I'm still scratching my head over all of this but it seems to be like this is something specific to the way people who use fedora are trained or accustomed to using iptables. Is that right?
I use Ubuntu and Debian but the distro is irrelevant. I wrote a custom init.d script to start/stop/save iptables commands years ago. When I make changes to the firewall rules, I do it on the fly using the iptables command and then when I am done I run/etc/init.d/iptables save which just saves it to a file in etc using the iptables-save command. Fedora introducing some new way to make changes on the fly seems like something I have done since I have used ipchains predating iptables. Doesn't sound particularly new or interesting. It really doesn't sound new at all. It sounds like how system engineers and administrators have been doing iptables since before it was even iptables.
The only thing I am a little shocked about here and maybe this has to do with the fedora culture but people are saying they edit a file and then reload the file? That is without a doubt the wrong way to make any changes to your firewall. It's error prone based on the person making the changes. You may be the best and you may have never made a mistake but seriously, if you make one typo then iptables isn't going to read all your rules. Any experienced systems engineer or systems administrator would tell you to make the changes using the iptables command and then save it to a file with iptables-save. The only time that file should really ever need to be read/parsed is when the system boots and you know the file will work (assuming you have loaded any requisite modules first) because iptables created that file for you and not vice versa.
I use puppet myself and it is a great !@#$ing tool but as far as your yum question, I don't know what the answer is but on debian, ubuntu or anything else that uses the dpkg system, the answer is this
dpkg --get-selections package-name
This will return the package name you searched for, tab separated by it's install state. i.e. deinstall, install, hold, etc. Fairly easy to program to get the status of whether or not a package is installed.
I don't know if I will be able to get used to the concept of no minimize/maximize buttons or not. Maybe I will but none the less, no one should just remove such a strong staple of the UI and say "Hey I hope you enjoy it and if not, oh well". If they feel that strongly about removing them by default then they should but leave a option to re-enable them. It would be stupid to take them out and hope the rest of the world just happens to understand your design concepts.
Co-locate a server in a data center, lease a server from a data center, get a business class internet account, etc etc. Here is one of several free Real time Block Lists (RBL) that block all email coming from residential ISP's: http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/
About a year ago I left my phone on while flying on two planes since I had a layover. First off, I can confirm it does connect, even on 3G since, while I was landing in Toronto, I pulled up google maps on the iPhone which then downloaded the local map to where the phone had never been and then showed me where the plane was flying above on the ground through the GPS. I was able to find spots I recognized only cause the GPS let me know where I actually was as I watched it track our landing.
The more important item of interest though is this, a cell phone antennae is omni directional (every direction). Turning your cell phone off inside a plane does not prevent cell phone signals from being in the plane since the cell phone towers which are communicating with as little as one phone that is not inside the plane, those towers are broadcasting in every direction. Cell phone towers don't know which way a cell phone is (remember it takes 3 towers to find a position through triangulation because one tower doesn't know). Because the tower doesn't know then, if someone is standing on the opposite side of a cell tower from an airplane, the airplane is still receiving the cell towers data and depending on the position of the phone then it is receiving the data from the phone to. The only rason a plane would not receive data from a cell phone outside of the plane is the plane is further away then the signal strength can reach and if a phones signal strength reaches a cell phone tower then it's pretty powerful already. A plane has plenty of windows and is therefor not a Faraday cage or even close. If cell phones were a hazard to planes then there would be no cell phone towers anywhere close to an airport at all.
I heard this once, but this may just be an urban legend, but I heard that cell phones aren't allowed during takeoff and landing because for some reason or another they don't want people in the plane communicating with people outside the plane. I don't know if this is true or not so take it with a grain of salt but the notion had to do with, if there is an emergency in the plane, we don't want you calling someone outside the plane and letting them know (which will likely lead to the news finding out if it's a panic situation) and vice versa. If there is an emergency on the ground, they don't want people inside the plain to find out causing terror which would spread to everyone on the plane in short order and create another bad situation so yeah. Again, this may be an old wives tale. Take it with a grain of salt but, if thats true then it does make sense. See the movie Die Hard 2;)
My company now hosts are servers in a massive data center (it was in the/. story of the top 10 largest data centers a few months ago) and, when we were touring the data center prior to moving in, they had a room that sounds exactly like what you are describing you want to make. The aspect regarding visitors is this, their is an observation platform, outside of the room, behind it, where there is a large window that you can see in. This is one of the electronic windows where, when you flick a wall switch, the window changes between clear / normal and between a completely hazed white semi transparent window. When it's turned to off, all you can see is light from the room. You cannot even tell exactly where the screens are. This can work wonders since, mostly you want this room to be kept private so it helps prevent people from just peering in but, additionally, since it's behind the room and since it makes no sound to activate, I don't think the staff will immediately notice that someone is there looking in. This makes for a great demonstration tool and at the same time allows you to look in on the staff in person without letting them know but at the same time, without hiding it from them.
can we really trust these guys to predict the financial markets any better than they did World Cup?
