MS's intent is not to gain marketshare on linux, but to kill it. SCO's goal is to make money from extortion. This is very different from Ford vs GM, or BK vs McDonalds. MS being a monopoly has to follow certain rules which it is not. Using SCO to enforce it's monopoly clearly violates the letter and intent of the law. Of course getting the paid off politicians to do anything about it is another story all together.
Um, I've been firewalling their IP address space (many different netblocks) for quite some time due to the amount of spam I was getting from their network.
No complaints yet, and I have not come across a web site I can't get to on their network. Guess nobody of importance uses them.
Newsflash. The fortune 1000 generally do NOT use MS email gateways. Neither do most ISP's. While many companies use exchange internally, only the clueless ones put it directly on the internet without a Unix based gateay in front of it. Exchange just doesn't behave well, and licensing makes it uneconomical.
The major problem with ALL these systems is critical mass.
Corporations are not going to be blocking mail based on a lack of SPF, Caller-ID, or anything. Too many companies are going to be slow to implement, or apathetic about it. No larger business is going to block mail and potentially lose contact with potential customers, or existing clients.
90% of the current crop of spam would stop if all ISP's would block outbound port 25 from dynamic IP clients by default (unblock if the client agrees to keep their system patched and secure and face penalties if found spamming.)
For the most part, open relays have been closed due to RBL like activity, as enough sites use RBL's to make life very difficult for admins that leave their systems open. So spammers have moved to dynamic's, which there is a virtually unlimited supply due to the piss poor security of Windows and clueless users. RBL's are helping with that too, but it's hard to keep up. Again, many corporations won't use RBL's due to problems noted above.
While I have not read the detail on MS's solution, SPF has the "roving user", "mail forwading" problem that there is no solution for that has been discussed to death. Anyone know if MS's solution has the same problem?
Cable internet either rocks or sucks. For power users, it mostly sucks. Most providers will not hand out static IP's, the TOS forbids servers, the the upload speed blows. Add on top of that the unspoken download cap that may get you terminated, and it is no longer a viable solution.
In my area, we have Adelphia, and the service just blows chunks. I won't go into the details, but trust me. It's just not usable for power users.
I work from home, and a good connection is VITAL for my job. I've had to get an over-priced "business dsl" that is basically no different than residential DSL except 384K up instead of 128, and a static IP - but costs 4 times more.
We have another local telco wiring the city with FTTP, but my latest check of their website revieled that they were only going to offer 1M down. WTF??? Are they high? What is the point of FTTP if you are going to have pathetic speeds?
Anyway, I still need POTS service anyway. I need reliability. Every VOIP provider I have tried is unreliable. Reading the * mailing list, it's normal. I run Asterisk on my linux box for my phone system with a couple Cisco ATA186's for analog phones and a 7960 as my main desk phone (spendy, but Wicked nice.)
Yeah, tis true. Once you mature, then you start having a wife, kids, house, kitchen remodel, quality time with the family, a real job which ends up being more like 60 hours a week, going out to dinner, etc. etc. there just isn't as much time for games. In order to become Good, you have to play the games a LOT. When you don't have the time, you end up spending time on other things.
Now my computer hobbies include much more programming, playing with neat open source stuff like Asterisk (open source phone system), home automation (replacing furnace controls with a linux box), etc. Hey, I LIKE controlling the boiler water temperature based on wind speed and outside temperature, and being able to call home and turn the lights off in the basement that I just remembered that I left on as I step off the plane in Hawaii...:-)
This is pretty close. Read my earlier comment though... I was (yesterday) looking for a new p3 mobo - it's amazing how hard it is to find these things now. And none of them support newer features or chipsets. You end up needing to replace the CPU and memory too in most cases.
But more to the issue at hand.
I just bought (2 weeks ago) a new system - built all from parts I picked out. When I picked out the graphics card, I found one that I know will last me for the life of the CPU / RAM / Mobo. I use one 21" monitor. It supports 2 and they can be analog or DVI, at wicked high resolutions. I'm thinking about doing some multimedia stuff. It support TV out.
