The Nazis felt they were bred to be superior (period).
Its less importent to know what the Nazis felt. Its more importent to find out why so many germans played along. And the reasons for that are to be found in WW I (the versailles treaty giving the germans the sole responsibility for the war, forbidding almost all military, and requesting reparations that made it impossible for germany to recover economically. The reason for WWII is the way WWI was ended. check your facts here.
The french wanted revenge (why else did they pickk versailles) for 1870 but went over the top. In the end this was the foundation for another war.
While this is impressive, Mozillas XUL also introduces some security hazards. Right now they are not really used, but see this example in the 0.9 Firefox Series shows the spoofing/phishing possibilities. IE got into trouble by integrating too much with the OS, XUL might integrate mozillas to far too...
What if a third party installed the software?
What if he buys two games and accepts just one EULA, and reverse engineers the other one? The idea of writing a letter with the "i dont accept the license and you can pick up the game at my place and give my a refund" content is appealing....
We've got Freedom ... and you are losing faster than anytime in you history. we've got money ... actually with the speed jobs are outsourced, the money will be owned by fewer and fewer people. They wont care to much about america, since they are not permanent residents of the US. we've got power
Not enough for the problems you are facing... or is the war on terror already won? the war on drugs? we've got bombs
Seriously, who hasnt? If your point is that the US has the best trained and well equipped military of the world you are right. But which war can be fought with this force? None of the ones that are the most serious threads to the USA. (Googleing for fighting the last war shows a nice forecast of the events in Iraq by a republian Col. in March 2003. And we did it all in just over two and a quarter centuries. We're obviously doing something RIGHT.
No, you just didnt make to many things wrong. Other empires grew and fell faster nothing special about that. If the US is still around after another 700 years and plays in one league with Rome or the British and Chinese Empires we are talking. It's kind of funny, here in a country, were moral relativism reigns and the mantra of the times is "I don't care what anyone else thinks!" , that we're so concerned about what the rest of the world thinks about us. We should *all* be shouting that from the mountain tops.
An american wrote once: Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
A german poet completed this with the words:
"... dann kommt der Krieg zu euch / Wer zu Hause bleibt, wenn der Kampf beginnt / Und läßt andere kämpfen für seine Sache / Der muß sich vorsehen; denn / Wer den Kampf nicht geteilt hat / Der wird teilen die Niederlage. / Nicht einmal den Kampf vermeidet / Wer den Kampf vermeiden will; denn / Es wird kämpfen für die Sache des Feinds / Wer für seine eigene Sache nicht gekämpft hat."
Ignorance is very dangerous. Especially in a world of interdependant economies and interests. Im really hoping for an up movement of the economy and the stock markets (european or american, they sing their songs unisono anyway.)
However, I believe "archive mirrors" does what you are trying to achieve. I haven't used them yet myself, since I need the pivot branch to work with my coworkers.
No. archive-mirrors is a tool for star merges. If you have a remote archive foo, you can make a local mirror called foo-MIRROR. You can then easily check out of the local mirror, make changes, submit to the remote server, sync the local to the remote archive. This is not too economical on bandwidth, but I use it to have local "security copys" of my archive (my final thesis) on different machines - it works pretty good for that.
If someone has a good way to easily move the "master archive" around, tell me!
(Like this:)
I have two machines (A and B).
The archive on machine A is up-to-date.
1) Make a local copy of the archive on machine B.
2) Work on the local copy on B.
3) Update the archive on machine A with the changes made on B.
Prepare to see this more often than the old "does it run linux" or "imagine a beowulf cluster..." posts. This one already made/.-history the moment it was posted and is even more generic. It will get posted again and again whether its on or offtopic... http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=118 344&cid=10000000
id Software lost $2.75 million to record-breaking piracy on the weekend before Doom 3's release. Thanks, guys!
