"use FreeBSD STABLE branch if you are going use it as a production server"
No.
For a production server, use RELENG_4_9, the release branch. To get a little more confusing, the RELENG_4 branch is the STABLE development branch.
CURRENT is exacrly that, it's current source and may or may not be stable or useable. STABLE really isn't guaranteed to be "stable", it is still development and isn't for production use. RELEASE is the "stable" release version.
Er, what? You either have a DHCP assigned address from your provider or you don't. It may be that you keep getting the same address but it still comes from a pool of addresses assigned for DHCP use by the ISP.
You may have a block of static addresses given to you or just one static address depending on your level of service. If you are talking about the private address space you might use on the internal side of your router/bridge then that's something completely different.
And yes, AOL should be able to distinguish between your statically assigned addresses and the dynamically assigned ones, just like you can distinguish between addresses that come from a dialup pool and those that come from a cable provider.
If this new service is as good as Verizons cell phone coverage in Northern VA, I wouldn't bother with it. You won't get a reasonable signal when you are stationary never mind if you are on the move.
Of course, the same can be said for almost all of the cell phone providers for N.VA. I know, I have tried them all.
As an Englishman married to an American, living in the U.S. of A. my advice would be, don't go. Your standard of living will be significantly lower, your tax bill will be significantly higher and it rains way too much for anyone's good. Don't get me wrong, I love England but you aren't going to find living there easy at all. On the plus side, the Education system is still the best in the world despite the government's best attempts to destroy it over the past 25 years.
Mac users are smarter, but what about Linux users. They are far more smarter than an average Mac user of course.
Sure, and *BSD users are smarter than Linux users, but don't forget that FreeBSD users are smarter than OpenBSD users who are smarter than NetBSD users. Oh wait, what about RedHat vs Slackware vs Mandrake vs SuSE vs Debian...
That's what you get for giving your users enough admin rights to be able to install their own programs. How many of them have downloaded warez from the 'net? Bet you don't know, and I bet you don't look at traffic leaving your network either.
This idea has been floated before, many, many, years ago (can't find a link but there must be one) trouble was back then, the number of cell phones in use wasn't large enough to use effectively, oh and the annoying fact that you probably should triangulate the signal as opposed to just calculating time between nodes.
This is true, but the old addage goes "don't put all your eggs into one basket". This can be applied to system security too. Multiple different OSs means that it is less likely they will all be hit with the same security hole at the same time. That may not be the case everytime, but what the heck nothing's perfect, just look at M$ Windows;)
Nice ploy by Sun to steal the corporate market in the long term, get the future leaders of big business hooked on your juarez while they are in college and reap the rewards when they are people doing the purchasing in a few years time.
Not that M$ ever did that by offering free OS and Software to folks in "educational" establishments, oh wait....
Now if they can do that whilst folks are using scp, ssl, OpenSSH etc.... I might be impressed. You're only going to catch morons using some lame Windblows file sharing garbage and I doubt if they can do that successfully.
Absolutely, I would nmap the whole subnet and put the results into a document too. Then point out that if the Administrator didn't know that you'd just scanned the whole network she's not paying any attention to the security of that net.
I would definitely put a firewall between your dev network and the router, then run Snort on the Debian box and firewall each workstation as well. (paranoid - me? - yes)
At the end of the day if something happens to your development work because of someone else's lack of knowledge or caring about security issues, it's your stuff that will suffer.
Personally, IMHO you can keep all the bells and whistles, give me something that isn't a memory hog, doesn't use up valuable system resources and that is clean looking and easy to use.
Fluxbox, Blackbox and wmx fit these conditions.
GNOME/KDE + Sawfish, Afterstep, WindowMaker et al are overbloated M$ Windows wannabes.
It's not hard, based on the fools' grading system, it would be:
1. Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home 2. Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan 3. Star Trek III - Search for Spock 4. Star Trek VI - Undiscovered Country 5. Star Trek V - The Final Frontier 6. Star Trek The Motion Picture 7. Star Trek VIII - First Contact 8. Star Trek IX - Insurrection 9. Star Trek VII - Generations 10. The Matrix
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"use FreeBSD STABLE branch if you are going use it as a production server"
No.
For a production server, use RELENG_4_9, the release branch. To get a little more confusing, the RELENG_4 branch is the STABLE development branch.
CURRENT is exacrly that, it's current source and may or may not be stable or useable. STABLE really isn't guaranteed to be "stable", it is still development and isn't for production use. RELEASE is the "stable" release version.
Here's the CVS tags: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/h andbook/cvs-tags.html
Er, what? You either have a DHCP assigned address from your provider or you don't. It may be that you keep getting the same address but it still comes from a pool of addresses assigned for DHCP use by the ISP.
