I gotta see this... and low and behold it looks sllooooow but it came through.
btw content below: The phpstack demo server
Welcome to the phpstack demo server! phpstack is a small TCP/IP stack and web server written in PHP. It is a quick and dirty proof-of-concept hack and shouldn't be taken too seriously.
The web pages and pictures on this page are served by the phpstack server. The server only allows very small HTML pages and pictures, but it is able to support an unlimited amount of simultaneous connections.
Read more about the phpstack on its home page:
http://www.sics.se/~adam/phpstack/
You are visitor number 446 and your IP address is XX.XX.XX.XX.
In every situation I would LOVE a linux laptop, I am reminded why I haven't switched every workstation I have to linux... Driver support. I have tried four different wifi configurations... and the only one I can get to work I have to disable hotplug to do so. I hate compiling my kernel just to get a stupid driver unavailable in the default config, and NOT easy to configure. Very little automatic resource configuration... X11 needs work, as does the default configuration tools for it, I'm tired of digging through monitor manuals to find the right freqs... Apt/yum has squelched my worries about system dependencies a great bit... but every once in a while I still need to go digging for an obscure dependency. Games... my wife's system will probably never have linux installed because of the games issue. Heck, how can I justify not being able to play a game recently released on my gaming machine?
I love my L.A.M.P. I love the insane uptimes I get on my webservers, firewalls, fileservers, mailservers and DNS servers... but they don't need a special soundcard driver that takes 3 different kernel compiles to get to make any noise.
Unless you have an alternative mouse on mouse laptops there is no middle click, hence no decent way to copy + paste in linux applications. I'm not about to setup something involving ctrl/alt etc to emulate a middle click when something like CTRL+V is so much more convenient, and reliable.
GPO's are there for this purpose. If you can't afford licensing then I'd say you need to read up on VB scripting.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you need to become a genious in it to do this stuff... but not knowing GPO's and VBS is like not knowing RC's and #!/bin/sh.
The centrino wifi drivers I have agonized over for the past two months. I am so frustrated with the overall driver config that I'm about to throw my laptop out a window.
I am tired of having to recompile my kernel because some function isn't enabled by default (hotplug in this case.) Frustration with the 2.4.25/6 kernel forced me to dig around looking at the 2.6 kernel. Then finding out that the (2.6.6) kernel version has a problem with my laptop in atkbd so whenever I press a certain key I get a kernel error, oh but now modprobe ipw2100 works as long as I make sure I compile the driver in legacy firmware mode bypassing hotplug. Not to mention the fact that there are little inconsistencies in procedure between kernels and packages. Not that this is the kernel developers fault, but having to enable PCMCIA support in the 2.6 to get HOSTAP to compile and having to disable it in 2.4 is something that the joe-blow consumer isn't even going to comprehend, let alone know how to do via config/menuconfig etc.
Automatic driver installation would be a headache to secure, but the need is surely there. My headaches are those of someone who's had to do this before... I can only imagine the headaches of someone un-initiated.
Why aren't we purchasing our voting equipment in the US with the same rigid standards as casinos take to their games machines? I mean honestly, some of the stupidity taken with some of these (for instance the wifi access to an MDB file...) is just ludicrous if you had offered the same level of "security" to a casino with their electronic poker machines they would have laughed you out the door.
Simplistic devices with a single input method and a disabled output method until the machine is closed out for voting. At that point only those responsible for the voting machines can even transfer the votes. On top of which a verified paper ballot is essential in any election with electronic devices.
Sadly the US populous is far less informed than the rest of the world. Most don't even care how big an upset the Indian election was, nor the fact that it is historic for it's electronic voting methods. I doubt this will have much of an impact on the Diebold hotbutton of the week.
Suuure, diet doesn't make it any better, just worse in different ways: (Diet coke) Carbonated water, caramel color, phosphoric acid, sodium saccharin, potassium benzoate (to protect taste), natural flavors (vegetable source), citric acid, caffeine, potassium citrate, aspartame, dimethylpolysiloxane. Phenylketonurics: Aspartame contains phenylalanine. Use of saccharin in this product may be hazardous to your health. This ingredient has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals.
Other than the obvious saccharin warning on the label, a quick search on aspartame makes me never want to drink a diet beverage again. Not to mention all the horrible things corn syrup can contribute to. I stopped the soda thing not too long ago, and I'm not looking back.
