Re:They get attacked because they don't prosecute
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DoD and Net Attacks
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You know there's a reason big targets don't prosecute (It my not be the case with the Gov't however). The place I worked over this last summer runs a large commodity site, and gets all sorts of rouge vistors. It's been generally decided that your resources are better spent keeping your machines secure than persuing thousands of pissant 'script-kiddes'.
And I'd agree. I find great pleasure in watching stupid (and not so stupid) people try to get into machines that they almost certaintly can't.
I may not know what I'm talking about, but..
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An RPM Port Of APT
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Isn't there enough differences between the distros that this wouldn't work reliably?
The RPM to.deb convertor (forget it's name right now), would convert the RPM's, but 9 outta 10 would segfault on me in Debian. Which I attributed to the fact that any given RPM program was likely compiled for RedHat. Maybe what we need is an easier way to get things to reliably compile..
I'm sorry, but I had to say something. I could of either modded you down, or flamed you. I chose the latter.
IBM has to get their act together!? How mis-informed are you? IBM created SOI for chips, that's why they're using it in their new Power4 chip. They're being held back by Mot cause they can't get their act together. Steve Jobs himself said "It'll be great in a few years when we're not using your chips". IBM did most of the G4 with some Mot technology on the side, but due to whacked out deals, IBM can't do anything with the chip. It's been stuck at 500Mhz cause of Mot, while IBM has had it clocked to much higher speeds.
Back in the days, (1987-ish (I would have been 3)), my dad use to (and still does) use computers a great deal for his job. This exposed me at quite an early age. I'd play pitfall, and try to use fastback to compress anything and everything on to 5 1/4 disks.
Now mind you back then there weren't games like UT Q3 and the likes (more likely than not more addictive than amber pitfall), but I found that with some guiding by my dad to start with I developed a natural interest in computer things. I went from playing pitfall, using fastback and kermit, to playing MUDs on local BBSs, and using gopher, to taking apart my P75 (and always ending up with screws leftover), etc. Now (at 16), I find myself ahead of most others my age (always an exception running around however), running OpenBSD for my own domain and others. Writting C++ AP A/B courses, etc.
So I suppose, without answering this specific question, it'd mostly depend on the kid. I had an inate interest in such things (and still do). Maybe if you just introduced kid 'x' to the unlimited stuff there is to know with computers, he'd take the rest on by himself. If not... Well then he'll be the one I'm cursing at when I keep getting my ass kicked in UT.
If by OpenBSD "ports" of BIND you mean code auditing, then no.
Apparently BIND is just "speghetti" code, and the last audited BIND was 4.9.7. As you can probably imagine auditing such a mess would be awfully time consuming.
Dude, your talking about the company that's donating millions of dollars to the open source community, the company the continues to make damn impressive break-throughs with processors, and the company that's porting Linux to a good deal of their massive servers.
Them opening up this file system can be useful to everyone, despite the fact that this may not affect IBM one way or another.
But to mention IBM and Micros~1 in the same sentence is almost criminal.
It's much more stable than NT 4 (admitidly not saying much), and what I've used it for, I've been extreemly impressed with.
Since Win2k on, I believe that Micros~1 has truly been trying to make good products. Things like VB that may seem horrible to C programmers, do have a target market that it fits quite well.
I use MS stuff when I can afford it (or when my friend can find it on IRC). I think that MS will pull off this Hotamil thing flawlessy due to past faliures, and that it may be one step further to shutting up Linux newbies who think that using Linux means you have to bash MS without all the facts.
I've used Win2k, and it is one of the finer OSes out there. And the thought of a crapload of Win2k boxes serveing up Hotmail makes me wanna go sign up for an email account.
It's rather strange, but Linux isn't the only *NIX in there, but it managed to score itself higher stats then all the machines.
If you ask me, common sense would dictate that any sort of "benchmark" that claims Linux to be (apparently) the best, would automaticly be popular. Frankly, I find it hard to belive that a well-established OS on it's native hardware could be beat out by an Intel/Linux combo.
I'm not suggesting that Win2k is better than Linux (as that I'll easily believe), but perhaps someone got carried away when they fabricated this, and decided that an RS/6000 on AiX (64-bit remember)couldn't beat Intel hardware.
I swaer by OBSD and AiX, and I've found both to be mis-represented.
I just may be the only person who enjoys the noise my computer makes. Eccentric maybe, but I find if I'm having trouble sleeping, nothing helps me nod-off like the sound of my computer defraging.
It says they're comming out with Software modems. It doesn't say anything about them being specifically for windows. Motorolla is simply trying to get DSL to the crummier computers.
I'm surprised how everyone jumps all over this, simply assuming that their beloved Linux will get left out. Motorolla is a good company.
I'm in Edmonton, and we've got Cable from @home & Videon, ADSL from telus, ISDN from a few people and I believe Videon offers OC-3's to downtown. And I know BC also has ADSL and cable.
Maybe you should do a few minutes of research before thinking only the eastern provinces have high-speed internet.
Well all of canada doesn't give a damn about strong encryption, it's just Ontario seems to have caught on that they can get business from the US by encouraging encryption. And an example is in Vancouver where hushmail has put their servers in Vancouver so they can use strong encryption. I'm aware of which province Vancouver resides.
