Ummmm yeah. If I told you that it takes 30,000 Pounds of Bananas to crush someone's $noun does that mean someone's $noun is now more vulnerable?
Ok I know the analogy is not exactly the same (can't get Chapin outta my head) but the principle is still the same. Knowing the breaking point of something does not "paint a target" on it.
Heh... just imagine what doesn't get accepted as story submissions. Give the editors a break... they have to continuously sift thru crap all of the time. Imagine if it was your job to look at spam e-mails all day and sort them out manually, I am sure you'd miss a few after a while as the e-mails all start to blend together.
But yeah, in general I agree with this observation of the trend.
Well if someone has physical or other access to your laptop you just had 20+ servers compromised; that's probabaly not how you'd want to start your day off when that happens. Or do you password protect your private keys? It sounds like you didn't. Don't get me wrong, I am a HUGE fan of using pub/private keys for logins, and use it on all of my own servers.
Then let's talk as I am both (well almost, my daughter is just a tad too young still for the internet). But I have spent lots of time pondering the internet as my work makes me directly involved with the internet all of the time. So what sort of thoughts do you have on the subject in general? Do you think internet porn is the worst thing out there? Do you completely trust your kid(s) to not participate or be involved in anything you think they shouldn't? How about all of the "let's get anorexic" or "you need to drink coffee, soda, eat fast food, etc" culturally pressure? You don't see many people crying out against these things yet in my book they are generally way worse than internet porn which is easy to ignore in comparison.
And Is forbidding them access the only way to protect them? Is it the best way? Why is it so difficult to teach your own kid(s) what is right and what is wrong in life. You don't have to be a Nazi controlling everything they are exposed to but hell, I think the high fructose corn syrup is significantly worse for my child than pretty much anything that can be viewed on the internet. How many people place higher priorities on things that maybe aren't as bad or important as other things? Sure nobody is perfect but tons of people don't actually think about things and just "go with the flow". They are fickle, and maybe they are ignorant which to me is why we should not just ban this and ban that and ban everything. Lets get a grip here.
Just because the American culture imposes the view of "sex is bad" and the media just gobble up anything sex related and then spew it out at everyone doesn't mean they are right. Obviously sex is not bad. I just fail to see the whole "bad stuff on the internet needs to be blocked because... what about the CHILDREN?!?!" as an argument for a need for a technical solution. This to me indicates a need for more of a social solution and not a technical solution. Thus my original points of why do we think we are the ones that should make the decision on global issues? The USA is a massive player in the internet, but we are hardly the only massive player. We have no right to force a change like this on anyone much less the entire freaking planet. I live in what is called a free country, I'd like my child and future children to grow up and understand what that means.
I think if you tell someone not to do something or just outright prohibit it, there will be more likely a chance for a stronger desire to explore whatever was made taboo. Now, if you explain how things are in reality and maybe spend some quality time and continue to do so for their entire childhood, you will not need to prohibit them from much or possibly anything as they will be able to police themselves since they will now have the ability to determine what is good morally and socially on their own. There are many creative ways to teach your children, and let me tell you, distraction is a trick I learned very early on.
If you disagree with me, that is perfectly fine but don't assume your idea is the right or best idea as there are people who will disagree with you and have good reasons to.
That is a very retarded idea when it comes to practicality. Also, I don't like the idea of FORCING people to do their OWN things in a certain way that YOU approve. They make a website that has nothing to do with you, why should YOU have any say over it's name, location or content? Anyways, how on earth are you or anyone going to make the entire internet (all over the world remember, different countries with their own governments and laws) move all porn sites to.xxx domains. That is completely laughable. The USA wants to think it is the boss of the internet (and probably of the world too) but really it is not. Yes I live in the USA and I think our federal government sucks when it comes to things related to technology, freedom, and responsibility. I for one, don't understand why we should even be restricted to just certain top level domains. Why are we not allowed to have domain.fuckyou or domain.xxx or domain.123 or domain.domain or domain.microsoft or domain.c0m or domain.gotohell or whatever the hell you want. Oh yeah, I am sure there is some person or corporation that makes money off of this tight death grip control.
So? Now that there is a post on this subject of dupes I will reply but why do you feel the need to post that it is a dupe? Are you keeping a tally or something?
I see below the submit button there is an section titled "Important Stuff" and the first line in the section says "Please try to keep posts on topic."
