This is a single Installer CD that will boot and install Darwin on Macintosh computers supported by Mac OS X 10.3, as well as certain x86-based personal computers. The version of Darwin installed by this CD corresponds to the open source core of Mac OS X 10.3 and is available at the following URLs:
Yes - bear in mind though that the toy versions of Windows (9x/Me) are - well - shite - really. NT4 is infinitely more stable, but still too difficult to manage remotely.
Windows 2000 / XP with Active Directory domains is actually very easy to manage with group policies. You can control almost anything and apply it to the whole network at once. Very nice. If they could sort out the "must be administrator" to do lots of stuff then it would be very good indeed.
OS9 is unreliable, crap, and a bastard to manage en mass with Macintosh Manager and Remote Desktop (Oops - did you upgrade the admin tool? You just broke your ability to remote manage. Go and manually reinstall the client again.)
OS X however is rather nice so long as you have an XServe (or whatever as a server) using Workgroup Manager to manage prefs and so on. Much more elegant.
Shouldn't that be 4 staff for 100 Macs?
The Windows figures are off - we have around 1000 Windows boxen and only 8 techs and those techs also manage our *NIX (Solaris / OpenBSD) and Mac (OS 8 / 9 / OS X) boxen.
I bought a dual USB 12" iBook 800 last year - three weeks after I bought it, the new 12" Powerbook was announced which was pretty annoying.
Anyway.. I didn't treat it rough or anything and after 11 months, one day I'm using it just fine, put it to sleep, moved it to another desk, opened the lid, then the display flickered a little, then a lot, then went off completely.
Restarted it, it came back. After a few minutes it did it again.
Fortunately I managed to turn on file sharing and SSH so I could get my files off the thing. Here is the interesting part - I had VNC installed on the iBook, but when trying to start it up via an SSH connection in the usual way was told that there was no display - the thing thought it was headless.
Luckily for me this happened just inside my warranty, and even luckier the place I bought it screwed up the repair - basically they sat on it for a month without doing anything - and had to offer me credit in the store to the value that I paid 11 months previously. I paid a little extra and got the 12" 1Ghz G4 Powerbook, which was nice:)
I hope this one screws up within warranty too - I could get used to a cheap laptop refresh every year.
Firstly iTunes runs on Windows, however it only runs on the non-toy versions. (2k + XP). Yes I know it's designed for an iPod but you can burn to CD then re-rip them to a portable format.
Edit the CD to include the email address of every politician the wolrd over, along with known spammers and the editor of every media outlet. If you can, use addresses that forward a notification to their mobile phone via SMS, then sell the new CD.
Seeing as having to register and give ones credit and family history just to read a ******* story sucks, here it is:
Alan Ralsky, who has made a successful business of spamming, is on a hiatus, but says he will soon resume bulk e-mailing in compliance with a federal antispam law. He calls the law unfair, but adds, "You would have to be stupid" to try to violate it.
By SAUL HANSELL
Published: December 30, 2003
lan Ralsky, according to experts in the field, has long been one of the most prolific senders of junk e-mail messages in the world. But he has not sent a single message over the Internet in the last few weeks.
He stopped sending e-mail offers for everything from debt repayment schemes to time-share vacations even before President Bush, on Dec. 16, signed the new Can Spam Act, a law meant to crack down on marketers like Mr. Ralsky.
He plans to resume in January, he said, after he overcomes some computer problems, and only after he changes his practices to include in his messages a return address and other information required by the law, the title of which stands for Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing.
That is quite a switch for Mr. Ralsky, who has earned a reputation as a master of cyberdisguise. By his own admission, he once produced more than 70 million messages a day from domains registered with fake names, largely by way of foreign countries - or sometimes even by way of hijacked computers - so that the recipients could not trace the mail back to him.
Most experts in junk e-mail, known as spam, have dismissed the new federal law as largely ineffectual. And many high-volume e-mailers say the law may even improve the situation for them because it wipes away a handful of tougher state laws.
But Mr. Ralsky, who lives in a Detroit suburb, says the law's potential penalties - fines of up to $6 million and up to five years in jail - are making him rethink his business.
