... which fits right in with my visit to Tokyo last year.
We can seperate this out from advertisments though, truly a modern scourge. This is about communications between individuals... it would save you having to go visit your mum so much when you could send her a piccy of yourself instead.
Saying that, it's not exactly a good advert for inter-family relationships then, so I see your point!
And you're not seriously suggesting on slashdot that streetside pr0n is a bad thing?!;-)
There's nothing like having some loser describing to you how quickly he can make his 1.6L Honda Civic go.
Imagine if you owned a Cray supercomputer and some child implied that his "tuned" 400MHz Celeron was in the same ballpark.
You are a complete loser. I should expect as much.
Comparing your piece of crap US-built 1950s engine design to a modern piece of Jap engineering is not about comparing an overclocked PC to a Cray.... it's like comparing an overclocked PC to a 1950s IBM mainframe.
My Honda Integra Type R manages about three-four times the power of your big-iron block at the same rev range, not to mention around the same torque.
it will happilly chew up 99.99% of American cars in a straight line, but we won't even talk about what happens in the corners (which we have here in Europe)
To the moderators who gave this guy +4 shame on you... it's a pure and simple troll.
While 56K seems awfull slow, if anyone here has spent time in a mainframe data centre you will remember that there is a lot of legacy kit out there which is still performing usefull work.
Many old terminal-to-cpu systems use 9Kb links to transmit banking counter terminals to the host machines, etc.
In this case it would be trivial to decode the un-encrypted info they contain.
It is already a ludicrous idea not to have blacked-out blastproof covers on datacentre windows (for disaster reasons), but if a wake-up call is required then hopefully this is it!
You've either been smokin crack or have obviously never played either a Sega arcade game or a Dreamcast. The Dreamcast graphics are still almost a match for a PS2 and developers used to enjoy coding for it, as it was so easy and geared towards them.
Sega don't have a good record in MARKETING. But that's different.
Sony are the MS of the console world: they killed the Dreamcast through FUD.
Arcade games usually have extreme controllers, but many of them were sucessfully ported to many different home consoles, so that's another fallacy.
In November 2000 I spent 1 month in Hong Kong sorting out the Spam problems one of the largest ISPs was having, in my job as security consultant.
The situation was dreadfull, with no abuse department and no way of detecting/stopping abusing customers, or even stopping customers being abused.
I killed 99% of the Spam by warning all customers we were testing for open relays, and offering to actually help them if they didn't know.
I then spent 2 weeks trying to configure about 30 different mail servers I had never even heard of, and one which didn't even return 1 result on Google!!
We got there in the end, especially once we firewalled port 25 for those customers who didn't want to listed.
The next step was to write belt-and-braces Terms of Service for the client and ensure the abuse@isp address was checked and actioned on a daily basis by a full-time member of staff. If abuse went unchecked, then we pulled the plug on the customer and banned them from coming back, or we'd prosecute (sometimes tricky in HK)
I *always* check who sends me spam, and I'm pleased to say none has originated from that ISP since I did my work there.
We tried to re-sell the solution to all other ISPs in the region, but they didn't bite due to a) expensive consultant fees, and b) not really caring.
I pointed out they were large ISPs who fully deserved their.net addresses, but were rapidly losing face amongst their peers for continuing to ignore the problems. *sigh*
I'm going to take a stab that you are American here.
If you lived in one of the countries shafted by Soros and his fellow currency speculators you may have a left rosy opinion. How many homes in the UK were re-possessed after our currency crashed in the early 90s and interest rates shot up for the next 5 years?
In fact your comments sicken me. It's rare that has happened on slashdot.
I'm sure the free software movement would generally be appalled by the support of someone like this.... it's everything that's wrong with capatalism and globalisation!
If you enter it into a turnstile and you and a friend squeeze through? If you buy a ticket most days, but not today, and climb over the turnstile?
Giving your day ticket to someone else once you have finished is re-selling a service you have bought a right to, which may be prohibited, but does not lose the company any more money, as you were entitled to use it anyway.
Jumping the barrier or squeezing two through is a theft of their service, as you have avoided paying!
