A friend of mine attends a well known university that has a fiber drop outside her on campus apartment. She gets 10 megabits in from there.
It solidly tests out at 8-9 megabits on any test site that goes fast enough.
Now, she pays $550 a month for rent, but has a connection that would cost well more than that. I am not talking in DSL prices, we are talking a connection equivalent to a fractional T3 which would cost approx $2000/month.
In exchange she agrees to not run a server, or abuse the bandwidth, and I have read the AUP on it and it does say they will monitor e-mail. Is this a fair price to pay?
Also the bandwidth that college students enjoy would be expensive for them outside of academia.
The name Linux is protected by a trademark held by Linus Torvalds. It has been used to stop infringement in the past.
If he has been able to register the patent SSH, then there is two options for the OpenSSH project. Change the name, or challenge the trademark.
However a challenge may not be a good idea, if you erode Trademark law, what's next? I am sure slashdot is registered as a trademark. Linux, BSD, Slashdot, and others could be used by companies that are not desirable. How would you like slashdot.com to point to a porn site? etc.
IP law is a two edged sword, sometimes it rebounds and you cut yourself.
First, teach them the basics, have them run the apps the people they are supporting are going to run, tell them to try and break them, and then fix them.
Second, the Rute users guide is pretty good, watch the licensing terms though. http://rute.sourceforge.net
Something you will also see a lot is selective blocking that is tripped by volumne. For example if an smtp server gets 10 messages in 2 minutes from a given IP it blocks that IP for 2 hours. This is to discourage spammers. The problem is sometimes these blocks aren't configured correctly, and things will get blocked incorrectly. AOL and Yahoo are both notorious for this one.
Okay, I won't say to much on the subject, but it sounds like the anti-spam rules are kicking in.
1) MAPS makes Port 25 blocking a condition of settlements on anti-spam blocking.
2) The port 25 blocking with Earthlink and other companies applies to smtp to smtp and client to smtp transfers. This would not be necessary if other e-mail servers would close their open relays. However, since they don't...
3) Earthlink also doesn't allow IP addresses outside their range, or those assigned to them by OPN providing POPs, to send through them. This is often refered to as not allowing an open-relay.
4) Their Mail servers will not accept SMTP to SMTP traffic from smtp servers without a valid rDNS. If @home does this also it would explain a lot. Often the IP's assigned to DSL connections don't have a valid reverseDNS entry.
The thing is most of the SPAM I get that appears to be from earthlink accounts, I look at the headers and find they are actually just putting that in for an address but using another mail server. However, a lot of anti-spam advocates have about as much technical knowledge as the MPAA, and assume that if the e-mail address in the from line is @mydomain.com they are sending thrugh mydomain.com and have a valid account with mydomain.com and blame me.
If I was the person with the National DSL ISP, I would look first to make sure that I have provided a valid SMTP server for my members to use, it doesn't have open relays and that it has a valid reverse DNS. Then I would go about contacting @home vial the accounting contact listed in the whois info.
If you let them know you are recording at the start and they remain on the line it is implied consent, and you don't have to have it beep every few minutes either.
Will it really make a difference for privacy in the US? This speech won't but Carnivore definently will be felt for a long time down the rode.
Phone company does take a cut of catalog orders
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Actually the phone company does get a cut in phone orders. Either you or the company you are calling are paying toll charges. 800 numbers aren't free, the recipient just pays the bill.
No always. There was a majordomo newsgroup that was for employees of Netscape I believe. It was run by an employee offsite entirely. Despite not being a company resource it was successfully subpeoned in a lawsuit.
Most likely is they will find that it is a form brought up from Earth that is living in Mir's "halo" of outgassed gas. I remember hearing once that MIR needed 3-5x the weight of the occupants in gas brought up once every month or so. That means there is a lot of gas being lost into space and some of it will stay like that.
Especially since it was first seen growing on a porthole, which are notorious for being the hardest to maintain totally air tight.
One network I know of had a nameserver go down in a manner similiar to a DoS attack. It was all coming from one IP and all trying to inquire for the same site. Pretty sloppy for a crack attack.
Well, if you read further IBM will remain as the foundry. Which means IBM will still provide the fabrication facility.
While Transmeta won't have its own fab, it still has fabrication capacity lined up
In my opinion the flaming of KDE by RMS, while I generally respect RMS, reminds me of the comments that have been made by the plaintiffs against Napster, DeCSS, etc.
The BIG incompatibility that I see is this: We may well allow you
to incorporate it into commercial software too, but we'll probably
demand some money for it, and we'll certainly demand to be given
credit. And in extreme cases (although I can't immediately think of
a reason we might actually want to do this) we may refuse to let you
do it at all.
