In light of the recent RPC issues that Microsoft has been having with the RPC protocol, I thought that this email, from 1995, might be of some(perhaps humourous ) interest. Won't this darned RPC die a graceful death? rpc-comments N.B I realize that this refers to the SUN implementation of RPC, and not Microsofts extension/abortion/implementation. N.B.B. reprinted without permission... N.B.B.B. I don't much like/. "junk" filter
I apologize, in advance, for my possible ignorange. But, I was going along, just fine, reading the RMS interview(with my RMS/zealot filters on) when I came across this: "Today I would recommend GNU/LinEx, the distribution prepared by the government of Extremadura, because that's the only installable distribution that consists entirely of free software." I'm sorry, but where or, wtf is the governmment of extramadura??? A ggogle search brings up links in Espanol, and me, being the ignorant AWM, cannot understand their content. Can someone please elucidate upon this preivously unknown country, or heretofore unrecognized goverment leader? I'm fairly well versed in geogrpahy and in some areas of politice; but, this has me stumped. Is it somewhere near erewon??
Most of the "uber-geeks" will probably just stop on this link bash_history >>/dev/null
and not even bother with pages that give a users actual history file.
Well, the Franklin Institute may be nice. However, I would recommend the Mutter Museum The Mutter Museum. Apparently, they might still give tours from Monday thru Friday. A brief decription is necessary:
The Museum's collections include over 20,000 objects, including fluid-preserved anatomical and pathological specimens, medical instruments, anatomical and pathological models, items of memorabilia of famous scientists and physicians, and medical illustrations.
Definitely a must see for the geek with the macabre bent. As an art student, I would venture down there on luch breaks, and marvel at the varnished display of the entire development cycle of the chicken from foetus to develpoed chick as well as the beautiful wax casts of "mutants" with what appeared to be tree stumps growing out of their forehead. Joel-Peter Witken and Trent Reznor, eat your heart out, you ain't got nothing on the Mutter Museum! Also, there is the Barnes Foundation Barnes Foundation, which has THE best collection of Impressionist/Post_impressionist painting this side of the pond. Up until 1990, or so, this collection was never seen outside of the museum. No photgraphs, no postcards. You had to go to the actual building to see literally dozens of Monet, Manet, Soutine, Cezanne, etc hanging within inches of each other on walss 50 feet long and 15 feet high. Truly awe inspiring. And, finally, there is the Masonic Temple Masonic Temple, which has a whole lot of random architecural styles packed into a fully overblown space. But, remember, on the tour, don't ask what they actually "do" in those spaces. I actually got escorted off of a public tour for asking the tour guide too many "distracting questions(n.b. This was 1987 and I had just finished reading R.A.W's Illuminati Trilogy. go figure:-) Oh, and The Rodin Museum, One of the larget collections of Duchamp, the largest ratio of abandoned building to local populus, some of the best cheeseteaks, and really boring historical tours and The Mummer's who are a basically a bunch of dunkin Philly rednecks. Go figure.
Um, no, they haven't necessarily been moving jobs overseas. What they have been doing, at least for the past, oh, at least 7 to ten years have been taking existing technology centers and investing in those areas. Sure, I can't talk specifics about whether they are helping the local communities, blah, blah, blah. But they have spent a great deal of time, money and, resources overseas for particular development efforts. In particluar, I'm thinking of Haifa where a great deal of the steelhead router(I can't recall the actual product name) development and testing. Also, Hyderabad, and Mumbai were being used mainly as localization development center for much of SE Asia. That is not to say that it isn't original development, its merely an extension of existing product lines. Of course MS wants to make money; but I really think that you should get your facts (if you have any) straight before making non-sensical claims as you have.
---I don't know, I had a point and lost it somewhere between Haifa and Mumbai. Oh yeah, those greedy M$ bastards should stop outsourcing there XP development to Pakistan because the U.S developers are doing such a good job with the code, in the good US of A. Dammit!
Well, I would hope that if one is running a shop with a large quantity of Cisco boxes, one would have taken the neceesary time to lock down these boxes to prevent unnecessary access to them. Whether it means stting up ACLs at the edge of your network to prevent bogus/unauthorixed access to the devices/interfaces, or ACLs on the boxen themselves this should have been done a loong time ago. Granted you don't want an excessive (or any, for that matter) ACLs on your core router. A good engineer, IMNSHO would have limited up the amount of amount of protocols/sources accpeted by critical pieces of infrastructure. As an aside, what is a good time to release the exploit into the wild? What if the exploit was exploited _prior_ to Cisco getting the word out on the recommended fix? Would you have preferred 72 hours, or maybe after you returned from your summer vacation;-)
I suppose I could just go look it up, but did Linus really start working for Transmeta six years ago? I wasn't reading Slashdot six years ago,...
