Have you ever dealt with a death? None of those proof you are the executor. You get a specific document from the courts saying that, yes, this person is by law able to take possession of all of the estate, and distribute it as per the will.
The death certificate just says "this person died".
The will just says 'if I die, id like my possessions to be distributed this way"
A solicitor can write whatever they want. My solicitor wrote a letter I should get all of Job's online content, but they didn't listen to him either.
The only thing that matters is the document saying you are assigned to execute the will and handle all estate matters.
Apple is right here. Someone should be able to show a document saying that they are the executor of the estate. This is needed for many things like bank accounts and such. It is entirely reasonable that this also applies to cloud based content. Without it, if apple would unlock the data, and someone else shows up with a proof of being executor, apple could have a problem.
We just went through all of this after my wife's mother's death, and although it's a big hassle, it's just something that has to be done. Get proof you are the executor, then claim all possessions including cloud based data. This could include things like photos which may have emotional value, so of course data is part of what the executor has to deal with.
Im not from the US, so im not entirely sure what a 'National Security Letter' entails. Wikipedia seems to suggest a very broad spectrum of requests. If it's anything like europe, the vast majority of those requests are about email boxes. Actual wiretaps, where all data on the line is forwarded to law enforcement, is likely a small percentage of requests. Ok, maybe Comcast could get a few hundred, since they're quite big, but I highly doubt thousands.
You're right, a lot of the costs are in administrative and legal departments. Are the requests valid, are they possible (you wouldnt believe how often they still ask things you just cant do or know), etc. But there definitely are pretty high infrastructure costs! If you think an ISP that takes this seriously will let normal infrastructure handle wiretapping, you are wrong (at least, I would hope you are). You have to put a totally separate, totally unconnected, fibre splicing, infrastructure in place. Why? Because you cant have regular network engineers or even hackers get their hands on extremely sensitive wire tapping information. Knowing who is being wiretapped is information that needs to be secret, in some cases it may even fall under intelligence services. This equipment needs to be in a secure location, and even network engineers that are 'curious' should not be able to get their hands on the data inside these cabinets. Now imagine you have a pretty spread out network, directly connected to multiple peering points, so no single point to put taps but instead many, maybe dozens or even more, you are looking at serious costs. Not that many boxes can handle multiple 10gbit fibre sniffing links you know.
I cant speak for Comcast, but the idea that any ISP would gladly get more warrants just so they could recoup their costs sounds ridiculous to me. This stuff is being implemented against the will of most companies. Regular people work there, no one with a white cat on their lap:)
I think you are making two assumptions that are most likely wrong. First I highly doubt that Comcast is really happy with the situation, that they love to snitch on customers. They have no choice. Period. Second, you seem to think somehow magically an infrastructure for wiretapping internet customers has appeared, and now comcast is sitting back and collecting $1000 profit per customer. If the US government has paid for this infrastructure, then I agree that $1000 to fulfill a wiretap warrant is a little high. But if Comcast has been forced (as we have been in europe) to implement a wiretapping system in their networks based on new laws, with high penalties for non-compliance, then I think they are fully in their right to ask for compensation from the US government. They may not even be making a profit! I think the subject should probably be "Comcast forced to spend millions to implement a wiretapping system and is only getting $1000 per warrant". I highly doubt that comcast is doing thousands of wiretaps. On the contrary, id bet they at most do a few dozen. They will never recoup the cost of the wiretapping infrastructure with this fee, that will come through regular monthly DSL/phone subscriptions. We have actually contemplated adding a 'wiretapping tax' to our customer bills, to show people what is happening. I think it's sad that ISPs have become government wiretap operators, but it's reality.
Now, think about this. This whole wiretapping crap is actually seriously impacting innovation as well. Every time we want to roll out a new system, we have to think about the stupid wiretapping and data retention laws. It is at best stalling our efforts, but at worst, making sure innovation is slowing down significantly.
