Although some people might not like the idea of a 'dumbing- down' of Linux, I think it's really good news as this will doubtless help convince other people that Linux really is one of the best choices (if not the best choice) around.
OTOH, it will convice me that Linux is turning into a Windows clone and that I should switch to FreeBSD, as that will be, for me, the best choice around (though OpenBSD sounds reasonably good as well). A Windows clone (however stable and open-sourced) is not what I want to use - I want to use UNIX, dammit! If I can't get that from Linux anymore, I'll go elsewhere. Which is too bad, I really like RPM a lot (yes, not all distros have it but mine do and I like it).
And from what we've heard about Windows 2000 I think it's clear that it's not all that unstable. Plus it's more user- friendly than any desktop we have . . . I still prefer Linux, but an easy- to use GUI would be welcome.
Most people are not going to like using Windows 2000 (unless there is an "technical idiot" mode built in somewhere). Since when is administrating an NT box simple and user-friendly? From watching my NT-fan friends at it, Linux seems a hell of a lot simpler (yes, familiarity with it and all that), but having to install things in certain arbitrary orders (and the software doesn't stop you or even warn you away from making a mistake) seems like a real pain in the ass to me (for instance, I heard from someone today that if you install DNS before (or was it after? Can't remember) Active Directory, your install get's fucked up). Personally, I don't want to deal with that kind of shit ever.
From what I've heard, it's actually pretty stable. I know a few people using it. One of them managed to crash FreeBSD (sound card driver went south) but not Windows 2000.
Even as a UNIX freak and anti-M$ bigot I could probably figure out the basics of NT/2000 admining fairly quickly (yes, I would make many mistakes but I could figure out at least some of it), but could your favorite technophobe? I doubt it. Especially if they've been using pure point and drool client OSes (Windows 95/98, MacOS, etc) their entire life. Which leaves exactly what? Several hundred million poorly secured and unpatched Windows 2000 boxen. Just what the world fucking needs.
Then, with 8 layers, I can get 16 times the throughput of a similar CD, which is still only going to be 97.6 mb/s... Great, but nowhere near 1 gb/s!
I saw a year of so ago in one of those science mags... maybe Popular Science, not sure. Anyway, some guy was doing research with mini-disk sized CDs that held 4 bits of information / pit. Getting a full 8 bits of info (ie one byte / pit) would give good bandwidth (depending on the bus you're running it off, IDE can do 33 megs, the better SCSIs can do 160 megs/sec) and ~5 gigs of storage.
However, I'm confused about this:
So if they can push CD transfers to something like 100 mb/s, I'll believe that this FCD can be pushed to 1 gb/s...
CD transfer speed is limited by drive speed and bus speed. Once you get over ~40x CD-ROMs, you start to run up against IDE transfer limitations (since IDE is a POS). SCSI can handle up to 160 megs/sec (I think there is a new one that does 320 megs/sec), but 1 gig/sec is still a long way off. And who the hell needs a gig of data in a second anyway? Full screen video + stereo sound is probably only 50 megs / sec tops.
It also installed lilo which is something I did not want to do since I use the NT bootloader on my dual boot machine. If it had recognized or warned me about the installation of lilo it would have been one thing, but it assumed I was a "know nothing about linux person" (newbie) and I am NOT
I must say that is very stange. I have installed 6.1 on numerous machines (5 at least, including one this afternoon), and I always got a screen asking if I wanted to install LILO or not... it was at the same place it asked if you wanted to make a boot disk before it starts installing. All this was in the normal non-expert mode. However, I must note I've never upgraded from 6.0 to 6.1.
I must note that on X-Windows, I've never had any problem su-ing and running programs (such as rp3-config) as root.
If you're really unhappy, try FreeBSD or OpenBSD. BTW, don't let the rumors about OpenBSD being hard to install fool you. I did it this afternoon (OpenBSD 2.6) with very little trouble (the disk configuration program is confusing at first but it's not that hard). However, it didn't like the PCMCIA Ethernet card and the drive was promptly nuked for RH 6.1.
billh, get a UNIX account that is on a fast connection and fast server. Then, do your newsgroup reader when you telnet/ssh to there. That's what I am doing.
Same here. I'm on 56K, but I admin a half dozen machines on an educational network. It's not super fast (I think the pipe is only 40m/s), but pretty decent.
What bugs me the most is that Netscape Communicator has a nasty bug where it will leak memory due to poor rendering with a lot of tables.
