'd be very grateful for nothing more than a README file, in/etc, for each application and service that tells what the files are named and what they do. Is that so much to ask?
To me that would be pointless. There should be a man page for each file in/etc. For the most part there is, but I was able to find a few that don't have them. A separate README file would just led to more out of data documentation.
Of course you could do something silly like this:
#!/bin/csh foreach f (/etc/*.conf) man $f >/etc/README.$f if ($status != 0)/bin/rm -f/etc/README.$f end
Jonathan Adelstein is a commissioner. Kevin Martin replaced Michael Powell as chairman. I think he'll be worse, since he was critical of Powell for not being tough enough on indecency.
Doesn't OpenBSD still install 'ftpd' by default? Although it is not turned 'on', the fact is it is still on the file system ready for exploit and requires rigoriously patched unless you take steps to remove it. Doesn't this seem like a dubious definition?
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
We could argue all day about this one, but it has nothing to do with security. It's only about the definitions of "sound" and "secure".
Nothing says power to the people like the people being able to build anything we want ourselves.
Except even with this you wouldn't be able to legally make anything you wanted, because copyrights and patents still exist. It's sort of like getting a CD burner and saying, "Now I can burn anything I want."
While not perfect results, a 50% decrease in the number of users giving away their password is a victory. Hopefully in a few years it will be down to 10%.
I don't agree. With a clear policy and good training a 35% failure rate is way to high. Clearly they've failed to fix this problem in the last four years. One thing also missing is the number of people who reported the hacking attempt. I'd like to see a majority of those called reporting it. Otherwise it doesn't matter what percentage fall for the trick, because you'll never get that to zero.
At least, there's no way of them detecting if someone is receiving TV signals.
I don't know if detector vans exist or not, but
you can even tell which frequency someone is tuned to. Mobiltrak does this for FM radio. This is because of the design of radios, it's hard to make them so they don't leak the local oscillator.
I'm sad to say my first reaction to reading this, "No, it won't. Didn't you read the article." This stuff is very thin and once dry it wouldn't absorb much RF. It only took another second for me to realize it was a joke. Anyway, don't most Slashdotters want to block all RF from leaving their domicile? If I want to receive RF, I'll put up a Pringles can.
So how do you read that old MFM drive you used for archival?
I think I still have a computer that can read an MFM drive.
A quick search shows, "Compaq began selling PCs with integrated hard disks using Western Digital controllers starting with their IBM-compatible Deskpro 386 in 1986." Ok, I guess I didn't make it clear. I don't use hard disks for archive, just data transfer. Final archives are normally on tape.
I have to admit you did catch me. My 10 year old removable drives are SCSI. We added removable IDE five years ago. I haven't had one of those fail either.
I still stand behind my claim that properly stored IDE drives last a lot longer than those used 24/7 inside computers. I never claimed they were a good way to archive data.
I think DVDs are a hell of a lot more reliable than HDs
I find DVDs are much more reliable, once written. I have yet to find a long-term reliable DVD or CD writing solution. Yes, I can buy high quality drives and high quality disks, but I still get spindles with write problems. At home I just use cheap disks and find I'm saving money by tossing out spindles that don't work. It bothers me that sometimes I get no errors on writing, but get errors on reading.
Anyway, I have yet to find a reliable way to write CDs and DVDs. I'd love to use them more, but still use removable hard drives and tape instead.
BTW, IDE hard drives last a lot longer stored in proper conditions than they last during regular use. I have a set of removables that are close to 10 years old and not a single one has failed, while I have a RAID that's a few years old and half the disks have been replaced. Still, I never archive data on hard disks.
I'm not sure it would have been obvious to anyone that they had been spammed because they had subscribed to the Spamalot mailing list.
It would be obvious to anyone like me who uses a unique e-mail address for each purpose. Since I didn't sign up for Spamalot, I don't know if it was harvested or now.
I went to the comment section thinking, "Serves them right." It hadn't occurred to me that some people might not be guilty. I'd hope Harvard plans to do this with some kind of due process, including an appeal process. I'd be very surprised and disappointed if they didn't allow people to appeal. I'm sure most of these people did it from a traceable IP address, never imagining they might get caught. I'd suggest blaming it on your sister.
