That must be the UK's plot to take over the world (again). With a few more laws like that, I think there will be a popular movement here in the former colonies to rejoin the Queen's domain!
Joe should be either sitting around with his feet on a desk because nothing is broken, or Joe should be planning how to implement new things - not mail.
Mail is not rocket science. Set it up, close the relays. It should just work. When a security alert comes out, it should take an hour to install the new patched version. That's it. Mail should be reliable enough right now that you could accidentally wall up your server in the basement and not notice for a year.
If Joe's using Sendmail and he can't keep it running, he should pick something else to use.
OK, let's analyze this. We'll use ENIAC, being a slow computer, and fairly expensive to build and run.
ENIAC cost $486,804.22 to build. For every hour of operation, it used $650 of electricity.
ENIAC ran at a speed of 5000 operations a second, and was in service for 10 years. The machine was unreliable, so let's assume it was actually running for only 5 years, and broken the other 5 years.
5 years of 5000 operations a second comes out to 7.8894E11 operations in it's lifetime.
5 years of electricity comes out to $28,470,000 of electricity.
The total cost of ENIAC to build, plus electricity, amounts to $28,956,804
The total cost per ENIAC cycle was therefore: $0.00003670343
If you've got a Pentium CPU that can do 1.5 billion operations a second, that CPU will do as many operations in 8.766 minutes that ENIAC took 5 years to complete.
The world's fastest computer at 35 teraflops can do what took ENIAC 5 years to do in just over 0.2 seconds.
A toddler is a baby that has just learned to walk, but has not learned that some things in the world can hurt you, like electrical outlets, cleaning chemicals under the sink, and fire. A toddler's favorite word is "NO", usually screamed over and over while they are thrashing about on the floor of the grocery store. Hardly any of us can remember being a toddler, which is fortunate for civilization.
If you have conflicts, then there's no point in running VMWare. The virtualization handles the sharing of physical resources by the virtual computers. In the case of the network cards, they are shared properly.
On my laptop I have a physical network card that the Linux OS uses. Under VMWare I am running Windows, and that virtual machine appears to have it's own network card, that the VMWare software simulates.
So what happens on the physical hardware is that it responds to two separate IP addresses, and everything meant to go to the Windows machine is routed properly by the virtualization hardware. It works perfectly.
That word "debugged" is an important one. Russian spacecraft have been flying for decades, with improvements along the way, but they never threw out their basic 3 person design once they had it in place. There's nothing wrong with the idea, and it seems to work very well. For ferrying people into orbit and back, we should stick with it. The US should adopt that design as our own, and use our development money for other things.
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<p> <a href="http://cyb.alkali.org">PlanetCyb</a> ; - probably my most permanent web page, hosted by good old <a href="http://junked.org">tom</a>.<br&g t; <a href="http://vect.org:8080">Vector(g)</a> - My little Debian machine at home. Runs a variety of servers including http, ftp, irc and smtp. Some good pics of the box there as well (humor!)<br> <a href="http://news.vect.org:8080">newsdot Vector</a> - replacement for the one on alkali lost a few months back. This is actually a revision done by <a href="http://destruct.alkali.org">Jon R</a> of the original one on alkali.<br> <a href="http://doom.vect.org:8080">Cyb's Doom Junk</a> - all the maps and shit I ever made for Doom that wasn't in a megawad of some sort (I had maps in SurgeDM and some other places too I believe, but this is pretty much everything I made).<br> <a href="doomdamnit">Doom, Damnit! Archives</a> - extensive archive of the last incarnation of the fabled DD. Yay!<br> <a href="http://yellow5.com/pokey/">Pokey the Penguin</a> - funny if badly drawn web comic I like (it's about the only one I like as well)<br> <a href="http://cacodemon.despayre.org">#doom Stats</a> - stats taken by a grufti bot in #doom on a private irc network. I talk too much in there.<br> <a href="http://caco.vect.org:8080">Clan Caco</a> - a mock sorta counter-strike clan I'm in. It's generally a joke, though a bit of an inside one, so I can't imagine too many people finding it funny hehe.<br> <a href="cal_hob">Calvin & Hobbes</a> - fairly extensive archive of Calvin & Hobbes comics I leeched from some web site.<br> <a href="report">Internet Security</a> - report I wrote for my "Social Impact of Computing" class which describes how one might go about setting up a server of soem sort and then making it secure.