Goodness. How nice of them to not include it with the OS; that'll keep the lawsuits from competitors down to roughly 3 per minute rather than 150. These guys are voracious. If they do actually manage to squelch their security problems they are going to shake off this Linux issue like a sick poodle.
On a related note, here's an article on why you should consider using an alternative browser: http://channels.lockergnome.com/news/arc hives/2004 0615_why_you_should_dump_internet_explorer.phtml
Combining something you have (the scratch-0ff bit, an ATM card, or an RSA token) with something you know (a password) will soon become the standard for most everything. I for one can't wait.
"Last week, I turned off all the security features of my wireless router. I removed WEP encryption, disabled MAC address filtering and made sure the SSID was being broadcast loud and clear. Now, anyone with a wireless card and a sniffer who happens by can use my connection to access the Internet. And with DHCP logging turned off, there's really no way to know who's using it."
I'd have read the whole thing, but I was morally repelled by the salon.com ad policy. Anyway, this concept seems to be some perverted cousin of "security by obscurity" -- only this has less to do with protecting your security and more to do with having a way out when someone comes knocking on your door.
Unfortunately, I think this only applies when you *don't do it on purpose*. From my point of view, if you design a network solely for the purpose of relieving yourself of responsibility for what traverses your network, you are pretty much screwed once you get to court. This reeks of the "I accidentally did it on purpose" defense, and isn't likely to fly with any judge that has even a portion of a clue.
"Is the email dilemma creating just another monopoly opportunity to force email into proprietary territory?"
Perhaps, but this doesn't make it a bad idea. Any good idea or technology can be taken advantage of; that in itself shouldn't keep those with good intentions from trying to bring about change for the better.
"I for one won't be getting a GMAIL account. Unless the featureset somehow is worth the upset, which is probably won't be, I'm not going to bother."
If Gmail upsets you, then you shouldn't use it. I was making a light joke about how this is a "must have" novelty, but I *do* think it's a better webmail account than what is currently out there.
I don't use webmail myself, but I like having a constantly running, huge storage vault of mail that I don't want going to my main address. Gmail seems to be able to do this better than its competitors.
But yeah, as far as me saying that we geeks would use it regardless of faults -- that's a bit of an exaggeration. I was just putting this in the category of "geek toy", which most geeks jump on without thinking.
While write-ups on the merits of Gmail are interesting and all that, the authors of such articles need to realize that few people who read/. actually care how good it is at this point. All we care about is getting the username we want; the notion of *not* getting an account -- regardless of faults -- isn't even fathomable...
Fine -- they can have it their way. The $.99 model was working fairly well, and a decent number of people were actually entertaining the notion of paying for music. This development will prove, yet again, that greed is running this show -- not fairness.
Until there is a "fair" alternative, meaning it's accepted as fair to the majority of open-minded and reasonable people, we will continue to see a well-defined, concerted effort to make music available for free.
iTunes was a step forward, and this represents 3 steps backward. It's a slap in the face to those who were actually paying for what was available for free. Expect them to be punished severely, in the form of greatly increased P2P activity.
When considering the merit of convential research vs. Google, consider how much time it takes to get to and from the library and/or play phone-tag with receptionists.
To me, and probably most others, time is of the essence when doing searches. Getting a 10% better result in 10% of the cases, at the expense of valuable time, is *not* worth it.
Google is the way, and here's my soon to be revised guide (shameless) to using it more effectively:
I am a recent convert and I am *utterly* pleased with 10.3. With that being said, there are a couple things I'd like to see improved/fixed:
1. Give me the option to have my quoted text in Mail.app appear at the top of my cursor when replying to an email. Few types of miscreant are worse than top-posters, and Apple doesn't need to be aiding and abetting.
2. Speed. I'll take OS X over Linux/X11 or XP any day of the week, but I'd love to see XP's responsiveness in the Tiger GUI. Again, I prefer the stability to the speed, but having both would be rich.
3. As mentioned, SMB interoperability can use some tweaking in the areas of both speed and ease of use.
4. This is sacrilegious, but the Finder still isn't there for me. I *hate* the spacing of the icons in icon view (they are like 3 feet apart), and the viewing of directories and files simply isn't as intuitive to me as it is in XP. Pathfinder does a much better job, in my opinion.
Ah, D&D -- the flagship of geek hobbies. Many people do video games or comic books and want to include themselves in the group, but until you've re-written your character sheet 15 times, had discussions about what makes a good DM/GM, and carried around a fuzzy bag full of expensive dice, you aren't the real deal.:)
All I can say is that the day that netcat, nmap, tcpdump, and ethereal, etc. become illegal, and I am required to give the government a copy of any private key I make, I am going to start becoming an active proponent of radical political change in this country.
Oh, and I'll be doing this from a country where I have the right to use these things -- assuming such a country still exists.
Kind of ironic that Assimov's "I,Robot" trailer just hit theaters this weekend. Anyone who hasn't, by the way, needs to read Bill Joy's "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us."
