>> Regardless of the state of similar products, releasing their product for Linux made them a competitor in certain >> software categories. The fact that they had a well known and mature product with an established user base is why it >> made so much sense at the time.
There was also nothing but speculation at the time as to how big of a market share Linux was going to get, and what market shares it would start enjoying first. I think they made an enormous appeal to those of us who just said 'no' to Windows with the advent of 98, and basically went from MS-DOS/Novell -> NVT -> 3270 networks right to Linux.
Well, most of us ended up getting pretty nice positions where we were placed in command of IT spending budgets. So one could speculate the reason for the Linux port was as much a goodwill / PR gesture as anything. The consensus at the time, well in the places I worked anyway was that Linux as a desktop OS was going to be nothing more than a short lived fad.
Corel came in saying "Ok, if you guys say you'll use it.. we'll make it." , and they did indeed win the business. Unfortunately, for them - the Linux desktop market share never grew big enough quickly enough.
Now that Linux is gaining market share as a desktop OS, people are enjoying OpenOffice and nice portable document formats.
So , other than sigh and say "Doup!" - not much else Corel can do. Right idea, wrong timing. If they waited and just released yesterday, it would have been much more successful. Their marketing 'magic 8 ball' was right, just really bad luck in timing.
I figured on using a parallel port relay board commonly found on e-bay, I don't have a link to the last one I bought or I would post it. They use small reed contacts that switch something that handles a bit more. Its actually a DPDT but wired in as if it was SPDT, one side is "beefier" than the other.
I think most of these come with sample asm code to show you how to manipulate the registers, could be the very utility you were talking about.
I looked into it once so I could have 3 led's, red, green and yellow that indicated the server's load status. Handy when you have a rack of 100 in a semi dark room with ultra bright led's:)
But your right, I should have cautioned. Beware - use a chap-o ISA board with cheap ISA parallel card to test before you hook this contraption up to anything that cost money. Would be a neat project to work on man I wish I had time:)
d0 - d7 of a parallel port would be a rather easy way. That's 8 possible motor speeds, or 3 possible speeds over 2 pumps + 2 on / off relays if you wanted to do it that way.
You'd need, of course 8 relays done something like this:
d0 --->//1.5 v switching spst controlling 6 v// d1 --->//1.5 v switching spst controlling 5 v// d2 --->//1.5 v switching spst controlling 3 v//
Assuming your pumps vary in speed from 3v to 6v. An identical setup for d3 d4 and d5.
d6 and d7 would simply be a master on/off for each pump.
Use lmsensors to pull cpu temp, or just use I2C and a string of temp sensors to monitor all liquid cooled components.
I can't find the chunk of code I wanted to post (in assembly) which raises or lowers data bits 0 - 8 on a lpt port, but I will if I find it. Google should be able to turn it up and I'm just exploring an idea not providing blueprints:) However the theory is simple. Write a cron job or daemon to read the temp, and trigger the appropriate pin on lpt(x) that connected the right voltage to the pump which in turn goes faster or slower, or turn on or off a pump. Lets say for argument sake pump 2 was attached to some drive coolers or something.
Just assemble a command line utility that lets you directly turn those on or off , i.e./lptctl d0 on [off]
Or you could use those extra 2 bits to change the color of your cathode from blue to red based on load averages. Anyway sky is the limit, have fun.
That would make for a very, very cool plugin for Asterisk. Unfortunately to do that in real time one needs a parallel processing cluster.
Not saying one cluster couldn't service multiple end users, but I can't even begin to estimate the number of operations required per syllable to see if its a complete word, much less score it based on historical translations.
Given that humans in all languages string their words together, we all do it.. "Well, ummm you'llllll need to see what the errrr aaaaah something ummmm", of course not to that bad of a degree, but still. So you'd not only need to grab words, you'd need to understand background noise and slurrs.
This would be fun to try with Parallel Knoppix. I think enough people realize that this can be done, so I'm sure its just a matter of time.
There's some ROKSO spammers for which spamhaus can't produce one e-mail, or evidence that these people done anything but deliberately become a pain in the ass for Spamhaus.
Bill Stanley is an example. Not coining him a saint, but Spamhaus has been known to be a bit mafia like in the past. They turn a pretty decent profit.
Looks like romania is about to run out of rackspace in a hurry if they actually (really) do crack down on it.