You're asking if we can trust big banks to predict the financial markets when we are on the slow rebound from a crashed economy? I think you're a couple years too late asking this question and the answer is a clear "no"! No we can not.
While the spokesperson for creative commons may or may not be right, I would like to know that tens of thousands is an accurate number and where he got it from. I hope he is right but I am skeptical that this is a real figure. I know all the artists he mentioned have used creative commons ("including acts like Nine Inch Nails, the Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Radiohead, and Snoop Dogg"). In fact Nine Inch Nails is my favorite band and I was excited when Trent Reznor made that decision for Nine Inch Nails and it's being followed through with his new band How To Destroy Angels (lead by his wife Mariqueen Maandig). I felt these were strong acts in supporting Creative Commons which has served me and many others very well in our business and personal lives. None the less, can someone please point me to a site, registry, document or anything that says tens of thousands of musicians in a reputable manner as the spokesperson has claimed?
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I think it's excellent that you know how to use the back button on your mouse and I'm gonna let you finish but I hope that one day you learn that back and up are not the same thing and while you can use the breadcrumb bar, thats hardly an excuse for not having a up button but then again it's Microsoft. I mean, just because a feature takes 4 lines of code and a image and is considered normal everywhere else in the world doesn't mean I expect them to take the 10 minutes to develop and implement it.
This is a joke. Right? I mean how is this evidence for anything other then the fact that I paid for a phone that did not have proper security programmed into it in the first place? It took open source programmers who worked for free (I assume) to point out how the paid for product had dropped the ball and didn't have real security in the first place. Furthermore, Linux is free because the author didn't want to charge for it. Are you saying the OS is invalid because he didn't put a price tag on it? By the way, if you are not joking then you should know MS, Oracle and IBM (those are just the ones I am aware of in your list) provide open source freeware (MS working on both Silverlight/Moonlight through Novell and Active Directory with/through samba). Also if you are not joking, please tell me you are confined to a institution that makes sure a spork is the most dangerous thing you have access to. You sound like the last person that should own a gun.
If you think free software should be outlawed, all you are doing is mandating a law that says people have to charge for something even if they don't want to.
P.S. FOSS people are not known to steal anything, instead we create it from scratch and the iPhone code that Ubuntu 10.04 uses was built from scratch it was not taken from any code apple provided as apple has never provided that code to anyone AFAIK. MS has only ever made idle threats about patents without naming any identifiable aspect of it. What have we stolen from anyone. If I don't want to use Windows or OS X then you think you have the write to say I can't program productive software for it or do you honestly believe that we have somehow hacked into apple and stolen the source code for the iPhone.
P.P.S.: The post is true. I have been able to access my PIN protected iPhone 3G (not 3GS) from Ubuntu 10.04 since I installed it. The security aspect is a bit of a concern but then again, since I knew cops have been able to do this all along then I am not that surprised. The plus side is I can now upload songs to my iPhone from Linux without doing a Jail Break (I'm reluctant to Jail Break) and without having to run an app in Wine (since I hate Windows emulation) so kudos to Ubuntu for exposing a security vulnerability and at the same time making the iPhone more usable on Linux. Job well done.
While I agree that visual basic sucks...what the hell does that have to do with Firefox. Thats like saying Chevy cars suck. Get a Android cell phone instead. You just compared a programming language to a web browser.
Trendnet seems to be GPL compliant in releasing source code to the surveillance cameras we installed however there is no build environment or firmware tools.
Linksys on the other hand, while I don't know if they have involvement with GPL on the device in question, I know we have some managed switches from them that are IE only (or at least not compatible with ff, opera or chrome/chromium) and required me to install ies4linux in order to configure them. I didn't test with w3m.
Ok. Well I still have issues for the way the article was phrased however, since child porn was involved. The FTC should be entitled to shoot the ISP owners in the head and just seize all of their assets.
