They haven't been going on all that long, and its a 14 day event. Not only are the events spread out, but they don't always televise the prelims for everything while there are medal rounds going on. The track events should be taking over the coverage in the last week of the Olympics, swimming and gymnastics should be winding down as the prelim and medal rounds are winding up.
Re:One I've been seeing lately
on
IT Myths
·
· Score: 1
Show me how to integrate OpenBSD into a modern, centrally managed user authentication system and how to centrally manage multiple pf firewalls with different settings, then I will agree that OpenBSD has a definite place in a corporate network structure.
Now don't get me wrong, I use pf myself, and for small businesses that have only one entry point, then i say that OpenBSD is absolutely the way to go. Its just that as far as integrating it into an existing structure, for instance where user accounts are in an Active Directory or another LDAP directory service, or you have multiple firewalls in different places serving a different purpose and therefore with different rules, OpenBSD is currently lacking.
Re:Other IT Myths
on
IT Myths
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
...like an MCSE, no-one bothers to get it, no employer ever demands it.
Then its nothing like the MCSE. Well I don't know what its like in Britain, but here it is demanded by employers, often times a candidate will not even be considered if they don't have it. On top of that, everyone and their dog gets it and the only people that recognize it has no actual value past the line on a resume, are the ones who know what they're doing.
First day of using Linux it took me 15 minutes to find that the opposite of 'mount' was 'umount' and not unmount. Was also the same time I discovered 'apropos'.
Have you tested her to see what it is she is allergic to? If not, then no, it doesn't have to be the cat, but too many lazy doctors just blame the cat/dog without any tests. Yes that is from experience. New plastics and treated fibers to release chemicals and they make some people sick. I can't spend more then a few minutes in a new car without getting ill, thankfully that just doesn't happen often.
Of course I'm not a doctor, just speaking from experience, but thats never meant anything to any doc I've dealt with. No there was no cat in the car, no I do not get ill at home with my cat, and doctors are not gods.
Mainly only because MS hasn't spent the time porting it, not because of any intrinsic incompatibilities. Windows is also probably in a lot more places then you think, for instance, it runs at least one model of HP SAN appliance.
Your thinking like a home user/Small business user. Governments and many very large companies are running Alphas with Tru64 or VMS migrating away from those systems is a very tall order. As such those types of customers are going to be sticking with Alphas running VMS/Tru64 for as long as they can because it gives them the time to properly plan for the migration while at the same time upgrading their hardware to keep up with current needs.
Re:Isn't that the ideal of OpenBSD
on
Latest SP2 News
·
· Score: 1
You should take a look at the 'Power Users' Local group. You can indeed install software as a Power User, I do it all the time and have done since NT. XP by default asks if you want to run the installer as Administrator if its named setup.exe but the default selected choice is to run as the currently logged in user. The only software that you can not install as a Power User is most of Microsofts own software and others that modify system files or system areas of the registry, but then again, if I want to upgrade KDE or GNOME on Linux, I have to do it as root or at the very least sudo or su to install it because its more then likely changing files in/usr which is the same as system protected files in Windows. Windows is not 'near useless' with underprivileged accounts.
Open Source's openness only applies to those who are interested in it, or more to the point, those who are interested in sharing the ideas that are implemented in the OS/Software. It doesn't matter to an English teacher or a clerk in a government office that they can look at the source because they have no idea what it says anyway. Any sharing of ideas that happens in a classroom that is facilitated by a computer is with other opinions over the Internet, and you don't need an OSS system for that. OSS may allow a carpenter to freely train, but you have to remember the carpenters are programmers and admins interested in working with Unix systems. These are trained or burgeoning professionals, and as such, OSS means very little to the average person.
Yes but if the US isn't the leader in Supercomputing, Sports, Medicine, et al then the terrorists have won. My god, won't someone think of the children.
