I'm no fan of US foreign policy, but are you smoking crack? What 500,000 children has the US murdered in the Middle East? And in any case, al-Qaeda is quite explicit about the reasons for its actions and it has said nothing about any 500,000 murdered children. It wants and end to US presence and influence in the Muslim world, especially Saudi Arabia.
What the poster reffered to is the children that died because of brutal and murderous sanctions (medicines unavailable because of those sanctions etc etc). Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (under Clinton) was once asked if all those dead children was worth it, and she said yes.
It could be worse, if they were running stories about how big an actress's penis is.
This is usually called clitoris for a female, but since you are a Slashdotter
you are forgiven for not knowing this. Perhaps some education is needed for
insensitive clods.
Nice try, China! Your silly attempts to raise yourself to the level of the U.S. will never succeed. The U.S. is the dominant super power and always will be!
Hmh, this beeing Slashdotage I for a moment got all burned up by my latent imperialistic whorshipping latencies,,,
Just ak Britain and France! If anyone understands that national standing on the international scene, once established, is permanent... it's them!
But then I saw the light, and you where just kidding. Oh my God, you must be a terrorist!
despite the obvious troll:
if they'd spent the trillion on space instead of iraq, people would complain it was better spent on education- which it would be. It would be better spent on a lot of things.
Yeah, anyone daring to be so un-American and unpatriotic as to critize the Iraq war and the huge sums spendt on it must be a troll.
Step 1: Yes, get a brain. Don't use a hammer on a screw.
A screw works very well as a nail, you insensitive clod!
I'm sure you wouldn't want to use.NET for a site that gets 20,000 hits a minute, but you also wouldn't want to use C++ or Perl to integrate Windows-only applications with Active Directory, either.
Of course not, Microsoft works hard for this to be hard for you (sry folks, I wrote "hard" not "hard on")
It's really annoying to me that all of the linux users keep on taking the holier-than-thou attitude to spyware. Spyware is not a virus and does not prolifirate on it's own. [...]
The only good thing could be the fact that removing it [spyware] could be just a tad simpler [on Linux], assuming that the software doesn't try to exploit some type of local-root exploits.
As it is, new local root exploits are announced all the time for the Linux kernel. There have been 20+ in the last year or so. The rapidly increase of functionality certainly has a price tag.
People did pretty well out of Keynesian economics in the previous century
While the US administration pushes "free trade" and "free markets" on the rest of the world, their internal economics is basically Keynesian. Though that is changing as well.
Free markets are efficient. Monopolies are the exact opposite of a free market. One of the roles of the State is to intervene to prevent monopolies.
It's also one of the State roles to regulate so-called "free markets". Many think that the stock exchange is an example of a "free market", but it's actually very regulated (insider trading laws, as one of many examples). So to say that free markets are efficient, one must first define by what one mean by a free market. By changing the definition of what constitutes a free market, you may get any result you want about it's effiency.
For some very strange reason some people think that a so called "free market solution" is always best (a solution looking for a problem). Actually, unregulated "free market" can have a devasting effect on the people and the economy :
Russia and the Crisis of Neoliberalism(1999)
Neoliberalism is the contemporary incarnation of the old ideology that asserts the superiority of an unregulated or "free market" capitalist system. Just when that wave of free market enthusiasm seemed to be waning, it received a powerful boost from the demise of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991. The Soviet demise was interpreted as the final vindication of free market theory, or neoliberalism as it has come to be called. Right-wing theorists had always insisted that public intervention in the market, whether reformist or radical, inevitably led to despotism, with Soviet political repression held out as the living proof.
....The result of the neoliberal experiment in Russia has been nearly seven years of economic devastation on a scale unseen anywhere else in peacetime in this century.
...The majority of Russia's population has been impoverished by the neoliberal experiment.
Actually, I more meant that perhaps they'd learn about proper security models and the command line when they where young, but I suppose the comment was phrased in rather typical-Slashdotter Linux-marketshare-is-good language.
This is small kids you are talking about, and I'm sure that they have more fun stuff to do than
reading about
systrace,
pf.conf
or
isakmpd.conf
for that matter. At least the kids are exposed to an OS that is secure and has very high quality docmentation
in form of
manual pages and
User Guide
Btw, the OpenBSD developers abhors the Linux HOWTOS since they deprive the reader for increasing her understanding of the subject matter. The kids are supposed to learn to think for themselves, or;-)
Note that in order to use the Intel-based cards, you will need to acquire the firmware files, which Intel refuses to allow free distribution of, so they can not be included with OpenBSD. Contact Intel to let them know what you feel about this, or to let them know what other product you have purchased instead.
Other manufacturers, such as Broadcom, Texas Instruments and Connexant have actively fought our attempts to develop free drivers for their products. We encourage you to respect their wishes by not buying their products. Realtek, Ralink, Atmel, and ADMtek make good products and support the open source community's desire for free drivers, and have earned our support and business.
get realistic. it is 100% impossible to get the public to do anything. Hell the lure of a new shiney is enough to make most consumers burn themselves over and over.