"Of course I'm worried about it," he said after the law was signed. "You would have to be stupid to try to violate this law."
No one is saying that e-mail in-boxes will be clean of spam any time soon. But the world is getting to be a much more hostile place for spammers, particularly those who send some of the most offensive messages. The biggest threat is not so much the new law, though it is expected to play a role in stepped-up enforcement, as the increased willingness of prosecutors to go after spammers.
In recent weeks, federal and state authorities have finally gotten the attention of spammers with a series of tough civil and criminal actions.
"These suits sent a shock wave through the spam world," said Steve Linford, the director of the Spamhaus Project, an organization that tracks bulk e-mailers and tries to thwart their moves. "Lots of spammers are asking, 'Are we next?' "
Some bulk e-mailers, like Scott Richter, who was a principal target of a civil suit filed last week by the New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, vow to continue. But Mr. Richter has lost some major clients, including mainstream companies like Omaha Steaks.
Still, in the week after the suit was filed, Mr. Richter's company, OptInRealBig.com, was actively sending e-mail messages promoting dozens of products, including laser guns, breast enlargement pills and Christian dating services.
Others say they have been beaten down by blacklists created by antispammers and filtering systems run by Internet service providers.
"E-mail is not working any more," said Brendan Battles, a longtime marketer who has sold CD-ROM's containing long lists of e-mail addresses. "More people are mailing and you get less and less response." Mr. Battles says he has virtually given up the business.
"E-mail marketing is a good thing," Mr. Battles said. "I create jobs. But the media has made e-mail out to be some sort of terrorist plot."
Not long ago, Mr. Ralsky, like many other bulk e-mailers, had high hopes that the new fe
You can kill a cop, steal his gun, and then use it to shoot someone else. Or you can pick up a prostitute and have sex with her in the back of your stolen car, then beat her to death - or shoot her, bludgeon her, whatever you want.
He's right - you CAN do that. You know what? You can do that in real life too!
Someone should tell the cops - oh and stop investing in condom and gun companies.
March 29, 1999
What started out as a prank posting to comp.os.linux.advocacy yesterday has turned into one of the most significant viruses in computing history. The creator of the virus, who goes by the moniker "Anonymous Longhair", modified the well-known Melissa[1] virus to download and install Linux on infected machines.
"It's a work of art," one Linux advocate told Humorix after he looked through the Tuxissa virus source code. "This virus goes well beyond the feeble troublemaking of Melissa." The advocate enumerated some of the tasks the virus performs in the background while the user is blissfully playing Solitaire:
Once the virus is activated, it first works on propogating itself. It has a built-in email harvesting module that downloads all the pages referenced in the user's Internet Explorer bookmarks and scans them for email addresses. Using Outlook, the virus sends a copy of itself to every email address it comes across.
After it has successfully reproduced, the virus begins the tricky process of upgrading the system to Linux. First, the virus modifies AUTOEXEC.BAT so that the virus will be re-activated if the system crashes or is shut down while the upgrade is in process. Second, the virus downloads a stripped-down Slackware distribution, using a lengthy list of mirror sites to prevent the virus from overloading any one server.
Then the virus configures a UMSDOS filesystem to install Linux on. Since this filesystem resides on a FAT partition, there is no need to re-partition the hard drive, one of the few actions that the Word macro language doesn't allow.
Next, the virus uncompresses the downloaded files into the new Linux filesystem. The virus then permanently deletes all copies of the Windows Registry, virtually preventing the user from booting into Windows without a re-install. After modifying the boot sector, the virus terminates its own life by rebooting the system. The computer boots into the Slackware setup program, which automatically finishes the installation of Linux. Finally, the dazed user is presented with the Linux login prompt and the text, "Welcome to Linux. You'll never want to use Windows again. Type 'root' to begin..."
The whole process take about two hours, assuming the user has a decent Internet connection. Since the virus runs invisibly in the background, the user has no chance to stop it until it's too late.
The email message that the virus is attached to has the subject "Important Message About Windows Security". The text of the body says, "I want to let you know about some security problems I've uncovered in Windows 95/98/NT, Office 95/97, and Outlook. It's critically important that you protect your system against these attacks. Visit these sites for more information..." The rest of the message contains 42 links to sites about Linux and free software.
