Mozilla/4.79 is the key agent you should be looking at.
That's Netscape Communicator, v4.79.
read the sun parts for a response to cringely
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if you read the cringely article about sun from a few days back, the articles here concerning Sun with Scott McNealy do a decent job of responding to some of Cringely's challenges.
if you want to get a pretty decent picture of what Sun is going to do for their long term strategy regarding linux and the potential downfall of big-iron mainframe UNIX (think GNU/Linux on Polyserve), I think they're looking at sidestepping it altogether.
They're going straight for Linux on the desktop with the Mad Hatter project -- McNealy makes a lot of sense on this, although it might just be the kool-aide.
I would love for p2p to have the ability to cache requests -- think squid, but for p2p, and be able to run some sort of inverse QoS on it -- never take up more than 15% of my bandwidth.
My experiences have also been great. In addition to Erik's quantum fluctuations, I've heard a smattering of reports concerning vector continuum flanging. As always, check the freem drive before you start it up.
Gobbles is not an idiot. I have a friend who met him at defcon -- his english is nigh-perfect. You've been conned by his act if you think he's an idiot.
He definitely has a sense of humor that rubs some people the wrong way, though.
how I speed up mac os x
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It's plenty fast, but not as fast as I wanted. So I sped it up. Here's what I did for my machine; some of it is what I routinely do to other people's machines. ymmv. ymmm. yumm.
First, I advise all 10.1.x users to upgrade. Then again, I work for a school, and teachers can get 10.2 for free. It's worth it. I don't care that it should be free. If you want better performance, stop griping, or run OS9. OS10.0 and 10.1 are not optimal for ordinary use.
make sure you're following the recommendation for Video RAM -- 16MB, Quartz Extreme pretty much needs it. If you can't upgrade a card, cram as much memory as you can in there, you will need it.
I wouldn't attempt to use a OSX machine with less than 256. All power users get 512MB by default.
There's an option on the installation disk (under the disk utility option, maybe?) that will reset permissions on the OS. I've noticed this would speed up a slower computer; it takes about 1/2 hour on my laptop.
Turn the machine off once in a while. I suspect OSX's memory garbage collection isn't as good as it could be. I reboot the laptop about once a month, (after I've had a finder crash, usually).
if you've got a laptop that isn't on at 3 in the morning, run the periodic files (i.e., let cron do its thing). Someone released an app that does this for the shell-feary; I forget its name. Google loves you.
Use a valid hostname. Something called "Foo's Computer" isn't valid DNS, even though it's the default (bad apple!). This will affect how long it takes to connect to the network, esp. at boot time. Having DNS entries (and reverse DNS) helps a bunch, if you're using DHCP (there are opts in bind to autofill this for you). Valid hostnames include a-z, 0-9, and "-". Have fun and be creative.
Disable what you don't need. I edited the scripts in/System/Library/StartupItems. Say Goodbye crashreporter, appletalk, and rendezvous. I was nice and had my modifications listen to/etc/hostconfig, in case I wanted to re-enable them quickly, at a later date. Most other people need networking, I've noticed, but I just need scp and ftp.;P
prebinding question. Run as root (use sudo, or, um, use root)
update_prebinding -root / -force
And wait for a bit, watching a bunch of errors spring up because the printer apps weren't prebound. You might want to do an output redirection (add something like 2&>1 ~/prebind.log to the command [or is it 2>&1?]) if you want a record of what it did.
I'm not sure that 'broken' fits with their philosophy. Remember, it's the fault of sysadmins for not applying the requisite patches/fixes for Windows systems.
I think 'trivially breakable' is much more apt for that reason -- it teeters precipitously on 'broken', and correctly implies that the slightest push will push it into worthlessness.:-)
or maybe that doesn't quite say it. Hmmm, what am I trying to get at.
"trivially breakable"
It only infects one file that's never referenced by the system, and there are all sorts of unlikelihoods that prevent this from being executed. Still, bad press is bad press.:-)
I think it would be hilarious if NoDak became the hacker-friendly state. I can just picture a bunch of farmers with their mesh grain co-op hats up high and a little crooked and hollywood stereotype hackers on opposite sides of a room. Sort of like prom, until that first brave person crosses across the floor and asks someone to dance.:-)
I suppose though, the only reason that I can picture this is because I'm weird.
One thing to consider is which side of the cross-system vulnerability the mass distribution of the virus is coming from. Is it coming from a large handful of UNIX/Linux servers or is it going to come from the ENORMOUS FRICKING SLEW OF OPEN RELAY EXCHANGE SERVERS AND THE DROOLING HORDE OF UNPATCHED NO-VIRUS PROTECTION SLACK-JAWED OUTLOOK USERS?
