Its one of the most versatile project tools I've used for development projects. Full time management and accounting, tasks, there were even gantt charts addons, although I cannot remember where to find them.
Beyond project management, this also starts to grow into things like resource management. Its a very comprehensive package that I find extremely useful.
PHP+SQL and released under the GPL2. Will run on pretty much any platform (I have it on OSX, Apache+postgre) and easy to use once you get used to it.;)
I dunno... Seemed to really excite J.E Hoover and the FBI he ran. Maybe asking people that ran into him (like the Martin Luther King or Kennedy families) might give you some insight into that question.
CPanel seems to be one of the most popular, but my personal preference at the moment is for Plesk. It'll run on most platforms, including (but not limited to) Windows, RHEL and RHFC, Solaris, FreeBSD, and there is Debian support due before the end of the year.
Its got a bit of a price tag on it, but for the features you get out of it, I definitely recommend it.
Think of it simply as deliberately not helping to improve the pagerank of the article at LinuxWorld. The Groklaw readers aren't exactly stupid and PJ did say where the article was published.
Quite simply, given her own pagerank for topics such as Linux, SCO v IBM and so on, I think she's been pretty wise about the whole thing. Would you want a complete shill publishing on a site dedicated to spam and advertising over content having their pagerank improved by just a simple link?
If it were myself in the same position, I do not think I would have done any differently.
Yes, without updating the.NET Framework and getting the appropriate other updates, a WinXP SP2 installation is still vulnerable. I tested it with this particular virus on a sandbox in vmware workstation and it still bit the bullet and tried to fetch the files via FTP.
Sane thing anyone can do, as an added precaution is to limit FTP access to a set group of (power) users for now till the whole thing has been resolved properly. I also recommend that anyone who runs Windows should have a personal IDS installed along the lines of Prevx. Not just for this situation, but just as a good precaution in general. Prevx actually blocked the exploit.
No, you are mistaken. Do your research. There are many Free Software packages out there that cost money. There are many Open Source packages out there that cost money. As a simple example, you have to purchase Redhat Enterprise Linux (any version) if you want to use it. You get all the value and freedoms that the GPL grants, but you still have to pay to get the software itself. All of the big linux vendors charge for some of their products and are not breaching the GPL their products are licensed under. How do you think Redhat actually started making money?
Yes, there are many many packages out there that are made available to everyone at no purchase cost. Many linux distros, pretty much all of the Apache applications, the list is huge. However, what pisses me off and gets my blood boiling is that people constantly misrepresent Free Software as being Free of cost. Its not! It never claimed to be. If I write a package and release it as GPL, I can charge as much as I want for that package, just teh same as Microsoft can. The difference is that anyone that buys my package gets the source code with it and they can re release their changes without charging anything for it. As long as they meet the terms and conditions of the GPL.
Your BS about "Linux doesn't cost money" is blatantly wrong and is part of the perpetuating myth. Grow up and look around. We live an in economy controlled by capitalism. Neil's argument was that he couldn't make money of Open Source software because he had to give it away freely. That may be the case for some Open Source licenses, but not for software governed by the GPL.
Maybe you should read those links I posted as well. Learn the difference between OpenSource and Free Software. Understand what the hell RMS is on about before you start jumping in with absolute BS.
The point has probably been made several times here, and I know I am coming in to the conversation nearly 5 hours late, however what really bothered me about this paper was the complete apparent lack of understanding about the philosophy of 'Free Software'.
*All Software Should Be Free*
We're not talking about money here. Anyone is quite welcome to charge for free software as much as they want and think the software is worth. However, when we talk about free software, we're talking about freedoms and rights of the developer and end user, not the cost of the package.
This is one of the biggest and most fundamental misunderstandings that people seem to love throwing around. Microsoft is one of the worst examples at this. Perfect example would be the whole TCO BS that gets waved around in everyones faces every time MS talks about Linux platforms.
Neil, you claim to respect RMS yet you have failed to understand the very core of his philosophy in your third point.
As was once done to me many many moons ago, I again now point out that someone should have read the philosophy behind Free Software before making those statements. I say this quite clearly given that RMS was used as an example in this part of the document.
