You mean OpenBSD and NetBSD as well, not just FreeBSD.
Not only do the checksum verifications give you added security, but most ports that are committed come with a good look-over to correct bad programming with regards to race conditions and inappropriate behavior of setuid/setgid applications. While they might not find every bug, it's better than nothing.
i doubt any of them have this information on a publicly accessable server. however, the web server has to be able to access the db server somehow, so an attack on the web server will yield access to the database server.
why do all these companies insist on storing credit cards in plain text, let alone storing them at all? is it really that hard for people to pull out their wallet and type in their card number each time they want to buy something?
if these companies insist on storing credit cards on their servers, why not encrypt them? since just about every site that would store your credit card makes you login with a username and password, why not encrypt them with that account's password? this way if the security is comprimised, they'd have to brute force every single account to get each one's credit card number. if you use a strong password on the system, you won't be subject to the site's lame security should their database get illegally accessed.
Clyde has written a nice article over at LinuxOrbit about the state of the GNOME office suite. With all the hubbub surrounding the recent freeing of Sun's StarOffice, this is gonna get more interesting. I'll tell ya the one thing that I miss in AbiWord is anti-aliased text. Staring at that horridly pixelated text is hard on the eyes. Between the Gimp, Gnucash, Eazel, Evolution, AbiWord, Gnucash and the like (no, I'm not forgetting KDE, I just haven't used it recently), the application support under Linux is rapidly making it feasible for a desktop user, but we're just not there yet. And it's the little things that get ya.
hold down the back button and you'll get the drop down list of the sites you've been to. the second one down should be the site you were at before you hit the page with the meta-refresh.
You know, with as many people who hate Netscape with a passion, I'm surprised nobody branched the Mozilla code to make a small, stripped down browser.
I disable Java and JavaScript in Netscape anyway, so if the code wasn't even there, that's probably a big chunk of code that could be ripped out to save space and memory.
Lynx/Links/w3m don't support Java, JavaScript, DHTML, etc. but how many people still use these browsers on a daily basis? I use lynx and links whenever I can rather than try to load Netscape on this p166 with 32 megs of ram. Of course, when I have to go to a site with Java, I have to load Netscape.
People have been using two browsers for a long time, so why not just have two versions of Mozilla (a Mozilla-lite and a Mozilla-bloated). You could package them in the same distribution, but simply having one executable that is half the size (or less) and doesn't have all the bloat would be a great thing. Or even have one executable that supports modules, so when you don't want to load support for Java/JavaScript/DHTML/Mail/News/EverythingUnderThe Sun, you simply don't have to load it into memory.
"complications of serving many thousands of simultaneous connections"
... uh, didn't that move to Exodus give your servers some more bandwidth to and computational power to play with? or was it just to provide more defense against DDoS attacks?
"The recording is not great quality; analog cassette recording through a radio shack linda trip special, of a phone call is really not easy listening material"
... neither is listening to you dorks on Geeks In Space, but people stream it anyway.
I'm surprised that with all the money and equipment Slashdot has now, you guys still haven't implemented a caching server to prevent the/. effect on the rest of us who don't have the luxury of colocating at Exodus.
I know some have raised questions of copyright infringement and all that crap, saying it would be illegal to copy their content, but how is this any different than a real caching server doing this? Or google's method of caching all the pages it indexes? As an administrator, I'd much rather see my copyrighted content cached than have my server or pipe go down because of all the hits.
Now that you have your pretty new toys at Exodus, how about you actually use them to cache sites?
Most people aren't as passionate about fighting banner ads as they are spam because ads are just a small part of this page. You went to this web page to read a story or post a comment, and the ad comes with the territory. If all banner ads popped up in full screen windows, I'm sure the story would change and people would begin to complain more.
The same goes with spam. If advertisements were attached to the bottom of emails on mailing lists, I don't think many people would get as upset, since they're actually getting something useful out of the email (the discussion on the mailing list).
I think the main difference here is that spam is a push technology, and a banner ad is a pull technology. If you don't want to see a banner ad on slashdot, don't go to slashdot. If you don't want spam, you can't (easily) tell everyone to stop sending it to your mailbox.
What the hell, it only supports two network cards? In the network configuration thing, it only lets you add a "NE2000 compatible ISA" or "3com EtherLink II 503 ISA" card. Where's the PCI support?
"We have no idea how to use Linux or why it's better than the solution we currently use, but it's the wave of the future and everyone else seems to be using it, so why not us! Maybe we'll change our company's name to include 'Linux' and then go public, too!"
Slashdot Mirror
``My voice is my passport.''
The 2G version of this hard drive is already for sale here. I'd imagine this 5G version will look just like it.
Toshiba's press release is here.
And a whole DVD of millions of email addresses. Sounds like something spammers would love to get ahold of.
http://wap.jcs.org/
Serves Slashdot, Freshmeat, and deadly.org.
You mean OpenBSD and NetBSD as well, not just FreeBSD.