As for the story... well... like the poster said, you just can't make this stuff up. This is pretty sad.
dvd playback, wmv, qt, mpg, avi, mp3, etc. they all work flawlessly for me. Though I generally use xmms for mp3/ogg playback because the playlisting and streaming is easier.
I also installed the mplayer browser plugin so mplayer can be embedded in firefox, konqueror, maybe even opera.
Haha... me and my friends/relatives still play Starcraft too. Its the only RTS game we have found that supports Team Melee where you share control of the same team. Very cool feature. We also use TeamSpeak too. The pvpgn server runs great on our AMD64 bit Linux server with 2gigs of RAM. Hahaha. I think the MySQL backend uses more resources than pvpgn itself. Biggest drawback is no adjusting the screen res of the game. We also run NWN and UT2004 ded servers too.
Of course anyone who actually USES OpenBSD knows that/etc/rc.conf should not be modified and you should really modify/etc/rc.conf.local instead. That way, when you upgrade, changes you make are not lost since/etc/rc.conf might have new options and/etc/rc.conf.local will still work as expected.
Also, what alternatives are so much better than OpenBSD for a desktop? Unless you are trying to play 3D rendered games, OpenBSD can do pretty much anything FreeBSD or Linux can do. Have you not heard of emulation? A minor to zero noticeable performance hit and blammo you can run Linux binaries. Where all this negative FUD comes from towards OpenBSD as a desktop is beyond me? If you are looking for a SECURE desktop, how is OpenBSD not appealing? If you are NOT looking for a SECURE desktop, you should be?
Also their licensing will never prevent you from using any of their software in any way you choose. They think the GPL is too restrictive and segregate any GPL or less free licensed software from the rest of the OS to minimize contamination. They do their best and have made, IMO, a wonderful OS that works for more than a server/firewall.
My employer is sponsoring a viewing of the movie on Friday by renting out a theatre for just the company employees. Can't get any easier than that. You're even allowed to bring in your own food as long as it is not something sold at the concession stands, comes in a glass container, or is alcoholic. Pretty nice I would say.
I've never used Debian so I will make no comment on its greatness or lack of; Gentoo however, is the only Linux distro I prefer to use. You do NOT have to compile everything, you CAN install already compiled binaries like rpms. Also, if you do want to compile everything but don't want to compile on your server, you could setup a secondary box that just compiles everything for you and makes the packages. Then install on your production machine using the just compiled packages.
Also if you have a decently quick machine, compiling Apache does not take very long, just an FYI.
Crazy talk. Anyone with sense would obviously change banks. I mean c'mon! Who would do their banking with scoundrels that make a website that is not standards conformant and/or does not render properly with FF???
Don't forget that the wealthy/powerful usually get what they want even if the masses do not want it, or even oppose it, at least in this country (USA).
Unless you have severly underpowered hardware in the router or terrible filtering code the overhead will be mostly unnoticeable. That being said, I have not used this particular product but I bet a lot of your packets going to and coming from the internet go thru a priority queueing system somewhere on the internet.
What, like the binary code in linux? That will be so helpful. Theo said he himself knows of at least a million dollars worth of Adaptec products in use using OpenBSD, that is hardly "no reason they should ever provide the OpenBSD team with the info" especially since it is not like they are asking for Adaptec's trade secret or anything, just some documentation on how to operate and interact with the hardware.
"After all OpenBSD is really unpopular compared to other server/computer OSes" Have you ever used OpenSSH? This is a product you probably implicitly trust I bet. In case you didn't know, without the people in OpenBSD, there would be no OpenSSH, at least not as good of an OpenSSH as there is now. Likely there would have been some half assed OpenSSH compared to the OpenBSD developers version.
if you want an XP look/feel check out http://www.xpde.com (if you use Gentoo it is in portage). It has some obvious bugs, but hey, it is still not version 1 yet.
I have watched misc at openbsd.org for several years and I have never seen Theo personally abuse someone unless it is deserved. Obviously you are only telling YOUR side of the story.
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Ummmm yeah. If I told you that it takes 30,000 Pounds of Bananas to crush someone's $noun does that mean someone's $noun is now more vulnerable?
Ok I know the analogy is not exactly the same (can't get Chapin outta my head) but the principle is still the same. Knowing the breaking point of something does not "paint a target" on it.
