Now I dont know if it's a joke or not, but still after installing Kazaa and most other p2p programs, warning lights in Ad-Aware(2) from Lavasoft lights up like a xmas tree. Bearshare is the only one I can manage to install and get rid of all the snooping, I think.
In oher news. snpp.com has the April Fools bug pretty good too.. First I thought that the domain had not been renewed and some one else had registered it.
Re:A REAL, TRUE story - M$ anti-unix site runs BSD
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Hey that guy is right, ROFL.. Netcraft says The site www.wehavethewayout.com is running Rapidsite/Apa-1.3.14 (Unix) FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.5a on FreeBSD.
In other news, Sun Microsystems shifts focus to.net instead. Get the full article here.
"We know a better system when we see it", says Ed Zander, President and Chief Operating Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "To be honest, we don't quite see a future without a proper.net strategy. The development tools alone with all their templates and wizards just make it too good for us to ignore. It also allows us to collect more data from the applications developed everywhere on the net. Thanks to the agreement you agree to when installing the package, we can collect pretty much any piece of information from every system."
But is that not too intrusive? "No I don't think so, think about it. With that kind of feedback the installed base of.net applications becomes in reality a huge testing facility where we can ship, near ready, products too. The data collected enables us to weed out the bugs and security issues quickly and we can release patches on a cheap subscription basis"
And it continues.. Well I for one, is surpriced to say the least. What will be next, dumping Solaris?
I am not sure if it's all official now, so I guess we have to wait for the announcement which could come any time soon. Anyway, it should have been in the in the works for some time. There still seems to be some debate about which kernel to use, but so far it seems that people will get both kernels and be able to choose for themself upon installation, atleast in the Redhat and Mandrake dists.
On the light side, one could begin to think how they will manage to merge the two mascot's, a daemon penguin would be a fun choice. Can't wait to see what happens
Just reminded me of Kent Brockman: Could this record-breaking heat wave be the result of the dreaded "greenhouse effect"? Well, if 70-degree days in the middle of winter are the "price" of car pollution, you'll forgive me if I keep my old Pontiac. [chuckles]
Not with my ISP, I can use as much bandwidth as I use, I can run a company on it. Share it with as many as I want. Might be because nobody expects you to run a serious company from a xDSL line.:) However if this neat concept caught on, I would expect to see a announcement of a change in the policy of the product.:)
"Note also at the bottom, that you will be marked YES for 'By US Mail' and 'By Phone' as well."
I can't remember when I last typed in my real information on a site. Unless of course it was credit card information.
IMHO, the key to get good info is to require nothing but an email adr, age and password to begin with, and then ask another question for each service/feature people enable on the site. The idea of wanting to know everything at one just makes people back out, at least me.
Has anyone noticed how sites that asks lots of questions, have "hidden" counter-questions.:)
I tried the beta of RealOne and I must say that it was very annoying. When I install it, I want it simply to play Real files and listen to Real streams. But RealOne insisted on having programs running resident, forced me to create a account on their system, and then continued to inform me of "great" things via the player. Now this things might have changed in the official release so I am going to give it a try. A lot of sites are using Real as the streaming media, including the radio stations I listen to so I need the player. It's great for them that people choose their format to broadcast their content but if that means that I am forced to get a lot of "noise" in the process, I'm sad to say that I'd rather use Mediaplayer where I can listen to radio and watch newsbroadcasts without all the junk. I have always been happy about Real and choosen it above other formats, because I liked it and that I could get a server for FreeBSD.
I guess they are in need of money, just like so many others, and the recent increase of emails from distributers regarding their products, that have my email because I have installed servers, seems to verify this. I want to see Real continue, it is nice to have a alternative to MediaPlayer of course one could take a look at Apple's quicktime but it does not seem to be as widely uses as Real but that could of course change now that there's a free server for Quicktime. Now if only Quicktime could play in full-screen.:-) OK, now it's time to see the new version of RealOne and if I can install it without all the "static".:)
LOTR, a letdown for the first time viewer.
