emKnoppix was concived exactly for this purpose. One disadvantage of source distributions is that if their are bugs in say ssh, you are forced to apply patches and update. But if you follow a good distro like debian, the patches are all there, well tested. So emknoppix uses debian as the main distro and builds a compressed disk image which you can boot using a kernel, just like knoppix.
Even though name is emknoppox this is not a run from CD distro, the/etc is stored in hard disl (or flash or disk on chip) and stays put after reboot.
My cable ISP blocks all MS and proxy ports at CMTS level. So people inside the network also cannot communicate on that ports. They will open it if some one requests it. but guess what, their is minimal spamming from our network and we (users) were un affected during the previous MS blast. Our ISP also allows people to send mails using their own mail servers, that gets abused some times, other than than it's pretty nice.
As the anti spam officer in a Major ISP in India, I have no problems with blocklists as such. But the people who maintain the blacklists also has a responsibility to correct their mistakes immediatly. They must listen to people who maintain networks and if a machine is wrongly listed they must remove it. The procedure for taking out a machine from blacklists must be documented and verifiable.
We have a large cable network, and there are 3 4 trouble making customers. We do allow people to run their own mail servers. But that also means that some customers misuse it to send spam. It takes us a day or 2 to shut down the spammer, and by then the C bloc will be listed in some black holes.
Now de listing it becomes a major pain if the black holes are not responsive. If the procedures are well documented life of ISPs become much easir.
and no we have not considered denying the freedom of our customers to run their own outgoing mail servers. one or two random spammers cannot force us to deny that freedom to majority of legitimate users in our network.
No country, especially not a developing one, can in good faith spend vast somes of money on questionable proprietary technology from mainly dodgy suppliers
Dear jason
Do you have any idea about what is happening at ground? Just because it India is a developing country does it needs to be questionable proprietary technology from mainly dodgy supplier?
For your kind information, all these machines are manufactured by Govt owned company using Govt owned technology, and there has been extensive trials done before in various other smaller elections across the country.
Please, leave the brown people alone. We do not need any one to liberate us.
I'm surprised India is doing this... electronic voting has not been trialled on anything remotely this big. AFAIK no city/state/province has run an all-electronic election, let alone an entire country. Great initiative, plenty for everyone to learn from, but seems just a bit dangerous.
EC of India has conducted extensive trials in many smaller states and elections before deciding to use using EVMs for national elections. Last assembly and parleament elections in my state, Kerala was done using EVMs, and I voted for both the elections, and yes, I am some one reading and replying to/. in my own home at Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
I must also say that while all the stuff being said about cast system and Goonds and other nasty stuff is partially true, it is not that every elections are rigged or every polling booth captured. Please understand, India is too big and diverse to genaralise on any thing. Here in my state, booth capturing and rigging are almost non existant, and so also the cast system.
We have quality of life parameters comparable to western world. For example life expectancy in Kerala is 72, the same as the Czech Republic, whereas Ireland's is 74. And 95% of Keralans over the age of seven can read and write, the same as in Israel. Infant mortality rate - the number of infants per 1,000 live births who die before the end of their first year - is 13, the same as that in Greece and better than in Portugal. (Ireland's figure, 7, is one of the best in the world - only Sweden and Japan do better). Moreover, in Kerala, the average number of live births per woman is only 1.7, less than the replacement rate. I have taken these figures from here
But that do not mean all is well. But it also means that india is not all snake charmers and maharajas.
I am a subscriber of Reliance phone and my expierience in one word is confusion . I am yet to receive my first bill and have no idea how much it is going to be. I had a BSNL mobile and has not decided to ditch it yet. I have also not given my Relience number to any one. All incoming calls are to my GSM mobile, which incidently is also free.
Regarding interconnectivity, I did not had any problem calling any one after they have started billing. The call clarity is excellent. I have no problems with the range also. I recently had a trip to Goa via road. (Trivandrum -> Mangalore -> Goa -> Bangalore -> Madurai -> Trivandrum) and except in forests and other deserted places Relience has range, But BSNL was even better, and I would say Relience is a close second.
The Video and Audio are working as advertised. I have a low end monochrome phone so cannot comment on the quality, but I guess it should be ok. They have a menu option called R-World and it has video audio and lots of other services.
