I don't think that there are any pieces of kernel code assigned to the EFF. People contributing to the certain GNU projects are required to assign copyright to GNU, but I've never heard of people assigning code to the EFF.
Perhaps I'm misinformed though. Do you have an example?
First of all, do distros release too often thus creating too many versions to maintain? Secondly, how much faith do you have in the upgrade feature of install?
Maybe all these commercial groups should take a page out of Debian's book. Potato, the OLD stable release, is still supported and has security updates issued.
On the other hand.. How fickle people are! First Debian releases too slowly, now RH & Mandrake release too often! Is there middle ground?
As for upgradeability, upgrading between Debian distributions is a breeze due to the high-quality packaging.
You should run the cvs pserver as a user which is not root, and does not have write access to the repository. That would allow anonymous cvs access (the only good reason to run a pserver). Then for authenticated access, do it over ssh. It works, and is the only way to do it securely.
You should run the cvs pserver as a user which does NOT have write access to the files. That would allow anonymous cvs access (the only good reason to run a pserver). Then for authenticated access, do it over ssh. It works.
This doesn't help. You still have the question of what is acceptable and what is not. Why should we let some librarian or town council decide that for us? Besides, not many people are going to feel it socially acceptable to go ask the librarian to ask for access to subculture or deviant sites.
What fool runs their cvs pserver as root? Every installation I've ever seen has it running as a non-privelidged user. While of course any remote compromise is not good, lets not exagerate the severity of this problem.
A 16mb SD card came with my Palm m500. On the back of the card:
Please note that while your new SD card is a 16MB card, only 14.6MB are available for your use, with the remaining 1.4MB in a security area on the card.
So, MMC is definitely better in this regard.
BTW, the MMC card reader that came with my RCA CC-9390 DVC camcorder works under Linux with the standard USB drivers. It talks SCSI over USB and then the card has a x86 boot sector and partition table indicating a FAT filesystem. It all works. I was quite surprised and impressed.
I don't know if a SD card reader would work under Linux due to all the DRM crapola.
This is a Troll. Here is the proof.
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In case anyone was doubtful over whether this post should get a -1 troll or not, i did a google search for:
"Here are a few example comments from a focus group session from Q3 1999 in response to a question about their attitudes to Linux and open source software"
A complete phrase like this should be unique if this article were original. It is not. There is an archive of the troll here, which was originally posted to slashdot on 6/25/2000:
We had a cat that chew threw an electrical cord. He got a good enough jolt that he wasn't able to let go of it. We had to hit the light switch.
The cat just sat there confused for a second and then took off and hid. We didn't see him for two days. He finally came out to eat and was fine. He learned his lesson though. He never chewed on another wire until the day he died.
We use a commercial product to do this at work. It is called Epic, and is available from Arbortext. We've had some real problems with it though, so I think our tech writers are moving to a plain ascii editor. I can't recommend it, but I thought I would provide a data point.
I don't think I would use the male pill. The reason being that it hasn't had the many many tests, trials, studies, and decades of positive experiences with low side effects that the female birth control pill has had.
Until it becomes well tested (like 20+ years of use by the general population with KNOWN RISKS mapped out), I will steer clear of this and look for other methods.
Interesting.. I would bet they are playing off of the lower/repressed impulse to ignore/break the law in Japan. I once heard that in Japan, criminals expect to get caught.
Regarding Free Software in Japan.. At the Japanese bookstores in San Fran and San Jose (Kinokuniya), there are translations of the O'Rielly books available. Plenty of stuff on Linux and Unix as otherwise as well. The material is available. Perhaps not the mindshare.
I wonder what slashdot.jp has to say about all this.
The group also works with various federal and local agencies to make sure John Law doesn't get too itchy about rockets going up in the desert.
The problem isn't really the US agencies, its the launch detection systems of other countries. You don't want the Russians to think there's an ICBM heading their way when John Carmack sends up his first test rocket, do you?
The "owner" listed above is the person the bug is assigned to. Please don't blame him for this garbage. The "submitter" is the person who entered the bug:
may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed
So how exactly are we supposed to read the website?
Distrubuted, Transmitted when it comes down the wire from a proxy server Reproduced when it gets loaded into RAM or into the browser disk cache Displayed.. but how else am I supposed to read it?
While I do understand your concern over DRM issues, I just wanted to point out that this will also render systems of 'blessed binaries' useless, as the keys would have to be published. This is important for open source online games, such as Netrek, to avoid people cheating by modifying their clients.
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I don't think that there are any pieces of kernel code assigned to the EFF. People contributing to the certain GNU projects are required to assign copyright to GNU, but I've never heard of people assigning code to the EFF.
Perhaps I'm misinformed though. Do you have an example?
First of all, do distros release too often thus creating too many versions to maintain? Secondly, how much faith do you have in the upgrade feature of install?
Maybe all these commercial groups should take a page out of Debian's book. Potato, the OLD stable release, is still supported and has security updates issued.
On the other hand.. How fickle people are! First Debian releases too slowly, now RH & Mandrake release too often! Is there middle ground?
