So I've browsed the Red Hat FTP sites and they seem to have source RPM packages for each Red Hat Enterprise Linux release and its updates. My question is: isn't SUSE obligated to provide SRPMs of SUSE Linux Enterprise as well? Could someone please shed some light on this?
The results of this election might as well be determined based on the outcome of this football game considering the questionable integrity of the electronic voting technology involved. I mean really, the CEO of Diebold publically stating that he's committed to helping deliver electoral votes to the president should be a good sign that Bush is going to win, one way or the other. Is it really that much of a surprise that there isn't a paper trail at all? Who needs to deal with those pesky recounts? Four more wars!
No, not at all. You can quite easily transfer only the changed binaries.
How? Is there a sure fire way of tracking each and every binary that changes after applying a patch? Lets take this patch for example. How can I archive the resulting updated binaries?
Not the case. You only need to do the compile on one, and distribute the binaries to the rest of your machines.
I'm assuming you're referring to the release(8) procedure which will generate base35.tgz, etc35.tgz, comp35.tgz, misc35.tgz, man35.tgz etc.
Now how large is base35.tgz? Approximately 30 megs? It doesn't make sense to transfer 30 meg updates to numerous machines to apply an update for just a couple of files that could have been 1 or 2 megs if smaller binary updates were available. Well atleast it doesn't to me anyway. I guess beggars can't be choosers. Although right now I primarily use FreeBSD so it doesn't have the simple.tgz archives.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not a developer
I read this comment in a mailing list. Wouldn't it be awesome if/usr/src tree would be structured in a way that/usr/ports is right now? So you could apply that radius source patch to your/usr/src tree and then
# cd/usr/src/net/radius
# make package clean
Resulting in radius_version.tgz which could easily be installed using existing pkg_* tools.
I know I sound like a broken record but I like to dream about the day when the BSD OSs will have binary updates. Just imagine reading your security alert emails and noticing
"Eilko Bos reported that radius authentication, as implemented by login_radius(8), was not checking the shared secret used for replies sent by the radius server. This could allow an attacker to spoof a reply granting access to the attacker."
# ftp ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.5/comm on/020_radius.patch
# cd/usr/src
# patch -p0 # cd libexec/login_radius
# make clean
# make
# make install
Now do this on every OpenBSD, or whichever BSD, box you administer. Don't even get me started on release upgrades; ie. from 3.5 -> 3.6
So I've browsed the Red Hat FTP sites and they seem to have source RPM packages for each Red Hat Enterprise Linux release and its updates. My question is: isn't SUSE obligated to provide SRPMs of SUSE Linux Enterprise as well? Could someone please shed some light on this?
"if it's installed on computers at libraries and Internet cafes, users could unwittingly allow people who follow them on the PCs, for example, to see sensitive information in e-mails they've exchanged. That could mean revealed passwords, conversations with doctors, or viewed Web pages detailing online purchases."
I haven't installed the Google Desktop software but that quote is pretty damn stupid. If I'm using a computer at a library or an Internet cafe then I know there is a very good chance that I've already relinquished a lot of my privacy. It is a public computer. Does it have a hardware keylogger installed? Is the software compromised? Anyone using public computers should keep that in mind and not act surprised if their information suddenly becomes available to other people.
Do I have an axe to grind with Jonathan and DSPAM? No, it's a cool project. Does it annoy me that/. has recently turned into some combination of Freshmeat and PC Magazine? Yes.
Do I like to ask questions aloud and then answer them myself? You bet.
In terms of security, a well patched Linux system is almost certainly better than an unpatched Windows system.
What kind of comparison is that? "In terms of protection, a well armoured personnel carrier is almost certainly better than an unarmoured personnel carrier".
Just so happens that the cache in this case wasn't quick enough.
Which is exactly why story submitters and/. editors should use decentralized caching technology like Coral while posting new items so that the content is cached before the site gets slashdotted. In fact if they use Coral'ized URLs in the stories then will the original site actually get slashdotted?
The request for caching content on foreign websites has been covered before so I won't ask why/. doesn't cache sites locally. But it wouldn't have taken much effort by either the editors or submitter to append.nyud.net:8090 to www.cherryos.com
When I tried to use IMAP the amateurs at Spymac create a Inbox with the Sent, Drafts and Spam folder in the Inbox. How stupid is that?