I'm not a gamer, but if I was I'd probably be upgrading more than just my graphics card. If a game can take advantage of a better graphics card than what's currently available, then it also wants a faster processor, FSB, more cache, Ram, hard drive, etc. In other words, a pretty major upgrade.
I have a couple PIII 933's that I was looking at using. My old "home server" was a PIII 500. So I started looking at dual P3 motherboards...
I ended up buying a new motherboard, processor, and ram for the price of a dual p3 mobo with similar features. I guess I'll just shitcan (ebay) the old processors and stuff.
As far as my desktop goes, by the time I need to upgrade my video card, I'll be buying a new mobo, processor, and ram anyway. The older processors and mobo chipsets, ram are just too slow. I did just replace the whole desktop system last month with one with SATA drives, 2G ram, etc. I figured it will last me another few years. My old mobo could only handle 512M which is just not enough when you are using VMWARE, OOffice, etc. My old system lasted 4 years. I expect my new one to last close to that.
Of all the processors out there, yes the x86 is common but it has to be one of the WORST instruction sets - one of the most difficult to work with.
Is it just me???
I DO think it's a good idea to be teaching assembly, not so sure as the core of a comp sci program however. I started playing with assembly fairly early, on 6052, z80, and then later with 68000 and IBM 370. It's good to know, but I would do major stuff in it anymore. That's what high-level languages are for. You only drop to assembly when you have to for speed or space.
Hey, it was FUN being a tyranical sysop! Frankly though, I had more fun hacking source code for the BBS, adding new features and such. What was really cool is getting into multi-tasking BBS's. There was nice software that ran under QNX on my old 8088 machine. I also enjoyed working on WWIV, Citadel, and a few others that were either in Pascal or C. I didn't much care for RBBS which was a pile of shit IMHO. I did play with boards for a while on an Apple ][ that was very hackable - 6 floppy drives!!! 143K each! Bend the little tabs inside the drives and get a few more K...
You can get hardware accelerated VPN stuff on the pixs now... There are linux supported VPN accelearator cards too, but the cisco stuff works out of the box, has an easy config (if you are familiar with it) and has pretty damn good support.
The modern boxes ARE basically PC's, but so what? It's the software and support that matter.
I've been recomending Linksys for quite some time for soho use. I was Officemax the other day and some noob was there asking about wireless and routers. The salesdroid was spewing about how great belkin is. I couldn't help it - I had to mention the belkin random redirection to advertizing fiasco. I also mentioned that it was too bad officemax didn't carry linksys which is a better product for the same money, but Staples down the road does.
Let's not forget that Cisco routers do a LOT more than any linksys model. T1, T3, OC3, FXS/FXO, ATM, X.25, frame relay, and ALL sorts of bizzare crap - and come with 24x7x365 support for those. And yes, you pay through the nose for it.
Anyone dealing with larger networks, some with legacy protocols (netware, SNA, etc.) knows what I'm talking about. You are not going to be replacing a BFR anytime soon with a linksys.
Starbucks beans are not too bad, but it depends how its brewed, how long it sits around, water quality, etc.
Starbucks in the store goes for around $8 for a 12oz bag. Go to Costco and get 3lb for $8. I generally do a 2:3 mix of french roast to house blend. I also found that the costco "san francisco bay" coffee was quite good, but it seems to be regional to just the mid-CA area.
Good Instant coffee? Doesn't exist. What's worse is the liquid concentrate crap - OMG it's bad. Get a small drip machine to have at your desk.
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The difference is that MyDoom has an autoexecute portion to it. Certain versions of outlook will auto-unzip zip files for you (since MS knows what you want more than you do), and since the zip has an autoexecute file, it executes it for you too.
What it comes down to is basic mindset. When MS designed outlook, security was not a factor at all. Features and perceived "user friendliness" won out over security at every design decision. In fact, MS still to this day refuses to alter these "features" to solve the biggest virus issues claiming that their users "demand" them. I'm sure that when studies are done, the feature questions Never balance with security as in "Would you like the ability to do blah even if it meant that this feature means that you could easily get a virus and destroy all the data on your computer?" This is what happens when Marketing has ultimate control over all design choices.
