CRN: Do you worry that Linux will gain more traction at the edge because of security concerns about Windows?
TAYLOR: Security is one of those workloads where Linux is getting traction, partly because we don't have a firewall appliance offering today. We have technologies, but we don't have a lockdown, hardened firewall that we can put in.
I think it's more of allowing anything with a file extention of.com,.exe, or.js to run regardless. Hell, I could name my whatever.txt to whatever.com and try it!! It will actually attempt to run that way! Not smart. A better option for security would be to check the actual files data header (or whatever the hell people call them these days) and run it based on what that is. That, and digital signatures in your binaries and the ability to add them to your "trusted company database" if you please. Or run the untrusted ones in a sandbox with read only access to other materials and NO network access.
Does that sound like a workable solution to your problem Bill?
I'm typing on a library computer right now. Where I can't say because of what I'm about to tell you. But there are ways around logging into the box with your card ID and password so they can link information to your account. I don't have to fear looking up chemistry formulas for school and get a knock on the door from a man with sunglasses and suit to arrest me for unpatriotic suspicious activities.
I haven't changed the software, nor cracked the admin password, but a simple loophole around the login procedure gives me access to the internet through a little feature called the taskbar and the toolbar called "address". Simple and effective.
Screw the keylogging software, booting off of my usb keychain drive into a special distro of linux I made for use in this library is beautiful.
So much for that attempt.
Hear that Uncle Sam? I don't want you in my family anymore!
Actually it's how women process information and how their brains are wired that is the main reason women don't play them.
99% of the women that have watched me play FPS games get turned around or even dizzy when I jump through doors, turn and fire killing a few people, do a 180 and do the same thing then bust a move down the next hall into a field filled with snipers or nade spammers.
They [females] think I've traversed across the map when in reality, it was the same room and one room over.
The ability to process spacial information isn't natural for many women. this includes imaging 3D places in their heads which is what FPS makes you do...
"...emotional attachment to... other well-designed objects"
Oh, no... why must they ask such a question on Slashdot?!? Why?!?
I don't know about you but my girlfriend likes my "remote" in her hand and tells me it's a "well designed object". Valentines day was good for her too.
You are allowed to use copyrighted information to some extent for certain purposes such as educationl, parady, etc. You can use a small clip from a song, you can display a paragrahp from a book, etc. I doubt anyone would consider showing 10 lines or so of source code out of millions a copyright violation. The grandparent post is obviously for education purposes only : )
I'm not sure where you're getting that information but I can tell you, you're wrong. Using other people's writings, music or even code ()if you want to bring it that way can be looked at as infringements. Even parodies. Ever notice how on songs they change the notes, pitch or key of a song so that it doesn't mirror exactly and prevents it from being recognised as the origional (besides the lyrics obviously)? Professional journalists (and their companies) can't rebroadcast any news without permission by the owner ie. the AP or another news wire. This includes stories, articles and television and radio news broadcasts. The same goes for music. It's been said that even copying two notes is infringement.
Not that I'm in agreement with the two notes bit, this is an actual poster with factual information that counters the top 10 myths of copyrightts in news.
I'll post back when I can find a link or give the exact name.
So that said, even posting 10-15 lines of someone elses code without proper permission (assuming you had legal access to the source) is still wrong.
Not that I like playing devil's advocate or anything, but even in acedemia these rules can apply and typically do. itt prevents plagerism and dishonesty.
(For the more literal-minded Slashdot readers: no I haven't really seen the code. This is a cheap jab at Microsoft, implying their code is derivative of unix and linux code,)
For his part, Mr. Cohen pointed out that BitTorrent users are not anonymous and that their numeric Internet addresses are easily viewable by anyone who cares. "It amazes me that sites like Suprnova continue to stay up, because it would be so easy to sue them," he said. Using BitTorrent for illegal trading, he added, is "patently stupid because it's not anonymous, and it can't be made anonymous because it's fundamentally antithetical to the architecture."
That said, Mr. Cohen is not in the nanny business.
