Everything looks pretty tasty but currently the driver for the TNT2 chipset doesn't perform very well. The situation is being worked on. Right now 3dfx chipsets have the best support but are pretty much maxed out potential wise. I would suggest looking at Matrox G400 instead. Matrox has been very good about releasing specs and the current driver outperforms the TNT2 in terms of framerate by a considerable amount.
Another car analogy but this time nobody gets hurt.
1981 Caddy Eldorado with v6. These cars ping. It is well documented that there is nothing you can do about it This was an expensive car that has driveability problems. Got tons of bells and whistles but the only thing you can do when it's pinging (which can burn a hole in a piston, not a cheap repair) is turn the radio up. That or put in a different motor (also not cheap).
Let's face it, there is no such thing as a good analogy but to nitpick because nobody dies from macro viruses is delusional.
I'm not disputing that there is an apparent double standard but the problems with macro viruses aren't due to bugs. The problems are caused by "features". Features of dubious value which were implemented with disregard for security.
To make a car analogy.....
Rear hatch on early Chysler minivan. Bug... latch was poorly designed
Suicide doors on 62 Lincoln.... Feature... Meant to look good but an inherently unsafe design.
The latch on the minivan can be modified to perform as expected No matter what you do to a suicide doors (short of welding them shut) they are unsafe.
err.. In case anybody is too young to know, suicide doors open backwards
That got me thinking about what they expect from the manual. I mean, just think about how big a _complete_ printed_ manual would be. You'd have to have a forklift!
I suppose it never occurred to them to look on the first CD for docs.
Raptor does it? It just goes to show you, you can't make a decent firewall with one machine. I thought it was humourous that they felt they needed to put it on a dual pentium 450. I guess thats what happens when your "security experts" are really salesmen.
Actually on a system such as these that has a narrow range of hardware and a limited potential for expansion there is no reason that an end user would be recompiling a kernel. Anybody that says Linux isn't suitable as a consumer operating system either
A) Never used it B) hasn't used it in the last 2 years or C) has an interest in preserving the status quo.
I gave my 10 y.o. nephew a linux box about 6 months ago. He uses it everyday... the kid is hardly a geek. Likewise his mom and the rest of the family. As a matter of fact I'm giving one to his oldest sister, who, until _she_ used it, thought she had to have a windows box. KDE is the key here. Interestingly enough ppp is easier to set up under KDE than under MacOS.... For the record I have nothing against Gnome (actually I prefer certain Gnome utils) but right this very second KDE is more mature.
When _I_ were a lad........
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$200 Linux PCs
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Mac LC?!?!? I used to use a Mac Classic (7Mhz 68000 processor) with 4 megs of ram,a 50 meg HD, integrated 9 inch B&W monitor and a 9600 baud modem with Lynx or if I was feeling adventurous NCSA Mosaic. Still have that box...makes a great sequencer.....
Get IPs out of the argument. We all know how easy it is to spoof IP information. The issue here is the physical connection. ......At some point...it all tracks back to a unique MAC address....
The only router thats going to be dealing with a MAC address relevant to the source of said spoofed packets is going to be the connection from the sources ISP to the upstream provider. If this router is configured to drop outgoing packets with external source addresses it takes care of spoofing.
Consider the following: (I'll use private IP's for demonstration purposes. Assume for the sake of argument they are registered #'s)
Evile.net uses class C addresses on their internal system, lets say 192.168.1.0 for customers and 192.168.100.0 for their internal backbone
User 31337GoD@Evile.net decides to launch a smurf attack using/. as the source IP The header of said packet says it originates @ 209.207.224.40 When the packet hits Evile.nets gateway to the rest of the world, the gateway, if its configured as a packet filter that checks for IP spoofing, will see an external IP addy on an _internal_ interface and drop said packet instead of pass it out of the world interface.
So if you wanted to truly reverse DoS 1.2.3.4 then you would either have to A) spoof the attack to a huge number of routers that you know 1.2.3.4 connects through... Or use a source routed packet, of course you'd want to pick a route composed of improperly configured routers, but if you know what you're doing you would have a list of malconfigured routers.