What is Free Software? http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Is Selling Free Software OK? http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html Why Free Software? http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html
Having said that, a lot of the other points I do agree with. Feature bloat has become an issue for me in Linux distros. Knoppix is a good example of a distro that doesn't try to do and be everything, but has everything you need as well as a lot of extras you might want. The fact that it fits on a single CD and doesn't need to be installed also works very much in its favour.;-)
As far as the 'scratch that personal itch' section goes.... I disagree in part. A lot of projects start out as someone putting together a tool to solve a problem they're having and then releasing it. A lot of these tools are not unique and finding alternatives is not very often difficult to do. However, the fact that these have been made available to everyone means that no one has to reinvent the wheel if they don't want to. Chances are, someone has already written the tool that does what they want. If not, go for it and release it so others might find it useful also.
This leads me on to one of the biggest problems I have with 'itch-tools'. Many of the developers expect the same sort of response and instant assistance that Linus got with Linux. Thing is, this is just not the case. 99% of the opensource or free software projects out there are going to be completely ignored as far as developers go. Its on a few projects like KDE, Gnome, GAIM, Mozilla, Linux, Apache HTTPd and Samba (just to name a tiny fraction) that will get support and a lot of people willing to contribute to the project over time.
My point is, the itch tools are definitely useful. Releasing them as GPL (or better yet, LGPL or BSD) means they're guaranteed to be available for as long as possible. It does not mean that anyone HAS to contribute to them or even use them. They're just there in case someone decides to.
Technically, if you can fit it in your machine, it shouldn't be that much of an issue. However, good luck finding drivers for the cards any longer. I doubt nVidia bother to maintain Voodoo card drivers for any of their platforms. We're talking about cards that are about 6-8years old now. You'd also run in to issues with things like memory.
I still have my Voodoo cards in the old 486DX4-100 box, just unfortunate that the machine has no HDD or memory in it any longer.
Personally, after playing FarCry on my Radeon x800, I could never go back.
----8---- Hall herself claimed later that she had been paraphrasing Voltaire's words in his Essay on Tolerance:
"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too."
Hall died in 1919.
In his A Book of French Quotations (1963), Norbert Guterman suggested that the probable source for the quotation was a line in a 6 February 1770 letter to M. le Riche: "Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write." ----8---- http://www.classroomtools.com/ voltaire.htm
Thanks for pointing this out. I had never even heard of Hall before this. However, in my defense, from that paper:
"In any case, the phrase was too eloquent, so it became quoted, and famous names attach themselves to quotes, to the detriment of the less well-known originators."
To be honest, I had completely forgotten I even had a sig setup as I've configured / to not show them.
First thing you are going to want before you can go to the boss and shove it up his nose is proof. Put a machine on a monitor port of the switch right beside the egress point of the firewall and sniff away. You know what sort of traffic should be going out so you can filter a lot of that out. You also know that given you're hosting sites, most of your connections are going to be originated from the outside, coming in. So filter those out and look for connections from the inside going out.
Ultimately you're going to need to build up some pretty decent filters or you'll just overwhelm the machine doing the sniffing, but if you know what traffic should look like going across your firewall, you can look for the anomalies quite easily.
Probably the easiest way for you to do this would be to use something like Snort with some pretty decent rules. The downside to IDS is that it takes a lot of effort to get the rules setup properly for your network, but that could easily be done in your spare time, off the clock as it were.
Virus scanners aren't always the best solution to finding back doors and such. On Windows there sure to be malware out there that just hasn't been noticed yet because it doesn't do anything overtly "virus-like". Trojans and malware like NetBus or BackOrifice (to use two very well known examples) are easily altered to hide from many AV apps (just that no one bothers anymore).
Because of this, any machine you think is compromised should be rebuilt and patched up from scratch. Once you've got it rebuilt, and before you put it back on the network, use Tripwire (or even a shell script) to take a baseline MD5 hash of every single windows and application file on your harddrive. This has two advantages. 1) You build up a list of known good files on your machine. 2) It becomes easy to spot new/added files and investigate them. You can do this on any platform, *nix or Windows.
To get the evidence you want though, you're going to need to use tcpdump/snort/ethereal (or any other sniffer you are comfortable with) to prove there is traffic going across your [firewall|egress routers] that shouldn't be.
Oh, one point I forgot to mention. The card doesn't need to plug in to the line in port of your sound card. I have a direct connection between the card itself and my SBLive Auxiliary port. This means there are no extra cables on the back and it doesn't affect any surround setup as the review said it did.