They might be using Cyrus IMAPD as their IMAP server. It uses that notation for personal folders for each user like INBOX.Sent INBOX.Trash and so on. Search through their mailing lists - it has been discussed there.
OK so I've read
some of the reasons why StarOffice is considered different when compared to OpenOffice.
My request to any Star & OpenOffice users out there is: could you please provide some scenarios where going with StarOffice has been beneficial to you as opposed to OpenOffice? I know the link I provided mentions features like a database component in StarOffice but I'm more concerned with real life examples. It would be interesting to see how both suites practically stack up to each other.
All i want in a windows shell is crtl-ins to copy and shift-ins to paste. It's a pain to grab the mouse, right click on the title bar -> edit -> paste
Well there is no ctrl-ins or shift-ins but there is a better way to copy & paste using the mouse. Select text using the left mouse button, right click to stop selecting & copy the text into the buffer and then finally right click to paste.
Sun has been contributing more to open source/standards than IBM
With the exception of OpenOffice what else has Sun contributed to the open source community, not standards? And I mean full out contribute - not along the lines of shared source licenses. Any GPL stuff? JFS from IBM comes to mind, I'm sure there's a lot more. Besides patches to the linux kernel.
The only thing I did was remove the brush metal from safari.
Care to post a screenshot? Please?;) I'm curious as to how Safari looks without the metal crap. Unfortunately I don't have a Mac yet otherwise I would try it myself.
Microsoft's patches have been known to create quite a few problems
I know this has been mentioned quite a few times even since the NT days, with their updates, service packs and so on. I'm not debating this point but I'm curious if anyone has found a site that documents such problems with their updates. I have searched in the past with no luck as of yet. This would be an awesome resource for people advocating non-M$ solutions.
Such comments from Microsoft more than anything else demonstrate how little they understand about corporate server markets.
Is it that they don't realize that all admins (should) test patches before deploying them or that this is just what they say in public because it makes them look good and Linux distro vendors look bad? I feel it's the latter. A little bit of FUD mmmmm tasty.
You are right. RELENG_4 implied 4.*-STABLE and RELENG_4_8 means 4.8-RELEASE. RELENG_4_8 is what I would use on servers because that means I would only cvsup security and serious stability fixes. But it's better in the FreeBSD world because atleast that project releases often. Not as often as OpenBSD which pushes out a new release every 6 months; that is too early in my opinion. And not as slow as Debian which makes a release every..... who knows? If Debian would just make new releases available more often like the FreeBSD project, perhaps every 12 months or so then it would definetly help solve the outdated-debian-stable problem.
I've been thinking of using UML, to split out the DNS, SMTP, and web parts of the servers for quite awhile. VS doesn't do that, it just gives me apparent high availability, it doesn't segment. It does exactly the opposite of what I, and many security-minded sysadmins want - it makes several servers look like one
www.linuxvirtualserver.org and www.linux-vserver.org are two totally different projects.
Slashdot Mirror
So I've browsed the Red Hat FTP sites and they seem to have source RPM packages for each Red Hat Enterprise Linux release and its updates. My question is: isn't SUSE obligated to provide SRPMs of SUSE Linux Enterprise as well? Could someone please shed some light on this?
The results of this election might as well be determined based on the outcome of this football game considering the questionable integrity of the electronic voting technology involved. I mean really, the CEO of Diebold publically stating that he's committed to helping deliver electoral votes to the president should be a good sign that Bush is going to win, one way or the other. Is it really that much of a surprise that there isn't a paper trail at all? Who needs to deal with those pesky recounts? Four more wars!
How? Is there a sure fire way of tracking each and every binary that changes after applying a patch? Lets take this patch for example. How can I archive the resulting updated binaries?
I'm assuming you're referring to the release(8) procedure which will generate base35.tgz, etc35.tgz, comp35.tgz, misc35.tgz, man35.tgz etc.
Now how large is base35.tgz? Approximately 30 megs? It doesn't make sense to transfer 30 meg updates to numerous machines to apply an update for just a couple of files that could have been 1 or 2 megs if smaller binary updates were available. Well atleast it doesn't to me anyway. I guess beggars can't be choosers. Although right now I primarily use FreeBSD so it doesn't have the simple .tgz archives.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not a developer
I read this comment in a mailing list. Wouldn't it be awesome if /usr/src tree would be structured in a way that /usr/ports is right now? So you could apply that radius source patch to your /usr/src tree and then
# cd /usr/src/net/radius
# make package clean
Resulting in radius_version.tgz which could easily be installed using existing pkg_* tools.
