These are not AOL mail outputs. These are the inputs.
As a person who had been hit by an AOL end-user generated mail D.O.S. at one of my previous jobs I can tell you for sure. You are checking the wrong IPs. Better scan your logs for AOL incoming and get the IPs from there. Thus you will get the tier 1 relays. From what I recall there are at least two more tiers which you can determine by firewalling Tier1 and than the appearing Tier2.
It was discussing litigation against ISPs refusing email from them in the past on at least some mailing lists like NANOG. And guess what - it found that it had no legal grounds to even file a suit.
Any ISP has no obligation to receive mail from anyone. They are not obliged. Period. The only ones to sue them are the ISP users and only if the ISP has been dumb enough to start filtering without formulating its contracts properly. The usual contracts with an ISP make sure that the user have no grounds for any lawsuit;-). That is life...
I can just imagine a group of fed up people actually taking civil action against and ISP that has some sysadmin that just blithely blocks e-mail from some location because of "spam" (that's a crapy name for it).
Tough luck. When you sign with an ISP you sign with the Acceptable Use Policy, Term of Service and other appropriate stuff. If it says no SPAM this means no SPAM. If unhappy change the ISP. You have no legal grounds to sue the sysadmin after you have signed that you actually allow the sysadmin to do the filtering. So long and thank you for the Fish...
The fact is, Netpliance sells the computers at a loss and has to use the ISP service to turn a profit.
You mean the fact that they have proved to be genuinely stupid. After they had an advertisement like that on slashdot they can sell any number of copies of this otherwise pretty flimsy hardware just because it is geeky for its actual price (299 instead of 99). And I would definitely buy it as well. 299 is a good price for a flat screen terminal.
Correct. Sorry, but MP3 cannot replace a proper hifi stack. It is nice for work environments and on the road, but that is about it.
So I still go and buy CDs. Though I do not buy the crap they mix up nowdays. There are about 3 titles more recent than 10 years I have bought lately.
This is not intended as a flamebait. It is an opinion supported by facts. And the facts are: If modern music was not in complete and utter stagnation Santana would not have pick up half of the Grammies and Blondie would not have reached the top of EU charts by just reprinting a 70-es album.
Correct. Bseides the most important point. No more of this ugly emulation of a HP calculator for FPU. It is at best inappropriate for the modern world.
On the less important points - 32 to 64 integer and 32 to 64 addresses: have a look at the 386-Pentium tech reference. You can see that almost anything besides a few control registers and some stuff related to wierd 48 bit addressing modes can be happily extended to 64 bits.
In btw it is a standard VESA mode. Most older cards (95-97) used to support various awkward modes with inverse aspect ratio. Dunno about now. Guess I need to buy something new to replace my old faithful S3 and read the leafelet instead of drag-n-dropping it to the "rounded" folder.
In order for a virus to proliferate it needs to execute and infect executables. Even on "home" linux systems the executables are 99.999% not owned by the user. The user has no +w on them. So unless the virus attempts an exploit it will not be able to infect executables. There are few notable exemptions of course:
College campuses and enterpirse networks with a d...head sysadmin. Users install their own software in their home dirs. Guess what happens next.
Debian and Co and users in the group staff./usr/local/bin is writable. Oh-oh...
Developer users that write their won software in C. Yeah viruses here. On a linux system. Right... What have I been smoking anyway...
In order for computer viruses to proliferate you need to follow the same rules like in the life world. Namely you need the infection rate/death rate to exceed a certain threshold. All the cases above give you thresholds for good size local outbursts, but not for an epidemy. Which is not the case with Windows 9x, MacOS and their predecessors.
There are few notable examples when the above situation will drastically change. The most important one is:NO EXECUTABLE DOCUMENT FORMATS!!!". If MSWord will be ported or a similar abomination will become a predominant software product on Linux than there will be trouble. Because there will be "executable" user writable formats floating all over the place. Than the treshold for selfsustained infection will be exceeded.
Only OEMs for now. As far as I could dig out the drive is not to be sold on the open market for a while. Dell, IBMs own PC division, etc have backlogged it quite a long way up the production queue.
Note 1: this drive despite the antishock stuff uses a glass plate so dragging it around is very unwise. Note 2: most bioses will choke on such a beast for quite a while anyway. So unless you have a hardware IDE raid with recent firmware it does not worth using in selfassembled stuff at least for now.
I also thought (will someone correct me if I'm wrong) that the pig heart transplant experiment (or something like) in a human failed... I also would like someone to post the info or a link to the clinical trials that say pig organs could be used for humans in 4 years.
Various pig transplants, usually not bigger than heart valves (excuse me for my bad english here) have been attempted first in the 60-es when the heart surgery was just emerging and they all failed.