Slashdot is one of those links. "That could spell trouble," one Slashdot expert told Humorix. "Slashdot could fall victim to the new 'Macro Virus Effect' if this virus continues to propogate at its present exponential growth rate. Red Hat's portal site, another site present on the virus' links list, seems to be quite sluggish right now..."
Details on how the virus started are a bit sketchy. The "Anonymous Longhair" who created it only posted it to Usenet as an early April Fool's gag, a demonstration of how easy it would be to mount a "Linux revolution". Some other Usenet reader is responsible for actually spreading the virus into the wild. One observer speculated, "I imagine the virus was first sent to the addresses of several well-known spammers. The virus probably latched on to the spammer's email lists and began propagating at a fantastic rate. With no boundary to its growth, this thing could wind up infecting every single Net-connected Wintel box in the world. Wouldn't that be a shame!"
Linus Torvalds, who just left for a two week vacation, was unavailable for comment at press time. We have a strong feeling that his vacation will be cut short very soon...
Bear in mind that they were not even sure that Jodrell Bank would be able to pick up the signal. This was only conjecture and has never been tested.
There is a window every day now to pick up a signal via NASA's Odyssey, and if for any reason that there is a problem with comms protocols between Beagle2 and Odyssey (this was never tested due to time constraints) then Mars Express will come online on Jan 4th 2004 which does know how to talk to Beagle2.
XP firewall still leaves a large number of exploitable ports open,
No, it doesn't.
ZoneAlarm Pro (the payed for version) does have an antivirus function but it is true that the basic package does not detect viruses, neither will XP firewall.
Firstly, you were originally referring to the free version of Zone Alarm. Secondly, I never claimed that firewalling protects from viruses - that was you.
Not sure about Blaster but, that will still leave you open to a whole host of worms, viruses and exploits; many of which don't have patches/fixes available.
It will not leave you vulnerable to network worms.
As for viruses and exploits, Zone Alarm will not stop you getting infected, nor can it protect you apart from notifying you about outgoing connections.
Have you read anything about Blaster? It's spread via email attachments posing as Microsoft patches. A firewire isn't going to do a damn thing to keep it out.
I suggest you go and read Microsoft KB article KB823980 and take a look at Microsoft patch MS03-026.
While it is entirely feasible that someone could email the Blaster payload in an email message that appears to be a page from Microsoft's website, this is not how the worm spreads itself.
Adam_Trask writes "Never has a spacecraft been built so quickly, on so little money, and been sent on such a long journey fraught with so many dangers. Beagle 2 has been carried to the vicinity of Mars by the Mars Express mothership, and released successfully to go its own way for the final leg of the journey."
Actually those words were written by Dr David Whitehouse, BBC News Online science editor.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe if they offered some sort of lite x86 version
e s/darwin-701.iso.gz 7 01.iso.gz
You can get Darwin (the OS X kernel) for x86 at http://developer.apple.com/darwin/
This is a single Installer CD that will boot and install Darwin on Macintosh computers supported by Mac OS X 10.3, as well as certain x86-based personal computers. The version of Darwin installed by this CD corresponds to the open source core of Mac OS X 10.3 and is available at the following URLs:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/imag
http://www.opendarwin.org/downloads/7.0.1/darwin-
MD5 (darwin-701.iso.gz) = 57e9cb37e9595436596b2fa5975d5569
If you want a Windows solution then ISA is the way to go.
It will handle reverse web proxying along with providing transparent caching etc.
It's also very very easy to set up.
If you want more specific into, try Thomas Shinder's site http://isaserver.org
Yes - bear in mind though that the toy versions of Windows (9x/Me) are - well - shite - really. NT4 is infinitely more stable, but still too difficult to manage remotely.
Windows 2000 / XP with Active Directory domains is actually very easy to manage with group policies. You can control almost anything and apply it to the whole network at once. Very nice. If they could sort out the "must be administrator" to do lots of stuff then it would be very good indeed.
