I have never used Avast or any free AV except AVG. My work moved away from Norton Corporate to Norman. As soon as Norman was scanning PCs, literally hundreds (if not thousands) of infected files were found and removed, including some Netsky and other popular virus strains. Norman also has a definition set that can optionally include "Aggressive Commercials" which are not technically viruses, they are are annoying and its nice to get them removed too. Norman is not perfect, I highly doubt there is a single AV product that does on-demand and on-access scanning both extremely well but Norton was really sucky. On my family computers Free AVG works great.
Complaining about the number of BSD variants there are you should just worry about what you are actually concerned with. Do you care about how many car companies there are? Do you care about how many soft drink companies there are? In any case, most times it is BETTER to have MORE choices, not less. Besides you completely misunderstand the situation and have no idea what problem they are actually facing.
They are not having problems for hosting the code. Most servers are mirrors hosted by others and not paid by OpenBSD. The primary OpenBSD site is on U of Alberta in Canada and I believe don't pay for it there either.
The project will not fork itself. If an outside individual or organization wants to fork it, they are free to.
Changing the license to a less free license will not happen. Ever.
Having too many BSD variants is not really at issue or an issue at all. OpenBSD is NOT competing with anything. The developers make OpenBSD because it is what they want to do. They are not a commercial company trying to make money and are therefore not trying to beat the competition. The others are actually more beneficial being around than not becuse of borrowed code and ideas.
As for people begging for funding, that is already happening. You just commented an article doing just that. They also plainly state that if you want to donate money it has to be "no strings attached". You are not allowed to dictate what the money is to be used for. If you don't agree to that term, you might as well as not donate.
What they need help with is funding to continue developing the OS and subsequent projects. The funding goes towards paying for the electricity to keep the servers in TdR's house on and cooled. These servers are for development. The funding also pays for developers to work and to meet up at their "hack-a-thons" which generates huge amounts of new code for the project, including for OpenSSH.
I have used OpenBSD for over 5 years and I donate money and buy CDs as much as possible. BTW, people just buying their CDs is their primary source of income for the project.
Please donate or buy CDs!
I often times send back applications filled out (incorrectly) but that are for other CC companies. Keep them guessing. I will usually put ketchup/hot sauce/soy sauce packets in the envelopes or boot disks for BSD and Linux. Occasionally I will put in used napkins and random other stuff I find that might be interesting. Possibly a letter stating I want 20 gallons of cottage cheese left in the middle of the street in front of their office. Just random goofy shit.
Years ago I used to open mail and do data entry on these types of bulk forms (never for a CC company). I know what fun it is to open an envelope and find something completely off the wall inside. I look at this as a little fun for the lowly, bored, enevelope openers getting a smidge more than minimum wage. Spruce up their day, its fun.
Indeed. I have never used either iTunes or iPods before and I don't plan to unless someone happens to give me an iPod for some reason. I have nothing against either, just have no need to get either. I have an iriver that I bought off ebay a couple of years ago, it works great and does what I want it to do. I don't know what the full functionality of iTunes is, but my linux iriver gui works just fine for me.
If you have important files you are worried about losing you should have backups, especially if you are a large company.
Norton sucks pretty badly too. We just switched from Norton corp. to Norman AV and it caught TONS of shit Norton had not caught, including some Klez variants. Also, Norman has filters for what they call "aggressive commercials" which is also quite nice.
Raise your hand if you think the USA PATRIOT ACT is patriotic (for those that live in the USA). I sure don't think it is. Controlling language comes close to controlling individuals. Just look at religion. With out incessant repitition of what is "truth" since childhood most people would never have bought into almost any religion. Yes, there are exceptions to every rule of course. As it applies to this, well if you give something a nice and good and SAFE sounding name and only talk about all of the wonderful things it will bring, then anyone who actually analyzes your "something" and finds and wants to address the flaws or cons can is labeled evil, or a social enemny, or a loon, or a conspiracy nut, etc. Why is that person bashing the PATRIOT ACT?!?! They must be UNpatriotic!!!
So I agree on the principle that continuing to misguide people by using their given names of disguise is wrong. Maybe we should not even have special names for laws and they should all just be called Statute XYZ or generic names/terms that will help prevent bias from an uninformed people.
Just think about how bad the real Optimus Prime must feel now. You can also find this guy on Wikipedia now too. From the link:
He legally changed his name on his 30th birthday and now it's on everything from his driver's license, to his military ID, to his uniform.
