Linux itself, and any OS can be very secure, in the hands of a competant admin. Its when you get a moron in command that the integrity of the system goes down the pooper. Even OpenBSD can get owned if a moron is running the show.
And remember: Website defacements are often a level above owning the actual server, PHP Nuke has an awful track record, with new holes found all the time, and other site management software is vulnerable as well. Crois site scriptingm, cgi exploits may allow a level fo access to a site, or even compromise a user level account, but in the hands of a skilled admin, this is nothing compared to a fully suvccessful root exploit, and can eb dealt with.
And fo course, no matter how good you arem, if you allow remote root ssh conenctions, and your password is "demiguru" for every account you have anywhere, well then, your just a dumbass. Yeah Nick, I am talking about you.
Truly "fascist" (aka security-conscious) system administrators should ensure that no one gets ahold of the root password, thus circumventing the need for a wheel group.:-)
Sure, except that true security is multi layered, and the best, most security-conscious admins take advantage of every possability. The wheel group prevents someone from brute forcing the root password. Even if you have failed su attempts logged, delays between login attempts, and lock outs for successive failed logins, any password can be brute forced. Anything to make it yet a bit harder is a good idea in my book.
Although this is mostly eyecandy, this could be the right time to make yourself heard. What do you think about a maturing Evolution that goes its own way and leaves the Outlook-like interface behind?
I think it is about f'ing time, tiem that we all realized that easy does not just mean familiar, it means well thought out ideas. Outlook's interface is fairly decent for some, but it does have its faults. Simple copying it is no way to make a new product, not even on a different platform. You have to make it stand out for its own simplicity of use, overshadowing a powerful tool that newbiews and power users alike can appreciate.
I don't live in an area with enough traffic problems to warrent car pool only lanes, and even if I did, I would just go buy a few crash test dummies and wigs and have myself a silent entourage of "coworkers"....
What I would bid on, is a permit that allows me to ignore speed limits in fair weather, while driving on the expressway. I would pay 2-300 dollars for such a permit, as I could easily make up for it in the number of speeding tickets I would avoid, as I blasted past speed traps immune to prosecution. And imagine the time I would save if I didn't have to straggle behind the old lady going 60 in a 65 mph zone just because she has a cop in front of her, and passing her at any pace will induce a 30 dollar speeding ticket, and possable higher insurance rates.
Damn this country and their speed laws, when I was in germany, the speed bug bit me, and its never leaving. I like to get where I am going, screw the rest of you!
They don't have access to the underlying system....
This is hilarious for two reasons:
1. The well documented API provided by Apple is pretty nice from what I have seen, and heard from, from developers for the platform. Ever seen MS documentation? Lots of it... too much of it, and none of it is worth reading enough in a mad quest to find something relevent.
2. 2/3's of the OSX system is open source BSD license(actually, I think Darwin is converted to some apple open source license that is very open still, but I could be wrong). But either way, how much more open do they need it?!?!?
Then of course there is that whole, 'whats good the goose is good for the gander issue' with IE vs Netscape and underlying code knowlage advantages.... it all just makes MS look very very dumb.
But yeah, Safari is a better browser than IE. But does this mean that Chimera should quit now because if MS can't make it in the market, then no one can!
Harmful to humans, and incapable of surviving in warm climates. So, the lizzards invaded areas like LA, and Houston, but had to avpoid New York, and Moscow and the like.
basically, one of those, "tv series never planned, so we have to remove the super end all weapon they used to win the mini series."
Taxes cannot be wiped out with charitable donations. There is an upper limit ya know. Otherwise, the government would never generate any revenue from its cash cow, the rich. France tried this back in the 1700's, the rich were exempt from taxes, and they people revolted because the french government had to tax the hell out of the low classes. Can't get blood from a stone ya know. You can't let your rich classes escape taxes or you have no income, it just doesn't work, hence the maximum allowable writeoffs on donations.
next time ya fill out your taxes, try claiming every possable donation you can think of, and write it all off. 1) they won't believe you, and 2) they will visit your home. And by "they" I mean those happy, merry, jolly fellows at the friendly IRS!
Q. Folks have even built a Linux-Xbox computer. How can you control this? A. Electronic hobbyists will do what they want to do...the numbers are not really that big. It's not a commercial as much as it is an intellectual property issue and we always pursue those. If someone finds a way to cheat, we close it down and do an update so people can't anymore.
