As TheZombie says, egress filtering can be used to stop spoofed IP's.. That's not tough. There is also a product called GaurdianNT (Yes, NT, though I am sure there are comparable products for other platforms) that will allow for an admin to alot a certain percentage of bandwidth to each computer hooked up to a network. That combined with filtering and education for the admin (cuz come on, would any of your networks been broken into and had these "zombies" installed on your machines?) would solve the problem.
The problem is not the architecture of the internet, it is due in large part to ignorance. A lack of knowledge on your own networks security and a lack of knowledge about the tools available to you.
Ahh, I grant you that they are a great machine... I am just a little wary of the toaster looking thing. Granted, it goes a long way to bringing computers into the living room.
What your looking at is a Peltier device. These are the holy grail for overclockers. There are a few drawbacks to them though:
They require alot of power they generate a fair bit of heat (it has to go somewhere) There is a problem with condensation with these. They run VERY cool. Just like uninsulated windows in winter time
As far as the scsi hd, there is a limit on the length of your scsi chain. So you have two options really. Get a Firewire (IEEE 1394 I think) drive, or hook up with a gigabit lan and pop in a Quantum Snap server (basically HD's that you hook directly into a LAN
Not looking good eh? Well now, I have seen enclosures for Dot Matrix printers (in fact, I have one at work for the printer we use to print our monthly journals) that are heavily insulated, but they do require a fan for cirulation. It may be something to look into, though I would not know where. Or... there is *shudder* iMacs or the new G4 Cube that are fanless.
The FBI may have the right to do that in the US, but what about us Canadians? Or the rest of the world? There is international traffic flowing through some of these places that they want to sniff. They have any right to sniff the email I am sending to a friend in Ireland if neither of us live in the great USofA? I don't think so.
I think it's great that the FBI is using Carnivore, though. I mean, what better way to promote the usage of newer, secure protocols such as IPsec, Secure Shell, SCP, and privacy suites such as Pretty Good Privacy? And what better way, I ask you, to promote the retirement of older, flaky, insecure protocols like telnet and FTP?
Ok, That's all fine and good for some people, geeks, hardcore internet users,/.'ers.... But what about the newbies out there using the internet to converse with relatives and friends half way round the world? Most of these people have problems entering in email addresses properly.
http://www.globeinvestor.com/archive/gam/20000607/ RCORE.html May be of interest. Says Corel's outlook has actually improved since it's forray into the open source scene.
Corel started going downhill soon after they bought Wordperfect from Novell (who really messed it up). When they branched out into Linux/Open Source, they actually improved their status. Their only problem I think is that they are doing to much. They need to concentrate on a couple things because they certainly can't afford to keep going the way they are. If they smarten up, they can be a player again. Sell off (or even better, open up WordPerfect) and concentrate on the money makers like Corel Draw and their Linux business.
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As TheZombie says, egress filtering can be used to stop spoofed IP's.. That's not tough. There is also a product called GaurdianNT (Yes, NT, though I am sure there are comparable products for other platforms) that will allow for an admin to alot a certain percentage of bandwidth to each computer hooked up to a network. That combined with filtering and education for the admin (cuz come on, would any of your networks been broken into and had these "zombies" installed on your machines?) would solve the problem.
The problem is not the architecture of the internet, it is due in large part to ignorance. A lack of knowledge on your own networks security and a lack of knowledge about the tools available to you.
OIAhh, I grant you that they are a great machine... I am just a little wary of the toaster looking thing. Granted, it goes a long way to bringing computers into the living room.
What your looking at is a Peltier device. These are the holy grail for overclockers. There are a few drawbacks to them though:
They require alot of powerthey generate a fair bit of heat (it has to go somewhere)
There is a problem with condensation with these. They run VERY cool. Just like uninsulated windows in winter time
As far as the scsi hd, there is a limit on the length of your scsi chain. So you have two options really. Get a Firewire (IEEE 1394 I think) drive, or hook up with a gigabit lan and pop in a Quantum Snap server (basically HD's that you hook directly into a LAN
Not looking good eh? Well now, I have seen enclosures for Dot Matrix printers (in fact, I have one at work for the printer we use to print our monthly journals) that are heavily insulated, but they do require a fan for cirulation. It may be something to look into, though I would not know where. Or... there is *shudder* iMacs or the new G4 Cube that are fanless.
The FBI may have the right to do that in the US, but what about us Canadians? Or the rest of the world? There is international traffic flowing through some of these places that they want to sniff. They have any right to sniff the email I am sending to a friend in Ireland if neither of us live in the great USofA? I don't think so.
I think it's great that the FBI is using Carnivore, though. I mean, what better way to promote the usage of newer, secure protocols such as IPsec, Secure Shell, SCP, and privacy suites such as Pretty Good Privacy? And what better way, I ask you, to promote the retirement of older, flaky, insecure protocols like telnet and FTP?
/.'ers.... But what about the newbies out there using the internet to converse with relatives and friends half way round the world? Most of these people have problems entering in email addresses properly.
Ok, That's all fine and good for some people, geeks, hardcore internet users,
http://www.globeinvestor.com/archive/gam/20000607/ RCORE.html
May be of interest. Says Corel's outlook has actually improved since it's forray into the open source scene.
Corel started going downhill soon after they bought Wordperfect from Novell (who really messed it up). When they branched out into Linux/Open Source, they actually improved their status. Their only problem I think is that they are doing to much. They need to concentrate on a couple things because they certainly can't afford to keep going the way they are. If they smarten up, they can be a player again. Sell off (or even better, open up WordPerfect) and concentrate on the money makers like Corel Draw and their Linux business.
Well hell, I think it is pretty damn amusing.. I was just about to reach for bablefish (sp?) but realized what was going on. Good one slashdot hehe