You should be concerned. What happens in the US serves as a precedent for other countries. If it's OK to sweep up domains at some corporate entity's whim without due process, you can bet your bottom Pound/Euro/Rupee/Yen that a similar law will pass in your country in the not-too-distant future.
You make it sound like the Ubuntu people aren't putting a lot of hard work into it. A lot of the work Ubuntu does on the desktop finds its way back into Debian. As a die-hard Debian user of more than a decade, I can assure you the default installations of Gnome and KDE on Debian improved like never before since Ubuntu/Kubuntu came on the scene.
I'm probably being dense, but how does this undermine claims that online music piracy is responsible for falling sales? (Assuming sales are falling).
I'm not convinced that sales are falling. But if they were, in fact, falling, I'd bet it's more to do with the forgettable nature and the quality of the content that shows like the X-Factor produce. Not enough good music on the shelves...
1. is a good enough sysadmin to secure his box 2. doesn't need "his friend" to check out his box if it doesn't do what it's supposed to.
I work for a hosting company with several thousand servers (client's hire a real or virtual server and have root access) and based on what I see on a dialy basis, I can tell you the following:
1. Linux servers do get compromised. 2. The vast majority of compromises on Linux servers are application level. 3. Root compromises tend to be cause by:
a) disgruntled former employees (we can track your IP, don't you know?)
b) inexperienced sys admins doing stupid things like enabling root login via ssh, not restricting access to their own IPs, and dumb passwords like 'password' or 'penis' or '123456' or blank (who would think of just pressing enter?). 4. The majority of application compromises are merely spammers figuring out ways to send spam via your box - usually by brute forcing smtp passwords or backscatter (thanks to qmail's dumb defaults) 5. What's left of application level compromises (I'd guestimate about 20%) are website code exploits (yes, people still insist on turning register_globals on and safe_mode off and then wonder why they're hosting a PayPal phishing site) 6. Windows servers get compromised far more often. 7. Windows servers more often than not get root compromised. Not sure of the detailed reasons since I don't work with them.
Works fine at home (HP nx6125 - Radeon m200 with 1400x1050 LCD and external 1440x900 LCD, ATI proprietary driver) and at work (two 19" 1280x1024 LCDs on a Radeon 7000, old OSS driver).
So there...
user1@example.com - exchange user user2@example.com - not exchange user
user2 sends mail to user1. It goes from user2's mail server, to the postfix box on user1's side, to exchange.
Now user1 replies to user2. Exchange sees it's for example.com, thinks, Oh, I am examaple.com, sees there's no local user called user2, and rejects it.
The only way around this I've found so far is subdomains, but it's ugly, really.
So is store.exe eating up a gig and a half of memory for an 8 user network also just a configuration problem, or is that one of those legendary MS "features"?
What pisses me off of Exchange (2000 at least) is that it cannot do per-recipient routing if the servers it is routing to isn't also exchange. At least not as far as I've been able to find out.
I have a site with severn offices, and only the main branch has Exchange (for calendering and contacts - I intend to change this). The rest of the sites are smaller and all have postfix+courier-pop/imap boxes for their mail.
The main office receives the mail (on a postfix box). This box then distributes the mail to the correct offices and exchange in the case of the main office. So far so good. The problem comes when people in the main branch, using exchange, wants to send mail to the guys in the other branches. Exchange just won't understand that some addresses isn't hosted on itself.
I wish I could find a server tool that would offer shared calenders and contacts to outlook *without* the need for a plug-in.
What bugs me is that so many people I spoke to about the possibility of going with AMD instead of intel, still say "Oh but AMDs run too way hot." Yeah, as opposed too?
Even my Thoroughbred B core AthlonXP 2400+ in a cheapo case with only one 8cm fan aside from the stock cooler that came with the CPU, harly ever passes 40 degrees celcius under load...
Speaking of cool CPUs, does anyone know of a benchmark of those dual VIA bords? I think they came with something like 1ghz C3 CPUs or some such - would be very interesting....
I'll give you the benifit of the doubt, because I haven't heard this one, only the realtek based nForce2.
That still leaves us without proper graphics or network. I say "proper" in a very limited and specific sense.
My point is that there are several applications where most of the onboard sound, graphics and network controllers doesn't cut it.
Midi, for one thing, requires cards made to deal with midi properly. The SBLive only barely copes if you use the onboard wave tables instead of an external device.
Workstation graphics, as someone else mentioned. The current ATi and GeForce cards may be fast and optimized for a quality gaming experience, but their all-round image quality and consistency aren't as good as even their own workstation boards.
