On 09/18/2013 04:18 PM, Gordon Marx wrote:
http://www.brother-usa.com/Printer/ModelDetail/1/HL2270DW/spec#.UjoKQBYYQwE
Wow, laser printers have come down in price since last I looked.
Is there still the split between printers with competitive cartridges
and those with DMCA-locked-down cartrid
On 09/18/2013 06:19 PM, Robert La Ferla wrote:
I have a few ATA hard drives from about 6-7 years ago that crashed and I lost
all my photos including ones of my baby son. They were attached to a Linux
server and had a ext2 or ext3 filesystem on them. I don't recall exactly.
Anyways, I want t
On 09/18/2013 03:57 PM, Bill Horne wrote:
I'm seeking performance data and recommendations for mid-range laser printers.
The organization I work for has been using "home" grade printers, but
they have a maximum life of around 30,000 pages, and I'd like
something more robust. Please provide any p
I used the bash script (as did JABR) to sign all the keys from last
night. A couple of differences between my script and caff.
Bash script identifies the key is the result of the BLU meeting, but the
signed key is sent inline.
Caff on the other hand sends the signed key as an attachmentmaking it
si
I wonder how much to make of this?
NSA Backdoor
Torvalds was also asked if he had ever been approached by the U.S.
government to insert a backdoor into Linux.
Torvalds responded "no" while shaking his head "yes," as the audience
broke into spontaneous laughter.
http://www.eweek.com/deve
I think we all agree that he *must* have been approached. The fact that he
nodded his head yes bead said no is clear as to what happened. It should
be clear that the fact that he was asked means a few things:
(1) He has not said he did not put in a back door.
(2) Others in the community were prob
On 9/19/13 9:36 , Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> I wonder how much to make of this?
think about open source for a moment. also, i do not think linus [or
linux] can be subject to an NSA security letter as he is not a US citizen.
but it would be easy to fork any open source project and make the
modificat
> On 9/19/13 9:36 , Eric Chadbourne wrote:
>> I wonder how much to make of this?
>
> think about open source for a moment. also, i do not think linus [or
> linux] can be subject to an NSA security letter as he is not a US citizen.
He is on U.S. soil thus U.S. law applies to him. This is complete
n
I tried caff first, and it failed to email anything from my desktop machine.
On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I used the bash script (as did JABR) to sign all the keys from last
> night. A couple of differences between my script and caff.
> Bash script identifies the key is
I sent you a caff message. At least one ended up[ in the dead letter
bin. There is a config option in ~/.caffrc
mailer-send [array]
Parameters to pass to Mail::Mailer. This could for example be
$CONFIG{'mailer-send'} = [ 'smtp', Server =>
'mail.server', Auth => ['
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john saylor wrote:
think about open source for a moment. also, i do not think linus [or
linux] can be subject to an NSA security letter as he is not a US citizen.
He resides on US soil. This makes him subject to US laws.
but it would be easy to fork any open source project and make the
modifi
-- Original Message --
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To: "Eric Chadbourne"
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Sent: 9/19/2013 10:10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Discuss] our friend the nsa
I think we all agree that he *must* have been approached. The fact that
he
nodded his head yes bead said no is clear as to what happene
On 09/19/2013 10:45 AM, Eric Chadbourne quoted ma...@mohawksoft.com:
> (4) It is quite likely there are multiple backdoors in Linux.
Because it is open source it is harder to put in explicit backdoors.
But because it is software there are bugs, and some likely have security
implications.
I b
On 9/19/13 11:29 , Kent Borg wrote:
> Maybe the
> Linux kernel has enough of them that the NSA doesn't need to weaken it,
> they can just use the weaknesses that are already there.
i've got to think that windows [esp] and mac os are *far* more
vulnerable to exploits of this type as the source is n
Eric Chadbourne wrote:
It seems, from my little apartment in Quincy, with no data to back this
up, that it's safe to assume 1 through 3. 4 I don't know about. I
_feel_ safe with the kernel. Gnome and the rest scare me.
I wrote this a while back: security means thinking about worst cases.
Ap
john saylor wrote:
i've got to think that windows [esp] and mac os are *far* more
vulnerable to exploits of this type as the source is not publically
available.
Darwin, the Unix layer of OS X, is FreeBSD and the source code is very
much publicly available.
Not that it matters. As I pointed o
I bought my Ricoh C410DN color laser in December 2006. Best-ever device I can
recall ever owning. Originally I bought it to save on ink/toner, and now I
realize that it's delivered not only that but incredible durability. There's
never been a problem with it, other than a sporadic paper-jam issu
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 01:18:49PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> john saylor wrote:
> >as i understand it, darwin is a fork of freebsd. apple has some non-open
> >stuff in there too.
>
> You misunderstand it. The kernel, XNU, is FreeBSD + Mach, both open
> source. The userland is main line FreeBSD
ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
Not at all. Those are the GPL packages they are required to provide or
parts that make sense for isvs. The "darwin" project, as a full OS as the
basis of the Mac, is a parrot.
No, Mark. It's the full OS in source form and it builds with Apple's own
tool chain. Apple
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 01:33:25PM -0400, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
> > as i understand it, darwin is a fork of freebsd.
It's not:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)#History
> "darwin" is pretty dead. Apple stopped providing updates a long time ago.
They didn't:
http://op
john saylor wrote:
as i understand it, darwin is a fork of freebsd. apple has some non-open
stuff in there too.
You misunderstand it. The kernel, XNU, is FreeBSD + Mach, both open
source. The userland is main line FreeBSD. Apple contributes code
changes upstream to FreeBSD and Mach. See:
ht
Dan Ritter wrote:
That is, can someone use the same toolchain Apple uses to
compile the same source and get the same binaries?
And if so, has anyone done so?
Yes. It's called PureDarwin:
http://www.puredarwin.org/
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> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 01:33:25PM -0400, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
>> > as i understand it, darwin is a fork of freebsd.
>
> It's not:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)#History
>
>> "darwin" is pretty dead. Apple stopped providing updates a long time
>> ago.
>
> They d
> On 9/19/13 11:46 , Richard Pieri wrote:
>> Darwin, the Unix layer of OS X, is FreeBSD and the source code is very
>> much publicly available.
>
> as i understand it, darwin is a fork of freebsd. apple has some non-open
> stuff in there too.
"darwin" is pretty dead. Apple stopped providing update
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> Dan Ritter wrote:
> >That is, can someone use the same toolchain Apple uses to
> >compile the same source and get the same binaries?
> >
> >And if so, has anyone done so?
>
> Yes. It's called PureDarwin:
> http://www.puredarwin.org/
On 9/19/13 11:46 , Richard Pieri wrote:
> Darwin, the Unix layer of OS X, is FreeBSD and the source code is very
> much publicly available.
as i understand it, darwin is a fork of freebsd. apple has some non-open
stuff in there too.
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Dan Ritter wrote:
No, that proves that the source compiles legitimately. I want to
know if anyone has run diffs against the binaries that Apple
provides and the binaries generated from the Apple source to
determine whether Apple is actually using that source as-is.
I'm sure someone has but that
On 9/19/2013 9:36 AM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> I wonder how much to make of this?
>
>
>
> NSA Backdoor
> Torvalds was also asked if he had ever been approached by the U.S.
> government to insert a backdoor into Linux.
>
> Torvalds responded "no" while shaking his head "yes," as the audience
> b
Matthew Gillen wrote:
Yet another point of fact is that RHEL is one of the operating systems
approved for the highest levels of classified networks.
No, it isn't. A modified version called TNE has that approval. Since the
TNE changes are not openly published I can only speculate as to what
ch
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