Anyway: I always give my ticket to one of the homeless, if they manage to flog it for a quid good on them!
I've been trying to convince them that 'proper' email is text only, and attachments if you are completely ftp-impaired but to no avail. They seem to insist on 200Mb attachments (sent to 30 other users no less...)
Get with it!
Information Technology exists to serve the needs of users, not the other way around.
If your users want to send 300Mb attachments to each other then propose to them the infrastructure and funding requirements of such a platform rather than shouting "ftp!" to their hands (because sure as hell the face ain't listening).
There is a massive gap between what most sys admins think of themselves and what their userbase actually thinks of them. This is a dangerous place to be in, and no amount of name calling will change their attitude.
Deliver what the users want within reasonable expectations and the prospect of a career *not* sitting in the wiring cupboard beckons, with all the rewards that can come (CTO anyone?!)...
Considering the parent to this post was marked "intersting", I think "paranoid" would be a more accurate description.
If you are blinkered enough to follow the mighty chipzilla instead of AMD in 2001 for desktop performance then you need to smell the coffee or at least try a fair comparison.
Yes, your P4-optomised build of the kernel will scream, but when I go out and buy 3d tools to run on top of a micro$haft operating system I can't just go recompiling the application to fit the specific hardware it's running on, and that usually means it's much faster on an Athlon by default.
And Athlon-based systems should be *much* cheaper than their Intel counterparts... if not then your PC manufacturers are shafting you.
The sooner people start realising the desktop processor market is about more than Intel then the sooner people may be ready to consider more than one desktop operating system... it's the same FUD that holds people back.
It's in the process, stoopid
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Installing and monitoring a large-scale IDS installation is a complex and involved process which is not simple!
Snort may be cheap and easy to install, but many corporations buy IDS on the strength of the management and reporting capability.
One of my clients went with Cisco Netranger IDS because it offers excellent Monitoring screens that are then staffed by a 24/7 response unit waiting for alerts on the border/dmz/back office networks. It then made it straightforward to sit semi-skilled staff in front of the consoles to monitor activity and alert a skilled technician (i.e. me in this case) if an amber or red warning occurred.
While Snort may be free, you would have to roll your own management stations (though I guess someone has done this), and thus management costs creep in.
PleasePleasePlease remember software costs are rarely in the price... it's the process and management of deployment and operational running that costs the earth!
DANGER: I'm not flaming snort, I just haven't had to chance to try and scale it up into an enterprise-type situation.
Excellent IDS-related site
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· Score: 4, Informative
Check this out for full info on a whole range of IDS systems... hardware & software.
Network Intrusion ran by some guy who is extremely helpfull on the Security Focus IDS mailing list.
The.COM "boom" and the associated bust was a gold rush, plain and simple
Well in the UK we're just about to finish the process of removing well nigh all Telco and Tech stocks from our FTSE100 Stock Exchange measurement.
This will stop the market going up and down like a Yo-Yo, and inspire small investors to keep some faith in their investments.
I'd like to take every Boo! backer, and stupid Venture Capatalist that started this mess and show them the misery caused by a recession. We're suffering badly in the UK and we're no worse off than anyone else.
We "do" open source because it's a better development model - the end product is stronger
I'd say this is a rare exception rather than the rule. Don't confuse the world of commercial software with IIS.
There is no evidence "more and more" critical systems run on Open Source... a press release about Linux being deployed as the OS for a messaging system on the NYSE does not mean everything is going that way.
Mozilla is around the biggest Open Source project I can think of: where the hell is it going? It has no focus!
Apart from a few evangalistic & talented individuals I think most Open Source projects are started by relatively young hackers who want to develop their coding skills and try and write an application they feel would better their lives or their workstation.
I spent months of my free time trying to hack together a personal organiser/scheduler that could cope with my busy life before I gave up, sold my Amiga, and moved to a more modern platform. I must have started 100 different "projects" that I would be ashamed ever to show anyone *grin*
In my old days as a developer I worked with a guy who contributed a significant account to XEmacs and he done it because he was a power-user who was talented enough to be able to code in Lisp, and he felt compelled to help as he relied on Emacs for coding commercial apps. People like this are few and far between, and few have the comittment and long-term motivation required to take development through to completion, unless they are working in a paid, competitive environment with real customers, deliverables, and deadlines.
