(I've added you to my friends list because you made a good point).
People here are too focussed on the problems that Microsoft had ages ago. Eventually, Microsoft will release an OS that has a firewall, that has noexec patches for memory, a browser with tabbed browsing and a popup blocker - that has all the things that should be in an OS. Look at what's in SP2 for XP, and you'll see that they are getting serious.
Right now, we have the upper hand in servers, but we're resting on our laurels. As long as we keep crowing about how our servers don't need a reboot for anything else than a new kernel, Microsoft are probably working on the exact same thing. And when, bang, their stuff supports not-rebooting, it means we've lost another string to our bow. Linux needs to keep innovating, not relying on Microsoft producing worse operating systems than Linux. Because eventually the difference ( maybe excluding price, maybe not) will be small.
As an aside, imagine if they gave away their "Home User" version of their OS.
Have you ever had a nightmare where you have a handgrenade, and you pull out the pin, and go to throw it, but it sticks to your hand? That's a scary dream.
PS. Any psychologists out there care to tell me what it means?
Yep. IRC + newsgroups = the original P2P and IM. alt.binaries.movies.divx or alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.* anyone?
Why hasn't someone set up a second internet over the main one, where IP allocation is dynamic, and untracable? You're only tracable through your IP address, so if you get allocated a random one, and routing still works, and you throw in a little IPsec, voila.
At least it's better than the Nokia phone I had...god, that thing had a UI that was about as intelligible as ancient sumerian, read underwater, backwards.
Are you kidding? Nokia is reknowned for having the best UIs in the mobile business. Try using a T68 - I hated that.
The best way for Google to accomplish a DDOS if they _really_ wanted to would be to make every search result point to the target website.:)
Yeah - imagine www.google.com pointed to any IP address. Slashdot. Microsoft. Yahoo. Anything. It would just disappear from the internet. As would their upstream ISP, I would imagine. Now - how can I get that A record changed?:)
calum@gk calum $ nsupdate
> server 216.239.36.10
> update add www.google.com 86400 A 66.35.250.150
>
> calum@gk calum $
I think login in most unixes runs as root too, so I don't see where microsoft went wront here.
/bin/login doesn't listen on network ports.
Google - stay exactly the same.
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I hope Google keep to their game-plan that's made them the best, and richest search engine in the world. I hope shareholders don't start voting for popups on the main page, and lots of links to cheap holiday deals.
If you have never tried Gentoo, you should give it a try. Contrary to popular belief, you can have the base installed and running in 15 minutes, and from then you just emerge the packages you want. gentoo-dev-sources, openssh, sysklogd, vixie-cron, at, ntp, whatever.
The documentation is brilliant, and all the defaults for the packages are sensible, and well thought out.
When I install a box, I do it at about 4pm. Give it 30 mins to configure, and install a new kernel, reboot, and leave it to emerge -u world ; emerge kde mozilla overnight.
Couple of things though - emerge ufed, and gentoolkit - ufed is a gui for editting USE flags, and gentoolkit contains qpkg.
A very brief doc I knocked up is here. It's probably slightly out of date by now, but you get the idea.
So? my apps will go 5% faster if I bother to wait 5000% more during the install?
Arrgh. Time to feed the trolls. Let me explain. After the install, you never actually wait for the packages to compile/install. You can use kde-3.2.0 while (should you feel the need to upgrade) you are compiling 3.2.2.
I've got you down as a friend, so you must have said something insightful in the past.
If we have to carry cards, we can also carry card readers. If we have to show id, then the person requesting id also has to show id.
What world are you living in? How many times have you got to see the passport of an immigration officer? Or the driving licence and insurance of a policeman? Keep puffing away though.
I think that's the main thing. Enforcing complex passwords that get changed regularly are too hard to remember. Just run john the ripper, or l0pht on the password DBs, and set the cracked passwords to a stronger one, and let the users know. If I can't crack a password in 2 days on a P4, I consider that, unless an attacker gets the password hashes, it's safe enough for most things.
Some sound cards suck and are not supported by Linux
This is pretty much true for most classes of hardware. Network cards, scanners, sound cards. If it's good hardware, someone will bother to reverse engineer it. If it's crap, they usually won't bother. I have a scanner at home that I can't use because it's a cheap 40 one that uses some crazy interface that Sane doesn't understand. Now I check the hardware I buy is supported natively in the kernel before I buy it.
Really? All my boxes (mainly servers) run gentoo-sources, or xfs-sources, with PaX in. I've never had any problems. Oh, and one of them is running gentoo-dev-sources.
20:40:10 up 6 days, 10:20, 6 users, load average: 0.30, 0.72, 1.31
Yup, still looking fine.
And I do much, much prefer the ipsec stuff in 2.6 to the weirdness that is free/openswan.
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(I've added you to my friends list because you made a good point).