There are few new developments that show that there are some chances in making the pig tissue more antigen neutral. The problem is that these do not go further than tissue.
The experiment in cloning pigs is supposed to be a preliminary in bridging these two
What these i... are claiming is to "revolutionize web commerce". What are they talking about? What commerce without sertificates and encryption? Relying on HTTP-Referrer which is supplied by the browser so any kid can fake it maybe?
If this gets enough publicity they are not getting any money. Which is good (TM).
Does not even come close. mySQL grills it as speed. PostgreSQL grills it as features.
This release has other importance IMHO, it is the step before Delphy. Deplphy first learns to work with Interbase than someone teaches it to work with the other guys;-)
I would really love to have a comparable distro for my Alphas
I know someone who has done a full SlackBuild for an Alpha. I suggest you do it yourself. As per classic Slackware tradition.
It takes under a day for a decent alpha to chew down most of Slackware completely when running at nice -19. Your only problem is that the install will be "Luke Flying to Dagobah". If you do not remember the quote about the manual watch The Empire Strikes Back again;-)
Yes it did. Citroen on someone trying to copy "the eyes" off the frog in the 1960es. And successfully. The interesting part is that Citroen itslef abandoned the "eyes" style headlight design in their newer models.
Saab and a few others also have some history of such demands. And they have almost always been successful.
The translucent junk has been around long before the Imac. The first time I was offered a translucent aqua rodent was in 1995 if not even earlier. Manufactured by one of the numerous Taiwanese companies, forgot which one.
And I told the retailer to go stuff it. I'd rather buy beige. Or black for the matter.
In btw: neither the NeXT black nor the SGI blue have been ever defended as designs. And they have much better looks than the iroast. See the new Aptivas, IBM thin clients and SGI boxen for examples.
You are absolutely correct about the shape. It has been with the industry in the 80-es and before and was forgotten in favour of the disgusting IBM PC design which is a badly revamped industrial controller.
On the translucent plastic topic does anyone have an idea when the iDust came out? Namely, the horribly disgusting design Dixons uses for their vacuum cleaners: translucent plastic, aqua or tangerine. Sucks great. Literally of course.
You are correct. You also forgot that sendmail is a swiss army knife. You can configure it to do almost anything short of dry cleaning and laundry. The only pending rival here may be the new exim with perl-like capabilities in the config.
But at the same time,
Qmail still rips the guts out of sendmail as performance.
Qmail does not have the record of the second most security-troubled sofwtare after Washington University
Qmail still has more flexible local delivery support which sendmail gets only via various external delivery agents.
Qmail as is does not have SPAM filtering. If you want to kill SPAM you can
easily integrate it into the local delivery.
Modify the RBL patches to refer to your own antispam database. This is elementary. Been there done that (not myself, by one of my colleges, I did the sendmail rulesets;-). As a result you can get network wide synchronized SPAM filtering. As you probably deduced it can be done with sendmail as well;-)
more than 50% of all certificates. Actually, about 90% if their pending merger with forgot the name will not bite the dust. It is under investigation at the moment
The domain name system for the 3 most popular top level domains
Good???
Are you kidding??? What are you smoking??? I want some too...
And if you call M$ a set of arrogant bastards how do you call a company that is under investigation for monopoly practices doing an obvious monopoly merger?
Next thing we see will be somoene "addressing" the existing insecurity of the DNS (which I admit exists) and requiring all nameservers to use sertificates. Actually this suggestion has already been done. And guess what will be the next thing to happen if Verising owns NS
You forgot Proton (30 tons low orbit, maximum elevation - stationary orbit), Energy (above 100 tons low orbit) and the unimplemented 4xEnergy - above 400 tons low orbit.
The only merit the project has is that it is private. And that is about it.
Otherwise I see no merit whatsoever. It has been proven mathematically and experimentally a number of times that above a certain size a set of Nx engines is more effective than a single booster. Increasing the engine ad finitum size is trying to climb up a staircase leading down.
I think this is akin to carrying a screwdriver. You can use it to fix a lock, or you can use it to break a lock, enter a building and steal the contents.
Err, you can also use to kill.
I am not joking. There is a country in the world where you can be arrested for carrying a deadly weapon as well. And a sharpened screwdriver is a deadly weapon. The wound does not close.
Overall: whatever you do and whatever you carry if the police wants to bust you for something they will bust you for something. Period. If you have a look through all laws, mini-laws and other regulatory crap (I had to do this a few times related to chemicals and software) there is always something that is sufficiently vague to get you busted and in jail. You have no rights. Only illusions;-/
I did this comment the last time the ugly beast showed its head a few weeks ago. I'll repeat it again:
You can use QoS.
