It must be because of all that good SCO code...

Great comparison of ports and portage! Now how do I get XMMS on FreeBSD to stop skipping when I do a whole bunch of things at once? The Con Kolivas patches do this for me on Linux, what settings am I missing on FreeBSD?

I've heard all of the same tired old arguments that the BSD die hards spout. I use the BSD's and Linux and like them all but IMO FreeBSD cannot compete on the desktop with Linux. Linux has mature features that the BSD's lack. The most common pro for BSD I've heard is that it's an OS and not "just a ...

That's really nice. I'm also looking forward to seeing what kind of desktop linux Novell will produce.

I don't expect C and C++ to be killed by C# anytime soon or ever. Imagine how much embedded code already exists and will grow exponentially when, eventually, even the kitchen sink is microcontrolled and networked. C and C++ are excellent languages, no doubt C#/.NET will dominate Windows development ...

Are you asking how to crack your schools firewall? If UNIT is incompetent with Linux then you're probably out of luck and will just have to adapt. I would do some investigating into UNIT's contract with your school to determine it's terms, duration and who at the school deals directly with UNIT ...

I recently setup Xnews under wine and thought others may be interested since it's working great for everything except posting binaries. Here is a screenshot in case you've never seen it before. Xnews can be downloaded from here . I am using version 6.02.16 but 5.04.25 works with this config.

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Two things to note though:
- the xfs patch is now in 1.3-pre branch, and I think it was a stable 1.2 at the time of 2.4.20-ckX. Maybe this "pre" have still some issues
- for stability, it is better do disable Preempt when using XFS. Have you tried that?

I'm thinking it's the XFS patch myself ...

I've been having some problems with these patches on 2.4.21 (ck1 and 3) using XFS. I was getting occasional lockups and after rebooting root wouldn't mount until I recompiled the kernel. 2.4.20 ck7 works great though and this is what I'm still using. Anyone else having problems with XFS and these ...

I forgot about this thread and just got my home Internet connection back up (I moved). I had limited success getting all this working on NetBSD; I only got portage functional. I had problems building a few programs but didn't get to play around very much with it since the box was needed elsewhere. I ...

I have used aterm for a long time and like it because it supports all the features I need. Eterm seems just as good though.

You may want to check out the Jail project for your users.

It seems snappier than 6 but I've got a few audio skips with xmms while under a so so load... doing an emerge, listening to music, pulling some files off my news server and browsing these forums.

[edit] I am using XFS on all partitions also.

btw
why would you use openbsd.
linux/gnu can be made more secure
with the fact that it is more flexible
than any other *nix flavor
This seems rather naive considering the amount of code auditing the OpenBSD developers perform.

Someone suggested to recompile your kernel without module support ...

Instead of anything specific I can recommend some general things. If you want to learn about firewalls get some good books and learn all the theory. This will give you marketable skills that you can apply to any packet filtering software. Then experiment with the BSD's and Linux until you discover ...

It certainly doesn't hurt to firewall everything behind your NAT router regardless of the threat assessment. First configure your router by disabling remote administration and changing the admin password. My favorite free Windows firewall is Outpost

the main ideea is:
if the cracker managed to login to your box(_this_ is the hard part)with or without gcc you are kaputt...
as a sysadmin you must prevent this from happening!!
and this has nothing to do with gcc.....
Precisely. If someone gets a shell you're shit out of luck. Most hacks are due ...

Judging by the damage done I think it's fair to say this wasn't a very sophisticated hacker. Probably a scripted exploit or a bad cgi script allowing arbitrary command execution and they just ran an xterm pointed at their IP. Without knowing the configuration of everything the how is anyones guess ...

*Levi* wrote:Admit it! You thought I was gonna make a request for it!

LOL That's what I was expecting. If I had a fast connection I would run it for sure. I like DC. What is your connection and hub name?

I think abcde is about the slickest. I like the ripperX gui and easytag also.

I have done a few oil changes of Gentoo... but only to do more empirical testing of different CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS. It's safe to say that if you're reinstalling Gentoo on a regular basis then you're doing something wrong.

I used to recommend this distro (the free download) to Linux interested newbies coming from Windows because it is rather well put together and has a good easy installer. The amount of money they charge is ridiculous IMO considering it's basically a re-packaged Debian with a program called adminmenu ...

i tried it out this way, and it didn't work
i also don't see the difference by setting dnscache listening to 127.0.0.1 and setting resolv.conf to "nameserver 127.0.0.1" and the whole thing just with 192.168.100.137
How did this not work? For Mathematica or at all? Is it setup properly to begin ...

Fluxbox has the remember patch IIRC Openbox has no similar feature or patch.

kashani wrote:The conclusion
If you really want to see more than 1000/sec lookups go with Bind 8.x. If you're fine with tapping out at 700-900/s djbdns or Bind 9.x are about the same.

Interesting. How high did Bind 8.x max out at?