It has always seemed strange to me that encryption via SSL and verification of your business identity were rolled into the same system.
I've had a few situations where I wanted to encrypt html and had no need of guaranteeing my server's identity to anyone. It seems like I should be able to encrypt traffic without having to jump through hoops and spend a lot of cash. Or without having a second class certificate.
I hope this new project succeeds.
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Right. From their README:
"... We have created a program called logfinder as a sample means of locating files that might be logs on an existing system. logfinder uses regular expressions to find local files with "log-like" contents; you can customize those expressions if necessary to meet your needs. logfinder requires Python 2 or greater and finds logs in text files on a POSIX-like system. (It might also find some log-like data in binary files if the binary files represent that data in textual form.)
logfinder can, if the lsof program is installed and when run with appropriate privileges, detect open files systemwide that grow larger over time. It can also search for text that may indicate logging activity within a given directory hierarchy, or systemwide. As we suggest above, a program like logfinder can find some, but not all, kinds of logging activity. For example, logfinder will generally not identify logs in binary (non-text) formats or logs kept inside databases. Therefore, using a program like logfinder is usually a supplement to, not a replacement for, answering questions like those given above.
logfinder should be run as root. If logfinder is invoked without any arguments, it will examine open files systemwide to see whether they grow larger, and then indicate whether files that appear to be growing contain log-like text. (This requires lsof to be installed, and lsof's ability to report open files accurately may depend on your operating system. So far, we've had success with Linux and MacOS X, and some difficulty with FreeBSD and OpenBSD.)
If logfinder is given one or more directory names as arguments, it will search for log-like text in files in those directories...."
I haven't run it (and likely won't), but I'm curious whether it would ever flag stuff in/var/mail. It would be a lot of fun to have clueless admins cronning this and deleting mail every night.
Linux was written by a large group of Knights Templar and Rosicrucians around 1340 AD. It is also said to have been discovered by Jewish Cabalists within the Torah around the same time. Partial source is said to be found in the Koran, but recent disputes about whether the Koran was actually written in Aramaic cast many doubts on that.
That Torvalds discovered and attempted to run the sacred kernel is still considered to have been the most arrogant hubris by those who know.
Here's one I just thought of. Maybe it's been made, and maybe 16,000 people will point out why it isn't necessary or that it's built into find or emacs or something. Here goes anyway:
Write an app that takes a username as input and shows me all the files/directories that user can read or edit or execute. If I run it as root, it shows me All files. If run as me under my account, all of my files that that user could play with. For example: shell% sudo fileSecurityCheck -www/ will show me all files that are deleted when my webserver gets hacked.
I hate having to click on an open window to force it to update and show new files. We've got one G4 at work that for some reason is absolutely horrible at this. Sometimes the woman using it has to log off of servers and log back on to see files that other people have copied over.
Hopefully they just don't want to publicize this by mentioning it. More hopefully, there will be a fix in 10.3.5...
I'm hoping that the increases in speed seen in the last upgrades continue for "older" machines. I'm assuming so based on what Apple has posted on their website, but a lot of that is G5 performance info.
I'm hoping that the "instant search of everything" feature, which I'll almost never use if my current searching is any indication, won't bog down the system while indexing everything.
All in all, not too revolutionary. Which is just fine with me. I think Panther is damn nice and would rather they spent time cleaning up and helping developers make their apps more reliable than anything else.
I installed NetBSD on a Mac Powerbook 160 (?) with about 4MB of RAM and a tiny, tiny HD. I don't remember the size. It didn't really use it, but did it because it seemed so cool that it could be done.
That's one of the things that originally attracted me to Linux and the BSDs - that they ran reasonably on older hardware. I still often hear people say that they run better than Windows or Mac OS, but that's a rapidly rising range.
I would really like to see older hardware continue to be a focus. I tend to think that decreasing the amount of required software would be the way to go. By 'required' I don't mean things that users Want, but software that other software depends on. No one should be writing software that depends on a SMTP server running on the local machine, for example. That can be a lot of overhead (as well as a security issue) for an older machine. Especially if the SMTP server is being written for large corporate environments that will dedicate an entire new machine to that piece of software.