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If you haven't read LOTR and watching the movie, there's a big let down. the non-ending, ending. You would expect some sort of closure, at least for the main plot/issue of the movie. When it just leaves you hanging, you feel cheated. Now when you are really in to LOTR, you know what to expect but for the ones who's never read the books it's just "WTF?? now what, what kind of ending is that". The the rest of us, it's not a ending, it's just a episode. So that might count against the movie on some level. That's just my 2 cents.
The ones that I hate the most, are the things not told. But where everything is set up so that it suggests, and you assume, that there's features that's not really there. Fx. when comparisons or references to similar products are made and you assume that it has the same features as the other product. And sometimes features gets the same descriptions but it turns out to be a poor substitute.
Like when a certain software company's whitepapers for a product, claims it can to the same as the competition. When the boss buys it and you get to install it, you discover that it indeed are capable of doing the same things. The only catch is that it is implemented very poorly, but hey, das blinking lights are all in place.
Not for sure, most proxy/switch solutions can do ip-spoofing so the remote webserver can't detect it. This is often done to avoid user/login problems on systems that base parts of their security on IP's. If the site then has it proxy rules set correct in the meta tags or header information, the "hidden" proxy won't cause any problems or cache any information.
Normally what you do is to do layer 4 switching but note that you can do do switching on layer 7 as well, which means you can have the switch do url based switching so that a part of the url determines that it should get switched. This requires much more power and is mostly done for server switching like load balancing.
What happens in your case might be that they have placed a switch that can do at least layer 4 switching, between you and the internet. What then is done is that all port 80 requests coming from the clients side(you) are re-directed to the proxy which means that http requests on other ports will not be cached. Note that anonymous ftp can also be proxied. A "clever" proxy/switch solution can do ip-spoofing so the webserver gets your IP adr. and sends it back to you directly, but as there is a switch inbetween, it redirects the result to the proxy which then sends the result back to you.
A way to avoid it is to get a gateway somewhere that can channel your http traffic, you could set your browser to use this gateway as a proxy on any port. The switch will most likely not act on the traffic coming on this port an pass it though.
The easy way would be installing a proxy server on a box that you have access to on the outside and configure it so that it won't cache anything.
Damn, it must be expensive to setup a line like that. Just the boxes in each end that must deliver the data. It must take some processing power to break the flow down to slower connections, like "slow" gigabit connections.
Anyway what are the requirements for the fibers and how much could you speed up existing lines? I guess it depends on the quality of the fiber.
Well, who were enemies? A lot of guys in high places bitching. Meanwhile people everywhere tried to live their life. I think you would be amazed to see how well some people have adopted "capitalist way of life". Specially organized crime.:)
oh btw, the moonlanding was all fake, everybody knows that. Just a bunch of capitalist provaganda.:)
About overtime. You might think it's fun to allocate your entire life 24 a day to your work. Just make sure that you get something from it. Money expirence, what ever. Because no one thinks twice about letting you go when the money is tight. Of course a good "worker" is likely to last longer, just make sure you don't get screwed.
yeah yeah yeah but I, for one, am sick and tired of programs that want's to install something that juuust monitors something non-personal. If you're not carefull, you will easily end up with 4-5 programs running in the background monitoring you. Let's put the privacy issue aside for a moment. The average user just races through program installations since they don't have a concept of what half of it means. So when I end up a a computer belonging to friends and/or family, work what ever. And they complain about it's speed stability etc. the first thing I do is look for ad/spyware. I always end uo finding some and it always ends up being more stable that it had been for a long time.
I'd say that ad/spyware is one of the big threats to the uptime on Microsoft products.
Limewire has spyware/adware hardwired into the program, at least in the Windows version. Re-apearing Reqistry keys shows this.
Seems to be possible to run BearShare without all the snooping. But 3rd party crap is included and you must be careful not to get it installed..
A bit offtopic but still on the subject of spy/adware.
