On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:58:24PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 20:31:46 +0200, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote:
BTW, since we're talking about vintage OSes: anyone knows of a
BS2000 clone, emulator, ...?
http://ts.fujitsu.com/products/bs2000/index.html
so people do not be afraid to think outside the the box
Finally, out of my experience with Linux and FreeBSD is that once a
setup is working, it stays working, sometimes the initial setup takes
longer , I ll be honest, there have been times when I spent days
trying to get something working on
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 07:59:55PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc.
YES!This is the biggest of the three things I have against MS
and one of the main reasons for using FreeBSD and other Open Source
software as much as possible.
I think
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:49:14AM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:59:51 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
I would add - with Open Source add it's far smaller (actually close
to zero) probability that it doesn't do anything except it's
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:49:50AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
but it's at least much more difficult. And - my other rule fits very well
here. Avoid OVERCOMPLEX programs.
I tend to agree with this take on things, and I follow a similar
philosophy of software choice.
Slight tangent, and
On 6/5/09, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:49:50AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
but it's at least much more difficult. And - my other rule fits very well
here. Avoid OVERCOMPLEX programs.
I tend to agree with this take on things, and I follow a similar
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:32:38PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Everyone can find them and fix, but at the same time everyone can find
them and use them.
With closed source both are more difficult.
That's not strictly true.
In general, it's easier to discover vulnerabilities through
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:50:39PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
A counter-example is VMS. It is a commercial product, but highly
reliable and secure.
It's also a much *simpler* piece of software than something like MS
Windows, which makes it much easier to secure. That's just one more
thing
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 04:06:18PM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote:
Whatever happened to BeOS?
Be went out of business. There have been a couple of clone projects to
spring up since then. As mentioned, there's Haiku, the heir apparent to
BeOS at this point.
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On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:50:24PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
2009/6/3 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl:
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:35:31PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:46:15 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com
wrote:
Isn't there an OpenVMS somewhere?
There is an
Slight tangent, and you may have mentioned it before: What window manager
do you use?
fvwm2, BUT not because i like it's tools and widgets, but because all of
them can be easily turned off :)
My configuration strips everything possible including window titles and
borders, window moving and
A counter-example is VMS. It is a commercial product, but highly
reliable and secure.
It's also a much *simpler* piece of software than something like MS
Windows, which makes it much easier to secure.
you meant more logical?
It's really hard to take care of software product that looks like
The OZONE OS [http://www.o3one.org/] uses a lot of VMS concepts.
I just LOVE the webpage. The kind of one I'd make in my spare time...
That's horrifying. Remind me to never visit one of your Webpages.
Luckily, I can touch-type, because the temporary blindness induced by
that site when the
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:46:21AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
The links browser's interface is crap, as is that of every other text
console based browser I've ever encountered. Moving around within a
page and selecting a link are two tasks for which text console based
browsers have not
2009/6/5 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com:
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:50:24PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
2009/6/3 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl:
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:35:31PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:46:15 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com
wrote:
Isn't
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:22:48PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
That's horrifying. Remind me to never visit one of your Webpages.
Luckily, I can touch-type, because the temporary blindness induced by
that site when the bright yellow irradiated my retinas still hasn't
entirely faded.
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:17:17PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
2009/6/5 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com:
That's horrifying. Remind me to never visit one of your Webpages.
Luckily, I can touch-type, because the temporary blindness induced by
that site when the bright yellow irradiated my
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:20:24PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Slight tangent, and you may have mentioned it before: What window manager
do you use?
fvwm2, BUT not because i like it's tools and widgets, but because all of
them can be easily turned off :)
My configuration strips
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:33:28PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:46:21AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
The links browser's interface is crap, as is that of every other text
console based browser I've ever encountered. Moving around within a
page and selecting a link
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:36:14PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 10:59:51 am Wojciech Puchar wrote:
I would add - with Open Source add it's far smaller (actually close to
zero) probability that it doesn't do anything except it's supposed to do.
I mean things like
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 04:06:18PM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote:
Whatever happened to BeOS?
http://www.haiku-os.org/
-cpghost.