"I'm not going to get up on my high horse and tell others not to do it because it's not my place to berate people," he said. "I just sort of watch it with some amusement."
as well he shouldn't berate people for their usage of his software. neither should you...
and what's this bit about the MPAA having BitTorrent on their radar screen??? give me a break! try the piracy and other infringement sources because the authors do not promote it, regardless of what they know is happening with their software.
the performance gain you get is almost nill. I know because I've tried both.
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You sir, kick ass. I didn't take it into consideration that there were many slashdotters who'd be public about this especially since most of us seem to be, how do I put this... lethargic in their patriotic duties.
no not the patriotic duties GWBII and Co have (which sound 1984-ish) but actual honest to God patriotism.
I hear your call to arms, and raise you two mortor rounds!
Now I'm not an Intel fan boy, or AMD for that matter. I pick what works and here is a question for you:
"Why use intel?" you say. My question to you is, why use AMD?
In my experience with AMD vs INTEL would be the following.
A fresh install of MS-Windows (The 98's, 2000 and XP) on an Intel board was as simple as it gets. Install the various drivers for your video, sound, network etc and you have a working box that doesn't have any problems. I never even needed to install any motherboard drivers (nor do i think there needs to be if it's engineered correctly, with the exception of onboard lan, audio, video) and it worked just fine.
Now with the amd boards (and i've tried multiple boards with via, kt chipsets from ASUS, ABIT etc... and various mods or versions etc.) and a fresh install of the above mentioned windows versions, you almost always have to install the motherboard drivers. I say almost always b/c I haven't used all of the AMD mainboards - duh. But for some reason, the AMD boards have to have these drivers installed or your Windows system will bluescreen, freeze, or act odd (in a way other than how windows is supposed to, cliche aside).
Maybe it's my personal experience, but being a third year CSE student and having taken numerous hardware courses, I most certianly will defend the argument that yours truely isn't to blame.
This is why I chose Intel boards over AMD. It's not a price over performance issue, it's what works for me with a minimum of hassle and still performs as it's advertised and designed.
you know, I can support the issuance of an encrypted PDF that only you can read using gpg/pgp for use on your PDA or school computers user drive. you know, a pub/priv key that's linked to your student email/account.
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sounds like an other company that will remain nameless like microsoft.. whoops! did I say that?
SCO I dare you to sue me, a linux user for IP infringement.
how else can I say it.
I DARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!
regards,
zoloto
now piss off
EV1 Servers CEO Responds To Customers
did anyone else read that as EVIL Servers CEO?
if that's the case then everywhere I go is NYC. Even when I lived upstate/.
I swear! Only on slashdot can a connection be made like that.
there's always the Open With >> option :)
I think it's more of allowing anything with a file extention of
Does that sound like a workable solution to your problem Bill?
bruce who???
Holy crap a pentium 64? What century did I wake up in to miss 5-63 ?!?!
I'm typing on a library computer right now. Where I can't say because of what I'm about to tell you. But there are ways around logging into the box with your card ID and password so they can link information to your account. I don't have to fear looking up chemistry formulas for school and get a knock on the door from a man with sunglasses and suit to arrest me for unpatriotic suspicious activities.
I haven't changed the software, nor cracked the admin password, but a simple loophole around the login procedure gives me access to the internet through a little feature called the taskbar and the toolbar called "address". Simple and effective.
Screw the keylogging software, booting off of my usb keychain drive into a special distro of linux I made for use in this library is beautiful.
So much for that attempt.
Hear that Uncle Sam? I don't want you in my family anymore!
Actually it's how women process information and how their brains are wired that is the main reason women don't play them.
99% of the women that have watched me play FPS games get turned around or even dizzy when I jump through doors, turn and fire killing a few people, do a 180 and do the same thing then bust a move down the next hall into a field filled with snipers or nade spammers.
They [females] think I've traversed across the map when in reality, it was the same room and one room over.
The ability to process spacial information isn't natural for many women. this includes imaging 3D places in their heads which is what FPS makes you do...
This is /. after all.
You must be new here. Logic and sense do not apply within these servers (walls)
I don't know about you but my girlfriend likes my "remote" in her hand and tells me it's a "well designed object". Valentines day was good for her too.