They use the phrase "all manner of malicious web content" to describe porn among other things. Since when is porn considered malicious web content. It's a legal job for willing volunteers and it's also a local job that isn't heavily out sourced to foreign countries (though foreign countries make their own porn too). I think the author should have thought about that statement and perhaps gave the preview button some thought before they posted.
Well I didn't say I would buy it from them but then again I might. Fact is I won't buy it though till I know the big dogs are supporting it and economically speaking, by the time it's adopted by trusted firms, well it's reasonable to assume that the cost of the technology itself may have dropped to the point where the firms who charge more for it will probably be cheaper then what it costs now when it's a new product since prices are almost always higher when a new technology has been released and hasn't been widely adopted yet.
I wasn't kidding when I recommended Dilbert. Scott Adams (author) worked at Pacific Bell for years and gets tons of emails on a daily basis of people telling him either how right his comics are or that he should make a comic about "this" where "this" is something just as messed up happening at their work place. I own a couple Dilbert books and honestly they are insightful reading for the common office work space.
You had me gunning up until you said less coffee. I'm pretty sure you are required to drink more coffee then non techs. Coffee is the essential tech vitamin of the day.;)
Buy a book on corporate ethics. Read it twice and abide. Also buy a few Dilbert books and read them twice as many times as the corporate ethics books. If your not sure what decision to make in a situation, side with what the Dilbert books suggest over the corporate ethics books.
Buy a carabiner and hook your keys onto your belt loop. I used to do that too and still consider it a very utilitarian way. I only gave it up when someone told me (as I am hard of hearing and had never noticed) "I'm glad you keep you're keys on your belt like that. It's like a cow bell so I can always hear you coming". That was when I threw the carabiner away.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carabiner
If you are deaf that is a physical disability and if you are unemployed then, because of both, you qualify for both medicaid and medicare which will cover all costs or at least it should. It did for me when I needed a cochlear implant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant
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I'm still scratching my head over all of this but it seems to be like this is something specific to the way people who use fedora are trained or accustomed to using iptables. Is that right?
/etc/init.d/iptables save which just saves it to a file in etc using the iptables-save command. Fedora introducing some new way to make changes on the fly seems like something I have done since I have used ipchains predating iptables. Doesn't sound particularly new or interesting. It really doesn't sound new at all. It sounds like how system engineers and administrators have been doing iptables since before it was even iptables.
I use Ubuntu and Debian but the distro is irrelevant. I wrote a custom init.d script to start/stop/save iptables commands years ago. When I make changes to the firewall rules, I do it on the fly using the iptables command and then when I am done I run
The only thing I am a little shocked about here and maybe this has to do with the fedora culture but people are saying they edit a file and then reload the file? That is without a doubt the wrong way to make any changes to your firewall. It's error prone based on the person making the changes. You may be the best and you may have never made a mistake but seriously, if you make one typo then iptables isn't going to read all your rules. Any experienced systems engineer or systems administrator would tell you to make the changes using the iptables command and then save it to a file with iptables-save. The only time that file should really ever need to be read/parsed is when the system boots and you know the file will work (assuming you have loaded any requisite modules first) because iptables created that file for you and not vice versa.
I use puppet myself and it is a great !@#$ing tool but as far as your yum question, I don't know what the answer is but on debian, ubuntu or anything else that uses the dpkg system, the answer is this
dpkg --get-selections package-name
This will return the package name you searched for, tab separated by it's install state. i.e. deinstall, install, hold, etc. Fairly easy to program to get the status of whether or not a package is installed.
I don't know if I will be able to get used to the concept of no minimize/maximize buttons or not. Maybe I will but none the less, no one should just remove such a strong staple of the UI and say "Hey I hope you enjoy it and if not, oh well". If they feel that strongly about removing them by default then they should but leave a option to re-enable them. It would be stupid to take them out and hope the rest of the world just happens to understand your design concepts.
Co-locate a server in a data center, lease a server from a data center, get a business class internet account, etc etc. Here is one of several free Real time Block Lists (RBL) that block all email coming from residential ISP's: http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/
About a year ago I left my phone on while flying on two planes since I had a layover. First off, I can confirm it does connect, even on 3G since, while I was landing in Toronto, I pulled up google maps on the iPhone which then downloaded the local map to where the phone had never been and then showed me where the plane was flying above on the ground through the GPS. I was able to find spots I recognized only cause the GPS let me know where I actually was as I watched it track our landing.
