"If Verisign can hijack *.COM and *.NET, what is to keep resolving ISPs from hijacking unused domains at the resolver level to suit their own purposes?"
Absolutely nothing can be done to stop this, as it is your ISPs right. If you don't like it you could either a.> change ISPs or b.> Use different name servers. The problem with this is that it is the root nameservers that are doing it, so your ISP no longer can resolve non-exisitant hosts, as they all.com and.net possible essentially exist now..
He *may* be a racist, but you are *definately* a bigot. You turn " Taylor is an advocate of a white ethnic consciousness to be modeled after the ethnic consciousnesses of other minorities." into a statement of hate or racism? There is no ambiguity in that quote. There is no overtone of racism or prejudice in that quote. Only your intolereance could twist it into something as horrible as that. What is racist about ethinic counsciousness?
By your own definition the NAACP as well as any other organization that tries to raise levels of consciousness about ehnicity and being proud of who you are, are racist organizaitons.
Oh wait, it's only wrong when it's a white man doing it. There is no reason anyone should be proud to be white, right?
The vulnerability is fully exploitable under OpenBSD. I've just rooted my own OBSD firewall, and it actually hit the proper register faster than it did on my Gentoo desktop (not that that means anything).
A post like this given a +5 is dangerous. I wonder how many OpenBSD users will read that, take his word for it, and not patch their systems. Probably not many:) But if only one does, then the damaga is done.
I remember there being ftp channels in IRC and newsgroups hosting copyright materials back when I was 8. That would have been in 1988. I think it's safe to say that if p2p has been around for 15 years it will continue on. Perhaps the face will change, but the soul will stay the same. Copyrighted or not, you simply can not stop people from sharing data.
He has a good point. Our corporations are protected from offshore corporate competition by high tariffs being placed on imported goods. Why do our corporations receive the benefit of taxable import on goods, when we the people do not receive the same protection.
This is a ridiculous double standard, that needs to be remedied immediately. Either drop all import tariffs or enforce tariffs on exported jobs. The government is by the people, of the people, and for the people, so let's start acting like it.
While it most certainly sucks Chong got busted, it has nothing to do with the technical nature of slashdot. That's something you find on fark.com. Also, if he wouldn't have geared his marketing gimmicks towards indicating these devices were to be used for marijuana, he wouldn't be in the mess he is in now. All it would have taken was a "For tobacco use only" disclaimer and he could have joined the hundreds of legal water pipe dealers.
Aside from that, the measure of the sentence is ridiculous, apart from the idiocy of anti marijuana laws in the first place.
"The early distributions ran on machines as small as 386's with 2-4 MB of RAM, so these could be fun ways to resurrect ancient hardware.""
Just to point out even new versions of Linux can still run on a 386. The distro requirements may be more strict, but I have a 386DX with a 450M HDD(from a 486SX) running an LFS firewall. Ok so it has 16MB ram instead of 2-4MB, but still, you don't need an old version of Linux to run old hardware.
In my opinion this is one of the greatest benefits of Linux, and proves true the old saying "Hardware is only as obsolete as the software it runs"
First let me say that I am all for globalization, but this double standard is not actually helping anyone. Corporations have protection that the people of the US are not provided.
#begin rant
Because our corporations just absolutely MUST compete on a global scale (for what reason I don't know) we have import taxes to protect these companies from foreign companies by keeping the price artifically equal with tariffs on goods coming in.
It seems to me that we as citizens of the U.S. should at least receive the same protection. If you outsource jobs, then those jobs should be taxed appropriately to keep wages as artificially high.
Why should corporations receive the benefit of taxable protection on goods when workers have no protection on wages?
The better solution would be to abolish import taxes, and head for a globalized economy, but that will never happen. God forbid the U.S. ever ceases to be an unrivaled super power setting the global economic trend, or become unable/unwilling to spend $400 billion a year on our military, we might then not be able to tell the rest of the world what to do.
I don't know where you are from, but where I live if you started yelling in the middle of a movie (regardlss of how much it sucks) you would get chunked out on your head. Be respectful of the other people in the theatre and keep quiet.