"Eilko Bos reported that radius authentication, as implemented by login_radius(8), was not checking the shared secret used for replies sent by the radius server. This could allow an attacker to spoof a reply granting access to the attacker."
Uh oh, OK I better grab and install the update.
# pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.5/020_ radius.tgz
Instead of...................
# ftp ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.5/comm on/020_radius.patch
/usr/src
# cd
# patch -p0 # cd libexec/login_radius
# make clean
# make
# make install
Now do this on every OpenBSD, or whichever BSD, box you administer. Don't even get me started on release upgrades; ie. from 3.5 -> 3.6
So I've browsed the Red Hat FTP sites and they seem to have source RPM packages for each Red Hat Enterprise Linux release and its updates. My question is: isn't SUSE obligated to provide SRPMs of SUSE Linux Enterprise as well? Could someone please shed some light on this?
Don't forget CBC - in Canada anyway.
I haven't installed the Google Desktop software but that quote is pretty damn stupid. If I'm using a computer at a library or an Internet cafe then I know there is a very good chance that I've already relinquished a lot of my privacy. It is a public computer. Does it have a hardware keylogger installed? Is the software compromised? Anyone using public computers should keep that in mind and not act surprised if their information suddenly becomes available to other people.
Do I like to ask questions aloud and then answer them myself? You bet.
;)
What kind of comparison is that? "In terms of protection, a well armoured personnel carrier is almost certainly better than an unarmoured personnel carrier".
Which is exactly why story submitters and /. editors should use decentralized caching technology like Coral while posting new items so that the content is cached before the site gets slashdotted. In fact if they use Coral'ized URLs in the stories then will the original site actually get slashdotted?
http://www.cherryos.com.nyud.net:8090/
Use Coral CDN! It works and it's available, no excuses except laziness.
Literally ;)
Fortunately the people who are currently in charge and most likely to be re-elected are completely balanced, non-reactionary and rational folk.
They might be using Cyrus IMAPD as their IMAP server. It uses that notation for personal folders for each user like INBOX.Sent INBOX.Trash and so on. Search through their mailing lists - it has been discussed there.
My request to any Star & OpenOffice users out there is: could you please provide some scenarios where going with StarOffice has been beneficial to you as opposed to OpenOffice? I know the link I provided mentions features like a database component in StarOffice but I'm more concerned with real life examples. It would be interesting to see how both suites practically stack up to each other.
DMCA perhaps? Am I being paranoid here?
If your users are using Windows then try WinSCP.
Well there is no ctrl-ins or shift-ins but there is a better way to copy & paste using the mouse. Select text using the left mouse button, right click to stop selecting & copy the text into the buffer and then finally right click to paste.
With the exception of OpenOffice what else has Sun contributed to the open source community, not standards? And I mean full out contribute - not along the lines of shared source licenses. Any GPL stuff? JFS from IBM comes to mind, I'm sure there's a lot more. Besides patches to the linux kernel.
Care to post a screenshot? Please? ;) I'm curious as to how Safari looks without the metal crap. Unfortunately I don't have a Mac yet otherwise I would try it myself.
I know this has been mentioned quite a few times even since the NT days, with their updates, service packs and so on. I'm not debating this point but I'm curious if anyone has found a site that documents such problems with their updates. I have searched in the past with no luck as of yet. This would be an awesome resource for people advocating non-M$ solutions.
Is it that they don't realize that all admins (should) test patches before deploying them or that this is just what they say in public because it makes them look good and Linux distro vendors look bad? I feel it's the latter. A little bit of FUD mmmmm tasty.
You are right. RELENG_4 implied 4.*-STABLE and RELENG_4_8 means 4.8-RELEASE. RELENG_4_8 is what I would use on servers because that means I would only cvsup security and serious stability fixes. But it's better in the FreeBSD world because atleast that project releases often. Not as often as OpenBSD which pushes out a new release every 6 months; that is too early in my opinion. And not as slow as Debian which makes a release every..... who knows? If Debian would just make new releases available more often like the FreeBSD project, perhaps every 12 months or so then it would definetly help solve the outdated-debian-stable problem.
www.linuxvirtualserver.org and www.linux-vserver.org are two totally different projects.