why would I want to use a system that requires you to preprocess your configuration file, and gives you an obfuscated but still legible configuration file as an output? Does the arcane syntax of the.cf file really make it that much faster for sendmail to parse the configuration file?
I understand sendmail is just fine for people who are used to it, I used it for four years and got by with few problems. I also understand why people shy away from sendmail and the attraction to alternative mailers like postfix and qmail. For the past year I've used postfix and feel infinitely more comfortable with its configuration, design philosphy, and inner working than I ever did with sendmail.
Maybe I should spend my time RTFMing and doing online research into sendmail to make myself feel more comfortable with it. Nah, I'd rather just install Postfix and get on with my life.
Hmmm.. maybe they are calculating it the way that the RIAA was calculating the 'number of confiscated burners' a few months back. Fast burners counted as 2 or 3 seperate units.
With SCO, efficient lines of code count as double or triple the infringement because their coders couldn't write the code as cleanly.
no they seem to think that they can agree to the GPL but not be bound to it because it is 'invalid' and is overruled by federal law which prohibits making copies of software.
Yeah no shit, look at the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. The US fucked them over so good with all their "reconstruction" their economies will never be prosperous!!!! Certainly all those former Eastern Bloc nations are just mired, absolutely mired, with zero economic growth and no positive outlook indicators on the horizon for hundreds of years all because of the US stampeding around the world and 'fucking 'em all'. Lets not forget South Korea either. I think I read somewhere where something like 98% of all South Koreans were bitter because what they really wanted was to be annexed by the good and true, pure and kind hearted, North Koreans. Look at the economic situation there! North Korea is a bastion of freedom and individual liberty AND they have managed to keep up a top notch economy, while South Korea is just a cess poll of greed and corruption where 70-80% of the workforce is unemployed and those that do work make something like $3 a month!
I'm going to go out on a limb here. But I think that if we could just get rid of the USA, like some sort of neutron bomb or something, the entire world will once again live in the tranquil peaceful Utopia that existed before 1903.
Yes and no. A Jury CAN basically force the government to drop charges against someone by issuing a not-guilty verdict. The best/worst example of this is OJ Simpson.
The biggest surprise was watching mom & dad use mouse gestures(All In One Gestures). They didn't get it at first, but after turning the mouse trails on(IMHO should enabled by default) they picked up on it immediately and love it. I would have to say that neither are technical people. Dad still prefers a slide rule over any 'new-fangled' calculator. Mom insists that every application she uses (Firebird, Eudora, Snood, Quicken) is called 'Microsoft'.
I guess all I'm trying to say is, you might be surprised just how intuitive the mouse gestures can be for the idiot masses. The others like Nuke Image or Flash Click to Play I wouldn't attempt to sell on my parents but my friends can and do use them. My friends are more technical than my parents, but they still need hand holding on things like downloading and burning an.iso, or updating a device driver, etc..
Keeping 'customers' happy is a full time job, no?:)
I have a stack of Model M/Lexmark and a stack of Model M/IBM. The Lexmark variety seem to be quieter(my wife appreciates that) and a bit lighter than the IBM variety. The Lexmark variety have so far not passed the dishwasher test but seem to be just as shock and damage resistant otherwise.
Snort has had 2(?)remote vulnerabilities in the last year which gave the attacker the same rights as the snort process (which on too many machines runs as root). Snort listens and processes data from an assumed hostile environment and it is not unreasonable to assume that as applications like snort grow in popularity the more they will be specifically targetted for a) detection/evasion, b) compromise, or c) DoS. People who are not "Slashdot Savvy" probably won't be able to stay ahead of the game as far as keeping track of the latest rulesets, patches, new releases, etc. and may end up exposing themselves to further risk or having a false sense of security.
In a nutshell, I think of it like this: Snort, *properly configured*, *properly maintained*, while having Snort logs regularly reviewed is a very wonderful tool. Otherwise, its as useful as a virus scanner with out of date definition files; worthless.
On the the flip side, I do encourage people who are interested in network security to install, run, and learn about these tools as much as they can(in restricted environments/configurations). Snort can be a great teacher as a new alert is generated and the curious user looks the alert up in the database and maybe, just maybe, learns something new.
