I play on a 1.3Ghz g4 iBook with 758Mb of Ram and the standard 32Mb video card, and I have to say I'm very impressed with the level of graphical detail, and the speed (as measured in FPS). I haven't seen how the game looks on a souped up Windows box yet, but so far everything looks great on my iBook, and I don't feel like I'm missing out on any kind of gameplay or experience.
Being able to play a MMORPG on the couch is a nice bonus too!
"You may install the Software on only one (1) computer or server having a single CPU."
Who came up with that one?? I'd wager that the vast vast majority of hosting clients have no clue how many CPU's the server their website is running on has, while a very large number of hosting providers use multi-CPU servers.
That clause is basically setting up thousands and thousands of people to break the license agreement they agreed to without even knowing it.
The only reason I can see for that clause, other than pure oversight on the behalf of Six Apart, is they want to push people using MT to their own hosting service(TypePad).
Back in the boom days, some of the WebMonkey employees got fed up with the corporate policies that valued ad placement over good content, often writing articles specifically tailored to woo the advertisers... a practice that clearly continued beyond the boom days. Those rebels started e-volt.. which still exists and is a vastly superior service.
Actually, evolt wasn't started by webmonkey employees, but by members of the monkeyjunkies mailing list which webmonkey sponsored.. Read the history of that stuff at evolt
First and foremost, have a clear picture of what you're hoping to accomplish before even thinking about starting a NFP. I've seen a lot of people who have excitement like you and want to help out, but get hung up on being an NFP, which is a bit horse before the carriage IMO.
Second, figure out what you do best (it sounds like hardware) and find existing local organizations so you can meet like minded people in your area and share ideas/resources. If you don't have anyone doing similar things in your area, check out geekcorps, or ask your local chamber of commerce/rotary club/county outreach program for information about what you can do to help.
Lastly, you should join up with exisiting similar programs if possible. Chances are they've got a lot of the ground work laid already, you'll get to meet and network with people who are trying to help the same way you are, and besides, there's no use re-inventing the wheel.
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Actually, I am aware of kio_fish, and do use Quanta Plus on KDE 3.1. I've had a few other people point out what you did above, so I think I'll respond to it here..
kio_fish is a very handy and nice feature for all KDE apps, I totally agree.
What I was saying in the article though is that there is no built in interface (that I'm aware of) which allows you to browse remote servers from *within* the HTML app itself. Quanta Gold provides that functionality, albeit only through FTP, by including an 'FTP' pane within the application. (This image and this pic (195Kb) for examples of what I mean.
I also realize that one could set up NFS or Samba mounts on the local FS, to achieve remote connections through the application, but that's not something the Application provides *itself*. So while kio_fish is something I really like and use quite often, it would slow development down a lot to have to open up each file individually via File -> Open -> Location -> fish://...
It's a lot faster to be able to view the remote directories in realtime and being able to select which files you wish to open with something as simple as a double-click.
How can you possibly believe you investigated something if you haven't contacted the customer for their side of the story?
Even if they've got something that you know someone else holds the copyright to, how do you know that the copyright holder hasn't given them permission to use it?
What would their side of the story be for having 100Mb of mp3 files from Dave Matthews(for example) sitting in a directory underneath their webroot?
As to the second question.. If the copyright holder has given them permission, why is the copyright holder(or their attorneys) contacting me in the first place about it?
It's pretty much common sense that if you discover a warez/mp3 repository being hosted on a client's account, they don't have permission, and 'their side of the story' is irrelevant in that example. As for everything else you asked about, it was in the original post..
I also run a small hosting firm and see this situation at least once a week, because we host a large number of free sites as well as paid ones. Like you, I investigate the claim *first* instead of just wacking someone's account without looking into it. At that point, the site is either hosting copyrighted content, or they're not.