OS9 is unreliable, crap, and a bastard to manage en mass with Macintosh Manager and Remote Desktop (Oops - did you upgrade the admin tool? You just broke your ability to remote manage. Go and manually reinstall the client again.)
OS X however is rather nice so long as you have an XServe (or whatever as a server) using Workgroup Manager to manage prefs and so on. Much more elegant.
Again, all from personal experience.
Shouldn't that be 4 staff for 100 Macs? The Windows figures are off - we have around 1000 Windows boxen and only 8 techs and those techs also manage our *NIX (Solaris / OpenBSD) and Mac (OS 8 / 9 / OS X) boxen.
There. I said it.
The scary thing is, this will most likely be modded down...
It's not "time wasting", it's called "utilising expertise".
If things never screwed up we would all be out of a job.
I bought a dual USB 12" iBook 800 last year - three weeks after I bought it, the new 12" Powerbook was announced which was pretty annoying.
:)
Anyway.. I didn't treat it rough or anything and after 11 months, one day I'm using it just fine, put it to sleep, moved it to another desk, opened the lid, then the display flickered a little, then a lot, then went off completely.
Restarted it, it came back. After a few minutes it did it again.
Fortunately I managed to turn on file sharing and SSH so I could get my files off the thing. Here is the interesting part - I had VNC installed on the iBook, but when trying to start it up via an SSH connection in the usual way was told that there was no display - the thing thought it was headless.
Luckily for me this happened just inside my warranty, and even luckier the place I bought it screwed up the repair - basically they sat on it for a month without doing anything - and had to offer me credit in the store to the value that I paid 11 months previously. I paid a little extra and got the 12" 1Ghz G4 Powerbook, which was nice
I hope this one screws up within warranty too - I could get used to a cheap laptop refresh every year.
Downsides? Can't think of any.
The MAJOR upside is you can turn it OFF - I think that outweighs any possible "downsides" when dealing with one's family..!
Firstly iTunes runs on Windows, however it only runs on the non-toy versions. (2k + XP). Yes I know it's designed for an iPod but you can burn to CD then re-rip them to a portable format.
Secondly Walmart now sell music downloads for 88c
Edit the CD to include the email address of every politician the wolrd over, along with known spammers and the editor of every media outlet. If you can, use addresses that forward a notification to their mobile phone via SMS, then sell the new CD.
We'll soon see a change in the law.
Ahh I can dream.
High phone bills.
You see, we pay even for our local calls here, which did put rather a downer on the whole BBS thing.
I remember being envious of the US with the free local calls thing.
"Back in the day" in the UK it was not uncommon to get phone bills of around $300 a month for BBS usage at wonderful 2400 baud.
Then of course we got the "high speed" 9600 model modems. Ahh nostalgia.
Regarding using such mice for gaming, I can see how this would be of benefit in something like Unreal Tournament for sniping etc.
However does the higher DPI mean that one needs more mouse mat "real estate" to use it effectively?
Could a similar effect be achieved by simply turning down the mouse sensitivity in the game for a "regular" mouse?
Seeing as having to register and give ones credit and family history just to read a ******* story sucks, here it is:
Alan Ralsky, who has made a successful business of spamming, is on a hiatus, but says he will soon resume bulk e-mailing in compliance with a federal antispam law. He calls the law unfair, but adds, "You would have to be stupid" to try to violate it.
By SAUL HANSELL
Published: December 30, 2003
lan Ralsky, according to experts in the field, has long been one of the most prolific senders of junk e-mail messages in the world. But he has not sent a single message over the Internet in the last few weeks.
He stopped sending e-mail offers for everything from debt repayment schemes to time-share vacations even before President Bush, on Dec. 16, signed the new Can Spam Act, a law meant to crack down on marketers like Mr. Ralsky.
He plans to resume in January, he said, after he overcomes some computer problems, and only after he changes his practices to include in his messages a return address and other information required by the law, the title of which stands for Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing.
That is quite a switch for Mr. Ralsky, who has earned a reputation as a master of cyberdisguise. By his own admission, he once produced more than 70 million messages a day from domains registered with fake names, largely by way of foreign countries - or sometimes even by way of hijacked computers - so that the recipients could not trace the mail back to him.
