In addition, the reason to hold of their filesystem was that they found out that it was losing BIG time. It is in a massive rewrite. It turned out that Linux scaled and ran quite well.
Massive rewrite in a filesystem? Bugs in a filesystem is scary since just about everything depends on a filesystem actually working. I know Linux like to have their "filesystem of the week", but others prefer relability and stability....
I know Google helps the Chinese government censor the web by blocking certain search terms within China, but I wasn't aware they'd directly aided the Chinese in tracking down individual dissidents, like Yahoo! allegedly has.
It all boils down to:
- Do we trust AOL and Yahoo to be honest in this sort of thing.
Yahoo have no problems helping the Chineese government hunting down dissident journalists, and other US companies have been shown to actively help surpress free speech and democracy. So no, I certainly dont trust Yahoo in this. I do trust that Yahoo will do anything, given enough money.
How do these fscking moderators choose one comment that says that the post is Dupe as Informative +5 out of the 100 posts that say that the story is dupe? [Me too]This story is a Dupe[/Me Too]
and not an implementation failure. So how exactly are individual vendors patching it without changing the protocol? Or are they making changes in the protocol that would be "invisible" to the outside world?
The advisory says:
Multiple ISAKMP implementations behave in anomalous way when they receive and handle
ISAKMP Phase 1 packets with invalid and/or abnormal contents. By applying the OUSPG
PROTOS ISAKMP Test Suite to a variety of products, several vulnerabilities can be
revealed that can have varying effects.
> I just tested our isakmpd(8) implementation against the PROTOS > test suite. No problems were detected. We performed an audit > of isakmpd's IKE parsing code back in early 2004 and made several > fixes (OpenBSD 3.4 timeframe). > > I also ran the PROTOS suite against tcpdump -vvv and saw no > problems.
Please also note that both these programs are priv sep'd, so that in the event a bug is found, the impact will be much reduced.
but i thought it was called 'apropos'.. no no, it was 'man'! im sure of it!
What is not mentioned in the review of the book, but that you joke about, is
the importance of high quality and relevant documentation. Many people today just don't
read documentation (be it man pages or not), but perhaps that is the result of shoddy documentation
practices on some non *BSD platforms. All to often I see someone post about a "problem" that reading the man pages, the FAQ or a few minutes of Googling will solve.
For me, it's very useful to read that client side IMAP filtering is at last beeing added (but still in progress, though), and thus I can use KMail and ditch Thunderbird. However, I've no need to see a screenshot of a dialog box for IMAP filtering rules.
At last KMail gets client side IMAP filtering...
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The only reason I don't use KMail is that it lacks client side IMAP filtering into folders, but now it's in progress (from changelist):
Client side IMAP filtering. Till Adam , Don Sanders
Perhaps this will be completed before release, or to the next minor release. Looking forward to ditching Thunderbird.
Indeed, but when the article suggest to put install applications like OpenOffice, Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Firefox along with Evolution and rest of the Gnome desktop, you sure need those 3GB. Perhaps the reviewer was refering to the physical size of the drive as small;-)
... as a matter of principle, that any time the government wishes to criminalize what was previously a civil offense, it should have to demonstrate an overriding interest in doing so.
What they should and what they do are different things. The US Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales is the same one that advocates use of torture, and claims that the Geneva Conventions are "obsolete".
With an US Attorney General that is all too willing to violate human rights, no one should be surprised that he now propose harsher laws.
Between The Lines: Alberto Gonzalez was just confirmed as the new U.S. attorney general. What message does it send to the world about America's tolerance toward torture and future policies that are liable to come out of the Bush administration regarding torture?
Michael Ratner: Well, it's incredibly distressing. I mean, Alberto Gonzalez not only was the one who penned, authored and was responsible for the memo that called the interrogation practices or protections of the Geneva Conventions "obsolete" and other provisions, "quaint." He was the one who said that Geneva should not apply to people picked up, and the humane provisions of Geneva should not apply. He is the one who was also involved in the famous memo from (Assistant Attorney General Jay S.) Bybee that defined torture so narrowly that everything you saw at Abu Ghraib would not be considered torture. And who still today insists that non-citizens, and I want to stress this, non-citizens held outside the United States are not protected from cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment -- which is our lawyers' word for essentially inhumane treatment, just a shade underneath torture. So that's the man who has been confirmed.
And I don't think encouraging encryption is gonna be any good for national security.
Oh man, even for a/. comment this is a silly comment. You don't to encourage use of https when doing online banking or buying from an Internet store? Administrators should use telenet than ssh? Of course, bye bye VPN.
If you detected a bit of bitterish under-water stabbing directed at the friendly commercial distros that gave the world friendly-looking GUIs and installers, but horribly broken package management, then you've gotten to the core of what made me make this statement.
Heh, it's one of the reasons I migrated from SuSE to *BSD after using it for a couple of years. OpenBSD package system has undergone alot development and is working very well. Here is some slides from a presentation of
OpenBSD Ports and Packages.
For dog's sake, people _still_ think software installation is a nightmare on Linux, even people who have used it, and it hasn't been true for ages...on Debian. But Debian isn't that hyped now, is it? And it doesn't get glowing reviews, because of the text-mode installer and the fact that you don't get a neatly polished GUI straight out of the box.
