I read the article, but the parent said RAM, not DSI or SSD. A solid-state disk is not RAM even though it uses RAM chips. If you use vague or incorrect terms, nobody knows what you are talking about. There are many other comments for this story talking about normal ram disks - that's what I was thinking when I replied.
Solid Data's drives (which I have used) do the same thing - nothing new here. Banks of ram chips on a card that make it look like a disk. Internal battery. If power fails, contents of ram are dumped to disk. On power resoration, disk is read back into ram chips.
SSD's are nothing new. They are expensive, fast, have limited storage, and are good for certain types of applications. Nothing has really changed since they were introduced many years ago other than price, size, and speed (which depends more on the interface rather than anything else...)
Try rebooting on a server like a HPaq DL380. The BIOS portion of the boot is 4 times longer than the linux portion. My desktop with SATA is about equal, so kexec would still speed that up by a factor of two.
This is the same Belkin that has browser redirection to ads built into their soho routers? No thanks... Anyone but. When I see "Belkin" now, I think of K-Mart quality.
Which is exactly why MS machines should update themselves automatically by default. Power users can turn that off. Considering that the average user of XP Home is totally clueless, MS needs to take the higher ground. They know better.
While I would have agreed with you a few years ago, the problems are so frequent and the mass userbase so non-technical, that blaming the user just doesn't cut it. Many users DO update their software / AV yet still get hit. At some point the manufacturers of software need to take more responsability. Someone can take home a brand new Dell, plug it in, connect to the internet, and before the first patch gets downloaded end up with a worm. It's fast, damn fast. If you're going to make grandma or little Johnny your target market, then you damn well better make sure that the product is shipped secure to begin with, and maintains itself.
My guess by looking at the reject logs of my mail server is that it is at least an order of magnitude larger. These machines are not "owned" by all the same hackers / spammers though, so the impact that one hacker has is not as large as you would think.
Where grid starts taking off is in corporate (or educational) environments where you have tons of hardware on desktops all over the place that spend 99% of the time doing nothing.
I really don't see it as a "public" resource kinda thing where you sell your bit of CPU for a couple bucks.
When I built my latest desktop box, I went for a Antec Sonata which is MUCH quieter than my old system. In fact, even with it sitting on my desk next to my monitors, I hardly hear it - just a little drive whine.
Unfortunately my house is in the middle of major renovation, so my office is temporarily located in the basement. Now I have all the noise from the water heater (power vent) and boiler. My new office design has the systems in a back-open cubbie under the desk with a smoked-glass door (kinda like a stereo cabinet.) That should all but eliminate the remaining noise. It's too bad most periphereals have such short cables.
My noisy servers are in another basement room - one with 4' thick granite walls so it stays nice and cool year round (and a higher humidity level for less static.) I don't hear them at all:-)
Why is that a troll? It's a well known FACT that MOST worms / viruses attack OE. To this day, MS insists on keeping the thing vulnerable because "our customers demand these features..." If you insist on running a platform that is a magnet for malware, Please consider at least running an email client that has SOME shread of security designed into it. My mail server will thank you.
Well, considering that MS Word starts to puke and die with large documents, it's pretty clear that manuals, books, large RFP's, etc. are the exact kinds of things you shouldn't do in Word. Even breaking things up into chapters / sections is a pain.
I have a work collegue that wrote a 350 page book in word. Just scrolling the document on a 2.4G machine with 2G Ram was painful.
Um, to give a clearer picture, I moved to Maine from the SF bay area. From the profits of my home sale in San Jose, I was able to buy a house 3 times the size with several acres on a lake with the only payments being taxes and insurance. I'm able to get DSL just fine, and work from home. I'm also making more than I was in the bay area. You do the math.:-) Even if I couldn't get DSL, the cheaper cost of living / housing would allow me to get a full T1 line.
That's unfortunate. Thanks for pointing out this situation, I didn't think of that. Sounds like people need to use throwaway's / special addresses for this kind of thing too. Damn.
While I detest challenge response systems, they are looking better and better as the spam problem gets worse.
Considering how fast things change on the internet, 2 years ago is a lifetime. If you did an honest review of 550 hosting providers, that would have taken about a full six months unless you had a large team helping. In order to actually KNOW how good a hosting provider is, you have to use them, try the customer service, measure uptime, performance, etc. I seriously doubt you did that with 550 hosting services.
We are ready for a new stable release of Debian now
Not only are WE ready, modern hardware is ready. try installing woody on a machine that only has SATA drives... Hell, for that matter, SARGE won't even install. You end up needing to build a custom kernel with extra patches. BTW, Knoppix works as the kernels are more modern and include libata.
