> The BitKeeper trap would be an excellent way for Bill Gates to kill of the competion from free > software. We just have to hope he doesn't realise this...
Most probably the attacks origined from trojans installed on compromised machines. The trojans would most likely have "irc.dal.net" or whatever hostname they're trying to attack, instead of the IP address. So when the trojan tries to resolve the hostname, they get 127.0.0.1, and thus flooding themselves.
Btw, try this on your own machine $ ping -f localhost
Sure you can try that (good luck!), but when it takes all the computers in the world to run for a few hundred/thousand years to get the result, or when the number of cycles is more than the number of atoms in the universe, it's basically impossible to find the match.
Speaking of samba, i must thank the samba team for releasing such a great product. I was able to sync ALL the accounts on our school network (i'm in high school) which was hosted in a (god forbid;-p!) win2k AD server. Without it i might be trying to hack account syncronization between linux and NT boxes, which would be really a great hassle. So far it has been working great, and has worked flawlessly for about a month.
... to test out the rumored blocked sites when I was in Tian Jin (a city near Beijing) a few weeks ago. Well, there I found a netcafe, and got online for a few hours. Slashdot was definately accesible there, and IIRC google was accessible too. I forgot to get on those sites with "controversal" information, so I'm not sure. I didn't have the feeling that sites were blocked though... But the connection... you could expect it was pretty darn slow;-p
Yea, if somebody invented a simple way to nuke the world with easily aquired tools, by this "free and frank and convenient exchange of knowledge, including knowledge that you don't want people to have", he can (and should) distribute this knowledge without a second thought.
Imagine what the world would become if dangerous knowledge was placed in the hands of you people.
And more importantly, nobody would expect to get anything from that camera at the darkness of night. The current images gives a single color: black. Wouldn't matter (as much) if it was slashdotted now.
in their pages, you know how much you can trust them...
And their "standards"? It's nothing more than those that every competent sysadmin could tell you : close unnecesssary services, some tweaks here and there. The majority of content in that PDF only tells you HOW to disable unnecessary services. It'd be more appropiate to put them in "Security for Redhat Linux in 24 Hours". Scary for them to declare it as a "standard"...
Yes but if you base your source code off a GPL'd codebase, then if you moe the source to the build code, you also have to GPL the build code, thus still releasing the code. If you didn't base your code off a GPL'd codebase, then why bother to GPL anything if you don't want to?
I have devfs and still don't have it. Maybe it's some "Redhatisms" added by Redhat? I have never seen such a directory/socket before. (Maybe it's just me)
FYI, there exist a software called "netcat" which does exactly the same thing(s)
What does this have to do with privacy? I live in HK and have used this Octopus thing for years, and have never even imagined it can be linked with "privacy" (The personal octopus card aside). I don't mind if they extract the information like "Anonymous has taken A train from X to Y".
And "efficiency has higher priority over privacy"? Does it mean we're sacrificing privacy over efficiency? Unless somebody actually robs my wallet and gets the octopus ID from it, nobody knows i'm that "ID123456" person which returns home at 4:00am every night..
I believe Netscape 7 will have all the eye candies you need. Mozilla isn't supposed to "look nice" for end users. Remember Mozilla will probably be knowns as "Netscape", not by it's real name
We should care because when Microsoft gets the browser monopoly, it is sure to exploit that monopoly power to gain even more monopoly in other areas. (web services, MSN integration etc...)
Imagine Sun charges for 5% Then some other 3rd party software vendor charges for 10% Then M$ comes in (for some reason;-) and gets another 10% Sun changes its mind and charges 10% more.
Now tell me what you have after paying taxes.
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There should be sufficient data to find the location where the astronauts landed on the moon. Then just wait for China to get their ship there to see if it's faked.
Besides, it's a matter of time before the moon gets colonized. Tell 'em to look for the flag;-)
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If you're too lazy to read the article and don't know what a blade server is...
Then you don't deserve to know
> The BitKeeper trap would be an excellent way for Bill Gates to kill of the competion from free ...
> software. We just have to hope he doesn't realise this
Let's hope he doesn't read Slashdot.......
Most probably the attacks origined from trojans installed on compromised machines. The trojans would most likely have "irc.dal.net" or whatever hostname they're trying to attack, instead of the IP address. So when the trojan tries to resolve the hostname, they get 127.0.0.1, and thus flooding themselves.
