Ummm, I've had a number of RH61 and RH71 boxes on the 'net for 2 years (RH61) and 1 year (RH71).
No hacks, plenty of attacks. While not saying they are perfect, it helps to shut down all your services that you aren't using, and to install a proper firewall which only lets through the ports that you are interested in.
Actually, you're wrong. If you have enough cash and can prove it (by posting a bond for example), in many states you can avoid purchasing insurance. Essentially, you are self-insuring yourself. Whether that is a smart thing to do is another question entirely.
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Not a good answer. I personally have about 35 dual cpu systems which are processing Seti@home.
Ummm, no. I don't think you are a professional administrater. This may be news to you, but system administraters and management prefer stability over speed. If I had to choose between a stable system running at X speed, or an unstable system running at x*y speed, I'll go with the stable system. I don't need my nights interrupted because of an unstable system that crashed
It has been Cape Canaveral for many years. It was renamed Cape Kennedy back in the 60's, but had it's original name returned a number of years ago. The space center is still called the Kennedy Space Center.
You had better learn about orbital mechanics before you speak.
The Iridium satelites are in what is called "low earth orbit". This means that they are actually flying through an extremely thin part of the Earth's athmosphere. Eventually the orbit decays (over a period of many years) due to the friction of the satelite hitting the molecules of air and the satelite will re-enter the athmosphere. By doing a controlled re-entry they can control where the satelite will actually enter the athmosphere and hit the (hopefully) water.
Any editorial staff has that responsibility. If they don't, then they will eventually lose their readership. Of course, this is my opinion. But speaking as someone who has been involved with computers for over 25 years, and as someone who DOES make technology decisions, I value my time, and will eventually stop reading SlashDot in favor of other venues if this continues. If you want to influence major decision makers, you need to present a consistent image. This is my opinion, disagreement with it is acceptable.
My decision-making powers include deciding what OS's to use on our servers. For those who are curious, we use mostly RedHat Linux 6.2, although an upgrade to 7.0 is planned in the next few months. We have 24 servers running behind a load balancer, and so far have not had any problems with the systems. There are also a couple of Sun boxes which we need to keep for political reasons. The load balancer is a CoyotePoint Equalizer.
I am disgruntled only because of the total nonsense of the original posting. If something this irrevelent is posted, then why aren't other, more relevent postings let through. SlashDot will lose the most influential members of it's readership if these kind of articles keep getting posted. In regards to my own previous postings, it is kind of ironic that quite often postings get rejected, only to have virtually the same one accepted a little later. This has happened to me and to many others. The editorial staff has the responsibility to maintain consistancy, yet all too often they demonstrate a total lack of consistancy.
I've submitted a number of relevent articles over the past year or so. They dealt with real issues and questions about technology. This morning I start up my browser and see an article which is asking how to spell a word??????? Come on, guys. Either get some consistency with your editorial selections, or you will eventually start to lose that portion of your readership which may be influential and have real decision-making powers. Jonathan Bayer, Director of Technology at Dynamic Logic
I've been asked my SS# many times. Also, Radio Shack is infamous for asking and sometimes insisting on my phone number, even though I pay in cash! I finally broke my local store of that habit. I had fun doing it, I was looking for a new stereo, and decided to see what they had. I was ready to plunk down about $600, the sales guy was writing up a ticket and asked me my phone number. When I asked why he said it was store policy. I asked for the manager, when he showed up I waved my cash under his face, and told him that they just lost a big sale because they insisted on my phone number; then I walked out. Next time I went in there was a sign posted prominately that the phone numbers were optional. But the look on their faces when I walked out was priceless!
It's not draft. They highlighted the new/changed sections for people to see easier.
Here is a clarification of their policy which they sent me:
It is not the intent of this text to prohibit customers from establishing a connection for residential purposes. Activities such as online banking, online trading and making purchases online are not considered in violation of the Subscriber Agreement.
The Comcast Online residential service is not intended for those that attempt to host a VPN connection or for those persons attempting to establish a VPN connection with their workplace.
Exactly! Here is a reply they made to my request for clarification:
It is not the intent of this text to prohibit customers from establishing a connection for residential purposes. Activities such as online banking, online trading and making purchases online are not considered in violation of the Subscriber Agreement.
The Comcast Online residential service is not intended for those that attempt to host a VPN connection or for those persons attempting to establish a VPN connection with their workplace.
Here is a clarification I received from Comcast about this:
It is not the intent of this text to prohibit customers from establishing a connection for residential purposes. Activities such as online banking, online trading and making purchases online are not considered in violation of the Subscriber Agreement.
The Comcast Online residential service is not intended for those that attempt to host a VPN connection or for those persons attempting to establish a VPN connection with their workplace.