Ontario only encourages it because large companies will spend their money in Ontario. They stick their servers in Canada, and now they can have they're strong encryption, while still operating in the US.
I believe Hushmail does this, they've got their servers running out of Vancouver, but are American owned
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And I'd agree. I find great pleasure in watching stupid (and not so stupid) people try to get into machines that they almost certaintly can't.
The RPM to .deb convertor (forget it's name right now), would convert the RPM's, but 9 outta 10 would segfault on me in Debian. Which I attributed to the fact that any given RPM program was likely compiled for RedHat. Maybe what we need is an easier way to get things to reliably compile..
IBM has to get their act together!? How mis-informed are you? IBM created SOI for chips, that's why they're using it in their new Power4 chip. They're being held back by Mot cause they can't get their act together. Steve Jobs himself said "It'll be great in a few years when we're not using your chips". IBM did most of the G4 with some Mot technology on the side, but due to whacked out deals, IBM can't do anything with the chip. It's been stuck at 500Mhz cause of Mot, while IBM has had it clocked to much higher speeds.
Better luck next time.
Now mind you back then there weren't games like UT Q3 and the likes (more likely than not more addictive than amber pitfall), but I found that with some guiding by my dad to start with I developed a natural interest in computer things. I went from playing pitfall, using fastback and kermit, to playing MUDs on local BBSs, and using gopher, to taking apart my P75 (and always ending up with screws leftover), etc. Now (at 16), I find myself ahead of most others my age (always an exception running around however), running OpenBSD for my own domain and others. Writting C++ AP A/B courses, etc.
So I suppose, without answering this specific question, it'd mostly depend on the kid. I had an inate interest in such things (and still do). Maybe if you just introduced kid 'x' to the unlimited stuff there is to know with computers, he'd take the rest on by himself. If not... Well then he'll be the one I'm cursing at when I keep getting my ass kicked in UT.
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Apparently BIND is just "speghetti" code, and the last audited BIND was 4.9.7. As you can probably imagine auditing such a mess would be awfully time consuming.
Them opening up this file system can be useful to everyone, despite the fact that this may not affect IBM one way or another.
But to mention IBM and Micros~1 in the same sentence is almost criminal.
I'd ask you then have you've used Win2k?
It's much more stable than NT 4 (admitidly not saying much), and what I've used it for, I've been extreemly impressed with.
Since Win2k on, I believe that Micros~1 has truly been trying to make good products. Things like VB that may seem horrible to C programmers, do have a target market that it fits quite well.
I use MS stuff when I can afford it (or when my friend can find it on IRC). I think that MS will pull off this Hotamil thing flawlessy due to past faliures, and that it may be one step further to shutting up Linux newbies who think that using Linux means you have to bash MS without all the facts.
I've used Win2k, and it is one of the finer OSes out there. And the thought of a crapload of Win2k boxes serveing up Hotmail makes me wanna go sign up for an email account.
I use Linux, but I love Win2k
OpenBSD AND OpenSSH. And many others I'm sure I've never heard of
If you ask me, common sense would dictate that any sort of "benchmark" that claims Linux to be (apparently) the best, would automaticly be popular. Frankly, I find it hard to belive that a well-established OS on it's native hardware could be beat out by an Intel/Linux combo.
I'm not suggesting that Win2k is better than Linux (as that I'll easily believe), but perhaps someone got carried away when they fabricated this, and decided that an RS/6000 on AiX (64-bit remember)couldn't beat Intel hardware.
I swaer by OBSD and AiX, and I've found both to be mis-represented.
2 clicks in and there's a whole page of information about this "record breaking" event.8 8
http://www.qwest.com/about/media/story.asp?id=2
I just may be the only person who enjoys the noise my computer makes.
Eccentric maybe, but I find if I'm having trouble sleeping, nothing helps me nod-off like the sound of my computer defraging.
It says they're comming out with Software modems. It doesn't say anything about them being specifically for windows. Motorolla is simply trying to get DSL to the crummier computers.
I'm surprised how everyone jumps all over this, simply assuming that their beloved Linux will get left out. Motorolla is a good company.
The reason the US needs such a big army is cause they piss-off so many nations.
I've lived in Arizona back in November till April, and I prefer Canada (Alberta specifically). Though it just might be Arizona that sucks.
You figure "real power" consists of laws that makes it piss easy for suicidal teens to run around with guns and bombs?
I'm in Edmonton, and we've got Cable from @home & Videon, ADSL from telus, ISDN from a few people and I believe Videon offers OC-3's to downtown.
And I know BC also has ADSL and cable.
Maybe you should do a few minutes of research before thinking only the eastern provinces have high-speed internet.
Well all of canada doesn't give a damn about strong encryption, it's just Ontario seems to have caught on that they can get business from the US by encouraging encryption. And an example is in Vancouver where hushmail has put their servers in
Vancouver so they can use strong encryption. I'm aware of which province Vancouver resides.
Ontario only encourages it because large companies will spend their money in Ontario. They stick their servers in Canada, and now they can have they're strong encryption, while still operating in the US.
I believe Hushmail does this, they've got their servers running out of Vancouver, but are American owned