<br> <a href="http://www.doomworld.com">Doomworld</a> ; - web page I update with various news that no one likes because they have no sense of humor.<br> <a href="http://www.shacknews.com">Shack News</a> - game news page I like and stuff.<br> <a href="http://www.toolband.com">Tool</a> - probably my favorite band.<br> <a href="http://www.manics.co.uk/manics/">Manic Street Preachers</a> - another excellent band<br> <a href="http://slsk.com">SoulSeek</a> - on a totally unrelated note, this program allows you to download music from other people all over the world<br> <a href="http://freedoom.sourceforge.net/">FreeDoom</ a> - nifty little project for Doom that aims to replace all the stuff in the game allowing people to play Doom (or some version of it) free of charge as long as they have a source port<br> <a href="http://zdoom.notgod.com">ZDoom</a> - my favorite Doom port. Adds an assload of neat features and whatnot. For win32.<br> <a href="http://prboom.sourceforge.net/">PrBoom</a> ; - another great source port. This one remains very close to the original Doom if you don't like all the crap ZDoom adds.<br> <a href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/ethern et.html">Setting up your Ethernet Card</a> - for Linux. I had a lot of troubles getting my nic working under Linux (though it turned out the manufacturer was telling me the wrong mod to use) and these pages are very helpful with that sort of thing<br> <a href="http://fraggle.alkali.org/stuffage/pointers. txt">Fraggle's Guide to Pointers</a> - our good friend fraggle writes some stuff about pointers in C and C++. Very helpful if you suck at pointers like I do.<br> <a href="http://www.strong.dk/girl.php">Uhm</a> - that link's not work safe. Well it is, but then it becomes not work safe. Just trust me.<br> <a href="http://bash.org">Bash.org</a> - home to a lot of IRC quotes. Many are funny, but there's a lot that suck ass, so you need to look for a while sometimes. Good if you have nothing better to do.<br> <a href="http://www.idsoftware.com">id Software</a> - makers of the Doom and Quake games. I figure they deserve at least a link<br> <a href="http://www.planethalflife.com">Planet Half-Life</a> - good spot to go if you need some Half-Life goodness.<br> <a href="http://www.relisoft.com/win32/">Win32 API Tutorial</a> - small tutorial on some stuff you can do with the win32 API. I found it pretty helpful.<br> <a href="http://news.google.com">News dot Google</a> - swanky news portal. I like it.<br> <hr> <p align="right"><a href="mailto:cyb@alkali.org">@alkali</a>, <a href="mailto:cyb@frad.org">@frad</a>, <a href="mailto:cyb@despayre.org">@despayre</a> , <a href="mailto:cyb@vect.org">@vect</a></p&g t; --> </body> </html>
I've used Java applications that take their data from mainframes, sending everything over MQ Series. It's actually a nice product, with guarenteed delivery of messages. It was even simple to use in my Java programs, and I found it fun to use. You don't need to move apps off a mainframe to allow communications with other apps.
There's already some leeway for this. Our wall voltage is always listed as 110-125 volts AC. And Europeans have about 20 volts of variance that their appliances should handle without any problem.
That's nothing. I am a programmer and I spend my whole time pushing down plastic buttons and moving a small puck of plastic around on a rubber pad. The amount of money I get paid for this is insane!
I bet the only way to do it would be to throw out what you know and make something new. If you have people travelling in rockets, you'll eventually be superceded by something else. But if you have them travelling because of a navigator stoned on spice warping space with his mind, that will last longer. A lot longer.
Hope you're having fun with that 286 running DOS. I take it you spent all that money over the years on big macs for homeless people, instead of upgrades.
Well, that triggered a question in my head. Has anyone frozen a soap bubble? I'm in Austin and it's not cold enough now to do it. Can someone in cold weather blow a soap bubble in freezing conditions and have it freeze in the air? Damn. I wish I had thought of trying that when I lived in Michigan.
Slashdot Mirror
A quite unhistorical, but probably apt, story comes to us through the Norwegian humorist, Nils Kjaer. At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two stamps with which he marked the books. One said: "Does not agree with the Koran--heretic, must be burned. The other said: Agrees with the Koran--superfluous, must be burned,"
That must be the UK's plot to take over the world (again). With a few more laws like that, I think there will be a popular movement here in the former colonies to rejoin the Queen's domain!
Joe should be either sitting around with his feet on a desk because nothing is broken, or Joe should be planning how to implement new things - not mail.
