Much better performance, no tearing problems, smooth compositing and desktop effects, old legacy X11 crap thrown away.
Are you repeating here what you read up elsewhere, or have you actually suffered from those? Here, none of that has been visible for the last 5 years. On 'normal' desktop applications, I should add. Okay, maybe some tearing, at times, without Vsync. But is this really worthwhile all the fuss? To me not.
X is only network transparent if all your apps are from 1995 and are written against Motif. Everything newer than that is not network transparent, it's just shoving uncompressed bitmaps across the network in a highly inefficient wrapper protocol that makes large numbers of inefficient, lag inducing round-trips.
Ooops, this is good for an AC, but bad for the mod who modded up an AC with some unsound feelings.
Hmm. Half whooosh and half 'me no pay money' and see red. So I must be a regular user, or what? I actually couldn't care less; only noticed the red stuff at times and was wondering... . Silly thing, that!
Flogging a dead horse here: Is it really a surprise - or any news by the way - what Unknown Lamer has provided us with? Oh, I see, Unknown Lamer. Recently I had my 25 years anniversary on Microsoft software. Says it all. Of course, the larger part and the larger amount of work was done rather flawlessly on the *nix of favour; but I couldn't avoid it totally.
Since when has there at any moment been an update/upgrade path; one that I could have had for 20 years on another system. Many another system, by the way. And wouldn't I have enjoyed a dedicated/home partition storing 100% of my files and settings? And could I not move a disk simply to another machine; or if need be, dd or partimage it, write it back, and done? So, where's the news here? Or is the news seen in the fact that after decades people have actually understood George W. Bush's adage of "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." And yes, they were!
I wouldn't have commenced the proceedings against Lawrence Lessig in the first place.
Unfortunately, a settlement is not a 'win' as wrongly implied by the/.-title. So there's no way going to cite it as case law. Still, it is a step into the correct direction, and my kudos to LL; one of my heroes for the last decade!
Configuring port forwarding is trivial on virtually any firewall, so yes, that's what you need to do if you want security.
I hope you don't believe this yourself! Port forwarding is the exact opposite of security. Though it it much better than UPnP, because at least you know what you do, and you're responsible when everything is pwned within a minute or a day.
Security starts when you have a proper appliance with enough physical network interfaces and you set up a proper DMZ. Then you can run all your cr***y applications of all sorts with all ports open, and all your console apps, and still sleep well. In the DMZ, of course!!
Totally agreed, but one trouble here: It is not 'conducive' to have non-standard default passwords.!
Just imagine, Tom, Dick and Harry buying routers. How does a manufacturer distribute the individual password? And make sure, that it is not thrown away, or misplaced, or torn or worn off? I already see the light of a class action suit filed by some dim-wit when the latter can not get her router back to life after a reset!!
Don't overdo the 'Interesting' here, my dear mods! It doesn't look like a role model to replace some - agreed - s***ty router. While I'm a Linux person, Debian is not necessarily the distro of choice. There are other, specialised, Linux- and BSD-based solutions that run on maybe even smaller hardware; and therefore much more energy-efficient. A 24-port router is nothing of a 'must' here, neither. And TP-Link wouldn't be the switch of choice for me anyway. "couple custom scripts", what the heck, we need a solution for everyone, not only for nerds and geeks!
Reasonable, okay, useful, okay, but very much of a singular solution.
Reality. What users have in their PCs is not "Trusted Computing" - well, well, I know this is what the monopolist told everyone. But it surely isn't. If all the applications running on a PC were actually trusted, a firewall would not be necessary (aside from the odd closure of ports offering internal content only, like 137-139, 3306, etc.; and this can be done by static rules). No serious firewall can allow any user to reconfigure it.
While your logic looks okay at a first glance, it doesn't at a second.
When a government has thousands of enraged citizens running towards the government building to set those on fire and loot them, some machine guns might be the means of choice. Though it ought to have been considered by the government du jour, what the reaction of the public will be, with the introduction of strict austerity measures, as well as jus primae noctis?
There is no fundamental reason, really, to have 1000 games opening 1000 different ports for endless protocols on a home router. Strange enough, one can invite the whole world, chat with billions of people, even tell every other citizen of this world whatsapp, and needs only http. Just to give an example. Do not support the laziness of game coders.