The problem is that not enough people band together, start a (semi) formal development programme with solid requirements, and then code/test it to completion... I'm sure Source Forge is littered with thousands of "Version 0.001" releases that will never make it to the actually useful stage.
This comment, from one of the people quoted in the article: I'm really think twice before going offline for two weeks again, especially when I get a real job.... is absolutely ludicrous! Use Out of Office reply for gawds sake.
People have to start taking responsibility for their own actions and life... it's not all a bed of roses. Desk telephones were just as anoying before e-mail became as widespread, and in some ways e-mail is easier to manage because you can ignore the crap. Until you pick up a ringing phone you do not (generally) know what the subject matter is, and if it has a higher priority than your current task.
I do think however, that it would be nice in a mail client to know whether a message was:
Sent directly to you, CC'd, or as part of a mass-mail before actually reading it. Outlook can't do it, so that's me stuffed;-)
Disclaimer: I know it can be set up using Rules, I just can't be bothered.
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just like there is no motivation for France, Germany, Japan, UK, Brazil or a few others with nukes to attack the West).
At which point did these fine European nations drop out of "The West". Before the USA we were "The West".
Typical American assh*le syndrome. Where's a moderator when you need one?
... which fits right in with my visit to Tokyo last year.
... it would save you having to go visit your mum so much when you could send her a piccy of yourself instead.
;-)
We can seperate this out from advertisments though, truly a modern scourge. This is about communications between individuals
Saying that, it's not exactly a good advert for inter-family relationships then, so I see your point!
And you're not seriously suggesting on slashdot that streetside pr0n is a bad thing?!
Sorry, if it approaches Spain all the Air Traffic Controllers will be on strike!
How many people said this about SMS messaging?
Now almost everyone with a phone in the UK uses it, and the advertisements are now gearing us up for sending picture messages.
A camera built into the phone so you can instantly send it to a friend? I kinda like the sound of it!
The expense will come down (it always does) and we'll forget what life was like before it all arrived (it always happens).
If you need to go and live in the woods, sure, but you were probably saying that when they invented the TV, so what's new?
Encryption doesn't solve anything if the method of opening the address book is the point of failure.
;-)
i.e. the virus doesn't raw-read the address file, it uses the Outlook API to look it up on it's behalf, just like any other program.
Hence, the fact the address book file is now encrypted does not stop the virus using it.
You dig?
.. in that case we'd be seeing far more in Greenock than I've ever seen!
;-)
And the next person on here to say "Scotch" rather than "Whisky" is getting my toe up their arse, as we say in Scotland
God no ... we don't really have the AOL-TW thing in the UK.
We have BBC vs Channel 4, that's no bad thing.
I just hope you have Sky Digital and not ITV Digital!
This should not be about using Passport to grant access to public services, it's about having a mechanism to access public services.
I'm a UK citizen, and we live under the shadow of the beast here with the UK government gateway being developed by/with Microsoft, so I have sympathy.
However we will need to access government services online, and we need to do it somehow.
I'm not suggesting we use Passport (christ no!), but we will need to use something!
There's nothing like having some loser describing to you how quickly he can make his 1.6L Honda Civic go.
.... it's like comparing an overclocked PC to a 1950s IBM mainframe.
... it's a pure and simple troll.
Imagine if you owned a Cray supercomputer and some child implied that his "tuned" 400MHz Celeron was in the same ballpark.
You are a complete loser. I should expect as much.
Comparing your piece of crap US-built 1950s engine design to a modern piece of Jap engineering is not about comparing an overclocked PC to a Cray
My Honda Integra Type R manages about three-four times the power of your big-iron block at the same rev range, not to mention around the same torque.
it will happilly chew up 99.99% of American cars in a straight line, but we won't even talk about what happens in the corners (which we have here in Europe)
To the moderators who gave this guy +4 shame on you
While 56K seems awfull slow, if anyone here has spent time in a mainframe data centre you will remember that there is a lot of legacy kit out there which is still performing usefull work.
