The program thats changing your file permissions is msec. You can change the directories and files it works on in the control panel. I'm pretty sure theres an option in the security settings to adjust when it runs. Now for the bad news both of them seem broken in 9.1 and in 9.0 I couldn't change more than one thing at a time without it breaking.
9.1 seems to be a lot buggier in than either 9.0 or 8.2. I really hope 9.2 doesn't have these kinds of problems.
I saw a piece done by one of Mandrakes contributors earlier this year on distrowatch who was already talking about forking mandrake into a non commercial distro. A year or two ago I remember Mandrake was also considering setting up a foundation to support it non-commercially. So basically if the company goes under there is already a big interest in it being maintained as a noncommericial distro.
Maybe their distant friends need to reconsider their allegiance to Microsoft Instant Messenger. It couldn't be more than a couple meg download for them to use a client AOL or any of the other services that people on linux can connect to freely.
The elitest fucks are the ones that expect linux users to switch to windows because of their unwillingness to change to another client.
Really, I don't see what the fucking problem is with all your friends. Maybe they stopped listening to all you people if you went on rambling about not using Microsofts when you could connect fine and now they don't wanna here more about the subject. I'm willing to be you had just brought this up now they would have been willing to download/let you install a small program since there would be no other way to connect.
You mean like HP? Mandrake doesn't pretend to offer the same level of support as Red Hat and Suse, so you obviously wouldn't use it for your payroll systems. But if a company is looking for desktops does it really matter when support is wiping the drive?
Mandrake is also a great fit for smaller businesses because of the different ways you can package together the software and support however you want. Not all businesses make more money than they know what to do with. Most companies would have given up by now in this economy, Mandrake is obviously in it for the long haul.
I remember reading somewhere a while ago that (I think Panasonic) was selling gamecubes that could play dvds in asia. I wonder if they still make them.
Yes and what about when web sites and media start requiring DRM/Palladium whatever crap computers and operating systems to access their sites? What about when an ISP requires it to connect to their service? Web developers seem to be pretty braindead about the way they put a lot of sites together as it is(and no I don't care how many people I offend). Comcasts homepage uses actually has a flash dialog come up telling me that I need to install flash to use one of the features! This will shut out opensource companies effectively. Do not try and pretend this will be handled threw the W3C or anyone else who is impartial. Microsoft is the biggest pusher of security through obscurity and will not allow anyone to make an opensource implementation or put it up to a standards community like them. It goes against everything they've been saying.
And what good are certificates anyway? Half the web sites can't even figure out how to renew their certificates in the first place, not even the trustedcomputing site. With the system you describe anytime some software company you bought from doesn't renew their subscription you won't be able to use your software that you spend hundreds of dollars on. And if there permanent there's nothing stopping people from somehow using the same certificates in worms or viruses. People can modify programs installing rootkits that have the same crc as the original software.
Furthermore, what happens when the security for any part is broken? Now the malicious code/hacker is completely trusted.
I'm making a lot of assumptions here on the exact implementation, and nothing I've said is original, but whatever it comes down to is the system is crap. It hasn't kept the xbox and playstations, dvd players, or windows media from being cracked -- and these are small fish compared to how extensive microsoft wants to see this stuff implemented. It is targeted at people like you though, that just want something to make you feel good and give people excuses for not thinking about security or monitoring their systems.
Where did the money go, and how did they keep the tens of thousands of contractors that would have had to be in on this silent
I thnk you just answered your own question:). Besides, when has our govt had a problem wasting money?
Not that I don't think we didn't land on the moon.
I remember reading about a worm that did this about 10 years ago, but it also installed a rootkit. I wonder if the same thing is happening here, patch the system so it looks like a good worm and people don't pay attention to it and then install a root kit or something else.
I would much rather see the distro makers come up with tools to set stuff themselves for their distribution rather than the developers of the indivudual projects spend a ton of time doing it themselves. That way they can get stuff out faster for the early adopters who are probably familiar with the software anyway. How many people new to linux/unix are really interested in jumping right in with a bunch of beta software/just released software?
I forgot, hopefully the framebuffer will progress to the point where the manufactures can just write their drivers for it (including 3d) and be done with it. This would leave the community free design whatever implementation they want without having to worry about drivers.
Xi graphics can't even get info from Nvidia to make drivers for their server, and I'm sure they'd be willing to sign a NDA. I don't even see how it'd be possible for an open source project to sign an NDA anyway, since they'd be giving the code away.
Why do people keep acting like this is a problem. Whoever sold it to you is accountable just like any other product. Why is IBM selling linux any different than IBM selling AIX?? And theres plenty of areas of the government where I'm sure the people are more than competent enough to pick what software they use and deal with it themselves if theres a problem.
The idea of encrypting everything is just stupid, it makes it all the easier to crack it. Just knowing the text the programs display will probably just be enough to keep running random keys until you've decrypted that part and then you've got it
I found the code in 4.2BSD in the file pstat.c, starting on line 912. Most of the mfree function looks very similiar between both, with just some of the variables being a little different.
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The program thats changing your file permissions is msec. You can change the directories and files it works on in the control panel. I'm pretty sure theres an option in the security settings to adjust when it runs. Now for the bad news both of them seem broken in 9.1 and in 9.0 I couldn't change more than one thing at a time without it breaking.
9.1 seems to be a lot buggier in than either 9.0 or 8.2. I really hope 9.2 doesn't have these kinds of problems.
