They've lost a major portion of brain functionality if they think I'm going to replace my MP3 hardware with something to play another format. Smacks too much of what the RIAA is doing in making us pay for formats, only now it's paying for the players. I'm looking to use MP3 for *years* to come, so don't even think of pulling upgraditis on me with the hardware.
So which part of these instructions sets up the DHCP server?
Just as in Mandrake, I tell the OS what the name of my Workgroup is, the name of this particular PC on that network, and I enable DHCP. BAM! I'm on the network.
I'm not knocking this. How could I know this? It's a NICE ADDITION that can seriously reduce the number of calls I get from people that have two PCs, bought two NICs and a crossover cable from me, but have no clue as to how to make the PCs see each other. I just find it funny that the first time I saw this type of "easy network setup" was in Mandrake.
After all, he says these people bought two PCs, two NICS, and a crossover cable. If they have *only* that, does Mandrake set them each up with a non-conflicting IP address? I know that Win98 and up do that by just pulling an unroutable address out of its collective wazoo. Does Mandrake do the same or is he missing the step I think he's missing? Someone with a more elaborate setup isn't going to just be picking up a cross over cable, but more likely a couple of straight-through cables...possible a new Palm, a few sticks of memory, some games...but that's beside the point. =)
Of course, we don't live in an unconnected world anymore. Most likely them have some outside access already planned. BUT, if you have a cable modem that only dishes out one address, you're still going to need a third something to NAT through to provide DHCP addresses. Or you'll have to break down and pay the extra fee most ISPs want for multiple addresses. An SMC Barricade can do the trick of doling out the addresses, serving as a broadband firewall, is only $99, and even works with all my VPN setups into the corporate LAN.
To be honest, while I think this guy sounds silly in his article, comparing his apples to pineapples, he is the face of the average computer user out there in that we can see he is slightly familiar with these two worlds and are glimpsing into a decision being made.
grep default.ida access_log* | mail -s 'APACHE' redalert@dshield.org
so they can keep a count of the infections and see how the worm is propagating through the networks. I myself have been hit 154 times today, but that's a low number because my ISP made our cable modems go dynamic addressing recently. A link to the source code can be found on the page and here. Check frequently, as he updated the code a couple of revisions just today.
All they will do is drive people to dual boot their machines to Linux for those purposes. Anyone using "SMR, DivX;-), 3ivx, M$MPEG-4" are probably good enough with computers to handle the dual boot. So just keep MS for the MS approved games, and start using Linux for everything else. Eventually the games will follow.
This is not about making things more stable. This is about squashing the competition by claiming that the product was defective. This is just a more brazen way of being anti-competition.
My guess is with this kind of press, Microsoft is going to make the decision to punish them a lot easier for the government. It's transparent and no one is going to be fooled by it. This cannot be helping their case.
Firewall included in XP? I can see the support calls now.
"I heard about these viruses and l337 h4x0r5 and wanted to protect my desktop so I installed the firewall. Why is it you people can't have a stable network?"
"But, Bob, you're protected inside our site firewall. You didn't need that, and that is why your network stopped working."
OK, so this scenario could happen with any of the commercial firewalls now, but in most places one would have to go through an approval process to get the software, where if it is now included on the CD it is more readily accessible and much easier for people to screw it up.
And frankly with everything that Microsoft has gone through in the last few months (sites hacked into multiple times, Red Code, etc.), they are the last people I will trust to make firewall product. They had better have already qualified both Zone Alarm and Black Ice. This "driver blocked by vote" idea is just too too dumb.
Support? You priced it with support? What is support? Seriously, though, as a customer of an ISP, I expect them to spend the money I give them on quality services. The fact that you came up with a much cheaper solution makes it even more shameful that they don't provide that extra level of protection.
The Webshield you priced covers both sparc hardware and the software, and support is on both. Trend Viruswall is just a software product ($1k for 50 users) that you still have to purchase a dedicated machine for in order to do the job properly. Luckily it is available for Linux, so the hardware portion can be cheaper in both initial cost and support.
We purchased our Webshield a year or two back when there were no solutions like this readily available. Now, Norton has Antivirus for Gateways, and more are coming out. As a small 200 person company, it's not a big deal to get support on our Webshield, but given a choice today, we would probably go for a Linux solution involving the Trend product. Heck, just thinking about the couple of bugs that we've seen in the Webshield, maybe we should consider the Trend product anyway.
