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I don't know anybody from there and I give an option for the serious people who want to get in touch with me.
Good call. I haven't read the rest of the posts just yet but I found someone who agrees with me.
At this point in my career, I am tired of dealing with half-assed admins who can't tie a shoe.
You were hired based on a particular compentance level. You said you knew how to administer a mailserver. If you say you can administer a mailserver, you should know about open relays. If this was your first job administering a mailserver, you shouldn't have gotten the fucking job.
As an admin, YOU and you alone are responsible for what comes out of your network.
Back when codered was flooding the internet (and still is,along with nimda, based on my fucking log files), I had to call this company that was sending out codered scans from no less than 5 different IP addresses. At ONE company! I searched through internic records (I'll be damned if I was going to load the company's website) and finally got in touch with someone who claimed to be the network admin. I explained the situation to him and he proceeded to tell me that he wasn't aware that these servers were even running! How in the fuck can you not know what goes on with your network?
You see, I'm paranoid. I want to know everything that goes on with my network at any given time. I do my damndest to make sure everything is secure as possible (short of pulling the damn cat 5 out of the switch). I've got the switches locked to MAC address so no one can just plug in a machine. I've got a external mail relay that only forwards mail to our firewall that is then passed to our Exchange server ( the one halfway decent product MS makes). Not only is the external mail scanner running some stuff to check for basic attachment viruses, but our exchange server is running Norton for Exchange. The client machines have NAV as well which uses a central server to update definition files daily. The outlook clients are running the Attachment and Zone patch from Microsoft. And to top it off, you can't relay trough our server without authentication which most email clients support nowadays.
Some people call that paranoid but while our clients got slammed by the latest outlook bugs, we happily zoomed along without a single infection (should have seen the NAV logs on the email server though;> ).
The point of all this is this. You were hired to do a job. If you aren't compentant to do the job then get the hell out of the way and go work under someone who can.
The reason people are making a fuss is that the wrong antitrust argument was presented to the courts. I've given up on this whole thing. The real argument and UNDENIABLE proof of abusing the monopoly (remember kids: monopolies aren't illegal. Abusing your monopoly power is.) power against competitors was the bootloader issue.
The OEM license agreements were the proof and the smoking gun.
I loved the scene with Isildur but you didn't need to see it 50 million times. Maybe Jackson just wanted to get it through your head?
Don't get me wrong, I thought the movie did a damn fine job picking and choosing what was shown but here is my little list of things I would have LIKED to see:
1) Tom Bombadil and the Barrow-wights (This doesn't add much to the story outside of the first volume so I understand cutting it.)
2) The relationship between Gimli and Legolas developed more and more. I would have loved to see the scene where he was blindfolded. I really think the conflict between elves and dwarfs was a big point in the choosing of the fellowship. ( I guess this might have come off as a bit gay though and maybe wanted it to be avoided? Why is it that movies can't display a healthy male relationship in the vein of brotherhood without someone calling it homosexual?)
I honestly think those are my major gripes with the movie. At least as far as being left out. The changes have me a bit more miffed. I don't want this to become a Liv Tyler movie. I'm hoping that isn't the case with the next two books. Having her ride out to rescue Frodo really kinda bugged me.
I'm still wondering how they plan on showing the gift of lembas since it plays such an important role in the other volumes. I'm thinking maybe a flashback. I'm hoping to see THAT as an extra.
And it wasn't a string. It was rope, which in itself is important because that's how Frodo and Sam get Golum to show them the way through the mountain.
Unfortunatly that won't work either. The company I work for is a software testing lab and many times the testers get applications that require unfetered access to the internet. At that point, we move the tests outside the firewall. Sometimes I'll open ports on a case by case basis for the period of testing and then close them off afterwards. The only real sort of application level proxy I have is a big ole Squid box on our DMZ that the firewall forwards all web traffic to. Typically that breaks most filesharing stuff that wants to use port 80 and I get better regex mapping with squid than I do with ipf (read: none).
That also answers the question about restricting what software users can install. I can't do that because, again, they are installing software all the time on various machines. The only upside is that I've become a master at one-click (screw you amazon!) reimaging processes.;)
I agree with what you said about applications going out of thier way to bypass firewalls. I'm finding it more and more frustrating to block filesharing apps that constantly want to go out on port 80 because they know it will be open. I've resolved myself to blocking access to entire class C's owned by companies like musiccity and napster and the ip addresses of the main gnutella routers.
