Slashdot is a website composed of comments from a wide variety of people. Since the first year of Slashdot, I have seen a variation of this reply over and over again, almost as prevalent as hot grits, natalie portman, and first post. That sweet cry of Hypocrisy! as if the commentor has discovered some conspiracy by a non living entity website.
I was a big fan of Arrowbridge duing the BBS days. Reminds me of the old top down rogue like games. Richard Garriott recently had a contest to port his first BASIC game to a web platform.
http://www.kirith.com/DND1/pure-js/
You have to use the name SHAVS to play the game (that is what was in the original source code). And hit No for instructions.
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Docker is a lot of things, all rolled up into one so it is difficult to describe without leaving out some detail. What is important to one devops person might be unimportant to another. I have been testing docker for the past few months and there are a couple of things about it that I like quite a bit.
I have to explain a couple of things that I like about it before I get to the one that I really like.
1) It has a repository of very bare bones images for ubuntu, redhat, busybox. Super bare bones, because docker only runs the bare minimum to start with and you build from that.
2) You pull down what you want to work with, and then you figuratively jump into that running image and you can set up that container with what you want it to do.
3) (this is what I really like) That working copy becomes a "diff" of the original base image. You can then save out that working image back to the repository. You can then jump on another machine, and pull down that "diff" image (but you don't even really have to think of it as a "diff", you can just think of it as your new container. docker handles all the magic of it behind the scenes. So if you are familiar with git, it provides a git like interface to managing your server images.
It does a lot more than what I describe above, but it is one of the things I was most impressed with.
In searching for the actual new map of Gondwana, the researchers in the article have this video of three continents separating. http://vimeo.com/68311221
One problem that has not be determined is how do planets deal with the inherent variability with Red Dwarf stars. There are many, many more red dwarfs than other types of stars and their expected life expectancy is longer the estimated end of the universe. But their small nature makes their energy output more variable than a star like our sun. Does the long life, and greater number of Red Dwarfs significantly boost the drake equation? Does the variable energy output reduce the drake equation?
Unfortunately, we will all probably be long dead before we find out.
Sadly, it is only a few of their old products. Hopefully they will release more in the future. Here is a blog post about which are the best of the few that they have released. And it mentions there are a couple of freebies that are available. Classic PDFs
Slashdot has mirrored the Internet in many ways. It seemed better in the early days as the signal to noise ratio felt much lower. The past is a foreign country.
Mandrake is largely geared to provide an end user environment. Debian doesn't necessarily have the easiest end-user install but Admin types don't care about such things. Debian is great for adminning. An admin at install time is only going to install exactly what is needed for the job at hand. Furthermore, managing, and upgrading Debian is wonderful with tools like apt-get and some of the other nice touches throughout the system. In other words, Debian is great for control-freaks with a shortage of available time.
I suspect the RedHat MySQL box was preconfigured with lots of tweaks for MySQL performance already done that they would have had to do by hand otherwise. Again, a purely practical kind of decision.
Mandrake's a wonderful distro for a workstation and end user, but it's filled with stuff they would just have to remove and it doesn't have the server management tools that make Debian so nice for someone whose familiar with the system.
Didn't see in the Changelog that they had repaired the problem of crashing with a "bus error" on password dialogs -- usually the 3rd or 4th time I hit a password dialog. This has been every 4.xx version I've used on every system I've used.
Jerry Pournelle confuses feature creep with innovation. Then he concludes that the findings of fact contradict themselves: How can Microsoft suppress innovation, yet innovate it's own products too aggressively? Because that conclusion is wrong, Jerry. Piling features into a product is not equivalent to creating innovation.
Innovation implies the creation of something new or some technological advance in a product. Microsoft has simply crammed in everyone else's products and innovations and then claimed that "it's part of the Operating System." I suppose you could claim this is an innovative method for killing off your competition.
Time and again companies have created good products for Windows only to be purchased by MS or find their products duplicated and included in the OS. This is exactly what is meant by the surpressing innovation. Releasing bug fixes and calling them a new Operating System release has nothing whatsoever to do with innovation.
Jerry Pournelle confuses feature creep with innovation. Then he concludes that the findings of fact contradict themselves: How can Microsoft suppress innovation, yet innovate it's own products too aggressively? Because that conclusion is wrong, Jerry. Piling features into a product is not equivalent to creating innovation.
Innovation implies the creation of something new or some technological advance in a product. Microsoft has simply crammed in everyone else's products and innovations and then claimed that "it's part of the Operating System." I suppose you could claim this is an innovative method for killing off your competition.
Time and again companies have created good products for Windows only to be purchased by MS or find their products duplicated and included in the OS. This is exactly what is meant by the surpressing innovation. Releasing bug fixes and calling them a new Operating System release has nothing whatsoever to do with innovation.
