So then if I actually have TAoCP and have read the important bits (no - not everything was relevant to what I was doing) and understood what I was reading then I'm not mortal?
Aw heck. Why not just go run OpenBSD which is secure by default? There are still root comprimises for local attackers but a few patches later that's taken care of.
All in all... it's easy when you use a superior tool
I should mention that the older drives were significantly slower and not particularly suited to running an OS from. The newer drives (within the last year or so) are much faster and run Linux just fine. The performance is better using native ext2 instead of the flakey UMSDOS (even I don't like it)
moomonk here (eternal & dokks can vouch for that). I didn't have this ready for release when I just noticed the story on/.. Damn;-) Well anywhoo... This is really three things. At color.gz: A replacement for Slackware's color.gz root disk that will install directly to an ATA floppy drive (could be Zip if you felt like it). I didn't get around to putting the support for creating swap files on the root device so you'll have to do that yourself. Besides that it works peachy. Linux works much better on an ext2 filesystem then UMSDOS on a superdisk. I had X running with Mozilla off a disk from this earlier last week. It's slick for having a quickie system. par-pf.i: Almost like Slackware's paride.i boot disk except that it actually works. The Slackware boot disk includes the driver for paride CD/IDE/ATA floppy/ATA disk/ATA generic and the combination of them all breaks the disk. This only loads the ATA floppy driver but is otherwise identical. suprdisk.txt: Some notes on installing several distributions directly to a SuperDisk. In general, Debian and Slackware can be coerced (and with color.gz Slack even likes it). Mandrake and Red Hat were plain broken and aren't worth bothering with. SuSe also worked nice but was too large to be useful. In general, the idea to tricking the installer is to mount the superdisk at the installation mount point and then get the installer to ignore any linux partitions. You can get Slackware to install using the default color.gz if you have a linux partition and just mount the disk at/mnt. The installer doesn't need to touch the linux partition, it just needs to see one. For debian mount the disk at/target, skip the install section, ignore the error and then continue. The most important bit wasn't done at all. H. Peter Anvin's SYSLINUX works really slick if you have a UMSDOS file system like ZipSlack. Just unzip ZipSlack to the floppy, unzip 120linux.zip to the floppy and then run the syslinux program on the disk. The zip includes all the required configuration files. Under linux this is syslinux -s/dev/hd? where ? is a-d for a=primary, master b=primary, slave c=secondary, master d=secondary. If you'd like to have a ext2 file system you should use lilo. Go ahead and use a generic lilo configuration file. Just be sure to include this additional bit: disk=/dev/hda bios=0x00 disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x00 disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x00 disk=/dev/hdd The idea is to trick the boot loader to access the floppy device on boot. The linux kernel will get it right later so you'll set your root to something like/dev/hdc or the ilk. My lilo.conf looks like # LILO start prompt default=3 # because i like my configuration to boot nicely message=/boot/message.txt # it describes the images 1-4 compact image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda label=1 single-key read-only image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb label=2 single-key read-only image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc label=3 single-key read-only image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd label=4 single-key read-only disk=/dev/hda bios=0x00 disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x00 disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x00 disk=/dev/hdd bios=0x00 #LILO end eternal may have mirred these files to electricgod.net but their home is on dokks.com
Ok, that's a valid stance as long as you're a dial up user. I (among others) need to have interoperability in a corporate network. Specifically I could use Linux for work if I could use Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime and an office package that is transparently compatible with Office 97. Without those applications I'm relegated to using WINE or just booting into NT.
Part of the issue is that my job is Lotus Notes development so I'm not able to use a different client. Other people are going to have a similar position with MS Office and will need something that will provide the same functions using MS Office file formats.
The point of having hate crimes legislation is so that there is a public/legal acknowledgement that some crimes damage not only the primary victim but also the group that is being targeted by the act.
It is legal acknowledgment of the fact that gay hate crimes (to use a common example) damage all gay folk. This extension of the damage occurs because there is a general increase in the amount of fear that members of that group experience.
Speaking from experience, when I hear about the latest (!) gay hate crime I know that it makes me a little more uneasy to go out at night.
Anyhoo, I think they're a good idea and more needs to be done to advance their adoption into law.