The number you show in you sig was never claimed by id software, it was done by some BBC journalist. The id officials never used it - because it is nonsense. The news about "losses by piracy" alone probably were PR (concidering ids cool statements in the same article) worth 2.7 million in sales. And thats not just multipling supanova-downloads (before release) with the game prize. Without a estimate on how many users would buy the game when it hits the stores this number is utterly worthless. Link to the BBC article about "lost sales" for reference. I actually got accused of trolling the other day because of my sig.
well, you are. You basically admitted that nobody will use it because copyrights are enforced.
No. He says that nobody will use a network which relies on central servers and a registration. Maybe because of:
fear they will start to charge fees
because it is clumsy to register every little poem or pic you made
because central servers are easy to watch (collecting spam targets and what not)
other p2p networks dont have these problems and are more popular
Dear City of Munich, Did you know Linux may be infringing on 50 patents from other operating systems? I was concerned for your well being and thought you should know. Sincerly, Bill
Dear Bill,
this is why we decided to freeze this huge project, that the SPD, the major partner in the german administration and our political partner in this project, just cant allow to fail. The had too much trouble with toll-collect, a recent huge waste of tax money. That way the SPD just cant continue to silently support software patents in the EU. Without a EU software patent law, we happyly invite you to OUR courts to discuss this in full detail.
Yours sincerly, the greens of germany
P.S.: Did you manage to unbundle your software from your OS in the meantime, or do we need to call the EU to fine you again?
MOD PARENT UP!
I think this is exactly what the greens are up to. The greens were against the EU patents. They are the small partner of the SPD in Munich and in the administration of Germany. The SPD is more or less silently tolerating the EU patent legislation. This stunt should force them to take a clear position.
Not even going into the obvious problems of spoofed attacks [...]
Spoofed origin is much less harmful here: If the warning returns to a spooded origin, it will either be blocked because that machine is fixed, or it will bet through because the machine is not fixed, in with case the warning still applies (machine already infected or not).
This was one of those things that slipped through the cracks, which unfortunately is easy to do with a small volunteer team
Your doing a great job, especially concidering the circumstances you described above... I just thought I might bump a dev on this bugs, since it is pretty ugly. Sorry for any inconvenience.
I wasnt hit to hard personally, but I installed gentoo on a friends machine, was in a rush and didnt really read the emerge -p --depclean output. I got his system running again by crosscompiling on my server and downloading and unpacking the tarball from a Knoppix CD. But I imagined *him* faced with this - he would just have gone back to windows, I guess. Helping at least two other users on IRC with this problem, I know it is not too uncommon - Still, releng is doing a great job for a great distro - so carry on!
Sorry for carrying this offtopic, but are the USE-Flag defaults and GRP USE-Flags in sync on 2004.2? This is a real showstopper - emerge --depclean on a fresh install kills coreutils and others, rendering the system pretty useless and requiring booting from a liveCD and some work to get it up and functional again....
bug 48195
Don't validate as HTML 4.01 Transitional in many cases
Doing a quick check I cant find even one of your many cases... Aren't accessible to blind or colorblind readers
Why not? The page renders very well even in lynx... Are changing font sizes with hard-size values, making the page unreadible for sight-disabled visitors
Where? False elitism. [...] Please, to all the Gentoo folks still learning HTML in their second-level grade school class, learn to do things right.
You are getting a bit into flame-mode here, arent you? BTW its been taken care of. These pages aren't generated by an XSLT transformation from XML to HTML (and if they were, they certainly wouldn't be using a.xml handler in the doctype or URI handling).
And gentoo uses GuideXML for most of its Docs... and even with the glitches described by you thats still far better than for example/....
If this is on a server, most of your chrooted processes leave a process behind that basically does interact with nobody and is thus hard to exploit (apache2, postfix, mysql for example). Then there are Agettys and Init, ksoftirqd and friends. On my server, there are:
6 agettys
12 kernel procs (init, ksoftirqd, pdflush...)