He never claimed Linux as original, he only claimed the obvious. GUI designs haven't changed all that much in the past 20 years. The ideas re-implimented by M$ are not original, and most are patented even though there is a mountain of prior art proving the contrary.
The issue with VFAT is a perfect example. So, if you're going to go Zealot bashing pick someone who's spouting rethoric. This idea is relatively new, and does deserve a second look IMO who's to say it wouldn't work?
As to your.net interoperability project AKA MONO why the heck wouldn't there me such a thing? There is already a windows file sharing interoperability project. Not having such capabilities cuts F/OSS off from 95+% of the systems in the world.
One could infer that you are a proponent of OS isolationism which would be the death of linux. Who wants an OS that doesn't work with the current stuff? Interoperability isn't exactly revolutionary, but it's surely necessary.
I remember seeing a davy crocket test fire on the history channel, or maybe it was discovery... It was the damnedest thing I'd ever seen, the blast radius was larger than the range. The operator dug themselves a hole and jumped in it after firing.
Excepting your model is that outside sources are the ones eating up the majority of bandwidth, when the opposite is true in a worm storm. The internal users are utilizing the throughput at the maximum and the other users suffer. This traffic goes through your ISP's gear to get to the internet, not only to get to the internet, but to get to other users on the ISP's network.
A slew of worms take the 1st and 2nd octets as a basis for their search of other possible hosts thus travelling solely in the ISP's network to propogate in some situations. Blocking the outside-in and inside-out traffic is one thing most ISPs do already (SMTP/HTTP blocking for instance.) But intra-network infections and the associated bandwidth flooding may not even be regulated in the same manner as external network traffic is. Anyone who's had to deal with dialing up an unpatched XP system to download windows updates knows all about this. The nightmare is real. The situation is happening now, but very little is being done to stymie the virus by uncaring users, and ISPs.
ISPs need not be traffic cops of the internet, but they should sure as hell make sure nobody is going mach 5 in their parking lot.
Someone has to pay eventually. It's either every system that gets hammered, or the ISP who does the filtering. IMHO I don't believe a user has the right to plug his infected shit into the internet without repricussions.
How hard would it be to step back and just use IDS level monitoring and disable a connection based upon certain criteria? Not neccessarily app level but if you see 290138901823 connections immediately established as soon as a user is online, which throttles their internet connection all on the same port and all of a sudden multiple other systems start maxing out their throughput as well showing the same linear connection increases, then why the hell wouldn't you block those hosts?
Your bandwidth utilization will go through the roof, other users will suffer and you'll get a million calls from angry customers who just got a worm, and are so un-informed they don't know what a worm is. Meanwhile your i-net connection is maxed out and even intelligent users with firewalls can't access the internet either.
Great now you've got a shitstorm, and you could have stopped it. Is all that downtime and extra phone support hours worth not paying for a bit of IDS/network monitoring?
There are corporate CDs out there that have been available for quite some time they only require a valid "volume license" cd key to operate. In point of fact, they ignore the stupid Activation BS and are what we use for Unattended installation scripts since they don't require activation once installed.
Then again I'm not an active member in the Warez community. I would assume something like this would be near holy grail status.
Support is Free... duh, not like they have to pay for all that bandwidth or anything. They may be able to afford it, but why would any company (ala: Redhat) be forced to maintain something that wasn't purchased? All real property vs intellectual property ideals aside, that's like blaming Ford that your stolen car can't be serviced.
I have been of the oppinion that App level firewalls at the ISP level (hell even port blocking during worm-storms) is a necessary function. During the Nachi outbreak ISPs were killing ICMP just because of the sheer mass of pings flying around were bring down gear.
At the very least, ISPs should be responsible for the prevention of outbound malicious traffic, automated or manual (aka: crackers, kiddies etc.) When they knowingly ignore the traffic traversing their network and wreaking havoc on others, I am always disgusted.
Not that my shit don't stink, but if I got a line spewing worm, it gets pulled till it's clean. Thank goodness for the public sector.
Now, the hypothosis of global warming has not been irrefutably proven and certain discrepencies have not been accounted for.
For instance, A volcanic erruption can cause so much more so called "greenhouse" gasses to be released into the atmosphere than all the polutants man has expelled since the first machine of industry.