Most experts in junk e-mail, known as spam, have dismissed the new federal law as largely ineffectual. And many high-volume e-mailers say the law may even improve the situation for them because it wipes away a handful of tougher state laws.
But Mr. Ralsky, who lives in a Detroit suburb, says the law's potential penalties - fines of up to $6 million and up to five years in jail - are making him rethink his business.
"Of course I'm worried about it," he said after the law was signed. "You would have to be stupid to try to violate this law."
No one is saying that e-mail in-boxes will be clean of spam any time soon. But the world is getting to be a much more hostile place for spammers, particularly those who send some of the most offensive messages. The biggest threat is not so much the new law, though it is expected to play a role in stepped-up enforcement, as the increased willingness of prosecutors to go after spammers.
In recent weeks, federal and state authorities have finally gotten the attention of spammers with a series of tough civil and criminal actions.
"These suits sent a shock wave through the spam world," said Steve Linford, the director of the Spamhaus Project, an organization that tracks bulk e-mailers and tries to thwart their moves. "Lots of spammers are asking, 'Are we next?' "
Some bulk e-mailers, like Scott Richter, who was a principal target of a civil suit filed last week by the New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, vow to continue. But Mr. Richter has lost some major clients, including mainstream companies like Omaha Steaks.
Still, in the week after the suit was filed, Mr. Richter's company, OptInRealBig.com, was actively sending e-mail messages promoting dozens of products, including laser guns, breast enlargement pills and Christian dating services.
Others say they have been beaten down by blacklists created by antispammers and filtering systems run by Internet service providers.
"E-mail is not working any more," said Brendan Battles, a longtime marketer who has sold CD-ROM's containing long lists of e-mail addresses. "More people are mailing and you get less and less response." Mr. Battles says he has virtually given up the business.
"E-mail marketing is a good thing," Mr. Battles said. "I create jobs. But the media has made e-mail out to be some sort of terrorist plot."
Not long ago, Mr. Ralsky, like many other bulk e-mailers, had high hopes that the new fe
You can kill a cop, steal his gun, and then use it to shoot someone else. Or you can pick up a prostitute and have sex with her in the back of your stolen car, then beat her to death - or shoot her, bludgeon her, whatever you want.
He's right - you CAN do that. You know what? You can do that in real life too!
Someone should tell the cops - oh and stop investing in condom and gun companies.
March 29, 1999 What started out as a prank posting to comp.os.linux.advocacy yesterday has turned into one of the most significant viruses in computing history. The creator of the virus, who goes by the moniker "Anonymous Longhair", modified the well-known Melissa[1] virus to download and install Linux on infected machines. "It's a work of art," one Linux advocate told Humorix after he looked through the Tuxissa virus source code. "This virus goes well beyond the feeble troublemaking of Melissa." The advocate enumerated some of the tasks the virus performs in the background while the user is blissfully playing Solitaire: Once the virus is activated, it first works on propogating itself. It has a built-in email harvesting module that downloads all the pages referenced in the user's Internet Explorer bookmarks and scans them for email addresses. Using Outlook, the virus sends a copy of itself to every email address it comes across. After it has successfully reproduced, the virus begins the tricky process of upgrading the system to Linux. First, the virus modifies AUTOEXEC.BAT so that the virus will be re-activated if the system crashes or is shut down while the upgrade is in process. Second, the virus downloads a stripped-down Slackware distribution, using a lengthy list of mirror sites to prevent the virus from overloading any one server. Then the virus configures a UMSDOS filesystem to install Linux on. Since this filesystem resides on a FAT partition, there is no need to re-partition the hard drive, one of the few actions that the Word macro language doesn't allow. Next, the virus uncompresses the downloaded files into the new Linux filesystem. The virus then permanently deletes all copies of the Windows Registry, virtually preventing the user from booting into Windows without a re-install. After modifying the boot sector, the virus terminates its own life by rebooting the system. The computer boots into the Slackware setup program, which automatically finishes the installation of Linux. Finally, the dazed user