Anyway the point being that if the present technology was used to its best potential the 'net would be a much better place.
Ok, what about people who collect weapons for their historical significance or in appreciation of their form and the craftsmanship that goes into their construction?
Personally, I feel that _all_ firearms, _including_and_especially_ those in the inventories of governments and law enforcement would need to be eliminated for gun control to be effective. Considering this is a highly unlikely scenario, I'll take the option of being able to own a gun, thank you very much.
Sure, guns, or more specifically gun ownership != freedom but gun control steps on _my_ freedom and thats not what the founding fathers of the U.S. died for.
FWIW the "teenager in an urban wasteland" can kill you just the same with the razor blade tucked between his cheek and gum. The problem isn't the tools available, it's the state of peoples minds.
If the U.S. had no gun control whatsoever, perhaps the government wouldn't be so brain dead with regard to crypto.
I'm not a gun owner _or_ an NRA member (or even a libertarian) but I respect individuals rights to live as they see fit.
Should a general really be concerned about TCP stack bugs?
If the life of his troops are at risk.
Should a general even know that his computer has a TCP stack?
FWIW to be a Officer in the US military requires a higher education. I don't think it would be beyond their comprehension. You will agree that the General needs to know if his tanks are deisel powered or gas turbine. Likewise what caliber shells his artillery requires.
Now should the General be able to _code_ his own TCP/IP stack? It would be nice if he could do it himself, but he's a General, he can delegate the work. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and make a comparison. During the Viet Nam war soldiers were issued the, at the time, new M-16 rifle. The M-16 was well designed and tested. However the testing and design didn't take into account the tropical conditions of south east asia. The result was more than a few soldiers losing their lives because corrosion caused their arms to misfire. This was corrected by nickel plating the chamber. Guns that were already issued were modified by military machinists.
...Microsoft has been considering making some of its software products open source for two years."
Two years, eh? That's a real good license. I'm just dying to work on code that's open for 2 years.
I beleive you may have misinterpreted that. IMHO he was saying they have been considering it for two years already. People are getting clueful... a certain company is in for a good hard spanking.
1) Tell them it is not _really_ RedHat, and they don't support it. (Incidentally hurting there image as providing good customer support), or 2) Provide the support for something they are not making revenues off of, which makes costs them money.
I sincerely doubt that #2 is even an option. Red Hat has a responsibility to support their product but if a user didn't buy from them, or a duly authorized agent, the user isn't entitled to support.
If somebody finds themself in a situation where they feel they got burned because Red Hat will not give them support on a product they _did_not_buy_ from them, that person has 2 options
1)Blame the person they bought it from. 2)Blame themself for being a poor consumer.
Besides, RHATs stockholders cannot allow the company to give free support. Open Source is a new thing for people, in time they will learn the subtleties.
I got a laugh out of that. Obviously RedHat does have influence over the general publics perception of what Linux is, but C|Net could have phrased the headline of the article to be more in line with reality.
Service Electric Cable TV in eastern pennsylvania has a channel with 24/7 view of the earth from space. No sound, no commercials, just land, sea, and sky. Dunno if its live or canned, but it's nice.
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And a _Diamond_ Viper 770 is for serious professional users?
Linux needs to lead the way and jump on the IEE 1394 bandwagon.
Dunno about leading the way, but the kernel that ships with SuSE 6.3 has Firewire rolled in. Just thought I'd mention it.
I've got my Athlon 500 running at 800MHz, and it smokes.
I'm sure it does
Everything looks pretty tasty but currently the
driver for the TNT2 chipset doesn't perform very well.
The situation is being worked on.
Right now 3dfx chipsets have the best support but are pretty much maxed out potential wise.
I would suggest looking at Matrox G400 instead.
Matrox has been very good about releasing specs
and the current driver outperforms the TNT2 in terms of framerate by a considerable amount.
