It is a shame that they stopped teaching history in school. I read stories about Fields and the Great Eastern in grade school, back when I was a lad... well I admit that it was almost current events! Ok, the centennial of the cable was a current event!
Just think, from the 1860s until the 1960s cable was the only secure method of transcontinental communications available to the general public.
Totally useless anecdote, since it is just my experience, but I had a hard power outage when I was upgrading from RH9 to Fedora Core1. On reboot, to assess the damage to the FS, I found that Fedora was installed, all of the applications were operational, except for the specific app (sameGnome) that was being installed at the time. I rebooted with the CD's, continued the upgrade of the selected apps and have a fully functional machine, including sameGnome. Try that with Win2K or XP. I guess the QA is ok, better than commercial. I may try replicating the incident this long weekend, I have a Debian test box I can upgrade to RH9 and compare RH/Fedora QA testing.
Post the machine's specs, and you know the community will help you. Post as an AC and make non-specific allegations of incompatibility, and you get a cookie from Ballmer&Gates, and heaps of scorn from the/.ers who have enough on the ball to make things work or ask for help with unusual problems.
You obviously do not want help, or more likely have never been within 10 meters of a Linux machine. I have Fedora running flawlessly on a 1999 Gateway Solo laptop, 128mb ram, full install with room to work on a 5gb partition, win98se and Win2K bloating the rest of the HD.
So why do I have to create profiles for a docked LT, networked LT and Dialup LT in W98 and W2K? Using Rh8, 9 and now Fedora the OS automagically figures out the hardware config on boot and only loads the ethernet module when docked or when I install the PCMCIA card.
Linux user since 1994, Redhat user 1996-2003. Fedora user 2003-- Not a RH fanboy, I use freeBSD on the firewall, RH 9 on the server, Fedora on the Workstation and I still have a game machine with MS loads. I also have 2 development boxes that have Debian and SuSE on them right now, I'm not afraid to try them all. I also carry a Knoppix 3.3 live CD so I have a stable OS when I am working offsite, and can't use the laptop for political reasons.
Now I have to study the bill, since it may pertain to me.
I'm running my own domain, and I created imaginary characters as my tech and admin contacts. Now they go to real email addresses on the server, but the details of these imaginary prople including street address and phone number are bogus when you do a whois, and the email accounts are just collection points for spam and the occasional "upgrade offer" from my domain registrar.
I also have a few spambait email accounts that I delete when the S/N ratio gets too bad. Since only certain trusted friends have my "real" email am I in violation too?
What constitutes registering an email with "using false details?" I wonder how this stacks up with the right to privacy? Looks like some deep, dull reading is on the schedule.
And yes, the email used here is a pseudo-account: all info relates to a MMORPG character.
This law has the same effect at my state's (Penna) anti-telemarketer law. Pennsylvania had a do not call list before the rest of the country, and it did nothing! It had no effect on callers from the 49 other states. I still get calls from Vancouver BC! Do they care about a US law with no teeth in the Canadian courts?
Outcome of the passage of this law: Election year is fast approaching we have techno-ignorant lawmakers They " did something" They win reelection over somone who was not in office to " do something"
Spammers all over the world taunt us more. Spammers in the US change their header to notify us that "the message is not spam per this law because...."
I get spammed from companies offering me anti-spam solutions! Are they that stupid or that brazen?
"Or maybe Mars is a long way away and it's really hard to build a machine that can be expected to work for months on end whilst being baked and simultaneously frozen after being placed in a vacuum and bombarded with radiation....."
I cut the rest of the comment, since probes have made it to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and have even left the solar system.
If we take it as fact that we have at one time overcome the above stated issues, it comes down to one of two things, Martians or decline in quality and work ethic. I can find proof of the decline, I haven't found any proof of little green (wo)men!
Now are the Martians conspiring to dumb down the youth of the world? Let me put on my tinfoil thinking-hat and get back to you!
Trying to keep this pertinent to the whole readership, not just Amero-centric.
It all boils down to being a commodity in a global market: Who of you will pay the extra money to buy a commonplace item that is made by local craftsmen instead of going to the local big-box store and getting a cheaper import? Face it, programming is not a specialty skill set. Anyone with the proper training and tools can do it. Just as anyone with the proper training and tools can build a car, make steel, or make shoes and clothes.
