Why would I want to run some Wintel box with all of the fun of IRQ, base address and rest of their friends, when for $150 (for a nice LX or Classic with RAM and disk enough for a FINE firewall and a second NIC), I can run a SPARC LX as a firewall with Redhat and bury my IDSL before even breaking 0.1 on my runqueue??
I can't justify $999 for a Sun Blade 100 to run Solaris 8 and SunScreen Lite firewall for my home systems. Have you run Solaris 8 on any Sun machine before the Ultras??
I get 100-150 touchy feely bastards poking around my firewall trying to exploit lpd, rpc, ftp and all of the Wintel backdoors each week. I'd gladly pay $80 for Redhat 7.1 SPARC rather than trying to make "Ultra" Solaris 8 work on my LX. I don't expect Sun to continue to tune Solaris for the old machines, but if I can't run a linux or a BSD variant, I guess I'll have to move to Wintel hardware for my firewall...
What options are there for Solaris firewalls that can be run on the "affordable" non-Ultra SPARCs?? I do prefer Solaris for a desktop, but haven't been able to get a decent firewall solution for Solaris....
I talked with the manager of the subscription department. She said that everyone who has outstanding issues with Earthweb for would get a refund of un-mailed issues and that the online subscription was to be turned off yesterday. (It was still online about an hour ago, as far as I could tell). If you paid by check in the last week or so, she said those checks were NOT processed.
She also pointed out that there still is no obituary yet.... and if TPJ pulls through, subscriptions would be transferred to the new publisher.... It seemed like she had been talking to quite a few of us who are going to miss TPJ if it can't be saved.
As with most of this thread, "This is all word of mouth, and I take no responsibility for anything taken out of context or just plain wrong".
Let's keep hope that TPJ is strong enough to pull through!!
Is there anyone out there in the periodical field that could save a GREAT magazine???
Nice to see that subscriptions and renewals are still being accepted... Tried to ask customer service what is going to happen to my $36 renewal... Just got to leave a voice mail for 'manager of customer service'. Oh well, can't expect to get what you pay for these days.... Sad to see such a GREAT MAG get hit by the damn corporate shrapnel... Hopefully TPJ will be able to rise again... I will be watching for more from Jon Orwant as to what happened....
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I can't justify $999 for a Sun Blade 100 to run Solaris 8 and SunScreen Lite firewall for my home systems. Have you run Solaris 8 on any Sun machine before the Ultras??
I get 100-150 touchy feely bastards poking around my firewall trying to exploit lpd, rpc, ftp and all of the Wintel backdoors each week. I'd gladly pay $80 for Redhat 7.1 SPARC rather than trying to make "Ultra" Solaris 8 work on my LX. I don't expect Sun to continue to tune Solaris for the old machines, but if I can't run a linux or a BSD variant, I guess I'll have to move to Wintel hardware for my firewall...
What options are there for Solaris firewalls that can be run on the "affordable" non-Ultra SPARCs?? I do prefer Solaris for a desktop, but haven't been able to get a decent firewall solution for Solaris....
I talked with the manager of the subscription department. She said that everyone who has outstanding issues with Earthweb for would get a refund of un-mailed issues and that the online subscription was to be turned off yesterday. (It was still online about an hour ago, as far as I could tell). If you paid by check in the last week or so, she said those checks were NOT processed.
She also pointed out that there still is no obituary yet.... and if TPJ pulls through, subscriptions would be transferred to the new publisher.... It seemed like she had been talking to quite a few of us who are going to miss TPJ if it can't be saved.
As with most of this thread, "This is all word of mouth, and I take no responsibility for anything taken out of context or just plain wrong".
Let's keep hope that TPJ is strong enough to pull through!!
Is there anyone out there in the periodical field that could save a GREAT magazine???
Nice to see that subscriptions and renewals are still being accepted... Tried to ask customer service what is going to happen to my $36 renewal... Just got to leave a voice mail for 'manager of customer service'. Oh well, can't expect to get what you pay for these days.... Sad to see such a GREAT MAG get hit by the damn corporate shrapnel... Hopefully TPJ will be able to rise again... I will be watching for more from Jon Orwant as to what happened....