One of the major issues with the tech industry is the lack of a unified voice.
Capital Hill needs a strong technical voice. Issues such as Net Neutrality, VOIP wiretapping, blocking of social networking sites, outlawing firewalls, COPA, SPAM, and MANY others need to be addressed by knowledgeable individuals. Not just those with deep pockets or personal agendas.
"United we stand; divided we fall" - John Dickinson
Why not just transparently redirect port 25 the ISPs MTA? Just like a transparent Squid Proxy. That's what I do here at work. As long as the MTA is configured to relay for that IP range there shouldn't be any problem. Yes, the mail headers will have an extra hop; but that hop can scan for mass mailings, viruses or whatever. That way it is controllable in one central location.
Yea, but most clients supported ANSI cursor positioning even when set to AVATAR. That's how I got around that little problem "way back when".
As for the following poster claiming that no one coded for it; dosn't matter, I wrote bbs side (server) ANSI to AVATAR converter. Even fido ANSI art messages were displayed perfectly.
It really helped; in many cases menus would draw over 8 times faster. That was really due to compression (long high IBM ASCII for menu boxes, spaces for whitespace, etc,..) and much smaller color changes (fixed 3 char "^VA[colorbyte]" vs ANSIs 7-12 (or so) "ESC[0;1;3#;4#m").
JabberWokky wrote:I still like how Searchlight worked - redirect BIOS and DOS display routines (basically stdout), and emulate color changes and positioning using ANSI. Any program that used BIOS calls for i/o could run under it - in fact the core BBS program itself was just a regular program with no modem handling routines whatsoever - you just loaded the TSR, and told an init style program what to use as the inital login program.
Since we're on the subject of Telegard and how things work... I remember hacking the hell out of Telegard; the ANSI screens were too friggin SLOW (it used ansi.sys/ansi.com (if anyone remembers that from PC Mag..) for drawing. So, what does a good geek do? That's right, he codes his own! I wrote my own ansi parser (ok, NOT ansi music but alas...) that did direct screen writes w/o going thru the bios. Boy did that thing FLY; over 300% faster displaying nice animations and 20-150% faster on "flat" ANSI (just colors) on the local console. But I wasn't happy; it was still slow for the end user! Anyone remember the screen protocol AVATAR? That's right! On-the-fly ANSI->AVATAR conversion! Even the RLE (^Y[char to repeat][byte for times to repeat]) part of the protocol! Talk about SCREAMING at 1200 or 2400 w/MNP5 compression!
Sigh,
Those days were fun!
Obviously the only rational solution to your problem is suicide.
...like I'm going to share my bandwidth with my neighbors... Riiiiight.
I don't want that punk ass kid up the road hacking CCs and pulling down warez on MY pipe (Nor do I want those guys w/the black sunglasses knocking on my door claiming I pulled down 100 gigs of kiddie pr0n because one old pervert learned he had free bandwidth...)
And I LIKE having a seperate network behind my NAT box, it gives me a nice warm fuzzy feeling knowing it's MUCH harder to get in.
Thank God I have DSL!
Do nothing unless you must, and when you must act -- hesitate.
But why stop there? These things are cheap enough. Make them mandatory in all cars. Monitor your car speed through GPS. Violate the speed limit, get a ticket in the mail. Plus tracking devices can help the cops find any car at any time because they're ALL being tracked. That's a GOOD thing, right? Fight crime, right?
Ok, a bit offtopic here but why allow them to speed in the first place? Why not install a computer controlled governor? Cars are already getting fitted with a "Black Box", why not tack on GPS/map combo that knows the speed of the road?
Loss of revenue for local police, major oil companies (run faster = burn more gas), places that produce high performance car parts...?
Lunatic Asylum, n.: The place where optimism most flourishes.
Exactly. Security is an ongoing process not a product.
A good admin checks at LEAST once a day for possible patches/upgrades and/or exploits to services they're running. (And they SHOULD know what services they are running, some unamed products actually try to hide*gasp!* that information!)