First off, he is being vague, intentionally no doubt, so no one really knows what he means by "we always pursue those".
Secondly, how is this question dealing with cheaters? I modded my xbox to run Linux on it, not cheap, I have no interest in the xbox live service, its just one more way to connect me to people, and I hate people. Are you comming to get me because I like to tinker?
I don't even play pirate games on my modded xbox, not for lack of options I might add, I could have every game I wanted. But there is still only one game worth playing on my Halo Machi..... I mean xbox.
Never said it was the ethernet myth that caused it, but bad deployments of ethernet, or in CWRU's case, fast deployments to fix a lack of foresight on the part of their fiber laying ATM nut admin a few years back, led to an example of where ethernet does not work whatsoever.
ATM can be decent for a lan, if you can afford to maintain it, but what college that just spent a boatload building a huge fiber network can afford to run multiple fiber faceplates to each dorm room? That, and ethernet is cheaper, by a landslide, and nearly as fast. Its also just the smarter choice for the last mile, save the atm for the backbone, where it rocks at what it does.
I wouldn't say its infinitely scalable, becuse nothing is. Ethernet is poorly suited for WAN's, and even large enough(and I stress enough) lan's can get saturated. Its scalable to the point that is nessesary considering the network admin knows when to divide one huge lan into smaller, more efficient pieces and connect them with some other practicle method.
You really don't believe the entire internet runs on one giant ethernet network do you?
This is why I hate being a network junky, anyone who owns a ethernet hub and some cable and plays counterstrike over their home network believes they are a networking genius because they know all there is to know about the one and only networking protocal.
So no, don't thank him to much, without ethernet, we'd just use something else for cheap, efficient LAN's, vaccums tend to be filled.
YOU'VE never been the CWRU then have you? Where the flat topology \16 network was a nightmare for anyone on the ethernet segment. It was all ATM over fiber until a few years ago, but if you wanted more pc's in your room than their were available fiber jacks, you had to transieve it down to ethernet, and attach a hub....
Then you realized why almost no one ever did this: 65%+ packet loss, all the time. The constant cry of a couple thousand machines on one giant flat network, screaming out ala ethernet fashion, it made life a living hell. Software switching on the routers to filter out some ethernet broadcast traffic helped, but it was never fixed until they ditched the old implmentation, and switched out all the buildings with switched gigabit ethernet.
Your pairing them off inncorrectly. its not tcp/ip and udp and they are totally unrelated. ip contains both tcp and udp, both are members of the same family, and both are very important. Anything that needs to be done fast, like multiplayer games, uses udp over ip extensively.
So, you don't have this camp of people who swear by tcp over udp all the time, because anyone who writes stuff to run over ip knows that some stuff demands one or the other, its not a preference issue as you seem to believe.
I can sort of agree with you on stuff inside/etc being in its own subdirectories, if it has several config files. It makes no sense at all if there is just one file, and the format is/etc/programname.conf. But I can see the value if you have many conf files, such as sendmail, and samba. Which both are usually stored in there own directories, would be nice to see this as a standard.
I feel exactly the same way pal, but your preeching to a bunch of people who claim they use Linux, when in reality, they can't get past the whole, "But why doesn't each program have its own directory?" question. Its not harder, or worse, its just different, and so many people are expecting Linux to be a windows clone.
I cannot tell you how often I say to people, "It won't run any windows software, but there are alternatives." The newbies take that to mean it won't run windows OS, and they always respond with something about running office. That's when I pull my hair out.
Then there is that argument regarding uninstallation, and how its hard. No it isn't, keep your source trees handy for that compiled stuff, use the makefile to uninstall it. Properly packaged software has a make uninstall, and even if it doesn't, reinstall it, then remove every file you see mentioned from the verbose output. Not pretty, but if you were smart enough to install from a tarball, you can be smart enough to do this.
or you could use this new distro, and type ls inside anything in its installed packages. I guarentee you'll see those familiar share, bin, include, and lib directories. All directories that should fall under/usr and/usr/local and be shared. But if that layout method is too harsh for you, well then, I know a few toy computers that you can play with, they have the familiar c:\ and crash a lot, just what you always wanted!
Of course they wouldn't, but engineers can makes mistakes. The mean streak sinking isn't a huge issue, they knew it would happen, and built the concrete supports to be ridiculously overcompensating in this regard. When I said sinking slowly, I meant it. Its maybe a millimeter a year, and slowing down, because a) All rollar coasters sink in some way, some settle above ground, the mean streak is both settling in its frame, and sinking. The expectation from what I have heard is that the ground is gonna so compacted underneath it eventually that it will sit in, and take on its semi-permanent shape.