Network: Sure, you get gigabit controllers onboard, but have you seen the CPU usage on those things if you actually start pulling serious data over them? It's visible even on 100mbit cards in today's more powerful PCs. I can tell you from experience that a proper hardware based network controller, like the intel server cards, use less CPU in a P-III system than a cheapo card uses in a P4. This doesn't make much on a difference on a machine where the network controller and the CPU aren't under full load at the same time, but on many workstations and servers this is often the case. Doing some rendering on a big file that sits on a network share, for example...
The OP might have had a wildcat graphics card, expensive NIC and exotic soundboard. So it's not entirely fair to say the onboard components on most boards today are better quality, without knowing what hardware the original poster had.
"915G chipset, sports onboard audio that's better than my old-skool soundblaster live."
Either you listen to poorly encoded mp3s, you have crap speakers, or your SB Live was busted. There's no way onboard Intel sound has anything on the Live/Audigy cards, not to mention the more serious sound boards you're likely to find in a professional muso's PC.
Get a decent pair of earphones and compare the two. Listen to accoustic recordings (electronic sounds like synthesizers doesn't show you a lot of what your card can do), and just for kicks, listen to the *silence* your card makes. You'll be amazed.
Show me a motherboard with integrated sound that matches a SB Live!, for example (no the current intle/via/realtek jobbies doesn't, unless you only listen to mp3 or other lossy-format encoded stuff), graphics that match a Matrox 4-head or Quadro/FireGL/Wildcat, network that compares favourably to an Intel server type NIC (which isn't uncommen for proper workstation boxes).
Just a few examples of hardware that *isn't* available onboard.
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Any idea which versions of Wordpress is being targeted and/or which vulnerability? The quoted articles look more like commercials for Websense.
You should be concerned. What happens in the US serves as a precedent for other countries. If it's OK to sweep up domains at some corporate entity's whim without due process, you can bet your bottom Pound/Euro/Rupee/Yen that a similar law will pass in your country in the not-too-distant future.
You make it sound like the Ubuntu people aren't putting a lot of hard work into it. A lot of the work Ubuntu does on the desktop finds its way back into Debian. As a die-hard Debian user of more than a decade, I can assure you the default installations of Gnome and KDE on Debian improved like never before since Ubuntu/Kubuntu came on the scene.
I'm not convinced that sales are falling. But if they were, in fact, falling, I'd bet it's more to do with the forgettable nature and the quality of the content that shows like the X-Factor produce. Not enough good music on the shelves...
The thought of Gordon Brown and the thought of "fun" in the space of one sentence (or one day, even) leaves me feeling violated.
Uhm, it was 900GB up - 30GB per day. Download is unlimited. You would need at least around 3mbit/s up-link to be able to achieve 30GB per day.
Because Bruce Perens:
1. is a good enough sysadmin to secure his box
2. doesn't need "his friend" to check out his box if it doesn't do what it's supposed to.
I work for a hosting company with several thousand servers (client's hire a real or virtual server and have root access) and based on what I see on a dialy basis, I can tell you the following:
1. Linux servers do get compromised.
2. The vast majority of compromises on Linux servers are application level.
3. Root compromises tend to be cause by:
a) disgruntled former employees (we can track your IP, don't you know?)
b) inexperienced sys admins doing stupid things like enabling root login via ssh, not restricting access to their own IPs, and dumb passwords like 'password' or 'penis' or '123456' or blank (who would think of just pressing enter?).
4. The majority of application compromises are merely spammers figuring out ways to send spam via your box - usually by brute forcing smtp passwords or backscatter (thanks to qmail's dumb defaults)
5. What's left of application level compromises (I'd guestimate about 20%) are website code exploits (yes, people still insist on turning register_globals on and safe_mode off and then wonder why they're hosting a PayPal phishing site)
6. Windows servers get compromised far more often.
7. Windows servers more often than not get root compromised. Not sure of the detailed reasons since I don't work with them.
Works fine at home (HP nx6125 - Radeon m200 with 1400x1050 LCD and external 1440x900 LCD, ATI proprietary driver) and at work (two 19" 1280x1024 LCDs on a Radeon 7000, old OSS driver). So there...
South Africa
I'm sure you can. But we choose our evils, don't we?
Which is not to say I'm not thinking of packing my bags to find "greener grass" either....
Every time I read something like this I'm more and more glad that I don't live in the U.S.
