It's a trick question. "IPR" isn't natural, it's an invention (and a relatively recent one at that). So asking where its "natural boundaries" are is silly. Where is are the "natural boundaries" of Rap? Or of lavender? Where is the natural boundary between Spanish and Italian?
It's a silly question.
For the vast bulk of history (and for all time before that), there was no such thing as "Intellectual Property." There isn't even any analogy in the animal kingdom (just imagine Monarch butterflies issuing a take down notice to other butterflies that have infringed on their trademark look and feel). The "natural" state is for people to thinks, say, and do whatever they want, and to copy good ideas wherever they see them. That, in a nutshell, is how culture works. But very recently there has arisen the observation that some good ideas are hard to copy unless the inventor is willing to explain the trick to you. And one way to induce them to do so is to ameliorate their fear that by so doing they will create a host of competitors, by promising to prevent other people from using the trick for awhile provided that they share it.
Sounds like a fair deal, but, like many things, a little greed is all it takes to spoil it for everyone.
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People argue that the creation of stuff like OpenOffice deprives the fine folks working on MS Office of their jobs. What's ignored is the fact that every company who once spent $300 a pop on Office licenses can now put that money toward projects that didn't exist before, or better yet (but more unlikely) pay it to their employees. And the guys at MS Office are now free to work on something that doesn't already exist.
Money is just a placeholder. The economy is actually about
value, and OpenOffice adds what was previously considered hundreds of dollars of value to the computer of everyone who downloads it - at no actual charge.
When software can be distributed to the whol
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[car parts --> not illegal to swap/analogy]
I realize that at some point the analogy breaks down because a car can't be put into a replicator like a DVD can. However, it seems to me that we are becoming less and less of an ownership society and more of a "borrow" society. I talked to someone the other day who works for a large firm, and they pay 160 grand a MONTH to license some software for their business. That does not include any changes they want made to the software - that costs extra.
I don't have a problem with profit. I have a problem with racketeering. I don't really know where this whole "you don't own it, you only licensed it from us and we
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(in no particular order)
- Knoppix, live linux boot CD ("rescue"), http://www.knoppix.org/ [knoppix.org]
- Unix Rosetta Stone, table to convert linux vs bsd vs unix, http://bhami.com/rosetta.html [bhami.com]
- GNU screen, switch between shells in one login, priceless via ssh, http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ [gnu.org]
- GNU stow, simple package management for ANY posix system, http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ [gnu.org]
- vim, not vi (I depend on ^P and a real undo history, note emacs is not so great for sysadmins who need quick changes on dozens of architectures), http://www.vim.org [vim.org]
- sudo, especially when giving a group permission as a non-root user as in my /. post groups + sudo can allow installation rights [slashdot.org], http://www.sudo.ws/ [www.sudo.ws]
- wiki, which tells people how to do things without bugging the sysadmin, (any wiki is good, I use mediawiki), http://www.mediawiki.org/ [mediawiki.org]
- CVS/Subversion, note changes in important configuration files (cvs
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The stuff posted in the article was alright, and given the guy is 17, I'll cut him some slack. However, as a professional sysadmin for the last 10 years, I think I can whip up a good list of my favorite tools.
Bash. If you don't know how to write a for-loop in bash to connect to all your hosts and make some changes, you don't know what you're missing.
SSH, with an agent and keys. If you get asked for the password every time you connect to a host with the above bash loop, you're missing on a very powerful tool. Passwords are a once-daily thing for me now, and that's only because my screen lock also kills my ssh agent.
Osiris. Because you should know what's happening on the computers you maintain. File integrity monitoring is a Good Thing. File integrity monitoring with a client/server architecture is a Very Good Thing.
Snort. Use snort. You have no idea what's happening on your network until you use snort. If you have desktop users, load up the bleeding-snort rulesets and be prepared to panic in horror as you see all the crapware flowing over your network.
Perl. With bash-fu. Like this: $ perl -i.BAK -pe 's/(
http://192/ [192]\.168\.0)\.2/$1.3/' `find . -iname "*.htm"` You'll never look at sed again
;)
Finally, if you've got a boss who will let you, rip out those expensive proprietary firewalls and replace them with OpenBSD on a Soekris solid-state computer. OpenBSD pf is
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1) strace (Program stalling or not working with ambiguous error messages?)