Maybe thats a difference between the Deluxe and the Expert, but I don't think so. I've owned my card a little over a year now. Its definitely not the sort of feature that would get dropped and I'd expect it to have migrated to all models by now.
I personally own a Leadtek Winfast TV2000XP Expert card, the big brother to the Deluxe. It uses the same software and drivers and yet my experience has been far better than the reviewers. (http://www.leadtek.com/multimedia/winfast_tv2000x p_expert_1.html)
The remote is brilliant. About the only thing that cannot be done from the remote is scheduling of recordings and setup (such as tuning channels). Everything else can be achieved from the remote. Their talk of not being able to start the TV/FM tuners from the power button on the remote is just wrong. If you have the WinFast Wizard running in your system tray, you can power the TV/FM tuners on and off without a problem using the remote. You don't need to start it from the keyboard/mouse at all.
The size of the files when recording a show can be an issue. However, I use DivX codecs for that and the sizes are exceptionally smaller than standard MPEG1/2 file sizes. That goes without saying. What bothered me however is that I didn't experience anywhere near the sizes they described when using the MPEG1/2 codecs. 5 minutes of TV recording for me using those codecs is around 500KB, not nearly 800KB. Maybe there is an extra setting he had altered that I have not, or maybe I have just tweaked mine a little more. However, the bitrates and such were the same as what I have in my default profiles.
As I live in New Zealand, I cannot use Titan or any other service to book recordings for my shows. I do that manually. I cannot speak for the experience he had with Titan. As far as manually setting up recordings go, its very simple and straight forward. Select the channel, select the start/finish times, select the encoding profile and then give it a filename. Very simple. The date/time is appended to the filename so that if you have multiple recordings with the same name, or just forget to give it a name, the file will always have a unique, timestamped name. This is very useful if you have several episodes of a weekly show recorded so you can easily find the episode you're looking for.
Personally, I love this card myself. I find it brilliant, easy to use and so far, all other software beyond that which comes with the card has not been suitable to my personal likes. The bundled software has been the best. Not even BeyondTV 3 from Snapstream was good enough for me. I liked the way I could watch recorded shows from anywhere, but the software itself just wasn't nice to use (and it doesn't support the remote for this card).
I have used this card with MythTV as well. That is nice and its very straight forward to get running. The remote works, with some external help, and the only thing I found myself doing was changing the volume/channel buttons on the remote to work more like cursor navigation buttons. I then had the fine tune buttons setup for changing the volume and just used the number buttons for changing channels. However, in the end, it did all work nicely and was a very satisfactory setup for a full time PVR. Unfortunately I like to use my computer for more than just watching TV;-)
Do I recommend this card? Most definitely. Of all the TV tuner cards I've owned (6 over the years now) this is the best to date.
So what you are suggesting is to break the law by completely ignoring the terms of their license, thereby waiving any rights you legally might have had to use the software and effectively making yourself a pirate?
Sorry, but regardless of whether you can do something because its possible doesn't mean you can do it legally. Just because I can walk out of a store without paying for an item in my pocket doesn't mean its legal for me to do so. What you are suggesting is no different to theft. Also remember that we're talking about copyrighted works and therefore, civil disobedience asside, you open yourself up to possible prosecution under the DMCA and its offshoots.
A while back I was using a tool called Thingamablog and it does exactly what you're wanting.
It is a local Java application (no OS dependancies, if there is a JRE it'll run) that has its own mini SQL server built in. You edit using the application and then it creates Static HTML pages from your templates and uploads them via FTP (might support other methods by now) to the webserver. Is a very simple, clean, easy tool if you just want to publish a blog.
I have to admit I'm surprised its taken Novell this long to announce their move to Linux + OpenOffice.org given how long they've now had Ximian in the fold. I would've expected them to have announced their intention to do so a lot sooner.
This is a huge coup. Not only are IBM doing the same thing with their desktops (although they're porting MSOffice instead of using a Free office suite) but with Novell, one of the oldest Networking platform companies still surviving, announcing this on top of all their other efforts, people are really going to start taking notice and realising that maybe Linux truly is Prime Time for businesses now.
Then again... So far its only been companies that have a lot to do with Linux and Linux based services that have announced this. Would be very nice if someone like HP, Dell, or Gateway came out and got on the bandwagon. That would hold a lot more weight with the average IT manager or C-level management.