I saw a piece done by one of Mandrakes contributors earlier this year on distrowatch who was already talking about forking mandrake into a non commercial distro. A year or two ago I remember Mandrake was also considering setting up a foundation to support it non-commercially. So basically if the company goes under there is already a big interest in it being maintained as a noncommericial distro.
Maybe their distant friends need to reconsider their allegiance to Microsoft Instant Messenger. It couldn't be more than a couple meg download for them to use a client AOL or any of the other services that people on linux can connect to freely.
The elitest fucks are the ones that expect linux users to switch to windows because of their unwillingness to change to another client.
Really, I don't see what the fucking problem is with all your friends. Maybe they stopped listening to all you people if you went on rambling about not using Microsofts when you could connect fine and now they don't wanna here more about the subject. I'm willing to be you had just brought this up now they would have been willing to download/let you install a small program since there would be no other way to connect.
You mean like HP? Mandrake doesn't pretend to offer the same level of support as Red Hat and Suse, so you obviously wouldn't use it for your payroll systems. But if a company is looking for desktops does it really matter when support is wiping the drive? Mandrake is also a great fit for smaller businesses because of the different ways you can package together the software and support however you want. Not all businesses make more money than they know what to do with. Most companies would have given up by now in this economy, Mandrake is obviously in it for the long haul.
I remember reading somewhere a while ago that (I think Panasonic) was selling gamecubes that could play dvds in asia. I wonder if they still make them.
I suggest that everyone who has a problem with the name of an opensource project immediately fork it so that you can make up your own name for it.
Yes and what about when web sites and media start requiring DRM/Palladium whatever crap computers and operating systems to access their sites? What about when an ISP requires it to connect to their service? Web developers seem to be pretty braindead about the way they put a lot of sites together as it is(and no I don't care how many people I offend). Comcasts homepage uses actually has a flash dialog come up telling me that I need to install flash to use one of the features! This will shut out opensource companies effectively. Do not try and pretend this will be handled threw the W3C or anyone else who is impartial. Microsoft is the biggest pusher of security through obscurity and will not allow anyone to make an opensource implementation or put it up to a standards community like them. It goes against everything they've been saying. And what good are certificates anyway? Half the web sites can't even figure out how to renew their certificates in the first place, not even the trustedcomputing site. With the system you describe anytime some software company you bought from doesn't renew their subscription you won't be able to use your software that you spend hundreds of dollars on. And if there permanent there's nothing stopping people from somehow using the same certificates in worms or viruses. People can modify programs installing rootkits that have the same crc as the original software. Furthermore, what happens when the security for any part is broken? Now the malicious code/hacker is completely trusted. I'm making a lot of assumptions here on the exact implementation, and nothing I've said is original, but whatever it comes down to is the system is crap. It hasn't kept the xbox and playstations, dvd players, or windows media from being cracked -- and these are small fish compared to how extensive microsoft wants to see this stuff implemented. It is targeted at people like you though, that just want something to make you feel good and give people excuses for not thinking about security or monitoring their systems.
Where did the money go, and how did they keep the tens of thousands of contractors that would have had to be in on this silent I thnk you just answered your own question :). Besides, when has our govt had a problem wasting money?
Not that I don't think we didn't land on the moon.
I remember reading about a worm that did this about 10 years ago, but it also installed a rootkit. I wonder if the same thing is happening here, patch the system so it looks like a good worm and people don't pay attention to it and then install a root kit or something else.
I would much rather see the distro makers come up with tools to set stuff themselves for their distribution rather than the developers of the indivudual projects spend a ton of time doing it themselves. That way they can get stuff out faster for the early adopters who are probably familiar with the software anyway. How many people new to linux/unix are really interested in jumping right in with a bunch of beta software/just released software?
I forgot, hopefully the framebuffer will progress to the point where the manufactures can just write their drivers for it (including 3d) and be done with it. This would leave the community free design whatever implementation they want without having to worry about drivers.
Xi graphics can't even get info from Nvidia to make drivers for their server, and I'm sure they'd be willing to sign a NDA. I don't even see how it'd be possible for an open source project to sign an NDA anyway, since they'd be giving the code away.
Some window managers do that like enlightenment. Waimea does it too, it's mostly Gnome2 compliant but it's still a little buggy.
Yeah, but what about all the isps? They'll have to set something up for their clients because they won't want them seeing tons of ads for MSN.
They won't realize it's because there using hotmail. They'll just assume it's normal and go about their lives.
If Microsoft advertises here so much they must be alright with the coverage their products get.
Why do people keep acting like this is a problem. Whoever sold it to you is accountable just like any other product. Why is IBM selling linux any different than IBM selling AIX?? And theres plenty of areas of the government where I'm sure the people are more than competent enough to pick what software they use and deal with it themselves if theres a problem.
I really doubt that if all Novell wanted was an exchange connector that they couldn't just write it themselves.
Via c3 from taiwan. before that they were doing cyrix even though it was made by ibm.
The idea of encrypting everything is just stupid, it makes it all the easier to crack it. Just knowing the text the programs display will probably just be enough to keep running random keys until you've decrypted that part and then you've got it
I found the code in 4.2BSD in the file pstat.c, starting on line 912. Most of the mfree function looks very similiar between both, with just some of the variables being a little different. ftp://ftp.tribug.org/pub/tuhs/4BSD/Distributions/4 .2BSD