3 chroot "zombies"(postfix,apache2, mysql)
3 system demons (cron, metalog)
2 sshd, 10 courier-imap procs
Assuming your system looks about the same, the only thing to really keep an eye on is sshd and courier-imap, because they interface with the outside world. While SSH is already watching its security very closly, you wont have to care for more the security of two software packages...
But gentoo's strenth is its' ability to squeeze 0.0008 percent more processing power out of your 2.4ghz computer;
Who is the FUD spreading karmawhore here? Come on guys, it is getting old. not ease of use or installation. That arena is where (imho) mandrake really shines.
Installation: Mandrake and SuSE are easier of cause for a single desktop setup. But if you have a few more machines (of the same type), it might even be easier to get a good setup with gentoo (compile once, emerge -k everywhere)
Ease of use: Maybe for two months. After you do a update of your kernel and your nvidia-driver fails to work or something else like that. After two month debian and gentoo are far easier to manage than Mandrake or SuSE.
Basically your right. I think that what makes Gentoo an excellent desktop OS (very uptodate - gnome 2.6, etc...) makes it a dangerous OS for a server.
I installed gentoo on a old k6-200 as a homeserver an DynDNS webserver. Its running PhpBB2 on mysql and apache2, squirrelmail and a TeamSpeak-Server ans some other stuff. I wondered if gentoo was production ready (although this system is not critical at all...) - it is. The only time I needed to do some serious reconfiguring was when gentoo moved the APACHE-Root to/var/www/localhost/ to make multiple server-root on one system easier to maintain. The system is running for 18 month now. About install times: a gentoo desktop will be up and running in less than two hours with stage 3 - a server in less than a hour (plus some time for an unusual setup).
Maybe someone should check to see if IE has this "bug" as well.
Thats very probable since this is more a "metabug" in Windows - that might get fixed in SP2. So, perhaps Mozilla should have "bug fixes" for every windows flaw that they uncover?
No. They should just disable unsecure stuff by default. Thats one of the strong points of Mozilla. They did write code at some point that passes some unfiltered, unchecked data from the web on to some external handler. That action is shouting "security hazard" all the way.... Wouldn't that introduce quite a bit of bloat?
If you are fighting bloat, Moz shouldnt include this "feature" at all. But if someone writes code for this (rarely useful, but dangerous) feature, you better disable it by default.
While bug 250180 is pretty new, bug 163767 is ancient (08-2002) and describes the same problem, although being a bit more generic. I wouldnt shout too loud about fast bugfixing in OSS in this particular case. Although the bug is more a bug of Windows broken-by-design handling of URIs it still should have been fixed (or the features needed for the bug to work should have been disabled by default.)
If the US military had a cheap way to buy/kidnap him, they still wouldnt do it... after all Boeing, Raytheon and General Dynamics need to have money pumped thier way in huge amounts...
We did use thermal paste. The copper plate was put above the cooler, but below the mounting piece locking the cooler to the mainbord - the only reason was to generate more pressure on the cooler....
So while gcc is compiling firefox and it "flips a bit", that could compile an error into the firefox code, correct?
Firefox wouldnt matter too much - a bug in glibc would be annoying. But most of the time the compile simply fails - if you compiles fail on different source code lines (inreproducable) you can be pretty sure it is a hardware problem (overheating or bad RAM). Which is why I've heard many times not to be overclocking while your compiling anything.
Thats a good advice. My current system ran at 85C when first assembled (And mainboard, CPU and cooler came as a bundle). Starting a compile locked the system. My brothers system even failed trying to install Windows XP because of lockups. Checking the CPU temperature in the BIOS we saw a temperature of 120C (on my system because of the compile, on my brothers system even when idle.). We decidered there just wasnt enough pressure from the Cooler (Arctic Copper Silent Pro) on the CPU - so we manufactured two thin copper plates of about 0.8 mm width and did put it between the mounting piece and the cooler. We now needed much more force to press the cooler onto the CPU, but both systems now run stable on 50C.
So: Dont trust manufacturers. Even good ones. If something seems weird (like cooler that could be pressed onto the CPU,,somehow to easy'') doublecheck and correct!