Still, slow small steps turn to huge gallops rather quickly in the IT world:-)
I second this nomination. I have used Fireworks to quickly produce design mockups that could be sent to the customer for approval as a PNG and then its VERY easy to convert to a Dreamweaver template or even to just a general HTML page on its own. You're right, it is often overlooked. Its not something that can compete directly with Photoshop as an extremely powerful and expandable graphics application, but its brilliant for web designs and web images.
XHTML 1.1 Strict and CSS2 are my preference currently. It is easy enough to pick up if you know HTML and people going directly to trublu XML coded sites are probably those that already use XML for other purposes as it is.
I don't know about Mozilla Hacks... The only time I've ever seen any sort of hack has been to screw around with CSS so that IE displays things properly... Never for Mozilla.
Having said that, I am in the process of recoding my site to be completely CSS/XHTML 1.0 Transitional instead of coding it to be for any browser. So I guess that means I suggest you code your pages to the W3.org standards. its the only way to be sure that the browser makers get the point.
I don't like the idea that Opera promotes of allowing you to pretend to be another browser. The whole idea of coding a page for a specific browser just really pisses me off. If you code a page to a specific browser, what was the whole point in w3.org coming up with standards? And if 90% of people use IE, whats going to get the point across to MS to use the standards properly better? As it is, the whole defacto standard of 'code for IE, the rest can put up with it' is just taking us back to days of 'use MSOffice, the others can kinda view it.'
The new design I will be putting on my site soon (just finishing colours and graphics) is going to be 100% CSS and XHTML 1.0 Trans and if people using IE can't get the full benefits of it, they can either get a browser that can (firefox) or they can complain to Microsoft about it. If they don't want to do either of those things, well, I'm not going to lose any sleep if they don't come back to my site.
So basically, don't code for any browser, code to w3.org standards. XHTML 1.0 Transitional/XHTML 1.1 Strict or, if you're proficient in it, go straight to pure XML. Trust me, down the line you'll be much better off and far happier you'd done it now and not waited for Longhorn's release to do so.
Hosting Metro for a while now and am very very happy with it. To the point where one of my friends has now signed up with them and another is about to as soon as his existing hosting contract finishes. These guys are great.
You do effectively run inside a virtual machine on a shared server. You can reboot your vhost any time you like from the control panels, you have shell and SFTP/SCP via SSH (obviously) and you get to choose what you want to install. You can install the GNU compiler tools to add your own applications or you can just go with the basics.
For a bit over $6/mnth you get 500megs of storage, 20gig of traffic, unlimited pop mail boxes, secure SMTP or POP3 before SMTP, MySQL or PostgreSQL as you like, Real Server, (mod_)PHP, (mod_)Perl 5, Apache, full control over your domains and subdomains, including the ability to create and modify all your own DNS records. You can point multiple domains there if you like.
There are a lot of other features there as well. I liked it enough I signed up for 2 years up front.
Support is great. Every email question I've ever sent them has been answered quickly and coherently. They work with you until the issue is resolved and don't just say 'its not happening for us' as I've experienced with others in the past. The guys aren't just textbook admins, they definitely seem to know what they're doing from my observations.
There are a lot more features I cannot begin to cover off here. But definitely check out their options. I'm sure you'll find something there you'll like.
J2ME is probably the best to get the game on to the broadest range of platforms. It'd work on Palm devices definitely, but you'd also have a HUGE base for smartphones (the group of platforms, not the single MS platform) as well as most other 'normal' phones that are now on the market.
I suggest that if you code for Symbian, you code for Series60 instead of UIQ. Main reason being there is a bigger customer base in that market (More than just Nokia use the Series 60 interface) and the dev tools and SDKs are free. Just sign up as a developer with Nokia and you can get them and the simulator/emulator for free to test your app on, even if you don't have a Series 60 phone.
Personally, I'm doing my development for J2ME simply because of the bigger market. But having said that, most of my apps are being aimed at Series60 J2ME platforms. Its just nicer. Its still easy to have it run on other J2ME devices, but I prefer the Series60:-)
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Its one of the most versatile project tools I've used for development projects. Full time management and accounting, tasks, there were even gantt charts addons, although I cannot remember where to find them.
Beyond project management, this also starts to grow into things like resource management. Its a very comprehensive package that I find extremely useful.
PHP+SQL and released under the GPL2. Will run on pretty much any platform (I have it on OSX, Apache+postgre) and easy to use once you get used to it. ;)
If you truly believe that, you're a fool. Have a look at the EFF's summary of the effects that can be felt by the PATRIOT Act.