You may have a block of static addresses given to you or just one static address depending on your level of service. If you are talking about the private address space you might use on the internal side of your router/bridge then that's something completely different.
And yes, AOL should be able to distinguish between your statically assigned addresses and the dynamically assigned ones, just like you can distinguish between addresses that come from a dialup pool and those that come from a cable provider.
If this new service is as good as Verizons cell phone coverage in Northern VA, I wouldn't bother with it. You won't get a reasonable signal when you are stationary never mind if you are on the move.
Of course, the same can be said for almost all of the cell phone providers for N.VA. I know, I have tried them all.
Any chance we could get the Red Neck edition for browsing aol.com?
How about the h4x0r edition for Linux?
It would save me from browsing via the dialectizer http://rinkworks.com/dialect/
and how dumb am I for getting them mixed up, bugger it sed is my friend.
1. Why would Princeton want Yale rejects?
2. How crap is Yale for allowing something stupid like this?
3. How stupid are Yale for getting caught?
As an Englishman married to an American, living in the U.S. of A. my advice would be, don't go. Your standard of living will be significantly lower, your tax bill will be significantly higher and it rains way too much for anyone's good. Don't get me wrong, I love England but you aren't going to find living there easy at all. On the plus side, the Education system is still the best in the world despite the government's best attempts to destroy it over the past 25 years.
Sure, and *BSD users are smarter than Linux users, but don't forget that FreeBSD users are smarter than OpenBSD users who are smarter than NetBSD users. Oh wait, what about RedHat vs Slackware vs Mandrake vs SuSE vs Debian...
That statement is as dumb as the article.
That's what you get for giving your users enough admin rights to be able to install their own programs. How many of them have downloaded warez from the 'net? Bet you don't know, and I bet you don't look at traffic leaving your network either.
FOAD
??????? What about the portable version ???????
http://www.openssh.com/portable.html
upgrade to Apache 1.3.26 or 2.0.39, it's an Apache problem and it is on their home page.
http://httpd.apache.org/
The OpenBSD folks gave a patch for the OS before the new Apache binaries were released as a work around.
This idea has been floated before, many, many, years ago (can't find a link but there must be one) trouble was back then, the number of cell phones in use wasn't large enough to use effectively, oh and the annoying fact that you probably should triangulate the signal as opposed to just calculating time between nodes.
This is true, but the old addage goes "don't put all your eggs into one basket". This can be applied to system security too. Multiple different OSs means that it is less likely they will all be hit with the same security hole at the same time. That may not be the case everytime, but what the heck nothing's perfect, just look at M$ Windows ;)
Nice ploy by Sun to steal the corporate market in the long term, get the future leaders of big business hooked on your juarez while they are in college and reap the rewards when they are people doing the purchasing in a few years time.
Not that M$ ever did that by offering free OS and Software to folks in "educational" establishments, oh wait....
Now if they can do that whilst folks are using scp, ssl, OpenSSH etc.... I might be impressed. You're only going to catch morons using some lame Windblows file sharing garbage and I doubt if they can do that successfully.
Ports schmorts, don't be girly grab the source and compile. If it doesn't work it's not worth trying.
Anyways, who's going to count them all to make sure no-one's telling fibs?
Absolutely, I would nmap the whole subnet and put the results into a document too. Then point out that if the Administrator didn't know that you'd just scanned the whole network she's not paying any attention to the security of that net.
I would definitely put a firewall between your dev network and the router, then run Snort on the Debian box and firewall each workstation as well. (paranoid - me? - yes)
At the end of the day if something happens to your development work because of someone else's lack of knowledge or caring about security issues, it's your stuff that will suffer.
Yes, I've used them all including NeXT. They are boated. They have gotten so far away from NeXT they shouldn't be called 'clones' anymore.
wmx comes in at 560 kB
blackbox comes in at 280 kB
Personally, IMHO you can keep all the bells and whistles, give me something that isn't a memory hog, doesn't use up valuable system resources and that is clean looking and easy to use.
Fluxbox, Blackbox and wmx fit these conditions.
GNOME/KDE + Sawfish, Afterstep, WindowMaker et al are overbloated M$ Windows wannabes.
and that's...
What?
It's not hard, based on the fools' grading system, it would be:
1. Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home
2. Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan
3. Star Trek III - Search for Spock
4. Star Trek VI - Undiscovered Country
5. Star Trek V - The Final Frontier
6. Star Trek The Motion Picture
7. Star Trek VIII - First Contact
8. Star Trek IX - Insurrection
9. Star Trek VII - Generations
10. The Matrix
And that's...