If you're talking about corporate environments with multiple admins then fine, but at home I allow remote root access, and as long as you have a secure password you'll be fine. No remote root logins ever, in big caps, is too much of a generalization.
The accounts you have to watch out for are the ones which you might not think of, if you check your auth.log for attacks (I get one every couple of days) you'll see them attack accounts like 'test', 'admin', 'ftp', etc (and root too of course). They go for the 'forgotten' accounts.
The difference is anyone will know to keep a secure root password, but most people will be less sure about whether their ftp account has a password, or whether they removed that test account they installed, etc.
It seems strange that the person to talk with Chinese officials about why there should be more focus on making sure IP is paid for would be a multi-billionaire, who made his vast fortunes with his IP, in his massive mansion. It sure wouldn't encourage me to make sure he gets more money.
Right; and tobacco doesn't cause lung cancer, people who were going to get lung cancer anyway are probably drawn to/self-medicating with tobacco.
When people get hallucinations long after taking LSD ('flashbacks') that's not the LSD, people who get random hallucinations are drawn to/self-medicating with LSD.
There are vastly higher rates of disorder A amongst people who take drug B. There can only be one explanation; people with disorder A are drawn to drug B. Honestly..
If you want to smoke it then fine, but please don't spread rubbish like this for kids to read and get the impression that it's harmless.
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You're mistaking the bzipped kernel's on-disk image size with the kernel's operational memory footprint; it's like comparing the size of the Firefox binary (a few MB) with the amount of memory it uses (hundreds of MB).
It's worth bearing in mind that the varying speed of light (VSL as the author puts it) is still considered a crackpot theory, and the book is written by the same person who put it forth. I'm not saying it wasn't an interesting read though.
You should study some quantum physics before you condescend to other people. You can have action at a distance faster than light, but you can't use it to transmit information.
Which might be why I said "Information can't travel faster than the speed of light".
Information can't travel faster than the speed of light, so anything that large would have to be incredibly slow. Also the universe is homogenous, and expanding, and doesn't resemble any part of any small or subatomic particle.
PostgreSQL/Postgres
Post-gres-Q-L
The es at the end of gres has to sound like the 'S' in 'S-Q-L', so it's an obvious pronunciation. However
MySQL
My-S-Q-L
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My-See-Quel
Apparently it's My-S-Q-L, but there's no way of knowing that by reading the text alone.
What other reasons do you have? A dislike for elephants?
If you hear phpDiplomacy you already can be pretty sure it's a web based, database driven app; it gives you an idea of what to expect, and if you've already heard of the board game 'Diplomacy' then you'll already know what phpDiplomacy is.
I can't imagine it being called anything else which makes you think "web based implementation of Diplomacy" the moment you read the title.
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The actual speed at which a piece of information travels down a wire doesn't have anything to do with bandwidth, electricity travels down copper wires at the speed of light too.
phpBB, vBulletin, mysqladmin, postnuke, phpDiplomacy (shameless self promotion), etc, etc; none will work until they've been ported to the new PHP5 OO model, and once they've been ported they won't work on PHP4.
They should leave in backwards compatibility for the class based OO model which <PHP5 uses. Once they bring out PHP6, PHP5 will be the only version which runs new and legacy PHP scripts, so PHP5 will clearly become the standard for a long time.
I'm a big fan of PHP, but with so many apps (e.g. my university's timetabling app) still in PHP3, all the rest in PHP4, both becoming obsolete, changes to the API, even changes to what's allowed within the same version; I'm starting to wonder if I should have focused on a more stable language like python or perl instead.
Another anecdote; when I first tried 5.04 on my laptop I needed to tweak Xorg.conf, the synaptics mousepad had incorrect key bindings, standby functionality was poor, and it could only use the vesa driver (Dell laptop Intel grpahics card).
