| Posted on 02-Jan-2002 22:39 GMT by Christian Kemp | 174 comments
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Today, I tracked over one hundred attempts of abuse on ANN. I've been working on the filters and editing mechanisms for over four hours. Maintaining ANN is turning into real work, and all I see are tasks that I despise. This one individual, and the general attitude on ANN lately, is alienating visitors and making this site a horrible place to be. Most of what I see is insults and blind advocacy... I'm tired... And I can just see the negative comments again, in reply to me posting this...
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| Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 03-Jan-2002 12:06 GMT | A few bits of truth and opinion amid the FUD... Your mission: figure out which is which!
On ANN:
-Christian has always had the option of giving up and going to Slashcode.
ANN runs on what should be a fairly secure system, and while it's fairly
obvious to discover, I don't want to give any of the morons more ammunition.
-We shouldn't second-guess too much. Many of us are doing it, myself included,
so if you've read down this far- Christian, what specific topics would
you actually *like* to hear advice on? Which aspects of ANN's openness
do you consider vital, and which just happen to be the way it worked out?
On websites generally:
-Authentication should be expected; this is the internet, and ANN has avoided
this sort of thing mainly through its obscurity. I find it a miracle that
such 'peon-raiding' hasn't happened here until now. Hearing a declaration
of ANN's core values, as it were, should help all us idle speculators offer
constructive advice.
[My favorite ANN feature has been the ability to peruse unmoderated news before it's modded up; making it the default view does mess the place up. I sent in a complicated scheme to allow for more moderators based on their topics of expertise, but that's more code that'd need writing...]
On Linux vs. BSD, and security:
-OpenBSD doesn't lead to inherent security, it's mainly that the install is
not swiss-cheese by default. This is from a diehard OpenBSD fan- security
isn't as simple as picking an OS, although picking OpenBSD can save a lot
of busy-work. :)
-The Linux and BSD scenes all have plenty of jerks, and plenty of friendly
types. In both cases, the friendly types aren't necessarily the
knowledgable ones, so caveat emptor. (You can get equally poor advice from
Slashdot or Daemonnews/The FreeBSD Diary.) BSD tends to have BofHs,
Linux tends to have brats, and both camps average equal skillfulness.
-Be wary of friendly 'security experts' outside of academia.
*cough*GRC*cough* ;)
-FreeBSD is more consistent because it's a single distro, and BSD is more
consistent because it only has ~3. Linux is a kernel, and the distros are
inconsistent because they were built by people looking to make a fast buck.
Debian can be roughly compared to FreeBSD, and if you do that, you'll find
they're roughly comparable.
-Anything that doesn't force package selection in the base install is a good
skilled-newbie system. This was OpenBSD in my case; Slackware is apparently
comparable.
On the 'PC'ness/Macness of the Pegasos/AmigaOne/Tsunamis... I'm not going to go there. If I read that right- someone thinks the Pegasos is more Classic-like than the AmigaOne?- well, if that person could discreetly mail me some of that substance.. ;) [Short summary- just about anything integrated on a Pegasos-related board will be wired in through PCI or AGP. The AmigaOne has the equivalent of an "Amiga-on-a-card" by virtue of the A1200, and yes, they're both fairly similar to whatever Apple wedges in their towers.]
I need to stop writing these "brief" comments. :}
-Peace. |
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