In his book Flatland, Abbott laid out a basic idea that looks an awful lot like the theory of relativity. Not to mention being a mind bending book any way.
I think the attraction of being a bad ass can be explained by this quote from Neal Stephenson in his book Snow Crash
Until a man is twenty-five he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastry in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Columbian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this is liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken. The crowning touch, the one thing that really puts true world-class motherfuckerdom totally out of reach, of course, is the hydrogen bomb. If it wasn't for the hydrogen bomb, a man could still aspire...But Raven's nuclear umbrella puts the world title out of reach.
I had no intention as coming off as elitist. The message I am trying to convey is that Debian is not a distro for the masses. I don't want someone picking up Debian as their first intro to Linux. They will think it sucks. Even the technically literate type will turn away gibbering at the first glance of dselect.
As for the roots, that's my personal opinion. I've installed the big three all at some point, Mandrake, Red Hat and SuSE. Every single one of those I felt some kind of commercial obligation. I either purchased a box set, or had a barebones system because I had downloaded a free ISO. That and the pay for support. I always knew these where commercial companies trying to make a buck. The thing I like about Debian is that its a bunch of individuals around the world hacking together a kick ass OS, and not charging a dime for it. I think that is very cool.
Debian isn't really ment to be the distro for the masses. It is a bitch to set up, and doesn't come with all the bells and whistles Jane Somebody will be looking for in their OS. However, I feel it is the truest to Linux's roots and it is an incredible system, if you have the necesarry skill set.
Most people end up making this a free speech thing, all spammers do is a little e-mailing, that granted we don't want, but that's it. This is not the case, many spammers are involved in hacking. Using this to anonymize themselves and harvest more victims. Check out the Honeynet Project's SOTM 22 here. The attacker was a spammer who was using a compromised system to run an e-mail harvester that targeted ICQ users.
1) The author cited as fact that the age of the operating system is directly related to its security, without any kind of proof. This makes sense at first glance, but it ultimatly glosses over the fact that both OSes are in constant development. New features are added every day. This might make sense if, after developing the system, all the time after that was spent patching and debugging, but this isn't the case.
2) The author has no concept of service vs. system. Most vulnerabilites are in sevices, not at the kernel level. All Linux is just a kernel. Packages are added to make a usable Linux distro.
3) The author cites number of bugtraq entries as a way of gauging relative security, without considering the severity. Also, bugs, like those reported to Security Focus aren't the only vectors of compromise
4) Open source software, by virtue of being free, allows an administrator to install much more security software for his dollar. Firewalls, IDSes, advanced cryptographic file systems, HIDS, and virus scanners can all be downloaded for free.
I go to University of Texas at Arlington, and we have similar requirements here called Computer User Profeciency. Everyone is required to take it and demonstrate basic skills in Word processing and spreadsheets (also internet and e-mail). The tests occur on MS products, simply because that's what 90% of the world uses. However, they keep the tests as general as possible, and anyone who uses KOffice, the Gnome suite, or Open Office can do fine.
2) Pain in the ass for tech support. There are enough steps that must occur in the correct order that often times people will screw them up and have to call your IT support group
Since I'm a poor college student I had to choose between cable TV and broadband. Easiest choice I ever made.
On a related note, someone I know went to get cable internet but not cable TV. So the cable TV people sent a salesperson over (who, ironically arrived a day before the internet installer) who tried to push cable and premium channels, about how they had a great deal going for $50 bucks a month and how you got some nice premium channels with that as well.
This guy told her, "Why should I spend and extra $50 bucks a month, when I can download most of those movies over *your* cable internet connection"
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In his book Flatland, Abbott laid out a basic idea that looks an awful lot like the theory of relativity. Not to mention being a mind bending book any way.
You mad fool, don't you know Geocities and Slashdot don't mix!
The squeaky wheel gets the grease ... but when management decides there is one wheel too many, and there need to be downsizes...
I used Bank One this summer on Mozilla and it worked. Irony of Ironies, I'm using Wells Fargo now.
What next, a text version of Quake?
... wait.
Oh
Read The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson. He talks about rod logic in there, similar to what they are doing at IBM.
Seeing as noone is really helping out, I'll give you a bit of example code. I have an AIM->Comment gateway for my blog.
