ok it has some problems that need to be worked out... but what are the alternatives... is this story meant to cause people to say "OMG M$ was right better contact my local sales rep" or is the community slacking???
OpenBSD has implemented
security similar to grsecurity. Note that this is part of OpenBSD operating system, so the user does not need to do anything to use it. Contrast this to grsecurity that is a set of patches against Linux kernel.
As far as I know, only Gentoo and Mandrake supports grsecurity.
Erh, I spelled that wrong. There shouldn't be any letter e. I wonder how many/.'ers has read the book by Heinlein, or even know what TANSTAAFL stands for.
and apparently their detection of license keys has greatly improved... my key is invalid.
Anyone else have this problem using their obscure key of choice? SP2 installed fine a few months ago.
Hmh, I neither have a license nor the need for such programs :
Because the idiology of the left is based more on feelings and less on grounded logic. So naturally, feelings will capture more attention and thus the audience of a forum.
I think you just proved his point about/. average IQ moving leftward on the Bell curve;-)
Personally I generally do reboot because I'm lazy. But if you're really concerned with up-time it can be done.
Reboot has the nice property of actually testing that the server works after a power outage. Now, Microsoft Windows is a bit excessive on the need for rebooting, but that's another story.-)
Its only a problem if your an idiot and didn't read the licence that Java is distributed under. Also did you know that your 'right' to GPL software can be revoked as well if you don't follow the terms of the GPL? Is that not also a problem by your statement here?
Far from it, really. Sun can, more or less, at any moment revoke the license at their own discretion. This is not the case with BSD or GPL license.
But a very nice reminder of what SUN can do to those using Java.
So...what do you think about.NET?
Someone modded you as "+1 Funny":) On the more serious note, Microsoft does not claim.NET to be Open Source Run Everywhere(TM) like Sun. They do have some patents that are troublesome for the Mono project. Appart from the patents issue, Mono is GPL and thus less risky. I don't use Mono myself, though.
Back in the day when hard-drives were measured in MB not GB, there were tape disks that can backup GBs at a time. So it was possible to backup an entire harddrive relatively cheaply and easily. How the hell am I suppose to backup 500GB?!? That's over 120 DVD-Rs, 20 Blue-Rays, 700 CD-Rs...you get the idea. I would imagine, I'd need some sort of special hardware just to do something simple like backing up. Jeez, do I need to buy another 500GB as a backup drive?
Sure you can do a tape backup! It just cost much more than most./ is willing to pay for a home system.
Seriously, the boring details of relability and backups are not exactly exiting to most slashdotters. Until the harddisk suddenly fail;-)
Seagate Cheetah U320 SCSI drives are available in 15,000 RPM models. Much faster than that and you have problems with the spinning media deforming due to the stress.
And the noise and heat that goes with it:) But it is much more reliable than most IDE/SATA drivers, with the WD Raptor drive as an exception.
that my DVD players/writers come obsolete anytime soon. I use them for writing data, not playing/recording movies. Besides, users don't like forced obsolence of hardware anyway.
I've seen your immature post here on/. now and then. You are representing that company, perhaps started it? In case you are part of that company, it's clear that your posts is only doing damage to it. Perhaps that's your point?
Justin Gibbs, The foundations founder and financial officer said yesterday that this was just a case of bad communication and that it was already resolved. Poul-Henning
But a very nice reminder of what SUN can do to those using Java.
The SUN Java is NOT under a BSD like license! Of course, OpenBSD will never agree to the terms offered by SUN, so here you must manually fetch the relevant files from the SUN and agree to their obnoxius license. On OpenBSD the port tells you where to download the relevant files as part of installation :
Java 1.4_2 Makefile
My guess is that FreeBSD has to something similar.
It you wait for DHCP to fail, 30 seconds or so, you can tell it a static IP number.
