Actualy the best way is to post a link to your public webpage on slashdot saying it's some sort of geek gadget/website and then let him scramble trying to get the site to live the DDoS.
Well, not really, I guess I'd look for:
- Experience in Unix (You'll need it if your serious about networking)
- Experience in seting up the stuff you need and use, may they be BGP, IP, TCP or higher level stuff like network services
- Knowledge of available hardware from the major manufacteurs and what he whould use to solve particular problems (make up some situations)
- Availability to be paged at any hour (night or day) since stuff always fails at 4 am on a Saturday
- Personality/Friendlyness ???
Of course if you already have network guys around ask them to inverview candidates and let them choose.
When you play a very good piece of vinyl on a very good turntable, using a very good needle, going into a very good analog amplifier, and using very good speakers, headphones, or whatever, there is definitely a difference between vinyl and a compact disc.
Yes, there's a diference. The diference is lower fidelity. This is the same argument that people use to justify valve amplifiers, "they sound better". That's just plain crap. Vinyl or valve amplifiers introduce distortion. Digital+Solid State reduce that distortion. If you think valves sound better, then by all means, distort the sound in software the same way and amplify it with high fidelity. This give two things the Slashdot crowd should enjoy. First you get the freedom to choose the way your sound sounds, the second is that you can potentialy be listening to a much better aproximation of what the artist/master wanted the music to sound like.
OpenBSD has good out-of-the-box security, but a clueful admin can make a linux/freebsd/netbsd box just as secure. And an incompetent admin can make an openbsd box insecure *very* fast. The motto with OpenBSD is good code auditing and fixing (Linux distros have this as well now, Debian's Security team does a great job), and a locked up default install. Most linux distros skew on this last part and need some security adjustments to make them more secure.
Either way I don't consider my locked up debian box to be less secure than an equivalent OpenBSD box, considering the linux kernel is secure and the programs running on top are the same.
Now that we're into low power consumption, how does an iBook rank against the competing SR line from Sony or equivalent PC stuff in terms of battery time?
The G4/G3 processors are suposed to be more conservative in terms of power and all else should be standard laptop hardware. How do these compare to the Crusoe?
the only commercial app we'll be using will be Kylix.
And why Kylix, a comercial product? Why not use PHP/Apache if it's a web frontend or python/python-gnome if you want to script a standalone app. That way you'll get a proven platform that's free (as in speech) instead of the (to my knowledge) new kid on the block from a comercial company that may blow up one of these days.
What you're forgetting is that in many web-based applications, the data *doesn't matter*
Slashdot's data does matter, it's a site that gets millions of visitors a day and should average at least 1000 posts a day. And those posts matter, and if they disapeer people will bitch about it!
If your friend installed redhat using diferent partitions for the diferent parts of the system he should have no problem. Tell debian to reformat/,/usr,/usr/local,/var but let/home and possibly some/data partitions intact. When you finnish installing debian your personal settings (in/home) and data (in/data) would still be there. Of course you're going to need to redo networking and hardware configs. I supose settling on a common/etc directory (and keeping that as well in the reinstall) would do the trick, but I don't see that as something that will happen. A tool to extract these configs from various distros and inserting them in another might be in order...
As far as I know, that way rsync uses ssh to authenticate and run rsync on the other machine and then opens the connection through it's own protocol, which is unencrypted.
I want to sync work & home machines. I like rsync but dislike the fact that it does it's work with unencrypted channels. How can I tunnel rsync so that my data stays secure. For authentication I use ssh but what about encryption? SSH tunneling? Anyone know?
Anything which pushes the boundaries of the engineering -- getting the unmanned probe to launch itself back to Earth -- will have great impact on both the Space program and terrestrial spin-offs.
Shortly after the Apolo 12 mission the russians landed an unmaned probe on the moon and brought it back. Considering the fact that Apolo 12's computer was spewing errors throughout the descent this was a great achievement for the time.
Naturaly it didn't achieve the media coverage of the apolo mission but IMHO was a much larger feet than landing a duct-taped together mission.
Did you know Nixon alrealy had the speech written in case the astronauts weren't able to come back from the moon?
When you're distributing.iso files in a ftp or web server you do get a huge load for a few files, but the problem is the downloads start at random points in time. For multicast to work everyone must receive at the same time. I guess you could just start a download sequence in multicast every 5 minutes and be efficient but it's just too much hassle for these types of once or twice a year events.
What multicast is very good for is replicating installs. If you want to burn one image to every disk in a room full of computers you can easily start the download client on every computer and then start the multicast session.
Overall, multicast could be useful if anyone actually wrote convenient software to serve and receive it, and for the geek crowd that downloads distribution.iso files it actualy might work, but the normal internet public has enough issues with the current download-on-demand thing to be bothered with multicast downloading
For video and audio broadcasts it's just ideal. With one simple cable/dsl connection *anyone* can become an internet radio/TV.
How is the state of the multicast capabilities throughout the net? Do ISP's use it? Do they let their clients use it?
