Interesting... this whole thread got modded down as "overrated" and "off-topic".
By my reckoning, this thread (the living story of the well-connected, well-configured web server self-documenting its own successful fight against the barbarian/. horde) is at least as interesting as the official topic, perhaps more so.
Also, judging by the repetitive and effecient nature of the down-mods, I'd say that it was not slashdot users who did the moderation, but the wielders-of-infinite-mod-points, the editors, who did it. Too bad. It's quite interesting and refreshing to see a well-configured server survive as this one is.
Sorry to say it this way, but I believe that what you said is bullshit.
I used WordStar constantly for the first 2 or 3 years of my career on a CP/M machine with 2 eight inch floppy drives for storage. I also had the 'opportunity' to set it up on the first PC my boss bought. WordStar (for CP/M) did all sorts of funky stuff to allow it to be maximally configurable and to run on any type of CP/M hardware available at the time. But one thing that WordStar (for DOS) did *not* do is bypass the BIOS for keyboard input. The BIOS limited the key repeat rate to 25 (or 35?) cps and still does.
Tell you what, I may still have some WordStar install floppies around here somewhere; if I can find them, I'll load it up on a modern PC I've got thats running ROM-DOS (equiv. to MS-DOS 6.22) and let you know what happens.
Your moment of glory per your.sig seems to have gone to your head.
At the risk of losing carma (sorry, reference to the game Carmageddon), I'd like to point out that this fellow seems to be trying to herald a new type of first poster. His posts are equally vaccuous as the simple troll poster's "Frist Psot", yet the folks with mod points often mod him/her/it up simply because its is the first msg they see whilst basking in the glory of finding that they have mod points.
When I have moderator points, I immediately go to articles posted *not to the main page*. I'll go first to the 'Science' category and look for comments worthy of mod'ing up. Incidentally, I may find a few trolls or flamboyantly igoramous comments that might need mod'd down, but those are few. The trolls and whores frequent the articles posted to the main page so that they may enjoy their 15ms of fame.
Most US states offer a tax rebate of some kind or another for renewable energy.
In general, wind energy is more efficient when considering land/roof area and up-front cost. But that depends a bit upon your location.
The major recent (last 5-10 yrs) tech improvement has been in grid-tie inverters. Hell, the local REC (Rural Electric Coop) could stick a 500 to 3000W wind generator on every other pole in their district (in Oklahoma anyway), tied straight to the grid, and cut their upstream grid supplier costs by about a third within about 15 years, including up-front and maintenance costs.
Legacy systems, for example, may have been designed to run on private, 10-megabit networks, and as such, lack even basic security features such as firewalls.
Come - on! I grew up in Alfalfa County in Oklahoma. Serviced by the Alfalfa County Rural Eelectric Cooperative, fed by the GRDA (Grand River Dam Authority), OG&E and others. If those some of daughters have any net connectivity at all, it's likely to be based on dial-up modem tech, not even basic TCP/IP. After dialup, satellite connections were probably next and may still be the main choice for connectivity in all but the populus urbs and suburbs. Most of USA's power is source through rural areas anyway. I have extreme doubts that the majority of the carrier lines have direct net connections.
But, I guess this plays into the problem. You get some government regulated utility and interface it (in a few, key places) to the net at large and, coupled with the years of assumtion (in software) of a private connection and yes, the script kiddies could easily run amok.
I wouldn't have said nor believed the shite I'm spouting now, had it had been for the recent northeast blackout. Now I don't trust the national grid very much at all.
Call me a skeptic (and I hope I'm wrong), but I don't think 2004 will see this. At least not to the general laptop buying populus.
The business flyers, which probably comprise at least 70% of laptop users, will be hard-pressed to get "BIC lighter-sized" fuel cells onto planes, unless it's disguised as a lighter (which aren't supposed to be allowed anyway).
Imagine explaining to security what that little sucker is.
What you're describing (in your geeky, conceited way) is the difference between two different and, arguably, equally valuable types of 'intelligent' people.
1) people who're bright enough to learn whatever skill(s) they deem necessary to be successful (whatever that means to them).
2) bright people who are interested in things and knowledge in general.
The first group is valuable because they can get the 'grunt work' done. It won't be their passion, but their job and they'll enjoy it, assuming it pays the way to their real desires. The downside of this group is that they'll produce little innovation other than a plodding, following-the-book sort.