"They razzed me for three months to no end," said Prime. "They really dug into me about it."
This guy has got balls. Plus think about how futile his enemies must feel knowing they are about to take on one tough truck!
Start > Run > msconfig > Startup tab > uncheck any suspicious looking program name. Especially those with names similar to known legit windows process but with a typo. Example: "svchosts" = legit, while "svhosts" = malware.
Anywho, a re-install is probably the best, then install all of your standard programs and get all of the latest updates and service packs. Finally use something like Norton Ghost to create a pristine backup of the OS to restore when then inevitable 6 months marker roles around and they can't stop the popups for "meeting single women in your area" from constantly popping up.
Bummer. I do that regularly without issue except I usually add some more switches like "emerge -vtDua world" but that is not good for automating because it prompts you to start the update but also gives you a chance to see what is going to be updated first.
If you have a really old install and have not done a 'emerge -Du world' then I could see you running into problems. I had problems because I had installed Gentoo about 4 or 5 years ago and was not using the "-D" option for a while which updates libraries and dependencies of the installed programs and the first time I did that I had tons of problems. Now I am comfortable and familiar and have no issues and it is still the same installation from 4 or 5 years ago.
What happens when a normal company's business model no longer works due to new technology or social/economical changes? You adapt or go under. What happens when a massively powerful organization's business model starts to fail like the RIAA or MPAA (or whatever else their respective counterparts in other countries are called)? They sue the pants off as many people as it takes to stop the change. Well not only are they hindering the advancement of technology they are attacking their customer base. Remember what happened to Napster - they turned "legal" and started offering a pay-per service. That is called adaption, it is what makes companies stand out from the rest. Maybe this specific proposal going on in France is not the most ideal method to go about but it, but that is not why there is opposition to it. They are opposing it because it will remove power and influence and force these companies to adapt, or more hopefully go away. They are against the fundamental principals not the methods.
As for the argument of the artists losing money, etc. Well guess what, you're in the same boat. Adapt or learn a new skill. The internet is NOT going away any time soon and the entire purpose of the internet is to SHARE IDEAS. Guess what, your artwork is just an idea. If people want to share your idea with others then you should be glad, you are appreciated.
I don't mean to sound cruel as I am not NOT giving the bird to anyone who complains. I understand some people are losing money but it is not the fault of P2P. It is the people who are not paying for the product/service when they should be. If by some miracle P2P becomes extraordinarily unusable legally or technically, something else more grandios will emerge. Sharing stuff on the internet will never stop. Get used to it.
Because an Ion drive will only get you 6 parsecs per round whereas the secret anti-matter drive will get you 8 parsecs per round and the ultra secret hyper drive will do 9 parsecs per round. Now couple that with the thorium fuel cells the craft can be an unlimited number of parsecs away from the nearest self/ally owned colony. If only the Darloks would stop stealing my advanced Psilon technology.
Ok, maybe nobody else thinks MOO1 was the greatest 4X but I do. Sorry, every time I read about ion drives I always think of MOO.
What about when the vulnerability "wrecks the host"? So to follow the anology, if a woman was 10 mins from death due to breast cancer, and some company miracously released a cure 5 mins ago, excepting transportation time, would you not let the poor woman have the cure right away even though it has not passed FDA scrutiny yet and been approved?
This happens in real life where people take experimental drugs.
So maybe my addition to the anology is a little extreme but the principal is the same as in real life. Microsoft should maybe release a beta/alpha patch that at least fixes the problem but makes no guarantees the patch will not also erase all of your.exe fils or remove the fizz from your pop or whatever else they're liable to get sued for.
Sounds like a contradiction in your opinion. You are against a government exerting power over how businesses are run but you think the EU should ban MS from the EU so that EU businesses can no longer operate, just to teach MS a lesson. Sounds like they would be exerting pleanty of power over its own businesses.
My own take on it is MS is extraordinarily aggressive. That in and of itself is ok, legally. The problems, from a legal standpoint, is that MS crosses the line occasionally. Now the real problem for governments is determining which lines are actually being crossed and how far they have been crossed. **IANAL**
Its like the saying (maybe cliche?) that technology moves too fast for the legal system to keep up.
You can disable TCP forwarding if you want You have to manually enable tunneling as it appears it is not on by default
A brute force attack is no more feasible than it was before. Don't use password auth (or use good passwords) and you should be just fine. Also, if you have SSH access to an SSH server, you can likely already then access most devices that the SSH server can access already.
