To communicate about new standards and protocols that will develop the internet further.
Have you ever thought of the interconnectedness of people in this digital era, while under the influence of some mind altering substance? It's a beautiful thought.
We don't know why we exist, but communcating must, if not be a reason, then at least a mean to finding a reason.
Is a laptop where you can bend the screen all the way to the back, so that if you got one of those snazzy Dell X300's, it's essentially a "pad" computer with a keyboard on the back.
I use my x300 like this now, and it's almost like reading a book (it's light enough), but the screen is missing some degrees from going all the way to the back.
The large question is "how do you specify inter dependencies?" The article uses makefiles. In Mac OS X Jaguar, each startup item has a properties file (associative array, the indexes are strings) that lists the item and defines all the other parts that it depends on. Thereafter SystemStarter makes a dependency tree and starts them up in parallax whenever possible or when it feels like.
But why is it sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratories? Are they using Linux in their MOABs? Guess that 3 second boot would really come in handy then.
You're right about having to test a lot when applying patches in such an environment.
However, applying two ten line, plain text, patches on OpenSSH is a slightly more deterministic procedure than installing the lastet five megabyte patch from Microsoft.
I just love the way Americans always equate prison with forced anal intercourse. It's an everyday thing, just like going to McDonalds.
Never once heard any of you outraged over this matter. It's just a fact of life, and something you most probably deserve when you go to prison. A good hard pounding in the ass.
It's a good thing that the US legal system is infallible, and that your judges probably take this into account when they pass sentences. Five years imprisonment in most other developed countries probably equates to two years with three brutal ass poundings per day in an American one.
Yes, that will strengthen your immuno system and is a generally healthy outlook.
But what you are describing are the two extremes. Licking crap of public toilets before you french kiss the next person that passes you by, much like what you do, or washing your hands every five minutes, it's just as bad.
There will come more serious diseases than the common flu or SARS, and then people like you are going to be the downfall of humanity.
It's a paradox that people who are so paranoid when it comes to security (there are no proof of concept remote exploits for either of these holes), would download patches from where ever and who ever.
Posts like the parent ("get latest patch from me!") always get moderated up, so there must be somebody downloading and installing them. Maybe I shouldn't give people ideas.
Couldn't find the article with the Slashdot search, but Google produced it. Here it is.
The real numbers were 8,609 Mbps, which translates roughly into a DVD transfered every five seconds. Btw., it was Switzerland, not the Netherlands.
Also, I don't understand the part where he mentions bandwidth costs of $1 per gigabyte. Maybe you have to pay that much on the Internet 2, but my DSL costs is somewhere in the region of $0.05 per gigabyte, i figure. Maybe I'm just spoilt.
they are part of Internet 2, Virtual Business Networks (VBNs), and the Next Generation Internet (NGI). Even so, it takes them a long time to copy a gigabyte. Copy a terabyte? It takes them a very, very long time across the networks they have
Is this really true? Wasn't there a recent Slashdot story where researchers transfered a gigabyte of data, in fourteen seconds or so, on Internet 2 from California to the Netherlands?
I suppose that disk access times will be limiting factor in both ends if you were to read and write the data from/to a disk.
"The OS that is most used is going to be hacked...often"
The Linux/Apache combination is one of the most common webservers on the net (68% on last Netcraft survey?), and more Linux/Apache webservers get defaced than NT/IIS servers. I assure you that there are many Linux servers that perform a lot of services on the net, and that a lot of them are breached (a Linux box would be more interesting to breach than a Windows box in most cases, at least in my opinion).
Still, you don't get these terrible worm outbreaks, that cause massive damage to innocent bystanders, for Linux (or BSD or whatever).
Do you really think that the only reason for this is that Windows is more "popular"?
I think some of the reasons might be:
Those who write the worms want to harm Microsoft
Microsoft have a bad track record when it comes to patching holes (they have been known to wait until somebody release an exploit to react)
Almost all Windows exploits are remote administrator exploits
A lot of Windows administrators are generally more clueless than their *nix counterparts
Holes in popular open source packages like Apache and OpenSSH are swiftly dealt with and patched
Almost all Windows users login to their desktop as administrators
I think this issue is way more convoluted than "Microsoft is more popular", and that MS have to take a lot of the blame. Both because their programming conventions have been below par in the security area, and because they have reacted slow and irresponsible in the past (granted, the patches for the latest RDP holes were released before the blaster worm).
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Oh, please.
Yeah, yeah, some kiwi were probably the first to fly in an aeroplane like contraption, but do we care? No.
For all practical purposes, the aeroplane was invented in the US.
To communicate about new standards and protocols that will develop the internet further.
Have you ever thought of the interconnectedness of people in this digital era, while under the influence of some mind altering substance? It's a beautiful thought.
We don't know why we exist, but communcating must, if not be a reason, then at least a mean to finding a reason.
World War III be a war between the good (Linux) and the bad (Microsoft)?
