Have you tried one of the VNC alternatives?
Take a look at Tight VNC.
There are others... even some implemented in Java.
Take a look at
Workspot
In particular, try out the demo to see what the performance is like on your net connection.
Processes with open sockets can be migrated. When they do IO on the socket, they have to return to the home node. Not good for a server type application, but good enough for something such seti@home.
"As an avid PC games player I'm locked into the perpetual hardware upgrade cycle like everyone else"
I think you answered you're own question. The hardware makers will sell the card for exactly as much as you're willing to pay. Not a penny more. Not a penny less.
This is solving a different problem. The purpose of this is to prevent programs that the computer owner doesn't want to be executed. Palladium and that ilk aim to prevent programs that the entertainment industry doesn't want to execute.
Although, when/if this is presented as an alternative it will be interesting to see their response as to why it's not sufficient.
Vermont is a strange place. I'm new here (only been here since last summer) but here is what I see:
Vermonts largest county (Chittenden County) is probably one of the most liberal counties in America. About half of the state's population lives here and most are not native Vermonters.
Many in the rest of the state fit the Libertarian/classical liberal category. The "Take Back Vermont" crowd. These people dislike the newcomers in Chitenden County and would be a reasonable breeding ground for this sort of operation.
On top of that, the population of Vermont is in the 600,000 range which well under their target.
Of course, if they try to take over Vermont I'll have to consider whether I want to stay... I wonder if it will help/hurt my property value? Hmm....
Steve
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Perhaps "coastal access" should have been termed "border access" which makes North Dakota, Idaho, Montana, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Alaska all candidates (if my geography is correct).
How about mentioning the name of the software? Where to get information about it? You have a huge audience, some of which may be in a position to help you out, but not a single mention of a program name, type of program, audience, URL. Nada.
That having been said. Release it for free(as in speech). Sell support, documentation, user-specific modifications, etc.
I broke my wrist in a motorcycle accident a year ago. I had an external fixator on my arm for about 8 weeks.
I actually found that I could type (albeit quite slowly) with my bad hand. And the more I typed, the more flexibility I got back in my hand. Rotating my arm so that my palm was flat on the keyboard was an excellent (and painful) stretching exercise.
So I suggest (with your doctor's approval) that you try and use your broken arm as much as possible. It maintained some of the manual dexterity in my hand and helped me recover more quickly. I have recovered about 99%. I occasionaly still get some stiffness in my wrist, but just reqires a break and some stretching which is a good habit regardless.
What is this notepad thing? Why would I use paper to configure my web server? Am I suppose to then copy the config from paper into my editor of choice?
You know... this actually brings back memories. I developed an interest in programming before I had convenient access to a computer. I would write my programs on paper at home and then transcribe them onto the computer at school.
> I'm afraid that this isn't so. It is trivial to > sniff a switched network so switches don't offer > any security.
How is it trivial to sniff a switched network? Assuming one doesn't have administrative access to the switch itself?
I'm not being fecicious. I'd really like to know. I've heard of some broadcast storm related hacks that good (ie. Cisco) switches protect against. But otherwise, how do you go about sniffing a switched network?
Also, I wouldn't go so far as to say that LPRng doesn't help. It helps solve a problem. It may not the the end-all solution to every printing security problem, but it's a piece of the puzzle.
Obviosly other aspects (firewalls, vlans, etc.) play a role as well.
And if you're the NSA or a defense contractor, you're not posting your security questions to slashdot, now are you?;-)
You are using a switched network, right? If so, snooping is not an issue (well, not a BIG issue anyways). Otherwise you have much larger problems on your hands than printing. It amazes me that people are still using hubs... it's 2002 right? Although I have to admit, my campus is guilty. The people I support are on a switched network, but we had to provide our own infrastructure. Everyone else in the building are on 10BaseT hubs:(
Otherwise, look at LPRng which supports tcp_wrappers, doesn't run as root, doesn't need to run as a daemon on all systems, supports access control so you don't have to su - to delete print jobs, stop the printer, etc. Supports kerberos... I could go on.
1. What is currently considered the best 3d accelerator with open drivers for Linux?
2. People that I work with use hardware stereo on SGIs. I'd like to phase out the SGIs over time and move toward Linux systems. Has anyone done stereo 3d in linux (I know that the Xi xservers support stereo 3d, but haven't seen it myself) and if so on what hardware (card,goggles,etc.)?
Note that on question two I'm not concerned as much on the "openness" of the drivers as on question one.
The idea is to have one machine with 2 (or more) keyboards, monitors and mice. Like an Xterm except that there's no network involved. So if you want to do it across the network, just use an Xterm.
You could reserve the PID for the process when it is restarted. This already happens with zombies. The process control block of the child is not freed until the parent calls wait or exits.
Of course, freezing and unthawing across reboots would be an issue. The kernel doesn't save any state across reboots.
I think a competent UN*X sysadmin should be a competent C programmer. Since you can't be a competent C programmer without knowing how C translates into asm, a familiarity with asm is a given.
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Have you tried one of the VNC alternatives? Take a look at Tight VNC. There are others... even some implemented in Java. Take a look at Workspot In particular, try out the demo to see what the performance is like on your net connection.
STeveProcesses with open sockets can be migrated. When they do IO on the socket, they have to return to the home node. Not good for a server type application, but good enough for something such seti@home.
I haven't tried this, but it would be fun to play with.
Steve
"As an avid PC games player I'm locked into the perpetual hardware upgrade cycle like everyone else"
I think you answered you're own question. The hardware makers will sell the card for exactly as much as you're willing to pay. Not a penny more. Not a penny less.
