Performing (hired) security research for a company, and notifying said company of any results in a confidential manner should be fine. However, if you research security issues of said company (hired or not) and publish the results in a publicly accessible area, that is just wrong.
If you asked me to check out your house to see how secure it was, and I noticed you keep your key under the welcome mat, I shouldn't run around the town telling everyone about the key. I should speak to you in person about the issue. If you don't listen and continue putting your key under the mat, it's your own fault.
It's a shame that Windows users need to install antivirus, spybot, ad-aware, and other scanners (and run them on a monthly...weekly...daily basis to keep their computers clean. Also, don't forget about regedit. Seems Windows registry likes to corrupt itself. I dread the day that Linux gets to that point.
No - A kiddy pool is not the peeing section of a public swimming pool. It is separate. Smoking sections of public restaurants are in the same room (usually). In order to make the comparison with the kiddy pool, you'd have to put the smoking section in a shed outside the restaurant.
I've spoken with other people in my family about this recently, and they have said that a (Biblical) day is said to be a thousand years. However, 7 is often symbolic for completeness, so the 7 days of creation could be 7 thousand years, or just some length of time that was long enough to be complete. I'm still trying to make sense of it myself, but I just wanted to point that out.
yes, that is what I was getting at. If the universe came from a grain of dust, we can call that grain God. So then the grain of dust (God) was always here, throughout eternity. But before the change occurred, to create the universe, one could say there was no time, and no eternity. Existing throughout eternity doesn't necessarily mean existing forever, maybe just existing as long as there is time (from our perspective).
Maybe what existed before the existence of the universe, and before God, was in fact God himself. Just as God's only begotten son, Jesus, said that he himself was God.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. There are different theories on the creation of the universe, whether you believe in the "big bang", creation, or anything else. However the universe came to be, it had to come from somewhere. Assuming the universe exploded from a grain of dust, that grain of dust had to come from somewhere. Seems reasonable to me to say that God put it there and caused it to explode into what we have today.
If you go with Creation, the Bible says God created the Heavens and Earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th. To my knowledge, it doesn't define what a "day" is. Could these days be actually years or centuries or more?
It's not like the universe (or the dust cloud that created it) just existed through all eternity. If it did, call that God. After all, they do say God is everywhere, all knowing, etc.
I'm not sure you'll be able to have a single program that detects everything all the others do combined. Perhaps someone could develop a scanner that uses the database from Adaware and Spybot S&D and adds its own signatures into it. After that, Lavasoft may create new signatures that haven't yet been put into the newly developed program.
I run both Adaware and SpyBot S&D at work and at home (and have some relatives using them on a regular basis). Almost every time, one program gets done scanning, and then the other detects additional objects, no matter what order I run the scans in. I think it will always be this way.
You don't see this kind of activity on Linux or OS X, but then again, they do not have the same marketshare, and therefore not as many people developing malicious code for those platforms (some may argue this). Also, there seem to be a lot more "Joe User" people on Windows platforms who will blindly download the latest cute smiley program for their email or IM.
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Agreed. Nurture definitely plays a large role in personality. The clone is not going to have the same life experiences as the original.
a boot CD to carry around with you everywhere in case you don't hae your kit? where would you carry that CD, your back pocket? How about putting something like Damn Small Linux Embedded onto a 128 meg jumpdrive? You can carry that right on your keychain. You don't even need to boot off it. It will run from within Windows and from within Linux.
Exactly. Gentoo, Mandrake, Fedora, Slackware, etc. are not operating systems. They are Linux distributions. But then again, I don't think you can actually just get Linux itself can you? You certainly can't do that for Windows.
I just installed Debian from a Knoppix 3.3 CD a few weeks ago on my system at home. Is there a newer version of Knoppix that doesn't have a hard drive install? When I did it, it was just one command from the console. Installed pretty quickly too.
Only problem is it didn't detect my sound card (Sound Blaster 16). When I boot the system off the Knoppix CD, sound works perfectly, but after installing it to the hard drive, the card was not detected.
Well, with firefox, at least you can get the source code. If people really want to be certain they can trust it, they can review the source code (assuming the person is a developer) or have someone they trust review it. Try that with Internet Explorer. You can only trust the signature as much as you trust the company. Lately, how much do you trust Microsoft?
The person you quoted is still correct. You *used to* need third party software in Windows for zip files. Before XP (ME?), Windows did not know how to handle zip files. Explorer didn't always treat zip files as folders.
I understand that. I can see the benefits of bootstrapping the system, compiling every last piece from source optimized for your particular hardware, even though it may only be a small performance boost. To be honest, I don't know what nptl is.
