If you read closely, what the grandparent was referring to was using the 2 vga ports on a video card completely separately (as in with its own keyboard, mouse, X-Windows, desktop, etc).
This is quite different from what you typically want do which is use the two video card ports rendering half of the same (extra-wide) desktop. This is easy under both Windows (Ultramon helps) as well as X with a number of different Window Managers (Xinerama works well).
SSH uses an algorithm called RSA to protect the keys used for encrypting data. Each party has a private key and a public key (a key pair). Anyone can get the public keys.
If data is encrypted with a private key, it can only be decrypted using the public key from the same key pair. Likewise if it is encrypted with the public key, it can only be decrypted with the matching private key.
if A wants to send data to B, it first is encrypted with B's public key, then with A's private key.
B uses A's public key to decrypt it (guaranteeing it is from A) and then uses its own private key to decrypt it back to the original message.
Because it's a slow and complex process RSA is usually only used to exchange and agree on keys for a normal symetric encryption method (eg 3DES).
3. Debian by default installs a 2.2.x kernel.
4. Installing a 2.4.x kernel over the default Debian install kills Lilo.
5. Installing with the 2.4.x kernel from the Debian installer breaks the included driver for the 3COM NIC in the server.
Debian Stable (Woody) works fine with a 2.4 kernel. In fact, if you use the bf2.4 disks/cds then it installs by default...
If you've already installed then:
apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-xxx (and kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-1-xxx if you're on a laptop). It's an initrd image so you may have to edit lilo.conf but the instructions are quite clear and they work fine.
There are some excellent front ends to e.g. pgsql/mysql/etc. but nothing Ma & Pa Kettle's General Store can fire up w/o being a DB admin
Yeah, I've seen what Ma & Pa Kettle do when they are playing DB admin. Then they call the company I work for when it all turns to crap and they can't even get out the data they put in, let alone some actual results from whatever they are storing... If you are going to play DBA you _need_ to learn a little bit about how a database works - or hire someone that does.
Noise cancelling headphones have been around for ages in various forms. Helicopter pilots use them for communication...
The headsets also have 2 microphones in series and out of phase - 1 picks up the voice+noise and the other only the noise, so the noise cancels and you get left with the voice. This stuff is used on comms systems for concerts, etc as well.
even better - you can STOP it from automounting without random apps re-enabling it for you, and crap like Roxio DirectCD doesn't decide it ownz every cdrw that gets put in your drive until the next reboot.
Rob:)
in win2k, you can change network settings and not have to reboot, and this is what this guy was talking about.
Uh, last time i checked (3 days ago) you needed to reboot when joining a 2k/xp/2kServer machine to a domain. Having said that, it's a vast improvement on 9x ("not another god-damn reboot!").
the problem i have with linux is the mounting/unmounting of drives. the process is so much easier in windows than linux/unix.
Mounting and unmounting drives is easy in linux - its much easier to manage drive reorganisations (yay for symlinks) and recover from problems. Windows ability to do the same things is limited (eg. you can only mount a partition in one place, and if you boot with a crashed or corrupted disk, often it won't even make it into the GUI).
TAYLOR: Security is one of those workloads where Linux is getting traction, partly because we don't have a firewall appliance offering today. We have technologies, but we don't have a lockdown, hardened firewall that we can put in.
Wow, obviously a firewall appliance will solve ALL Microsoft's security problems. How stupid to think that maybe the operating system should be somewhat secure, and firewalls should be seen as one of many tools, not as the be-all-and-end-all security master-tool.
Speaking of... here is a good review of the contents of the win2000 zipfile. Suitable for developers to read (no direct excerpts or specifics), and quite amusing.
..when so many corporations own patents on so many intangible things that a corporate dynasty like IBM can bring anyone in the world to their knees financially.
Even foreign governments.
What? Patents are not an international thing. Each country has it's own patent laws, which differ quite a bit around the globe. There are some global agreements, but they are typically much more limited than regular patents.
Any government can ignore or enforce patents as it sees fit within its borders. Whether IBM will sell products to those countries is another issue...
Why is the SCO letter full of capitals, bold, and underlines? Didn't they learn basic ettiquette that people don't like to be SHOUTED AT?
The funny thing is, fully 3/4 of the letter is underlined. Maybe they think if they shout and emphasise it they think people will just agree without even taking it in.
"WE BELIEVE WE CAN PROPOSE SOLUTIONS THAT WOULD WASTE YOUR MONEY AND TIME AND WE OWNZ YOU"
I did it the other night in Fedora and I was shocked by how easy it was. On Windows, you can only easily manage Windows printers. On Fedora, I could map windows printers, CUPS, LPR,... just as easily.
Either you are using a broken browser such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer, or you have neglected the "Accept once" button.
Why would one want to click the 'Accept Once' button? Isn't that the whole point of certificate verification trees? If you just click 'accept' you might as well just not bother using SSL at all...
