Somehow, I dont think that this will be any different from any normal piece of software. I dont think that it will allow pages/javascript on the net to run local applications... the user has to call the application to run (at least I think so)
How is this different from any good intrusion detection system? There are already companies making software like this (although I'm not aware of any open source ones)... ISS Realsecure, Axent NetProwler, NFR, Intellitactics NSM to name a few.
Maybe the big thing is that they're trying to replace the intrusion detection analyst with software... which might not be such a great idea since all (unless broken:) intrusion detection systems can generate false positives and often do.
Canada's not too bad - although I can't really compare it to other countries...
Here, even child pornography has been found to be protected under free speech laws. That's kind of nutty, but it shows that we're serious about free speech, even if we have to take the bad with the good.
The only major invasions that we've had (that I'm aware of), were the Americans trying to take the country; apparently Canada is their 'manifest destiny' or something like that.
I've done that to a cat with a 'visible' laser pointer. I wouldn't say that doing it with an invisible laser light beam is much different or original.
It's nutty that anyone has allowed such a thing to be pattented. Any laser device emmiting a beam invisible to humans, but visible to cats, would be covered by this patent, and such lasers could be used for more than amusing cats, I'm sure.
Well, if you wana get tricky, you could always just use tcp packets that arent a part of an actual connection. Or, you could use lots of icmp packets (which would look suspicious to the telco). Those two ways would require kernel modules to function. However, either way, there's more than just udp. You could even tunnel it inside of HTTP if you were really non-lazy and had lots of bandwidth.
I saw a satelite re-enter the atmosphere last year at Burning Man, in Nevada; it was surreal. At first, it looked as if a 747 was comming over a mountain range, but as if the aircraft was only a few hundred metres up, but as it moved you could tell it was something else. It was quite beautiful. It's unfortunate that it's too dangerous to bring these things down near populated areas - a re-entry is definitly something that I'd LOVE to see again.
A consistant interface keeps comming up as an issue. It IS NOT so big an issue as people keep pointing out. So buttons between motif, gtk and kde apps dont look EXACTLY the same; buttons are buttons. I can see the difficulty in using TOTALLY different metaphores, and especially in using slightly different ones, as the subtle differences would be hard to pick up all of the time. It's a little bit of an inconvenience to apply themes to kde and gnome seperately, etc, but, it's not THAT bad, and there are tools to do it for you.
The problem is more with overwhelming users - most users have to install from scratch (linux isnt shipped with many boxes) and are presented with more information than they think they need during installation and setup. This greater amount of information makes linux LOOK harder.
Gnome (and KDE to some extent) dont require you to run a particular window manager. Enlightenment and WindowMaker are a fair bit different than Windows' Explorer. Windows still doesn't look as if it'll support multiple desktops/pages. Gnome uses more of an atomic menu model than windows - you can have many 'start' buttons in panels if you want them. And panels can be of different types. With applets you can use different task management tools. By the way, I'm concentrating on gnome only because that's what I use, and havn't got experience with KDE - so I appologize for lack of an impression on it. Linux GUI is NOT a total rip of microsoft, and it's an insult to the good ideas of people working to help us out to call those ideas rip offs.
I'm finding that these gecko based browsers are using less and less memory as they are worked on. On startup, skipstone is comparable to Netscape 4 in my experience.
As I learn command line stuff more, I'm finding much less use for stuff like gmc, and the upcomming Nautilus. I mean, I have ls and I have apt-get, what will I need this stuff for? I'm more likely to use the pure and free graphical apt than I am to use the eazel software manager thingie. And Nautilus seems like too much bloat. I would rather see some way to mount ftp sites on a normal filesystem, or even a new network filesystem designed from the ground up would be cool However, new users may find this stuff pretty and shiney.
Sorry to be such a party pooper:)
well, a 'free' gives you a snapshot of mem usage before you start it, and after. If you don't run anything else, you get a general idea of how much memory the app uses. It wont be perfect, but it will give you an idea. People dont care how much an app ACTUALLY uses, they want to know what the difference is between using it and not using it. Oh well. I found skipstone uses only about 7 megs and loads fast - crashes a bit, but I can manage.
I'd love to see what the footprint (after taking into account shared memory, how much shared stuff has to be loaded that wouldnt normally be loaded without the browser open) is when you compare konquerer, galeon, skipstone, mozilla, etc. I'm curious.
One way to tell would be to do a 'free' before launch, and a 'free' after lanch. Maybe I should do that. heh
Now, do you mean just NS or Mozilla too? The problem that I face with the arguement that IE is better than NS, is that IE doesn't exist so far as I'm concerned. It's not available on any of the platforms that I choose to use, so... The battle is between mozilla, NS6, other Gecko based browsers, Opera, Konquerer, etc.