They also have a dialup internet service where phone is connected to computer via usb cable and connects to net at 115,200 bps. The cable costs around Rs. 2000. In the demo I saw they used a dialer in XP and connects to an unknown number. The sales guy put his own number in the phone no field. Other than that it is all standard. (TCP/IP and PAP) I am hoping to get it working on Linux once I get hold of it. And things gets even better when I get a Sharp Zaurus and I am online any where in India:)
They do not have roming. They have some thing called TSS (Temp subscription service) Where I have t o dial *444 (etc...) from a new location and I get a new number. It is also told that i will be reachable in my old number also. But have not tested this. The customer call center is help full and reachable.
raj
PS: did not check for spellings, pl overlook the errors:(
I am a consultant for a cable ISP in India. My primary task is to help them fight against spam. When I was called for consultancy we used to get about 30 - 40 complaints per day, which would mean about 30k to 40k spam being send from our network. most of our customers are home users and the policy do not allow them to run a mail servers (we block incoming port 25) On a simple analysis I found that 99% of the spam was being send from our network via open proxies that are set up by various users. So I hunted down the ports one by one and installed a blanket ban on all the proxy ports from outside. Then we took care of 2 spammers who were in our network. We told them that if they continue spamming we will disconnect them. Now we have nearly zero complaints from our network.
The day ends here at India with this sad news:( Esp since one of the astronauts was from India, My heart goes out for all the brave men and women and their family members!!
Some info about Malayalam to those who are wondering
Malayalam is the language spoken in the state of Kerala located in the south eastern part of India. Kerala was selected as one of the 50 must see places by National Geographic. Malayalam is located from +U0D00 to +U0D7F in the Unicode.
In case their are any TeXis here, the TUG 2002 will be held in Kerala and is a nice time to come and visit Kerala.
This is the simple example of how any key word based mail scans will be defeated. You simply cannot write keywords for non standard roman translitatations in more than 15 languages.
raj
PS:"Adi poli comment" means good comment in Malayalam, and only a person from Kerala will be able to understand this!
Now seriously, how much trouble is it to read around a huge ad in the middle of your page? I'm being serious here. I have mental filtering. I just don't notice them anymore.
I always use the print option to read the pages with big ad block in the middle. esp at places like O'Reilly where you have to read big articles across multiple pages. This gives you a clean page with just the article in its full and nothing else.
Mule (or MULtilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs) was a multilingual editor based on GNU Emacs. Now most of multilingual features of Mule are merged into GNU Emacs as MULE (multilingual environment).
Slashdot Mirror
emKnoppix was concived exactly for this purpose. One disadvantage of source distributions is that if their are bugs in say ssh, you are forced to apply patches and update. But if you follow a good distro like debian, the patches are all there, well tested. So emknoppix uses debian as the main distro and builds a compressed disk image which you can boot using a kernel, just like knoppix.
Even though name is emknoppox this is not a run from CD distro, the
The url is http://emknoppix.sarovar.org and I am the author :-)
raj
Hi,
My cable ISP blocks all MS and proxy ports at CMTS level. So people inside the network also cannot communicate on that ports. They will open it if some one requests it. but guess what, their is minimal spamming from our network and we (users) were un affected during the previous MS blast. Our ISP also allows people to send mails using their own mail servers, that gets abused some times, other than than it's pretty nice.
raj
As the anti spam officer in a Major ISP in India, I have no problems with blocklists as such. But the people who maintain the blacklists also has a responsibility to correct their mistakes immediatly. They must listen to people who maintain networks and if a machine is wrongly listed they must remove it. The procedure for taking out a machine from blacklists must be documented and verifiable.
We have a large cable network, and there are 3 4 trouble making customers. We do allow people to run their own mail servers. But that also means that some customers misuse it to send spam. It takes us a day or 2 to shut down the spammer, and by then the C bloc will be listed in some black holes.
Now de listing it becomes a major pain if the black holes are not responsive. If the procedures are well documented life of ISPs become much easir.
and no we have not considered denying the freedom of our customers to run their own outgoing mail servers. one or two random spammers cannot force us to deny that freedom to majority of legitimate users in our network.
raj
I wonder what would have been the reaction of slashdotters....
btw, we do have power failures here (Trivandrum, India), but I do not think we ever had a black out of some thing like 24 hours...
raj
Dear jason
Do you have any idea about what is happening at ground? Just because it India is a developing country does it needs to be questionable proprietary technology from mainly dodgy supplier?
For your kind information, all these machines are manufactured by Govt owned company using Govt owned technology, and there has been extensive trials done before in various other smaller elections across the country.