Yes, it's a very welcome and needed addition to a "bloated" protocol. But just be aware of some possible drawbacks when using it.
It dosn't work with SSL easily. See this thread if curious. I ran into this when I wanted to force Open Webmail to use https only and found the pages were not getting compressed.
And take note of possible problems with caching proxies serving pages to browsers that can't handle it.
It has a few other quirks, but overall I for one am quite satisfied with it.
Curious about the savings it brings? Use this.
Machines are always broken till the repairman comes.
Statements like: "Jim Allchin, says that freely distributed software code such as rival Linux could stifle innovation and that legislators need to understand the threat." make me laugh. Tell me this, WHO innovates? Big think tanks or small garage workshops? Who developed the airplane? The lightbulb? The toothbrush? Hell, even the "Chip Clip"? Lets look up the word "innovate":
innovate:To begin or introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time. Did M$ introduce the GUI? No. Did they do word
processing? No. What innovations HAVE they done? A little. They steal ideas just like everyone else does, but they dont RELEASE the IDEA, just a product. "Linux is developed in a so-called open-source environment in which the software code generally isn't owned by any one company." And that is a BAD thing? Oh it's MUCH better to be locked into a proprietary, poorly written operating system where the API calls are: misdocumented, undocumented or just don't work. How many NDAs must be signed to get a glimpse of the source code to a M$ product? Oh yea, that's "innovation". "''Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer,'' Allchin said. ''I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.''" No kidding, so is the patent office. What's new? What REALLY gets me fired up is this, "''I'm an American, I believe in the American Way,'' he said. ''I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policy makers to understand the threat.''" WHAT THREAT? How can having the source hurt the CONSUMER? It sure hurts M$s bottom line. Statements like that make me wake back up and realize we like in a capitalistic society. M$ worried = FUD, FUD, FUD.... We MUST speak up in times like these. Statements like those above DO stifle innovation!
And as always, for a good laugh:
"''We can build a better product than Linux,'' he said." All I can say to that is, DO IT THEN! MAKE A BETTER OPERATION SYSTEM! The past clearly shows otherwise...
EF has always had its ups and downs. Currently we worry about DoS attacks from skript-kiddi3s. Years ago it used to clone bots (pre TS) from scripts like Vassagos Serpent which lead to massive nick collides. What it simply boils down to is people feelings, if/when they get slammed they attack back. It dosnt matter if they take over a channel or kill an entire server anymore (or worse). *Sigh* - I miss the days when people had to know how to program ircII scripts and use a shell to even get on IRC. In most of EFs history people have always claimed EF is dying, like when eff.org left and then a few years later blackened left. The cycle just keeps repeating.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Re:Sustaining an imaginative grasp of posterity!
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Computer Historian?
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When websites are redesigned (all of them every day, it seems:P), there's no record of the progression of style or theory beyond what we remember and can tell one another. That's a far cry from the abundant paper trail design has left through the 20th century.
One question: when does information overload occur? Do we really need to record daily changes of web pages? We can't even index existing pages in "real time" for search engines to display let alone record them. I know I'm taking your example to an extreme, but do we really need to record that much data?
There's no time for traditional history, in which we sit back years later and disect a great battle or read through ancient manuscripts in search of insight... because the record will be gone after the next daily big breakthrough.
The SNR on the web is already terrible; whoever records has to be selective. That person is forced to filter due to the sheer amount of data. Will information be lost? Yes, and IMHO sometimes bit rot is best. But I must admit; sometimes the smallest change can lead to great insight.
Parts that positively cannot be assembled in improper order will be.
Well, I just use a simple and cheap solution
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Linux Failover?
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In a non ciritcal situation I simply use vhosting on a backup machine that pings a private IP every N seconds. If the private IP fails I can assume the primary machine died and take over its IP. If I see it come back online I release the vhost. Yea, there might be problems w/two machines having the same IP for a second or two but it hasn't failed for me yet. The bigest problem wasn't the failover; it was keeping the machines synced.
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/me misses flash attacks on IRC...
(not the Galacticomm BBS game!)
Now get off my lawn!
