WTF? That makes NO sense. Please explain youself. Are you trying to say that only black men are getting sued by RIAA or something loony? The RIAA has proven that they are willing to go after ANYONE violating copyright.
It's still not yours and you can't have it unless you are willing to pay for it.
Anyway, are you saying that trespass is OK too??? Trespass IS a crime, and you CAN go to jail for it.
You are trying to justify something that's wrong, and you and everyone else KNOWS that it's wrong. People try to justify doing things that violate the law all the time - it still doesn't make it OK. If you don't like the law, work to get it changed. Bitching and moaning on slashdot isn't going to fix it.
On the other hand, I would enjoy seeing spammers, virus authors, script kiddies, and other criminal hackers (which are also nontheft/nonviolent crimes) spend a few years as Bubba's bitch. It's time we start taking this shit seriously.
Who CARES how much it costs. It's not YOURS. You just can't take it. Those Mercades are just too expensive so it's OK to steal them? Your logic is bizarre.
The whole POINT is to refer to other news, and then get something you DON'T get at those news sites: community reaction, alternative viewpoints, comments on taco's rear entrance, etc.
I would guess that MS DOES have a backdoor. Anyone remember the NSA key hoopla a few years back? Of course with all the cracks in Windows (sorry, couldn't resist the pun), a special back door probably isn't needed.
Um, but what about all the linux developers (non-kernel code too) that never even SAW an SCO user agreement? The problem is that SCO is violating the GPL for EVERYTHING in their distro. This includes documentation, makefiles, other utilities, etc. Even if they won their case against IBM that does not mean that everything else in Linux is fair game.... Only the parts that were considered infringing.
But this does not stop anyone who wrote or contributed GPL'ed code from filing a separate suit. They have no need to wait for the outcome of the SCO suit. SCO's current actions violate GPL NOW.
This should cut down on sites that are all flash, use VB script to embed crap, etc. No more flash ads! In a sense, it should bring the web back to more open standards. When I want to view on a video clip, I want it to launch the viewer of my choice in it's own window - not some browser locked-in pile of garbage. I want to be able to resize the thing, move it around, etc. I don't WANT the embedded version of acrobat reader - I want the full thing in its own window with ALL the controls. About the only thing that would be bad is lack of java, although client-side java never really took off, and it's always slow.
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No, it means that you and I through our taxes will pay for them (if you pay US taxes anyway...) Seriously, if people really thought about every government expenditure as spending their own money, we would be much better off.
What you are not supposed to do is reject AT the HELO. It's perfectly fine to reject at RCPT (which is the best spot since it universally works with all MTA's.)
As for Outlook or any other mail CLIENT, you should be using SMTP AUTH. If they are NOT authenticated, don't come from the local network, then you shouldn't have any problem blocking bad HELO's that are not FQDN. I use exim rules to do this, but I also maintain a whitelist just in case I run into a moronic company / ISP that refuses to fix their system. Most will.
I also block all HELO's that use an IP address of the hostname. So far this year I have not had any false positives. Most is spam that actually uses MY IP address in the HELO (Of all the nerve!) The RFC's allow IP addresses, reality is that nobody but spammers use them as the HELO hostname.
Put your money where your mouth is. Or rather, concrete figures.
OK, fine. We have a fully dynamic web site, where even some graphics are dynamically generated. The dynamic pages are both CPU and memory intensive. Back-end servers are Solaris 8 Sparc running oracle.
On exactly the same hardware (dual P3 933's with 2G RAM), a default (non-tuned) RedHat 7.3 server served 21% more pages per minute than a highly tuned Solaris 8. (We won't EVEN get into the pathetic un-tuned numbers...) In our server farm of 80 boxes, this was a big deal. Guess what? Solaris got the boot. We run Linux now.
Don't get me wrong, I do like Sparc Solaris, and think highly of it, but we are talking x86 here and frankly it doesn't cut it in the real world.
By "internal", do you mean "internal to your organization", or "internal to Sun" ? If the latter, you're behind the times. Sun now sells actual support contracts for it.
I mean internal to sun. Offering support contracts is NOT the same as actually offering REAL support and fixing bugs. Sure, they will answer your call, but as I said, they don't follow through. The same is NOT true of Sparc Solaris, which gets the attention it deserves. The Solaris x86 team IN sun don't really have the support of top management, and THAT is the problem. I know WAY too many people that work there to believe ANY of your BS about that.
Sounds like you're confusing "solaris has buggy NFS" with "linux has buggy NFS".
No. The Solaris x86 NFS bug is fucking real. It has do do with the 32 to 64 bit changes that broke shit in date handling. Since you have no clue as to what I was dealing with, I'll forgive your ignorance.
And as far as performance goes: Poor performance on solaris x86 is usually due to one of the following reasons:
Crap snipped.