False alarms are a huge problem with any detection system. I had a coworker stopped while entering the U.S. because they detected explosive residue. He'd been working with explosives for months. The residue level was so high they couldn't get the machine clean again. It kept detecting explosives without any sample. It cost a lot of people a lot of time to verify that he was safe.
hard search? pretty shitty search, maybe try a soft search next time.
I see you still haven't fixed your shift key. Can't afford the $10 for a new keyboard?
smart gives sometimes shifty results.
Of course, but it's easy to check if something is really wrong. So far, I've never had a false warning, but I can't get SMART support on most of my drives, so they fail with no warning.
this guy should know quite easily if he's emachine is overheating or not
No kidding. My laptop cooling fan doesn't even run full time when I'm at 100% cpu load.
I'll take a look at speedfan. I probably missed it because I didn't search for "S.M.A.R.T.".
There have been lots of good replies here, but so far no one has talked about SMART. SMART has warned me of serious hard disk problems before a crisis a number of times. I did a hard search and the only SMART monitoring program I could find for Windows has been spammed on USENET. I won't buy from spammers.
Are you trolling or do you really not know that the atmosphere is in motion and constantly mixing? I would think anyone who has seen a weather report would know that.
They measure lead levels in ice cores from Antarctica. The levels of lead reflect the rise and fall of Rome and the start of the industrial revolution. No, there weren't any Romans in Antarctica either.
MDF pays for marketing and pays for retail shelf space.
You can see how is taking these "kick-backs". The marketing part requires "Intel Inside" on TV commercials. Next time you hear that music, you'll know what's up.
No, no. You have it all wrong. Dvorak doesn't think anything. He has to keep writing trolling articles like these, just to remain relevant in the IT industry, when in fact, he no longer is.
Yea, it's pretty amazing. His whole "insightful" article comes out of hearing someone ran Linux under Windows. I guess he never knew it's already been done (VMware, qemu, etc). Nor does he seem to understand the difference between Linux the kernel and the rest of the OS. Cygwin provides more GNU user land utilities, yet I still choose to run Linux.
The thing is, he's fun to read. You never know what kind of moronic thing he'll say next. I think of him as the talk radio of tech.
BTW, when was he ever relevant? I remember him being a clueless troll 20 years ago when he wrote for Byte.
What protects consumers from fraudulent merchants waving some kind of electronic cash-sucking wand by your back pocket which contains your wallet which contains your RFID Visa card?
The same exact thing that protects you from having a merchant missuse your credit card number. You have to check your bill and write a written complaint. You don't pay a penny and each complaint costs the merchant an extra charge. Too many could start a fraud investigation, but from what I hear the companies usually don't bother.
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You tell us. You just made another porn comment. So, what's wrong with you?
To me that would be pointless. There should be a man page for each file in /etc. For the most part there is, but I was able to find a few that don't have them. A separate README file would just led to more out of data documentation.
Of course you could do something silly like this:
Jonathan Adelstein is a commissioner. Kevin Martin replaced Michael Powell as chairman. I think he'll be worse, since he was critical of Powell for not being tough enough on indecency.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
We could argue all day about this one, but it has nothing to do with security. It's only about the definitions of "sound" and "secure".
Except even with this you wouldn't be able to legally make anything you wanted, because copyrights and patents still exist. It's sort of like getting a CD burner and saying, "Now I can burn anything I want."
I don't agree. With a clear policy and good training a 35% failure rate is way to high. Clearly they've failed to fix this problem in the last four years. One thing also missing is the number of people who reported the hacking attempt. I'd like to see a majority of those called reporting it. Otherwise it doesn't matter what percentage fall for the trick, because you'll never get that to zero.
I don't know if detector vans exist or not, but you can even tell which frequency someone is tuned to. Mobiltrak does this for FM radio. This is because of the design of radios, it's hard to make them so they don't leak the local oscillator.
He also called Unix an application, but at least he knows about "securifying".
I'm sad to say my first reaction to reading this, "No, it won't. Didn't you read the article." This stuff is very thin and once dry it wouldn't absorb much RF. It only took another second for me to realize it was a joke. Anyway, don't most Slashdotters want to block all RF from leaving their domicile? If I want to receive RF, I'll put up a Pringles can.
I wish the police would put a large flash device in my car!