As you've said, executing 'scripts/bootstrap.sh;emerge system' does not teach you anything more. I'm sure if someone wanted to learn, they could study the bootstrap.sh script and execute the commands in there manually to understand what's going on, but I'm sure not many people do that.
I've heard a lot of Gentoo users talk about the "learning" process of the bootstrap process. Although I use Gentoo, and love it, I don't really see how you learn anything more by doing a stage1 or stage2 install that you can't learn from a stage3/GRP. Really, the only thing I can see that stage1 gives you, besides a (often small) performance increase, is
# scripts/bootstrap.sh
# emerge system
Then between each step, you stare blankly at the compiler output for hours, or go watch some movies.
Even sticking with a stage3/GRP install, you can still learn a lot, using tools like lsmod to see what processes are running, and also configuring/compiling your kernel. As an added bonus, you get a working system in 2-4 hours instead of a few days. How does stage1 give you so much more knowledge?
Exactly. I've been waiting for a graphical installer for Gentoo for a while now. I've installed older releases on a few machines before, so I'm not new to it, but a graphical install would be much easier, especially to those who are new to linux. Some people may not like this because too many people will start using Gentoo and it won't look 1337 anymore. But if that's the case, why even brag about using it in the first place? That gets more people wanting to use it too, which IMHO would be better than those people using Windows.:-) I eagerly await 2005.0
It sure seems that way. I often get recordings on my answering machine (especially around election time) informing me of all the wonderful things that the prospective candidate will do if elected. I also get calls at least a few times a month from some company (not always the same one) looking for someone who doesn't even live at my house with "important information" telling the person to call back some 800 number (that leads to a voice mail system and drops the call. So there doesn't seem to be a way to get my number off these lists, despite the fact that my number (and cell phone numbers) are on the do-not-call list.:-/
Wouldn't this be a simple problem to fix? Just include an autorun file on the CD that prompts the user with a yes/no dialog stating that the computer "must be restarted in order to load this software" or something similar. User clicks yes, system reboots, and off they go.
Perhaps someone could create a CD that has an emulator (e.g., bochs) on it. Autorun would start up the emulator and boot a custom version of linux. One problem with this is that it may be a bit slower depending on hardware and the emulator used.
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Firefox works fine for me on slashdot. I have yet to see a rendering problem.
Performing (hired) security research for a company, and notifying said company of any results in a confidential manner should be fine. However, if you research security issues of said company (hired or not) and publish the results in a publicly accessible area, that is just wrong.
If you asked me to check out your house to see how secure it was, and I noticed you keep your key under the welcome mat, I shouldn't run around the town telling everyone about the key. I should speak to you in person about the issue. If you don't listen and continue putting your key under the mat, it's your own fault.
It's a shame that Windows users need to install antivirus, spybot, ad-aware, and other scanners (and run them on a monthly...weekly...daily basis to keep their computers clean. Also, don't forget about regedit. Seems Windows registry likes to corrupt itself. I dread the day that Linux gets to that point.
No - A kiddy pool is not the peeing section of a public swimming pool. It is separate. Smoking sections of public restaurants are in the same room (usually). In order to make the comparison with the kiddy pool, you'd have to put the smoking section in a shed outside the restaurant.
I've spoken with other people in my family about this recently, and they have said that a (Biblical) day is said to be a thousand years. However, 7 is often symbolic for completeness, so the 7 days of creation could be 7 thousand years, or just some length of time that was long enough to be complete. I'm still trying to make sense of it myself, but I just wanted to point that out.
yes, that is what I was getting at. If the universe came from a grain of dust, we can call that grain God. So then the grain of dust (God) was always here, throughout eternity. But before the change occurred, to create the universe, one could say there was no time, and no eternity. Existing throughout eternity doesn't necessarily mean existing forever, maybe just existing as long as there is time (from our perspective).
Maybe what existed before the existence of the universe, and before God, was in fact God himself. Just as God's only begotten son, Jesus, said that he himself was God.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. There are different theories on the creation of the universe, whether you believe in the "big bang", creation, or anything else. However the universe came to be, it had to come from somewhere. Assuming the universe exploded from a grain of dust, that grain of dust had to come from somewhere. Seems reasonable to me to say that God put it there and caused it to explode into what we have today.
If you go with Creation, the Bible says God created the Heavens and Earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th. To my knowledge, it doesn't define what a "day" is. Could these days be actually years or centuries or more?
It's not like the universe (or the dust cloud that created it) just existed through all eternity. If it did, call that God. After all, they do say God is everywhere, all knowing, etc.
You'll never get my laptop unless you pry it out of my cold, dead hands!
I'm not sure you'll be able to have a single program that detects everything all the others do combined. Perhaps someone could develop a scanner that uses the database from Adaware and Spybot S&D and adds its own signatures into it. After that, Lavasoft may create new signatures that haven't yet been put into the newly developed program.