It's amazing how many web forms will not accept the plus character in emails. I actually prefer NOT to use that trick, as deleting everything after the plus gives your real address. I prefer to just create an alias instead.
This is what an obscured email address in your signature is for. See RFC 1855 section 3.1.1.
The parent is 100% right. At this point, it's nuts not to use a restricted email address for mailing lists since so many are archived in various places, and it's well known that spammers crawl these archives for addresses. Some mailing lists are archived on hundreds or even thousands of web sites.
Another option is time-expiring addresses. I do this for usenet since there are no subscription issues. I change addresses every month, and they last for 2, giving a reasonable working time. Again - obscured real address in the sig.
These schemes obviously work best when you control your own domain as you can have custom bounce messages and such. I actually use several domains for different things (and host accounts for family and friends...)
So you are saying that instead of doing intense security audits and maintaining one system, a system everyone can know well, we should do half-assed audits on dozens of authentication systems and try to maintain them all? The hell with single signon, go maintain dozens of different passwords (or worse, use the same password on everything)???? I don't see how having many disparate systems helps security other than being security through obscurity.
I was setting up LDAP for internal use so I could do local user accounts, FTP, IMAP, SMTP Auth, web auth, VPN all with one account. Everything seemed to want different named fields for the same thing, and different management tools used different fields, had different requirements, or were not complete enough. This meant that I had to build my own management tool - NOT what I was looking for.
The LDAP docs for linux are also pathetic. Nothing actually has complete working examples beyond the most simplistic level.
LDAP doesn't just give you enough rope to hang yourself, you actually have to braid your own rope using the hemp you grew yourself, build a chair, plant your own tree and wait for it to grow enough to throw the rope over before you can hang yourself. THIS is what needs to change.
You mean the bad snapshots of a tv in the background??? Looks like someone needs to learn how to use the "crop" tool, or at least aim the camera correctly.
While true, spamassassin used in conjuction with the Exiscan patch for Exim can reject spam at smtp time. Frankly though, the most effective filter is rejecting direct from dynamic IP connections. From my own logs, almost 99% of spam now comes from dynamic address space. I really don't understand why all ISP's don't block this crap at this point. This also seems to block most email worms too.
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The key term is "select". Quickorder handles both Dominos and Pizza Hut. Even though my area has multiples of each, none are usable via quickorder.
Um, that's NEGATIVE penny in accounting format...
I read the article, but the parent said RAM, not DSI or SSD. A solid-state disk is not RAM even though it uses RAM chips. If you use vague or incorrect terms, nobody knows what you are talking about. There are many other comments for this story talking about normal ram disks - that's what I was thinking when I replied.
Solid Data's drives (which I have used) do the same thing - nothing new here. Banks of ram chips on a card that make it look like a disk. Internal battery. If power fails, contents of ram are dumped to disk. On power resoration, disk is read back into ram chips.
SSD's are nothing new. They are expensive, fast, have limited storage, and are good for certain types of applications. Nothing has really changed since they were introduced many years ago other than price, size, and speed (which depends more on the interface rather than anything else...)
Sure. And when your machine crashes you lose data. Sometimes you need true NV ram disks.
Try rebooting on a server like a HPaq DL380. The BIOS portion of the boot is 4 times longer than the linux portion. My desktop with SATA is about equal, so kexec would still speed that up by a factor of two.
This is the same Belkin that has browser redirection to ads built into their soho routers? No thanks... Anyone but. When I see "Belkin" now, I think of K-Mart quality.
Which is exactly why MS machines should update themselves automatically by default. Power users can turn that off. Considering that the average user of XP Home is totally clueless, MS needs to take the higher ground. They know better.
While I would have agreed with you a few years ago, the problems are so frequent and the mass userbase so non-technical, that blaming the user just doesn't cut it. Many users DO update their software / AV yet still get hit. At some point the manufacturers of software need to take more responsability. Someone can take home a brand new Dell, plug it in, connect to the internet, and before the first patch gets downloaded end up with a worm. It's fast, damn fast. If you're going to make grandma or little Johnny your target market, then you damn well better make sure that the product is shipped secure to begin with, and maintains itself.
My guess by looking at the reject logs of my mail server is that it is at least an order of magnitude larger. These machines are not "owned" by all the same hackers / spammers though, so the impact that one hacker has is not as large as you would think.
Where grid starts taking off is in corporate (or educational) environments where you have tons of hardware on desktops all over the place that spend 99% of the time doing nothing.
I really don't see it as a "public" resource kinda thing where you sell your bit of CPU for a couple bucks.
When I built my latest desktop box, I went for a Antec Sonata which is MUCH quieter than my old system. In fact, even with it sitting on my desk next to my monitors, I hardly hear it - just a little drive whine.