Again, you have no fucking clue as to what I was dealing with, or what my level of Solaris experience and knowledge is. The bottom line is that Solaris has earned the nickname "slowaris" for a reason, and that Linux AND BSD blow the fucking doors off it (again, on x86) in terms of performance in MANY MANY different areas.
as far as "modern hardware", it will run just dandy on a 3ghz Pentium, with gigabit NICs from intel
Go read the HCL. It's VERY picky about exactly what hardware is supported. The list isn't even 1/10th the size of Linux. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/ The FACTS are that compatability with RAID cards, many video cards, and everything else is weak. Period.
Dear dipshit (since you seem to stoop to name calling,) please read my original post. Notice the word "commercial".
If you are a corporation selling a software product, you should be held liable just as auto manufacturers are held liable for defects (such as bad brakes, seat belts, etc.) are.
If redhat wanted to NOT be held liable, they would give away redhat for free and charge for support. They, for the most part, do that now.
Frankly, companies should be forbidden from making EULA changes in software patches. It's morally wrong. It's also one of the reasons I don't run Windows.
People should have to have a licence to own a computer and take a test so that they understand security issues.
Maybe if they were liable for the damages caused by running an insecure system, they wouldn't NEED a license. "Your computer was found to be spreading a worm because it was not kept up to date and secured. You are fined $500. You better fix it, because the next time the fine will be $1000. Then $2000. And so on." I suppose you could START with a warning THEN fine.
Maybe if commercial OS vendors were liable for writting crappy software, we would see less problems. MS has NO incentive at all to create secure software. If MS were fined $500K for each remotely exploitable security hole that someone else found, they would be a little better about fixing the crap and making sure it works correctly the first time.
The ACLU USED to represent the rights of ALL Americans, but in the past couple years is pushing an agenda that is SOOO far left that it has alienated the majority of people out there. This includes nutty stuff such as defending NAMBLA, having the Boy Scouts declared as a religious organization, etc.
You money is better spent elsewhere. There are lots of other organizations that truly are worthy of your support.
You have GOT to be kidding... I didn't see a smiley either. You do realize that Solaris x86 has no internal support, right??? Hell, you are lucky if you get it to run on modern hardware do to lack of drivers.
Had a nasty NFS bug with it. Had an open ticket for a YEAR and no fix. Upgraded to linux and the problem was solved (and performance was better too.)
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WTF? That makes NO sense. Please explain youself. Are you trying to say that only black men are getting sued by RIAA or something loony? The RIAA has proven that they are willing to go after ANYONE violating copyright.
It's still not yours and you can't have it unless you are willing to pay for it.
Anyway, are you saying that trespass is OK too??? Trespass IS a crime, and you CAN go to jail for it.
You are trying to justify something that's wrong, and you and everyone else KNOWS that it's wrong. People try to justify doing things that violate the law all the time - it still doesn't make it OK. If you don't like the law, work to get it changed. Bitching and moaning on slashdot isn't going to fix it.
On the other hand, I would enjoy seeing spammers, virus authors, script kiddies, and other criminal hackers (which are also nontheft/nonviolent crimes) spend a few years as Bubba's bitch. It's time we start taking this shit seriously.
Who CARES how much it costs. It's not YOURS. You just can't take it. Those Mercades are just too expensive so it's OK to steal them? Your logic is bizarre.
Maybe because when there isn't an info version you get the man file?
I hate info, almost as much as apps that only have bad HTML docs in 400 little screen-sized files.
But I think you miss the point of /.
The whole POINT is to refer to other news, and then get something you DON'T get at those news sites: community reaction, alternative viewpoints, comments on taco's rear entrance, etc.
I would guess that MS DOES have a backdoor. Anyone remember the NSA key hoopla a few years back? Of course with all the cracks in Windows (sorry, couldn't resist the pun), a special back door probably isn't needed.
Um, but what about all the linux developers (non-kernel code too) that never even SAW an SCO user agreement? The problem is that SCO is violating the GPL for EVERYTHING in their distro. This includes documentation, makefiles, other utilities, etc. Even if they won their case against IBM that does not mean that everything else in Linux is fair game.... Only the parts that were considered infringing.
But this does not stop anyone who wrote or contributed GPL'ed code from filing a separate suit. They have no need to wait for the outcome of the SCO suit. SCO's current actions violate GPL NOW.
Redhat has a true vested interest as they employ several kernel developers as does IBM. They still have some money...
Frankly MANY MANY companies have GPL'ed code in Linux (both in the kernel and all the other applications distributed with Linux.)
There is a potential good side to this too.
This should cut down on sites that are all flash, use VB script to embed crap, etc. No more flash ads! In a sense, it should bring the web back to more open standards. When I want to view on a video clip, I want it to launch the viewer of my choice in it's own window - not some browser locked-in pile of garbage. I want to be able to resize the thing, move it around, etc. I don't WANT the embedded version of acrobat reader - I want the full thing in its own window with ALL the controls. About the only thing that would be bad is lack of java, although client-side java never really took off, and it's always slow.
I couldn't find the fancy gyros
Any good greek restaurant has them... You can also make your own.
No, it means that you and I through our taxes will pay for them (if you pay US taxes anyway...) Seriously, if people really thought about every government expenditure as spending their own money, we would be much better off.
MIT has an entire class A block. They have no need to use NAT or private addresses.