The second group is valuable because they are truly interested in things/knowledge and pursue it fervently. From these people come the consistent innovations, new ideas and acting on and furthering the things they've learned. The downside of people in this group is that they're often distracted by their pursuit of knowledge to the point of being of neglible use. They often have a reasonably accurate but impractical view of their abilities and self-value... being remarkably able is not the same as doing!
By the way, the second group is geeks. The first group is 'achievers'.
This is a project that is neat and idealy suited to FPGAs for exactly the reasons you mentioned. What possible purpose could be served by producing a few-thousand chess winning machines? Deep blue, et al, were a product for publicity. Deep Blue was canned after it made its point as were all similar large scale plans because it's been done and proven that the game of chess does not call upon any special-to-human heuristics. This FPGA product is also for publicity, and does well as such, thought the linked site should work on their Eastern-European-to-English translation/spelling a bit, because it proves that the scale can be/has been shrunk.
ASICs have their place and FPGAs their's. FPGAs are gaining ground because their capabilities are increasing and price decreasing. ASICs capabilities are increasing as well, but their cost decrease is not significant. The price/performance niche for ASICs is becoming increasingly dependent on higer volumes.
I did RTFA and gnuftp.gnu.org did not say how they had been compromised.
The file MISSING-FILES.README did not exist as of the posting of the/. article. Check the timestamp on the file. That can only after a great deal of speculation here at/.
I doubt its wu-ftpd. From http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ it appears that ftp.gnu.org uses vsftpd. They may also use wu-ftpd but that is very bad choice on their part since wu-ftpd has a very bad record of security.
In which possibility I am doubly interested in discovering the story behind the 'compromise' at gnu.org
I'll admit to a little bias. However, before posting my comment I did check www.gnu.org for an announcement/explanation and found none. Also searched news.google.com and found only this/. article. I had not heard of the wuftpd vulnerability as it was disclosed about 2 weeks ago.
I still have seen no specific evidence that the wuftpd vulnerability was exploited in this case, though it quite likely is true. I took the lack of public announcement at gnu.org to be an embarassed, tacit admission of culpability through poor administration and the first things that came to mind were weak passwords and/or insider information. Not applying security patches would have been next on my list.
Your last point first: no, Red Hat is in a league far beyond SCO. Red Hat are real producers (as in contributing to the development and usability of Linux in addition to their business model target of selling support) where SCO/Caldera haven't _produced_ anything since before the real SCO faded away.
I have to admit that my original statement was unfairly cynical. However, I have a basic faith in the ability of CEO's, CFO's and their like in publicly owned companies to fuck things up because they've a view from some weird fiscal angle that doesn't jibe with the actual business of producing and selling.
I consider it unlikely that I was correct... but I would not be at all surprised to find that it is true. Disappointed, yes. Surprised? No.
Nah. At the risk of taking a too cynical view, I think Red Hat may have observed the recent spikes in SCO's stock price and decided to do a little pumping themselves. Maybe they figure if the idiot investors of the world thought SCO's stock should be more valuable because they made waves with their lawsuit and general FUD, that Red Hat could appeal to the Linux loyalists and maybe the other half of the idiot investors and do a little pumping of their own.
I see the US doing something... after a bunch of wrangling with lobbiests and various red-tape cutting, but Asia? By Asia, do you mean, China, India, Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan and more? Gee, that's a large group of governments who'd likely have their own agendas and possibly reasons for not wanting to do anything official regarding spam.
Good luck waiting, but don't hold your breath. I think it will take an international entity like the UN to get anything done in a global scope and I don't have any great confidence in that either.
Slashdot Mirror
Latin. quod erat demonstrandum (which was to be demonstrated)
You might want to adjust the link in your sig. I think this is the URL you're refering to.
Use tunyurl.com if you can't squeeze it in the sig.
From the patent:
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
There are no drawings provided.
Thank goodness, no drawings provided!
is that it should easy enough to program to it.
Borland has announced a version of C++ Builder for the Symbian OS, so I should feel right at home. Now, anyone have ideas for a killer app?
Oh, wait. I don't have time for that kind of crap.
Interesting... this whole thread got modded down as "overrated" and "off-topic".
/. horde) is at least as interesting as the official topic, perhaps more so.
By my reckoning, this thread (the living story of the well-connected, well-configured web server self-documenting its own successful fight against the barbarian
Also, judging by the repetitive and effecient nature of the down-mods, I'd say that it was not slashdot users who did the moderation, but the wielders-of-infinite-mod-points, the editors, who did it. Too bad. It's quite interesting and refreshing to see a well-configured server survive as this one is.
