My post was in response to your statement that people who choose to live outside a city causes
increasing pressure put on the environment precisely by the transportation needed for those people
I hope that because of the way that I work I actually have less environmental impact than someone who lives in the suburbs and commutes to the office every day.
A lot of people in similar jobs could do the same, significantly reducing our environmental impact.
In answer to your question, I live in a village (approx 2,000 people).
... those people have deliberately chosen an energically-wasteful and ecologically dubious lifestyle. And with increasing pressure put on the environment precisely by the transportation needed for those people, why should they not be penalized for their willful choice....
I have chosen not to live in a city
I work as a software developer for an eScience research project
I work from home, as do most of the people on our project, including my boss
We do all our work online, using standard ADSL connections
I don't own a car, I use public transport (mostly train) when I need to go to meetings
I hadn't heard of SSHguard, but I do use fail2ban.
Any thoughts on which is better SSHguard or Fail2ban ?
Does anyone know of a simple SSH honeypot that looks like a ssh server, but just logs the IP address, usernames and passwords that the robots are trying to use ?
1) Any attempt to cover up losses will result in fines equalling 10$ and 1 day in jail (to be served end to end) per person affected for ALL people involved in the cover up, from regular employee to directors, CEOs, bureaucrats and politicians.
After the first six months, government offices grind to a halt because three quarters of their senior staff are in prison.
2) Any time there is a breach involving negligence... the people involved from employee to directors, CEOs, bureaucrats and politicians will have ALL their data posted in every newspaper in the state they live in
This only works once. After the first incident their information has already been published, so why worry about security after that.
"All my data has already been published, so why should I worry about any one else's data"
In the comment before yours, someone mentioned that they used swfdec rather than the Adobe Flash player.
First thing I did was to copy 'swfdec' from the page and paste it into the Google search box.
Because this discussion is about malware and exploits, the 2nd thing I did was check what was pasted.... but if I was concentrating on something else at the time I would probably not have checked.
I used to use Windows desktop a long time ago but I have been using Linux on all my machines for several years now, and have got out of the habit of worrying about malware and browser exploits.
Sigh.
Guess the party is over, and I need to start being paranoid about malware and browser exploits again.
Cassini-Huygens is an international collaboration between three space agencies. Seventeen nations contributed to building the spacecraft. The Cassini orbiter was built and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Huygens probe was built by the European Space Agency. The Italian Space agency provided Cassini's high-gain communication antenna. More than 250 scientists worldwide are studying the data streaming back from Saturn on a daily basis.
... people seem to miss a huge portion of the picture..
... If I'm a network admin, I don't want some jack hole dual-booting anything on my network..
Perhaps you are missing part of the picture too.
As a network admin administrating machines for a non-technical user base, then yes as the nominal 'owner' (as in person responsible for) of the machines , you want to be able to prevent
non-technical users from doing nasty things like altering the boot sector or installing untrusted (as in not trusted by you) software.
However, this system changes that.
Even though you are the nominated owner(as in person who is responsible for the machines), you no longer have control over what is or is not trusted.
So if in a couple of years time, you decided that you wanted to change the software or OS running on the machines you are responsible for.... you can't.
The choice is no longer yours.
This isn't a question about what users can do, it is about what owners can do.
For many of the people on SlashDot, owner and user are the same person.
I own, and am responsible for, my desktop machine.
In a business environment, owner and user may be different people, but the issue is the same.
The person who is responsible for the machine should have full control of the machine, not the 3rd party that supplied the OS.
As the owner(as in person who is responsible for the machines), you may choose to accept the default settings supplied by OS, but you should have that choice.
Otherwise, you are not the owner any more, you just become another user, albeit one step up in the food chain.
What the government needs is a single entity that comes up with a set of best practices and then works with a couple of vendors to produce milspec hardware and software combinations that meet the practices.
Possibly not such a good idea.
As soon as the bad guys figure out how to break into one part of the system, they can break into everything else too.
Isn't this the problem we have now with so many desktop systems using the same OS with the same security controls (and vulnerabilities).
Once someone figures out a new attack on one system, they can use the same technique to compromise thousands of systems.
Better to have a heterogeneous system with a variety of different ways of handling security.
Overall this may mean more potential weaknesses, but an attack on one will leave other systems still standing.
If you used the service, you'd know that Facebook privacy settings are actually implemented very well. For example, I set up an account for my mother so she can look at all her siblings photos.
I started to use Facebook, and it seemed to be quite a good way to share things.
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I'm a Java programmer, but I'm interested in learning other languages too.