This is sort of introspective and a little from the conspiracy nut dept, but I thought was interesting enough to post.
I'm going to assume a few things as given :
1 - Many very secure R&D facilities have been constructed since the dawn of the Cold War era up until as recently as the Clinton Administration. I say Clinton because he left office with a surplus, and really watched the budget which brings me to #2 which is :
2 - 3/4 of the US government doesn't know what 1/4 of the defense and security spending goes for, or really what assets we have as far as that spending is concerned.
So, you have about 50 good years of relatively unregulated and well funded spending going on building places very like Los Alamos.
I would venture to say only 1/3 of those facilities are still in use, and we probably have 'forgotten' about many more just from high ranking staff changes in the security / r&D / intel sectors of the government, since some things never existed on a ledger to begin with.
I wonder what it would take for Uncle sam to "take stock" in what we have just going to waste and sell it back to the public sector as data centers.
The point is the fuss over Los Alamos could be applied to any of I think thousands of places, it just hasn't happened there yet. Why not just consolidate and ditch the liablity all together?
So long as uncle sam isn't the one selling the feeds, of course.:)
Just an idea, as I said kind of coming from left field. Seems like a win/win situation, but I doubt it would ever happen.
That is a noble attitude, and I share it. Unfortunately not many other people do. Any time you present them with something neat, they instantly want it to do more.
I like to tinker with small memory models because it helps me produce applications, scripts and methods that scream on standard or legacy hardware.
I've done some neat stuff with lighttpd (and similar) as well as this little known gem called Abyss, found at Aprelium.
PHP can be built at around 1MB and retain most of its basic functionality, if you use flat file databases. If you go with php5 and sqlite, its a tad (but not much) bigger if built wisely.
Lighttpd + ssl + php/fastcgi can be crammed into about 120k stripped, abyss is a bit smaller and does better threading, but is not open source. Its freeware / upgrade to deluxe.
It runs very well on small memory model systems, and really, really well on clusters and high end systems.
So I agree, I *personally* have no use for doing something as foolish as trying to run a public service from what was supposed to just be a thin client, but I also resent when peoeple register.net domains that aren't an administrative network.
Any push to make things smaller and do more is a worth while effort, regardless of how silly it seems. And this goes beyond silly, I agree.
Wait till script kiddies manage to get code on your phone and have it attack other phones.
But, I'd like to see what apache tweaks after this port:)
I was thinking about which industries stand to profit the most from the paranoia wave. If I had some more investment cap, I'd be starting up some private security companies that had guys who could shoot straight and configure a router, there's plenty of them to be found.
Think about it.. to really piss off Americans you don't want to be a martyr, you want to be a nuisance. Its not going to be long before they start blowing up groups of 50 power poles and slasing 40k pair cables into iddy bits rather than blowing themselves to kingdom come at any available opportunity.
The goal of terrorisim is to solicit both empathy and sympathy from the citizenry of the opposing government. Seeing something horrible on television is horrifying, but you are still seeing it from the safety of your living room, and remain mostly detached from it.
If your phone, electricty and cable went out for a week,.. well, it would be a different story. Infrastructure is one of the biggest targets in developing countries and as we close more holes a whole new kind will start opening up.
So kind of like that nasty engineered virus that you just can't seem to shake because it mutates so well, Terrorisim is going to continue to plauge us (and make some of us quite rich) for years to come. As we lock down one thing, they'll move to something else.
We piss alot of people off just because we exist it seems and the politics behind that escape even the smarter end of the spectrum. The point is, we've gotten ourselves stuck in a hornets nest thats been brewing for a couple thousand years. I think (unfortunately) a higher state of paranoia is just a new fact of life.
>> That's still really pretty good, given the reputation for slowness than microkernels have. If they can port those optimizations to Linux, then maybe Linux would be even faster. >>
That's kind of happening in (and around) the Xen community, but mostly on the Debian / Xen side of the street. Lots of people have been playing with msxen/ocxen on SBC's (ULV Celeron / P4's) and have optimized the kernel and even some core utils for small memory systems.
Now you have a whole rash of 'unofficial' Debian packages floating around containing everyone's tinkering. I mention Xen because many of the folks pushing things to be smaller and go faster are doing so based on experience with various microkernels.