Not quite so. Instead of a total boycott of all Sony products, just spend less money on the companys products. You can be sure that Sony take notice of even a 5% reduction in sales. I will do this for some time.
I got RH 8 on a p90 with 32M Ram. No desktop or anything else graphical, but it is able to run Apache and Samba. It was a coll little server.
Here is an even slower Pentium running a snapshot of OpenBSD running Subversion, Apache httpd, OpenVPN and a few other services. OpenBSD is great to run on older machine, and the base install is not as bloated as some Linux distros are.
$ dmesg OpenBSD 3.8-current (GENERIC) #256: Fri Nov 18 11:41:21 MST 2005 deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/co mpile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel Pentium (P54C) ("GenuineIntel" 586-class) 79 MHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8 cpu0: F00F bug workaround installed real mem = 66686976 (65124K) avail mem = 53309440 (52060K) using 839 buffers containing 3436544 bytes (3356K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(00) BIOS, date 10/10/95, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf13ec pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0x10000 pcibios0: PCI BIOS has 4 Interrupt Routing table entries pcibios0: no compatible PCI ICU found pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x4000 0xed000/0x1000 ipmi at mainbus0 not configured cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 2 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82434LX/NX PCI/Cache/DRAM" rev 0x11 "PC Technology RZ1000" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 not configured pcib0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 82378IB ISA" rev 0x03 siop0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "Symbios Logic 53c815" rev 0x03: irq 15 siop0: scsi bus reset scsibus0 at siop0: 8 targets sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <FUJITSU, M2954S-512, 0147> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 4149MB, 5714 cyl, 9 head, 165 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 8498506 sec total cd0 at scsibus0 targ 6 lun 0: <MATSHITA, CD-ROM CR-503, 1.0f> SCSI2 5/cdrom removable vga1 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 "S3 86C864-0" rev 0x00 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 ep0 at isa0 port 0x300/16 irq 10: address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, utp/aui (default utp) pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 sysbeep0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16 pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: read port 0x203 ep1 at isapnp0 "3Com 3C509B EtherLink III, TCM5090, PNP80F7, " port 0x210/16 irq 5: address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, utp/aui (default utp) biomask fb45 netmask ff65 ttymask ffe7 pctr: 586-class performance counters and user-level cycle counter enabled siop0: target 0 now using tagged 8 bit 10.0 MHz 8 REQ/ACK offset xfers dkcsum: sd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on sd0a rootdev=0x400 rrootdev=0xd00 rawdev=0xd02
While a full discussion of the benefits and risks of RAID are outside the scope of this article, there are a couple points that are important to make here:
* RAID has nothing to do with backup. * By itself, RAID will not eliminate down-time.
If this is new information to you, this is not a good starting point for your exploration of RAID.
which is based on slackware. Aren't here a bunch of other awesome distro's, besides slackware itself, that are based on slackware?
You don't get it. It's all about some clueless individual writing some uninformed inflammatory comments, with slashdot blessing. The name of the game is "Ad money".
How much do advertisements like this cost? Sure could use some publicity like this for my business. That summary sounds like it was pasted from some webstore. The most extreme thumbdrive? Please.
On top of that it was just plain stupid, and as usual the "geeks" of/. just fell for it.
For a "tech" site it was peculiar to read so many posts hell-bent on using the newest available stuff, but not considering availability of drivers (assuming they use *BSD/Linux) nor the stabilty issues due to brand new hardware. It was funny to read posters bashing hardware manufacturers for bad hardware when it's at revision 0.000000001 Omega 1. Wait a few months, and most issues gets ironed out.
Of course, don't follow the above advice, or I'll have to deal with bad hardware as well;-)
VIA releases docs to their chipsets, which nVidia does not (even for their network components, go figure), so VIA has better open source support. It's better to write drivers from specs than to write drivers with extensive reverse engineering. And I'd rather avoid the binary only-drivers that is so popular on Linux (but not available on *BSD that I use), and I'm sure I'm not the only one to install en extra NIC because the one on the motherboard is unsupported.
Open source is not just about the source code itself (for hardware), it's just as much (if not more) about availability of documentation so that drivers may be written and maintained. OpenBSD has had several campaigns (as well as ongoing work behind the scenes) for releasing documentation to hardware, and this has been quite successfull. However, the Linux crowds support of this has been lackluster. What good is nice open source applications if you have no current hardware to run it on?
Many of these exploits are explicitly discovered by the security organizations who have released the advisories themselves and are often not necessarily representative of any actual exploit being applied maliciously: the idea is to catch security vulnerabilities before they are actually used maliciously.
But they did not catch the Sony rootkit DRM, did they? Or perhaps they did, but kept quiet?