I can see this being used quite extensively in the warez arena. It'd be pretty easy to give out the "key" to clients who are allowed access, while any ISP scanning for FTP servers, for example, would find nothing open.
I tend to use tcpdump when I am watching a box using a specific filter and expecting very little traffic, i.e. when I want to know if a certain host is communicating on some arbitrary port or protocol. Ethereal I use when I want to capture tons of data and sift through it later (although you can do this with tcpdump and import it into ethereal as well).
Tcpdump is generally considered the superior learning tool, while ethereal is considered the more refined choice. In other words, ethereal does a lot of the work for you, while you are getting pretty raw stuff when you use tcpdump.
In general, tcpdump and ethereal are the tools of choice if you don't have tons of money to spend. Fancy looking enterprise applications essentially do the same thing as the apps mentioned above -- they just add a nice GUI to the mix.
Yet more evidence of the fact that Microsoft's days are numbered. The reasons for various organizations staying with them are steadily being taken away, one by one. I'd like to see one of those counters like they have for various social events counting off the number of organizations that have decided to go with open source as an alternative to MS.
Alas, this is only a good thing. Microsoft isn't wholly evil, they have just become something along those lines due to their position in the marketplace. Some competition capable of putting the fear of God into them will do nothing but improve things for everyone.
Comcast buy Disney? Is this a misprint? I'd have thought it would be the other way around. Disney is...well, Disney.
This is like Blizzard buying Nabisco; shows you what I know about these companies. But I imagine many others thought the same about their relative sizes...
I can overlook their game of musical names; the browser is just phenomenal. I seldom even go to IE anymore, and when I do have to, I blame the guy who coded the site, not Firebird -- I mean Firefox.
"In other news, the plug was pulled on the project after a few early-adopters noticed huge numbers of dead birds falling from the sky and smashing the otherwise pristine vehicles."
It's nice to see that SEL is being adopted by someone like Red Hat. I think this development will get more distros and organizations interested in using it, which will benefit the project greatly.
Like it or not, Red Hat sets the tone in many ways, and in this case it's a good thing.
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Goodness. How nice of them to not include it with the OS; that'll keep the lawsuits from competitors down to roughly 3 per minute rather than 150. These guys are voracious. If they do actually manage to squelch their security problems they are going to shake off this Linux issue like a sick poodle.
c hives/2004 0615_why_you_should_dump_internet_explorer.phtml
On a related note, here's an article on why you should consider using an alternative browser:
http://channels.lockergnome.com/news/ar
Chalk up another loss for 'security by obscurity'.
Combining something you have (the scratch-0ff bit, an ATM card, or an RSA token) with something you know (a password) will soon become the standard for most everything. I for one can't wait.
What's next? Long passwords better than short ones?
"Last week, I turned off all the security features of my wireless router. I removed WEP encryption, disabled MAC address filtering and made sure the SSID was being broadcast loud and clear. Now, anyone with a wireless card and a sniffer who happens by can use my connection to access the Internet. And with DHCP logging turned off, there's really no way to know who's using it."
I'd have read the whole thing, but I was morally repelled by the salon.com ad policy. Anyway, this concept seems to be some perverted cousin of "security by obscurity" -- only this has less to do with protecting your security and more to do with having a way out when someone comes knocking on your door.
Unfortunately, I think this only applies when you *don't do it on purpose*. From my point of view, if you design a network solely for the purpose of relieving yourself of responsibility for what traverses your network, you are pretty much screwed once you get to court. This reeks of the "I accidentally did it on purpose" defense, and isn't likely to fly with any judge that has even a portion of a clue.
Hey guys, I *did* say it was "very cool". I wasn't flaming...
...mostly useless, yet very cool -- much like /. itself.
"Is the email dilemma creating just another monopoly opportunity to force email into proprietary territory?"
Perhaps, but this doesn't make it a bad idea. Any good idea or technology can be taken advantage of; that in itself shouldn't keep those with good intentions from trying to bring about change for the better.
"I for one won't be getting a GMAIL account. Unless the featureset somehow is worth the upset, which is probably won't be, I'm not going to bother."
If Gmail upsets you, then you shouldn't use it. I was making a light joke about how this is a "must have" novelty, but I *do* think it's a better webmail account than what is currently out there.
I don't use webmail myself, but I like having a constantly running, huge storage vault of mail that I don't want going to my main address. Gmail seems to be able to do this better than its competitors.
But yeah, as far as me saying that we geeks would use it regardless of faults -- that's a bit of an exaggeration. I was just putting this in the category of "geek toy", which most geeks jump on without thinking.
You seem to be an exception.
While write-ups on the merits of Gmail are interesting and all that, the authors of such articles need to realize that few people who read /. actually care how good it is at this point. All we care about is getting the username we want; the notion of *not* getting an account -- regardless of faults -- isn't even fathomable...