Please refrain from speaking about things when you have no idea what you're talking about.
To all the uninformed and never-worked-in-corporate-it-and-no-helpdesk-doesn 't-count people saying that all of this could be done with opensource products, it can't right now.
Our company researched a migration from Exchange to a linux-based product and simply could not do it. Two key features available in exchange are NOT available in opensource tools: shared calendering and shared contacts. Sure you can hack something together with ldap to handle the shared contacts but the outlook client won't support it. Everything else I looked into from Bynari et. al. required alot of the work to be done from a web interface. Forget the shared calendaring. It didn't take advantage of the normal outlook mechanism and didn't work quite right. Don't give me any shit about using something other than outlook either. When your company runs Office, outlook is a part of it. Why go and shell out more money for another mail client? Besides, no other mail clients support shared calendaring. You may not need it at home but business damn sure love it and frankly so do I.
Maybe iCal will be finally standardized and integrated into outlook but until that time, companies that already use Office, will use outlook because it's included and thus will want to use the features of it.
Regarding Esoft, unless they changed, they use bsdi. We actually used the Interceptor line for a few years until they decided to discontinue our product WITHOUT telling us.
They also have an inane incompetance in the sales/marketing department that thought it would be a good idea to spam the entire customer list with an unrestricted majordomo setup.
That has to be the best thing I've read all day. Especially since my girlfriend and I watched the Quantum Leap chain reaction on Sci-fi all day Sunday since it was raining.
I read over (I must admit rather quickly) some stuff regarding the B'nai article. The IslamWay site made some rather slight attacks at Jews in thier response.
This leads me to two questions:
1) From all that we have seen on the news lately with Islamic scholars, Islam means peace and the Q'uran teaches that a Muslim should respect his Christian and Jewish brothers and love them since we all come from the same God. It goes back to Islam teaching that Abraham and Jesus were in the same vein as Muhammed as prophets. Why is then that there is such a thread of hate when it comes to Muslims and Jews? I understand the biblical aspect of the conflict (It goes back to Cain and Able if I remember my studies). But sitting that aside, why the hate?
2) Again, on the news, we keep hearing that true Islam does not teach Jihaad but the concept had to come from somewhere, correct? I can't find any unbiased reporting and I don't have a copy of the Quran here with me to check myself. If Jihaad is indeed mentioned in the Quran, what are the circumstances surrounding it and what are the justifications.
I understand that many Muslims are saying that Bin Laden has hijacked TRUE Islam but where did he get the ideas for Jihaad? Where did this all start? (not his hatred of the US but the concept of a holy war at all costs.
Further more, I've read all the passages about killing innocents and how it is forbidden but if a Jihaad is allowed does that bypass that rule?
I guess this is really a question for someone versed in Islamic apolegetics but it can't hurt to ask.
And no one post any bullshit condeming all religions and the typical comments we get on slashdot about religious people being sheep. It doesn't float.
Thank you! Somebody realizes that THIS was the reason that patents were invented.
Software patents excluded (reform needed), what is a company's motivation to continue to invest in important research when they can't make any money from it?
I've actually been thinking about this. I looked at some of the comments and downloaded iSilo. To test it out I took the "Learning vi" book from the UNIX cdrom bookshelf and used isilo to convert it. Without any images it became a 167K file for reading using iSilo. Pretty damn cool if you ask me.
I'm going to buy a copy of the iSilo reader now and go to town with my fav HTML references.
Now maybe we can get some legislation making it illegal for companies to ask for a social security number or use it as any sort of identifying number for accounts. TECHNICALLY, it IS illegal for anyone other than financial institutions and the government to use it as an identifying number but companies currently get around asking for it by saying it's for credit approval. Then they just use that number for your account.
It's beginning to look like there is no way to be truly safe unless you run these clients on your own personal computers at home.:(
Why in the fuck is this a bad thing? For chrissakes people, you are paid to do a fucking job, NOT run dnet clients on every possible fucking machine you've been given charge over.
What really pisses me off is that most of the posts here are from people bitching and whining that it doesn't really do any harm to the machines. Sure it eats up a bit of proc even at the nicest level. Sure it takes bandwidth to download new keys but not that much. YOU'RE MISSING THE FUCKING POINT. THEY WEREN'T HIS MACHINES. HE WASN'T PAID TO RUN dnet clients ON THEM.
