I would seriously think twice before buying a five year old book on security.
Linux security tools have changed. Maximum Linux Security will have you setting up ipchains!
I would take `jimpop' advice and go with Bob Toxen's "Real World Linux Security" if you must have a linux book. Besides he is a really nice guy.
Maximum Linux Security was written by anonymous author(s) who couldn't be bothered to sign there name to their work.
Your best bet is to grab "Absolute OpenBSD: UNIX for the Practical Paranoid" by Michael W. Lucas.
You can't beat OpenBSD with a stick... not without physical access to the box at least.;P
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There are so many post by people who just don't seem to get it. (yeah, yeah, I know this is/.)
Africa is a diverse place with different needs. Many of these project are looking for solutions that are not that different from your typical under funded public library or university. They may have a donated server in the back room that they need to figure out how to best utilize it.
Our project, is working with non-profits and public institutions we have a few systems set up there with OpenBSD and Koha. Koha works just like any other library management software. But it supports links to on-line resources. Ideally having "copyleft" medical journals and Gutenberg text stored locally would be great. The local Internet connections are unreliable. These desires we have for our own schools and research institution are not that different from those on the other side of the pond.
I told them to simply use Mozilla/FireFox, but as it turns out they access outside applications that only run in Internet Explorer
Hehe. I am betting that the outside app. relies on ActiveX. Which would explane might acount for more spyware getting loaded up. ActiveX would be the only real show stoper for going with Mozilla/FireFox, as others have pointed out.
Funny how the Internet connection goes down around dinner time...
Broadcast message from root (pts/0) COME DOWN TO DINNER NOW!!!
If you are a bit more tech savvy you set the rule. You can sit down and dicker about times, but I set limits on the lenght of time online. Be reasonable or your kids may try to hold you to the same limits.:) Now if you rely on your kids for tech support you have lost the biggest tool.
Above all be open and honest about what your expectations are, but be firm.
It's no different than TV or video games.
If you are serious about making a windmill, I highly recommend one of Hugh Piggott books "Windpower Workshop". It has everything from building generator from scrap and recycled parts to wing design. I found book fun to just read.
If you think the sound of generators are loud, there is noth quite like that THUP THUP THUP sound of a windmill at 3AM to really keep you up at night. You may rest easy know it's saving you money but your neighbors... well hopefully they live miles away.;)
People keep saying to start with installing Cygwin. But does Cygwin run everything as root? I am not a windows person but that is what my school claims is stopping them from installing it in the MS labs. If precompiled binaries make you nervous always running as root sounds worse. Is MinGW any better?
...besides the experenced geeks all know intelligent women are not as turned on by the details of the GNU licence as they are the Creative Commons one.
Has any one else noticed the all these writer from MSN's Slate appearing on NPR now!
My local public radio station only does window media now. I would offent often complained about this fact during pledge time till I got xine and gmplayer to work with the windows streams.
Sure it might be for a MS music store. But I think they are working on a way to do what opensource as always done, which allow for the downloading and installation of software on demand. That is why I switch to linux years ago. Tarballs, rpms, debs, and ebuilds all seem easier than messing with pirated or cracked software. I thinks thats why iTunes works too.
There are times I would have payed money for a MS product if I could have had it right then. Like when people sent files I can't read without the equation editer addon for office. I'll take latex downloads from CTAN any day over the hell of trying to get math to work in msword.
I am mr. howard strauss former manager of technology at prineton univercity and victom of wrongfull termnatian. my university has been taken over by linux zeliots and i need your help... i seek in confidence that you plese assist in my lawsuit angist printon and aid me in investing this us$34,000,000 settlement money. i have resolved to depart 25% of the total sum to you for your assistance in helping pay my legal fees, this transaction secured by your good faith deposit of us$5,000.
Seemingly open standards can often favor one corporation over another and China it's no different. Increasingly China has seems to team up with local private corporations and it's not necessarily chooseing open standards but protectionist ones.
China is flip-floping from socialist to fascist. I say that not to be pedantic, but because, while I was living China I met a few entrepreneurs who weld some strong political power.
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I would seriously think twice before buying a five year old book on security. Linux security tools have changed. Maximum Linux Security will have you setting up ipchains!
;P
I would take `jimpop' advice and go with Bob Toxen's "Real World Linux Security" if you must have a linux book. Besides he is a really nice guy.
Maximum Linux Security was written by anonymous author(s) who couldn't be bothered to sign there name to their work.
Your best bet is to grab "Absolute OpenBSD: UNIX for the Practical Paranoid" by Michael W. Lucas.
You can't beat OpenBSD with a stick... not without physical access to the box at least.
There are so many post by people who just don't seem to get it. (yeah, yeah, I know this is /.)
Africa is a diverse place with different needs. Many of these project are looking for solutions that are not that different from your typical under funded public library or university. They may have a donated server in the back room that they need to figure out how to best utilize it.
