I really, do want to agree, but I just can't. I use ipchains at home, and have no trouble with the little LAN I have there, but at home, I trust all the users.
At work, I've got a much more complex system, For one thing, to get out on the web, users have to login to Wingate. ( the simple act of letting users know that logs exist keeps them in line)
I have no clue how to do that with linux.
It probably can be done, but I also don't have a spare week to figure out how to do it.
Also, on the TCP weakness, if somebody hacked into my server, to make it seem like a Email death threat originated from here...(if it was POSTed as a web form the hacker really wouldn't need to see any data coming back). that could be a problem. Now this is a bit paranoid, but it occurs to me that if somebody actually did that, I'd have no way to show that I was a hacked.
WinGate runs on windows 9x ( but it is more stable on NT) and WinGate can be set to use IP addr. to grant privileges. (I have mine set this way)
It's not clear to me if the SYN stuff on is better on NT than windows 9x.. Frankly, I'd love a replacement for WinGate that ran on linux. Even the NT box, with nothing else on it, randomly freezes after about 14 days.
This worries me a little, Strikes me as possible the somebody could use this trick to get access/delete/modify files on my internal LAN.
Cisco has buildings subjected to property taxes. If the residential taxes can't be raised, the Corporate Property taxes will raise faster.
If I lived there, this would bother me, but Cisco's motive it pretty clear. They don't want to be easier for the local governments and school districts to raise taxes on them than it some other people ( in this case, the homeowners)
Some time ago I saw a questionnaire from the libertarian party that presented political positions as a XY grid, where one axis was social issues and another was fiscal issues.
This was a HUGE eye opener for me, and ever since I have been annoyed at media classifications of simple LeftRight.
Either a) most of the main stream media don't get this concept. Or
b) They think we are all too stupid to understand such a "complex" idea.;-)
That being said, I just think we are done a disservice when editorial comments on slashdot cause it to sound like a PAC newsletter. Consider that when people who disagree read your comments, they downgrade the rest of what you say.
Report the issues and facts, Don't tell us how to think.
Hey this is still a GREAT idea. It would be a cakewalk for Iopener or other true Internet appliances, and even for other devices, like TIVO, you could run a process on a machine in the house that mirrors the content from the dial up service. I figure that the appliance manufacturers would probably be willing to allow you to access the data alternatively. ( for a reduced fee ).. I mean, even AOL cuts you a break if you don't use their modems to connect...
The hardware could be a little more complicated to construct. It would have to present a fake dial tone and respond with a connect. It would have to be a little more than just the server end of a 56k modem. It would also have to be programmable to work with other than IP data. ( some sort of IP->Native bridge)
I had a similar experience, I was using explorer on "not my machine" and I kept getting time-outs on the links. Then I noticed that I could get pages from "www.slashdot.org" but not "slashdot.org"
All the links on the home page seem to drop the "www", I tried adding the www to some of the links and was able to get content.
I Don't know enough about IP to know if this means anything. I figured "www.slashdot.org" and "slashdot.org" would DNS to the same IP. Is this not the case ??
Is it possible that IE and Netscape have differnt rules for dropping the WWW.... no that can't be it, that comes from the HTML but possibly Netscape understands that www.slashdot.org == slashdot.org and IE doesn't??
This is so incredibly correct, and so disturbingly ignored by the media.
1st amendment Grants us the Right to say the government sucks. ( and protects the media)
2nd amendment grants us the right to the tools required to rise up and overthrow the government if that's what we chose.
It never had a thing to do with crime and crime prevention and it shouldn't now. Any attempt by the government to restrict us, limits our rights.
The background check computer ( which is so conveniently down now) is also a fully effective registration tracking system. ( They log every request) Personally I feel the Background check would be OK, but they should be required by LAW to discard the request logs... You will never see that in this PC Age..
If the founding fathers were alive today to see the scope of rights we have given up... well,..... they would die of disgust.
