Plus if you run SSH on, say, port 283 and put a little rule in the filewall so that any attempted access to the default SSH port (22) is made, that IP address is immediately blocked from all server access for 30minutes. Anybody attempting to "port probe" to find your hidden SSH port will have to scan for a very long time...
Spammer: See,I was successful - I got you lots of potential purchasers.
Client: Yeah, but only 100 of them brought something
Spammer: True-perhaps the pricing was a bit too high/item was wrong colour. Change that and then pay me $2000 to send out another batch and we'll see how many people buy this time.
True, we're currently recruiting and the advert in the newspaper gives our email address and web site address and asks people to consult either of those for further information. Anybody that phones up, we try and get their name and put them on the "Unable to follow instructions list" (unless, of course, they've shown real cunning and ask for the MD's name or are just asking if the position is still open).
There's an unfortunate and inevitable conflict between a trading body's "right" not to have someone else misrepresent themselves as that body, and someone's "right" to use their own name to describe themselves.
True - just think of of a guy called (say) Richard McDonald wanting to open a restaurant.... Even if he calls it something different from the obvious suggestion but still signs checks/cheques for the restaurant as "R.McDonald" he'll probably get in trouble...
I've noticed a number of stores in the UK beginning to introduce an honour system. Basically, you are given a hand-held scanner which you (are meant to) scan your purchases with as you go round the store. Get to the checkout, hand over the scanner and your payment and just go (no need to unload, have it all scanned and repacked). Time spent at checkout: Around 1 minute. However, they do do random checks to make sure people aren't abusing it...
Well, it's well known that Google and Amazon use Linux - and major hosting outfits such as EV1servers use Linux on most of their "leased" boxes: therefore to properly protect their "Intellicutal Property (sp?)", SCO's got to sue them all otherwise I'm sure Google will be able to turn around and say "Amazon was using it a lot longer then we were, Ev1server's got more machines then us: therefore you didn't take sufficient effort to protect your property anyway" and may just be able to convince the judge to make SCO sue somebody else first... I'm sure Intel's got a number of Linux machines around and I think Dell sells them as well: I can just imagine the "court diary" (Feb-Apr: SCO vs IBM, Apr-Jul: SCO vs Amazon, Jul-Oct: SCO vs Intel, Oct-Jan: SCO vs Google) - I just hope the courts get their "fees" off SCO before hand...
Agreed - I work for a web hosting company that offers "unlimited bandwidth" but our AUP/fair usage policys states that we reserve the right to terminate accounts consuming of 10Gb/month. We've had customers using around 30-60Gb/month and just asked them polietly to try and reduce the bandwidth usage for the sake of other customers. But if they start consuming 100Gb/month, then we'll seriously think about pulling the plug.
was he out there helping Time Warner get things resolved? No? Then what exactly did he do during that half hour
Probably the same thing I, and many others, do when we lose internet connectivity. First check if it's isolated to one machine, if not check the router. Restart the router, check router is reachable and routing correctly. Check it's connected, attempt pings (to multiple locations: you need to have memorised IP addresses). Rule out "internal problems", call ISP tech support to lodge problem - go through the "diagnostics speal" (even though they'll be talking about "Single User Windows XP" machines and you are running a Linux based multi-machine network against their TOS) and then, finally, get acknowledgement it's a problem their end(!)
Wish I could say the same thing, I haven't been able to download email from my main email address since Boxing Day - there's now 101,640 emails waiting...
Or, at least, some feedback system. Even it it's just a "bleep" from the lander every second to say "I'm alive" it'll be better than nothing because then they'll be able to say exactly when they "lost" it: if it could also send back basic telemetry (such as altitude and speed of descent and status of parachutes/air bags etc) it'll be better, sending back analysis of atmospheric gases would be perfect! Probably add a bit of weight to it though...
That's my personal "best guess theory" by the way. After all, it appears nobody knew about this crater BEFORE Beagle2 "landed/crashed", yet afterwards there's this great big crater where Beagle2 should have been....
I can see "Mission Control" (the National Space Center here in Leicester) from my window, and I can assure you that we're saying "D'oh" quite a bit (we do speak English here you know: just a little posher than you yankies!;) )
Or just a well shielded one... Anyway, Asimov did that Politician is a human/robot story (I can't remember the title ATM), so she probably wasn't one - but saying that, I can't remember her hitting a human (although I can remember her deactivating a robot that dreamed of it's people being free...)
Any chance of letting me know how you set up a SpamAssassin POP3 proxy? I've got a server of my own with SpamAssassin on it, but the large bulk of my emails (over 30 legit ones a day) and spam (over 3000 a day) come to my ISP's mail box which is just plain POP3 with no current filtering...
AOL officials declined to comment on their relationship with Richter
This is this bit that worries me - they are confirming they DO have a relationship with Richter. Plus, if you think about it, would they decline to comment on something that doesn't exist?
From what I've heard about Brightmail (my ISP, Demon, is going to be introducing their filtering in the New Year), they have a large number of "trigger email boxes" around the internet. If an email is sent to one of those email addresses it HAS to be spam (because the address hasn't been used anywhere for anything) and then Brightmail filters on email being similar to the "trigger" mail (no, I don't know what criteria they use). Therefore if a spammer doesn't send email to any of the Brightmail trigger boxes, then they won't be flagged as spammers.