Depends. There is only a conflict if you are on the same ethernet segment. MIT has more than one segment. In fact, they probably have hundreds.
What you are not supposed to do is reject AT the HELO. It's perfectly fine to reject at RCPT (which is the best spot since it universally works with all MTA's.)
As for Outlook or any other mail CLIENT, you should be using SMTP AUTH. If they are NOT authenticated, don't come from the local network, then you shouldn't have any problem blocking bad HELO's that are not FQDN. I use exim rules to do this, but I also maintain a whitelist just in case I run into a moronic company / ISP that refuses to fix their system. Most will.
I also block all HELO's that use an IP address of the hostname. So far this year I have not had any false positives. Most is spam that actually uses MY IP address in the HELO (Of all the nerve!) The RFC's allow IP addresses, reality is that nobody but spammers use them as the HELO hostname.
Point of fact, AOL did not exist before the internet. They existed before the HTTP protocol, but not the internet.
Yes, but we need to make it faster. I propose to tatoo a barcode on everyones forehead. Hey, at least facial recognition software will be easier... :-)
Put your money where your mouth is. Or rather, concrete figures.
OK, fine. We have a fully dynamic web site, where even some graphics are dynamically generated. The dynamic pages are both CPU and memory intensive. Back-end servers are Solaris 8 Sparc running oracle.
On exactly the same hardware (dual P3 933's with 2G RAM), a default (non-tuned) RedHat 7.3 server served 21% more pages per minute than a highly tuned Solaris 8. (We won't EVEN get into the pathetic un-tuned numbers...) In our server farm of 80 boxes, this was a big deal. Guess what? Solaris got the boot. We run Linux now.
Don't get me wrong, I do like Sparc Solaris, and think highly of it, but we are talking x86 here and frankly it doesn't cut it in the real world.
By "internal", do you mean "internal to your organization", or "internal to Sun" ? If the latter, you're behind the times. Sun now sells actual support contracts for it.
e FACTS are that compatability with RAID cards, many video cards, and everything else is weak. Period.
I mean internal to sun. Offering support contracts is NOT the same as actually offering REAL support and fixing bugs. Sure, they will answer your call, but as I said, they don't follow through. The same is NOT true of Sparc Solaris, which gets the attention it deserves. The Solaris x86 team IN sun don't really have the support of top management, and THAT is the problem. I know WAY too many people that work there to believe ANY of your BS about that.
Sounds like you're confusing "solaris has buggy NFS" with "linux has buggy NFS".
No. The Solaris x86 NFS bug is fucking real. It has do do with the 32 to 64 bit changes that broke shit in date handling. Since you have no clue as to what I was dealing with, I'll forgive your ignorance.
And as far as performance goes: Poor performance on solaris x86 is usually due to one of the following reasons:
Crap snipped.
Again, you have no fucking clue as to what I was dealing with, or what my level of Solaris experience and knowledge is. The bottom line is that Solaris has earned the nickname "slowaris" for a reason, and that Linux AND BSD blow the fucking doors off it (again, on x86) in terms of performance in MANY MANY different areas.
as far as "modern hardware", it will run just dandy on a 3ghz Pentium, with gigabit NICs from intel
Go read the HCL. It's VERY picky about exactly what hardware is supported. The list isn't even 1/10th the size of Linux.
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/
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Dear dipshit (since you seem to stoop to name calling,) please read my original post. Notice the word "commercial".
If you are a corporation selling a software product, you should be held liable just as auto manufacturers are held liable for defects (such as bad brakes, seat belts, etc.) are.
If redhat wanted to NOT be held liable, they would give away redhat for free and charge for support. They, for the most part, do that now.
Frankly, companies should be forbidden from making EULA changes in software patches. It's morally wrong. It's also one of the reasons I don't run Windows.
People should have to have a licence to own a computer and take a test so that they understand security issues.
Maybe if they were liable for the damages caused by running an insecure system, they wouldn't NEED a license. "Your computer was found to be spreading a worm because it was not kept up to date and secured. You are fined $500. You better fix it, because the next time the fine will be $1000. Then $2000. And so on." I suppose you could START with a warning THEN fine.
Maybe if commercial OS vendors were liable for writting crappy software, we would see less problems. MS has NO incentive at all to create secure software. If MS were fined $500K for each remotely exploitable security hole that someone else found, they would be a little better about fixing the crap and making sure it works correctly the first time.
The ACLU USED to represent the rights of ALL Americans, but in the past couple years is pushing an agenda that is SOOO far left that it has alienated the majority of people out there. This includes nutty stuff such as defending NAMBLA, having the Boy Scouts declared as a religious organization, etc.
You money is better spent elsewhere. There are lots of other organizations that truly are worthy of your support.
You have GOT to be kidding... I didn't see a smiley either. You do realize that Solaris x86 has no internal support, right??? Hell, you are lucky if you get it to run on modern hardware do to lack of drivers.
Had a nasty NFS bug with it. Had an open ticket for a YEAR and no fix. Upgraded to linux and the problem was solved (and performance was better too.)