Since clusters + virtualization are a good match, you'll see even more talent taking a closer look at things like Open SSI. The real need now (imho) is to get more corporations with some more bucks paying people to tinker and start adopting with the idea that they'll put the improvements back out to the communities. If more people could feed themselves putting ideas they've had the last 20 months into play, I think you'd really begin to see smart (smaller) thinking applied to the next few kernels, plus some revisiting of others.
>> But if he is writing fiction, or writing about legal but objectionable activities he partakes in on his own time, that is his, and his parents business, keep the schools out of it. >>
I agree with you, minus one detail. Most parents aren't making their kid's on-line activities their business. Someone who actively fantasizes about doing things of that nature does have some problems, and since in this case (it being a child) someone *should* make it their business.
My point was parental apathy is causing schools to do this.
I agree. This is just involving parents, community and teachers in high school kid "he said she said" peer politics.
I've seen a few stories like this over the last week. It looks like schools are trying to step up to fill a lack of adequate parenting when it comes to student's use of the internet. I see the void they are concerned about, but I don't think its the school's place to step up.
However, since kids only have 2 sources of authority to answer too (parental and school), umm.. where else is it going to come from?
US Citizens 18 and over should have the run of the internet with no restrictions on what thoughts or content you can publish or contribute. I agree with that because censorship in any form on what is supposed to be a world accessable free medium is bad.
However a 16 year old posting that he beat the crap out of someone and stole his car, well.. thats not free speech, thats stupid juveninle story telling (or a really stupid junior criminal).
Point is , if parents were doing their job a bit better.. schools wouldn't feel the need to intervine. I suspect since most public school systems are already under budget and the staff is over taxed, they'd be delighted to no longer feel the need to go "above and beyond" any longer.
So don't look at this as big brother, look at this as (possibly) a lack of parenting and the school being a bit over eager to correct it.
I predict this is going to grow to be a national issue with hundreds more stories just like this popping up over the next 12 months.
I'm recollecting many, many instances where I got through a door swiping a key with no pin or other authentication based on what I know.
Ideall you authenticate on 2 out of these three:
1 - what you know 2 - what you have 3 - what you are (or aren't, depending).
Now that I think about it, most buildings I've been in that use RFID tags to open doors do not use anything but #2.
I found this gizmo at fidgetsjust poking around on Google after reading TFA and feeling curious. That's the biggest one I found, the rest once stripped of their case would be very much like the scanner described in TFA.
I'm sure this will become a growing problem, quickly.
A typical passive RFID chip costs about a quarter, whereas one with encryption capabilities runs about $5. It's just not cost-effective for your average office building to invest in secure chips.
Ok, office with 200 people. You mean to tell me a lousy thousand bucks isn't worth preventing an intrusion? Some places spend that much a month on copy paper.
I'd call it cost effective considering the alternetive possibilities:)
UPS and Fed Ex track their packages in real time, know who sent them and who is receiving them and how much it weighs.
Because in and of itself how much my package weighs doesn't amount to a hill of beans. However if I know a natural disaster recently struck an area, and found some more "harmless" data to add to my filter, I can tell how much replacing of stuff via insurance claim people do on-line, and some other very interesting things.
I can think of at least a dozen chain drug stores who have a retail store evey 10 blocks in every major city in the country. Their sales are recorded centrally.
Hypothetically, if all of them decided it would be for the good of humanity to allow someone to examine their sales in real time as a whole to identify flu outbreaks early - then the process of doing that would not be too difficult.
UPS and Fed Ex track their packages in real time, know who sent them and who is receiving them and how much it weighs.
Data about us is being collected more than I'd care to think about, and I think its inevitable that it become centralized. We may be rapidly approaching a point where we decide what we want, privacy or technology. Having both doesn't seem like its a viable option for very much longer.
I think this is much like teachers 10 years ago debating about how much access students should have to calculators during their normal math studies.
The fact remains, when the student applies the knowledge they will almost certinally be working inside some sort of IDE, be it VS or bluefish or emacs or whatever. The point is its commonplace now.
For their own sanity and convenience, I would imagine those who really want to be proficient and well rounded would find its sometimes easier to work in a shell on the host where you're testing the application (if not local), such as the case would be in an old style Unix network with nice VT-XX terminals and pc's coming in over 3270 - but where are you going to find that?
