This is the way I implemented stuff for ods.org(sorry to plug). But instead of using a java servlet, I wrote a servlet in C using pthreads and a UNIX socket to listen on. The web pages ended up being written in php and that just connects to the unix socket to get whatever data it needs. So all in all, anything you can do with a java servlet, you can do just as well with an equivlent design using C.
Of course we all know the reason why IBM is porting JFS to Linux. Remember a little while back IBM stated that they are planning on supporting Linux on all of there hardware, well if you want people to switch there RS/6000's from AIX to Linux you had damn well better be able to read filesystems that AIX wrote. Now the big question is will IBM also port there Logical Volume Manager to Linux? Also will there be a port of SMIT(ibm's system management tool, which btw is very nice). I know I'd be using JFS and there LVM on any mission critical system I had...
I'd have to agree with you about all of us being hippocrits. Consider how many of us work so hard at secureing systems we administer. Do any of you remember when most anyone could login to a remote system, and you as the admin of that system didn't have worry about somebody doing something bad.
I remember reading something about RMS not giving himself remote access to his machines because they had to be secured and as a result since the systems weren't open for all to use and work on, why should he be allowed access to the same.
So many of us seem to forget the ideology that brought about the Free Software movement. A lot of people haven't heard the term "Free Software" but have heard "open source". We really need to be pushing harder for truly free software and systems, but unforutnately these systems need to be secured because society as a whole can not trust itself.
Actually most all public key cryptography is based around the whole concept of security through obscurity. Think about it real hard. Think about the piece of information you need to hide to keep the system secure. The private key of course.
Consider how something like RSA public key crypto works... * Find 2 very large primes, p and q. * Find n=pq (the public modulous). * Choose e, such that en and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1). * Compute d=e^-1 mod[(p1-)(q-1)] OR ed=1[mod (p-1)(q-1)]. * e is the public exponent and d is the private one. * The public-key is (n,e), and the private key is (n,d). * p and q should never be revealed, preferably destroyed
Note what you end up hiding here. Your obscuring certain numbers. Hence RSA ends up being security through obscurity.
Yes, you may say that the system is open, (which btw in the USA it really isn't...remember RSA Inc. still holds that patent) but the ideology behind it isn't much different that keeping the gory details of its functionality away from the masses.
I guess it comes down to different definitions of "security through obscurity".
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If it weren't for Richard we wouldn't have Unix in a lot of places. Linus probably would have never written the Linux kernel without gcc and friends. Would the BSD sources have been freed at all if it wasn't for Richard's nagging of the Berkeley people.
And yes, Solaris does exist on the x86, but who in there right mind would go do such a thing.
So, it may not have been RMS personally writing/porting Unix to the PC but if it wasn't for him, how many of us would be stuck using the crud M$ is selling???
Do you have above average intelligence? Are you sometimes a loner, a part of a small circle of friends perceived as outsiders?
Yeah, I believe I fall under all of those, I believe Abraham Lincoln would have too...
Do you have "unstable" self-esteem? Are you fascinated by cults, weapons, games with themes of violence and death?
Don't most of your "holy-roller fundie" churches have this same problem? They obsess over cults and weapons.
Do you come from a dysfunctional home? Resent authority? Reject criticism?
What does the functionality of my home have to do with it. Consider that many serial killers have come from very normal homes, you know the kind with both parents married, Daddy didn't rape his son sorta families. As far as the rejection of authority goes, isn't it in our nature as Americans to be rebellious. I mean it is the foundation of our country. In school we are taught about men who spit upon royal authority. And they expect us not to want to follow in the footsteps of great men? I'd personally rather be the next Thomas Jefferson than the next Gerald Ford.
Using ancient hardware and software from the late 60's and early 70's these two space probes have been sailing through space and relaying back data at somewhere around 1.4kb/s. Perhaps one of the most fault tolerant computer systems that man has ever created. And reprogrammable at that.
