Hmmm... I wonder if they're thinking along the lines of my own Swedish military, constructing their own intranet whose only link to the public is a mail-server.
Let's just hope they spend enough money on a fast hardware-crypto, so U.S. troops in the middle east aren't stuck with 120,000 men sharing 1Mbit of secure bandwidth ^_^
It's a great thing, not being connected to the internet, and having firewalls (FreeBSD-based) all over the place. Especially when doing tech support, since this means we have no viruses on FMIP, despite the fact that Windows clients are used.
A note about the firewall... It's creators believed a slimmed-down OS would be the most secure, so the kernel is slimmed and unused applications gone. Also, I don't know why they didn't choose OpenBSD instead of free, but then again, this was 1997... *Sigh*
15 months playing with business-grade computer hardware ain't bad either. That's what I do in the military. Note, however that I did actually start college before getting drafted - 1/3 of my platoon did, actually;) Also, I have 2 weeks of weapons training, and will get no more. Unlike Americans, we Swedes manage without pointing guns at everyone around us.
FreeBSD makes all devices without a hitch. I even have sound working on it! Something I can't say about RedHat or any of the other 'user-friendly' Linux distros.
I could say the same of OpenBSD. Granted, it is an old (AMD K5) machine. I would expect NetBSD and FreeBSD to do the same.
Come on guys, have you actually worked in the real world? Normal users can't remember crazy passwords, they are going to pick their dog and their favorite football player's number put together. Or their aniversary and the current food they are eating.
At least we force hard passwords for administrators. I've got some 7 complex passwords for admin accounts at work. Add 2 for my regular accounts there. Add 1 for Lotus Notes there. Add 1 for my user at my home server. Add 1 for root at the server. Add 5 for the encrypted partitions on the server (one of which is 20 characters long). Add 2 for my laptop. Add 1 for my university logon.
It's easy to remember passwords once you learn how to create _good_ ones (that aren't based on dogs name + 3-digit number that you raise by 1 every 90 days).
But yes, most of my users tend to forget their passwords and need me to reset them once a month. And the rest of the bunch use as weak passwords as they can.
The good thing is, their accounts don't matter to me. It's only some files they're going to find. The admin accounts, OTOH can access any users' files in an instant (saved locally on the computer or on Novell doesn't matter). This is the account that needs protection. That, and keeping the company off the internet, wireless networks et al.
Do you also get annoyed if someone refers to a CD "ISO"? That is somewhat sillier if you recall what the letters mean. Extending usage of a term is fine as long as there is no confusion created.
But "ISO" in that context is short for ISO9660, the data format used on the CD. It's equally valid.
4) Had they written it in Word format, folks who couldn't afford Microsoft Office would have to download open office so they could use open office to view a word document telling them why they shouldn't use open office to view word documents.
Partially true. There are AFAIK free word readers.
They are judged based on whether they can hold a tech support call to under 12 minutes - PERIOD.
12 minutes is a long time. I'm used to providing an accurate answer within 2-3 minutes. Be it a problem with Office,Notes,Novell or Windows.
Then again, I HelpDesk our users. We're not answering phone all the day just to try and get rid of people. We do it so that they can work with mission-critical documents.
So you honestly believe that Microsoft forwards flaws detected in software to its vendor? Without charging huge ammounts of cash for forwarding said information. My bet is that nvidia pays huge ammounts to see its flaws in GFX drivers.
Something worth $250,000,000 could be worth $2 in less then 30 days time and it's an average risk?
Actually, there's an average risk you'll lose money if you try to short it. Maybe they weren' t clear enough. If I had $20,000 to bet, I'd have shorted some SCO stock a couple of days ago.
It is authenticated via a login-page (naturally over https). Once authentication is completed, you gain DNS access, as well as any port open that you could ever ask for.
The connection may not be the best in the world, but at least we get full-speed access to sunet.se. A couple of seconds to download Mozilla.
However, the WiFi connection isn't stable in all places (and some places doesn't hvae coverage yet). Most of the places engineering students hang out in have coverage.
