I don't see any compelling reasons to migrate if everything is working fine in Qmail.
If you want a cookbook on how to set up Postfix and SpamAssassin and friends, there are several really good resources: Jeffrey Posluns, Jim Seymour, Meng Wong (old but still useful). Posluns' guide is probably where you should start first.
You are taking a reasonable position, but try to see it from another perspective. The netfilter authors have worked hard on their code, and these authors ask distributors via the GPL to include source code to changes to netfilter. Obviously, by virtue of distributing modified GPL software, the distributors are agreeing to these terms because otherwise they would have no right to change and then re-distribute netfilter, under most copyright laws. For some people, these terms cost too much, so they shouldn't modify and re-distribute the GPL'ed software, nor should they violate the authors' copyright (copyright is a good and useful legal instrument, after all).
Personally, as a user and potential modifier/distributor, I think the GPL's re-distribution requirements are reasonable and even desirable. Others may not agree, and that's OK, because it's a big world out there and people are allowed to have opinions different from mine (even when they are wrong *evil grin*).
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The way to really defraud this company is reverse engineer the reporting protocol so that it claims utilization when there isn't actually any. Of course, fraud is illegal, so you don't actually want to do this.
I am always looking for good games. What PS2 titles would you recommend I buy? I already have Onimusha et al, Hitman 2 (fantastic!), and a few old school favorites like Metal Gear et al and Robotech. I'd really appreciate your recommendations!
If ESPN hires Ron Jeremy to host a golf turnament, but he spends all of his on-air time insulting the "players", would he get fired for "Masters baiting" under the new FCC rules?
Since I managed to totally forget to see The Matrix III (Rebooted? Restitutions? something like that), I doubt I'll bother watching Star Wars III. God what dissapointments these movies have been.:(
I'm going to assume that the Windows system at home is some kind of workstation, in addition to being a data repository of some kind, and that based on your comments, you need secure, remote access to this system. I'm also assuming that you want to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data.
Some of my suggestions are processes. Some of them are specific technologies or products. In order of increasing complexity (and ridiculousness), do the following:
Regularly backup your data and store the copies off-site. CD-R is cheap and readily available. Safety deposit boxes are easy to lease.
Don't use wireless networking.
Install a hardware firewall capable of acting as a VPN server, e.g. the Watchguard Firebox SOHO 6tc. Set it up "default deny" for traffic inbound from the Internet.
Enable automatic critical operating system updates. If you don't trust your vendor
Install a modern anti-virus package and schedule automatic daily updates and nightly scans.
Install a modern anti-spyware package and schedule automatic daily updates and nightly scans.
Set a schedule to check for updates to the software packages you regularly use, e.g. Office.
Restrict access to web sites, e.g. by using IE's security zones feature, a JunkBuster proxy, certain firewalls that include popup blockers, etc.
Encrypt sensitive data, e.g. with PGP, with Windows EFS; store the escrowed recovery keys on separate media in a sealed (frangible) envelope in your safety deposit box.
Enable VPN access.
Configure and use a one-time password system for all authentication to this system, e.g. RSA SecurID, S/Key.
Locate the system in a EM-shielded enclosure. Light is also a form of EM.
Install a small thermite bomb inside the computer case that will slag the hard drive if someone physically tampers with the system. The old electromagnet-in-the-door trick won't work reliably.
Cut the power cord off the computer. Bury the computer under six feet of concrete.
OK, so maybe those last few suggestions aren't entirely practical...:)
Sorry, but you're wrong. Windows NT has its architectural roots in VMS, not MS-DOS.
And since you're in need of a history lesson: the RTM worm spread via email (sort of) on Unix systems, and several Unix/Linux virus and worms have been discovered in the wild - Lion which spreads via a vulnerability in BIND, Bliss which infects ELF executables, Sadmind aka PoizonBox which targets both Solaris/sadmind and Windows/IIS, Staog, etc. Lindose can infect both ELF and PE executables but it's only a proof of concept.
When written by noobs, virus/worms/trojans are a popularity contest, nothing more. When written by those skilled in the art, malicious mobile code is about risk management, engineering costs, and return on investment. Thus endeth the lesson.
*plonk*
(I was going to moderate this guy's post up, but since no one else has educated this newbie, I guess I'll have to leave the positive moderation to someone else.)