Why would we ditch AM radio, when ADSL will probably only be available to maybe 20% of the entire US population, whilst AM radio is available to damn near every person in the country, regardless if they live in a really big ditch or not.
Of course if the FCC did decide that they wanted to junk the AM band, you'd then need for the whole International Telecommunications Union to agree to ditch it too. Fat chance in hell if you ask me. There is lots of money that the AM broadcasting industry has to toss about to get there way.
Perhaps a better idea would have been to implement ADSL using spread-spectrum technology.
But in the mean time, ADSL users don't have much of a choice but to accept the interference that drops there packets.
Amateur radio operators have been dealing with cable companies on similiar issues for quite a few years now. It just so happens that cable channel 19(I think its 19) video signal falls on 145.25MHz. Right towards the low-end of the 2 meter band. This of course causes all sorts of problems with amateur radio communications on this frequency because of shotty coaxial cable. But the neighbors of course, bitch a storm when channel 19 gets washed out by the interference from the crazy guy with all of the antennas on his roof down the street. Well guess what if you don't like it bitch at the cable company. I have the right to be there in the ether, they don't.
You mention the whole Tiannamen(sp?) Square fiasco. Don't forget that the US is not completely clean in this regard either. So soon we forget the massacre at Kent State where National Guardsmen started shooting at students who were peacefully demostrating there discontent with the war the US was fighting in Vietnam.
Never mind the fact of all of the horrible things that have been done to various minorities throughout the history of the US.
Never mind that it took over 100 years to women to be able to vote.
Never mind that the US still was practicing slavery long after the rest of the western world had declared it illegal.
Never mind the fact that African-Americans were treated like 3rd class citizens, who in many cases were unable to exercise many of their constitutional rights due to Jim Crow laws.
Heck, even look at the genocide that many Native American tribes went through. Ask yourself how many tribes existed before the US came to be. How many are there now?
The hands of the United States may appear to be clean. The actuality is that the US merely wears gloves that can be tossed away when doing these things.
Ever consider the possiblity that you can take more than one set of batteries with you?
I know when I drag my CD player with me, I usually have two sets of Nickel Metal Hydroxide battries with me. They last a whole hell of a lot longer than a normal NiCad battery.
BTW does anybody know what type of battery they used for the battery life expectancy?
And why wouldn't you let somebody like Steven King babysit for you? Yes, his books make contain some nasty things in it, but can you truly juding somebodies character by a work of fiction. People are allowed to be creative and have fantasies.
The last time I checked doing things like writing about your thoughts were ways of *preventing* violent behavior. I personally think that writing is a very healthy way of venting and understanding emotions.
Personally I'd rather see more people write about how they feel about things rather than hold it all inside and have it released with tragic outcomes like what we saw in Littleton.
"Everyone be cool or nobody gets to ride in the Bonneville"
But then again somebody may torch the house, but would you leave the door unlocked for them to do it? Or have the door jammed shut with a chair? With gasoline sitting next to the door too? When you knew damn well there was an ex-convict who just got out after serving a sentence of 25 years for arson living down the street.
I know I'd have the deadbolt on the door. Would you?
"Everyone be cool or nobody gets to ride in the Bonneville"
And don't mind the not being able to encrypt any of your emails because crypto is illegal. (Did the Wassenar (sp?) change things any in France in this regard?)
Aaron
"Be cool or nobody gets to ride in the Bonneville"
Yes we may not know how it works, but in general my attitude is there is no subsititute for a real living breathing professional to make psychological evaluations.
Of course the real problem is, most school administrators don't have the foggiest clue as to who is really in trouble and who is not. Why do you think the problems with alcohol abuse go basically unnoticed by school administrators? Because the ones who have it are "good kids" you know the ones who are popular and appear to have everything organized in their live. Never mind the fact that they are blowing Daddys money on cheap beer and sexually assulting teenage girls in the back seat of their parents SUV.
