It's not about brute force ssh attacks, that's just an example, it could be RDP, or PPTP VPN for all I care, it's about ramming home the point that in a 24 hour period someone was trying to break through weak passwords. 3000 attempts, and that's a slow night.
You're ramming home the point that there is always someone trying to break in to something, doesn't matter if it's a social networking site, the VPN, or the webserver, if you're putting something online, assume it will be attacked and secure it appropriately.
Maybe ask permission to do a live demonstration of a password cracking tool. See how many passwords you can get in 2 minutes. This may be dangerous though, hide the results, just show the usernames, you don't want to find out who is using the CEO's wife's name as a password.
Really get their attention with some specifics like that.
Yeah, thought that the moment I saw it. I think nearly everyone has figured out that holding your arms up to touch the screen for more than a couple of minutes is a no go.
It's going to be a multi-touch screen that replaces your traditional keyboard that makes multi-touch on a PC work.
We're already working with the cognitive disassociation of mouse/tablet operation, so on a laptop, just replace the whole keyboard and trackpad with a touchscreen that changes depending on requirements. Standard display would look just like a keyboard and trackpad, with dead areas where your wrists would normally rest, and would give you standard functionality.
Touch a button located between the trackpad and the keyboard, and all of a sudden the whole area is one big multi-touch track pad.
Problems with this are cost, if the whole are has to be glass, also weight, heat possibly from the lightsource beneath the display, and additional bulk.
And of course this will be doomed to fail, like so many other Apple products, because the slashdot crowd are genetically opposed to any keyboard functionality that doesn't have the same feel and *click* of an IBM Model 101 keyboard.:-p
Yes, we just have to make sure there are always enough developers for the Slackware's, Debian's and Gentoo's to make sure the power side of the OS is kept as powerful as we need it to be.
Especially on large x86_64 SMP hardware, and some on NFS.
If you're uncertain of this, I recommend checking out the change logs for 2.6.19 - 2.6.21.
At least one of the 8 core opteron boxes I maintain hit an interrupt bug and died. 2.6.20.4 fixed a number of my issues, random pauses, and NFS time outs. Haven't tried 2.6.21 yet.
This does actually make some sense. Once you read enough of the article to realise that he's aiming it at people with _no high speed access_.
And for those who say "Why not just have a vending machine?" Would you really stand in front of a vending machine for 20 minutes while you decided what you wanted to rent? And where would you get your popcorn from?
But, at the end of the day, it probably would be a case of just prolonging Blockbusters demise, the cost of high speed access will just keep dropping, but still, how many years realistically til we all have >50Mbit to the home? 10 years? 15? In the mean time we keep making our media files larger. As someone else pointed out, even on current high speed internet, HD media is a long download.
I subscribed last month, played it for a couple of days, didn't like it, and unsubscribed, but the unsubscription only occurs at the end of the month that you paid for upfront.
From what I recall was "How do I setup CUPS on a new PC to print to a CUPS queue that's already setup on another PC?"
Yes, the tools to setup a printer connected directly to your Linux box make it pretty damned simple. But there was no visible way to print to a remote queue.
Now, the answer is, that CUPS can broadcast the queues it has, and any other CUPS server on the network can pick up those broadcasted print queues.
HOWEVER, at the time, the only way to get CUPS to broadcast it's print queues was to go into the config file, and turn on this barely documented feature. And then you had to tell the other servers to listen, using the same method, edit the config file.
The web interface had no facility to turn this sharing on. Recent versions of MacOS X do have an option to share printers or to look for shared printers, so obviously they've taken advantage of this functionality, it wasn't there initially.
Trinity has 2 teaching labs for students.
Each has around 24 PC's in it.
One is Linux, the other is NT.
The NT one is migrating to Linux shortly.
On these, we teach basic computing skills as well
as advanced stuff.
The only complaints we have from students is that
they can't install
crap all over them as easily as they could the NT boxes. What a shame.
We're also deploying a large number of Linux based
web kiosks.
All of our servers bar 3 (accounts database,
security system, old fileserver
on it's way out) run Linux.
Currently, we would have about 130 NT/2000 boxes and about
70 Linux boxes, and about 15 Macs.
Second, we didn't do nothing about this, we did as much as we could, we had rallies, I personally visited my local polititions, and emailed the Idiots in Chief, and got no where.
The Government had made up thier mind, they wanted to use this to buy the vote of a senile independant senator, and trying to get them to change it was about as futile as convincing an American to shutup and listen for a minute.
The bribe didn't work, the senator didn't vote for thier new TAX system, so they snuck it in a different way. Unfortunatly they're going to let this thing drop, they're going to go through with it. But that's alright, we'll just ignore it, or go round it as is our way, and if they try to take us to court over it, we'll prove just how totally unfeasible it is, and they'll be forced to drop it.