Second, to be anal and nitpicky -- The first unix worm came out in about '88, it was the now-famous sendmail worm.
A parting thought -- people in IT tend to bash the products that they support that suck.
I agree with you -- I wonder if this is a bot, or if it's a real person.
Is it just me or have the trolls started accelerating since a bunch of FreeBSD developers left the organization (not necessarily the development) to work on os x/opendarwin/etc?
It seems you're forgetting about ipv6 -- 32 addresses per square inch of surface area of our planet earth.
I'm not saying that the situation isn't great now, but once ipv6 replaces ipv4 this attitude will change. Maybe Joe Farmer is on the KAME project and I'm just not familiar with his name...:-)
The new version of Solaris, 2.9, will have GNOME as the default GUI, that's why they've given so much code back to GNOME for useability, gloss, etc. recently. Due sometime this summer, IIRC.
Linux would have to support a lot of weird devices for this to work. I work at a special education school district, and you'd be amazed at the odd assemblage of scanners, voice recognition software, printers, microphones, etc. that would have to be supported for this to be a viable solution for us.
I know extensive work is being done on GNOME to make it handicapped-accessible, but I don't know how far it is along. I don't know squat about KDE. Anyone?
Well, if you live in the U.S., this is something due by either August or July 1st (CIPA). If you receive TARP or E-Rate $$, you need to have web filtering to prevent bad access to pr0n.
Two http proxy solutions (i.e., squid) are free that you could plug into your firewall -- iirc, they are squidguard and dansguardian, and have free blacklists.
I've also heard rumors (rumors, mind you) that secure computing is releasing their web proxy app, smartfilter, to the k12s free of charge. No ideas or clues as to how you work that. That's also a squid plugin, although you can install it on a bunc of windows / etc. products.
If you can scare them with loss of e-rate money, that's probably the best way to go about it.
Be wary of N2H2, I've heard that they purloin your students' browsing data through the logs and sell them for profit. Evil, bad.
No, let's try and interpret in the bizarro world. Come on, it'll be fun. Here's my fake testimonial.
(and this is sarcasm)
I remember, the first time I remember coming in contact with alcohol, I went way overboard. I was about sixteen, and I was being confirmed.
Well, let me tell you, I shotgunned that quarter ounce of wine like wd-40 down my gullet. I was delirious, drunk on dionysus' grape. I remembered nothing for days. When I came to, I had a huge tattoo of the crucifixion on my back. go figure.
oh, and there was the first time I had a cigarette. Golly, I must have had fifty of those little suckers, all in a row. I couldn't control myself. And how could I? It was my first time, and I'd never been exposed to it before. Of course I would lose any sense of will.
Remember, the first time you ever try anything, you get psychotically addicted and can never quit.
I agree vociferously. No matter what OSS software they use, we all win. Yeah, there are some rivalries between the *BSDs and Linux, but I view it as a sort of Yankees/Mets rivalry. It allows New Yorkers to get into petty arguments about which team is better. More choices = More better.
And what, you didn't know that Alan Cox does FreeBSD? He's been a committer in VM since 23 feb '99.:-)
Yes, the guy's a genius. Yes, it's a blow. But bear in mind, if you read the entire thing, it doesn't talk about putting Linux on every public sector PC.
The gist that I get is that they're definitely moving to an open-source/free office suite.
They don't really say anything about changing the OS, although I think it would make plenty of sense if they're willing to put up with the costs of re-educating every govt. employee.
Hrm. Since Nunez mentions Theo and Darren Reed, I'm guessing that Peru is going to be installing OpenBSD with ipf, not Linux as some of you might have hoped...;P
Agreed with the TCO. At my school district, 3 of us support about 500 workstations (and the network, and the servers, and the TV station, and everything), with about 50/50 splits between Macs and Windows boxes.
Two of us focus on PC support. We can maybe fix problems for two school sites in a day. Two of us, that is. The Mac guy can hit four sites in a day, no sweat, alone. From a support standpoint, our Macs have an insanely low TCO.
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And if someone mods me "Interesting", I'll shoot myself.
:-)
score, +5, interesting. you know what to do.
ummm... no. mod parent down a bit.
Mozilla/4.79 is the key agent you should be looking at.
That's Netscape Communicator, v4.79.
if you read the cringely article about sun from a few days back, the articles here concerning Sun with Scott McNealy do a decent job of responding to some of Cringely's challenges.
if you want to get a pretty decent picture of what Sun is going to do for their long term strategy regarding linux and the potential downfall of big-iron mainframe UNIX (think GNU/Linux on Polyserve), I think they're looking at sidestepping it altogether.