When I tried 5.10 a couple of months later it worked flawlessly, and I've been using it since. (Well, at least until recently when my supposedly anti-MS university forced me to use XP with a barrage of.docs and.exes)
Don't play this down, this is a serious flaw. UNIX security is all about user accounts; if a UNIX based system can't enforce user accounts its entire security model is useless.
Just because a vulnerability is 'local' doesn't mean you have to be sitting at the computer. Take the U of Wisconsin's honey pot box running Apache and ssh. Both Apache and ssh run in a lower privileged user account whenever they can, so that if there's a flaw in code which runs in the lower user account it can only do damage within that lower user account.
Right now if you found a hole in low privilege context code you could use it to get admin access in OS X; this is a serious problem and it makes the UNIX security model, which Apple gives as the reason for OS X's great security, useless.
This doesn't mean OS X is insecure and everything else is, but it is a very serious flaw (especially being unreleased) and I don't understand why everyone is downplaying it.
Well I know someone else who was convinced to buy a PowerBook, and he ended up running Linux on it because he couldn't stand OS X. Having played with OS X86 myself I can see why.
Good point, I think we-- hang on, just have to go to the local well..-- I think we take technology too-- one sec, I think the postman just arrived.. damn this mail is from ages ago, it's not even useful any more-- anyway, we don't need all this bloody-- bah, can't talk; I have to catch a train to speak to a colleague in the next town across.
I've got an Inspiron 2200, I bought it to be a low power laptop that would last a long time on batteries, so I got the 8 hour Li-Ion battery addon, and it lasts only about 5 hours with the display on it's lowest brightness and not doing a whole lot (It's good enough tbh, but still not what they said.).
What I'm wondering is, when they say 8 hours, do they mean 8 hours?
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If you're talking about corporate environments with multiple admins then fine, but at home I allow remote root access, and as long as you have a secure password you'll be fine. No remote root logins ever, in big caps, is too much of a generalization.
The accounts you have to watch out for are the ones which you might not think of, if you check your auth.log for attacks (I get one every couple of days) you'll see them attack accounts like 'test', 'admin', 'ftp', etc (and root too of course). They go for the 'forgotten' accounts.
The difference is anyone will know to keep a secure root password, but most people will be less sure about whether their ftp account has a password, or whether they removed that test account they installed, etc.
It seems strange that the person to talk with Chinese officials about why there should be more focus on making sure IP is paid for would be a multi-billionaire, who made his vast fortunes with his IP, in his massive mansion. It sure wouldn't encourage me to make sure he gets more money.
Yeah, you don't want to fuck with the light bulb makers.
Right; and tobacco doesn't cause lung cancer, people who were going to get lung cancer anyway are probably drawn to/self-medicating with tobacco.
When people get hallucinations long after taking LSD ('flashbacks') that's not the LSD, people who get random hallucinations are drawn to/self-medicating with LSD.
There are vastly higher rates of disorder A amongst people who take drug B. There can only be one explanation; people with disorder A are drawn to drug B. Honestly..
If you want to smoke it then fine, but please don't spread rubbish like this for kids to read and get the impression that it's harmless.
And this is different from iCal or Outlook how?
You're mistaking the bzipped kernel's on-disk image size with the kernel's operational memory footprint; it's like comparing the size of the Firefox binary (a few MB) with the amount of memory it uses (hundreds of MB).
It's worth bearing in mind that the varying speed of light (VSL as the author puts it) is still considered a crackpot theory, and the book is written by the same person who put it forth. I'm not saying it wasn't an interesting read though.
It can, but on such a tiny screen and without only enough battery life to watch a couple of episodes it's not much more than a gimmick.
There's no way you could do branch prediction and processing on multiple cores, the latency would be too high for branches of a realistic size.
Yeah, when my ISP has my e-mails cached that's fine, but when the government wants them it's ""wrong! What a double standard.</sarcasm>
Oh, sorry I didn't notice you were replying to someone else. My bad.