Do you honestly think you can build anything that big and have it not sink a little? They knew it would, just happened a tiny bit more than they had hoped, some nut got ahold of the facts and blew it out of proportion. You don't hear about this because its just bad for the stock value. People are dumb, most people don't realize how much the empire state building wobbles in the air. They'd freak out if they knew.
The magnum isn't really sinking, it just kind of settled at the back loop in the middle of the ride. It just changed the shape of the track a bit, which si whyt the ride is a bit shakier than it used to be. But almost all rides are expected to do this.
Anything that takes people out of the line for The Raptor makes me happy. Its the best ride ever. I'll ride it once, on a nice slow day when no one is in the park, then fill out the big days that my lame friends insist on going on riding the smaller lines while thousands of people pile into lines for M Force and this new one.
I happen to love the mean streak, the rickety nature of it is what makes it fun, a lot of coaster nuts love that, which si why you still hear about a new wooden ride once every blue moon. They do have a certain appeal.
The biggest problem with The Mean Streak, is that its built on a sandy area at the far end of the peninsula. It sits right on the edge of the point, right on the lake, and the ground is too soft. Yes folks, the Mean Streak is sinking, slowly.
I know this is slashdot, and this will get me modded down for defending the uglies over in Redmond, but....
A lot of companies other than microsoft let their release dates slip on a frequent basis, because, quite frankly, software development, even lousy stuff with a poor security record, takes a long time. You can project a release date, but that is mostly an optimistic guess to appease the investors. You can threaten your techies all ya want, they will not code much faster, and if they do, they will make more mistakes, shit, even microsoft knows that.... least I hope they do.
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Linux itself, and any OS can be very secure, in the hands of a competant admin. Its when you get a moron in command that the integrity of the system goes down the pooper. Even OpenBSD can get owned if a moron is running the show.
And remember: Website defacements are often a level above owning the actual server, PHP Nuke has an awful track record, with new holes found all the time, and other site management software is vulnerable as well. Crois site scriptingm, cgi exploits may allow a level fo access to a site, or even compromise a user level account, but in the hands of a skilled admin, this is nothing compared to a fully suvccessful root exploit, and can eb dealt with.
And fo course, no matter how good you arem, if you allow remote root ssh conenctions, and your password is "demiguru" for every account you have anywhere, well then, your just a dumbass. Yeah Nick, I am talking about you.
Truly "fascist" (aka security-conscious) system administrators should ensure that no one gets ahold of the root password, thus circumventing the need for a wheel group. :-)
Sure, except that true security is multi layered, and the best, most security-conscious admins take advantage of every possability. The wheel group prevents someone from brute forcing the root password. Even if you have failed su attempts logged, delays between login attempts, and lock outs for successive failed logins, any password can be brute forced. Anything to make it yet a bit harder is a good idea in my book.
...then you finally find the pics mirror, and becoem sorely disapointed, and retract your previous statement of satisfaction.
Its still Outlook, its still a clone, and its still seriously disapointing.
Although this is mostly eyecandy, this could be the right time to make yourself heard. What do you think about a maturing Evolution that goes its own way and leaves the Outlook-like interface behind?
I think it is about f'ing time, tiem that we all realized that easy does not just mean familiar, it means well thought out ideas. Outlook's interface is fairly decent for some, but it does have its faults. Simple copying it is no way to make a new product, not even on a different platform. You have to make it stand out for its own simplicity of use, overshadowing a powerful tool that newbiews and power users alike can appreciate.
Yeah, cause the internet needs MORE blogs, riiiight.
I don't live in an area with enough traffic problems to warrent car pool only lanes, and even if I did, I would just go buy a few crash test dummies and wigs and have myself a silent entourage of "coworkers"....
What I would bid on, is a permit that allows me to ignore speed limits in fair weather, while driving on the expressway. I would pay 2-300 dollars for such a permit, as I could easily make up for it in the number of speeding tickets I would avoid, as I blasted past speed traps immune to prosecution. And imagine the time I would save if I didn't have to straggle behind the old lady going 60 in a 65 mph zone just because she has a cop in front of her, and passing her at any pace will induce a 30 dollar speeding ticket, and possable higher insurance rates.