LOL. Netscape will leak memory just sitting there. A friend of mine likes to leave Netscape open for long periods of time (he has a DSL line, so he probably doesn't want to wait for it to load up). Anyway, he posted a line from top on a mailing list a while ago showing Netscape using 440 megs of memory.
Currently, Netscape is using 32 megs on my machine. When I checked an hour ago, it was 16... when Mozilla hits beta I'm switching.
This won't mean much for the average (l)user, but I'm glad RSA will not continue to exist soley on the profits of taking advantage of a US monopoly (aka selling BSAFE, RSA licenses, and suing people who violate their patent). Also, it will finally allow people to use RSA within the US, which doesn't mean shit for someone anywhere else, but I happen to like it. And it will allow legal SSL use in the US without a RSA license (unless you want to use the horribly crappy RSAref library - and yes, I have looked at the code, it's an abomination).
Cheaper crypto? Probably not. ElGamal, DSA, Diffie-Hellman and ECC have been and remain alternatives for PK.
(I haven't actually played in several years, but I hear from my friends that the smell isn't what it used to be -- they've changed inks or something on the cards. On a related note, has anyone opened a Red Hat 6.1 box? That's the same as the "Magic Card Smell.")
Yes, now they (Magic Cards) smell horrible when they're new. I used to like the smell (back around Ice Age and 4th edition), but no more! The reason why is b/c they switched printers from Carti Mundi to some American printer. The cards also feel funny, I think they changed the paper as well. I actually stopped buying new cards after they did that. I haven't played in quite a while either, I wonder what my cards are worth nowadays? Hmmm...
It's up to v2.6 now. I think you'll enjoy it. It's like a breath of fresh air.
Yeah, I ordered it on a whim when I got RH 6.1 this November (?). I joked with somebody that RH 6.2 must be coming out shortly, as I had finally ordered 6.1 (it's pretty traditional around here that as soon as someone orders a CD of something a new release comes out - sometimes new releases come out before the old CDs even arrive). But no, instead OpenBSD 2.6 came out and foiled all my plans!:)
Tapes of those must be around my house somewhere... I haven't seen them since I was 10, at least. There were two or three that I remember, but I can't remember much of the plots... a giant spider or something? Anyway...
Am I the only person on slashdot who gets a real kick out of seeing different people's methods of avoiding spam? Check out this poster - he's got a mini perl script in order to convert the shown email address into the real address.
LOL. Yes, it's pretty funny. Check out mine as well - I don't like spam much either.:) [It took me a while to come up with that one when I created my/. account].
I think I've seen the one you're refering to; it had a challenge (something like "do this and this to email me, even just to show you did it"). One time I was bored and decoded it (I didn't actually email him, but the address looked correct). I know mine is decodable, someone emailed me a few days ago (I'd feel pretty stupid if you couldn't get the right email addy out).
I like the posters Perl script as well. Very clever, I think. Python is better tho.:P
Does "most secure" just mean putting "ALL:ALL" in/etc/hosts.deny?
I've never understood why that didn't come default on every distro. Sheesh! Hmmmm... maybe time to install that OpenBSD 2.5 CD I got a while back..., the default (in)security of most distros (mostly aiming at RH here) just sucks. Anyone else see that possible linuxconf remote root exploit on Bugtraq a day or two ago? If that's for real, a whole lot of people are really screwed, since linuxconf is set up by default on RH. Oops.:)
Personally, this sounds really stupid to me (though I don't know the details either). My bet is that it's to comfort former-Windows-using newbies - "Why do I have to type a password to use my own computer?!?!"
Nothing is going to replace good administration practices for making a machine secure. I am tempted to call this stuff snake oil - security does not and never will come in a magic bottle, nice and gift-wrapped. I, for one, am downright suspictious [like I'm not suspicious of everything:)]
I'll be interested to see the details, I looked for a link about it or something on the Mandrake site and didn't see any additional info (and I'm too tired to download the source and read it right now).
What's a big install run these days of a full working Linux system? Slack 7.0 was a hair under a gig... and you've got more things at your fingertips than any newbie could imagine for a installing just their operating system.