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On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:13:43PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:35:31PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:46:15 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com
wrote:
Isn't there an OpenVMS somewhere?
There is an open source clone in the works:
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 20:31:46 +0200, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote:
BTW, since we're talking about vintage OSes: anyone knows of a
BS2000 clone, emulator, ...?
http://ts.fujitsu.com/products/bs2000/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS2000
I'm especially interested in an emulation
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 19:26:00 Glen Barber wrote:
Hi, Mel
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Mel Flynn
mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:12:28 madunix wrote:
3- General experience with Open Source technology?
Kinda getting fed up with
On Thursday 04 June 2009 22:05:55 Mel Flynn wrote:
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 19:26:00 Glen Barber wrote:
Hi, Mel
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Mel Flynn
mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote:
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:12:28 madunix wrote:
3- General experience
I mean things like sending private data to someone else, scanning for
other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc.
Given enough incentive, it unfortunately seems even open source
developers will resort to sneaky tactics:
I want to know out of your experience people the following,
1- How open source served your businesses requirements?
Better performance, stability savings.
Only saving is a feature of Open Source software. Others are features of
just particular programs you use!
2- What kind of
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:49:50AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
I mean things like sending private data to someone else, scanning for
other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc.
Given enough incentive, it unfortunately seems even open source
developers will resort to sneaky
On 6/3/09, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
Unfortunately there are no well done WWW browsers for unix in the world.
links -g is an exceptions, but in the same time it's quite limited.
But have best fonts :)
You're right: browser code is overly complex, and a nightmare to
Unfortunately there are no well done WWW browsers for unix in the world.
links -g is an exceptions, but in the same time it's quite limited.
But have best fonts :)
You're right: browser code is overly complex, and a nightmare to audit
properly for security purposes.
links is not complex, and
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:24:02AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
secondarily and only when absolutely necessary with the usual
firefox+noscript+abp... both browsers running in a virtual box (qemu,
virtualbox) dedicated to this purpose and this purpose only.
Exaggeration IMHO. just make
virtualbox) dedicated to this purpose and this purpose only.
Exaggeration IMHO. just make sure your normal user has 700 permissions,
create another and run browser from it.
What about permissions in X? Even if you started the browser as
another user, you'd still have to xhost + that user. And
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:15:32PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
there, it's easy to hijack the X session (including keylogging etc.).
You mean Xorg can easily be hijack'ed that way?
If you can connect to the X server, you can also attach any
kind of monitoring software to it. Think
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:33 AM, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote:
There are MUCH simpler methods. Just pay few bucks to charwoman to look at
papers glued to monitor with passwords on them ;), or maybe a minute more
to look at different places.
Oh yes indeed: THAT's always bee the more serious
You mean Xorg can easily be hijack'ed that way?
If you can connect to the X server, you can also attach any
kind of monitoring software to it. Think vncserver and the like...
vncserver creater new X server. Can't monitor yours unless you have
special module for X server installed and loaded
Oh yes indeed: THAT's always bee the more serious threat,
security-wise.
A colleague of mine is a Windows administrator for a local company. I
didn't think people actually did this until he told me a little
People do even more things. In my public internet access network i found
that 90%
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:53:07AM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
My colleagues never understood (nor do they to this day) my paranoia
regarding security and untrusted code. I always point them in the
same direction:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
YES! An absolute classic. We're
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 04:45:42PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
You mean Xorg can easily be hijack'ed that way?
If you can connect to the X server, you can also attach any
kind of monitoring software to it. Think vncserver and the like...
vncserver creater new X server. Can't monitor
* http://www.randombit.net/code/logger.c
compiled this, did
./logger 0xed
where 0xed was my other xterm
then typed at least 10 lines at that xterm window
got:
-rw--- 1 wojtek wheel0 3 cze 18:23 logger-ed.log
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Another perfect example that open source alone can't guarantee
open source - just by being opensource - can't guarantee anything more
that availability of sources.
It's important to stay away of all that hype that opensource programs are
just better.
Many are, many not.
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:12:28 madunix wrote:
3- General experience with Open Source technology?
Kinda getting fed up with the amount of trolling lately and loving Sieve.