Even hard core VI nuts like me appreciate syntax highlighting. I also like the simplicity of nano (pico) which loads and works in all kinds of funky shells and consoles (like ethernet to serial console connections).
If you plan to work in an industry where they prefer Linux and have clusters or some other stipulation that requires you to build stuff in place, get used to GNU. Otherwise , use an editor, its easier:)
Now that you mention that, I can't seem to think of any discernable difference between a bong and a bucket for that purpose. Ah, Discovery.. gotta love it.
Bubbles.... Bubbles... Buuuuubbbbbbbbllllleeeeeessssss. Not the first person to choke and see stars though;)
I'm sure somehow this will get de-railed early. It doesn't have to stay snowballed for long, just long enough for the next presidential election.
It will be interesting to see what happens. I think the outcome really depends on how many people are making noise about the law suit and how much media hype it gets.
On the flip side, there are things that the NSA does that we'd all like to continue to see them do, such as (really) looking for domestic terrorists. So in a sense you hope this doesn't really detract from their (real) function.
Quite a pandoras box either way, if it lives past the next few months. I predict : it gets squashed, and it gets squashed soon.
>>Since this is a civil suit, that plus the bits that do leak through should be sufficient to >> indicate that it happened and that the parties concerned had reasons to doubt the legality.
Well this could do a few things.. its also enough to trigger a fed level inquiry if the lawsuit were to gain enough popularity. Any time they play the "Sealed for national security" card people tend to get even more curious. At a potential 1K a pop, people have more reason to be curious if they would qualify , but to do so those records would need to be made available.
Peer pressure is kinda neat:)
If this gets into court and holds ground, now you have a nice front that millions of conspiracy nuts can join into , again needing those records to see if they qualify.
Either way they go, if this gets footing.. the NSA is going to be doing quite a bit of blushing, and the telcoms are going to cry bully. Should be interesting to watch.
I can remember when "Internet1" was pretty much in the hands of academia. I remember groveling and begging for my uucp feed from the University of MD where I was working. And I remember a bunch of rockport shoe & sweatervest wearing folks grumbling about HTML being used for other things than sharing research data.
So I guess AJAX just threw them over the top and now they are a rockport shoe & sweater vest wearing separatist cult.
>>>>> Personally, I'd love to have my car drive me to work and let me do other things like take a nap. That would give me all the bonuses of "mass transit" such as:
- being able to do other things while getting there (sleep, read, have sex) - can sing with the radio without getting killed - eat breakfast >>>>>>
Where I live, if you sing on mass transit, you get killed.
I can't stop someone from picking the lock on my front door if they have the knowledge and skills to do it. I can just make sure I have very good locks that are tough to pick, take time and have some sort of measure in place to tell me if someone's out there picking or if (shudder) theyr'e successful in doing it.
In order to detect rootkits, you have to know what you're looking for. People who do not have the skill to secure their server or the common sense to retain the services of someone who does can't really go complaining when they find themselves infested from something that could have easily been prevented with a few simple means.
I.e. , they find themselves with a 2 year old version of r0nin running happily in their/dev/shm system which got there through an ancient copy of phpbb.
0 - 30 day kits are a problem. Which is one of the problems the site tries to address. If people just *secured their servers*, it wouldn't matter what was available for anyone to download.
IPS / IDS systems are cheap and even open source. Think of your server like your house, know what doors and windows are open and be sure you have something watching what comes through them.
The site isn't to blame, people thinking server administration can be learned by the novice in a week or less are to blame. Web hosting companies are a perfect example of this. Guy buys server, guy makes site, guy circulates some banners.. now his server is hurling spam throughout the internet running fully compromised. Why? He thought his default CentOS install was secure for the purpose he leased his server. Wrong.
Guns are a different story. I can't protect myself from a bullet unless I live in a lexan glass bubble. So really a bad comparison as the victim has no choice but to be a victim if the circumstances swing that way.
Don't blame hackers or sites, blame people who really should have paid the 'fiddy bucks to an admin to secure and audit their box for them.
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>> Regardless of the state of similar products, releasing their product for Linux made them a competitor in certain
.. we'll make it." , and they did indeed win the business. Unfortunately, for them - the Linux desktop market share never grew big enough quickly enough.