Everyone wants to buy cheap and sell dear, to do that you have to trim the cost of goods sold. If the goods sold happen to be software, or customer support or memory chips, then you have to go with the lowest cost supplier that will give you the quality that you need.
Figure out a way to become less of a commodity - if your job can be done by someone else for less money, why should I pay more for you?
I'm in the process of re-inventing myself right now; creating a complex skill-set that when combined with my experience could not be outsourced locally or overseas. I also have re-evaluated the market value of my skills and experience based on real-world numbers.
I shop for the best bargains, why should I fault my employers for doing the same?
And there is a fading number that can read flashes of light and the waving of flags.
I know Morse Code, high speed with code is tough, but not impossible. Morse has an almost musical quality at certain transmission speeds, making it almost easy to decypher.
Now those Navy communicators who still use semaphore and blinkers are awesome. You can't close your eyes and concentrate on those incoming messages. A lot harder to block out distractions.
You may hide your tracks instinctively, but I don't. I am not embarrased by what I do, what I look at, or what I think. It must be a puritan mindset, Have you ever been to a nude beach? Ever been out of America? Prostitution is legal in other parts of the world, and guess what? Their women and men grow up just fine! Korea, Germany, Holland, all let their women exploit the weakness of men and make a buck at it.
Not trying to flame, just some honest thoughts from a father. I agree that Porn is degrading to watch, it is dull, boring, no plot and the action is predictable. But you have to understand that for as long as ther has been humans, there has been sexuality. And for some strange reason ( be it divine or evolution), people are attracted to other people sexually. And those who can't do it like to watch others, or just check to make sure it hasn't changed in all those years since they did do it.
The only part of Porn that I can see that hurts young minds is expecting all women to have huge silicone implants, and some men getting feelings inadequacy when they measure their member.
If you talk to your kids about sex, explain to them that most men and women are just average in endowment, and actually sit down with them and talk about the facts that all people have the same "nasty bits" then they should grow up ok.
Life happens, some day your 15 year old will lose his/her virginity, so what? Some day your 15 year old may be 19 and have to look through the sights of a battle rifle and shoot another human.
Some day, your sweet little girl will be getting down and nasty with some guy you can't stand. I know, my little princess is married to someone who is not good enough for her ( none ever are...) I have two grandsons, so I guess "he done did her." I accept her choice and still love her and like a fungus, he is kind of growing on me.
If you communicate your ethics and experiences to your kids then they will grow up like you. If your communicate your prejudices and phobias, then they will grow up just like you. And most importantly, if you ignore your kids they will go away and grow up to be the exact opposite of you.
Someone is blowing smoke at you! As a Sysadmin you have full rights to anything on the servers and LAN that you or your employers own. Wiretapping does not come into play unless the government does it, or the government has somone do it as their agent. The only type of recording employers can not do is voice without the notifying their employees that they are subject to monitoring and recording. (However in Penna, you have to have the consent of both parties for a voice recording.)
Email belongs to the boss, all your surfing habits belong to the boss. Hell anything you do on your home machine is subject to whatever your employer wants to do if you connect to their network and use just one piece of software supplied by them.
Tell your source to try looking at the laws on search and siezure before giving you false legal info.
There is no "Title X", Many statutes and laws have titles that exceed X (10 in Roman Numerals) but Title X of what law? what statute? IANAL, but IAALS (I am a Law Student) and I suggest that you try reading: ISBN 0-8493-1192-6, Cyber Crime Investigator's Field Guide by Bruce Middleton, Appendix G or just go to US DOJ Computer Crime
The Search and Seizure manual is here: S&S Manual.pfd HTML
Short excerpt from page 7 of the pdf:
4. Private Searches
The Fourth Amendment does not apply to searches conducted by private parties who are not acting as agents of the government.
The Fourth Amendment "is wholly inapplicable to a search or seizure, even an unreasonable one, effected by a private individual not acting as an agent of the Government or with the participation or knowledge of any governmental official." United States v. Jacobsen, 466 U.S. 109, 113 (1984) (internal quotation omitted). As a result, no violation of the Fourth Amendment occurs when a private individual acting on his own accord conducts a search and makes the results available to law enforcement. See id. For example, in United States v. Hall, 142 F.3d 988 (7th Cir. 1998), the defendant took his computer to a private computer specialist for repairs. In the course of evaluating the defendant's computer, the repairman observed that many files stored on the computer had filenames characteristic of child pornography. The repairman accessed the files, saw that they did in fact contain child pornography, and then contacted the state police. The tip led to a warrant, the defendant's arrest, and his conviction for child pornography offenses. On appeal, the Seventh Circuit rejected the defendant's claim that the repairman's warrantless search through the computer violated the Fourth Amendment.
