I'm talking about the border firewall though. Like if I have an OpenBSD box running pf, what kind of filter rules can I put in place to effectively block XP from phoning home?
I don't have any XP in my shop, and in an ideal world I won't, but this being the real world I suspect someone will sneak it in or it may come bundled with an integrated solution.
That said, has anyone run a sniffer in front of an XP system to decode how it phones home? I'm wondering what kind of ruleset I might be able to put on my firewall to keep them OUT of my network.
What do you have against the GPL, and why do you avoid using it in your own product?
As a related observation, I feel that an about-face on your policy would be in order considering the relative popularity of pure open source distros in the US compared to your own. Any commentary on that observation would be welcome.
My domain is on a shared Linux host at CI Host. For over one week now, starting August 2, my domain has been totally useless to me. I couldn't log in to update my content. I couldn't recieve email on the domain POP3 box. I couldn't log in with a POP3 client to download any mail that did sneak through. All this went on for over a week. I would call up on the phone and stay on hold forever... a couple of times I would get clueless technicians that would just say "It's the Code Red virus... our administrators are aware of the problem and will have it fixed as soon as possible". OK I gave them some time to get it fixed because half the internet was having problems with this. But then I noticed everyone else was getting better, and CI Host was still down (except their own www.cihost.com site, which was still aggressively selling service to new customers). I would open up online trouble tickets with them, only to have them get closed without resolution. I re-opened and escalated a couple of times and finally early this morning they took my server down to perform some kind of unknown maintenance and when it came back up it was running better than it EVER had before in the 2+ years I've been with them.
If anyone is thinking of using CI Host, let me tell you THEY SUCK. About twice a year something major like this happens where I'm down for a week or more. In December of 1999 I went down for almost a whole month (their press releases will tell you it was a much shorter time than this but that is BULLSHIT).
I'm looking at maybe switching to PrimeMaster Online (http://www.primemaster.com). Anyone here have experience with them?
Back in the BBS days I was known as Reverend Warthog Vomitone and had a lot of creative input into the gameplay of such classics as BarneySplat! and Ballsniffer's Casino.
So far, the lawyers haven't tracked me down for a game I haven't touched in about 7 or 8 years but I'll be sure to urinate on the letter when it arrives.
Who needs Mozilla? Red Hat 7.1 ships with a very very nice browser called Konqueror. It's blazingly fast and so far more stable for me than either Mozilla or Netscape.
...ESR didn't say that MICROSOFT was going to collapse. He said that their MONOPOLY would collapse. In other words, they would have to compete on more equal ground. Given how many people read your editorializing, I think it is important to make that distinction in your comments.
If I were a student today, I would be protesting the artificially high cost of required texts. This is one of the single biggest costs of education today.
If schools are going to start requiring the use of laptops, I think they can offset the cost of textbooks by also funding the development of electronic textbooks that are owned by the school and don't require a license fee if you are a student.
Better yet, release the textbook under an open source license and encourage other universities to embrace and extend the texts under a compatible license.
I think this would be an excellent use of state monies (paying grad students to write the texts, and professors to edit & review). It would have the effect of reducing the continuing costs of education, and make the $2,000 laptop a much easier pill to swallow.
At about 5:45am PST, our web server was brought down by a veritable tsunami of
hits.
We ask your patience while our best people are reconfiguring the server and
bringing her back up; we are working as quickly as possible and we will keep
all openoffice.org community members apprised of the situation via our general
discuss and announce lists.
I was going to email you directly but your email address is not readily available. Hope you read this followup.
The machines are custom-rolled by http://www.intrex.com, a vendor local to the Triangle region of North Carolina. We've been very impressed with their performance.
So if you want to criticise us for shipping gcc 2.96, you have every right to do so - you'd be wrong, but it is at least a legitimate debate and I'd respect your opinion.
Bob I know you have a better sense of humor than most execs so I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt on this. But if it wasn't meant as humor, it sure comes off as awfully arrogant. Repeat after me: "The customer is always right." This is something your competitors have forgotten.