That's just an example, I'm sure there are many better ones. It seems, though, like Linux is building more and more software on top of older software, making it difficult to impossible to easily create a lean distribution.
Do what I do: - cut your own hair. badly. - get pierced a few times. - get a tattoo or two. - wear old clothes. don't wash them often. - use an old bag (bookbag/shoulderbag).
Look like you might take something rather than have something taken from you. It's remarkably easy, and it helps you avoid people that judge others by their appearance...
And never carry any weapon unless you're 100 percent confident that it couldn't be taken from you if you were surprised by four large men.
I had Windows Media Player installed a while back, then decided it was a little creepy. Not anti-MS-bigot creepy, but creepy like RealPlayer. Like those programs are trying to figure out how to get into your checking account while they're playing your file and are like "play it one more time, we're almost there!" so you have to keep quiting them in the middle of clips to make sure they don't take all your money or write letters to people you barely know signed with your name...
just another Friday night, sitting around slashdot in my tin foil hat...
I think that if "a definative security comparison" were possible, OS distributors would run them and then fix all the holes found. There's no way at this point to perform such thorough testing on systems so complex. Meaning no way to list all the things to test for, and no way to test them all before the technology is obsolete.
If you disagree, you have found a very good career. (If only disagreeing with/. posts was always so fruitful.)
That's the biggest scam ever! ROFL!!! Powerbooks are silver and stuff and that thing is white!!!!!!!
WTF!! It's like an ibook or something instead!!!!!! That england guy got totally ripped off paying for a Powerbook and getting an I book!!!!!
(sorry, I don't necessarily do humour like that very well... )
I hope they're working to make Eclipse more Mac compatible. I'm using it on my Powerbook. It's great, but soooo many of the dialog layouts are way off. Things resize poorly and are often totally different and innapproriate sizes. Text starts to the left of the text boxes that hold them, so that I've got to click in the box and scroll left to see the beginning. It's crazy.
I guess it's all SWT's fault. Does anyone know if this is being worked on?
Isn't the BBC some kind of socialist, government supported thing?
I thought only free-market, capitalist companies in competion innovated? That's what I was taught in my American public school. There's just no reason to improve if you've got a steady, government supported income. You have to be in blood thirsty battle for market dominance to justify doing anything other than resting on your laurels and IP rights. Right?
Where's the innovation in product from the American networks? Where's customer focus from American media? Where's the desire to satisfy customer desire in America?
It may be a better fit for those of us with absolutely no background, really short attention spans and very strange ideas about what might be cool to do to a toilet...
Trading a flakey electrical grid for being safe from midnight abductions, rapes and torture is an easy trade to make
If you read this interview, you'll find that the streets are empty at night because of fear of "crime, car-jacking, murder, rape". So perhaps the trade isn't complete quite yet...
I believe it will get better. It is obviously transitional now. I believe it Will be better than it was under Saddam. But it ain't easy yet.
We should all look carefully to get a sense of where this guy is coming from. We can do it with easy to understand numbers. He says in one spot that $200/mo. is a fortune to most Iraqis. In another he says that $500 a month would let a guy work full time for Linux advocacy. In another spot, he says he pays more than $600 a month for his DSL line - upgraded from the $200+ base price.
So the perspective we have is that of a man who can spend two Iraqi fortunes for his internet connection... I'm not going to say he should be doing something else with the money. I'm not going to suggest that I spend my money in a 'better' way. I will say that we should all pay attention to this. We should all take in to account who's speaking and what their experience might be before we decide to base our estimation of an entire country on their perspective.
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It has always seemed strange to me that encryption via SSL and verification of your business identity were rolled into the same system.
I've had a few situations where I wanted to encrypt html and had no need of guaranteeing my server's identity to anyone. It seems like I should be able to encrypt traffic without having to jump through hoops and spend a lot of cash. Or without having a second class certificate.
I hope this new project succeeds.
Right. From their README:
..."