Because the repairman's search was conducted on his own, the court held, the Fourth Amendment did not apply to the search or his later description of the evidence to the state police. See id. at 993. See also United States v. Kennedy, 81 F. Supp. 2d 1103, 1112 (D. Kan. 2000)
(concluding that searches of defendant's computer over the Internet by an anonymous caller and employees of a private ISP did not violate Fourth Amendment because there was no evidence
that the government was involved in the search).
c) Employer Searches in Private-Sector Workplaces
Warrantless workplace searches by private employers rarely violate the Fourth Amendment. So long as the employer is not acting as an instrument or agent of the Government at the time of the search, the search is a private search and the Fourth Amendment does not apply. See Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n, 489 U.S. 602, 614 (1989).
Now, if you or your employer is privy to illegal activity online, you are duty bound to report it, or face the consequences as a conspirator.
Whoever is giving you that "title X" line is setting you up for a fall!
Interesting experience with Fedora Core 1 last night. I was foolishly upgrading during a windstorm, and lost power while the "cup holder" was out waiting for me to insert disk 2.
As it was late, I grumbled some nasty remarks, yanked the cord out of the wall, and fumbled to bed by flashlight.
This morning, I decide to see how bad I screwed the filesystem, and fired up the PC. Grub was there, with new Fedora options and the old Windows option. So I let it boot through, no FS recovery needed on the ext3, I still had a full working system with the new kernel and all of my data was intact.
The only daily application that did not work was evolution! I shutdown and started the upgrade over, it spent a bare minimum amount of time reading disk 1, and proceeded to go through disk 2 and three at the normal pace. Rebooted and everything was there, full working version of evolution, all data. Very sweet!
This was on a hacked version of RH that has been running the upgrade cycle since 7.1, and has been butchered by installing Mandrake RPMs and some of the bleeding edge non-stable versions of programs out on freshmeat and sourceforge.
Fedora even warned me about possible inconsistancies in versions, but since I had a backup I figured "why not, what's the worst that could happen?" Still waiting for the worst, it works great!
So, try doing a cold shutdown in the middle of a Win2K or XP upgrade and see if you can just boot to a working system. I'm not sure if Mandrake could recover, I know that RH 8 would not!
I'm sticking with Redhat and Fedora, you can keep Mandrake.
American/. reader here! Now no offense intended, but can the ministers of the EU be bought or threatened? American Justices are up for sale, it seems.
It warmed the cockles of my part-German heart when Munchen told MS to shove it, I just hope that the whole of the EU has the moxie to stand up to BillyG.
Your leaders showed backbone against Prez Bush when Saddam owed you Billions. But having the backbone to do what is right for their people and the world when the real "Great Satan" is offering billions to those those same leaders is quite another.
People of the European Union, Reagan told Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" Now it is your turn to say: "Mr Gates: Tear down this Monopoly!"
Same here, RH since 5.1, and still just as happy with Redhat 10. Fedora just came in the mail today, and it actually makes my Gateway laptop look good!
Not sure how you test stability, I for one do my own testing on my own hardware. I am not going to make decisions based on the first review from an editor with dubious technical expertise. "I served for 2 years at BeNews, serving the BeOS and its community (this is all past now, but still full of great memories), and before that I was contributing as a news editor for a well known Gaming news site for about 8 months and I also co-held a fan site (LandOfEden) in the early development days of Lionhead's Black'n'White game."
Fan site editor and contributing news editor does not make one a technical guru, I'll do my own tests, thank you!
I had Debian/Knoppix3.3 loaded on the second partiton of the laptop since I am using the Knoppix3.3 live-CD to teach a Linux class at the local Comunity College. I switched the LT from RH9 to Knopppix to keep the confusion level down when I went through the menus. The typical windows user has panic attacks when faced with a new desktop paradigm, and if I were to have a Menu that didn't have the exact same options in the exact same order, the class would degenerate into chaos.
