What I don't get is why the Epia MII-12000, which has a fan, and not one of the fanless ones?
If you don't push the CPU too far, you can even run the faster VIAs fanless. If the power supply or something else blows a bit of air around the CPU cooler, it won't even get warm.
BTW if you want to save some money, use a USB stick instead of the CF card and IDE adaptor. USB (even 2.0) sticks are a bit slower than CF cards, but not significantly since the flash memory remains the bottleneck. Needing more speed, you can simply replace them with an external USB HD drive. Within Linux, USB devices behave like SCSI disks (/dev/sd*). All current VIA boards can boot from USB.
As soon as someone shouts for capital punishment after IT crimes, writing viruses or sending spam would be the least of all cases, compared to intellectual property violations. RIAA, MPAA, BSA and others would like to see thousands of software/media pirates executed. These associations have much more power than all anti-spam initatives together.
Especially in enterprise environments, a wrong command or insufficient planning of some critical tasks can have severe side-effects. When I started administration, I installed GNU/Linux onto an old desktop PC which wasn't any longer good enough as a workstation but sufficient as a "playground" box. System upgrades, new kernel releases, complex shell scripts and even MTA or WWW server settings can be tested without disturbing other people's work. Internet access is only necessary as far as a HTTP proxy is concerned, to get updates.
...if you don't "unsubscribe" your own email addresses but those of other spammers. Soon they'll spam each other, spoiling their business (especially as far as 419 scams are concerned) and occupying their ressources.
If you "unsubscribe" a few hundred email addresses in parallel, you can even/. a spammer's server and make it quite impossible for spam victims to order penis enlargement pills.
Every admin can generate his SSH key pair and have the public key appended to/root/.ssh/authorized_keys. Maybe the private keys could be stored on a USB stick or a chip card for better security. They should be protected by key-specific passwords, too.
So nobody would get in touch with actual root passwords, which can be stored at a safe place.
If they're behind a NAT, you'll get an email that says the IP address is something like 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x
That won't be very useful.
It could be, if you install some kind of port forwarder or VPN daemon onto your laptop, so you can login from anywhere. If it has been stolen and connected to some intranet, you can sniff their passwords, read their email and h4x0r their infrastructure into nirvana.
419 scams are the only kind of spam whose email addresses are valid and belong to the spammer - that's how the mugus want to be contacted by their victims. Of course this would get more and more difficult if these addresses get flooded with spam.
Many 419 mugus suffer from their small and weak penises, don't have any major education and need lots of stock opportunities to put their money into. It's only gentle to help them by having their email addresses fed into as many spammers' databases as possible.
rima-tde.net is a major European spam source. So is wanadoo.fr whose official email relays (193.252.22.21-30) are sending me about 50 spam emails per day. Almost everyone in Europe is blocking their entire netblocks, but that can't be a solution as not everyone is able to block them.
So there are only two solutions left - either eat your spam or dig a deep hole, put Wanadoo's netblocks including their email relays in and let them rot there. Writing spam complaints to Wanadoo is futile.
Blocking URLs is an "ACTIVE" measure - and one that opens very bad
possibilities for abuse.
The SURBL is not blocking URLs but IPs where spamvertised URLs are hosted at. I've been doing this for about half a year, too - it's really effective in filtering spam as most spammers choose "bulletproof" ISPs whose netblocks are listed on SPEWS and SBL for that reason. Take Chinanet, for example - an email which is including a link hosted at Chinanet is almost always spam.
I'd recommend not a single SURBL list but several ones, ranging from an in-progress DNSBL to a SPEWS-/SBL-like blacklist with the latter fed manually.
If SURBL gains acceptance, spammers could choose bulletproof ISPs and have most of their spam emails filtered due to SURBL listings, or choose white-hat ISPs and don't get filtered but kicked.
Spammers are using more sophisticated methods to reach as many victims as possible. But they have one thing in common with the spammers who where active two years ago - they choose "bulletproof", bulk-friendly ISPs to host their stuff. Such ISPs like Chinanet are known to tolerate spamvertised sites on purpose, so their IP netblocks usually get blacklisted to prevent them from sending email and put pressure on them to kick their spammers. But blacklists don't yet prevent spam victims from ordering penis enlargement pills. As long as a spamvertised site is accessible, there will always be a few idiots who line the spammer's pockets.
Regular "white-hat" ISPs won't tolerate spamvertised WWW sites and kick them quite soon. So do many uplinks of smaller ISPs. But anti-spam terms of service seem to stop at backbone level. The German DE-CIX Internet Exchange center, though operated by an institution which is known for successfully fighting against spam, does not forbid spam support or downlinking spam-friendly customers. In fact they can't prevent DE-CIX membersfrom hosting spammers or providing connectivity to other ISPs who do so.