On RH 6.1:
/dev/hda6 1.4G 1.1G 283M 80% /
My box has a hell of a lot of stuff installed too: gcc (C, C++, ObjC), GNOME, KDE/QT libs (for Kdevelop), Emacs, GIMP, LaTeX, Netscape 4.7, Quake, kernel and SSH sources, etc etc. Anyway, way way way more stuff than comes with Windows. Part of the space comes from my files and stuff as well (my ~ is 300m, for instance).
And RH is considered a fairly fat distro (not without cause, IMO).
Students, for instance, tend to spend more time worrying about their coursework, research, Slashdot, and so forth than fanatically reading Bugtraq and the various vendor-specific alert lists.
Hey, I object to your stereotype of students! The only thing on your list that I worry about is/.! Course it helps that I admin ~13 machines and don't give a crap about my classes, but hey!
It shouldn't happen, but look at even the more commercialized Linux distros, for instance -- they tend to ship with many, many services enabled by default.
I don't see why anyone would consider these crackers (sorry, the misuse of hacker really peeves me) to be dangerous, since most of them don't actually know crap about computers (the exception being L0pht, who I would place more into the hacker category anyway). They're just downloading exploits from Bugtraq and trying them out. If you keep you stuff up to date and are smart with your initial configuration (ssh2 and sftp access only, tripwire, logcheck, etc) any attacks that aren't prevented outright should be noticed right away.
Of course, it's not an ideal world, blah, blah, blah, but anyway my point is that people should be protecting their computers with real security, not laws that only "solve" the problem after the fact.
It just doesn't matter to most people, at least practically-speaking. As people pointed out in a recent discussion, even though it doesn't matter, people will still buy the hottest chip around. Very much like how people buy the greatest SUVs, the fastest Porches, etc.
Agreed, but some people do need to crunch serious numbers, and it's good if you're running large servers and suchlike. But if you're just running Office and reading email, 800mhz isn't going to help you much. However, 800mhz CPUs will drive down the price of a 500mhz {insert prefered CPU here} chip, so overall everyone (performance freaks and "normal" people) wins.
But consider that VW does well with their "0-60? Yes." advertisments. How long will it be until a processor company pops up with a similar ad campaign? I give it 12-18 months.
Celerons already have that reputation among geeks, though it's not advertised as such (in fact, I don't remember ever seeing an ad for celerons (or athlons!), just P3s). I know a coupla people running dual overclocked celerons that they got fairly cheap. However, I detest Intel and their bloated architechture, so I would probably get a K6-3 or an Athlon anyway . Yes, same bloated architechure, but at least AMD didn't create it. And from what I've heard the Athlon internals are Alpha-like, which is cool (it would also help explain the performance!).
If you had $1000 of RHAT immediately pre-split, you'll have $1000 of RHAT immediately post-split.
Yes, I know, but I've read that after stock splits the price usually jumps up, because the stock becomes more affordable (ie, it's ~240 now, but it will only cost ~120 afterwards, so it at least seems cheaper, though of course you only own half a share in pre-split terms then).
Of course this is a sign that RH stock is doing good generally as well.
Christ, I knew I should have gotten in when I could have. I know a guy who got in at $80, he'll be raking in the cash now... [Guess who feels stupid now!!!]
I wish people would understand that security isn't always important.
If you wish to disregard security, that's fine with me, as long as it's your home machine. On a multi-user machine, it seems very inconsiderate to other users, since maybe they don't want people reading their mail, and once a cracker has one account, he most likely has them all. Not to mention the people who administrate the machine - we have enough to deal with without getting broken into because one of our users used their login name for a password.
Kind of odd that RMS says "security sucks" (not a direct quote, of course, but that's what he seems to be saying), then actively promotes crypto and GnuPG. I guess his thinking is that people have the right to choose between privacy and openness, which seems reasonable.
Will this be the year you get an office that's not the server room?
Salon is obviously out of it. I wish I could get an office in the server room! That would rock! Of course all that EMR would probably make me sterile or give me cancer or something, but hey, I've never really wanted kids anyway.:P
Oh, OK, it's occured to me that maybe they meant it in a negative way (ie, it would be bad if youre office was not the server room).
OK, DOOM is really really bad, but Quake, Quake II, Quake III, Daikatana (did that ever get released?), Unreal, and who knows how many other games are perfectly OK? What the hell?!?!? At least they could try to be consistent with their censorship.
However, I've got to admit it, Blood is a very violent game. If you ever get a chance, play it.:) If you like dark comedies and FPS, you'll probably like Blood. The literary references are great, and there really is a lot of humor throughout the game. Also, the continuity between levels is better than any FPS I've seen before or since.
I think you are wrong. A lot of people install ssh from the ssh rpms available on rpmfind. The us versions here are compiled with RSAREF.
Right, but anyone on Bugtraq has known about this for a long time, and has had plenty of time to upgrade to OpenSSH or SSH2. And if you're actually running Linux and not reading Bugtraq, IMO you're pretty much asking to get rooted.
And anyway, SSH is the kind of thing you _should_ build from source, no matter how nice RPMs are. I mean, hell, I love rpm, but do you know who built those RPMs on rpmfind? I could easily build a trojaned SSH (for instance, make it so the RNG subsystem always returns 0, so your keys are easy to guess) and submit it to rpmfind (faking the hostname, etc so it looks like it came from redhat or SSH). If it came from RedHat's ftp site (and the GPG signature validated), I would probably consider it, but getting SSH from someone you don't know is not particularly smart. Just get the source from the official site (somewhere in finland, check www.ssh.fi for links) and build it yourself.
For instance, I get PGP/GPG RPMS from ftp.gnupg.org and ftp.pgpi.org because they are trusted sources, so I'm ok with that. I also trust the SSH ftp site: if they had RPMs there I would get them, but they don't, so I build from source. But I won't trust some random person who submits to rpmfind.
Yeah, I was pretty sure that's where the name came from, but really, the connection between a very large number and a search engine certainly isn't an obvious one (I bet they thought up the name then tried to justify it somehow). After all, slashdot sort of makes sense for a geek-oriented website, since it will tend to confuse non-geeky people when you tell it to them ("h t t p colon slash slash slash dot dot org? What?"). A geek joke, if you will.:)
Funnily enough, nobody seems to have taken www.search.com yet. I find it rather amusing, considering that, for instance, www.octopus.com is taken. Which is a more obvious web site? LOL.
Slashdot Mirror
Although some people might not like the idea of a 'dumbing- down' of Linux, I think it's really good news as this will doubtless help convince other people that Linux really is one of the best choices (if not the best choice) around.
OTOH, it will convice me that Linux is turning into a Windows clone and that I should switch to FreeBSD, as that will be, for me, the best choice around (though OpenBSD sounds reasonably good as well). A Windows clone (however stable and open-sourced) is not what I want to use - I want to use UNIX, dammit! If I can't get that from Linux anymore, I'll go elsewhere. Which is too bad, I really like RPM a lot (yes, not all distros have it but mine do and I like it).
And from what we've heard about Windows 2000 I think it's clear that it's not all that unstable. Plus it's more user- friendly than any desktop we have . . . I still prefer Linux, but an easy- to use GUI would be welcome.
Most people are not going to like using Windows 2000 (unless there is an "technical idiot" mode built in somewhere). Since when is administrating an NT box simple and user-friendly? From watching my NT-fan friends at it, Linux seems a hell of a lot simpler (yes, familiarity with it and all that), but having to install things in certain arbitrary orders (and the software doesn't stop you or even warn you away from making a mistake) seems like a real pain in the ass to me (for instance, I heard from someone today that if you install DNS before (or was it after? Can't remember) Active Directory, your install get's fucked up). Personally, I don't want to deal with that kind of shit ever.
From what I've heard, it's actually pretty stable. I know a few people using it. One of them managed to crash FreeBSD (sound card driver went south) but not Windows 2000.
Even as a UNIX freak and anti-M$ bigot I could probably figure out the basics of NT/2000 admining fairly quickly (yes, I would make many mistakes but I could figure out at least some of it), but could your favorite technophobe? I doubt it. Especially if they've been using pure point and drool client OSes (Windows 95/98, MacOS, etc) their entire life. Which leaves exactly what? Several hundred million poorly secured and unpatched Windows 2000 boxen. Just what the world fucking needs.
Then, with 8 layers, I can get 16 times the throughput of a similar CD, which is still only going to be 97.6 mb/s... Great, but nowhere near 1 gb/s!
I saw a year of so ago in one of those science mags... maybe Popular Science, not sure. Anyway, some guy was doing research with mini-disk sized CDs that held 4 bits of information / pit. Getting a full 8 bits of info (ie one byte / pit) would give good bandwidth (depending on the bus you're running it off, IDE can do 33 megs, the better SCSIs can do 160 megs/sec) and ~5 gigs of storage.