I seem to remember doing that broke something somewhere else, but I'll give it a try next time I'm there.
Thanks
It works something like this;
user1@example.com - exchange user
user2@example.com - not exchange user
user2 sends mail to user1. It goes from user2's mail server, to the postfix box on user1's side, to exchange.
Now user1 replies to user2. Exchange sees it's for example.com, thinks, Oh, I am examaple.com, sees there's no local user called user2, and rejects it.
The only way around this I've found so far is subdomains, but it's ugly, really.
So is store.exe eating up a gig and a half of memory for an 8 user network also just a configuration problem, or is that one of those legendary MS "features"?
What pisses me off of Exchange (2000 at least) is that it cannot do per-recipient routing if the servers it is routing to isn't also exchange. At least not as far as I've been able to find out.
I have a site with severn offices, and only the main branch has Exchange (for calendering and contacts - I intend to change this). The rest of the sites are smaller and all have postfix+courier-pop/imap boxes for their mail.
The main office receives the mail (on a postfix box). This box then distributes the mail to the correct offices and exchange in the case of the main office. So far so good. The problem comes when people in the main branch, using exchange, wants to send mail to the guys in the other branches. Exchange just won't understand that some addresses isn't hosted on itself.
I wish I could find a server tool that would offer shared calenders and contacts to outlook *without* the need for a plug-in.
What plugin do I need to view the images?
Speaking of which, are they going to port the toolbar to lynx/links? :-)
"granted this was several years ago"
;-)
I rest my case
What bugs me is that so many people I spoke to about the possibility of going with AMD instead of intel, still say "Oh but AMDs run too way hot." Yeah, as opposed too?
Even my Thoroughbred B core AthlonXP 2400+ in a cheapo case with only one 8cm fan aside from the stock cooler that came with the CPU, harly ever passes 40 degrees celcius under load...
Speaking of cool CPUs, does anyone know of a benchmark of those dual VIA bords? I think they came with something like 1ghz C3 CPUs or some such - would be very interesting....
" Nforce II Soundstorm."
I'll give you the benifit of the doubt, because I haven't heard this one, only the realtek based nForce2.
That still leaves us without proper graphics or network. I say "proper" in a very limited and specific sense.
My point is that there are several applications where most of the onboard sound, graphics and network controllers doesn't cut it.
Midi, for one thing, requires cards made to deal with midi properly. The SBLive only barely copes if you use the onboard wave tables instead of an external device.
Workstation graphics, as someone else mentioned. The current ATi and GeForce cards may be fast and optimized for a quality gaming experience, but their all-round image quality and consistency aren't as good as even their own workstation boards.
Network: Sure, you get gigabit controllers onboard, but have you seen the CPU usage on those things if you actually start pulling serious data over them? It's visible even on 100mbit cards in today's more powerful PCs. I can tell you from experience that a proper hardware based network controller, like the intel server cards, use less CPU in a P-III system than a cheapo card uses in a P4. This doesn't make much on a difference on a machine where the network controller and the CPU aren't under full load at the same time, but on many workstations and servers this is often the case. Doing some rendering on a big file that sits on a network share, for example...
The OP might have had a wildcat graphics card, expensive NIC and exotic soundboard. So it's not entirely fair to say the onboard components on most boards today are better quality, without knowing what hardware the original poster had.
"915G chipset, sports onboard audio that's better than my old-skool soundblaster live."
Either you listen to poorly encoded mp3s, you have crap speakers, or your SB Live was busted. There's no way onboard Intel sound has anything on the Live/Audigy cards, not to mention the more serious sound boards you're likely to find in a professional muso's PC.
Get a decent pair of earphones and compare the two. Listen to accoustic recordings (electronic sounds like synthesizers doesn't show you a lot of what your card can do), and just for kicks, listen to the *silence* your card makes. You'll be amazed.
Show me a motherboard with integrated sound that matches a SB Live!, for example (no the current intle/via/realtek jobbies doesn't, unless you only listen to mp3 or other lossy-format encoded stuff), graphics that match a Matrox 4-head or Quadro/FireGL/Wildcat, network that compares favourably to an Intel server type NIC (which isn't uncommen for proper workstation boxes).
Just a few examples of hardware that *isn't* available onboard.
You obviously haven't done a Win98 to Win2k/WinXP upgrade on a used Win98 system, have you?
Very messy....
Surfing on dial up is faster on linux in any way, so what are you complaining about?
"That's funny--I was going to suggest using YaST!"
Aye!