Mail is not rocket science. Set it up, close the relays. It should just work. When a security alert comes out, it should take an hour to install the new patched version. That's it. Mail should be reliable enough right now that you could accidentally wall up your server in the basement and not notice for a year.
If Joe's using Sendmail and he can't keep it running, he should pick something else to use.
I think you answered your own question:
The biggest criticisms voiced about CERT were that they acted too slow and didn't provide enough detail information about problems
In other words, CERT was a day late and a dollar short.
we'll start hearing the same complaints about the Dept. of Homeland Security soon...
I agree. Except they'll be a year late and ten billion dollars short.
Haha. First gut laugh of the day.
I wish that was all porn. Unfortunately, the binaries newsgroups also have the highest spam traffic.
OK, let's analyze this. We'll use ENIAC, being a slow computer, and fairly expensive to build and run.
ENIAC cost $486,804.22 to build. For every hour of operation, it used $650 of electricity.
ENIAC ran at a speed of 5000 operations a second, and was in service for 10 years. The machine was unreliable, so let's assume it was actually running for only 5 years, and broken the other 5 years.
5 years of 5000 operations a second comes out to 7.8894E11 operations in it's lifetime.
5 years of electricity comes out to $28,470,000 of electricity.
The total cost of ENIAC to build, plus electricity, amounts to $28,956,804
The total cost per ENIAC cycle was therefore: $0.00003670343
If you've got a Pentium CPU that can do 1.5 billion operations a second, that CPU will do as many operations in 8.766 minutes that ENIAC took 5 years to complete.
The world's fastest computer at 35 teraflops can do what took ENIAC 5 years to do in just over 0.2 seconds.
Use knoppix. If whatever you want isn't on the CD, you can easily customize it and burn your custom ISO image to a new CD.
A toddler is a baby that has just learned to walk, but has not learned that some things in the world can hurt you, like electrical outlets, cleaning chemicals under the sink, and fire. A toddler's favorite word is "NO", usually screamed over and over while they are thrashing about on the floor of the grocery store. Hardly any of us can remember being a toddler, which is fortunate for civilization.
If you have conflicts, then there's no point in running VMWare. The virtualization handles the sharing of physical resources by the virtual computers. In the case of the network cards, they are shared properly.
On my laptop I have a physical network card that the Linux OS uses. Under VMWare I am running Windows, and that virtual machine appears to have it's own network card, that the VMWare software simulates.
So what happens on the physical hardware is that it responds to two separate IP addresses, and everything meant to go to the Windows machine is routed properly by the virtualization hardware. It works perfectly.
That word "debugged" is an important one. Russian spacecraft have been flying for decades, with improvements along the way, but they never threw out their basic 3 person design once they had it in place. There's nothing wrong with the idea, and it seems to work very well. For ferrying people into orbit and back, we should stick with it. The US should adopt that design as our own, and use our development money for other things.
Unless you've got a mighty high tech monitor, I think you're looking at 2D on it.
Take a look at the source. He says "Damn You Slashdot". Heheh.
/ a> - nifty little project for Doom that aims to replace all the stuff in the game allowing people to play Doom (or some version of it) free of charge as long as they have a source port<br>t ; - another great source port. This one remains very close to the original Doom if you don't like all the crap ZDoom adds.<br>n et.html">Setting up your Ethernet Card</a> - for Linux. I had a lot of troubles getting my nic working under Linux (though it turned out the manufacturer was telling me the wrong mod to use) and these pages are very helpful with that sort of thing<br>. txt">Fraggle's Guide to Pointers</a> - our good friend fraggle writes some stuff about pointers in C and C++. Very helpful if you suck at pointers like I do.<br>
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<a href="http://cyb.alkali.org">PlanetCyb</a> ; - probably my most permanent web page, hosted by good old <a href="http://junked.org">tom</a>.<br&g t;
<a href="http://vect.org:8080">Vector(g)</a> - My little Debian machine at home. Runs a variety of servers including http, ftp, irc and smtp. Some good pics of the box there as well (humor!)<br>
<a href="http://news.vect.org:8080">newsdot Vector</a> - replacement for the one on alkali lost a few months back. This is actually a revision done by <a href="http://destruct.alkali.org">Jon R</a> of the original one on alkali.<br>