There are 19 registered and 11841 anonymous users currently online. Current bandwidth usage: 2714.16 kbit/s October 21 09:22 EDT
Good job. Maybe you should write us an article on "How to Build a Slashdot-Proof Webserver"
Got it, thanks!
A kindly AC posted this bittorrent link to the software and this one to the documents.
Their efforts have been pretty effective so far. Every link in the 'links' in the article are gone/down.
Any body care to share? Maybe provide on the P2P networks and post keywords here...
I think I should point out the other readers that the article linked to in the parent post is a farce in the style of The Onion.
Sorry to say it this way, but I believe that what you said is bullshit.
I used WordStar constantly for the first 2 or 3 years of my career on a CP/M machine with 2 eight inch floppy drives for storage. I also had the 'opportunity' to set it up on the first PC my boss bought. WordStar (for CP/M) did all sorts of funky stuff to allow it to be maximally configurable and to run on any type of CP/M hardware available at the time. But one thing that WordStar (for DOS) did *not* do is bypass the BIOS for keyboard input. The BIOS limited the key repeat rate to 25 (or 35?) cps and still does.
Tell you what, I may still have some WordStar install floppies around here somewhere; if I can find them, I'll load it up on a modern PC I've got thats running ROM-DOS (equiv. to MS-DOS 6.22) and let you know what happens.
Your moment of glory per your .sig seems to have gone to your head.
At the risk of losing carma (sorry, reference to the game Carmageddon), I'd like to point out that this fellow seems to be trying to herald a new type of first poster. His posts are equally vaccuous as the simple troll poster's "Frist Psot", yet the folks with mod points often mod him/her/it up simply because its is the first msg they see whilst basking in the glory of finding that they have mod points.
When I have moderator points, I immediately go to articles posted *not to the main page*. I'll go first to the 'Science' category and look for comments worthy of mod'ing up. Incidentally, I may find a few trolls or flamboyantly igoramous comments that might need mod'd down, but those are few. The trolls and whores frequent the articles posted to the main page so that they may enjoy their 15ms of fame.
-RobSlimo [not roblimo]
What a weak argument...
If MS wasn't an evil empire, I would be able to use Windows with a:
3rd party office suite
You mean like OpenOffice? Hmm, I use that in Win2K.
3rd party browser
You mean like Mozilla? Hmm, I use that in Win2K. I've also used Opera.
3rd party compiler
You mean like Borland C++ Builder? Maybe GCC? Hmm, I use those and others in Win2K.
You may be right about the 'Evil Empire' bit, but you oughta find a better way to bolster your argument.
-RobSlimo [not roblimo]
kinda like the Beatles ;-)
And that was, Three Dog Night, I think...
Yeah, but written and first recorded by Hoyt Axton.
Most US states offer a tax rebate of some kind or another for renewable energy.
In general, wind energy is more efficient when considering land/roof area and up-front cost. But that depends a bit upon your location.
The major recent (last 5-10 yrs) tech improvement has been in grid-tie inverters. Hell, the local REC (Rural Electric Coop) could stick a 500 to 3000W wind generator on every other pole in their district (in Oklahoma anyway), tied straight to the grid, and cut their upstream grid supplier costs by about a third within about 15 years, including up-front and maintenance costs.
Now, script kiddies, hack my fricking 50KW Bergey wind generator, eh?
Legacy systems, for example, may have been designed to run on private, 10-megabit networks, and as such, lack even basic security features such as firewalls.
Come - on! I grew up in Alfalfa County in Oklahoma. Serviced by the Alfalfa County Rural Eelectric Cooperative, fed by the GRDA (Grand River Dam Authority), OG&E and others. If those some of daughters have any net connectivity at all, it's likely to be based on dial-up modem tech, not even basic TCP/IP. After dialup, satellite connections were probably next and may still be the main choice for connectivity in all but the populus urbs and suburbs. Most of USA's power is source through rural areas anyway. I have extreme doubts that the majority of the carrier lines have direct net connections.
But, I guess this plays into the problem. You get some government regulated utility and interface it (in a few, key places) to the net at large and, coupled with the years of assumtion (in software) of a private connection and yes, the script kiddies could easily run amok.
I wouldn't have said nor believed the shite I'm spouting now, had it had been for the recent northeast blackout. Now I don't trust the national grid very much at all.
Call me a skeptic (and I hope I'm wrong), but I don't think 2004 will see this. At least not to the general laptop buying populus.
