I don't normally have the latest cutting edge hardware, and so my kernel usually has all of the needed drivers already available. Have you ever tried getting drivers for older hardware in windows? I had an ethernet card that was correctly detected and set up in Linux, and that I had to go download the driver from a shady site in windows.
When I see "embedded device" and "RAM", I doubt that they're using the same kind of RAM modules that you put in your computer. I could be old fashioned, though.
The attacker appears to be deliberately targetting machines in academic and high performance computing environments, rather than attacking systems indiscriminately.
I wouldn't worry too much. It's sounds like some guy is trying to boost his SETI@home ranking.
Ah, now I see what you're saying. The quote clearly distinguishes between the "ethical" and the "practical" points of view. The practicality of the no-password plan was due to the community.
I've read the biography, but I certainly don't know exactly how RMS works. His history seems to indicate that he prefers ethics to practicality most days of the week. That was the thought that inspired my original comment... that he seemed to now accept a violation of his own ethics.
How is this different? The ethical issue is that the users of the system should be able to control the system. So, in 1979, you could log in as Stallman and change all of his files if you wanted to. He would disapprove and have to restore his files from backup.
Fast forward to today, and a user of the system changed the system in a way that the administrators disapproved of. They'd have to restore from backup.
The very next words I quoted said, "according to Richard Stallman". Well, I guess you see that as him throwing his hands up in the air and giving up. You don't know Stallman very well, do you? If you recognized the way RMS works, you'd know that on religious differences like this, he is very pedantic and doesn't stop.
I mean, read the following made up quote to realize that I'm right: "The decision to move to MS IIS was made by Bradley Kuhn and the system adminitrators, according to Richard Stallman. They considered Apache could not be made secure enough."
Sure, this comparison isn't exactly valid because GForge is GPL'd and Apache is way more secure than IIS, but Richard "St. Ignucius" Stallman's brain is not wired like most people's, and believe me, he has veto power on all religious issues.
For Stallman, the opposition to security was both ethical and practical. On the ethical side, Stallman pointed out that the entire art of hacking relied on intellectual openness and trust. On the practical side, he pointed to the internal structure of ITS being built to foster this spirit of openness, and any attempt to reverse that design required a major overhaul. --
Free as in Freedom
The decision to move to GForge was made by Bradley Kuhn and the system adminitrators, according to Richard Stallman. They considered Savane could not be made secure enough. --
Sylvain Beucler, 2004
For the average program, Windows XP comes with a very nice utility that allows you to restore your setup to a previous day. I've found it to be very useful. Don't know about more generic utilities for older Microsoft OSes.
Combine it with spamassassin, and you can whitelist emails from companies that you want to recieve email from. Heck, with spamassassin you can give it a very small weight, and adjust the results manually. Every bit of extra information helps, and just ignoring it because it is compiled by somebody else doesn't make sense to me.
I'd still suggest going with DocBook, even though it has a lot of markup. You can mostly fix that problem with a good text editor. Any decent editor will have quick-keys that makes your life much easier, and you'll benefit from all of the existing tools.
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"I'm so sick of the 7337 attitude some people like you have."
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I think you mean 1337 attitude.
I don't normally have the latest cutting edge hardware, and so my kernel usually has all of the needed drivers already available. Have you ever tried getting drivers for older hardware in windows? I had an ethernet card that was correctly detected and set up in Linux, and that I had to go download the driver from a shady site in windows.
When I see "embedded device" and "RAM", I doubt that they're using the same kind of RAM modules that you put in your computer. I could be old fashioned, though.
Now I don't have to rub myself with ducks before I go swimming!
Also, check out that Winspire Success Seminar site. Seminars pertaining to the foot and ankle? That's weird.
In other news, the lawyers for Winspire Success Seminars get their pens ready...
Ah, now I see what you're saying. The quote clearly distinguishes between the "ethical" and the "practical" points of view. The practicality of the no-password plan was due to the community.
I've read the biography, but I certainly don't know exactly how RMS works. His history seems to indicate that he prefers ethics to practicality most days of the week. That was the thought that inspired my original comment... that he seemed to now accept a violation of his own ethics.
Good point. I'll agree to that. Maybe he's just not himself right now.
How is this different? The ethical issue is that the users of the system should be able to control the system. So, in 1979, you could log in as Stallman and change all of his files if you wanted to. He would disapprove and have to restore his files from backup.
Fast forward to today, and a user of the system changed the system in a way that the administrators disapproved of. They'd have to restore from backup.
Same situation.
The very next words I quoted said, "according to Richard Stallman". Well, I guess you see that as him throwing his hands up in the air and giving up. You don't know Stallman very well, do you? If you recognized the way RMS works, you'd know that on religious differences like this, he is very pedantic and doesn't stop.
I mean, read the following made up quote to realize that I'm right: "The decision to move to MS IIS was made by Bradley Kuhn and the system adminitrators, according to Richard Stallman. They considered Apache could not be made secure enough."
Sure, this comparison isn't exactly valid because GForge is GPL'd and Apache is way more secure than IIS, but Richard "St. Ignucius" Stallman's brain is not wired like most people's, and believe me, he has veto power on all religious issues.
I love how they demonstrate video players by showing Steve Ballmer's sweaty-pitted Developers video on Xine.
Seems like Stallman has lost sight of his roots!
Who needs the Earth's magnetic field, anyways? As long as I have my ozone layer, and my handy dandy lead codpiece, everything is going to be okay.
(Doesn't everybody have a lead codpiece?)
For adware/spyware, use Spybot and Ad-Aware for this.
For the average program, Windows XP comes with a very nice utility that allows you to restore your setup to a previous day. I've found it to be very useful. Don't know about more generic utilities for older Microsoft OSes.
Combine it with spamassassin, and you can whitelist emails from companies that you want to recieve email from. Heck, with spamassassin you can give it a very small weight, and adjust the results manually. Every bit of extra information helps, and just ignoring it because it is compiled by somebody else doesn't make sense to me.
I'd still suggest going with DocBook, even though it has a lot of markup. You can mostly fix that problem with a good text editor. Any decent editor will have quick-keys that makes your life much easier, and you'll benefit from all of the existing tools.