A firewall that can be configured arbitrarily by user applications on their request is about the worst hack possible to connect securely to another network.
I feel that all those links to WRT/PFSense/M0N0Wall/Tomato/etc are kind of redundant. Sufficient to understand, that the underlying concept of UPnP is an abomination; a sick and distorted concept that deserves nothing less than an immediate death sentence, and to be buried along with The Funniest Joke In The World; never to be resurrected again.
Of course there is a great potential in making CentOS RedHat. Before, even for the not-so-large and not-so-small enterprise; it was - from the perspective of a non-slashdotter - something done by 'hackers'; by geeks and nerds, with a dubious licence, without funding (so it could collapse anytime). Once your RedHat Linux Enterprise comes from RedHat, for free, though under a different name and with limitations, it makes much more sense as an entry system; something to start with, try it out, and be safe on the legal side as well as the continuity.
Worse in the so-called - or self-described - top nation in the world: First you have to scramble through college, and thereby pile up debts of a medium disaster [and the capital raking in the profits] and then you have to become a lowly paid blue collar worker to pay your debts off [and who rakes in the profits?].
Luckily, the libraries still stock "The Condition of the Working Class in England" by Engels; Capital: Critique of Political Economy by Marx and likewise. It might come handy, to start reading again!
I wasn't really convinced that 'libertarians' are equivalent to Adam Smith followers? I rather thought that people on Slashdot have a statistical higher chance to be libertarians than the mean of the population. And until now I don't think that Slashdot-ers have a similar high preference for inhumane working environs. rather on the contrary. To give an example only. I am not even convinced that this nannying will actually work. I don't even the bosses neither. What a lot of boring crap will they have to endure listening to!
[Linux desktop users] know what they want — a classic desktop — and the figures consistently show that is what they are choosing in far greater numbers than GNOME, KDE, or any other single graphical interface.
To me, it makes no sense at all. In my non-native English understanding it would mean, that Linux users preferred classic desktops in comparison to either GNOME, KDE or any other graphical interface. Hell, what do these users, the majority of the Linux users, use then?? If neither GNOME, KDE nor any other GUI? CLI???
Then people started buying phones and tablets, so designers decided no one wanted a functional desktop anymore. Gnome 3 decided to screw everything up, then Ubuntu decided they wanted everything screwed up in a different way. KDE made the same traditional desktop demand more resources, making it unusable.
Huh!? How is this +5 at this moment; and Insightful? Is this the mod mentality of 2014? No one wants a functional desktop anymore? KDE is unusable due to its resource requirements?
I can only sit, read, wonder, and shrug shoulders.
And yes companies and take and profit from your work... However they become dependent on it and it is their best interests to keep the project running, and will work with the main group to keep it things up to date.
Oh yes. Dream on. I'd be happy if this was the case, but it isn't. Look at the BSDs. Sure, Theo got some electricity money; but that's all. Open some overpriced highly fashionable networking gear, and it will partially run OpenBSD. That is capitalism at its best; not charity and neither communal efforts of mankind that mold our society; as much as I deplore this sad state of affairs. But you ought better not dream on your personal dream and just pretend that 'life is good - and just'.
That's where GPL shines (oh, no, please, I don't want to rekindle this flame that's been going on for one generation!): With all downsides imaginable, it offers you to use all its shiny glory and invites you to make it even better - provided you share your creativity and invention with the rest of the world. That's why I'll be a GPL-person for the rest of my life.
The proper way to do it is to have your CAs sitting on a non-network connected computer sitting in a secure location, with as few individuals having access as possible. Obviously that's not 100%, as the NSA could still show up with a warrant, but you're going to know when you've been compromised, which is, really, the whole point behind proper key management.
Come on, mods, how can this be "insightful"?? Are you not aware that the keys are needed to set up any communication; and that it is exactly the requirement for a CA to be online? If you want to mod up, the best could have been "funny"
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Marrying Windows 8 precludes the need of an answer ... .
Much better performance, no tearing problems, smooth compositing and desktop effects, old legacy X11 crap thrown away.
Are you repeating here what you read up elsewhere, or have you actually suffered from those? Here, none of that has been visible for the last 5 years. On 'normal' desktop applications, I should add. Okay, maybe some tearing, at times, without Vsync. But is this really worthwhile all the fuss? To me not.