Even if you cannot use it selectively (with Napster this requires sniffing the proto and configuring QoS filters realtime) use per net/per IP limits (aka per dorm). Or even better schedule the dorms to use ONLY leftovers from the rest of the campus. Over. Done. Whoever says it is impossible eat a gun. Been there. Done that
Problem is elsewhere:
Most University admins knowledge goes as far as banning and not any further
Most Universities CS Depts are highly disinterested in developing/deploying new bandwidth control technologies. Reason is that they are not so "cool" and do not require so much money like WWW2. They actually save money. And their salaries are percent of the budget. Dropping the budjet. Dropping the spending... Forget it...
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These are not AOL mail outputs. These are the inputs.
As a person who had been hit by an AOL end-user generated mail D.O.S. at one of my previous jobs I can tell you for sure. You are checking the wrong IPs. Better scan your logs for AOL incoming and get the IPs from there. Thus you will get the tier 1 relays. From what I recall there are at least two more tiers which you can determine by firewalling Tier1 and than the appearing Tier2.
It was discussing litigation against ISPs refusing email from them in the past on at least some mailing lists like NANOG. And guess what - it found that it had no legal grounds to even file a suit.
Any ISP has no obligation to receive mail from anyone. They are not obliged. Period. The only ones to sue them are the ISP users and only if the ISP has been dumb enough to start filtering without formulating its contracts properly. The usual contracts with an ISP make sure that the user have no grounds for any lawsuit ;-). That is life...
AOL has been in the RBL in the past. It has not invalidated the RBL. Actually it brought more popularity.
I did not consider using ORBS till now, I do now.
Tough luck. When you sign with an ISP you sign with the Acceptable Use Policy, Term of Service and other appropriate stuff. If it says no SPAM this means no SPAM. If unhappy change the ISP. You have no legal grounds to sue the sysadmin after you have signed that you actually allow the sysadmin to do the filtering. So long and thank you for the Fish...
You mean the fact that they have proved to be genuinely stupid. After they had an advertisement like that on slashdot they can sell any number of copies of this otherwise pretty flimsy hardware just because it is geeky for its actual price (299 instead of 99). And I would definitely buy it as well. 299 is a good price for a flat screen terminal.
Correct. Sorry, but MP3 cannot replace a proper hifi stack. It is nice for work environments and on the road, but that is about it.
So I still go and buy CDs. Though I do not buy the crap they mix up nowdays. There are about 3 titles more recent than 10 years I have bought lately.
This is not intended as a flamebait. It is an opinion supported by facts. And the facts are: If modern music was not in complete and utter stagnation Santana would not have pick up half of the Grammies and Blondie would not have reached the top of EU charts by just reprinting a 70-es album.
Correct. Bseides the most important point. No more of this ugly emulation of a HP calculator for FPU. It is at best inappropriate for the modern world.
On the less important points - 32 to 64 integer and 32 to 64 addresses:
have a look at the 386-Pentium tech reference. You can see that almost anything besides a few control registers and some stuff related to wierd 48 bit addressing modes can be happily extended to 64 bits.
Check AMD old PR. One of the first presentations on Sledgehammer was actually given to Alan Cox and Co. If not the first one.
In btw it is a standard VESA mode. Most older cards (95-97) used to support various awkward modes with inverse aspect ratio. Dunno about now. Guess I need to buy something new to replace my old faithful S3 and read the leafelet instead of drag-n-dropping it to the "rounded" folder.
Your statement is overrated. Here is why:
In order for a virus to proliferate it needs to execute and infect executables. Even on "home" linux systems the executables are 99.999% not owned by the user. The user has no +w on them. So unless the virus attempts an exploit it will not be able to infect executables. There are few notable exemptions of course:
In order for computer viruses to proliferate you need to follow the same rules like in the life world. Namely you need the infection rate/death rate to exceed a certain threshold. All the cases above give you thresholds for good size local outbursts, but not for an epidemy. Which is not the case with Windows 9x, MacOS and their predecessors.
There are few notable examples when the above situation will drastically change. The most important one is:NO EXECUTABLE DOCUMENT FORMATS!!!". If MSWord will be ported or a similar abomination will become a predominant software product on Linux than there will be trouble. Because there will be "executable" user writable formats floating all over the place. Than the treshold for selfsustained infection will be exceeded.
Only OEMs for now. As far as I could dig out the drive is not to be sold on the open market for a while. Dell, IBMs own PC division, etc have backlogged it quite a long way up the production queue.
Note 1: this drive despite the antishock stuff uses a glass plate so dragging it around is very unwise.
Note 2: most bioses will choke on such a beast for quite a while anyway. So unless you have a hardware IDE raid with recent firmware it does not worth using in selfassembled stuff at least for now.
- Various pig transplants, usually not bigger than heart valves (excuse me for my bad english here) have been attempted first in the 60-es when the heart surgery was just emerging and they all failed.