I would trust an OpenSSH based VPN more than OpenVPN for a million reasons - or for however many lines of code OpenSSH actually is. Nothing against OpenVPN (I have never used it) but I just trust the OpenBSD folks a lot more than most when it comes to my security.
It is assumed they trust you because they continued to pay you for you doing your job up to that point so far. Sure it might be nice for a vacation but hey, you put your two week notice in because you found something better for yourself not because you hate your current employer and wish great harm to them. Let's show a little compassion and say goodbye politely to departing employees who we trust and will miss.
I know it's their systems and they can do whatever they want.
Yeah, you'd never hear misinformation on Fox, or really any other main stream media company. The problem with Fox, and those like Fox, are they are so over bearing and influential (politically and with the masses) that they turn fiction into fact thru repition and ignorance. When you are debating an issue with an avid Fox follower, it is really hard to discuss the actual issues because Fox has converted its army of watchers into straw men extraordinaire. You just give up debating with these people for that reason and they take it to mean they are right and you are an idiot.
How this relates to this guy, well... if he has a problem with what people are saying he should try and do something productive about it. Wikipedia allows you to modify entries. He is free to correct the problem. He is also free to discuss any inaccuracies, but I don't think there is any malice behind Wikipedia. Bitching and crying is not likely to be too productive in clearing his (dirty?) name. Just stick to the real facts and if he is concerned about his name then he should start his own blog or something to disseminate his own personal story on the subjects invovled.
Not likely. Maybe you don't but a lot of people who are collocating in a data center have contracts so their monthly payments are at a fixed rate.
That being said I am sure most contracts have a little back door / fine print type clause that can be used to jack up prices if something absolutely dire happens, not that I can actually think of something applicable but hey, it could happen.
One problem with not having people strongly committed to their beliefs is we end up with complacancy and a mediocre result. Just "getting it done" is not something that should be settled for. If there were not people that thought the way the major corporations are going to do it is not the best way or even in the right directions then there is no devil's advocate or people willing question or investiage certain decisions or motives and you end up with something like Fox News and millions of people thinking that Fox News is good enough.
So call them zealots or call them nutcases, I think they are needed. I don't call people like that nut cases, I call them opnionated. If they have worked to be in a position of power or influence then good for them and good for us I think.
Now, I am not saying what these opinionated people think is the best way either but we don't have any other feasible means to counter balance against big corporate investors who are mostly looking out for their big corporate sponsors. Besides... IBM, Adobe, etc did not create a lot of the software, they have only added to what exists; they are joining the party, not hosting it.
Slashdot Mirror
I have never used Avast or any free AV except AVG. My work moved away from Norton Corporate to Norman. As soon as Norman was scanning PCs, literally hundreds (if not thousands) of infected files were found and removed, including some Netsky and other popular virus strains. Norman also has a definition set that can optionally include "Aggressive Commercials" which are not technically viruses, they are are annoying and its nice to get them removed too. Norman is not perfect, I highly doubt there is a single AV product that does on-demand and on-access scanning both extremely well but Norton was really sucky. On my family computers Free AVG works great.
Ummm, hello
Apparently you missed this article earlier today.
What they need help with is funding to continue developing the OS and subsequent projects. The funding goes towards paying for the electricity to keep the servers in TdR's house on and cooled. These servers are for development. The funding also pays for developers to work and to meet up at their "hack-a-thons" which generates huge amounts of new code for the project, including for OpenSSH.
I have used OpenBSD for over 5 years and I donate money and buy CDs as much as possible. BTW, people just buying their CDs is their primary source of income for the project.
Please donate or buy CDs!
I often times send back applications filled out (incorrectly) but that are for other CC companies. Keep them guessing. I will usually put ketchup/hot sauce/soy sauce packets in the envelopes or boot disks for BSD and Linux. Occasionally I will put in used napkins and random other stuff I find that might be interesting. Possibly a letter stating I want 20 gallons of cottage cheese left in the middle of the street in front of their office. Just random goofy shit.
Years ago I used to open mail and do data entry on these types of bulk forms (never for a CC company). I know what fun it is to open an envelope and find something completely off the wall inside. I look at this as a little fun for the lowly, bored, enevelope openers getting a smidge more than minimum wage. Spruce up their day, its fun.