Don't like the EFF? Okay, what about EPIC's ongoing play by play of the same act? Including events relating directly to it.
Really? It hasn't happened? Short memory there.
I dunno... Seemed to really excite J.E Hoover and the FBI he ran. Maybe asking people that ran into him (like the Martin Luther King or Kennedy families) might give you some insight into that question.
Godwin's law... I win! :)
Err... No, you loose. ;)
CPanel seems to be one of the most popular, but my personal preference at the moment is for Plesk. It'll run on most platforms, including (but not limited to) Windows, RHEL and RHFC, Solaris, FreeBSD, and there is Debian support due before the end of the year.
Its got a bit of a price tag on it, but for the features you get out of it, I definitely recommend it.
Think of it simply as deliberately not helping to improve the pagerank of the article at LinuxWorld. The Groklaw readers aren't exactly stupid and PJ did say where the article was published.
Quite simply, given her own pagerank for topics such as Linux, SCO v IBM and so on, I think she's been pretty wise about the whole thing. Would you want a complete shill publishing on a site dedicated to spam and advertising over content having their pagerank improved by just a simple link?
If it were myself in the same position, I do not think I would have done any differently.
Yes, without updating the .NET Framework and getting the appropriate other updates, a WinXP SP2 installation is still vulnerable. I tested it with this particular virus on a sandbox in vmware workstation and it still bit the bullet and tried to fetch the files via FTP.
Sane thing anyone can do, as an added precaution is to limit FTP access to a set group of (power) users for now till the whole thing has been resolved properly. I also recommend that anyone who runs Windows should have a personal IDS installed along the lines of Prevx. Not just for this situation, but just as a good precaution in general. Prevx actually blocked the exploit.
Doh! You beat me to it! ;-) Is exactly what I was going to suggest as well.
This XForms is perfect for this kind of application.
Couldn't find anything? Didn't try very hard. :|
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One search alone generates quite a few apps that fit into your stated requirements. I'm sure if I tried I could find you a lot more.
http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=cafe§ion=proje
No, you are mistaken. Do your research. There are many Free Software packages out there that cost money. There are many Open Source packages out there that cost money. As a simple example, you have to purchase Redhat Enterprise Linux (any version) if you want to use it. You get all the value and freedoms that the GPL grants, but you still have to pay to get the software itself. All of the big linux vendors charge for some of their products and are not breaching the GPL their products are licensed under. How do you think Redhat actually started making money?
Yes, there are many many packages out there that are made available to everyone at no purchase cost. Many linux distros, pretty much all of the Apache applications, the list is huge. However, what pisses me off and gets my blood boiling is that people constantly misrepresent Free Software as being Free of cost. Its not! It never claimed to be. If I write a package and release it as GPL, I can charge as much as I want for that package, just teh same as Microsoft can. The difference is that anyone that buys my package gets the source code with it and they can re release their changes without charging anything for it. As long as they meet the terms and conditions of the GPL.
Your BS about "Linux doesn't cost money" is blatantly wrong and is part of the perpetuating myth. Grow up and look around. We live an in economy controlled by capitalism. Neil's argument was that he couldn't make money of Open Source software because he had to give it away freely. That may be the case for some Open Source licenses, but not for software governed by the GPL.
Maybe you should read those links I posted as well. Learn the difference between OpenSource and Free Software. Understand what the hell RMS is on about before you start jumping in with absolute BS.
The point has probably been made several times here, and I know I am coming in to the conversation nearly 5 hours late, however what really bothered me about this paper was the complete apparent lack of understanding about the philosophy of 'Free Software'.
;-)
*All Software Should Be Free*
We're not talking about money here. Anyone is quite welcome to charge for free software as much as they want and think the software is worth. However, when we talk about free software, we're talking about freedoms and rights of the developer and end user, not the cost of the package.
This is one of the biggest and most fundamental misunderstandings that people seem to love throwing around. Microsoft is one of the worst examples at this. Perfect example would be the whole TCO BS that gets waved around in everyones faces every time MS talks about Linux platforms.
Neil, you claim to respect RMS yet you have failed to understand the very core of his philosophy in your third point.
As was once done to me many many moons ago, I again now point out that someone should have read the philosophy behind Free Software before making those statements. I say this quite clearly given that RMS was used as an example in this part of the document.