Many old terminal-to-cpu systems use 9Kb links to transmit banking counter terminals to the host machines, etc.
In this case it would be trivial to decode the un-encrypted info they contain.
It is already a ludicrous idea not to have blacked-out blastproof covers on datacentre windows (for disaster reasons), but if a wake-up call is required then hopefully this is it!
Sega has a horrible track record with Hardware?
You've either been smokin crack or have obviously never played either a Sega arcade game or a Dreamcast. The Dreamcast graphics are still almost a match for a PS2 and developers used to enjoy coding for it, as it was so easy and geared towards them.
Sega don't have a good record in MARKETING. But that's different.
Sony are the MS of the console world: they killed the Dreamcast through FUD.
Arcade games usually have extreme controllers, but many of them were sucessfully ported to many different home consoles, so that's another fallacy.
In November 2000 I spent 1 month in Hong Kong sorting out the Spam problems one of the largest ISPs was having, in my job as security consultant.
.net addresses, but were rapidly losing face amongst their peers for continuing to ignore the problems. *sigh*
The situation was dreadfull, with no abuse department and no way of detecting/stopping abusing customers, or even stopping customers being abused.
I killed 99% of the Spam by warning all customers we were testing for open relays, and offering to actually help them if they didn't know.
I then spent 2 weeks trying to configure about 30 different mail servers I had never even heard of, and one which didn't even return 1 result on Google!!
We got there in the end, especially once we firewalled port 25 for those customers who didn't want to listed.
The next step was to write belt-and-braces Terms of Service for the client and ensure the abuse@isp address was checked and actioned on a daily basis by a full-time member of staff. If abuse went unchecked, then we pulled the plug on the customer and banned them from coming back, or we'd prosecute (sometimes tricky in HK)
I *always* check who sends me spam, and I'm pleased to say none has originated from that ISP since I did my work there.
We tried to re-sell the solution to all other ISPs in the region, but they didn't bite due to a) expensive consultant fees, and b) not really caring.
I pointed out they were large ISPs who fully deserved their
I'm going to take a stab that you are American here.
.... it's everything that's wrong with capatalism and globalisation!
If you lived in one of the countries shafted by Soros and his fellow currency speculators you may have a left rosy opinion. How many homes in the UK were re-possessed after our currency crashed in the early 90s and interest rates shot up for the next 5 years?
In fact your comments sicken me. It's rare that has happened on slashdot.
I'm sure the free software movement would generally be appalled by the support of someone like this
If you enter it into a turnstile and you and a friend squeeze through? If you buy a ticket most days, but not today, and climb over the turnstile?
Giving your day ticket to someone else once you have finished is re-selling a service you have bought a right to, which may be prohibited, but does not lose the company any more money, as you were entitled to use it anyway.
Jumping the barrier or squeezing two through is a theft of their service, as you have avoided paying!
Anyway: I always give my ticket to one of the homeless, if they manage to flog it for a quid good on them!
Surely it's "Lithp"?
;-)
Yeah Yeah Yeah I know it's poor too
Oh wait, he's still too scared to fly never mind get on some hacked-up spaceship!
I've been trying to convince them that 'proper' email is text only, and attachments if you are completely ftp-impaired but to no avail. They seem to insist on 200Mb attachments (sent to 30 other users no less...)
Get with it!
Information Technology exists to serve the needs of users, not the other way around.
If your users want to send 300Mb attachments to each other then propose to them the infrastructure and funding requirements of such a platform rather than shouting "ftp!" to their hands (because sure as hell the face ain't listening).
There is a massive gap between what most sys admins think of themselves and what their userbase actually thinks of them. This is a dangerous place to be in, and no amount of name calling will change their attitude.
Deliver what the users want within reasonable expectations and the prospect of a career *not* sitting in the wiring cupboard beckons, with all the rewards that can come (CTO anyone?!)...
Considering the parent to this post was marked "intersting", I think "paranoid" would be a more accurate description.
... if not then your PC manufacturers are shafting you.
... it's the same FUD that holds people back.