I don't recall seeing this in the news, and a cursory Google search didn't come up with a suspect's name (beyond conjecture about Al Queda operatives and Jewish conspiracy theories). Who did they catch? Have they convicted him yet?
A jury of 12 people too stupid to get out of jury duty...
So how can I get out of jury duty? Because I've always wanted to shirk my civic duty, especially when it means that I can cheat my fellow citizens out of a capable, intelligent, and rational juror when they exercise their paid-for-in-blood right to a trial by a jury of their peers.
I think it's more a matter of perspective. I don't see it as making money writing software or deploying UNIX. I make money providing cost-effective solutions to my customers, in whatever form those solutions take. And really, just about anybody can bang out the code to do some of the things I do. But not anybody has the experience and training I have to (1) describe the boundaries of a problem and (2) to solve it efficiently and with a degree of expediency. These ineffable, higher-order skills are what I sell to my clients (mainly because nobody's figured out how to stuff human intelligence/experience into a box and sell it on store shelves).
It could be psychosomatic, too, like the mean trick of telling "friends" about poisonous biting crabs when you're camping on the beach. Not too many people are going to sleep easily after that story, heh heh.
There is nothing worse than playing my favorite game online game, only to have someone frag me using mad skills. Some of these guys are so good (or is it that I'm so bad?) that I don't even have a chance to get off two shots after I respawn before I'm killed, AGAIN. It is so frustrating. America's Army is the worst. It seems like everybody out there is so much better at the game that I am. Even newbies kick my ass all the time. It is so embarrassing.
The only way I even have the slightest chance is if I cheat. Otherwise the game is so unfair, it's not even fun.
Even better, I want it to be transparent to the programmer. I hate nothing more than wasting my time on nitty gritty implementation detail, especially when someone else has probably done it before (and did a better job than me).
I've seen a similar-sounding product from a company called Vernier Networks. Not only can you control access via a variety of VPN methods (including PPTP, L2TP over IPSEC, and vanilla IPSEC), but it can do limited transparent proxying with HTTP, amongst other things. It was very slick, and to be honest, this kind of network access control technology can be applied to a lot more than just Wi-Fi.
Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD all have relatively good support for the native system calls of each platform to which they've been ported, for example:
Linux on IA32 hardware can run SCO binaries,
FreeBSD and Linux on SPARC hardware will run Solaris binaries,
OpenBSD and NetBSD on Alpha will run Tru64/OSF1 binaries,
FreeBSD can run IA32 Linux binaries, etc.
The only complicating factors have to do with supported executable formats (e.g. FreeBSD can't execute QMAGIC-format Linux binaries, Linux can't run non-ELF-format SCO binaries IIRC) and shared library licensing (e.g. to run Tru64/OSF1 dynamically-linked binaries under Linux, you'll have to copy the shared libraries and linker/loader from a OSF1 installation onto Linux, which technically requires a valid license for OSF1 for the Linux machine).
(This system call support is also known as an Application Binary Interface (ABI). Basically, each hardware platform has a de facto standard for invoking the operating system kernel, e.g. on IA32 I think one uses interrupt 0x80 with system call parameters placed in certain registers or memory locations. As long as the running operating system preserves the semantics of the system call, the running application won't know the difference.)
Hey, that's a good point. Didn't the fembot say at one point that she wanted Baltar to love her, because "God is love"? And the arms dealer bot said the Cylons were "God's retribution".
What does it take to create binary updates? I'd be more than willing to build binary updates for FreeBSD/alpha 5.1-RELEASE on a soon-to-be-mine AlphaServer 2100.
If Red Hat wants to be really sneaky, they will break binary compatibility in such a way that binaries compiled on Red Hat Enterprise Linux will only run on RHEL (e.g. trivially changing C++ name mangling, incrementing all kernel syscall numbers by 1). Want to run Oracle 10i? Unreal Tournament 2004? nVIDIA XFree86 drivers? Sorry, they only provide Red Hat RPMs that won't run properly on Slackware, Debian, or FreeBSD.
One could even argue that they have already been doing that, what with GCC 2.96 and custom patches to glibc and so on over the last few years.
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I don't see any compelling reasons to migrate if everything is working fine in Qmail.
If you want a cookbook on how to set up Postfix and SpamAssassin and friends, there are several really good resources: Jeffrey Posluns, Jim Seymour, Meng Wong (old but still useful). Posluns' guide is probably where you should start first.
