I love how he advocates that the installer should run as administator. I can't wait for a virus to kick him in the butt. I can't imagine doing that. I'm curious, do we have a lot of Linux users that do everything as root?
I love how he advocates that the installer should run with administator. Can't wait for a virus to kick him in the butt. I can't imagine doing that. I'm curious, do we have a lot of Linux users that do everything as root?
I completely agree. QNX would be my first choice for them. In no way, shape, or form, should they be using something like NT for anything that could fail and cause the loss of life. QNX is used from powerplants to stop lights. It's proven to work in high risk environments. NT hasn't proven to work. It REALLY angers me to see my tax money completley wasted without a thought like this. Especially, by the military's own admission, had NT been forced though the normal qualification channels, it would have never passed.
Personally, I found the article to be pointless. He rambles on about someone writing an article that wasn't true and has no basis. Then, he says the only way to make news is to write articles that have no basis and sort out the facts later. After all, that's why papers make corrections.
Personally, any ship with its main purpose being war should not be run with an OS that is a primary target for viruses. Just imagine the problems that they would of had with their BIOS wiped out. Furthermore, these could knock out their backup and triary systems too. I do understand that this is probably a minor risk, however, when you add all of the risks together, I doubt that you're ever going to have more than 95% uptime. The last thing they need is more room for exposure.
Also, at one point in time, wasn't NT thrown out from just about everything else in the Navy except for clerical office work? If I recall, it was because it wasn't stable and failed to perform as promised.
If you look it up in any good Latin dictionary, you find that it roughly means, "an exchange between two parties in which one parties receives little value for its money."
Of course, Webster reads as, "To be screwed. i.e., to be Bill Gate'd."
"Any system for which the safe frequency is too low for the backup defense to be practical (for example, a power grid) should be kept remote from networks; although this does not defend against attacks from insiders, network seclusion should allow the terminals of the vulnerable network to be physically guarded."
As I understand it, the majority (in the range of 80%) of IT attacks reported are associated to insiders or social engineering.
Phone rings. "I'm Bob in IT support. I'm having trouble with the modem bank. Can you check the modem to make sure it's turned on? Also, can I have the number to make sure I'm using the right one?" Of course, being the deligent and helpful worker that he/she is, they are happy to help.
I believe that internal security, planning, and employee education far out weighs the need for external security. This is not to say that deligence should not be given by a sysadmin, however, physical accessibility should always be addressed. This, of course, assumes that www.norad.nukem.gov is also unavailable.
I've worked at a place that had computers in a room behind locked doors, but the routers and switches were on racks external to it. Anyone could walk up, plug in, and snoop all they wanted.
It was installed with my RH6.0. Try using rpmfind --install chkfontpath. If you don't have rpmfind installed, go to RPM Find. This tool makes managing your RPM packages much easier. You'll also find a tarball there.
Okay, this has done wonders for me. I was constantly having Netscape puke on me. I turned off Java and Javascript. That help tons. Then, I got tired of not having javascript one day. I turned it back on and found that the majority of my stability issues were related to have Java turned on. So, I went on with Java disabled. Then, I came across this. Make sure you see: [root@mouse/root]# chkfontpath --list Current directories in font path: 1:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled 2:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled 3:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled 4:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc 5:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 6:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo 7:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi 8:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
If you don't see this, add them! I now have had Java enabled for the last week and only had one crash (async DNS related). In short, I've been much happier. I no longer have to practice yoga for 12-hours a day to calm down and am now back drinking ten pots of coffee per day.
I find it interesting that he says that Linux doesn't fit in as the corporate workhorse and gives an example that clearly isn't corporate. What's more odd, he praises Linux with Apache, which is a corporate function. Like most of his articles, they are not very well thought out. In this case, he doesn't even make sense. Using his logic I can say things like, "I can't use Linux in my car because planes fly." See! It's obvious!