I know that I'm nit-picking; but, since this is/., it's seems appropriate. If you weren't reading/. six years ago, how did you get such a low user ID? buy it off ebay?
Re:This is a fluff article.
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Not only is it a fluff article, it was technically incorrect and seemed intent on perpetuating more mindless post 9/11 fear-mongering pap.
Verisign operating much of the Internet's infrastructure??? Please, spare me.
So, the article concludes that Google and Wi-Fi will bring the world together in omniscience all the while there are dark forces at work plotting to destroy us.
After reading this op-ed piece, The World Weekly news or the Onion seems a more credible source for gaining insights into world perspectives........gak....too much coffee.....
Perhaps once they publish the offending bits, the Linux community will assist in ferreting out the "Many Linux contributors were originally UNIX developers who had access to UNIX source code distributed by AT&T and were subject to confidentiality agreements, including confidentiality of the methods and concepts involved in software design."
I've always been partial to the title of 'Protocol Stud',myself. That with the tagline 'If you weren't so fucked up, you wouldn't need me.' always netted me th emost lucrative contracts...
"If it is indeed true that Microsoft was running on Xenix up until Windows 3.1, it casts an interesting light on how flexible Bill's vision of the future was right up until the early 90s."
If I recall correctly, the last Xenix server on the MS corporate backbone was removed in late 96- early 1997. Primarily, they were used as Internet gateways, running Sendmail. Also , they functioned as internal gateways between MSMail and Exchange while the company converted everyone over to having personal mailboxes on an Exchange server. While we tried to get some improvements made to applications running on the Xenix boxes, rumour had it that no one could develop these apps, since the source code had been lost somewhere on campus. Also, this is why they couldn't sell the OS to another company.....c'est la vie
Look, With every articale like this, we have a chance to respond to the ignorant morans who choose to perpetuate this sort of nonsense. Write them, an inform them of the idiacy that they perpetuate. I think we can make a difference, if we embarrass them, enough
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In light of the recent RPC issues that Microsoft has been having with the RPC protocol, I thought that this email, from 1995, might be of some(perhaps humourous ) interest. Won't this darned RPC die a graceful death? /. "junk" filter
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N.B I realize that this refers to the SUN implementation of RPC, and not Microsofts extension/abortion/implementation.
N.B.B. reprinted without permission...
N.B.B.B. I don't much like
Did all of the subscribers from Fark migrate to /. while I slept last night???
I apologize, in advance, for my possible ignorange. But, I was going along, just fine, reading the RMS interview(with my RMS/zealot filters on) when I came across this: "Today I would recommend GNU/LinEx, the distribution prepared by the government of Extremadura, because that's the only installable distribution that consists entirely of free software."
I'm sorry, but where or, wtf is the governmment of extramadura??? A ggogle search brings up links in Espanol, and me, being the ignorant AWM, cannot understand their content. Can someone please elucidate upon this preivously unknown country, or heretofore unrecognized goverment leader? I'm fairly well versed in geogrpahy and in some areas of politice; but, this has me stumped. Is it somewhere near erewon??
Most of the "uber-geeks" will probably just stop on this link bash_history >> /dev/null
and not even bother with pages that give a users actual history file.
Definitely a must see for the geek with the macabre bent. As an art student, I would venture down there on luch breaks, and marvel at the varnished display of the entire development cycle of the chicken from foetus to develpoed chick as well as the beautiful wax casts of "mutants" with what appeared to be tree stumps growing out of their forehead. Joel-Peter Witken and Trent Reznor, eat your heart out, you ain't got nothing on the Mutter Museum!
Also, there is the Barnes Foundation Barnes Foundation, which has THE best collection of Impressionist/Post_impressionist painting this side of the pond. Up until 1990, or so, this collection was never seen outside of the museum. No photgraphs, no postcards. You had to go to the actual building to see literally dozens of Monet, Manet, Soutine, Cezanne, etc hanging within inches of each other on walss 50 feet long and 15 feet high. Truly awe inspiring. And, finally, there is the Masonic Temple Masonic Temple, which has a whole lot of random architecural styles packed into a fully overblown space. But, remember, on the tour, don't ask what they actually "do" in those spaces. I actually got escorted off of a public tour for asking the tour guide too many "distracting questions(n.b. This was 1987 and I had just finished reading R.A.W's Illuminati Trilogy. go figure:-)
Oh, and The Rodin Museum, One of the larget collections of Duchamp, the largest ratio of abandoned building to local populus, some of the best cheeseteaks, and really boring historical tours and The Mummer's who are a basically a bunch of dunkin Philly rednecks. Go figure.