NT based windows has a pretty decent kernel, but then you stick a NASTY marketing designed GUI on top which destroys the basic security model.
In contrast, much unix based software (especially open source) is designed by programmers, not marketing folks. Programmers and sysadmin type people are MUCH MUCH more likely to be considering security while designing features which is why Unix, by nature, is more secure.
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Yeah, your right troll. So much easier than apt-get install mydoom or the same with up2date... I'll be running while you are compiling for the next 3 days...
FWIW, Office 2000 is "good enough" for just about everyone. I have no need or desire to upgrade, ever. If people send me documents that it will not open, I'll ask them to resend in a down-version copy. I'm just biding my time until OpenOffice is "good enough" to replace Word. Right now OO still runs into major formatting problems. I'm working on a several hundred page developers / operations manual for example that OO just doesn't handle well, and word handles with ease. In fact, I started writting it in OO before needing to convert. OO is oh-so-close.
Oh, don't worry. They will have a free license for developers working on the Microsoft platform with Microsoft products. You won't be able to afford a license to work on Linux or with openoffice however.
Dude. Chill. Many of the innovations that make multi-media work better on a PC can migrate towards consumer A/V. Case in point: Tivo. Sometimes it takes a geek to SEE the bigger picture.
You would think 64 bit addresses are enough... The architecture of the AS/400 was designed to use a 64 bit address once - and never reuse it. Then they had some customers that used up all their addresses in a year. It's apparently a big deal to regenerate the system to reset back to zero.
What's that old saying that 640K ought to be enough for anyone?:-)
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MS's intent is not to gain marketshare on linux, but to kill it. SCO's goal is to make money from extortion. This is very different from Ford vs GM, or BK vs McDonalds. MS being a monopoly has to follow certain rules which it is not. Using SCO to enforce it's monopoly clearly violates the letter and intent of the law. Of course getting the paid off politicians to do anything about it is another story all together.
Um, I've been firewalling their IP address space (many different netblocks) for quite some time due to the amount of spam I was getting from their network.
No complaints yet, and I have not come across a web site I can't get to on their network. Guess nobody of importance uses them.
Newsflash. The fortune 1000 generally do NOT use MS email gateways. Neither do most ISP's. While many companies use exchange internally, only the clueless ones put it directly on the internet without a Unix based gateay in front of it. Exchange just doesn't behave well, and licensing makes it uneconomical.
It doesn't even take a free account.
The major problem with ALL these systems is critical mass.
Corporations are not going to be blocking mail based on a lack of SPF, Caller-ID, or anything. Too many companies are going to be slow to implement, or apathetic about it. No larger business is going to block mail and potentially lose contact with potential customers, or existing clients.
90% of the current crop of spam would stop if all ISP's would block outbound port 25 from dynamic IP clients by default (unblock if the client agrees to keep their system patched and secure and face penalties if found spamming.)
For the most part, open relays have been closed due to RBL like activity, as enough sites use RBL's to make life very difficult for admins that leave their systems open. So spammers have moved to dynamic's, which there is a virtually unlimited supply due to the piss poor security of Windows and clueless users. RBL's are helping with that too, but it's hard to keep up. Again, many corporations won't use RBL's due to problems noted above.
While I have not read the detail on MS's solution, SPF has the "roving user", "mail forwading" problem that there is no solution for that has been discussed to death. Anyone know if MS's solution has the same problem?
Cable internet either rocks or sucks. For power users, it mostly sucks. Most providers will not hand out static IP's, the TOS forbids servers, the the upload speed blows. Add on top of that the unspoken download cap that may get you terminated, and it is no longer a viable solution.
In my area, we have Adelphia, and the service just blows chunks. I won't go into the details, but trust me. It's just not usable for power users.
I work from home, and a good connection is VITAL for my job. I've had to get an over-priced "business dsl" that is basically no different than residential DSL except 384K up instead of 128, and a static IP - but costs 4 times more.