One of the major issues with the tech industry is the lack of a unified voice.
Capital Hill needs a strong technical voice. Issues such as Net Neutrality, VOIP wiretapping, blocking of social networking sites, outlawing firewalls, COPA, SPAM, and MANY others need to be addressed by knowledgeable individuals. Not just those with deep pockets or personal agendas.
"United we stand; divided we fall" - John Dickinson
Pauly Shore is now a vicious member of management!?!
(Ya know... That DOES explain alot...)
Why not just transparently redirect port 25 the ISPs MTA? Just like a transparent Squid Proxy. That's what I do here at work. As long as the MTA is configured to relay for that IP range there shouldn't be any problem. Yes, the mail headers will have an extra hop; but that hop can scan for mass mailings, viruses or whatever. That way it is controllable in one central location.
Just a few simple changes...
/thats/ a law I'd love to see...
s/a file/spam/
s/P2P network/mail server/
Now
Yea, but most clients supported ANSI cursor positioning even when set to AVATAR. That's how I got around that little problem "way back when".
As for the following poster claiming that no one coded for it; dosn't matter, I wrote bbs side (server) ANSI to AVATAR converter. Even fido ANSI art messages were displayed perfectly.
It really helped; in many cases menus would draw over 8 times faster. That was really due to compression (long high IBM ASCII for menu boxes, spaces for whitespace, etc,..) and much smaller color changes (fixed 3 char "^VA[colorbyte]" vs ANSIs 7-12 (or so) "ESC[0;1;3#;4#m").
JabberWokky wrote: I still like how Searchlight worked - redirect BIOS and DOS display routines (basically stdout), and emulate color changes and positioning using ANSI. Any program that used BIOS calls for i/o could run under it - in fact the core BBS program itself was just a regular program with no modem handling routines whatsoever - you just loaded the TSR, and told an init style program what to use as the inital login program.
Since we're on the subject of Telegard and how things work... I remember hacking the hell out of Telegard; the ANSI screens were too friggin SLOW (it used ansi.sys/ansi.com (if anyone remembers that from PC Mag..) for drawing. So, what does a good geek do? That's right, he codes his own! I wrote my own ansi parser (ok, NOT ansi music but alas...) that did direct screen writes w/o going thru the bios. Boy did that thing FLY; over 300% faster displaying nice animations and 20-150% faster on "flat" ANSI (just colors) on the local console. But I wasn't happy; it was still slow for the end user! Anyone remember the screen protocol AVATAR? That's right! On-the-fly ANSI->AVATAR conversion! Even the RLE (^Y[char to repeat][byte for times to repeat]) part of the protocol! Talk about SCREAMING at 1200 or 2400 w/MNP5 compression!
Sigh,
Those days were fun!
Obviously the only rational solution to your problem is suicide.
...like I'm going to share my bandwidth with my neighbors... Riiiiight.
I don't want that punk ass kid up the road hacking CCs and pulling down warez on MY pipe (Nor do I want those guys w/the black sunglasses knocking on my door claiming I pulled down 100 gigs of kiddie pr0n because one old pervert learned he had free bandwidth...)
And I LIKE having a seperate network behind my NAT box, it gives me a nice warm fuzzy feeling knowing it's MUCH harder to get in.
Thank God I have DSL!
Do nothing unless you must, and when you must act -- hesitate.
Ack! The government is following M$s advice....
...guess that answers that question!
But why stop there? These things are cheap enough. Make them mandatory in all cars. Monitor your car speed through GPS. Violate the speed limit, get a ticket in the mail. Plus tracking devices can help the cops find any car at any time because they're ALL being tracked. That's a GOOD thing, right? Fight crime, right?
Ok, a bit offtopic here but why allow them to speed in the first place? Why not install a computer controlled governor? Cars are already getting fitted with a "Black Box", why not tack on GPS/map combo that knows the speed of the road?
Loss of revenue for local police, major oil companies (run faster = burn more gas), places that produce high performance car parts...?
Lunatic Asylum, n.: The place where optimism most flourishes.