If they are, then I tar up their files as proof of the content, send them a nice email saying "You're account has been terminated for breaking the following provisions of the Terms of Service you agreed to", delete their account, and BCC in the owner of the copyrighted material. This is the best way I've seen to handle it yet, and it accomplishes a number of things that are important to do IMO: Keep a copy of the data in question before deleting it, let the 'client' know they've broken your TOS and are losing the service as a result, lets the owner of the copyright know that you've dealt with the situation effectivley and you take matters like that serious(which as a hosting provider, you have to)
If the client isn't hosting copyrighted material, an email should get sent back to the person asking for clarification, as you did. As for the question of how far you should go to protecting rights while upholding the law, I don't think they're mutally exclusive and you(and all hosting providers) should do as much as they can to use good judgement..
The Gates foundation also just donated $100 million to India to help out with HIV/AIDS prevention and treatement in the country.
I'm not trying to suggest anything devious here BTW, only pointing out that India is continuing to get a larger amount attention in the international spotlight..
It's a MiniView 2 port USB switch, available at macwarehouse.com or anywhere else for about $100. Works like a charm(I use an apple pro keyboard and wireless logitech usb moouse between them)
I got an older G4 with OSX.1 on it last spring, and was a bit timid to use it after being a KDE fan for so long(just about 5 years now). Here are some thoughts I wrote at the time:
Pretty, clean, responsive(low end G4 with 256Mb), not nearly enough options to dig under the hood(especially during installation), give me an 'expert' mode, or give me death!:)
Hard to find some things, super easy to find others. I can't tell if my 'iDisk' is actually on a server at Apple, or a local cache of stuff on a server at Apple. A mount is not really a disk mount, like me Mr. 6 years of Unix would think of it as.
I like the Dock. I really like iTunes. I reallly like iPhoto.
I didn't like not having root access out of the box. It's no lie, Mozilla really does suck on OS X.:(/bin/tcsh has got to go. Configuring everything is a snap, and the XML based config files are cool. If I could find them.. The directory struct. is gonna take some getting used to, as is remembering that programs don't close when you click the 'X" on the top window bar, only that window does. SSH support(albeit an insecure version) out of the box is nice. The software updater package thingy is slick. I'm haven't totally figured out how to add new users, although its rumored to be under this 'Netinfo' thing, which is like a seperate control place for the Unix stuff.
So here I sit nearly 6 months later, still enjoying my Mac, but it splits time with my Linux box as well via a KVM switch. Some tasks are just better suited for certain tasks than other. The proof of that for me was coming back from South America and being able to plug my Sony Handycam right into my Mac via firewire and using iMovie to pull video clips right off the camera, editing them, and making a 'home movie' that turned out really nice.
The coolest part was I hit 'record' and it wrote my 'iMovie' back to a blank tape in the Handycam. Sometimes it is just nice to have things work like that without having to config anyting. Not that it's my primary machine(mandrake 8.2 still holds that role) or anything, and the iMovie software is just a small unique example of something I really like about my Mac, but as a Linux user for nearly 6 years, there's a lot I've come to appreciate about Mac's and OSX in particular and I think others in similar situations may feel the same way...
My setup is five dual AMD webservers each with a RAID1 and RAID5 partition, 1GB of RAM, and XFS.
The 1.1 release against 2.4.18 is really stable, and I haven't had any problems myself, or heard too many on the XFS mailing list in the past few months. If you have the means, I'd recommend patching against a vanilla kernel, although the ISO option can be nice too.
XFS is well known for its good performance when handling large files, which in a streaming situation like yours is a good thing. 'Allocation groups' in XFS are also very good at handling parrallel I/O, another good thing in a streaming enviornment. Of course, most of this can be found on the XFS site, http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
As a happy user of XFS in a production environment for almost two years, I'd highly recommened it for your type of situation. Good luck!:)
I posted an article that deals with stopping spambots with common apache tools last week in the apache section of slashdot. hopefully some can find use of it here as well:)
Valid point epsalon.. but to clarify, Apache only gets restarted for every *new* IP address detected.. As for the spoofing, it would take a lot of IP's to DOS the server, and anyone willing to go through that much trouble just to take down a webserver probably has better ways to do it. Point taken though:)
Thats pretty much what I do in the Hook, line, and sinker section of the article.. By capturing the user-agent's and IP's of the Spiderts that *blatently* disregard the robots.txt file, its like shootin fish in a barrel..
