Re: Pentium error

1997-11-19 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nah, don't worry: > 1) Linux has already a patch against it (2.0.32-pre5, soon to be 2.0.32), I installed 2.0.32 and it works fine, especially in avoiding the bug. If Linux would behave better when the virtual memory is filled there is almost no way l

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-19 Thread Adam Shand
> Umm -- isn't ^] your telnet client's responsibility? Err, I can't answer that decisivly but lets put it this way, I'm using Debian's standard telnet client which works with CTRL-] with everything else > Of course, since it's a mostly graphical OS (not many console > mode programs) telnet i

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Nov 17, 1997 at 11:48:33AM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: > > There is a telnet daemon for NT. I do not know what it is called, but I have > > seen it in use. > > There is a telnetd for NT (I have a copy lying around somewhere) but > unless they have improved it dramitically it has some... err,

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread Adam Shand
> There is a telnet daemon for NT. I do not know what it is called, but I have > seen it in use. There is a telnetd for NT (I have a copy lying around somewhere) but unless they have improved it dramitically it has some... err, problems. Like you can't have more then one person logged into it at

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread john
Carey Evans writes: > There was a Perl script posted to BugTraq that would search for the f00f > opcodes in a program, and a C program that wouldn't get noticed but would > crash anyway. You would have to scan all memory that is both writable and executable as well as the text pages to defend agai

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread Carey Evans
Lukas Eppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > New Pentium bug [snip] > This sounds like a "don't use linux" statement from intel. They don't even > mention Windows NT, which is a multi user platform, too. And why the hell > has this something to do with multi user systems? Is the mentioned code in

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread George Bonser
There is a telnet daemon for NT. I do not know what it is called, but I have seen it in use. On 16-Nov-97 Philippe Troin wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:21:04 PST George Bonser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > >> On 16-Nov-97 Philippe Troin wrote: >> > 3) NT is not multi-user, it's sequenti

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:21:04 PST George Bonser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 16-Nov-97 Philippe Troin wrote: > > 3) NT is not multi-user, it's sequential multi-user (and even that, badly). > > I mean, you cannot telnet onto an NT box and crash an other user session > > (hence sequenti

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread George Bonser
On 16-Nov-97 Philippe Troin wrote: > 3) NT is not multi-user, it's sequential multi-user (and even that, badly). > I mean, you cannot telnet onto an NT box and crash an other user session > (hence sequential). Furthermore, IMHO, it doesn't need a pentium bug > to crash it. You are wr

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:13:35 +0800 I wrote: > > 2) Intel has been estonishingly linux-friendly (Linux went to their -^ > headquarters discussing the linux patch, they mention Linux on the > web page they devoted to the bug) You shoul

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-17 Thread Philippe Troin
On Fri, 08 Mar 1996 15:26:15 +0100 Lukas Eppler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > There was a message in my newspaper this morning > (Tages-Anzeiger,17.Nov.97, Switzerland, www.tages-anzeiger.ch) > Which said the following (translated, my english isn't perfect) > - > New Pentium bug > > Inte