From short few hour experience with Fedora, it has earned keeper status as the main OS on the laptop and should be sitting happily on the server and my desktop box this weekend. I plan on doing a normal test install with rollback options, the same thing I would do with any OS - free or commercial, Open or proprietary!
I'll just teach Linux from the live CD, I guess my ego can stand having a teaching platform that is "as slow" as the student's machines.
How many remote holes in Linux, (10 years or so)?
Show me the NT Kernel!
How about some pointers to official documentation as to installing JUST the NT kernel, and no remote exploits along with the OS?
Every mainstream distribution of linux gives the oprotunity to install just the minimal kernel. The third party OSS applications that make up the distribution have to be selected.
The vulnerabilities in NT are coded by Microsoft, are they not? How much time did Linus put into ssh, or sendmail, or apache?
I thought so....
Can't help comparing apples to oranges, when at Microsoft, security is job 3.1.
Actually, how much MS code is written by Islamo-terrorists working in MS-India, vs the typical honest Indian coder? How closely does MS inspect the code as long as it spits out the proper results? Click the icon, wait, and the dancing paperclip comes out, what else is happening in the background?
Outsourcing is good for the bottom line, but is it good for security in a closed source operating system.
Just like I tell my Algebra class, you should be prepared to show your work, if you have to hide the steps you took to get the answer, all I can surmise is that you got the answer from someone else's paper!
What would you rather have, Open-Source or Hidden-Source?
Since InfoWorld changed their format and canned the politically-incorrect columnists, they have become a shill for Microsoft. There was a time not long ago when InfoWorld knew the difference between OSS and Linux, they even had columns that championed Opensource and Linux.
Now, sadly, they print drivel like this, essentially comparing two corporate giants - MS and Linux: "..[MS] will criticize Linux for taking too long to fix bugs.."
Linux is not a corporation, Linux is not the source of Opensource Software. Linux is not the author of Samba, ssh, Apache, CUPS, or any of the third-party utilities and programs that had vulnerabilities.
Now in corrilary, Linus Torvalds is the overall architect of the Linux kernel. Can any security experts from Redmond tell us the number of remotely exploitable holes that the Linux kernel has had, or how many are still lurking there since.. oh let's say 1995?
We just had a story on Slashdot on an attempted hack on the kernel that was caught within 48 hours, why does MS still have the same vulnerabilities in ALL their IP enabled versions except for Windows ME??
Corel was a different issue. Corel tried to go from commercial graphics house to a quazi open source company while trying to directly compete with MS for retail OS shelf space and could not pull it off.
Suse and Ximian have great code, experience etc, and are moving from a profitable open source company to another company that may or may not understand open source.
If there is a major infestation of PHBs in Novell's future, it will not hurt the distro. They just pack up the source code and move on, creating a "New SuSe" or "Ximian2" The code is free, Novell only owns the names.
You can not do your best work when someone else controls how and when you can use the tools of your trade. Whether it is re-profiling a woodcarving chisel, or selecting the text processor that most suitably fits your style, when you can customize the tool to fit your style of work, you do your best.
After reading the article, I have to agree with Matt Szulik, RH CEO. Windows is for the, how shall we say, less technically capable user. "I would say that for the consumer market place, Windows probably continues to be the right product line."
Now for those of us who care to do more than just point, click, and stare at the pictures - Linux is the future.
Freedom is not a free ride - Freedom requires constant vigilance and just a bit of tweaking the configuration.
Hmmm... Lack of sleep makes you think of strange things:
Just yesterday I was cleaning out my collection of user donated/upgraded software and found an old copy of MS Bob - That's right, Bob!
Should I even consider the blasphemy of trying to see if it will run under Wine? Or just fire up a VMware session and give Clippy's ancestors a new lease on life?
What should I do with this paragon of MS Marketing Nonsense?
Slashdot Mirror
And from the US I can still surf The Reg
The internet routes around damage by design.
It is a shame that they stopped teaching history in school.
I read stories about Fields and the Great Eastern in grade school, back when I was a lad... well I admit that it was almost current events! Ok, the centennial of the cable was a current event!
Just think, from the 1860s until the 1960s cable was the only secure method of transcontinental communications available to the general public.