Secondly, there are periodic climate changes throughout earth's history that have still yet to be explained. Also, the depletion of the green house gasses has not been proven to be solely the cause of the BAD human made CO/CO2 and not the GOOD naturally occuring CO2 (See eruptions)
Since there is no explanation for the past trend nor the fact that looking even further back the entire planet had a higher median temperature. as is evident by the many hypothosis that the thunder lizards may have died due to an ice age... I don't really have to point out there weren't humans then to contribute to that natural disaster that caused a dramatic shift in the planet's climate.
We need to continue to regulate our usage of all natural resources, since not doing so would be insane, but saying that greenhouses gasses are the sole influence that causes this affect. Believing so would discount all other evidence available. That humans contribute, is surely true. But how much, and is it even measurable compared to a massive volcanic eruption?
The Z is amazing for this, in fact utilizing the software available on the popular downloadsite including flite (festival lite) the Z can provide an excellent Reading/TTS environment complete with shell scriptable goodness.
Well... until the amd64 intel was the pace-car when it came to instruction sets... Those who care have been watching carefully as Amd is the frontliner now for the instruction set, and the intel chip is running nearly the same set.
Oh well, not that people really care about ring based security models./. seems like the place where firewalls=bliss, since 90% of the posting for every new patch is "Blocked on the firewall for X years anyways" when in reality this is only the first step towards a secure model. IPSec or maybe some radius at your site to make sure you don't get any hassling noobs plugging into your net w/blaster/sasser etc bringing down your infrastructure just by plugging in.
Reading the documents looks a bit like the average engineer under the gun. Release report regarding volitility of software, and numerous bugs in need of resolution, management goes "Oh those aren't THAAT bad" rather than fix them, they wanna keep to the release schedule on budget.
Slashdot Mirror
I gotta see this... and low and behold it looks sllooooow but it came through.
btw content below:
The phpstack demo server
Welcome to the phpstack demo server! phpstack is a small TCP/IP stack and web server written in PHP. It is a quick and dirty proof-of-concept hack and shouldn't be taken too seriously.
The web pages and pictures on this page are served by the phpstack server. The server only allows very small HTML pages and pictures, but it is able to support an unlimited amount of simultaneous connections.
Read more about the phpstack on its home page:
http://www.sics.se/~adam/phpstack/
You are visitor number 446 and your IP address is XX.XX.XX.XX.
In every situation I would LOVE a linux laptop, I am reminded why I haven't switched every workstation I have to linux... Driver support. I have tried four different wifi configurations... and the only one I can get to work I have to disable hotplug to do so. I hate compiling my kernel just to get a stupid driver unavailable in the default config, and NOT easy to configure. Very little automatic resource configuration... X11 needs work, as does the default configuration tools for it, I'm tired of digging through monitor manuals to find the right freqs... Apt/yum has squelched my worries about system dependencies a great bit... but every once in a while I still need to go digging for an obscure dependency. Games... my wife's system will probably never have linux installed because of the games issue. Heck, how can I justify not being able to play a game recently released on my gaming machine?
I love my L.A.M.P. I love the insane uptimes I get on my webservers, firewalls, fileservers, mailservers and DNS servers... but they don't need a special soundcard driver that takes 3 different kernel compiles to get to make any noise.
Unless it's a really crummy scroll mouse depressing the scroll wheel clicks the middle button.
Unless you have an alternative mouse on mouse laptops there is no middle click, hence no decent way to copy + paste in linux applications. I'm not about to setup something involving ctrl/alt etc to emulate a middle click when something like CTRL+V is so much more convenient, and reliable.
GPO's are there for this purpose. If you can't afford licensing then I'd say you need to read up on VB scripting.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you need to become a genious in it to do this stuff... but not knowing GPO's and VBS is like not knowing RC's and #!/bin/sh.
The centrino wifi drivers I have agonized over for the past two months. I am so frustrated with the overall driver config that I'm about to throw my laptop out a window.
I am tired of having to recompile my kernel because some function isn't enabled by default (hotplug in this case.) Frustration with the 2.4.25/6 kernel forced me to dig around looking at the 2.6 kernel. Then finding out that the (2.6.6) kernel version has a problem with my laptop in atkbd so whenever I press a certain key I get a kernel error, oh but now modprobe ipw2100 works as long as I make sure I compile the driver in legacy firmware mode bypassing hotplug. Not to mention the fact that there are little inconsistencies in procedure between kernels and packages. Not that this is the kernel developers fault, but having to enable PCMCIA support in the 2.6 to get HOSTAP to compile and having to disable it in 2.4 is something that the joe-blow consumer isn't even going to comprehend, let alone know how to do via config/menuconfig etc.