For the price of a stinking Network Associates Webshield operating in transparent mode at the router of each ISP, they could filter out most viruses. They could route port 25 traffic through one of these babies and things might be rosier. I chalk that up to lazy/overworked/ignorant admins not caring/able/knowing to put such a system in place. We have a webshield and the only time we saw SirCam was because we had to take it out of the loop for some quick maintenance; the one guy that go it knew not to open it and deleted it.
Of course, security is a process so no amount of filtering is going to keep 100% out. If you still get that one virus headed for the guy in the company with Outlook and who blindly opens every message that comes at him, then you've still got a cultural problem to cure.
For about 5 billion years, the same single cell that spawned on this planet has been splitting and mutating into the many varieties we see today. As the only species on the planet capable of understanding this, it is our duty to make sure we don't screw it up, making that cell's long struggle a complete wasted. In a sense, that cell, and thus humanity, is this planet's attempt at reaching beyond its primitive boundaries and propagating further through the universe. We are nothing more than a stage in a process of macro-panspermia. If we don't destroy ourselves, we'll be able to coat the universe with all sorts of life, moving that immortal cell onward to other worlds.
Just because the MHz on the Sun equipment (900MHz) is lower than the current Pentium (1.5MHz), don't be fooled into thinking the Intel hardware is better. What matters after all, is throughput and pumping that data. Check your specs!
Check this 4 CPU Intel vs the 1 CPU Sun considering plain speed...
This is an even neater invention than the Internet for moving files from one place to another! You can't move 10GB quickly over the Internet, but with the Mine's 10BaseT connector, (10Mb/s = 1.3MB/s) you only need 2.27 hours (10GB / 1.3MB/s = 8192 sec = 136 min = 2.27 hours) to fill it completely, plus the time to drive to your friend's house to trade MP3s. Who needs Napster and the crap the ISPs are dishing out in trying to block it? Back to old swap meets we used to trace C64 and Amiga games at! Now, where did I put my credit cards?
As a child, just as Empire Strikes Back was released, I remember sitting down with a ton of graph paper and a ruler, and figuring out sizes for vehicles in Empire Strikes Back with respect to figures I had from the first movie. I even went as far as sending them into Kenner. Anxiously I awaited a response from them only to get a form letter stating that they had plenty of artists and designers creating things for us that would be slowly released to the market.
Being a kid, I couldn't understand why some toys were not released for quite some time after the movie and not all at once. I also couldn't understand licensing and why they hadn't used my designs! Or even understanding that they wanted to protect themselves from lawsuits. Somewhere in all my belongings I have a letter from Kenner that I just have to scan. I wonder how many other industries have to tolerate dopey kids randomly sending in ideas to compete with in-house employees.
You forget that suing leads to jokes as we all get a good laugh at lawyers. "It's a symbient circle, you can't have one without the other. You must understand this."
Someone complained about my mentioning the WebWasher product before, but I have to bring it up here since it's right on topic. WebWasher is a program that's free for personal use and available for Linux as well as Windows. It gets rids of cookies and all the other cruft, but most important of all, I don't get sprayed in the face with popups when I use my browser.
The point is, if you avoid loading these ads, they become an ineffective method of advertising and as marketing sees decreased results from pouring money into them, they'll be less willing to use them. That, or they'll just increase the frequency of the pops so that other people will suffer. It doesn't matter to me because I don't see them and I'm not contributing to their revenue. In a sense, I wish that the banner market was still charging lots of $$$ for these so that they'd be wasting more money per ad campaign before realizing it was being filtered out.
TO be balanced with the non-commercial products, I understand that this filtering can also be done with Squid to be effective on a site-wide basis.
I used to buy loads of X10 stuff and automated the hell out of my home, but with the current X10 popups in my face, I don't know if I want to buy from them again. Smarthome is a good alternative for your X10 needs and so much more. The patents are up on that tech, so plenty more companies are coming out with these devices and hopefully they all won't be spraying popups in our faces.
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Now that we'll have all these bionic suits around, a whole division of Sigourny Weavers will be able to fend off the Aliens when they come to earth.
Remember the next time you hear about a virus and see a vendor offering a free fixit, that the link to download that fixit is on the same page with an ad for their virus protection. No free deed is done without some small ulterior motive on the net or anywhere else.
In the case of the worm, every time MS offers a patch, you're deeper in their hooks, when you should instead be finally fed up and refuse to operate with such irresponsibly assembled solutions. Only when you've pushed MS to produce something that can be thought of as secure, or gone over to Apache will you be out of the Code Red cycle. No Apache is not free of holes, but when they appear I see a much stronger effort in that group to hunting it down and telling everyone that they had better upgrade NOW.