Exactly. Security is an ongoing process not a product.
A good admin checks at LEAST once a day for possible patches/upgrades and/or exploits to services they're running. (And they SHOULD know what services they are running, some unamed products actually try to hide *gasp!* that information!)
Oh we all walk the wibberly wabberly walk...
Yes, it's a very welcome and needed addition to a "bloated" protocol. But just be aware of some possible drawbacks when using it.
It dosn't work with SSL easily. See this thread if curious. I ran into this when I wanted to force Open Webmail to use https only and found the pages were not getting compressed.
And take note of possible problems with caching proxies serving pages to browsers that can't handle it.
It has a few other quirks, but overall I for one am quite satisfied with it.
Curious about the savings it brings? Use this.
Machines are always broken till the repairman comes.
Statements like: "Jim Allchin, says that freely distributed software code such as rival Linux could stifle innovation and that legislators need to understand the threat." make me laugh. Tell me this, WHO innovates? Big think tanks or small garage workshops? Who developed the airplane? The lightbulb? The toothbrush? Hell, even the "Chip Clip"? Lets look up the word "innovate":
innovate: To begin or introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time. Did M$ introduce the GUI? No. Did they do word
processing? No. What innovations HAVE they done? A little. They steal ideas just like everyone else does, but they dont RELEASE the IDEA, just a product. "Linux is developed in a so-called open-source environment in which the software code generally isn't owned by any one company." And that is a BAD thing? Oh it's MUCH better to be locked into a proprietary, poorly written operating system where the API calls are: misdocumented, undocumented or just don't work. How many NDAs must be signed to get a glimpse of the source code to a M$ product? Oh yea, that's "innovation". "''Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer,'' Allchin said. ''I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.''" No kidding, so is the patent office. What's new? What REALLY gets me fired up is this, "''I'm an American, I believe in the American Way,'' he said. ''I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policy makers to understand the threat.''" WHAT THREAT? How can having the source hurt the CONSUMER? It sure hurts M$s bottom line. Statements like that make me wake back up and realize we like in a capitalistic society. M$ worried = FUD, FUD, FUD.... We MUST speak up in times like these. Statements like those above DO stifle innovation!
And as always, for a good laugh:
"''We can build a better product than Linux,'' he said." All I can say to that is, DO IT THEN! MAKE A BETTER OPERATION SYSTEM! The past clearly shows otherwise...
You must be a newbie so I'll forgive you, but eff.org (before they moved to the west coast) used to run irc.eff.org many years ago.
get a clue.
EF has always had its ups and downs. Currently we worry about DoS attacks from skript-kiddi3s. Years ago it used to clone bots (pre TS) from scripts like Vassagos Serpent which lead to massive nick collides. What it simply boils down to is people feelings, if/when they get slammed they attack back. It dosnt matter if they take over a channel or kill an entire server anymore (or worse). *Sigh* - I miss the days when people had to know how to program ircII scripts and use a shell to even get on IRC. In most of EFs history people have always claimed EF is dying, like when eff.org left and then a few years later blackened left. The cycle just keeps repeating.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
One question: when does information overload occur? Do we really need to record daily changes of web pages? We can't even index existing pages in "real time" for search engines to display let alone record them. I know I'm taking your example to an extreme, but do we really need to record that much data?
There's no time for traditional history, in which we sit back years later and disect a great battle or read through ancient manuscripts in search of insight... because the record will be gone after the next daily big breakthrough.
The SNR on the web is already terrible; whoever records has to be selective. That person is forced to filter due to the sheer amount of data. Will information be lost? Yes, and IMHO sometimes bit rot is best. But I must admit; sometimes the smallest change can lead to great insight.
Parts that positively cannot be assembled in improper order will be.
In a non ciritcal situation I simply use vhosting on a backup machine that pings a private IP every N seconds. If the private IP fails I can assume the primary machine died and take over its IP. If I see it come back online I release the vhost. Yea, there might be problems w/two machines having the same IP for a second or two but it hasn't failed for me yet. The bigest problem wasn't the failover; it was keeping the machines synced.