Automatic driver installation would be a headache to secure, but the need is surely there. My headaches are those of someone who's had to do this before... I can only imagine the headaches of someone un-initiated.
Why aren't we purchasing our voting equipment in the US with the same rigid standards as casinos take to their games machines? I mean honestly, some of the stupidity taken with some of these (for instance the wifi access to an MDB file ...) is just ludicrous if you had offered the same level of "security" to a casino with their electronic poker machines they would have laughed you out the door.
Simplistic devices with a single input method and a disabled output method until the machine is closed out for voting. At that point only those responsible for the voting machines can even transfer the votes. On top of which a verified paper ballot is essential in any election with electronic devices.
Sadly the US populous is far less informed than the rest of the world. Most don't even care how big an upset the Indian election was, nor the fact that it is historic for it's electronic voting methods. I doubt this will have much of an impact on the Diebold hotbutton of the week.
Suuure, diet doesn't make it any better, just worse in different ways:
(Diet coke)
Carbonated water, caramel color, phosphoric acid, sodium saccharin, potassium benzoate (to protect taste), natural flavors (vegetable source), citric acid, caffeine, potassium citrate, aspartame, dimethylpolysiloxane. Phenylketonurics: Aspartame contains phenylalanine. Use of saccharin in this product may be hazardous to your health. This ingredient has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals.
Other than the obvious saccharin warning on the label, a quick search on aspartame makes me never want to drink a diet beverage again. Not to mention all the horrible things corn syrup can contribute to. I stopped the soda thing not too long ago, and I'm not looking back.
Anyone who has to stand in public transport for hours a day.
for a long long time on the Mud-Dev mailing list. In fact a point of discussion many times, and not just the faucet drain economy model either.
Mud Dev Faq
Full archive here
He never claimed Linux as original, he only claimed the obvious. GUI designs haven't changed all that much in the past 20 years. The ideas re-implimented by M$ are not original, and most are patented even though there is a mountain of prior art proving the contrary.
.net interoperability project AKA MONO why the heck wouldn't there me such a thing? There is already a windows file sharing interoperability project. Not having such capabilities cuts F/OSS off from 95+% of the systems in the world.
The issue with VFAT is a perfect example. So, if you're going to go Zealot bashing pick someone who's spouting rethoric. This idea is relatively new, and does deserve a second look IMO who's to say it wouldn't work?
As to your
One could infer that you are a proponent of OS isolationism which would be the death of linux. Who wants an OS that doesn't work with the current stuff? Interoperability isn't exactly
revolutionary, but it's surely necessary.
I remember seeing a davy crocket test fire on the history channel, or maybe it was discovery... It was the damnedest thing I'd ever seen, the blast radius was larger than the range. The operator dug themselves a hole and jumped in it after firing.
For apache 2.0, GOOGLE says it does
Excepting your model is that outside sources are the ones eating up the majority of bandwidth, when the opposite is true in a worm storm. The internal users are utilizing the throughput at the maximum and the other users suffer. This traffic goes through your ISP's gear to get to the internet, not only to get to the internet, but to get to other users on the ISP's network.
A slew of worms take the 1st and 2nd octets as a basis for their search of other possible hosts thus travelling solely in the ISP's network to propogate in some situations. Blocking the outside-in and inside-out traffic is one thing most ISPs do already (SMTP/HTTP blocking for instance.) But intra-network infections and the associated bandwidth flooding may not even be regulated in the same manner as external network traffic is. Anyone who's had to deal with dialing up an unpatched XP system to download windows updates knows all about this. The nightmare is real. The situation is happening now, but very little is being done to stymie the virus by uncaring users, and ISPs.
ISPs need not be traffic cops of the internet, but they should sure as hell make sure nobody is going mach 5 in their parking lot.
Someone has to pay eventually. It's either every system that gets hammered, or the ISP who does the filtering. IMHO I don't believe a user has the right to plug his infected shit into the internet without repricussions.