: I read somewhere that Whistler will feature a new feature
to finally cure "DLL hell". Is this true?
A: It sure is. Back in the early days of Windows, before hard drives
were even widely available, Microsoft introduced the concept of
a shared code library called a "DLL" (Dynamic Link Library).
This sounds as if he's claiming dynamic linking as an innovation by Microsoft... hmmm... I'm no expert, so I could be wrong, but, did they REALLY?:)
With the exception of a few hour stints for games, I havn't used Windows on my home or work machines for about 3 years.
How many people can I trade HTML documents with? About everyone.
Linux doesn't have a perfect desktop environment, and it's productivity apps need some work, but they're not TOTALLY unusable. Linux (and presumably any other OSS OS) helps me learn, because it lets me see what I want to - that's what's most important to me in an OS.
The first: do you plan to make a non distribution specific hardening program/system/script? If so, how? It would be neat to have a consensus between distributions on file locations, etc to make this easier; do you plan on working with other distributions to come up with some sort of common interface or environment?
The second: do you plan on including any kernel based capability, IDS, or ACL addons? A good default use of these features would greatly increase the security of linux in general, but they are prohibitively complex for most users. Thus, these are great things to have taken care of by the system - do you plan on working on something to control these things (semi)automatically?
The biggest problem with web scripting languages, is that they are just that - scripting languages. They're being pushed as more than they are. If you need great performance, and a REAL language, why not write your own server, or base one off of an already existing server? That means write your program to the API of a server - like apache - or if you need extreme specialization, code something your self. I'm getting to the point where I'd like to try something like Eiffel to help me to improve the security and stability of my web based applications.
Not the same motherboard, but rather differernt motherboards without a lot of modification between them. Thus, to make it easy to make different boards to support different chips... not to make 1 board to support them all.
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Somehow, I dont think that this will be any different from any normal piece of software. I dont think that it will allow pages/javascript on the net to run local applications... the user has to call the application to run (at least I think so)
I was playing with a package called aatv the other day that did this.
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I dont have much else to say about it
(pls dont mod me down, I'm not logged in and dont have the oportunity to dselect the 'add 1 pt karma thing
How is this different from any good intrusion detection system? There are already companies making software like this (although I'm not aware of any open source ones)... ISS Realsecure, Axent NetProwler, NFR, Intellitactics NSM to name a few.
:) intrusion detection systems can generate false positives and often do.
Maybe the big thing is that they're trying to replace the intrusion detection analyst with software... which might not be such a great idea since all (unless broken
http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?category= Canada&story=/news/2000/01/19/childporn000119
There should be more on cbc.ca if you search for 'child porn sharpe' or something like that.
Canada's not too bad - although I can't really compare it to other countries...
Here, even child pornography has been found to be protected under free speech laws. That's kind of nutty, but it shows that we're serious about free speech, even if we have to take the bad with the good.
The only major invasions that we've had (that I'm aware of), were the Americans trying to take the country; apparently Canada is their 'manifest destiny' or something like that.
I've done that to a cat with a 'visible' laser pointer. I wouldn't say that doing it with an invisible laser light beam is much different or original.
It's nutty that anyone has allowed such a thing to be pattented. Any laser device emmiting a beam invisible to humans, but visible to cats, would be covered by this patent, and such lasers could be used for more than amusing cats, I'm sure.
If you use debian, debianhelp.org is a good place to go :) or just try #debian on irc.debian.org (open projects network)
altho, no, you could use libpcap or something to the same effect.
Well, if you wana get tricky, you could always just use tcp packets that arent a part of an actual connection. Or, you could use lots of icmp packets (which would look suspicious to the telco). Those two ways would require kernel modules to function. However, either way, there's more than just udp. You could even tunnel it inside of HTTP if you were really non-lazy and had lots of bandwidth.
There's lots of ways
I saw a satelite re-enter the atmosphere last year at Burning Man, in Nevada; it was surreal. At first, it looked as if a 747 was comming over a mountain range, but as if the aircraft was only a few hundred metres up, but as it moved you could tell it was something else. It was quite beautiful. It's unfortunate that it's too dangerous to bring these things down near populated areas - a re-entry is definitly something that I'd LOVE to see again.
A consistant interface keeps comming up as an issue. It IS NOT so big an issue as people keep pointing out. So buttons between motif, gtk and kde apps dont look EXACTLY the same; buttons are buttons. I can see the difficulty in using TOTALLY different metaphores, and especially in using slightly different ones, as the subtle differences would be hard to pick up all of the time. It's a little bit of an inconvenience to apply themes to kde and gnome seperately, etc, but, it's not THAT bad, and there are tools to do it for you.