I run both Adaware and SpyBot S&D at work and at home (and have some relatives using them on a regular basis). Almost every time, one program gets done scanning, and then the other detects additional objects, no matter what order I run the scans in. I think it will always be this way.
You don't see this kind of activity on Linux or OS X, but then again, they do not have the same marketshare, and therefore not as many people developing malicious code for those platforms (some may argue this). Also, there seem to be a lot more "Joe User" people on Windows platforms who will blindly download the latest cute smiley program for their email or IM.
Agreed. Nurture definitely plays a large role in personality. The clone is not going to have the same life experiences as the original.
a boot CD to carry around with you everywhere in case you don't hae your kit? where would you carry that CD, your back pocket? How about putting something like Damn Small Linux Embedded onto a 128 meg jumpdrive? You can carry that right on your keychain. You don't even need to boot off it. It will run from within Windows and from within Linux.
Exactly. Gentoo, Mandrake, Fedora, Slackware, etc. are not operating systems. They are Linux distributions. But then again, I don't think you can actually just get Linux itself can you? You certainly can't do that for Windows.
I just installed Debian from a Knoppix 3.3 CD a few weeks ago on my system at home. Is there a newer version of Knoppix that doesn't have a hard drive install? When I did it, it was just one command from the console. Installed pretty quickly too.
Only problem is it didn't detect my sound card (Sound Blaster 16). When I boot the system off the Knoppix CD, sound works perfectly, but after installing it to the hard drive, the card was not detected.
Well, with firefox, at least you can get the source code. If people really want to be certain they can trust it, they can review the source code (assuming the person is a developer) or have someone they trust review it. Try that with Internet Explorer. You can only trust the signature as much as you trust the company. Lately, how much do you trust Microsoft?
Are you trying to say MS Access is a database application?
The person you quoted is still correct. You *used to* need third party software in Windows for zip files. Before XP (ME?), Windows did not know how to handle zip files. Explorer didn't always treat zip files as folders.
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yes... let Microsoft include GPL'ed code in the next version of MS Office. :)
I've never even tried RedHat 8.0. I've tried 9.0, but that was when I knew nothing at all about linux, let alone how to compile software.
I understand that. I can see the benefits of bootstrapping the system, compiling every last piece from source optimized for your particular hardware, even though it may only be a small performance boost. To be honest, I don't know what nptl is.
As you've said, executing 'scripts/bootstrap.sh;emerge system' does not teach you anything more. I'm sure if someone wanted to learn, they could study the bootstrap.sh script and execute the commands in there manually to understand what's going on, but I'm sure not many people do that.
You're new here, aren't you? um... any distro lets you compile from source.
./configure;make;make install :-)
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I've heard a lot of Gentoo users talk about the "learning" process of the bootstrap process. Although I use Gentoo, and love it, I don't really see how you learn anything more by doing a stage1 or stage2 install that you can't learn from a stage3/GRP. Really, the only thing I can see that stage1 gives you, besides a (often small) performance increase, is
# scripts/bootstrap.sh
# emerge system
Then between each step, you stare blankly at the compiler output for hours, or go watch some movies.
Even sticking with a stage3/GRP install, you can still learn a lot, using tools like lsmod to see what processes are running, and also configuring/compiling your kernel. As an added bonus, you get a working system in 2-4 hours instead of a few days. How does stage1 give you so much more knowledge?
Exactly. I've been waiting for a graphical installer for Gentoo for a while now. I've installed older releases on a few machines before, so I'm not new to it, but a graphical install would be much easier, especially to those who are new to linux. Some people may not like this because too many people will start using Gentoo and it won't look 1337 anymore. But if that's the case, why even brag about using it in the first place? That gets more people wanting to use it too, which IMHO would be better than those people using Windows. :-) I eagerly await 2005.0
It sure seems that way. I often get recordings on my answering machine (especially around election time) informing me of all the wonderful things that the prospective candidate will do if elected. I also get calls at least a few times a month from some company (not always the same one) looking for someone who doesn't even live at my house with "important information" telling the person to call back some 800 number (that leads to a voice mail system and drops the call. So there doesn't seem to be a way to get my number off these lists, despite the fact that my number (and cell phone numbers) are on the do-not-call list. :-/
Wouldn't this be a simple problem to fix? Just include an autorun file on the CD that prompts the user with a yes/no dialog stating that the computer "must be restarted in order to load this software" or something similar. User clicks yes, system reboots, and off they go.
Perhaps someone could create a CD that has an emulator (e.g., bochs) on it. Autorun would start up the emulator and boot a custom version of linux. One problem with this is that it may be a bit slower depending on hardware and the emulator used.