>> software categories. The fact that they had a well known and mature product with an established user base is why it
>> made so much sense at the time.
There was also nothing but speculation at the time as to how big of a market share Linux was going to get, and what market shares it would start enjoying first. I think they made an enormous appeal to those of us who just said 'no' to Windows with the advent of 98, and basically went from MS-DOS/Novell -> NVT -> 3270 networks right to Linux.
Well, most of us ended up getting pretty nice positions where we were placed in command of IT spending budgets. So one could speculate the reason for the Linux port was as much a goodwill / PR gesture as anything. The consensus at the time, well in the places I worked anyway was that Linux as a desktop OS was going to be nothing more than a short lived fad.
Corel came in saying "Ok, if you guys say you'll use it
Now that Linux is gaining market share as a desktop OS, people are enjoying OpenOffice and nice portable document formats.
So , other than sigh and say "Doup!" - not much else Corel can do. Right idea, wrong timing. If they waited and just released yesterday, it would have been much more successful. Their marketing 'magic 8 ball' was right, just really bad luck in timing.
Nice spin on the title of this one, btw.
I figured on using a parallel port relay board commonly found on e-bay, I don't have a link to the last one I bought or I would post it. They use small reed contacts that switch something that handles a bit more. Its actually a DPDT but wired in as if it was SPDT, one side is "beefier" than the other.
:)
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I think most of these come with sample asm code to show you how to manipulate the registers, could be the very utility you were talking about.
I looked into it once so I could have 3 led's, red, green and yellow that indicated the server's load status. Handy when you have a rack of 100 in a semi dark room with ultra bright led's
But your right, I should have cautioned. Beware - use a chap-o ISA board with cheap ISA parallel card to test before you hook this contraption up to anything that cost money. Would be a neat project to work on man I wish I had time
d0 - d7 of a parallel port would be a rather easy way. That's 8 possible motor speeds, or 3 possible speeds over 2 pumps + 2 on / off relays if you wanted to do it that way.
//1.5 v switching spst controlling 6 v// //1.5 v switching spst controlling 5 v// //1.5 v switching spst controlling 3 v//
:) However the theory is simple. Write a cron job or daemon to read the temp, and trigger the appropriate pin on lpt(x) that connected the right voltage to the pump which in turn goes faster or slower, or turn on or off a pump. Lets say for argument sake pump 2 was attached to some drive coolers or something.
./lptctl d0 on [off]
You'd need, of course 8 relays done something like this:
d0 --->
d1 --->
d2 --->
Assuming your pumps vary in speed from 3v to 6v. An identical setup for d3 d4 and d5.
d6 and d7 would simply be a master on/off for each pump.
Use lmsensors to pull cpu temp, or just use I2C and a string of temp sensors to monitor all liquid cooled components.
I can't find the chunk of code I wanted to post (in assembly) which raises or lowers data bits 0 - 8 on a lpt port, but I will if I find it. Google should be able to turn it up and I'm just exploring an idea not providing blueprints
Just assemble a command line utility that lets you directly turn those on or off , i.e
Or you could use those extra 2 bits to change the color of your cathode from blue to red based on load averages. Anyway sky is the limit, have fun.
That would make for a very, very cool plugin for Asterisk. Unfortunately to do that in real time one needs a parallel processing cluster.
.. "Well, ummm you'llllll need to see what the errrr aaaaah something ummmm", of course not to that bad of a degree, but still. So you'd not only need to grab words, you'd need to understand background noise and slurrs.
:)
Not saying one cluster couldn't service multiple end users, but I can't even begin to estimate the number of operations required per syllable to see if its a complete word, much less score it based on historical translations.
Given that humans in all languages string their words together, we all do it
This would be fun to try with Parallel Knoppix. I think enough people realize that this can be done, so I'm sure its just a matter of time.
Neat shit
There's some ROKSO spammers for which spamhaus can't produce one e-mail, or evidence that these people done anything but deliberately become a pain in the ass for Spamhaus.
Bill Stanley is an example. Not coining him a saint, but Spamhaus has been known to be a bit mafia like in the past. They turn a pretty decent profit.
Looks like romania is about to run out of rackspace in a hurry if they actually (really) do crack down on it.
This is sort of introspective and a little from the conspiracy nut dept, but I thought was interesting enough to post.