Just to nitpick a little:-) You might have a small network where you've configured the DHCP server to hand out IP adresses only in a certain range (say, 10.0.1.x for x > 10). Thus servers that should have "static" IP address can co-exist with machines that has dynamic IP adresses. This is the case I've got at work.
I can't say I think the NX bit is really that big a deal, it only makes things a little harder when you can't execute code on the stack since a stack overflow lets you return program execution to any address on the system you want. Often a cleverly designed system call or another non-stack user controlled data structure will still allow the attacker to gain control.
OpenBSD uses the NX bit to implement a memory policy forcing a page to be either writable or executable, but not both. This will make your example exploit much harder to do. On i386 OpenBSD used some other trick to implement this policy, but NX makes it much easier.
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In any case, I was replying to your reply to grandparent post
For Windows system it's best to use a good cleaner ;-)
Sure, I make mistakes, as everyone else. But I try to make the mistakes on a test machine instead of a production server.
The point was just to show that SecDog is very good at what they do.
Secure Dog Hosting is using OpenBSD for all it's infrastructure. SecDog has been no 1 on Netcraft for longest uptime.
OpenBSD has implemented security similar to grsecurity. Note that this is part of OpenBSD operating system, so the user does not need to do anything to use it. Contrast this to grsecurity that is a set of patches against Linux kernel.
As far as I know, only Gentoo and Mandrake supports grsecurity.
A better question is : Will they release documentation so that free drivers can be made?
Erh, I spelled that wrong. There shouldn't be any letter e. I wonder how many /.'ers has read the book by Heinlein, or even know what TANSTAAFL stands for.
Anyone else have this problem using their obscure key of choice? SP2 installed fine a few months ago.
Hmh, I neither have a license nor the need for such programs :
I'm sure you, as a fine Slashdotter, are able to configure a free and legal copy of an OS.
With the number of recent Linux local root exploit, perhaps such a tool is needed ;-)
I think you just proved his point about /. average IQ moving leftward on the Bell curve ;-)
Reboot has the nice property of actually testing that the server works after a power outage. Now, Microsoft Windows is a bit excessive on the need for rebooting, but that's another story .-)
Far from it, really. Sun can, more or less, at any moment revoke the license at their own discretion. This is not the case with BSD or GPL license.
Someone modded you as "+1 Funny" :) On the more serious note, Microsoft does not claim .NET to be Open Source Run Everywhere(TM) like Sun. They do have some patents that are troublesome for the Mono project. Appart from the patents issue, Mono is GPL and thus less risky. I don't use Mono myself, though.
Sure you can do a tape backup! It just cost much more than most ./ is willing to pay for a home system.
Seriously, the boring details of relability and backups are not exactly exiting to most slashdotters. Until the harddisk suddenly fail ;-)
And the noise and heat that goes with it :) But it is much more reliable than most IDE/SATA drivers, with the WD Raptor drive as an exception.
that my DVD players/writers come obsolete anytime soon. I use them for writing data, not playing/recording movies. Besides, users don't like forced obsolence of hardware anyway.
I've seen your immature post here on /. now and then. You are representing that company, perhaps started it? In case you are part of that company, it's clear that your posts is only doing damage to it. Perhaps that's your point?
But a very nice reminder of what SUN can do to those using Java.
My guess is that FreeBSD has to something similar.
Just to nitpick a little :-) You might have a small network where you've configured the DHCP server to hand out IP adresses only in a certain range (say, 10.0.1.x for x > 10). Thus servers that should have "static" IP address can co-exist with machines that has dynamic IP adresses. This is the case I've got at work.
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OpenBSD uses the NX bit to implement a memory policy forcing a page to be either writable or executable, but not both. This will make your example exploit much harder to do. On i386 OpenBSD used some other trick to implement this policy, but NX makes it much easier.
You can check out Theos slides for a description.
I think that the Europeans feel that their salary is real enough, even if it's paid in Euro.....
Is it only the beta that is open, but the release will be closed i.e. you have to pay for it?
MS does not use the crappy Visual Source Safe, but an adapted Perforce