Damn this country and their speed laws, when I was in germany, the speed bug bit me, and its never leaving. I like to get where I am going, screw the rest of you!
If I were human, I believe my response would be, "Go to hell."... if I were human. *eyebrow thing*
They don't have access to the underlying system....
This is hilarious for two reasons:
1. The well documented API provided by Apple is pretty nice from what I have seen, and heard from, from developers for the platform. Ever seen MS documentation? Lots of it... too much of it, and none of it is worth reading enough in a mad quest to find something relevent.
2. 2/3's of the OSX system is open source BSD license(actually, I think Darwin is converted to some apple open source license that is very open still, but I could be wrong). But either way, how much more open do they need it?!?!?
Then of course there is that whole, 'whats good the goose is good for the gander issue' with IE vs Netscape and underlying code knowlage advantages.... it all just makes MS look very very dumb.
But yeah, Safari is a better browser than IE. But does this mean that Chimera should quit now because if MS can't make it in the market, then no one can!
Damnit, we are trying to kill roaches, not make more of them!
And waterproof, next it will be squishy proof. I find these anywhere near my house, your gonna pay to have em exterminated.
Harmful to humans, and incapable of surviving in warm climates. So, the lizzards invaded areas like LA, and Houston, but had to avpoid New York, and Moscow and the like.
basically, one of those, "tv series never planned, so we have to remove the super end all weapon they used to win the mini series."
Taxes cannot be wiped out with charitable donations. There is an upper limit ya know. Otherwise, the government would never generate any revenue from its cash cow, the rich. France tried this back in the 1700's, the rich were exempt from taxes, and they people revolted because the french government had to tax the hell out of the low classes. Can't get blood from a stone ya know. You can't let your rich classes escape taxes or you have no income, it just doesn't work, hence the maximum allowable writeoffs on donations.
next time ya fill out your taxes, try claiming every possable donation you can think of, and write it all off. 1) they won't believe you, and 2) they will visit your home. And by "they" I mean those happy, merry, jolly fellows at the friendly IRS!
Q. Folks have even built a Linux-Xbox computer. How can you control this?
A. Electronic hobbyists will do what they want to do...the numbers are not really that big. It's not a commercial as much as it is an intellectual property issue and we always pursue those. If someone finds a way to cheat, we close it down and do an update so people can't anymore.
First off, he is being vague, intentionally no doubt, so no one really knows what he means by "we always pursue those".
Secondly, how is this question dealing with cheaters? I modded my xbox to run Linux on it, not cheap, I have no interest in the xbox live service, its just one more way to connect me to people, and I hate people. Are you comming to get me because I like to tinker?
I don't even play pirate games on my modded xbox, not for lack of options I might add, I could have every game I wanted. But there is still only one game worth playing on my Halo Machi..... I mean xbox.
Never said it was the ethernet myth that caused it, but bad deployments of ethernet, or in CWRU's case, fast deployments to fix a lack of foresight on the part of their fiber laying ATM nut admin a few years back, led to an example of where ethernet does not work whatsoever.
ATM can be decent for a lan, if you can afford to maintain it, but what college that just spent a boatload building a huge fiber network can afford to run multiple fiber faceplates to each dorm room? That, and ethernet is cheaper, by a landslide, and nearly as fast. Its also just the smarter choice for the last mile, save the atm for the backbone, where it rocks at what it does.
I wouldn't say its infinitely scalable, becuse nothing is. Ethernet is poorly suited for WAN's, and even large enough(and I stress enough) lan's can get saturated. Its scalable to the point that is nessesary considering the network admin knows when to divide one huge lan into smaller, more efficient pieces and connect them with some other practicle method.
But hubs should be illegal at this point.
You really don't believe the entire internet runs on one giant ethernet network do you?
This is why I hate being a network junky, anyone who owns a ethernet hub and some cable and plays counterstrike over their home network believes they are a networking genius because they know all there is to know about the one and only networking protocal.
So no, don't thank him to much, without ethernet, we'd just use something else for cheap, efficient LAN's, vaccums tend to be filled.
YOU'VE never been the CWRU then have you? Where the flat topology \16 network was a nightmare for anyone on the ethernet segment. It was all ATM over fiber until a few years ago, but if you wanted more pc's in your room than their were available fiber jacks, you had to transieve it down to ethernet, and attach a hub....