The problem is more with overwhelming users - most users have to install from scratch (linux isnt shipped with many boxes) and are presented with more information than they think they need during installation and setup. This greater amount of information makes linux LOOK harder.
Well, it isnt THAT terrible.
Gnome (and KDE to some extent) dont require you to run a particular window manager. Enlightenment and WindowMaker are a fair bit different than Windows' Explorer. Windows still doesn't look as if it'll support multiple desktops/pages. Gnome uses more of an atomic menu model than windows - you can have many 'start' buttons in panels if you want them. And panels can be of different types. With applets you can use different task management tools. By the way, I'm concentrating on gnome only because that's what I use, and havn't got experience with KDE - so I appologize for lack of an impression on it. Linux GUI is NOT a total rip of microsoft, and it's an insult to the good ideas of people working to help us out to call those ideas rip offs.
www.cs.helsinki.fi runs Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.6.2 OpenSSL/0.9.5 on Linux
Huh? Isn't it the other way around? DMCA makes it illegal to reverse engineer anything? :)
I'm finding that these gecko based browsers are using less and less memory as they are worked on. On startup, skipstone is comparable to Netscape 4 in my experience.
As I learn command line stuff more, I'm finding much less use for stuff like gmc, and the upcomming Nautilus. I mean, I have ls and I have apt-get, what will I need this stuff for? I'm more likely to use the pure and free graphical apt than I am to use the eazel software manager thingie. And Nautilus seems like too much bloat. I would rather see some way to mount ftp sites on a normal filesystem, or even a new network filesystem designed from the ground up would be cool However, new users may find this stuff pretty and shiney. Sorry to be such a party pooper :)
well, a 'free' gives you a snapshot of mem usage before you start it, and after. If you don't run anything else, you get a general idea of how much memory the app uses. It wont be perfect, but it will give you an idea. People dont care how much an app ACTUALLY uses, they want to know what the difference is between using it and not using it. Oh well. I found skipstone uses only about 7 megs and loads fast - crashes a bit, but I can manage.
I'd love to see what the footprint (after taking into account shared memory, how much shared stuff has to be loaded that wouldnt normally be loaded without the browser open) is when you compare konquerer, galeon, skipstone, mozilla, etc. I'm curious.
One way to tell would be to do a 'free' before launch, and a 'free' after lanch. Maybe I should do that. heh
Now, do you mean just NS or Mozilla too? The problem that I face with the arguement that IE is better than NS, is that IE doesn't exist so far as I'm concerned. It's not available on any of the platforms that I choose to use, so... The battle is between mozilla, NS6, other Gecko based browsers, Opera, Konquerer, etc.
You could always use kernel modules.
: I read somewhere that Whistler will feature a new feature
:)
to finally cure "DLL hell". Is this true?
A: It sure is. Back in the early days of Windows, before hard drives
were even widely available, Microsoft introduced the concept of
a shared code library called a "DLL" (Dynamic Link Library).
This sounds as if he's claiming dynamic linking as an innovation by Microsoft... hmmm... I'm no expert, so I could be wrong, but, did they REALLY?
With the exception of a few hour stints for games, I havn't used Windows on my home or work machines for about 3 years.
How many people can I trade HTML documents with? About everyone.
Linux doesn't have a perfect desktop environment, and it's productivity apps need some work, but they're not TOTALLY unusable. Linux (and presumably any other OSS OS) helps me learn, because it lets me see what I want to - that's what's most important to me in an OS.
I have two questions actually.
The first: do you plan to make a non distribution specific hardening program/system/script? If so, how? It would be neat to have a consensus between distributions on file locations, etc to make this easier; do you plan on working with other distributions to come up with some sort of common interface or environment?
The second: do you plan on including any kernel based capability, IDS, or ACL addons? A good default use of these features would greatly increase the security of linux in general, but they are prohibitively complex for most users. Thus, these are great things to have taken care of by the system - do you plan on working on something to control these things (semi)automatically?
The biggest problem with web scripting languages, is that they are just that - scripting languages. They're being pushed as more than they are. If you need great performance, and a REAL language, why not write your own server, or base one off of an already existing server? That means write your program to the API of a server - like apache - or if you need extreme specialization, code something your self. I'm getting to the point where I'd like to try something like Eiffel to help me to improve the security and stability of my web based applications.
Not the same motherboard, but rather differernt motherboards without a lot of modification between them. Thus, to make it easy to make different boards to support different chips... not to make 1 board to support them all.