Um, no, they haven't necessarily been moving jobs overseas. What they have been doing, at least for the past, oh, at least 7 to ten years have been taking existing technology centers and investing in those areas. Sure, I can't talk specifics about whether they are helping the local communities, blah, blah, blah. But they have spent a great deal of time, money and, resources overseas for particular development efforts. In particluar, I'm thinking of Haifa where a great deal of the steelhead router(I can't recall the actual product name) development and testing. Also, Hyderabad, and Mumbai were being used mainly as localization development center for much of SE Asia. That is not to say that it isn't original development, its merely an extension of existing product lines. Of course MS wants to make money; but I really think that you should get your facts (if you have any) straight before making non-sensical claims as you have.
---I don't know, I had a point and lost it somewhere between Haifa and Mumbai. Oh yeah, those greedy M$ bastards should stop outsourcing there XP development to Pakistan because the U.S developers are doing such a good job with the code, in the good US of A. Dammit!
For those of you who aren't familiar with Bastille, check out it site at Bastille Linux site They have links for Redhat, Debian distors as well as HP-UX and Mac OS X.
There is also some info out at Bastille-Linux Scripts to Secure Linux and HP-UX
Now, I'll never get to sleep tonight. First the cisco bug, now this....
Well, I would hope that if one is running a shop with a large quantity of Cisco boxes, one would have taken the neceesary time to lock down these boxes to prevent unnecessary access to them. Whether it means stting up ACLs at the edge of your network to prevent bogus/unauthorixed access to the devices/interfaces, or ACLs on the boxen themselves this should have been done a loong time ago. Granted you don't want an excessive (or any, for that matter) ACLs on your core router. A good engineer, IMNSHO would have limited up the amount of amount of protocols/sources accpeted by critical pieces of infrastructure. ;-)
As an aside, what is a good time to release the exploit into the wild? What if the exploit was exploited _prior_ to Cisco getting the word out on the recommended fix? Would you have preferred 72 hours, or maybe after you returned from your summer vacation
I suppose I could just go look it up, but did Linus really start working for Transmeta six years ago? I wasn't reading Slashdot six years ago,...
/., it's seems appropriate. If you weren't reading /. six years ago, how did you get such a low user ID? buy it off ebay?
I know that I'm nit-picking; but, since this is
Not only is it a fluff article, it was technically incorrect and seemed intent on perpetuating more mindless post 9/11 fear-mongering pap.
....gak....too much coffee.....
Verisign operating much of the Internet's infrastructure??? Please, spare me.
So, the article concludes that Google and Wi-Fi will bring the world together in omniscience all the while there are dark forces at work plotting to destroy us.
After reading this op-ed piece, The World Weekly news or the Onion seems a more credible source for gaining insights into world perspectives....
Perhaps once they publish the offending bits, the Linux community will assist in ferreting out the "Many Linux contributors were originally UNIX developers who had access to UNIX source code distributed by AT&T and were subject to confidentiality agreements, including confidentiality of the methods and concepts involved in software design."
I've always been partial to the title of 'Protocol Stud',myself. That with the tagline 'If you weren't so fucked up, you wouldn't need me.' always netted me th emost lucrative contracts...
"If it is indeed true that Microsoft was running on Xenix up until Windows 3.1, it casts an interesting light on how flexible Bill's vision of the future was right up until the early 90s."
If I recall correctly, the last Xenix server on the MS corporate backbone was removed in late 96- early 1997. Primarily, they were used as Internet gateways, running Sendmail. Also , they functioned as internal gateways between MSMail and Exchange while the company converted everyone over to having personal mailboxes on an Exchange server.
While we tried to get some improvements made to applications running on the Xenix boxes, rumour had it that no one could develop these apps, since the source code had been lost somewhere on campus. Also, this is why they couldn't sell the OS to another company.....c'est la vie
Nice that they started off with a lawsuit instead of actually tring to dicuss the matter woth the so called "offending" party. Shut them down
Look, With every articale like this, we have a chance to respond to the ignorant morans who choose to perpetuate this sort of nonsense.
Write them, an inform them of the idiacy that they perpetuate. I think we can make a difference, if we embarrass them, enough