Yup, eye-candy seems to matter more than functionality and correctness. To make matters worse, the "reviewers" focus on eye-candy sort of punishes those distros that put a lot of effort on infrastructure (like, for instance, a working package management system with packages that actually works).
Is it just me, or do the screenshots not really show anything new? I mean Ubuntu is cool and all, but these are just screenshots of Ubuntu, and does not even include the new enterprise management stuff.
Yet another "review" of yet another Linux distro consisting mostly of screenshots Gnome/KDE along with the installer. They are all so very superficial, and quite frankly, quite booring. I'm pretty sure that the distro maintainers are not that happy themselves with these "reviews".
As an example, this is almost never seen in a review: Upgrading a machine (desktop/server/whatever) from and older version to the newest version and reviewing that. Or reviewing the package lifecycle in a version of a distro (does the upgrades work? breakes anything? Are upgrades properly tested by the distro/package maintainers? etc etc).
OpenSolaris will be more like the *BSDs, since the core is controlled by one organization and will dictate architectural things. (And avoid the bickering and bullshit that often hinders Linux development)
There is one crucial difference: the restrictive Solaris license that is designed to keep Sun entirely in control. With a *BSD you can fork, and that has happened on occasion.
Do you have any idea what how slim the chances really are to be killed by terrorists in the US? Even after 9/11 it's next to none. You are far more likely to be in a car accident, die of cancer, get a heart attack or being shot by a family member. This terrorist "threat" is no reason to take away our freedoms and slowly install a police state where the citizens are the "threat". Sure we cannot just ignore the threat but I for one prefer a little "unsafer" world over privacy invading security
This "terroris threat" is used to scare people and thus make it easier to introduce new draconian laws, and of course, help the Republicans stay in power. Noticed that now there are so few public warnings of new terrorist threats and increasing the national "security level"? Just wait for election time....
Actually, the US invasion of Iraq and it's heavy handed tactics there significantly increased the threats from terrorists. Before the invasion there was no terrorists coming out or based in Iraq, but now it's a breeding ground for it.
Also, TFA states that part of the "safer cigarette" thing is better filters, which doesn't help those inhaling second hand smoke. So, the smoker inhales less deadly stuff, but the person standing beside them - still inhaling poison.
have you noticed the small holes on the filter? By covering those, you'll inhale more smoke and thus more nicotine. The tobacco industry made research on where to put those holes so that people will generall cover them.
It's all about getting people hooked on nicotine addiction in order to sell more tobacco. This is a industry with long established practice of lying (including to the US Congress), faking research data and keeping "unwelcome" research from ever getting public.
A good IT admin should be able to secure the PC on their desk and therefore everything else that they access. Help your company cut costs and keep you, it is much better than the alternative.
Bullshit. Once you have physical access to the PC you can compromise it.
But I suspect there is more to it. Proprietary Qt libraries inside of KDE have always plagued KDE adoption. And quite frankly, I like programming in the GNOME/GTK+ environment and usually have no trouble to move such works to Solaris x86 or Sparc.
Proprietary Qt libraries? I've got news for you: QT is GPL licensed as well.
Not being able to have propritary applications run/interact on KDE without a license to TrollTech is a problem. It gives too much control to them and limits the potential of people choosing closed alternatives (games etc.) from intracting fully. What stops TrollTech from charging super high prices if/when Linux becomes popular? Too much uncertainty for SuSE/RedHat to be at their mercy.
Huge chunks of any Linux distribution is GPL, and since the QT GUI toolkit is GPL as well, what's your problem?
Dillon said he felt FreeBSD's focus on many CPUs to the exclusion of single-CPU performance was a mistake, not that single CPUs are preferable.
He said something to the effect that he replaced multi CPU with singel CPU if he could. He wrote that in in the last year or so.
Also, most desktop workloads benefit from having two CPUs, it helps responsiveness quite a bit (even on OSes with good schedulers like Linux). There is overhead for the locking in the kernel, but the benefit almost always outweighs the cost.
It helps with responsiveness, not performance, in general. There are programs hogging the CPU, so there multi-core helps (I'm working on such a system daily as a developer). More precicely, we have two threads needing much CPU but part of the application needs more that their share (hello Sun Java) of resources.
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Massive rewrite in a filesystem? Bugs in a filesystem is scary since just about everything depends on a filesystem actually working. I know Linux like to have their "filesystem of the week", but others prefer relability and stability....
Really? I missed that story - link please!
I know Google helps the Chinese government censor the web by blocking certain search terms within China, but I wasn't aware they'd directly aided the Chinese in tracking down individual dissidents, like Yahoo! allegedly has.
Here you go
- Do we trust AOL and Yahoo to be honest in this sort of thing.
Yahoo have no problems helping the Chineese government hunting down dissident journalists, and other US companies have been shown to actively help surpress free speech and democracy. So no, I certainly dont trust Yahoo in this. I do trust that Yahoo will do anything, given enough money.
Here is a concrete payoff of OpenBSD pro-active stance with respect to security: fixed early 2004.