/var/mail. It would be a lot of fun to have clueless admins cronning this and deleting mail every night.
"... We have created a program called logfinder as a sample means of locating files that might be logs on an existing system. logfinder uses regular expressions to find local files with "log-like" contents; you can customize those expressions if necessary to meet your needs. logfinder requires Python 2 or greater and finds logs in text files on a POSIX-like system. (It might also find some log-like data in binary files if the binary files represent that data in textual form.)
logfinder can, if the lsof program is installed and when run with
appropriate privileges, detect open files systemwide that grow larger over time. It can also search for text that may indicate logging activity within a given directory hierarchy, or systemwide. As we suggest above, a program like logfinder can find some, but not all, kinds of logging activity. For example, logfinder will generally not identify logs in binary (non-text) formats or logs kept inside
databases. Therefore, using a program like logfinder is usually a supplement to, not a replacement for, answering questions like those given above.
logfinder should be run as root. If logfinder is invoked without any arguments, it will examine open files systemwide to see whether they grow larger, and then indicate whether files that appear to be growing contain log-like text. (This requires lsof to be installed, and lsof's ability to report open files accurately may depend on your operating system. So far, we've had success with Linux and MacOS X, and some difficulty with FreeBSD and OpenBSD.)
If logfinder is given one or more directory names as arguments, it will search for log-like text in files in those directories.
I haven't run it (and likely won't), but I'm curious whether it would ever flag stuff in
Services?!
Tag your plumber.
Linux was written by a large group of Knights Templar and Rosicrucians around 1340 AD. It is also said to have been discovered by Jewish Cabalists within the Torah around the same time. Partial source is said to be found in the Koran, but recent disputes about whether the Koran was actually written in Aramaic cast many doubts on that.
That Torvalds discovered and attempted to run the sacred kernel is still considered to have been the most arrogant hubris by those who know.
Here's one I just thought of. Maybe it's been made, and maybe 16,000 people will point out why it isn't necessary or that it's built into find or emacs or something. Here goes anyway:
/
Write an app that takes a username as input and shows me all the files/directories that user can read or edit or execute. If I run it as root, it shows me All files. If run as me under my account, all of my files that that user could play with. For example:
shell% sudo fileSecurityCheck -www
will show me all files that are deleted when my webserver gets hacked.
Amen!
I hate having to click on an open window to force it to update and show new files. We've got one G4 at work that for some reason is absolutely horrible at this. Sometimes the woman using it has to log off of servers and log back on to see files that other people have copied over.
Hopefully they just don't want to publicize this by mentioning it. More hopefully, there will be a fix in 10.3.5...
I'm hoping that the increases in speed seen in the last upgrades continue for "older" machines. I'm assuming so based on what Apple has posted on their website, but a lot of that is G5 performance info.
I'm hoping that the "instant search of everything" feature, which I'll almost never use if my current searching is any indication, won't bog down the system while indexing everything.
All in all, not too revolutionary. Which is just fine with me. I think Panther is damn nice and would rather they spent time cleaning up and helping developers make their apps more reliable than anything else.
I installed NetBSD on a Mac Powerbook 160 (?) with about 4MB of RAM and a tiny, tiny HD. I don't remember the size. It didn't really use it, but did it because it seemed so cool that it could be done.
That's one of the things that originally attracted me to Linux and the BSDs - that they ran reasonably on older hardware. I still often hear people say that they run better than Windows or Mac OS, but that's a rapidly rising range.
I would really like to see older hardware continue to be a focus. I tend to think that decreasing the amount of required software would be the way to go. By 'required' I don't mean things that users Want, but software that other software depends on. No one should be writing software that depends on a SMTP server running on the local machine, for example. That can be a lot of overhead (as well as a security issue) for an older machine. Especially if the SMTP server is being written for large corporate environments that will dedicate an entire new machine to that piece of software.
That's just an example, I'm sure there are many better ones. It seems, though, like Linux is building more and more software on top of older software, making it difficult to impossible to easily create a lean distribution.
Okay. Flame me now.
Do what I do:
- cut your own hair. badly.
- get pierced a few times.
- get a tattoo or two.
- wear old clothes. don't wash them often.
- use an old bag (bookbag/shoulderbag).
Look like you might take something rather than have something taken from you. It's remarkably easy, and it helps you avoid people that judge others by their appearance...
And never carry any weapon unless you're 100 percent confident that it couldn't be taken from you if you were surprised by four large men.
That is a crazy sight. I think that thing is smaller than this B52 model.
There's another pic here with people:
http://www.wren-turbines.com/B52003WEB.jpg
you can get a better (bigger) estimate of its size from this one.
Does it look as good as it sounds?
I had Windows Media Player installed a while back, then decided it was a little creepy. Not anti-MS-bigot creepy, but creepy like RealPlayer. Like those programs are trying to figure out how to get into your checking account while they're playing your file and are like "play it one more time, we're almost there!" so you have to keep quiting them in the middle of clips to make sure they don't take all your money or write letters to people you barely know signed with your name...
just another Friday night, sitting around slashdot in my tin foil hat...
My Mac doesn't like them either. MPlayer will play the audio, though.
Sounds really cool.
I think that if "a definative security comparison" were possible, OS distributors would run them and then fix all the holes found. There's no way at this point to perform such thorough testing on systems so complex. Meaning no way to list all the things to test for, and no way to test them all before the technology is obsolete.
If you disagree, you have found a very good career. (If only disagreeing with
Because shopping is programmed into core biology...
That's the biggest scam ever! ROFL!!!
Powerbooks are silver and stuff and that thing is white!!!!!!!
WTF!! It's like an ibook or something instead!!!!!! That england guy got totally ripped off paying for a Powerbook and getting an I book!!!!!
(sorry, I don't necessarily do humour like that very well... )
I hope they're working to make Eclipse more Mac compatible. I'm using it on my Powerbook. It's great, but soooo many of the dialog layouts are way off. Things resize poorly and are often totally different and innapproriate sizes. Text starts to the left of the text boxes that hold them, so that I've got to click in the box and scroll left to see the beginning. It's crazy. I guess it's all SWT's fault. Does anyone know if this is being worked on?
Isn't the BBC some kind of socialist, government supported thing?
I thought only free-market, capitalist companies in competion innovated? That's what I was taught in my American public school. There's just no reason to improve if you've got a steady, government supported income. You have to be in blood thirsty battle for market dominance to justify doing anything other than resting on your laurels and IP rights. Right?
Where's the innovation in product from the American networks?
Where's customer focus from American media?
Where's the desire to satisfy customer desire in America?
(It's sarcasm. I love my country.)
Maybe if you get a Mac you won't have to drink so much...
I can picture the mailman with a lot of Reason subscribers...
As he delivers the magazines, he notices that the red circle is moving with him.
They know where you are, Mailman!! Run! Run!
It may be a better fit for those of us with absolutely no background, really short attention spans and very strange ideas about what might be cool to do to a toilet...
Bolt cutters make good firewalls and block most computer viruses.
If you read this interview, you'll find that the streets are empty at night because of fear of "crime, car-jacking, murder, rape". So perhaps the trade isn't complete quite yet...
I believe it will get better. It is obviously transitional now. I believe it Will be better than it was under Saddam. But it ain't easy yet.
We should all look carefully to get a sense of where this guy is coming from. We can do it with easy to understand numbers. He says in one spot that $200/mo. is a fortune to most Iraqis. In another he says that $500 a month would let a guy work full time for Linux advocacy. In another spot, he says he pays more than $600 a month for his DSL line - upgraded from the $200+ base price.
So the perspective we have is that of a man who can spend two Iraqi fortunes for his internet connection...
I'm not going to say he should be doing something else with the money. I'm not going to suggest that I spend my money in a 'better' way. I will say that we should all pay attention to this. We should all take in to account who's speaking and what their experience might be before we decide to base our estimation of an entire country on their perspective.
more info here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120 288
A new Panther update - to 10.3.2 - is also available from SoftwareUpdate.
hopefully I can finish downloading it before it gets apple-slashdotted...