May I ask.. does netbsd come with everything like kde3 etc?
Yes. It's in the package tree. When you first install, you have the base system by default; then you decide which packages you wish to install (available both as binaries via pkg_add, or as source via the pkgsrc tree [downloadable via ftp or CVS]).
Also, the GNU tools are available, and in most cases enabled by default in the base system. And the rest are available as packages (frankly I would have gone insane if I didn't have my bash:-)
And yes, they have their own version of 'ls', though I don't see any reason why you couldn't replace it, if you really wanted to.
Well, I'm running with the default "FFS" filesystem, and I have no complaints.:)
I'm running 1.6 stable with all the patches, but I suggest NetBSD-1.6-release,
which is basically the formal 1.6-stable release, but with all the patches already applied for you. The link I gave you is for the most recent daily snapshot, which is probably what you'll want.
Hmm... this story's been up for 3 hours, and has garnered a total of 5 comments.
I think NetBSD wins the award for "Most Underrated Operating System"....
IMHO it's really worth a try, and it's a shame that it's gone so largely unrecognized, at least here in the States. I for one, have fallen in love with the clean and elegant design, and with the general philosophy that keeps it that way. This plucky little OS deserves to win.
So, get the spare parts out of the closet, cobble together a working system, and set up a webserver or something, dag-nabbit!:)
If you have sensitive information, you want to encrypt it based on what you think will be difficult to crack years from now, not just today. Otherwise, interested third parties can simply store away an intercepted transmission until it becomes technologically feasible to crack it.
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The only new things about XML, IMHO, are that is has spawned more sub-specifications than any previous pretender to the crown.
Sub-specifications?
You mean like MathML, SMIL, SVG, XHTML, et al.?
These are all modular lanuages that use XML.
The XML client application uses one or more DTD or schema to determine how to interpret the various elements in the XML file, and you can intermingle e.g. MathML and XHTML and so forth all in the same XML file.
Unless I'm grossly misinterpreting your comment (in which case I apologize), I can safely say that you didn't understand the article, since these "sub-specifications" you mentioned are exactly what DTDs/Schema are for, and exactly what makes XML a Good Thing.
They didn't call it "Extensible" just so they could put a nice pretty "X" in "XML". (Though in all fairness, I must wonder if anyone could take something called "EML" seriously...;)
Yawp. That does paint a rosy picture, in which the living author simply sells an exclusive license to print his work for a given time, but the problem with copyrights that last no longer than the lifetime of the author is that, knowing today's media corporations, most would find it cheaper to simply "knock off" the author and let the work lapse into the public domain...
In this scenario, the only thing really protecting the author is that said companies would probably rather have a short monopoly on the work, rather than having to compete with a free commodity (public domain) work.
... And (one sincerely hopes!) the prospect of yet another public domain work isn't monetarily valuable enough to tempt a competing company into the same (rather risky) course of action.
This seems like a nightmarish scenario arising from what was originally the best of intentions.
Or maybe I just haven't had my coffee yet and my brain is leaking sleep-stuff... In which case please excuse my half-formed vague and paranoid mumblings...
That's the funniest thing I've heard all day, and it's not even noon here!
This "virus" is a just bogeyman, and the bugtraq post is just a story to scare little k1dd13z into believing in The Unpatchable Hole, and The Invisible Packet...
If you can't even see the packet at the firewall level, then none of the routers between you and the Big Scary Record Company can see it either. So this is not just The Invisible Packet, but The Invisible Teleporting Packet. [Hopefully by now, Dear Reader, you're beginning to appreciate the absurdity of the claim.;-]
If anyone can think of a plausible way this terminally-hypothetical worm could work as described, I'd love to hear it.:-)
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Yes. It's in the package tree. When you first install, you have the base system by default; then you decide which packages you wish to install (available both as binaries via pkg_add, or as source via the pkgsrc tree [downloadable via ftp or CVS]).
Also, the GNU tools are available, and in most cases enabled by default in the base system. And the rest are available as packages (frankly I would have gone insane if I didn't have my bash :-)
And yes, they have their own version of 'ls', though I don't see any reason why you couldn't replace it, if you really wanted to.
I'm running 1.6 stable with all the patches, but I suggest NetBSD-1.6-release, which is basically the formal 1.6-stable release, but with all the patches already applied for you. The link I gave you is for the most recent daily snapshot, which is probably what you'll want.
I think NetBSD wins the award for "Most Underrated Operating System"....
IMHO it's really worth a try, and it's a shame that it's gone so largely unrecognized, at least here in the States. I for one, have fallen in love with the clean and elegant design, and with the general philosophy that keeps it that way. This plucky little OS deserves to win.
So, get the spare parts out of the closet, cobble together a working system, and set up a webserver or something, dag-nabbit! :)
But I agree with your point in general. :-)
If you have sensitive information, you want to encrypt it based on what you think will be difficult to crack years from now, not just today. Otherwise, interested third parties can simply store away an intercepted transmission until it becomes technologically feasible to crack it.
Mm... sounds like them's good eatin'! :D
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Sub-specifications?
You mean like MathML, SMIL, SVG, XHTML, et al.?
These are all modular lanuages that use XML.
The XML client application uses one or more DTD or schema to determine how to interpret the various elements in the XML file, and you can intermingle e.g. MathML and XHTML and so forth all in the same XML file.
Unless I'm grossly misinterpreting your comment (in which case I apologize), I can safely say that you didn't understand the article, since these "sub-specifications" you mentioned are exactly what DTDs/Schema are for, and exactly what makes XML a Good Thing.
They didn't call it "Extensible" just so they could put a nice pretty "X" in "XML". (Though in all fairness, I must wonder if anyone could take something called "EML" seriously... ;)
The only problem is that he'd start a civil war to reunite the GNUnion and XEmacs... :)
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Where the hell did that come from?
Corporations committing crimes? No... Surely it was all a bad dream... :)
In this scenario, the only thing really protecting the author is that said companies would probably rather have a short monopoly on the work, rather than having to compete with a free commodity (public domain) work.
This seems like a nightmarish scenario arising from what was originally the best of intentions.
Or maybe I just haven't had my coffee yet and my brain is leaking sleep-stuff... In which case please excuse my half-formed vague and paranoid mumblings...
Maybe they should just block Slashdot, to improve worker productivity... ;)
"Robust" exploits?
That's the funniest thing I've heard all day, and it's not even noon here!
This "virus" is a just bogeyman, and the bugtraq post is just a story to scare little k1dd13z into believing in The Unpatchable Hole, and The Invisible Packet...
If you can't even see the packet at the firewall level, then none of the routers between you and the Big Scary Record Company can see it either. So this is not just The Invisible Packet, but The Invisible Teleporting Packet. [Hopefully by now, Dear Reader, you're beginning to appreciate the absurdity of the claim. ;-]
If anyone can think of a plausible way this terminally-hypothetical worm could work as described, I'd love to hear it. :-)
Kudos to terraformer for providing the text.
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