It is pretty common to fix these sorts of bugs it complicated protocols like ISAKMP.
Yeah, complicated protocolls implementations are particularly suspectible to format string vulnerabilities and buffer overflows....
Meta-moderate that as "unfair", like I do.
The advisory says:
The OpenBSD developers fixed this early 2004 :
What is not mentioned in the review of the book, but that you joke about, is the importance of high quality and relevant documentation. Many people today just don't read documentation (be it man pages or not), but perhaps that is the result of shoddy documentation practices on some non *BSD platforms. All to often I see someone post about a "problem" that reading the man pages, the FAQ or a few minutes of Googling will solve.
Why don't you read about the added features and bugfixes ? There is much more to KDE than just eye candy.
For me, it's very useful to read that client side IMAP filtering is at last beeing added (but still in progress, though), and thus I can use KMail and ditch Thunderbird. However, I've no need to see a screenshot of a dialog box for IMAP filtering rules.
Client side IMAP filtering. Till Adam , Don Sanders
Perhaps this will be completed before release, or to the next minor release. Looking forward to ditching Thunderbird.
Indeed, but when the article suggest to put install applications like OpenOffice, Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Firefox along with Evolution and rest of the Gnome desktop, you sure need those 3GB. Perhaps the reviewer was refering to the physical size of the drive as small ;-)
What they should and what they do are different things. The US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is the same one that advocates use of torture, and claims that the Geneva Conventions are "obsolete". With an US Attorney General that is all too willing to violate human rights, no one should be surprised that he now propose harsher laws.
From U.S.-Held Prisoners Transferred Abroad Subjected to Torture
Ignorant AC. The https protocoll uses encryption, and various P2P/IM/VPN can use https to send/recieve data.
Oh man, even for a /. comment this is a silly comment. You don't to encourage use of https when doing online banking or buying from an Internet store? Administrators should use telenet than ssh? Of course, bye bye VPN.
Heh, it's one of the reasons I migrated from SuSE to *BSD after using it for a couple of years. OpenBSD package system has undergone alot development and is working very well. Here is some slides from a presentation of OpenBSD Ports and Packages.
For dog's sake, people _still_ think software installation is a nightmare on Linux, even people who have used it, and it hasn't been true for ages...on Debian. But Debian isn't that hyped now, is it? And it doesn't get glowing reviews, because of the text-mode installer and the fact that you don't get a neatly polished GUI straight out of the box.
Yup, eye-candy seems to matter more than functionality and correctness. To make matters worse, the "reviewers" focus on eye-candy sort of punishes those distros that put a lot of effort on infrastructure (like, for instance, a working package management system with packages that actually works).
Yet another "review" of yet another Linux distro consisting mostly of screenshots Gnome/KDE along with the installer. They are all so very superficial, and quite frankly, quite booring. I'm pretty sure that the distro maintainers are not that happy themselves with these "reviews".
As an example, this is almost never seen in a review: Upgrading a machine (desktop/server/whatever) from and older version to the newest version and reviewing that. Or reviewing the package lifecycle in a version of a distro (does the upgrades work? breakes anything? Are upgrades properly tested by the distro/package maintainers? etc etc).
I would guess this is the case today for a large application.
There is one crucial difference: the restrictive Solaris license that is designed to keep Sun entirely in control. With a *BSD you can fork, and that has happened on occasion.
This "terroris threat" is used to scare people and thus make it easier to introduce new draconian laws, and of course, help the Republicans stay in power. Noticed that now there are so few public warnings of new terrorist threats and increasing the national "security level"? Just wait for election time....
Actually, the US invasion of Iraq and it's heavy handed tactics there significantly increased the threats from terrorists. Before the invasion there was no terrorists coming out or based in Iraq, but now it's a breeding ground for it.
have you noticed the small holes on the filter? By covering those, you'll inhale more smoke and thus more nicotine. The tobacco industry made research on where to put those holes so that people will generall cover them.
It's all about getting people hooked on nicotine addiction in order to sell more tobacco. This is a industry with long established practice of lying (including to the US Congress), faking research data and keeping "unwelcome" research from ever getting public.
Bullshit. Once you have physical access to the PC you can compromise it.
Proprietary Qt libraries? I've got news for you: QT is GPL licensed as well.
Huge chunks of any Linux distribution is GPL, and since the QT GUI toolkit is GPL as well, what's your problem?
I'm sure that KDE will continue to work fine on SuSE, but I wonder if Novell will provide less resources to KDE development as such.
Can't help myself from quoting Theo de Raadt (in an otherwise unrelated post):
He said something to the effect that he replaced multi CPU with singel CPU if he could. He wrote that in in the last year or so.
Also, most desktop workloads benefit from having two CPUs, it helps responsiveness quite a bit (even on OSes with good schedulers like Linux). There is overhead for the locking in the kernel, but the benefit almost always outweighs the cost.
It helps with responsiveness, not performance, in general. There are programs hogging the CPU, so there multi-core helps (I'm working on such a system daily as a developer). More precicely, we have two threads needing much CPU but part of the application needs more that their share (hello Sun Java) of resources.