Traceroutes to spammer hosts all over the world show that many spam-friendly ISPs are directly connected to big backbonesor even operate them. But why? A backbone or CIX is nothing more than a "better" internet access point. So where is the reason not to enforce anti-spam TOS like any "smaller" ISP? If they did, e. g. Above.net could choose between routing Chinanet and routing Germany, and Alan Ralsky or Scott Richter could host their stuff at bulk friendly intranet access providers or normal ISPs who would kick them. So making a profit out of spam would be much more difficult.
In Germany, the GEZ (Gebuehreneinzugszentrale) demands every household with TV and/or radio to contribute a monthly fee which is more expensive (about 16 Euros) than a cheap DSL connection. What is more, GEZ people are known for their sometimes nasty methods to acquire subscribers. So especially many students don't need a TV and put the money into more useful things like internet connectivity.
But in this case we're back to square one - we're already fighting KNOWN spammers like Ralsky...
We only blacklist his spamvertised hosts on SPEWS, Spamhaus and other DNSBLs to prevent the bulletproof hoster from sending email. Use the same DNSBLs in a HTTP proxy or a router and the spammer's servers are "invisible". If a spam filter can check spamvertised targets against DNSBLs, it can recognise a lot of spam emails which otherwise might get through.
But do you seriously think, AOL will pay dozens of employees to find out just WHETHER a spam is "legit"
I don't think so. They rely on content filters and their users determining if an email is legit or not. If they notice a frequently spamvertised site, they put pressure onto the hoster - if possible by their legal staff, as they did in Germany with a pr0n dialer operator who is out of business now. If legal methods don't work, AOL can only eat the spam or "unsubscribe" from spam friendly hosters' dirty traffic.
I don't know, whether this is such a brilliant idea - if this gets widely adopted it can't be long before some idiot will get the idea of paying for a spam to "advertise" one of his competitors just to get HIS site blocked...
I'm sure AOL won't block any joe-jobbed targets but only bulletproof servers hosted at Chinanet, Telecom Malaysia, Procergs.com.br etc. which have been spamvertised by known spam gangs.
This is *really* a good idea - Alan Ralsky uses several "throw-away" domains per spam run, but only a handful of different servers to host his crap. Null route these and Ralsky can enlarge his own penis.
How about apache? It dominates the web server market. BIND for the DNS market?
Neither are tied to a distribution by force. If you want to run GNU/Linux without a DNS or web server (or with alternative software), maybe on a notebook or a PDA, nobody and nothing prevents you from doing so.
On many Windows machines (especially servers), Media Player, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express are unnecessary and don't contribute any needed features, only security risks. So if Microsoft still believes that bundling these software products to each Windows installation would be necessary, they should pay for the damage - per incident multiplied with affected Windows systems including sold but never used OEM licenes (aka M$ tax). A worldwide severe M$IE hole which gets exploited by worms would result in fines which are high enough to hurt even Microsoft.
...found within bundled software like IE, OE, Media Player and Movie Maker. M$ would voluntarily unbundle these components or run out of cash quite soon.
Where is the tactical nuke for spam? I want a tool that goes on the offensive against spammers.
If you're hosting your own DNS, use a spam trap subdomain and feed its addresses to any spammer until it gets flooded with a few hundred spam emails per day. If a spammer's host annoys you and has port 25 open, redirect your spam trap's MX record to that host... the bastards will spam each other and your email server can relax.
Last year the French superspammer Artmarket has been "blown away" after some spam trap operators made him eat his own spam until it stopped.
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As soon as email costs money, the spammers will be the last ones to pay for their crap. Even worse, the whole system begs to get abused.
Phishing for credit cards, email accounts and passwords is very common.
Most spam is being relayed through trojaned Wind0ze boxes, whose owners would have to pay the postage.
Email would become a "premium rate service" similar to expensive SMS or phone numbers, with the recipient getting a small (or maybe bigger) amount of money for each received email. It won't take too long for spammers to make wormed Wind0ze boxes send them zillions of emails and lining up their pockets.
The Audi A2, which actually is _in production_ (and has been for a couple of years) has a "locked" hood/bonnet too.
The A2's hood is not really locked shut, it's only held differently compared to other cars. After unlocking two quick-out knobs, you can lift the hood (about 9 kg) off and access everything without the hood being in the way.