Btw, try this on your own machine
$ ping -f localhost
and see your CPU load increase...
Sure you can try that (good luck!), but when it takes all the computers in the world to run for a few hundred/thousand years to get the result, or when the number of cycles is more than the number of atoms in the universe, it's basically impossible to find the match.
Speaking of samba, i must thank the samba team for releasing such a great product. I was able to sync ALL the accounts on our school network (i'm in high school) which was hosted in a (god forbid ;-p!) win2k AD server. Without it i might be trying to hack account syncronization between linux and NT boxes, which would be really a great hassle. So far it has been working great, and has worked flawlessly for about a month.
;-p
oi oi Samba!
... to test out the rumored blocked sites when I was in Tian Jin (a city near Beijing) a few weeks ago. Well, there I found a netcafe, and got online for a few hours. Slashdot was definately accesible there, and IIRC google was accessible too. I forgot to get on those sites with "controversal" information, so I'm not sure. I didn't have the feeling that sites were blocked though... But the connection... you could expect it was pretty darn slow ;-p
Yea, if somebody invented a simple way to nuke the world with easily aquired tools, by this "free and frank and convenient exchange of knowledge, including knowledge that you don't want people to have", he can (and should) distribute this knowledge without a second thought.
Imagine what the world would become if dangerous knowledge was placed in the hands of you people.
what are you people thinking?
I repeat: One is not prime!!
Prime numbers are numbers that have no other factors than 1 and itself, and the number one is a special case.
(So basically the number "1" can be used to disprove the hypothesis that all numbers are prime)
And more importantly, nobody would expect to get anything from that camera at the darkness of night. The current images gives a single color: black. Wouldn't matter (as much) if it was slashdotted now.
Haven't you heard of physical locks which can give you a hard time breaking open the box and taking out the harddrive?
Imagine!! "Backslashdot"
what? a google cache more important than a girlfriend??? ;-)
The Flashdot Effect.
When you see
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 3.0">
in their pages, you know how much you can trust them...
And their "standards"? It's nothing more than those that every competent sysadmin could tell you : close unnecesssary services, some tweaks here and there. The majority of content in that PDF only tells you HOW to disable unnecessary services. It'd be more appropiate to put them in "Security for Redhat Linux in 24 Hours". Scary for them to declare it as a "standard"...
No, it's not an XOR!
What keeps you from doing both?
Yes but if you base your source code off a GPL'd codebase, then if you moe the source to the build code, you also have to GPL the build code, thus still releasing the code. If you didn't base your code off a GPL'd codebase, then why bother to GPL anything if you don't want to?
Only debian woody has the new packages. Potato doesn't have the packages (yet).
Bash has built in socket access stuff.
I believe all shells can do the thing above given you have the appropriate socket. cat is a external executable, not a built-in bash command.
I have devfs and still don't have it.
Maybe it's some "Redhatisms" added by Redhat?
I have never seen such a directory/socket before. (Maybe it's just me)
FYI, there exist a software called "netcat" which does exactly the same thing(s)
What does this have to do with privacy? I live in HK and have used this Octopus thing for years, and have never even imagined it can be linked with "privacy" (The personal octopus card aside). I don't mind if they extract the information like "Anonymous has taken A train from X to Y".
And "efficiency has higher priority over privacy"? Does it mean we're sacrificing privacy over efficiency? Unless somebody actually robs my wallet and gets the octopus ID from it, nobody knows i'm that "ID123456" person which returns home at 4:00am every night..
I believe Netscape 7 will have all the eye candies you need. Mozilla isn't supposed to "look nice" for end users. Remember Mozilla will probably be knowns as "Netscape", not by it's real name
You mean like using a 5-inch thick steel case, or do you mean just removing all the network options in the kernel??
We should care because when Microsoft gets the browser monopoly, it is sure to exploit that monopoly power to gain even more monopoly in other areas. (web services, MSN integration etc...)
Imagine Sun charges for 5% ;-) and gets another 10%
Then some other 3rd party software vendor charges for 10%
Then M$ comes in (for some reason
Sun changes its mind and charges 10% more.
Now tell me what you have after paying taxes.
There should be sufficient data to find the location where the astronauts landed on the moon. Then just wait for China to get their ship there to see if it's faked.
;-)
Besides, it's a matter of time before the moon gets colonized. Tell 'em to look for the flag