Slashdot Mirror
The Nazis felt they were bred to be superior (period).
Its less importent to know what the Nazis felt. Its more importent to find out why so many germans played along. And the reasons for that are to be found in WW I (the versailles treaty giving the germans the sole responsibility for the war, forbidding almost all military, and requesting reparations that made it impossible for germany to recover economically. The reason for WWII is the way WWI was ended. check your facts here.
The french wanted revenge (why else did they pickk versailles) for 1870 but went over the top. In the end this was the foundation for another war.
(Am I now a official member of the tinfoil hat crowd?)
(original post on the gentoo forum)
While this is impressive, Mozillas XUL also introduces some security hazards. Right now they are not really used, but see this example in the 0.9 Firefox Series shows the spoofing/phishing possibilities. IE got into trouble by integrating too much with the OS, XUL might integrate mozillas to far too...
As my ex-boss once said: ...
Being rich does not make you happy, but it is easier to cry in a Rolls-Royce
What if a third party installed the software?
What if he buys two games and accepts just one EULA, and reverse engineers the other one? The idea of writing a letter with the "i dont accept the license and you can pick up the game at my place and give my a refund" content is appealing....
We've got Freedom
... and you are losing faster than anytime in you history.
... actually with the speed jobs are outsourced, the money will be owned by fewer and fewer people. They wont care to much about america, since they are not permanent residents of the US. ... or is the war on terror already won? the war on drugs?
we've got money
we've got power
Not enough for the problems you are facing
we've got bombs
Seriously, who hasnt? If your point is that the US has the best trained and well equipped military of the world you are right. But which war can be fought with this force? None of the ones that are the most serious threads to the USA. (Googleing for fighting the last war shows a nice forecast of the events in Iraq by a republian Col. in March 2003.
And we did it all in just over two and a quarter centuries. We're obviously doing something RIGHT.
No, you just didnt make to many things wrong. Other empires grew and fell faster nothing special about that. If the US is still around after another 700 years and plays in one league with Rome or the British and Chinese Empires we are talking.
It's kind of funny, here in a country, were moral relativism reigns and the mantra of the times is "I don't care what anyone else thinks!" , that we're so concerned about what the rest of the world thinks about us. We should *all* be shouting that from the mountain tops.
An american wrote once: Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
A german poet completed this with the words:
"... dann kommt der Krieg zu euch / Wer zu Hause bleibt, wenn der Kampf beginnt / Und läßt andere kämpfen für seine Sache / Der muß sich vorsehen; denn / Wer den Kampf nicht geteilt hat / Der wird teilen die Niederlage. / Nicht einmal den Kampf vermeidet / Wer den Kampf vermeiden will; denn / Es wird kämpfen für die Sache des Feinds / Wer für seine eigene Sache nicht gekämpft hat."
Ignorance is very dangerous. Especially in a world of interdependant economies and interests. Im really hoping for an up movement of the economy and the stock markets (european or american, they sing their songs unisono anyway.)
However, I believe "archive mirrors" does what you are trying to achieve. I haven't used them yet myself, since I need the pivot branch to work with my coworkers.
No. archive-mirrors is a tool for star merges. If you have a remote archive foo, you can make a local mirror called foo-MIRROR. You can then easily check out of the local mirror, make changes, submit to the remote server, sync the local to the remote archive. This is not too economical on bandwidth, but I use it to have local "security copys" of my archive (my final thesis) on different machines - it works pretty good for that.
If someone has a good way to easily move the "master archive" around, tell me!
(Like this:) I have two machines (A and B).
The archive on machine A is up-to-date.
1) Make a local copy of the archive on machine B.
2) Work on the local copy on B.
3) Update the archive on machine A with the changes made on B.
