User: cbutler

Re:r services disabled by default?

On: Debian 2.2 "Has Major Security Issues"? UPDATED

IIRC, the postinst of netbase (it was netbase, wasn't it?) asked whether you wanted to disable daytime, exec etc. services in the inetd.conf file, about since a month ago.

Not only that, but the rsh/rlogin/rexec daemons are NOT installed by default on new Debian 2.2 systems. They are in the package rsh-server, which is priority Extra.

Re:But how can "Internet" censorship ever work?

On: Australian Net Censorship

I wonder if these Government people have heard of these
wowfabgroovy "UNIX" things that you can use remotely..

Re:Fast hard drives bring nothing.

On: Ask Slashdot: Breaking the Computing Bottleneck?

For server or for video they might be of some help, but not revolutionnary.

I thought the entire argument against hard-drives were that they ARE revolutionary?

(groan away!) :)

Re:Volatile/Non-Volatile Decoupled Hybrid storage

On: Ask Slashdot: Breaking the Computing Bottleneck?

On its own without any disturbance of the processor, have the drive scan and update whole contents of the drive from the volatile storage to the non-volatile storage at intervals depending on the latency of the medium.

What about sudden power outages? We have the same kind of problem as a disk-cache in RAM. Perhaps some small back-up electricity storage so that we have enough power to perform an update if we suddenly lose the mains...

Re:Secondary effects

On: Home Depot tests Linux for remote mangament of PCs

[deploying Linux] means they will be HIRING Linux gurus. This is
good news for the Linux job market

Exactly. I'm glad to see an increase in the deployment
of Linux. It means that in 5 or 6 years time, when
I'll be looking to start my career as a guru, there
should be plenty of opportunities to choose from :)