However, I'm confused about this:
So if they can push CD transfers to something like 100 mb/s, I'll believe that this FCD can be pushed to 1 gb/s...
CD transfer speed is limited by drive speed and bus speed. Once you get over ~40x CD-ROMs, you start to run up against IDE transfer limitations (since IDE is a POS). SCSI can handle up to 160 megs/sec (I think there is a new one that does 320 megs/sec), but 1 gig/sec is still a long way off. And who the hell needs a gig of data in a second anyway? Full screen video + stereo sound is probably only 50 megs / sec tops.
It also installed lilo which is something I did not want to do since I use the NT bootloader on my dual boot machine. If it had recognized or warned me about the installation of lilo it would have been one thing, but it assumed I was a "know nothing about linux person" (newbie) and I am NOT
I must say that is very stange. I have installed 6.1 on numerous machines (5 at least, including one this afternoon), and I always got a screen asking if I wanted to install LILO or not... it was at the same place it asked if you wanted to make a boot disk before it starts installing. All this was in the normal non-expert mode. However, I must note I've never upgraded from 6.0 to 6.1.
I must note that on X-Windows, I've never had any problem su-ing and running programs (such as rp3-config) as root.
If you're really unhappy, try FreeBSD or OpenBSD. BTW, don't let the rumors about OpenBSD being hard to install fool you. I did it this afternoon (OpenBSD 2.6) with very little trouble (the disk configuration program is confusing at first but it's not that hard). However, it didn't like the PCMCIA Ethernet card and the drive was promptly nuked for RH 6.1.
billh, get a UNIX account that is on a fast connection and fast server. Then, do your newsgroup reader when you telnet/ssh to there. That's what I am doing.
Same here. I'm on 56K, but I admin a half dozen machines on an educational network. It's not super fast (I think the pipe is only 40m/s), but pretty decent.
What bugs me the most is that Netscape Communicator has a nasty bug where it will leak memory due to poor rendering with a lot of tables.
LOL. Netscape will leak memory just sitting there. A friend of mine likes to leave Netscape open for long periods of time (he has a DSL line, so he probably doesn't want to wait for it to load up). Anyway, he posted a line from top on a mailing list a while ago showing Netscape using 440 megs of memory.
Currently, Netscape is using 32 megs on my machine. When I checked an hour ago, it was 16... when Mozilla hits beta I'm switching.
A lot of free software projects these days could really use that woman's touch.
:)
Having not had a girlfriend in 2 years, I could also use that woman's touch.
I think I'm going to karma hell for this...
This won't mean much for the average (l)user, but I'm glad RSA will not continue to exist soley on the profits of taking advantage of a US monopoly (aka selling BSAFE, RSA licenses, and suing people who violate their patent). Also, it will finally allow people to use RSA within the US, which doesn't mean shit for someone anywhere else, but I happen to like it. And it will allow legal SSL use in the US without a RSA license (unless you want to use the horribly crappy RSAref library - and yes, I have looked at the code, it's an abomination).
Cheaper crypto? Probably not. ElGamal, DSA, Diffie-Hellman and ECC have been and remain alternatives for PK.
(I haven't actually played in several years, but I hear from my friends that the smell isn't what it used to be -- they've changed inks or something on the cards. On a related note, has anyone opened a Red Hat 6.1 box? That's the same as the "Magic Card Smell.")
Yes, now they (Magic Cards) smell horrible when they're new. I used to like the smell (back around Ice Age and 4th edition), but no more! The reason why is b/c they switched printers from Carti Mundi to some American printer. The cards also feel funny, I think they changed the paper as well. I actually stopped buying new cards after they did that. I haven't played in quite a while either, I wonder what my cards are worth nowadays? Hmmm...
It's up to v2.6 now. I think you'll enjoy it. It's like a breath of fresh air.
:)
Yeah, I ordered it on a whim when I got RH 6.1 this November (?). I joked with somebody that RH 6.2 must be coming out shortly, as I had finally ordered 6.1 (it's pretty traditional around here that as soon as someone orders a CD of something a new release comes out - sometimes new releases come out before the old CDs even arrive). But no, instead OpenBSD 2.6 came out and foiled all my plans!
I also seem to recall a special with Ewoks.
Tapes of those must be around my house somewhere... I haven't seen them since I was 10, at least. There were two or three that I remember, but I can't remember much of the plots... a giant spider or something? Anyway...