Seems to me like Europe has a bit more to be worried about when it comes to sinking.
I think its funny that people say, $x is why the US invaded Iraq, as though there is some one reason that is being kept a secret. Truth is, there were lots of reasons. Not all of them are good reasons, mind you, but the decision wasn't as cut and dry as people suggest (either for or against the war).
identd is a bit past its time since the explosion of unix boxen that are administered by the very same end users. The age of trust(how silly) in the admins who run servers is long over.
Bullshit. English came by way of the people living roughly what is now western Germany and the northeastern part of the Netherlands. The French influence came by the Norman invasion of England, which formed Middle English (the Normans spoke an old French variant). Modern English was then further influenced by incorporating Latin and Greek during the industrial revolution.
American English is a further derivative of EARLY Modern English influenced heavily by Spanish, Native American, and to a much lesser extent French.
So do you actually know some Etruscan or are you a hypocrite?
Thats not the point. The point is to allow the admin to get an install in place, *grab the needed patches/security fixes*, then enable external mail/apache/bind/whatever. OpenBSD tends towards an "enable as you feel comfortable" policy.
It should be OK for even the police/fbi to do. Police in various cities have parked cars on city streets waiting for a break in. The cars are there as bait for a car thief to take. Once they get in, the police remotely lock the doors, disable the engine, and promptly arrest them for grand theft auto.
This is really just the online equivalent of that.
Entrapment would be a cop notifying you of a system with security flaws, encouraging you to break into it, and then arresting you when you follow his advice.
Honeynets just give the appearance of a parked car with the doors unlocked.
Slashdot Mirror
you mean this?
9 out of 10 girls named Helen politely disagree.
why would I want to use a system that requires you to preprocess your configuration file, and gives you an obfuscated but still legible configuration file as an output? Does the arcane syntax of the .cf file really make it that much faster for sendmail to parse the configuration file?
I understand sendmail is just fine for people who are used to it, I used it for four years and got by with few problems. I also understand why people shy away from sendmail and the attraction to alternative mailers like postfix and qmail. For the past year I've used postfix and feel infinitely more comfortable with its configuration, design philosphy, and inner working than I ever did with sendmail.
Maybe I should spend my time RTFMing and doing online research into sendmail to make myself feel more comfortable with it. Nah, I'd rather just install Postfix and get on with my life.
Hmmm.. maybe they are calculating it the way that the RIAA was calculating the 'number of confiscated burners' a few months back. Fast burners counted as 2 or 3 seperate units.
With SCO, efficient lines of code count as double or triple the infringement because their coders couldn't write the code as cleanly.
no they seem to think that they can agree to the GPL but not be bound to it because it is 'invalid' and is overruled by federal law which prohibits making copies of software.
SCO is double plus ungood!
yes, its called Tendra
FYI, Its not rumor, it was confirmed in the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter.
Cheers,
Yeah no shit, look at the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. The US fucked them over so good with all their "reconstruction" their economies will never be prosperous!!!! Certainly all those former Eastern Bloc nations are just mired, absolutely mired, with zero economic growth and no positive outlook indicators on the horizon for hundreds of years all because of the US stampeding around the world and 'fucking 'em all'. Lets not forget South Korea either. I think I read somewhere where something like 98% of all South Koreans were bitter because what they really wanted was to be annexed by the good and true, pure and kind hearted, North Koreans. Look at the economic situation there! North Korea is a bastion of freedom and individual liberty AND they have managed to keep up a top notch economy, while South Korea is just a cess poll of greed and corruption where 70-80% of the workforce is unemployed and those that do work make something like $3 a month!
I'm going to go out on a limb here. But I think that if we could just get rid of the USA, like some sort of neutron bomb or something, the entire world will once again live in the tranquil peaceful Utopia that existed before 1903.
Yes and no. A Jury CAN basically force the government to drop charges against someone by issuing a not-guilty verdict. The best/worst example of this is OJ Simpson.
The biggest surprise was watching mom & dad use mouse gestures(All In One Gestures). They didn't get it at first, but after turning the mouse trails on(IMHO should enabled by default) they picked up on it immediately and love it. I would have to say that neither are technical people. Dad still prefers a slide rule over any 'new-fangled' calculator. Mom insists that every application she uses (Firebird, Eudora, Snood, Quicken) is called 'Microsoft'.