(And it's amusing that if you buy a commercial product from the vendor issuing the vulnerability, you'll be protected!
Sure, so most likely it's a small flaw overblown over all proportions in order to get some revenue. FUD.
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What the poster reffered to is the children that died because of brutal and murderous sanctions (medicines unavailable because of those sanctions etc etc). Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (under Clinton) was once asked if all those dead children was worth it, and she said yes.
This is usually called clitoris for a female, but since you are a Slashdotter you are forgiven for not knowing this. Perhaps some education is needed for insensitive clods.
Ever wondered where you motherboard is made, and most of you consumer electronics for that matter? Why does that matter? Hint: BIOS.
Hmh, this beeing Slashdotage I for a moment got all burned up by my latent imperialistic whorshipping latencies,,, Just ak Britain and France! If anyone understands that national standing on the international scene, once established, is permanent... it's them!
But then I saw the light, and you where just kidding. Oh my God, you must be a terrorist!
PS You forgot Rome, among many others ;-)
You mean, similar to the one used by Slashdot? /sarcasm
Yeah, anyone daring to be so un-American and unpatriotic as to critize the Iraq war and the huge sums spendt on it must be a troll.
A screw works very well as a nail, you insensitive clod!
I'm sure you wouldn't want to use .NET for a site that gets 20,000 hits a minute, but you also wouldn't want to use C++ or Perl to integrate Windows-only applications with Active Directory, either.
Of course not, Microsoft works hard for this to be hard for you (sry folks, I wrote "hard" not "hard on")
The only good thing could be the fact that removing it [spyware] could be just a tad simpler [on Linux], assuming that the software doesn't try to exploit some type of local-root exploits.
As it is, new local root exploits are announced all the time for the Linux kernel. There have been 20+ in the last year or so. The rapidly increase of functionality certainly has a price tag.
While the US administration pushes "free trade" and "free markets" on the rest of the world, their internal economics is basically Keynesian. Though that is changing as well.
Free markets are efficient. Monopolies are the exact opposite of a free market. One of the roles of the State is to intervene to prevent monopolies.
It's also one of the State roles to regulate so-called "free markets". Many think that the stock exchange is an example of a "free market", but it's actually very regulated (insider trading laws, as one of many examples). So to say that free markets are efficient, one must first define by what one mean by a free market. By changing the definition of what constitutes a free market, you may get any result you want about it's effiency.
For some very strange reason some people think that a so called "free market solution" is always best (a solution looking for a problem). Actually, unregulated "free market" can have a devasting effect on the people and the economy : Russia and the Crisis of Neoliberalism(1999)
This is small kids you are talking about, and I'm sure that they have more fun stuff to do than reading about systrace, pf.conf or isakmpd.conf for that matter. At least the kids are exposed to an OS that is secure and has very high quality docmentation in form of manual pages and User Guide
Btw, the OpenBSD developers abhors the Linux HOWTOS since they deprive the reader for increasing her understanding of the subject matter. The kids are supposed to learn to think for themselves, or ;-)
I'm sure that all those enterprise DB users will very, very shortly convert all their DBs to Reiserf4.
To echo this sentiment, here is the OpenBSD WiFi recommendations:
Not quite so. Instead of a total boycott of all Sony products, just spend less money on the companys products. You can be sure that Sony take notice of even a 5% reduction in sales. I will do this for some time.
Nah, he's a CVS user, and besides, only wimps likes atomic commits.
Here is an even slower Pentium running a snapshot of OpenBSD running Subversion, Apache httpd, OpenVPN and a few other services. OpenBSD is great to run on older machine, and the base install is not as bloated as some Linux distros are.
Indeed. In RAID options for OpenBSD you see the following warning:
Some actually read more than the slashdot headlines, but you don't, but hey, you probably fight for f!rst p0st!
You don't get it. It's all about some clueless individual writing some uninformed inflammatory comments, with slashdot blessing. The name of the game is "Ad money".
On top of that it was just plain stupid, and as usual the "geeks" of /. just fell for it.
Of course, don't follow the above advice, or I'll have to deal with bad hardware as well ;-)
Open source is not just about the source code itself (for hardware), it's just as much (if not more) about availability of documentation so that drivers may be written and maintained. OpenBSD has had several campaigns (as well as ongoing work behind the scenes) for releasing documentation to hardware, and this has been quite successfull. However, the Linux crowds support of this has been lackluster. What good is nice open source applications if you have no current hardware to run it on?
Stable Linux ABI? That's an oxymoron, if I've ever heard one.
But they did not catch the Sony rootkit DRM, did they? Or perhaps they did, but kept quiet?
(And it's amusing that if you buy a commercial product from the vendor issuing the vulnerability, you'll be protected!
Sure, so most likely it's a small flaw overblown over all proportions in order to get some revenue. FUD.
Algebraic geometry.