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On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:21:28 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
open source - just by being opensource - can't guarantee anything more
that availability of sources.
It's important to stay away of all that hype that opensource programs are
just better.
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 10:59:51 am Wojciech Puchar wrote:
I would add - with Open Source add it's far smaller (actually close to
zero) probability that it doesn't do anything except it's supposed to do.
I mean things like sending private data to someone else, scanning for
other programs i
I'd like to add that IF security problems get discovered in OSS,
it's usually just a matter of few time that this problem gets
corrected. This is mostly because the public is able to look at
that's true - i pointed it out at the beginning.
It can be found easily that someone adds backdoor
: Open_Source
I'd like to add that IF security problems get discovered in OSS,
it's usually just a matter of few time that this problem gets
corrected. This is mostly because the public is able to look at
that's true - i pointed it out at the beginning.
It can be found easily that someone adds backdoor
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:32:38PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
A counter-example is VMS. It is a commercial product, but highly
reliable and secure.
At least is said too, i never used or even seen VMS.
When Digital Equipment Corporation collapsed, the architect(s) of VMS
went to
: Open_Source
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:32:38PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
A counter-example is VMS. It is a commercial product, but highly
reliable and secure.
At least is said too, i never used or even seen VMS.
When Digital Equipment Corporation collapsed, the architect(s) of VMS
went
Isn't there an OpenVMS somewhere? Is it true OSS?
No. it's just product name, and is closed source.
They changed the name when IMHO it started to provide some api
that allow porting apps from other systems (like unix) easier.
Also, how many people actually review source code AND have the
Yes, and that old urban legend, that Windows NT is better than VMS, so
the initials are one higher in each position - at least in my alphabet:
Actually - this man and few others from Digital made good job on kernel
programming. Micro-soft f..ed everything else up.
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:46:15 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote:
Isn't there an OpenVMS somewhere?
VMS is called OpenVMS today, and owned by HP, if I remember
correctly - I didn't check, sorry.ö
Is it true OSS?
No. I mentioned VMS as an example that even closed source
can be of
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:08:50 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
Isn't there an OpenVMS somewhere? Is it true OSS?
No. it's just product name, and is closed source.
Yes.
They changed the name when IMHO it started to provide some api
that allow porting
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:35:31PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:46:15 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote:
Isn't there an OpenVMS somewhere?
There is an open source clone in the works: http://www.freevms.net/
No idea of the state it is in.
The OZONE OS
There is an open source clone in the works: http://www.freevms.net/
No idea of the state it is in.
basically doesn't work.
The OZONE OS [http://www.o3one.org/] uses a lot of VMS concepts.
downloading
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2009/6/3 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl:
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:35:31PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:46:15 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote:
Isn't there an OpenVMS somewhere?
There is an open source clone in the works: http://www.freevms.net/
No idea of the
The OZONE OS [http://www.o3one.org/] uses a lot of VMS concepts.
I just LOVE the webpage. The kind of one I'd make in my spare time...
i have no VMS knowledge so for now i just booted it on qemu and on
computer directly.
loads quickly, i logged in and for now don't know any more ;)
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:50:24 +0100, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote:
The OZONE OS [http://www.o3one.org/] uses a lot of VMS concepts.
I just LOVE the webpage. The kind of one I'd make in my spare time...
Why? Because it's so L33T? :-)
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On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:50:24 +0100, Chris Rees utis
2009/6/3 Polytropon free...@edvax.de:
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:50:24 +0100, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote:
The OZONE OS [http://www.o3one.org/] uses a lot of VMS concepts.
I just LOVE the webpage. The kind of one I'd make in my spare time...
Why? Because it's so L33T? :-)
Yeah,
Dear Experts,
I want to know out of your experience people the following,
1- How open source served your businesses requirements?
2- What kind of application that running on Open Source?
3- General experience with Open Source technology?
Your input would be really appreciated.
Thanks
madunix
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:12 AM, madunix madu...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Experts,
I want to know out of your experience people the following,
1- How open source served your businesses requirements?