Prepare to see this more often than the old "does it run linux" or "imagine a beowulf cluster ..." posts. /.-history the moment it was posted and is even more generic. It will get posted again and again whether its on or offtopic ...8 344&cid=10000000
This one already made
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11
The number you show in you sig was never claimed by id software, it was done by some BBC journalist. The id officials never used it - because it is nonsense. The news about "losses by piracy" alone probably were PR (concidering ids cool statements in the same article) worth 2.7 million in sales. And thats not just multipling supanova-downloads (before release) with the game prize. Without a estimate on how many users would buy the game when it hits the stores this number is utterly worthless.
Link to the BBC article about "lost sales" for reference.
I actually got accused of trolling the other day because of my sig.
well, you are.
You basically admitted that nobody will use it because copyrights are enforced.
No. He says that nobody will use a network which relies on central servers and a registration. Maybe because of:
this is why we decided to freeze this huge project, that the SPD, the major partner in the german administration and our political partner in this project, just cant allow to fail. The had too much trouble with toll-collect, a recent huge waste of tax money. That way the SPD just cant continue to silently support software patents in the EU. Without a EU software patent law, we happyly invite you to OUR courts to discuss this in full detail.
Yours sincerly, the greens of germany
P.S.: Did you manage to unbundle your software from your OS in the meantime, or do we need to call the EU to fine you again?
MOD PARENT UP!
I think this is exactly what the greens are up to. The greens were against the EU patents. They are the small partner of the SPD in Munich and in the administration of Germany. The SPD is more or less silently tolerating the EU patent legislation. This stunt should force them to take a clear position.
Not even going into the obvious problems of spoofed attacks [...]
Spoofed origin is much less harmful here: If the warning returns to a spooded origin, it will either be blocked because that machine is fixed, or it will bet through because the machine is not fixed, in with case the warning still applies (machine already infected or not).
This was one of those things that slipped through the cracks, which unfortunately is easy to do with a small volunteer team ... I just thought I might bump a dev on this bugs, since it is pretty ugly.
Your doing a great job, especially concidering the circumstances you described above
Sorry for any inconvenience.
I wasnt hit to hard personally, but I installed gentoo on a friends machine, was in a rush and didnt really read the emerge -p --depclean output. I got his system running again by crosscompiling on my server and downloading and unpacking the tarball from a Knoppix CD. But I imagined *him* faced with this - he would just have gone back to windows, I guess. Helping at least two other users on IRC with this problem, I know it is not too uncommon - Still, releng is doing a great job for a great distro - so carry on!
Sorry for carrying this offtopic, but are the USE-Flag defaults and GRP USE-Flags in sync on 2004.2? This is a real showstopper - emerge --depclean on a fresh install kills coreutils and others, rendering the system pretty useless and requiring booting from a liveCD and some work to get it up and functional again ....
bug 48195
Don't validate as HTML 4.01 Transitional in many cases ... ... .xml handler in the doctype or URI handling). ... and even with the glitches described by you thats still far better than for example /. ...
Doing a quick check I cant find even one of your many cases
Aren't accessible to blind or colorblind readers
Why not? The page renders very well even in lynx
Are changing font sizes with hard-size values, making the page unreadible for sight-disabled visitors
Where?
False elitism. [...] Please, to all the Gentoo folks still learning HTML in their second-level grade school class, learn to do things right.
You are getting a bit into flame-mode here, arent you? BTW its been taken care of.
These pages aren't generated by an XSLT transformation from XML to HTML (and if they were, they certainly wouldn't be using a
And gentoo uses GuideXML for most of its Docs
but IMHO Gentoo could really use a decent installer.
gentoo installer project
GLIS
gentoo anaconda
- 6 agettys
- 12 kernel procs (init, ksoftirqd, pdflush
...)
- 3 chroot "zombies"(postfix,apache2, mysql)
- 3 system demons (cron, metalog)
- 2 sshd, 10 courier-imap procs
Assuming your system looks about the same, the only thing to really keep an eye on is sshd and courier-imap, because they interface with the outside world. While SSH is already watching its security very closly, you wont have to care for more the security of two software packagesJust use YaST update ...
