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  1. pretty easy really on Blocking MSN Messenger? · · Score: 1
    I had msn blocked at work until various ppl lobbied management for it back :/

    either way its not overly hard, I run and iptables based firewall on debian. I restrict both incoming and outgoing traffic, I also have a filtering proxy for all web traffic (squid and dansguardian).

    Anyway, msn didn't like working thru my proxy setup so I had to open tcp port 1863. So, restrict outgoing traffic by destination port and source ip and you should take care of most nastiness :)

  2. this is what I've decided on... on Which Red Hat Should Be Worn in the Enterprise? · · Score: 1
    I have decided to stick with Redhat 7.3 for the forseeable future. It does everything we need and more. Its stable, not mnay updates around for it. I can also compile a customer kernel without any problems.


    In a few years when RH7.3 is too old I'll prob move to gentoo or debian.

  3. personal networks! on The Soldier is the Network · · Score: 1
    I like the idea of personal networks, being online 24x7.



    but i think its a bad idea for your average foot soldier (3 years experience talking here)

  4. Re:Bad design on The Ultimate Computer Chair? · · Score: 1

    re. monitor positioning

    my chiropractor says the middle of the monitor should be at eye height or slightly higher!

  5. what i did on Designing and Making Custom Wedding Bands? · · Score: 1

    i just found out what my wife liked and then went to a jeweler in my hometown and had them design it

    half the price of where i live and she loves the ring

  6. Re: i 'bathed' my Ericsson 618 on Your Most Damage-Resistant Hardware? · · Score: 1
    used to work in a pizza shop... anyway as i was heading home one night i dropped the phone in the washing up water. It sure didn't like it.

    i just took the battery off and let it dry overnight, next day hooked it all up and it was fine. Ran fine for a few more years until my wife dropped it onto concrete from a great height :/

  7. Re:"list" on Programs for Reading Text Files? · · Score: 1
    omg, list was the best program ever in DOS.

    used to use it for everything, these days I use less for most everything

  8. Re:Security Holes? on FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete? · · Score: 1
    Having recently discovered djb's software I agree with what you say.


    That said, I think publicfile sucks espescially for command line ftp. Thats why I use pure-ftpd.

  9. FTP is NOT dead on FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete? · · Score: 1
    its much easier to use for multiple file transfer than http.


    anyway, if your running a *nix variant try pure-ftpd, it is secure, flexible and easy to use.

  10. what i've done... on Your Valentine's Day Plans for 2003? · · Score: 1
    this year it will be dinner on Sydney harbour at a ritzy restaurant


    other years: I have cooked her favourite dish, or sent her flowers etc


    but like somebody else said, don't save all the love for 1 day a year!

  11. hmmm on Advergames · · Score: 1
    i can't see this succeding. Although with the number of younger players out there it might.

    Your seasoned/mature gamer prob won't play the game much, unless its extremely high quality.

  12. Re:It's simple on When Sysadmins Go Bad · · Score: 1

    couldn't agree more

  13. aint it the truth... on Scientists Don't Read the Papers They Cite · · Score: 1
    i knew an old skool electrical engineer a few years ago... i say old skool because he worked things out on paper+slide rule etc.


    anyway, he got this new job designing extremely large switchboards... that was all good until he noticed that the equations the company used in designing the boards didn't add up! So he hit the books only to find they were wrong too. He kept going back in time to older books only to find each one had a slight error and the error had grown over time.


    Anyway, in the end he went all the way back to the original equation from the bloke who invented it, and basically 'fixed' everything.

  14. Re:This is not a solution on Tunnelling NTP Through a Firewall? · · Score: 1
    i firewall incoming and outgoing... windows boxes are (l)users are a nasty combination.


    i also use a bit bucket for the windows boxes, makes things so much tidier on my network

  15. not my arms/wrist... on Keyboarding Love Or Keyboarding Pain · · Score: 1
    no problems with the arms/wrists etc (unless i spend all day playing games). But my back (center left) is extremely painful, already spent large sums of money at the chiro...


    atm, a regualr massage is all that seems to help :(

  16. Re:I just did it. on Powering the Adventurous Geek? · · Score: 1

    i'd leave the lappie at home and just take the palm, altho a ce based handheld would prob be better. that way u might be able to hook up the cam to it

  17. Re:IDE to SCSI converters on IDE RAID Examined · · Score: 1
    yes, my company sells a box using these (we do a range of ide to scsi solutions).


    they are quite good for what they do

  18. Re:I'd have to say , yr wrong on IDE RAID Examined · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I am the SysAdmin at my company and I built the network+servers by hand. The servers all run 3ware Escalade cards (Escalade 6800, raid10, 8 drives). In the 2 years they have been running I have had only 1 drive fail. Now my experience with SCSI is slightly different... IBM scsi drives and Mylex 150/160, lots of drive failures (in a high end raid cage too) and then lots of troubles with getting the raid sets to rebuild.

    for my money its IDE raid all the way

  19. Re:Software RAID? Ideas? on IDE RAID Examined · · Score: 1

    I don't beleive any of the tested cards support this feature. It is a feature usually only found on high end scsi raid systems.

  20. Re:its just not possible... on Email (As We Know It) Doomed? · · Score: 1

    gg spelling

  21. its just not possible... on Email (As We Know It) Doomed? · · Score: 1
    in my company we receive lost of email from all over the world, a high percentage of it is from ppl we don't know


    atm its just not possible for us to use anything beyond bog standard email

  22. mp3 is dead, long live ogg on New MP3 License Terms Demand $0.75 Per Decoder · · Score: 1
    ogg is a better format for most music anyway: http://www.vorbis.com/

  23. what i want to acheive... on ADSL Bandwidth Aggregation w/ Multiple Accounts? · · Score: 1
    Ok guys, here in Oz, a personal adsl a/c is heaps cheaper than a business adsl a/c. The difference is that with personal u have dynamic ip, plus u need to authenticate via pppoe.

    Anyway, the biggest problem we have is limited uplink bandwidth. So want I think is the best is use the business link mostly for email/other important traffic. Then I will use the personal link for all other traffic.

    The real question is, can this be easily acheived with a linux gateway?

  24. i'm in the same boat... on Options for Adults with Renewed Interest in Math? · · Score: 1

    i left school at 15, went to technical college and studied various things including math and enjoyed it. But then i left to get a job...

    Now I am a sysadmin and doing well, but i find myself getting bored... I want to go back and study math, learn programming properly etc etc.

    i have some math textbooks from when i studying, should pull them out and relearn algebra etc

  25. threating letters etc on Ending Harassment from Microsoft and the BSA? · · Score: 1

    I have been getting the letters approx every 2 weeks for the last 5 months...1 from MS, and 1 from BSAA.

    I actually rang Microsoft to ask them to take me off their list and they said they'd have to take all my details etc and then they'd find out why!

    I told 'em where to go! Last thing I need is more threating letters!