Been screwed too many times with the patches installing other shit that really breaks things.
Luckily I am sysadmin in a very large WAN, so all I need do really is keep AV up-to-date and M$ servers working (a bit oxyimoronish, but you know what I mean).
The Russians trained dogs to feed under tanks. They starved them for days, then let them free with their food to be found under tanks.
When the Germans came, the dogs were loaded up with anti-tank devices, triggered by a lever on their backs. After a few days of no food, the Russians let them free in the German occupied terrority. Of course, the dogs ran straight to the German tanks looking for, and expecting food **BANG**
After a few weeks of this, the Germans were so shit scared of this 'terrorist' activity, they used to shoot any dog on sight, taking no chances, so slowly the Russians use for the dogs faded.
Then the Russian boffins discovered that mice used to nest in the tanks (nice and warm) and used to strip electrical cabling to make their nests - very shortly rendering the tank useless until repaired (very difficult). They bred and released thousands of mice to attack the German tanks in this way.
The Germans fed-up of of this type of terror attack, struck back by dropped cats from aircraft to combat the mice attack, and that worked very well...
then the Russians had a brain wave, and brought out the 'retired' tank dogs to get the cats.
People forget M$ are in bed with the chip designers.
Looking at the hurdles the Linux coders have to do to get *hidden* stuff to work, it's a wonder it works at all - and if it doesn't, or is really obscure to do, who do you blame?.
If the soundcard OEM's released the specs and full working code, it will work. Better.
But when members of Government have [secret investiments] $$$/ in the Corporations, it becomes a new ball game.
I said below, they control it to stop the Hoi Pollio getting anywhere. Crazy laws are passed due to it.
Here in UK right now we have the probably the most corrupt Government in living memory - everything that happens is controlled by them (the Dr, Kelly affair, murdered (IMHO) by the Government, but the Government appointed inquiry found the Government innocent! Well I am blowed...).
If the foxes always guard the henhouse, and we are all hens...
Nick
New file sys (sysfs), new module approach (old modutils is defunct in 2.6), several other changes required in system files and a lot of system tools need to be upgraded.
Nothing to do with obscure ISP bandwidth usage, but HOW is Joe Bloggs winders user know what their bandwidth usage is?
In all honesty, 90% of people haven't a clue what that means - that's why they still execute attachments in outlook without a second thought.
Nick
I have RH 7.1 on my Internet facing boxes, but when the support stopped for 'demo' accounts I grabbed the latest 2.4.x kernel from kernel.org and rolled my own (about time I learnt anyway).
But I always had the 'announcements' of what I was running turned off anyway (apart from saying was Apache HTTPD on Linux), so... stats don't mean a thing.
So this just like politicians that only ask people that agree with them the state of affairs (obtruse comparison, but you see what I am getting at).
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I wish I had thousands of /$$ to BE ABLE TO GIVE TO THEE.
I always get these e-mails at end-of-month, so can never afford to get my $50,000,000. :/
Been screwed too many times with the patches installing other shit that really breaks things.
Luckily I am sysadmin in a very large WAN, so all I need do really is keep AV up-to-date and M$ servers working (a bit oxyimoronish, but you know what I mean).
Nick
http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_frame_injecti on_vulnerability_test/
So you visit a M$ page in IE with all that bollocks... so funny it really is a sham all the spin from M$.
http://secunia.com/advisories/10395/
All XP sp2 will bring is more eXtra Problems #2.
NickToo bloody right...
He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs...Nick
... and always will be.
Give me ONE good reason what java actually does right?
You need one hell of a machine to run all the crap. It is still not fault tolerant to any degree.
And seeing as it was initialy designed to run video recorders and washing machines, et al, why doesn't it now?
Nick
So I suppose you would have to 'upgrade your underpants' once a night...
Nick
This is not so really new.
The Russians trained dogs to feed under tanks. They starved them for days, then let them free with their food to be found under tanks.
When the Germans came, the dogs were loaded up with anti-tank devices, triggered by a lever on their backs. After a few days of no food, the Russians let them free in the German occupied terrority. Of course, the dogs ran straight to the German tanks looking for, and expecting food **BANG**
After a few weeks of this, the Germans were so shit scared of this 'terrorist' activity, they used to shoot any dog on sight, taking no chances, so slowly the Russians use for the dogs faded.