Meanwhile, I'll be submitting all.gov.au and religious web sites to ban lists...
Necro-"Make the world a better place today, shoot your local politition and journalist"-Kyle
Sure, no secretary is ever going to be ready to tar -xvf some file, But I've had difficulty finding a secretary who can even find the floppy disk on Windows95. Sure, she can save to disk from Word, but find the file on the disk from outside Word? No way. A secretary on a Macintosh however...
All Microsoft have done is try to make MacOS for the PC, and failed miserably... But damn can they market dog turd like it was chocolate cake..
If the crowd using an Operating System was something to choose an Operating System by, then NT would be the last thing anyone would want to use.
A group of people with thier heads buried in the sand, chanting "Bill will fix it!" while rebooting the companies most critical system 3 times a day, assuming of course they can turn it on, would not be my choice of crowd.
From my experience (only 5 years admittedly) NT admins seem to be happy to have NT, just so they can blame MicroSoft for anything going wrong. Not to mention the number of NT admins who call me up and don't seem to have even the most basic debugging/diagnostic skills.
I'm sorry, but I feel these things should be prime requirements for an administrator of any network, and MicroSoft seems to breed Admins with a serious lack in this area.
They do seem good at sitting on hold for long periods of time and following instructions given over the phone however.
Possibly the lack of NT evangelists is due to them still digging for that thing to evangelise about. I'm sure NT has some good points... Somewhere...
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.adapteva.com/epipha...
64 cores, mesh network that extends off the chip, in production.
Try harder MIT :-p
A: Dismantle Google.
Apple builds OSs that largely get out of your way so you can get work done.
Enterprises like OSs that can be locked down until you can't get any work done.
Polar opposites in agendas really.
It's not about brute force ssh attacks, that's just an example, it could be RDP, or PPTP VPN for all I care, it's about ramming home the point that in a 24 hour period someone was trying to break through weak passwords. 3000 attempts, and that's a slow night.
You're ramming home the point that there is always someone trying to break in to something, doesn't matter if it's a social networking site, the VPN, or the webserver, if you're putting something online, assume it will be attacked and secure it appropriately.
Everyone knows you need a secure password. Now show them the log of the 3k connection attempts to the SSH port that occurred overnight.
Unknown Entries:
authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=125.46.49.199 : 2366 Time(s)
authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=222.73.205.44 user=root : 364 Time(s)
authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=140.116.236.46 user=root : 80 Time(s)
authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=222.73.205.44 : 73 Time(s)
Maybe ask permission to do a live demonstration of a password cracking tool. See how many passwords you can get in 2 minutes. This may be dangerous though, hide the results, just show the usernames, you don't want to find out who is using the CEO's wife's name as a password.
Really get their attention with some specifics like that.
Yup, that looks like it. Very convincing concept art, now someone just needs to build it. :-)
Yeah, thought that the moment I saw it. I think nearly everyone has figured out that holding your arms up to touch the screen for more than a couple of minutes is a no go.
It's going to be a multi-touch screen that replaces your traditional keyboard that makes multi-touch on a PC work.
We're already working with the cognitive disassociation of mouse/tablet operation, so on a laptop, just replace the whole keyboard and trackpad with a touchscreen that changes depending on requirements. Standard display would look just like a keyboard and trackpad, with dead areas where your wrists would normally rest, and would give you standard functionality.
Touch a button located between the trackpad and the keyboard, and all of a sudden the whole area is one big multi-touch track pad.
Problems with this are cost, if the whole are has to be glass, also weight, heat possibly from the lightsource beneath the display, and additional bulk.
And of course this will be doomed to fail, like so many other Apple products, because the slashdot crowd are genetically opposed to any keyboard functionality that doesn't have the same feel and *click* of an IBM Model 101 keyboard. :-p
MOD PARENT UP!
RTFA!
If you want to debate Mr Bright, feel free to jump into the Ars forums any time.
.Net with you. In fact, you can start here :
With some 60,000 posts under his belt, I'm sure you won't find him reticent to discuss the perceived shortcomings of
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6330927813/m/917004181931/p/1
.. your failing business model?
Yes, we just have to make sure there are always enough developers for the Slackware's, Debian's and Gentoo's to make sure the power side of the OS is kept as powerful as we need it to be.
Editors are making up stupid stuff to get their view count up for the month.
Thanks Slashdot, our advertisers all renewed thanks to you!
Greenpeace admits that it's easy to troll the lazy, sensationalist, fact-immune, hypocritical, navel gazing, self righteous, egotistical, ignorant, self serving, ... media.
News at 11.
ping -p 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 www.mpaa.com
Hmm, shame MAC addresses are too short.
Arbitrary URL strings?
