BIND9... don't get your hopes up. The BIND company sells paches for their software. Meaning that if you don't pay them money then you're going to be running an errornouse DNS server. [original emphasis]
Still most people use BIND for two reasons: no one wants to learn the crusty details of DNS and 2) Linux comes with BIND as it's default name library.
I wish it was so simple. There are two most important problems with djbdns, though. Namely:
unlike BIND, djbdns does not follow RFCs
1034/1035
unlike BIND, djbdns is not free software
Don't get me wrong, it is quite a solid piece of software (the laughable cracking contest notwithstanding) but it is not a complete DNS implementation (zone transfers, anyone?) which wouldn'd be such a big deal if it was free software, because anyone (myself included) could make it RFC compatible in few weeks (months at most) but unfortunately it is not.
Also, you should learn about BIND9 (and even BIND8) in the context of cache poisoning. It is not as big of a problem as you seem to believe.
Most people use BIND for two reasons indeed, but those reasons are:
BIND is the most complete DNS implementation
BIND is free software
("permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted..." etc.) contrary to what you are trying to imply with your patches-selling remark
I am sure many--if not all--GNU/Linux distos will come with djbdns as soon as it is released as free software, for--as I have already said--it is quite a good piece of software, for a one man project.
Great, that's what we need! Now the Santa Caldera Operation Group with Darl McBribe and other greedy rednecks from Tarantella, Utah, will want our money! When GNU was NOT Unix the life was simple. Now, everything is going to change, in this up-side-down world when GNU's Now Unix... Frightening perspective
"Can GNU ever be Unix?" Doubtful at best. Personally I think GNU is not Unix and never will be. Incidentally, that is the very reason I use GNU in the first place, for I think it is much better than Unix, probably the EMACS alone is better (or at the very least complexier and more feature rich) than Unix. So no, GNU will not be Unix, in my opinion.
It's kinda cool but is anyone out there using port knocking for serious security?
I, for one, am using port knocking as an exclusive security measure on some of the servers I proudly administer. There is a problem, though, when I hear my coworkers shouting "someone is knocking!" I never know whether it is port knocking or those guys who are going to perform rubber hose cryptanalysis on me again... But now with the new techniuque of knocking fingerprinting I will probably be forced (no pun intended) to go back to passwords.
Disco is dead???
Damn.. I have to get out more often...
When I was reading it the first time,
I was sure you have misspelled "Cisco."
Then, when I didn't get the joke, I reread it
only to realise that in fact there is such a word as "disco."
Then, I went out, as at that point it was quite obvious that
I have to get out more often either.
Has anyone noticed that the
Yesterday's News feature is broken? What's wrong with that? When will it be fixed? Is this bug vulnerable to malicious exploitation?
What was wrong with the old website? I, for one, really liked it. It always reminded me the websites one kid from my family was doing back in 1993 about her cat. OK, the kid wasn't very talented, even for a 4-year-old, but the cat was kind of funny. What was wrong with that? I don't like the new bloody website!
I don't like it at all! Wait a second, someone is knocking to my door... What the he--
It violates the third law of thermodynamics, that the universe moves towards an increasingly entropic state.
Look at it this way: if all the matter in the universe were condensed into a black hole which in doing so destroyed all the information about that matter, the universe would be less entropic than before the black hole consumed everything.
That is very interesting.
Few days ago I was wondering whether
the net amount of entropy of the universe can be decreased.
Will mankind one day without the net expenditure of energy be able to restore the sun to its full youthfulness even after it had died of old age? So I asked Google: "How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?"
Google fell dead and silent. The slow flashing of modem lights ceased, the distant sounds of beeping router ended.
Then, just as I felt I could hold my breath no longer, there was a sudden springing to life of the browser connected to Google. Five words were printed:
I don't know if they are smarter but they surely are gayer. Macs are brilliant in colors and style, so I would guess that their users are more pleasant, promoting a feeling of cheer, have much better overall taste and are probably happier than their Linux- and Windows-using counterparts, at least on the outside. I have no idea how that happiness relate to intelligence, though.
Please forgive me the orthographic errours in my previous post. I just love it when the tab-completion feature in my $EDITOR inserts misspelled words from the posts I am quoting above... *sigh* Couldn't Slashdot use mod_speling, anyway?
The skilled engineer builds custom software for companies with deep pockets. The automotive equivalent of having a shop that builds race cars and does custom fabrication.
My God! Chicks should love us! Wait the second... They don't! Why?!
"Hey baby! See this server? It is just like a drag racing car! Really! And I have built it all by myself! You see? I am a hacker guru, which means, that I am really a drag queen--No! I mean king! King!!! Drag racing king! Oh, God damn it..."
The terms used in psychology are 'fluid intelligence' and 'crystallized intelligence'
Please tell me, if I, as a computer software architect, have lots of
fluid intelligence as well as crystallised intelligence, then how on Earth most of my projects end as a bloody vapourware?!
As a scientist and developer developer developer developer, I believe I can answer some of your concerns:
We must also work to change a number of customer perceptions, including the views that older versions of Office and Windows are good enough [...]