Things are shaping up.
Mod this stupid fucker into oblivion.
I tried his products, and look at me now.
Ah.. excellent, thanks. Didn't know they existed.
All laptops should have this option, it's just simple mechanics.
Is a laptop where you can bend the screen all the way to the back, so that if you got one of those snazzy Dell X300's, it's essentially a "pad" computer with a keyboard on the back.
I use my x300 like this now, and it's almost like reading a book (it's light enough), but the screen is missing some degrees from going all the way to the back.
I was thinking the same thing. It's easy to make money when you already got a lot of it.
I wonder what Hawkings Radiation would equal in your model though. Taxes? "Charity"?
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Pah. Mac OS X have done this since 10.2.
The large question is "how do you specify inter dependencies?" The article uses makefiles. In Mac OS X Jaguar, each startup item has a properties file (associative array, the indexes are strings) that lists the item and defines all the other parts that it depends on. Thereafter SystemStarter makes a dependency tree and starts them up in parallax whenever possible or when it feels like.
That's interesting, hadn't heard of it before.
But why is it sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratories? Are they using Linux in their MOABs? Guess that 3 second boot would really come in handy then.
Remember to turn back the uptime when you sell your computer.
You're right about having to test a lot when applying patches in such an environment.
However, applying two ten line, plain text, patches on OpenSSH is a slightly more deterministic procedure than installing the lastet five megabyte patch from Microsoft.
I just love the way Americans always equate prison with forced anal intercourse. It's an everyday thing, just like going to McDonalds.
Never once heard any of you outraged over this matter. It's just a fact of life, and something you most probably deserve when you go to prison. A good hard pounding in the ass.
It's a good thing that the US legal system is infallible, and that your judges probably take this into account when they pass sentences. Five years imprisonment in most other developed countries probably equates to two years with three brutal ass poundings per day in an American one.
Mighty fine country you're running over there.
Attach a funnel to your ethernet cable, and blow that whistle.
Yes, that will strengthen your immuno system and is a generally healthy outlook.
But what you are describing are the two extremes. Licking crap of public toilets before you french kiss the next person that passes you by, much like what you do, or washing your hands every five minutes, it's just as bad.
There will come more serious diseases than the common flu or SARS, and then people like you are going to be the downfall of humanity.
It's a paradox that people who are so paranoid when it comes to security (there are no proof of concept remote exploits for either of these holes), would download patches from where ever and who ever.
Posts like the parent ("get latest patch from me!") always get moderated up, so there must be somebody downloading and installing them. Maybe I shouldn't give people ideas.
You've got a point there.
While not as flexible as mutt on a *nix server, at least Hotmail is basicly secure.
Couldn't find the article with the Slashdot search, but Google produced it. Here it is.
The real numbers were 8,609 Mbps, which translates roughly into a DVD transfered every five seconds. Btw., it was Switzerland, not the Netherlands.
Also, I don't understand the part where he mentions bandwidth costs of $1 per gigabyte. Maybe you have to pay that much on the Internet 2, but my DSL costs is somewhere in the region of $0.05 per gigabyte, i figure. Maybe I'm just spoilt.
they are part of Internet 2, Virtual Business Networks (VBNs), and the Next Generation Internet (NGI). Even so, it takes them a long time to copy a gigabyte. Copy a terabyte? It takes them a very, very long time across the networks they have
Is this really true? Wasn't there a recent Slashdot story where researchers transfered a gigabyte of data, in fourteen seconds or so, on Internet 2 from California to the Netherlands?
I suppose that disk access times will be limiting factor in both ends if you were to read and write the data from/to a disk.
But what if two different fractions decide to do this at once? Will we get a new, much more serious, EFNet split?
And who is going to pay? How do you distribute the cost?
"Genre busting DJ Moby"
That really made the article for me.
It's not the only thing, but one of them, yeah.
You are closing in on the truth here.
"The OS that is most used is going to be hacked...often"
The Linux/Apache combination is one of the most common webservers on the net (68% on last Netcraft survey?), and more Linux/Apache webservers get defaced than NT/IIS servers. I assure you that there are many Linux servers that perform a lot of services on the net, and that a lot of them are breached (a Linux box would be more interesting to breach than a Windows box in most cases, at least in my opinion).
Still, you don't get these terrible worm outbreaks, that cause massive damage to innocent bystanders, for Linux (or BSD or whatever).
Do you really think that the only reason for this is that Windows is more "popular"?
I think some of the reasons might be:
I think this issue is way more convoluted than "Microsoft is more popular", and that MS have to take a lot of the blame. Both because their programming conventions have been below par in the security area, and because they have reacted slow and irresponsible in the past (granted, the patches for the latest RDP holes were released before the blaster worm).
Why did the NRA oppose this?
Were somebody threatening to take over and close the gun channel?
Or were they afraid that the integrity of such premier news sources as FoxNews were at stake?
They also found the Windows RPC hole that paved way for MSBlast.