Another car analogy but this time nobody gets hurt.
1981 Caddy Eldorado with v6. These cars ping.
It is well documented that there is nothing you can do about it
This was an expensive car that has driveability problems. Got tons of bells and whistles but the only thing you can do when it's pinging (which can burn a hole in a piston, not a cheap repair) is turn the radio up. That or put in a different motor (also not cheap).
Let's face it, there is no such thing as a good analogy
but to nitpick because nobody dies from macro viruses
is delusional.
I'm not disputing that there is an apparent double standard but the problems with macro viruses aren't due to bugs. The problems are caused by "features". Features of dubious value which were implemented with disregard for security.
To make a car analogy.....
Rear hatch on early Chysler minivan. Bug...
latch was poorly designed
Suicide doors on 62 Lincoln.... Feature...
Meant to look good but an inherently unsafe design.
The latch on the minivan can be modified to perform as expected
No matter what you do to a suicide doors (short of welding them shut) they are unsafe.
err.. In case anybody is too young to know, suicide doors open backwards
do I really need a hardcopy manual, really?
That got me thinking about what they expect from the manual.
I mean, just think about how big a _complete_ printed_ manual would be.
You'd have to have a forklift!
I suppose it never occurred to them to look on
the first CD for docs.
Clarica!?! Isn't that for genital acne?
disinformation to me. Let's see.... wasn't there a story about Linux becoming China's "official" OS not too long ago?
Linux == Commie OS.
China == Cyber-threat
ergo...
Linux is a communist weapon to destroy the Free World (tm)
I don't know if I should write a letter to the editor
or do more bongs...
you can't beat it for desktop machines when you're bandwidth impaired.
When its time to be lean and mean though Debian's the ticket.
Hmm... Wonder how much an OC3 costs a month
you do have the masquerading box set as the default gateway on the "masqueradee", right?
What's the output of route -n?
Raptor does it? It just goes to show you, you can't make a decent firewall with one machine. I thought it was humourous that they felt they needed to put it on a dual pentium 450. I guess thats what happens when your "security experts" are really salesmen.
Actually on a system such as these that has a narrow range of hardware and a limited potential for expansion there is no reason that an end user would be recompiling a kernel. Anybody that says Linux isn't suitable as a consumer operating system either
A) Never used it
B) hasn't used it in the last 2 years
or
C) has an interest in preserving the status quo.
I gave my 10 y.o. nephew a linux box about 6 months ago. He uses it everyday... the kid is hardly a geek. Likewise his mom and the rest of the family. As a matter of fact I'm giving one to his oldest sister, who, until _she_ used it, thought she had to have a windows box. KDE is the key here. Interestingly enough ppp is easier to set up under KDE than under MacOS.... For the record I have nothing against Gnome (actually I prefer certain Gnome utils) but right this very second KDE is more mature.
Mac LC?!?!? I used to use a Mac Classic (7Mhz 68000 processor) with 4 megs of ram ,a 50 meg HD, integrated 9 inch B&W monitor and a 9600 baud modem with Lynx or if I was feeling adventurous NCSA Mosaic. Still have that box...makes a great sequencer.....
Its a matter of latency, not throughput. More bandwidth doesn't compensate for processing time.
I feel I know you somehow...
Get IPs out of the argument. We all know how
easy it is to spoof IP information. The issue here
is the physical connection.
......At some point...it all tracks back to a unique MAC address....
The only router thats going to be dealing with a MAC address relevant to the source of said spoofed packets is going to be the connection from the sources ISP to the upstream provider. If this router is configured to drop outgoing packets with external source addresses it takes care of spoofing.
Consider the following:
(I'll use private IP's for demonstration purposes.
Assume for the sake of argument they are registered #'s)
Evile.net uses class C addresses on their internal system,
lets say 192.168.1.0 for customers and 192.168.100.0 for their internal backbone
User 31337GoD@Evile.net decides to launch a smurf attack using
The header of said packet says it originates @ 209.207.224.40
When the packet hits Evile.nets gateway to the rest of the world, the gateway, if its configured as a packet filter that checks for IP spoofing, will see an external IP addy on an _internal_ interface and drop said packet instead of pass it out of the world interface.
