Yeah.... I run OBSD too. I should have mentioned in my original post there there should be an op-out clause for people who know what they're doing (Windows users excluded).
James
The main problem here is that we have millions of hosts connected to the Internet that just aren't robust or secure enough to be connected to a public network (I'm mostly talking about Windows machines here, if you hadn't guessed).
There was a discussion last week on slashdot about ISP's doing egress filtering home users's connections and I'm all in favour of that.
Unless you're hell-bent on running a mailserver on your DSL line, there's no reason for you to go out on port 25. Even if you do run a mailserver, you should have your box forward all outbound mail to your ISP's mail relay. AOL and some other large ISPs won't accept mail from you if you don't anyway.
IMHO ISPs have a responsibility to protect the backbones from their lame-ass customers with compromised machines.
Reply rather than mod if you think I'm talking out of my outbound relay.
I wonder how much the SCO suit has to do with this. Maybe there has been some uncertainty generated.
Perhaps some Linux servers were deployed which were destined to be replaced once Win2003 was released, like as an interim measure. Personally, I think anybody running a website on anything other than Apache on some *nix like OS should be shot. IIS... ugh.
When you have to ask slashdot for a package manager for your unix, that unix is dead
I think you'll find it probably isn't dead. They are still releasing new versions on a 3 month cycle like they always have done ever since 6.5 was released.
There are other dead unices like SCO unixware xenix (if you can count that) and of course the old sysv and the likes, sitting on some companies shelves rotting away.
WTF???? Xenix really has been dead for years! You're comparing apples to very mouldy rotten oranges.
If they really want to keep a hold onto them, they can do what Sun did with Solaris, release free x86 binaries (free for usage not alteration and distribution) and support free software developed for it.
So you can get Slowaris x86 for free, but I don't see anybody using it. Just because you can build popular free software packages on it hasn't made it any more popular or useful.
Linux can focus on the eye candy, IRIX isn't really like that. When you've got an IRIX box doing vast amounts of number crunching, who cares if it's a little bit more difficult to get the lastest windowmanager running on it? Many SGI's out there in the real world don't even have any graphics heads on them. SGI have done a great job in producing a good, stable OS with a fantastic filesystem (which they've donated to Linux), and world-class support for things like shared memory in many-processor systems. NUMAflex rocks!
Put simply, an idiot-proof package manager wasn't exactly high on their list of priorities, but like another poster suggests, if you don't like it, just go and get one from somewhere else.
According to the article, Interland offers small business hosting packaging from $23 per month. I can't exactly say that's cheap. Granted it includes domain registration and 30 email forwarders, but theres no site design, just a choice of templates. If they want anything more than static pages, it's extra $$$.
This is good news for the OpenBSD community indeed, but rather than downloading, you might consider buying the CD set from a retailer near you to fund further development. Given the recent funding issues, now couldn't be a better time to support this superb open source project.
Unless you want to go down the apple route, the only peecee type laptop you want is an IBM thinkpad. They're small, light, incredibly well built and will take a real punishing!
I wrecked my car last week and the thinkpad flew off the passenger seat (wasn't using it at the time!!!) and hit the dashboard at 40mph, not a scratch!
I thought Google's searching/ranking tehcnology was a closely-guarded trade secret, to make sure that people weren't able to engineer their rankings sucessfully.
Now that they've patented their technology, surely that means that it's open to public scrutiny and therefore abuse as people exploit it's shortcomings.
We've had el-cheapo board with sub-standard components around for years. Back in 1998 when I was working for a major UK PC builder/retailer, we had a very large batch of motherboards with this same problem. It was the biggest capacitors on the board which used to fail, sometimes blowing a chunk out of the PCB!
The surveillance power of this kind of thing is pretty damn scary, assuming they perfect it. Of course, it's got defense applications, so of course they're going to develope it.
If we had this tehcnology now, we could sprinkle a load over Iraq to detect chemical weapons residues and radiation above background levels.