How hard would it be to step back and just use IDS level monitoring and disable a connection based upon certain criteria? Not neccessarily app level but if you see 290138901823 connections immediately established as soon as a user is online, which throttles their internet connection all on the same port and all of a sudden multiple other systems start maxing out their throughput as well showing the same linear connection increases, then why the hell wouldn't you block those hosts?
Your bandwidth utilization will go through the roof, other users will suffer and you'll get a million calls from angry customers who just got a worm, and are so un-informed they don't know what a worm is. Meanwhile your i-net connection is maxed out and even intelligent users with firewalls can't access the internet either.
Great now you've got a shitstorm, and you could have stopped it. Is all that downtime and extra phone support hours worth not paying for a bit of IDS/network monitoring?
There are corporate CDs out there that have been available for quite some time they only require a valid "volume license" cd key to operate. In point of fact, they ignore the stupid Activation BS and are what we use for Unattended installation scripts since they don't require activation once installed.
Then again I'm not an active member in the Warez community. I would assume something like this would be near holy grail status.
Support is Free ... duh, not like they have to pay for all that bandwidth or anything. They may be able to afford it, but why would any company (ala: Redhat) be forced to maintain something that wasn't purchased? All real property vs intellectual property ideals aside, that's like blaming Ford that your stolen car can't be serviced.
I have been of the oppinion that App level firewalls at the ISP level (hell even port blocking during worm-storms) is a necessary function. During the Nachi outbreak ISPs were killing ICMP just because of the sheer mass of pings flying around were bring down gear.
At the very least, ISPs should be responsible for the prevention of outbound malicious traffic, automated or manual (aka: crackers, kiddies etc.)
When they knowingly ignore the traffic traversing their network and wreaking havoc on others, I am always disgusted.
Not that my shit don't stink, but if I got a line spewing worm, it gets pulled till it's clean. Thank goodness for the public sector.
I guess he really is Fry, nobody else would miss that one.
List of ways cds become unusable:
1. Proximity to microwave ovens
2. Cats
3. Dogs
4. Spool stacking
5. Drive malfunctions (AKA: Ptouch+CDR=boom)
6. Drops
7. Scratches
8. Nicks
10. Desk Scrapes
11. Drive scrapes
12. Case scrapes
13. Resurfacing
14. Time
15. Sunlight
Now, the hypothosis of global warming has not been irrefutably proven and certain discrepencies have not been accounted for.
For instance, A volcanic erruption can cause so much more so called "greenhouse" gasses to be released into the atmosphere than all the polutants man has expelled since the first machine of industry.
Secondly, there are periodic climate changes throughout earth's history that have still yet to be explained. Also, the depletion of the green house gasses has not been proven to be solely the cause of the BAD human made CO/CO2 and not the GOOD naturally occuring CO2 (See eruptions)
Since there is no explanation for the past trend nor the fact that looking even further back the entire planet had a higher median temperature. as is evident by the many hypothosis that the thunder lizards may have died due to an ice age... I don't really have to point out there weren't humans then to contribute to that natural disaster that caused a dramatic shift in the planet's climate.
We need to continue to regulate our usage of all natural resources, since not doing so would be insane, but saying that greenhouses gasses are the sole influence that causes this affect. Believing so would discount all other evidence available. That humans contribute, is surely true. But how much, and is it even measurable compared to a massive volcanic eruption?
Yes. I concur.
The Z is amazing for this, in fact utilizing the software available on the popular downloadsite including flite (festival lite) the Z can provide an excellent Reading/TTS environment complete with shell scriptable goodness.
Well... until the amd64 intel was the pace-car when it came to instruction sets... Those who care have been watching carefully as Amd is the frontliner now for the instruction set, and the intel chip is running nearly the same set.
Oh well, not that people really care about ring based security models. /. seems like the place where firewalls=bliss, since 90% of the posting for every new patch is "Blocked on the firewall for X years anyways" when in reality this is only the first step towards a secure model. IPSec or maybe some radius at your site to make sure you don't get any hassling noobs plugging into your net w/blaster/sasser etc bringing down your infrastructure just by plugging in.
And then the accountant goes Clickety-Clickety on his laptop at the coffee shop then plugs it in at the office and you're pwned anyways.
Reading the documents looks a bit like the average engineer under the gun. Release report regarding volitility of software, and numerous bugs in need of resolution, management goes "Oh those aren't THAAT bad" rather than fix them, they wanna keep to the release schedule on budget.