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Is UNIX An OS?
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Language is the first casualty. If you market a product class X and call it product class Y for long enough and you are really good at it, you can then claim X as the definitive Y.
Toshiba provide a image recovery CD for their laptops. My daughter has had her laptopped wiped four times to fix Win/HW problems by the techs. Of course she should have backed up her work on the Samba share I set up for her...
The OSKit is a framework and a set of 31 component libraries oriented to operating systems, together with extensive documentation. By providing in a modular way not only most of the infrastructure "grunge" needed by an OS, but also many higher-level components, the OSKit's goal is to lower the barrier to entry to OS R&D and to lower its costs. The OSKit makes it vastly easier to create a new OS, port an existing OS to the x86 (or in the future, to other architectures supported by the OSkit), or enhance an OS to support a wider range of devices, file system formats, executable formats, or network services. The OSKit also works well for constructing OS-related programs, such as boot loaders or OS-level servers atop a microkernel.
I haven't used it so I cannot comment personally on its usefulness, but there does seem to be some interesting projects using it.
Canada and Australia, who hardly count as major players in WWII, had more troops combined in WWII than the US ever did, and for much longer
WTF are you smoking? Canada and Australia couldn't field that many troops today. The US put out 16 million soldiers. For the present day Australia and Canada to do that would require them to enlist a third of their population.
In Australia's case in WWI, that was about right.
It really pisses me off that every time the US gets knocked by a Pom in ANY dicussion forum on the Internet, there is always some idiot from the US who blathers on about "saving the British Asses" in both WWs. Sheesh. The US were dragged kicking and screaming into these wars, the Commonwealth countries kicked in from the start.
Telstra wants to be part of the "eRevolution" and decided to drop the.au off of telstra.com.au (or bigpond.com.au) and wants everyone to ignore the fact that its Australian. telstra.com? Bleh.
Breakage, theft, vandalism. A lot of students in my experience don't care how much something costs. They have very little respect for property. Unfortunately, I was one of them until I got to my last two years of High School. Lucky they didn't have computers at school then. Bring back mark sense cards and they have to buy their own cards and pencils out of stationery. My children have only had one teacher who knew enough about computers that I would trust to give them advice. What they know about computers, they learnt at home (except MS Office). The next most competent teachers were able to show them how to use Microsoft Office. They had no clue how to do anything that was not in the realm that they were taught because that never grasped a true model of hnow a computer and a network operated. That's it. Computers at school are a waste of time in my city which has the highest per capita home-computer and Internet access in the Country. There are some Colleges where there used to be teachers passionate about teaching how computers really work. Very rare to find that now. Ignorance can be fixed with an enlightened teacher and an open-minded student. Without teachers having a proper model of how computers and networks work, there is no hope at all of educating anyone about computers. The benefit to the school of a laptop only occurs if the student/parent owns it. Otherwise common property becomes the responsibility of noone. Tough if the student/parent can't afford one. A "cheap" light, portable with an efficient input method and a low-cost finance plan subsidised by the school "sponsor" (state or private) would be a better allocation of funds if people really wanted computers for students. Still wasted if there is no teachers who can teach.
And analyses like this still don't get read by wannabe Crypto-millionaires. Checkout Ciphile for the latest in unsubstantiated claims and mixed-up terms. There is an eerie similarity in the misuse of OTP and faith in the product's PRNG.
With a password policy like that, I have to ask: has your network been broken into lately? Do you work for a government contractor or something else that deals with sensitive data, like a bank? Otherwise, in normal, day-to-day use, this sounds like overkill. If the admin is that worried about passwords, get a strong firewall product to protect your network from the external world, so that you can lift some of the password restrictions for local users.
I don't understand this response. The user's LAN should not be open to the Internet. accounts/passwods have existed in organisations for years before most orgs decided to connect to the Internet.
If there are segmented functions in an organisation and there are resources that can be used by some segments and not others, then you should think twice before relaxing your password regime. Even more so if you can't guarantee the physical security of your desktops at all times of the day.
My experience with a lot of MCSEs with no other OS experience has been the same. To call them "Engineers" is a bit of a joke. It should be called MCSO for "Operator".
In Australia, where Stallion is based, ISDN is avaliable at userous prices for small businesses, despite what the unbelievably ignorant Richard Alston said when he came to office. DSL is being trialled by Telstra but they are never in a hurry to deploy as there is no *real* competition at the local call, local copper wire. I use a permanent modem connection and in fact, Telstra's IAP arm - Big Pond Direct - offers permanent modem (to 56k) as an option. PSTN dial lines are therefore often the only real option for a lot of businesses.