In the next installment of this article, I'm working on a script that grabs the NetBlock of a bot that goes against the robots.txt file, does a ARIN lookup on that block, and emails the administrator of that block with the prob.. Comments have been made that any bot can switch their user-agent string, which is true. If a Spidert does that though, they're more than likely also going to run through the parts of a site that you *specifically* tell them they can't go in the robots.txt file. When they do that, its a lot easier to block their user-agent, email the admin of thier netblock, or block their class c IP block alltogether.
It's like a honeypot for black-hats if you think about it.. And thats one of the *best* ways to find the problem Spiderts and block them out, without blocking any good natured bot:)
The fact that you and your colleages purchase a new distro every X months is a choice, and thats the difference.
You could just as easily choose to download the very same distros(in most cases) that you're purchasing. Sure it may take more time and energy but the fact that you're in control of what you do and do not buy pretty much answers your own question for you.
This issue is already a pretty big deal in the web-dev community, and some people have put together some suggestions for those of us that work in or with a publicly funded website:
Subject: [thelist] Re: [Admin] article alert - Malicious HTML tags Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 22:54:11 -0600
Clueing thelist in on this one too..
Does anyone else remember a good amount of time ago when John Vranesevich(JP)'s antionline site got 'hacked' because his site mirrored a site that someone included the exact same thing CERT is talking about here?
Basically, the guy hacked the server that JP was mirroring and the content(some pics of his sister I think) came up on the antionline site, making it appear that JP got hacked.
CERT hasn't exactly been on top of things for a couple years now, this is no different(its always been an issue that security minded people have known about for some time) just because it got posted on slashdot doesn't mean its breaking news:)
Just my humble, anti-hype opinion:)
.djc.
rudy limeback wrote: > > >subject: Malicious HTML tags > >posted by:isaac > >date: {ts '2000-02-02 17:21:33'} > fabulous summary isaac > i had actually read the CERT article before i read yours
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A lot of noise has been made lately about/. being a type of news outlet, but with a summary like 'shelving plans for Netscape 5's release' and 'does mozilla have a chance?' its simply a lot of hype, instead of an objective stance. Anyways, as for mozilla
But more and more peole are downloading and installing the Mx releases with every release. The M8 release had something like 80,000 downloads the first day it was released(dont quote me, cant find the email with stats). Everyone else here has already pointed out the comparisons with W2k and how its late as well.
Here's my rub: People like to bitch when a piece of software crashes, is buggy, or doesn't work well. (There have been numerous articles on/. itself lately addressing this fact actually) But the same people also bitch when the software is late because they're taking their time in doing the things right instead of shoving a product out the door, bugs and all. Serious people, you can't have it both ways. These same people are the ones that don't really do a lot of coding, because if they did code a good amount of time, they'd understand the delays in re-writing a browser from scratch, and the amount of work that takes.
I noticed a lot of people addressing the fact that Europa was mentioned in the 2001 series.. No one has really pointed out yet though that in the final book of that series, 3001 - its explained that once Jupiter becomes a sun as well, the ice on the surface melts, allowing for the creatures underneath to become amphibious(sp?) and start evolving.
Not really to relevant, but 3001 is an excellent book and ties up a lot of the loose ends in the series quite nicely.
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I think a 'lite' version of Linux would be a great thing for a couple reasons:
1.) For running most distributions as workstations, you don't really need sendmail, httpd, POP3, IMAP, etc running. 2.) Sure you can choose not to install these and other services, but like a good TCP wrapper, deny everything first, then install what you need.
Other cool things to include in such a 'lite' disto. would be an automatic ipchains configuration type script and automagic samba configuration. With the advent of the newer installers like Lizard from Caldera and Anaconda from Redhat, these features could be implemented with some work.