Think about how many spammers Slashdot has "featured" and then think how many say "We don't send porno spam", but then how much of spam is "Adult stuff". I bet you most, if not all, of the spammers are lying...
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Plus if you run SSH on, say, port 283 and put a little rule in the filewall so that any attempted access to the default SSH port (22) is made, that IP address is immediately blocked from all server access for 30minutes. Anybody attempting to "port probe" to find your hidden SSH port will have to scan for a very long time...
Spammer: See,I was successful - I got you lots of potential purchasers.
Client: Yeah, but only 100 of them brought something
Spammer: True-perhaps the pricing was a bit too high/item was wrong colour. Change that and then pay me $2000 to send out another batch and we'll see how many people buy this time.
True, we're currently recruiting and the advert in the newspaper gives our email address and web site address and asks people to consult either of those for further information. Anybody that phones up, we try and get their name and put them on the "Unable to follow instructions list" (unless, of course, they've shown real cunning and ask for the MD's name or are just asking if the position is still open).
I've noticed a number of stores in the UK beginning to introduce an honour system. Basically, you are given a hand-held scanner which you (are meant to) scan your purchases with as you go round the store. Get to the checkout, hand over the scanner and your payment and just go (no need to unload, have it all scanned and repacked). Time spent at checkout: Around 1 minute. However, they do do random checks to make sure people aren't abusing it...
Ahh, Chloe Annett *drool*
Actually, you can hold an alligator's jaw shut with an elastic/rubber band. Their "opening" jaw muscles are quite weak - but their closing ones ouch!
What makes you think the user "Debian Troll's Best" is a troll?
Well, it's well known that Google and Amazon use Linux - and major hosting outfits such as EV1servers use Linux on most of their "leased" boxes: therefore to properly protect their "Intellicutal Property (sp?)", SCO's got to sue them all otherwise I'm sure Google will be able to turn around and say "Amazon was using it a lot longer then we were, Ev1server's got more machines then us: therefore you didn't take sufficient effort to protect your property anyway" and may just be able to convince the judge to make SCO sue somebody else first... I'm sure Intel's got a number of Linux machines around and I think Dell sells them as well: I can just imagine the "court diary" (Feb-Apr: SCO vs IBM, Apr-Jul: SCO vs Amazon, Jul-Oct: SCO vs Intel, Oct-Jan: SCO vs Google) - I just hope the courts get their "fees" off SCO before hand...
Agreed - I work for a web hosting company that offers "unlimited bandwidth" but our AUP/fair usage policys states that we reserve the right to terminate accounts consuming of 10Gb/month. We've had customers using around 30-60Gb/month and just asked them polietly to try and reduce the bandwidth usage for the sake of other customers. But if they start consuming 100Gb/month, then we'll seriously think about pulling the plug.
Hmm, handy way to get off a murder charge methinks ;)
Wish I could say the same thing, I haven't been able to download email from my main email address since Boxing Day - there's now 101,640 emails waiting...
Or, at least, some feedback system. Even it it's just a "bleep" from the lander every second to say "I'm alive" it'll be better than nothing because then they'll be able to say exactly when they "lost" it: if it could also send back basic telemetry (such as altitude and speed of descent and status of parachutes/air bags etc) it'll be better, sending back analysis of atmospheric gases would be perfect! Probably add a bit of weight to it though...
That's my personal "best guess theory" by the way. After all, it appears nobody knew about this crater BEFORE Beagle2 "landed/crashed", yet afterwards there's this great big crater where Beagle2 should have been....
I can see "Mission Control" (the National Space Center here in Leicester) from my window, and I can assure you that we're saying "D'oh" quite a bit (we do speak English here you know: just a little posher than you yankies! ;) )
Or just a well shielded one... Anyway, Asimov did that Politician is a human/robot story (I can't remember the title ATM), so she probably wasn't one - but saying that, I can't remember her hitting a human (although I can remember her deactivating a robot that dreamed of it's people being free...)
Any chance of letting me know how you set up a SpamAssassin POP3 proxy? I've got a server of my own with SpamAssassin on it, but the large bulk of my emails (over 30 legit ones a day) and spam (over 3000 a day) come to my ISP's mail box which is just plain POP3 with no current filtering...
This is this bit that worries me - they are confirming they DO have a relationship with Richter. Plus, if you think about it, would they decline to comment on something that doesn't exist?
From what I've heard about Brightmail (my ISP, Demon, is going to be introducing their filtering in the New Year), they have a large number of "trigger email boxes" around the internet. If an email is sent to one of those email addresses it HAS to be spam (because the address hasn't been used anywhere for anything) and then Brightmail filters on email being similar to the "trigger" mail (no, I don't know what criteria they use). Therefore if a spammer doesn't send email to any of the Brightmail trigger boxes, then they won't be flagged as spammers.
Hmm, cheese grated body *drool*
Think about how many spammers Slashdot has "featured" and then think how many say "We don't send porno spam", but then how much of spam is "Adult stuff". I bet you most, if not all, of the spammers are lying...