Ford is still the principle sponsor of Cornell's Hybrid Electric Vehicle team and I'm sure they are at other universities as well. They haven't given up on energy-efficient, clean cars; they just believe that this particular approach isn't viable enough in the near future to continue with. Perhaps Americans just aren't ready to give up their 2mpg SUVs yet....
What about changing your number? With regular phone numbers and email addresses you can change them if you get too many prank phone calls or too much spam. If everyone had a unique number issued by the government, which would probably be easy for others to find, I think we would run into all kinds of privacy issues.
First, NetBSD and OpenBSD are not affected. Secondly, this is a commercial software package, so I don't think its fair to say "BSD has a remote exploit" anyway. Its not only not part of the default install, but you have to go out and buy it!
One way to prevent this problem is to use AllowUsers, AllowGroups, DenyUsers, and DenyGroups to selectively allow access to real users or to deny access to users such as lp, adm, and bin. In my opinion this should be done anyway on all boxes, not just those with this version of SSH, to prevent future problems.
The problem is with accounts that have !! in the password field in/etc/passwd or/etc/shadow. This includes lp, adm, etc. Anyone can access those accounts (or any account with a two character entry in the password field) with any password. However, this is not a problem if you have disabled password authentication. Most people using SSH who really need security should be using some other type of authentication, including "public key, SecurID, Kerberos, certificates, Smart Cards, or hostbased." Those people running (non-Open)SSH daemons on Internet-accessible boxes with password authentication should definately upgrade though.
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I should also mention that an overview of Ruby syntax, for those interested, can be found at Dr. Dobb's Journal.
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One place that Ruby has found popularity is in Japan. According to the authors of Programming Ruby the Japanese have found Ruby very useful because it handles multibyte character sets, a requirement for doing text processing with such a large character set. Not to say that other languages can't handle this too, but its an interesting feature that helps Ruby in the international sense.
I've seen Ruby used for AI/machine-learning code as well as some math applications. It turns out that one may extend the language using other code, such as C. Add in the untyped OO as others have discussed and you can easily write programs for multiple platforms/languages without giving up speed (write speed-critical code in a C extension).
The page says that content should be moved prior to the shutdown. Perhaps some of these interesting projects can be mirrored/hosted elsewhere? It would be a shame to see it all just disappear. I'm not sure how much disk space would be needed or if the FTP archives are going to go down as well, but certainly the most important projects could find a new home.
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Ford is still the principle sponsor of Cornell's Hybrid Electric Vehicle team and I'm sure they are at other universities as well. They haven't given up on energy-efficient, clean cars; they just believe that this particular approach isn't viable enough in the near future to continue with. Perhaps Americans just aren't ready to give up their 2mpg SUVs yet....
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What about changing your number? With regular phone numbers and email addresses you can change them if you get too many prank phone calls or too much spam. If everyone had a unique number issued by the government, which would probably be easy for others to find, I think we would run into all kinds of privacy issues.
First, NetBSD and OpenBSD are not affected. Secondly, this is a commercial software package, so I don't think its fair to say "BSD has a remote exploit" anyway. Its not only not part of the default install, but you have to go out and buy it!
One way to prevent this problem is to use AllowUsers, AllowGroups, DenyUsers, and DenyGroups to selectively allow access to real users or to deny access to users such as lp, adm, and bin. In my opinion this should be done anyway on all boxes, not just those with this version of SSH, to prevent future problems.
The problem is with accounts that have !! in the password field in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow. This includes lp, adm, etc. Anyone can access those accounts (or any account with a two character entry in the password field) with any password. However, this is not a problem if you have disabled password authentication. Most people using SSH who really need security should be using some other type of authentication, including "public key, SecurID, Kerberos, certificates, Smart Cards, or hostbased." Those people running (non-Open)SSH daemons on Internet-accessible boxes with password authentication should definately upgrade though.
I should also mention that an overview of Ruby syntax, for those interested, can be found at Dr. Dobb's Journal.
I've seen Ruby used for AI/machine-learning code as well as some math applications. It turns out that one may extend the language using other code, such as C. Add in the untyped OO as others have discussed and you can easily write programs for multiple platforms/languages without giving up speed (write speed-critical code in a C extension).
The page says that content should be moved prior to the shutdown. Perhaps some of these interesting projects can be mirrored/hosted elsewhere? It would be a shame to see it all just disappear. I'm not sure how much disk space would be needed or if the FTP archives are going to go down as well, but certainly the most important projects could find a new home.