What is Free Software? http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Is Selling Free Software OK? http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
Why Free Software? http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html
Having said that, a lot of the other points I do agree with. Feature bloat has become an issue for me in Linux distros. Knoppix is a good example of a distro that doesn't try to do and be everything, but has everything you need as well as a lot of extras you might want. The fact that it fits on a single CD and doesn't need to be installed also works very much in its favour.
As far as the 'scratch that personal itch' section goes.... I disagree in part. A lot of projects start out as someone putting together a tool to solve a problem they're having and then releasing it. A lot of these tools are not unique and finding alternatives is not very often difficult to do. However, the fact that these have been made available to everyone means that no one has to reinvent the wheel if they don't want to. Chances are, someone has already written the tool that does what they want. If not, go for it and release it so others might find it useful also.
This leads me on to one of the biggest problems I have with 'itch-tools'. Many of the developers expect the same sort of response and instant assistance that Linus got with Linux. Thing is, this is just not the case. 99% of the opensource or free software projects out there are going to be completely ignored as far as developers go. Its on a few projects like KDE, Gnome, GAIM, Mozilla, Linux, Apache HTTPd and Samba (just to name a tiny fraction) that will get support and a lot of people willing to contribute to the project over time.
My point is, the itch tools are definitely useful. Releasing them as GPL (or better yet, LGPL or BSD) means they're guaranteed to be available for as long as possible. It does not mean that anyone HAS to contribute to them or even use them. They're just there in case someone decides to.
Technically, if you can fit it in your machine, it shouldn't be that much of an issue. However, good luck finding drivers for the cards any longer. I doubt nVidia bother to maintain Voodoo card drivers for any of their platforms. We're talking about cards that are about 6-8years old now. You'd also run in to issues with things like memory.
I still have my Voodoo cards in the old 486DX4-100 box, just unfortunate that the machine has no HDD or memory in it any longer.
Personally, after playing FarCry on my Radeon x800, I could never go back.
Break out my old Voodoo2 cards again... SLI? Sure... My voodoo2 cards in series from my Radeon x800 :-) Who says you have to have a 6800? ;-)
A little research on Hall has turned up...
/ voltaire.htm
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Hall herself claimed later that she had been paraphrasing Voltaire's words in his Essay on Tolerance:
"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too."
Hall died in 1919.
In his A Book of French Quotations (1963), Norbert Guterman suggested that the probable source for the quotation was a line in a 6 February 1770 letter to M. le Riche: "Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write."
----8----
http://www.classroomtools.com
Thanks for pointing this out. I had never even heard of Hall before this. However, in my defense, from that paper:
"In any case, the phrase was too eloquent, so it became quoted, and famous names attach themselves to quotes, to the detriment of the less well-known originators."
To be honest, I had completely forgotten I even had a sig setup as I've configured / to not show them.
First thing you are going to want before you can go to the boss and shove it up his nose is proof. Put a machine on a monitor port of the switch right beside the egress point of the firewall and sniff away. You know what sort of traffic should be going out so you can filter a lot of that out. You also know that given you're hosting sites, most of your connections are going to be originated from the outside, coming in. So filter those out and look for connections from the inside going out.
Ultimately you're going to need to build up some pretty decent filters or you'll just overwhelm the machine doing the sniffing, but if you know what traffic should look like going across your firewall, you can look for the anomalies quite easily.
Probably the easiest way for you to do this would be to use something like Snort with some pretty decent rules. The downside to IDS is that it takes a lot of effort to get the rules setup properly for your network, but that could easily be done in your spare time, off the clock as it were.
Virus scanners aren't always the best solution to finding back doors and such. On Windows there sure to be malware out there that just hasn't been noticed yet because it doesn't do anything overtly "virus-like". Trojans and malware like NetBus or BackOrifice (to use two very well known examples) are easily altered to hide from many AV apps (just that no one bothers anymore).
Because of this, any machine you think is compromised should be rebuilt and patched up from scratch. Once you've got it rebuilt, and before you put it back on the network, use Tripwire (or even a shell script) to take a baseline MD5 hash of every single windows and application file on your harddrive. This has two advantages. 1) You build up a list of known good files on your machine. 2) It becomes easy to spot new/added files and investigate them. You can do this on any platform, *nix or Windows.