Now imagine every household being connected to the Internet with a permanent broadband connection. Most people use unpatched Windoze boxes and don't get the idea that their infrastructure could do any damage to the Internet. With broadband access and powerful PCs, they don't even notice any abusive performance loss or bandwidth consumption. Not to speak of Windoze Media Center, which barely requires any IT knowledge to operate a PC.
So broadband access for every household might be a good idea, but only if infrastructure is safe enough (e. g. require routers/firewalls) and ISPs' abuse staff would be able to prevent trojaned customer boxes ASAP from polluting the Internet.
About a year ago, German email users have been spammed with similar e-cards, which claimed to need a special presentation plugin. The "plugin" actually dialed an expensive premium-rate service number. Despite thousands of victims complaining about high phone bills, it took about a year to stop this kind of fraud.
Does anyone get the idea that maybe the Internet will be used for nothing but pushed intertainment like some glorified TV set? Soon, the Internet may be nothing more then a controlled system by Hollywood and the like.
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More and more people in Europe are nullrouting any Comcast netblock they getspamfrom. So Disney's damage to the Internet would be limited.
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If you don't push the CPU too far, you can even run the faster VIAs fanless. If the power supply or something else blows a bit of air around the CPU cooler, it won't even get warm.
BTW if you want to save some money, use a USB stick instead of the CF card and IDE adaptor. USB (even 2.0) sticks are a bit slower than CF cards, but not significantly since the flash memory remains the bottleneck. Needing more speed, you can simply replace them with an external USB HD drive. Within Linux, USB devices behave like SCSI disks (/dev/sd*). All current VIA boards can boot from USB.
What about having them pose naked next to a sign "I'm selling penis enlargements"?
As soon as someone shouts for capital punishment after IT crimes, writing viruses or sending spam would be the least of all cases, compared to intellectual property violations. RIAA, MPAA, BSA and others would like to see thousands of software/media pirates executed. These associations have much more power than all anti-spam initatives together.
Especially in enterprise environments, a wrong command or insufficient planning of some critical tasks can have severe side-effects. When I started administration, I installed GNU/Linux onto an old desktop PC which wasn't any longer good enough as a workstation but sufficient as a "playground" box. System upgrades, new kernel releases, complex shell scripts and even MTA or WWW server settings can be tested without disturbing other people's work. Internet access is only necessary as far as a HTTP proxy is concerned, to get updates.
If you "unsubscribe" a few hundred email addresses in parallel, you can even /. a spammer's server and make it quite impossible for spam victims to order penis enlargement pills.
So nobody would get in touch with actual root passwords, which can be stored at a safe place.
That won't be very useful.
It could be, if you install some kind of port forwarder or VPN daemon onto your laptop, so you can login from anywhere. If it has been stolen and connected to some intranet, you can sniff their passwords, read their email and h4x0r their infrastructure into nirvana.
Many 419 mugus suffer from their small and weak penises, don't have any major education and need lots of stock opportunities to put their money into. It's only gentle to help them by having their email addresses fed into as many spammers' databases as possible.
So I unblocked their relays a week ago to see the input IPs and LART each spam originating from worm-infected Wanaspew customer PCs. Surprisingly, the whole mess hasn't been coming from thousands of wormed Weendoze boxes, but merely from *four* (later six) different input IPs. A responsible ISP wouldn't have any problem in preventing a handful of customers from emitting spam.
Wanapoo did nothing. In spite of 44 (!) complaints to Spamadoo and some further communication with the French ISP association AFA France, the same customer IPs I've been LARTing up to 10 times since Sunday last week were still spamming on Friday.
So there are only two solutions left - either eat your spam or dig a deep hole, put Wanadoo's netblocks including their email relays in and let them rot there. Writing spam complaints to Wanadoo is futile.
They'll get sLashdotted.
My 1337 USB c4b|3z with red, green and blue LEDs will become obsolete.
The SURBL is not blocking URLs but IPs where spamvertised URLs are hosted at. I've been doing this for about half a year, too - it's really effective in filtering spam as most spammers choose "bulletproof" ISPs whose netblocks are listed on SPEWS and SBL for that reason. Take Chinanet, for example - an email which is including a link hosted at Chinanet is almost always spam.
I'd recommend not a single SURBL list but several ones, ranging from an in-progress DNSBL to a SPEWS-/SBL-like blacklist with the latter fed manually.
If SURBL gains acceptance, spammers could choose bulletproof ISPs and have most of their spam emails filtered due to SURBL listings, or choose white-hat ISPs and don't get filtered but kicked.