I feel sorry for the last guy to plug something in when the overload occured. Can you imagine plugging your toaster in and taking down power for the east coast? I'd feel pretty guilty about it, unless I meant to do it, in which case I would feel 1337.
It is based on neither. Gentoo uses (and basically IS) a packaging system called portage, which is similar to FreeBSD's ports. It is the nicest package management suite I have seen within Linux. All dependencies are handled for you, and optional support can be defined through a USE variable. Say if you want php but don't want support for gd or java, you could set the USE variable to -gd and -java, and then simply "# emerge php" and all patches, dependencies and options are retreived, configured, and compiled for you with one command, based on what you want your system to be. Aside from an install not designed for newbies or the lazy, gentoo is IMHO the easiest distro to use and maintain, perhaps even for newbies, once installed.
To me the optimization is secondary to the amazing package management system, and the fact that it stays out of my way and let's me decide what I want my system to be.
I say this everytime this comes up, and I always get modded as flaimbait, but I'll say it again.
People who say Linux isn't ready for the desktop are wrong. Perhaps THEY aren't ready for a Linux desktop, and perhaps their company isn't ready to make the switch, but I use and have used Linux as a fully functional desktop for well over 3 years. I can do anything I want with it. (save running ANY windows software, although I have a large library of windows software that works great under wine)
My point is this, rather than say Linux isn't ready for the desktop, say Linux isn't ready for mass adoption to the desktop by windows users. Linux makes an EXCELLENT desktop by those who care to make it work as such.
I used to do this with my nokia's infrared to my visor and used PalmVNC to VNC in from my cell phone. This is a little less bulky of a solution, since it only requires the cellphone.
What I'd like is a phone that acts as it's own modem. With all the cell phones I've owned, it was possible to dial up with externel equipment, but the phone itself had no dial up networking, just the expensive internet the phone company offers.
Have you ever seen a micro distribution with perl? No? Well there is a reason.. perl is huge, and I don't want it on my system w/o my express consent. It was not "stupid" of FreeBSD to not include it in the base distro, it's called giving your users a choice. Of course, maybe you just don't understand how FreeBSD's ports work. Your inability to see the usefulness of this, and instead to insult the intelligence and question the reasoning behind their decision without looking at both sidees is indicative of a troll or just being a jerk in general.
Anybody who claims perl is less of a hassle or hugely faster to develop with just doesn't know how to program with C properly. As both a perl and a C programmer, each has their place and can often do the job of the other. Neither one is inherently better. Only those who know one but not the other (or those that know neither/nothing) have such gross misconceptions as to what should be done in what.
No, Laptops do NOT have keypads. They have keys that alternate as numbers, set up in a semi-keypad like layout. This is NOT a keypad. Anyone with even an inkling of experience with 10-key will tell you this is most definately not a replacement.
I've not used Sonar, but from my experiences Ardour is more feature rich than CoolEdit. I haven't used Cool Edit since around 98 though, so things may have changed.
The Educated western world being what? US and Canada? Sorry, the "creationist" thing is an anomoly of religion, it has nothing ot do with nationality, race, geography or anything like that. You will find more supporters of creationist theory in fundamentalist Islamic nations than any where else.
Creationism is NOT a US anomoly, creationsist exist just as much in Canada and probably even more so in Mexico and Soth America where catholocism is the norm, as well as everywhere else in the world.
I think you may need to go back to elementary school and learn which digits hold what values, because this is only half a BILLION dollars. We spend over $400,000,000,000 (that's a billion) on our military each year. This is somewhat of a trifling sum to the military, who gets free money from our tax dollars. In other words, no, the military didn't just spend 400 Million on MS junk, the american ppl did.
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Considering they are diskless and run a Live CD, I doubt very much you will see a great deal of people adding HDD's so they can run win2k.
"If Verisign can hijack *.COM and *.NET, what is to keep resolving ISPs from hijacking unused domains at the resolver level to suit their own purposes?"
.com and .net possible essentially exist now..
