I worked for Lucent, and we had a little lab for building machines. We asked if we could get a little 100 Mb hub, as the 10Mb one was maxxing out doing Ghosting.
Due to corporate bullshit, ah, I mean politics, the conversation went like this:
Can we get a little 100Mb hub - about 100 pounds?
No, we're not allowed to buy any gear that isn't Lucent.
OK, can we get a Lucent hub?
No, they only do switches.
OK, can we get a switch?
No, they're too expensive.
Solution? Use free* chat protocols, and give-up some of your time to help less computer savvy users migrate away from MSN.
Seconded. If you have a nice domain name, install a Jabber server, and install the plugins that let them connect to their current networks. Try to get everyone using Jabber - it's a free, open source, open standard messenging system. Unfortunately, when I speak to people, they ask if I have Messenger. I ask - AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, or MSN, and they seem to never have heard about the first three.
I've just got back from Russia - the beer there is amazing. You can buy a really good beer for about 50 pence, and drink it in the street, or on the metro.
Aye. Seconded. Listen people. If you have never compiled a kernel before, then don't bother compiling a 2.6 kernel. a:, you won't notice any difference. b:, you might mess it up, and then whinge about how hard Linux is.
It's a shame that companies only seem to like it because it's free. It's better than the alternatives for a lot of reasons, and only one of them is the price.
If you have to ever reset someones password, set it to something that is mispelt.
Yeah, your password is now orange1234. Bye. Click.
5 mins later....
Hey that password didn't work...
Didn't work? How did you try and spell it?
o - r - a - n - g - e
Me, laughing: No, you've got the spelling wrong. It's o - r - i - n - j. Dumbass....
First thing I do on all my systems is chgrp wheel/bin/su, followed by chmod 4750/bin/su.
I like Debian and Gentoos use of groups though - adm for log reading, etc. RedHat is not very clever when it comes to this.
Well, that's what makes the world an interesting place:)
Why does apache need to be run by root? Because it needs to bind to port 80. But why bother with that need for root at all? I am well aware that a program that binds to a port, and then drops all root privs is in effect just a normal user program.
Hmmmm. The risks associated by needing to run the daemon as root (which is often done via setuid anyway) don't outweigh the benefits, I think.
OK - solution. Binding to ports under 1024 may only be done by users in the priv group or something. In fact, grsecurity patches allow you to do this - and even stop outbound connections by group too.
I think the whole root-below-port 1024 is stupid. What is the point of it? Mabe have an/etc/reserved.ports file, with tcp/22, udp/53, tcp/53 in it, etc that users aren't allowed to bind to. But needing root access to **only** bind to a port 1024 is just silly.
Remember those posts about Amateur (Ham) Radio recently? Where everyone was poo-pooing it, saying it's irrelevant in this day and age? I bet those guys are happily chatting, and sending data all around the place right now, using their car batteries.
Second that, Mr Partridge (Bristol, not London though.)
I did have a 5 minute outage about 2 years ago, but other than that, wow, it's never blacked- or browned-out ever. Who needs expensive datacentres? Or UPSs? All you people in the US, just ship me your servers. I'll need more than 128k uplink though, but still, just ship me your servers, and I'll sort that out later.
Red Hat has a nasty habit of installing sendmail, bind, and a bunch of other crap you don't want even if you do a custom install and explicitly mark them 'no'.
-3, Talking out of arse.
This is plain and simple BS. Which is weird, cos I have you down as a "friend", so you must have said something good down the line before.
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What should it be then?
Speaking of monkeys....
Look at the monkey, funny monkey, little red monkey, acting so fidgety...
I worked for Lucent, and we had a little lab for building machines. We asked if we could get a little 100 Mb hub, as the 10Mb one was maxxing out doing Ghosting.
Due to corporate bullshit, ah, I mean politics, the conversation went like this:
Can we get a little 100Mb hub - about 100 pounds?
No, we're not allowed to buy any gear that isn't Lucent.
OK, can we get a Lucent hub?
No, they only do switches.
OK, can we get a switch?
No, they're too expensive.
You find their wording a bit disturbing? ;) Did you look at your .sig recently?
For the benefit of those with them turned off:
"-Kate "You could slit my throat, and with my last gasping breath I would apologize for bleeding on your shirt.""
Tell me that's lyrics from a song, or something...
Seconded. If you have a nice domain name, install a Jabber server, and install the plugins that let them connect to their current networks. Try to get everyone using Jabber - it's a free, open source, open standard messenging system. Unfortunately, when I speak to people, they ask if I have Messenger. I ask - AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, or MSN, and they seem to never have heard about the first three.
Free your mind at -1? Fill it with crap, more like! I used to read at -1, but I quickly dispaired at how ignorant and inane some people are.
I've just got back from Russia - the beer there is amazing. You can buy a really good beer for about 50 pence, and drink it in the street, or on the metro.
Aye. Seconded. Listen people. If you have never compiled a kernel before, then don't bother compiling a 2.6 kernel. a:, you won't notice any difference. b:, you might mess it up, and then whinge about how hard Linux is.
Maar nu hij is een stomme eikel, een klootzak. (I love that word, klootzak.)
Yayy, some bitter Windows admin getting upset that he can't learn a proper OS.
It's a shame that companies only seem to like it because it's free. It's better than the alternatives for a lot of reasons, and only one of them is the price.
You can get all the insults you need at http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/ ;)
If you have to ever reset someones password, set it to something that is mispelt.
Yeah, your password is now orange1234. Bye. Click.
5 mins later....
Hey that password didn't work...
Didn't work? How did you try and spell it?
o - r - a - n - g - e
Me, laughing: No, you've got the spelling wrong. It's o - r - i - n - j. Dumbass....
First thing I do on all my systems is chgrp wheel /bin/su, followed by chmod 4750 /bin/su.
I like Debian and Gentoos use of groups though - adm for log reading, etc. RedHat is not very clever when it comes to this.
Well, that's what makes the world an interesting place :)
Why does apache need to be run by root? Because it needs to bind to port 80. But why bother with that need for root at all? I am well aware that a program that binds to a port, and then drops all root privs is in effect just a normal user program.
But why are they writing their own, rather than taking the already very good OpenOffice.org, and working on that?
OK - solution. Binding to ports under 1024 may only be done by users in the priv group or something. In fact, grsecurity patches allow you to do this - and even stop outbound connections by group too.
I think the whole root-below-port 1024 is stupid. What is the point of it? Mabe have an /etc/reserved.ports file, with tcp/22, udp/53, tcp/53 in it, etc that users aren't allowed to bind to. But needing root access to **only** bind to a port 1024 is just silly.
Next time, virus writers - microsoft.com - let's see them turn that one off ;)
I get 4 hours in console only mode, and about 1-1.5 when running X.
Time to hit Lynx, mg123 and Mutt, guys.
Remember those posts about Amateur (Ham) Radio recently? Where everyone was poo-pooing it, saying it's irrelevant in this day and age? I bet those guys are happily chatting, and sending data all around the place right now, using their car batteries.
Second that, Mr Partridge (Bristol, not London though.)
I did have a 5 minute outage about 2 years ago, but other than that, wow, it's never blacked- or browned-out ever. Who needs expensive datacentres? Or UPSs? All you people in the US, just ship me your servers. I'll need more than 128k uplink though, but still, just ship me your servers, and I'll sort that out later.
Lol
-3, Talking out of arse.
This is plain and simple BS. Which is weird, cos I have you down as a "friend", so you must have said something good down the line before.
Could you change it so it tries to connect back to the host on tcp/4444, and shut it down?
That might be useful.