It should just be another option however, like Redhats current "Server, Workstation, Custom" configs, so power users dont have to deal with this 'lite' version.
A lot of people have mentioned the fact that you're webserver should be optimized, but no one has really said how.. A couple months ago, I put something together on exactly this subject, hopefully it can help peole that want to tune a server in preperation of the/. effect. http://evolt.org/index.cfm?menu= 8&cid=193&catid=18.
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That shoulda been 768Mb of RAM.. weeeeeee!
I play on a 1.3Ghz g4 iBook with 758Mb of Ram and the standard 32Mb video card, and I have to say I'm very impressed with the level of graphical detail, and the speed (as measured in FPS). I haven't seen how the game looks on a souped up Windows box yet, but so far everything looks great on my iBook, and I don't feel like I'm missing out on any kind of gameplay or experience.
Being able to play a MMORPG on the couch is a nice bonus too!
Dan
http://f2o.org/
"You may install the Software on only one (1) computer or server having a single CPU."
Who came up with that one?? I'd wager that the vast vast majority of hosting clients have no clue how many CPU's the server their website is running on has, while a very large number of hosting providers use multi-CPU servers.
That clause is basically setting up thousands and thousands of people to break the license agreement they agreed to without even knowing it.
The only reason I can see for that clause, other than pure oversight on the behalf of Six Apart, is they want to push people using MT to their own hosting service(TypePad).
Actually, evolt wasn't started by webmonkey employees, but by members of the monkeyjunkies mailing list which webmonkey sponsored.. Read the history of that stuff at evolt
Second, figure out what you do best (it sounds like hardware) and find existing local organizations so you can meet like minded people in your area and share ideas/resources. If you don't have anyone doing similar things in your area, check out geekcorps, or ask your local chamber of commerce/rotary club/county outreach program for information about what you can do to help.
Lastly, you should join up with exisiting similar programs if possible. Chances are they've got a lot of the ground work laid already, you'll get to meet and network with people who are trying to help the same way you are, and besides, there's no use re-inventing the wheel.
kio_fish is a very handy and nice feature for all KDE apps, I totally agree.
What I was saying in the article though is that there is no built in interface (that I'm aware of) which allows you to browse remote servers from *within* the HTML app itself. Quanta Gold provides that functionality, albeit only through FTP, by including an 'FTP' pane within the application. (This image and this pic (195Kb) for examples of what I mean.
I also realize that one could set up NFS or Samba mounts on the local FS, to achieve remote connections through the application, but that's not something the Application provides *itself*. So while kio_fish is something I really like and use quite often, it would slow development down a lot to have to open up each file individually via File -> Open -> Location -> fish://...
It's a lot faster to be able to view the remote directories in realtime and being able to select which files you wish to open with something as simple as a double-click.
Appreciate the feedback,
Dan
How can you possibly believe you investigated something if you haven't contacted the customer for their side of the story?
Even if they've got something that you know someone else holds the copyright to, how do you know that the copyright holder hasn't given them permission to use it?
What would their side of the story be for having 100Mb of mp3 files from Dave Matthews(for example) sitting in a directory underneath their webroot?
As to the second question.. If the copyright holder has given them permission, why is the copyright holder(or their attorneys) contacting me in the first place about it?
It's pretty much common sense that if you discover a warez/mp3 repository being hosted on a client's account, they don't have permission, and 'their side of the story' is irrelevant in that example. As for everything else you asked about, it was in the original post..
If they are, then I tar up their files as proof of the content, send them a nice email saying "You're account has been terminated for breaking the following provisions of the Terms of Service you agreed to", delete their account, and BCC in the owner of the copyrighted material. This is the best way I've seen to handle it yet, and it accomplishes a number of things that are important to do IMO: Keep a copy of the data in question before deleting it, let the 'client' know they've broken your TOS and are losing the service as a result, lets the owner of the copyright know that you've dealt with the situation effectivley and you take matters like that serious(which as a hosting provider, you have to)
If the client isn't hosting copyrighted material, an email should get sent back to the person asking for clarification, as you did. As for the question of how far you should go to protecting rights while upholding the law, I don't think they're mutally exclusive and you(and all hosting providers) should do as much as they can to use good judgement..