Yes I know that some of us geeks have are share of problems to. But how many of us would even think about going apeshit and shooting up a school full of people. Most geeks are far to smart for that and will get their revenge in more subtle ways. All the while the school administrators are busy trying to think of ways to get rid of "problem students" as in students who just don't go with the flow of things.
I know all about this from personal experience. I damn near didn't graduate because of a crackpot school administrator who was just looking for a reason to get me out of "his school". Conformity isn't really my thing and I made this fact well known. What schools really need to be doing is taking advantage of the nonconformists new ways of thinking. Just think if the founding fathers of U.S. were conformist. The U.S. wouldn't exist and we'd still be royal subjects.
Rebellion is really the true nature of the American spirit. Its a shame that nobody ever stops to realize it....
I'm done ranting now:P
Aaron
"Everyone be cool or nobody gets to ride in the Bonneville"
Well it might be more `fun` to live with a outdated view of religious, but many Christians, portray themselves in this manner. Many try to live by a system of values that no longer apply to modern society. Yes, some of the base principials of Christianity or any other religion still do apply, but certain things do not. Consider that most Christians in this country read an extremely outdated translation of the bible(King James Version). Not to mention the ill affects King James had on the translation. So, you have people trying to live their lives based upon extremely old, inaccurate translations of a book, about a particular mans life, who may or may not have even existed.
(Yes this was moreso aimed at your Fundementalist Christian types. And yes I know that this does not represent the majority of Christians, its just that they tend to be the ones the media pick up on the most).
The problem with this is that the noncompliant organization or country could very easily find themselves blacklisted on every link out of there. Thus, isolating them from the rest of the Internet.
If I knew that this wouldn't happen, I am more than willing do URL redirection that strips out a so-called "rating system". And I'm sure who ever would design it would do a horrible job of making sure there wasn't a way of circumventing it.
The real issue is, would this rating system prevent "harmful sites" from going up? Would ISPs not allow content that didn't meet a certain rating on their servers? If some ISPs did this, I'm sure there would be others who would see this as a chance to make some big bucks on hosting these sites...Then again we don't know what sort of things might be planned either. How do we know that those sites that wouldn't have "sin tax" put on them, as a deterrant.
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This is the way I implemented stuff for ods.org(sorry to plug). But instead of using a java servlet, I wrote a servlet in C using pthreads and a UNIX socket to listen on. The web pages ended up being written in php and that just connects to the unix socket to get whatever data it needs. So all in all, anything you can do with a java servlet, you can do just as well with an equivlent design using C.
Of course we all know the reason why IBM is porting JFS to Linux. Remember a little while back IBM stated that they are planning on supporting Linux on all of there hardware, well if you want people to switch there RS/6000's from AIX to Linux you had damn well better be able to read filesystems that AIX wrote. Now the big question is will IBM also port there Logical Volume Manager to Linux? Also will there be a port of SMIT(ibm's system management tool, which btw is very nice).
I know I'd be using JFS and there LVM on any mission critical system I had...
I'd have to agree with you about all of us being hippocrits. Consider how many of us work so hard at secureing systems we administer. Do any of you remember when most anyone could login to a remote system, and you as the admin of that system didn't have worry about somebody doing something bad.
I remember reading something about RMS not giving himself remote access to his machines because they had to be secured and as a result since the systems weren't open for all to use and work on, why should he be allowed access to the same.
So many of us seem to forget the ideology that brought about the Free Software movement. A lot of people haven't heard the term "Free Software" but have heard "open source". We really need to be pushing harder for truly free software and systems, but unforutnately these systems need to be secured because society as a whole can not trust itself.
Its a sick, sad world isn't it folks.....
Actually most all public key cryptography is based around the whole concept of security through obscurity. Think about it real hard. Think about the piece of information you need to hide to keep the system secure. The private key of course.
Consider how something like RSA public key crypto works...
* Find 2 very large primes, p and q.
* Find n=pq (the public modulous).
* Choose e, such that en and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1).
* Compute d=e^-1 mod[(p1-)(q-1)] OR ed=1[mod (p-1)(q-1)].