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The more important item of interest though is this, a cell phone antennae is omni directional (every direction). Turning your cell phone off inside a plane does not prevent cell phone signals from being in the plane since the cell phone towers which are communicating with as little as one phone that is not inside the plane, those towers are broadcasting in every direction. Cell phone towers don't know which way a cell phone is (remember it takes 3 towers to find a position through triangulation because one tower doesn't know). Because the tower doesn't know then, if someone is standing on the opposite side of a cell tower from an airplane, the airplane is still receiving the cell towers data and depending on the position of the phone then it is receiving the data from the phone to. The only rason a plane would not receive data from a cell phone outside of the plane is the plane is further away then the signal strength can reach and if a phones signal strength reaches a cell phone tower then it's pretty powerful already. A plane has plenty of windows and is therefor not a Faraday cage or even close. If cell phones were a hazard to planes then there would be no cell phone towers anywhere close to an airport at all.
I heard this once, but this may just be an urban legend, but I heard that cell phones aren't allowed during takeoff and landing because for some reason or another they don't want people in the plane communicating with people outside the plane. I don't know if this is true or not so take it with a grain of salt but the notion had to do with, if there is an emergency in the plane, we don't want you calling someone outside the plane and letting them know (which will likely lead to the news finding out if it's a panic situation) and vice versa. If there is an emergency on the ground, they don't want people inside the plain to find out causing terror which would spread to everyone on the plane in short order and create another bad situation so yeah. Again, this may be an old wives tale. Take it with a grain of salt but, if thats true then it does make sense. See the movie Die Hard 2
I wonder what that is worth.
My company now hosts are servers in a massive data center (it was in the /. story of the top 10 largest data centers a few months ago) and, when we were touring the data center prior to moving in, they had a room that sounds exactly like what you are describing you want to make. The aspect regarding visitors is this, their is an observation platform, outside of the room, behind it, where there is a large window that you can see in. This is one of the electronic windows where, when you flick a wall switch, the window changes between clear / normal and between a completely hazed white semi transparent window. When it's turned to off, all you can see is light from the room. You cannot even tell exactly where the screens are. This can work wonders since, mostly you want this room to be kept private so it helps prevent people from just peering in but, additionally, since it's behind the room and since it makes no sound to activate, I don't think the staff will immediately notice that someone is there looking in. This makes for a great demonstration tool and at the same time allows you to look in on the staff in person without letting them know but at the same time, without hiding it from them.
can we really trust these guys to predict the financial markets any better than they did World Cup?
You're asking if we can trust big banks to predict the financial markets when we are on the slow rebound from a crashed economy? I think you're a couple years too late asking this question and the answer is a clear "no"! No we can not.
For about $30 - $40 you can get the Ubiquiti AirView spectrum analyzer usb dongle. From what I understand this will run on linux (don't quote me on that. I don't own one). http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&safe=off&q=ubiquiti%20airview&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf
While the spokesperson for creative commons may or may not be right, I would like to know that tens of thousands is an accurate number and where he got it from. I hope he is right but I am skeptical that this is a real figure. I know all the artists he mentioned have used creative commons ("including acts like Nine Inch Nails, the Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Radiohead, and Snoop Dogg"). In fact Nine Inch Nails is my favorite band and I was excited when Trent Reznor made that decision for Nine Inch Nails and it's being followed through with his new band How To Destroy Angels (lead by his wife Mariqueen Maandig). I felt these were strong acts in supporting Creative Commons which has served me and many others very well in our business and personal lives. None the less, can someone please point me to a site, registry, document or anything that says tens of thousands of musicians in a reputable manner as the spokesperson has claimed?
I think it's excellent that you know how to use the back button on your mouse and I'm gonna let you finish but I hope that one day you learn that back and up are not the same thing and while you can use the breadcrumb bar, thats hardly an excuse for not having a up button but then again it's Microsoft. I mean, just because a feature takes 4 lines of code and a image and is considered normal everywhere else in the world doesn't mean I expect them to take the 10 minutes to develop and implement it.