SteveThis is solving a different problem. The purpose of this is to prevent programs that the computer owner doesn't want to be executed. Palladium and that ilk aim to prevent programs that the entertainment industry doesn't want to execute.
Although, when/if this is presented as an alternative it will be interesting to see their response as to why it's not sufficient.
Steve
Vermont is a strange place. I'm new here (only been here since last summer) but here is what I see:
Vermonts largest county (Chittenden County) is probably one of the most liberal counties in America. About half of the state's population lives here and most are not native Vermonters.
Many in the rest of the state fit the Libertarian/classical liberal category. The "Take Back Vermont" crowd. These people dislike the newcomers in Chitenden County and would be a reasonable breeding ground for this sort of operation.
On top of that, the population of Vermont is in the 600,000 range which well under their target.
Of course, if they try to take over Vermont I'll have to consider whether I want to stay... I wonder if it will help/hurt my property value? Hmm....
Steve
Perhaps "coastal access" should have been termed "border access" which makes North Dakota, Idaho, Montana, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Alaska all candidates (if my geography is correct).
Steve
I think the subject says it all... I thought glibc
was only up to 2.2.5. At least that is what is on the gnu ftp site.
Steve
Anyone who says "a lil' somethin somethin" should not be starting a radio station.
Steve
Any chance you could make a photo of the car available?
Steve
How about mentioning the name of the software? Where to get information about it? You have a huge audience, some of which may be in a position to help you out, but not a single mention of a program name, type of program, audience, URL. Nada.
That having been said. Release it for free(as in speech). Sell support, documentation, user-specific modifications, etc.
Just a thought.
Steve
I broke my wrist in a motorcycle accident a year ago. I had an external fixator on my arm for about 8 weeks.
I actually found that I could type (albeit quite slowly) with my bad hand. And the more I typed, the more flexibility I got back in my hand. Rotating my arm so that my palm was flat on the keyboard was an excellent (and painful) stretching exercise.
So I suggest (with your doctor's approval) that you try and use your broken arm as much as possible. It maintained some of the manual dexterity in my hand and helped me recover more quickly. I have recovered about 99%. I occasionaly still get some stiffness in my wrist, but just reqires a break and some stretching which is a good habit regardless.
Steve
What is this notepad thing? Why would I use paper to configure my web server? Am I suppose to then copy the config from paper into my editor of choice?
You know... this actually brings back memories. I developed an interest in programming before I had convenient access to a computer. I would write my programs on paper at home and then transcribe them onto the computer at school.
Steve
> I'm afraid that this isn't so. It is trivial to
> sniff a switched network so switches don't offer
> any security.
How is it trivial to sniff a switched network? Assuming one doesn't have administrative access to the switch itself?
I'm not being fecicious. I'd really like to know. I've heard of some broadcast storm related hacks that good (ie. Cisco) switches protect against. But otherwise, how do you go about sniffing a switched network?
Also, I wouldn't go so far as to say that LPRng doesn't help. It helps solve a problem. It may not the the end-all solution to every printing security problem, but it's a piece of the puzzle.
Obviosly other aspects (firewalls, vlans, etc.) play a role as well.
And if you're the NSA or a defense contractor, you're not posting your security questions to slashdot, now are you? ;-)
Steve
You are using a switched network, right? If so, snooping is not an issue (well, not a BIG issue anyways). Otherwise you have much larger problems on your hands than printing. It amazes me that people are still using hubs... it's 2002 right? Although I have to admit, my campus is guilty. The people I support are on a switched network, but we had to provide our own infrastructure. Everyone else in the building are on 10BaseT hubs :(
Otherwise, look at LPRng which supports tcp_wrappers, doesn't run as root, doesn't need to run as a daemon on all systems, supports access control so you don't have to su - to delete print jobs, stop the printer, etc. Supports kerberos... I could go on.
-Steve
sed == Stream EDitor
lex == lexical analyzer
Neither come from a latin origin as far as I know.
-Steve
1. What is currently considered the best 3d accelerator with open drivers for Linux?
2. People that I work with use hardware stereo on SGIs. I'd like to phase out the SGIs over time and move toward Linux systems. Has anyone done stereo 3d in linux (I know that the Xi xservers support stereo 3d, but haven't seen it myself) and if so on what hardware (card,goggles,etc.)?
Note that on question two I'm not concerned as much on the "openness" of the drivers as on question one.
Thanks!
Steve
The idea is to have one machine with 2 (or more) keyboards, monitors and mice. Like an Xterm except that there's no network involved. So if you want to do it across the network, just use an Xterm.
You could reserve the PID for the process when it is restarted. This already happens with zombies. The process control block of the child is not freed until the parent calls wait or exits.
Of course, freezing and unthawing across reboots would be an issue. The kernel doesn't save any state across reboots.
-Steve
I think a competent UN*X sysadmin should be a competent C programmer. Since you can't be a competent C programmer without knowing how C translates into asm, a familiarity with asm is a given.
-Steve
From what I've read, with 2.4.x kernels you should have twice the swap as you have physical memory.
You have 64MB of physical RAM, so you should have a 128MB swap partition. This may be the source of your problems when memory is tight.
I think your's is a bad analogy. Port scanning is much less intrusive than what you describe.
:)
I like the door knocking ananlogy... on the scale of 1024 doors
Steve
I don't understand the need for overwriting several times.
Either a bit is on or off, how can it be in between? Or how can you get the previous value of a bit if a switch is either on or off?
Thanks.
Steve
Why 20 or 30 times? Why random data? Why not just write all zeros?
I would say the RIGHT to fork is good, even though the act may be good or bad depending on the use.
The right to free speech is a good thing. Although the use of that right can definitley have undesirable results.
It's a freedom thing.