You mean YOU (YaST online update)?
Yeah, thats exactly what I did on the SuSE machines. It failed in 75% of the cases.
But gentoo's strenth is its' ability to squeeze 0.0008 percent more processing power out of your 2.4ghz computer;
Who is the FUD spreading karmawhore here? Come on guys, it is getting old.
not ease of use or installation. That arena is where (imho) mandrake really shines.
Installation: Mandrake and SuSE are easier of cause for a single desktop setup. But if you have a few more machines (of the same type), it might even be easier to get a good setup with gentoo (compile once, emerge -k everywhere)
Ease of use: Maybe for two months. After you do a update of your kernel and your nvidia-driver fails to work or something else like that. After two month debian and gentoo are far easier to manage than Mandrake or SuSE.
Basically your right. ...) - it is. The only time I needed to do some serious reconfiguring was when gentoo moved the APACHE-Root to /var/www/localhost/ to make multiple server-root on one system easier to maintain. The system is running for 18 month now.
I think that what makes Gentoo an excellent desktop OS (very uptodate - gnome 2.6, etc...) makes it a dangerous OS for a server.
I installed gentoo on a old k6-200 as a homeserver an DynDNS webserver. Its running PhpBB2 on mysql and apache2, squirrelmail and a TeamSpeak-Server ans some other stuff. I wondered if gentoo was production ready (although this system is not critical at all
About install times: a gentoo desktop will be up and running in less than two hours with stage 3 - a server in less than a hour (plus some time for an unusual setup).
Maybe someone should check to see if IE has this "bug" as well. ....
Thats very probable since this is more a "metabug" in Windows - that might get fixed in SP2.
So, perhaps Mozilla should have "bug fixes" for every windows flaw that they uncover?
No. They should just disable unsecure stuff by default. Thats one of the strong points of Mozilla. They did write code at some point that passes some unfiltered, unchecked data from the web on to some external handler. That action is shouting "security hazard" all the way
Wouldn't that introduce quite a bit of bloat?
If you are fighting bloat, Moz shouldnt include this "feature" at all. But if someone writes code for this (rarely useful, but dangerous) feature, you better disable it by default.
While bug 250180 is pretty new, bug 163767 is ancient (08-2002) and describes the same problem, although being a bit more generic. I wouldnt shout too loud about fast bugfixing in OSS in this particular case. Although the bug is more a bug of Windows broken-by-design handling of URIs it still should have been fixed (or the features needed for the bug to work should have been disabled by default.)
If the US military had a cheap way to buy/kidnap him, they still wouldnt do it ... after all Boeing, Raytheon and General Dynamics need to have money pumped thier way in huge amounts ...
We did use thermal paste. The copper plate was put above the cooler, but below the mounting piece locking the cooler to the mainbord - the only reason was to generate more pressure on the cooler....
So while gcc is compiling firefox and it "flips a bit", that could compile an error into the firefox code, correct? ,,somehow to easy'') doublecheck and correct!
Firefox wouldnt matter too much - a bug in glibc would be annoying. But most of the time the compile simply fails - if you compiles fail on different source code lines (inreproducable) you can be pretty sure it is a hardware problem (overheating or bad RAM).
Which is why I've heard many times not to be overclocking while your compiling anything.
Thats a good advice. My current system ran at 85C when first assembled (And mainboard, CPU and cooler came as a bundle). Starting a compile locked the system. My brothers system even failed trying to install Windows XP because of lockups. Checking the CPU temperature in the BIOS we saw a temperature of 120C (on my system because of the compile, on my brothers system even when idle.). We decidered there just wasnt enough pressure from the Cooler (Arctic Copper Silent Pro) on the CPU - so we manufactured two thin copper plates of about 0.8 mm width and did put it between the mounting piece and the cooler. We now needed much more force to press the cooler onto the CPU, but both systems now run stable on 50C.
So:
Dont trust manufacturers. Even good ones. If something seems weird (like cooler that could be pressed onto the CPU