Now even my Logitech comes with a lot of crap that when you try to install their drivers, you have to read carefully right to the end what the diaglog boxes says and even after avoiding all their "helpful" programs there seems to be one or two programs running in the background that you can remove without it having any impact on the functions of the mouse like the webwheel etc. witch by the way will have a date with my packet sniffer one day, I'd be surpriced if they didn't do some monitoring. That Logitech was really too much, they REALLY tried to shove a lot of junk down your throat. Which made med loose the last ounce of respect for the company. I am a user who knows what to look out for, but I'll bet that 99% of the mouse buyers just answers yes to it all.
I need to have SSH open in order to support and work at our customers. And as long I have SSH and HTTP I am happy. It's amazing what you can pipe through these ports.;-)
I don't use much paper myself. I think I get ten times as much paper in the mail as I use myself.
However I sure would miss the paper the few times I use it. Printing out a configuration file for some software or hardware, printing out a chapter of a PDF file. I sometimes need to avoid the noise in my cubicle and noting beats going in to a meeting room, close the door and concentrate of the paper on the table. Some times I just unplug my laptop or bring my palmtop, but for some reason it really helps me to see it on paper where I can underline, cross over or write on the paper. If I were to ditch the paper completly the palm or the laptop would need to mimic the paper better. One would need a "palmtop" with the size of a A4 and the resolution and contrast. Then I would need to be able do draw, write on it. If you could take the acrobat reader and look and draw on the documents like a real paper it would be great maybe even better. Lets say you had a manual for a program or some hardware as a PDF document where you could "mess it up" by writing and drawing on top of the document. A great feature it would be. You could choose to see it as a clean document or with your own markings. Then I might avoid the paper all together.
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Now I dont know if it's a joke or not, but still after installing Kazaa and most other p2p programs, warning lights in Ad-Aware(2) from Lavasoft lights up like a xmas tree.
Bearshare is the only one I can manage to install and get rid of all the snooping, I think.
IMHO, on April Fools Day, where you can't post anonymous, should be the one day where you can get Score:5, Insightful for at first posting.
I agree Would SOMEONE please think of the children.
In oher news. snpp.com has the April Fools bug pretty good too..
First I thought that the domain had not been renewed and some one else had registered it.
Hey that guy is right, ROFL..
Netcraft says
The site www.wehavethewayout.com is running Rapidsite/Apa-1.3.14 (Unix) FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.5a on FreeBSD.
In other news, Sun Microsystems shifts focus to .net instead. Get the full article here.
.net strategy. The development tools alone with all their templates and wizards just make it too good for us to ignore. It also allows us to collect more data from the applications developed everywhere on the net. Thanks to the agreement you agree to when installing the package, we can collect pretty much any piece of information from every system."
.net applications becomes in reality a huge testing facility where we can ship, near ready, products too. The data collected enables us to weed out the bugs and security issues quickly and we can release patches on a cheap subscription basis"
"We know a better system when we see it", says Ed Zander, President and Chief Operating Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
"To be honest, we don't quite see a future without a proper
But is that not too intrusive?
"No I don't think so, think about it. With that kind of feedback the installed base of
And it continues..
Well I for one, is surpriced to say the least. What will be next, dumping Solaris?
I am not sure if it's all official now, so I guess we have to wait for the announcement which could come any time soon.
Anyway, it should have been in the in the works for some time. There still seems to be some debate about which kernel to use, but so far it seems that people will get both kernels and be able to choose for themself upon installation, atleast in the Redhat and Mandrake dists.
On the light side, one could begin to think how they will manage to merge the two mascot's, a daemon penguin would be a fun choice. Can't wait to see what happens
Joke or not,it is still a Slashvertisement.
:-)
Think about that.
Just reminded me of Kent Brockman:
Could this record-breaking heat wave be the result of the dreaded "greenhouse effect"?