They're going straight for Linux on the desktop with the Mad Hatter project -- McNealy makes a lot of sense on this, although it might just be the kool-aide.
mike
I would love for p2p to have the ability to cache requests -- think squid, but for p2p, and be able to run some sort of inverse QoS on it -- never take up more than 15% of my bandwidth.
mike
My experiences have also been great. In addition to Erik's quantum fluctuations, I've heard a smattering of reports concerning vector continuum flanging. As always, check the freem drive before you start it up.
hth,
mike overbo
> showing just what an idiot this "Gobbles" is
Gobbles is not an idiot. I have a friend who met him at defcon -- his english is nigh-perfect. You've been conned by his act if you think he's an idiot.
He definitely has a sense of humor that rubs some people the wrong way, though.
It's plenty fast, but not as fast as I wanted. So I sped it up. Here's what I did for my machine; some of it is what I routinely do to other people's machines. ymmv. ymmm. yumm.
/System/Library/StartupItems. Say Goodbye crashreporter, appletalk, and rendezvous. I was nice and had my modifications listen to /etc/hostconfig, in case I wanted to re-enable them quickly, at a later date. Most other people need networking, I've noticed, but I just need scp and ftp. ;P
First, I advise all 10.1.x users to upgrade. Then again, I work for a school, and teachers can get 10.2 for free. It's worth it. I don't care that it should be free. If you want better performance, stop griping, or run OS9. OS10.0 and 10.1 are not optimal for ordinary use.
make sure you're following the recommendation for Video RAM -- 16MB, Quartz Extreme pretty much needs it. If you can't upgrade a card, cram as much memory as you can in there, you will need it.
I wouldn't attempt to use a OSX machine with less than 256. All power users get 512MB by default.
There's an option on the installation disk (under the disk utility option, maybe?) that will reset permissions on the OS. I've noticed this would speed up a slower computer; it takes about 1/2 hour on my laptop.
Turn the machine off once in a while. I suspect OSX's memory garbage collection isn't as good as it could be. I reboot the laptop about once a month, (after I've had a finder crash, usually).
if you've got a laptop that isn't on at 3 in the morning, run the periodic files (i.e., let cron do its thing). Someone released an app that does this for the shell-feary; I forget its name. Google loves you.
Use a valid hostname. Something called "Foo's Computer" isn't valid DNS, even though it's the default (bad apple!). This will affect how long it takes to connect to the network, esp. at boot time. Having DNS entries (and reverse DNS) helps a bunch, if you're using DHCP (there are opts in bind to autofill this for you). Valid hostnames include a-z, 0-9, and "-". Have fun and be creative.
Disable what you don't need. I edited the scripts in
prebinding question. Run as root (use sudo, or, um, use root)
update_prebinding -root / -force
And wait for a bit, watching a bunch of errors spring up because the printer apps weren't prebound. You might want to do an output redirection (add something like 2&>1 ~/prebind.log to the command [or is it 2>&1?]) if you want a record of what it did.
here to help,
mike
talk sux0rs.
ntalk rul3z!!!
mike
If Wesley Willis can "Whup batman's ass", I'd be amazed if Superman can't.
mike
NetBSD's priority isn't as a server OS; its priority is to be on multiple architectures to be an embedded system.
At least, that's what the head guy said in his recent interview.
I'm not sure that 'broken' fits with their philosophy. Remember, it's the fault of sysadmins for not applying the requisite patches/fixes for Windows systems.
:-)
I think 'trivially breakable' is much more apt for that reason -- it teeters precipitously on 'broken', and correctly implies that the slightest push will push it into worthlessness.
mike
"breakable"
:-)
or maybe that doesn't quite say it. Hmmm, what am I trying to get at.
"trivially breakable"
It only infects one file that's never referenced by the system, and there are all sorts of unlikelihoods that prevent this from being executed. Still, bad press is bad press.
I think it would be hilarious if NoDak became the hacker-friendly state. I can just picture a bunch of farmers with their mesh grain co-op hats up high and a little crooked and hollywood stereotype hackers on opposite sides of a room. Sort of like prom, until that first brave person crosses across the floor and asks someone to dance. :-)
I suppose though, the only reason that I can picture this is because I'm weird.
One thing to consider is which side of the cross-system vulnerability the mass distribution of the virus is coming from. Is it coming from a large handful of UNIX/Linux servers or is it going to come from the ENORMOUS FRICKING SLEW OF OPEN RELAY EXCHANGE SERVERS AND THE DROOLING HORDE OF UNPATCHED NO-VIRUS PROTECTION SLACK-JAWED OUTLOOK USERS?
