I haven't used XFCE, but last time I looked at it, it was a CDE clone. To me that says "clutter". A busy control panel and icons that minimize to the desktop is visual clutter.
Hopefully they haven't cloned too many of CDE's mistakes...
Just give it a try. It's a nice desktop that works well on older hardware, like my PII laptop. However, the panel and taskbar is not integrated, which is a shame since I'm wasting some screen real estate.....
Some people also don't think that Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine was the world's first computer.
Some people also don't think that Earth is not flat.
Why don't distros use buffer overflow protection?
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13 remotely triggerable vulnerabilities were discovered in the multiprotocol packet sniffer Ethereal that allow remote compromise.
Thanks to ProPolice on OpenBSD, these stack overflows will only lead to a crash, not a root exploit on this OS.
Gentoo has a project called "Hardened Gentoo" where the stack overflow would just chrash the Ethereal.It's time the bigger Linux distros implement similar technology (that exist as PaX).
The analysis explains why these ideas are dangerous and ill considered from legal, philosophical, and technical points of view. Here is the post to this report on CircleID along with some commentaries and link to the entire RFC 3675."
...to read why showing a nipple on US TV is immoral, while executing the said owner of the nipple and selling the nipple is a good deed.
It's always a surreal experience to read some US citizens blabber about neuclear war as if it not was a total destruction of civilizations as we know it. Fucking moron : your family will die just as readily as mine.
US leaders before Bush II understood this, and that is why we had some great (but still lacking) treaties in order to reduce hostility. "One moron to bind us all into darkness", and I suppose you can guess where I got that pharpahrase from.
Erh, there is very much a difference. I rather have Bush I as President if I was made the choice, but to compare him to the Talibans is a bit too much.....
The PATRIOT act, and the attempted introduction of PATRIOT II shows disturbing trends. Not to mention the gross violation of human rights and international law that occurs on the US base on Cuba. Aschcroft, anyone care to comment?
I'm most certainly not alone in the view that his father was much more a credit to USA than the son. The son has managed to make old allies fearful, and downright scare enemies. And all his lying, what a disgrace.
I just pray that he gets elected out of office, or we have another four horrid dark years. All that work so many put into make the world a safer place, and then have Bush II elected. I'm disgusted.
I'm so torn on this subject. It's something that I think has so many valid points on either side. If I plan on watching something like the Grammy's or some other award shows (or the Super Bowl halftime show) I don't at all expect to be seeing or hearing some of the crap I have seen. With that, I can see how regulations and stricter rules are a must. But then I see how far government agencies can take things...
As an European I find this view quite perplexing : you object to swearing and naked breasts on TV, but don't mind orgies in violence and killings.
Anything anyone can say is offensive to someone. Expect to see this used against all sorts of things that no sane person would think of as 'profane'.
This has already happened in a different context : the Bush II Administration labels anybody disagreeing with their foreign policies as "unamerican" and "unpatriotic". Since Bush II is a born-again Christian, this is a new weapon for oppression of civil liberties.
I have to wonder what's driving Net's adoption in the embedded space. Is it technical merit, or the the BSD license allowing vendors to keep their changes closed?
I've often wondered why some companies choose to use Linux when they are unwilling to show their source code. It clearly has not been to the advantage of the companies involved to be exposed as not complying with the GPL. It is risky business decision to choose to ignore license issues.
Perhaps more attention will be given to the *BSD family with it's technically very good OS and a free license.
I think the point isn't to be told about the vulnerability, since good admins read security/relevant lists that are the appropriate place to be informed quick of such things.
I think the point of this news is to discuss about this vulnerability.
If one really want to discuss this, then there are other forums/mailinglists that are better suited. Even though many Slashdotters actually know what they talk about when posting, they are drowned by the noise from the unwashed masses.
The VPN could secure my data going to my office, but what about the data going elsewhere? What about my POP3 password for my personal email account that I just transmitted through the air?
For starter, you could use a POP3 server that use encryption. Courier-pop3 server, for instance, supports both TLS (over the usual port 110) and SSL using port 993.
The Mozilla Thunderbird (free and nice client) and Outlook can use POP3 over SSL, so your POP3 password is encrypted. KMail and Sylpheed-claws supports both.
As for sending mail, you can configure your mail server to use STARTTLS, and once again, no passwords in the clear.
If your favourite POP3 server does not offer encryption, ditch it.
If you want to test encryption, get a free account at www.myrealbox.com that support various encryptions. Fire up your tcpdump, and try sniff the mailtraffic.
Re:I call -5 on the story itself
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You forgot the most important category :
-2 Ignorant.
Oil on Sedna? On a dirty, utterly cold rock on the very edge of the Solar system? On a rock that even NASA hesitate to call a planet? Let me guess, you are the product of the US high school system with intellectual skills honed to perfection by watching Fox News?
That is not what you said, and your other post in response to the AC clearly shows that you do not understand
difference between distributing a program versus linking with respect to GPL license compliance.
It is entirely within the GPL license for me to
distribute a GPL program along with my propertiary
application and don't open source my application, as long as I don't link with it. So how do I communicate with said GPL program? I can use TCP/IP, sockets, or even plain old text files.
The GPL does not permit you to distribute GPL:ed code together with a prorietary product. If you want to do this, you obviously cannot use the GPL:ed version of MySQL, so this is not a restriction as much as a clarification.
What are you talking about? And the moderatores are modding this as +5 Insightful/Interesting. Jeez.
Why not use PostgreSQL with it's much more liberal BSD license?