Fine -- they can have it their way. The $.99 model was working fairly well, and a decent number of people were actually entertaining the notion of paying for music. This development will prove, yet again, that greed is running this show -- not fairness.
Until there is a "fair" alternative, meaning it's accepted as fair to the majority of open-minded and reasonable people, we will continue to see a well-defined, concerted effort to make music available for free.
iTunes was a step forward, and this represents 3 steps backward. It's a slap in the face to those who were actually paying for what was available for free. Expect them to be punished severely, in the form of greatly increased P2P activity.
When considering the merit of convential research vs. Google, consider how much time it takes to get to and from the library and/or play phone-tag with receptionists.
o J: dmiessler.com/study/google/+dmiessler.com+google&h l=en
To me, and probably most others, time is of the essence when doing searches. Getting a 10% better result in 10% of the cases, at the expense of valuable time, is *not* worth it.
Google is the way, and here's my soon to be revised guide (shameless) to using it more effectively:
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:PApKy9D-R4
I am a recent convert and I am *utterly* pleased with 10.3. With that being said, there are a couple things I'd like to see improved/fixed:
1. Give me the option to have my quoted text in Mail.app appear at the top of my cursor when replying to an email. Few types of miscreant are worse than top-posters, and Apple doesn't need to be aiding and abetting.
2. Speed. I'll take OS X over Linux/X11 or XP any day of the week, but I'd love to see XP's responsiveness in the Tiger GUI. Again, I prefer the stability to the speed, but having both would be rich.
3. As mentioned, SMB interoperability can use some tweaking in the areas of both speed and ease of use.
4. This is sacrilegious, but the Finder still isn't there for me. I *hate* the spacing of the icons in icon view (they are like 3 feet apart), and the viewing of directories and files simply isn't as intuitive to me as it is in XP. Pathfinder does a much better job, in my opinion.
Ah, D&D -- the flagship of geek hobbies. Many people do video games or comic books and want to include themselves in the group, but until you've re-written your character sheet 15 times, had discussions about what makes a good DM/GM, and carried around a fuzzy bag full of expensive dice, you aren't the real deal. :)
> Yes, it is always a good idea to wait until *everything* becomes illegal before standing up for your rights.
A valid point. How do you, Anonymous Speaker on the Mountain, suggest that we get involved?
All I can say is that the day that netcat, nmap, tcpdump, and ethereal, etc. become illegal, and I am required to give the government a copy of any private key I make, I am going to start becoming an active proponent of radical political change in this country.
Oh, and I'll be doing this from a country where I have the right to use these things -- assuming such a country still exists.
Kind of ironic that Assimov's "I,Robot" trailer just hit theaters this weekend. Anyone who hasn't, by the way, needs to read Bill Joy's "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us."
I can see this being used quite extensively in the warez arena. It'd be pretty easy to give out the "key" to clients who are allowed access, while any ISP scanning for FTP servers, for example, would find nothing open.
I tend to use tcpdump when I am watching a box using a specific filter and expecting very little traffic, i.e. when I want to know if a certain host is communicating on some arbitrary port or protocol. Ethereal I use when I want to capture tons of data and sift through it later (although you can do this with tcpdump and import it into ethereal as well).
Tcpdump is generally considered the superior learning tool, while ethereal is considered the more refined choice. In other words, ethereal does a lot of the work for you, while you are getting pretty raw stuff when you use tcpdump.
In general, tcpdump and ethereal are the tools of choice if you don't have tons of money to spend. Fancy looking enterprise applications essentially do the same thing as the apps mentioned above -- they just add a nice GUI to the mix.
Great -- more PR fodder for Microsoft. Why can't the crackers leave the good guys alone?
Yet more evidence of the fact that Microsoft's days are numbered. The reasons for various organizations staying with them are steadily being taken away, one by one. I'd like to see one of those counters like they have for various social events counting off the number of organizations that have decided to go with open source as an alternative to MS.
Alas, this is only a good thing. Microsoft isn't wholly evil, they have just become something along those lines due to their position in the marketplace. Some competition capable of putting the fear of God into them will do nothing but improve things for everyone.
Comcast buy Disney? Is this a misprint? I'd have thought it would be the other way around. Disney is...well, Disney.
This is like Blizzard buying Nabisco; shows you what I know about these companies. But I imagine many others thought the same about their relative sizes...
I can overlook their game of musical names; the browser is just phenomenal. I seldom even go to IE anymore, and when I do have to, I blame the guy who coded the site, not Firebird -- I mean Firefox.
"In other news, the plug was pulled on the project after a few early-adopters noticed huge numbers of dead birds falling from the sky and smashing the otherwise pristine vehicles."
It's nice to see that SEL is being adopted by someone like Red Hat. I think this development will get more distros and organizations interested in using it, which will benefit the project greatly.
Like it or not, Red Hat sets the tone in many ways, and in this case it's a good thing.