It will end when the top level root opens up to whatever names you want as long as you have enough money. IBM will register ibm., microsoft will have microsoft., etc. No worries about someone else taking your name but the heirarchy will be destroyed. Oh well.
About a year or so ago proftpd was being hit with root exploits left and right. They'd put out a new version and it would be vulnerable, they'd put out another new version to patch that and it would be vulnerable to something else. I think they've pretty much gotten it to a semi-decent point but their claim of being a "secure" FTP server built from the ground up with security in mind went out the window after all that. It's sad too since it really is a nice FTP daemon for doing virtual servers. When it comes down to it, the only secure FTP daemon is not using FTP at all I guess (or you could go insane and use DJB's publicfile stuff:-).
I'm not sure I would use any platform known to be targetted by this trojan. Hell, I can't even believe ALL citizens aren't completely up in arms about this. This is nothing more than a random wiretapping. Would you stand for the FBI to randomly go through phone connections listening in to see if you were saying anything interesting without getting a court order first? This is no better than what the KGB did to their citizens in the USSR. Now, I'm not naive enough to think that this doesn't already happen in secret, but they're claiming in the open that they plan on doing this!
Because this was a merge between a development and a stable tree. For some reason someone had the bright idea to make them equivalent. 2.4.14 however has been fine for me. 2.4.15 should have just been renamed 2.5.0 and left it at that. Then if it caused corruption, so be it.. it is development.
OK, the more important question these days is which OS (or even distribution) is better for colocated machines? I'm looking at it from the perspective that my machine would be many hundreds of miles away and I don't intend to go drive to sit at the console to do an upgrade. What would be my choices? I believe FreeBSD supposedly is strongly suited to that type of environment but it looks like Debian GNU/Linux also has strong points there as well.
Does anyone else think that this might just be a little preemptive strike against x-box??
The X-Box comes out this Thursday November 15th. Even if the Gamecubes are in stores today that is only 2 days before the x-box. What kind of idiot makes their buying decision on which console comes out first? If that were the case they'd all be playing on PS2s. I think I'll stick with my PC games and let the console gamers battle it out.;-)
Some marketing moron decided it would be a better idea to take up 1/10th of the screen with their logo instead. At first when some stations started doing it for only a few seconds into the show at a time I found it merely inconvenient. Now it's downright annoying. For example, our local station used to carry Star Trek TNG in syndication. After the first few years they started popping up their logo for a couple of seconds during the opening scene of the show and then it would disappear and be gone for the rest of the show. Now the logo is on constantly and only disappears for commercials. It really sucks when you're taping these shows to save them. That's what I get I guess for "pirating" their freely broadcast intellectual property I suppose.
The problem is that you need to link your applications against a closed source library (sdiclient.a). Now, if you're willing to pay ($15k-$30k), RSA Professional Services would be happy to compile a client for whatever platform you want. Again though, IMHO it's plain out and out rape to charge $40-$60 per token and then thousands of dollars for the ACE/Server and then on top of it all the entire thing is a closed source mess. Try setting up local authentication with it. Their "solution" is to replace your shell with sdshell and your real shell is spawned from that program after you enter your passcode. Good luck if you want to change your login shell though since you'll need to contact the ACE administrator. Heck, it gets worse if you want to login to X. Again, their solution is sdshell with a shell script wrapped around it that gets put into your X login scripts. Personally, after using the securid products for the last 3 years they've been nothing but a major pain in the ass.
Or silkscreen using oxide pigments on to fiberglass cloth, and fire it to diffuse the oxides into the silica.
This will be as durable as any other form of quartz as far as fire, cold, water, and chemical attack are concerned, and would be reasonably resistant to physical wear if it was treated with respect.
A raging inferno would still melt the glass. A hot fire would cause the pigments on adjacent pages in a glass-cloth book to blend into each other, too. You can reduce this problem by using corundum fibers (aluminum oxide) and oxides that don't diffuse very quickly. This would take sustained forge-fire to destroy (corundum melts at over 2000 degrees centigrade, and is harder *and* more resistant to chemical attack than quartz).
Really now, just post your text to Usenet or Gnutella and it'll get distributed across a vast network of computers and output to every kind of medium from hard disks, CDs, tapes, flash memory, etc.. Unless all the computers in the world are destroyed I would still think that someone would be able to load up a picture of that goatsex guy while playing Nsync's latest hits in mp3 format from 1999 well into the next millennium.
