I'm an American who spent the past summer in China (Beijing, Shanghai, Xian), and the parent poster is perfectly correct. IMO China seemed more capitalist than the USA -- everyone there had something to sell.
I was surprised, too, by the public dial-up modem pools -- I have no idea how they track abuse issues when everone can dialup to a PPP account with the same username/password.
Similarly, Google lets me restrict a search to a particular Web site. For instance, if I include
in my query the term site:samizdat.com or in Advanced search under Domains I choose to
restrict the search to that domain, Yes, I get results only from that site. But to use that
command, I need to have additional query terms: site:samizdat.com alone generates no
results.
You can use the following workaround to do a site: search on google without any keywords. Just do "site:yoursite.com -stuff" where stuff is gibberish (bang on the keyboard a bit). For example, this search shows 1,290 pages from samizsat.com. On the other hand, an altavista search for that site shows 1,090 hits for pages on that site.
I don't know why Google doesn't allow simultaneous "site:" and "link:" searching, as that is something many users would like to do.
It's already being done. If you're interested, run one yourself -- every spam message trapped by a honeypot is a spam message that doesn't get to its recipients. Brad Madison runs one on a university VAX machine and Michael Tokarev runs one in Russia. Both are fairly heavily trafficed by spammers.
See Brad's page Fighting Relay Spam for more information on running your own SMTP relay honeypot.
See posts like this one to see that these honeypots are working.
What the FBI Doesn't Want You to See at RaisetheFi
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Raisethefist.com Raided
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· Score: 3, Informative
Professor Dave Touretzky at CMU (the guy that runs the well-known DECSS gallery, has a mirror of the previous contents of the raisethefist website here. The content for which the site was raided was apparantly the Reclaim Guide, which contains detailed instructions on defensive and offensive tactics for rioters faced with riot police.
>As much as I dislike spam, saying it is theft because it uses your resources is silly.
Besides the issue of using your resources, spam typically is sent through open SMTP relays, SOCKS or HTTP proxies (and thus the spammers are stealing other people's bandwidth to send the spam), and uses forged return-paths and from addresses, so bounces are typically directed at legitimate networks and/or mail-server HDDs. Spam runs have been documented in several cases to have overloaded companies' networks. If you were paying for bandwidth by the megabyte, a spam run with bounces to your mail servers could definitely cost you. There's definitely theft involved in spam.
I used the internet in Beijing over the summer (over several dialup lines and an ISDN line), and had no problems viewing websites like CNN, Voodoo Extreme, AnandTech, or Astalavista, or telnetting to my university's server.
I wouldn't trust this too much -- none of the people working on this project appear to be regulars of NANAE. I'd go with DCC over this product -- they seem to do the same thing, and DCC is an already-established project.
I see lots of people posting comments like "I can't wait until there's AOL for Linux". Well, there was an internal AOL project called Gamera which was a Linux-based AOL client (for Gateway's branded "Instant AOL" internet appliance). The program was leaked, and copies are floating around. Here's some info on Gamera:
http://www.observers.net/gamera/
If you can't run this program on your box of choice, here's a shot of the startup screen. Note the "Because it's there" motto. Is this the product of a responsible company?
JPEG Image 540x313 pixels
Their website appears to be totally hosed, plus I couldn't even get their AutoInstaller to work. I managed to download the setup files from the site, so I zipped them up; you may download them here:
At CMU, our operating systems class writes a kernel called Yalnix. It's a user-mode Solaris implementation, and we're provided a codebase to work from -- we're basically responsible for implementing the kernel call API, the scheduler, and the memory manager. Details available here.
Here are some mirrors I've put up, served up fresh and hot from the NCNE GigaPOP at CMU: (file renamed to.tar.gz from.tgz so that web servers serve it up in binary mode for you windows people)
Speaking of "wank-o-matic", there used to be free rotating porn at the pr0n-0-matic at http://auto.pron.org/, but they've apparently changed the pictures in their database to more... appropriate ones. Still a funny site, though. It used to be run by some CMU people -- check out the "development team" to see some fun being poked at the MIT Wearable Computing Team.
A similar setup exists (with a very interesting photo database) at http://www.stileproject.com/rnd/index.php3 . Oh, I should warn you -- don't go to that link unless you're seriously deranged.
Hmm.. I have heard of the bible, but I've not heard of this football team. And WIPO seems to think the team, with a commercial interest, should more properly have rights to the domain name? Seems a bit fishy to me -- can we all expect our domain names to go to the highest bidder?
Many DNS zones have localhost entries - for example, localhost.snet.net, localhost.callnet.com, localhost.nai.net, and localhost.iconn.com all resolve to 127.0.0.1. Emails to root@localhost.snet.net, for example, will go to the administrator of your local system, or will bounce if you're not running a mail service on port 25.
This might be slightly off-topic, but since so many of us are plagued by spam, I should probably bring it up. I use SpamCop (http://www.spamcop.net/) to filter my e-mail, and it works very well. It's a great tool to send reports to the system administrators of systems which send out spam, and by sending spam reports you help to close down spammers' accounts.
Slashdot Mirror
I get redirected to http://www.tiaonline.org/browser_error.cfm.
Browser Requirement Error
To view this site you need a browser capable of suppporting HTML 4 or higher.
Download Microsoft Internet Explorer
(recommended)
OR
Download Netscape Navigator
I'm an American who spent the past summer in China (Beijing, Shanghai, Xian), and the parent poster is perfectly correct. IMO China seemed more capitalist than the USA -- everyone there had something to sell.
I was surprised, too, by the public dial-up modem pools -- I have no idea how they track abuse issues when everone can dialup to a PPP account with the same username/password.
