Damn you and your science. I was trying to make fun of cabbies and you have to go and ruin it with all your "facts". One thing your "facts" didn't consider, maybe it's already happening. This sounds like a "factual" statement:
Even very low concentrations of cabbie BO can be harmful to the upper respiratory tract and the lungs. The severity of injury depends on both by the concentration of cabbie BO and the duration of exposure. Severe and permanent lung injury or death could result from even a very short-term exposure to relatively low concentrations of cabbie BO.
Nothing worse than a smelly cab driver on a hot summers day. Eliminate odors electronically and help repair that pesky hole in the ozone while you're at it:)
We run Openfire as well. Spark is multiplatform (Windows, Linux and Mac) but, as you can read from the other comments, it's not so great. Why an IM client needs 80MB of memory baffles me. I'm sure it's because it's Java but who knows. I've only run it on windows so I can't speak for the other platforms.
The openfire server on the other hand is first rate. Not only is it secure, free and integrates with AD but it's Jabber so you can use a number of different clients. I have folks running Psi, Pidgen and Miranda and they all say it works well.
MG
We use Clearspace and love it. We also use the jabber server (Openfire) from Jive and love that as well. The combination of the two makes a great collaboration platform. Couple of things though:
Clearspace isn't free so I'll probably get modded down for suggesting it but I like it so bleh. You can use it with up to 5 users for free. They also will give you a trial license so you can testing it with a group of individuals and see if you like it.
Openfire is free. They have a pay version but the free version rocks. They have a jabber client as well (Spark) but it's a resource whore. You may want to avoid it though it does work very well with the Openfire server and it comes in Windows, Linux and Mac flavors
Clearspace was built to be a internet collaboration server so all the links to things have to begin with http, https or ftp. This is frustrating if you want to use it an intranet setup and have links to file://. There's a thread on their forum about this and they say they are looking into it so it may come
Uses Tomcat. I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions
The text editor is kind of lame but they promise improvement soon. This could be a show stopper if don't like writing in wikitext. If you do like using wikitext, what the hell is wrong with you:)
I don't think so. What do you think is happening to all the baby batter that's being collected by the bots who are milking the men who are left behind? While you're sitting at home blissfully ignorant and thinking about how great it is you never need to clean out your Sally Suckomatic 3000, she's at her place about to be fire-hosed by her Peter Northatron.
We use GroundWork. They provide a graphical front end for the nagios configuration that takes a lot of the pain out of it. I think they only support Nagios 2 currently but we've been happy with it and it's free. They have VMware appliances as well which gives you a zero install deploy option making it even easier.
"Chinese officials have compelled reductions in industrial activity by as much as 30 percent and cuts in automobile use by half to safeguard the health of competing athletes immediately before and during the games."
The dnscache program uses a cryptographic generator for the ID and
query port to make them extremely difficult to predict. However,
* an attacker who makes a few billion random guesses is likely to
succeed at least once;
* tens of millions of guesses are adequate with a colliding attack;
etc. The same page also states bilateral and unilateral workarounds that would raise the number of guesses to "practically impossible"; but then focuses on the real problem, namely that "attackers with access to the network would still be able to forge DNS responses."
I suppose I should be happy to see public awareness almost catching up to the nastiest DNS attacks I considered in 1999. However, people are deluding themselves if they think they're protected by the current series of patches. UIC is issuing a press release today on this topic; see below.
---D. J. Bernstein, Professor, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
DNS still vulnerable, Bernstein says
CHICAGO, Thursday 7 August 2008 - Do you bank over the Internet? If so, beware: recent Internet patches don't stop determined attackers.
Network administrators have been rushing to deploy DNS source-port randomization patches in response to an attack announced by security researcher Dan Kaminsky last month. But the inventor of source-port randomization said today that new security solutions are needed to protect the Internet infrastructure.
"Anyone who knows what he's doing can easily steal your email and insert fake web pages into your browser, even after you've patched," said cryptographer Daniel J. Bernstein, a professor in the Center for Research and Instruction in Technologies for Electronic Security (RITES) at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Bernstein's DJBDNS software introduced source-port randomization in 1999 and is now estimated to have tens of millions of users. Bernstein released the DJBDNS copyright at the end of last year.
Kaminsky said at the Black Hat conference yesterday that 120,000,000 Internet users were now protected by patches using Bernstein's randomization idea. But Bernstein criticized this idea, saying that it was "at best a speed bump for blind attackers" and "an extremely poor substitute for proper cryptographic protection."
