Those Red Hat boxes on a cable modem were probably *already* cracked. More likely than not, their owners are not the ones attempting to exploit your system, just the unwitting proxies in an attack on your system by somebody else who compromized their system first.
Well, I'd rather have the IRC script kiddies around than these not-quite-grown-up script kiddies with jobs who hire thugs to go break into people's houses.
Breaking and entering, theft, and assault are all serious charges, and "they tried to break into our computers" is not going to cut it as a defense in court. I hope this Cipher guy gets in jail for a long time.
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First of all, Linuxberg is much more friendly to new Linux users. It may even draw some Linux converts if they link to it from their main Windows TUCOWS archive. Plus, it's from a company well-know in the Windows (read:mainstream) software world, so an archive like this dispels some of the "there's no software for Linux" arguments. Finally, they're mirroring all this software on their tons of servers, so you can actually get software when the main ftp sites are slashdotted.
They probably are not even aware of the fact that Linux exists. The "Windows 95/98/NT only" is most likely just a notice that says "won't work on MacOS."
Just taking the stats from the last week for my homepage, there have been approximately 5000 hits, and 3 of those were Linux. 8 total were using various *nix systems (3 Linux, 2 Irix, 2 SunOS, 1 FreeBSD). 2 were using OS/2. more than 4500 were using Win*, and about 150 were using Macintosh.
So I somehow doubt that they're going to be aware of a problem that fewer than 0.05% of their users will have.
Speaking of IDEs, is there any IDE for Linux that uses ANSI graphics (perhaps in a color xterm)? I'm still using Borland Turbo C/C++ v3.0 for DOS (from 1992) to write most of my code because it's much more useful than any graphical (windows and/or X) IDEs I've seen.
Linus said in a Boot interview that it would be out by the end of October. Then he said it'd be out by Christmas. It's January 9th and I'm still waiting.
Umm, the correct term in this case is "hacking organizations." The Cult of the Dead cow and L0pht are unquestionably respectable hacker groups, not hax0r d00dz. And i dunno where ESR got this cracker thing from. I don't like saltines.
Well, it's not relevant to this article really, since both L0pht Heavy Industries and the Cult of the Dead Cow can be considered Hacker groups by both the current definition and the original/.-reader-preferred definition.
However, we need a name for people who show no intelligence/skill, but spend their time with cyber-vandilization. Cracker has been proposed time and time again, but is not a good solution. It is *more*, not less, confusing than calling them hackers.
A Cracker is: 1) a racist term for a white person 2) a crunchy food. Ritz, saltines, and graham are examples. 3) a skillfull assembly programmer who removes copy protection schemes from shareware and demo software. United Cracking Force and Phrozen Crew are examples of cracker groups.
So cracker is already quite taken - there isn't room for a fourth definition.
I can't think of a perfect solution to this, but I personally usually refer to them as "hax0rs" which distinguishes them from "hackers" sufficiently, at least IMHO, since I doubt many hackers would call themselves "hax0rs." This also has the advantage that many 31337 hax0r d00ds actually don't mind being called "hax0rs" so it has a better chance of catching on than cracker does.
The Cult of the Dead Cow and L0pht are both hacker groups. They are correctly using the terminology. Both produce quite a bit of cleverly written code, so can thus be considered "hackers" even by those who adhere to the old MIT definition of a hacker.
Umm, I don't break into computer systems, yet I "whine" about Kevin Mitnick anyway. He's been held for nearly FOUR years without a trial, which is something I thought only happened in places like China. Then the Secret Service brings up some BS about him being a "threat to national security," which is also China-esque. And they won't let him have a walkman because they're afraid he'll use his mythical super-hacker powers to do something evil with it. If he's guilty, they should go ahead and convict him. If not, then release him. Either way, he should have had a trial more than three years ago.
That's an average daily transfer rate. What the guy whose comment you replied to was saying was that when a major app/update is released by microsoft, they have many more concurrent users than cdrom.com does (he said 100k concurrent users - i have no idea what the numbers are myself). So even though cdrom.com transfers more data on average daily, Microsoft's servers can still have a higher peak load. When Microsoft's teardrop patch came out, there were quite a few people downloading it all at once, which would put a strain on the FTP server, but since the patch is small, it doesn't add much to the overall files transfered. Small files take more server overhead than large files do, and cdrom.com seems to have a lot more 10MB+ files than microsoft.com does.
That's not to say that FreeBSD isn't better than NT - it might very well be, but is probably isn't over 100 times better.
Well, if we're going to have Open Source software supported by taxpayer money, it's not any better than Commercial Software. At least with Commercial Software you have a choice of whether you want to pay for it or not, while with taxpayer-supported Open Source software, you *have* to pay for it. This leads to less, not more, freedom, and a socialist-style economic system.
Free Software, on the other hand, is supposed to be something the author created because he *wanted* to share with other people, not because all those other people already paid him for it. If I'm gonna pay some guy to develop software, I might as well have a choice of who to pay, rather than the government deciding for me.
