody money or something.
Even more stupid is the City of Cincinnati. They gave this guy $180k+ in loans without doing so much as a background check. A brief background is here.
As a citizen of Cincinnati, I've been following this case and I am absolutely dumbfounded at the ineptness of all the people involved. It really is mind-boggling. They were so concerned about cutting through the bureaucratic red tape they forgot the red tape was there for a reason.
Dunno if thats a rhetorical question or not, but I heard an interview with Matt Groening a few weeks ago. On the interview he said one of his biggest surprises with the Simpsons was that nobody really said anything about the similarity between Krusty and Homer. He said that Krusty really *is* just Homer with makeup on. He said that he was making a small joke about how Bart looked down on his dad and his dad's faults, but worshipped Krusty on TV even though they were one and the same.
Yeah I'm kinda wondering whats up with that. Our numbers are a bit different than his.
Runnning SpamAssassin 2.44 from 10/1/03 to 11/1/03, here is how our company fared.
11,387 Emails recieved. 10,560 Flagged as Spam by SpamAssassin. 15 false positives. 522 False Negatives.
As you can see, the capture % for us is ~93%
We suspected Spam was getting out of hand but had no idea it was *that* bad. Of the 11387 messages recieved only 305 were valid emails.
We have since upgraded to 2.60 and in the three weeks since, we've had 2 false positives reported and it looks like the false negatives have dropped through the floor.
We were using 3.10 as the threshold which was a number we magically pulled out of our ass after watching mail for ~2 days.
OpenBSD is an operating system designed with code correctness and security as its primary goals. Downloading the ISO off kazaa or any other untrusted source pretty much negates the whole security aspect. Then misc@ gets filled with posts of OMG OBSD SUXORZZZ!!!1!! I GOT HAXORED!!! Well yeah ya dipshit what did you think was gonna happen?
The same is true for XP. If you don't feel like plunking down the $150 for a proper copy of XP then dont run it, or at least don't bitch when you get trojaned.
Since you seem to be a Defender of the Crown fan. Cinemaware just recently released a remade Defender of the Crown for modern PC's and PS2. On their website they also have ROMs for download of the original games and are doing a 'digitally remastered' series of them. I thought Cinemaware was looong gone but I guess they were always lurking. Good to have them back!
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As opposed to a Windows XP box that is vulnerable the very second you install it. The difference being, and this is explicitly mentioned on the OpenBSD website, is that OpenBSD strives to have very sane defaults so the system is NOT vulnerable the second the machine comes up from its initial install. Thus allowing the knowledgable system administrator to patch the services *before enabling them* and having a reasonably high degree of confidence that the system has not been rooted before the first patch goes on. SSHD being the only service enabled by default would be removed if it wasn't so depended upon for remote installs/management.
Now it is incumbent upon the system administrator to understand exactly what he/she is enabling and ensuring that they have applied all known patches for that particular service.
It really isn't rocket science and I don't know why everybody gets into such a fit over it.
My personal biggest issue with the OpenBSD group is that I cannot find an authoritative list of key fingerprints for their mirrors, so when I go to do a cvsup using ssh, I have no idea if I am talking to who I think I am or not. Which is surprising because OpenBSDs earliest claim to fame was "strong crypto -- everywhere".
why not microsoft as well?
Yeah and I have no idea where anyone would get that impression.
Oh wait, thats right -- its your sig that did it.
That marijuana law has its upside and downside. Most cops really wouldn;t do anything about possession before necause the penalty was too severe. The cops weren't going to send everyone to jail for smoking a little grass so they would just "confiscate" it and send you on your way. Now they don't hesitate to cite you for it because $100 is no big deal, right?
But, it does keep that asshole cop from being a perv to little girls or something because he can't hold that drug charge over their heads.
Also, the statistics are gonna come out and they will probably show a massive increase for this offense which of course will be fuel for the fire of the right wing protectors of our own best interests.
no, Cinci was not involved. Thee blackout hit parts as far south as ~100 miles north of Cincinnati and it was a temporary (1-3 hrs) kinda thing.
I don't have much love for monopolies but Cinergy does seem to do a pretty good job of keeping the lights on.
