In the UK most of the major supermarkets have internet shopping. For 5 quid you get it delivered to your door in a refrigerated van.
Despite how cool this whole idea sounds, we still trudge down to the actual store, pick the stuff by hand and get a cab back (which costs about 4 quid).
Why ? Well we tried it several times from different supermarkets and each time something was wrong - things missing, food with a same-day sell-by date and the van turning up hours late...a right bugger if you were staying in to wait for it. The missing items were either just missing or marked "out of stock". We refuse to believe that the supermarket has run out of bread and bananas.
So we'd have to go to the shops anyway to pick up the missing stuff anyway.
Also, they will select replacement items if something is out of stock if you wish. However the selection is usually made by the store surrealist and not too helpful. Sorry, we're out of cheese, so we have selected some curry powder and a mop as a replacement.
Does making babies constitute "creating intellectual property" I wonder ? If you did that while you were employed with this company perhaps they own the rights to your kids.
Doesn't it seem more likely that Magic Lantern is already part of the XP codebase ? Why would the CIA need to send out a trojan when in the name of anti-terrorism, imerialism and the American Way(TM) they could simply ask Bill to include an extra DLL ?
So we can all sleep soundly in the knowledge that if Al Queda have backdoored your PC, the CIA will be in there waiting for them.
So, someone who doesnt understand much about Internet security posts a naive message to bugtraq. Aleph1 (owner of bugtraq) kills the thread shortly afterwards due to the forest-fire risk.
**6 days later**, someone at Slashdot thinks its worth putting up as "news". Not exactly 'as it happens'.
Well guys, I just hope you've got the asbestos covers for your router sorted out.
Indeed it is excellent news but please don't switch OSs just yet:
Don't forget that it was only removed from the OpenBSD *distribution*. Darren Reed has said that he will continue to support OpenBSD and work is already afoot to port the current ipf to OpenBSD-CURRENT.
(although IMHO I think Mr Reed is not giving the *BSD releases as much attention as he is with the more...ahem...comercially-valuable...Solaris.)
To be honest, I've never used the version of ipf that came with openBSD because it was always so out of date - I know they had done considerable work patching it but nonetheless it was still lacking in features and bugfixes. Even the "new" version included with 2.9 was out of date by the time 2.9 was released. Pity.
Ah well - lets hope pf is to ipf what openssh was to ssh. Three cheers.
>All the firewalling stuff is GPL... no licensing
>bullshit
What ?
What do you think the 'L' stands for in 'GPL'?
The GPL is a licence that is far more restrictive than any BSD licence. Its just restrictive in a different way.
Hate to say this, but despite thinking that Mr Reed has a fine piece of code here I'm with Theo.
Reed's re-interpretation of his original licence (and after reading many posts, thats what I believe it to be) goes against the spirit of BSD.
Theo deraadt summed it up by saying that it should be "free to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia"
Regards,
Veg
P.S.
I'm not knocking the GPL - Stallman is the man - its just that I dont have his strength of character...sorry.
This announcement is hardly surprising - The British public just doesnt seem to be concerned with liberty.
In the UK, there are no citizens - everyone is a subject.
There is no constitution.
There is no bill of rights - in fact no-one has any rights at all , only permissions.
As shocking as the RIP bill is (and it is) it is just the latest in a long line of draconian legislation. Before RIP was the CJA (Criminal Justice Act) which amongst other things banned unauthorised "public assemblies" - if the police considered you to be en route to one you can be arrested. It also removed the right to silence once arrested; Being silent can now be used as evidence of guilt. Feel sorry for mutes.
Before the CJA was even more scary legislation which could put you away for even contemplating a crime in thought. DNA evidence really doesnt apply when trying to prive this.
Oddly, with the slow grinding and genrally unpopular merge with Europe, our civil rights are being established and strengthened. Regardless of what laws actually get passed in the UK, then can be, and frequently are, overturned by appeals to the European Court of human rights.
For administering a private network, SSH and SSL
are perfectly secure. You can surely trust keys certificates that you generate yourself. As most of the dsniff tools rely on being on the same segment of ethernet, with careful key management they're not really a threat. Ever tried changing a ssh host key and then sshing into it ? You get the largest, scariest warning that makes you feel totally paranoid.
Also, if you are connecting to a server for the first time - fingerprints allow you to check the validity of the keys.
The problem is with connections to machines you can't personally validate, where DNS spoofing could be used, for example with e-commerce sites. But this is what CAs are for. So where's the problem (until a CA gets cracked that is:-).
This was published in NTK a while back,
but I still think its rather cool:
dig @138.195.138.195 goret.org. axfr | grep '^c..\..*A' | sort | cut -b5-36 | perl -e 'while(){print pack("H32",$_)}' | gzip -d
After working in an open-plan office for 10 months
I quit my job and went back to the lovely, lovely public sector and my own, private office with huge, long desks and a door that you can close (and lock).