I suppose a 24kbps mp3 would be OK, though not nearly as good as using Real's G2 stuff that adjusts the quality to your available bandwidth. And you'd have to stream the audio...I suppose shoutcast would work, but that still requires Windows (Winamp) to send the stream, AFAIK. And no, HTTP streaming is not the answer.
Definitely top quality stuff. My Apple//c still works flawlessly, as does my Imagewriter color dot matrix printer. I've never had to call tech support for either one of them.
As for the PC crap I've owned, the Packard Bell's motherboard died in 3 years, the Canon inkjet printer is not too reliable, and the 14" monitor is a funny blueish color (it goes away if you jiggle the monitor cable at the back), and it's only four years old.
The Apple, which is 14 years old, is definitely in better condition than everything except the 8-month-old Pentium II (though by the time the Apple is 20 years old in six years, it'll probably be in better condition than the Pentium II will be when it's seven years old).
Well, then RMS can encode his voice in another format if he wishes. Hell, he can make a nice speech that's twice as long as the NPR broadcast and encode that in whatever format he wants. Now where is that Free RealAudio-like protocol again? And does it support as many platforms as RealPlayer does?
Yeah, I don't get that. When you're doing stuff on the computer that is obviously just for fun, it's an "internet addiction" (even when you're not on the internet). Then when you get a computer-related job, it's automatically assumed to be "for the money" - people conveniently forget that you were doing stuff for fun on the computer back when they were trying to get you to quit.
BBSs are not dead damnit. I still call BBSs. Quite a few in fact. And one is a 4-line system that runs on several networked Amigas, so Amigas aren't dead either:P
Don't read it then. I'm personally not interested in Apache (since I don't run an http server), but I don't bitch when somebody posts an article about it, or when somebody posts an article about corporate databases, or other such stuff that doesn't interest me. If we all bitched every time an article didn't interest us, the comments would suck more than they already did.
So, if you don't like Apple, be quiet and don't read the article.
Don't read it then. I'm personally not interested in Apache since I don't run an http server, but I don't bitch when somebody posts an article about it.
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It makes perfect sense to me - the iMac is competing for the same type of people who, if they bought a PC, would buy a Compaq.
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Those Red Hat boxes on a cable modem were probably *already* cracked. More likely than not, their owners are not the ones attempting to exploit your system, just the unwitting proxies in an attack on your system by somebody else who compromized their system first.
Well, I'd rather have the IRC script kiddies around than these not-quite-grown-up script kiddies with jobs who hire thugs to go break into people's houses.
Breaking and entering, theft, and assault are all serious charges, and "they tried to break into our computers" is not going to cut it as a defense in court. I hope this Cipher guy gets in jail for a long time.
First of all, Linuxberg is much more friendly to new Linux users. It may even draw some Linux converts if they link to it from their main Windows TUCOWS archive. Plus, it's from a company well-know in the Windows (read:mainstream) software world, so an archive like this dispels some of the "there's no software for Linux" arguments. Finally, they're mirroring all this software on their tons of servers, so you can actually get software when the main ftp sites are slashdotted.
They probably are not even aware of the fact that Linux exists. The "Windows 95/98/NT only" is most likely just a notice that says "won't work on MacOS."
Just taking the stats from the last week for my homepage, there have been approximately 5000 hits, and 3 of those were Linux. 8 total were using various *nix systems (3 Linux, 2 Irix, 2 SunOS, 1 FreeBSD). 2 were using OS/2. more than 4500 were using Win*, and about 150 were using Macintosh.
So I somehow doubt that they're going to be aware of a problem that fewer than 0.05% of their users will have.
Did he mention X11amp? It looks to me like he said "winamp", so I'd assume he meant Winamp. Do you speak English?
Speaking of IDEs, is there any IDE for Linux that uses ANSI graphics (perhaps in a color xterm)? I'm still using Borland Turbo C/C++ v3.0 for DOS (from 1992) to write most of my code because it's much more useful than any graphical (windows and/or X) IDEs I've seen.
Sure, Linux has GUIs. However, OS/2's GUI is *far* superior to X. X is just plain pathetic when compared to OS/2.
So when exactly is the actual 2.2.0 coming out?
Linus said in a Boot interview that it would be out by the end of October. Then he said it'd be out by Christmas. It's January 9th and I'm still waiting.
Please research before posting idiotic crap here.
The Chaos Computer Club is more than 15 years old, not two as you asserted.
Jeez, talk about "false information."
Umm, the correct term in this case is "hacking organizations." The Cult of the Dead cow and L0pht are unquestionably respectable hacker groups, not hax0r d00dz. And i dunno where ESR got this cracker thing from. I don't like saltines.
Yes. If it were made of plastic and you held a blowtorch to it, it would also burn. Big deal.
Well, it's not relevant to this article really, since both L0pht Heavy Industries and the Cult of the Dead Cow can be considered Hacker groups by both the current definition and the original /.-reader-preferred definition.