2) nmap
3) sysstat utilities (sar, iostat, vmstat, etc)
4) python (my automation tool of choice)
5) grep/awk/sed (filtering output etc)
6) Nagios
7) DenyHost (log watcher that blocks hosts via deny.hosts file)
8) snort
9) screen
10) lsof (list open file discriptors (sockets, streams, and actual files))
As for those who keep saying "ImageMagick? What kind admin uses ImageMagick!" Well, I used to work for a e-commerice bookseller. We delt with millions of bookcover images and ImageMagick was a golden for mass manipulation of images. As for MP3 tools, I like my music why I work! Whats wrong with that? It's not essential for the job, but it is for my happiness.
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- emacs
- grep
- perl
- sed
- svn
- xml [sourceforge.net] (manipulate XML from the command line)
- tar
- ssh (this one is fun: "ssh server tar -cf - directory | tar -xv")
- for (built-in bash command, one-line scripts from the command line are very useful)
- lsof (what processes have open network ports? why can't I unmount that disk?)
- wget
- ping
- telnet (test SMTP, HTTP, etc servers by hand)
- nmap
See also:
Commonly used commands [kegel.com]
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I work for a very large MSSP, and this makes me quite sad.
Sad, because Snort's source code is not exactly a mystery. And Check Point's technology already does a much better job at preventing intrusions, since it is a firewall and Snort is a really shitty IPS. (All IPS are shitty, sorry. I like Snort for IDS, really) My sadness here is deep and mournful.
I'm also really disappointed, because I hate Sourcefire. I was really looking forward to Check Point reigning in their way-out-of-line sales guys. More than that, tech support at Sourcefire (all 3 guys!) sucks, 'cause they're all arrogant pricks who don't really give a shit about the customer, and honestly believe their code is perfect and never has problems. Actually, that sums up SF pretty well. Check Point, for all their problems, actually listens when we complain, which is nice, though getting things fixed is an ungodly slow process.
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Maybe you're missing the possibility that whoever's using Snort in the DoD doesn't want to have to hire a full-time programmer to act as tech support when they can just get a contract with Sourcefire instead? As far as I can tell, this isn't about code, it's about support. Sensitive information occasionally needs to be given to tech support in order to diagnose/fix problems, and the DoD would prefer whoever's on the recieving end to be an American. I wonder if Sourcefire have any support personnel with gov't security clearances.
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Here are some handy things to phrase more politely than I'm phrasing them here:
"I can't tell you when it will be finished until we know exactly what we're building. Help us nail down the specifications, and I'll be able to give you a finish date with the current staff and workload."
"There is a finite amount of manpower available to do this work, and the schedule I gave you is firm, unless we either add people -- and that won't be a one-to-one improvement, it will depend on how much work can be run in parallel -- or reduce scope. Help us do that, and I'll be able to get you a new completion date."
"I know you want these changes in the initial launch, and I want to give you these changes in the initial launch. However, there will be some impact to how long it will take, because a lot of work we've already completed will need to be redone. Help us nail down the new specifications, and I'll be able to give you a finish date with the current staff and workload."
Repeat ad nauseum until the project is finished.
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94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act [house.gov]
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He manages the whole internet with only two guys. And management still complains. What hardasses.
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[more data @bottom?] repeat:
(in no particular order)
- Knoppix, live linux boot CD ("rescue"), http://www.knoppix.org/ [knoppix.org]
- Unix Rosetta Stone, table to convert linux vs bsd vs unix, http://bhami.com/rosetta.html [bhami.com]
- GNU screen, switch between shells in one login, priceless via ssh, http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ [gnu.org]
- GNU stow, simple package management for ANY posix system, http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ [gnu.org]
- vim, not vi (I depend on ^P and a real undo history, note emacs is not so great for sysadmins who need quick changes on dozens of architectures), http://www.vim.org [vim.org]
- sudo, especially when giving a group permission as a non-root user as in my /. post groups + sudo can allow installation rights [slashdot.org], http://www.sudo.ws/ [www.sudo.ws]
- wiki, which tells people how to do things without bugging the sysadmin, (any wiki is good, I use mediawiki), http://www.mediawiki.org/ [mediawiki.org]
- CVS/Subversion, note changes in important configuration files (cvs is for older Unixes that can't run svn), http://subversion.tigris.org/ [tigris.org]
- rdesktop, remotely log into windows Remote Desktop/Terminal Services, http://www.rdesktop.org/ [rdesktop.org]
- fail2ban, drop traffic to attacking IPs (ie, failed logins) for small intervals, http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
- http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=181210&threshold=4&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=14989482
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