Information can't travel faster than the speed of light, so anything that large would have to be incredibly slow. Also the universe is homogenous, and expanding, and doesn't resemble any part of any small or subatomic particle.
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Oh I mean deeeeep dude, peace.
PostgreSQL/Postgres Post-gres-Q-L The es at the end of gres has to sound like the 'S' in 'S-Q-L', so it's an obvious pronunciation. However MySQL My-S-Q-L or My-See-Quel Apparently it's My-S-Q-L, but there's no way of knowing that by reading the text alone. What other reasons do you have? A dislike for elephants?
If you hear phpDiplomacy you already can be pretty sure it's a web based, database driven app; it gives you an idea of what to expect, and if you've already heard of the board game 'Diplomacy' then you'll already know what phpDiplomacy is.
I can't imagine it being called anything else which makes you think "web based implementation of Diplomacy" the moment you read the title.
The actual speed at which a piece of information travels down a wire doesn't have anything to do with bandwidth, electricity travels down copper wires at the speed of light too.
phpBB, vBulletin, mysqladmin, postnuke, phpDiplomacy (shameless self promotion), etc, etc; none will work until they've been ported to the new PHP5 OO model, and once they've been ported they won't work on PHP4.
They should leave in backwards compatibility for the class based OO model which <PHP5 uses. Once they bring out PHP6, PHP5 will be the only version which runs new and legacy PHP scripts, so PHP5 will clearly become the standard for a long time.
I'm a big fan of PHP, but with so many apps (e.g. my university's timetabling app) still in PHP3, all the rest in PHP4, both becoming obsolete, changes to the API, even changes to what's allowed within the same version; I'm starting to wonder if I should have focused on a more stable language like python or perl instead.
That post was killer, man.
True, it's also worth bearing in mind that the server install of Ubuntu 5.10 doesn't suffer from this vulnerability.
Another anecdote; when I first tried 5.04 on my laptop I needed to tweak Xorg.conf, the synaptics mousepad had incorrect key bindings, standby functionality was poor, and it could only use the vesa driver (Dell laptop Intel grpahics card). .docs and .exes)
When I tried 5.10 a couple of months later it worked flawlessly, and I've been using it since. (Well, at least until recently when my supposedly anti-MS university forced me to use XP with a barrage of
Don't play this down, this is a serious flaw. UNIX security is all about user accounts; if a UNIX based system can't enforce user accounts its entire security model is useless.
Just because a vulnerability is 'local' doesn't mean you have to be sitting at the computer. Take the U of Wisconsin's honey pot box running Apache and ssh. Both Apache and ssh run in a lower privileged user account whenever they can, so that if there's a flaw in code which runs in the lower user account it can only do damage within that lower user account.
Right now if you found a hole in low privilege context code you could use it to get admin access in OS X; this is a serious problem and it makes the UNIX security model, which Apple gives as the reason for OS X's great security, useless.
This doesn't mean OS X is insecure and everything else is, but it is a very serious flaw (especially being unreleased) and I don't understand why everyone is downplaying it.
[...] a President that actually cares about Science. That's an oxymoron isn't it?
Well I know someone else who was convinced to buy a PowerBook, and he ended up running Linux on it because he couldn't stand OS X. Having played with OS X86 myself I can see why.
Good point, I think we-- hang on, just have to go to the local well..-- I think we take technology too-- one sec, I think the postman just arrived.. damn this mail is from ages ago, it's not even useful any more-- anyway, we don't need all this bloody-- bah, can't talk; I have to catch a train to speak to a colleague in the next town across.
I've got an Inspiron 2200, I bought it to be a low power laptop that would last a long time on batteries, so I got the 8 hour Li-Ion battery addon, and it lasts only about 5 hours with the display on it's lowest brightness and not doing a whole lot (It's good enough tbh, but still not what they said.).
What I'm wondering is, when they say 8 hours, do they mean 8 hours?