Seriously though, the only thing that endangers digital photos and other works is a plague called copyright. Hundreds of years ago monks kept the intellectual flame alive by copying anything they could get their hands on and redistributing it. Today they would've been thrown in jail for that. Look at Corbis for instance. They bought these huge photo archives, picked the ones they thought were interesting (which may not be the ones I would think are interesting), digitized them and made them available online. The rest of the archive was buried never to be seen again by this generation's eyes! That's an absolute travesty. What kind of sick bastard would be evil enough to pull something like that off?
The difference between Microsoft and past monopolies is that the government was in a trust-busting mood and had the balls to squash them. i.e. the oil tycoons, AT&T, IBM, etc.. For some reason Microsoft, so far, has been untouchable. They have been strong in the dark side of the Force. Either that or they have some powerful legislators and judges in their pocket. They also have something the oil tycoons didn't: Flashy advertising, mass media to promote their products, and the undying devotion of the loyal sheep followers in the public.
Freedom is a pretty word that politicians throw around when they want to stir up the populace. When it comes down to it, the only reason to fight is to preserve the safety and liberty of the citizens of your nation from foreign aggressors. Remember though, this isn't a Constitutional Ammendment. If it infringes on any of your rights you are more than free to challenge it in a court of law. Laws have been passed and overturned hundreds of times in the past on the grounds of being un-Constitutional.
Now, on another note, after glancing at the bill, what is everyone so up-in-arms about? I don't see anything that blatantly stands out as horrendously evil. Can someone please enlighten me as to what the average Slashdot geek is worried about? Do you think the FBI going to wiretap your porn transfers or are you just harboring a terrorist in your house? I do see one thing that will affect me though... I guess I have to stop smuggling large amounts of cash out of the country. Damn Casino Windsor doesn't deserve my money anyway!:-)
I doubt seriously that the majority of junior high school teachers have the knowledge of how to thoroughly implement the new machines into the their daily lesson plans. Do they know how to reinstall the OS, or how to configure the computer to print to a different printer when the class's primary printer goes belly-up?
Why would a teacher need to know anything about reinstalling the OS? That's what IT departments are for. The student drops off the laptop and picks up a replacement from extra stock. If the curriculum was all web based they wouldn't need to worry about data being lost on the laptop itself. A couple of guys could easily manage a network of 1000 student laptops in this fashion without requiring that the teachers waste any of their time. Now, it'd probably be a good idea to find a user friendly OS for the kids to avoid the inevitable interface problems so I would hope they're all getting Apple iBooks instead of Wintel PC's.
Agreed. I use one of these at home without a problem. They use standard cables so no need to get those octopus or all-in-one cables as you do with some other KVMs. The KVM itself was pretty cheap.. about $140 at the local computer superstore. It has more than paid for itself by keeping multiple mice and keyboards off my desk. The one thing that I wish it did was emulate a keyboard and mouse input all the time. If I'm booting up Win2k while switched over to my openbsd box, when Win2k finally comes up it won't find a keyboard+mouse. On higher priced and quality KVMs this isn't an issue (Cybex, Lightwave PC Server Switches, etc.) but they cost a lot more. I guess I can live with watching Win2k boot up, but it takes forever.:-)
They definitely are high quality cases. I just recently picked one up to build a new system and everything fits together like clockwork. The hard drives are kept nicely cool by the front two case fans blowing air over them, and the power supply and back fan more than adequately cool the AMD 1.4Ghz Thunderbird. I'm not overclocking it yet though until I find out what the acceptable heat ranges are for the processor. Currently it runs at about 47C and the system temperature is 36C. Anyone know if this is the normal range for this type of processor?
Specifically this paragraph:
Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting. The real goal here is to find the juicy good stuff and let others read it. Do not promote personal agendas. Do not let your opinions factor in. Try to be impartial about this. Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down. Likewise, agreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it up. The goal here is to share ideas. To sift through the haystack and find needles. And to keep the children who like to spam Slashdot in check.
Unfortunately it seems the spamming children have control of the moderation system these days. I guess those hundreds of thousands of troll accounts are good for something eh?
Back to the topic, our politicians and lobbyists are shredding the Constitution with the full support of the misled American majority. This wasn't in the EULA. I wish to move to a country with more civil liberties, such as Germany.
Well, not to fall for your troll, but you're free to leave the United States of America at anytime you wish. Unlike other countries we don't force our citizens to stay here. Nor do we execute you for voicing your opinion against the government. Such is the beauty of freedom. Now go stick your head back in the sand or book that one way trip to Germany and leave the rest of us alone.