Allowing extensibility. Generally, if something needs to be changed,
it _can_ be changed,
I want to know out of your experience people the following,
1- How open source served your businesses requirements?
excellent.
2- What kind of application that running on Open Source?
All i needed - do you want a list ?
3- General experience with Open Source technology?
what exactly
I believe people can get more experience in general with open source
technologies than they can with closed source. The reason is simple:
I can look at the code. I can study it. I can see what
${APPLICATION} is doing, and how the developer designed it. This, in
itself, makes me better at what
madunix wrote:
Dear Experts,
I want to know out of your experience people the following,
1- How open source served your businesses requirements?
Our business would likely not exist if it weren't for Open Source
(and/or free) software. Other than our Windows workstations, a few
Windows
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 05:59:51PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
I believe people can get more experience in general with open source
technologies than they can with closed source. The reason is simple:
I can look at the code. I can study it. I can see what
${APPLICATION} is doing, and how
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 12:18:09PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
madunix wrote:
Dear Experts,
I want to know out of your experience people the following,
1- How open source served your businesses requirements?
Our business would likely not exist if it weren't for Open Source
I mean things like sending private data to someone else, scanning for
other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc.
YES!This is the biggest of the three things I have against MS
and one of the main reasons for using FreeBSD and other Open Source
software as much as possible.
But i'm
The only rationale I've heard for closed source is that somebody could
steal the idea.
There will always be both of them. And that's OK as long as you can
choose.
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other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc.
YES!This is the biggest of the three things I have against MS
and one of the main reasons for using FreeBSD and other Open Source
software as much as possible.
I think we all forget about third case, open and closed source being first
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 07:44:46PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
I mean things like sending private data to someone else, scanning for
other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc.
YES!This is the biggest of the three things I have against MS
and one of the main reasons for using
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
The only rationale I've heard for closed source is that somebody
could
steal the idea.
There will always be both of them. And that's OK as long as you can choose.
Yes, I agree.
I use Windows as my workstation, because there are some specific
applications that
But i'm not agains micro-soft. If someone want to pay and be
controlled - his problem.
Today micro-soft doesn't even hide with this!! So it's clear - you pay big
brother and he does well the job he's paid for!
I am, -- on my machines.
but you want to be the owner of your computer. But most
There will always be both of them. And that's OK as long as you can choose.
Yes, I agree.
I use Windows as my workstation, because there are some specific
applications that require Windows to run.
You don't have to explain - you use because you want to :) that's all.
Being able to modify
in my case i have the following:
Multiple linux/bsd distributions: (RHEL, SuSE, FreeBSD + commercial
UNIX as AIX)
Monitoring Application:(Cacti, Nagios, MRTG)
Backup utility:(rsync, tar, mondo)
Content Management system:(Jommla, Durpal)
Virtualization:(Wine)
Web Server:(Apache)
Web
Multiple linux/bsd distributions: (RHEL, SuSE, FreeBSD + commercial
UNIX as AIX)
Monitoring Application:(Cacti, Nagios, MRTG)
Backup utility:(rsync, tar, mondo)
Content Management system:(Jommla, Durpal)
Virtualization:(Wine)
wine is virtualization?
2009/6/2 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl:
Multiple linux/bsd distributions: (RHEL, SuSE, FreeBSD + commercial
UNIX as AIX)
Monitoring Application:(Cacti, Nagios, MRTG)
Backup utility:(rsync, tar, mondo)
Content Management system:(Jommla, Durpal)
Virtualization:(Wine)
wine
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:59:51 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
I believe people can get more experience in general with open source
technologies than they can with closed source. The reason is
simple: I can look at the code. I can study it. I can see what
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 08:12, madunix madu...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Experts,
That's an incorrect assumption! Heh. No expert me...
I want to know out of your experience people the following,
1- How open source served your businesses requirements?
Low cost implementations of useful tools for
Bruce Cran wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:59:51 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
I mean things like sending private data to someone else, scanning for
other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc.
Given enough incentive, it unfortunately seems even
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 8:42 PM, madunix madu...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Experts,
I want to know out of your experience people the following,
1- How open source served your businesses requirements?
Better performance, stability savings.
2- What kind of application that running on Open Source?
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