Please, leave the brown people alone. We do not need any one to liberate us.
raj
EC of India has conducted extensive trials in many smaller states and elections before deciding to use using EVMs for national elections. Last assembly and parleament elections in my state, Kerala was done using EVMs, and I voted for both the elections, and yes, I am some one reading and replying to /. in my own home at Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
I must also say that while all the stuff being said about cast system and Goonds and other nasty stuff is partially true, it is not that every elections are rigged or every polling booth captured. Please understand, India is too big and diverse to genaralise on any thing. Here in my state, booth capturing and rigging are almost non existant, and so also the cast system.
We have quality of life parameters comparable to western world. For example life expectancy in Kerala is 72, the same as the Czech Republic, whereas Ireland's is 74. And 95% of Keralans over the age of seven can read and write, the same as in Israel. Infant mortality rate - the number of infants per 1,000 live births who die before the end of their first year - is 13, the same as that in Greece and better than in Portugal. (Ireland's figure, 7, is one of the best in the world - only Sweden and Japan do better). Moreover, in Kerala, the average number of live births per woman is only 1.7, less than the replacement rate. I have taken these figures from here
But that do not mean all is well. But it also means that india is not all snake charmers and maharajas.
raj
I am a subscriber of Reliance phone and my expierience in one word is confusion . I am yet to receive my first bill and have no idea how much it is going to be. I had a BSNL mobile and has not decided to ditch it yet. I have also not given my Relience number to any one. All incoming calls are to my GSM mobile, which incidently is also free.
:)
:(
Regarding interconnectivity, I did not had any problem calling any one after they have started billing. The call clarity is excellent. I have no problems with the range also. I recently had a trip to Goa via road. (Trivandrum -> Mangalore -> Goa -> Bangalore -> Madurai -> Trivandrum) and except in forests and other deserted places Relience has range, But BSNL was even better, and I would say Relience is a close second.
The Video and Audio are working as advertised. I have a low end monochrome phone so cannot comment on the quality, but I guess it should be ok. They have a menu option called R-World and it has video audio and lots of other services.
They also have a dialup internet service where phone is connected to computer via usb cable and connects to net at 115,200 bps. The cable costs around Rs. 2000. In the demo I saw they used a dialer in XP and connects to an unknown number. The sales guy put his own number in the phone no field. Other than that it is all standard. (TCP/IP and PAP) I am hoping to get it working on Linux once I get hold of it. And things gets even better when I get a Sharp Zaurus and I am online any where in India
They do not have roming. They have some thing called TSS (Temp subscription service) Where I have t o dial *444 (etc...) from a new location and I get a new number. It is also told that i will be reachable in my old number also. But have not tested this. The customer call center is help full and reachable.
raj
PS: did not check for spellings, pl overlook the errors
Your dad was a president? your a president, and your kids, and your kids kids.
you cant do anything about it.
I am a consultant for a cable ISP in India. My primary task is to help them fight against spam. When I was called for consultancy we used to get about 30 - 40 complaints per day, which would mean about 30k to 40k spam being send from our network. most of our customers are home users and the policy do not allow them to run a mail servers (we block incoming port 25) On a simple analysis I found that 99% of the spam was being send from our network via open proxies that are set up by various users. So I hunted down the ports one by one and installed a blanket ban on all the proxy ports from outside. Then we took care of 2 spammers who were in our network. We told them that if they continue spamming we will disconnect them. Now we have nearly zero complaints from our network.
raj
The day ends here at India with this sad news :(
Esp since one of the astronauts was from India, My heart goes out for all the brave men and women and their family members!!
raj
Hey,
Can you give the source of this information. This is a new information for me
raj
Malayalam is the language spoken in the state of Kerala located in the south eastern part of India. Kerala was selected as one of the 50 must see places by National Geographic. Malayalam is located from +U0D00 to +U0D7F in the Unicode.
In case their are any TeXis here, the TUG 2002 will be held in Kerala and is a nice time to come and visit Kerala.
raj
sayippanmare andam vitte irikkukayne ennu thonnunu!!
:-)
arkengilum moderator access undengil oru malayalam postne onnu pokki vidanam
raj
Mone gopale......
Adi poli comment!!!!
This is the simple example of how any key word based mail scans will be defeated. You simply cannot write keywords for non standard roman translitatations in more than 15 languages.
raj
PS:"Adi poli comment" means good comment in Malayalam, and only a person from Kerala will be able to understand this!
I always use the print option to read the pages with big ad block in the middle. esp at places like O'Reilly where you have to read big articles across multiple pages. This gives you a clean page with just the article in its full and nothing else.
Mule (or MULtilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs) was a multilingual editor based on GNU Emacs. Now most of multilingual features of Mule are merged into GNU Emacs as MULE (multilingual environment).
According to their website