You are absolutely correct. Here is a clarification I received from them about this:
It is not the intent of this text to prohibit customers from establishing a connection for residential purposes. Activities such as online banking, online trading and making purchases online are not considered in violation of the Subscriber Agreement.
The Comcast Online residential service is not intended for those that attempt to host a VPN connection or for those persons attempting to establish a VPN connection with their workplace.
Get your facts straight. VPN is NOT IP Masquarading. VPN is a Virtual Private Network, used to connect securely with another computer network over the public internet; ie: connecting to your office network.
Yes, you are. Here is a clarification I received from them about this:
It is not the intent of this text to prohibit customers from establishing a connection for residential purposes. Activities such as online banking, online trading and making purchases online are not considered in violation of the Subscriber Agreement.
The Comcast Online residential service is not intended for those that attempt to host a VPN connection or for those persons attempting to establish a VPN connection with their workplace.
If they see excessive usage on a specific IP address, they may then monitor, and if they determine you are violating their agreement, they could then cancel it.
I think they have a bandwidth problem, and don't want people using it for business. Here is a clarification I received from them:
It is not the intent of this text to prohibit customers from establishing a connection for residential purposes. Activities such as online banking, online trading and making purchases online are not considered in violation of the Subscriber Agreement.
The Comcast Online residential service is not intended for those that attempt to host a VPN connection or for those persons attempting to establish a VPN connection with their workplace.
I sent them a question asking for clarification about the VPN paragraph. This is their reply:
It is not the intent of this text to prohibit customers from establishing a connection for residential purposes. Activities such as online banking, online trading and making purchases online are not considered in violation of the Subscriber Agreement.
The Comcast Online residential service is not intended for those that attempt to host a VPN connection or for those persons attempting to establish a VPN connection with their workplace.
The problem is power. A wireless mouse needs batteries to operate. The current wireless mice only transmit and use power when the mouse is moving. But an optical mouse needs to power an LED. You would be replacing batteries on a daily basis.
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Ummm, I've had a number of RH61 and RH71 boxes on the 'net for 2 years (RH61) and 1 year (RH71).
No hacks, plenty of attacks. While not saying they are perfect, it helps to shut down all your services that you aren't using, and to install a proper firewall which only lets through the ports that you are interested in.
Actually, you're wrong. If you have enough cash and can prove it (by posting a bond for example), in many states you can avoid purchasing insurance. Essentially, you are self-insuring yourself. Whether that is a smart thing to do is another question entirely.
Not a good answer. I personally have about 35 dual cpu systems which are processing Seti@home.
Ummm, no. I don't think you are a professional administrater. This may be news to you, but system administraters and management prefer stability over speed. If I had to choose between a stable system running at X speed, or an unstable system running at x*y speed, I'll go with the stable system. I don't need my nights interrupted because of an unstable system that crashed
it's there, but the original author seemed to have too much faith in his T-1; the site seems to be slashdotted already.n
It is in ftp://ftp.webtrek./pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/7.1/e
Actually, it is, according to the Google cached page.
It has been Cape Canaveral for many years. It was renamed Cape Kennedy back in the 60's, but had it's original name returned a number of years ago. The space center is still called the Kennedy Space Center.
How? I found a line in param.h, but is there a better way?
You had better learn about orbital mechanics before you speak.
The Iridium satelites are in what is called "low earth orbit". This means that they are actually flying through an extremely thin part of the Earth's athmosphere. Eventually the orbit decays (over a period of many years) due to the friction of the satelite hitting the molecules of air and the satelite will re-enter the athmosphere.
By doing a controlled re-entry they can control where the satelite will actually enter the athmosphere and hit the (hopefully) water.
Any editorial staff has that responsibility. If they don't, then they will eventually lose their readership.
Of course, this is my opinion. But speaking as someone who has been involved with computers for over 25 years, and as someone who DOES make technology decisions, I value my time, and will eventually stop reading SlashDot in favor of other venues if this continues.
If you want to influence major decision makers, you need to present a consistent image.
This is my opinion, disagreement with it is acceptable.
My decision-making powers include deciding what OS's to use on our servers. For those who are curious, we use mostly RedHat Linux 6.2, although an upgrade to 7.0 is planned in the next few months. We have 24 servers running behind a load balancer, and so far have not had any problems with the systems. There are also a couple of Sun boxes which we need to keep for political reasons. The load balancer is a CoyotePoint Equalizer.
I am disgruntled only because of the total nonsense of the original posting. If something this irrevelent is posted, then why aren't other, more relevent postings let through.
SlashDot will lose the most influential members of it's readership if these kind of articles keep getting posted.