:)
I'm going to assume a few things as given :
1 - Many very secure R&D facilities have been constructed since the dawn of the Cold War era up until as recently as the Clinton Administration. I say Clinton because he left office with a surplus, and really watched the budget which brings me to #2 which is :
2 - 3/4 of the US government doesn't know what 1/4 of the defense and security spending goes for, or really what assets we have as far as that spending is concerned.
So, you have about 50 good years of relatively unregulated and well funded spending going on building places very like Los Alamos.
I would venture to say only 1/3 of those facilities are still in use, and we probably have 'forgotten' about many more just from high ranking staff changes in the security / r&D / intel sectors of the government, since some things never existed on a ledger to begin with.
I wonder what it would take for Uncle sam to "take stock" in what we have just going to waste and sell it back to the public sector as data centers.
The point is the fuss over Los Alamos could be applied to any of I think thousands of places, it just hasn't happened there yet. Why not just consolidate and ditch the liablity all together?
So long as uncle sam isn't the one selling the feeds, of course.
Just an idea, as I said kind of coming from left field. Seems like a win/win situation, but I doubt it would ever happen.
> More shocking would be women in trousers.
No, that would be men dressed like women in trousers.
That is a noble attitude, and I share it. Unfortunately not many other people do. Any time you present them with something neat, they instantly want it to do more.
.net domains that aren't an administrative network.
:)
I like to tinker with small memory models because it helps me produce applications, scripts and methods that scream on standard or legacy hardware.
I've done some neat stuff with lighttpd (and similar) as well as this little known gem called Abyss, found at Aprelium.
PHP can be built at around 1MB and retain most of its basic functionality, if you use flat file databases. If you go with php5 and sqlite, its a tad (but not much) bigger if built wisely.
Lighttpd + ssl + php/fastcgi can be crammed into about 120k stripped, abyss is a bit smaller and does better threading, but is not open source. Its freeware / upgrade to deluxe.
It runs very well on small memory model systems, and really, really well on clusters and high end systems.
So I agree, I *personally* have no use for doing something as foolish as trying to run a public service from what was supposed to just be a thin client, but I also resent when peoeple register
Any push to make things smaller and do more is a worth while effort, regardless of how silly it seems. And this goes beyond silly, I agree.
Wait till script kiddies manage to get code on your phone and have it attack other phones.
But, I'd like to see what apache tweaks after this port
I was thinking about which industries stand to profit the most from the paranoia wave. If I had some more investment cap, I'd be starting up some private security companies that had guys who could shoot straight and configure a router, there's plenty of them to be found.
.. to really piss off Americans you don't want to be a martyr, you want to be a nuisance. Its not going to be long before they start blowing up groups of 50 power poles and slasing 40k pair cables into iddy bits rather than blowing themselves to kingdom come at any available opportunity.
.. well, it would be a different story. Infrastructure is one of the biggest targets in developing countries and as we close more holes a whole new kind will start opening up.
Think about it
The goal of terrorisim is to solicit both empathy and sympathy from the citizenry of the opposing government. Seeing something horrible on television is horrifying, but you are still seeing it from the safety of your living room, and remain mostly detached from it.
If your phone, electricty and cable went out for a week,
So kind of like that nasty engineered virus that you just can't seem to shake because it mutates so well, Terrorisim is going to continue to plauge us (and make some of us quite rich) for years to come. As we lock down one thing, they'll move to something else.
We piss alot of people off just because we exist it seems and the politics behind that escape even the smarter end of the spectrum. The point is, we've gotten ourselves stuck in a hornets nest thats been brewing for a couple thousand years. I think (unfortunately) a higher state of paranoia is just a new fact of life.
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That's still really pretty good, given the reputation for slowness than microkernels have. If they can port those optimizations to Linux, then maybe Linux would be even faster.
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That's kind of happening in (and around) the Xen community, but mostly on the Debian / Xen side of the street. Lots of people have been playing with msxen/ocxen on SBC's (ULV Celeron / P4's) and have optimized the kernel and even some core utils for small memory systems.
Now you have a whole rash of 'unofficial' Debian packages floating around containing everyone's tinkering. I mention Xen because many of the folks pushing things to be smaller and go faster are doing so based on experience with various microkernels.