The sad part about this whole thing is that many of the/. crowd are showing how old they really are. Grow the fuck up and just do your job.
I know I'll get modded down but not for any justifiable reason. Mostly cause I hurt the feelings of some 13 yr old kids trapped in 35 yr old bodies who never learned the difference between work and personal life.
The article also mentions that the software redirects users to sites that have paid Microsoft to point them there. Kodak was furious about this but now farther down in the article it says
"The company's plan is to use the Internet to drive its digital-camera customers directly to Kodak picture labs to buy their prints"
Now how is this any different than what Microsoft is doing?
I'm not fan of Microsoft by any stretch of the imagination but it seems rather hipocritical.
The problem really only boils down to Microsoft no longer letting software set preferences. And that sucks.
What I found really interesting was that they didn't want to release a linux version because of the GPL license to the kernel.
Who says they have to release anything related to the kernel? They act as if it's impossible to release a commercial package with source under linux at all.
Tell me the last time photoshop was updated for Solaris and Irix.
You are, however, correct in some of the missing features. Pantone support being one. It's mostly the stuff that adobe had to license from other companies.
My understanding is that ipf is leaps and bounds beyond ipfw. I'm wondering now what is going to happen on the openbsd front. I've been building all my new firewalls with openbsd/ipf. Are theo and the gang planning on using ipfw or woking on thier own solution?
Actually when I got to thinking more about the troll, we don't even have the right to life. If we were living in a purely Darwinian society, the weakest member would just be kicked out of the group and left to die.
about as absurd as stating that gun ownership is a 'right'
Not to pick out one point from an otherwise "interesting" point of view, but in the US, bearing arms *IS* a right. At least according to the constitution.
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I don't know anybody from there and I give an option for the serious people who want to get in touch with me.
Good call. I haven't read the rest of the posts just yet but I found someone who agrees with me.
;> ).
At this point in my career, I am tired of dealing with half-assed admins who can't tie a shoe.
You were hired based on a particular compentance level. You said you knew how to administer a mailserver. If you say you can administer a mailserver, you should know about open relays. If this was your first job administering a mailserver, you shouldn't have gotten the fucking job.
As an admin, YOU and you alone are responsible for what comes out of your network.
Back when codered was flooding the internet (and still is,along with nimda, based on my fucking log files), I had to call this company that was sending out codered scans from no less than 5 different IP addresses. At ONE company! I searched through internic records (I'll be damned if I was going to load the company's website) and finally got in touch with someone who claimed to be the network admin. I explained the situation to him and he proceeded to tell me that he wasn't aware that these servers were even running! How in the fuck can you not know what goes on with your network?
You see, I'm paranoid. I want to know everything that goes on with my network at any given time. I do my damndest to make sure everything is secure as possible (short of pulling the damn cat 5 out of the switch). I've got the switches locked to MAC address so no one can just plug in a machine. I've got a external mail relay that only forwards mail to our firewall that is then passed to our Exchange server ( the one halfway decent product MS makes). Not only is the external mail scanner running some stuff to check for basic attachment viruses, but our exchange server is running Norton for Exchange. The client machines have NAV as well which uses a central server to update definition files daily. The outlook clients are running the Attachment and Zone patch from Microsoft. And to top it off, you can't relay trough our server without authentication which most email clients support nowadays.
Some people call that paranoid but while our clients got slammed by the latest outlook bugs, we happily zoomed along without a single infection (should have seen the NAV logs on the email server though
The point of all this is this. You were hired to do a job. If you aren't compentant to do the job then get the hell out of the way and go work under someone who can.
The reason people are making a fuss is that the wrong antitrust argument was presented to the courts. I've given up on this whole thing. The real argument and UNDENIABLE proof of abusing the monopoly (remember kids: monopolies aren't illegal. Abusing your monopoly power is.) power against competitors was the bootloader issue.
The OEM license agreements were the proof and the smoking gun.
Thank You!
I loved the scene with Isildur but you didn't need to see it 50 million times. Maybe Jackson just wanted to get it through your head?
Don't get me wrong, I thought the movie did a damn fine job picking and choosing what was shown but here is my little list of things I would have LIKED to see:
1) Tom Bombadil and the Barrow-wights (This doesn't add much to the story outside of the first volume so I understand cutting it.)