I think a lot of people, including mr Aftergood, misunderstand the issue. The fact that there is a rate fee does not necessarily mean that it is such a common or even streamlined task. Ive been involved in this matter with an ISP in europe, where these things are already in law, and I think comcast is doing the right thing. By charging a fee, they make sure that there is at least some form of financial incentive for the police and/or justice department not to go overboard on wiretaps. And not only that, it can also be used to pay for the costs of the necessary infrastructure. This is not stuff you just buy at your local IT vendor, but needs to be implemented on a per-ISP bases in many cases. Wiretapping individual customers on 10 gbit meshed network with many redundant links is not trivial, especially if you want to make absolutely sure it holds up in court. The technology to do this is quite expensive, and needs to be paid by someone. In europe unfortunately most of the time that 'someone' is the ISP, and thus the customer. Governments have made wiretapping the financial responsibility of the ISP, which is really quite bad. Im glad to see Comcast was able to secure a payment from the government instead.
Now, this is ofcourse separate from the issue of the fact if these types of wiretaps should be allowed in the first place. In many cases that battle has already been fought, and lost. Expect big brother to watch, and expand its possibilities significantly. In europe, they're already talking about legal datamining in all the combined government and private sector databases,
What worries me is the responsibility put on ISPs. This means ISPs will be forced to interpret what is legal and what is not. Since risking a criminal offense is probably not what most ISPs would want, you can bet that they will err on the side of caution. To me the part about ISPs seems to be targetting Usenet. It will definately mean the end of Usenet servers in spain. It'll probably also mean the end of all ports generally associated with P2P. Since that is a losing battle, I wouldnt be surprised if eventually it'll mean the end of most direct tcp/ip access for customers of Spain ISPs.
About the tax on media carriers. That is common in quite a few countries. It's usually meant to compensate copyright holders for personal home copies. It is not meant to legalize giving a copy to your neighbor.
The internet is slowly but surely turning into the wet dream of many governments. Total control and monitoring over your populace in terms of communication. With wiretapping and data retention laws already in full swing in Europe, and now the first steps to criminalize specific activities, all we need is a country turning to a 'bad' government to make full use of all these capabilities.
BSD/OS has actually been in a coma for quite some time. Shutting down life support is the only fair thing to do.
We used to run BSD/386 back in 1992 and used BSD/OS upto about 4.1. Around that point BSD/OS started to lag behind in the fast pace of development, but most importantly, in support. When you pay tens of thousands of dollars for licenses with no visible return you tend to start looking for alternatives.
We switched our whole ISP (now around 600 servers) to FreeBSD with little hassle.
It's a shame though, BSD/OS had some cool people behind it.
Hi, that movie isn't specifically about XS4ALL. It's about the Hippies from Hell (www.hippiesfromhell.org). It's a group of friends that, just like XS4ALL, grew out of the hacker/alternative scene in The Netherlands. Ofcourse all these groups have large overlaps, but to say that movie is about the founders of XS4ALL is not entirely true. (I should know, im one of the founders myself;)
Someone asked if it took from 1999 to get this sorted. Worse, I was there when in 1995 Scientology raided our office and put a lean on all of our equipment. Ofcourse they wanted to just get the name and address of one of our customers but they couldn't have it, not without a court order. (and even then, we have refused court orders if we didnt believe they were lawful).
This is the third ruling in our favor on this case. Except that the second ruling claimed ISPs were responsible for illegal content if the 'ISP knows fairly sure it's illegal'. This third ruling overruled that again, and now we can fall back on european law which states an ISP 'needs to know beyond any doubt that material is illegal before being expected to remove it'.
That'll teach em to mess with a bunch of hacker hippies:)
I use a lot of batteries for underwater gear. Lights, camera, flashes etc. Ive settled on NiMH because they seem to give the most bang for your money.
I also make sure I always use the highest mAh available, which is around 2200 now. This gives you longer use. It makes it a lot more expensive though so if you only need 1800 or 1500 mAh because you don't mind your light going out at 90 feet then go for it:)
I havent really found 1 brand to be better than another.
No matter what Tim O'Reilly says, ive always had a soft spot for him. In 1993 I was sitting in a train going from London to Heathrow and I was wearing a Legion of Doom T-shirt.
This is 1993, so your mom wasn't on Internet yet. This guy starts talking to me, asking me if Im involved in Internet pointing at my shirt. So I say I am, co-founder of a dutch ISP (XS4ALL) and involved with Hacktic, a dutch hacker crew. He says he's Tim O'Reilly. _THE_? Yeah..
He was quite cool to talk to, and he gave me a sendmail shirt. Later he mailed me saying his kids loved it that someone recognised their dad:)
First of all you should check when "whenever I have to go home again" is. The US is not that open to longterm visitors. Especially the last few years. If you want to stay within the Visa Waiver limit you have a maximum of 3 months, but be prepared to very clearly state your reasons for staying that long, and especially how you will pay for all that.
Possibly you could apply for a B1/B2 visitors visa, maybe even from the Embassy in Australia. But again, they want certain assurances concerning finances.They just don't want you to become a 'burden to the US'.
Now, assuming you can take all those hurdles (or are staying less than say 2 months:) then some things I can recommend, even though im not even American myself.
Going from north-east to south-west.
- New York. It's just an amazing city for a European. I can imagine the same for someone from Australia. Maybe check out if 2600 has any of their meetings while you're there.
- The Mall in Washington. Visit the museums there. I believe they're all free. Maybe the Pentagon.
- Kennedy Space Centre. And hit the beach:)
- Vegas! I just loved the insane atmosphere there. Also, with Vegas as a base you can visit a lot of cool scenery like the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Death Valley etc.
- Im totally biased towards California, so i'd say, spend 50% of your time there:) San Francisco is a very cool place to be.You feel right at home. Visit Silicon Valley, drive along Route 1 (very nice scenery), visit national parks like Yosemite.
- while you're in that area, try and find Meteor Crater, if you like Astronomy. Ohh and maybe go to an astronomy inn like StarHill Inn in New Mexico. Talk about dark skies.
Most important piece of equipment to take with you during your whole trip: Binoculars!
And now you have to promise something to us. While you're out there, visit Lindon Utah.
Find the SCO headquarters and do 2 things.
First, go dumpsterdiving and find us the missing source!
Then, go and throw a rock through their corporate window with a Tux painted on it.
I can't comment on every caribbean country, but I can on the one im pretty familiar with, the US Virgin Islands. The largest employer is the government, and especially in the educational system you would expect people are eager to at least check out OSS.
And actually, a lot of people are. The ones that aren't in charge. They only get to benefit from money savings that can be achieved.
Unfortunately, making it actually happen is almost impossible. Corruption is a major part of life, so when a government deals with major contracts for software, a lot of the money gets well...lost. Now imagine the decision makers suddenly losing part of that 'income'.
We use an off-the-shelf system in our building. It consists of some simple ethernet capable cameras with build in motion sensors. As soon as the cameras detect motion they start sending either seperate images or a video stream. We use seperate images. We normally store a few weeks worth of data, on a raid with only a few hundred GB. This is for about 12 cameras.
We use a simple linux box as the system the raid is attached to. Every day a script removes all files older than 3 weeks.
The Linux community and any other unix community for that matter should be worried. Not necessarily for worms or virusses, but for the problems they cause even when they hit microsoft boxes.
We have had some pretty mild worms sofar. Wait till a really bad one hits and all our linux, freebsd, sun, whatever boxes come to a grinding halt because of server load, or network load, or...
We actually need to start planning infrastructure dimensions with worm, virusses and ddos attacks in the back of your mind. Dont plan for a 50% peak, plan for a 500% peak..
8 out of 10 times these problems arise because endusers have an open socks proxy. The original author didnt say if they were running Wind0z, but if they are, they should probably check if they have something running on port 1080 and kill it.
The other 2 out of 10 its another type of open proxy like squid, or they actually did do it.
Only very rarely is a complaint completely unrelated to the actual IP adres the person that complaint supplied. Maybe a forgery or whatever.
We usually immediately check port 1080, and filter that port to that customer. End of problem:) Shutting down the user immediately seems rather harsh. But America has only itself to thank. The ISP probably has no choice cause of fear of being sued.
I'd say Amsterdam is a good place to go to. Almost all major IT companies have a presence here, which should make it easy to find a job. The dutch are very open to foreigners, especially americans. Amsterdam is one of the, if not the, most important points networkwise of Europe (hence all the companies here).
One of the things to consider is a workpermit and a residency permit. You can't just pick up your stuff and move to Amsterdam (or any other European city). You need either a residency permit (which will include a workpermit), or a workpermit (which will eventually include a residency permit).
You get a residency permit by either marrying or living with a dutch partner. After a few months you get your permit which includes a valid workpermit for any job you want to do.
You get a workpermit by applying for a joboffer that a company has open (check out all major companies like cisco, sun, hp, and so on). The workpermit you get then is linked to that company, and if you get fired you also loose your residency permit. So find yourself a girlfriend asap:)
And last but not least, Amsterdam is just a very nice and friendly city:)
The story mentioned a hot spare system that is always synced with one of the production systems.
What is the benefit of doing this over just adding this hot spare to the production cluster behind the load balancer? That way you dont need any intelligence. And if a box dies, you dont notice it anyways because you always have 1 or 2 extra boxes in the cluster anyways.
Maybe a way to solve this dispute is to ask the OpenBSD OpenSSH people to promise to maintain a list of links to other free SSH projects. (sortof like Alex is doing now). Someplace not too hidden away on their site. Maybe Alex is willing to give up the domain then, if thats all he wants. Surely not too big a thing to ask of the OpenBSD people. Anyone of the OpenBSD/OpenSSH want to comment on this? Cor
>There seemed to be concern, in Holland, that >pornography just "pops up" at any time, for no >reason I can safely testify that indeed in Holland pornography just "pops up" at any time:) Cor
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Have you ever dealt with a death? None of those proof you are the executor. You get a specific document from the courts saying that, yes, this person is by law able to take possession of all of the estate, and distribute it as per the will.
The death certificate just says "this person died".
The will just says 'if I die, id like my possessions to be distributed this way"
A solicitor can write whatever they want. My solicitor wrote a letter I should get all of Job's online content, but they didn't listen to him either.
The only thing that matters is the document saying you are assigned to execute the will and handle all estate matters.
Apple is right here. Someone should be able to show a document saying that they are the executor of the estate. This is needed for many things like bank accounts and such. It is entirely reasonable that this also applies to cloud based content. Without it, if apple would unlock the data, and someone else shows up with a proof of being executor, apple could have a problem.
We just went through all of this after my wife's mother's death, and although it's a big hassle, it's just something that has to be done. Get proof you are the executor, then claim all possessions including cloud based data. This could include things like photos which may have emotional value, so of course data is part of what the executor has to deal with.
I just hope Linus, with his obvious anger management issues, doesn't end up like Reiser or McAfee.
Which is most of the population. Id say pretty much the whole US middle class and lower is financially ruined if they had a serious medical issue.
Im not from the US, so im not entirely sure what a 'National Security Letter' entails. Wikipedia seems to suggest a very broad spectrum of requests. If it's anything like europe, the vast majority of those requests are about email boxes. Actual wiretaps, where all data on the line is forwarded to law enforcement, is likely a small percentage of requests. Ok, maybe Comcast could get a few hundred, since they're quite big, but I highly doubt thousands.
:)
You're right, a lot of the costs are in administrative and legal departments. Are the requests valid, are they possible (you wouldnt believe how often they still ask things you just cant do or know), etc. But there definitely are pretty high infrastructure costs! If you think an ISP that takes this seriously will let normal infrastructure handle wiretapping, you are wrong (at least, I would hope you are). You have to put a totally separate, totally unconnected, fibre splicing, infrastructure in place. Why? Because you cant have regular network engineers or even hackers get their hands on extremely sensitive wire tapping information. Knowing who is being wiretapped is information that needs to be secret, in some cases it may even fall under intelligence services. This equipment needs to be in a secure location, and even network engineers that are 'curious' should not be able to get their hands on the data inside these cabinets. Now imagine you have a pretty spread out network, directly connected to multiple peering points, so no single point to put taps but instead many, maybe dozens or even more, you are looking at serious costs. Not that many boxes can handle multiple 10gbit fibre sniffing links you know.
I cant speak for Comcast, but the idea that any ISP would gladly get more warrants just so they could recoup their costs sounds ridiculous to me. This stuff is being implemented against the will of most companies. Regular people work there, no one with a white cat on their lap
Regards,
Cor
I think you are making two assumptions that are most likely wrong. First I highly doubt that Comcast is really happy with the situation, that they love to snitch on customers. They have no choice. Period. Second, you seem to think somehow magically an infrastructure for wiretapping internet customers has appeared, and now comcast is sitting back and collecting $1000 profit per customer. If the US government has paid for this infrastructure, then I agree that $1000 to fulfill a wiretap warrant is a little high. But if Comcast has been forced (as we have been in europe) to implement a wiretapping system in their networks based on new laws, with high penalties for non-compliance, then I think they are fully in their right to ask for compensation from the US government. They may not even be making a profit! I think the subject should probably be "Comcast forced to spend millions to implement a wiretapping system and is only getting $1000 per warrant". I highly doubt that comcast is doing thousands of wiretaps. On the contrary, id bet they at most do a few dozen. They will never recoup the cost of the wiretapping infrastructure with this fee, that will come through regular monthly DSL/phone subscriptions. We have actually contemplated adding a 'wiretapping tax' to our customer bills, to show people what is happening. I think it's sad that ISPs have become government wiretap operators, but it's reality.
Now, think about this. This whole wiretapping crap is actually seriously impacting innovation as well. Every time we want to roll out a new system, we have to think about the stupid wiretapping and data retention laws. It is at best stalling our efforts, but at worst, making sure innovation is slowing down significantly.
Cor
I think a lot of people, including mr Aftergood, misunderstand the issue. The fact that there is a rate fee does not necessarily mean that it is such a common or even streamlined task. Ive been involved in this matter with an ISP in europe, where these things are already in law, and I think comcast is doing the right thing. By charging a fee, they make sure that there is at least some form of financial incentive for the police and/or justice department not to go overboard on wiretaps. And not only that, it can also be used to pay for the costs of the necessary infrastructure. This is not stuff you just buy at your local IT vendor, but needs to be implemented on a per-ISP bases in many cases. Wiretapping individual customers on 10 gbit meshed network with many redundant links is not trivial, especially if you want to make absolutely sure it holds up in court. The technology to do this is quite expensive, and needs to be paid by someone. In europe unfortunately most of the time that 'someone' is the ISP, and thus the customer. Governments have made wiretapping the financial responsibility of the ISP, which is really quite bad. Im glad to see Comcast was able to secure a payment from the government instead.
Now, this is ofcourse separate from the issue of the fact if these types of wiretaps should be allowed in the first place. In many cases that battle has already been fought, and lost. Expect big brother to watch, and expand its possibilities significantly. In europe, they're already talking about legal datamining in all the combined government and private sector databases,
make your vote count,
Cor
What worries me is the responsibility put on ISPs. This means ISPs will be forced to interpret what is legal and what is not. Since risking a criminal offense is probably not what most ISPs would want, you can bet that they will err on the side of caution. To me the part about ISPs seems to be targetting Usenet. It will definately mean the end of Usenet servers in spain. It'll probably also mean the end of all ports generally associated with P2P. Since that is a losing battle, I wouldnt be surprised if eventually it'll mean the end of most direct tcp/ip access for customers of Spain ISPs.
About the tax on media carriers. That is common in quite a few countries. It's usually meant to compensate copyright holders for personal home copies. It is not meant to legalize giving a copy to your neighbor.
The internet is slowly but surely turning into the wet dream of many governments. Total control and monitoring over your populace in terms of communication. With wiretapping and data retention laws already in full swing in Europe, and now the first steps to criminalize specific activities, all we need is a country turning to a 'bad' government to make full use of all these capabilities.
Cor
BSD/OS has actually been in a coma for quite some time. Shutting down life support is the only fair thing to do.
We used to run BSD/386 back in 1992 and used BSD/OS upto about 4.1. Around that point BSD/OS started to lag behind in the fast pace of development, but most importantly, in support. When you pay tens of thousands of dollars for licenses with no visible return you tend to start looking for alternatives.
We switched our whole ISP (now around 600 servers) to FreeBSD with little hassle.
It's a shame though, BSD/OS had some cool people behind it.
Cor
I think you have this turned around. You tend to see '1ee7' people running Linux, not FreeBSD.
Both FreeBSD and Linux get the job done as long as you have good people running it.
Cor
Hi, that movie isn't specifically about XS4ALL. It's about the Hippies from Hell (www.hippiesfromhell.org). It's a group of friends that, just like XS4ALL, grew out of the hacker/alternative scene in The Netherlands. Ofcourse all these groups have large overlaps, but to say that movie is about the founders of XS4ALL is not entirely true. (I should know, im one of the founders myself ;)
:)
Someone asked if it took from 1999 to get this sorted. Worse, I was there when in 1995 Scientology raided our office and put a lean on all of our equipment. Ofcourse they wanted to just get the name and address of one of our customers but they couldn't have it, not without a court order. (and even then, we have refused court orders if we didnt believe they were lawful).
This is the third ruling in our favor on this case. Except that the second ruling claimed ISPs were responsible for illegal content if the 'ISP knows fairly sure it's illegal'. This third ruling overruled that again, and now we can fall back on european law which states an ISP 'needs to know beyond any doubt that material is illegal before being expected to remove it'.
That'll teach em to mess with a bunch of hacker hippies
Cor
I save all my email, have done so for over 10 years. To actually find anything I just make it searchable. Works like a charm,
Cor
I use a lot of batteries for underwater gear. Lights, camera, flashes etc. Ive settled on NiMH because they seem to give the most bang for your money.
:)
I also make sure I always use the highest mAh available, which is around 2200 now. This gives you longer use. It makes it a lot more expensive though so if you only need 1800 or 1500 mAh because you don't mind your light going out at 90 feet then go for it
I havent really found 1 brand to be better than another.
Cor
No matter what Tim O'Reilly says, ive always had a soft spot for him. In 1993 I was sitting in a train going from London to Heathrow and I was wearing a Legion of Doom T-shirt.
:)
This is 1993, so your mom wasn't on Internet yet.
This guy starts talking to me, asking me if Im involved in Internet pointing at my shirt. So I say I am, co-founder of a dutch ISP (XS4ALL) and involved with Hacktic, a dutch hacker crew. He says he's Tim O'Reilly. _THE_? Yeah..
He was quite cool to talk to, and he gave me a sendmail shirt. Later he mailed me saying his kids loved it that someone recognised their dad
Ok, enough about the good old days,
Cor
First of all you should check when "whenever I have to go home again" is. The US is not that open to longterm visitors. Especially the last few years. If you want to stay within the Visa Waiver limit you have a maximum of 3 months, but be prepared to very clearly state your reasons for staying that long, and especially how you will pay for all that.
:) then some things I can recommend, even though im not even American myself.
:)
:) San Francisco is a very cool place to be.You feel right at home. Visit Silicon Valley, drive along Route 1 (very nice scenery), visit national parks like Yosemite.
Possibly you could apply for a B1/B2 visitors visa, maybe even from the Embassy in Australia. But again, they want certain assurances concerning finances.They just don't want you to become a 'burden to the US'.
Now, assuming you can take all those hurdles (or are staying less than say 2 months
Going from north-east to south-west.
- New York. It's just an amazing city for a European. I can imagine the same for someone from Australia. Maybe check out if 2600 has any of their meetings while you're there.
- The Mall in Washington. Visit the museums there. I believe they're all free. Maybe the Pentagon.
- Kennedy Space Centre. And hit the beach
- Vegas! I just loved the insane atmosphere there. Also, with Vegas as a base you can visit a lot of cool scenery like the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Death Valley etc.
- Im totally biased towards California, so i'd say, spend 50% of your time there
- while you're in that area, try and find Meteor Crater, if you like Astronomy. Ohh and maybe go to an astronomy inn like StarHill Inn in New Mexico. Talk about dark skies.
Most important piece of equipment to take with you during your whole trip: Binoculars!
And now you have to promise something to us. While you're out there, visit Lindon Utah. Find the SCO headquarters and do 2 things.