Since clusters + virtualization are a good match, you'll see even more talent taking a closer look at things like Open SSI. The real need now (imho) is to get more corporations with some more bucks paying people to tinker and start adopting with the idea that they'll put the improvements back out to the communities. If more people could feed themselves putting ideas they've had the last 20 months into play, I think you'd really begin to see smart (smaller) thinking applied to the next few kernels, plus some revisiting of others.
Ok, Read the following out loud :
I, Am we tall did.
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But if he is writing fiction, or writing about legal but objectionable activities he partakes in on his own time, that is his, and his parents business, keep the schools out of it.
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I agree with you, minus one detail. Most parents aren't making their kid's on-line activities their business. Someone who actively fantasizes about doing things of that nature does have some problems, and since in this case (it being a child) someone *should* make it their business.
My point was parental apathy is causing schools to do this.
I agree. This is just involving parents, community and teachers in high school kid "he said she said" peer politics.
.. where else is it going to come from?
.. thats not free speech, thats stupid juveninle story telling (or a really stupid junior criminal).
.. schools wouldn't feel the need to intervine. I suspect since most public school systems are already under budget and the staff is over taxed, they'd be delighted to no longer feel the need to go "above and beyond" any longer.
I've seen a few stories like this over the last week. It looks like schools are trying to step up to fill a lack of adequate parenting when it comes to student's use of the internet. I see the void they are concerned about, but I don't think its the school's place to step up.
However, since kids only have 2 sources of authority to answer too (parental and school), umm
US Citizens 18 and over should have the run of the internet with no restrictions on what thoughts or content you can publish or contribute. I agree with that because censorship in any form on what is supposed to be a world accessable free medium is bad.
However a 16 year old posting that he beat the crap out of someone and stole his car, well
Point is , if parents were doing their job a bit better
So don't look at this as big brother, look at this as (possibly) a lack of parenting and the school being a bit over eager to correct it.
I predict this is going to grow to be a national issue with hundreds more stories just like this popping up over the next 12 months.
I'm recollecting many, many instances where I got through a door swiping a key with no pin or other authentication based on what I know.
Ideall you authenticate on 2 out of these three:
1 - what you know
2 - what you have
3 - what you are (or aren't, depending).
Now that I think about it, most buildings I've been in that use RFID tags to open doors do not use anything but #2.
I found this gizmo at fidgetsjust poking around on Google after reading TFA and feeling curious. That's the biggest one I found, the rest once stripped of their case would be very much like the scanner described in TFA.
I'm sure this will become a growing problem, quickly.
From TFA:
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A typical passive RFID chip costs about a quarter, whereas one with encryption capabilities runs about $5. It's just not cost-effective for your average office building to invest in secure chips.
Ok, office with 200 people. You mean to tell me a lousy thousand bucks isn't worth preventing an intrusion? Some places spend that much a month on copy paper.
I'd call it cost effective considering the alternetive possibilities
I mention this :
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UPS and Fed Ex track their packages in real time, know who sent them and who is receiving them and how much it weighs.
Because in and of itself how much my package weighs doesn't amount to a hill of beans. However if I know a natural disaster recently struck an area, and found some more "harmless" data to add to my filter, I can tell how much replacing of stuff via insurance claim people do on-line, and some other very interesting things.
I just thought I'd clarify
I can think of at least a dozen chain drug stores who have a retail store evey 10 blocks in every major city in the country. Their sales are recorded centrally.
Hypothetically, if all of them decided it would be for the good of humanity to allow someone to examine their sales in real time as a whole to identify flu outbreaks early - then the process of doing that would not be too difficult.
UPS and Fed Ex track their packages in real time, know who sent them and who is receiving them and how much it weighs.
Data about us is being collected more than I'd care to think about, and I think its inevitable that it become centralized. We may be rapidly approaching a point where we decide what we want, privacy or technology. Having both doesn't seem like its a viable option for very much longer.
I think this is much like teachers 10 years ago debating about how much access students should have to calculators during their normal math studies.
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The fact remains, when the student applies the knowledge they will almost certinally be working inside some sort of IDE, be it VS or bluefish or emacs or whatever. The point is its commonplace now.
For their own sanity and convenience, I would imagine those who really want to be proficient and well rounded would find its sometimes easier to work in a shell on the host where you're testing the application (if not local), such as the case would be in an old style Unix network with nice VT-XX terminals and pc's coming in over 3270 - but where are you going to find that?