We are not lazy. We are drunk and have guns and shit
Indeed. I have never used either iTunes or iPods before and I don't plan to unless someone happens to give me an iPod for some reason. I have nothing against either, just have no need to get either. I have an iriver that I bought off ebay a couple of years ago, it works great and does what I want it to do. I don't know what the full functionality of iTunes is, but my linux iriver gui works just fine for me.
If you have important files you are worried about losing you should have backups, especially if you are a large company.
Norton sucks pretty badly too. We just switched from Norton corp. to Norman AV and it caught TONS of shit Norton had not caught, including some Klez variants. Also, Norman has filters for what they call "aggressive commercials" which is also quite nice.
Nobody is perfect though of course.
Amen.
Raise your hand if you think the USA PATRIOT ACT is patriotic (for those that live in the USA). I sure don't think it is. Controlling language comes close to controlling individuals. Just look at religion. With out incessant repitition of what is "truth" since childhood most people would never have bought into almost any religion. Yes, there are exceptions to every rule of course. As it applies to this, well if you give something a nice and good and SAFE sounding name and only talk about all of the wonderful things it will bring, then anyone who actually analyzes your "something" and finds and wants to address the flaws or cons can is labeled evil, or a social enemny, or a loon, or a conspiracy nut, etc. Why is that person bashing the PATRIOT ACT?!?! They must be UNpatriotic!!!
So I agree on the principle that continuing to misguide people by using their given names of disguise is wrong. Maybe we should not even have special names for laws and they should all just be called Statute XYZ or generic names/terms that will help prevent bias from an uninformed people.
He legally changed his name on his 30th birthday and now it's on everything from his driver's license, to his military ID, to his uniform. "They razzed me for three months to no end," said Prime. "They really dug into me about it."
This guy has got balls. Plus think about how futile his enemies must feel knowing they are about to take on one tough truck!
Start > Run > msconfig > Startup tab > uncheck any suspicious looking program name. Especially those with names similar to known legit windows process but with a typo. Example: "svchosts" = legit, while "svhosts" = malware.
Anywho, a re-install is probably the best, then install all of your standard programs and get all of the latest updates and service packs. Finally use something like Norton Ghost to create a pristine backup of the OS to restore when then inevitable 6 months marker roles around and they can't stop the popups for "meeting single women in your area" from constantly popping up.
Bummer. I do that regularly without issue except I usually add some more switches like "emerge -vtDua world" but that is not good for automating because it prompts you to start the update but also gives you a chance to see what is going to be updated first.
If you have a really old install and have not done a 'emerge -Du world' then I could see you running into problems. I had problems because I had installed Gentoo about 4 or 5 years ago and was not using the "-D" option for a while which updates libraries and dependencies of the installed programs and the first time I did that I had tons of problems. Now I am comfortable and familiar and have no issues and it is still the same installation from 4 or 5 years ago.
Apparently that is not going to happen, according to an ActiveState employee post on Slashdot.
chapter 2:
emerge sync; emerge -uD world
What happens when a normal company's business model no longer works due to new technology or social/economical changes? You adapt or go under. What happens when a massively powerful organization's business model starts to fail like the RIAA or MPAA (or whatever else their respective counterparts in other countries are called)? They sue the pants off as many people as it takes to stop the change. Well not only are they hindering the advancement of technology they are attacking their customer base. Remember what happened to Napster - they turned "legal" and started offering a pay-per service. That is called adaption, it is what makes companies stand out from the rest. Maybe this specific proposal going on in France is not the most ideal method to go about but it, but that is not why there is opposition to it. They are opposing it because it will remove power and influence and force these companies to adapt, or more hopefully go away. They are against the fundamental principals not the methods.
As for the argument of the artists losing money, etc. Well guess what, you're in the same boat. Adapt or learn a new skill. The internet is NOT going away any time soon and the entire purpose of the internet is to SHARE IDEAS. Guess what, your artwork is just an idea. If people want to share your idea with others then you should be glad, you are appreciated.
I don't mean to sound cruel as I am not NOT giving the bird to anyone who complains. I understand some people are losing money but it is not the fault of P2P. It is the people who are not paying for the product/service when they should be. If by some miracle P2P becomes extraordinarily unusable legally or technically, something else more grandios will emerge. Sharing stuff on the internet will never stop. Get used to it.