Then the Russian boffins discovered that mice used to nest in the tanks (nice and warm) and used to strip electrical cabling to make their nests - very shortly rendering the tank useless until repaired (very difficult). They bred and released thousands of mice to attack the German tanks in this way.
The Germans fed-up of of this type of terror attack, struck back by dropped cats from aircraft to combat the mice attack, and that worked very well...
then the Russians had a brain wave, and brought out the 'retired' tank dogs to get the cats.
The full circle!
Amazing, but true.
Nick
So does BK keep BK keep BK... I bet they use OS to manage it. :)
LOL. vg, made my miserable day a bit happier :D
You would still get lamers shouting LAAAaaagggggg...
People forget M$ are in bed with the chip designers.
Looking at the hurdles the Linux coders have to do to get *hidden* stuff to work, it's a wonder it works at all - and if it doesn't, or is really obscure to do, who do you blame?.
If the soundcard OEM's released the specs and full working code, it will work. Better.
But we can't have that, can we.
Nick
Throw away computers - bring back times-tables and logs - make people *think* again. Nick
But when members of Government have [secret investiments] $$$/ in the Corporations, it becomes a new ball game. I said below, they control it to stop the Hoi Pollio getting anywhere. Crazy laws are passed due to it. Here in UK right now we have the probably the most corrupt Government in living memory - everything that happens is controlled by them (the Dr, Kelly affair, murdered (IMHO) by the Government, but the Government appointed inquiry found the Government innocent! Well I am blowed...). If the foxes always guard the henhouse, and we are all hens... Nick
Governments will not stop it, because most (maybe all) politicians have a finger in the pie anyway.
They are all Business men/money men/power men.
Motto of the day is "Retain control and money from the hoi pollio". They will never let go. That is why these crazy, crazy things get passed.
I am glad I will be dead in 60 years (or) less, because the future the way it's going will be pretty horrible for freedom.
Nick
Seeing as Java was originally designed for video recorders and washing machine firmware, and still shows that...
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... I will just say...
... say away from Java. It is really pants. I still can't get over the CPU resource it needs, and also the non-forgiving attitude of it's lameness.
Nick
Apparently SCO were due to sue M$ over IP in early patch fixes M$ applied.
But unfortunately the taxi driver did not believe the lawyers' address, so he didn't make it to court in time.
Darl said it was deliberate because we knew, but had to wait and see what M$ was about to reveal before SCO were sure their guess was right.
Nick
Oh dear...
No, you need it CONFIG_DDOS_SCO=m ... then when sco.com is down, the module can be unloaded.
Nick (jk!)
New file sys (sysfs), new module approach (old modutils is defunct in 2.6), several other changes required in system files and a lot of system tools need to be upgraded.
It not just a build and install job.
Nick
2.4.x -> 2.6.x is quite a big step to get right.
I followed this 'how-to' here, and then added some other stuff needed to do also (linked on the page).
Nick
Here is the lkml announcement
Linus' announcement
and the guy who named it here
Nick
Linus Torvalds has auctioned off the right to name the next Linux kernel
It could have been worse I suppose... ;)
[root@Linux233 linux]# uname -a
Linux Linux233.linicks.net 2.6.2 #1 Wed Feb 4 13:55:28 GMT 2004 i586 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
Nick
Nothing to do with obscure ISP bandwidth usage, but HOW is Joe Bloggs winders user know what their bandwidth usage is? In all honesty, 90% of people haven't a clue what that means - that's why they still execute attachments in outlook without a second thought. Nick
I have RH 7.1 on my Internet facing boxes, but when the support stopped for 'demo' accounts I grabbed the latest 2.4.x kernel from kernel.org and rolled my own (about time I learnt anyway).
But I always had the 'announcements' of what I was running turned off anyway (apart from saying was Apache HTTPD on Linux), so... stats don't mean a thing.
So this just like politicians that only ask people that agree with them the state of affairs (obtruse comparison, but you see what I am getting at).
Nick