MySQL AB claims that the server is released under GPL, but then they add a restriction on distribution that hardly is compatible with GPL, as can be seen on
MySQL download page :
You need to purchase commercial non-GPL MySQL licenses:
* If you distribute MySQL Software with your non open source software,
PF: The OpenBSD Packet Filter
shows that it is possible to have a very powerful packet filter with easily understandable and readable filter rules. Smoothwall has a following because the IPtables firewall scripts quickly becomes unreadable and hard to understand with it's sucky syntax.
One of the reasons for using OpenBSD to replace my Linux firwall, was the very readable PF firewall rules. To be honest, IPtables rule syntax sucks, and projects like Shorewall is a testament to that.
Re:I can't stand it anymore!
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Let's take a look at some facts:
- ALL trojans that hijack machines run Microsoft operating systems
- ALL webbrowsers that run unwanted executables to hijack machines come from Microssoft
- ALL harmful viruses of the last five years EXCLUSIVELY attack Microsoft programs
- ALL current worms that bring down machines are targetted to infect - you guessed it.
You are either terribly ignorant, or just another troll.
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Hopefully they haven't cloned too many of CDE's mistakes...
Just give it a try. It's a nice desktop that works well on older hardware, like my PII laptop. However, the panel and taskbar is not integrated, which is a shame since I'm wasting some screen real estate.....
Some people also don't think that Earth is not flat.
Thanks to ProPolice on OpenBSD, these stack overflows will only lead to a crash, not a root exploit on this OS.
Gentoo has a project called "Hardened Gentoo" where the stack overflow would just chrash the Ethereal.It's time the bigger Linux distros implement similar technology (that exist as PaX).
...to read why showing a nipple on US TV is immoral, while executing the said owner of the nipple and selling the nipple is a good deed.
US leaders before Bush II understood this, and that is why we had some great (but still lacking) treaties in order to reduce hostility. "One moron to bind us all into darkness", and I suppose you can guess where I got that pharpahrase from.
I suppose it must be considered a progress for you to laugh about it, but I lived though those times and I'm still scared.
Erh, there is very much a difference. I rather have Bush I as President if I was made the choice, but to compare him to the Talibans is a bit too much.....
The PATRIOT act, and the attempted introduction of PATRIOT II shows disturbing trends. Not to mention the gross violation of human rights and international law that occurs on the US base on Cuba. Aschcroft, anyone care to comment?
I'm most certainly not alone in the view that his father was much more a credit to USA than the son. The son has managed to make old allies fearful, and downright scare enemies. And all his lying, what a disgrace.
I just pray that he gets elected out of office, or we have another four horrid dark years. All that work so many put into make the world a safer place, and then have Bush II elected. I'm disgusted.
That's why you spend time on Slashot?
Just kidding, my baby is now sleeping ;-)
As an European I find this view quite perplexing : you object to swearing and naked breasts on TV, but don't mind orgies in violence and killings.
This has already happened in a different context : the Bush II Administration labels anybody disagreeing with their foreign policies as "unamerican" and "unpatriotic". Since Bush II is a born-again Christian, this is a new weapon for oppression of civil liberties.
I've often wondered why some companies choose to use Linux when they are unwilling to show their source code. It clearly has not been to the advantage of the companies involved to be exposed as not complying with the GPL. It is risky business decision to choose to ignore license issues.
Perhaps more attention will be given to the *BSD family with it's technically very good OS and a free license.
If one really want to discuss this, then there are other forums/mailinglists that are better suited. Even though many Slashdotters actually know what they talk about when posting, they are drowned by the noise from the unwashed masses.
For starter, you could use a POP3 server that use encryption. Courier-pop3 server, for instance, supports both TLS (over the usual port 110) and SSL using port 993.
The Mozilla Thunderbird (free and nice client) and Outlook can use POP3 over SSL, so your POP3 password is encrypted. KMail and Sylpheed-claws supports both.
As for sending mail, you can configure your mail server to use STARTTLS, and once again, no passwords in the clear.
If your favourite POP3 server does not offer encryption, ditch it.
If you want to test encryption, get a free account at www.myrealbox.com that support various encryptions. Fire up your tcpdump, and try sniff the mailtraffic.
You forgot the most important category : -2 Ignorant.
Oil on Sedna? On a dirty, utterly cold rock on the very edge of the Solar system? On a rock that even NASA hesitate to call a planet? Let me guess, you are the product of the US high school system with intellectual skills honed to perfection by watching Fox News?
It is entirely within the GPL license for me to distribute a GPL program along with my propertiary application and don't open source my application, as long as I don't link with it. So how do I communicate with said GPL program? I can use TCP/IP, sockets, or even plain old text files.
What are you talking about? And the moderatores are modding this as +5 Insightful/Interesting. Jeez.
Indeed, and PHP users caring about GPL should worry about the tight coupling with a database server that has restrictions on binary distribution.
MySQL AB claims that the server is released under GPL, but then they add a restriction on distribution that hardly is compatible with GPL, as can be seen on MySQL download page :
You mean that "same" IPtable rule
"iptables -A INPUT -i $ext_if -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,ACK SYN -s $any_addr -d $ext_if_addr -dport $tcp_services -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT"
is more readable?
Smoothwall was never intended to be an enterprise type of firewall. But yes, it's still the same ugly packet filter at the bottom.
PF: The OpenBSD Packet Filter shows that it is possible to have a very powerful packet filter with easily understandable and readable filter rules. Smoothwall has a following because the IPtables firewall scripts quickly becomes unreadable and hard to understand with it's sucky syntax.
Then I'm sure you'll enjoy reading the PF Example : Firewall for Home or Small Office from the very good PF FAQ.
One of the reasons for using OpenBSD to replace my Linux firwall, was the very readable PF firewall rules. To be honest, IPtables rule syntax sucks, and projects like Shorewall is a testament to that.
You are either terribly ignorant, or just another troll.