Agreed. I have always have problems with the streaming audio from Last FM. Basically they shrugged it off as something they couldn't control, since they are based out of the UK. Other services such as Sky FM or Sonoma, have been much more reliable for audio streams.
Fedora does use up2date for automatic notification of patches. Your problem, however, is that FC3 is no longer supported, so there will be no more official updates for it.
Madwifi is pretty much the only game in town if you are using linux drivers for atheros chipsets. Unless you want to use ndiswrapper for windows binary drivers (bleh), which would not be installed by default.
rpm -qa|grep madwifi grep madwifi/var/log/rpmpkgs
I concede that the above information will probably not be known by the "average" linux user who justs wants a point and click desktop environment. I love KDE, but I ALWAYS have a konsole session open.;)
Of course, it would have been too much trouble for PC World to mention exactly which version of the madwifi driver was susceptible to this particular flaw. So much better to let people dig through changelogs which might address any number of past vulnerabilities.
I patch and update regularly, so I just wasted some time double checking on a flaw that had been fixed on my system a long time ago.
I know. Seems like it would do more harm than good in some ways.
FTA:
"I don't know why oil is being suggested for computer cooling instead of accepted dielectric fluids," says Garimella, who is not familiar with Very-PCs plans. "The idea itself seems the same as using dielectric fluids and the latter are clean, non-toxic and ozone-friendly."
Wtf is this modded as insightful?
The poster just shows that he has his head buried in the sand if truly believes that no major corporations rely on open source every day. What a lame open source basher.
This is a legitimate method, and not security by obscurity. Have you given thought to directional antennas, which would allow someone snooping on the wireless traffic to do it from a wide range of angles. Using this paint would severely limit the location from which a directional antenna could be used sucessfully. I do agree that it should be used in conjunction with other methods, in order to make things more difficult. As always, how important is the date you are trying to protect, and what means are worth the time and effort to provide that protection?
From the Ethereal feature page: 759 protocols can currently be dissected
From the Wireshark web site: Hundreds of protocols are supported, with more being added all the time
Umm. Wireshark/Ethereal have had Win32 versions for quite some time. From reading the article and the download page I see nothing which distinguishes this app from others which were done first, and better.
"It can't be triggered automatically, and limited accounts (like every Vista system) will be largely unaffected. "
Its a good thing Vista is in such widespread usage now.
I am surprised they even let this article through. It would be a shame for more visitors here to get interested in Tor, only to find that they are not welcome at Slashdot.
Weird. I always thought vendors should make an effort to provide good information about their product. I guess asking that Sandisk themselves advertise and promote this "any OS" compatibility would be too much to hope for.
I agree that password expirations should be reasonable. That alone, however, is not enough. you must also enforce some type of complexity. Sadly enough, I have known many users who had passwords that were set to never expire, and still used ridiculously easy passwords, and kept them for years without changing them. One executive was astonished that over a year later I still remembered the password he had spoken in front of me.
Also from the article:
"BA has now closed its security loophole after being contacted by the Guardian in March, but that particular lapse is beside the point."
This is a just rehash of what most top level chess programs already do via the use of databases built on previous games. They determine how effective a move from a previous game may have been based on the percentage of times it resulted in a win/loss/draw for the previous player.
Stable doesnt mean they will stay with that version until eternity. If you don't like the next stable version which comes out, then you dont have to switch to it.
Windows Server 2003 Web Edition is only intended to be a web server.
What if you want an email server, firewall, proxy, ftp server, file server, etc...??
According to the MS web site Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition is $999, and that only includes 5 CALs. They list teh Web server edition at $399 retail, which is geared towards ONLY hosting web sites. Even the Windows Small Business Server 2003 Standard Edition is going to run $599 retail, with only 5 CALs.
What kind of pricing has Dell received from MS for being such faithful bed partners?
The thing that galls me most is that this iframe exploit was made publicly known about a week ago, yet MS makes no mention of it at http://www.microsoft.com/security, or anywhere on their web site that I can find.
The issue won't just go away if they keep their heads in the sand, yet that seems to be one of their preferred methods for dealing with security issues.
One thing I didn't like is that when I got the notification from Firefox for a "critical fix" there was no indication of exactly what it was supposed to fix. I like to know why I need to install an update before doing it.
Or am I just blind?
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Yes, I have been a subscriber for 6 months now.
Agreed. I have always have problems with the streaming audio from Last FM. Basically they shrugged it off as something they couldn't control, since they are based out of the UK. Other services such as Sky FM or Sonoma, have been much more reliable for audio streams.