Our project, is working with non-profits and public institutions we have a few systems set up there with OpenBSD and Koha. Koha works just like any other library management software. But it supports links to on-line resources. Ideally having "copyleft" medical journals and Gutenberg text stored locally would be great. The local Internet connections are unreliable. These desires we have for our own schools and research institution are not that different from those on the other side of the pond.
Cheers,
C. Gilbert
Bethany Memorial Foundation
Hehe. I am betting that the outside app. relies on ActiveX. Which would explane might acount for more spyware getting loaded up. ActiveX would be the only real show stoper for going with Mozilla/FireFox, as others have pointed out.
So I get my present, in the mail, a little early.
A new HDTV card...
I go to download the linux only drivers and...
NeverEverNoSanity!!!
Argh! &$@*#! Humbug.
Funny how the Internet connection goes down around dinner time...
If you are a bit more tech savvy you set the rule. You can sit down and dicker about times, but I set limits on the lenght of time online. Be reasonable or your kids may try to hold you to the same limits. :) Now if you rely on your kids for tech support you have lost the biggest tool.
Above all be open and honest about what your expectations are, but be firm.
It's no different than TV or video games.
I don't know what's happened in the past year or so...
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If you are serious about making a windmill, I highly recommend one of Hugh Piggott books "Windpower Workshop". It has everything from building generator from scrap and recycled parts to wing design. I found book fun to just read.
If you think the sound of generators are loud, there is noth quite like that THUP THUP THUP sound of a windmill at 3AM to really keep you up at night. You may rest easy know it's saving you money but your neighbors... well hopefully they live miles away. ;)
Technocrat or not he was *told* to find a way to bomb the shit out of Japan, and later Vietnam.
He told JFK the numbers looked bad in Vietnam, ultimately those mistakes lie with the President; Kennedy, Johnson or Nixon.
Who deserves more of the blame, Rumsfeld or Bush, for the misshanling Iraq?
People keep saying to start with installing Cygwin. But does Cygwin run everything as root? I am not a windows person but that is what my school claims is stopping them from installing it in the MS labs. If precompiled binaries make you nervous always running as root sounds worse. Is MinGW any better?
Hell if you got a Gardena Handrasenmaher the thing costs as much as a Segway and I'll be damned if I would let some fool step on it. :)
...besides the experenced geeks all know intelligent women are not as turned on by the details of the GNU licence as they are the Creative Commons one.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain
go google it...
Has any one else noticed the all these writer from MSN's Slate appearing on NPR now!
My local public radio station only does window media now. I would offent often complained about this fact during pledge time till I got xine and gmplayer to work with the windows streams.
I would recommend The Official Blender GameKit for 3d games.
Sure it might be for a MS music store. But I think they are working on a way to do what opensource as always done, which allow for the downloading and installation of software on demand. That is why I switch to linux years ago. Tarballs, rpms, debs, and ebuilds all seem easier than messing with pirated or cracked software. I thinks thats why iTunes works too.
There are times I would have payed money for a MS product if I could have had it right then. Like when people sent files I can't read without the equation editer addon for office. I'll take latex downloads from CTAN any day over the hell of trying to get math to work in msword.
I am mr. howard strauss former manager of technology at prineton univercity and victom of wrongfull termnatian. my university has been taken over by linux zeliots and i need your help... i seek in confidence that you plese assist in my lawsuit angist printon and aid me in investing this us$34,000,000 settlement money. i have resolved to depart 25% of the total sum to you for your assistance in helping pay my legal fees, this transaction secured by your good faith deposit of us$5,000.
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Honey - it's ten o'clock,
Junior should be home by now.
Dear - so ring his cell phone and
tell him to come home!
Never mind, I just ran traceroute on his
phone... He is... uh-oh..
Sisy - Oh, he is so grounded... hehe...
Who do they think they have kidnapped Richard Stallman!!!
Seemingly open standards can often favor one corporation over another and China it's no different. Increasingly China has seems to team up with local private corporations and it's not necessarily chooseing open standards but protectionist ones.
China is flip-floping from socialist to fascist. I say that not to be pedantic, but because, while I was living China I met a few entrepreneurs who weld some strong political power.
So I take it, this is your vote for a friday /. MeetUp
X-Pilot is not just a game.
You can create your own planes
and maps, in ASCII no less.
It's the flatland of all flight sims!!!
ok. I'll go home now...
It seem like just yesterday, in all the dSVG posts, people were complaing about just how weak
SVG support was and its back-burner status in Mozilla .
Native support is great, everything else is just a hack.
I for one am so excited to see this news!
the EOL an CR must have been removed from the diff.
It's a terrible precedent for universities to be
essentially paying for the entertainment of its students.
What next movies on campus... ohh or football!
What is the world coming to!!!