I think I still have a computer that can read an MFM drive. A quick search shows, "Compaq began selling PCs with integrated hard disks using Western Digital controllers starting with their IBM-compatible Deskpro 386 in 1986." Ok, I guess I didn't make it clear. I don't use hard disks for archive, just data transfer. Final archives are normally on tape.
I have to admit you did catch me. My 10 year old removable drives are SCSI. We added removable IDE five years ago. I haven't had one of those fail either.
I still stand behind my claim that properly stored IDE drives last a lot longer than those used 24/7 inside computers. I never claimed they were a good way to archive data.
I find DVDs are much more reliable, once written. I have yet to find a long-term reliable DVD or CD writing solution. Yes, I can buy high quality drives and high quality disks, but I still get spindles with write problems. At home I just use cheap disks and find I'm saving money by tossing out spindles that don't work. It bothers me that sometimes I get no errors on writing, but get errors on reading.
Anyway, I have yet to find a reliable way to write CDs and DVDs. I'd love to use them more, but still use removable hard drives and tape instead.
BTW, IDE hard drives last a lot longer stored in proper conditions than they last during regular use. I have a set of removables that are close to 10 years old and not a single one has failed, while I have a RAID that's a few years old and half the disks have been replaced. Still, I never archive data on hard disks.
I'm just wishing people would learn to separate horror from science fiction. The SciFi channel runs horror shows (like John Edward Crossing Over).
It would be obvious to anyone like me who uses a unique e-mail address for each purpose. Since I didn't sign up for Spamalot, I don't know if it was harvested or now.
It also doesn't include the large percentage of people who followed all the rules and are denied a rebate.
I went to the comment section thinking, "Serves them right." It hadn't occurred to me that some people might not be guilty. I'd hope Harvard plans to do this with some kind of due process, including an appeal process. I'd be very surprised and disappointed if they didn't allow people to appeal. I'm sure most of these people did it from a traceable IP address, never imagining they might get caught. I'd suggest blaming it on your sister.
False alarms are a huge problem with any detection system. I had a coworker stopped while entering the U.S. because they detected explosive residue. He'd been working with explosives for months. The residue level was so high they couldn't get the machine clean again. It kept detecting explosives without any sample. It cost a lot of people a lot of time to verify that he was safe.
I see you still haven't fixed your shift key. Can't afford the $10 for a new keyboard?
smart gives sometimes shifty results.
Of course, but it's easy to check if something is really wrong. So far, I've never had a false warning, but I can't get SMART support on most of my drives, so they fail with no warning.
this guy should know quite easily if he's emachine is overheating or not
No kidding. My laptop cooling fan doesn't even run full time when I'm at 100% cpu load.
I'll take a look at speedfan. I probably missed it because I didn't search for "S.M.A.R.T.".
There have been lots of good replies here, but so far no one has talked about SMART. SMART has warned me of serious hard disk problems before a crisis a number of times. I did a hard search and the only SMART monitoring program I could find for Windows has been spammed on USENET. I won't buy from spammers.
They measure lead levels in ice cores from Antarctica. The levels of lead reflect the rise and fall of Rome and the start of the industrial revolution. No, there weren't any Romans in Antarctica either.
I burn LiveCDs to DVDs all the time. It works great, because they run noticable faster. I think the main benifit comes from shorter seeks.
You can see how is taking these "kick-backs". The marketing part requires "Intel Inside" on TV commercials. Next time you hear that music, you'll know what's up.
Most.
Cygwin provides most GNU user land utilities, yet I still choose to run Linux.
Just a typo. Sorry about that. Now I have to wait two minutes . . .
Yea, it's pretty amazing. His whole "insightful" article comes out of hearing someone ran Linux under Windows. I guess he never knew it's already been done (VMware, qemu, etc). Nor does he seem to understand the difference between Linux the kernel and the rest of the OS. Cygwin provides more GNU user land utilities, yet I still choose to run Linux.
The thing is, he's fun to read. You never know what kind of moronic thing he'll say next. I think of him as the talk radio of tech.
BTW, when was he ever relevant? I remember him being a clueless troll 20 years ago when he wrote for Byte.
The same exact thing that protects you from having a merchant missuse your credit card number. You have to check your bill and write a written complaint. You don't pay a penny and each complaint costs the merchant an extra charge. Too many could start a fraud investigation, but from what I hear the companies usually don't bother.