Oh yea, PS: You're not going to find many places in Europe that are sympathetic to Osama bin Laden either. Might I suggest Indonesia, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Libya, or Iran as your new homeland?
NASA doesn't need a bean counter. NASA doesn't need a CEO coming out of the private sector whose best traits are that he has successfully downsized yet-another Fortune 500 company by firing 20% of the staff to make their budget balance. NASA needs a dreamer.. a visionary who is willing to take a risk to stand up there before Congress and make his case on why we need manned spaceflight programs, earth sciences and microgravity research programs. The new NASA administrator doesn't necessarily need to be particularly bright or talented as a CEO, but what he does need is to be charismatic. George W. Bush is basically proving this works very well. I have no worries about his administration because I know he has surrounded himself with some of the best people in his cabinet. NASA as an agency needs to follow the President's lead and learn from it and it will find itself back on the way to making Americans proud of their space program again.
Well I guess that's too bad for you. IBM had the bright idea to patent it.;-) I realize there's probably going to be prior art and it'll be invalidated, but IMHO, you snooze you lose. People shouldn't take things they do so lightly. If you do something that you consider new and innovative, rush out and patent the idea. It just may make you a million dollars some day.
I agree completely. I say take our doses of anthrax like good infidels and just die already. Clearly the peaceful fanatical Muslims were meant to rule the Earth and who are we to stop them?
Bin-Laden isn't stupid but he's also playing a game with us. It could very well be quite simply that easy. Except, it's not even hidden. In Bin-Laden's messages he quite clearly calls for muslims to kill American citizens. It's right in front of us. There are terrorist cells in the United States and around the world and we broadcast Bin Laden's message to kill us. They don't need high tech decoding equipment to figure out to move on to phase 2 and start bombing other shit now do they?
Just come up with a nice program to randomize data into various sizes between 3 and 6 megs and name them after popular songs for your honeypot. How foolish would they look when you can prove they broke into your system and deleted data that wasn't even their copyrighted content?
If you can get 30 phone lines into the school, why couldn't you get a leased line from the telco to the city? 45 miles is a long way but it's not that big a deal with repeaters.
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Not at all. If you're using procmail just put all the legitimate lists above those lines and they'll get dumped into your list folders.
It will end when the top level root opens up to whatever names you want as long as you have enough money. IBM will register ibm., microsoft will have microsoft., etc. No worries about someone else taking your name but the heirarchy will be destroyed. Oh well.
About a year or so ago proftpd was being hit with root exploits left and right. They'd put out a new version and it would be vulnerable, they'd put out another new version to patch that and it would be vulnerable to something else. I think they've pretty much gotten it to a semi-decent point but their claim of being a "secure" FTP server built from the ground up with security in mind went out the window after all that. It's sad too since it really is a nice FTP daemon for doing virtual servers. When it comes down to it, the only secure FTP daemon is not using FTP at all I guess (or you could go insane and use DJB's publicfile stuff :-).
I'm not sure I would use any platform known to be targetted by this trojan. Hell, I can't even believe ALL citizens aren't completely up in arms about this. This is nothing more than a random wiretapping. Would you stand for the FBI to randomly go through phone connections listening in to see if you were saying anything interesting without getting a court order first? This is no better than what the KGB did to their citizens in the USSR. Now, I'm not naive enough to think that this doesn't already happen in secret, but they're claiming in the open that they plan on doing this!
Because this was a merge between a development and a stable tree. For some reason someone had the bright idea to make them equivalent. 2.4.14 however has been fine for me. 2.4.15 should have just been renamed 2.5.0 and left it at that. Then if it caused corruption, so be it.. it is development.
OK, the more important question these days is which OS (or even distribution) is better for colocated machines? I'm looking at it from the perspective that my machine would be many hundreds of miles away and I don't intend to go drive to sit at the console to do an upgrade. What would be my choices? I believe FreeBSD supposedly is strongly suited to that type of environment but it looks like Debian GNU/Linux also has strong points there as well.
Curses! You just cost me a penny to read your troll.
Does anyone else think that this might just be a little preemptive strike against x-box??
;-)
The X-Box comes out this Thursday November 15th. Even if the Gamecubes are in stores today that is only 2 days before the x-box. What kind of idiot makes their buying decision on which console comes out first? If that were the case they'd all be playing on PS2s. I think I'll stick with my PC games and let the console gamers battle it out.