Since you're a local, you ought to come out to a TriLUG meeting sometime and meet your customers. It's a pretty good cross section of sysadmins, managers, casual users, engineers, teachers, students, etc. The relationship with Red Hat and TriLUG could probably use some help right about now anyway.
I expect to see a computer with gigabytes of ram on my desk in a few years.
What?!? In a few years? How about today?
We are buying 1GHz Thunderbird machines with 1GB of SDRAM for $2500 ea. And that's in a rackmount chassis. Put it in a regular desktop case and use the savings to get an AGP video card and LVD SCSI hard disk.
A fork isn't all that bad an idea, but it should be more of a coup by people who are more interested in seeing Linux grow.
It is silly that every time a new kernel gets installed, I have to patch it with MOSIX before I compile. Why can't MOSIX code just be included and compiled in with a switch set in my Makefile?
Heheheh just wait until the first consumer devices roll out with BOPS DSP Core in an ARM processor. That will truely be/. worthy. Amazing the popular tech press hasn't been all over this story considering these are leaps and bounds ahead of current DSP technology, but it is not vaporware as there is working silicon!
Without 802.11 this thing is pretty much useless to myself and most of my colleagues. It's not fast, but it works perfectly well. Why aren't they supporting it?
Actually they can control much more than you can possibly imagine. I used to work for the very big vendor that they bought most of their software from, and was somewhat responsible for handling change requests for their software (what Deutsche Telekom wanted, Deutsche Telekom got). So if you can conceive of it, and they think it is worthwhile, it'll be done.
I hope they don't go for a patent. The technology was concieved of and documented by John the Revalator (via divine inspiration) nearly 2000 years ago. Check it out:
He required everyone - great and small, rich and poor, slave and free - to be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead. And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name. -Revelation 13:16-17
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I never heard of it before now.
I'm talking about the border firewall though. Like if I have an OpenBSD box running pf, what kind of filter rules can I put in place to effectively block XP from phoning home?
I don't have any XP in my shop, and in an ideal world I won't, but this being the real world I suspect someone will sneak it in or it may come bundled with an integrated solution.
That said, has anyone run a sniffer in front of an XP system to decode how it phones home? I'm wondering what kind of ruleset I might be able to put on my firewall to keep them OUT of my network.
I'll be brief.
What do you have against the GPL, and why do you avoid using it in your own product?
As a related observation, I feel that an about-face on your policy would be in order considering the relative popularity of pure open source distros in the US compared to your own. Any commentary on that observation would be welcome.
A quick check shows that IP is running Windoze.
...hybridizing different bee species in south america. We all know how well that little experiment went.
Life will find a way.
My domain is on a shared Linux host at CI Host. For over one week now, starting August 2, my domain has been totally useless to me. I couldn't log in to update my content. I couldn't recieve email on the domain POP3 box. I couldn't log in with a POP3 client to download any mail that did sneak through. All this went on for over a week. I would call up on the phone and stay on hold forever... a couple of times I would get clueless technicians that would just say "It's the Code Red virus... our administrators are aware of the problem and will have it fixed as soon as possible". OK I gave them some time to get it fixed because half the internet was having problems with this. But then I noticed everyone else was getting better, and CI Host was still down (except their own www.cihost.com site, which was still aggressively selling service to new customers). I would open up online trouble tickets with them, only to have them get closed without resolution. I re-opened and escalated a couple of times and finally early this morning they took my server down to perform some kind of unknown maintenance and when it came back up it was running better than it EVER had before in the 2+ years I've been with them.
If anyone is thinking of using CI Host, let me tell you THEY SUCK. About twice a year something major like this happens where I'm down for a week or more. In December of 1999 I went down for almost a whole month (their press releases will tell you it was a much shorter time than this but that is BULLSHIT).
I'm looking at maybe switching to PrimeMaster Online (http://www.primemaster.com). Anyone here have experience with them?
Back in the BBS days I was known as Reverend Warthog Vomitone and had a lot of creative input into the gameplay of such classics as BarneySplat! and Ballsniffer's Casino.
So far, the lawyers haven't tracked me down for a game I haven't touched in about 7 or 8 years but I'll be sure to urinate on the letter when it arrives.