I'm not trying to suggest anything devious here BTW, only pointing out that India is continuing to get a larger amount attention in the international spotlight..
It's a MiniView 2 port USB switch, available at macwarehouse.com or anywhere else for about $100. Works like a charm(I use an apple pro keyboard and wireless logitech usb moouse between them)
hth
Pretty, clean, responsive(low end G4 with 256Mb), not nearly enough options to dig under the hood(especially during installation), give me an 'expert' mode, or give me death! :)
Hard to find some things, super easy to find others. I can't tell if my 'iDisk' is actually on a server at Apple, or a local cache of stuff on a server at Apple. A mount is not really a disk mount, like me Mr. 6 years of Unix would think of it as.
I like the Dock. I really like iTunes. I reallly like iPhoto.
I didn't like not having root access out of the box. It's no lie, Mozilla really does suck on OS X. :( /bin/tcsh has got to go. Configuring everything is a snap, and the XML based config files are cool. If I could find them.. The directory struct. is gonna take some getting used to, as is remembering that programs don't close when you click the 'X" on the top window bar, only that window does. SSH support(albeit an insecure version) out of the box is nice. The software updater package thingy is slick. I'm haven't totally figured out how to add new users, although its rumored to be under this 'Netinfo' thing, which is like a seperate control place for the Unix stuff.
So here I sit nearly 6 months later, still enjoying my Mac, but it splits time with my Linux box as well via a KVM switch. Some tasks are just better suited for certain tasks than other. The proof of that for me was coming back from South America and being able to plug my Sony Handycam right into my Mac via firewire and using iMovie to pull video clips right off the camera, editing them, and making a 'home movie' that turned out really nice.
The coolest part was I hit 'record' and it wrote my 'iMovie' back to a blank tape in the Handycam. Sometimes it is just nice to have things work like that without having to config anyting. Not that it's my primary machine(mandrake 8.2 still holds that role) or anything, and the iMovie software is just a small unique example of something I really like about my Mac, but as a Linux user for nearly 6 years, there's a lot I've come to appreciate about Mac's and OSX in particular and I think others in similar situations may feel the same way...
My setup is five dual AMD webservers each with a RAID1 and RAID5 partition, 1GB of RAM, and XFS.
:)
The 1.1 release against 2.4.18 is really stable, and I haven't had any problems myself, or heard too many on the XFS mailing list in the past few months. If you have the means, I'd recommend patching against a vanilla kernel, although the ISO option can be nice too.
XFS is well known for its good performance when handling large files, which in a streaming situation like yours is a good thing. 'Allocation groups' in XFS are also very good at handling parrallel I/O, another good thing in a streaming enviornment. Of course, most of this can be found on the XFS site, http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
As a happy user of XFS in a production environment for almost two years, I'd highly recommened it for your type of situation. Good luck!
A pretty good article, but being able to install modules into Apache may not be the best situation for everyone who wants to stop Spambots..
Shameless plug, but I've got an ongoing series in the Apache section of /. that deals with easy ways that administrators *and* regular users can keep Spambots off their sites:
Stopping Spambots with Apache
and
Stopping Spambots II - The Admin Strikes Back
Just some more options and choices to help people out!
I posted an article that deals with stopping spambots with common apache tools last week in the apache section of slashdot. hopefully some can find use of it here as well :)
here's the link directly to the article as well:
Stopping Spambots II - The Admin Strikes Back
An actual Apache mod is slated for part 3 of the series.. stay tuned. Thanks again for the feedback!