Some marketing moron decided it would be a better idea to take up 1/10th of the screen with their logo instead. At first when some stations started doing it for only a few seconds into the show at a time I found it merely inconvenient. Now it's downright annoying. For example, our local station used to carry Star Trek TNG in syndication. After the first few years they started popping up their logo for a couple of seconds during the opening scene of the show and then it would disappear and be gone for the rest of the show. Now the logo is on constantly and only disappears for commercials. It really sucks when you're taping these shows to save them. That's what I get I guess for "pirating" their freely broadcast intellectual property I suppose.
The problem is that you need to link your applications against a closed source library (sdiclient.a). Now, if you're willing to pay ($15k-$30k), RSA Professional Services would be happy to compile a client for whatever platform you want. Again though, IMHO it's plain out and out rape to charge $40-$60 per token and then thousands of dollars for the ACE/Server and then on top of it all the entire thing is a closed source mess. Try setting up local authentication with it. Their "solution" is to replace your shell with sdshell and your real shell is spawned from that program after you enter your passcode. Good luck if you want to change your login shell though since you'll need to contact the ACE administrator. Heck, it gets worse if you want to login to X. Again, their solution is sdshell with a shell script wrapped around it that gets put into your X login scripts. Personally, after using the securid products for the last 3 years they've been nothing but a major pain in the ass.
Or silkscreen using oxide pigments on to fiberglass cloth, and fire it to diffuse the oxides into the silica.
This will be as durable as any other form of quartz as far as fire, cold, water, and chemical attack are concerned, and would be reasonably resistant to physical wear if it was treated with respect.
A raging inferno would still melt the glass. A hot fire would cause the pigments on adjacent pages in a glass-cloth book to blend into each other, too. You can reduce this problem by using corundum fibers (aluminum oxide) and oxides that don't diffuse very quickly. This would take sustained forge-fire to destroy (corundum melts at over 2000 degrees centigrade, and is harder *and* more resistant to chemical attack than quartz).
Really now, just post your text to Usenet or Gnutella and it'll get distributed across a vast network of computers and output to every kind of medium from hard disks, CDs, tapes, flash memory, etc.. Unless all the computers in the world are destroyed I would still think that someone would be able to load up a picture of that goatsex guy while playing Nsync's latest hits in mp3 format from 1999 well into the next millennium.
Seriously though, the only thing that endangers digital photos and other works is a plague called copyright. Hundreds of years ago monks kept the intellectual flame alive by copying anything they could get their hands on and redistributing it. Today they would've been thrown in jail for that. Look at Corbis for instance. They bought these huge photo archives, picked the ones they thought were interesting (which may not be the ones I would think are interesting), digitized them and made them available online. The rest of the archive was buried never to be seen again by this generation's eyes! That's an absolute travesty. What kind of sick bastard would be evil enough to pull something like that off?
The difference between Microsoft and past monopolies is that the government was in a trust-busting mood and had the balls to squash them. i.e. the oil tycoons, AT&T, IBM, etc.. For some reason Microsoft, so far, has been untouchable. They have been strong in the dark side of the Force. Either that or they have some powerful legislators and judges in their pocket. They also have something the oil tycoons didn't: Flashy advertising, mass media to promote their products, and the undying devotion of the loyal sheep followers in the public.
What the hell are we fighting for!?
:-)
Freedom is a pretty word that politicians throw around when they want to stir up the populace. When it comes down to it, the only reason to fight is to preserve the safety and liberty of the citizens of your nation from foreign aggressors. Remember though, this isn't a Constitutional Ammendment. If it infringes on any of your rights you are more than free to challenge it in a court of law. Laws have been passed and overturned hundreds of times in the past on the grounds of being un-Constitutional.
Now, on another note, after glancing at the bill, what is everyone so up-in-arms about? I don't see anything that blatantly stands out as horrendously evil. Can someone please enlighten me as to what the average Slashdot geek is worried about? Do you think the FBI going to wiretap your porn transfers or are you just harboring a terrorist in your house? I do see one thing that will affect me though... I guess I have to stop smuggling large amounts of cash out of the country. Damn Casino Windsor doesn't deserve my money anyway!
I doubt seriously that the majority of junior high school teachers have the knowledge of how to thoroughly implement the new machines into the their daily lesson plans. Do they know how to reinstall the OS, or how to configure the computer to print to a different printer when the class's primary printer goes belly-up?
Why would a teacher need to know anything about reinstalling the OS? That's what IT departments are for. The student drops off the laptop and picks up a replacement from extra stock. If the curriculum was all web based they wouldn't need to worry about data being lost on the laptop itself. A couple of guys could easily manage a network of 1000 student laptops in this fashion without requiring that the teachers waste any of their time. Now, it'd probably be a good idea to find a user friendly OS for the kids to avoid the inevitable interface problems so I would hope they're all getting Apple iBooks instead of Wintel PC's.