Tell them that lack of management got them the problem in the first place and that they should be looking to cure the problem instead of patching around it. I have a LAN, a NAT LAN that didn't get hit by worms or viruses. Why? Because the firewall was designed to be secure in the first place and make the rest of the network invisible to the outside world. As for email, dump outlook and use netscape/mozilla, that should keep you alot safer. Make *THAT* an enforced policy and not restricted net access.
Put Cat5 everywere, it's cheap, but run it inside ample conduits were you can later on put fiber. When Gigabit really comes you'll probably want to do it over fiber. Run every line to a central location where you have the switches and asorted networking equipment and have a diferent swith for your servers. In that switch you can invest in fiber and gigabit so that your servers have ample bandwidth and are isolated from other computers, think sniffing.
There is however one problem when using this setup that is when the server is trying to send more information than the client can take (1000Mbit server to 100Mbit client). This will cause errors and the network misperforming.
Linux handles this with ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification), but some internet hosts deal badly with this.
Anyway, to make a long story short, run todays regular solution everywere, think about upgraded connections for servers, and make sure upgrading is just a matter of buying new cable to run through existing conduits and new switches.
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Not do disapoint you or anything but I've been editing files from ftp servers with emacs ever since I started using emacs.
I guess this is like the whole linux-now-has-stateful-firealling thing...
You're missing the obvious point, Apache is already the most used webserver. So if a script kiddie wants to release a worm, if he could do it with a Apache hole he'd hit alot more servers (roughly twice as more).
This just goes to prove that Apache is a much better alternative, since even with a much broader use in the field it's alot less vulnerable.
You fail by admiting that the US isn't an "oppressive regime". DMCA? Kevin Mitnick? Dimitry Sklyarov?
And since it is such a regime, it will fight with every thing it has againts citizens being able to securely and privately talk to each other.
Or do you really thing JFK was killed by a mad man (a terrorist) and not by the military contractors who didn't want the Vietnam war to end?
USA's history is filled with these big opressions that serve either "National Security" or "Freedom".
Did you hear Bush last night? He was talking about maintaining freedom throughout the world. And how is he going to do this? Is he going to bring terrorists to trial? Is he even going to try to prove Bin Laden actually did it? Nooo, he's going to bomb afghanistan and kill thousands of innocent people.
It's freedom like that that we DON'T want. The corporate and political world IS out to get us. They just found a much better way to do it than the taliban. They got our vote.
Let's all mail him telling him he has nothing to regret. Criminals killed 5000 people, just like in WWII when politicians (even more criminal than these) killed millions of japanese people. No American then complained to Einstein. Such hipocrisy.
The experience with municipal power indicates that this is not beneficial in the long term. The municipal power systems grow to be more expensive, lower quality, poorer service than commercial power.
Were have you been for the last year? Haven't you read the news about california's power problems? They happend because the energy network was turned over to the private sector.
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Post the images on the web or make big printable versions to present at art exhibits.
What am I missing here?
Well, not really, I guess I'd look for:
- Experience in Unix (You'll need it if your serious about networking)
- Experience in seting up the stuff you need and use, may they be BGP, IP, TCP or higher level stuff like network services
- Knowledge of available hardware from the major manufacteurs and what he whould use to solve particular problems (make up some situations)
- Availability to be paged at any hour (night or day) since stuff always fails at 4 am on a Saturday
- Personality/Friendlyness ???
Of course if you already have network guys around ask them to inverview candidates and let them choose.
Judging by the recent ATA, SSSCA, DMCA mess the approach is more like:
"A big company paid us to vote this so we'll vote it."
Yes, there's a diference. The diference is lower fidelity. This is the same argument that people use to justify valve amplifiers, "they sound better". That's just plain crap. Vinyl or valve amplifiers introduce distortion. Digital+Solid State reduce that distortion. If you think valves sound better, then by all means, distort the sound in software the same way and amplify it with high fidelity. This give two things the Slashdot crowd should enjoy. First you get the freedom to choose the way your sound sounds, the second is that you can potentialy be listening to a much better aproximation of what the artist/master wanted the music to sound like.
OpenBSD has good out-of-the-box security, but a clueful admin can make a linux/freebsd/netbsd box just as secure. And an incompetent admin can make an openbsd box insecure *very* fast. The motto with OpenBSD is good code auditing and fixing (Linux distros have this as well now, Debian's Security team does a great job), and a locked up default install. Most linux distros skew on this last part and need some security adjustments to make them more secure.
Either way I don't consider my locked up debian box to be less secure than an equivalent OpenBSD box, considering the linux kernel is secure and the programs running on top are the same.
The G4/G3 processors are suposed to be more conservative in terms of power and all else should be standard laptop hardware. How do these compare to the Crusoe?
Data? Opinions? Anyone?
And why Kylix, a comercial product? Why not use PHP/Apache if it's a web frontend or python/python-gnome if you want to script a standalone app. That way you'll get a proven platform that's free (as in speech) instead of the (to my knowledge) new kid on the block from a comercial company that may blow up one of these days.