Here is an example that will try and execute any command sent to it in a message. You'll need to add the appropriate security features.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::AIM;
my $aim = new Net::AIM;
print "Connecting to AIM server..\n";
$aim->newconn ( Screenname => "your account",
Password => "your password",
AutoReconnect => 1
) or die "Connection failed. Fatal Error\n";
my $conn = $aim->getconn();
$conn->set_handler('im_in', \&got_message);
print "Connected.\n";
$aim->start;
sub got_message
{
my ($self, $evt, $from, $to) = @_;
my $args = $evt->args();
my ($nick, $auto_msg, $msg) = @$args;
$retval = `$msg`;
$self->send_im($from, $retval);
}
--------------
Simple as that
Sorry, brain no workie this morning.
go here instead
Try the Distributed folding project I like them because they have cooler client for linux
Generate some local traffic that will increment your IPID. The offending scanner will will see that your system is unsuitable.
I had no intention as coming off as elitist. The message I am trying to convey is that Debian is not a distro for the masses. I don't want someone picking up Debian as their first intro to Linux. They will think it sucks. Even the technically literate type will turn away gibbering at the first glance of dselect.
As for the roots, that's my personal opinion. I've installed the big three all at some point, Mandrake, Red Hat and SuSE. Every single one of those I felt some kind of commercial obligation. I either purchased a box set, or had a barebones system because I had downloaded a free ISO. That and the pay for support. I always knew these where commercial companies trying to make a buck. The thing I like about Debian is that its a bunch of individuals around the world hacking together a kick ass OS, and not charging a dime for it. I think that is very cool.
Debian isn't really ment to be the distro for the masses. It is a bitch to set up, and doesn't come with all the bells and whistles Jane Somebody will be looking for in their OS. However, I feel it is the truest to Linux's roots and it is an incredible system, if you have the necesarry skill set.
Most people end up making this a free speech thing, all spammers do is a little e-mailing, that granted we don't want, but that's it. This is not the case, many spammers are involved in hacking. Using this to anonymize themselves and harvest more victims. Check out the Honeynet Project's SOTM 22 here. The attacker was a spammer who was using a compromised system to run an e-mail harvester that targeted ICQ users.
Custer's Revenge for the Atari 2600 was probably the first game that retailers would refuse to sell. Check it out here
1) The author cited as fact that the age of the operating system is directly related to its security, without any kind of proof. This makes sense at first glance, but it ultimatly glosses over the fact that both OSes are in constant development. New features are added every day. This might make sense if, after developing the system, all the time after that was spent patching and debugging, but this isn't the case.
2) The author has no concept of service vs. system. Most vulnerabilites are in sevices, not at the kernel level. All Linux is just a kernel. Packages are added to make a usable Linux distro.
3) The author cites number of bugtraq entries as a way of gauging relative security, without considering the severity. Also, bugs, like those reported to Security Focus aren't the only vectors of compromise
4) Open source software, by virtue of being free, allows an administrator to install much more security software for his dollar. Firewalls, IDSes, advanced cryptographic file systems, HIDS, and virus scanners can all be downloaded for free.
I go to University of Texas at Arlington, and we have similar requirements here called Computer User Profeciency. Everyone is required to take it and demonstrate basic skills in Word processing and spreadsheets (also internet and e-mail). The tests occur on MS products, simply because that's what 90% of the world uses. However, they keep the tests as general as possible, and anyone who uses KOffice, the Gnome suite, or Open Office can do fine.
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Dear estemeed congress person\n"
print "Here is how I feel about DRM"
while (1)
{
print "NO! ";
}
print "\nThank you for your consideration.\n"
When I magnify I use a jewlers eye loupe, it can be held by your eye muscles, and leaves both hands free.
Hmm, you might not like this, 2 reasons
1) Not cheap
2) Pain in the ass for tech support. There are enough steps that must occur in the correct order that often times people will screw them up and have to call your IT support group
Remember fellow debianites, Microsoft is the competition, but redhat is the enemy
English mother f***er, do you speak it?
Guess not
Since I'm a poor college student I had to choose between cable TV and broadband. Easiest choice I ever made.
On a related note, someone I know went to get cable internet but not cable TV. So the cable TV people sent a salesperson over (who, ironically arrived a day before the internet installer) who tried to push cable and premium channels, about how they had a great deal going for $50 bucks a month and how you got some nice premium channels with that as well.
This guy told her, "Why should I spend and extra $50 bucks a month, when I can download most of those movies over *your* cable internet connection"
Stick it on a board with some vacuum tubes and I'll take it.
To be technical, Apache is perfect, OpenSSL isn't