I actually like using { } in Java, but I'm happy to use whitespace in Python.
What I don't understand is why did they decide to use underscores for the class initializers ?
Java inherited a lot of its syntax from C/C++, but when they started work on Python they had a clean slate.
Using whitespace to define blocks and not requiring a ; at the end of every line removes a lot of the unnecessary
punctuation.
But this
Normally, I'd agree with you.
On this occasion, I did download it because I *will* be using it, and I wanted to add my vote to the statistics.
The way I saw it, this wasn't just about a new version of a web browser, the event was a public vote of confidence in FireFox and OpenSource in general.
I won't be installing it from the zip, because it is included automatically in Fedora 9.
At the moment my desktop is running Fedora 8, but I plan to update all my machines to Fedora 9 in the next month or so.
Installing it from the Fedora package I should (hopefully) get the most recent security updates as well.
I think of my code as a letter that I'm writing to the next person who has to work with it.
I do that too.
If for no other reason than the 'next person' may well myself a couple of years later.
I treat all of the software I have written in the past as a library of useful stuff that I can dip into for solutions to problems.
Badly written undocumented software is difficult to re-use if you can't see exactly what it is doing and why.
On a side note - there is a huge clue in the words "source code".
To me, the term source code means ideas, concepts and instructions for doing something encoded in a machine readable form.
To those who say 'you should be able to read the code'.
Yes - I could, but life is too short.
If I can't see what something does because the author didn't bother to document it, then I can't be bothered to read (or use) it.
Most of the discussion seems to be focusing on the brick lining inside the trench.
What about what look like large concrete slabs that have been cracked and lifted on the outside slope of the pad here and here.
Were these caused by the launch too ?
Loose bricks flying out of the trench would travel away from the pad and hit the boundary fence.
In which case, what caused the damage to the concrete slabs ?
I would expect the Nvidia driver packages will be available via Livna as soon as Nvidia make the binary drivers available.
On my desktop machine, I use Fedora 8 running Gnome desktop with Compiz, on a machine with Nvidia graphics card and wide screen monitor.
No major problems so far.
Who'd want to use a distro like this.... No thanks.
Happily, we are each free to choose the distro we prefer.
As far as getting mp3 support, and other things like that, I agree with you, but I understand their POV. They want to put out a distro that's free of patent, license or other legal encumbrances, and let the user add those difficult programs on their own. I'd rather they were less stiff about it, but they have strict principles and I'm not going to complain about their sticking to them.
"rpm.livna.org provides many useful packages that can not be distributed in Fedora (previously known as Fedora Core and Extras) for one reason or another, including multimedia applications such as xine and VideoLanClient, and video drivers for ATI and Nvidia cards..."
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My post was in response to your statement that people who choose to live outside a city causes
I hope that because of the way that I work I actually have less environmental impact than someone who lives in the suburbs and commutes to the office every day.
A lot of people in similar jobs could do the same, significantly reducing our environmental impact.
In answer to your question, I live in a village (approx 2,000 people).
I'm from the UK so I don't know that much about the American legal system. However, a crazy though just occurred to me ...
So does that mean that the law guarantees the right to use encryption ?
I meant something like this kojoney that pretends to be a ssh server but isn't.
I hadn't heard of SSHguard, but I do use fail2ban.
Any thoughts on which is better SSHguard or Fail2ban ?
Does anyone know of a simple SSH honeypot that looks like a ssh server, but just logs the IP address, usernames and passwords that the robots are trying to use ?
After the first six months, government offices grind to a halt because three quarters of their senior staff are in prison.
This only works once. After the first incident their information has already been published, so why worry about security after that.
"All my data has already been published, so why should I worry about any one else's data"
In the comment before yours, someone mentioned that they used swfdec rather than the Adobe Flash player.
First thing I did was to copy 'swfdec' from the page and paste it into the Google search box.
Because this discussion is about malware and exploits, the 2nd thing I did was check what was pasted. ... but if I was concentrating on something else at the time I would probably not have checked.
I used to use Windows desktop a long time ago but I have been using Linux on all my machines for several years now, and have got out of the habit of worrying about malware and browser exploits.
Sigh. Guess the party is over, and I need to start being paranoid about malware and browser exploits again.
Perhaps you are missing part of the picture too.
As a network admin administrating machines for a non-technical user base, then yes as the nominal 'owner' (as in person responsible for) of the machines , you want to be able to prevent non-technical users from doing nasty things like altering the boot sector or installing untrusted (as in not trusted by you) software.