Slashdot's data does matter, it's a site that gets millions of visitors a day and should average at least 1000 posts a day. And those posts matter, and if they disapeer people will bitch about it!
Pausing/Rewinding of LIVE feeds happens way too often.
You mean they've got Tivo's?
May US bombs and bullets be used instead to kill innocents.
Remember the old "innocent until *proven* guilty" thingie. I guess it doesn't matter these days.
If your friend installed redhat using diferent partitions for the diferent parts of the system he should have no problem. Tell debian to reformat /, /usr, /usr/local, /var but let /home and possibly some /data partitions intact. When you finnish installing debian your personal settings (in /home) and data (in /data) would still be there. Of course you're going to need to redo networking and hardware configs. I supose settling on a common /etc directory (and keeping that as well in the reinstall) would do the trick, but I don't see that as something that will happen. A tool to extract these configs from various distros and inserting them in another might be in order...
As far as I know, that way rsync uses ssh to authenticate and run rsync on the other machine and then opens the connection through it's own protocol, which is unencrypted.
I want to sync work & home machines. I like rsync but dislike the fact that it does it's work with unencrypted channels. How can I tunnel rsync so that my data stays secure. For authentication I use ssh but what about encryption? SSH tunneling? Anyone know?
Shortly after the Apolo 12 mission the russians landed an unmaned probe on the moon and brought it back. Considering the fact that Apolo 12's computer was spewing errors throughout the descent this was a great achievement for the time.
Naturaly it didn't achieve the media coverage of the apolo mission but IMHO was a much larger feet than landing a duct-taped together mission.
Did you know Nixon alrealy had the speech written in case the astronauts weren't able to come back from the moon?
What multicast is very good for is replicating installs. If you want to burn one image to every disk in a room full of computers you can easily start the download client on every computer and then start the multicast session.
Overall, multicast could be useful if anyone actually wrote convenient software to serve and receive it, and for the geek crowd that downloads distribution .iso files it actualy might work, but the normal internet public has enough issues with the current download-on-demand thing to be bothered with multicast downloading
For video and audio broadcasts it's just ideal. With one simple cable/dsl connection *anyone* can become an internet radio/TV.
How is the state of the multicast capabilities throughout the net? Do ISP's use it? Do they let their clients use it?
I found jensenremotes.com.
Their top offer:
- Operates Ten devices TV, VCR, CBL, CD, SAT, Audio, DVD, Web TV and 2 Auxiliary devices (Auxiliary device = a 2nd device from the list)
- Equiped with Radio Frequency (RF) which enables the user to control devices in other rooms thru walls and floors RF range up to 100 feet
-Home Theater ready remote controls ProLogic Surround Sound Systems
- a few more things....
I couldn't find info about pricing...
Tell them that lack of management got them the problem in the first place and that they should be looking to cure the problem instead of patching around it. I have a LAN, a NAT LAN that didn't get hit by worms or viruses. Why? Because the firewall was designed to be secure in the first place and make the rest of the network invisible to the outside world. As for email, dump outlook and use netscape/mozilla, that should keep you alot safer. Make *THAT* an enforced policy and not restricted net access.
There is however one problem when using this setup that is when the server is trying to send more information than the client can take (1000Mbit server to 100Mbit client). This will cause errors and the network misperforming.
Linux handles this with ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification), but some internet hosts deal badly with this.
Anyway, to make a long story short, run todays regular solution everywere, think about upgraded connections for servers, and make sure upgrading is just a matter of buying new cable to run through existing conduits and new switches.
I guess this is like the whole linux-now-has-stateful-firealling thing...
So you believe in a politician who avoids reading his own law and tries to argue what his "intentions" are?
Never crossed your mind that he might be trying to pass a law under your nose?
This just goes to prove that Apache is a much better alternative, since even with a much broader use in the field it's alot less vulnerable.
And since it is such a regime, it will fight with every thing it has againts citizens being able to securely and privately talk to each other.
Or do you really thing JFK was killed by a mad man (a terrorist) and not by the military contractors who didn't want the Vietnam war to end?
USA's history is filled with these big opressions that serve either "National Security" or "Freedom".
Did you hear Bush last night? He was talking about maintaining freedom throughout the world. And how is he going to do this? Is he going to bring terrorists to trial? Is he even going to try to prove Bin Laden actually did it? Nooo, he's going to bomb afghanistan and kill thousands of innocent people.
It's freedom like that that we DON'T want. The corporate and political world IS out to get us. They just found a much better way to do it than the taliban. They got our vote.
Let's all mail him telling him he has nothing to regret. Criminals killed 5000 people, just like in WWII when politicians (even more criminal than these) killed millions of japanese people. No American then complained to Einstein. Such hipocrisy.
Were have you been for the last year? Haven't you read the news about california's power problems? They happend because the energy network was turned over to the private sector.
In the last few days I got about 700. Are we going to see massive ddos attacks in the near future?
Will slashdot hold then?