Tiny Personal Firewall v2... fast, free, and secure! Been using it for years. Allows for very detailed, fine-grained rules based firewalling. I think they have a new version or two out, but 2 is what you want (you may have to look for it).
It's not Open Source, but honestly, who gives a fuck? It's not like you're going to dive into the code or anything... I think you are more interested in the cost-free aspect of it, and it is!
Some sites are unusable WITHOUT having Flash. That's not the way we should be going.
While a nice, extremely far-fetched thought that would work in theory, when you figure out how to replicate the content of Homestar Runner in text, let me know!
I'll have to disagree with that. We're not talking Apache vs. IIS here; we're talking Windows vs. LINUX. FYI, there are many Apache sites running Solaris or one of the BSDs, in addition to other OSes!
The only source I could find was from netcraft, but dated to 2001 [here]. Regardless, we can assume that say, Windows and Linux are really neck and neck as WEB SERVERS. This knocks Apache's numbers down big time, when you're just talking about Apache on Linux. So, when you look at the numbers again, it's 12,892 vs 4,626... and the fact that Apache has more market share has nothing to do with this, since there are about the same # of Windows web servers as Linux web servers. (Shoot, stallman.org ran FreeBSD for a really long time, and just recently switched to Linux!)
So, unless you can provide a better source that charts OS usage over time for web servers, I'll be sticking Windows Server 2003 on a box instead of RedHat for my next webserver, thank you very much.
Nice try at a "I AM SO SMART!!!1!" comment, but that totally defeats the purpose of su. 'wheel' simply defines who is allowed to su to root, not other users. 'su' by the way stands for "switch user" -- you can su to users other than root, you know. su should be mode 7411, and its program code should be something like:
"If user is in group wheel, then su to root is allowed."
No, not really. See, you can always give your password to someone else (or rsa key if that may be the case). The major "concern" here, if you want to call it that, is the GNU folks don't like giving the sysadmin "too much control." Something like logon restrictions is against their thinking, but then again, the sysadmin can just change your password or delete the user.
Of course, since you can do that, it makes the 'wheel' rant a bit silly, now doesn't it? In theory your statement should hold true, but it doesn't, so the whole "freedom" thing falls apart. If it were truely free, then you'd be right -- no one would have passwords. So disabling 'wheel' support in the name of freedom, in my opinion, is just dumb. Root is privelged access and *should* be restricted.
Linux won't ever support something like logon hour restrictions because of their political ideology. I'm not trolling here, but just think for a second. Such a thing could enhance security (i.e., people can't break in at night and just start randomly guessing passwords), but Linux will have none of that as it involves "restricting."
What am I basing this on? Read Linux's man page for GNU su. You'll notice they don't support the 'wheel' (you-must-be-in-this-to-use-su) group like most other standart UNIXes. The man page actually contains a political rant from Richard Stallman about how the wheel group is da man's way of stifling freedom, or something. Go figure.
At my last job, after they finally gave me Windows 2000, I simply turned on my PC Monday morning and turned it off Friday afternoon. The rest of the days I just did a "Lock Workstation"... it turned out to be a pretty effective method as I could instantly pick up where I left off they day previous, and I experienced very little to no reliablity issues.
Yay, someone said it. The power output from most UPSes (like mine) looks like this (stepped wave). Your PC's power supply doesn't really care, cause it's just rectifying it into DC, but you can't run many devices reliably that rely on the smooth sine wave characteristic of AC.
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Phew it's about time someone said that. ipchains/iptables is ridiculously hairy and overly complicated to set up. Compare that to pf, which in contrast is more secure, easier to set up, and uses plain English, easy-to-understand syntax in pf.conf.
Actually the wheelchair has been around for quite a while, but it was just pending FDA approval. I got to see a demo of this wheelchair... pretty neat stuff.
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I suggest all Windows users go to http://www.knoppix.net/ and burn the CD
I suggest all Linux zealots such as yourself go place plastic bags over their heads and seal carefully, but that's just as stupid an idea.
Or is it?
Tiny Personal Firewall v2... fast, free, and secure! Been using it for years. Allows for very detailed, fine-grained rules based firewalling. I think they have a new version or two out, but 2 is what you want (you may have to look for it).
It's not Open Source, but honestly, who gives a fuck? It's not like you're going to dive into the code or anything... I think you are more interested in the cost-free aspect of it, and it is!
Finally, someone said it. I never heard that a window in your computer helped your chances with the ladies...
