. Hope you won't take it as a troll, but in fact, I think that only anti-microsoft people will matter with that type of articles, based on out-of-their-context sentences.
This is Slashdot where in-the-context sentences are the exception.
The quote was an exact cut&paste from the wired article. Are you claiming that the wired article misquoted Varadarajan?
There is no mention of patents in the O'Reilly MacOSX conference article :
He asked whether the details of the Supercomputer would be published. The reply was that in addition to documentation and papers, the plans are to return the changes to MVAPICH to the open source project so that it would be freely available. There are also plans to open source the caching code and Varadarajan expects that Mellanox's code will be available.
Varadarajan is indeed going to publish/open source the documentation and source, which is clear if you RTFA. The parent is giving a false quotation, and is clearly a troll.
it's not surprise that cuts has to be done in order to preserve the tax cuts for the ultra rich. The illegal war in Iraq has been very costly in terms of lives lost and in massive damages to Iraqi infrastructure, and ordinary Americans has to pay for this with money and blood.
Cuttings in space programs would probably seem less risky (in terms of reelection) than messing with cuts in social services, health benefits and pensions in the present economic climate.
Well, yes, there are so many immature Leanux kiddoes that can't handle the fact that a *BSD is actually a mature OS, and not just another kernel+patch.
Why are you North Americans (not Canadians) using NYT all the time for "information"? There are other sources for information (even in US), and no, Fox News don't qualify.
Corporate ho's. You sold your soul long time ago. Go away. You are irrelevant!
Sluts! CmdrTaco. You are the worst of them all. Slut! You might as well fuck for money! Better business than this shit. Stop influencing youngsters!
Hey kiddo, did your mummy pay for that low Slashdot ID when you bought it on eBay?
Once you start using a BSD-based firewall system, you'll never want to use Linux again.
Indeed, the syntax of iptables rules leaves alot to be desired, to put it mildly. I much prefer PF over iptables, and easy syntax is one of the reasons for that preference. And I've been informed that iptables are not stateful without a kernel patch.
In fact if you go to http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/ you can see they keep track of free/net/open BSD vulnerabilities too.
The most recent openBSD advisory is dated 8/12/2002
The site is most certainly not up to date with OpenBSD! And even the advisoraries listed are not complete for their time period. This is not a good sign of a site supposedly devoted to security.
Reading most of these posts here, I think the mere existance of FreeBSD is insulting to Linux users. For all their talk of freedom, they just can't stand it when someone uses a different OS.
Yup, freedom to choose is a human right, as long as you choose the same as I did. Most Linux users don't believe so, of course. But/. BSD forum has more than it's share of trolls.....
(1) some administrators apparently use this to send some notifications to their users about network outages or whatever. I have no sympathy for these administrators since it's absolutely trivial to write a replacement. Shouldn't be more than thirty lines of code for both client and server that use unadorned TCP and you can be damn sure that thirty lines of code you write won't contain an idiotic buffer overflow and you can also implement access controls to ensure your replacement won't be abused by other employees (whereas messenger accepts messages from anywhere and does not inform you of their origin).
I gather that you are not greatly experienced in programming and system administration?
On a side note, i've been toying around with the new.NET stuff and it seems that their hope is to make the system more secure by basically having all the programs emulated by the framework, therefore nothing actually changes the OS, you guys think that's a good way to do things?
The authors of
Stopping the Wily Hacker certainly made their view concerning the.NET security framework known. To paraphrase from memory : While the security features of.NET are many, the framework is complex, which is not an advantage in security. In fact, the book describing the security features are over 900 pages long, with many "Don't do this!" interspersed on the pages. In the authors view, quite alot of rope is handed out for you to hang yourself with.
Awesome, we'll get even more syscalls! Linus is going to love this..
The article is about syscalls in the OpenBSD kernel. I don't think that Linus is very interested in recieving patches for new syscalls in a BSD kernel.
I have never understood how this breed of cards exists to this day. Really... the difference between a "stock" GeForce and a workstation class Quadro GeForce... just doesnt justify the cost difference anymore.
Just take a model of some hundred thousand triangles, and render them as wireframe. The gaming card ("stock" as you call it) will just slow down to a crawl. Add a few clipping planes, and the frame rate gets even worse. But the Quadro cards does indeed cater this common usage in CAD, and charge accordingly.
Now, you may say it's pretty much the same hardware, and you might not be that far wrong. A couple of years ago you could "upgrade" a GeForce card to a Quadro card just by hacking some software. Don't think that is possible anymore.
But your Postfix filter does a REJECT on the type of payload delivered by SoBig: an attachment with the extension pif. So, in truth, you are sending a reply to a forged FROM address. The Postfix rules are general rules, and when the shit hit the fans you got to change your rules to the situation.
What you should do, of course, is to DISCARD e-mail with.pif attachments to stop making the SoBig virus less of an impact.
How about instead of blaming the game makers, let's blame the PARENTS for
1: being irresonsible and leaving unlocked weapons around.
2: not teaching the kids gun safety
3: not knowing what the kids were up to
While we're at it, why not go after the organization (NRA) that opposes just about any form of gun control, and is very influential? How many innocent lifes does NRA have on their conscience as a result of their virulent oppostion to profiliation of guns?
Here you have an organization lobbying against all form of weapons control in USA, and it's well know that they are very influential. Are they not in any way responsible for the profilation of hand guns?
Biometrics do seem to be the solution to this problem.
Not so. While a compromised password is easy to change, it's damn near immpossible to change our physical "signatures".