We have another local telco wiring the city with FTTP, but my latest check of their website revieled that they were only going to offer 1M down. WTF??? Are they high? What is the point of FTTP if you are going to have pathetic speeds?
Anyway, I still need POTS service anyway. I need reliability. Every VOIP provider I have tried is unreliable. Reading the * mailing list, it's normal. I run Asterisk on my linux box for my phone system with a couple Cisco ATA186's for analog phones and a 7960 as my main desk phone (spendy, but Wicked nice.)
Yeah, tis true. Once you mature, then you start having a wife, kids, house, kitchen remodel, quality time with the family, a real job which ends up being more like 60 hours a week, going out to dinner, etc. etc. there just isn't as much time for games. In order to become Good, you have to play the games a LOT. When you don't have the time, you end up spending time on other things.
:-)
Now my computer hobbies include much more programming, playing with neat open source stuff like Asterisk (open source phone system), home automation (replacing furnace controls with a linux box), etc. Hey, I LIKE controlling the boiler water temperature based on wind speed and outside temperature, and being able to call home and turn the lights off in the basement that I just remembered that I left on as I step off the plane in Hawaii...
This is pretty close. Read my earlier comment though... I was (yesterday) looking for a new p3 mobo - it's amazing how hard it is to find these things now. And none of them support newer features or chipsets. You end up needing to replace the CPU and memory too in most cases.
But more to the issue at hand.
I just bought (2 weeks ago) a new system - built all from parts I picked out. When I picked out the graphics card, I found one that I know will last me for the life of the CPU / RAM / Mobo. I use one 21" monitor. It supports 2 and they can be analog or DVI, at wicked high resolutions. I'm thinking about doing some multimedia stuff. It support TV out.
I'm not a gamer, but if I was I'd probably be upgrading more than just my graphics card. If a game can take advantage of a better graphics card than what's currently available, then it also wants a faster processor, FSB, more cache, Ram, hard drive, etc. In other words, a pretty major upgrade.
Huh. Debian sid on an old IBM t21 laptop running galeon / xterms and such. No smearing here. In fact it works great.
Hmm. I see what you mean. I forget to do his reasearch for him. Kwiki.
Next.
That's what wiki / blog software is all about. Wiki probably better as you can organize things in a more natural way.
Exactly.
I have a couple PIII 933's that I was looking at using. My old "home server" was a PIII 500. So I started looking at dual P3 motherboards...
I ended up buying a new motherboard, processor, and ram for the price of a dual p3 mobo with similar features. I guess I'll just shitcan (ebay) the old processors and stuff.
As far as my desktop goes, by the time I need to upgrade my video card, I'll be buying a new mobo, processor, and ram anyway. The older processors and mobo chipsets, ram are just too slow. I did just replace the whole desktop system last month with one with SATA drives, 2G ram, etc. I figured it will last me another few years. My old mobo could only handle 512M which is just not enough when you are using VMWARE, OOffice, etc. My old system lasted 4 years. I expect my new one to last close to that.
Of all the processors out there, yes the x86 is common but it has to be one of the WORST instruction sets - one of the most difficult to work with.
Is it just me???
I DO think it's a good idea to be teaching assembly, not so sure as the core of a comp sci program however. I started playing with assembly fairly early, on 6052, z80, and then later with 68000 and IBM 370. It's good to know, but I would do major stuff in it anymore. That's what high-level languages are for. You only drop to assembly when you have to for speed or space.
Hey, it was FUN being a tyranical sysop! Frankly though, I had more fun hacking source code for the BBS, adding new features and such. What was really cool is getting into multi-tasking BBS's. There was nice software that ran under QNX on my old 8088 machine. I also enjoyed working on WWIV, Citadel, and a few others that were either in Pascal or C. I didn't much care for RBBS which was a pile of shit IMHO. I did play with boards for a while on an Apple ][ that was very hackable - 6 floppy drives!!! 143K each! Bend the little tabs inside the drives and get a few more K...