Oh, i have this really cool uh... mouse applet, yeah, that's it, just come to my site and click 'accept' to all the boxes that pop up...:)
Linux has plenty of vulerabilities, but the distributions often ship hundreds (or thousands in Debian's case) of applications which wouldn't be comparable to an average windows install...
Speaking of, my second MS Security email of the day just arrived...
Summary:
Included in this advisory is an update describing newly discovered
vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office (Microsoft Word and Excel). These
vulnerabilities, broken down by severity are:
MS03-050 - Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word and Microsoft
Excel Could Allow Arbitrary Code to run (831527)
[snip...Affects Excel 97-XP, Word 97-XP, Works] - Impact: Remote Code Execution
Summary: Included in this advisory are three updates describing newly discovered vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. These
vulnerabilities, broken down by severity are:
** Critical Security Bulletins
MS03-048 - Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer (824145)
- Impact: Remote Code Execution
MS03-049 - Buffer Overrun in the Workstation Service Could Allow
Code Execution (828749)
- Impact: Remote Code Execution
MS03-051 - Buffer Overrun in Microsoft FrontPage Server
Extensions Could Allow Code Execution (813360)
- Impact: Remote Code Execution
Hasn't science traditionally meant taking existing work and making some small improvement or addition, then repeating the process for ever and ever?
Quantum leaps are much better though:). Maybe they should just run a competition for autonomous flying cars with sultry computers asking where you want to go and having a nice conversation about the politics with you?
I agree with running multiple heats or something similar. That's the only fair way I can see for the entrants.
Just taking 20-40 of the entrants sucks. You follow the rules, come up with a design that costs a million dollars, then they say "sorry, you're not the cheapest - bye bye"...
It is the US Dept of Defence right? I'm sure they can scrape together a few thousand dollars from this years $500 billion somewhere...
The Australian software is even released under the GPL (look in the tgz) so maybe Diebold or another US company will just pick it up and claim it as their own....
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If you read closely, what the grandparent was referring to was using the 2 vga ports on a video card completely separately (as in with its own keyboard, mouse, X-Windows, desktop, etc).
This is quite different from what you typically want do which is use the two video card ports rendering half of the same (extra-wide) desktop. This is easy under both Windows (Ultramon helps) as well as X with a number of different Window Managers (Xinerama works well).
Rob :)
SSH uses an algorithm called RSA to protect the keys used for encrypting data. Each party has a private key and a public key (a key pair). Anyone can get the public keys.
If data is encrypted with a private key, it can only be decrypted using the public key from the same key pair. Likewise if it is encrypted with the public key, it can only be decrypted with the matching private key.
if A wants to send data to B, it first is encrypted with B's public key, then with A's private key.
B uses A's public key to decrypt it (guaranteeing it is from A) and then uses its own private key to decrypt it back to the original message.
Because it's a slow and complex process RSA is usually only used to exchange and agree on keys for a normal symetric encryption method (eg 3DES).
Read more here
Rob :)
at full rate (8M/768K) for NZ$60(US$40) you get a whopping 600MB/month. Welcome to a crappy monopoly.
Rob :)
And the JVM is not written in C/C++?
3. Debian by default installs a 2.2.x kernel.
4. Installing a 2.4.x kernel over the default Debian install kills Lilo.
5. Installing with the 2.4.x kernel from the Debian installer breaks the included driver for the 3COM NIC in the server.
Debian Stable (Woody) works fine with a 2.4 kernel. In fact, if you use the bf2.4 disks/cds then it installs by default...
If you've already installed then: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-xxx (and kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-1-xxx if you're on a laptop). It's an initrd image so you may have to edit lilo.conf but the instructions are quite clear and they work fine.
Good Luck, Rob :)
Head boy at my high school (NZ) one year...
Richard Small
:P
There are some excellent front ends to e.g. pgsql/mysql/etc. but nothing Ma & Pa Kettle's General Store can fire up w/o being a DB admin
Yeah, I've seen what Ma & Pa Kettle do when they are playing DB admin. Then they call the company I work for when it all turns to crap and they can't even get out the data they put in, let alone some actual results from whatever they are storing... If you are going to play DBA you _need_ to learn a little bit about how a database works - or hire someone that does.
Rob :)
Outlook Web Access for Exchange Server 2003 is about a hundred million times better than the old one, and works well in Mozilla, Opera, etc.
Personally, I prefer to use Thunderbird or Mutt to an IMAP Server - but like you, i need to use Outlook at work.
Rob :)
The headsets also have 2 microphones in series and out of phase - 1 picks up the voice+noise and the other only the noise, so the noise cancels and you get left with the voice. This stuff is used on comms systems for concerts, etc as well.