* e is the public exponent and d is the private one.
* The public-key is (n,e), and the private key is (n,d).
* p and q should never be revealed, preferably destroyed
Note what you end up hiding here. Your obscuring certain numbers. Hence RSA ends up being security through obscurity.
Yes, you may say that the system is open, (which btw in the USA it really isn't...remember RSA Inc. still holds that patent) but the ideology behind it isn't much different that keeping the gory details of its functionality away from the masses.
I guess it comes down to different definitions of "security through obscurity".
If it weren't for Richard we wouldn't have Unix in a lot of places. Linus probably would have never written the Linux kernel without gcc and friends.
Would the BSD sources have been freed at all if it wasn't for Richard's nagging of the Berkeley people.
And yes, Solaris does exist on the x86, but who in there right mind would go do such a thing.
So, it may not have been RMS personally writing/porting Unix to the PC but if it wasn't for him, how many of us would be stuck using the crud M$ is selling???
As far as the rejection of authority goes, isn't it in our nature as Americans to be rebellious. I mean it is the foundation of our country. In school we are taught about men who spit upon royal authority. And they expect us not to want to follow in the footsteps of great men? I'd personally rather be the next Thomas Jefferson than the next Gerald Ford.
Using ancient hardware and software from the late 60's and early 70's these two space probes have been sailing through space and relaying back data at somewhere around 1.4kb/s. Perhaps one of the most fault tolerant computer systems that man has ever created. And reprogrammable at that.
Why would we ditch AM radio, when ADSL will probably only be available to maybe 20% of the entire US population, whilst AM radio is available to damn near every person in the country, regardless if they live in a really big ditch or not.
Of course if the FCC did decide that they wanted to junk the AM band, you'd then need for the whole International Telecommunications Union to agree to ditch it too. Fat chance in hell if you ask me. There is lots of money that the AM broadcasting industry has to toss about to get there way.
Perhaps a better idea would have been to implement ADSL using spread-spectrum technology.
But in the mean time, ADSL users don't have much of a choice but to accept the interference that drops there packets.
Amateur radio operators have been dealing with cable companies on similiar issues for quite a few years now. It just so happens that cable channel 19(I think its 19) video signal falls on 145.25MHz. Right towards the low-end of the 2 meter band. This of course causes all sorts of problems with amateur radio communications on this frequency because of shotty coaxial cable. But the neighbors of course, bitch a storm when channel 19 gets washed out by the interference from the crazy guy with all of the antennas on his roof down the street. Well guess what if you don't like it bitch at the cable company. I have the right to be there in the ether, they don't.
You mention the whole Tiannamen(sp?) Square fiasco. Don't forget that the US is not completely clean in this regard either. So soon we forget the massacre at Kent State where National Guardsmen started shooting at students who were peacefully demostrating there discontent with the war the US was fighting in Vietnam.
Never mind the fact of all of the horrible things that have been done to various minorities throughout the history of the US.
Never mind that it took over 100 years to women to be able to vote.
Never mind that the US still was practicing slavery long after the rest of the western world had declared it illegal.
Never mind the fact that African-Americans were treated like 3rd class citizens, who in many cases were unable to exercise many of their constitutional rights due to Jim Crow laws.
Heck, even look at the genocide that many Native American tribes went through. Ask yourself how many tribes existed before the US came to be. How many are there now?
The hands of the United States may appear to be clean. The actuality is that the US merely wears gloves that can be tossed away when doing these things.
Ever consider the possiblity that you can take more than one set of batteries with you?
I know when I drag my CD player with me, I usually have two sets of Nickel Metal Hydroxide battries with me. They last a whole hell of a lot longer than a normal NiCad battery.