Even hard core VI nuts like me appreciate syntax highlighting. I also like the simplicity of nano (pico) which loads and works in all kinds of funky shells and consoles (like ethernet to serial console connections).
If you plan to work in an industry where they prefer Linux and have clusters or some other stipulation that requires you to build stuff in place, get used to GNU. Otherwise , use an editor, its easier
Just my 2 cents.
Now that you mention that, I can't seem to think of any discernable difference between a bong and a bucket for that purpose. Ah, Discovery .. gotta love it.
.... Bubbles ... Buuuuubbbbbbbbllllleeeeeessssss. Not the first person to choke and see stars though ;)
Bubbles
I'm sure somehow this will get de-railed early. It doesn't have to stay snowballed for long, just long enough for the next presidential election.
It will be interesting to see what happens. I think the outcome really depends on how many people are making noise about the law suit and how much media hype it gets.
On the flip side, there are things that the NSA does that we'd all like to continue to see them do, such as (really) looking for domestic terrorists. So in a sense you hope this doesn't really detract from their (real) function.
Quite a pandoras box either way, if it lives past the next few months. I predict : it gets squashed, and it gets squashed soon.
>>Since this is a civil suit, that plus the bits that do leak through should be sufficient to >> indicate that it happened and that the parties concerned had reasons to doubt the legality.
.. its also enough to trigger a fed level inquiry if the lawsuit were to gain enough popularity. Any time they play the "Sealed for national security" card people tend to get even more curious. At a potential 1K a pop, people have more reason to be curious if they would qualify , but to do so those records would need to be made available.
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.. the NSA is going to be doing quite a bit of blushing, and the telcoms are going to cry bully. Should be interesting to watch.
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Well this could do a few things
Peer pressure is kinda neat
If this gets into court and holds ground, now you have a nice front that millions of conspiracy nuts can join into , again needing those records to see if they qualify.
Either way they go, if this gets footing
Just my take on it anyway
... and give him slackware + lynx + pine :)
I can remember when "Internet1" was pretty much in the hands of academia. I remember groveling and begging for my uucp feed from the University of MD where I was working. And I remember a bunch of rockport shoe & sweatervest wearing folks grumbling about HTML being used for other things than sharing research data.
So I guess AJAX just threw them over the top and now they are a rockport shoe & sweater vest wearing separatist cult.
So nothing really changes. K. Gotcha.
Sorry, gotta do it ..
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Personally, I'd love to have my car drive me to work and let me do other things like take a nap. That would give me all the bonuses of "mass transit" such as:
- being able to do other things while getting there (sleep, read, have sex)
- can sing with the radio without getting killed
- eat breakfast
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Where I live, if you sing on mass transit, you get killed.
The lockpick comment was interesting.
/dev/shm system which got there through an ancient copy of phpbb.
.. now his server is hurling spam throughout the internet running fully compromised. Why? He thought his default CentOS install was secure for the purpose he leased his server. Wrong.
I can't stop someone from picking the lock on my front door if they have the knowledge and skills to do it. I can just make sure I have very good locks that are tough to pick, take time and have some sort of measure in place to tell me if someone's out there picking or if (shudder) theyr'e successful in doing it.
In order to detect rootkits, you have to know what you're looking for. People who do not have the skill to secure their server or the common sense to retain the services of someone who does can't really go complaining when they find themselves infested from something that could have easily been prevented with a few simple means.
I.e. , they find themselves with a 2 year old version of r0nin running happily in their
0 - 30 day kits are a problem. Which is one of the problems the site tries to address. If people just *secured their servers*, it wouldn't matter what was available for anyone to download.
IPS / IDS systems are cheap and even open source. Think of your server like your house, know what doors and windows are open and be sure you have something watching what comes through them.
The site isn't to blame, people thinking server administration can be learned by the novice in a week or less are to blame. Web hosting companies are a perfect example of this. Guy buys server, guy makes site, guy circulates some banners
Guns are a different story. I can't protect myself from a bullet unless I live in a lexan glass bubble. So really a bad comparison as the victim has no choice but to be a victim if the circumstances swing that way.
Don't blame hackers or sites, blame people who really should have paid the 'fiddy bucks to an admin to secure and audit their box for them.