I agree - these articles were better than average and even mentioned that script kiddies had tools to make it easier to do more damage with less knowledge.
I was particularly impressed that they chose the l0pht, which *is* a legitimate hacker group. I'm not so sure about GH, but they've made enough news to be worth mentioning.
I work for an investment bank whose traders won't be happy with 1GHz; faster math processing = faster trading = more profit.
Are they really crunching numbers with all those cycles or are they making trades? In my limited experience with investment bankers, they only want the cycles so they are "cutting edge" and really don't have apps that require extremely fast processors (e.g. Biff has a 1GHz PC and so does Chad, where is mine?)
It's just that something sticks in my craw with one location dominating an entire industry.
Like the possibility of the entire industry's headquarters being eliminated in one really big earthquake like the one California may have in its future?
What kills me is the piece called "Linux's Forgotten Man" that appears as a link on this story.
Even the name of the operating system, to which Torvalds contributed a small but essential part, acknowledges Torvalds alone: the Stallman part -- the GNU before Linux -- is almost always left out.
Poor baby - what are they talking about with "small but essential part?" Gee, I wonder how the OS would run without such a small part as the kernel. Hmmm. This is the biggest kiss-ass story I have read.
Mr. Mackey: Well, Eric, the difference between fogery and spam is that fogery is the practice of being an old "fogey" and spam is a delightful and delicious canned meat. Nnnkaayy?
FUNCTIONALITY ADDITION: Nov 11, 1999 Various OpenSSH improvements have been made since the 2.6 release shipped. To resolve the various (non-security related) features which users may want, we are making a jumbo patch available. This is now at VERSION THREE. Revision 3 of this jumbo source code patch exists. NOTE:/etc/sshd_config and/etc/ssh_config may need changes.
What a great idea - bundle the accelerated servers with the latest kernel and market it at a slightly higher price. I know I would buy it just for convenience sake.
You can't scale Win98 down to work on less powerful hardware the way you can with Linux. Building a Linux kernel that only has to support specific needs of the hardware in use - and no larger - makes for a lean, fast OS.
The cost helps too since these devices ought to become the next Walkman(TM).
This dragon not hiding it's claws is bs. What really important networks rely on Internet connectivity? The most critical networks are isolated from the net-at-large.
Harming systems connected to the Internet is so easy that we cannot rely upon Internet-reliant systems to manage our most critical functions - national power grid, air traffic control, the fed, etc. (you all saw Sneakers?)
Commercial business can be trashed pretty quickly over the Net, but government is something else.
I didn't realize the Hubble was running Win98 - if it was running Linux it wouldn't need a "safe mode";->
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OK, but banning a rude drunk from a business or screaming naked through a mall aside:-), this is a Usenet group and if people don't like what they read, they don't have to read it.
Usenet can be a pretty sick place, but government regulation is not the way to control it. Separate the troublemakers and spammers from the rest by moderating and let the rest go to town.
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I was particularly impressed that they chose the l0pht, which *is* a legitimate hacker group. I'm not so sure about GH, but they've made enough news to be worth mentioning.
Are they really crunching numbers with all those cycles or are they making trades? In my limited experience with investment bankers, they only want the cycles so they are "cutting edge" and really don't have apps that require extremely fast processors (e.g. Biff has a 1GHz PC and so does Chad, where is mine?)
Like the possibility of the entire industry's headquarters being eliminated in one really big earthquake like the one California may have in its future?
Even the name of the operating system, to which Torvalds contributed a small but essential part, acknowledges Torvalds alone: the Stallman part -- the GNU before Linux -- is almost always left out.
Poor baby - what are they talking about with "small but essential part?" Gee, I wonder how the OS would run without such a small part as the kernel. Hmmm. This is the biggest kiss-ass story I have read.
FUNCTIONALITY ADDITION: Nov 11, 1999 Various OpenSSH improvements have been made since the 2.6 release shipped. To resolve the various (non-security related) features which users may want, we are making a jumbo patch available. This is now at VERSION THREE. Revision 3 of this jumbo source code patch exists. NOTE: /etc/sshd_config and /etc/ssh_config may need changes.
Doom was fun for a while but multiplayer Q3Arena rocks. I don't know anything about the Dark Forces games; gotta check the store ...
Why hasn't anyone already done this?
I know, offtopic.
Any number of permutations is possible - :-)
You can't scale Win98 down to work on less powerful hardware the way you can with Linux. Building a Linux kernel that only has to support specific needs of the hardware in use - and no larger - makes for a lean, fast OS.
The cost helps too since these devices ought to become the next Walkman(TM).
CLI?
Ick - because for small-scale hardware, Winblows, well...blows. Win98 is more cumbersome than necessary or desireable for such a device.
Time to quit playing so dern much Quake3...
You: DOH!
I'm going to start using PGP for every inocuous message sent my technology friends. (e.g. How was that sandwich yesterday? Mmmm mmm.)
At last I will have the warm fuzzies of *looking* like I'm up to no good.
And no, a traceroute to my ip does not end in Redmond ;-)
Harming systems connected to the Internet is so easy that we cannot rely upon Internet-reliant systems to manage our most critical functions - national power grid, air traffic control, the fed, etc. (you all saw Sneakers?)
Commercial business can be trashed pretty quickly over the Net, but government is something else.
Usenet can be a pretty sick place, but government regulation is not the way to control it. Separate the troublemakers and spammers from the rest by moderating and let the rest go to town.
Time for a new sig.