Absolutely nothing can be done to stop this, as it is your ISPs right. If you don't like it you could either a.> change ISPs or b.> Use different name servers. The problem with this is that it is the root nameservers that are doing it, so your ISP no longer can resolve non-exisitant hosts, as they all
He *may* be a racist, but you are *definately* a bigot. You turn " Taylor is an advocate of a white ethnic consciousness to be modeled after the ethnic consciousnesses of other minorities." into a statement of hate or racism? There is no ambiguity in that quote. There is no overtone of racism or prejudice in that quote. Only your intolereance could twist it into something as horrible as that. What is racist about ethinic counsciousness?
By your own definition the NAACP as well as any other organization that tries to raise levels of consciousness about ehnicity and being proud of who you are, are racist organizaitons.
Oh wait, it's only wrong when it's a white man doing it. There is no reason anyone should be proud to be white, right?
Bigot.
The vulnerability is fully exploitable under OpenBSD. I've just rooted my own OBSD firewall, and it actually hit the proper register faster than it did on my Gentoo desktop (not that that means anything).
:) But if only one does, then the damaga is done.
A post like this given a +5 is dangerous. I wonder how many OpenBSD users will read that, take his word for it, and not patch their systems. Probably not many
I remember there being ftp channels in IRC and newsgroups hosting copyright materials back when I was 8. That would have been in 1988. I think it's safe to say that if p2p has been around for 15 years it will continue on. Perhaps the face will change, but the soul will stay the same. Copyrighted or not, you simply can not stop people from sharing data.
He has a good point. Our corporations are protected from offshore corporate competition by high tariffs being placed on imported goods. Why do our corporations receive the benefit of taxable import on goods, when we the people do not receive the same protection.
This is a ridiculous double standard, that needs to be remedied immediately. Either drop all import tariffs or enforce tariffs on exported jobs. The government is by the people, of the people, and for the people, so let's start acting like it.
While it most certainly sucks Chong got busted, it has nothing to do with the technical nature of slashdot. That's something you find on fark.com. Also, if he wouldn't have geared his marketing gimmicks towards indicating these devices were to be used for marijuana, he wouldn't be in the mess he is in now. All it would have taken was a "For tobacco use only" disclaimer and he could have joined the hundreds of legal water pipe dealers.
Aside from that, the measure of the sentence is ridiculous, apart from the idiocy of anti marijuana laws in the first place.
"The early distributions ran on machines as small as 386's with 2-4 MB of RAM, so these could be fun ways to resurrect ancient hardware.""
Just to point out even new versions of Linux can still run on a 386. The distro requirements may be more strict, but I have a 386DX with a 450M HDD(from a 486SX) running an LFS firewall. Ok so it has 16MB ram instead of 2-4MB, but still, you don't need an old version of Linux to run old hardware.
In my opinion this is one of the greatest benefits of Linux, and proves true the old saying "Hardware is only as obsolete as the software it runs"
First let me say that I am all for globalization, but this double standard is not actually helping anyone. Corporations have protection that the people of the US are not provided.
#begin rant
Because our corporations just absolutely MUST compete on a global scale (for what reason I don't know) we have import taxes to protect these companies from foreign companies by keeping the price artifically equal with tariffs on goods coming in.
It seems to me that we as citizens of the U.S. should at least receive the same protection. If you outsource jobs, then those jobs should be taxed appropriately to keep wages as artificially high.
Why should corporations receive the benefit of taxable protection on goods when workers have no protection on wages?
The better solution would be to abolish import taxes, and head for a globalized economy, but that will never happen. God forbid the U.S. ever ceases to be an unrivaled super power setting the global economic trend, or become unable/unwilling to spend $400 billion a year on our military, we might then not be able to tell the rest of the world what to do.
#end rant
You don't see us crying like babies when the europeans refer to the USA as "America" which isn't even a continent to begin with.
I don't know where you are from, but where I live if you started yelling in the middle of a movie (regardlss of how much it sucks) you would get chunked out on your head. Be respectful of the other people in the theatre and keep quiet.