:-)
Unfortunately my house is in the middle of major renovation, so my office is temporarily located in the basement. Now I have all the noise from the water heater (power vent) and boiler. My new office design has the systems in a back-open cubbie under the desk with a smoked-glass door (kinda like a stereo cabinet.) That should all but eliminate the remaining noise. It's too bad most periphereals have such short cables.
My noisy servers are in another basement room - one with 4' thick granite walls so it stays nice and cool year round (and a higher humidity level for less static.) I don't hear them at all
Why is that a troll? It's a well known FACT that MOST worms / viruses attack OE. To this day, MS insists on keeping the thing vulnerable because "our customers demand these features..." If you insist on running a platform that is a magnet for malware, Please consider at least running an email client that has SOME shread of security designed into it. My mail server will thank you.
Well, considering that MS Word starts to puke and die with large documents, it's pretty clear that manuals, books, large RFP's, etc. are the exact kinds of things you shouldn't do in Word. Even breaking things up into chapters / sections is a pain.
I have a work collegue that wrote a 350 page book in word. Just scrolling the document on a 2.4G machine with 2G Ram was painful.
Oh sweet jesus... I just went to the tron guy's web site. I'm gonna puke.
You have to remember that it's not a majority of the PEOPLE, it's a majority of the politicians and the lobbyists that buy them.
Um, to give a clearer picture, I moved to Maine from the SF bay area. From the profits of my home sale in San Jose, I was able to buy a house 3 times the size with several acres on a lake with the only payments being taxes and insurance. I'm able to get DSL just fine, and work from home. I'm also making more than I was in the bay area. You do the math. :-) Even if I couldn't get DSL, the cheaper cost of living / housing would allow me to get a full T1 line.
That's unfortunate. Thanks for pointing out this situation, I didn't think of that. Sounds like people need to use throwaway's / special addresses for this kind of thing too. Damn.
While I detest challenge response systems, they are looking better and better as the spam problem gets worse.
Considering how fast things change on the internet, 2 years ago is a lifetime. If you did an honest review of 550 hosting providers, that would have taken about a full six months unless you had a large team helping. In order to actually KNOW how good a hosting provider is, you have to use them, try the customer service, measure uptime, performance, etc. I seriously doubt you did that with 550 hosting services.
We are ready for a new stable release of Debian now
Not only are WE ready, modern hardware is ready. try installing woody on a machine that only has SATA drives... Hell, for that matter, SARGE won't even install. You end up needing to build a custom kernel with extra patches. BTW, Knoppix works as the kernels are more modern and include libata.
It's amazing how many web forms will not accept the plus character in emails. I actually prefer NOT to use that trick, as deleting everything after the plus gives your real address. I prefer to just create an alias instead.
This is what an obscured email address in your signature is for. See RFC 1855 section 3.1.1.
The parent is 100% right. At this point, it's nuts not to use a restricted email address for mailing lists since so many are archived in various places, and it's well known that spammers crawl these archives for addresses. Some mailing lists are archived on hundreds or even thousands of web sites.
Another option is time-expiring addresses. I do this for usenet since there are no subscription issues. I change addresses every month, and they last for 2, giving a reasonable working time. Again - obscured real address in the sig.
These schemes obviously work best when you control your own domain as you can have custom bounce messages and such. I actually use several domains for different things (and host accounts for family and friends...)
So you are saying that instead of doing intense security audits and maintaining one system, a system everyone can know well, we should do half-assed audits on dozens of authentication systems and try to maintain them all? The hell with single signon, go maintain dozens of different passwords (or worse, use the same password on everything)???? I don't see how having many disparate systems helps security other than being security through obscurity.
I have to second this.
I was setting up LDAP for internal use so I could do local user accounts, FTP, IMAP, SMTP Auth, web auth, VPN all with one account. Everything seemed to want different named fields for the same thing, and different management tools used different fields, had different requirements, or were not complete enough. This meant that I had to build my own management tool - NOT what I was looking for.
The LDAP docs for linux are also pathetic. Nothing actually has complete working examples beyond the most simplistic level.
LDAP doesn't just give you enough rope to hang yourself, you actually have to braid your own rope using the hemp you grew yourself, build a chair, plant your own tree and wait for it to grow enough to throw the rope over before you can hang yourself. THIS is what needs to change.
You mean the bad snapshots of a tv in the background??? Looks like someone needs to learn how to use the "crop" tool, or at least aim the camera correctly.
While true, spamassassin used in conjuction with the Exiscan patch for Exim can reject spam at smtp time. Frankly though, the most effective filter is rejecting direct from dynamic IP connections. From my own logs, almost 99% of spam now comes from dynamic address space. I really don't understand why all ISP's don't block this crap at this point. This also seems to block most email worms too.