DNSSEC, a cryptographic version of DNS, has been in development since 1993 but is still not operational. Bernstein said that DNSSEC offers "a surprisingly low level of security" while causing severe problems for DNS reliability and performance.
"We need to stop wasting time on breakable patches," Bernstein said. He called for development of DNSSEC alternatives that quickly and securely reject every forged DNS packet.
Holy crap. This is great. I can picture Childs in his cell right now doing the "Where the hell is Matt" dance. If he's held on $5 million bail this dipshit should be arrested and held without bail.
I don't think you need to worry about your Karma because I think you are very right. It's exactly what I thought when I read the story and it's why I upgraded so quickly. In fact, it's why I always update Firefox as soon as an update is available - To get to the next "less sucky" version.
You can call this a flame as well but I'm a dedicated Firefox user. I just can't stand it:)
We like to use a combination of both. White and very light gray for the stripes and then a darker gray for the row under cursor. I find this helps tremendously.
When he talked about not being able to run I think he was making a point about using muscles that haven't trained. "He" wouldn't be capable of running because he never does so his muscles wouldn't be able to handle it. Similarly, the atheletes haven't trained their brains and wouldn't be able to sit through a 12 hour Java discussion.
I mean, this would be like blogging a fake story about a building being bombed in Baghdad or one about Michael Jackson molesting a child and having it picked up by news outlets. There's nothing impressive about that. People expect it to happen.
You want to impress me. Pull off a hoax that gets people to believe that the US Government shutdown your blog and see if news agencies carry it. That would really get peoples panties in a wad. Might even make it to the Slasdot front page so we could all rant about it. That's always fun because once it's found to be a hoax we get to belittle the Slashdot editors for posting it in the first place.
I want to reply to your Honesty piece. I was a consultant who provided IT services to small amd medium sized businesses for 5 years. It's true what you say, there are alot of people who over-charge. But you'll find that in any industry. Eventually those people will stop getting calls. I was always honest and therefore never needed to advertise or market. All my business came from referals.
Now, there's another side to that. In order for me to succeed I had to charge a flat, per hour rate for my services. That means that sometimes the customer was paying too much for a service and sometimes they were paying too little. There's no way around that. If you have me come in and update a computer with new software that required nothing more than me clicking next a few times you would pay the same hourly rate as if I was building you a new server or installing a firewall.
If you are running 2000 or XP you may be bluescreening and your PC is set to automatically reboot (which is the default). In XP right-click on "My Computer" and select "Properties". Click on "Advanced" tab. Under Startup and Recovery click on "Settings". Under System Failure clear the checkbox next to "Automatically Restart".
If you are running 2000 you'll have to find it yourself. It is somewhere under Properties for My Computer.
Most of the time when a 2000 or XP machine is just rebooting itself I find that the issue is that it's bluescreening and rebooting itself. Hope this helps.
The Slashdot editors are nice enough to post a non-story about movie theaters/revenues/profits/etc. so that we can rant about prices of tickes/snacks/parking/etc. and brag about the components in our home theaters and you have to come along and screw it all up by presenting facts. Where to you get off buddy? Now what the hell am I gonna rant about? Did you see the front page? There aren't any articles about how Linux isn't ready for the desktop. There are any columns about Windows out performing Linux in a recent benchmark.
From now on just keep your facts to yourself.
BTW, mod parent up. Sounds like he hit the nail on the head
It wasn't my first (I had a TI-99/4a before that) but I had one as well. I had the memory expansion side car with the added floppy. The infrared keyboard made me the geekiest geek on the block and the envy of all until my buddy got a 30MB hard drive for his 286 and blew us all away. I even had a mouse for it which had it's own power supply. I used to spend hours programming my own "Zork" type games in Basic. Ultima III kept me up for hours as well. I discovered BBS' with that computer and, yes, I actually did rub one out to an ASCII nudie pic.
I still have it in my garage. My wife is constantly trying to get me to throw it away. She just doesn't get it.
I agree. I work for an ISP and we have 2 OC-3 connections. The high download speeds we have make my job much nicer. If I'm working on something and need a large download, I can usually download it and continue working instead of starting the download, working on something else, and then getting back to what I was doing when it finishes.