Totally useless anecdote, since it is just my experience, but I had a hard power outage when I was upgrading from RH9 to Fedora Core1.
On reboot, to assess the damage to the FS, I found that Fedora was installed, all of the applications were operational, except for the specific app (sameGnome) that was being installed at the time. I rebooted with the CD's, continued the upgrade of the selected apps and have a fully functional machine, including sameGnome. Try that with Win2K or XP.
I guess the QA is ok, better than commercial. I may try replicating the incident this long weekend, I have a Debian test box I can upgrade to RH9 and compare RH/Fedora QA testing.
I'll bite at this troll....Karma's just a number!
/.ers who have enough on the ball to make things work or ask for help with unusual problems.
Post the machine's specs, and you know the community will help you. Post as an AC and make non-specific allegations of incompatibility, and you get a cookie from Ballmer&Gates, and heaps of scorn from the
You obviously do not want help, or more likely have never been within 10 meters of a Linux machine. I have Fedora running flawlessly on a 1999 Gateway Solo laptop, 128mb ram, full install with room to work on a 5gb partition, win98se and Win2K bloating the rest of the HD.
So why do I have to create profiles for a docked LT, networked LT and Dialup LT in W98 and W2K? Using Rh8, 9 and now Fedora the OS automagically figures out the hardware config on boot and only loads the ethernet module when docked or when I install the PCMCIA card.
Linux user since 1994, Redhat user 1996-2003. Fedora user 2003--
Not a RH fanboy, I use freeBSD on the firewall, RH 9 on the server, Fedora on the Workstation and I still have a game machine with MS loads. I also have 2 development boxes that have Debian and SuSE on them right now, I'm not afraid to try them all. I also carry a Knoppix 3.3 live CD so I have a stable OS when I am working offsite, and can't use the laptop for political reasons.
Nothing serious happened because there were eyes looking at the code.
Luck plays out in closed source, when the consumer never finds out about the holes until the " new version fix" is ready for shipping.
Now I have to study the bill, since it may pertain to me.
I'm running my own domain, and I created imaginary characters as my tech and admin contacts. Now they go to real email addresses on the server, but the details of these imaginary prople including street address and phone number are bogus when you do a whois, and the email accounts are just collection points for spam and the occasional "upgrade offer" from my domain registrar.
I also have a few spambait email accounts that I delete when the S/N ratio gets too bad. Since only certain trusted friends have my "real" email am I in violation too?
What constitutes registering an email with "using false details?" I wonder how this stacks up with the right to privacy? Looks like some deep, dull reading is on the schedule.
And yes, the email used here is a pseudo-account: all info relates to a MMORPG character.
This law has the same effect at my state's (Penna) anti-telemarketer law. Pennsylvania had a do not call list before the rest of the country, and it did nothing! It had no effect on callers from the 49 other states. I still get calls from Vancouver BC! Do they care about a US law with no teeth in the Canadian courts?
Outcome of the passage of this law:
Election year is fast approaching
we have techno-ignorant lawmakers
They " did something"
They win reelection over somone who was not in office to " do something"
Spammers all over the world taunt us more.
Spammers in the US change their header to notify us that "the message is not spam per this law because...."
I get spammed from companies offering me anti-spam solutions! Are they that stupid or that brazen?
"Or maybe Mars is a long way away and it's really hard to build a machine that can be expected to work for months on end whilst being baked and simultaneously frozen after being placed in a vacuum and bombarded with radiation....."
I cut the rest of the comment, since probes have made it to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and have even left the solar system.
If we take it as fact that we have at one time overcome the above stated issues, it comes down to one of two things, Martians or decline in quality and work ethic. I can find proof of the decline, I haven't found any proof of little green (wo)men!
Now are the Martians conspiring to dumb down the youth of the world? Let me put on my tinfoil thinking-hat and get back to you!
Trying to keep this pertinent to the whole readership, not just Amero-centric.
It all boils down to being a commodity in a global market:
Who of you will pay the extra money to buy a commonplace item that is made by local craftsmen instead of going to the local big-box store and getting a cheaper import? Face it, programming is not a specialty skill set. Anyone with the proper training and tools can do it. Just as anyone with the proper training and tools can build a car, make steel, or make shoes and clothes.
