The Republicans are systematically dismantling any heritage of the New Deal. They do it by inducing the worst ever budget deficit, with an enormous trade deficit, and giving stupendous tax "relieves" to the super rich. Not to mention the obscene amount of money used on the military. In no time in human history has a power been this much stronger than anybody else, including the Cold War.
and contrary too what many believes, it actually does happen. FreeBSD has now imported CARP and the dhcp client from OpenBSD. The OpenBSD packet filter is also updated on FreeBSD. Just in this status report.
OpenBSD has imported the 802.11 wireless network infrastructure from FreeBSD, as well as the Atheros driver, among other things last year. Now, OpenBSD is reverse-engingeering the binary HAL part of the Atheros driver, so I wonder if FreeBSD will dith "their" HAL when this is completed.
The other annoyance I have is the taskbar taking up so much space and looking ugly unless it's on the opposite end of the screen from the panel. I almost wish it had a panel more like KDE's, with a task switcher as part of it.
What you are looking for is the taskbar-plugin. Then you can just remove the old taskbar. This is what I do.
I'm using xfce on a PII/300MHz laptop. It works very well, looks nice, loads fast and is not a resource hog. I've tried both KDE and Gnome on the laptop, but I can't stand the loooong loading times.
I'd like to see more speed, but capacity hardly matters to anybody these days, now that 200+ gig drives can be had for ridiculously cheap.
What I would like is cheap and reliable harddisks. Too often I've got problems with IDE disk that starts failing for no good reason. When I buy a harddisk it seems like lottery if the drive will last or not. (Yes, I do cool the drives)
So, I've finally bought a good SCSI controller and is in the process of buying SCSI HDD for my home servers. For my servers 74GB is plenty of space, and I don't need a 300GB unreliable harddisk.
While I agree that the best security people are probably the ones who used to break the system (aka virus writers and crackers) why does this need to be considered interesting news?
Why? It takes different kind of skills to keep a system up and running nice and secure that to crack it. As an anology : Someone very good at blowing up buildings is probably not that good at actually build one. Sure, a good demolisher need good knowledge about construction, but it's not the same. Really.
In all fairness, this is not such a bad article. Just because everyone that reads Slashdot has the oppurtunity to be well informed about these issues, doesn't make his interview any less valid for the millions of non-slashdot readers that are not so well informed.
What makes you think that Slashdotters are so well informed? In a earlier thread covering OpenBSD acitvism to get Intel (among others) to have free distribution of binary firmware for wireless chipsets, I was surprised that so many did not know the difference between binary firmware uploaded to a chipset and drivers that are part of a kernel.
And it looks like it wants to more or less shut down the host PC. It's be more interesting if it was accessible via a terminal services, VNC or X window itself.
Come to think of it, a couple of friends have a Sharp Zaurus and it's SSH-able when it's sitting in its cradle...
This isn't meant as a troll but has it never occurred to anyone that it would be prudent to make it usable for Linux users? As someone who was weened on UNIX, KDE and Gnome are practically unusable. They're overly complex and confusing IMO and it's an increasing source of irritation that many of the good applications that are around today assume that they'll be ran in one of these "desktop" environments.
Then you'll find
xfce usable :
What is Xfce 4.2 ?
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for unix-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use.
Xfce 4.2 embodies the traditional UNIX philosophy of modularity and re-usability. It consists of a number of components that together provide the full functionality of the desktop environment. They are packaged separately and you can pick and choose from the available packages to create the best personal working environment.
Another priority of Xfce 4 is adhereance to standards, specifically those defined at freedesktop.org.
On an older laptop I use xfce because KDE/Gnome has such a long time to load.
Agreed.
Now that the PC finally has a standard external storage bus, such discussions are remarkably silly.
Just get a USB disk and copy things to it.
Now, take that USB disk and drop it from 1 meter a couple of times. Even better, drop it to the floor while writing data. Hardisk proably damaged, and backup unreliable. Granted, USB disk backup is better than none at all. If only tape backup devices weren't so damn expensive.....
Restoring is a pain when the backups are incomplete, or backup media is faulty (quite common). Instead of have a backup of the complete system, they just backup user data chancing that reinstalling the OS and then restore should be a breeze. Ouch! Now they have to install numerous vendor patches, as well as other undocumented tweaks done to the system before restoring. Yup, restoring here can be painful. The only funny thing about parent post is the moderators modding the parent as "Funny".
In OpenBSD current there is (alot of) work to enhance the portsystem with a portupdate functionality as well, and hopefully this will be completed before release of OpenBSD 3.7. Looking forward to that functionality.