X is only network transparent if all your apps are from 1995 and are written against Motif. Everything newer than that is not network transparent, it's just shoving uncompressed bitmaps across the network in a highly inefficient wrapper protocol that makes large numbers of inefficient, lag inducing round-trips.
Ooops, this is good for an AC, but bad for the mod who modded up an AC with some unsound feelings.
Hmm. Half whooosh and half 'me no pay money' and see red. So I must be a regular user, or what? ... .
I actually couldn't care less; only noticed the red stuff at times and was wondering
Silly thing, that!
Subscribers get to see an article in red before it posts. Sometimes regular users do too, right before it posts.
In other words: Users tend to see an article before it is posted. Ahem.
It must be the logic of the third Millennium that escapes my ancient brain.
Flogging a dead horse here: Is it really a surprise - or any news by the way - what Unknown Lamer has provided us with? Oh, I see, Unknown Lamer.
Recently I had my 25 years anniversary on Microsoft software. Says it all. Of course, the larger part and the larger amount of work was done rather flawlessly on the *nix of favour; but I couldn't avoid it totally.
Since when has there at any moment been an update/upgrade path; one that I could have had for 20 years on another system. Many another system, by the way. And wouldn't I have enjoyed a dedicated /home partition storing 100% of my files and settings? And could I not move a disk simply to another machine; or if need be, dd or partimage it, write it back, and done?
So, where's the news here?
Or is the news seen in the fact that after decades people have actually understood George W. Bush's adage of "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." And yes, they were!
I wouldn't have commenced the proceedings against Lawrence Lessig in the first place.
Unfortunately, a settlement is not a 'win' as wrongly implied by the /.-title. So there's no way going to cite it as case law.
Still, it is a step into the correct direction, and my kudos to LL; one of my heroes for the last decade!
Even an AC can be right. I was reading something else into the grandparent, who is right, of course. Mea culpa maxima.
Configuring port forwarding is trivial on virtually any firewall, so yes, that's what you need to do if you want security.
I hope you don't believe this yourself!
Port forwarding is the exact opposite of security. Though it it much better than UPnP, because at least you know what you do, and you're responsible when everything is pwned within a minute or a day.
Security starts when you have a proper appliance with enough physical network interfaces and you set up a proper DMZ. Then you can run all your cr***y applications of all sorts with all ports open, and all your console apps, and still sleep well.
In the DMZ, of course!!
NAT should setup NOT a rule to allow your machine to get packets as long as you send some packets there first.
Totally agreed, but one trouble here: It is not 'conducive' to have non-standard default passwords.!
Just imagine, Tom, Dick and Harry buying routers. How does a manufacturer distribute the individual password? And make sure, that it is not thrown away, or misplaced, or torn or worn off? I already see the light of a class action suit filed by some dim-wit when the latter can not get her router back to life after a reset!!
Don't overdo the 'Interesting' here, my dear mods!
It doesn't look like a role model to replace some - agreed - s***ty router. While I'm a Linux person, Debian is not necessarily the distro of choice. There are other, specialised, Linux- and BSD-based solutions that run on maybe even smaller hardware; and therefore much more energy-efficient.
A 24-port router is nothing of a 'must' here, neither. And TP-Link wouldn't be the switch of choice for me anyway.
"couple custom scripts", what the heck, we need a solution for everyone, not only for nerds and geeks!
Reasonable, okay, useful, okay, but very much of a singular solution.
Reality. What users have in their PCs is not "Trusted Computing" - well, well, I know this is what the monopolist told everyone. But it surely isn't.
If all the applications running on a PC were actually trusted, a firewall would not be necessary (aside from the odd closure of ports offering internal content only, like 137-139, 3306, etc.; and this can be done by static rules).
No serious firewall can allow any user to reconfigure it.
While your logic looks okay at a first glance, it doesn't at a second.
When a government has thousands of enraged citizens running towards the government building to set those on fire and loot them, some machine guns might be the means of choice. Though it ought to have been considered by the government du jour, what the reaction of the public will be, with the introduction of strict austerity measures, as well as jus primae noctis?
There is no fundamental reason, really, to have 1000 games opening 1000 different ports for endless protocols on a home router. Strange enough, one can invite the whole world, chat with billions of people, even tell every other citizen of this world whatsapp, and needs only http. Just to give an example.