As for upgradeability, upgrading between Debian distributions is a breeze due to the high-quality packaging.
I don't deal with spam in the middle of sex.
But you answer the phone in the middle of sex? Let the damn thing ring. So what if the server is on fire.
-molo
You should run the cvs pserver as a user which is not root, and does not have write access to the repository. That would allow anonymous cvs access (the only good reason to run a pserver). Then for authenticated access, do it over ssh. It works, and is the only way to do it securely.
You should run the cvs pserver as a user which does NOT have write access to the files. That would allow anonymous cvs access (the only good reason to run a pserver). Then for authenticated access, do it over ssh. It works.
This doesn't help. You still have the question of what is acceptable and what is not. Why should we let some librarian or town council decide that for us? Besides, not many people are going to feel it socially acceptable to go ask the librarian to ask for access to subculture or deviant sites.
What fool runs their cvs pserver as root? Every installation I've ever seen has it running as a non-privelidged user. While of course any remote compromise is not good, lets not exagerate the severity of this problem.
Argh I am such a friggen infadel! Would someone blow me up already?
Hah! That would go in my sig line if I weren't so lazy.
So, MMC is definitely better in this regard.
BTW, the MMC card reader that came with my RCA CC-9390 DVC camcorder works under Linux with the standard USB drivers. It talks SCSI over USB and then the card has a x86 boot sector and partition table indicating a FAT filesystem. It all works. I was quite surprised and impressed.
I don't know if a SD card reader would work under Linux due to all the DRM crapola.
Note that it was just announced that Netscape is laying off people:
a ol _layoffs/
http://money.cnn.com/2002/12/10/news/companies/
Was this release of 7.01 just for spin, to try and keep the positve in the news more than the negative?
I hate marketing.
Perhaps you should look closely at the URL. And other pages on that site, such as:
/. troll HOWTO
The
In case anyone was doubtful over whether this post should get a -1 troll or not, i did a google search for:
"Here are a few example comments from a focus group session from Q3 1999 in response to a question about their attitudes to Linux and open source software"
A complete phrase like this should be unique if this article were original. It is not. There is an archive of the troll here, which was originally posted to slashdot on 6/25/2000:
http://www.spiralx.co.uk/texts/troll2.html
as they prove to difficult while driving
Are you stupid? Don't you have enough to do while driving between chatting on your cell phone and trying not to let your SUV roll over?
You're the reason my insurance rates are going up.
We had a cat that chew threw an electrical cord. He got a good enough jolt that he wasn't able to let go of it. We had to hit the light switch.
The cat just sat there confused for a second and then took off and hid. We didn't see him for two days. He finally came out to eat and was fine. He learned his lesson though. He never chewed on another wire until the day he died.
Me too! Did you work with me or something? Ha!
We use a commercial product to do this at work. It is called Epic, and is available from Arbortext. We've had some real problems with it though, so I think our tech writers are moving to a plain ascii editor. I can't recommend it, but I thought I would provide a data point.
Good luck.
-molo
I don't think I would use the male pill. The reason being that it hasn't had the many many tests, trials, studies, and decades of positive experiences with low side effects that the female birth control pill has had.
Until it becomes well tested (like 20+ years of use by the general population with KNOWN RISKS mapped out), I will steer clear of this and look for other methods.
Just my two cents.
Interesting.. I would bet they are playing off of the lower/repressed impulse to ignore/break the law in Japan. I once heard that in Japan, criminals expect to get caught.
Regarding Free Software in Japan.. At the Japanese bookstores in San Fran and San Jose (Kinokuniya), there are translations of the O'Rielly books available. Plenty of stuff on Linux and Unix as otherwise as well. The material is available. Perhaps not the mindshare.
I wonder what slashdot.jp has to say about all this.
The group also works with various federal and local agencies to make sure John Law doesn't get too itchy about rockets going up in the desert.
The problem isn't really the US agencies, its the launch detection systems of other countries. You don't want the Russians to think there's an ICBM heading their way when John Carmack sends up his first test rocket, do you?
Older Debian Distributions:
http://archive.debian.org/dists/
The "owner" listed above is the person the bug is assigned to. Please don't blame him for this garbage. The "submitter" is the person who entered the bug:
p-m@yahoo.com (Wolverine)
duh, then they would just open the bag to search it by hand.
From the advisory:
l er tdetail.jsp?oid=21469
BIND 9 was not affected by any of the vulnerabilities described in this advisory.
http://bvlive01.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/a
So what makes you say that there are Bind 9 problems? Mailing lists? Can you provide archive links?
-molo
may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed
.. but how else am I supposed to read it?
So how exactly are we supposed to read the website?
Distrubuted, Transmitted when it comes down the wire from a proxy server
Reproduced when it gets loaded into RAM or into the browser disk cache
Displayed
-molo
Alan,
While I do understand your concern over DRM issues, I just wanted to point out that this will also render systems of 'blessed binaries' useless, as the keys would have to be published. This is important for open source online games, such as Netrek, to avoid people cheating by modifying their clients.
-molo