As for DragonFly, it's my impression that they want to write their own, but for the moment they piggyback on FreeBSD ports system. I think that DragonFly rejected the other ports systems as inadequate for their needs (in an interview with Dillon).
NetBSD getting PAM is big news though -- some of the flame wars between the BSDAuth folks and the PAM folks in the NetBSD community were legendary for their ability to burn unsuspecting posters.
PAM has had a some exploits. The latest OpenSSH (portable, not OpenbSD) exploit was in the PAM code.
Not really. SMTP was designed a long time ago where there was little need for sender authentication. At that time the "Internet" (ARPAnet) was much smaller and friendlier than todays predatory Internet. Few at that time could imagine what Internat has become today. No need to blame those designers for lack of sender authentication.
Now, the design of WEP is an entirely different matter. It was very well known that a design process of a new encryption protocoll should be public, but the designers decided to do this in secret. This was a bad decision going agains best practices.
I live in Sweden, and I bought this coordless phone for use here. The manual are in different languages, but my guess only the German one is available online. A friend of mine has a 2.4GHz telephone that he regularly curses for interfering with the wireless network. So, I wanted to avoid his trouble.
Soon (I hope) OpenBSD will have suport for dual band wirelss cards using a Atheros chipset, and then I'll upgrade from 802.11b to 802.11a. Mostly for speed, for otherwise 802.11b works well for me.
I don't know the status of 802.11a in Linux right now, but if it's good then I'd recommend going to that. It may cost more, but it's faster, it's seperate from a, and relatively unused even by people with systems that would fully support it otherwise.
The Atheros cards has HostAP mode (like the Prism chipets).
OpenBSD is working on a free
driver for these chipset, and 802.11a (AR5210 chipset) is working. There is work in progress for chipsets AR5211 and AR5212, with AR5210 implemented. What OpenBSD does is to take the FreeBSD driver, and replace the binary-only HAL component.
A friend of mine recently got one of those new fancy 2.6ghz cordless phones, and was calling me and complaining that his wireless kept going out. I just said "phone...". He then put 2 and 2 together and realized that every time his phone rang, he lost his signal.
For this very reason I choosed a cordless phone that is using the frequency 1880MHz to 1990MHz. The phone's base station is separate from the handset (that has it's own charger), and is placed in a closet along with the ADSL modem and an old Dell used as Internet gateway and wireless access point.
At this point I'm seriously considering returning my Xmas present and just getting the next model up, which does 108Mbps over 802.11a 5.8GHz, thus bypassing 2.4Ghz entirely . . .
The 802.11a devices are more expensive, and less used for that reason. You can buy dual band cards that supports both 802.11a and 802.11b/g, which is handy if you have a laptop.
The 802.11a has more channels available, depending on country, than 802.11b. And the distance between the allowed channels are greater as well. The downside is that a 802.11a signal does not carry as far as 802.11b/g, but that might not be a problem for home use.
You still have to know the name of what you want to see its man page. What if you don't remember or never learned ifup--you're not going to just guess it--and man networking will get you nowhere.
Manual pages are not intended to give the big picture : books and manual pages complement each other. A too detailed book will easily look like a printout of all the manual pages, and not much readable.
That said, some OS (like *BSD) has better man pages than others.
that's bullcrap that's propogated by people too lazy to even check. For the record sshd, fingerd, identd, and sendmail are enabled by default
Time with some corrections for a default OpenBSD install;-) First fingerd is not started, and has not for quite some time. Sendmail is started, but only listen on localhost. From OpenBSD 3.6 you get the question during install if you want to enable sshd. Via inetd is the following enabled : ident, comsat (mail submission), daytime and time. syslog is enabled, but don't listen on UDP by default.
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The Zaurus port is very new, and not yet finished. For instance, X11 is on the TODO list.
More info about the Zaurus port here.
XML is not suited to everything under sun, though some people mistakenly thinks so. It's just one of those famed Silver Bullets.
Oh yeah, crisis in Social Security my ass.
OpenBSD has imported the 802.11 wireless network infrastructure from FreeBSD, as well as the Atheros driver, among other things last year. Now, OpenBSD is reverse-engingeering the binary HAL part of the Atheros driver, so I wonder if FreeBSD will dith "their" HAL when this is completed.
And, not to forget the code sharing with NetBSD.
One of the many times whre one whish there was a moderation of "-1 Ignorant".
What you are looking for is the taskbar-plugin. Then you can just remove the old taskbar. This is what I do.
I'm using xfce on a PII/300MHz laptop. It works very well, looks nice, loads fast and is not a resource hog. I've tried both KDE and Gnome on the laptop, but I can't stand the loooong loading times.