Well, if 70-degree days in the middle of winter are the "price" of car pollution, you'll forgive me if I keep my old Pontiac. [chuckles]
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Not with my ISP, I can use as much bandwidth as I use, I can run a company on it. Share it with as many as I want. :) :)
Might be because nobody expects you to run a serious company from a xDSL line.
However if this neat concept caught on, I would expect to see a announcement of a change in the policy of the product.
"Note also at the bottom, that you will be marked YES for 'By US Mail' and 'By Phone' as well."
:)
I can't remember when I last typed in my real information on a site. Unless of course it was credit card information.
IMHO, the key to get good info is to require nothing but an email adr, age and password to begin with, and then ask another question for each service/feature people enable on the site.
The idea of wanting to know everything at one just makes people back out, at least me.
Has anyone noticed how sites that asks lots of questions, have "hidden" counter-questions.
It's a great site but there are too many ad's on it.
...
I haven't even found out what the content are about.
.. think
I tried the beta of RealOne and I must say that it was very annoying. When I install it, I want it simply to play Real files and listen to Real streams. But RealOne insisted on having programs running resident, forced me to create a account on their system, and then continued to inform me of "great" things via the player.
:-) :)
Now this things might have changed in the official release so I am going to give it a try. A lot of sites are using Real as the streaming media, including the radio stations I listen to so I need the player. It's great for them that people choose their format to broadcast their content but if that means that I am forced to get a lot of "noise" in the process, I'm sad to say that I'd rather use Mediaplayer where I can listen to radio and watch newsbroadcasts without all the junk.
I have always been happy about Real and choosen it above other formats, because I liked it and that I could get a server for FreeBSD.
I guess they are in need of money, just like so many others, and the recent increase of emails from distributers regarding their products, that have my email because I have installed servers, seems to verify this.
I want to see Real continue, it is nice to have a alternative to MediaPlayer of course one could take a look at Apple's quicktime but it does not seem to be as widely uses as Real but that could of course change now that there's a free server for Quicktime. Now if only Quicktime could play in full-screen.
OK, now it's time to see the new version of RealOne and if I can install it without all the "static".
If you haven't read LOTR and watching the movie, there's a big let down. the non-ending, ending. You would expect some sort of closure, at least for the main plot/issue of the movie. When it just leaves you hanging, you feel cheated. Now when you are really in to LOTR, you know what to expect but for the ones who's never read the books it's just "WTF?? now what, what kind of ending is that". The the rest of us, it's not a ending, it's just a episode.
So that might count against the movie on some level.
That's just my 2 cents.
The ones that I hate the most, are the things not told. But where everything is set up so that it suggests, and you assume, that there's features that's not really there.
Fx. when comparisons or references to similar products are made and you assume that it has the same features as the other product. And sometimes features gets the same descriptions but it turns out to be a poor substitute.
Like when a certain software company's whitepapers for a product, claims it can to the same as the competition. When the boss buys it and you get to install it, you discover that it indeed are capable of doing the same things. The only catch is that it is implemented very poorly, but hey, das blinking lights are all in place.
Not for sure, most proxy/switch solutions can do ip-spoofing so the remote webserver can't detect it. This is often done to avoid user/login problems on systems that base parts of their security on IP's. If the site then has it proxy rules set correct in the meta tags or header information, the "hidden" proxy won't cause any problems or cache any information.
Normally what you do is to do layer 4 switching but note that you can do do switching on layer 7 as well, which means you can have the switch do url based switching so that a part of the url determines that it should get switched. This requires much more power and is mostly done for server switching like load balancing.
What happens in your case might be that they have placed a switch that can do at least layer 4 switching, between you and the internet.
What then is done is that all port 80 requests coming from the clients side(you) are re-directed to the proxy which means that http requests on other ports will not be cached. Note that anonymous ftp can also be proxied.
A "clever" proxy/switch solution can do ip-spoofing so the webserver gets your IP adr. and sends it back to you directly, but as there is a switch inbetween, it redirects the result to the proxy which then sends the result back to you.
A way to avoid it is to get a gateway somewhere that can channel your http traffic, you could set your browser to use this gateway as a proxy on any port. The switch will most likely not act on the traffic coming on this port an pass it though.
The easy way would be installing a proxy server on a box that you have access to on the outside and configure it so that it won't cache anything.
Damn, it must be expensive to setup a line like that. Just the boxes in each end that must deliver the data. It must take some processing power to break the flow down to slower connections, like "slow" gigabit connections.
Anyway what are the requirements for the fibers and how much could you speed up existing lines? I guess it depends on the quality of the fiber.
Oh so since we have pictures, knows who built it, who's controlling it, have the diagrams, I think it's safe to say that this UFO now is a IFO. ;)
Well, who were enemies? A lot of guys in high places bitching. Meanwhile people everywhere tried to live their life. :)
:)
I think you would be amazed to see how well some people have adopted "capitalist way of life". Specially organized crime.
oh btw, the moonlanding was all fake, everybody knows that. Just a bunch of capitalist provaganda.
About overtime.
You might think it's fun to allocate your entire life 24 a day to your work. Just make sure that you get something from it. Money expirence, what ever. Because no one thinks twice about letting you go when the money is tight.
Of course a good "worker" is likely to last longer, just make sure you don't get screwed.
yeah yeah yeah but I, for one, am sick and tired of programs that want's to install something that juuust monitors something non-personal. If you're not carefull, you will easily end up with 4-5 programs running in the background monitoring you. Let's put the privacy issue aside for a moment.
The average user just races through program installations since they don't have a concept of what half of it means.
So when I end up a a computer belonging to friends and/or family, work what ever. And they complain about it's speed stability etc. the first thing I do is look for ad/spyware. I always end uo finding some and it always ends up being more stable that it had been for a long time.
I'd say that ad/spyware is one of the big threats to the uptime on Microsoft products.
I have played with a couple of them.
Limewire has spyware/adware hardwired into the program, at least in the Windows version. Re-apearing Reqistry keys shows this.
Seems to be possible to run BearShare without all the snooping. But 3rd party crap is included and you must be careful not to get it installed..
A bit offtopic but still on the subject of spy/adware.
Now even my Logitech comes with a lot of crap that when you try to install their drivers, you have to read carefully right to the end what the diaglog boxes says and even after avoiding all their "helpful" programs there seems to be one or two programs running in the background that you can remove without it having any impact on the functions of the mouse like the webwheel etc. witch by the way will have a date with my packet sniffer one day, I'd be surpriced if they didn't do some monitoring.
That Logitech was really too much, they REALLY tried to shove a lot of junk down your throat. Which made med loose the last ounce of respect for the company. I am a user who knows what to look out for, but I'll bet that 99% of the mouse buyers just answers yes to it all.
Hey, I sent a request to open a connection but I haven't even got a ACK packet back.
I need to have SSH open in order to support and work at our customers. And as long I have SSH and HTTP I am happy. It's amazing what you can pipe through these ports. ;-)
I don't use much paper myself. I think I get ten times as much paper in the mail as I use myself.
However I sure would miss the paper the few times I use it. Printing out a configuration file for some software or hardware, printing out a chapter of a PDF file. I sometimes need to avoid the noise in my cubicle and noting beats going in to a meeting room, close the door and concentrate of the paper on the table.
Some times I just unplug my laptop or bring my palmtop, but for some reason it really helps me to see it on paper where I can underline, cross over or write on the paper. If I were to ditch the paper completly the palm or the laptop would need to mimic the paper better. One would need a "palmtop" with the size of a A4 and the resolution and contrast. Then I would need to be able do draw, write on it.
If you could take the acrobat reader and look and draw on the documents like a real paper it would be great maybe even better. Lets say you had a manual for a program or some hardware as a PDF document where you could "mess it up" by writing and drawing on top of the document. A great feature it would be. You could choose to see it as a clean document or with your own markings.
Then I might avoid the paper all together.