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So then if I actually have TAoCP and have read the important bits (no - not everything was relevant to what I was doing) and understood what I was reading then I'm not mortal?
Aw heck. Why not just go run OpenBSD which is secure by default? There are still root comprimises for local attackers but a few patches later that's taken care of. All in all... it's easy when you use a superior tool
MoonFalln on #linuxhelp on the Undernet is doing just suck a thing. Try there.
qw
I should mention that the older drives were significantly slower and not particularly suited to running an OS from. The newer drives (within the last year or so) are much faster and run Linux just fine. The performance is better using native ext2 instead of the flakey UMSDOS (even I don't like it)
moomonk
moomonk here (eternal & dokks can vouch for that). I didn't have this ready for release when I just noticed the story on /.. Damn ;-) Well anywhoo... This is really three things. At color.gz: A replacement for Slackware's color.gz root disk that will install directly to an ATA floppy drive (could be Zip if you felt like it). I didn't get around to putting the support for creating swap files on the root device so you'll have to do that yourself. Besides that it works peachy. Linux works much better on an ext2 filesystem then UMSDOS on a superdisk. I had X running with Mozilla off a disk from this earlier last week. It's slick for having a quickie system. par-pf.i: Almost like Slackware's paride.i boot disk except that it actually works. The Slackware boot disk includes the driver for paride CD/IDE/ATA floppy/ATA disk/ATA generic and the combination of them all breaks the disk. This only loads the ATA floppy driver but is otherwise identical. suprdisk.txt: Some notes on installing several distributions directly to a SuperDisk. In general, Debian and Slackware can be coerced (and with color.gz Slack even likes it). Mandrake and Red Hat were plain broken and aren't worth bothering with. SuSe also worked nice but was too large to be useful. In general, the idea to tricking the installer is to mount the superdisk at the installation mount point and then get the installer to ignore any linux partitions. You can get Slackware to install using the default color.gz if you have a linux partition and just mount the disk at /mnt. The installer doesn't need to touch the linux partition, it just needs to see one. For debian mount the disk at /target, skip the install section, ignore the error and then continue. The most important bit wasn't done at all. H. Peter Anvin's SYSLINUX works really slick if you have a UMSDOS file system like ZipSlack. Just unzip ZipSlack to the floppy, unzip 120linux.zip to the floppy and then run the syslinux program on the disk. The zip includes all the required configuration files. Under linux this is syslinux -s /dev/hd? where ? is a-d for a=primary, master b=primary, slave c=secondary, master d=secondary. If you'd like to have a ext2 file system you should use lilo. Go ahead and use a generic lilo configuration file. Just be sure to include this additional bit: disk=/dev/hda bios=0x00 disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x00 disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x00 disk=/dev/hdd The idea is to trick the boot loader to access the floppy device on boot. The linux kernel will get it right later so you'll set your root to something like /dev/hdc or the ilk. My lilo.conf looks like # LILO start prompt default=3 # because i like my configuration to boot nicely message=/boot/message.txt # it describes the images 1-4 compact image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda label=1 single-key read-only image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb label=2 single-key read-only image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc label=3 single-key read-only image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd label=4 single-key read-only disk=/dev/hda bios=0x00 disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x00 disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x00 disk=/dev/hdd bios=0x00 #LILO end eternal may have mirred these files to electricgod.net but their home is on dokks.com
Ok, that's a valid stance as long as you're a dial up user. I (among others) need to have interoperability in a corporate network. Specifically I could use Linux for work if I could use Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime and an office package that is transparently compatible with Office 97. Without those applications I'm relegated to using WINE or just booting into NT.
Part of the issue is that my job is Lotus Notes development so I'm not able to use a different client. Other people are going to have a similar position with MS Office and will need something that will provide the same functions using MS Office file formats.
Josh
The point of having hate crimes legislation is so that there is a public/legal acknowledgement that some crimes damage not only the primary victim but also the group that is being targeted by the act.
It is legal acknowledgment of the fact that gay hate crimes (to use a common example) damage all gay folk. This extension of the damage occurs because there is a general increase in the amount of fear that members of that group experience.
Speaking from experience, when I hear about the latest (!) gay hate crime I know that it makes me a little more uneasy to go out at night.
Anyhoo, I think they're a good idea and more needs to be done to advance their adoption into law.