However, this system changes that. Even though you are the nominated owner (as in person who is responsible for the machines), you no longer have control over what is or is not trusted.
So if in a couple of years time, you decided that you wanted to change the software or OS running on the machines you are responsible for .... you can't.
The choice is no longer yours.
This isn't a question about what users can do, it is about what owners can do.
For many of the people on SlashDot, owner and user are the same person. I own, and am responsible for, my desktop machine.
In a business environment, owner and user may be different people, but the issue is the same.
The person who is responsible for the machine should have full control of the machine, not the 3rd party that supplied the OS.
As the owner (as in person who is responsible for the machines), you may choose to accept the default settings supplied by OS, but you should have that choice.
Otherwise, you are not the owner any more, you just become another user, albeit one step up in the food chain.
Cool, thanks for the links, some of those were very interesting.
Possibly not such a good idea. As soon as the bad guys figure out how to break into one part of the system, they can break into everything else too.
Isn't this the problem we have now with so many desktop systems using the same OS with the same security controls (and vulnerabilities). Once someone figures out a new attack on one system, they can use the same technique to compromise thousands of systems.
Better to have a heterogeneous system with a variety of different ways of handling security. Overall this may mean more potential weaknesses, but an attack on one will leave other systems still standing.
I started to use Facebook, and it seemed to be quite a good way to share things.
Then I read this bit of their terms of use :
I don't use Facebook any more.
I'm a Java programmer, but I'm interested in learning other languages too. I actually like using { } in Java, but I'm happy to use whitespace in Python.
What I don't understand is why did they decide to use underscores for the class initializers ?
Java inherited a lot of its syntax from C/C++, but when they started work on Python they had a clean slate. Using whitespace to define blocks and not requiring a ; at the end of every line removes a lot of the unnecessary punctuation.
just looks ugly to me.But this
Normally, I'd agree with you. On this occasion, I did download it because I *will* be using it, and I wanted to add my vote to the statistics. The way I saw it, this wasn't just about a new version of a web browser, the event was a public vote of confidence in FireFox and OpenSource in general.
I won't be installing it from the zip, because it is included automatically in Fedora 9. At the moment my desktop is running Fedora 8, but I plan to update all my machines to Fedora 9 in the next month or so. Installing it from the Fedora package I should (hopefully) get the most recent security updates as well.
So what will happen when the 2008 Olympics start ?
I do that too. If for no other reason than the 'next person' may well myself a couple of years later.
I treat all of the software I have written in the past as a library of useful stuff that I can dip into for solutions to problems. Badly written undocumented software is difficult to re-use if you can't see exactly what it is doing and why.
On a side note - there is a huge clue in the words "source code ".
To me, the term source code means ideas, concepts and instructions for doing something encoded in a machine readable form.
To those who say 'you should be able to read the code'.
Yes - I could, but life is too short. If I can't see what something does because the author didn't bother to document it, then I can't be bothered to read (or use) it.
Most of the discussion seems to be focusing on the brick lining inside the trench.
What about what look like large concrete slabs that have been cracked and lifted on the outside slope of the pad here and here. Were these caused by the launch too ?
Loose bricks flying out of the trench would travel away from the pad and hit the boundary fence. In which case, what caused the damage to the concrete slabs ?
Sigh. No, it is not stealing, it is copyright infringement.
Both illegal, but they are different laws.
I would expect the Nvidia driver packages will be available via Livna as soon as Nvidia make the binary drivers available.
On my desktop machine, I use Fedora 8 running Gnome desktop with Compiz, on a machine with Nvidia graphics card and wide screen monitor. No major problems so far.
Happily, we are each free to choose the distro we prefer.
Problems with Nvidia drivers and KDE ..... on a server ?
Must admit, on our servers I just use a ssh command line.
http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/
"rpm.livna.org provides many useful packages that can not be distributed in Fedora (previously known as Fedora Core and Extras) for one reason or another, including multimedia applications such as xine and VideoLanClient, and video drivers for ATI and Nvidia cards ..."
Unless they actually wanted 1000's of unconverted heathens to download and read the document in the hope that a few might be converted.
A weird kind of inverse spam :
What else would cause 1000's of geeks and nerds to actively seek out and read a church document.
I am. I suspect many others are too.
I made a conscious decision to learn how to use it on our test servers now, rather than wait until it is required on our production servers.
Fine by me.
Means that when it becomes mainstream, anyone who is familiar with how to configure and use it will be in high demand.
Any advice you can offer to someone thinking about doing this ? Where to start, what works, what doesn't ... that sort of thing.