There will be lots of problems with SELinux but it is a giant forward for fine-grained security! No doubt there will be quite a few initial problems with it.
The current DCC protocol does not address IPv4 vs. IPv6 issues, SSL/ TLS encryption negotiation, NAT and Firewall traversal, or multiple file/directory file transfers....
I know this will be modded down as "off topic" but I gotta say it. How about just avoiding wars. If our leader wasn't see gung ho about going to war stuff like this would not be needed and scientists could be working on some cool stuff with more civilian uses.
Anybody remember the episode of the original Star Trek where somebody was drunk and driving everyone crazy singing Good Night Irene thru the intercom. Now that's TV!
Re:'Canada's national newspaper' !?!?!
on
Linux in Canada
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· Score: 3, Informative
Like the subject says a live Linux CD is good for kids so they can't touch the harddrive. I tried a live Linux CD with my kid but it was just KDE (I can recall which - probably linuxforkids.org) with some icons for some kid apps. In my opinion KDE is too much for kids. For young kids there should just be a icons for the apps and nothing else. However I notice in my preschoolers class they have a regular Windows box with kids apps and they see to figure it out.
What about the Bill Gates memo. Yahoo story. Could this be real? Its dated Mar31 but even Billy isn't dumb enough to send out a security memo about getting rid of lying in spam, etc on the eve of April Fools Day.
Here's the mail I got:
X-Apparently-To: XXX@yahoo.com via 216.136.173.86; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:52:23 -0800 Return-Path: Received: from 207.46.248.40 (EHLO delivery2.pens.phx.gbl) (207.46.248.40) by mta193.mail.dcn.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:52:22 -0800 Received: from TK2MSFTDDSQ03 ([10.40.1.67]) by delivery2.pens.phx.gbl with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:52:20 -0800 Reply-to: "Bill Gates" From: "Bill Gates" Add to Address Book To: djmcke@yahoo.com Subject: Microsoft Progress Report: Security Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:52:20 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 Thread-Index: AcQXrX9dhe8nXbw3RNmXh0O5AoIFsQ== Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Return-Path: billgates@chairman.microsoft.com X-OriginalArriva lTime: 01 Apr 2004 05:52:20.0838 (UTC) FILETIME=[7F752060:01C417AD] Content-Length: 10294
Malicious software code has been around for decades. But only in the last few years have the Internet, high-speed connections and millions of new computing devices converged to create a truly global computing network in which a virus or worm can circle the world in a matter of minutes.
Meanwhile, criminal hackers have become more sophisticated, creating and distributing digital epidemics like Slammer, Blaster, Sobig and Mydoom that spread almost instantaneously, threatening the potential of technology to advance business productivity, commerce and communication.
The kinds of threats are evolving too. Blaster, for example, hijacked individual computers, turning innocent users into unknowing and innocent worm propagators. These kinds of attacks - "swarming" attacks that are coordinated to cause multiplied, cascading effects - change the landscape of security threats. They put new demands on IT professionals and consumers to take preventative measures, and on the technology industry to continue to innovate and develop new solutions.
While there are considerable challenges ahead, Microsoft and our industry are making significant progress on the security front. I'd like to share some insights in this email, which is one in an occasional series of emails from Microsoft executives about technology and public-policy issues important to computer users, our industry, and anyone who cares about the future of high technology. If you would like to receive these emails in the future, please go to http://register.microsoft.com/subscription/sub scri beMe.asp?lcid=1033&id=155 to subscribe. We will not send you future executive emails unless you choose to subscribe.
As a major focus of Microsoft's R&D efforts, we're making significant investments in four areas of security:
- Isolation and Resiliency - Updating - Quality - Authentication and Access Control
Additionally, we are committed to major investments in customer education and partnerships that will help make the computing environment safer and more secure.
Given human nature, evolving threat models and the increasing interconnectedness of computers, the number of security exploits will never reach zero. But we can dramatically blunt the impact of cybercriminals, and are dedicating a major portion of our R&D investments to security advances.
Just like his Billness has now denied that he said 640K ought to be enought for anyone. He'll be denying this in the future. Of course, its easier to change history when you own lots of media.
Bill in 2024: You thought I said that!? Oh you silly person. haha.
I agree,.mail was "invented" by somebody who has a really shallow understanding of the Internet. They understand TLDs but that's about it. SPF is way better.
Yeah, micropayments to Microsoft. That would be fantastic! Hey if micropayments are good what about maxipayments. Let me send my credit card number to Microsoft right now!
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So you use opendir() to read a directory!
Who knew?!
There will be lots of problems with SELinux but it
is a giant forward for fine-grained security!
No doubt there will be quite a few initial problems with it.
The Linux Terminal Server Project is ideal for Libraries.
Not Windows XP - yuck.
Why couldn't Gates just be non-evil in the first place.
Or maybe "Mad Magazine" (according to the link)... which I prefer.
Einstein spent last years telling bad jokes to depressed parrot: diary
Its called Jabber.
By the way, its too bad DCC2 isn't XML.
The current DCC protocol does not address IPv4 vs. IPv6 issues, SSL/
TLS encryption negotiation, NAT and Firewall traversal, or multiple
file/directory file transfers....
I know this will be modded down as "off topic" but I gotta say it. How about just avoiding wars. If our leader wasn't see gung ho about going to war stuff like this would not be needed and scientists could be working on some cool stuff with more civilian uses.
Just wondering... if you have a all Linux office does anyone choose Samba over NFS?
Anybody remember the episode of the original Star Trek where somebody was drunk and driving everyone crazy singing
Good Night Irene thru the intercom.
Now that's TV!
I might point out that the telephone was invented in Canada!
Like the subject says a live Linux CD is good for
kids so they can't touch the harddrive. I tried a live Linux CD with my kid but it was just KDE
(I can recall which - probably linuxforkids.org)
with some icons for some kid apps. In my opinion
KDE is too much for kids. For young kids there should just be a icons for the apps and nothing
else. However I notice in my preschoolers class they have a regular Windows box with kids apps and they see to figure it out.
Wasn't Mulroney (Conservative) that renamed this ministry to Hertitage?
Culture is a more sensible name (and more Liberal) if you ask me.
What about the Bill Gates memo.
Yahoo story. Could this be real?
Its dated Mar31 but even Billy isn't dumb enough to send out a security memo about
getting rid of lying in spam, etc on the eve of April Fools Day.
Here's the mail I got:
X-Apparently-To: XXX@yahoo.com via 216.136.173.86; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:52:23 -0800
Return-Path:
Received: from 207.46.248.40 (EHLO delivery2.pens.phx.gbl) (207.46.248.40) by mta193.mail.dcn.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:52:22 -0800
Received: from TK2MSFTDDSQ03 ([10.40.1.67]) by delivery2.pens.phx.gbl with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:52:20 -0800
Reply-to: "Bill Gates"
From: "Bill Gates" Add to Address Book
To: djmcke@yahoo.com
Subject: Microsoft Progress Report: Security
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:52:20 -0800
Message-ID:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
Thread-Index: AcQXrX9dhe8nXbw3RNmXh0O5AoIFsQ==
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300
Return-Path: billgates@chairman.microsoft.com
X-OriginalArriva lTime: 01 Apr 2004 05:52:20.0838 (UTC) FILETIME=[7F752060:01C417AD]
Content-Length: 10294
Malicious software code has been around for decades. But only in the last few years have the
Internet, high-speed connections and millions of new computing devices converged to create a truly
global computing network in which a virus or worm can circle the world in a matter of minutes.
Meanwhile, criminal hackers have become more sophisticated, creating and distributing digital
epidemics like Slammer, Blaster, Sobig and Mydoom that spread almost instantaneously, threatening the
potential of technology to advance business productivity, commerce and communication.
The kinds of threats are evolving too. Blaster, for example, hijacked individual computers,
turning innocent users into unknowing and innocent worm propagators. These kinds of attacks - "swarming"
attacks that are coordinated to cause multiplied, cascading effects - change the landscape of
security threats. They put new demands on IT professionals and consumers to take preventative
measures, and on the technology industry to continue to innovate and develop new solutions.
While there are considerable challenges ahead, Microsoft and our industry are making significant
progress on the security front. I'd like to share some insights in this email, which is one in an
occasional series of emails from Microsoft executives about technology and public-policy issues
important to computer users, our industry, and anyone who cares about the future of high technology.
If you would like to receive these emails in the future, please go to
http://register.microsoft.com/subscription/sub scri beMe.asp?lcid=1033&id=155 to subscribe. We will
not send you future executive emails unless you choose to subscribe.
As a major focus of Microsoft's R&D efforts, we're making significant investments in four areas of
security:
- Isolation and Resiliency
- Updating
- Quality
- Authentication and Access Control
Additionally, we are committed to major investments in customer education and partnerships that
will help make the computing environment safer and more secure.
Given human nature, evolving threat models and the increasing interconnectedness of computers, the
number of security exploits will never reach zero. But we can dramatically blunt the impact of
cybercriminals, and are dedicating a major portion of our R&D investments to security advances.
ISOLATION AND RESILIENCY
Central to our security ef
Bill in 2024: You thought I said that!? Oh you silly person. haha.
Lakkies: ha haa HAA.
Other crypto resources.
OK, I admit it I just wanted to use Google Sets for something.
Maybe this is obvious -- I donno.
If you are interested Fedora, check out:
Fedora News
(unofficial site).
Lots of good stuff there.
Would be nice to see this published in a book.
Maybe Oreilly would want to publish their first
coffee table book.
What's NASA doing developing cruse missiles?
Can't we working any tech that doesn't have
do to with killing people?!
Maybe, eventually the Wine people will get around
to it but by then Micosoft will announce something else! And so it goes.
My beef is they have leveraged the Instant Message mind share. Too many people think MSN is the only IM system. (Jabber is the best open system.)
I agree, .mail was "invented" by somebody who has a really shallow understanding of the Internet. They understand TLDs but that's about it. SPF is way better.
Yeah, micropayments to Microsoft. That would be
fantastic! Hey if micropayments are good what about maxipayments. Let me send my credit card number to Microsoft right now!
Why can't we just buy them outright?