FreeBSD : Run sysinstall and you can select a keymap with caps as a ctrl.
Linux : you can do it at the "KDE" level, or level of X, but the most reliable method is to just use echo 'keycode 58 = Control' | loadkeys at bootup
Win 9x : I believe you can just use they keymap util with powertools
Win2k (xp?) : you have to fuck with the registry. I can't recall how I did it, but I got it to work and I just run a regestry import now (you can find articles on how to do it). Looks like this. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSe t\Contr ol\Keyboard Layout] "Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00
in kde you can bind the windows key to make interesting shortcut keys (especially since Linux apps don't use it). An essential for me is setting up Win+R to open the run dialog in the same fashion it does in windows.
Also important is ease of updates for those of us that are semi-diligent.
Not to mention the level of trust for the patching system. I've seen it over and over, where people initially would patch systems, but then a patch screws something up majorly and they refuse to use windows update ever again. Not to mention the fact that Microsoft is prone to throwing competently unrelated things (like license agreement changes) in with their patches. Microsoft isn't alone with patch distrust in my opinion. I have to watch up2date now days as any apache update will install 'index.html' in the root web directory... which causes 'index.shtml' (the real index page) to be ignored. It wasn't so long ago that suidperl was installed as a dependency of Perl. WTF is that all about?!? Now granted I forceably removed it, but that seems more like it was hurting my security instead of improving it.
Reminds me of when I had a server which sat around and didn't do much so I set it up to be a remote terminal for people. I'm leary about ctrl-alt-del on a server so I just type in anything randomly, this time however I used:
ca::ctrlaltdel:/bin/echo "fuck you. I'm not shutting down"
So people are using this thing as a terminal, and every time the main server (elsewhere) would act quirky or the network would lag, or people who have been well trained by Microsoft would attempt to fix the problem by rebooting the machine by ctrl-alt-del.
Eventually I got a call that the computer in the main office was telling them to "fuck off". I'm like, "what? what do you mean?". So I went to look at it and sure enough, that's just was doing! After that I avoided being a smartass and just set it to doing nothing.
Oh and I'm a broke ex-university student so unless someone is going to give me enough to cover a copy of 2k3, I'm not going to run it
Just tell MS you use Linux and you want a copy. Sad to say, but they'd probably actually give it to you too! Unfortunatly I run FreeBSD, and you tell MS sales reps that and they don't know what to say - so no free copies for me.
There are different types of genius, of which being an artistic genius is one. There is more to intelligence then just the sciences and philosophy. Does anyone in Hollywood qualify as a genius? I'd say probably not, but that's a matter of opinion - and as the parent said the oscars are all about the entertainment industry jerking itself off so they'll say whatever they want.
Actually that makes me wonder what qualifies as an online purchase. I mean I can get a catalog in the mail and order an item by sending a check. Now if I contact the vendor online via email and send them the check, is that an "online" purchase, or a mail based purchase? How about if I call them on the phone and email them my address and such? How about if I order a program on the phone and they email it to me? As soon as you get away from the financial transactions online, the type of purchase gets pretty ambiguous rather quick.
I work for a small business and that shure hasn't helped us. If you don't know your customer number off hand, then they'll never be able to find it - happened 5 times already! Anything ordered through the website usually involves 3 additional calls in order to actually get an item. To get a shelf for a rack to 2 weeks with 15 calls and 3 e-mails. And we're supposidly at the $100k level (as my boss fed them some bs about spending 100 grand on IT). It's not like Dell stuff is super cheap either. I hate to wonder what sort of treatment smaller buisnesses get!
We still get Dell stuff every now and then, but when we do get it, it's through ebay.
I think you're deleting the wrong stuff. No, the real way for a virus to do good is to delete all Word Documents, Excel spreadsheets, and Power Point presentations. Hell I'll spread the damn thing myself!
"Sorry boss, I don't know how we keep getting that virus that deletes all that microsoft stuff. About Open Office..."