Then you realized why almost no one ever did this: 65%+ packet loss, all the time. The constant cry of a couple thousand machines on one giant flat network, screaming out ala ethernet fashion, it made life a living hell. Software switching on the routers to filter out some ethernet broadcast traffic helped, but it was never fixed until they ditched the old implmentation, and switched out all the buildings with switched gigabit ethernet.
Ethernet has its problems, they all do. Whatever.
Your pairing them off inncorrectly. its not tcp/ip and udp and they are totally unrelated. ip contains both tcp and udp, both are members of the same family, and both are very important. Anything that needs to be done fast, like multiplayer games, uses udp over ip extensively.
So, you don't have this camp of people who swear by tcp over udp all the time, because anyone who writes stuff to run over ip knows that some stuff demands one or the other, its not a preference issue as you seem to believe.
don't they mean they have invented a flashlight?
I can sort of agree with you on stuff inside /etc being in its own subdirectories, if it has several config files. It makes no sense at all if there is just one file, and the format is /etc/programname.conf. But I can see the value if you have many conf files, such as sendmail, and samba. Which both are usually stored in there own directories, would be nice to see this as a standard.
I feel exactly the same way pal, but your preeching to a bunch of people who claim they use Linux, when in reality, they can't get past the whole, "But why doesn't each program have its own directory?" question. Its not harder, or worse, its just different, and so many people are expecting Linux to be a windows clone.
/usr and /usr/local and be shared. But if that layout method is too harsh for you, well then, I know a few toy computers that you can play with, they have the familiar c:\ and crash a lot, just what you always wanted!
I cannot tell you how often I say to people, "It won't run any windows software, but there are alternatives." The newbies take that to mean it won't run windows OS, and they always respond with something about running office. That's when I pull my hair out.
Then there is that argument regarding uninstallation, and how its hard. No it isn't, keep your source trees handy for that compiled stuff, use the makefile to uninstall it. Properly packaged software has a make uninstall, and even if it doesn't, reinstall it, then remove every file you see mentioned from the verbose output. Not pretty, but if you were smart enough to install from a tarball, you can be smart enough to do this.
or you could use this new distro, and type ls inside anything in its installed packages. I guarentee you'll see those familiar share, bin, include, and lib directories. All directories that should fall under
Of course they wouldn't, but engineers can makes mistakes. The mean streak sinking isn't a huge issue, they knew it would happen, and built the concrete supports to be ridiculously overcompensating in this regard. When I said sinking slowly, I meant it. Its maybe a millimeter a year, and slowing down, because a) All rollar coasters sink in some way, some settle above ground, the mean streak is both settling in its frame, and sinking. The expectation from what I have heard is that the ground is gonna so compacted underneath it eventually that it will sit in, and take on its semi-permanent shape.
Do you honestly think you can build anything that big and have it not sink a little? They knew it would, just happened a tiny bit more than they had hoped, some nut got ahold of the facts and blew it out of proportion. You don't hear about this because its just bad for the stock value. People are dumb, most people don't realize how much the empire state building wobbles in the air. They'd freak out if they knew.
The magnum isn't really sinking, it just kind of settled at the back loop in the middle of the ride. It just changed the shape of the track a bit, which si whyt the ride is a bit shakier than it used to be. But almost all rides are expected to do this.
Anything that takes people out of the line for The Raptor makes me happy. Its the best ride ever. I'll ride it once, on a nice slow day when no one is in the park, then fill out the big days that my lame friends insist on going on riding the smaller lines while thousands of people pile into lines for M Force and this new one.
I happen to love the mean streak, the rickety nature of it is what makes it fun, a lot of coaster nuts love that, which si why you still hear about a new wooden ride once every blue moon. They do have a certain appeal.
The biggest problem with The Mean Streak, is that its built on a sandy area at the far end of the peninsula. It sits right on the edge of the point, right on the lake, and the ground is too soft. Yes folks, the Mean Streak is sinking, slowly.
I know this is slashdot, and this will get me modded down for defending the uglies over in Redmond, but....
A lot of companies other than microsoft let their release dates slip on a frequent basis, because, quite frankly, software development, even lousy stuff with a poor security record, takes a long time. You can project a release date, but that is mostly an optimistic guess to appease the investors. You can threaten your techies all ya want, they will not code much faster, and if they do, they will make more mistakes, shit, even microsoft knows that.... least I hope they do.
Why didn't you call the super version "Aye Karamba?"