The business flyers, which probably comprise at least 70% of laptop users, will be hard-pressed to get "BIC lighter-sized" fuel cells onto planes, unless it's disguised as a lighter (which aren't supposed to be allowed anyway).
Imagine explaining to security what that little sucker is.
I never thought I'd post this, but ...
Mod up!
What you're describing (in your geeky, conceited way) is the difference between two different and, arguably, equally valuable types of 'intelligent' people.
1) people who're bright enough to learn whatever skill(s) they deem necessary to be successful (whatever that means to them).
2) bright people who are interested in things and knowledge in general.
The first group is valuable because they can get the 'grunt work' done. It won't be their passion, but their job and they'll enjoy it, assuming it pays the way to their real desires. The downside of this group is that they'll produce little innovation other than a plodding, following-the-book sort.
The second group is valuable because they are truly interested in things/knowledge and pursue it fervently. From these people come the consistent innovations, new ideas and acting on and furthering the things they've learned. The downside of people in this group is that they're often distracted by their pursuit of knowledge to the point of being of neglible use. They often have a reasonably accurate but impractical view of their abilities and self-value... being remarkably able is not the same as doing!
By the way, the second group is geeks. The first group is 'achievers'.
Yes. Neat project. Yes. ASICs much, much cheaper (at volume) yes.
This is a project that is neat and idealy suited to FPGAs for exactly the reasons you mentioned. What possible purpose could be served by producing a few-thousand chess winning machines? Deep blue, et al, were a product for publicity. Deep Blue was canned after it made its point as were all similar large scale plans because it's been done and proven that the game of chess does not call upon any special-to-human heuristics. This FPGA product is also for publicity, and does well as such, thought the linked site should work on their Eastern-European-to-English translation/spelling a bit, because it proves that the scale can be/has been shrunk.
ASICs have their place and FPGAs their's. FPGAs are gaining ground because their capabilities are increasing and price decreasing. ASICs capabilities are increasing as well, but their cost decrease is not significant. The price/performance niche for ASICs is becoming increasingly dependent on higer volumes.
I did RTFA and gnuftp.gnu.org did not say how they had been compromised.
/. article. Check the timestamp on the file. That can only after a great deal of speculation here at /.
The file MISSING-FILES.README did not exist as of the posting of the
I doubt its wu-ftpd. From http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ it appears that ftp.gnu.org uses vsftpd. They may also use wu-ftpd but that is very bad choice on their part since wu-ftpd has a very bad record of security.
In which possibility I am doubly interested in discovering the story behind the 'compromise' at gnu.org
I'll admit to a little bias. However, before posting my comment I did check www.gnu.org for an announcement/explanation and found none. Also searched news.google.com and found only this /. article. I had not heard of the wuftpd vulnerability as it was disclosed about 2 weeks ago.
I still have seen no specific evidence that the wuftpd vulnerability was exploited in this case, though it quite likely is true. I took the lack of public announcement at gnu.org to be an embarassed, tacit admission of culpability through poor administration and the first things that came to mind were weak passwords and/or insider information. Not applying security patches would have been next on my list.
According to netcraft.com, it's running Linux.
The compromise was probably a weak password or an inside job.
Your last point first: no, Red Hat is in a league far beyond SCO. Red Hat are real producers (as in contributing to the development and usability of Linux in addition to their business model target of selling support) where SCO/Caldera haven't _produced_ anything since before the real SCO faded away.
I have to admit that my original statement was unfairly cynical. However, I have a basic faith in the ability of CEO's, CFO's and their like in publicly owned companies to fuck things up because they've a view from some weird fiscal angle that doesn't jibe with the actual business of producing and selling.
I consider it unlikely that I was correct... but I would not be at all surprised to find that it is true. Disappointed, yes. Surprised? No.
Nah. At the risk of taking a too cynical view, I think Red Hat may have observed the recent spikes in SCO's stock price and decided to do a little pumping themselves. Maybe they figure if the idiot investors of the world thought SCO's stock should be more valuable because they made waves with their lawsuit and general FUD, that Red Hat could appeal to the Linux loyalists and maybe the other half of the idiot investors and do a little pumping of their own.
I see the US doing something... after a bunch of wrangling with lobbiests and various red-tape cutting, but Asia? By Asia, do you mean, China, India, Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan and more? Gee, that's a large group of governments who'd likely have their own agendas and possibly reasons for not wanting to do anything official regarding spam.
Good luck waiting, but don't hold your breath. I think it will take an international entity like the UN to get anything done in a global scope and I don't have any great confidence in that either.