Personally I think that blacklisting doesn't work. For this very reason too. ISP's should be providing services for people to setup whitelists. Basically if there was an easy way for people to setup systems that allow people to control their own spam easily then we could manage spam.
I have setup a whitelist in mozilla that allows email from people I know, but moves all spam to my spamfiltered email box. It works VERY effectively. I cna then look at my spam filtered folder and see if there is any that I need to move elsewhere.
I wonder how long spammers keep email addresses that don't show any kind of reply. If I never open the emails, or reply to them and for all intents and purposes they just disapear, how long will they continue spaming that email address?
Actually the way around that is a give from the president to the employees, 'out of his own pocket so to speak'. Give yourself a really big bonus to cover the cost of the gifts and taxes. Then, 'as a friend' give the employees gifts from your own pocket. Doing this means it is not from the company to them, but from you to them. Its like me giving a friend $200 as a gift. My friend would not have to account for all his xmas presents to the IRS. Yes this way you eat the taxes, but then your employees don't feel like they are going to.
Problem is that If SCO is right and their code is in the kernel, this does NOT give them the right to the rest of the GNU/Llinux distribution. IE gcc/ glibc/ gnome / kde / openoffice, and every other program that falls in there. SCO's claims are against certain subsystems in Linux.
Personally I think they are screwing themselves royally. First they distributed Linux under the GPL WITH thier code ( assuming it was theirs ever), now they are changing the license of ALL GPL code to take ALL GPL code as theirs. They cannot do that. I can see Redhat / SuSE and all other Linux vendors taking this one on.
That is an amount that they have to declare as income, which means that after taxes they get about 800 or 900. I'd go for something smaller. Throw a party or take them to a really, really expensive and nice restaurant. Then give them about $50 to $200 gift cards. There is an american express card that can be used like a gift card in several places. Basically 'mall money' that can be used at many mall stores. This way they get some kind of bonus but it is more of a gift that they don't have to declare on their taxes.
The patent office uses 'rules' which are based on case law:
Rule 101, basically says that the prior art show is exactly what is in the patent in question.
Rule 102b, basically says that given A and given B it is obvious to combine A and B for reason C. In this case I think they are saying that given the fact that people were talking about the EMBED tag and given the fact that the Mosaic browser was around 'it would be obvious to one skilling the art' to use the EMBED tag in a web browser.
Rule 103, basically says that given A the new feature C is obvious. In this case they are saying that EMBEDding is 'an obvious enhancement to once skillind in the art'.
I think this is a good argumment and as a former patent examiner, I'd reject it, but alas, I think this is up to a judge.
Windows 2k's firewall is severly lacking. Linux 2.2 kernel firewall is much better and Linux 2.4 is even better. Yes you can get forewall software for Windows (eg zonealarm) but it really should, in this day and age come with a good stateful firewall.
Also it seems by default windows has ALOT of ports open for services eg 135-139, 445, countless 1xxx ports. Not sure what it does with all these servies. Linux with X just listens on 6000 / 7000 (I think those are the ports) probably one or two more. Point is, why does windows listen so much? and Why don't they include a real firewall? I mean Linux has had firewalling since 2.0 and Windows just gets it in 2k?
With Linux security has been built as part of the product, with windows it is now an afterthought. That is the real problem. Yes you can make windows more secure, but Linux seems to make that job easier, but that is just IMHO.
... there was a dispute over the presidential election in which it is believed that the Republicans fixed the election of the presedent somehow. To this day we will never know. In 2000 the Florida election showed us that the election process is still flawed to this day as there was left a quesion of, "Did this really happen this way or was there something fishy going on?" (Jeb Bush just so happens to be govornor of the questionable state of Floridas election).
It does not matter weather any of the above is true or not, it matters ONLY that there is some question about the election process and how accurate it is and weather or not things 'unjust' are actually happening. If any of the above is true then the election process is flawed and we are in for trouble.
Electronic voting systems are known to be flawed by a certain percentage, yet more and more people want to push them forward. Will this make it easier for frawd? It is currently believed that there are 4 elected officials that would never have gotton elected had it not been for flaws in an electronic voting system. I'm not saying what party(s) they belong to or the state, but leaving this up to you to figure out how much you care about voting and what the politicans that are running this country are doing. REAZD slashdot as some of the things going on are scary -> FCC allowing tv stattion unlimited # of stations - this could lead to only 3 or 2 tv companies who could control EVERYTHING we see.
Rather than relying on some distro to do it for you. Biggest problem I had was getting a usable floppy image and using ext2 fs.
Most of those root floppy distros use minix fs so if you want to see what is on them you need to mount a minix fs. I think there is a little more to it than that but not much. Basically what they do is create a kernel image and then use dd to put it on a floppy. Then they create the filesystem image and use dd with an offset to tell it where to start on the floppy. Then they use dd again to create the floppy iamge back on the drive. It is really not that hard to do, just a lot of steps.
Problem is that it is limited as just a firewall / router. Not much you can really get on a floppy. I went the CD image route myself and used FreeBSD. After using ipfw(v1&v2), ipf, ipchains, and iptables I like ipfw2. It is real easy to understand what is going on and it is stateful. Also my cd image is now down to 61 Meg and includes bind9, apache2, snort, ipfw2, perl, and ipsec and routes traffic through 3 interfaces (2 wired / 1 wireless). It runs on an old Dual Pentium 233Mhz MMX with 128Meg RAM and I don't have to worry alot about a hacker getting control cause they cannot overwrite the binaries on a cdrom;-) and nothing is open on the outside. It is also nice cause all the clients can use the same DNS number and I don't have to keep up with what my ISP is doing as far as dns. Also a CDROM gives you more flexability than a floppy. Its worth looking into. I'd rather not place the URL of my documentation here, as I don't want to risk being slashdotted to death.
THANK YOU! I'd agree... not sure the exact year myself, but to me it also raises another point. The term 'under god' implies that god is "above" us and this is theologically incorrect! Come on people we have flown to the moon and sent satelites into space, do you still think that we are 'under god'?
This really boils down to seperation of church and state, and talking about god can be construed as religion (if your an athiest and don't believe in god) so then it means that you are pledging under something you don't believe.
People complain about redhat being to like Microsoft of Linux, but this is another case where Redhat has shown that they believe in Linux, Open Source and the community. Yes they have a vested interest, but I'm sure if slashdot had a ask Redhat what questions you'd like answered in this lawsuit, the probably would respond.
I hope SCO goes down in flames and those 'enron' type managers there at SCO get put in jail for fraud or something and get f***ed up the a** but bubba!
.. what's their motivation to improve? They have no ompetition and people just let them do what they want. Hey if anyone gets in their way they crush them like a grape. So now they have about 90% of market share and they don't have to improve. They just have to make it look like they are inovating, but they never really inovated anyway, and don't tell me COM was an inovation, it is a nightmare as is active X. So what's really improved between Win 95 and XP? No really improved and less crashes doesn't count?? Please tell me as an end user???
.. doesn't work. What needs to happen is ISP need to start using better spam filters. Personlly I want to be able to create my own custom server filters to filter out mail before I check it. Earthlink is using something like this now, but it only has a 'authorized sender list' not any kind of filter. I really don't want potential employeers to have to deal with earthlinks spam combobulator sending them a message saying that they need to reply to this new email to contact me. I do however want to filter software on the server. My current filters catch about 60% of my spam and then the second one catches about 35% more so I only have to deal with about 5% of my spam.
I'd use web forms and split stuff up if cgi is an option.
Start with to contact so-and-so clieck here. Have the users name embedded in the email form and the second half you get from the server. So if the user was thomas@englishmuffin.com the web form would have a hidden input called loosername and its value would be thomas. Call it something different than loosername, but the idea is that you don't want to just say username. When the web form gets posted you can have it read a text file (this is what eartlink uses as cgi email (I think the program is mit's cgi-email) and in that text file is the other half of the 'to' email address @englishmuffin.com. Put the two togeather and you have the email address. What this will do is it will allow you to check to make sure that the sender has a valid email address. Check for at least the @ in the email address and prefferable a.com/uk, etc one dot(.) . This means that the sender does not know what they are sending email to until they get a rely and also it means that web harvesting programs are going to ahve a harder time figuring out wht to harvest.
If MS owns 90% of the desktop market share or roughly there abouts, and they include BSD code in their OS, then how can BSD be dying??? Its not dying its being integrated into Microsoft code. It will never die now, it will forever go on as part os MS.
This is why MS hates the Linux, because of the GPL. If MS were to be caught integrating Linux code into MS then they would be violating the GPL. With the BSD license they don't have to worry, they just keep the License in the file. That's why SCO also hates the BPL, beacuse they can't just integrate Linux code into SCO. Hmm but they arlready did that didn't they?
Yes I use this too. On my BSD boxes though I use sup or cvsup which updates source, which is also good. Sometimes using the source for upgrades is actually better, sometimes its not. Its all a matter of preference.
Our sysadmins like Redhat GNU/Linux because they prefer the rhnd daemon which allows for keeping systems updated pretty easy. It can be setup to update your system when the new updates are found and can be setup to check every 2 hours or longer. Solaris requires actually applying patches, but I have not tried Solaris 9, and don't know of any 'automatic' system patching things on Solaris like rhnd.
As far as administration in general, RH has a few nice GUI tools if you like that but so does Sun. Both are good. The big difference is hardware cost unless you go with Sun on intel then hardware costs are the same. To get rhnd running on all your boxes you either have to register which could be costly (not sure) or do like I do and fill out their surveys every month. Have you thought about FreeBSD or one of the other BSD's? They are just as good as Linux and if the goal is to learn UNIX, the BSD's would require more learning IMHO than RH or Suse Linux.
You missed a few questions: 1) Didn't Palm buy BeOS?
2) Was BeOS closed source or was it open sourced? 3) Who owns the rights to BeOS PE? 4) Who develops these new drivers and the kernel???
No really I want to know, I tried beos 4 (maybe 5) and liked the UI, but it just didn't have hardware support and Be the company does not exist. 6) What about openbeos? Where do they fit into the BeOS picture??
Some people use thier dialups for updating thier systems. Like cvsup on FreeBSD or up2date on Linux or sup on NetBSD or windows update. I wonder if these ISP can be held responsible if a user is NOT able to update thier system because of some undisclosed cap and their system gets hacked / 'virusized', or somehow else exploited and they loose important information, like their quicken / gnucash checking inforation. If my ISP ever did that I'd switch ISP and tell them why. I'm allowed to connect 1 computer to the internet and what I do in my home is none of their business (except for sending spam which is bad anyway). Personally I HATE comcast and think their name should be comcrap. My cable tv keeps going in and out and in and out. It is really annoying.
Then you need to switch ISP. I'm not 100% sure I understand the problem fully. Is this a DSL web server? If so you have the logs.
If this is a business account with someone like earthlink then threaten to take them to court to get the logs and IP addresses, I belive that one of the homeland security acts or such require ISP to have this information on hand for security reasons. You need to make it clear to them that you have been hacked or attacked. If you have a server in some colo location and they are keeping your server for you then you need to contact them and tell them your system was attached and you cannot access it and you need these logs.
YOU need to be proactive about this and do whatever it takes to get this information and sue if necessary. Otherwise you can just kiss your money goodbye.
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I have setup a whitelist in mozilla that allows email from people I know, but moves all spam to my spamfiltered email box. It works VERY effectively. I cna then look at my spam filtered folder and see if there is any that I need to move elsewhere.
I wonder how long spammers keep email addresses that don't show any kind of reply. If I never open the emails, or reply to them and for all intents and purposes they just disapear, how long will they continue spaming that email address?
I've got NetBSD and FreeBSD installed so where is my cold hard cash SCO f***ers!
Problem is that does anyone want to write an operating system in such a high level language, where the optimization is questionable?
Oh, and what the hell does he think MS macros are? They write themselves almost.
Actually the way around that is a give from the president to the employees, 'out of his own pocket so to speak'. Give yourself a really big bonus to cover the cost of the gifts and taxes. Then, 'as a friend' give the employees gifts from your own pocket. Doing this means it is not from the company to them, but from you to them. Its like me giving a friend $200 as a gift. My friend would not have to account for all his xmas presents to the IRS. Yes this way you eat the taxes, but then your employees don't feel like they are going to.
Personally I think they are screwing themselves royally. First they distributed Linux under the GPL WITH thier code ( assuming it was theirs ever), now they are changing the license of ALL GPL code to take ALL GPL code as theirs. They cannot do that. I can see Redhat / SuSE and all other Linux vendors taking this one on.
That is an amount that they have to declare as income, which means that after taxes they get about 800 or 900. I'd go for something smaller. Throw a party or take them to a really, really expensive and nice restaurant. Then give them about $50 to $200 gift cards. There is an american express card that can be used like a gift card in several places. Basically 'mall money' that can be used at many mall stores. This way they get some kind of bonus but it is more of a gift that they don't have to declare on their taxes.
I got tired of law, and BS and got into tech instead, where I apply for patents now ;-)
Rule 101, basically says that the prior art show is exactly what is in the patent in question.
Rule 102b, basically says that given A and given B it is obvious to combine A and B for reason C. In this case I think they are saying that given the fact that people were talking about the EMBED tag and given the fact that the Mosaic browser was around 'it would be obvious to one skilling the art' to use the EMBED tag in a web browser.
Rule 103, basically says that given A the new feature C is obvious. In this case they are saying that EMBEDding is 'an obvious enhancement to once skillind in the art'.
I think this is a good argumment and as a former patent examiner, I'd reject it, but alas, I think this is up to a judge.
Also it seems by default windows has ALOT of ports open for services eg 135-139, 445, countless 1xxx ports. Not sure what it does with all these servies. Linux with X just listens on 6000 / 7000 (I think those are the ports) probably one or two more. Point is, why does windows listen so much? and Why don't they include a real firewall? I mean Linux has had firewalling since 2.0 and Windows just gets it in 2k?
With Linux security has been built as part of the product, with windows it is now an afterthought. That is the real problem. Yes you can make windows more secure, but Linux seems to make that job easier, but that is just IMHO.
No seriously, after you are hacked a few times you start to learn about security and if you are like most people you become parinoid about it.
It does not matter weather any of the above is true or not, it matters ONLY that there is some question about the election process and how accurate it is and weather or not things 'unjust' are actually happening. If any of the above is true then the election process is flawed and we are in for trouble.
Electronic voting systems are known to be flawed by a certain percentage, yet more and more people want to push them forward. Will this make it easier for frawd? It is currently believed that there are 4 elected officials that would never have gotton elected had it not been for flaws in an electronic voting system. I'm not saying what party(s) they belong to or the state, but leaving this up to you to figure out how much you care about voting and what the politicans that are running this country are doing. REAZD slashdot as some of the things going on are scary -> FCC allowing tv stattion unlimited # of stations - this could lead to only 3 or 2 tv companies who could control EVERYTHING we see.
Rather than relying on some distro to do it for you. Biggest problem I had was getting a usable floppy image and using ext2 fs.
Most of those root floppy distros use minix fs so if you want to see what is on them you need to mount a minix fs. I think there is a little more to it than that but not much. Basically what they do is create a kernel image and then use dd to put it on a floppy. Then they create the filesystem image and use dd with an offset to tell it where to start on the floppy. Then they use dd again to create the floppy iamge back on the drive. It is really not that hard to do, just a lot of steps.
Problem is that it is limited as just a firewall / router. Not much you can really get on a floppy. I went the CD image route myself and used FreeBSD. After using ipfw(v1&v2), ipf, ipchains, and iptables I like ipfw2. It is real easy to understand what is going on and it is stateful. Also my cd image is now down to 61 Meg and includes bind9, apache2, snort, ipfw2, perl, and ipsec and routes traffic through 3 interfaces (2 wired / 1 wireless). It runs on an old Dual Pentium 233Mhz MMX with 128Meg RAM and I don't have to worry alot about a hacker getting control cause they cannot overwrite the binaries on a cdrom ;-) and nothing is open on the outside. It is also nice cause all the clients can use the same DNS number and I don't have to keep up with what my ISP is doing as far as dns. Also a CDROM gives you more flexability than a floppy. Its worth looking into. I'd rather not place the URL of my documentation here, as I don't want to risk being slashdotted to death.
(LINUX) cd /usr/src/linux && make -j .... see how long that takes ;-)... or (FreeBSD) cd /usr/src && make buildworld
This really boils down to seperation of church and state, and talking about god can be construed as religion (if your an athiest and don't believe in god) so then it means that you are pledging under something you don't believe.
Or will they actually use netscape ???
I hope SCO goes down in flames and those 'enron' type managers there at SCO get put in jail for fraud or something and get f***ed up the a** but bubba!
.. what's their motivation to improve? They have no ompetition and people just let them do what they want. Hey if anyone gets in their way they crush them like a grape. So now they have about 90% of market share and they don't have to improve. They just have to make it look like they are inovating, but they never really inovated anyway, and don't tell me COM was an inovation, it is a nightmare as is active X. So what's really improved between Win 95 and XP? No really improved and less crashes doesn't count?? Please tell me as an end user???
.. doesn't work. What needs to happen is ISP need to start using better spam filters. Personlly I want to be able to create my own custom server filters to filter out mail before I check it. Earthlink is using something like this now, but it only has a 'authorized sender list' not any kind of filter. I really don't want potential employeers to have to deal with earthlinks spam combobulator sending them a message saying that they need to reply to this new email to contact me. I do however want to filter software on the server. My current filters catch about 60% of my spam and then the second one catches about 35% more so I only have to deal with about 5% of my spam.
Start with to contact so-and-so clieck here. Have the users name embedded in the email form and the second half you get from the server. So if the user was thomas@englishmuffin.com the web form would have a hidden input called loosername and its value would be thomas. Call it something different than loosername, but the idea is that you don't want to just say username. When the web form gets posted you can have it read a text file (this is what eartlink uses as cgi email (I think the program is mit's cgi-email) and in that text file is the other half of the 'to' email address @englishmuffin.com. Put the two togeather and you have the email address. What this will do is it will allow you to check to make sure that the sender has a valid email address. Check for at least the @ in the email address and prefferable a .com/uk, etc one dot(.) . This means that the sender does not know what they are sending email to until they get a rely and also it means that web harvesting programs are going to ahve a harder time figuring out wht to harvest.
This is why MS hates the Linux, because of the GPL. If MS were to be caught integrating Linux code into MS then they would be violating the GPL. With the BSD license they don't have to worry, they just keep the License in the file. That's why SCO also hates the BPL, beacuse they can't just integrate Linux code into SCO. Hmm but they arlready did that didn't they?
Yes I use this too. On my BSD boxes though I use sup or cvsup which updates source, which is also good. Sometimes using the source for upgrades is actually better, sometimes its not. Its all a matter of preference.
As far as administration in general, RH has a few nice GUI tools if you like that but so does Sun. Both are good. The big difference is hardware cost unless you go with Sun on intel then hardware costs are the same. To get rhnd running on all your boxes you either have to register which could be costly (not sure) or do like I do and fill out their surveys every month. Have you thought about FreeBSD or one of the other BSD's? They are just as good as Linux and if the goal is to learn UNIX, the BSD's would require more learning IMHO than RH or Suse Linux.
No really I want to know, I tried beos 4 (maybe 5) and liked the UI, but it just didn't have hardware support and Be the company does not exist. 6) What about openbeos? Where do they fit into the BeOS picture??
Some people use thier dialups for updating thier systems. Like cvsup on FreeBSD or up2date on Linux or sup on NetBSD or windows update. I wonder if these ISP can be held responsible if a user is NOT able to update thier system because of some undisclosed cap and their system gets hacked / 'virusized', or somehow else exploited and they loose important information, like their quicken / gnucash checking inforation. If my ISP ever did that I'd switch ISP and tell them why. I'm allowed to connect 1 computer to the internet and what I do in my home is none of their business (except for sending spam which is bad anyway). Personally I HATE comcast and think their name should be comcrap. My cable tv keeps going in and out and in and out. It is really annoying.
If this is a business account with someone like earthlink then threaten to take them to court to get the logs and IP addresses, I belive that one of the homeland security acts or such require ISP to have this information on hand for security reasons. You need to make it clear to them that you have been hacked or attacked. If you have a server in some colo location and they are keeping your server for you then you need to contact them and tell them your system was attached and you cannot access it and you need these logs.
YOU need to be proactive about this and do whatever it takes to get this information and sue if necessary. Otherwise you can just kiss your money goodbye.