Because an Ion drive will only get you 6 parsecs per round whereas the secret anti-matter drive will get you 8 parsecs per round and the ultra secret hyper drive will do 9 parsecs per round. Now couple that with the thorium fuel cells the craft can be an unlimited number of parsecs away from the nearest self/ally owned colony. If only the Darloks would stop stealing my advanced Psilon technology.
Ok, maybe nobody else thinks MOO1 was the greatest 4X but I do.
Sorry, every time I read about ion drives I always think of MOO.
What about when the vulnerability "wrecks the host"? So to follow the anology, if a woman was 10 mins from death due to breast cancer, and some company miracously released a cure 5 mins ago, excepting transportation time, would you not let the poor woman have the cure right away even though it has not passed FDA scrutiny yet and been approved?
.exe fils or remove the fizz from your pop or whatever else they're liable to get sued for.
This happens in real life where people take experimental drugs.
So maybe my addition to the anology is a little extreme but the principal is the same as in real life. Microsoft should maybe release a beta/alpha patch that at least fixes the problem but makes no guarantees the patch will not also erase all of your
A gate provides real security
Sounds like a contradiction in your opinion. You are against a government exerting power over how businesses are run but you think the EU should ban MS from the EU so that EU businesses can no longer operate, just to teach MS a lesson. Sounds like they would be exerting pleanty of power over its own businesses.
My own take on it is MS is extraordinarily aggressive. That in and of itself is ok, legally. The problems, from a legal standpoint, is that MS crosses the line occasionally. Now the real problem for governments is determining which lines are actually being crossed and how far they have been crossed. **IANAL**
Its like the saying (maybe cliche?) that technology moves too fast for the legal system to keep up.
These are 2 options in the sshd_conf file
#AllowTcpForwarding yes
#PermitTunnel no
You can disable TCP forwarding if you want
You have to manually enable tunneling as it appears it is not on by default
A brute force attack is no more feasible than it was before. Don't use password auth (or use good passwords) and you should be just fine.
Also, if you have SSH access to an SSH server, you can likely already then access most devices that the SSH server can access already.
I would trust an OpenSSH based VPN more than OpenVPN for a million reasons - or for however many lines of code OpenSSH actually is. Nothing against OpenVPN (I have never used it) but I just trust the OpenBSD folks a lot more than most when it comes to my security.
Just my $.02
So what does that make the Joker from the Batman movie? 100% happy? What if he got kicked in the nuts, I doubt he'd be even 10% happy then.
It is assumed they trust you because they continued to pay you for you doing your job up to that point so far. Sure it might be nice for a vacation but hey, you put your two week notice in because you found something better for yourself not because you hate your current employer and wish great harm to them. Let's show a little compassion and say goodbye politely to departing employees who we trust and will miss.
I know it's their systems and they can do whatever they want.
How this relates to this guy, well... if he has a problem with what people are saying he should try and do something productive about it. Wikipedia allows you to modify entries. He is free to correct the problem. He is also free to discuss any inaccuracies, but I don't think there is any malice behind Wikipedia. Bitching and crying is not likely to be too productive in clearing his (dirty?) name. Just stick to the real facts and if he is concerned about his name then he should start his own blog or something to disseminate his own personal story on the subjects invovled.
Not likely. Maybe you don't but a lot of people who are collocating in a data center have contracts so their monthly payments are at a fixed rate.
That being said I am sure most contracts have a little back door / fine print type clause that can be used to jack up prices if something absolutely dire happens, not that I can actually think of something applicable but hey, it could happen.
One problem with not having people strongly committed to their beliefs is we end up with complacancy and a mediocre result. Just "getting it done" is not something that should be settled for. If there were not people that thought the way the major corporations are going to do it is not the best way or even in the right directions then there is no devil's advocate or people willing question or investiage certain decisions or motives and you end up with something like Fox News and millions of people thinking that Fox News is good enough.
So call them zealots or call them nutcases, I think they are needed. I don't call people like that nut cases, I call them opnionated. If they have worked to be in a position of power or influence then good for them and good for us I think.
Now, I am not saying what these opinionated people think is the best way either but we don't have any other feasible means to counter balance against big corporate investors who are mostly looking out for their big corporate sponsors. Besides... IBM, Adobe, etc did not create a lot of the software, they have only added to what exists; they are joining the party, not hosting it.
Just my opinion.
alt tags work for me on my downloaded version. also... remember it is ALPHA... not even BETA yet. :)