Everyone wants to buy cheap and sell dear, to do that you have to trim the cost of goods sold. If the goods sold happen to be software, or customer support or memory chips, then you have to go with the lowest cost supplier that will give you the quality that you need.
Figure out a way to become less of a commodity - if your job can be done by someone else for less money, why should I pay more for you?
I'm in the process of re-inventing myself right now; creating a complex skill-set that when combined with my experience could not be outsourced locally or overseas. I also have re-evaluated the market value of my skills and experience based on real-world numbers.
I shop for the best bargains, why should I fault my employers for doing the same?
And there is a fading number that can read flashes of light and the waving of flags.
I know Morse Code, high speed with code is tough, but not impossible. Morse has an almost musical quality at certain transmission speeds, making it almost easy to decypher.
Now those Navy communicators who still use semaphore and blinkers are awesome. You can't close your eyes and concentrate on those incoming messages. A lot harder to block out distractions.
But of course, choice is slavery, war is peace, love is hate.
Just ask Mr Gates at the Ministry of Network Security!
You may hide your tracks instinctively, but I don't. I am not embarrased by what I do, what I look at, or what I think. It must be a puritan mindset, Have you ever been to a nude beach? Ever been out of America? Prostitution is legal in other parts of the world, and guess what? Their women and men grow up just fine! Korea, Germany, Holland, all let their women exploit the weakness of men and make a buck at it.
Not trying to flame, just some honest thoughts from a father.
I agree that Porn is degrading to watch, it is dull, boring, no plot and the action is predictable. But you have to understand that for as long as ther has been humans, there has been sexuality. And for some strange reason ( be it divine or evolution), people are attracted to other people sexually. And those who can't do it like to watch others, or just check to make sure it hasn't changed in all those years since they did do it.
The only part of Porn that I can see that hurts young minds is expecting all women to have huge silicone implants, and some men getting feelings inadequacy when they measure their member.
If you talk to your kids about sex, explain to them that most men and women are just average in endowment, and actually sit down with them and talk about the facts that all people have the same "nasty bits" then they should grow up ok.
Life happens, some day your 15 year old will lose his/her virginity, so what? Some day your 15 year old may be 19 and have to look through the sights of a battle rifle and shoot another human.
Some day, your sweet little girl will be getting down and nasty with some guy you can't stand. I know, my little princess is married to someone who is not good enough for her ( none ever are...) I have two grandsons, so I guess "he done did her." I accept her choice and still love her and like a fungus, he is kind of growing on me.
If you communicate your ethics and experiences to your kids then they will grow up like you. If your communicate your prejudices and phobias, then they will grow up just like you. And most importantly, if you ignore your kids they will go away and grow up to be the exact opposite of you.
It's your choice, chose wisely.
Someone is blowing smoke at you!
As a Sysadmin you have full rights to anything on the servers and LAN that you or your employers own. Wiretapping does not come into play unless the government does it, or the government has somone do it as their agent. The only type of recording employers can not do is voice without the notifying their employees that they are subject to monitoring and recording. (However in Penna, you have to have the consent of both parties for a voice recording.)
Email belongs to the boss, all your surfing habits belong to the boss. Hell anything you do on your home machine is subject to whatever your employer wants to do if you connect to their network and use just one piece of software supplied by them.
Tell your source to try looking at the laws on search and siezure before giving you false legal info.
There is no "Title X", Many statutes and laws have titles that exceed X (10 in Roman Numerals) but Title X of what law? what statute?
IANAL, but IAALS (I am a Law Student) and I suggest that you try reading:
ISBN 0-8493-1192-6, Cyber Crime Investigator's Field Guide by Bruce Middleton, Appendix G
or just go to US DOJ Computer Crime
The Search and Seizure manual is here: S&S Manual.pfd
HTML
Short excerpt from page 7 of the pdf:
4. Private Searches
The Fourth Amendment does not apply to searches conducted by private parties who are not acting as agents of the government.
The Fourth Amendment "is wholly inapplicable to a search or seizure, even an unreasonable one, effected by a private individual not acting as an agent of the Government or with the participation or knowledge of any governmental official." United States v. Jacobsen, 466 U.S. 109, 113 (1984) (internal quotation omitted). As a result, no violation of the Fourth Amendment occurs when a private individual acting on his own accord conducts a search and makes the results available to law enforcement. See id. For example, in United States v. Hall, 142 F.3d 988 (7th Cir. 1998), the defendant took his computer to a private computer specialist for repairs. In the course of evaluating the defendant's computer, the repairman observed that many files stored on the computer had filenames characteristic of child pornography.