Seems to be slashdotted... Mirrors/cached copies anyone?
This page is full of javascripts and style sheets, so I can imagine anybody not running IE 5 is going to have trouble. (Sorry!)
:)
Worked wonderfully for me using Opera 6.01 under WinXP, and Opera 6.0 under Linux. No IE here
You should really use me@privacy.net as an address for this purpose. See http://www.privacy.net/email/.
It does. Demonstration [google.com] You just can't do it from the advanced search page, you have to (gasp!) type it into the box yourself
Nope, not really -- I tried that too. It just treats "+link:samizdat.com" as the search phrase "link samizdat.com".
Similarly, Google lets me restrict a search to a particular Web site. For instance, if I include in my query the term site:samizdat.com or in Advanced search under Domains I choose to restrict the search to that domain, Yes, I get results only from that site. But to use that command, I need to have additional query terms: site:samizdat.com alone generates no results.
You can use the following workaround to do a site: search on google without any keywords. Just do "site:yoursite.com -stuff" where stuff is gibberish (bang on the keyboard a bit). For example, this search shows 1,290 pages from samizsat.com. On the other hand, an altavista search for that site shows 1,090 hits for pages on that site.
I don't know why Google doesn't allow simultaneous "site:" and "link:" searching, as that is something many users would like to do.
It's already being done. If you're interested, run one yourself -- every spam message trapped by a honeypot is a spam message that doesn't get to its recipients. Brad Madison runs one on a university VAX machine and Michael Tokarev runs one in Russia. Both are fairly heavily trafficed by spammers.
See Brad's page Fighting Relay Spam for more information on running your own SMTP relay honeypot.
See posts like this one to see that these honeypots are working.
Professor Dave Touretzky at CMU (the guy that runs the well-known DECSS gallery, has a mirror of the previous contents of the raisethefist website here. The content for which the site was raided was apparantly the Reclaim Guide, which contains detailed instructions on defensive and offensive tactics for rioters faced with riot police.
>As much as I dislike spam, saying it is theft because it uses your resources is silly.
Besides the issue of using your resources, spam typically is sent through open SMTP relays, SOCKS or HTTP proxies (and thus the spammers are stealing other people's bandwidth to send the spam), and uses forged return-paths and from addresses, so bounces are typically directed at legitimate networks and/or mail-server HDDs. Spam runs have been documented in several cases to have overloaded companies' networks. If you were paying for bandwidth by the megabyte, a spam run with bounces to your mail servers could definitely cost you. There's definitely theft involved in spam.
> I'm moving in the summer, hopefully it'll hold out until then, after which I plan on switching to Earthlink.
Earthlink is owned by Scientologists... Are you sure you want to switch to them?
I used the internet in Beijing over the summer (over several dialup lines and an ISDN line), and had no problems viewing websites like CNN, Voodoo Extreme, AnandTech, or Astalavista, or telnetting to my university's server.
Here's the direct download URLs, so you don't have to wade through MS's crufty site:
c 23/6/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/q313675.exe c pac23/5.5_SP2/WIN98Me/EN-US/q313675.exe
for IE6:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/IE60/secpa
for IE5.5:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie55sp2/se
These updates have not yet appeared on Windows Update.
I wouldn't trust this too much -- none of the people working on this project appear to be regulars of NANAE. I'd go with DCC over this product -- they seem to do the same thing, and DCC is an already-established project.
> On windows, moz is FAST, and getting faster
Not on my system! Mozilla is many times slower than IE or NS4 on my WinXP machine (and was under Win2K before I upgraded)...
I see lots of people posting comments like "I can't wait until there's AOL for Linux". Well, there was an internal AOL project called Gamera which was a Linux-based AOL client (for Gateway's branded "Instant AOL" internet appliance). The program was leaked, and copies are floating around. Here's some info on Gamera: http://www.observers.net/gamera/
If you can't run this program on your box of choice, here's a shot of the startup screen. Note the "Because it's there" motto. Is this the product of a responsible company? JPEG Image 540x313 pixels
Their website appears to be totally hosed, plus I couldn't even get their AutoInstaller to work. I managed to download the setup files from the site, so I zipped them up; you may download them here:
http://reptilian.res.cmu.edu/ShareSniffer.zip
Apparently, the software won't run if it can't contact their website, but here it is anyway. Enjoy!
At CMU, our operating systems class writes a kernel called Yalnix. It's a user-mode Solaris implementation, and we're provided a codebase to work from -- we're basically responsible for implementing the kernel call API, the scheduler, and the memory manager. Details available here.
Err... that should be Emmanuel Goldstein.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/andrew/usr7/nstrom/www/s tuff/beta.tar.gz g z e ta.tar.gz
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~nstrom/stuff/beta.tar.
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~nstrom/stuff/b
Enjoy!
A similar setup exists (with a very interesting photo database) at http://www.stileproject.com/rnd/index.php3 . Oh, I should warn you -- don't go to that link unless you're seriously deranged.
FYI, the official web page of the football team is at http://www.corinthians.com.br/
Many DNS zones have localhost entries - for example, localhost.snet.net, localhost.callnet.com, localhost.nai.net, and localhost.iconn.com all resolve to 127.0.0.1. Emails to root@localhost.snet.net, for example, will go to the administrator of your local system, or will bounce if you're not running a mail service on port 25.
This might be slightly off-topic, but since so many of us are plagued by spam, I should probably bring it up. I use SpamCop (http://www.spamcop.net/) to filter my e-mail, and it works very well. It's a great tool to send reports to the system administrators of systems which send out spam, and by sending spam reports you help to close down spammers' accounts.