2) The relationship between Gimli and Legolas developed more and more. I would have loved to see the scene where he was blindfolded. I really think the conflict between elves and dwarfs was a big point in the choosing of the fellowship. ( I guess this might have come off as a bit gay though and maybe wanted it to be avoided? Why is it that movies can't display a healthy male relationship in the vein of brotherhood without someone calling it homosexual?)
I honestly think those are my major gripes with the movie. At least as far as being left out. The changes have me a bit more miffed. I don't want this to become a Liv Tyler movie. I'm hoping that isn't the case with the next two books. Having her ride out to rescue Frodo really kinda bugged me.
I'm still wondering how they plan on showing the gift of lembas since it plays such an important role in the other volumes. I'm thinking maybe a flashback. I'm hoping to see THAT as an extra.
And it wasn't a string. It was rope, which in itself is important because that's how Frodo and Sam get Golum to show them the way through the mountain.
Unfortunatly that won't work either. The company I work for is a software testing lab and many times the testers get applications that require unfetered access to the internet. At that point, we move the tests outside the firewall. Sometimes I'll open ports on a case by case basis for the period of testing and then close them off afterwards. The only real sort of application level proxy I have is a big ole Squid box on our DMZ that the firewall forwards all web traffic to. Typically that breaks most filesharing stuff that wants to use port 80 and I get better regex mapping with squid than I do with ipf (read: none).
;)
That also answers the question about restricting what software users can install. I can't do that because, again, they are installing software all the time on various machines. The only upside is that I've become a master at one-click (screw you amazon!) reimaging processes.
I agree with what you said about applications going out of thier way to bypass firewalls. I'm finding it more and more frustrating to block filesharing apps that constantly want to go out on port 80 because they know it will be open. I've resolved myself to blocking access to entire class C's owned by companies like musiccity and napster and the ip addresses of the main gnutella routers.
I server the Dark Master!
;)
Hail to the Dark Master!
For the glory of the Creator!
God I love that game
What in the hell do you need a card like that in a SERVER for? Buy the cheapest agp or pci card you can find and stick it in there.
If you have a server that's doing more than serving, you shouldn't be running one.
Please refrain from speaking about things when you have no idea what you're talking about.
n 't-count people saying that all of this could be done with opensource products, it can't right now.
To all the uninformed and never-worked-in-corporate-it-and-no-helpdesk-does
Our company researched a migration from Exchange to a linux-based product and simply could not do it. Two key features available in exchange are NOT available in opensource tools: shared calendering and shared contacts. Sure you can hack something together with ldap to handle the shared contacts but the outlook client won't support it. Everything else I looked into from Bynari et. al. required alot of the work to be done from a web interface. Forget the shared calendaring. It didn't take advantage of the normal outlook mechanism and didn't work quite right. Don't give me any shit about using something other than outlook either. When your company runs Office, outlook is a part of it. Why go and shell out more money for another mail client? Besides, no other mail clients support shared calendaring. You may not need it at home but business damn sure love it and frankly so do I.
Maybe iCal will be finally standardized and integrated into outlook but until that time, companies that already use Office, will use outlook because it's included and thus will want to use the features of it.
Regarding Esoft, unless they changed, they use bsdi. We actually used the Interceptor line for a few years until they decided to discontinue our product WITHOUT telling us.
They also have an inane incompetance in the sales/marketing department that thought it would be a good idea to spam the entire customer list with an unrestricted majordomo setup.
I'd avoid these guys if you can help it.
Then again, I'm just a dissatisfied customer.
I have got not ONE bit of spam from Borland yet. I've downloaded and registered Kylix, Interbase AND Delphi Personal Edition.
You can usually trust the companies like Borland when you UNCHECK the box that says sell my info, that they won't sell your info.
HAHAHAHAHAH!
That has to be the best thing I've read all day. Especially since my girlfriend and I watched the Quantum Leap chain reaction on Sci-fi all day Sunday since it was raining.
I read over (I must admit rather quickly) some stuff regarding the B'nai article. The IslamWay site made some rather slight attacks at Jews in thier response.