In some places, we also have normal cat 5, but most of the outlets are alarmed and alreasy have computers hooked up to them.
Also Windows XP activation would also be considered "succesful enough".
They were successful? Oddly, I seem to remember licence keys to corporate/enterprise versions of Windows XP before I could even try and purchase a copy.
This didn't change much with SP1, despite the fact that said master keys were removed.
If you only look at Windows XP Home, it isn't pirated much (due to Windows XP Professional being freely available anywhere). Everyone I knows hate it due to the fact that one has to call Microsoft Support every once in a while.
HalfLife didn't check keys in LAN. And I never had problems with Quake3 servers.
So, I'd have to say they aren't in the very least successful.
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Try Smart Boot Manager...
I know it can boot from ATAPI CD-ROM's, but I've never tried it with SCSI ones.
Give it a try
http://btmgr.webframe.org/
I spent $70 on my 2-port Belkin USB KVM w/ built-in cables.
The 4-port alternative you used would cost me $288 incl. cables. Taxes sure are killing us here.
The 2-port KVM is excellent and I would use it together with a headless Mac any day of the week.
They are credited for their work on C... If you check the detailed information.
A shame Ritchie is only listed as coinventor of UNIX on the main page. Still, most C programmers know their names and will vote anyways.
Ahhh... Return of the fossils...
One guy writes about Portman and fast as lightning fury the dinosaurs arrive.
Three sub-100k UID in as many hours. Impressive.
Hmmm... I wonder if they're thinking along the lines of my own Swedish military, constructing their own intranet whose only link to the public is a mail-server.
Let's just hope they spend enough money on a fast hardware-crypto, so U.S. troops in the middle east aren't stuck with 120,000 men sharing 1Mbit of secure bandwidth ^_^
It's a great thing, not being connected to the internet, and having firewalls (FreeBSD-based) all over the place. Especially when doing tech support, since this means we have no viruses on FMIP, despite the fact that Windows clients are used.
A note about the firewall... It's creators believed a slimmed-down OS would be the most secure, so the kernel is slimmed and unused applications gone. Also, I don't know why they didn't choose OpenBSD instead of free, but then again, this was 1997... *Sigh*
How do you change the menu for another user or all users on your system?
.desktop file in /usr/share/applications (if that's where your .desktop files are saved).
You simply add a new
15 months playing with business-grade computer hardware ain't bad either. That's what I do in the military. ;)
Note, however that I did actually start college before getting drafted - 1/3 of my platoon did, actually
Also, I have 2 weeks of weapons training, and will get no more.
Unlike Americans, we Swedes manage without pointing guns at everyone around us.
For me, Google reports 411,000 with the -qqqqqqqq trick, but 476,000 hits without it.
This is the opposite of what you're telling us ^^.
FreeBSD makes all devices without a hitch. I even have sound working on it! Something I can't say about RedHat or any of the other 'user-friendly' Linux distros.
I could say the same of OpenBSD. Granted, it is an old (AMD K5) machine. I would expect NetBSD and FreeBSD to do the same.
Actually, no...
You can't fit 155 men on a Swedish naval vessel.
Visby will carry a crew of 43, and I doubt that more than 2 will be regular NT sysadmins.
Now, if this was a US ship, I have no doubt they would require no less than 200 people to admin BSOD's...
Care to enlighten us on how many people can log in at a time with XP Pro?
Only one, if he's a member of a domain.
local privilege escalations effectively become remote privilege escalations when you throw in access to some user's weakly protected account.
And non-root accounts become root accounts once they utilize a local exploit. So what's the big deal?
Come on guys, have you actually worked in the real world? Normal users can't remember crazy passwords, they are going to pick their dog and their favorite football player's number put together. Or their aniversary and the current food they are eating.
At least we force hard passwords for administrators.
I've got some 7 complex passwords for admin accounts at work.
Add 2 for my regular accounts there.
Add 1 for Lotus Notes there.
Add 1 for my user at my home server.
Add 1 for root at the server.