This is a joke. Right? I mean how is this evidence for anything other then the fact that I paid for a phone that did not have proper security programmed into it in the first place? It took open source programmers who worked for free (I assume) to point out how the paid for product had dropped the ball and didn't have real security in the first place. Furthermore, Linux is free because the author didn't want to charge for it. Are you saying the OS is invalid because he didn't put a price tag on it? By the way, if you are not joking then you should know MS, Oracle and IBM (those are just the ones I am aware of in your list) provide open source freeware (MS working on both Silverlight/Moonlight through Novell and Active Directory with/through samba). Also if you are not joking, please tell me you are confined to a institution that makes sure a spork is the most dangerous thing you have access to. You sound like the last person that should own a gun.
If you think free software should be outlawed, all you are doing is mandating a law that says people have to charge for something even if they don't want to.
P.S. FOSS people are not known to steal anything, instead we create it from scratch and the iPhone code that Ubuntu 10.04 uses was built from scratch it was not taken from any code apple provided as apple has never provided that code to anyone AFAIK. MS has only ever made idle threats about patents without naming any identifiable aspect of it. What have we stolen from anyone. If I don't want to use Windows or OS X then you think you have the write to say I can't program productive software for it or do you honestly believe that we have somehow hacked into apple and stolen the source code for the iPhone.
P.P.S.: The post is true. I have been able to access my PIN protected iPhone 3G (not 3GS) from Ubuntu 10.04 since I installed it. The security aspect is a bit of a concern but then again, since I knew cops have been able to do this all along then I am not that surprised. The plus side is I can now upload songs to my iPhone from Linux without doing a Jail Break (I'm reluctant to Jail Break) and without having to run an app in Wine (since I hate Windows emulation) so kudos to Ubuntu for exposing a security vulnerability and at the same time making the iPhone more usable on Linux. Job well done.
While I agree that visual basic sucks ...what the hell does that have to do with Firefox. Thats like saying Chevy cars suck. Get a Android cell phone instead. You just compared a programming language to a web browser.
Trendnet seems to be GPL compliant in releasing source code to the surveillance cameras we installed however there is no build environment or firmware tools. Linksys on the other hand, while I don't know if they have involvement with GPL on the device in question, I know we have some managed switches from them that are IE only (or at least not compatible with ff, opera or chrome/chromium) and required me to install ies4linux in order to configure them. I didn't test with w3m.
Ok. Well I still have issues for the way the article was phrased however, since child porn was involved. The FTC should be entitled to shoot the ISP owners in the head and just seize all of their assets.
They use the phrase "all manner of malicious web content" to describe porn among other things. Since when is porn considered malicious web content. It's a legal job for willing volunteers and it's also a local job that isn't heavily out sourced to foreign countries (though foreign countries make their own porn too). I think the author should have thought about that statement and perhaps gave the preview button some thought before they posted.
Well I didn't say I would buy it from them but then again I might. Fact is I won't buy it though till I know the big dogs are supporting it and economically speaking, by the time it's adopted by trusted firms, well it's reasonable to assume that the cost of the technology itself may have dropped to the point where the firms who charge more for it will probably be cheaper then what it costs now when it's a new product since prices are almost always higher when a new technology has been released and hasn't been widely adopted yet.
This sounds awesome and I want one but I'm not gonna put it in my budget until Sun(Oracle), IBM, HP or Dell are selling it
I wasn't kidding when I recommended Dilbert. Scott Adams (author) worked at Pacific Bell for years and gets tons of emails on a daily basis of people telling him either how right his comics are or that he should make a comic about "this" where "this" is something just as messed up happening at their work place. I own a couple Dilbert books and honestly they are insightful reading for the common office work space.
You had me gunning up until you said less coffee. I'm pretty sure you are required to drink more coffee then non techs. Coffee is the essential tech vitamin of the day. ;)
See? You're already half way there.
Buy a book on corporate ethics. Read it twice and abide. Also buy a few Dilbert books and read them twice as many times as the corporate ethics books. If your not sure what decision to make in a situation, side with what the Dilbert books suggest over the corporate ethics books.
Buy a carabiner and hook your keys onto your belt loop. I used to do that too and still consider it a very utilitarian way. I only gave it up when someone told me (as I am hard of hearing and had never noticed) "I'm glad you keep you're keys on your belt like that. It's like a cow bell so I can always hear you coming". That was when I threw the carabiner away. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carabiner
You really need to get laid.
I really need to get laid to but you know what? I have servers in the NAP of the Americas. w00t!!! pwn3d!!! I loves it!!! who needs women anyways?
If you are deaf that is a physical disability and if you are unemployed then, because of both, you qualify for both medicaid and medicare which will cover all costs or at least it should. It did for me when I needed a cochlear implant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant