I have been reading a discussion on the incidents mailing list (www.securityfocus.com) were a great deal of site admins are reporting scans and other attacks orginating from @home IP addresses. It appears that abuse@home.com goes to/dev/null.
I have road-runner and they check their customers for open wingates, relayable sendmail ports and trojans like BO, netbus etc.. ( I know this because I probed one of the admins boxen after I saw my kernel dropping packets from his IP. He directed me to the security website for road runner which explained everything. http://bofh.rr.com)
I saw in a talk back post on zdnet a while back a woman who didnt understand why UNIX was still getting media attention. She thought that UNIX was dead and NT was running the show. I think she was a lost cause.
I am posting from an Ultra 10 with 256Mb of ram creator 3D card etc. They made 1 flaw with these boxen. IDE. They should have gone with scsi. The disk access slows these down a great deal. I would rather have nice SCSI seagate 10000 rpm drive in here.
I remember when all of the DoS attacks for linux/windows came out. Like winnuke teardrop etc.. We used to keep a shell open so when we received a fresh hunk of spam in our inbox, we could look at the email headers and track down the dialup that sent the spam. The would get a nice fragmented packet in return. It was all most like an on going game of Quake at the time. ping was used to confirm the kill. =)
I think the more lawsuits that come about the less likely businesses will use spam as a form of advertising. I also get lazer printer spam, I own a bubble jet.
This is why auditing your code has become so important. At least with Open source we can patch it ourselves with out waiting for a vendor. I like to come up with a "user supplied input tree" and look for trouble spots.
I havent bought a computer since 1992, yep all 486s at home. How are they cooling these fast chips? it must be more than multiple fans and heat sinks. What do you people have for setups at home?
I thought it was funny, as my sister in law was quite obsessed with leo. I dont know of most actors he mentioned. I tend not to soak up too much hollywood.
I kinda want a Velo because I like the small keyboard idea verse a pen. But I am not sure how far the Velo is going to go. (LinuxCE sounds fun) Either that or a handspring (www.handspring.com)
I would like a Velo 1 or a Palm IIIx. I am putting a bare bones Celeron 466 to replace my 486/50 at home for christmas too. I am torn between the Palm and velo, I like the idea of a keyboard but are the Velos still supported? What do you geeks think?
I am glad to see this, I am about to purchase a 466 celeron bare bones system from a web based company. I havent bought computer equipment since 1992 because of money issues. Atleast with this I can be careful about overclocking issues.
My wife and I plan to pick up some extra food during this week simply because the media has created so much panic for people who dont know better. I suspect that two things will happen.
1) the stores will be fully stocked with food but with no customers because everyone will be consuming the stock pile of food they have at home.
2) Things will go on as normal.
3) food will have the wrong expiration date stamped on them and people will not eat that can of baked beans from 1900 because by now it must be moldy and they would rather starve then eat 100 year old can of beans.
I think this test will help linux developers optimize code for round III. What I dont understand is why test on a 4 way processor? why not a single processor?
AMEN! Radio shack was my mecca when I was 12. I would walk out of there with a bag of motors, transitors,LEDs etc... for building circuts motorized cars and stuff. Now MS has defiled them too =(
It is a bit of a waste, What they should do is make the mini comupters usable/hackable so most nerds wont want to throw them away. Maybe they could make them stackable. "Collect 200 box tops and you can build your own beowulf cluster!"
It was October 1994 when I first saw linux running on my friends 386/40. I cried out "Thats great, I never knew they had unix for the PC!" Lets install it on my 486! And we did, I stayed up all night compiling my kernel adding and removing drivers. We setup dip/CSLIP connection to the college dialup. I think at the time I was running arena? or Opera for a browser. It was great, exploring ftp sites for free software, writing my own little programs and compiling them with gcc.
My Dos partiton got smaller and smaller after that. Now It no longer exists.
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I have been reading a discussion on the incidents mailing list (www.securityfocus.com) were a great deal of site admins are reporting scans and other attacks orginating from @home IP addresses. It appears that abuse@home.com goes to /dev/null.
I have road-runner and they check their customers for open wingates, relayable sendmail ports and trojans like BO, netbus etc.. ( I know this because I probed one of the admins boxen after I saw my kernel dropping packets from his IP. He directed me to the security website for road runner which explained everything. http://bofh.rr.com)
I wonder if these companies do this for marketing stunts? Its kind of like telling telling the world something outrageous just to get attention.
or is it theta?
I saw in a talk back post on zdnet a while back a woman who didnt understand why UNIX was still getting media attention. She thought that UNIX was dead and NT was running the show. I think she was a lost cause.
Well, I guess the more documentation the better. Or maybe they did this out of spite? Probably to get the Linux crowd upset.
I am posting from an Ultra 10 with 256Mb of ram creator 3D card etc. They made 1 flaw with these boxen. IDE. They should have gone with scsi. The disk access slows these down a great deal. I would rather have nice SCSI seagate 10000 rpm drive in here.
I remember when all of the DoS attacks for linux/windows came out. Like winnuke teardrop etc.. We used to keep a shell open so when we received a fresh hunk of spam in our inbox, we could look at the email headers and track down the dialup that sent the spam. The would get a nice fragmented packet in return. It was all most like an on going game of Quake at the time. ping was used to confirm the kill. =)
I think the more lawsuits that come about the less likely businesses will use spam as a form of advertising. I also get lazer printer spam, I own a bubble jet.
This is why auditing your code has become so important. At least with Open source we can patch it ourselves with out waiting for a vendor. I like to come up with a "user supplied input tree" and look for trouble spots.
I havent bought a computer since 1992, yep all 486s at home. How are they cooling these fast chips? it must be more than multiple fans and heat sinks. What do you people have for setups at home?
I havent bought a computer since 1992, yep all 486s at home. How are they cooling these fast chips it must be more than multiple fans and heat sinks.
I thought it was funny, as my sister in law was quite obsessed with leo. I dont know of most actors he mentioned. I tend not to soak up too much hollywood.
I kinda want a Velo because I like the small keyboard idea verse a pen. But I am not sure how far the Velo is going to go. (LinuxCE sounds fun)
Either that or a handspring (www.handspring.com)
Deluxe ICE color =)
I would like a Velo 1 or a Palm IIIx. I am putting a bare bones Celeron 466 to replace my 486/50 at home for christmas too. I am torn between the Palm and velo, I like the idea of a keyboard but are the Velos still supported? What do you geeks think?
I am glad to see this, I am about to purchase a 466 celeron bare bones system from a web based company. I havent bought computer equipment since 1992 because of money issues. Atleast with this I can be careful about overclocking issues.
My wife and I plan to pick up some extra food during this week simply because the media has created so much panic for people who dont know better. I suspect that two things will happen.
1) the stores will be fully stocked with food but with no customers because everyone will be consuming the stock pile of food they have at home.
2) Things will go on as normal.
3) food will have the wrong expiration date stamped on them and people will not eat that can of baked beans from 1900 because by now it must be moldy and they would rather starve then eat 100 year old can of beans.
;)
I am so glad there are alternatives to windows. You can run linux, BSD, Solaris, BeOS and others.
These are great times we live in.
Lets see how they remedy this one.
I think this test will help linux developers optimize code for round III. What I dont understand is why test on a 4 way processor? why not a single processor?
AMEN! Radio shack was my mecca when I was 12. I would walk out of there with a bag of motors, transitors,LEDs etc... for building circuts motorized cars and stuff. Now MS has defiled them too =(
Like I am going to trust microsoft with my money. I wont use it just because it has been implemented by them.
I think it would be fun, but no internet? no computers? hmm...
First?
So supposedly their is some poor cat with a 50 pin SCSI (maybe USB?) cable hanging out of his head?
Thats pretty sick.
It is a bit of a waste, What they should do is make the mini comupters usable/hackable so most nerds wont want to throw them away. Maybe they could make them stackable. "Collect 200 box tops and you can build your own beowulf cluster!"
;)
It was October 1994 when I first saw linux running on my friends 386/40. I cried out "Thats great, I never knew they had unix for the PC!" Lets install it on my 486! And we did, I stayed up all night compiling my kernel adding and removing drivers. We setup dip/CSLIP connection to the college dialup. I think at the time I was running arena? or Opera for a browser. It was great, exploring ftp sites for free software, writing my own little programs and compiling them with gcc.
My Dos partiton got smaller and smaller after that. Now It no longer exists.