So if you wanted to truly reverse DoS 1.2.3.4 then you would either have to A) spoof the attack to a huge number of routers that you know 1.2.3.4 connects through...
Or use a source routed packet, of course you'd want to pick a route composed of improperly configured routers, but if you know what you're doing you would have a list of malconfigured routers.
Anyway the point being that if the present technology was used to its best potential the 'net would be a much better place.
it's the way you said it. If you're tone wasn't so
venomous you would have gotten an "Interesting"
or maybe even "Informative", I'll bet.
Please tell me you don't run X on a firewall.
Not even on the interior router.... please?
Ok, what about people who collect weapons for their historical significance or in appreciation of their form and the craftsmanship that goes into their construction?
Personally, I feel that _all_ firearms, _including_and_especially_ those in the inventories of governments and law enforcement would need to be eliminated for gun control to be effective. Considering this is a highly unlikely scenario, I'll take the option of being able to own a gun, thank you very much.
Sure, guns, or more specifically gun ownership != freedom but gun control steps on _my_ freedom and thats not what the founding fathers of the U.S. died for.
FWIW the "teenager in an urban wasteland" can kill you just the same with the razor blade tucked between his cheek and gum. The problem isn't the tools available, it's the state of peoples minds.
If the U.S. had no gun control whatsoever, perhaps the government wouldn't be so brain dead with regard to crypto.
I'm not a gun owner _or_ an NRA member (or even a libertarian) but I respect individuals rights to live as they see fit.
Should a general really be concerned about TCP stack bugs?
If the life of his troops are at risk.
Should a general even know that his computer has a TCP stack?
FWIW to be a Officer in the US military requires a higher education. I don't think it would be beyond their comprehension. You will agree that the General needs to know if his tanks are deisel powered or gas turbine. Likewise what caliber shells his artillery requires.
Now should the General be able to _code_ his own TCP/IP stack?
It would be nice if he could do it himself, but he's a General, he can delegate the work.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and make a comparison.
During the Viet Nam war soldiers were issued the, at the time, new M-16 rifle.
The M-16 was well designed and tested. However the testing and design didn't take into account the tropical conditions of south east asia. The result was more than a few soldiers losing their lives because corrosion caused their arms to misfire. This was corrected by nickel plating the chamber. Guns that were already issued were modified by military machinists.
...Microsoft has been considering making some
of its software products open source for two years."
Two years, eh? That's a real good license. I'm just dying to work on code that's open for 2 years.
I beleive you may have misinterpreted that.
IMHO he was saying they have been considering it for two years already.
People are getting clueful... a certain company is in for a good hard spanking.
1) Tell them it is not _really_ RedHat, and they don't support it. (Incidentally hurting
there image as providing good customer support), or
2) Provide the support for something they are not making revenues off of, which
makes costs them money.
I sincerely doubt that #2 is even an option.
Red Hat has a responsibility to support their product
but if a user didn't buy from them, or a duly
authorized agent, the user isn't entitled to support.
If somebody finds themself in a situation where
they feel they got burned because Red Hat will not
give them support on a product they _did_not_buy_ from them,
that person has 2 options
1)Blame the person they bought it from.
2)Blame themself for being a poor consumer.
Besides, RHATs stockholders cannot allow the company to give free support.
Open Source is a new thing for people, in time they will learn the subtleties.
I got a laugh out of that. Obviously RedHat does have influence over the general publics perception of what Linux is, but C|Net could have phrased the headline of the article to be more in line with reality.
heheh.. now I don't feel so bad. ;-p
Well done, all around, Bruce.
Service Electric Cable TV in eastern pennsylvania has a channel with 24/7 view of the earth from space. No sound, no commercials, just land, sea, and sky. Dunno if its live or canned, but it's nice.