And while their at it they can sue Clarica, because obviously everything that starts 'Clari' must belong to Apple since they have a piece of software called claris. In fact, why don't we just give Apple ownership of the letters c,l,a,r,i, and s so they can sue everyone who uses them.
How in gods name was the parent modded interesting when its perfectly obvious why Apple doesn't sue, there's nothing to sue over.
Perhaps Windows Firewall is intelligent enough to remember that it just told you about this 3 seconds ago.
Take a look at the list of 'broken' apps, go read what a firewall does, then look at the list again. Firewalls break things that are used to having unrestricted access. Thats a fact of life so get used to it. Changing security settings in an OS breaks things, get used to it. People can whine all the want about how they're favorite game is broken by SP2 but the blame lies with the developer of that game, not MS, they shouldn't have made a game that handled network connections in such a sloppy manner.
A collision in a hashing function wouldn't make an exploit in something that uses a block cipher ie ssh, they are not the same thing. Something that did use a hash in the event of a collision would cause a leak of information, not a application exploit.
Im reading 'Practical Cryptography' by Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier, a facinating read on current crypto and cypher systems btw. Now it was copyrighted 2003, and there (page 88) they talk about SHA-0 being broken when it was created and give the distinct impression that SHA-1 is not to be trusted.
On a side note, I would recommend 'Practical Crytography' to anyone interested in, or working with modern crytography.
Why is it so hard for you to think I might have had the unfortunate fate of being born in Canada? In order to claim there is no patriotism in Canada, you have to live under a rock, or be a the stupidest person on the planet.
Oh please. 'Canadians are the most polite people on the planet,' for one, which is total BS, or that smugness when a visitor makes a mistake and all of a sudden, 'Canadians know more about the world then anyone else,' again, BS. You [royal you] make fun of the Southern States, its like that all across the Great White North, 30 million complete retards, almost right down to every man, woman and child.
Slashdot Mirror
They haven't been going on all that long, and its a 14 day event. Not only are the events spread out, but they don't always televise the prelims for everything while there are medal rounds going on. The track events should be taking over the coverage in the last week of the Olympics, swimming and gymnastics should be winding down as the prelim and medal rounds are winding up.
Show me how to integrate OpenBSD into a modern, centrally managed user authentication system and how to centrally manage multiple pf firewalls with different settings, then I will agree that OpenBSD has a definite place in a corporate network structure.
Now don't get me wrong, I use pf myself, and for small businesses that have only one entry point, then i say that OpenBSD is absolutely the way to go. Its just that as far as integrating it into an existing structure, for instance where user accounts are in an Active Directory or another LDAP directory service, or you have multiple firewalls in different places serving a different purpose and therefore with different rules, OpenBSD is currently lacking.
...like an MCSE, no-one bothers to get it, no employer ever demands it.
Then its nothing like the MCSE. Well I don't know what its like in Britain, but here it is demanded by employers, often times a candidate will not even be considered if they don't have it. On top of that, everyone and their dog gets it and the only people that recognize it has no actual value past the line on a resume, are the ones who know what they're doing.
Isn't macro biology usually simply called biology? Did you perhaps mean microbiology?
First day of using Linux it took me 15 minutes to find that the opposite of 'mount' was 'umount' and not unmount. Was also the same time I discovered 'apropos'.
Write your own, its not that hard. Hell even I did it.
Have you tested her to see what it is she is allergic to? If not, then no, it doesn't have to be the cat, but too many lazy doctors just blame the cat/dog without any tests. Yes that is from experience. New plastics and treated fibers to release chemicals and they make some people sick. I can't spend more then a few minutes in a new car without getting ill, thankfully that just doesn't happen often.
Of course I'm not a doctor, just speaking from experience, but thats never meant anything to any doc I've dealt with. No there was no cat in the car, no I do not get ill at home with my cat, and doctors are not gods.
Mainly only because MS hasn't spent the time porting it, not because of any intrinsic incompatibilities. Windows is also probably in a lot more places then you think, for instance, it runs at least one model of HP SAN appliance.