Senator Kate Lundy, LABOR, was highly critical of the Net Censorship Legislation. If she was in my Senate seat I would vote for her.
Bozo Alston continually made lame remarks about her stand long after the legislation was passed.
The annoying thing is the Liberal/NP Coalition had no real policy on any of these things before the election. All they had was a plan for selling off the Telstra monopoly and ensuring it stayed that way.
I just spent two comatose hours yesterday, after I was invited by the "NT Security" team to listen to a presentation on Microsoft Site Server. With VB, ASP and Front Page, a very large pressure built up inside this organisation to deploy NT, IIS and SQL-Server accross the Web server landscape. Classic Quote by the Microsoftie "Site Server can deploy content to Unix Web servers as well. We *still* have some customers in this situation". The implication being that they will run Unix until we get these tools deployed properly and it will become a natural choice to replace the old technology with brand "New Technology". Don't underestimate the power of the MS desktop on the Intranet perverting the Internet in its own image.
At my current contract they reboot all their NT IIS servers in the morning and have remote monitors that run periodically that reboot the server when the page fetch fails. Beats fixing the problem I guess;)
> The belief that OpenBSD or FreeBSD is more secure than Linux is total bullshit. Here's some anecdotal evidence about the level of security available from an out-of-the-box OpenBSD. http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/open bsd.html
I'm not a *BSD user but I think one can't ignore the auditing that has gone into the OS.
we have killed off (the tasmanian wolf comes to mind). It makes you wonder about the Star Trek movie where they have to go back in time for the whales... heheh they could've just cloned one:-)
Actually it was the Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus sp) we killed off. I'm sure I've read mumblings about reconstructing them from mummified remains from the mainland or perhaps Tasmanian Tigers that had spent time with a taxidermist.
Of course there are numerous "sightings" of these creatures every year. Even more than Elvis I bet.
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Language is the first casualty. If you market a product class X and call it product class Y for long enough and you are really good at it, you can then claim X as the definitive Y.
Fact is Fiction and TV Reality...
Toshiba provide a image recovery CD for their laptops. My daughter has had her laptopped wiped four times to fix Win/HW problems by the techs. Of course she should have backed up her work on the Samba share I set up for her...
You might want to check out. http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/
From the home page:-
The OSKit is a framework and a set of 31 component libraries oriented to operating systems, together with extensive documentation. By providing in a modular way not only most of the infrastructure "grunge" needed by an OS, but also many higher-level components, the OSKit's goal is to lower the barrier to entry to OS R&D and to lower its costs. The OSKit makes it vastly easier to create a new OS, port an existing OS to the x86 (or in the future, to other architectures supported by the OSkit), or enhance an OS to support a wider range of devices, file system formats, executable formats, or network services. The OSKit also works well for constructing OS-related programs, such as boot loaders or OS-level servers atop a microkernel.
I haven't used it so I cannot comment personally on its usefulness, but there does seem to be some interesting projects using it.
In Australia's case in WWI, that was about right.
It really pisses me off that every time the US gets knocked by a Pom in ANY dicussion forum on the Internet, there is always some idiot from the US who blathers on about "saving the British Asses" in both WWs. Sheesh. The US were dragged kicking and screaming into these wars, the Commonwealth countries kicked in from the start.
Telstra wants to be part of the "eRevolution" and decided to drop the .au off of telstra.com.au (or bigpond.com.au) and wants everyone to ignore the fact that its Australian. telstra.com? Bleh.
Breakage, theft, vandalism. A lot of students in my experience don't care how much something costs. They have very little respect for property. Unfortunately, I was one of them until I got to my last two years of High School.
Lucky they didn't have computers at school then. Bring back mark sense cards and they have to buy their own cards and pencils out of stationery.
My children have only had one teacher who knew enough about computers that I would trust to give them advice. What they know about computers, they learnt at home (except MS Office).
The next most competent teachers were able to show them how to use Microsoft Office. They had no clue how to do anything that was not in the realm that they were taught because that never grasped a true model of hnow a computer and a network operated.
That's it.
Computers at school are a waste of time in my city which has the highest per capita home-computer and Internet access in the Country.
There are some Colleges where there used to be teachers passionate about teaching how computers really work. Very rare to find that now.
Ignorance can be fixed with an enlightened teacher and an open-minded student. Without teachers having a proper model of how computers and networks work, there is no hope at all of educating anyone about computers.