Agreed. I use one of these at home without a problem. They use standard cables so no need to get those octopus or all-in-one cables as you do with some other KVMs. The KVM itself was pretty cheap.. about $140 at the local computer superstore. It has more than paid for itself by keeping multiple mice and keyboards off my desk. The one thing that I wish it did was emulate a keyboard and mouse input all the time. If I'm booting up Win2k while switched over to my openbsd box, when Win2k finally comes up it won't find a keyboard+mouse. On higher priced and quality KVMs this isn't an issue (Cybex, Lightwave PC Server Switches, etc.) but they cost a lot more. I guess I can live with watching Win2k boot up, but it takes forever. :-)
They definitely are high quality cases. I just recently picked one up to build a new system and everything fits together like clockwork. The hard drives are kept nicely cool by the front two case fans blowing air over them, and the power supply and back fan more than adequately cool the AMD 1.4Ghz Thunderbird. I'm not overclocking it yet though until I find out what the acceptable heat ranges are for the processor. Currently it runs at about 47C and the system temperature is 36C. Anyone know if this is the normal range for this type of processor?
Please read this.
Specifically this paragraph:
Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting. The real goal here is to find the juicy good stuff and let others read it. Do not promote personal agendas. Do not let your opinions factor in. Try to be impartial about this. Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down. Likewise, agreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it up. The goal here is to share ideas. To sift through the haystack and find needles. And to keep the children who like to spam Slashdot in check.
Unfortunately it seems the spamming children have control of the moderation system these days. I guess those hundreds of thousands of troll accounts are good for something eh?
Back to the topic, our politicians and lobbyists are shredding the Constitution with the full support of the misled American majority. This wasn't in the EULA. I wish to move to a country with more civil liberties, such as Germany.
Well, not to fall for your troll, but you're free to leave the United States of America at anytime you wish. Unlike other countries we don't force our citizens to stay here. Nor do we execute you for voicing your opinion against the government. Such is the beauty of freedom. Now go stick your head back in the sand or book that one way trip to Germany and leave the rest of us alone.
Oh yea, PS: You're not going to find many places in Europe that are sympathetic to Osama bin Laden either. Might I suggest Indonesia, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Libya, or Iran as your new homeland?
The first thing on my Start menu is "Windows Update". Equally ironic and you can be damned sure you better use it asap. :-)
NASA doesn't need a bean counter. NASA doesn't need a CEO coming out of the private sector whose best traits are that he has successfully downsized yet-another Fortune 500 company by firing 20% of the staff to make their budget balance. NASA needs a dreamer.. a visionary who is willing to take a risk to stand up there before Congress and make his case on why we need manned spaceflight programs, earth sciences and microgravity research programs. The new NASA administrator doesn't necessarily need to be particularly bright or talented as a CEO, but what he does need is to be charismatic. George W. Bush is basically proving this works very well. I have no worries about his administration because I know he has surrounded himself with some of the best people in his cabinet. NASA as an agency needs to follow the President's lead and learn from it and it will find itself back on the way to making Americans proud of their space program again.
Well I guess that's too bad for you. IBM had the bright idea to patent it. ;-) I realize there's probably going to be prior art and it'll be invalidated, but IMHO, you snooze you lose. People shouldn't take things they do so lightly. If you do something that you consider new and innovative, rush out and patent the idea. It just may make you a million dollars some day.
I agree completely. I say take our doses of anthrax like good infidels and just die already. Clearly the peaceful fanatical Muslims were meant to rule the Earth and who are we to stop them?
Bin-Laden isn't stupid but he's also playing a game with us. It could very well be quite simply that easy. Except, it's not even hidden. In Bin-Laden's messages he quite clearly calls for muslims to kill American citizens. It's right in front of us. There are terrorist cells in the United States and around the world and we broadcast Bin Laden's message to kill us. They don't need high tech decoding equipment to figure out to move on to phase 2 and start bombing other shit now do they?
Just come up with a nice program to randomize data into various sizes between 3 and 6 megs and name them after popular songs for your honeypot. How foolish would they look when you can prove they broke into your system and deleted data that wasn't even their copyrighted content?
If you can get 30 phone lines into the school, why couldn't you get a leased line from the telco to the city? 45 miles is a long way but it's not that big a deal with repeaters.