To get the evidence you want though, you're going to need to use tcpdump/snort/ethereal (or any other sniffer you are comfortable with) to prove there is traffic going across your [firewall|egress routers] that shouldn't be.
Oh, one point I forgot to mention. The card doesn't need to plug in to the line in port of your sound card. I have a direct connection between the card itself and my SBLive Auxiliary port. This means there are no extra cables on the back and it doesn't affect any surround setup as the review said it did.
Maybe thats a difference between the Deluxe and the Expert, but I don't think so. I've owned my card a little over a year now. Its definitely not the sort of feature that would get dropped and I'd expect it to have migrated to all models by now.
I personally own a Leadtek Winfast TV2000XP Expert card, the big brother to the Deluxe. It uses the same software and drivers and yet my experience has been far better than the reviewers. (http://www.leadtek.com/multimedia/winfast_tv2000x p_expert_1.html)
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The remote is brilliant. About the only thing that cannot be done from the remote is scheduling of recordings and setup (such as tuning channels). Everything else can be achieved from the remote. Their talk of not being able to start the TV/FM tuners from the power button on the remote is just wrong. If you have the WinFast Wizard running in your system tray, you can power the TV/FM tuners on and off without a problem using the remote. You don't need to start it from the keyboard/mouse at all.
The size of the files when recording a show can be an issue. However, I use DivX codecs for that and the sizes are exceptionally smaller than standard MPEG1/2 file sizes. That goes without saying. What bothered me however is that I didn't experience anywhere near the sizes they described when using the MPEG1/2 codecs. 5 minutes of TV recording for me using those codecs is around 500KB, not nearly 800KB. Maybe there is an extra setting he had altered that I have not, or maybe I have just tweaked mine a little more. However, the bitrates and such were the same as what I have in my default profiles.
As I live in New Zealand, I cannot use Titan or any other service to book recordings for my shows. I do that manually. I cannot speak for the experience he had with Titan. As far as manually setting up recordings go, its very simple and straight forward. Select the channel, select the start/finish times, select the encoding profile and then give it a filename. Very simple. The date/time is appended to the filename so that if you have multiple recordings with the same name, or just forget to give it a name, the file will always have a unique, timestamped name. This is very useful if you have several episodes of a weekly show recorded so you can easily find the episode you're looking for.
Personally, I love this card myself. I find it brilliant, easy to use and so far, all other software beyond that which comes with the card has not been suitable to my personal likes. The bundled software has been the best. Not even BeyondTV 3 from Snapstream was good enough for me. I liked the way I could watch recorded shows from anywhere, but the software itself just wasn't nice to use (and it doesn't support the remote for this card).
I have used this card with MythTV as well. That is nice and its very straight forward to get running. The remote works, with some external help, and the only thing I found myself doing was changing the volume/channel buttons on the remote to work more like cursor navigation buttons. I then had the fine tune buttons setup for changing the volume and just used the number buttons for changing channels. However, in the end, it did all work nicely and was a very satisfactory setup for a full time PVR. Unfortunately I like to use my computer for more than just watching TV
Do I recommend this card? Most definitely. Of all the TV tuner cards I've owned (6 over the years now) this is the best to date.
So what you are suggesting is to break the law by completely ignoring the terms of their license, thereby waiving any rights you legally might have had to use the software and effectively making yourself a pirate?
Sorry, but regardless of whether you can do something because its possible doesn't mean you can do it legally. Just because I can walk out of a store without paying for an item in my pocket doesn't mean its legal for me to do so. What you are suggesting is no different to theft. Also remember that we're talking about copyrighted works and therefore, civil disobedience asside, you open yourself up to possible prosecution under the DMCA and its offshoots.
Don't be an idiot.
A while back I was using a tool called Thingamablog and it does exactly what you're wanting.
It is a local Java application (no OS dependancies, if there is a JRE it'll run) that has its own mini SQL server built in. You edit using the application and then it creates Static HTML pages from your templates and uploads them via FTP (might support other methods by now) to the webserver. Is a very simple, clean, easy tool if you just want to publish a blog.
I have to admit I'm surprised its taken Novell this long to announce their move to Linux + OpenOffice.org given how long they've now had Ximian in the fold. I would've expected them to have announced their intention to do so a lot sooner.
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This is a huge coup. Not only are IBM doing the same thing with their desktops (although they're porting MSOffice instead of using a Free office suite) but with Novell, one of the oldest Networking platform companies still surviving, announcing this on top of all their other efforts, people are really going to start taking notice and realising that maybe Linux truly is Prime Time for businesses now.