Am I the only person on slashdot who gets a real kick out of seeing different people's methods of avoiding spam? Check out this poster - he's got a mini perl script in order to convert the shown email address into the real address.
:) [It took me a while to come up with that one when I created my /. account].
:P
LOL. Yes, it's pretty funny. Check out mine as well - I don't like spam much either.
I think I've seen the one you're refering to; it had a challenge (something like "do this and this to email me, even just to show you did it"). One time I was bored and decoded it (I didn't actually email him, but the address looked correct). I know mine is decodable, someone emailed me a few days ago (I'd feel pretty stupid if you couldn't get the right email addy out).
I like the posters Perl script as well. Very clever, I think. Python is better tho.
Does "most secure" just mean putting "ALL:ALL" in /etc/hosts.deny?
:)
:)]
I've never understood why that didn't come default on every distro. Sheesh! Hmmmm... maybe time to install that OpenBSD 2.5 CD I got a while back..., the default (in)security of most distros (mostly aiming at RH here) just sucks. Anyone else see that possible linuxconf remote root exploit on Bugtraq a day or two ago? If that's for real, a whole lot of people are really screwed, since linuxconf is set up by default on RH. Oops.
Personally, this sounds really stupid to me (though I don't know the details either). My bet is that it's to comfort former-Windows-using newbies - "Why do I have to type a password to use my own computer?!?!"
Nothing is going to replace good administration practices for making a machine secure. I am tempted to call this stuff snake oil - security does not and never will come in a magic bottle, nice and gift-wrapped. I, for one, am downright suspictious [like I'm not suspicious of everything
I'll be interested to see the details, I looked for a link about it or something on the Mandrake site and didn't see any additional info (and I'm too tired to download the source and read it right now).
What's a big install run these days of a full working Linux system? Slack 7.0 was a hair under a gig... and you've got more things at your fingertips than any newbie could imagine for a installing just their operating system.
On RH 6.1:
/dev/hda6 1.4G 1.1G 283M 80% /
My box has a hell of a lot of stuff installed too: gcc (C, C++, ObjC), GNOME, KDE/QT libs (for Kdevelop), Emacs, GIMP, LaTeX, Netscape 4.7, Quake, kernel and SSH sources, etc etc. Anyway, way way way more stuff than comes with Windows. Part of the space comes from my files and stuff as well (my ~ is 300m, for instance).
And RH is considered a fairly fat distro (not without cause, IMO).
Students, for instance, tend to spend more time worrying about their coursework, research,
/.! Course it helps that I admin ~13 machines and don't give a crap about my classes, but hey!
Slashdot, and so forth than fanatically reading Bugtraq and the various vendor-specific alert lists.
Hey, I object to your stereotype of students! The only thing on your list that I worry about is
It shouldn't happen, but look at even the more commercialized Linux distros, for instance -- they tend to ship with many, many services enabled by default.
Couldn't agree with you more. Linuxconf, anyone?
"Elvis isn't really dead, just hiding in Poughkeepsie"
:)
But he is alive! I saw him just the other day!
I don't see why anyone would consider these crackers (sorry, the misuse of hacker really peeves me) to be dangerous, since most of them don't actually know crap about computers (the exception being L0pht, who I would place more into the hacker category anyway). They're just downloading exploits from Bugtraq and trying them out. If you keep you stuff up to date and are smart with your initial configuration (ssh2 and sftp access only, tripwire, logcheck, etc) any attacks that aren't prevented outright should be noticed right away.
Of course, it's not an ideal world, blah, blah, blah, but anyway my point is that people should be protecting their computers with real security, not laws that only "solve" the problem after the fact.
It just doesn't matter to most people, at least practically-speaking. As people pointed out in a recent discussion, even though it doesn't matter, people will still buy the hottest chip around. Very much like how people buy the greatest SUVs, the fastest Porches, etc.
Agreed, but some people do need to crunch serious numbers, and it's good if you're running large servers and suchlike. But if you're just running Office and reading email, 800mhz isn't going to help you much. However, 800mhz CPUs will drive down the price of a 500mhz {insert prefered CPU here} chip, so overall everyone (performance freaks and "normal" people) wins.
But consider that VW does well with their "0-60? Yes." advertisments. How long will it be until a processor company pops up with a similar ad campaign? I give it 12-18 months.