The possibilities are endless.
Especially on large x86_64 SMP hardware, and some on NFS.
If you're uncertain of this, I recommend checking out the change logs for 2.6.19 - 2.6.21.
At least one of the 8 core opteron boxes I maintain hit an interrupt bug and died.
2.6.20.4 fixed a number of my issues, random pauses, and NFS time outs. Haven't tried 2.6.21 yet.
This does actually make some sense. Once you read enough of the article to realise that he's aiming it at people with _no high speed access_.
And for those who say "Why not just have a vending machine?" Would you really stand in front of a vending machine for 20 minutes while you decided what you wanted to rent? And where would you get your popcorn from?
But, at the end of the day, it probably would be a case of just prolonging Blockbusters demise, the cost of high speed access will just keep dropping, but still, how many years realistically til we all have >50Mbit to the home? 10 years? 15? In the mean time we keep making our media files larger. As someone else pointed out, even on current high speed internet, HD media is a long download.
Kyle.
I subscribed last month, played it for a couple of days, didn't like it, and unsubscribed, but the unsubscription only occurs at the end of the month that you paid for upfront.
So they only have 99,999 users!
Aren't they just?
From what I recall was "How do I setup CUPS on a new PC to print to a CUPS queue that's already setup on another PC?"
Yes, the tools to setup a printer connected directly to your Linux
box make it pretty damned simple. But there was no visible way to print to a remote queue.
Now, the answer is, that CUPS can broadcast the queues it has, and any other CUPS server on the network can pick up those broadcasted print queues.
HOWEVER, at the time, the only way to get CUPS to broadcast it's print queues was to go into the config file, and turn on this barely documented feature. And then you had to tell the other servers to listen, using the same method, edit the config file.
The web interface had no facility to turn this sharing on. Recent versions of MacOS X do have an option to share printers or to look for shared printers, so obviously they've taken advantage of this functionality, it wasn't there initially.
Trinity has 2 teaching labs for students. Each has around 24 PC's in it.
;-)
One is Linux, the other is NT. The NT one is migrating to Linux shortly.
On these, we teach basic computing skills as well as advanced stuff.
The only complaints we have from students is that they can't install
crap all over them as easily as they could the NT boxes. What a shame.
We're also deploying a large number of Linux based web kiosks.
All of our servers bar 3 (accounts database, security system, old fileserver
on it's way out) run Linux.
Currently, we would have about 130 NT/2000 boxes and about
70 Linux boxes, and about 15 Macs.
We need more Macs..
First up, I am an Aussie.
.gov.au and religious web sites to ban lists...
Second, we didn't do nothing about this, we did as
much as we could, we had rallies, I personally visited my local polititions, and emailed the Idiots in Chief, and got no where.
The Government had made up thier mind, they wanted to use this to buy the vote of a senile independant senator, and trying to get them to change it was about as futile as convincing an American to shutup and listen for a minute.
The bribe didn't work, the senator didn't vote for thier new TAX system, so they snuck it in a different way. Unfortunatly they're going to let this thing drop, they're going to go through with it. But that's alright, we'll just ignore it, or go round it as is our way, and if they try to take
us to court over it, we'll prove just how totally unfeasible it is, and they'll be forced to drop it.
Meanwhile, I'll be submitting all
Necro-"Make the world a better place today, shoot your local politition and journalist"-Kyle
Sure, no secretary is ever going to be ready to
tar -xvf some file, But I've had difficulty finding a secretary who can even find the floppy disk on Windows95. Sure, she can save to disk from Word, but find the file on the disk from outside Word? No way. A secretary on a Macintosh however...
All Microsoft have done is try to make MacOS for the PC, and failed miserably... But damn can they market dog turd like it was chocolate cake..
Oooh! You're so cute when you're mad!
If the crowd using an Operating System was something to choose an Operating System by, then NT would be the last thing anyone would want to use.
A group of people with thier heads buried in the sand, chanting "Bill will fix it!" while rebooting the companies most critical system 3 times a day, assuming of course they can turn it on, would not be my choice of crowd.
From my experience (only 5 years admittedly) NT
admins seem to be happy to have NT, just so they can blame MicroSoft for anything going wrong.
Not to mention the number of NT admins who call me
up and don't seem to have even the most basic debugging/diagnostic skills.
I'm sorry, but I feel these things should be prime
requirements for an administrator of any network, and MicroSoft seems to breed Admins with a serious lack in this area.
They do seem good at sitting on hold for long periods of time and following instructions given over the phone however.
Possibly the lack of NT evangelists is due to them still digging for that thing to evangelise about. I'm sure NT has some good points... Somewhere...
Hmm, I think at around a gig, I may just need
to stick a slightly larger heatsink, or just go
way out and put a fan on a PowerPC CPU..