Your thinking like a home user/Small business user. Governments and many very large companies are running Alphas with Tru64 or VMS migrating away from those systems is a very tall order. As such those types of customers are going to be sticking with Alphas running VMS/Tru64 for as long as they can because it gives them the time to properly plan for the migration while at the same time upgrading their hardware to keep up with current needs.
You should take a look at the 'Power Users' Local group. You can indeed install software as a Power User, I do it all the time and have done since NT. XP by default asks if you want to run the installer as Administrator if its named setup.exe but the default selected choice is to run as the currently logged in user. The only software that you can not install as a Power User is most of Microsofts own software and others that modify system files or system areas of the registry, but then again, if I want to upgrade KDE or GNOME on Linux, I have to do it as root or at the very least sudo or su to install it because its more then likely changing files in /usr which is the same as system protected files in Windows. Windows is not 'near useless' with underprivileged accounts.
Open Source's openness only applies to those who are interested in it, or more to the point, those who are interested in sharing the ideas that are implemented in the OS/Software. It doesn't matter to an English teacher or a clerk in a government office that they can look at the source because they have no idea what it says anyway. Any sharing of ideas that happens in a classroom that is facilitated by a computer is with other opinions over the Internet, and you don't need an OSS system for that. OSS may allow a carpenter to freely train, but you have to remember the carpenters are programmers and admins interested in working with Unix systems. These are trained or burgeoning professionals, and as such, OSS means very little to the average person.
Yes but if the US isn't the leader in Supercomputing, Sports, Medicine, et al then the terrorists have won. My god, won't someone think of the children.
And while their at it they can sue Clarica, because obviously everything that starts 'Clari' must belong to Apple since they have a piece of software called claris. In fact, why don't we just give Apple ownership of the letters c,l,a,r,i, and s so they can sue everyone who uses them.
How in gods name was the parent modded interesting when its perfectly obvious why Apple doesn't sue, there's nothing to sue over.
You might want to rethink that. Have you seen some of the spelling around here? It can be pretty bad, mine included.
What about (-1, Obvious response to an obvious joke)
I don't get it.
This entire thread started with someone suggesting Unisys would seed GPL code with their patents. I think they know what their patents were.
Perhaps Windows Firewall is intelligent enough to remember that it just told you about this 3 seconds ago.
Take a look at the list of 'broken' apps, go read what a firewall does, then look at the list again. Firewalls break things that are used to having unrestricted access. Thats a fact of life so get used to it. Changing security settings in an OS breaks things, get used to it. People can whine all the want about how they're favorite game is broken by SP2 but the blame lies with the developer of that game, not MS, they shouldn't have made a game that handled network connections in such a sloppy manner.
Just imagine the list of software that would be on its incompatibility list.
A collision in a hashing function wouldn't make an exploit in something that uses a block cipher ie ssh, they are not the same thing. Something that did use a hash in the event of a collision would cause a leak of information, not a application exploit.
IBM p-series 690
Im reading 'Practical Cryptography' by Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier, a facinating read on current crypto and cypher systems btw. Now it was copyrighted 2003, and there (page 88) they talk about SHA-0 being broken when it was created and give the distinct impression that SHA-1 is not to be trusted.
On a side note, I would recommend 'Practical Crytography' to anyone interested in, or working with modern crytography.
Why is it so hard for you to think I might have had the unfortunate fate of being born in Canada? In order to claim there is no patriotism in Canada, you have to live under a rock, or be a the stupidest person on the planet.
Well your gonna need a plummer after all those overweight kids start eating high fiber cereals.
Oh please. 'Canadians are the most polite people on the planet,' for one, which is total BS, or that smugness when a visitor makes a mistake and all of a sudden, 'Canadians know more about the world then anyone else,' again, BS. You [royal you] make fun of the Southern States, its like that all across the Great White North, 30 million complete retards, almost right down to every man, woman and child.