<a href="http://doom.vect.org:8080">Cyb's Doom Junk</a> - all the maps and shit I ever made for Doom that wasn't in a megawad of some sort (I had maps in SurgeDM and some other places too I believe, but this is pretty much everything I made).<br>
<a href="doomdamnit">Doom, Damnit! Archives</a> - extensive archive of the last incarnation of the fabled DD. Yay!<br>
<a href="http://yellow5.com/pokey/">Pokey the Penguin</a> - funny if badly drawn web comic I like (it's about the only one I like as well)<br>
<a href="http://cacodemon.despayre.org">#doom Stats</a> - stats taken by a grufti bot in #doom on a private irc network. I talk too much in there.<br>
<a href="http://caco.vect.org:8080">Clan Caco</a> - a mock sorta counter-strike clan I'm in. It's generally a joke, though a bit of an inside one, so I can't imagine too many people finding it funny hehe.<br>
<a href="cal_hob">Calvin & Hobbes</a> - fairly extensive archive of Calvin & Hobbes comics I leeched from some web site.<br>
<a href="report">Internet Security</a> - report I wrote for my "Social Impact of Computing" class which describes how one might go about setting up a server of soem sort and then making it secure.<br>
<a href="http://www.doomworld.com">Doomworld</a> ; - web page I update with various news that no one likes because they have no sense of humor.<br>
<a href="http://www.shacknews.com">Shack News</a> - game news page I like and stuff.<br>
<a href="http://www.toolband.com">Tool</a> - probably my favorite band.<br>
<a href="http://www.manics.co.uk/manics/">Manic Street Preachers</a> - another excellent band<br>
<a href="http://slsk.com">SoulSeek</a> - on a totally unrelated note, this program allows you to download music from other people all over the world<br>
<a href="http://freedoom.sourceforge.net/">FreeDoom<
<a href="http://zdoom.notgod.com">ZDoom</a> - my favorite Doom port. Adds an assload of neat features and whatnot. For win32.<br>
<a href="http://prboom.sourceforge.net/">PrBoom</a&g
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<a href="http://www.strong.dk/girl.php">Uhm</a> - that link's not work safe. Well it is, but then it becomes not work safe. Just trust me.<br>
<a href="http://bash.org">Bash.org</a> - home to a lot of IRC quotes. Many are funny, but there's a lot that suck ass, so you need to look for a while sometimes. Good if you have nothing better to do.<br>
<a href="http://www.idsoftware.com">id Software</a> - makers of the Doom and Quake games. I figure they deserve at least a link<br>
<a href="http://www.planethalflife.com">Planet Half-Life</a> - good spot to go if you need some Half-Life goodness.<br>
<a href="http://www.relisoft.com/win32/">Win32 API Tutorial</a> - small tutorial on some stuff you can do with the win32 API. I found it pretty helpful.<br>
<a href="http://news.google.com">News dot Google</a> - swanky news portal. I like it.<br>
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I've used Java applications that take their data from mainframes, sending everything over MQ Series. It's actually a nice product, with guarenteed delivery of messages. It was even simple to use in my Java programs, and I found it fun to use. You don't need to move apps off a mainframe to allow communications with other apps.
funet.fi
I laugh in glee thinking about how much trans-Atlantic bandwidth I used up.
There's already some leeway for this. Our wall voltage is always listed as 110-125 volts AC. And Europeans have about 20 volts of variance that their appliances should handle without any problem.
No, in case the filesystem on /dev/null gets corrupted, you have a backup.
Red Hat?
That's nothing. I am a programmer and I spend my whole time pushing down plastic buttons and moving a small puck of plastic around on a rubber pad. The amount of money I get paid for this is insane!
I bet the only way to do it would be to throw out what you know and make something new. If you have people travelling in rockets, you'll eventually be superceded by something else. But if you have them travelling because of a navigator stoned on spice warping space with his mind, that will last longer. A lot longer.
There's always one...
Hope you're having fun with that 286 running DOS. I take it you spent all that money over the years on big macs for homeless people, instead of upgrades.
No?
How about a game where each little unit runs its own thread? 400 tanks crawling all over the battlefield would be 400 threads.
What we need to do is raise that bar and make sure these vulnerabilities are very obscure.
They're not going to fix the bugs, they're going to hide them underneath a new GUI layer.
Too bad they can't ban my built-in fascism detector. It's going off right now.
Well, that triggered a question in my head. Has anyone frozen a soap bubble? I'm in Austin and it's not cold enough now to do it. Can someone in cold weather blow a soap bubble in freezing conditions and have it freeze in the air? Damn. I wish I had thought of trying that when I lived in Michigan.