is presented with the Linux login prompt and the text, "Welcome to Linux. You'll never want to use Windows again. Type 'root' to begin..." The whole process take about two hours, assuming the user has a decent Internet connection. Since the virus runs invisibly in the background, the user has no chance to stop it until it's too late. The email message that the virus is attached to has the subject "Important Message About Windows Security". The text of the body says, "I want to let you know about some security problems I've uncovered in Windows 95/98/NT, Office 95/97, and Outlook. It's critically important that you protect your system against these attacks. Visit these sites for more information..." The rest of the message contains 42 links to sites about Linux and free software. Slashdot is one of those links. "That could spell trouble," one Slashdot expert told Humorix. "Slashdot could fall victim to the new 'Macro Virus Effect' if this virus continues to propogate at its present exponential growth rate. Red Hat's portal site, another site present on the virus' links list, seems to be quite sluggish right now..." Details on how the virus started are a bit sketchy. The "Anonymous Longhair" who created it only posted it to Usenet as an early April Fool's gag, a demonstration of how easy it would be to mount a "Linux revolution". Some other Usenet reader is responsible for actually spreading the virus into the wild. One observer speculated, "I imagine the virus was first sent to the addresses of several well-known spammers. The virus probably latched on to the spammer's email lists and began propagating at a fantastic rate. With no boundary to its growth, this thing could wind up infecting every single Net-connected Wintel box in the world. Wouldn't that be a shame!" Linus Torvalds, who just left for a two week vacation, was unavailable for comment at press time. We have a strong feeling that his vacation will be cut short very soon...
Using regular satellite gear with a sat in geostationary orbit over Germany from the UK I see latency in the realm of 2500ms - 5000ms.
If it's 9 minutes from Mars to Earth then we will be looking at 540000ms !!
I wouldn't fancy running a Windows Update over that.
Games and pr0n.
And pr0n games.
Bear in mind that they were not even sure that Jodrell Bank would be able to pick up the signal. This was only conjecture and has never been tested.
There is a window every day now to pick up a signal via NASA's Odyssey, and if for any reason that there is a problem with comms protocols between Beagle2 and Odyssey (this was never tested due to time constraints) then Mars Express will come online on Jan 4th 2004 which does know how to talk to Beagle2.
XP firewall still leaves a large number of exploitable ports open,
No, it doesn't.
ZoneAlarm Pro (the payed for version) does have an antivirus function but it is true that the basic package does not detect viruses, neither will XP firewall.
Firstly, you were originally referring to the free version of Zone Alarm. Secondly, I never claimed that firewalling protects from viruses - that was you.
Not sure about Blaster but, that will still leave you open to a whole host of worms, viruses and exploits; many of which don't have patches/fixes available.
It will not leave you vulnerable to network worms.
As for viruses and exploits, Zone Alarm will not stop you getting infected, nor can it protect you apart from notifying you about outgoing connections.
Zone Alarm is not anti-virus.
Have you read anything about Blaster? It's spread via email attachments posing as Microsoft patches. A firewire isn't going to do a damn thing to keep it out.
The fact that you apparently write technical manuals for a living, makes this rather amusing.
I suggest you go and read Microsoft KB article KB823980 and take a look at Microsoft patch MS03-026.
While it is entirely feasible that someone could email the Blaster payload in an email message that appears to be a page from Microsoft's website, this is not how the worm spreads itself.
Pepsi doesn't trash keyboards,
People trash keyboards.
...but I think the Pepsi helps.
Click Start > Network and Dial up connections
Right click on your internet connection, choose "Properties"
Click "Advanced"
Click the box to turn on the firewall
Voila. You are safe from Blaster.
As an added precaution, deselect "Client for Microsoft Networks" from all interfaces except any you really need it on.
...so now it has 0 defects - right?
Adam_Trask writes "Never has a spacecraft been built so quickly, on so little money, and been sent on such a long journey fraught with so many dangers. Beagle 2 has been carried to the vicinity of Mars by the Mars Express mothership, and released successfully to go its own way for the final leg of the journey."
Actually those words were written by Dr David Whitehouse, BBC News Online science editor.