First, go dumpsterdiving and find us the missing source!
Then, go and throw a rock through their corporate window with a Tux painted on it.
Have fun!
I can't comment on every caribbean country, but I can on the one im pretty familiar with, the US Virgin Islands. The largest employer is the government, and especially in the educational system you would expect people are eager to at least check out OSS.
And actually, a lot of people are. The ones that aren't in charge. They only get to benefit from money savings that can be achieved.
Unfortunately, making it actually happen is almost impossible. Corruption is a major part of life, so when a government deals with major contracts for software, a lot of the money gets well...lost. Now imagine the decision makers suddenly losing part of that 'income'.
Cor
What's funny is that MSNBCs website actually pops up an ad when you go to that URL ;)
Rather ironic.
Cor
We use an off-the-shelf system in our building. It consists of some simple ethernet capable cameras with build in motion sensors. As soon as the cameras detect motion they start sending either seperate images or a video stream. We use seperate images. We normally store a few weeks worth of data, on a raid with only a few hundred GB. This is for about 12 cameras.
We use a simple linux box as the system the raid is attached to. Every day a script removes all files older than 3 weeks.
Works like a charm.
Cor
The Linux community and any other unix community for that matter should be worried. Not necessarily for worms or virusses, but for the problems they cause even when they hit microsoft boxes.
We have had some pretty mild worms sofar. Wait till a really bad one hits and all our linux, freebsd, sun, whatever boxes come to a grinding halt because of server load, or network load, or...
We actually need to start planning infrastructure dimensions with worm, virusses and ddos attacks in the back of your mind. Dont plan for a 50% peak, plan for a 500% peak..
Cor
8 out of 10 times these problems arise because endusers have an open socks proxy. The original author didnt say if they were running Wind0z, but if they are, they should probably check if they have something running on port 1080 and kill it.
:) Shutting down the user immediately seems rather harsh. But America has only itself to thank. The ISP probably has no choice cause of fear of being sued.
The other 2 out of 10 its another type of open proxy like squid, or they actually did do it.
Only very rarely is a complaint completely unrelated to the actual IP adres the person that complaint supplied. Maybe a forgery or whatever.
We usually immediately check port 1080, and filter that port to that customer. End of problem
Cor
I'd say Amsterdam is a good place to go to. Almost all major IT companies have a presence here, which should make it easy to find a job. The dutch are very open to foreigners, especially americans. Amsterdam is one of the, if not the, most important points networkwise of Europe (hence all the companies here).
:)
:)
One of the things to consider is a workpermit and a residency permit. You can't just pick up your stuff and move to Amsterdam (or any other European city). You need either a residency permit (which will include a workpermit), or a workpermit (which will eventually include a residency permit).
You get a residency permit by either marrying or living with a dutch partner. After a few months you get your permit which includes a valid workpermit for any job you want to do.
You get a workpermit by applying for a joboffer that a company has open (check out all major companies like cisco, sun, hp, and so on). The workpermit you get then is linked to that company, and if you get fired you also loose your residency permit. So find yourself a girlfriend asap
And last but not least, Amsterdam is just a very nice and friendly city
Cor
The story mentioned a hot spare system that is always synced with one of the production systems.
What is the benefit of doing this over just adding
this hot spare to the production cluster behind
the load balancer? That way you dont need any
intelligence. And if a box dies, you dont notice
it anyways because you always have 1 or 2 extra
boxes in the cluster anyways.
Is there a benefit?
Cor
Maybe a way to solve this dispute is to ask the OpenBSD OpenSSH people to promise to maintain a list of links to other free SSH projects. (sortof like Alex is doing now). Someplace not too hidden away on their site. Maybe Alex is willing to give up the domain then, if thats all he wants. Surely not too big a thing to ask of the OpenBSD people. Anyone of the OpenBSD/OpenSSH want to comment on this? Cor
>There seemed to be concern, in Holland, that >pornography just "pops up" at any time, for no >reason I can safely testify that indeed in Holland pornography just "pops up" at any time :) Cor
yer right, I wasnt running the latest afterall. The latest one works fine. Thanks.