You've missed the point several by orders of magnitude more than I have ever seen on/. before! In fact, if the point were to travel at the speed of light it probably won't hit you until we're talking about WPA+PSK being broken in minutes.
You'll regret this if you ever use another unix box./bin/rm is fucking dangerous and the only thing you can do to mitigate that is be careful using it, not by taming it on your box only to get bitten when using a default environment. Please, don't alias 'rm'.
Mod parent VERY informative
I can't stand distros that alias rm to 'rm -i', nor can I stand those that are 'surprised' by the noninteractive default on important servers.
No, "Security through obscurity" doesn't apply only to cryptography.
Another example of it is changing root's (or Administrator's) login name to something different in the hope that if they discover the password, they won't get in because you need to discover the name, too. While I can agree with you that painting the house isn't really 'obscurity', I believe the term applies to any scenario where knowledge of some arcane fact is added as a layer of security / authorisation.
Um, what's wrong in redoing something to make it faster and smaller ? Nowadays most programmers just take all libraries they can get, to simplify the process of programming, and produce bloated code, when they could just write their own functions, smaller which would suit their needs
Yes, of course.
I know I'll never use %x in printf for my lemonade stand program, so I'll write my own printf without support for it. That'll save a lot of space.
(In case you don't get it, I'm better off using the standard function anyway, because it'll already be there. Your idea just adds to the bloat by discouraging use of shared code).
Probably nothing but the G.Ps own bitterness that the spec is closed, so he can't use it. TOE is simply part of the networking stack being implemented in hardware. In my opinion (and yours too, I hope) TOE is no more of a "hack" than audio-mixing being done in the sound card rather than on the CPU.
Much as I love cool hardware doing cool stuff, I too really wish everyone could use it. It's almost as if the only thing keeping half the hardware companies afloat is the existence of Non disclosure agreements.
The diversity of packaging formats is definitely a nonissue, because EVERYONE has the source code.
...for open-source software, yes. Say I want Adobe Acrobat Reader (OK, I most certainly do not, but just say..).
Most of the time I can find an RPM, and rpm2tgz hasn't let me down yet.
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You've missed the point several by orders of magnitude more than I have ever seen on /. before! In fact, if the point were to travel at the speed of light it probably won't hit you until we're talking about WPA+PSK being broken in minutes.
Ohh snap!
Don't you think that if a wireless device only supported WEP, it might also not support installation of software like OpenVPN as well?
No, but it'll have some bearing on the number of WAPs, perhaps?
Ethernet max segment length is 100 metres, not feet.
You'll regret this if you ever use another unix box. /bin/rm is fucking dangerous and the only thing you can do to mitigate that is be careful using it, not by taming it on your box only to get bitten when using a default environment. Please, don't alias 'rm'.
Mod parent VERY informative
I can't stand distros that alias rm to 'rm -i', nor can I stand those that are 'surprised' by the noninteractive default on important servers.
Another example of it is changing root's (or Administrator's) login name to something different in the hope that if they discover the password, they won't get in because you need to discover the name, too. While I can agree with you that painting the house isn't really 'obscurity', I believe the term applies to any scenario where knowledge of some arcane fact is added as a layer of security / authorisation.
The physical type should be more secure, as long as they have no outlook.
Hmm, maybe you got a dubbed U.S. version, I distinctly remember the line being: "That'll teach you to be breadbaskets"
You are disabling all space-based anti-ballistic chair defenses.
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Hi Cirian
I know I'll never use %x in printf for my lemonade stand program, so I'll write my own printf without support for it. That'll save a lot of space.
(In case you don't get it, I'm better off using the standard function anyway, because it'll already be there. Your idea just adds to the bloat by discouraging use of shared code).
I predict in five years it'll be in the Oxford English Dictionary.
I didn't either.
No, it's 'Alanic' when someone on slashdot uses the word 'Irony' properly, as the GP did.
"640,000 DIMM slots ought to be enough for anyone"
Much as I love cool hardware doing cool stuff, I too really wish everyone could use it. It's almost as if the only thing keeping half the hardware companies afloat is the existence of Non disclosure agreements.
I'm sure that'll scale quite nicely for machines with thousands of processes.
Most of the time I can find an RPM, and rpm2tgz hasn't let me down yet.
(+1, No, not bitter)