What I would like is cheap and reliable harddisks. Too often I've got problems with IDE disk that starts failing for no good reason. When I buy a harddisk it seems like lottery if the drive will last or not. (Yes, I do cool the drives)
So, I've finally bought a good SCSI controller and is in the process of buying SCSI HDD for my home servers. For my servers 74GB is plenty of space, and I don't need a 300GB unreliable harddisk.
Why? It takes different kind of skills to keep a system up and running nice and secure that to crack it. As an anology : Someone very good at blowing up buildings is probably not that good at actually build one. Sure, a good demolisher need good knowledge about construction, but it's not the same. Really.
Translation : WOW! I'm a moron!
What makes you think that Slashdotters are so well informed? In a earlier thread covering OpenBSD acitvism to get Intel (among others) to have free distribution of binary firmware for wireless chipsets, I was surprised that so many did not know the difference between binary firmware uploaded to a chipset and drivers that are part of a kernel.
The developers of OpenBSD is porting OpenBSD to Sharp Zaurus
Then you'll find xfce usable :
What is Xfce 4.2 ?
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for unix-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use.
Xfce 4.2 embodies the traditional UNIX philosophy of modularity and re-usability. It consists of a number of components that together provide the full functionality of the desktop environment. They are packaged separately and you can pick and choose from the available packages to create the best personal working environment.
Another priority of Xfce 4 is adhereance to standards, specifically those defined at freedesktop.org.
On an older laptop I use xfce because KDE/Gnome has such a long time to load.
Now, take that USB disk and drop it from 1 meter a couple of times. Even better, drop it to the floor while writing data. Hardisk proably damaged, and backup unreliable. Granted, USB disk backup is better than none at all. If only tape backup devices weren't so damn expensive.....
Restoring is a pain when the backups are incomplete, or backup media is faulty (quite common). Instead of have a backup of the complete system, they just backup user data chancing that reinstalling the OS and then restore should be a breeze. Ouch! Now they have to install numerous vendor patches, as well as other undocumented tweaks done to the system before restoring. Yup, restoring here can be painful. The only funny thing about parent post is the moderators modding the parent as "Funny".
As for DragonFly, it's my impression that they want to write their own, but for the moment they piggyback on FreeBSD ports system. I think that DragonFly rejected the other ports systems as inadequate for their needs (in an interview with Dillon).
PAM has had a some exploits. The latest OpenSSH (portable, not OpenbSD) exploit was in the PAM code.
Not really. SMTP was designed a long time ago where there was little need for sender authentication. At that time the "Internet" (ARPAnet) was much smaller and friendlier than todays predatory Internet. Few at that time could imagine what Internat has become today. No need to blame those designers for lack of sender authentication.
Now, the design of WEP is an entirely different matter. It was very well known that a design process of a new encryption protocoll should be public, but the designers decided to do this in secret. This was a bad decision going agains best practices.
Soon (I hope) OpenBSD will have suport for dual band wirelss cards using a Atheros chipset, and then I'll upgrade from 802.11b to 802.11a. Mostly for speed, for otherwise 802.11b works well for me.
Sure, but the manufacturer clearly has one. The cordless is a Gigaset SL740 , and for frequency, have a look in the manual at page 62.
The Atheros cards has HostAP mode (like the Prism chipets). OpenBSD is working on a free driver for these chipset, and 802.11a (AR5210 chipset) is working. There is work in progress for chipsets AR5211 and AR5212, with AR5210 implemented. What OpenBSD does is to take the FreeBSD driver, and replace the binary-only HAL component.
For this very reason I choosed a cordless phone that is using the frequency 1880MHz to 1990MHz. The phone's base station is separate from the handset (that has it's own charger), and is placed in a closet along with the ADSL modem and an old Dell used as Internet gateway and wireless access point.
The 802.11a devices are more expensive, and less used for that reason. You can buy dual band cards that supports both 802.11a and 802.11b/g, which is handy if you have a laptop.
The 802.11a has more channels available, depending on country, than 802.11b. And the distance between the allowed channels are greater as well. The downside is that a 802.11a signal does not carry as far as 802.11b/g, but that might not be a problem for home use.
Manual pages are not intended to give the big picture : books and manual pages complement each other. A too detailed book will easily look like a printout of all the manual pages, and not much readable.
That said, some OS (like *BSD) has better man pages than others.
Time with some corrections for a default OpenBSD install ;-) First fingerd is not started, and has not for quite some time. Sendmail is started, but only listen on localhost. From OpenBSD 3.6 you get the question during install if you want to enable sshd. Via inetd is the following enabled : ident, comsat (mail submission), daytime and time. syslog is enabled, but don't listen on UDP by default.