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I really, do want to agree, but I just can't. I use ipchains at home, and have no trouble with the little LAN I have there, but at home, I trust all the users.
At work, I've got a much more complex system, For one thing, to get out on the web, users have to login to Wingate. ( the simple act of letting users know that logs exist keeps them in line)
I have no clue how to do that with linux.
It probably can be done, but I also don't have a spare week to figure out how to do it.
Also, on the TCP weakness, if somebody hacked into my server, to make it seem like a Email death threat originated from here...(if it was POSTed as a web form the hacker really wouldn't need to see any data coming back). that could be a problem. Now this is a bit paranoid, but it occurs to me that if somebody actually did that, I'd have no way to show that I was a hacked.
WinGate runs on windows 9x ( but it is more stable on NT) and WinGate can be set to use IP addr. to grant privileges. (I have mine set this way)
It's not clear to me if the SYN stuff on is better on NT than windows 9x.. Frankly, I'd love a replacement for WinGate that ran on linux. Even the NT box, with nothing else on it, randomly freezes after about 14 days.
This worries me a little, Strikes me as possible the somebody could use this trick to get access/delete/modify files on my internal LAN.
If I lived there, this would bother me, but Cisco's motive it pretty clear. They don't want to be easier for the local governments and school districts to raise taxes on them than it some other people ( in this case, the homeowners)
Some time ago I saw a questionnaire from the libertarian party that presented political positions as a XY grid, where one axis was social issues and another was fiscal issues.
;-)
This was a HUGE eye opener for me, and ever since I have been annoyed at media classifications of simple LeftRight.
Either a) most of the main stream media don't get this concept. Or
b) They think we are all too stupid to understand such a "complex" idea.
That being said, I just think we are done a disservice when editorial comments on slashdot cause it to sound like a PAC newsletter. Consider that when people who disagree read your comments, they downgrade the rest of what you say.
Report the issues and facts, Don't tell us how to think.
Hey this is still a GREAT idea. It would be a cakewalk for Iopener or other true Internet appliances, and even for other devices, like TIVO, you could run a process on a machine in the house that mirrors the content from the dial up service. I figure that the appliance manufacturers would probably be willing to allow you to access the data alternatively. ( for a reduced fee ) .. I mean, even AOL cuts you a break if you don't use their modems to connect...
The hardware could be a little more complicated to construct. It would have to present a fake dial tone and respond with a connect. It would have to be a little more than just the server end of a 56k modem. It would also have to be programmable to work with other than IP data. ( some sort of IP->Native bridge)
But, I'd pay ~$100 to $200 for such a device.
I had a similar experience, I was using explorer on "not my machine" and I kept getting time-outs on the links. Then I noticed that I could get pages from "www.slashdot.org" but not "slashdot.org"
All the links on the home page seem to drop the "www", I tried adding the www to some of the links and was able to get content.
I Don't know enough about IP to know if this means anything. I figured "www.slashdot.org" and "slashdot.org" would DNS to the same IP. Is this not the case ??
Is it possible that IE and Netscape have differnt rules for dropping the WWW.... no that can't be it, that comes from the HTML but possibly Netscape understands that www.slashdot.org == slashdot.org and IE doesn't??
Not trolling, just curious.
This is so incredibly correct, and so disturbingly ignored by the media.
1st amendment Grants us the Right to say the government sucks. ( and protects the media)
2nd amendment grants us the right to the tools required to rise up and overthrow the government if that's what we chose.
It never had a thing to do with crime and crime prevention and it shouldn't now. Any attempt by the government to restrict us, limits our rights.
The background check computer ( which is so conveniently down now) is also a fully effective registration tracking system. ( They log every request) Personally I feel the Background check would be OK, but they should be required by LAW to discard the request logs... You will never see that in this PC Age..
If the founding fathers were alive today to see the scope of rights we have given up... well,..... they would die of disgust.