In regards to my own previous postings, it is kind of ironic that quite often postings get rejected, only to have virtually the same one accepted a little later. This has happened to me and to many others. The editorial staff has the responsibility to maintain consistancy, yet all too often they demonstrate a total lack of consistancy.
I've submitted a number of relevent articles over the past year or so. They dealt with real issues and questions about technology.
This morning I start up my browser and see an article which is asking how to spell a word???????
Come on, guys. Either get some consistency with your editorial selections, or you will eventually start to lose that portion of your readership which may be influential and have real decision-making powers.
Jonathan Bayer, Director of Technology at Dynamic Logic
I've been asked my SS# many times. Also, Radio Shack is infamous for asking and sometimes insisting on my phone number, even though I pay in cash!
I finally broke my local store of that habit. I had fun doing it, I was looking for a new stereo, and decided to see what they had. I was ready to plunk down about $600, the sales guy was writing up a ticket and asked me my phone number. When I asked why he said it was store policy. I asked for the manager, when he showed up I waved my cash under his face, and told him that they just lost a big sale because they insisted on my phone number; then I walked out. Next time I went in there was a sign posted prominately that the phone numbers were optional. But the look on their faces when I walked out was priceless!
It's not draft. They highlighted the new/changed sections for people to see easier.
Here is a clarification of their policy which they sent me:
It is not the intent of this text to prohibit customers from establishing a connection for residential purposes. Activities such as online banking, online trading and making purchases online are not considered in violation of the Subscriber Agreement.
The Comcast Online residential service is not intended for those that attempt to host a VPN connection or for those persons attempting to establish a VPN connection with their workplace.
Thank you for choosing Comcast@Home!
Exactly! Here is a reply they made to my request for clarification:
It is not the intent of this text to prohibit customers from establishing a connection for residential purposes. Activities such as online banking, online trading and making purchases online are not considered in violation of the Subscriber Agreement.
The Comcast Online residential service is not intended for those that attempt to host a VPN connection or for those persons attempting to establish a VPN connection with their workplace.
Thank you for choosing Comcast@Home!
Sorry, you're wrong.
Here is a clarification I received from Comcast about this:
It is not the intent of this text to prohibit customers from establishing a connection for residential purposes. Activities such as online banking, online trading and making purchases online are not considered in violation of the Subscriber Agreement.
The Comcast Online residential service is not intended for those that attempt to host a VPN connection or for those persons attempting to establish a VPN connection with their workplace.
Thank you for choosing Comcast@Home!
You are absolutely correct. Here is a clarification I received from them about this:
It is not the intent of this text to prohibit customers from establishing a connection for residential purposes. Activities such as online banking, online trading and making purchases online are not considered in violation of the Subscriber Agreement.
The Comcast Online residential service is not intended for those that attempt to host a VPN connection or for those persons attempting to establish a VPN connection with their workplace.
Thank you for choosing Comcast@Home!
Get your facts straight. VPN is NOT IP Masquarading. VPN is a Virtual Private Network, used to connect securely with another computer network over the public internet; ie: connecting to your office network.
Yes, you are. Here is a clarification I received from them about this:
It is not the intent of this text to prohibit customers from establishing a connection for residential purposes. Activities such as online banking, online trading and making purchases online are not considered in violation of the Subscriber Agreement.
The Comcast Online residential service is not intended for those that attempt to host a VPN connection or for those persons attempting to establish a VPN connection with their workplace.
Thank you for choosing Comcast@Home!
If they see excessive usage on a specific IP address, they may then monitor, and if they determine you are violating their agreement, they could then cancel it.
I think they have a bandwidth problem, and don't want people using it for business. Here is a clarification I received from them:
It is not the intent of this text to prohibit customers from establishing a connection for residential purposes. Activities such as online banking, online trading and making purchases online are not considered in violation of the Subscriber Agreement.
The Comcast Online residential service is not intended for those that attempt to host a VPN connection or for those persons attempting to establish a VPN connection with their workplace.
Thank you for choosing Comcast@Home!
I sent them a question asking for clarification about the VPN paragraph. This is their reply:
It is not the intent of this text to prohibit customers from establishing a connection for residential purposes. Activities such as online banking, online trading and making purchases online are not considered in violation of the Subscriber Agreement.
The Comcast Online residential service is not intended for those that attempt to host a VPN connection or for those persons attempting to establish a VPN connection with their workplace.
Thank you for choosing Comcast@Home!
The problem is power. A wireless mouse needs batteries to operate. The current wireless mice only transmit and use power when the mouse is moving. But an optical mouse needs to power an LED. You would be replacing batteries on a daily basis.
Sounds like you might have a defective mouse.