Yes, it might not be a simple thing to have to go and recompile Apache vs downloading the next patch and rebooting, but think about what you buy for that convenience. Just because something is cheaper doesn't make it better, and I'm not just talking about $$$.
As someone steeped in the embedded memory market, I know that memory sizes like 2MB tend to be considered big and expensive to place into the single chip that would be needed to cram into the phone. Wafer errors are much more common with larger memories, so more chips are discarded, raising the price. This is why WinCE (gobs of mem) prices tend to be prohibitively expensive and Palms (relatively smaller gobs) are much more affordable (not counting inventory dumps).
The last Linux kernel I built was about 800k with k6 support, video, networking, SCSI disk and tape, IDE storage, serial, parallel port (should have left it out), floppy, iso9660 and ext2fs filesystems. I'm betting there's enough cruft in there to bring that down to about 200k of kernel, leaving plenty of space for mini-programs that at 100k would be large and for memory structures such as buffers, a large address book, and a pseudo-filesystem. What is the smallest that kernel has been whittled down to in other applications, such as the Agenda? Now, how small could Xfree get?
Do you actually believe that any story you have seen in the past 100 years is original in its plot? From Star Trek's 19th century ship theme, to Star Wars' cookie cutter hero mythology, to the Jungian ideas in the Matrix, it's all being retold in one way or another.
The only thing bringing some of us down is that this same one has been retold twice in our lifetime. While I was around in the 70s to see the originals the first time, I can still take this story as both something new and familiar, and still enjoy the differences. I wonder how long it's been since we've had a story that could not be classified as being very similar to what we've seen before.
As if we needed another intelligent species on the planet for human slavery to exist on this planet. Think the message that "slavery is evil" is quaint in the 21st century? It still exists, meaning some still don't get it.
Has anyone bothered to see how the Grape Ape feels about all this? Did he protest against ape society, or was he a supporter in their vast human slave-trade machine?
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They've lost a major portion of brain functionality if they think I'm going to replace my MP3 hardware with something to play another format. Smacks too much of what the RIAA is doing in making us pay for formats, only now it's paying for the players. I'm looking to use MP3 for *years* to come, so don't even think of pulling upgraditis on me with the hardware.
So which part of these instructions sets up the DHCP server?
After all, he says these people bought two PCs, two NICS, and a crossover cable. If they have *only* that, does Mandrake set them each up with a non-conflicting IP address? I know that Win98 and up do that by just pulling an unroutable address out of its collective wazoo. Does Mandrake do the same or is he missing the step I think he's missing? Someone with a more elaborate setup isn't going to just be picking up a cross over cable, but more likely a couple of straight-through cables...possible a new Palm, a few sticks of memory, some games...but that's beside the point. =)Of course, we don't live in an unconnected world anymore. Most likely them have some outside access already planned. BUT, if you have a cable modem that only dishes out one address, you're still going to need a third something to NAT through to provide DHCP addresses. Or you'll have to break down and pay the extra fee most ISPs want for multiple addresses. An SMC Barricade can do the trick of doling out the addresses, serving as a broadband firewall, is only $99, and even works with all my VPN setups into the corporate LAN.
To be honest, while I think this guy sounds silly in his article, comparing his apples to pineapples, he is the face of the average computer user out there in that we can see he is slightly familiar with these two worlds and are glimpsing into a decision being made.
so they can keep a count of the infections and see how the worm is propagating through the networks. I myself have been hit 154 times today, but that's a low number because my ISP made our cable modems go dynamic addressing recently. A link to the source code can be found on the page and here. Check frequently, as he updated the code a couple of revisions just today.
All they will do is drive people to dual boot their machines to Linux for those purposes. Anyone using "SMR, DivX ;-), 3ivx, M$MPEG-4" are probably good enough with computers to handle the dual boot. So just keep MS for the MS approved games, and start using Linux for everything else. Eventually the games will follow.
This is not about making things more stable. This is about squashing the competition by claiming that the product was defective. This is just a more brazen way of being anti-competition.
My guess is with this kind of press, Microsoft is going to make the decision to punish them a lot easier for the government. It's transparent and no one is going to be fooled by it. This cannot be helping their case.
Firewall included in XP? I can see the support calls now.
OK, so this scenario could happen with any of the commercial firewalls now, but in most places one would have to go through an approval process to get the software, where if it is now included on the CD it is more readily accessible and much easier for people to screw it up.And frankly with everything that Microsoft has gone through in the last few months (sites hacked into multiple times, Red Code, etc.), they are the last people I will trust to make firewall product. They had better have already qualified both Zone Alarm and Black Ice. This "driver blocked by vote" idea is just too too dumb.