> I mean when you say there is a hole in version x.x of sendmail (e.g.), you're practically telling crackers that, "Hey! Here's the > back door! Start probing the net for servers running this software! Come on down!". This kind of information should only be > traded among LICENSED security consultants (yes, we need licensing) because... this is dangerous stuff.
You're not serious are you? This is nonsense and naive at best. You're not familiar with BUGTRAQ are you? BUGTRAQ is a mailing list that is a critical resource for admins all over the world. BUGTRAQ is also a full disclosure mailing list and it is open to anyone to read. Attempting to hide this information will only serve to keep it out of the hands of the people who need it. Clever crackers will find it regardless. Furthermore, open disclosure encourages the fixing of security holes. Hiding this information will lull people into a false sense of security.
Perhaps you should spend some time reading at Security Focus and Packet Storm to understand why full disclosure is a _good_ thing. You are fooling yourself if you thing licensing and attempting to hide security holes will provide any protection whatsoever.
For actually detecting scans, tcp wrappers comes in handy as does a sniffer called snort. Snort allows you to write rulesets -- and several people have -- to watch and detect activity on your network. Check it out at http://www.clark.net/~roesch/security.html
Mettler's argument is akin to that of a child math prodigy who has just independently stumbled across pi. He thinks he has discovered some great new property only to learn that his "discovery" has long been known.
What is disturbing is that Mettler is unable or unwilling to accept that his premise is well known and not entirely completely thought out. A regular user cannot install code. Nor can he run code that, say, directly accesses the hardware unless he is already root. A regular user cannot spoof/bin/login unless he has access to/bin/login in the first place.
Even worse, Mettler believes that closed-source is less vulnerable to this sort of trojan attack. Perhaps he should visit http://www.rootshell.com . Actually, it would be nice if Mettler would do any research at all.
His position is based on apparent willful ignorance. Consequently, I, for one, am not inclined to feel sympathetic towards him.
My impression is that it is working. I really don't have a problem "manually filtering" but this is still nice. It just makes it more manageable and more interesting. I was already competely addicted to Slashdot, now you've gone & sunk the hook deeper. Thanks guys!
Debian is 100% volunteer maintained. It makes perfect sense, then, that the "main" distribution is 100% free. Like the linux kernel developers, the hundreds of Debian maintainers do not make money directly off of their efforts. And still it is trivial for users and contributors to install "non-free" packages off of the web site as desired. Much of the non-free distribution can be purchased on cd from vendors such as cheapbytes.
I really don't see where the policy gets in the way. IMHO Debian is the most technically elegant, well intergrated, stable and thoughtfully assembled distro out there. A big thank you to all the Debian volunteers!
My last Atari crapped out a couple years ago so I have no access to the tons of stuff I used to have archived on that thing. I have several printouts but I just can't see typing that stuff in. I might have some goodies on some floppies laying about but nothing really old and interesting.
I was very active during the mid-late 80's in New Orleans area BBS. I've actually used this alias since those days because revealing your "real-world" identity was verboten. Hell, the classic Assassin's Guild went down in January '98 after a 15 year uninterrupted run. I emailed the former sysop in the hopes that she'd still have some goodies laying about.
I have to admit, I miss being able to read as fast as the modem could put characters to the screen (300 baud). It's still weird to me that my parents actually understand the terms "modem", "online" etc. after all these years. I met some of my current best friends through BBS way back then when we were kids.
>In fact, I didn't know how much of my computer >I'd never seen or how much of it I could control, >personalize or change if I were willing to take >the time. That I was buying so much junk I didn't >want, was completely at the mercy of greedy >corporations, using so much memory and speed on >things I didn't need, was a shocker. If I were >willing to take the trouble, learn the language, >computing would become an utterly different >experience.
Further down in the article, there was another survey mentioned which claimed that 76% claimed MS was good for consumers & the industry. I'd be curious to see who was polled. I believe that the general public is largely ignorant of the issues in the case in the first place.
How many American's can even answer the question "What is an Operating System?" It's gonna be interesting to watch, anyway.
I did go to college, but I earned a liberal arts degree. I felt at the time (and still do) that colleges would be unable to keep up with the pace of change in technology and that I could continue to learn much more on my own. I also didn't want to sit in classes being taught things I already knew and could easily teach myself.
There were, of course, other reasons for choosing the path I did and I wouldn't change a thing. However, I am having a hell of a time finding a position now in the fields where I want to be and know that I am qualified to be. Employers do not find self-teaching credible. Part of my problem is where I live. A self-taught geek has greater opportunity in say, California, than in the prehistoric techno backwater called Louisiana.
Nonetheless, I am patient and will prevail. I make a reasonable salary now despite being bored and unchallenged by my position.
There are lots of other reasons besides the degree to attend a University. The experience is well worth it regardless of the degree you end up with.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot is a website composed of comments from a wide variety of people. Since the first year of Slashdot, I have seen a variation of this reply over and over again, almost as prevalent as hot grits, natalie portman, and first post. That sweet cry of Hypocrisy! as if the commentor has discovered some conspiracy by a non living entity website.
I was a big fan of Arrowbridge duing the BBS days. Reminds me of the old top down rogue like games. Richard Garriott recently had a contest to port his first BASIC game to a web platform.
http://www.kirith.com/DND1/pure-js/
You have to use the name SHAVS to play the game (that is what was in the original source code).
And hit No for instructions.
Docker is a lot of things, all rolled up into one so it is difficult to describe without leaving out some detail. What is important to one devops person might be unimportant to another. I have been testing docker for the past few months and there are a couple of things about it that I like quite a bit.
I have to explain a couple of things that I like about it before I get to the one that I really like.
1) It has a repository of very bare bones images for ubuntu, redhat, busybox. Super bare bones, because docker only runs the bare minimum to start with and you build from that.
2) You pull down what you want to work with, and then you figuratively jump into that running image and you can set up that container with what you want it to do.
3) (this is what I really like) That working copy becomes a "diff" of the original base image. You can then save out that working image back to the repository. You can then jump on another machine, and pull down that "diff" image (but you don't even really have to think of it as a "diff", you can just think of it as your new container. docker handles all the magic of it behind the scenes. So if you are familiar with git, it provides a git like interface to managing your server images.
It does a lot more than what I describe above, but it is one of the things I was most impressed with.
In searching for the actual new map of Gondwana, the researchers in the article have this video of three continents separating.
http://vimeo.com/68311221
One problem that has not be determined is how do planets deal with the inherent variability with Red Dwarf stars. There are many, many more red dwarfs than other types of stars and their expected life expectancy is longer the estimated end of the universe. But their small nature makes their energy output more variable than a star like our sun.
Does the long life, and greater number of Red Dwarfs significantly boost the drake equation? Does the variable energy output reduce the drake equation?
Unfortunately, we will all probably be long dead before we find out.
I recently got an old BASIC program running from Dragon Magazine. The entire thing can be run in a browser today.
http://randomwizard.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-electric-eye.html
Sadly, it is only a few of their old products. Hopefully they will release more in the future.
Here is a blog post about which are the best of the few that they have released.
And it mentions there are a couple of freebies that are available.
Classic PDFs
Slashdot has mirrored the Internet in many ways. It seemed better in the early days as the signal to noise ratio felt much lower. The past is a foreign country.
Mandrake is largely geared to provide an end user environment. Debian doesn't necessarily have the
easiest end-user install but Admin types don't care about such things. Debian is great for adminning. An admin at install time is only going to install exactly what is needed for the job at hand. Furthermore, managing, and upgrading Debian is wonderful with tools like apt-get and some of the other nice touches throughout the system. In other words, Debian is great for control-freaks with a shortage of available time.
I suspect the RedHat MySQL box was preconfigured with lots of tweaks for MySQL performance already
done that they would have had to do by hand
otherwise. Again, a purely practical kind of decision.
Mandrake's a wonderful distro for a workstation and end user, but it's filled with stuff they would just have to remove and it doesn't have the server management tools that make Debian so nice for someone whose familiar with the system.
Didn't see in the Changelog that they had
repaired the problem of crashing with a "bus error" on password dialogs -- usually the 3rd or
4th time I hit a password dialog. This has been
every 4.xx version I've used on every system I've
used.
Jerry Pournelle confuses feature creep with innovation. Then he concludes that the findings of fact contradict themselves: How can Microsoft suppress innovation, yet innovate it's own products too aggressively? Because that conclusion is wrong, Jerry. Piling features into a product is not equivalent to creating innovation.
Innovation implies the creation of something new or some technological advance in a product. Microsoft has simply crammed in everyone else's products and innovations and then claimed that "it's part of the Operating System." I suppose you could claim this is an innovative method for killing off your competition.
Time and again companies have created good products for Windows only to be purchased by MS or find their products duplicated and included in the OS. This is exactly what is meant by the surpressing innovation. Releasing bug fixes and calling them a new Operating System release has nothing whatsoever to do with innovation.
Jerry Pournelle confuses feature creep with innovation. Then he concludes that the findings of fact contradict themselves: How can Microsoft suppress innovation, yet innovate it's own products too aggressively? Because that conclusion is wrong, Jerry. Piling features into a product is not equivalent to creating innovation.
Innovation implies the creation of something new or some technological advance in a product. Microsoft has simply crammed in everyone else's products and innovations and then claimed that "it's part of the Operating System." I suppose you could claim this is an innovative method for killing off your competition.