I feel sorry for the last guy to plug something in when the overload occured. Can you imagine plugging your toaster in and taking down power for the east coast? I'd feel pretty guilty about it, unless I meant to do it, in which case I would feel 1337.
Including links is good.
Snort, Apache, PHP, MySQL, ACID on Redhat 9.0 Installation Guide
Also, throw snortcenter in the mix and you've got a full solution in an easy to manage package.
So cheap it's free.
It's only a remote root exploit if you are running the process as root, and that would be stupid. You are an AC though.
It is based on neither. Gentoo uses (and basically IS) a packaging system called portage, which is similar to FreeBSD's ports. It is the nicest package management suite I have seen within Linux. All dependencies are handled for you, and optional support can be defined through a USE variable. Say if you want php but don't want support for gd or java, you could set the USE variable to -gd and -java, and then simply "# emerge php" and all patches, dependencies and options are retreived, configured, and compiled for you with one command, based on what you want your system to be. Aside from an install not designed for newbies or the lazy, gentoo is IMHO the easiest distro to use and maintain, perhaps even for newbies, once installed.
To me the optimization is secondary to the amazing package management system, and the fact that it stays out of my way and let's me decide what I want my system to be.
I say this everytime this comes up, and I always get modded as flaimbait, but I'll say it again.
People who say Linux isn't ready for the desktop are wrong. Perhaps THEY aren't ready for a Linux desktop, and perhaps their company isn't ready to make the switch, but I use and have used Linux as a fully functional desktop for well over 3 years. I can do anything I want with it. (save running ANY windows software, although I have a large library of windows software that works great under wine)
My point is this, rather than say Linux isn't ready for the desktop, say Linux isn't ready for mass adoption to the desktop by windows users. Linux makes an EXCELLENT desktop by those who care to make it work as such.
I used to do this with my nokia's infrared to my visor and used PalmVNC to VNC in from my cell phone. This is a little less bulky of a solution, since it only requires the cellphone.
What I'd like is a phone that acts as it's own modem. With all the cell phones I've owned, it was possible to dial up with externel equipment, but the phone itself had no dial up networking, just the expensive internet the phone company offers.
Have you ever seen a micro distribution with perl? No? Well there is a reason.. perl is huge, and I don't want it on my system w/o my express consent. It was not "stupid" of FreeBSD to not include it in the base distro, it's called giving your users a choice. Of course, maybe you just don't understand how FreeBSD's ports work. Your inability to see the usefulness of this, and instead to insult the intelligence and question the reasoning behind their decision without looking at both sidees is indicative of a troll or just being a jerk in general.
Anybody who claims perl is less of a hassle or hugely faster to develop with just doesn't know how to program with C properly. As both a perl and a C programmer, each has their place and can often do the job of the other. Neither one is inherently better. Only those who know one but not the other (or those that know neither/nothing) have such gross misconceptions as to what should be done in what.
I run kazza lite with wine. It's kinda slow, but all the features work.
Name calling is the first line of defense for the mentally inferior. Of course, we have all of your other posts to verify this fact.
No, Laptops do NOT have keypads. They have keys that alternate as numbers, set up in a semi-keypad like layout. This is NOT a keypad. Anyone with even an inkling of experience with 10-key will tell you this is most definately not a replacement.
I've not used Sonar, but from my experiences Ardour is more feature rich than CoolEdit. I haven't used Cool Edit since around 98 though, so things may have changed.
The Educated western world being what? US and Canada? Sorry, the "creationist" thing is an anomoly of religion, it has nothing ot do with nationality, race, geography or anything like that. You will find more supporters of creationist theory in fundamentalist Islamic nations than any where else.
Creationism is NOT a US anomoly, creationsist exist just as much in Canada and probably even more so in Mexico and Soth America where catholocism is the norm, as well as everywhere else in the world.
I think you may need to go back to elementary school and learn which digits hold what values, because this is only half a BILLION dollars. We spend over $400,000,000,000 (that's a billion) on our military each year. This is somewhat of a trifling sum to the military, who gets free money from our tax dollars. In other words, no, the military didn't just spend 400 Million on MS junk, the american ppl did.