Re: big and little endian

2003-08-18 Thread Rob van der Heij
Fargusson.Alan wrote: But if you use an index register instead of HL you could use an offset. Now the 8080 didn't have index registers, so this may have been an issue on these. But the index registers are for weenies... ;-) one extra byte of opcode, and 12 T-states. Doing an INC (IX+1) takes

Re: Microsoft beats the blaster

2003-08-18 Thread Ryan Ware
Microsoft has used Akamai for eons for downloads of all sorts. I find it amusing that people think that Microsoft would have an issue with using a linux server for something. I guess this http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.linuxworldexpo.com is amusing also. -Original

Re: Microsoft beats the blaster

2003-08-18 Thread John Summerfield
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Ryan Ware wrote: Microsoft has used Akamai for eons for downloads of all sorts. I find it amusing that people think that Microsoft would have an issue with using a linux server for something. I guess this http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.linuxworldexpo.com

Re: Microsoft beats the blaster

2003-08-18 Thread Ryan Ware
Which was? I realize the whole blaster thing is egg on Microsoft's secure computing initiative face, and that Windows itself is a playground for kiddies. -Original Message- From: John Summerfield [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 8:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Microsoft beats the blaster

2003-08-18 Thread Daniel Casey
Which was...In order for Microsoft to protect themselves from the Worm, they switched to Linux rather than using/fixing their Windows servers. At least that's what I gathered from the article. Ryan Ware [EMAIL PROTECTED] ic.com

Re: Microsoft beats the blaster

2003-08-18 Thread Ryan Ware
They didn't switch to Linux to avoid fixing their servers. The change was to escape the worm ddos that was coming. Would it be different if Akamai used Windows servers? That the service provider runs Linux rather than Windows is akin to getting a Honda instead of a Toyota from the car rental

Re: Microsoft beats the blaster

2003-08-18 Thread Post, Mark K
Then you would have gathered wrong. They didn't switch servers rather than fixing their own software. They were undergoing a Distributed Denial of Service attack, not an infection of their own systems. They did switch to a content hosting service with much, much more bandwidth than they

Turning off unneeded services in SLES-8

2003-08-18 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hi list, I often hear the suggestion to turn off unneeded services. SuSE SLES-8 seems to have a lot of services off, but there are probably more that are not needed. However, I'm wary of turning off any that are critical to Linux. Will any of the following be a problem with the base functioning

Re: Microsoft beats the blaster

2003-08-18 Thread Daniel Casey
Actually, I would say it's akin to a person who works for Toyota driving a Honda... But seriously, do you think MS would have switched to a company whose servers were running Windows? Or is it just a coinsidence that Akamai uses Linux?

Re: Microsoft beats the blaster

2003-08-18 Thread Daniel Casey
Gotcha, my bad. Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] m To Sent by: Linux on [EMAIL PROTECTED] 390 Port cc

Re: Turning off unneeded services in SLES-8

2003-08-18 Thread Post, Mark K
Mike, The suggestion is normally aimed at network-accessible services. Still, of the list of things you have, I would probably keep atd running, and perhaps smbfs if you ever envision doing a CIFS mount. The only one I can't say one way or the other is the hwscan, since I don't know what it

Re: Microsoft beats the blaster

2003-08-18 Thread John Summerfield
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Post, Mark K wrote: Then you would have gathered wrong. They didn't switch servers rather than fixing their own software. They were undergoing a Distributed Denial of Service attack, not an infection of their own systems. They did switch to a content hosting service

Re: Turning off unneeded services in SLES-8

2003-08-18 Thread Rich Smrcina
I've not researched it, but just by it's name I've thought that it might be related to device recognition. But then again, never judge a book by it's cover. On Monday 18 August 2003 09:34 am, you wrote: Mike, The suggestion is normally aimed at network-accessible services. Still, of the

Re: Microsoft beats the blaster

2003-08-18 Thread Ryan Ware
I tend to think in this case Akamai were the people for the job, it was irrelevant to Microsoft what they used to do it. To Akamai, it was a strategic decision to use Linux in their business. Both decisions were pragmattic. -Original Message- From: Daniel Casey [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Microsoft beats the blaster

2003-08-18 Thread Ryan Ware
That document shows that for some things windows is definitely not a ready fit. Internet infrastructure is definitely one of those things. If Microsoft is truly switched over, I've heard the database backend is still on Solaris - which I would believe, they probably are running a hybrid version

Re: Turning off unneeded services in SLES-8

2003-08-18 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Don't forget hotplug. According to the Linux-hotplug site on Source Forge, the S/390 version of this, uses it, for managing certain events, specifically the channel ones, such as the machine check events. Go here, if you're in doubt.

Re: Turning off unneeded services in SLES-8

2003-08-18 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 09:26, Michael MacIsaac wrote: Hi list, I often hear the suggestion to turn off unneeded services. SuSE SLES-8 seems to have a lot of services off, but there are probably more that are not needed. However, I'm wary of turning off any that are critical to Linux. Will

Unit Record Device device driver?

2003-08-18 Thread Adam Thornton
Malcolm Beattie's Unit Record device driver seems to no longer be available from his old website. Does anyone have it, and could someone please send the source code to me? Adam

Addind Dasd Volumes

2003-08-18 Thread Moloko Monyepao
I am trying to add dasd volumes on SuSe Interprice Server 8, the following is the status of my volumes, when I try to do fdasd /dev/dasdk i get the following Error lnx1:/boot/zipl # fdasd /dev/dasdk fdasd error: open error Could not open device '/dev/dasdk' in read-only mode! When trying

Re: Addind Dasd Volumes

2003-08-18 Thread Rich Smrcina
Did you add the device on the fly? If so how did you do it? I've found that if you use: echo add device=xxx /proc/dasd/devices that I see the condition that you saw. The correct way is: echo add device range=xxx-yyy /proc/dasd/devices On Monday 18 August 2003 03:34 am, you wrote: I am

Re: Addind Dasd Volumes

2003-08-18 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday 18 August 2003 21:53, Rich Smrcina wrote: Did you add the device on the fly? If so how did you do it? I've found that if you use: echo add device=xxx /proc/dasd/devices that I see the condition that you saw. That is an incorrect syntax, I suppose what happened to you is that the

Re: Addind Dasd Volumes

2003-08-18 Thread Post, Mark K
What do the rest of your DASD volumes look like? cat /proc/dasd/devices What kernel modules do you have loaded? lsmod Mark Post -Original Message- From: Moloko Monyepao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 4:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Addind

Re: Somebody at IBM has broken their mail server

2003-08-18 Thread Jim Elliott
Pardon the intrusion, but this seems the simplest way to reach an interested party. Here's part of a bounce message I got: The original message was received at Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:20:05 -0400 from d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors

Re: Somebody at IBM has broken their mail server

2003-08-18 Thread John Summerfield
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Jim Elliott wrote: Pardon the intrusion, but this seems the simplest way to reach an interested party. Here's part of a bounce message I got: The original message was received at Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:20:05 -0400 from d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215] - The

Re: Somebody at IBM has broken their mail server

2003-08-18 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, John Summerfield wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Jim Elliott wrote: We tracked this down to a DDNS problem. Still some problems with this new (at least inside IBM) technology. Thanks for letting us know and the problem is being looked at to prevent future occurences.

Re: Microsoft beats the blaster

2003-08-18 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 06:44, John Summerfield wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Ryan Ware wrote: Microsoft has used Akamai for eons for downloads of all sorts. I find it amusing that people think that Microsoft would have an issue with using a linux server for something. I guess this