I did, it kicks butt!
I don't know about you but on my linux box I changed root to Administrator (caps included)
Pretty handy and sneaky. I love it when my brother over our lan tried to brute force my "root" password on the linux box
you should try it.
www.linuxfromscratch.org
kick ass
You are allowed to use copyrighted information to some extent for certain purposes such as educationl, parady, etc. You can use a small clip from a song, you can display a paragrahp from a book, etc. I doubt anyone would consider showing 10 lines or so of source code out of millions a copyright violation. The grandparent post is obviously for education purposes only : )
I'm not sure where you're getting that information but I can tell you, you're wrong. Using other people's writings, music or even code ()if you want to bring it that way can be looked at as infringements. Even parodies. Ever notice how on songs they change the notes, pitch or key of a song so that it doesn't mirror exactly and prevents it from being recognised as the origional (besides the lyrics obviously)? Professional journalists (and their companies) can't rebroadcast any news without permission by the owner ie. the AP or another news wire. This includes stories, articles and television and radio news broadcasts. The same goes for music. It's been said that even copying two notes is infringement.
Not that I'm in agreement with the two notes bit, this is an actual poster with factual information that counters the top 10 myths of copyrightts in news.
I'll post back when I can find a link or give the exact name.
So that said, even posting 10-15 lines of someone elses code without proper permission (assuming you had legal access to the source) is still wrong.
Not that I like playing devil's advocate or anything, but even in acedemia these rules can apply and typically do. itt prevents plagerism and dishonesty.
Was it just me reading that to say Good Porno for Hubble??
Now ron jeremy can be even BIGGER!
Then why is Gentoo so much faster for me than Mandrake or Red Hat on the same computer?
I believe you answered your own question right there buddy
(For the more literal-minded Slashdot readers: no I haven't really seen the code. This is a cheap jab at Microsoft, implying their code is derivative of unix and linux code,)
wouldn't that make windows more secure?
as well he shouldn't berate people for their usage of his software. neither should you.
and what's this bit about the MPAA having BitTorrent on their radar screen??? give me a break! try the piracy and other infringement sources because the authors do not promote it, regardless of what they know is happening with their software.
the performance gain you get is almost nill.
I know because I've tried both.
You sir, kick ass.
I didn't take it into consideration that there were many slashdotters who'd be public about this especially since most of us seem to be, how do I put this... lethargic in their patriotic duties.
no not the patriotic duties GWBII and Co have (which sound 1984-ish) but actual honest to God patriotism.
I hear your call to arms, and raise you two mortor rounds!
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Now I'm not an Intel fan boy, or AMD for that matter. I pick what
works and here is a question for you:
"Why use intel?" you say. My question to you is, why use AMD?
In my experience with AMD vs INTEL would be the following.
A fresh install of MS-Windows (The 98's, 2000 and XP) on an Intel
board was as simple as it gets. Install the various drivers for
your video, sound, network etc and you have a working box that
doesn't have any problems. I never even needed to install any
motherboard drivers (nor do i think there needs to be if it's
engineered correctly, with the exception of onboard lan, audio,
video) and it worked just fine.
Now with the amd boards (and i've tried multiple boards with via,
kt chipsets from ASUS, ABIT etc... and various mods or versions etc.)
and a fresh install of the above mentioned windows versions, you
almost always have to install the motherboard drivers. I say almost
always b/c I haven't used all of the AMD mainboards - duh. But for
some reason, the AMD boards have to have these drivers installed or
your Windows system will bluescreen, freeze, or act odd (in a way
other than how windows is supposed to, cliche aside).
Maybe it's my personal experience, but being a third year CSE student
and having taken numerous hardware courses, I most certianly will
defend the argument that yours truely isn't to blame.
This is why I chose Intel boards over AMD. It's not a price over
performance issue, it's what works for me with a minimum of hassle
and still performs as it's advertised and designed.
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you know, I can support the issuance of an encrypted PDF that only you can read using gpg/pgp for use on your PDA or school computers user drive. you know, a pub/priv key that's linked to your student email/account.
i can get into that.