What this means is they intend to reap some financial rewards for the project. A lot of open source projects are co-opted into commercial projects without the original authors recieving any financial reward. It looks like they just don't want that to happen.
On one hand it is not the philosophical ideal, but on the other hand, it would be nice to be paid for your work.
For one thing Connectix went into the case as a respectable business. The media has made the DeCSS defendents look like and sound like "evil hackers" and "criminals."
Has anybody looked at how intertwined the music industry is with the "traditional" news media?
The Beatles Special Edition stuff is a method to regain and control the copyrights by the companies. Before a company will re-publish a Beatles song, they get the rights from the artist, and then copyright the "new" release. Therefore gaining another 35 years.
If you copy one of the songs from an older record/tape and put it in MP3 and get caught you have to prove it didn't come off of the "Special" Edition CDs.
Do the Beatles OWN the means to distribute a re-release of their music.
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Embedded processor servers are not currently intended for heavy production server duties. I think that embedded process servers can serve a couple of different niches.
Firewalls/Routers
Vanity Web Servers - Set up your family photos
Small Workgroup Servers
Intranet Servers (Internal Project Pages)
"Whiteboard" servers
CVS Servers
Basically anything that requires a cheap, small, server without a high load.
Really? That sucks. What's their excuse for disallowing changes to the MBR?
They will probably say it is to prevent viruses that insert themselves in the MBR.
Now, DOS and Windows have been vulnerable to such viruses for at least 10 years and they are just now fixing it, and blocking competitors, is besides the point. Really it is.
What you don't believed the Redmond Masters of FUD?
One of the difference between Linux and Windows, is there is no security by obscurity. That is a good thing, because a bug in the Windows OS can be quietly exploited and unreported for an extended period of time. Bugs in the Linux and other FreeOS's are easier to find because hordes of people pour over the source code. A better measure of reliability and quality of the OS is how potentially damaging the bugs are, and how fast they are squashed. The posting of this article on slashdot will help Moody reach his goal of a large number of hits, and increase his ad revenue and potential to generate ad revenue. During the first week of August, Moody's column generated 1.2 million hits, making him one of the most read and respected columnists on the internet. Sign up today for this exciting advertising oppurtunity. Of Course that logic is just as flawed, we are helping it.
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It solidly tests out at 8-9 megabits on any test site that goes fast enough.
Now, she pays $550 a month for rent, but has a connection that would cost well more than that. I am not talking in DSL prices, we are talking a connection equivalent to a fractional T3 which would cost approx $2000/month.
In exchange she agrees to not run a server, or abuse the bandwidth, and I have read the AUP on it and it does say they will monitor e-mail. Is this a fair price to pay?
Also the bandwidth that college students enjoy would be expensive for them outside of academia.
The name Linux is protected by a trademark held by Linus Torvalds. It has been used to stop infringement in the past.
If he has been able to register the patent SSH, then there is two options for the OpenSSH project. Change the name, or challenge the trademark.
However a challenge may not be a good idea, if you erode Trademark law, what's next? I am sure slashdot is registered as a trademark. Linux, BSD, Slashdot, and others could be used by companies that are not desirable. How would you like slashdot.com to point to a porn site? etc.
IP law is a two edged sword, sometimes it rebounds and you cut yourself.
First, teach them the basics, have them run the apps the people they are supporting are going to run, tell them to try and break them, and then fix them. Second, the Rute users guide is pretty good, watch the licensing terms though. http://rute.sourceforge.net
MS Packet filters a lot of their sites. And have done so for a while.
Something you will also see a lot is selective blocking that is tripped by volumne. For example if an smtp server gets 10 messages in 2 minutes from a given IP it blocks that IP for 2 hours. This is to discourage spammers. The problem is sometimes these blocks aren't configured correctly, and things will get blocked incorrectly. AOL and Yahoo are both notorious for this one.
Okay, I won't say to much on the subject, but it sounds like the anti-spam rules are kicking in.
1) MAPS makes Port 25 blocking a condition of settlements on anti-spam blocking.
2) The port 25 blocking with Earthlink and other companies applies to smtp to smtp and client to smtp transfers. This would not be necessary if other e-mail servers would close their open relays. However, since they don't...
3) Earthlink also doesn't allow IP addresses outside their range, or those assigned to them by OPN providing POPs, to send through them. This is often refered to as not allowing an open-relay.
4) Their Mail servers will not accept SMTP to SMTP traffic from smtp servers without a valid rDNS. If @home does this also it would explain a lot. Often the IP's assigned to DSL connections don't have a valid reverseDNS entry.