Rob :)
even better - you can STOP it from automounting without random apps re-enabling it for you, and crap like Roxio DirectCD doesn't decide it ownz every cdrw that gets put in your drive until the next reboot. Rob :)
Uh, last time i checked (3 days ago) you needed to reboot when joining a 2k/xp/2kServer machine to a domain. Having said that, it's a vast improvement on 9x ("not another god-damn reboot!").
the problem i have with linux is the mounting/unmounting of drives. the process is so much easier in windows than linux/unix.
Mounting and unmounting drives is easy in linux - its much easier to manage drive reorganisations (yay for symlinks) and recover from problems. Windows ability to do the same things is limited (eg. you can only mount a partition in one place, and if you boot with a crashed or corrupted disk, often it won't even make it into the GUI).
Rob :)
TAYLOR: Security is one of those workloads where Linux is getting traction, partly because we don't have a firewall appliance offering today. We have technologies, but we don't have a lockdown, hardened firewall that we can put in.
Wow, obviously a firewall appliance will solve ALL Microsoft's security problems. How stupid to think that maybe the operating system should be somewhat secure, and firewalls should be seen as one of many tools, not as the be-all-and-end-all security master-tool.
Speaking of... here is a good review of the contents of the win2000 zipfile. Suitable for developers to read (no direct excerpts or specifics), and quite amusing.
New Zealand has a very similar system. The notes are plastic - you can wash them, crumple, try to rip them... they are very tough.
The two transparent panels make counterfeits easy to spot. One is fern-shaped and the other contains the denomination of the note.
See a sample of the $5 note.
Rob :)
Even foreign governments.
What? Patents are not an international thing. Each country has it's own patent laws, which differ quite a bit around the globe. There are some global agreements, but they are typically much more limited than regular patents.
Any government can ignore or enforce patents as it sees fit within its borders. Whether IBM will sell products to those countries is another issue...
Rob :)
The funny thing is, fully 3/4 of the letter is underlined. Maybe they think if they shout and emphasise it they think people will just agree without even taking it in.
"WE BELIEVE WE CAN PROPOSE SOLUTIONS THAT WOULD WASTE YOUR MONEY AND TIME AND WE OWNZ YOU"
Try it :)
Damn that blazing sunlight for the last week, with clear blue skies and lovely long days spent at the beach.
Why would one want to click the 'Accept Once' button? Isn't that the whole point of certificate verification trees? If you just click 'accept' you might as well just not bother using SSL at all...
Oh, i have this really cool uh... mouse applet, yeah, that's it, just come to my site and click 'accept' to all the boxes that pop up... :)
Linux has plenty of vulerabilities, but the distributions often ship hundreds (or thousands in Debian's case) of applications which wouldn't be comparable to an average windows install...
Speaking of, my second MS Security email of the day just arrived...
Title: Microsoft Office Security Bulletin Summary for November 2003n /offnov03.asp
Issued: November 11, 2003
Bulletin: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulleti
Summary:
Included in this advisory is an update describing newly discovered vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office (Microsoft Word and Excel). These vulnerabilities, broken down by severity are:
MS03-050 - Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel Could Allow Arbitrary Code to run (831527)
[snip...Affects Excel 97-XP, Word 97-XP, Works]
- Impact: Remote Code Execution
And fresh from my mailbox... pretty much says it all... (abridged: removed affected platforms from the list)
Title: Microsoft Windows Security Bulletin Summary for November 2003n /winnov03.asp
Issued: November 11, 2003
Version Number: 1.0
Bulletin: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulleti
Summary: Included in this advisory are three updates describing newly discovered vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. These vulnerabilities, broken down by severity are:
** Critical Security Bulletins
MS03-048 - Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer (824145)
- Impact: Remote Code Execution
MS03-049 - Buffer Overrun in the Workstation Service Could Allow Code Execution (828749)
- Impact: Remote Code Execution
MS03-051 - Buffer Overrun in Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions Could Allow Code Execution (813360)
- Impact: Remote Code Execution
Hasn't science traditionally meant taking existing work and making some small improvement or addition, then repeating the process for ever and ever?
Quantum leaps are much better though :). Maybe they should just run a competition for autonomous flying cars with sultry computers asking where you want to go and having a nice conversation about the politics with you?
I agree with running multiple heats or something similar. That's the only fair way I can see for the entrants.
Just taking 20-40 of the entrants sucks. You follow the rules, come up with a design that costs a million dollars, then they say "sorry, you're not the cheapest - bye bye"...
It is the US Dept of Defence right? I'm sure they can scrape together a few thousand dollars from this years $500 billion somewhere...
The Australian software is even released under the GPL (look in the tgz) so maybe Diebold or another US company will just pick it up and claim it as their own....
Here's the link to the MS Technet article on migrating from BSD to Windows 2000 for Hotmail.
According to the introduction, MS bought Hotmail in 1997, and converted it to Windows 2000 in two months in 2000.
Cheers, Rob :)