Second, to be anal and nitpicky -- The first unix worm came out in about '88, it was the now-famous sendmail worm.
A parting thought -- people in IT tend to bash the products that they support that suck.
I agree with you -- I wonder if this is a bot, or if it's a real person.
Is it just me or have the trolls started accelerating since a bunch of FreeBSD developers left the organization (not necessarily the development) to work on os x/opendarwin/etc?
It seems you're forgetting about ipv6 -- 32 addresses per square inch of surface area of our planet earth.
:-)
I'm not saying that the situation isn't great now, but once ipv6 replaces ipv4 this attitude will change. Maybe Joe Farmer is on the KAME project and I'm just not familiar with his name...
The new version of Solaris, 2.9, will have GNOME as the default GUI, that's why they've given so much code back to GNOME for useability, gloss, etc. recently. Due sometime this summer, IIRC.
Is there a site out there that lists various linux user groups? I'm a BSD guy, but I'm willing to volunteer for the greater cause at hand. :-)
If there are any Mpls/St. Paul LUG folks out there, feel free to email me.
Mike (in the Twin Cities)
mfoverboDONTSPAMME@DONTSPAMMEint287.k12.mn.us
Linux would have to support a lot of weird devices for this to work. I work at a special education school district, and you'd be amazed at the odd assemblage of scanners, voice recognition software, printers, microphones, etc. that would have to be supported for this to be a viable solution for us.
I know extensive work is being done on GNOME to make it handicapped-accessible, but I don't know how far it is along. I don't know squat about KDE. Anyone?
Well, if you live in the U.S., this is something due by either August or July 1st (CIPA). If you receive TARP or E-Rate $$, you need to have web filtering to prevent bad access to pr0n.
Two http proxy solutions (i.e., squid) are free that you could plug into your firewall -- iirc, they are squidguard and dansguardian, and have free blacklists.
I've also heard rumors (rumors, mind you) that secure computing is releasing their web proxy app, smartfilter, to the k12s free of charge. No ideas or clues as to how you work that. That's also a squid plugin, although you can install it on a bunc of windows / etc. products.
If you can scare them with loss of e-rate money, that's probably the best way to go about it.
Be wary of N2H2, I've heard that they purloin your students' browsing data through the logs and sell them for profit. Evil, bad.
mike
No, let's try and interpret in the bizarro world. Come on, it'll be fun. Here's my fake testimonial.
(and this is sarcasm)
I remember, the first time I remember coming in contact with alcohol, I went way overboard. I was about sixteen, and I was being confirmed.
Well, let me tell you, I shotgunned that quarter ounce of wine like wd-40 down my gullet. I was delirious, drunk on dionysus' grape. I remembered nothing for days. When I came to, I had a huge tattoo of the crucifixion on my back. go figure.
oh, and there was the first time I had a cigarette. Golly, I must have had fifty of those little suckers, all in a row. I couldn't control myself. And how could I? It was my first time, and I'd never been exposed to it before. Of course I would lose any sense of will.
Remember, the first time you ever try anything, you get psychotically addicted and can never quit.
Oh, gosh, I just described the perfect consumer.
whole point is to use OSS
I agree vociferously. No matter what OSS software they use, we all win. Yeah, there are some rivalries between the *BSDs and Linux, but I view it as a sort of Yankees/Mets rivalry. It allows New Yorkers to get into petty arguments about which team is better. More choices = More better.
And what, you didn't know that Alan Cox does FreeBSD? He's been a committer in VM since 23 feb '99.
http://www.freebsd.org/news/1999/
Yes, the guy's a genius. Yes, it's a blow. But bear in mind, if you read the entire thing, it doesn't talk about putting Linux on every public sector PC.
;P
The gist that I get is that they're definitely moving to an open-source/free office suite.
They don't really say anything about changing the OS, although I think it would make plenty of sense if they're willing to put up with the costs of re-educating every govt. employee.
Hrm. Since Nunez mentions Theo and Darren Reed, I'm guessing that Peru is going to be installing OpenBSD with ipf, not Linux as some of you might have hoped...
a new hope?
sorry
Agreed with the TCO. At my school district, 3 of us support about 500 workstations (and the network, and the servers, and the TV station, and everything), with about 50/50 splits between Macs and Windows boxes.
Two of us focus on PC support. We can maybe fix problems for two school sites in a day. Two of us, that is. The Mac guy can hit four sites in a day, no sweat, alone. From a support standpoint, our Macs have an insanely low TCO.