Regular "white-hat" ISPs won't tolerate spamvertised WWW sites and kick them quite soon. So do many uplinks of smaller ISPs. But anti-spam terms of service seem to stop at backbone level. The German DE-CIX Internet Exchange center, though operated by an institution which is known for successfully fighting against spam, does not forbid spam support or downlinking spam-friendly customers. In fact they can't prevent DE-CIX members from hosting spammers or providing connectivity to other ISPs who do so.
Traceroutes to spammer hosts all over the world show that many spam-friendly ISPs are directly connected to big backbones or even operate them. But why? A backbone or CIX is nothing more than a "better" internet access point. So where is the reason not to enforce anti-spam TOS like any "smaller" ISP? If they did, e. g. Above.net could choose between routing Chinanet and routing Germany, and Alan Ralsky or Scott Richter could host their stuff at bulk friendly intranet access providers or normal ISPs who would kick them. So making a profit out of spam would be much more difficult.
In Germany, the GEZ (Gebuehreneinzugszentrale) demands every household with TV and/or radio to contribute a monthly fee which is more expensive (about 16 Euros) than a cheap DSL connection. What is more, GEZ people are known for their sometimes nasty methods to acquire subscribers. So especially many students don't need a TV and put the money into more useful things like internet connectivity.
We only blacklist his spamvertised hosts on SPEWS, Spamhaus and other DNSBLs to prevent the bulletproof hoster from sending email. Use the same DNSBLs in a HTTP proxy or a router and the spammer's servers are "invisible". If a spam filter can check spamvertised targets against DNSBLs, it can recognise a lot of spam emails which otherwise might get through.
But do you seriously think, AOL will pay dozens of employees to find out just WHETHER a spam is "legit"
I don't think so. They rely on content filters and their users determining if an email is legit or not. If they notice a frequently spamvertised site, they put pressure onto the hoster - if possible by their legal staff, as they did in Germany with a pr0n dialer operator who is out of business now. If legal methods don't work, AOL can only eat the spam or "unsubscribe" from spam friendly hosters' dirty traffic.
I'm sure AOL won't block any joe-jobbed targets but only bulletproof servers hosted at Chinanet, Telecom Malaysia, Procergs.com.br etc. which have been spamvertised by known spam gangs.
This is *really* a good idea - Alan Ralsky uses several "throw-away" domains per spam run, but only a handful of different servers to host his crap. Null route these and Ralsky can enlarge his own penis.
Neither are tied to a distribution by force. If you want to run GNU/Linux without a DNS or web server (or with alternative software), maybe on a notebook or a PDA, nobody and nothing prevents you from doing so.
On many Windows machines (especially servers), Media Player, Internet Explorer and Outlook Express are unnecessary and don't contribute any needed features, only security risks. So if Microsoft still believes that bundling these software products to each Windows installation would be necessary, they should pay for the damage - per incident multiplied with affected Windows systems including sold but never used OEM licenes (aka M$ tax). A worldwide severe M$IE hole which gets exploited by worms would result in fines which are high enough to hurt even Microsoft.
...found within bundled software like IE, OE, Media Player and Movie Maker. M$ would voluntarily unbundle these components or run out of cash quite soon.
If you're hosting your own DNS, use a spam trap subdomain and feed its addresses to any spammer until it gets flooded with a few hundred spam emails per day. If a spammer's host annoys you and has port 25 open, redirect your spam trap's MX record to that host... the bastards will spam each other and your email server can relax.
Last year the French superspammer Artmarket has been "blown away" after some spam trap operators made him eat his own spam until it stopped.
The A2's hood is not really locked shut, it's only held differently compared to other cars. After unlocking two quick-out knobs, you can lift the hood (about 9 kg) off and access everything without the hood being in the way.
Now imagine every household being connected to the Internet with a permanent broadband connection. Most people use unpatched Windoze boxes and don't get the idea that their infrastructure could do any damage to the Internet. With broadband access and powerful PCs, they don't even notice any abusive performance loss or bandwidth consumption. Not to speak of Windoze Media Center, which barely requires any IT knowledge to operate a PC.
So broadband access for every household might be a good idea, but only if infrastructure is safe enough (e. g. require routers/firewalls) and ISPs' abuse staff would be able to prevent trojaned customer boxes ASAP from polluting the Internet.
It's rather a slashdotting contest - which reader's web server will stay up longer, serving screenshots.
About a year ago, German email users have been spammed with similar e-cards, which claimed to need a special presentation plugin. The "plugin" actually dialed an expensive premium-rate service number. Despite thousands of victims complaining about high phone bills, it took about a year to stop this kind of fraud.
s/internet/intranet/g
More and more people in Europe are nullrouting any Comcast netblock they get spam from. So Disney's damage to the Internet would be limited.