Jesus - open-plan offices. You can't concentrate because you can hear what everyone else is saying and you know they can hear you. You feel opressed because you know that other people are aware of your presence...or absence...regardless of how much actual work you undertake.
Even tho' the bosses were actually quite cool, I felt quite annoyed when I once received a winpop (yes, ok, ok ) from him telling me how to handle the call I was currently dealing with.
Nope - no substitute for personal space. I can get several manuals open, several piles of printed PDF documents on A4 and still have easy access to my PC in this office.
Of course with the advent of affordable broadband theres no need for the majority of "us" to go into work at all. Even if we were timetabled to actually go in 1 day a week, just to stop the onset of madness, it would be a massive improvement. And I suspect it would also alleviate London's transport problems.
I know that I'm not alone in doing the highest quality work in the early hours of the morning. Try persuading the suits that that's the case...
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I've used MySQL in a "mission critical" position dealing with a datbase of over 20 million records. It also grows by about 20,000 records a day.
This particular system is still used by a large UK ISP to calculate on-line charges and consequently needs to be reliable. It is. It is also more accurate than a well known telco when it comes to calculating charges.
It stays up, doesnt get corrupted, run out of extents or rely on a 90 UKP/hour support person to come and attend to it every month.
Every single point made in the article is questionable. If I could be arsed I would write a response...but nowadays I let people get on doing their own thing rather than try to persude them otherwise. If the world wants to run windows, MSSQL or whatever let it. When it all comes tumbling down, I and all of the other Linux users in the world still smirking over 'ILOVEYOU', will still be tapping away and feeling content.
In a nutshell, Mysql: Is really fast, Is very very stable, Has excellent repair tools should anything go wrong, Is totally reliable.
OK it doesnt implement full SQL but so what ? When you write a system in perl/c/php you get around these minor problems and end up with queries that run about 100-200% faster than the oracle equivs. Subqueries ? Pah!
I'm not against oracle/informix/sybasen't write- off MySQL just because its free. It works and in my experience is a lot less hassle than running oracle.
It's amazing features like this that make outlook the wonderful program it is.
Here's another method. Simply let the spam go straight into your inbox and delete it yourself as you read through. That way you wont have to check the 'spam' mailbox all the time and you wont send messages from mailing lists into the bin (unless they're from the N30 mailing list of course).
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In the UK most of the major supermarkets have internet shopping. For 5 quid you get it delivered to your door in a refrigerated van.
Despite how cool this whole idea sounds, we still trudge down to the actual store, pick the stuff by hand and get a cab back (which costs about 4 quid).
Why ? Well we tried it several times from different supermarkets and each time something was wrong - things missing, food with a same-day sell-by date and the van turning up hours late...a right bugger if you were staying in to wait for it. The missing items were either just missing or marked "out of stock". We refuse to believe that the supermarket has run out of bread and bananas.
So we'd have to go to the shops anyway to pick up the missing stuff anyway.
Also, they will select replacement items if something is out of stock if you wish. However the selection is usually made by the store surrealist and not too helpful. Sorry, we're out of cheese, so we have selected some curry powder and a mop as a replacement.
Does making babies constitute "creating intellectual property" I wonder ? If you did that while you were employed with this company perhaps they own the rights to your kids.
Doesn't it seem more likely that Magic Lantern is already part of the XP codebase ? Why would the CIA need to send out a trojan when in the name of anti-terrorism, imerialism and the American Way(TM) they could simply ask Bill to include an extra DLL ?
So we can all sleep soundly in the knowledge that if Al Queda have backdoored your PC, the CIA will be in there waiting for them.
Veg
So, someone who doesnt understand much about Internet security posts a naive message to bugtraq. Aleph1 (owner of bugtraq) kills the thread shortly afterwards due to the forest-fire risk.
**6 days later**, someone at Slashdot thinks its worth putting up as "news". Not exactly 'as it happens'.
Well guys, I just hope you've got the asbestos covers for your router sorted out.
Veg
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing"
and you can be sure that the users of these "personal firewalls"....sigh....really do have a *little* knowledge.
Either that or our mail server really is trying to "hack" windows boxes using IDENT.
Indeed it is excellent news but please don't switch OSs just yet:
Don't forget that it was only removed from the OpenBSD *distribution*. Darren Reed has said that he will continue to support OpenBSD and work is already afoot to port the current ipf to OpenBSD-CURRENT.
(although IMHO I think Mr Reed is not giving the *BSD releases as much attention as he is with the more...ahem...comercially-valuable...Solaris.)
To be honest, I've never used the version of ipf that came with openBSD because it was always so out of date - I know they had done considerable work patching it but nonetheless it was still lacking in features and bugfixes. Even the "new" version included with 2.9 was out of date by the time 2.9 was released. Pity.
Ah well - lets hope pf is to ipf what openssh was to ssh. Three cheers.