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I love how he advocates that the installer should run as administator. I can't wait for a virus to kick him in the butt. I can't imagine doing that. I'm curious, do we have a lot of Linux users that do everything as root?
I love how he advocates that the installer should run with administator. Can't wait for a virus to kick him in the butt. I can't imagine doing that. I'm curious, do we have a lot of Linux users that do everything as root?
I completely agree. QNX would be my first choice for them. In no way, shape, or form, should they be using something like NT for anything that could fail and cause the loss of life. QNX is used from powerplants to stop lights. It's proven to work in high risk environments. NT hasn't proven to work. It REALLY angers me to see my tax money completley wasted without a thought like this. Especially, by the military's own admission, had NT been forced though the normal qualification channels, it would have never passed.
Personally, I found the article to be pointless. He rambles on about someone writing an article that wasn't true and has no basis. Then, he says the only way to make news is to write articles that have no basis and sort out the facts later. After all, that's why papers make corrections.
What an idiot.
Personally, any ship with its main purpose being war should not be run with an OS that is a primary target for viruses. Just imagine the problems that they would of had with their BIOS wiped out. Furthermore, these could knock out their backup and triary systems too.
I do understand that this is probably a minor risk, however, when you add all of the risks together, I doubt that you're ever going to have more than 95% uptime. The last thing they need is more room for exposure.
Also, at one point in time, wasn't NT thrown out from just about everything else in the Navy except for clerical office work? If I recall, it was because it wasn't stable and failed to perform as promised.
If you look it up in any good Latin dictionary, you find that it roughly means, "an exchange between two parties in which one parties receives little value for its money."
Of course, Webster reads as, "To be screwed. i.e., to be Bill Gate'd."
This ends our class today.
"Any system for which the safe frequency is too low for the backup defense to be practical (for example, a power grid) should be kept remote from networks; although this does not defend against attacks from insiders, network seclusion should allow the terminals of the vulnerable network to be physically guarded."
As I understand it, the majority (in the range of 80%) of IT attacks reported are associated to insiders or social engineering.
Phone rings.
"I'm Bob in IT support. I'm having trouble with the modem bank. Can you check the modem to make sure it's turned on? Also, can I have the number to make sure I'm using the right one?" Of course, being the deligent and helpful worker that he/she is, they are happy to help.
I believe that internal security, planning, and employee education far out weighs the need for external security. This is not to say that deligence should not be given by a sysadmin, however, physical accessibility should always be addressed. This, of course, assumes that www.norad.nukem.gov is also unavailable.
I've worked at a place that had computers in a room behind locked doors, but the routers and switches were on racks external to it. Anyone could walk up, plug in, and snoop all they wanted.
It was installed with my RH6.0. Try using rpmfind --install chkfontpath. If you don't have rpmfind installed, go to RPM Find. This tool makes managing your RPM packages much easier. You'll also find a tarball there.
Okay, this has done wonders for me. I was constantly having Netscape puke on me. I turned off Java and Javascript. That help tons. Then, I got tired of not having javascript one day. I turned it back on and found that the majority of my stability issues were related to have Java turned on. So, I went on with Java disabled. Then, I came across this. Make sure you see: /root]# chkfontpath --list /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
[root@mouse
Current directories in font path:
1:
2:
3:
4:
5:
6:
7:
8:
If you don't see this, add them! I now have had Java enabled for the last week and only had one crash (async DNS related). In short, I've been much happier. I no longer have to practice yoga for 12-hours a day to calm down and am now back drinking ten pots of coffee per day.
Hope it helps the rest of you!!!
I find it interesting that he says that Linux doesn't fit in as the corporate workhorse and gives an example that clearly isn't corporate. What's more odd, he praises Linux with Apache, which is a corporate function. Like most of his articles, they are not very well thought out. In this case, he doesn't even make sense. Using his logic I can say things like, "I can't use Linux in my car because planes fly." See! It's obvious!