<nitpick> PS - I don't think win2k or xp support deltree anymore.</nitpick>
Download a virus on Linux Download a virus on Windows
Click on them both.
See a difference? You need mark a program as executable on Linux.
Besides which, as it's common to partition your hard drive with Linux anyway, it's pretty easy to set aside the home directory as a partition and mount it with noexec,nosuid . That in itself would make me feel a lot more secure. I'd say Linux by its nature is more secure, but it's up to the person setting up the system to decide how secure - which could easily be no security at all, but at least Linux makes it pretty simple to tighten a system with little effort.
Seems to me the difference would be in choice. Do you HAVE to use sendmail? I'd say that 99.9% of people could just as easily use another MTA (of which there is plenty). In the Open Source world you're typically free to use many different apps which are based off of standards and easily swappable with others.
Usually people don't have that option with Microsoft. And Microsoft themselves make claims on being so superior yet have so many problems. I don't think any sane person has ever made claims about how wonderful sendmail is.
Yeah, being worried over nmap version detection is rather sad. What version of openSSH do you use? telnet to port 22 and look for yourself - Often tells you the OS too unless sshd is configured otherwise. Telnet is probably the biggest threat out there because it's available everywhere, and do we quake in fear over telnet? hardly. nmap is just a port scanning tool if your actually planning on doing something aside from casual. If I saw a strange port open I'd probably start messing with netcat before I'd trust what nmap has to say anyway.
Still, it was a nice thing of him to do - but I bet you dollars to doughnuts he didn't give it away because he had some ideals about freedom
Actually that is why he did it. I don't think Woz quite thought of it as "freedom" though. If you read about how Woz used to take things apart study how they worked and such, it's easy to understand his mentality. It's how he learned, and became the computer genius that helped launch Apple. To him it wasn't a matter of openness, it was something that logically made sense - allowing people to learn how it worked. They did buy the machine after all. They did OWN it.
But on the other hand Woz didn't have the vision of the personal computer. To him, he saw people hacking away at BASIC code getting their machines to do their bidding. It was the OTHER Steve who wanted to make machines anyone could use.
Given up? I wouldn't say that. Simply put there isn't anything glamorous happening in the world of BSD from a sensationalist point of view. And lets face it, most of the BSD headlines just aren't that interesting. I mean what is there to say about one of the BSDs moving to GCC 3x?
SGI is a company that MS has every reason in the world to want to crush.
Actually I'd say that MS would want the opposite, to keep SGI in the game as long as possible. They are certainly a traditional unix vendor in that they tend to have very expensive and often lagging hardware. And IRIX itself has been lagging in many areas. MS can easily cite this as a "weakness" in Unix and coax those currently on it to move towards cheaper MS solutions.
The worst thing that could happen is that SGI goes under and suddenly orphans SGI customers. Instead of a gradual MS padded transition, now suddenly people cry out for a Unix solution and without a doubt Linux graphics workstations start gaining development rapidly. Even worse is that Linux can do everything from cheap cluster, to uber graphics workstation with hardly any retooling. Keeping some people on the SGI train and off of the Linux train is probably in their best interest. But as SGI gets deeper into Linux, it just might be better to snuff them out as well - but if SGI does stuff like introducint Unix code into Linux and messing everything up farther... it's probably a safer bet to let them live on and muddle things up as long as possible.
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the alt key is evil! It's a pain in the ass to hit with either your thumb or your pinky.
Then switch it back (I do on all my computers).
e t\Contr ol\Keyboard Layout]0 ,3a,00,00,00,00,00
FreeBSD : Run sysinstall and you can select a keymap with caps as a ctrl.