You are taking a reasonable position, but try to see it from another perspective. The netfilter authors have worked hard on their code, and these authors ask distributors via the GPL to include source code to changes to netfilter. Obviously, by virtue of distributing modified GPL software, the distributors are agreeing to these terms because otherwise they would have no right to change and then re-distribute netfilter, under most copyright laws. For some people, these terms cost too much, so they shouldn't modify and re-distribute the GPL'ed software, nor should they violate the authors' copyright (copyright is a good and useful legal instrument, after all).
Personally, as a user and potential modifier/distributor, I think the GPL's re-distribution requirements are reasonable and even desirable. Others may not agree, and that's OK, because it's a big world out there and people are allowed to have opinions different from mine (even when they are wrong *evil grin*).
The way to really defraud this company is reverse engineer the reporting protocol so that it claims utilization when there isn't actually any. Of course, fraud is illegal, so you don't actually want to do this.
I am always looking for good games. What PS2 titles would you recommend I buy? I already have Onimusha et al, Hitman 2 (fantastic!), and a few old school favorites like Metal Gear et al and Robotech. I'd really appreciate your recommendations!
If ESPN hires Ron Jeremy to host a golf turnament, but he spends all of his on-air time insulting the "players", would he get fired for "Masters baiting" under the new FCC rules?
Since I managed to totally forget to see The Matrix III (Rebooted? Restitutions? something like that), I doubt I'll bother watching Star Wars III. God what dissapointments these movies have been. :(
I'm going to assume that the Windows system at home is some kind of workstation, in addition to being a data repository of some kind, and that based on your comments, you need secure, remote access to this system. I'm also assuming that you want to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data.
Some of my suggestions are processes. Some of them are specific technologies or products. In order of increasing complexity (and ridiculousness), do the following:
- Regularly backup your data and store the copies off-site. CD-R is cheap and readily available. Safety deposit boxes are easy to lease.
- Don't use wireless networking.
- Install a hardware firewall capable of acting as a VPN server, e.g. the Watchguard Firebox SOHO 6tc. Set it up "default deny" for traffic inbound from the Internet.
- Enable automatic critical operating system updates. If you don't trust your vendor
- Install a modern anti-virus package and schedule automatic daily updates and nightly scans.
- Install a modern anti-spyware package and schedule automatic daily updates and nightly scans.
- Set a schedule to check for updates to the software packages you regularly use, e.g. Office.
- Restrict access to web sites, e.g. by using IE's security zones feature, a JunkBuster proxy, certain firewalls that include popup blockers, etc.
- Encrypt sensitive data, e.g. with PGP, with Windows EFS; store the escrowed recovery keys on separate media in a sealed (frangible) envelope in your safety deposit box.
- Enable VPN access.
- Configure and use a one-time password system for all authentication to this system, e.g. RSA SecurID, S/Key.
- Locate the system in a EM-shielded enclosure. Light is also a form of EM.
- Install a small thermite bomb inside the computer case that will slag the hard drive if someone physically tampers with the system. The old electromagnet-in-the-door trick won't work reliably.
- Cut the power cord off the computer. Bury the computer under six feet of concrete.
OK, so maybe those last few suggestions aren't entirely practical...Sorry, but you're wrong. Windows NT has its architectural roots in VMS, not MS-DOS.
And since you're in need of a history lesson: the RTM worm spread via email (sort of) on Unix systems, and several Unix/Linux virus and worms have been discovered in the wild - Lion which spreads via a vulnerability in BIND, Bliss which infects ELF executables, Sadmind aka PoizonBox which targets both Solaris/sadmind and Windows/IIS, Staog, etc. Lindose can infect both ELF and PE executables but it's only a proof of concept.
Hell, there were even a few worms and trojans running around on VMS back in the day.
When written by noobs, virus/worms/trojans are a popularity contest, nothing more. When written by those skilled in the art, malicious mobile code is about risk management, engineering costs, and return on investment. Thus endeth the lesson.
*plonk*
(I was going to moderate this guy's post up, but since no one else has educated this newbie, I guess I'll have to leave the positive moderation to someone else.)
Unfortunately, some sites rely upon HTTP_REFERRER as a weak authentication mechanism, e.g. for GIF images and the like.
I don't recall seeing this in the news, and a cursory Google search didn't come up with a suspect's name (beyond conjecture about Al Queda operatives and Jewish conspiracy theories). Who did they catch? Have they convicted him yet?
