As expected.
Having been through the tools you mentioned plus ipmasqadm, I never bothered to learn iptables as I expected it to be replaced soon.
Shorewall has been my tool of preference for firewalls.
If each self contained application declared what libaries it contains, the OS could have some sort of security auditing agent that identifies exploits on the system. Kinda like portaudit in FreeBSD.
The disk I/O latency can at least for HDDs be reduced if each application statically compiles in its libraries. I think Plan 9 actually does this, see http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/. There is a comparison of the file sizes of some command line tools there, but it would be interesting to know the binary size difference between statically and dynamically linked binaries for modern GUI apps that are using libraries like GTK or QT.
Tape is a great medium for reliable backup of larger data volumes for corporate users, and I believe it will continue to be so for a long time.
For backing up your personal workstation(s) at home tape has been gradually replaced by cdrw and later by dvd±rw. Tape drives for personal backup have not been able to keep up with the growth of disk capacity. Up until the later 90's one could buy reasonably priced tape drives and simply dump the content of ones entire hard drive onto a single cartridge. Unfortunately, todays tape drives that can do that are not priced for the consumer marked.
PS! My six year old Iomega Ditto is still serving its purpose!
Try installing diggler to get a button similar to Konqueror's "Clear Location Bar" button on the leftside of your location bar.
You would probably also want to turn on "focus follows mouse" if your window manager allows it. Then you can copy and paste without using the keyboard.
If they really take privacy seriously, why do they act as "man-in-the-middle" of all transactions between their users? Who knows how many valid e-mail addresses they have collected.
Their system has nothing to do with p2p-systems, it is in fact no more p2p-like than e-mail.
Worst of all, Plaxo users upload their contact lists containing personal information about others. That is without their acknowledgement.
Freedom has it's cost, namely diversity. The opensource movement is unfortunately still on it's way down the partition recursion, and who knows, maybe it will never start winding up.
As long as projects keep forking and drifting apart opensource will not be a _serious_ contender.
As a solution I propose a proletariat, and RMS should be the dictator, for he has capacity for all the quarrelling. Everyone should sign over their licences to this consortium, and we would finally move in a single direction.
(I know, it has been tried in the past and it never worked!)
Maybe this is what it takes to bury the x86 family.
By then chip designers will have to do better than just shrinking and
speeding up the chips.
Customers would need to compile software for all sorts of architechtures, and therefore would demand opensorce software.
btw. when were we all supposed to buy ia64 machines?
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As expected. Having been through the tools you mentioned plus ipmasqadm, I never bothered to learn iptables as I expected it to be replaced soon. Shorewall has been my tool of preference for firewalls.
If each self contained application declared what libaries it contains, the OS could have some sort of security auditing agent that identifies exploits on the system. Kinda like portaudit in FreeBSD.
The disk I/O latency can at least for HDDs be reduced if each application statically compiles in its libraries. I think Plan 9 actually does this, see http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/. There is a comparison of the file sizes of some command line tools there, but it would be interesting to know the binary size difference between statically and dynamically linked binaries for modern GUI apps that are using libraries like GTK or QT.
Tape is a great medium for reliable backup of larger data volumes for corporate users, and I believe it will continue to be so for a long time.
For backing up your personal workstation(s) at home tape has been gradually replaced by cdrw and later by dvd±rw. Tape drives for personal backup have not been able to keep up with the growth of disk capacity. Up until the later 90's one could buy reasonably priced tape drives and simply dump the content of ones entire hard drive onto a single cartridge. Unfortunately, todays tape drives that can do that are not priced for the consumer marked.
PS! My six year old Iomega Ditto is still serving its purpose!
Try installing diggler to get a button similar to Konqueror's "Clear Location Bar" button on the leftside of your location bar.
You would probably also want to turn on "focus follows mouse" if your window manager allows it. Then you can copy and paste without using the keyboard.
If they really take privacy seriously, why do they act as "man-in-the-middle" of all transactions between their users? Who knows how many valid e-mail addresses they have collected. Their system has nothing to do with p2p-systems, it is in fact no more p2p-like than e-mail.
Worst of all, Plaxo users upload their contact lists containing personal information about others. That is without their acknowledgement.
As long as projects keep forking and drifting apart opensource will not be a _serious_ contender.
As a solution I propose a proletariat, and RMS should be the dictator, for he has capacity for all the quarrelling. Everyone should sign over their licences to this consortium, and we would finally move in a single direction.
(I know, it has been tried in the past and it never worked!)
Maybe this is what it takes to bury the x86 family. By then chip designers will have to do better than just shrinking and speeding up the chips.
Customers would need to compile software for all sorts of architechtures, and therefore would demand opensorce software.
btw. when were we all supposed to buy ia64 machines?
It probalby works, in windows NT you are not allowed to use your own head!