Linux : you can do it at the "KDE" level, or level of X, but the most reliable method is to just use
echo 'keycode 58 = Control' | loadkeys
at bootup
Win 9x : I believe you can just use they keymap util with powertools
Win2k (xp?) : you have to fuck with the registry. I can't recall how I did it, but I got it to work and I just run a regestry import now (you can find articles on how to do it). Looks like this.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlS
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,1d,0
(run at own risk, may destroy your computer)
in kde you can bind the windows key to make interesting shortcut keys (especially since Linux apps don't use it). An essential for me is setting up Win+R to open the run dialog in the same fashion it does in windows.
You let your users enter their problems? How many tickets do you get a day for "internet doesn't work" and "computer broken"? =P
new advertizement: "scratch once, lose twice the data!"
So when is China (being the modern purveyor and possibly last hope of open technology) comming out with their own bios?
he U.S. is just about the only real democracy on the planet (ironically, all of those Europeans are living in republics).
The U.S. is a democratic republic, but yes we are a republic. Recite the pledge of allegence once.
Also important is ease of updates for those of us that are semi-diligent.
Not to mention the level of trust for the patching system. I've seen it over and over, where people initially would patch systems, but then a patch screws something up majorly and they refuse to use windows update ever again. Not to mention the fact that Microsoft is prone to throwing competently unrelated things (like license agreement changes) in with their patches. Microsoft isn't alone with patch distrust in my opinion. I have to watch up2date now days as any apache update will install 'index.html' in the root web directory... which causes 'index.shtml' (the real index page) to be ignored. It wasn't so long ago that suidperl was installed as a dependency of Perl. WTF is that all about?!? Now granted I forceably removed it, but that seems more like it was hurting my security instead of improving it.
Guess you would be really screwed if you used openssl on windows eh?
Reminds me of when I had a server which sat around and didn't do much so I set it up to be a remote terminal for people. I'm leary about ctrl-alt-del on a server so I just type in anything randomly, this time however I used:
ca::ctrlaltdel:/bin/echo "fuck you. I'm not shutting down"
So people are using this thing as a terminal, and every time the main server (elsewhere) would act quirky or the network would lag, or people who have been well trained by Microsoft would attempt to fix the problem by rebooting the machine by ctrl-alt-del.
Eventually I got a call that the computer in the main office was telling them to "fuck off". I'm like, "what? what do you mean?". So I went to look at it and sure enough, that's just was doing! After that I avoided being a smartass and just set it to doing nothing.
Oh and I'm a broke ex-university student so unless someone is going to give me enough to cover a copy of 2k3, I'm not going to run it
Just tell MS you use Linux and you want a copy. Sad to say, but they'd probably actually give it to you too! Unfortunatly I run FreeBSD, and you tell MS sales reps that and they don't know what to say - so no free copies for me.
There are different types of genius, of which being an artistic genius is one. There is more to intelligence then just the sciences and philosophy. Does anyone in Hollywood qualify as a genius? I'd say probably not, but that's a matter of opinion - and as the parent said the oscars are all about the entertainment industry jerking itself off so they'll say whatever they want.
Actually that makes me wonder what qualifies as an online purchase. I mean I can get a catalog in the mail and order an item by sending a check. Now if I contact the vendor online via email and send them the check, is that an "online" purchase, or a mail based purchase? How about if I call them on the phone and email them my address and such? How about if I order a program on the phone and they email it to me? As soon as you get away from the financial transactions online, the type of purchase gets pretty ambiguous rather quick.
I work for a small business and that shure hasn't helped us. If you don't know your customer number off hand, then they'll never be able to find it - happened 5 times already! Anything ordered through the website usually involves 3 additional calls in order to actually get an item. To get a shelf for a rack to 2 weeks with 15 calls and 3 e-mails. And we're supposidly at the $100k level (as my boss fed them some bs about spending 100 grand on IT). It's not like Dell stuff is super cheap either. I hate to wonder what sort of treatment smaller buisnesses get!
We still get Dell stuff every now and then, but when we do get it, it's through ebay.
NT guy: "so like... you DON'T reboot? Huh? Patch? HuH? How can you patch and not reboot?"