This leads me to two questions:
1) From all that we have seen on the news lately with Islamic scholars, Islam means peace and the Q'uran teaches that a Muslim should respect his Christian and Jewish brothers and love them since we all come from the same God. It goes back to Islam teaching that Abraham and Jesus were in the same vein as Muhammed as prophets. Why is then that there is such a thread of hate when it comes to Muslims and Jews? I understand the biblical aspect of the conflict (It goes back to Cain and Able if I remember my studies). But sitting that aside, why the hate?
2) Again, on the news, we keep hearing that true Islam does not teach Jihaad but the concept had to come from somewhere, correct? I can't find any unbiased reporting and I don't have a copy of the Quran here with me to check myself. If Jihaad is indeed mentioned in the Quran, what are the circumstances surrounding it and what are the justifications.
I understand that many Muslims are saying that Bin Laden has hijacked TRUE Islam but where did he get the ideas for Jihaad? Where did this all start? (not his hatred of the US but the concept of a holy war at all costs.
Further more, I've read all the passages about killing innocents and how it is forbidden but if a Jihaad is allowed does that bypass that rule?
I guess this is really a question for someone versed in Islamic apolegetics but it can't hurt to ask.
And no one post any bullshit condeming all religions and the typical comments we get on slashdot about religious people being sheep. It doesn't float.
Thank you! Somebody realizes that THIS was the reason that patents were invented.
Software patents excluded (reform needed), what is a company's motivation to continue to invest in important research when they can't make any money from it?
I've actually been thinking about this. I looked at some of the comments and downloaded iSilo. To test it out I took the "Learning vi" book from the UNIX cdrom bookshelf and used isilo to convert it. Without any images it became a 167K file for reading using iSilo. Pretty damn cool if you ask me.
I'm going to buy a copy of the iSilo reader now and go to town with my fav HTML references.
I suggest you check it out.
Now maybe we can get some legislation making it illegal for companies to ask for a social security number or use it as any sort of identifying number for accounts. TECHNICALLY, it IS illegal for anyone other than financial institutions and the government to use it as an identifying number but companies currently get around asking for it by saying it's for credit approval. Then they just use that number for your account.
Why in the fuck is this a bad thing? For chrissakes people, you are paid to do a fucking job, NOT run dnet clients on every possible fucking machine you've been given charge over.
What really pisses me off is that most of the posts here are from people bitching and whining that it doesn't really do any harm to the machines. Sure it eats up a bit of proc even at the nicest level. Sure it takes bandwidth to download new keys but not that much. YOU'RE MISSING THE FUCKING POINT. THEY WEREN'T HIS MACHINES. HE WASN'T PAID TO RUN dnet clients ON THEM.
The sad part about this whole thing is that many of the /. crowd are showing how old they really are. Grow the fuck up and just do your job.
I know I'll get modded down but not for any justifiable reason. Mostly cause I hurt the feelings of some 13 yr old kids trapped in 35 yr old bodies who never learned the difference between work and personal life.
The article also mentions that the software redirects users to sites that have paid Microsoft to point them there. Kodak was furious about this but now farther down in the article it says
"The company's plan is to use the Internet to drive its digital-camera customers directly to Kodak picture labs to buy their prints"
Now how is this any different than what Microsoft is doing?
I'm not fan of Microsoft by any stretch of the imagination but it seems rather hipocritical.
The problem really only boils down to Microsoft no longer letting software set preferences. And that sucks.
I'm sitting here wondering how many people actually know where that quote came from ;)
I'm surprised you didn't use the whole list. Hehehehe.
"We gotta get us one of them Doomsday machines."
=)
What I found really interesting was that they didn't want to release a linux version because of the GPL license to the kernel.
Who says they have to release anything related to the kernel? They act as if it's impossible to release a commercial package with source under linux at all.
Tell me the last time photoshop was updated for Solaris and Irix.
You are, however, correct in some of the missing features. Pantone support being one. It's mostly the stuff that adobe had to license from other companies.
My understanding is that ipf is leaps and bounds beyond ipfw. I'm wondering now what is going to happen on the openbsd front. I've been building all my new firewalls with openbsd/ipf. Are theo and the gang planning on using ipfw or woking on thier own solution?
Actually when I got to thinking more about the troll, we don't even have the right to life. If we were living in a purely Darwinian society, the weakest member would just be kicked out of the group and left to die.
Not to pick out one point from an otherwise "interesting" point of view, but in the US, bearing arms *IS* a right. At least according to the constitution.