You can get hardware accelerated VPN stuff on the pixs now... There are linux supported VPN accelearator cards too, but the cisco stuff works out of the box, has an easy config (if you are familiar with it) and has pretty damn good support.
The modern boxes ARE basically PC's, but so what? It's the software and support that matter.
I've been recomending Linksys for quite some time for soho use. I was Officemax the other day and some noob was there asking about wireless and routers. The salesdroid was spewing about how great belkin is. I couldn't help it - I had to mention the belkin random redirection to advertizing fiasco. I also mentioned that it was too bad officemax didn't carry linksys which is a better product for the same money, but Staples down the road does.
:-)
Salesdroid none too happy.
Let's not forget that Cisco routers do a LOT more than any linksys model. T1, T3, OC3, FXS/FXO, ATM, X.25, frame relay, and ALL sorts of bizzare crap - and come with 24x7x365 support for those. And yes, you pay through the nose for it.
Anyone dealing with larger networks, some with legacy protocols (netware, SNA, etc.) knows what I'm talking about. You are not going to be replacing a BFR anytime soon with a linksys.
Starbucks beans are not too bad, but it depends how its brewed, how long it sits around, water quality, etc.
Starbucks in the store goes for around $8 for a 12oz bag. Go to Costco and get 3lb for $8. I generally do a 2:3 mix of french roast to house blend. I also found that the costco "san francisco bay" coffee was quite good, but it seems to be regional to just the mid-CA area.
Good Instant coffee? Doesn't exist. What's worse is the liquid concentrate crap - OMG it's bad. Get a small drip machine to have at your desk.
The difference is that MyDoom has an autoexecute portion to it. Certain versions of outlook will auto-unzip zip files for you (since MS knows what you want more than you do), and since the zip has an autoexecute file, it executes it for you too.
What it comes down to is basic mindset. When MS designed outlook, security was not a factor at all. Features and perceived "user friendliness" won out over security at every design decision. In fact, MS still to this day refuses to alter these "features" to solve the biggest virus issues claiming that their users "demand" them. I'm sure that when studies are done, the feature questions Never balance with security as in "Would you like the ability to do blah even if it meant that this feature means that you could easily get a virus and destroy all the data on your computer?" This is what happens when Marketing has ultimate control over all design choices.
NT based windows has a pretty decent kernel, but then you stick a NASTY
marketing designed GUI on top which destroys the basic security model.
In contrast, much unix based software (especially open source) is designed by programmers, not marketing folks. Programmers and sysadmin type people are MUCH MUCH more likely to be considering security while designing features which is why Unix, by nature, is more secure.
Yeah, your right troll. So much easier than apt-get install mydoom or the same with up2date... I'll be running while you are compiling for the next 3 days...
FWIW, Office 2000 is "good enough" for just about everyone. I have no need or desire to upgrade, ever. If people send me documents that it will not open, I'll ask them to resend in a down-version copy. I'm just biding my time until OpenOffice is "good enough" to replace Word. Right now OO still runs into major formatting problems. I'm working on a several hundred page developers / operations manual for example that OO just doesn't handle well, and word handles with ease. In fact, I started writting it in OO before needing to convert. OO is oh-so-close.
Oh, don't worry. They will have a free license for developers working on the Microsoft platform with Microsoft products. You won't be able to afford a license to work on Linux or with openoffice however.
I tend to use velcro instead of zip ties. Easier to use, reusable, and won't pinch wires.
Only problem is that junkbuster is not HTTP 1.1 compliant (someone please correct me if this is no longer the case...)
I use adzap with squid now... (google for it.)
Dude. Chill. Many of the innovations that make multi-media work better on a PC can migrate towards consumer A/V. Case in point: Tivo. Sometimes it takes a geek to SEE the bigger picture.
You would think 64 bit addresses are enough... The architecture of the AS/400 was designed to use a 64 bit address once - and never reuse it. Then they had some customers that used up all their addresses in a year. It's apparently a big deal to regenerate the system to reset back to zero.
:-)
What's that old saying that 640K ought to be enough for anyone?