Fingerprints should not be so hard to collect; some facial scanners are fooled by just showing a life sized photo of a persons face. And for retinal scans, well, next time you go to an eye doctor for a checkup, what machine are you _really_ looking in to?
The problem in itself is PATHETIC, people who put no password or easy ones deserve to be hacked, or deserve to be fired, or whatever happens. It's not THAT big of a hassle.
You must live a very sheltered life to have to remember so few passwords.
For the rest of us, we got quite a few passwords to remember : various PIN codes (credit card, entry to work, bank account via Internet, check voice mail, entry to house, tax government,....), passwords to various machines at work and at home, passwords for different mail accounts, domain registrar, forums.
Yeah, much to remember, and what I don't want is some anal retentive sysadmin forcing me to change my password every month and require it to be at least 10 char long, and has to include digits, small and big letter, special char.
I make strong passwords when I know my effort to remember it last more than a month.
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SuSE does the same, actually.
This is Slashdot where in-the-context sentences are the exception.
There is no mention of patents in the O'Reilly MacOSX conference article :
He asked whether the details of the Supercomputer would be published. The reply was that in addition to documentation and papers, the plans are to return the changes to MVAPICH to the open source project so that it would be freely available. There are also plans to open source the caching code and Varadarajan expects that Mellanox's code will be available.
Varadarajan is indeed going to publish/open source the documentation and source, which is clear if you RTFA. The parent is giving a false quotation, and is clearly a troll.
Cuttings in space programs would probably seem less risky (in terms of reelection) than messing with cuts in social services, health benefits and pensions in the present economic climate.
Well, yes, there are so many immature Leanux kiddoes that can't handle the fact that a *BSD is actually a mature OS, and not just another kernel+patch.
Whyever bring Putin into this? If you want to make snide remarks about democracy, just look into Bush+Florida+Election+Fraud.
Why are you North Americans (not Canadians) using NYT all the time for "information"? There are other sources for information (even in US), and no, Fox News don't qualify.
http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/pomlist/pom -extra.html#tcp-window-tracking
Hey kiddo, did your mummy pay for that low Slashdot ID when you bought it on eBay?
Indeed, the syntax of iptables rules leaves alot to be desired, to put it mildly. I much prefer PF over iptables, and easy syntax is one of the reasons for that preference. And I've been informed that iptables are not stateful without a kernel patch.
The site is most certainly not up to date with OpenBSD! And even the advisoraries listed are not complete for their time period. This is not a good sign of a site supposedly devoted to security.
Yup, freedom to choose is a human right, as long as you choose the same as I did. Most Linux users don't believe so, of course. But /. BSD forum has more than it's share of trolls.....
I gather that you are not greatly experienced in programming and system administration?
The authors of Stopping the Wily Hacker certainly made their view concerning the .NET security framework known. To paraphrase from memory : While the security features of .NET are many, the framework is complex, which is not an advantage in security. In fact, the book describing the security features are over 900 pages long, with many "Don't do this!" interspersed on the pages. In the authors view, quite alot of rope is handed out for you to hang yourself with.
The article is about syscalls in the OpenBSD kernel. I don't think that Linus is very interested in recieving patches for new syscalls in a BSD kernel.
Sendmail and Postfix supports it, and generating self-signed certificates is not even difficult.
In the book Repelling the Wily Hacker there is an amusing story about a Unix box getting rooted, and the script kiddie starts typing DOS commands.
Just to give an example that it does not take a real hacker to get into a Linux box as such. Other factors are also quite important.
Just take a model of some hundred thousand triangles, and render them as wireframe. The gaming card ("stock" as you call it) will just slow down to a crawl. Add a few clipping planes, and the frame rate gets even worse. But the Quadro cards does indeed cater this common usage in CAD, and charge accordingly.
Now, you may say it's pretty much the same hardware, and you might not be that far wrong. A couple of years ago you could "upgrade" a GeForce card to a Quadro card just by hacking some software. Don't think that is possible anymore.
I did not forge sender when I tested this on the Postfix server, but I guess I should have considering SoBig features....
What you should do, of course, is to DISCARD e-mail with .pif attachments to stop making the SoBig virus less of an impact.
For some strange reason, whenever there is a new law proposed that restricts ownership/use/type of gun, the NRA is lobbying against it.
While we're at it, why not go after the organization (NRA) that opposes just about any form of gun control, and is very influential? How many innocent lifes does NRA have on their conscience as a result of their virulent oppostion to profiliation of guns?
Here you have an organization lobbying against all form of weapons control in USA, and it's well know that they are very influential. Are they not in any way responsible for the profilation of hand guns?
Not so. While a compromised password is easy to change, it's damn near immpossible to change our physical "signatures".
Fingerprints should not be so hard to collect; some facial scanners are fooled by just showing a life sized photo of a persons face. And for retinal scans, well, next time you go to an eye doctor for a checkup, what machine are you _really_ looking in to?
The problem in itself is PATHETIC, people who put no password or easy ones deserve to be hacked, or deserve to be fired, or whatever happens. It's not THAT big of a hassle.
You must live a very sheltered life to have to remember so few passwords.
For the rest of us, we got quite a few passwords to remember : various PIN codes (credit card, entry to work, bank account via Internet, check voice mail, entry to house, tax government, ....), passwords to various machines at work and at home, passwords for different mail accounts, domain registrar, forums.
Yeah, much to remember, and what I don't want is some anal retentive sysadmin forcing me to change my password every month and require it to be at least 10 char long, and has to include digits, small and big letter, special char.
I make strong passwords when I know my effort to remember it last more than a month.