The repairman accessed the files, saw that they did in fact contain child pornography, and then contacted the state police. The tip led to a warrant, the defendant's arrest, and his conviction for child pornography offenses. On appeal, the Seventh Circuit rejected the defendant's claim that the repairman's warrantless search through the computer violated the Fourth Amendment.
Because the repairman's search was conducted on his own, the court held, the Fourth Amendment did not apply to the search or his later description of the evidence to the state police. See id. at 993. See also United States v. Kennedy, 81 F. Supp. 2d 1103, 1112 (D. Kan. 2000)
(concluding that searches of defendant's computer over the Internet by an anonymous caller and employees of a private ISP did not violate Fourth Amendment because there was no evidence that the government was involved in the search).
c) Employer Searches in Private-Sector Workplaces Warrantless workplace searches by private employers rarely violate the Fourth Amendment. So long as the employer is not acting as an instrument or agent of the Government at the time of the search, the search is a private search and the Fourth Amendment does not apply. See Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n, 489 U.S. 602, 614 (1989).
Now, if you or your employer is privy to illegal activity online, you are duty bound to report it, or face the consequences as a conspirator. Whoever is giving you that "title X" line is setting you up for a fall!
Interesting experience with Fedora Core 1 last night.
I was foolishly upgrading during a windstorm, and lost power while the "cup holder" was out waiting for me to insert disk 2.
As it was late, I grumbled some nasty remarks, yanked the cord out of the wall, and fumbled to bed by flashlight.
This morning, I decide to see how bad I screwed the filesystem, and fired up the PC. Grub was there, with new Fedora options and the old Windows option. So I let it boot through, no FS recovery needed on the ext3, I still had a full working system with the new kernel and all of my data was intact.
The only daily application that did not work was evolution! I shutdown and started the upgrade over, it spent a bare minimum amount of time reading disk 1, and proceeded to go through disk 2 and three at the normal pace. Rebooted and everything was there, full working version of evolution, all data. Very sweet!
This was on a hacked version of RH that has been running the upgrade cycle since 7.1, and has been butchered by installing Mandrake RPMs and some of the bleeding edge non-stable versions of programs out on freshmeat and sourceforge.
Fedora even warned me about possible inconsistancies in versions, but since I had a backup I figured "why not, what's the worst that could happen?" Still waiting for the worst, it works great!
So, try doing a cold shutdown in the middle of a Win2K or XP upgrade and see if you can just boot to a working system. I'm not sure if Mandrake could recover, I know that RH 8 would not!
I'm sticking with Redhat and Fedora, you can keep Mandrake.
American /. reader here! Now no offense intended, but can the ministers of the EU be bought or threatened? American Justices are up for sale, it seems.
It warmed the cockles of my part-German heart when Munchen told MS to shove it, I just hope that the whole of the EU has the moxie to stand up to BillyG.
Your leaders showed backbone against Prez Bush when Saddam owed you Billions. But having the backbone to do what is right for their people and the world when the real "Great Satan" is offering billions to those those same leaders is quite another.
People of the European Union, Reagan told Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" Now it is your turn to say: "Mr Gates: Tear down this Monopoly!"
Same here, RH since 5.1, and still just as happy with Redhat 10. Fedora just came in the mail today, and it actually makes my Gateway laptop look good!
Not sure how you test stability, I for one do my own testing on my own hardware. I am not going to make decisions based on the first review from an editor with dubious technical expertise.
"I served for 2 years at BeNews, serving the BeOS and its community (this is all past now, but still full of great memories), and before that I was contributing as a news editor for a well known Gaming news site for about 8 months and I also co-held a fan site (LandOfEden) in the early development days of Lionhead's Black'n'White game." Fan site editor and contributing news editor does not make one a technical guru, I'll do my own tests, thank you!
I had Debian/Knoppix3.3 loaded on the second partiton of the laptop since I am using the Knoppix3.3 live-CD to teach a Linux class at the local Comunity College. I switched the LT from RH9 to Knopppix to keep the confusion level down when I went through the menus. The typical windows user has panic attacks when faced with a new desktop paradigm, and if I were to have a Menu that didn't have the exact same options in the exact same order, the class would degenerate into chaos.