Who needs Mozilla? Red Hat 7.1 ships with a very very nice browser called Konqueror. It's blazingly fast and so far more stable for me than either Mozilla or Netscape.
...ESR didn't say that MICROSOFT was going to collapse. He said that their MONOPOLY would collapse. In other words, they would have to compete on more equal ground. Given how many people read your editorializing, I think it is important to make that distinction in your comments.
If I were a student today, I would be protesting the artificially high cost of required texts. This is one of the single biggest costs of education today.
If schools are going to start requiring the use of laptops, I think they can offset the cost of textbooks by also funding the development of electronic textbooks that are owned by the school and don't require a license fee if you are a student.
Better yet, release the textbook under an open source license and encourage other universities to embrace and extend the texts under a compatible license.
I think this would be an excellent use of state monies (paying grad students to write the texts, and professors to edit & review). It would have the effect of reducing the continuing costs of education, and make the $2,000 laptop a much easier pill to swallow.
Only a handful of large public campuses, such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, require students to use laptops.
Since when? My wife just graduated this year and had no such requirement.
At about 5:45am PST, our web server was brought down by a veritable tsunami of
hits.
We ask your patience while our best people are reconfiguring the server and
bringing her back up; we are working as quickly as possible and we will keep
all openoffice.org community members apprised of the situation via our general
discuss and announce lists.
$2500 is a very normal price for a desktop machine. I paid more than that for a Pentium 60MHz machine back in 1993. What's the big problem?
I was going to email you directly but your email address is not readily available. Hope you read this followup.
The machines are custom-rolled by http://www.intrex.com, a vendor local to the Triangle region of North Carolina. We've been very impressed with their performance.
The article (being a draft) forbids quoting without permission
Go ahead, have at it. In the U.S. anyway it is called "fair use".
So if you want to criticise us for shipping gcc 2.96, you have every right to do so - you'd be wrong, but it is at least a legitimate debate and I'd respect your opinion.
Bob I know you have a better sense of humor than most execs so I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt on this. But if it wasn't meant as humor, it sure comes off as awfully arrogant. Repeat after me: "The customer is always right." This is something your competitors have forgotten.
Since you're a local, you ought to come out to a TriLUG meeting sometime and meet your customers. It's a pretty good cross section of sysadmins, managers, casual users, engineers, teachers, students, etc. The relationship with Red Hat and TriLUG could probably use some help right about now anyway.
I expect to see a computer with gigabytes of ram on my desk in a few years.
What?!? In a few years? How about today?
We are buying 1GHz Thunderbird machines with 1GB of SDRAM for $2500 ea. And that's in a rackmount chassis. Put it in a regular desktop case and use the savings to get an AGP video card and LVD SCSI hard disk.
A fork isn't all that bad an idea, but it should be more of a coup by people who are more interested in seeing Linux grow.
It is silly that every time a new kernel gets installed, I have to patch it with MOSIX before I compile. Why can't MOSIX code just be included and compiled in with a switch set in my Makefile?
Best Buy is carding people when buying games like Soldier of Fortune (at least their Durham, NC store is).
But is this such a bad thing?
Heheheh just wait until the first consumer devices roll out with BOPS DSP Core in an ARM processor. That will truely be /. worthy. Amazing the popular tech press hasn't been all over this story considering these are leaps and bounds ahead of current DSP technology, but it is not vaporware as there is working silicon!
The linked web site makes no mention of AFS, and typing "AFS" into the search field for the site reveals nothing.
Where's the beef?
Without 802.11 this thing is pretty much useless to myself and most of my colleagues. It's not fast, but it works perfectly well. Why aren't they supporting it?
Actually they can control much more than you can possibly imagine. I used to work for the very big vendor that they bought most of their software from, and was somewhat responsible for handling change requests for their software (what Deutsche Telekom wanted, Deutsche Telekom got). So if you can conceive of it, and they think it is worthwhile, it'll be done.
I hope they don't go for a patent. The technology was concieved of and documented by John the Revalator (via divine inspiration) nearly 2000 years ago. Check it out:
He required everyone - great and small, rich and poor, slave and free - to be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead. And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name.
-Revelation 13:16-17