Precisely! Just because idiots misuse Flash doesn't make it an inherently bad thing!
Some sites are unusable WITHOUT having Flash. That's not the way we should be going.
While a nice, extremely far-fetched thought that would work in theory, when you figure out how to replicate the content of Homestar Runner in text, let me know!
Wrong!
/usr/src/sys/arch/$ARCH/conf; config MYFILE ../compile/MYFILE; make depend && make /bsd /bsd_old; cp bsd /bsd
cd
cd
cp
I'll have to disagree with that. We're not talking Apache vs. IIS here; we're talking Windows vs. LINUX. FYI, there are many Apache sites running Solaris or one of the BSDs, in addition to other OSes!
... and the fact that Apache has more market share has nothing to do with this, since there are about the same # of Windows web servers as Linux web servers. (Shoot, stallman.org ran FreeBSD for a really long time, and just recently switched to Linux!)
The only source I could find was from netcraft, but dated to 2001 [here]. Regardless, we can assume that say, Windows and Linux are really neck and neck as WEB SERVERS. This knocks Apache's numbers down big time, when you're just talking about Apache on Linux. So, when you look at the numbers again, it's 12,892 vs 4,626
So, unless you can provide a better source that charts OS usage over time for web servers, I'll be sticking Windows Server 2003 on a box instead of RedHat for my next webserver, thank you very much.
Oh, and 2000th comment!
Typo, make that 4711.
Nice try at a "I AM SO SMART!!!1!" comment, but that totally defeats the purpose of su. 'wheel' simply defines who is allowed to su to root, not other users. 'su' by the way stands for "switch user" -- you can su to users other than root, you know. su should be mode 7411, and its program code should be something like:
"If user is in group wheel, then su to root is allowed."
But you already knew that.
My bad, it's in the 'info' page.
No, not really. See, you can always give your password to someone else (or rsa key if that may be the case). The major "concern" here, if you want to call it that, is the GNU folks don't like giving the sysadmin "too much control." Something like logon restrictions is against their thinking, but then again, the sysadmin can just change your password or delete the user.
Of course, since you can do that, it makes the 'wheel' rant a bit silly, now doesn't it? In theory your statement should hold true, but it doesn't, so the whole "freedom" thing falls apart. If it were truely free, then you'd be right -- no one would have passwords. So disabling 'wheel' support in the name of freedom, in my opinion, is just dumb. Root is privelged access and *should* be restricted.
Linux won't ever support something like logon hour restrictions because of their political ideology. I'm not trolling here, but just think for a second. Such a thing could enhance security (i.e., people can't break in at night and just start randomly guessing passwords), but Linux will have none of that as it involves "restricting."
What am I basing this on? Read Linux's man page for GNU su . You'll notice they don't support the 'wheel' (you-must-be-in-this-to-use-su) group like most other standart UNIXes. The man page actually contains a political rant from Richard Stallman about how the wheel group is da man's way of stifling freedom, or something. Go figure.
The answer, sadly, is OpenBSD. Small, fast, and secure.
How bout I PayPal him the $9.50 for a shiny new Gilette Mach 3 and a can of foamy shaving cream?!
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you said, "It makes me salivate to think that one day, very soon, I'll bring a girl to a lan party."
At least in Word, this "feature" can be disabled... quite easily. If something can be disabled, I don't mind it being there.
They should be using QNX...
At my last job, after they finally gave me Windows 2000, I simply turned on my PC Monday morning and turned it off Friday afternoon. The rest of the days I just did a "Lock Workstation"... it turned out to be a pretty effective method as I could instantly pick up where I left off they day previous, and I experienced very little to no reliablity issues.
Sounds better when Samir says it...
That's just an Akamai cache engine, duh.
Yay, someone said it. The power output from most UPSes (like mine) looks like this (stepped wave). Your PC's power supply doesn't really care, cause it's just rectifying it into DC, but you can't run many devices reliably that rely on the smooth sine wave characteristic of AC.
Phew it's about time someone said that. ipchains/iptables is ridiculously hairy and overly complicated to set up. Compare that to pf, which in contrast is more secure, easier to set up, and uses plain English, easy-to-understand syntax in pf.conf.
Actually the wheelchair has been around for quite a while, but it was just pending FDA approval. I got to see a demo of this wheelchair... pretty neat stuff.
I thought Office generated more $$$ for them than Windows, but I could be wrong.
Use Debian, make-kpkg is your friend!