>All the firewalling stuff is GPL... no licensing
>bullshit
What ?
What do you think the 'L' stands for in 'GPL'?
The GPL is a licence that is far more restrictive than any BSD licence. Its just restrictive in a different way.
Hate to say this, but despite thinking that Mr Reed has a fine piece of code here I'm with Theo.
Reed's re-interpretation of his original licence (and after reading many posts, thats what I believe it to be) goes against the spirit of BSD.
Theo deraadt summed it up by saying that it should be "free to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia"
Regards,
Veg
P.S.
I'm not knocking the GPL - Stallman is the man - its just that I dont have his strength of character...sorry.
This announcement is hardly surprising - The British public just doesnt seem to be concerned with liberty.
In the UK, there are no citizens - everyone is a subject.
There is no constitution.
There is no bill of rights - in fact no-one has any rights at all , only permissions.
As shocking as the RIP bill is (and it is) it is just the latest in a long line of draconian legislation. Before RIP was the CJA (Criminal Justice Act) which amongst other things banned unauthorised "public assemblies" - if the police considered you to be en route to one you can be arrested. It also removed the right to silence once arrested; Being silent can now be used as evidence of guilt. Feel sorry for mutes.
Before the CJA was even more scary legislation which could put you away for even contemplating a crime in thought. DNA evidence really doesnt apply when trying to prive this.
Oddly, with the slow grinding and genrally unpopular merge with Europe, our civil rights are being established and strengthened. Regardless of what laws actually get passed in the UK, then can be, and frequently are, overturned by appeals to the European Court of human rights.
Funny old world.
For administering a private network, SSH and SSL
:-).
are perfectly secure. You can surely trust keys certificates that you generate yourself. As most of the dsniff tools rely on being on the same segment of ethernet, with careful key management they're not really a threat. Ever tried changing a ssh host key and then sshing into it ? You get the largest, scariest warning that makes you feel totally paranoid.
Also, if you are connecting to a server for the first time - fingerprints allow you to check the validity of the keys.
The problem is with connections to machines you can't personally validate, where DNS spoofing could be used, for example with e-commerce sites. But this is what CAs are for. So where's the problem (until a CA gets cracked that is
This was published in NTK a while back, but I still think its rather cool: dig @138.195.138.195 goret.org. axfr | grep '^c..\..*A' | sort | cut -b5-36 | perl -e 'while(){print pack("H32",$_)}' | gzip -d
After working in an open-plan office for 10 months
I quit my job and went back to the lovely, lovely public sector and my own, private office with huge, long desks and a door that you can close (and lock).
Jesus - open-plan offices. You can't concentrate because you can hear what everyone else is saying and you know they can hear you. You feel opressed because you know that other people are aware of your presence...or absence...regardless of how much actual work you undertake.
Even tho' the bosses were actually quite cool, I felt quite annoyed when I once received a winpop (yes, ok, ok ) from him telling me how to handle the call I was currently dealing with.
Nope - no substitute for personal space. I can get several manuals open, several piles of printed PDF documents on A4 and still have easy access to my PC in this office.
Of course with the advent of affordable broadband theres no need for the majority of "us" to go into work at all. Even if we were timetabled to actually go in 1 day a week, just to stop the onset of madness, it would be a massive improvement. And I suspect it would also alleviate London's transport problems.
I know that I'm not alone in doing the highest quality work in the early hours of the morning. Try persuading the suits that that's the case...
I've used MySQL in a "mission critical" position dealing with a datbase of over 20 million records. It also grows by about 20,000 records a day.
This particular system is still used by a large UK ISP to calculate on-line charges and consequently needs to be reliable. It is. It is also more accurate than a well known telco when it comes to calculating charges.
It stays up, doesnt get corrupted, run out of extents or rely on a 90 UKP/hour support person
to come and attend to it every month.
Every single point made in the article is questionable. If I could be arsed I would write a response...but nowadays I let people get on doing their own thing rather than try to persude them otherwise. If the world wants to run windows, MSSQL or whatever let it. When it all comes tumbling down, I and all of the other Linux users in the world still smirking over 'ILOVEYOU', will still be tapping away and feeling content.
In a nutshell, Mysql:
Is really fast,
Is very very stable,
Has excellent repair tools should anything go wrong,
Is totally reliable.
OK it doesnt implement full SQL but so what ?
When you write a system in perl/c/php you get around these minor problems and end up with queries that run about 100-200% faster than the oracle equivs. Subqueries ? Pah!
I'm not against oracle/informix/sybasen't write- off MySQL just because its free. It works and in my experience is a lot less hassle than running oracle.
Veg
It's amazing features like this that make outlook the wonderful program it is.
Here's another method. Simply let the spam go straight into your inbox and delete it yourself as you read through. That way you wont have to check the 'spam' mailbox all the time and you wont send messages from mailing lists into the bin (unless they're from the N30 mailing list of course).
Still no match for RBL tho'.