This is true but when you make a Xerox of something you are more likely to be using a copier made by Konica, Ricoh, Sharp, etc. Brand name awareness doesn't necessarily mean dominance. That is exactly the attitude that brought Xerox down in the 70's/80's.
Yeah but somehow I don't think naming a helicopter the AH-70 Jew will go over very well.
Get involved. Vote. Make your voice heard. Don't listen to the assholes that tell you to 'Love it or leave it!'. Stay and CHANGE it.
I thought Google was only going to IPO 33% of the company. Hostile takeover requires 51% of the company.
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wow that was tough!
Springer may be a dem but that was the late 70's.
In the last election, according to opensecrets.org, George Bush received $832,056 in funds compared to $109,100 for Al Gore.
Bush won in Cincinnati by 23 percentage points, the largest victory by Bush in any midwestern city. This is especially telling since Bush actually lost the midwest overall.
This is very true and word was the check BOUNCED!
However, afaik that was the only scandal involving Jerry which is actually pretty damn good considering the luck folks have had with their mayor in this town.
He's a scam artist, word was he 'borrowed' from his family just before he skipped town. I'm wondering if he got himself in a jam with owing somebody money or something.
heh same here. Remember what Mark Twain said about Cincy...
"When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times."
Even more stupid is the City of Cincinnati. They gave this guy $180k+ in loans without doing so much as a background check. A brief background is here. As a citizen of Cincinnati, I've been following this case and I am absolutely dumbfounded at the ineptness of all the people involved. It really is mind-boggling. They were so concerned about cutting through the bureaucratic red tape they forgot the red tape was there for a reason.
Dunno if thats a rhetorical question or not, but I heard an interview with Matt Groening a few weeks ago. On the interview he said one of his biggest surprises with the Simpsons was that nobody really said anything about the similarity between Krusty and Homer. He said that Krusty really *is* just Homer with makeup on. He said that he was making a small joke about how Bart looked down on his dad and his dad's faults, but worshipped Krusty on TV even though they were one and the same.
yeah because those very same greyscale images are absolutely worthless to the pursuit of science.
thank you for giving me a reason as to why the solar powered rovers stop working after a while. I always wondered that!
Now for a dumb question... Why don't they just put a wiper blade or something on the panel to wipe the dust off?
I've owned about 8-10 Gigabyte motherboards with VIA chipsets and have never had a problem.
You'd think but www.openbsd.org doesn't run OpenBSD. Here's a link that explains why.
In fact, just last year ftp.openbsd.org did get compromised!
Yeah I'm kinda wondering whats up with that.
Our numbers are a bit different than his.
Runnning SpamAssassin 2.44 from 10/1/03 to 11/1/03, here is how our company fared.
11,387 Emails recieved.
10,560 Flagged as Spam by SpamAssassin.
15 false positives.
522 False Negatives.
As you can see, the capture % for us is ~93%
We suspected Spam was getting out of hand but had no idea it was *that* bad. Of the 11387 messages recieved only 305 were valid emails.
We have since upgraded to 2.60 and in the three weeks since, we've had 2 false positives reported and it looks like the false negatives have dropped through the floor.
We were using 3.10 as the threshold which was a number we magically pulled out of our ass after watching mail for ~2 days.
OpenBSD is an operating system designed with code correctness and security as its primary goals. Downloading the ISO off kazaa or any other untrusted source pretty much negates the whole security aspect. Then misc@ gets filled with posts of OMG OBSD SUXORZZZ!!!1!! I GOT HAXORED!!! Well yeah ya dipshit what did you think was gonna happen?
The same is true for XP. If you don't feel like plunking down the $150 for a proper copy of XP then dont run it, or at least don't bitch when you get trojaned.
Since you seem to be a Defender of the Crown fan. Cinemaware just recently released a remade Defender of the Crown for modern PC's and PS2. On their website they also have ROMs for download of the original games and are doing a 'digitally remastered' series of them. I thought Cinemaware was looong gone but I guess they were always lurking. Good to have them back!
Probably because it would be easier to genetically engineer people to be nice and play fair than it would be to fix the damn product.
maybe my Athlon is suffering from the Pentium fp bug, but why do your statistics add up to 63.1? Where are the other 36.9% of statistics?