Valid point epsalon.. but to clarify, Apache only gets restarted for every *new* IP address detected.. As for the spoofing, it would take a lot of IP's to DOS the server, and anyone willing to go through that much trouble just to take down a webserver probably has better ways to do it. Point taken though :)
In the next installment of this article, I'm working on a script that grabs the NetBlock of a bot that goes against the robots.txt file, does a ARIN lookup on that block, and emails the administrator of that block with the prob.. Comments have been made that any bot can switch their user-agent string, which is true. If a Spidert does that though, they're more than likely also going to run through the parts of a site that you *specifically* tell them they can't go in the robots.txt file. When they do that, its a lot easier to block their user-agent, email the admin of thier netblock, or block their class c IP block alltogether.
It's like a honeypot for black-hats if you think about it.. And thats one of the *best* ways to find the problem Spiderts and block them out, without blocking any good natured bot :)
You could just as easily choose to download the very same distros(in most cases) that you're purchasing. Sure it may take more time and energy but the fact that you're in control of what you do and do not buy pretty much answers your own question for you.
Accessibility: more than the right thing to do
Workforce investment act of 1998
Accessibility: The Clock is Ticking
Getting Started with Usability Testing
Didnt' feel like reposting..
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[thelist] Re: [Admin] article alert - Malicious HTML tags
Date:
Wed, 02 Feb 2000 22:54:11 -0600
Clueing thelist in on this one too..
Does anyone else remember a good amount of time ago when John
Vranesevich(JP)'s antionline site got 'hacked' because his site mirrored
a site that someone included the exact same thing CERT is talking about
here?
Basically, the guy hacked the server that JP was mirroring and the
content(some pics of his sister I think) came up on the antionline site,
making it appear that JP got hacked.
CERT hasn't exactly been on top of things for a couple years now, this
is no different(its always been an issue that security minded people
have known about for some time) just because it got posted on slashdot
doesn't mean its breaking news
Just my humble, anti-hype opinion
.djc.
rudy limeback wrote:
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> >subject: Malicious HTML tags
> >posted by:isaac
> >date: {ts '2000-02-02 17:21:33'}
> fabulous summary isaac
> i had actually read the CERT article before i read yours
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Thanks for all the comments so far. Hopefully this gets moderated up so some people can actually read it
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A lot of noise has been made lately about /. being a type of news outlet, but with a summary like 'shelving plans for Netscape 5's release' and 'does mozilla have a chance?' its simply a lot of hype, instead of an objective stance. Anyways, as for mozilla
/. itself lately addressing this fact actually) But the same people also bitch when the software is late because they're taking their time in doing the things right instead of shoving a product out the door, bugs and all. Serious people, you can't have it both ways. These same people are the ones that don't really do a lot of coding, because if they did code a good amount of time, they'd understand the delays in re-writing a browser from scratch, and the amount of work that takes.
But more and more peole are downloading and installing the Mx releases with every release. The M8 release had something like 80,000 downloads the first day it was released(dont quote me, cant find the email with stats). Everyone else here has already pointed out the comparisons with W2k and how its late as well.
Here's my rub: People like to bitch when a piece of software crashes, is buggy, or doesn't work well. (There have been numerous articles on
Not really to relevant, but 3001 is an excellent book and ties up a lot of the loose ends in the series quite nicely.
I think a 'lite' version of Linux would be a great thing for a couple reasons:
1.) For running most distributions as workstations, you don't really need sendmail, httpd, POP3, IMAP, etc running.
2.) Sure you can choose not to install these and other services, but like a good TCP wrapper, deny everything first, then install what you need.
Other cool things to include in such a 'lite' disto. would be an automatic ipchains configuration type script and automagic samba configuration. With the advent of the newer installers like Lizard from Caldera and Anaconda from Redhat, these features could be implemented with some work.
It should just be another option however, like Redhats current "Server, Workstation, Custom" configs, so power users dont have to deal with this 'lite' version.
.djc.
A lot of people have mentioned the fact that you're webserver should be optimized, but no one has really said how.. A couple months ago, I put something together on exactly this subject, hopefully it can help peole that want to tune a server in preperation of the /. effect.
http://evolt.org/index.cfm?menu= 8&cid=193&catid=18.
.djc.