However, we need a name for people who show no intelligence/skill, but spend their time with cyber-vandilization. Cracker has been proposed time and time again, but is not a good solution. It is *more*, not less, confusing than calling them hackers.
A Cracker is:
1) a racist term for a white person
2) a crunchy food. Ritz, saltines, and graham are examples.
3) a skillfull assembly programmer who removes copy protection schemes from shareware and demo software. United Cracking Force and Phrozen Crew are examples of cracker groups.
So cracker is already quite taken - there isn't room for a fourth definition.
I can't think of a perfect solution to this, but I personally usually refer to them as "hax0rs" which distinguishes them from "hackers" sufficiently, at least IMHO, since I doubt many hackers would call themselves "hax0rs." This also has the advantage that many 31337 hax0r d00ds actually don't mind being called "hax0rs" so it has a better chance of catching on than cracker does.
The Cult of the Dead Cow and L0pht are both hacker groups. They are correctly using the terminology. Both produce quite a bit of cleverly written code, so can thus be considered "hackers" even by those who adhere to the old MIT definition of a hacker.
Umm, I don't break into computer systems, yet I "whine" about Kevin Mitnick anyway. He's been held for nearly FOUR years without a trial, which is something I thought only happened in places like China. Then the Secret Service brings up some BS about him being a "threat to national security," which is also China-esque. And they won't let him have a walkman because they're afraid he'll use his mythical super-hacker powers to do something evil with it. If he's guilty, they should go ahead and convict him. If not, then release him. Either way, he should have had a trial more than three years ago.
That's an average daily transfer rate. What the guy whose comment you replied to was saying was that when a major app/update is released by microsoft, they have many more concurrent users than cdrom.com does (he said 100k concurrent users - i have no idea what the numbers are myself). So even though cdrom.com transfers more data on average daily, Microsoft's servers can still have a higher peak load. When Microsoft's teardrop patch came out, there were quite a few people downloading it all at once, which would put a strain on the FTP server, but since the patch is small, it doesn't add much to the overall files transfered. Small files take more server overhead than large files do, and cdrom.com seems to have a lot more 10MB+ files than microsoft.com does.
That's not to say that FreeBSD isn't better than NT - it might very well be, but is probably isn't over 100 times better.
Well, if we're going to have Open Source software supported by taxpayer money, it's not any better than Commercial Software. At least with Commercial Software you have a choice of whether you want to pay for it or not, while with taxpayer-supported Open Source software, you *have* to pay for it. This leads to less, not more, freedom, and a socialist-style economic system.
Free Software, on the other hand, is supposed to be something the author created because he *wanted* to share with other people, not because all those other people already paid him for it. If I'm gonna pay some guy to develop software, I might as well have a choice of who to pay, rather than the government deciding for me.
I suppose a 24kbps mp3 would be OK, though not nearly as good as using Real's G2 stuff that adjusts the quality to your available bandwidth. And you'd have to stream the audio...I suppose shoutcast would work, but that still requires Windows (Winamp) to send the stream, AFAIK. And no, HTTP streaming is not the answer.
Definitely top quality stuff. My Apple //c still works flawlessly, as does my Imagewriter color dot matrix printer. I've never had to call tech support for either one of them.
As for the PC crap I've owned, the Packard Bell's motherboard died in 3 years, the Canon inkjet printer is not too reliable, and the 14" monitor is a funny blueish color (it goes away if you jiggle the monitor cable at the back), and it's only four years old.
The Apple, which is 14 years old, is definitely in better condition than everything except the 8-month-old Pentium II (though by the time the Apple is 20 years old in six years, it'll probably be in better condition than the Pentium II will be when it's seven years old).
This was broadcast on National Public Radio. To my knowledge, no non-free software is necessary in order to listen to the radio.
Well, then RMS can encode his voice in another format if he wishes. Hell, he can make a nice speech that's twice as long as the NPR broadcast and encode that in whatever format he wants. Now where is that Free RealAudio-like protocol again? And does it support as many platforms as RealPlayer does?
Yeah, I don't get that. When you're doing stuff on the computer that is obviously just for fun, it's an "internet addiction" (even when you're not on the internet). Then when you get a computer-related job, it's automatically assumed to be "for the money" - people conveniently forget that you were doing stuff for fun on the computer back when they were trying to get you to quit.
BBSs are not dead damnit. I still call BBSs. Quite a few in fact. And one is a 4-line system that runs on several networked Amigas, so Amigas aren't dead either :P
Don't read it then. I'm personally not interested in Apache (since I don't run an http server), but I don't bitch when somebody posts an article about it, or when somebody posts an article about corporate databases, or other such stuff that doesn't interest me. If we all bitched every time an article didn't interest us, the comments would suck more than they already did.
So, if you don't like Apple, be quiet and don't read the article.
Don't read it then. I'm personally not interested in Apache since I don't run an http server, but I don't bitch when somebody posts an article about it.
It makes perfect sense to me - the iMac is competing for the same type of people who, if they bought a PC, would buy a Compaq.