Celerons already have that reputation among geeks, though it's not advertised as such (in fact, I don't remember ever seeing an ad for celerons (or athlons!), just P3s). I know a coupla people running dual overclocked celerons that they got fairly cheap. However, I detest Intel and their bloated architechture, so I would probably get a K6-3 or an Athlon anyway . Yes, same bloated architechure, but at least AMD didn't create it. And from what I've heard the Athlon internals are Alpha-like, which is cool (it would also help explain the performance!).
If you had $1000 of RHAT immediately pre-split, you'll have $1000 of RHAT immediately post-split.
Yes, I know, but I've read that after stock splits the price usually jumps up, because the stock becomes more affordable (ie, it's ~240 now, but it will only cost ~120 afterwards, so it at least seems cheaper, though of course you only own half a share in pre-split terms then).
Of course this is a sign that RH stock is doing good generally as well.
Christ, I knew I should have gotten in when I could have. I know a guy who got in at $80, he'll be raking in the cash now... [Guess who feels stupid now!!!]
First post?
I wish people would understand that security isn't always important.
If you wish to disregard security, that's fine with me, as long as it's your home machine. On a multi-user machine, it seems very inconsiderate to other users, since maybe they don't want people reading their mail, and once a cracker has one account, he most likely has them all. Not to mention the people who administrate the machine - we have enough to deal with without getting broken into because one of our users used their login name for a password.
Kind of odd that RMS says "security sucks" (not a direct quote, of course, but that's what he seems to be saying), then actively promotes crypto and GnuPG. I guess his thinking is that people have the right to choose between privacy and openness, which seems reasonable.
Will this be the year you get an office that's not the server room?
:P
Salon is obviously out of it. I wish I could get an office in the server room! That would rock! Of course all that EMR would probably make me sterile or give me cancer or something, but hey, I've never really wanted kids anyway.
Oh, OK, it's occured to me that maybe they meant it in a negative way (ie, it would be bad if youre office was not the server room).
OK, DOOM is really really bad, but Quake, Quake II, Quake III, Daikatana (did that ever get released?), Unreal, and who knows how many other games are perfectly OK? What the hell?!?!? At least they could try to be consistent with their censorship.
:) If you like dark comedies and FPS, you'll probably like Blood. The literary references are great, and there really is a lot of humor throughout the game. Also, the continuity between levels is better than any FPS I've seen before or since.
However, I've got to admit it, Blood is a very violent game. If you ever get a chance, play it.
I think you are wrong. A lot of people install ssh from the ssh rpms available on rpmfind. The us versions here are compiled with RSAREF.
Right, but anyone on Bugtraq has known about this for a long time, and has had plenty of time to upgrade to OpenSSH or SSH2. And if you're actually running Linux and not reading Bugtraq, IMO you're pretty much asking to get rooted.
And anyway, SSH is the kind of thing you _should_ build from source, no matter how nice RPMs are. I mean, hell, I love rpm, but do you know who built those RPMs on rpmfind? I could easily build a trojaned SSH (for instance, make it so the RNG subsystem always returns 0, so your keys are easy to guess) and submit it to rpmfind (faking the hostname, etc so it looks like it came from redhat or SSH). If it came from RedHat's ftp site (and the GPG signature validated), I would probably consider it, but getting SSH from someone you don't know is not particularly smart. Just get the source from the official site (somewhere in finland, check www.ssh.fi for links) and build it yourself.
For instance, I get PGP/GPG RPMS from ftp.gnupg.org and ftp.pgpi.org because they are trusted sources, so I'm ok with that. I also trust the SSH ftp site: if they had RPMs there I would get them, but they don't, so I build from source. But I won't trust some random person who submits to rpmfind.
Yeah, I was pretty sure that's where the name came from, but really, the connection between a very large number and a search engine certainly isn't an obvious one (I bet they thought up the name then tried to justify it somehow). After all, slashdot sort of makes sense for a geek-oriented website, since it will tend to confuse non-geeky people when you tell it to them ("h t t p colon slash slash slash dot dot org? What?"). A geek joke, if you will. :)
Funnily enough, nobody seems to have taken www.search.com yet. I find it rather amusing, considering that, for instance, www.octopus.com is taken. Which is a more obvious web site? LOL.
Asimov is good like that as well. I remember reading his retelling of "The Goose That Laid Golden Eggs" from a chemist's point of view.
LOL. That was a great story. I remember reading it a long time ago and loving it, but I had forgetten who had written it.