Then again... So far its only been companies that have a lot to do with Linux and Linux based services that have announced this. Would be very nice if someone like HP, Dell, or Gateway came out and got on the bandwagon. That would hold a lot more weight with the average IT manager or C-level management.
Still, slow small steps turn to huge gallops rather quickly in the IT world
I second this nomination. I have used Fireworks to quickly produce design mockups that could be sent to the customer for approval as a PNG and then its VERY easy to convert to a Dreamweaver template or even to just a general HTML page on its own. You're right, it is often overlooked. Its not something that can compete directly with Photoshop as an extremely powerful and expandable graphics application, but its brilliant for web designs and web images.
XHTML 1.1 Strict and CSS2 are my preference currently. It is easy enough to pick up if you know HTML and people going directly to trublu XML coded sites are probably those that already use XML for other purposes as it is.
I don't know about Mozilla Hacks... The only time I've ever seen any sort of hack has been to screw around with CSS so that IE displays things properly... Never for Mozilla.
Having said that, I am in the process of recoding my site to be completely CSS/XHTML 1.0 Transitional instead of coding it to be for any browser. So I guess that means I suggest you code your pages to the W3.org standards. its the only way to be sure that the browser makers get the point.
I don't like the idea that Opera promotes of allowing you to pretend to be another browser. The whole idea of coding a page for a specific browser just really pisses me off. If you code a page to a specific browser, what was the whole point in w3.org coming up with standards? And if 90% of people use IE, whats going to get the point across to MS to use the standards properly better? As it is, the whole defacto standard of 'code for IE, the rest can put up with it' is just taking us back to days of 'use MSOffice, the others can kinda view it.'
The new design I will be putting on my site soon (just finishing colours and graphics) is going to be 100% CSS and XHTML 1.0 Trans and if people using IE can't get the full benefits of it, they can either get a browser that can (firefox) or they can complain to Microsoft about it. If they don't want to do either of those things, well, I'm not going to lose any sleep if they don't come back to my site.
So basically, don't code for any browser, code to w3.org standards. XHTML 1.0 Transitional/XHTML 1.1 Strict or, if you're proficient in it, go straight to pure XML. Trust me, down the line you'll be much better off and far happier you'd done it now and not waited for Longhorn's release to do so.
Hosting Metro for a while now and am very very happy with it. To the point where one of my friends has now signed up with them and another is about to as soon as his existing hosting contract finishes. These guys are great.
You do effectively run inside a virtual machine on a shared server. You can reboot your vhost any time you like from the control panels, you have shell and SFTP/SCP via SSH (obviously) and you get to choose what you want to install. You can install the GNU compiler tools to add your own applications or you can just go with the basics.
For a bit over $6/mnth you get 500megs of storage, 20gig of traffic, unlimited pop mail boxes, secure SMTP or POP3 before SMTP, MySQL or PostgreSQL as you like, Real Server, (mod_)PHP, (mod_)Perl 5, Apache, full control over your domains and subdomains, including the ability to create and modify all your own DNS records. You can point multiple domains there if you like.
There are a lot of other features there as well. I liked it enough I signed up for 2 years up front.
Support is great. Every email question I've ever sent them has been answered quickly and coherently. They work with you until the issue is resolved and don't just say 'its not happening for us' as I've experienced with others in the past. The guys aren't just textbook admins, they definitely seem to know what they're doing from my observations.
There are a lot more features I cannot begin to cover off here. But definitely check out their options. I'm sure you'll find something there you'll like.
J2ME is probably the best to get the game on to the broadest range of platforms. It'd work on Palm devices definitely, but you'd also have a HUGE base for smartphones (the group of platforms, not the single MS platform) as well as most other 'normal' phones that are now on the market.
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I suggest that if you code for Symbian, you code for Series60 instead of UIQ. Main reason being there is a bigger customer base in that market (More than just Nokia use the Series 60 interface) and the dev tools and SDKs are free. Just sign up as a developer with Nokia and you can get them and the simulator/emulator for free to test your app on, even if you don't have a Series 60 phone.
Personally, I'm doing my development for J2ME simply because of the bigger market. But having said that, most of my apps are being aimed at Series60 J2ME platforms. Its just nicer. Its still easy to have it run on other J2ME devices, but I prefer the Series60