Add 5 for the encrypted partitions on the server (one of which is 20 characters long).
Add 2 for my laptop.
Add 1 for my university logon.
It's easy to remember passwords once you learn how to create _good_ ones (that aren't based on dogs name + 3-digit number that you raise by 1 every 90 days).
But yes, most of my users tend to forget their passwords and need me to reset them once a month.
And the rest of the bunch use as weak passwords as they can.
The good thing is, their accounts don't matter to me. It's only some files they're going to find.
The admin accounts, OTOH can access any users' files in an instant (saved locally on the computer or on Novell doesn't matter). This is the account that needs protection.
That, and keeping the company off the internet, wireless networks et al.
Do you also get annoyed if someone refers to a CD "ISO"? That is somewhat sillier if you recall what the letters mean. Extending usage of a term is fine as long as there is no confusion created.
But "ISO" in that context is short for ISO9660, the data format used on the CD. It's equally valid.
4) Had they written it in Word format, folks
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who couldn't afford Microsoft Office would have
to download open office so they could
use open office to view a word document
telling them why they shouldn't use
open office to view word documents.
Partially true. There are AFAIK free word readers.
office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/wd97vwr32.a
They are judged based on whether they can hold a tech support call to under 12 minutes - PERIOD.
12 minutes is a long time. I'm used to providing an accurate answer within 2-3 minutes. Be it a problem with Office,Notes,Novell or Windows.
Then again, I HelpDesk our users. We're not answering phone all the day just to try and get rid of people. We do it so that they can work with mission-critical documents.
So you honestly believe that Microsoft forwards flaws detected in software to its vendor?
Without charging huge ammounts of cash for forwarding said information. My bet is that nvidia pays huge ammounts to see its flaws in GFX drivers.
this will bring isssues like if NEC comes out with a system that has 2 128 bit processors, is it a 256bit system?
No, two times 128-bit would be 129-bit.
CGI isnt a language! And thats a direct quote from him. What kind of idiot says "I can program in CGI."
What kind of idiot complains of someone who says he can program in CGI when HTML was on the list?
Also, I don't consider Basic to be a language. It's an ugly hack at best.
Something worth $250,000,000 could be worth $2 in less then 30 days time and it's an average risk?
Actually, there's an average risk you'll lose money if you try to short it. Maybe they weren'
t clear enough.
If I had $20,000 to bet, I'd have shorted some SCO stock a couple of days ago.
kami@kami $ grep -ic sco /usr/share/dict/words /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
1611
kami@kami $ grep -i sco
1611
It seems we're both using the same dictionary. Unlike the others who can't agree if it's 2,13,467 or 1613 words...
Yes, we have WiFi access in Linkoping, Sweden.
It is authenticated via a login-page (naturally over https). Once authentication is completed, you gain DNS access, as well as any port open that you could ever ask for.
The connection may not be the best in the world, but at least we get full-speed access to sunet.se. A couple of seconds to download Mozilla.
However, the WiFi connection isn't stable in all places (and some places doesn't hvae coverage yet). Most of the places engineering students hang out in have coverage.
In some places, we also have normal cat 5, but most of the outlets are alarmed and alreasy have computers hooked up to them.
Agreed, mine is even able to run on Gentoo.
Compile times suck, however. Maybe it's time for FreeBSD ^^.
/dev/input/mice works in the 2.6 kernels.
/dev/input/mouseX working in 2.4, though.
/dev/input
It's a very nice node. I never even got
$ ls
mice mouse0 mouse1
Also Windows XP activation would also be considered "succesful enough".
They were successful? Oddly, I seem to remember licence keys to corporate/enterprise versions of Windows XP before I could even try and purchase a copy.
This didn't change much with SP1, despite the fact that said master keys were removed.
If you only look at Windows XP Home, it isn't pirated much (due to Windows XP Professional being freely available anywhere). Everyone I knows hate it due to the fact that one has to call Microsoft Support every once in a while.
HalfLife didn't check keys in LAN. And I never had problems with Quake3 servers.
So, I'd have to say they aren't in the very least successful.