The thing is most of the SPAM I get that appears to be from earthlink accounts, I look at the headers and find they are actually just putting that in for an address but using another mail server. However, a lot of anti-spam advocates have about as much technical knowledge as the MPAA, and assume that if the e-mail address in the from line is @mydomain.com they are sending thrugh mydomain.com and have a valid account with mydomain.com and blame me.
If I was the person with the National DSL ISP, I would look first to make sure that I have provided a valid SMTP server for my members to use, it doesn't have open relays and that it has a valid reverse DNS. Then I would go about contacting @home vial the accounting contact listed in the whois info.
If you let them know you are recording at the start and they remain on the line it is implied consent, and you don't have to have it beep every few minutes either.
I hope you have some serious broadband, because this MPEG movie of the talk is 364 MB.
Is it a Start? yes
Will it really make a difference for privacy in the US? This speech won't but Carnivore definently will be felt for a long time down the rode.
Actually the phone company does get a cut in phone orders. Either you or the company you are calling are paying toll charges. 800 numbers aren't free, the recipient just pays the bill.
No always. There was a majordomo newsgroup that was for employees of Netscape I believe. It was run by an employee offsite entirely. Despite not being a company resource it was successfully subpeoned in a lawsuit.
Most likely is they will find that it is a form brought up from Earth that is living in Mir's "halo" of outgassed gas. I remember hearing once that MIR needed 3-5x the weight of the occupants in gas brought up once every month or so. That means there is a lot of gas being lost into space and some of it will stay like that. Especially since it was first seen growing on a porthole, which are notorious for being the hardest to maintain totally air tight.
One network I know of had a nameserver go down in a manner similiar to a DoS attack. It was all coming from one IP and all trying to inquire for the same site. Pretty sloppy for a crack attack.
If you check out the "dock" for the matchbox PC that makes it a cigarette pack PC, it has a PC Card jack..... Just food for thought.
That may explaine some recent things I have heard of. I know of at least 3 networks who have seen higher than normal loads on their DNS servers.
It may not be up to playing quake but for playing a MUD, or getting e-mail it would be great.
Well, if you read further IBM will remain as the foundry. Which means IBM will still provide the fabrication facility. While Transmeta won't have its own fab, it still has fabrication capacity lined up
The preamble is often evauluated as part of the license because it states the INTENT of the license.
In my opinion the flaming of KDE by RMS, while I generally respect RMS, reminds me of the comments that have been made by the plaintiffs against Napster, DeCSS, etc.
The BIG incompatibility that I see is this: We may well allow you to incorporate it into commercial software too, but we'll probably demand some money for it, and we'll certainly demand to be given credit. And in extreme cases (although I can't immediately think of a reason we might actually want to do this) we may refuse to let you do it at all. What this means is they intend to reap some financial rewards for the project. A lot of open source projects are co-opted into commercial projects without the original authors recieving any financial reward. It looks like they just don't want that to happen. On one hand it is not the philosophical ideal, but on the other hand, it would be nice to be paid for your work.
It is illegal to assign unlawful penalties to a license.
Of course, don't tell the mafia, drug dons, or Bill Gates this about their contracts.
Has anybody looked at how intertwined the music industry is with the "traditional" news media?
If you copy one of the songs from an older record/tape and put it in MP3 and get caught you have to prove it didn't come off of the "Special" Edition CDs.
Do the Beatles OWN the means to distribute a re-release of their music.
Firewalls/Routers
Vanity Web Servers - Set up your family photos
Small Workgroup Servers
Intranet Servers (Internal Project Pages)
"Whiteboard" servers
CVS Servers
Basically anything that requires a cheap, small, server without a high load.
They will probably say it is to prevent viruses that insert themselves in the MBR.
Now, DOS and Windows have been vulnerable to such viruses for at least 10 years and they are just now fixing it, and blocking competitors, is besides the point. Really it is.
What you don't believed the Redmond Masters of FUD?
Off to the Microsoft reeducation center for you.
One of the difference between Linux and Windows, is there is no security by obscurity. That is a good thing, because a bug in the Windows OS can be quietly exploited and unreported for an extended period of time. Bugs in the Linux and other FreeOS's are easier to find because hordes of people pour over the source code.
A better measure of reliability and quality of the OS is how potentially damaging the bugs are, and how fast they are squashed.
The posting of this article on slashdot will help Moody reach his goal of a large number of hits, and increase his ad revenue and potential to generate ad revenue.
During the first week of August, Moody's column generated 1.2 million hits, making him one of the most read and respected columnists on the internet. Sign up today for this exciting advertising oppurtunity.
Of Course that logic is just as flawed, we are helping it.