And by exercising, you're actually PURIFYING your Bodily Fluids!
So how can I get out of jury duty? Because I've always wanted to shirk my civic duty, especially when it means that I can cheat my fellow citizens out of a capable, intelligent, and rational juror when they exercise their paid-for-in-blood right to a trial by a jury of their peers.
I think it's more a matter of perspective. I don't see it as making money writing software or deploying UNIX. I make money providing cost-effective solutions to my customers, in whatever form those solutions take. And really, just about anybody can bang out the code to do some of the things I do. But not anybody has the experience and training I have to (1) describe the boundaries of a problem and (2) to solve it efficiently and with a degree of expediency. These ineffable, higher-order skills are what I sell to my clients (mainly because nobody's figured out how to stuff human intelligence/experience into a box and sell it on store shelves).
It could be psychosomatic, too, like the mean trick of telling "friends" about poisonous biting crabs when you're camping on the beach. Not too many people are going to sleep easily after that story, heh heh.
There is nothing worse than playing my favorite game online game, only to have someone frag me using mad skills. Some of these guys are so good (or is it that I'm so bad?) that I don't even have a chance to get off two shots after I respawn before I'm killed, AGAIN. It is so frustrating. America's Army is the worst. It seems like everybody out there is so much better at the game that I am. Even newbies kick my ass all the time. It is so embarrassing.
The only way I even have the slightest chance is if I cheat. Otherwise the game is so unfair, it's not even fun.
Even better, I want it to be transparent to the programmer. I hate nothing more than wasting my time on nitty gritty implementation detail, especially when someone else has probably done it before (and did a better job than me).
Or even better, use a programming language with decent bignum support, instead of the portable assembler that is C.
I've seen a similar-sounding product from a company called Vernier Networks. Not only can you control access via a variety of VPN methods (including PPTP, L2TP over IPSEC, and vanilla IPSEC), but it can do limited transparent proxying with HTTP, amongst other things. It was very slick, and to be honest, this kind of network access control technology can be applied to a lot more than just Wi-Fi.
Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD all have relatively good support for the native system calls of each platform to which they've been ported, for example:
- Linux on IA32 hardware can run SCO binaries,
- FreeBSD and Linux on SPARC hardware will run Solaris binaries,
- OpenBSD and NetBSD on Alpha will run Tru64/OSF1 binaries,
- FreeBSD can run IA32 Linux binaries, etc.
The only complicating factors have to do with supported executable formats (e.g. FreeBSD can't execute QMAGIC-format Linux binaries, Linux can't run non-ELF-format SCO binaries IIRC) and shared library licensing (e.g. to run Tru64/OSF1 dynamically-linked binaries under Linux, you'll have to copy the shared libraries and linker/loader from a OSF1 installation onto Linux, which technically requires a valid license for OSF1 for the Linux machine).(This system call support is also known as an Application Binary Interface (ABI). Basically, each hardware platform has a de facto standard for invoking the operating system kernel, e.g. on IA32 I think one uses interrupt 0x80 with system call parameters placed in certain registers or memory locations. As long as the running operating system preserves the semantics of the system call, the running application won't know the difference.)
Hey, that's a good point. Didn't the fembot say at one point that she wanted Baltar to love her, because "God is love"? And the arms dealer bot said the Cylons were "God's retribution".
What does it take to create binary updates? I'd be more than willing to build binary updates for FreeBSD/alpha 5.1-RELEASE on a soon-to-be-mine AlphaServer 2100.
"FreeBSD update" doesn't work for those of us tracking 5.x-RELEASE, and it only provides binary updates for the IA32 (i386-family) port.
I believe the phrase you're looking for is "vigilante justice".
If Red Hat wants to be really sneaky, they will break binary compatibility in such a way that binaries compiled on Red Hat Enterprise Linux will only run on RHEL (e.g. trivially changing C++ name mangling, incrementing all kernel syscall numbers by 1). Want to run Oracle 10i? Unreal Tournament 2004? nVIDIA XFree86 drivers? Sorry, they only provide Red Hat RPMs that won't run properly on Slackware, Debian, or FreeBSD.
One could even argue that they have already been doing that, what with GCC 2.96 and custom patches to glibc and so on over the last few years.
Just a thought... :)
The version of Outlook Web Access included with Exchange 2000 works fine with Mozilla. Don't know about other versions, though.