The benefit to the school of a laptop only occurs if the student/parent owns it. Otherwise common property becomes the responsibility of noone.
Tough if the student/parent can't afford one. A "cheap" light, portable with an efficient input method and a low-cost finance plan subsidised by the school "sponsor" (state or private) would be a better allocation of funds if people really wanted computers for students. Still wasted if there is no teachers who can teach.
There are always going to be small things which can get through Like 60,000 bugs
And analyses like this still don't get read by wannabe Crypto-millionaires. Checkout Ciphile for the latest in unsubstantiated claims and mixed-up terms. There is an eerie similarity in the misuse of OTP and faith in the product's PRNG.
a bank? Otherwise, in normal, day-to-day use, this sounds like overkill. If the admin is that worried about passwords, get a strong firewall product to protect your network from the
external world, so that you can lift some of the password restrictions for local users.
I don't understand this response. The user's LAN should not be open to the Internet. accounts/passwods have existed in organisations for years before most orgs decided to connect to the Internet.
If there are segmented functions in an organisation and there are resources that can be used by some segments and not others, then you should think twice before relaxing your password regime. Even more so if you can't guarantee the physical security of your desktops at all times of the day.
AFAIK
Informix was the first of the big RDBMS vendors to port to linux. I think the quote was "We just typed make"
My experience with a lot of MCSEs with no other OS experience has been the same.
To call them "Engineers" is a bit of a joke. It should be called MCSO for "Operator".
In Australia, where Stallion is based, ISDN is avaliable at userous prices for small businesses, despite what the unbelievably ignorant Richard Alston said when he came to office.
DSL is being trialled by Telstra but they are never in a hurry to deploy as there is no *real* competition at the local call, local copper wire.
I use a permanent modem connection and in fact, Telstra's IAP arm - Big Pond Direct - offers permanent modem (to 56k) as an option.
PSTN dial lines are therefore often the only real option for a lot of businesses.
Real human beings don't look like that That's how you can pick them as mutants :)
Pick any date line. Next one around here is the Western Australian Border :)
I heard the rumblings of fireworks 20kms away, I guess it must be January
And in golfing circles, a hacker is someone who aerates the fairways with his iron, cuts his ball to ribbons and scores in triple digits.
Senator Kate Lundy, LABOR, was highly critical of the Net Censorship Legislation. If she was in my Senate seat I would vote for her.
Bozo Alston continually made lame remarks about her stand long after the legislation was passed.
The annoying thing is the Liberal/NP Coalition had no real policy on any of these things before the election. All they had was a plan for selling off the Telstra monopoly and ensuring it stayed that way.
I just spent two comatose hours yesterday, after I was invited by the "NT Security" team to listen to a presentation on Microsoft Site Server.
With VB, ASP and Front Page, a very large pressure built up inside this organisation to deploy NT, IIS and SQL-Server accross the Web server landscape.
Classic Quote by the Microsoftie "Site Server can deploy content to Unix Web servers as well. We *still* have some customers in this situation". The implication being that they will run Unix until we get these tools deployed properly and it will become a natural choice to replace the old technology with brand "New Technology".
Don't underestimate the power of the MS desktop on the Intranet perverting the Internet in its own image.
At my current contract they reboot all their NT IIS servers in the morning and have remote monitors that run periodically that reboot the server when the page fetch fails. ;)
Beats fixing the problem I guess
IIRC, Netscape Enterprise Server also runs on NT. I think you are jumping to the Islands of Conclusion there.
> The belief that OpenBSD or FreeBSD is more secure than Linux is total bullshit. Here's some anecdotal evidence about the level of security available from an out-of-the-box OpenBSD. http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/open bsd.html
I'm not a *BSD user but I think one can't ignore the auditing that has gone into the OS.
we have killed off (the tasmanian wolf comes to mind). It makes you wonder about the Star Trek movie :-)
where they have to go back in time for the whales... heheh they could've just cloned one
Actually it was the Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus sp) we killed off. I'm sure I've read mumblings about reconstructing them from mummified remains from the mainland or perhaps Tasmanian Tigers that had spent time with a taxidermist.
Of course there are numerous "sightings" of these creatures every year. Even more than Elvis I bet.
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"NT PIONEERING fine-grained kernel locks", give me a break!
DG/UX implemented this in the late '80s.
Some hard core mudders over the years would have pushed limits of endurance. The only limit to the open time is mud reboots.