People here are too focussed on the problems that Microsoft had ages ago. Eventually, Microsoft will release an OS that has a firewall, that has noexec patches for memory, a browser with tabbed browsing and a popup blocker - that has all the things that should be in an OS. Look at what's in SP2 for XP, and you'll see that they are getting serious.
Right now, we have the upper hand in servers, but we're resting on our laurels. As long as we keep crowing about how our servers don't need a reboot for anything else than a new kernel, Microsoft are probably working on the exact same thing. And when, bang, their stuff supports not-rebooting, it means we've lost another string to our bow. Linux needs to keep innovating, not relying on Microsoft producing worse operating systems than Linux. Because eventually the difference ( maybe excluding price, maybe not) will be small.
As an aside, imagine if they gave away their "Home User" version of their OS.
Have you ever had a nightmare where you have a handgrenade, and you pull out the pin, and go to throw it, but it sticks to your hand? That's a scary dream.
PS. Any psychologists out there care to tell me what it means?
Is she your Granny? I hope she's a nice old lady.
Who is Granny Gretchen?
They started up their own ISP? Wow, that's evil tactics.
Yep. IRC + newsgroups = the original P2P and IM. alt.binaries.movies.divx or alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.* anyone?
Why hasn't someone set up a second internet over the main one, where IP allocation is dynamic, and untracable? You're only tracable through your IP address, so if you get allocated a random one, and routing still works, and you throw in a little IPsec, voila.
Hell yeah! I will only obey a shiny metal fem-bot! :)
Are you kidding? Nokia is reknowned for having the best UIs in the mobile business. Try using a T68 - I hated that.
Yeah - imagine www.google.com pointed to any IP address. Slashdot. Microsoft. Yahoo. Anything. It would just disappear from the internet. As would their upstream ISP, I would imagine. Now - how can I get that A record changed? :)
calum@gk calum $ nsupdate
> server 216.239.36.10
> update add www.google.com 86400 A 66.35.250.150
>
> calum@gk calum $
Slashdot still here? Nope, didn't work.
I hope Google keep to their game-plan that's made them the best, and richest search engine in the world. I hope shareholders don't start voting for popups on the main page, and lots of links to cheap holiday deals.
If you have never tried Gentoo, you should give it a try. Contrary to popular belief, you can have the base installed and running in 15 minutes, and from then you just emerge the packages you want. gentoo-dev-sources, openssh, sysklogd, vixie-cron, at, ntp, whatever.
The documentation is brilliant, and all the defaults for the packages are sensible, and well thought out.
When I install a box, I do it at about 4pm. Give it 30 mins to configure, and install a new kernel, reboot, and leave it to emerge -u world ; emerge kde mozilla overnight.
Couple of things though - emerge ufed, and gentoolkit - ufed is a gui for editting USE flags, and gentoolkit contains qpkg.
A very brief doc I knocked up is here. It's probably slightly out of date by now, but you get the idea.
When the site falls over, cue the jokes about PHP and MySQL, from the battle-hardened Perl and Postgres veterans.
Arrgh. Time to feed the trolls. Let me explain. After the install, you never actually wait for the packages to compile/install. You can use kde-3.2.0 while (should you feel the need to upgrade) you are compiling 3.2.2.
I've got you down as a friend, so you must have said something insightful in the past.
What world are you living in? How many times have you got to see the passport of an immigration officer? Or the driving licence and insurance of a policeman? Keep puffing away though.
Isn't it a bit late by then?
Don't let misplaced chest-beating, flag-waving American "patiotism" get in the way of facts. You must be incorrect.
Great. Sounds like a good reason to use it for me.
Leenus, he's just zis guy, you know...
I think that's the main thing. Enforcing complex passwords that get changed regularly are too hard to remember. Just run john the ripper, or l0pht on the password DBs, and set the cracked passwords to a stronger one, and let the users know. If I can't crack a password in 2 days on a P4, I consider that, unless an attacker gets the password hashes, it's safe enough for most things.
What is it then? :) Post it on Slashdot, I dare you.
This is pretty much true for most classes of hardware. Network cards, scanners, sound cards. If it's good hardware, someone will bother to reverse engineer it. If it's crap, they usually won't bother. I have a scanner at home that I can't use because it's a cheap 40 one that uses some crazy interface that Sane doesn't understand. Now I check the hardware I buy is supported natively in the kernel before I buy it.
Really? All my boxes (mainly servers) run gentoo-sources, or xfs-sources, with PaX in. I've never had any problems. Oh, and one of them is running gentoo-dev-sources.
20:40:10 up 6 days, 10:20, 6 users, load average: 0.30, 0.72, 1.31
Yup, still looking fine.
And I do much, much prefer the ipsec stuff in 2.6 to the weirdness that is free/openswan.
"Lyrics", huh? :) Is that what it's referred to as now? :)
Would you be referring to the citizens of Slashdot land here?