Wait until you start using MSN. You'll be so happy, you'll be leaping from windows. Or is that leaping from Windows? Hmmm...
Support? You priced it with support? What is support? Seriously, though, as a customer of an ISP, I expect them to spend the money I give them on quality services. The fact that you came up with a much cheaper solution makes it even more shameful that they don't provide that extra level of protection.
The Webshield you priced covers both sparc hardware and the software, and support is on both. Trend Viruswall is just a software product ($1k for 50 users) that you still have to purchase a dedicated machine for in order to do the job properly. Luckily it is available for Linux, so the hardware portion can be cheaper in both initial cost and support.
We purchased our Webshield a year or two back when there were no solutions like this readily available. Now, Norton has Antivirus for Gateways, and more are coming out. As a small 200 person company, it's not a big deal to get support on our Webshield, but given a choice today, we would probably go for a Linux solution involving the Trend product. Heck, just thinking about the couple of bugs that we've seen in the Webshield, maybe we should consider the Trend product anyway.
For the price of a stinking Network Associates Webshield operating in transparent mode at the router of each ISP, they could filter out most viruses. They could route port 25 traffic through one of these babies and things might be rosier. I chalk that up to lazy/overworked/ignorant admins not caring/able/knowing to put such a system in place. We have a webshield and the only time we saw SirCam was because we had to take it out of the loop for some quick maintenance; the one guy that go it knew not to open it and deleted it.
Of course, security is a process so no amount of filtering is going to keep 100% out. If you still get that one virus headed for the guy in the company with Outlook and who blindly opens every message that comes at him, then you've still got a cultural problem to cure.
For about 5 billion years, the same single cell that spawned on this planet has been splitting and mutating into the many varieties we see today. As the only species on the planet capable of understanding this, it is our duty to make sure we don't screw it up, making that cell's long struggle a complete wasted. In a sense, that cell, and thus humanity, is this planet's attempt at reaching beyond its primitive boundaries and propagating further through the universe. We are nothing more than a stage in a process of macro-panspermia. If we don't destroy ourselves, we'll be able to coat the universe with all sorts of life, moving that immortal cell onward to other worlds.
Just because the MHz on the Sun equipment (900MHz) is lower than the current Pentium (1.5MHz), don't be fooled into thinking the Intel hardware is better. What matters after all, is throughput and pumping that data. Check your specs!
Check this 4 CPU Intel vs the 1 CPU Sun considering plain speed...
CINT2000: Intel Corporation Intel D850GB motherboard(1.5 GHz, Pentium 4 processor) - 536 524
CFP2000: Intel Corporation Intel D850GB motherboard(1.5 GHz, Pentium 4 processor) - 558 549
CINT2000: Sun Microsystems Sun Blade 1000 Model 1900 - 467 438
CFP2000: Sun Microsystems Sun Blade 1000 Model 1900 - 482 427
CINT2000: Advanced Micro Devices Tyan Thunder K7 Motherboard, 1.2GHz Athlon MP Processor - 522 495
CFP2000: Advanced Micro Devices Tyan Thunder K7 Motherboard, 1.2GHz Athlon MP Processor - 481 433
Throughput on the Sun with 2 CPU, but strangely enough, none for any Intel hardware. Throw a 2 CPU AMD in there, though...
CINT2000 rate: Sun Microsystems Sun Blade 1000 Model 2900 - 10.7 9.97
CFP2000 rate: Sun Microsystems Sun Blade 1000 Model 2900 - 10.2 9.09
CINT2000 rate: Advanced Micro Devic Tyan Thunder K7 Motherboard, 1.2GHz 2CPU - 10.8 11.1
CFP2000 rate: Advanced Micro Devic Tyan Thunder K7 Motherboard, 1.2GHz 2CPU - 8.30 9.14
Is that a porn web server in your pocket or are you just glad to see its content?
This is an even neater invention than the Internet for moving files from one place to another! You can't move 10GB quickly over the Internet, but with the Mine's 10BaseT connector, (10Mb/s = 1.3MB/s) you only need 2.27 hours (10GB / 1.3MB/s = 8192 sec = 136 min = 2.27 hours) to fill it completely, plus the time to drive to your friend's house to trade MP3s. Who needs Napster and the crap the ISPs are dishing out in trying to block it? Back to old swap meets we used to trace C64 and Amiga games at! Now, where did I put my credit cards?
As a child, just as Empire Strikes Back was released, I remember sitting down with a ton of graph paper and a ruler, and figuring out sizes for vehicles in Empire Strikes Back with respect to figures I had from the first movie. I even went as far as sending them into Kenner. Anxiously I awaited a response from them only to get a form letter stating that they had plenty of artists and designers creating things for us that would be slowly released to the market.