- There are few new developments that show that there are some chances in making the pig tissue more antigen neutral. The problem is that these do not go further than tissue.
- The experiment in cloning pigs is supposed to be a preliminary in bridging these two
My 0.02$Brilliant point. Forgot about this.
What these i... are claiming is to "revolutionize web commerce". What are they talking about? What commerce without sertificates and encryption? Relying on HTTP-Referrer which is supplied by the browser so any kid can fake it maybe?
If this gets enough publicity they are not getting any money. Which is good (TM).
Does not even come close. mySQL grills it as speed. PostgreSQL grills it as features.
This release has other importance IMHO, it is the step before Delphy. Deplphy first learns to work with Interbase than someone teaches it to work with the other guys ;-)
I would really love to have a comparable distro for my Alphas
I know someone who has done a full SlackBuild for an Alpha. I suggest you do it yourself. As per classic Slackware tradition.
It takes under a day for a decent alpha to chew down most of Slackware completely when running at nice -19. Your only problem is that the install will be "Luke Flying to Dagobah". If you do not remember the quote about the manual watch The Empire Strikes Back again ;-)
Yes it did. Citroen on someone trying to copy "the eyes" off the frog in the 1960es. And successfully. The interesting part is that Citroen itslef abandoned the "eyes" style headlight design in their newer models.
Saab and a few others also have some history of such demands. And they have almost always been successful.
They can't. Prior art. Sorry, no bonus.
They cannot
The translucent junk has been around long before the Imac. The first time I was offered a translucent aqua rodent was in 1995 if not even earlier. Manufactured by one of the numerous Taiwanese companies, forgot which one.
And I told the retailer to go stuff it. I'd rather buy beige. Or black for the matter.
In btw: neither the NeXT black nor the SGI blue have been ever defended as designs. And they have much better looks than the iroast. See the new Aptivas, IBM thin clients and SGI boxen for examples.
You are absolutely correct about the shape. It has been with the industry in the 80-es and before and was forgotten in favour of the disgusting IBM PC design which is a badly revamped industrial controller.
On the translucent plastic topic does anyone have an idea when the iDust came out? Namely, the horribly disgusting design Dixons uses for their vacuum cleaners: translucent plastic, aqua or tangerine. Sucks great. Literally of course.
You are correct. You also forgot that sendmail is a swiss army knife. You can configure it to do almost anything short of dry cleaning and laundry. The only pending rival here may be the new exim with perl-like capabilities in the config.
But at the same time,
Qmail still rips the guts out of sendmail as performance.
Qmail does not have the record of the second most security-troubled sofwtare after Washington University
Qmail still has more flexible local delivery support which sendmail gets only via various external delivery agents.
Qmail as is does not have SPAM filtering. If you want to kill SPAM you can
Err...
A single entity to control:
Good???
Are you kidding??? What are you smoking??? I want some too...
And if you call M$ a set of arrogant bastards how do you call a company that is under investigation for monopoly practices doing an obvious monopoly merger?
Next thing we see will be somoene "addressing" the existing insecurity of the DNS (which I admit exists) and requiring all nameservers to use sertificates. Actually this suggestion has already been done. And guess what will be the next thing to happen if Verising owns NS
We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin (ISBN 0380633132) is only $4.79 from both Amazon and B&N. Get it now.
If you read it and understood it you would not have been asking the question. Unless you had the intention to put <sarcasm> question </sarcasm>
You forgot Proton (30 tons low orbit, maximum elevation - stationary orbit), Energy (above 100 tons low orbit) and the unimplemented 4xEnergy - above 400 tons low orbit.
The only merit the project has is that it is private. And that is about it.
Otherwise I see no merit whatsoever. It has been proven mathematically and experimentally a number of times that above a certain size a set of Nx engines is more effective than a single booster. Increasing the engine ad finitum size is trying to climb up a staircase leading down.
Err, you can also use to kill.
I am not joking. There is a country in the world where you can be arrested for carrying a deadly weapon as well. And a sharpened screwdriver is a deadly weapon. The wound does not close.
Overall: whatever you do and whatever you carry if the police wants to bust you for something they will bust you for something. Period. If you have a look through all laws, mini-laws and other regulatory crap (I had to do this a few times related to chemicals and software) there is always something that is sufficiently vague to get you busted and in jail. You have no rights. Only illusions ;-/
You can use QoS.
Even if you cannot use it selectively (with Napster this requires sniffing the proto and configuring QoS filters realtime) use per net/per IP limits (aka per dorm). Or even better schedule the dorms to use ONLY leftovers from the rest of the campus. Over. Done. Whoever says it is impossible eat a gun. Been there. Done that
Problem is elsewhere: