It is not that big of a deal to block all IM traffic on your firewall. You tell your junior sysadmin that once a month he is responsible for testing if any IM programs can be used on the company network.
All he has to do is sit on the firewall and then log into AIM/MSN/YAHOO noting what IP is accessed and block that IP. And during the summers if you have an intern they should be an even cheaper solution depending on how much you pay them.
Your diligent IM'ers may find that they can use IM occasionally if/when AOL/MSN/YAHOO change server addresses frequently.
This could be an interesting feature to add to their already EXTREMELY USEFUL "Cable/Dsl Routers"
Linksys managers listening??? Get your engineers working on it.
Linksys recruiters listening??? I have several other ideas that would be nice to incorporate and since I'm a college student I'd rather not give them away for free:)
A mission for the enraged/. reader, discover what server(s), domains, IP addresses access a windows PC to check for DRM compliance and disable software.
Then publish this information on every website possible and allow everybody to update their firewalls blocking any sort of access to these places. And MAYBE send the information to Linksys so they can put a option in their "DSL/Cable Router" to block any sort of access to it.
Linksys may be able to increase sales by advertising just this feature to the average consumer.
Has anybody ever contested the 'legal' wording of a EULA? I realize that legal mumbo jumbo can be extremely hard to decipher for non-hardvard graduates but could these EULAs be so 'complex' that even lawyers have trouble determining what is actually being said and what is legally binding by said EULA?
So with a little more R&D you can 500 gigs of data on a drive that you have to get a special permit to access because if the use of the hard drive is not regulated the data will become nothing more then a piece of metal with plexi-glass on top of it. (Assuming you performed that mod)
1. While it may be nifty to have a NYC area code and live in Idaho, what about your mom who lives down the street and wants to call you? I couldn't find any information about the long distance charges other people will incur when trying to contact you. Sure your girlfriend might subscribe to the Vonage service and keep calling but I wouldn't call you if I had to pay 7 cents a minute and you lived 10 blocks away.
2. Second, SIP is a text-based protocol similiar to HTTP. One reason your current phone line is secure is somebody usually needs physical access to the line between you and the CO to do any sort of 'sniffing'. Now as soon as you put your voice calls over your broadband connection anybody in the neighborhood can arp poison the switch and intercept information. With SIP being text-based do the phones do any sort of encryption so that your high-tech next door neighbor can't get the latest gossip? SIP is similiar in function to SS7 (signaling system 7) and I think only provides the setup, tear-down and other such functions of each call. Anybody know how the actual data is sent over the link?
3. And the obvious......the cable companies will amend their service agreements to prohibit this activity and then release their own version of it and thus starts the court battles. I hope Vonage has the money to invest in some good lawyers.
the oil companies have declared that hydrogen does not exist in the earth's crust and that the previous study was a cruel april fools joke that was released 2 weeks too late.
CmdrTaco is being investigated for taking part in this attempt to create chaos in the minds of readers of/.
Parts of Indiana DO have daylight savings time. I like to think of Northwest Indiana as the more advanced portion of the state that is ranked 50th in technology related jobs. I mean we didn't even beat Rhode Island...RHODE ISLAND...geez....
At Purdue University students use one password to access almost every online university resource. 90% of the computer labs use some sort of Windows variant. They use PC-R Dist to verify the user and keep the computers installed with a 'fresh' copy of Windows everytime a user logs on.
Most servers are all *nix based with the majority being sun servers. When a user changes their password anywhere, it gets distributed across the entire system.
I apologize for the lack of details but I don't know any of the specifics on whether or not it is a central password file or different servers all keep a current copy of the same file.
So what about the 'spammers' that offer an opt-out solution but as soon as you remove yourself from their list they sell your email address to another company or sign you up for 3 additional 'newsletters' about how to lose 30 lbs in 3 days.
I've tested this with brand new email accounts. Sign up for 1 slightly dis-credible newsletter amd then remove yourself. See how many emails you get in the next week or so.
Given google's current business practices and 'user-friendly' manner of running a search engine, I don't feel there is a need for another great search engine. Assuming Google doesn't change its practice after it has dominated the market completely, I don't think users will be interested in locating/using another search engine. Competition is bad...ha..no really it can be.
HAHA and how is that different from the current version of windows? User: I installed something. Tech Support: Please insert your Quick Restore and follow the instructions.
With all the recent and I guess continued issues with security do you really want to install a program that allows somebody from you ISP to connect to your computer remotely? Even if the intentions are good it only takes 1 rogue tech support person to own your entire client list.
As a hack this would have been nice, but email accounts for only 700 users doesn't need the capabilities of a mainframe. A high-end workstation or a low-end server would have fit this role nicely.
Options exist for about $25,000, that mirror each other so when one server crashes the other machine immediately takes over.
Now for the MS Exchange licenses I don't know the exact cost but $100,000 seems extreme. If you have the support staff to run the linux email server on a mainframe then its probably a viable option. Otherwise, your going to pay more in support in the next few years.
I apologize but I was looking at it from a cable television (like watching the simpsons) view. Its my hope that in the future neither cable nor dsl will provide my inet access.
I don't think pricing abuse would run that rampant. There are alternatives to cable tv which include satellite or if the price is high enough 'honest' folk will resort to sharing with their neighbor. Phone service will be the same way. If the price becomes too high people will start using cell phones as their main line of communication. You will only run into a problem when companies like Verizon control both sides. The land line phone system and your cell phone.
So how quickly will Microsoft update its licenses requiring that Office only be run on Windows OS or release versions with undocumented 'features' that require files only found on the latest and greatest Windows OS.
Purdue University does the same thing. They implemented a web cache server which was greatly underpowered. So when 6000 people attempted to go to www.yahoo.com the server crashed and IE faithfully put up numerous '404' errors for people. Anyways...don't feel like you are alone in this attempt by ISPs to reduce the amount of bandwidth they use.
Depending on what sort of system you are using and your financial situation you could have your 'remote computer' mirror itself to a different 'remote computer' on a daily/hourly basis. You could have them both located at your place of residence and then have a cable modem for one pc and dsl for the second. They could then be mirroring each other over your LAN.
If you need an entire 'image' of the remote pc the enterprise version of Norton Ghost and probably even Microsoft SMS have the ability to make an image of a pc and then throw the same image on a different pc. Both of those are rather expensive programs so if your a coder, you might be able to find/use an open-source solution. I know rsync will do directory mirroring but I don't know much more about it.
As far as email goes you could use a service that automatically forwards all email received to a different address and keeps a copy of it. This way if your email server goes down in the middle of the night you can still check any email received before that from your alternate server.
There are also companies that provide backup MX servers so if you receive email on a domain you 'control' you can have the backup MX take over in the event of the primary servers failure.
Anyways that was rather long winded and requires quite a bit of work/money so your better off just using Windows XP remote desktop:) pfft.
What if the reciept is using blocking software and thus never receives the summons or whatever? If the government can't find you they can't serve you with papers. So if you block email the papers "can't" find you.
How am I not suppose to bother anybody when I'm pounding on the keys with my gorilla like fingers? And they wonder why I still use this IBM 20 pound keyboard from the 1980's.
If the website is deemed to contain child pornography then under state/federal law shouldn't that site be shutdown? And if it isn't proven that it contains child pornography then ISPs wouldn't have to worry about blocking it. I don't the laws of other countries but can foreign website contain child pornography and be included on the list relating to this law?
Too add to this. I might be able to understand not letting people touch 'unreleased' technology....but xbos and ps2 are WIDELY available. Like the previous poster I am not famaliar with CeBIT but what exactly is it for?
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It is not that big of a deal to block all IM traffic on your firewall. You tell your junior sysadmin that once a month he is responsible for testing if any IM programs can be used on the company network.
All he has to do is sit on the firewall and then log into AIM/MSN/YAHOO noting what IP is accessed and block that IP. And during the summers if you have an intern they should be an even cheaper solution depending on how much you pay them.
Your diligent IM'ers may find that they can use IM occasionally if/when AOL/MSN/YAHOO change server addresses frequently.
This could be an interesting feature to add to their already EXTREMELY USEFUL "Cable/Dsl Routers"
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Linksys managers listening??? Get your engineers working on it.
Linksys recruiters listening??? I have several other ideas that would be nice to incorporate and since I'm a college student I'd rather not give them away for free
No word on whether there were any penguins seen leaving the building
I always thought Penguins were like cockroaches in that "Once they are in....they never leave."
Now if they could just survive a nuclear holocaust they would be all set.
A mission for the enraged /. reader, discover what server(s), domains, IP addresses access a windows PC to check for DRM compliance and disable software.
Then publish this information on every website possible and allow everybody to update their firewalls blocking any sort of access to these places. And MAYBE send the information to Linksys so they can put a option in their "DSL/Cable Router" to block any sort of access to it.
Linksys may be able to increase sales by advertising just this feature to the average consumer.
ROAD TRIP!
Has anybody ever contested the 'legal' wording of a EULA? I realize that legal mumbo jumbo can be extremely hard to decipher for non-hardvard graduates but could these EULAs be so 'complex' that even lawyers have trouble determining what is actually being said and what is legally binding by said EULA?
So with a little more R&D you can 500 gigs of data on a drive that you have to get a special permit to access because if the use of the hard drive is not regulated the data will become nothing more then a piece of metal with plexi-glass on top of it. (Assuming you performed that mod)
1. While it may be nifty to have a NYC area code and live in Idaho, what about your mom who lives down the street and wants to call you? I couldn't find any information about the long distance charges other people will incur when trying to contact you. Sure your girlfriend might subscribe to the Vonage service and keep calling but I wouldn't call you if I had to pay 7 cents a minute and you lived 10 blocks away.
2. Second, SIP is a text-based protocol similiar to HTTP. One reason your current phone line is secure is somebody usually needs physical access to the line between you and the CO to do any sort of 'sniffing'. Now as soon as you put your voice calls over your broadband connection anybody in the neighborhood can arp poison the switch and intercept information. With SIP being text-based do the phones do any sort of encryption so that your high-tech next door neighbor can't get the latest gossip? SIP is similiar in function to SS7 (signaling system 7) and I think only provides the setup, tear-down and other such functions of each call. Anybody know how the actual data is sent over the link?
3. And the obvious......the cable companies will amend their service agreements to prohibit this activity and then release their own version of it and thus starts the court battles. I hope Vonage has the money to invest in some good lawyers.
the oil companies have declared that hydrogen does not exist in the earth's crust and that the previous study was a cruel april fools joke that was released 2 weeks too late.
/.
CmdrTaco is being investigated for taking part in this attempt to create chaos in the minds of readers of
Parts of Indiana DO have daylight savings time. I like to think of Northwest Indiana as the more advanced portion of the state that is ranked 50th in technology related jobs. I mean we didn't even beat Rhode Island...RHODE ISLAND...geez....
*turns and pouts*
At Purdue University students use one password to access almost every online university resource. 90% of the computer labs use some sort of Windows variant. They use PC-R Dist to verify the user and keep the computers installed with a 'fresh' copy of Windows everytime a user logs on.
Most servers are all *nix based with the majority being sun servers. When a user changes their password anywhere, it gets distributed across the entire system.
I apologize for the lack of details but I don't know any of the specifics on whether or not it is a central password file or different servers all keep a current copy of the same file.
So what about the 'spammers' that offer an opt-out solution but as soon as you remove yourself from their list they sell your email address to another company or sign you up for 3 additional 'newsletters' about how to lose 30 lbs in 3 days.
I've tested this with brand new email accounts. Sign up for 1 slightly dis-credible newsletter amd then remove yourself. See how many emails you get in the next week or so.
Given google's current business practices and 'user-friendly' manner of running a search engine, I don't feel there is a need for another great search engine. Assuming Google doesn't change its practice after it has dominated the market completely, I don't think users will be interested in locating/using another search engine. Competition is bad...ha..no really it can be.
HAHA and how is that different from the current version of windows? User: I installed something. Tech Support: Please insert your Quick Restore and follow the instructions.
With all the recent and I guess continued issues with security do you really want to install a program that allows somebody from you ISP to connect to your computer remotely? Even if the intentions are good it only takes 1 rogue tech support person to own your entire client list.
As a hack this would have been nice, but email accounts for only 700 users doesn't need the capabilities of a mainframe. A high-end workstation or a low-end server would have fit this role nicely.
Options exist for about $25,000, that mirror each other so when one server crashes the other machine immediately takes over.
Now for the MS Exchange licenses I don't know the exact cost but $100,000 seems extreme. If you have the support staff to run the linux email server on a mainframe then its probably a viable option. Otherwise, your going to pay more in support in the next few years.
I apologize but I was looking at it from a cable television (like watching the simpsons) view. Its my hope that in the future neither cable nor dsl will provide my inet access.
I don't think pricing abuse would run that rampant. There are alternatives to cable tv which include satellite or if the price is high enough 'honest' folk will resort to sharing with their neighbor. Phone service will be the same way. If the price becomes too high people will start using cell phones as their main line of communication. You will only run into a problem when companies like Verizon control both sides. The land line phone system and your cell phone.
So how quickly will Microsoft update its licenses requiring that Office only be run on Windows OS or release versions with undocumented 'features' that require files only found on the latest and greatest Windows OS.
Purdue University does the same thing. They implemented a web cache server which was greatly underpowered. So when 6000 people attempted to go to www.yahoo.com the server crashed and IE faithfully put up numerous '404' errors for people. Anyways...don't feel like you are alone in this attempt by ISPs to reduce the amount of bandwidth they use.
Depending on what sort of system you are using and your financial situation you could have your 'remote computer' mirror itself to a different 'remote computer' on a daily/hourly basis. You could have them both located at your place of residence and then have a cable modem for one pc and dsl for the second. They could then be mirroring each other over your LAN.
:) pfft.
If you need an entire 'image' of the remote pc the enterprise version of Norton Ghost and probably even Microsoft SMS have the ability to make an image of a pc and then throw the same image on a different pc. Both of those are rather expensive programs so if your a coder, you might be able to find/use an open-source solution. I know rsync will do directory mirroring but I don't know much more about it.
As far as email goes you could use a service that automatically forwards all email received to a different address and keeps a copy of it. This way if your email server goes down in the middle of the night you can still check any email received before that from your alternate server.
There are also companies that provide backup MX servers so if you receive email on a domain you 'control' you can have the backup MX take over in the event of the primary servers failure.
Anyways that was rather long winded and requires quite a bit of work/money so your better off just using Windows XP remote desktop
What if the reciept is using blocking software and thus never receives the summons or whatever? If the government can't find you they can't serve you with papers. So if you block email the papers "can't" find you.
How am I not suppose to bother anybody when I'm pounding on the keys with my gorilla like fingers? And they wonder why I still use this IBM 20 pound keyboard from the 1980's.
If the website is deemed to contain child pornography then under state/federal law shouldn't that site be shutdown? And if it isn't proven that it contains child pornography then ISPs wouldn't have to worry about blocking it. I don't the laws of other countries but can foreign website contain child pornography and be included on the list relating to this law?
Too add to this. I might be able to understand not letting people touch 'unreleased' technology....but xbos and ps2 are WIDELY available. Like the previous poster I am not famaliar with CeBIT but what exactly is it for?