I can't help but chuckle. Good suggestion though.
Fedora does use up2date for automatic notification of patches. Your problem, however, is that FC3 is no longer supported, so there will be no more official updates for it.
/var/log/rpmpkgs
;)
Madwifi is pretty much the only game in town if you are using linux drivers for atheros chipsets. Unless you want to use ndiswrapper for windows binary drivers (bleh), which would not be installed by default.
rpm -qa|grep madwifi
grep madwifi
I concede that the above information will probably not be known by the "average" linux user who justs wants a point and click desktop environment. I love KDE, but I ALWAYS have a konsole session open.
Of course, it would have been too much trouble for PC World to mention exactly which version of the madwifi driver was susceptible to this particular flaw. So much better to let people dig through changelogs which might address any number of past vulnerabilities.
I patch and update regularly, so I just wasted some time double checking on a flaw that had been fixed on my system a long time ago.
I know. Seems like it would do more harm than good in some ways.
FTA:
"I don't know why oil is being suggested for computer cooling instead of accepted dielectric fluids," says Garimella, who is not familiar with Very-PCs plans. "The idea itself seems the same as using dielectric fluids and the latter are clean, non-toxic and ozone-friendly."
You obviously didn't have the "pleasure" of running Windows ME.
Wtf is this modded as insightful? The poster just shows that he has his head buried in the sand if truly believes that no major corporations rely on open source every day. What a lame open source basher.
This is a legitimate method, and not security by obscurity. Have you given thought to directional antennas, which would allow someone snooping on the wireless traffic to do it from a wide range of angles. Using this paint would severely limit the location from which a directional antenna could be used sucessfully. I do agree that it should be used in conjunction with other methods, in order to make things more difficult. As always, how important is the date you are trying to protect, and what means are worth the time and effort to provide that protection?
From the Ethereal feature page: 759 protocols can currently be dissected
From the Wireshark web site: Hundreds of protocols are supported, with more being added all the time
Umm. Wireshark/Ethereal have had Win32 versions for quite some time. From reading the article and the download page I see nothing which distinguishes this app from others which were done first, and better.
"It can't be triggered automatically, and limited accounts (like every Vista system) will be largely unaffected. " Its a good thing Vista is in such widespread usage now.
That would be a better title. Its a bit difficult to get menu options like File and Tools, to appear in your console. ;)
I am surprised they even let this article through. It would be a shame for more visitors here to get interested in Tor, only to find that they are not welcome at Slashdot.
Weird. I always thought vendors should make an effort to provide good information about their product. I guess asking that Sandisk themselves advertise and promote this "any OS" compatibility would be too much to hope for.
I agree that password expirations should be reasonable. That alone, however, is not enough. you must also enforce some type of complexity. Sadly enough, I have known many users who had passwords that were set to never expire, and still used ridiculously easy passwords, and kept them for years without changing them. One executive was astonished that over a year later I still remembered the password he had spoken in front of me.
Also from the article: "BA has now closed its security loophole after being contacted by the Guardian in March, but that particular lapse is beside the point."
Two separate issues. Two different servers. www.opensuse.org was not on the gaming server which had been used to scan other hosts.
This is a just rehash of what most top level chess programs already do via the use of databases built on previous games. They determine how effective a move from a previous game may have been based on the percentage of times it resulted in a win/loss/draw for the previous player.
Stable doesnt mean they will stay with that version until eternity. If you don't like the next stable version which comes out, then you dont have to switch to it.
I'm curious about what kind of system he broke into and what the security hole was..... Dear God - Please tell me it wasn't a MS Windows system.
Windows Server 2003 Web Edition is only intended to be a web server. What if you want an email server, firewall, proxy, ftp server, file server, etc...??
According to the MS web site Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition is $999, and that only includes 5 CALs. They list teh Web server edition at $399 retail, which is geared towards ONLY hosting web sites. Even the Windows Small Business Server 2003 Standard Edition is going to run $599 retail, with only 5 CALs. What kind of pricing has Dell received from MS for being such faithful bed partners?
The thing that galls me most is that this iframe exploit was made publicly known about a week ago, yet MS makes no mention of it at http://www.microsoft.com/security, or anywhere on their web site that I can find. The issue won't just go away if they keep their heads in the sand, yet that seems to be one of their preferred methods for dealing with security issues.
One thing I didn't like is that when I got the notification from Firefox for a "critical fix" there was no indication of exactly what it was supposed to fix. I like to know why I need to install an update before doing it. Or am I just blind?