Being a kid, I couldn't understand why some toys were not released for quite some time after the movie and not all at once. I also couldn't understand licensing and why they hadn't used my designs! Or even understanding that they wanted to protect themselves from lawsuits. Somewhere in all my belongings I have a letter from Kenner that I just have to scan. I wonder how many other industries have to tolerate dopey kids randomly sending in ideas to compete with in-house employees.
You forget that suing leads to jokes as we all get a good laugh at lawyers. "It's a symbient circle, you can't have one without the other. You must understand this."
Someone complained about my mentioning the WebWasher product before, but I have to bring it up here since it's right on topic. WebWasher is a program that's free for personal use and available for Linux as well as Windows. It gets rids of cookies and all the other cruft, but most important of all, I don't get sprayed in the face with popups when I use my browser.
The point is, if you avoid loading these ads, they become an ineffective method of advertising and as marketing sees decreased results from pouring money into them, they'll be less willing to use them. That, or they'll just increase the frequency of the pops so that other people will suffer. It doesn't matter to me because I don't see them and I'm not contributing to their revenue. In a sense, I wish that the banner market was still charging lots of $$$ for these so that they'd be wasting more money per ad campaign before realizing it was being filtered out.
TO be balanced with the non-commercial products, I understand that this filtering can also be done with Squid to be effective on a site-wide basis.
I used to buy loads of X10 stuff and automated the hell out of my home, but with the current X10 popups in my face, I don't know if I want to buy from them again. Smarthome is a good alternative for your X10 needs and so much more. The patents are up on that tech, so plenty more companies are coming out with these devices and hopefully they all won't be spraying popups in our faces.
Now that we'll have all these bionic suits around, a whole division of Sigourny Weavers will be able to fend off the Aliens when they come to earth.
Remember the next time you hear about a virus and see a vendor offering a free fixit, that the link to download that fixit is on the same page with an ad for their virus protection. No free deed is done without some small ulterior motive on the net or anywhere else.
In the case of the worm, every time MS offers a patch, you're deeper in their hooks, when you should instead be finally fed up and refuse to operate with such irresponsibly assembled solutions. Only when you've pushed MS to produce something that can be thought of as secure, or gone over to Apache will you be out of the Code Red cycle. No Apache is not free of holes, but when they appear I see a much stronger effort in that group to hunting it down and telling everyone that they had better upgrade NOW.
Yes, it might not be a simple thing to have to go and recompile Apache vs downloading the next patch and rebooting, but think about what you buy for that convenience. Just because something is cheaper doesn't make it better, and I'm not just talking about $$$.
As someone steeped in the embedded memory market, I know that memory sizes like 2MB tend to be considered big and expensive to place into the single chip that would be needed to cram into the phone. Wafer errors are much more common with larger memories, so more chips are discarded, raising the price. This is why WinCE (gobs of mem) prices tend to be prohibitively expensive and Palms (relatively smaller gobs) are much more affordable (not counting inventory dumps).
The last Linux kernel I built was about 800k with k6 support, video, networking, SCSI disk and tape, IDE storage, serial, parallel port (should have left it out), floppy, iso9660 and ext2fs filesystems. I'm betting there's enough cruft in there to bring that down to about 200k of kernel, leaving plenty of space for mini-programs that at 100k would be large and for memory structures such as buffers, a large address book, and a pseudo-filesystem. What is the smallest that kernel has been whittled down to in other applications, such as the Agenda? Now, how small could Xfree get?
Bill Gates' The Road Ahead. Nothing like a good laugh.
Do you actually believe that any story you have seen in the past 100 years is original in its plot? From Star Trek's 19th century ship theme, to Star Wars' cookie cutter hero mythology, to the Jungian ideas in the Matrix, it's all being retold in one way or another.
The only thing bringing some of us down is that this same one has been retold twice in our lifetime. While I was around in the 70s to see the originals the first time, I can still take this story as both something new and familiar, and still enjoy the differences. I wonder how long it's been since we've had a story that could not be classified as being very similar to what we've seen before.
As if we needed another intelligent species on the planet for human slavery to exist on this planet. Think the message that "slavery is evil" is quaint in the 21st century? It still exists, meaning some still don't get it .
Has anyone bothered to see how the Grape Ape feels about all this? Did he protest against ape society, or was he a supporter in their vast human slave-trade machine?
Your reference to Salon.com's articles on the classic movies and series for Planet of the Apes, and their review for the movie.