Something tells me GNU/RMS is not going to like Microsoft's choice of acronyms.
Is that why he's even adding it to his name now?
I think you're deleting the wrong stuff. No, the real way for a virus to do good is to delete all Word Documents, Excel spreadsheets, and Power Point presentations. Hell I'll spread the damn thing myself!
"Sorry boss, I don't know how we keep getting that virus that deletes all that microsoft stuff. About Open Office..."
<nitpick> PS - I don't think win2k or xp support deltree anymore.</nitpick>
A well designed worm (or a virus for that matter) can pop up an important looking window saying something bad has happened on the system
The day pine starts doing that to me, I'm packing up and going home for the day.
Download a virus on Linux
Download a virus on Windows
Click on them both.
See a difference? You need mark a program as executable on Linux.
Besides which, as it's common to partition your hard drive with Linux anyway, it's pretty easy to set aside the home directory as a partition and mount it with noexec,nosuid . That in itself would make me feel a lot more secure. I'd say Linux by its nature is more secure, but it's up to the person setting up the system to decide how secure - which could easily be no security at all, but at least Linux makes it pretty simple to tighten a system with little effort.
Seems to me the difference would be in choice. Do you HAVE to use sendmail? I'd say that 99.9% of people could just as easily use another MTA (of which there is plenty). In the Open Source world you're typically free to use many different apps which are based off of standards and easily swappable with others.
Usually people don't have that option with Microsoft. And Microsoft themselves make claims on being so superior yet have so many problems. I don't think any sane person has ever made claims about how wonderful sendmail is.
Yeah, being worried over nmap version detection is rather sad. What version of openSSH do you use? telnet to port 22 and look for yourself - Often tells you the OS too unless sshd is configured otherwise. Telnet is probably the biggest threat out there because it's available everywhere, and do we quake in fear over telnet? hardly. nmap is just a port scanning tool if your actually planning on doing something aside from casual. If I saw a strange port open I'd probably start messing with netcat before I'd trust what nmap has to say anyway.
You know what they say about people in glass houses? That's going to be you.
Still, it was a nice thing of him to do - but I bet you dollars to doughnuts he didn't give it away because he had some ideals about freedom
Actually that is why he did it. I don't think Woz quite thought of it as "freedom" though. If you read about how Woz used to take things apart study how they worked and such, it's easy to understand his mentality. It's how he learned, and became the computer genius that helped launch Apple. To him it wasn't a matter of openness, it was something that logically made sense - allowing people to learn how it worked. They did buy the machine after all. They did OWN it.
But on the other hand Woz didn't have the vision of the personal computer. To him, he saw people hacking away at BASIC code getting their machines to do their bidding. It was the OTHER Steve who wanted to make machines anyone could use.
Given up? I wouldn't say that. Simply put there isn't anything glamorous happening in the world of BSD from a sensationalist point of view. And lets face it, most of the BSD headlines just aren't that interesting. I mean what is there to say about one of the BSDs moving to GCC 3x?
SGI is a company that MS has every reason in the world to want to crush.
Actually I'd say that MS would want the opposite, to keep SGI in the game as long as possible. They are certainly a traditional unix vendor in that they tend to have very expensive and often lagging hardware. And IRIX itself has been lagging in many areas. MS can easily cite this as a "weakness" in Unix and coax those currently on it to move towards cheaper MS solutions.
The worst thing that could happen is that SGI goes under and suddenly orphans SGI customers. Instead of a gradual MS padded transition, now suddenly people cry out for a Unix solution and without a doubt Linux graphics workstations start gaining development rapidly. Even worse is that Linux can do everything from cheap cluster, to uber graphics workstation with hardly any retooling. Keeping some people on the SGI train and off of the Linux train is probably in their best interest. But as SGI gets deeper into Linux, it just might be better to snuff them out as well - but if SGI does stuff like introducint Unix code into Linux and messing everything up farther... it's probably a safer bet to let them live on and muddle things up as long as possible.