Not only do the checksum verifications give you added security, but most ports that are committed come with a good look-over to correct bad programming with regards to race conditions and inappropriate behavior of setuid/setgid applications. While they might not find every bug, it's better than nothing.
i doubt any of them have this information on a publicly accessable server. however, the web server has to be able to access the db server somehow, so an attack on the web server will yield access to the database server.
why do all these companies insist on storing credit cards in plain text, let alone storing them at all? is it really that hard for people to pull out their wallet and type in their card number each time they want to buy something?
if these companies insist on storing credit cards on their servers, why not encrypt them? since just about every site that would store your credit card makes you login with a username and password, why not encrypt them with that account's password? this way if the security is comprimised, they'd have to brute force every single account to get each one's credit card number. if you use a strong password on the system, you won't be subject to the site's lame security should their database get illegally accessed.
from the announcement, the artist is Ty Semaka.
it's the first link on the page. why was this moderated so high?
OpenBSD works great on laptops. USB, PCMCIA, APM, etc.
I have a page describing how to get OpenBSD running on two Sony Vaios.
everyone knows carnivore is just mailsnarf in a box. that's probably why they don't want anyone to see the source code.
yes, nothing like porn and britney spears jpegs to represent our time. our children will be proud.
I just tried it on my Sprint PCS phone and got an error (the page isn't WAP'ified).
Clyde has written a nice article over at LinuxOrbit about the state of the GNOME office suite. With all the hubbub
surrounding the recent freeing of Sun's StarOffice, this is gonna get more interesting. I'll tell ya the one thing that I miss in
AbiWord is anti-aliased text. Staring at that horridly pixelated text is hard on the eyes. Between the Gimp, Gnucash,
Eazel, Evolution, AbiWord, Gnucash and the like (no, I'm not forgetting KDE, I just haven't used it recently), the
application support under Linux is rapidly making it feasible for a desktop user, but we're just not there yet. And it's the
little things that get ya.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demo roniser/
If you put Stallman in charge, there'd be no .com, only .org and .edu (and .net, assuming they were non-profit).
hold down the back button and you'll get the drop down list of the sites you've been to. the second one down should be the site you were at before you hit the page with the meta-refresh.
You know, with as many people who hate Netscape with a passion, I'm surprised nobody branched the Mozilla code to make a small, stripped down browser.
e Sun, you simply don't have to load it into memory.
I disable Java and JavaScript in Netscape anyway, so if the code wasn't even there, that's probably a big chunk of code that could be ripped out to save space and memory.
Lynx/Links/w3m don't support Java, JavaScript, DHTML, etc. but how many people still use these browsers on a daily basis? I use lynx and links whenever I can rather than try to load Netscape on this p166 with 32 megs of ram. Of course, when I have to go to a site with Java, I have to load Netscape.
People have been using two browsers for a long time, so why not just have two versions of Mozilla (a Mozilla-lite and a Mozilla-bloated). You could package them in the same distribution, but simply having one executable that is half the size (or less) and doesn't have all the bloat would be a great thing. Or even have one executable that supports modules, so when you don't want to load support for Java/JavaScript/DHTML/Mail/News/EverythingUnderTh
"complications of serving many thousands of simultaneous connections"
... uh, didn't that move to Exodus give your servers some more bandwidth to and computational power to play with? or was it just to provide more defense against DDoS attacks?
"The recording is not great quality; analog cassette recording through a radio shack linda trip special, of a phone call is really not easy listening material"
... neither is listening to you dorks on Geeks In Space, but people stream it anyway.
I'm surprised that with all the money and equipment Slashdot has now, you guys still haven't implemented a caching server to prevent the /. effect on the rest of us who don't have the luxury of colocating at Exodus.
I know some have raised questions of copyright infringement and all that crap, saying it would be illegal to copy their content, but how is this any different than a real caching server doing this? Or google's method of caching all the pages it indexes? As an administrator, I'd much rather see my copyrighted content cached than have my server or pipe go down because of all the hits.
Now that you have your pretty new toys at Exodus, how about you actually use them to cache sites?
Most people aren't as passionate about fighting banner ads as they are spam because ads are just a small part of this page. You went to this web page to read a story or post a comment, and the ad comes with the territory. If all banner ads popped up in full screen windows, I'm sure the story would change and people would begin to complain more.
The same goes with spam. If advertisements were attached to the bottom of emails on mailing lists, I don't think many people would get as upset, since they're actually getting something useful out of the email (the discussion on the mailing list).
I think the main difference here is that spam is a push technology, and a banner ad is a pull technology. If you don't want to see a banner ad on slashdot, don't go to slashdot. If you don't want spam, you can't (easily) tell everyone to stop sending it to your mailbox.
What the hell, it only supports two network cards? In the network configuration thing, it only lets you add a "NE2000 compatible ISA" or "3com EtherLink II 503 ISA" card. Where's the PCI support?
"We have no idea how to use Linux or why it's better than the solution we currently use, but it's the wave of the future and everyone else seems to be using it, so why not us! Maybe we'll change our company's name to include 'Linux' and then go public, too!"
Oh, didn't you know? There is a public NFS server (although not endorsed by the Slackware team, AFAIK) that you can install Slackware from.
s lakware
128.252.135.4:/archive/systems/linux/slackware/
(wuarchive.wustl.edu)