If you are blinkered enough to follow the mighty chipzilla instead of AMD in 2001 for desktop performance then you need to smell the coffee or at least try a fair comparison.
Yes, your P4-optomised build of the kernel will scream, but when I go out and buy 3d tools to run on top of a micro$haft operating system I can't just go recompiling the application to fit the specific hardware it's running on, and that usually means it's much faster on an Athlon by default.
And Athlon-based systems should be *much* cheaper than their Intel counterparts
The sooner people start realising the desktop processor market is about more than Intel then the sooner people may be ready to consider more than one desktop operating system
Installing and monitoring a large-scale IDS installation is a complex and involved process which is not simple!
... it's the process and management of deployment and operational running that costs the earth!
Snort may be cheap and easy to install, but many corporations buy IDS on the strength of the management and reporting capability.
One of my clients went with Cisco Netranger IDS because it offers excellent Monitoring screens that are then staffed by a 24/7 response unit waiting for alerts on the border/dmz/back office networks. It then made it straightforward to sit semi-skilled staff in front of the consoles to monitor activity and alert a skilled technician (i.e. me in this case) if an amber or red warning occurred.
While Snort may be free, you would have to roll your own management stations (though I guess someone has done this), and thus management costs creep in.
PleasePleasePlease remember software costs are rarely in the price
DANGER: I'm not flaming snort, I just haven't had to chance to try and scale it up into an enterprise-type situation.
Check this out for full info on a whole range of IDS systems ... hardware & software.
Network Intrusion ran by some guy who is extremely helpfull on the Security Focus IDS mailing list.
The .COM "boom" and the associated bust was a gold rush, plain and simple
Well in the UK we're just about to finish the process of removing well nigh all Telco and Tech stocks from our FTSE100 Stock Exchange measurement.
This will stop the market going up and down like a Yo-Yo, and inspire small investors to keep some faith in their investments.
I'd like to take every Boo! backer, and stupid Venture Capatalist that started this mess and show them the misery caused by a recession. We're suffering badly in the UK and we're no worse off than anyone else.
We "do" open source because it's a better development model - the end product is stronger
... a press release about Linux being deployed as the OS for a messaging system on the NYSE does not mean everything is going that way.
I'd say this is a rare exception rather than the rule. Don't confuse the world of commercial software with IIS.
There is no evidence "more and more" critical systems run on Open Source
Mozilla is around the biggest Open Source project I can think of: where the hell is it going? It has no focus!
Apart from a few evangalistic & talented individuals I think most Open Source projects are started by relatively young hackers who want to develop their coding skills and try and write an application they feel would better their lives or their workstation.
... I'm sure Source Forge is littered with thousands of "Version 0.001" releases that will never make it to the actually useful stage.
I spent months of my free time trying to hack together a personal organiser/scheduler that could cope with my busy life before I gave up, sold my Amiga, and moved to a more modern platform. I must have started 100 different "projects" that I would be ashamed ever to show anyone *grin*
In my old days as a developer I worked with a guy who contributed a significant account to XEmacs and he done it because he was a power-user who was talented enough to be able to code in Lisp, and he felt compelled to help as he relied on Emacs for coding commercial apps. People like this are few and far between, and few have the comittment and long-term motivation required to take development through to completion, unless they are working in a paid, competitive environment with real customers, deliverables, and deadlines.
The problem is that not enough people band together, start a (semi) formal development programme with solid requirements, and then code/test it to completion
This comment, from one of the people quoted in the article:
... it's not all a bed of roses. Desk telephones were just as anoying before e-mail became as widespread, and in some ways e-mail is easier to manage because you can ignore the crap. Until you pick up a ringing phone you do not (generally) know what the subject matter is, and if it has a higher priority than your current task.
;-)
I'm really think twice before going offline for two weeks again, especially when I get a real job....
is absolutely ludicrous! Use Out of Office reply for gawds sake.
People have to start taking responsibility for their own actions and life
I do think however, that it would be nice in a mail client to know whether a message was:
Sent directly to you, CC'd, or as part of a mass-mail before actually reading it. Outlook can't do it, so that's me stuffed
Disclaimer: I know it can be set up using Rules, I just can't be bothered.