As a test, I downloaded debian-31r1-i386-binary-10.iso (644 MB) from mirrors.usc.edu while typing this. Maxed out at 2.58 MB/Sec and downloaded the entire file before I finished typing (under 5 minutes)
Slashdot Mirror
Damn you and your science. I was trying to make fun of cabbies and you have to go and ruin it with all your "facts". One thing your "facts" didn't consider, maybe it's already happening. This sounds like a "factual" statement:
Even very low concentrations of cabbie BO can be harmful to the upper respiratory tract and the lungs. The severity of injury depends on both by the concentration of cabbie BO and the duration of exposure. Severe and permanent lung injury or death could result from even a very short-term exposure to relatively low concentrations of cabbie BO.
See. Dispute that.
http://www.interstaterentals.net/id84.html
:)
Nothing worse than a smelly cab driver on a hot summers day. Eliminate odors electronically and help repair that pesky hole in the ozone while you're at it
Now people will be able to read his e-mails!!
So that's how they came up with the name 'Windows 7'
We run Openfire as well. Spark is multiplatform (Windows, Linux and Mac) but, as you can read from the other comments, it's not so great. Why an IM client needs 80MB of memory baffles me. I'm sure it's because it's Java but who knows. I've only run it on windows so I can't speak for the other platforms. The openfire server on the other hand is first rate. Not only is it secure, free and integrates with AD but it's Jabber so you can use a number of different clients. I have folks running Psi, Pidgen and Miranda and they all say it works well. MG
I don't think so. What do you think is happening to all the baby batter that's being collected by the bots who are milking the men who are left behind? While you're sitting at home blissfully ignorant and thinking about how great it is you never need to clean out your Sally Suckomatic 3000, she's at her place about to be fire-hosed by her Peter Northatron.
We use GroundWork. They provide a graphical front end for the nagios configuration that takes a lot of the pain out of it. I think they only support Nagios 2 currently but we've been happy with it and it's free. They have VMware appliances as well which gives you a zero install deploy option making it even easier.
I run Firefox. 600 MB of RAM is about what I need to open google ;)
You insensitive clod!
I'd say that they will have to wait longer to get failures. Try to have a server running in that enviroment for 5 years and then we will see.
In 5 years you would save 14.35 million according to his calculations. You could probably spring for some replacement servers :)
"Chinese officials have compelled reductions in industrial activity by as much as 30 percent and cuts in automobile use by half to safeguard the health of competing athletes immediately before and during the games."
If only they cared that much about their citizens
Here's something DJB posted to his mailing list on Thursday. Don't know if I'm allowed to post this here but what the heck:
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/forgery.html has, for several years, stated the results of exactly this attack:
The dnscache program uses a cryptographic generator for the ID and
query port to make them extremely difficult to predict. However,
* an attacker who makes a few billion random guesses is likely to
succeed at least once;
* tens of millions of guesses are adequate with a colliding attack;
etc. The same page also states bilateral and unilateral workarounds that would raise the number of guesses to "practically impossible"; but then focuses on the real problem, namely that "attackers with access to the network would still be able to forge DNS responses."
I suppose I should be happy to see public awareness almost catching up to the nastiest DNS attacks I considered in 1999. However, people are deluding themselves if they think they're protected by the current series of patches. UIC is issuing a press release today on this topic; see below.
---D. J. Bernstein, Professor, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
DNS still vulnerable, Bernstein says
CHICAGO, Thursday 7 August 2008 - Do you bank over the Internet? If so,
beware: recent Internet patches don't stop determined attackers.
Network administrators have been rushing to deploy DNS source-port randomization patches in response to an attack announced by security researcher Dan Kaminsky last month. But the inventor of source-port randomization said today that new security solutions are needed to protect the Internet infrastructure.
"Anyone who knows what he's doing can easily steal your email and insert fake web pages into your browser, even after you've patched," said cryptographer Daniel J. Bernstein, a professor in the Center for Research and Instruction in Technologies for Electronic Security (RITES) at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Bernstein's DJBDNS software introduced source-port randomization in
1999 and is now estimated to have tens of millions of users. Bernstein released the DJBDNS copyright at the end of last year.
Kaminsky said at the Black Hat conference yesterday that 120,000,000 Internet users were now protected by patches using Bernstein's randomization idea. But Bernstein criticized this idea, saying that it was "at best a speed bump for blind attackers" and "an extremely poor substitute for proper cryptographic protection."
DNSSEC, a cryptographic version of DNS, has been in development since
1993 but is still not operational. Bernstein said that DNSSEC offers "a surprisingly low level of security" while causing severe problems for DNS reliability and performance.