Heh... just imagine what doesn't get accepted as story submissions. Give the editors a break... they have to continuously sift thru crap all of the time. Imagine if it was your job to look at spam e-mails all day and sort them out manually, I am sure you'd miss a few after a while as the e-mails all start to blend together.
But yeah, in general I agree with this observation of the trend.
I would like to correct this comment....
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Well if someone has physical or other access to your laptop you just had 20+ servers compromised; that's probabaly not how you'd want to start your day off when that happens. Or do you password protect your private keys? It sounds like you didn't. Don't get me wrong, I am a HUGE fan of using pub/private keys for logins, and use it on all of my own servers.
Then let's talk as I am both (well almost, my daughter is just a tad too young still for the internet). But I have spent lots of time pondering the internet as my work makes me directly involved with the internet all of the time. So what sort of thoughts do you have on the subject in general? Do you think internet porn is the worst thing out there? Do you completely trust your kid(s) to not participate or be involved in anything you think they shouldn't? How about all of the "let's get anorexic" or "you need to drink coffee, soda, eat fast food, etc" culturally pressure? You don't see many people crying out against these things yet in my book they are generally way worse than internet porn which is easy to ignore in comparison.
And Is forbidding them access the only way to protect them? Is it the best way? Why is it so difficult to teach your own kid(s) what is right and what is wrong in life. You don't have to be a Nazi controlling everything they are exposed to but hell, I think the high fructose corn syrup is significantly worse for my child than pretty much anything that can be viewed on the internet. How many people place higher priorities on things that maybe aren't as bad or important as other things? Sure nobody is perfect but tons of people don't actually think about things and just "go with the flow". They are fickle, and maybe they are ignorant which to me is why we should not just ban this and ban that and ban everything. Lets get a grip here.
Just because the American culture imposes the view of "sex is bad" and the media just gobble up anything sex related and then spew it out at everyone doesn't mean they are right. Obviously sex is not bad. I just fail to see the whole "bad stuff on the internet needs to be blocked because... what about the CHILDREN?!?!" as an argument for a need for a technical solution. This to me indicates a need for more of a social solution and not a technical solution. Thus my original points of why do we think we are the ones that should make the decision on global issues? The USA is a massive player in the internet, but we are hardly the only massive player. We have no right to force a change like this on anyone much less the entire freaking planet. I live in what is called a free country, I'd like my child and future children to grow up and understand what that means.
I think if you tell someone not to do something or just outright prohibit it, there will be more likely a chance for a stronger desire to explore whatever was made taboo. Now, if you explain how things are in reality and maybe spend some quality time and continue to do so for their entire childhood, you will not need to prohibit them from much or possibly anything as they will be able to police themselves since they will now have the ability to determine what is good morally and socially on their own. There are many creative ways to teach your children, and let me tell you, distraction is a trick I learned very early on.
If you disagree with me, that is perfectly fine but don't assume your idea is the right or best idea as there are people who will disagree with you and have good reasons to.
That is a very retarded idea when it comes to practicality. Also, I don't like the idea of FORCING people to do their OWN things in a certain way that YOU approve. They make a website that has nothing to do with you, why should YOU have any say over it's name, location or content? Anyways, how on earth are you or anyone going to make the entire internet (all over the world remember, different countries with their own governments and laws) move all porn sites to .xxx domains. That is completely laughable. The USA wants to think it is the boss of the internet (and probably of the world too) but really it is not. Yes I live in the USA and I think our federal government sucks when it comes to things related to technology, freedom, and responsibility. I for one, don't understand why we should even be restricted to just certain top level domains. Why are we not allowed to have domain.fuckyou or domain.xxx or domain.123 or domain.domain or domain.microsoft or domain.c0m or domain.gotohell or whatever the hell you want. Oh yeah, I am sure there is some person or corporation that makes money off of this tight death grip control.
So? Now that there is a post on this subject of dupes I will reply but why do you feel the need to post that it is a dupe? Are you keeping a tally or something?
I see below the submit button there is an section titled "Important Stuff" and the first line in the section says "Please try to keep posts on topic."
As for the story... well... like the poster said, you just can't make this stuff up. This is pretty sad.
HAHAHAHAHAHAA... good luck on getting all sorts of foreign countries to adopt this theoretical licensing system.
GUI for MPlayer was super easy for me to install on Gentoo.
1. Open shell
2. $ emerge sync
3. $ emerge kmplayer
dvd playback, wmv, qt, mpg, avi, mp3, etc. they all work flawlessly for me. Though I generally use xmms for mp3/ogg playback because the playlisting and streaming is easier.
I also installed the mplayer browser plugin so mplayer can be embedded in firefox, konqueror, maybe even opera.
Pretty good pricing and simple to use, supports compression, encryption, scheduling, all the usual stuff.
Haha... me and my friends/relatives still play Starcraft too. Its the only RTS game we have found that supports Team Melee where you share control of the same team. Very cool feature. We also use TeamSpeak too. The pvpgn server runs great on our AMD64 bit Linux server with 2gigs of RAM. Hahaha. I think the MySQL backend uses more resources than pvpgn itself. Biggest drawback is no adjusting the screen res of the game. We also run NWN and UT2004 ded servers too.
Yeah... forbidden soul donut...mmmm...
Yeah, don't use Apache two point zero point five four.
Here is a possible thought to include in the cube discussion.
Of course anyone who actually USES OpenBSD knows that /etc/rc.conf should not be modified and you should really modify /etc/rc.conf.local instead. That way, when you upgrade, changes you make are not lost since /etc/rc.conf might have new options and /etc/rc.conf.local will still work as expected.
Also, what alternatives are so much better than OpenBSD for a desktop? Unless you are trying to play 3D rendered games, OpenBSD can do pretty much anything FreeBSD or Linux can do. Have you not heard of emulation? A minor to zero noticeable performance hit and blammo you can run Linux binaries. Where all this negative FUD comes from towards OpenBSD as a desktop is beyond me? If you are looking for a SECURE desktop, how is OpenBSD not appealing? If you are NOT looking for a SECURE desktop, you should be?
Also their licensing will never prevent you from using any of their software in any way you choose. They think the GPL is too restrictive and segregate any GPL or less free licensed software from the rest of the OS to minimize contamination. They do their best and have made, IMO, a wonderful OS that works for more than a server/firewall.
My employer is sponsoring a viewing of the movie on Friday by renting out a theatre for just the company employees. Can't get any easier than that. You're even allowed to bring in your own food as long as it is not something sold at the concession stands, comes in a glass container, or is alcoholic. Pretty nice I would say.
I vote for BSD instead of Linux. Linux has the infectious license bug called GPL. Must go more free than GPL: BSD!
;)
Ok, Linux is better than MS, but BSD is better than Linux.
I've never used Debian so I will make no comment on its greatness or lack of; Gentoo however, is the only Linux distro I prefer to use. You do NOT have to compile everything, you CAN install already compiled binaries like rpms. Also, if you do want to compile everything but don't want to compile on your server, you could setup a secondary box that just compiles everything for you and makes the packages. Then install on your production machine using the just compiled packages.
Also if you have a decently quick machine, compiling Apache does not take very long, just an FYI.
Crazy talk. Anyone with sense would obviously change banks. I mean c'mon! Who would do their banking with scoundrels that make a website that is not standards conformant and/or does not render properly with FF???
Don't forget that the wealthy/powerful usually get what they want even if the masses do not want it, or even oppose it, at least in this country (USA).
Unless you have severly underpowered hardware in the router or terrible filtering code the overhead will be mostly unnoticeable. That being said, I have not used this particular product but I bet a lot of your packets going to and coming from the internet go thru a priority queueing system somewhere on the internet.
What, like the binary code in linux? That will be so helpful. Theo said he himself knows of at least a million dollars worth of Adaptec products in use using OpenBSD, that is hardly "no reason they should ever provide the OpenBSD team with the info" especially since it is not like they are asking for Adaptec's trade secret or anything, just some documentation on how to operate and interact with the hardware.
"After all OpenBSD is really unpopular compared to other server/computer OSes"
Have you ever used OpenSSH? This is a product you probably implicitly trust I bet. In case you didn't know, without the people in OpenBSD, there would be no OpenSSH, at least not as good of an OpenSSH as there is now. Likely there would have been some half assed OpenSSH compared to the OpenBSD developers version.
if you want an XP look/feel check out http://www.xpde.com (if you use Gentoo it is in portage). It has some obvious bugs, but hey, it is still not version 1 yet.
I have watched misc at openbsd.org for several years and I have never seen Theo personally abuse someone unless it is deserved. Obviously you are only telling YOUR side of the story.
And if it is a Microsoft Windows server running MySQL or MSSQL without an SSH server?