.iso, or updating a device driver, etc..
:)
I guess all I'm trying to say is, you might be surprised just how intuitive the mouse gestures can be for the idiot masses. The others like Nuke Image or Flash Click to Play I wouldn't attempt to sell on my parents but my friends can and do use them. My friends are more technical than my parents, but they still need hand holding on things like downloading and burning an
Keeping 'customers' happy is a full time job, no?
My best selling point has been the extensions that are easy to integrate into Firebird.
Mouse Gestures
Flash Click to Play
Nuke Image
and of course the pop up blocking.
Then use spybot s&d. I like it a bit better than AdAware and some spyware checks for and disables AdAware.
I have a stack of Model M/Lexmark and a stack of Model M/IBM. The Lexmark variety seem to be quieter(my wife appreciates that) and a bit lighter than the IBM variety.
The Lexmark variety have so far not passed the dishwasher test but seem to be just as shock and damage resistant otherwise.
I'm willing to bet that some libraries will mail and have mailed things like that for disabled or elderly people.
I disagree. kinda.
Snort has had 2(?)remote vulnerabilities in the last year which gave the attacker the same rights as the snort process (which on too many machines runs as root).
Snort listens and processes data from an assumed hostile environment and it is not unreasonable to assume that as applications like snort grow in popularity the more they will be specifically targetted for a) detection/evasion, b) compromise, or c) DoS.
People who are not "Slashdot Savvy" probably won't be able to stay ahead of the game as far as keeping track of the latest rulesets, patches, new releases, etc. and may end up exposing themselves to further risk or having a false sense of security.
In a nutshell, I think of it like this: Snort, *properly configured*, *properly maintained*, while having Snort logs regularly reviewed is a very wonderful tool. Otherwise, its as useful as a virus scanner with out of date definition files; worthless.
On the the flip side, I do encourage people who are interested in network security to install, run, and learn about these tools as much as they can(in restricted environments/configurations). Snort can be a great teacher as a new alert is generated and the curious user looks the alert up in the database and maybe, just maybe, learns something new.
Seems to me like Europe has a bit more to be worried about when it comes to sinking. I think its funny that people say, $x is why the US invaded Iraq, as though there is some one reason that is being kept a secret. Truth is, there were lots of reasons. Not all of them are good reasons, mind you, but the decision wasn't as cut and dry as people suggest (either for or against the war).
don't you mean identd?
identd is a bit past its time since the explosion of unix boxen that are administered by the very same end users. The age of trust(how silly) in the admins who run servers is long over.
Bullshit. English came by way of the people living roughly what is now western Germany and the northeastern part of the Netherlands. The French influence came by the Norman invasion of England, which formed Middle English (the Normans spoke an old French variant). Modern English was then further influenced by incorporating Latin and Greek during the industrial revolution.
American English is a further derivative of EARLY Modern English influenced heavily by Spanish, Native American, and to a much lesser extent French.
So do you actually know some Etruscan or are you a hypocrite?
they are using Rumsfeldian tactics and are now in the "shock and awe" part of the campaign.
How is it illegal?
hmmm maybe you could pose that as an "Ask Slashdot" question?
Thats not the point. The point is to allow the admin to get an install in place, *grab the needed patches/security fixes*, then enable external mail/apache/bind/whatever. OpenBSD tends towards an "enable as you feel comfortable" policy.
Agreed, I've always thought of the XP interface to be acceptable if the machine I was working on was called "Sony's My First PC".
It should be OK for even the police/fbi to do.
Police in various cities have parked cars on city streets waiting for a break in. The cars are there as bait for a car thief to take. Once they get in, the police remotely lock the doors, disable the engine, and promptly arrest them for grand theft auto.
This is really just the online equivalent of that.
Entrapment would be a cop notifying you of a system with security flaws, encouraging you to break into it, and then arresting you when you follow his advice.
Honeynets just give the appearance of a parked car with the doors unlocked.
except of course for those boxes that do packet filtering, NATting, and are stateful. Kinda like this OpenBSD box right here underneath my feet.