Time and again companies have created good products for Windows only to be purchased by MS or find their products duplicated and included in the OS. This is exactly what is meant by the surpressing innovation. Releasing bug fixes and calling them a new Operating System release has nothing whatsoever to do with innovation.
You're not serious are you? This is nonsense and naive at best. You're not familiar with BUGTRAQ are you? BUGTRAQ is a mailing list that is a critical resource for admins all over the world. BUGTRAQ is also a full disclosure mailing list and it is open to anyone to read. Attempting to hide this information will only serve to keep it out of the hands of the people who need it. Clever crackers will find it regardless. Furthermore, open disclosure encourages the fixing of security holes. Hiding this information will lull people into a false sense of security.
Perhaps you should spend some time reading at Security Focus and Packet Storm to understand why full disclosure is a _good_ thing. You are fooling yourself if you thing licensing and attempting to hide security holes will provide any protection whatsoever.
For actually detecting scans, tcp wrappers comes in handy as does a sniffer called snort. Snort allows you to write rulesets -- and several people have -- to watch and detect activity on your network. Check it out at http://www.clark.net/~roesch/security.html
Mettler's argument is akin to that of a child math prodigy who has just independently stumbled across pi. He thinks he has discovered some great new property only to learn that his "discovery" has long been known.
/bin/login unless he has access to /bin/login in the first place.
What is disturbing is that Mettler is unable or unwilling to accept that his premise is well known and not entirely completely thought out. A regular user cannot install code. Nor can he run code that, say, directly accesses the hardware unless he is already root. A regular user cannot spoof
Even worse, Mettler believes that closed-source is less vulnerable to this sort of trojan attack. Perhaps he should visit http://www.rootshell.com . Actually, it would be nice if Mettler would do any research at all.
His position is based on apparent willful ignorance. Consequently, I, for one, am not inclined to feel sympathetic towards him.
My impression is that it is working. I really don't have a problem "manually filtering" but this is still nice. It just makes it more manageable and more interesting. I was already competely addicted to Slashdot, now you've gone & sunk the hook deeper. Thanks guys!
Debian is 100% volunteer maintained. It makes perfect sense, then, that the "main" distribution is 100% free. Like the linux kernel developers, the hundreds of Debian maintainers do not make money directly off of their efforts. And still it is trivial for users and contributors to install "non-free" packages off of the web site as desired. Much of the non-free distribution can be purchased on cd from vendors such as cheapbytes.
I really don't see where the policy gets in the way. IMHO Debian is the most technically elegant, well intergrated, stable and thoughtfully assembled distro out there. A big thank you to all the Debian volunteers!
My last Atari crapped out a couple years ago so I have no access to the tons of stuff I used to have archived on that thing. I have several printouts but I just can't see typing that stuff in. I might have some goodies on some floppies laying about but nothing really old and interesting.
I was very active during the mid-late 80's in New Orleans area BBS. I've actually used this alias since those days because revealing your "real-world" identity was verboten. Hell, the classic Assassin's Guild went down in January '98 after a 15 year uninterrupted run. I emailed the former sysop in the hopes that she'd still have some goodies laying about.
I have to admit, I miss being able to read as fast as the modem could put characters to the screen (300 baud). It's still weird to me that my parents actually understand the terms "modem", "online" etc. after all these years. I met some of my current best friends through BBS way back then when we were kids.
Thanks for the cool nostalgia.
>In fact, I didn't know how much of my computer
>I'd never seen or how much of it I could control,
>personalize or change if I were willing to take
>the time. That I was buying so much junk I didn't
>want, was completely at the mercy of greedy
>corporations, using so much memory and speed on
>things I didn't need, was a shocker. If I were
>willing to take the trouble, learn the language,
>computing would become an utterly different
>experience.
umm. exactly. So stop being afraid to try.
Further down in the article, there was another survey mentioned which claimed that 76% claimed MS was good for consumers & the industry. I'd be curious to see who was polled. I believe that the general public is largely ignorant of the issues in the case in the first place.
How many American's can even answer the question "What is an Operating System?" It's gonna be interesting to watch, anyway.
I did go to college, but I earned a liberal arts degree. I felt at the time (and still do) that colleges would be unable to keep up with the pace of change in technology and that I could continue to learn much more on my own. I also didn't want to sit in classes being taught things I already knew and could easily teach myself.
There were, of course, other reasons for choosing the path I did and I wouldn't change a thing. However, I am having a hell of a time finding a position now in the fields where I want to be and know that I am qualified to be. Employers do not find self-teaching credible. Part of my problem is where I live. A self-taught geek has greater opportunity in say, California, than in the prehistoric techno backwater called Louisiana.
Nonetheless, I am patient and will prevail. I make a reasonable salary now despite being bored and unchallenged by my position.
There are lots of other reasons besides the degree to attend a University. The experience is well worth it regardless of the degree you end up with.