I can sincerely assure you that I, for one, have never considered older (or newer, for that matter) versions of Microsoft Office and Windows good enough. Not even once. You can stop worrying about that.
On the need to innovate:
The key to our growth is innovation. Microsoft was built on innovation, has thrived on innovation, and its future depends on innovation. [...] We lead in innovation in most areas where we compete, and where we do lag [...] rest assured that the race to innovate has just begun and we will pull ahead.
[emphasis added]
Now,
no matter how much you believe your
developers developers developers developers to
innovate innovate innovate innovate,
saying the above as a company which, in fact,
has never contributed a single notable innovation to any computer-related field... Well... What can I say? You are not only doomed. You are already dead.
Yes, but Britannica's 85,000 articles are credible and verified for accuracy, while some of Wikipedia's content should be questionned.
You should probably question some of Britannica's content too!
Britannica Errors
I, for one, would question this Wikipedia article about Britannica errors you have linked to. It is entitled "Making fun of Britannica" and is hardly credible and verified for accuracy. See the revision history of said article. I am sure Mr. Nonamenobody together with his (higly respected in the scientific community, I'm sure) good friends 194.106.136.1, 194.203.111.212, 194.228.14.206 and 200.83.185.207 who are responsible for eight of the most recent versions of "Making fun of Britannica" would disagree, though.
They really do respond quickly, usually the first time I hear of a new exploit is when automatic update prompts me to download and isntall it. Usually a few days before it's posted on Slashdot for the second time.
This is exactly my experience. I usually get said automatic updates by email from my friends.
for those who might wonder: myostatin is responsible for skeletal muscle! Your tongue, and your heart muscle won't grow bigger than it is if you block that enzyme (I hope it really)
Are you absolutely
sure that the only muscles that will grow bigger
after taking myostatin blocker are skeletal muscles?
Are you saying that those spammers lied to me again?
Damn you, email!
Maybe the OSS community should fund some 'studies.' Surely Red Hat, Suse, IBM, et al could cough up the dough needed to hire THESE SAME THINKTANKS to attack Microsoft?
Oh, great idea! Let's pay those fucking whores
who want to destroy the free software movement
because Bill Gates told them so.
I'm sure they will be good then
and Bill Gates will never pay them more than us.
God damn it!
Are you out of your mind?!
It's equally smart as IBM buying SCO!
I'm thinking of starting the "FOSSie" Religion
In the same way that nothing from a pig goes into a Jewish body, nothing with a Microsoft logo goes into or onto mine...
There already is such a religion, The Church of Emacs,
which--according to
Saint IGNUcius
(a.k.a. Richard Stallman or "RMS")--I am proud to be a saint of.
It has little to do with Microsoft per se,
but rather all proprietary software not being kosher:
"Sainthood in the Church of Emacs requires living a life of purity--but in the Church of Emacs, this does not require celibacy
[...].
Being holy in our church means installing a wholly free operating system--GNU/Linux is a good choice--and not putting any non-free software on your computer."
To join the Church of Emacs, you need only say the Confession of the Faith three times:
There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels.
It is actually one of the smartest religions I have ever heard of.
It'd bring a whole new meaning to having "worms"...
the sited article is dated Sunday October 06, @20:37... October 6 of what year? This could make the difference between a random reference and verified prior art. (I'm not kidding here... Slashdot posts might classify as prior art in some patent fights).
In this case, it looks like this one was 2002 (the other option is an unlikely 1996), which is 2 years after MS filed their patent.
I'm lazy.. I hate having to use cal(1) to figure this out.
From what I can tell, you seem to be not nearly
lazy enough.
Just choose the format you like and be done with it.
Unfortunately, there is no format equivalent to
ISO-8601 compliant date/time string or
date -u '+%Y-%m-%d %A %H:%M:%S %Z'
which I personally would prefer for Slashdot posts.
Slashdot Mirror
I wish it was so simple. There are two most important problems with djbdns, though. Namely:
Don't get me wrong, it is quite a solid piece of software (the laughable cracking contest notwithstanding) but it is not a complete DNS implementation (zone transfers, anyone?) which wouldn'd be such a big deal if it was free software, because anyone (myself included) could make it RFC compatible in few weeks (months at most) but unfortunately it is not.
Also, you should learn about BIND9 (and even BIND8) in the context of cache poisoning. It is not as big of a problem as you seem to believe.
Most people use BIND for two reasons indeed, but those reasons are:
I am sure many--if not all--GNU/Linux distos will come with djbdns as soon as it is released as free software, for--as I have already said--it is quite a good piece of software, for a one man project.
Great, that's what we need! Now the Santa Caldera Operation Group with Darl McBribe and other greedy rednecks from Tarantella, Utah, will want our money! When GNU was NOT Unix the life was simple. Now, everything is going to change, in this up-side-down world when GNU's Now Unix... Frightening perspective
"Can GNU ever be Unix?" Doubtful at best. Personally I think GNU is not Unix and never will be. Incidentally, that is the very reason I use GNU in the first place, for I think it is much better than Unix, probably the EMACS alone is better (or at the very least complexier and more feature rich) than Unix. So no, GNU will not be Unix, in my opinion.