Do not support the laziness of game coders.
A firewall that can be configured arbitrarily by user applications on their request is about the worst hack possible to connect securely to another network.
I feel that all those links to WRT/PFSense/M0N0Wall/Tomato/etc are kind of redundant.
Sufficient to understand, that the underlying concept of UPnP is an abomination; a sick and distorted concept that deserves nothing less than an immediate death sentence, and to be buried along with The Funniest Joke In The World; never to be resurrected again.
It's like only kids are commenting on Slashdot.
It takes a thief to catch a thief ...
Huuh!?
Of course there is a great potential in making CentOS RedHat. Before, even for the not-so-large and not-so-small enterprise; it was - from the perspective of a non-slashdotter - something done by 'hackers'; by geeks and nerds, with a dubious licence, without funding (so it could collapse anytime).
Once your RedHat Linux Enterprise comes from RedHat, for free, though under a different name and with limitations, it makes much more sense as an entry system; something to start with, try it out, and be safe on the legal side as well as the continuity.
What was your concern, again?
"Since when have you been working here?"
"Since I was told that I'd be laid off otherwise."
... nevermind ...
Insightful, +5
Worse in the so-called - or self-described - top nation in the world: First you have to scramble through college, and thereby pile up debts of a medium disaster [and the capital raking in the profits] and then you have to become a lowly paid blue collar worker to pay your debts off [and who rakes in the profits?].
Luckily, the libraries still stock "The Condition of the Working Class in England" by Engels; Capital: Critique of Political Economy by Marx and likewise. It might come handy, to start reading again!
I wasn't really convinced that 'libertarians' are equivalent to Adam Smith followers?
I rather thought that people on Slashdot have a statistical higher chance to be libertarians than the mean of the population. And until now I don't think that Slashdot-ers have a similar high preference for inhumane working environs. rather on the contrary.
To give an example only.
I am not even convinced that this nannying will actually work. I don't even the bosses neither. What a lot of boring crap will they have to endure listening to!
[Linux desktop users] know what they want — a classic desktop — and the figures consistently show that is what they are choosing in far greater numbers than GNOME, KDE, or any other single graphical interface.
To me, it makes no sense at all. In my non-native English understanding it would mean, that Linux users preferred classic desktops in comparison to either GNOME, KDE or any other graphical interface. Hell, what do these users, the majority of the Linux users, use then?? If neither GNOME, KDE nor any other GUI? CLI???
Then people started buying phones and tablets, so designers decided no one wanted a functional desktop anymore. Gnome 3 decided to screw everything up, then Ubuntu decided they wanted everything screwed up in a different way. KDE made the same traditional desktop demand more resources, making it unusable.
Huh!? How is this +5 at this moment; and Insightful? Is this the mod mentality of 2014?
No one wants a functional desktop anymore?
KDE is unusable due to its resource requirements?
I can only sit, read, wonder, and shrug shoulders.
And yes companies and take and profit from your work... However they become dependent on it and it is their best interests to keep the project running, and will work with the main group to keep it things up to date.
Oh yes. Dream on. I'd be happy if this was the case, but it isn't. Look at the BSDs. Sure, Theo got some electricity money; but that's all. Open some overpriced highly fashionable networking gear, and it will partially run OpenBSD.
That is capitalism at its best; not charity and neither communal efforts of mankind that mold our society; as much as I deplore this sad state of affairs. But you ought better not dream on your personal dream and just pretend that 'life is good - and just'.
That's where GPL shines (oh, no, please, I don't want to rekindle this flame that's been going on for one generation!): With all downsides imaginable, it offers you to use all its shiny glory and invites you to make it even better - provided you share your creativity and invention with the rest of the world. That's why I'll be a GPL-person for the rest of my life.
The proper way to do it is to have your CAs sitting on a non-network connected computer sitting in a secure location, with as few individuals having access as possible. Obviously that's not 100%, as the NSA could still show up with a warrant, but you're going to know when you've been compromised, which is, really, the whole point behind proper key management.
Come on, mods, how can this be "insightful"?? Are you not aware that the keys are needed to set up any communication; and that it is exactly the requirement for a CA to be online? If you want to mod up, the best could have been "funny"