"We need to stop wasting time on breakable patches," Bernstein said. He called for development of DNSSEC alternatives that quickly and securely reject every forged DNS packet.
Press contact: Daniel J. Bernstein
Holy crap. This is great. I can picture Childs in his cell right now doing the "Where the hell is Matt" dance. If he's held on $5 million bail this dipshit should be arrested and held without bail.
I don't think you need to worry about your Karma because I think you are very right. It's exactly what I thought when I read the story and it's why I upgraded so quickly. In fact, it's why I always update Firefox as soon as an update is available - To get to the next "less sucky" version.
You can call this a flame as well but I'm a dedicated Firefox user. I just can't stand it :)
A periodic circumcision should do the trick nicely ;). Then again, it is European. I better rethink that.
We like to use a combination of both. White and very light gray for the stripes and then a darker gray for the row under cursor. I find this helps tremendously.
users will use 4GB of RAM to browse the internet.
;)
Actually we do that now. It's called Firefox
When he talked about not being able to run I think he was making a point about using muscles that haven't trained. "He" wouldn't be capable of running because he never does so his muscles wouldn't be able to handle it. Similarly, the atheletes haven't trained their brains and wouldn't be able to sit through a 12 hour Java discussion.
I mean, this would be like blogging a fake story about a building being bombed in Baghdad or one about Michael Jackson molesting a child and having it picked up by news outlets. There's nothing impressive about that. People expect it to happen.
You want to impress me. Pull off a hoax that gets people to believe that the US Government shutdown your blog and see if news agencies carry it. That would really get peoples panties in a wad. Might even make it to the Slasdot front page so we could all rant about it. That's always fun because once it's found to be a hoax we get to belittle the Slashdot editors for posting it in the first place.
I want to reply to your Honesty piece. I was a consultant who provided IT services to small amd medium sized businesses for 5 years. It's true what you say, there are alot of people who over-charge. But you'll find that in any industry. Eventually those people will stop getting calls. I was always honest and therefore never needed to advertise or market. All my business came from referals.
Now, there's another side to that. In order for me to succeed I had to charge a flat, per hour rate for my services. That means that sometimes the customer was paying too much for a service and sometimes they were paying too little. There's no way around that. If you have me come in and update a computer with new software that required nothing more than me clicking next a few times you would pay the same hourly rate as if I was building you a new server or installing a firewall.
If you are running 2000 or XP you may be bluescreening and your PC is set to automatically reboot (which is the default). In XP right-click on "My Computer" and select "Properties". Click on "Advanced" tab. Under Startup and Recovery click on "Settings". Under System Failure clear the checkbox next to "Automatically Restart".
If you are running 2000 you'll have to find it yourself. It is somewhere under Properties for My Computer.
Most of the time when a 2000 or XP machine is just rebooting itself I find that the issue is that it's bluescreening and rebooting itself. Hope this helps.
The Slashdot editors are nice enough to post a non-story about movie theaters/revenues/profits/etc. so that we can rant about prices of tickes/snacks/parking/etc. and brag about the components in our home theaters and you have to come along and screw it all up by presenting facts. Where to you get off buddy? Now what the hell am I gonna rant about? Did you see the front page? There aren't any articles about how Linux isn't ready for the desktop. There are any columns about Windows out performing Linux in a recent benchmark.
From now on just keep your facts to yourself.
BTW, mod parent up. Sounds like he hit the nail on the head
It wasn't my first (I had a TI-99/4a before that) but I had one as well. I had the memory expansion side car with the added floppy. The infrared keyboard made me the geekiest geek on the block and the envy of all until my buddy got a 30MB hard drive for his 286 and blew us all away. I even had a mouse for it which had it's own power supply. I used to spend hours programming my own "Zork" type games in Basic. Ultima III kept me up for hours as well. I discovered BBS' with that computer and, yes, I actually did rub one out to an ASCII nudie pic.
I still have it in my garage. My wife is constantly trying to get me to throw it away. She just doesn't get it.
I agree. I work for an ISP and we have 2 OC-3 connections. The high download speeds we have make my job much nicer. If I'm working on something and need a large download, I can usually download it and continue working instead of starting the download, working on something else, and then getting back to what I was doing when it finishes.
As a test, I downloaded debian-31r1-i386-binary-10.iso (644 MB) from mirrors.usc.edu while typing this. Maxed out at 2.58 MB/Sec and downloaded the entire file before I finished typing (under 5 minutes)