...is what this is all about. Packaging ISP and cellphone data up into a nice easily-datamined format for law enforcers. Just what your average man in the street wants done with his data.
Not very long, since your passphrase is probably just a text sentence type string, and language has extremely low entropy. It's vulnerable to an elaborate dictionary attack.
What's the fun part in running anything on an x-box? Have you forgotten that it's made by microsoft? It's like saying that it's cool to run programs in windows, which it obviously isn't. Stop the madness!
Well, that's exactly the point: It's made by Microsoft. They can shut us out of their software with their "screw-yew" EULAs, but they've tried to shut us out of the hardware as well, and the xbox modders have proved that they can't do that, neither technologically or legally. Bet they've got their best monkeys scratching their heads to work out how to close their platform legally, but when it comes down to it, it's hardware, I've bought it, not licensed it and I can do what I damn well like with it. If I want to hack my fridge to run Linux, then I will. Same goes for the Xbox, and there's not a damn thing they can do about it.
Okay... so these guys got p*ssed off with Microsoft. Lots of people get p*ssed off with Microsoft and they fall into two camps:
1. They don't know about OSS and Free Software
2. The do know about OSS and Free Software
Now, the people in group 1 tend to do nothing about it, and carry on getting shafted by MS. The people in group 2 tend to think "Yeah, all this new licensing is gonna cripple us. Time to look elsewhere". And end up going down the OSS/Free route. The West Yorkshire Policedid it.
So, what made these guys go down this odd, obscure, proprietary route with a company which seems to saddle all their technology with proprietaryness and software patentyness?
I think that this is pretty much what we all expected... far more nurture than nature. Like the article says, it's the personality that we like about our animals, not it's genetic makeup.
As for the company which promises to provide you with a replacement pet which looks just like the old one, they admit that it's won't have the same personality. 'Scuse me, but isn't a pet that looks the same but with a different personality just what you'd find down the local animal sanctuary or pet store? (And far cheaper!)
Whats next? All toilets should have built in Radiation generators to ensure no DNS can be recovered after you take a dump, because god knows the goverment has DNS tracers in every toilet in the US And can track your movements by them..
I don't go leaving my DNS in public toilets! The only place you can get my DNS is up my port 53!
Slashdot Mirror
Ummm... the link's to a Wired article that doesn't say any more about the study than the Slashdot story does. Is the actual study available anywhere?
Yeah.... I run OBSD too. I should have mentioned in my original post there there should be an op-out clause for people who know what they're doing (Windows users excluded). James
Dunno about nuke themselves, but the US army seems quite adept at taking out friendly "targets".
The main problem here is that we have millions of hosts connected to the Internet that just aren't robust or secure enough to be connected to a public network (I'm mostly talking about Windows machines here, if you hadn't guessed).
There was a discussion last week on slashdot about ISP's doing egress filtering home users's connections and I'm all in favour of that.
Unless you're hell-bent on running a mailserver on your DSL line, there's no reason for you to go out on port 25. Even if you do run a mailserver, you should have your box forward all outbound mail to your ISP's mail relay. AOL and some other large ISPs won't accept mail from you if you don't anyway.
IMHO ISPs have a responsibility to protect the backbones from their lame-ass customers with compromised machines.
Reply rather than mod if you think I'm talking out of my outbound relay.
Perhaps some Linux servers were deployed which were destined to be replaced once Win2003 was released, like as an interim measure. Personally, I think anybody running a website on anything other than Apache on some *nix like OS should be shot. IIS... ugh .
I think you'll find it probably isn't dead. They are still releasing new versions on a 3 month cycle like they always have done ever since 6.5 was released.
There are other dead unices like SCO unixware xenix (if you can count that) and of course the old sysv and the likes, sitting on some companies shelves rotting away.
WTF???? Xenix really has been dead for years! You're comparing apples to very mouldy rotten oranges.
If they really want to keep a hold onto them, they can do what Sun did with Solaris, release free x86 binaries (free for usage not alteration and distribution) and support free software developed for it.
So you can get Slowaris x86 for free, but I don't see anybody using it. Just because you can build popular free software packages on it hasn't made it any more popular or useful.
Linux can focus on the eye candy, IRIX isn't really like that. When you've got an IRIX box doing vast amounts of number crunching, who cares if it's a little bit more difficult to get the lastest windowmanager running on it? Many SGI's out there in the real world don't even have any graphics heads on them. SGI have done a great job in producing a good, stable OS with a fantastic filesystem (which they've donated to Linux), and world-class support for things like shared memory in many-processor systems. NUMAflex rocks!
Put simply, an idiot-proof package manager wasn't exactly high on their list of priorities, but like another poster suggests, if you don't like it, just go and get one from somewhere else.
Then do keep *, install updated, go
Inst can fetch stuff over http so what's the problem?
I think most people in the UK (any maybe elsewhere) would understand this logo straight away.
One of these popped up on eBay recently.
According to the article, Interland offers small business hosting packaging from $23 per month. I can't exactly say that's cheap. Granted it includes domain registration and 30 email forwarders, but theres no site design, just a choice of templates. If they want anything more than static pages, it's extra $$$.
This is good news for the OpenBSD community indeed, but rather than downloading, you might consider buying the CD set from a retailer near you to fund further development. Given the recent funding issues, now couldn't be a better time to support this superb open source project.
I wrecked my car last week and the thinkpad flew off the passenger seat (wasn't using it at the time!!!) and hit the dashboard at 40mph, not a scratch!
James
Now that they've patented their technology, surely that means that it's open to public scrutiny and therefore abuse as people exploit it's shortcomings.
for us brits.
Here is the worlds first picture of this new substance.
We've had el-cheapo board with sub-standard components around for years. Back in 1998 when I was working for a major UK PC builder/retailer, we had a very large batch of motherboards with this same problem. It was the biggest capacitors on the board which used to fail, sometimes blowing a chunk out of the PCB!
If we had this tehcnology now, we could sprinkle a load over Iraq to detect chemical weapons residues and radiation above background levels.
You'd need stainless steel punchcards, to resist corrosion and other degradation.
...is what this is all about. Packaging ISP and cellphone data up into a nice easily-datamined format for law enforcers. Just what your average man in the street wants done with his data.
Not very long, since your passphrase is probably just a text sentence type string, and language has extremely low entropy. It's vulnerable to an elaborate dictionary attack.
Well, that's exactly the point: It's made by Microsoft. They can shut us out of their software with their "screw-yew" EULAs, but they've tried to shut us out of the hardware as well, and the xbox modders have proved that they can't do that, neither technologically or legally. Bet they've got their best monkeys scratching their heads to work out how to close their platform legally, but when it comes down to it, it's hardware, I've bought it, not licensed it and I can do what I damn well like with it. If I want to hack my fridge to run Linux, then I will. Same goes for the Xbox, and there's not a damn thing they can do about it.
1. They don't know about OSS and Free Software
2. The do know about OSS and Free Software
Now, the people in group 1 tend to do nothing about it, and carry on getting shafted by MS. The people in group 2 tend to think "Yeah, all this new licensing is gonna cripple us. Time to look elsewhere". And end up going down the OSS/Free route. The West Yorkshire Police did it.
So, what made these guys go down this odd, obscure, proprietary route with a company which seems to saddle all their technology with proprietaryness and software patentyness?
As for the company which promises to provide you with a replacement pet which looks just like the old one, they admit that it's won't have the same personality. 'Scuse me, but isn't a pet that looks the same but with a different personality just what you'd find down the local animal sanctuary or pet store? (And far cheaper!)
I don't go leaving my DNS in public toilets! The only place you can get my DNS is up my port 53!