I, for one, am using port knocking as an exclusive security measure on some of the servers I proudly administer. There is a problem, though, when I hear my coworkers shouting "someone is knocking!" I never know whether it is port knocking or those guys who are going to perform rubber hose cryptanalysis on me again... But now with the new techniuque of knocking fingerprinting I will probably be forced (no pun intended) to go back to passwords.
Microsoft has never contributed a single notable innovation to any computer-related field.
What inventions?
Old news: MS Linux: Shipping in November 2003.
When I was reading it the first time, I was sure you have misspelled "Cisco." Then, when I didn't get the joke, I reread it only to realise that in fact there is such a word as "disco." Then, I went out, as at that point it was quite obvious that I have to get out more often either.
Has anyone noticed that the Yesterday's News feature is broken? What's wrong with that? When will it be fixed? Is this bug vulnerable to malicious exploitation?
I want say I like new site very very much. It was mistake of me to say I not. Thank you very much. All hail to The Great Leader KIM IL SUNG! All hail to The Great Leader KIM JONG IL!
That is very interesting. Few days ago I was wondering whether the net amount of entropy of the universe can be decreased.
Will mankind one day without the net expenditure of energy be able to restore the sun to its full youthfulness even after it had died of old age? So I asked Google: "How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?"
Google fell dead and silent. The slow flashing of modem lights ceased, the distant sounds of beeping router ended.
Then, just as I felt I could hold my breath no longer, there was a sudden springing to life of the browser connected to Google. Five words were printed:
"INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER."
I don't know if they are smarter but they surely are gayer. Macs are brilliant in colors and style, so I would guess that their users are more pleasant, promoting a feeling of cheer, have much better overall taste and are probably happier than their Linux- and Windows-using counterparts, at least on the outside. I have no idea how that happiness relate to intelligence, though.
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Do they even realise it can be easily hacked? What are they planning in the case of inevitable disaster? Sadly, these questions remain unanswered.
Please forgive me the orthographic errours in my previous post. I just love it when the tab-completion feature in my $EDITOR inserts misspelled words from the posts I am quoting above... *sigh* Couldn't Slashdot use mod_speling, anyway?
My God! Chicks should love us! Wait the second... They don't! Why?!
"Hey baby! See this server? It is just like a drag racing car! Really! And I have built it all by myself! You see? I am a hacker guru, which means, that I am really a drag queen--No! I mean king! King!!! Drag racing king! Oh, God damn it..."
Now I know why...
Please tell me, if I, as a computer software architect, have lots of fluid intelligence as well as crystallised intelligence, then how on Earth most of my projects end as a bloody vapourware?!
My open letter to Steve Ballmer:
Dear Mr. Ballmer,
As a scientist and developer developer developer developer, I believe I can answer some of your concerns:
I can sincerely assure you that I, for one, have never considered older (or newer, for that matter) versions of Microsoft Office and Windows good enough. Not even once. You can stop worrying about that.
Now, no matter how much you believe your developers developers developers developers to innovate innovate innovate innovate, saying the above as a company which, in fact, has never contributed a single notable innovation to any computer-related field... Well... What can I say? You are not only doomed. You are already dead.
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
I, for one, would question this Wikipedia article about Britannica errors you have linked to. It is entitled "Making fun of Britannica" and is hardly credible and verified for accuracy. See the revision history of said article. I am sure Mr. Nonamenobody together with his (higly respected in the scientific community, I'm sure) good friends 194.106.136.1, 194.203.111.212, 194.228.14.206 and 200.83.185.207 who are responsible for eight of the most recent versions of "Making fun of Britannica" would disagree, though.
This is exactly my experience. I usually get said automatic updates by email from my friends.
And what is exactly wrong in channelling me?
Are you absolutely sure that the only muscles that will grow bigger after taking myostatin blocker are skeletal muscles? Are you saying that those spammers lied to me again? Damn you, email!
Oh, great idea! Let's pay those fucking whores who want to destroy the free software movement because Bill Gates told them so. I'm sure they will be good then and Bill Gates will never pay them more than us. God damn it! Are you out of your mind?! It's equally smart as IBM buying SCO!
There already is such a religion, The Church of Emacs, which--according to Saint IGNUcius (a.k.a. Richard Stallman or "RMS")--I am proud to be a saint of. It has little to do with Microsoft per se, but rather all proprietary software not being kosher:
To join the Church of Emacs, you need only say the Confession of the Faith three times:
It is actually one of the smartest religions I have ever heard of.
Now, this I find insulting.
The very first thing in Your Slashdot Homepage Preferences is Date/Time Format with no less than 15 options which include a year. And just for the record, the article in question was posted on 2002-10-07.
From what I can tell, you seem to be not nearly lazy enough. Just choose the format you like and be done with it. Unfortunately, there is no format equivalent to ISO-8601 compliant date/time string or date -u '+%Y-%m-%d %A %H:%M:%S %Z' which I personally would prefer for Slashdot posts.