From short few hour experience with Fedora, it has earned keeper status as the main OS on the laptop and should be sitting happily on the server and my desktop box this weekend. I plan on doing a normal test install with rollback options, the same thing I would do with any OS - free or commercial, Open or proprietary!
I'll just teach Linux from the live CD, I guess my ego can stand having a teaching platform that is "as slow" as the student's machines.
How many remote holes in Linux, (10 years or so)?
Show me the NT Kernel!
How about some pointers to official documentation as to installing JUST the NT kernel, and no remote exploits along with the OS?
Every mainstream distribution of linux gives the oprotunity to install just the minimal kernel. The third party OSS applications that make up the distribution have to be selected.
The vulnerabilities in NT are coded by Microsoft, are they not? How much time did Linus put into ssh, or sendmail, or apache?
I thought so....
Can't help comparing apples to oranges, when at Microsoft, security is job 3.1.
Actually, how much MS code is written by Islamo-terrorists working in MS-India, vs the typical honest Indian coder?
How closely does MS inspect the code as long as it spits out the proper results? Click the icon, wait, and the dancing paperclip comes out, what else is happening in the background?
Outsourcing is good for the bottom line, but is it good for security in a closed source operating system.
Just like I tell my Algebra class, you should be prepared to show your work, if you have to hide the steps you took to get the answer, all I can surmise is that you got the answer from someone else's paper!
What would you rather have, Open-Source or Hidden-Source?
Since InfoWorld changed their format and canned the politically-incorrect columnists, they have become a shill for Microsoft.
There was a time not long ago when InfoWorld knew the difference between OSS and Linux, they even had columns that championed Opensource and Linux.
Now, sadly, they print drivel like this, essentially comparing two corporate giants - MS and Linux: "..[MS] will criticize Linux for taking too long to fix bugs.."
Linux is not a corporation, Linux is not the source of Opensource Software. Linux is not the author of Samba, ssh, Apache, CUPS, or any of the third-party utilities and programs that had vulnerabilities.
Now in corrilary, Linus Torvalds is the overall architect of the Linux kernel. Can any security experts from Redmond tell us the number of remotely exploitable holes that the Linux kernel has had, or how many are still lurking there since.. oh let's say 1995? We just had a story on Slashdot on an attempted hack on the kernel that was caught within 48 hours, why does MS still have the same vulnerabilities in ALL their IP enabled versions except for Windows ME??
This might be the only culture you get all week!
Did you pay for XP or is that one of the P2P copies floating around?
Since you didn't support OSS, I was just wondering if you supported the mega-rich.
Corel was a different issue. Corel tried to go from commercial graphics house to a quazi open source company while trying to directly compete with MS for retail OS shelf space and could not pull it off.
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Suse and Ximian have great code, experience etc, and are moving from a profitable open source company to another company that may or may not understand open source
If there is a major infestation of PHBs in Novell's future, it will not hurt the distro.
They just pack up the source code and move on, creating a "New SuSe" or "Ximian2" The code is free, Novell only owns the names.
You can not do your best work when someone else controls how and when you can use the tools of your trade. Whether it is re-profiling a woodcarving chisel, or selecting the text processor that most suitably fits your style, when you can customize the tool to fit your style of work, you do your best.
After reading the article, I have to agree with Matt Szulik, RH CEO. Windows is for the, how shall we say, less technically capable user. "I would say that for the consumer market place, Windows probably continues to be the right product line."
Now for those of us who care to do more than just point, click, and stare at the pictures - Linux is the future.
Freedom is not a free ride - Freedom requires constant vigilance and just a bit of tweaking the configuration.
First Golf war Arney Palmer v Jack Niclaus 2nd Golf war: Tiger v Singhe
Hmmm... Lack of sleep makes you think of strange things:
Just yesterday I was cleaning out my collection of user donated/upgraded software and found an old copy of MS Bob - That's right, Bob!
Should I even consider the blasphemy of trying to see if it will run under Wine? Or just fire up a VMware session and give Clippy's ancestors a new lease on life?
What should I do with this paragon of MS Marketing Nonsense?