BTW does anybody know what type of battery they used for the battery life expectancy?
http://emu.lunarapocalypse.com/misc/wolf3d/wwolf-0 .0.1.tar.gz
Is the URL to another half baked port of wolfenstein
I used to have a bookmark to an port of Wolf3d to Linux using SVGALib. Unfortunately the link is dead.
http://jcs.jsteintech.com/wolf3d/
That was the URL but the site seems to be gone. (Domain and all)
And why wouldn't you let somebody like Steven King babysit for you? Yes, his books make contain some nasty things in it, but can you truly juding somebodies character by a work of fiction. People are allowed to be creative and have fantasies.
The last time I checked doing things like writing about your thoughts were ways of *preventing* violent behavior. I personally think that writing is a very healthy way of venting and understanding emotions.
Personally I'd rather see more people write about how they feel about things rather than hold it all inside and have it released with tragic outcomes like what we saw in Littleton.
"Everyone be cool or nobody gets to ride in the Bonneville"
But then again somebody may torch the house, but would you leave the door unlocked for them to do it? Or have the door jammed shut with a chair? With gasoline sitting next to the door too? When you knew damn well there was an ex-convict who just got out after serving a sentence of 25 years for arson living down the street.
I know I'd have the deadbolt on the door. Would you?
"Everyone be cool or nobody gets to ride in the Bonneville"
And don't mind the not being able to encrypt any of your emails because crypto is illegal. (Did the Wassenar (sp?) change things any in France in this regard?)
Aaron
"Be cool or nobody gets to ride in the Bonneville"
Yes we may not know how it works, but in general my attitude is there is no subsititute for a real living breathing professional to make psychological evaluations.
:P
Of course the real problem is, most school administrators don't have the foggiest clue as to who is really in trouble and who is not. Why do you think the problems with alcohol abuse go basically unnoticed by school administrators? Because the ones who have it are "good kids" you know the ones who are popular and appear to have everything organized in their live. Never mind the fact that they are blowing Daddys money on cheap beer and sexually assulting teenage girls in the back seat of their parents SUV.
Yes I know that some of us geeks have are share of problems to. But how many of us would even think about going apeshit and shooting up a school full of people. Most geeks are far to smart for that and will get their revenge in more subtle ways. All the while the school administrators are busy trying to think of ways to get rid of "problem students" as in students who just don't go with the flow of things.
I know all about this from personal experience. I damn near didn't graduate because of a crackpot school administrator who was just looking for a reason to get me out of "his school". Conformity isn't really my thing and I made this fact well known. What schools really need to be doing is taking advantage of the nonconformists new ways of thinking. Just think if the founding fathers of U.S. were conformist. The U.S. wouldn't exist and we'd still be royal subjects.
Rebellion is really the true nature of the American spirit. Its a shame that nobody ever stops to realize it....
I'm done ranting now
Aaron
"Everyone be cool or nobody gets to ride in the Bonneville"
Well it might be more `fun` to live with a outdated view of religious, but many Christians, portray themselves in this manner. Many try to live by a system of values that no longer apply to modern society. Yes, some of the base principials of Christianity or any other religion still do apply, but certain things do not. Consider that most Christians in this country read an extremely outdated translation of the bible(King James Version). Not to mention the ill affects King James had on the translation. So, you have people trying to live their lives based upon extremely old, inaccurate translations of a book, about a particular mans life, who may or may not have even existed.
(Yes this was moreso aimed at your Fundementalist Christian types. And yes I know that this does not represent the majority of Christians, its just that they tend to be the ones the media pick up on the most).
The problem with this is that the noncompliant organization or country could very easily find themselves blacklisted on every link out of there. Thus, isolating them from the rest of the Internet.
If I knew that this wouldn't happen, I am more than willing do URL redirection that strips out a so-called "rating system". And I'm sure who ever would design it would do a horrible job of making sure there wasn't a way of circumventing it.
The real issue is, would this rating system prevent "harmful sites" from going up? Would ISPs not allow content that didn't meet a certain rating on their servers? If some ISPs did this, I'm sure there would be others who would see this as a chance to make some big bucks on hosting these sites...Then again we don't know what sort of things might be planned either. How do we know that those sites that wouldn't have "sin tax" put on them, as a deterrant.
--Aaron