btw its illegal to distribute marijuana but some how it still happens. the war on spam will be equally as unefective as the war on drugs.
Not true at all. It's obvious that people want drugs, otherwise they would not take the risks and spend the money to get them.
Noone wants to get spam.
Hell... I still have not found a good reason to move off of fvwm2... I use a 3x3 grid, and map both Alt-any_arrow_key and Alt-Keypad to move either relitivly or directly. Toss in a Ctrl and it draggs windows with me.
I have been doing this for ~10 years... Too many of the new Window Mangers are just eye candy, and dont anything much more useful.
When you run a XFree86 alpha or beta server, it prints a warning when starting up that it is most likely out of date.
It would be nice to have a way to know when software needs to be updated and get it done, but it has to be under the control of the administrator.
I think apt-get up one of the rpm auto-updaters is a better approch. What is needed, is a script that you run (nightly from crontab) that checks installed versions vs. current versions vs. suggested-for-security-reasons versions and produces a report/email suggesting updates happen.
The fact that every Ass-End podunk has one or more PBS affiliates is what drives me crazy. With PBS in so much trouble, they should do what all of the sensable neteworks have done, and produce one stream and time shift it based upon timezone.
Sure it would limit local oriented PBS programming, but there is very little (if any) of that. The bigger PBS stations do produce programming, and it gets played network wide. This would continue.
I got a much of packs of the caselogic pages that hold 8 cd's (w/o inserts) on a page. Picked up 6 5" binders and migrated 1300+ cd's there.
Since I have players in the cars, various rooms, and at work a big changer is not a real option.
I keep all of the inserts in a few floppy disk holders, so I can reference them whenever I want.
Now I am starting ripping all of them, and am hunting for good indexing software that will let me manage them by the CD, track, playlist, and mp3 archive cd for things like artist, composer (for classical), song title, classification (allowing for multiple), etc.
Anyone seen anything that does that reasonably well. I am thinking a mySQL database, but ideas on schemas and naming criteria are the fun part:-)
DoubleClick is now branching out from the ad serving business into the SPAM business due to the fact that direct email marketing 'is one of the few forms of Internet advertising that is thriving.'
Read what they say... direct email marketing is one of the few forms forms of Internet advertising that is thriving.
They say nothing about the products that are being advertised, just the form of advertising. This means that the "Every one else is spamming, so why cant we" mentality is working, and Doubleclick wants to get rich quick... with the $$$ of those dumb enough to pay Doubleclick to send spam for them.
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I ran a IBM TP701/C (486 DX4/75) 7x24 as a firewall, nat, mailserver for 2 years before upgrading it. The machine didn't die, it just ran out of horsepower and storage capacity to do what I wanted to do with it.
I replacded it with a
FIC Sabre 1815
It shares a monitor/Keyboard with another PC via a kvm switch. The box is reasonably small, only has one fan, has 3 PCI and 1 PCcard, 1394 and usb, 10/100, audio, and video on the Motherboard. I put a slow (read cooler) 733 P3EB in it.
Overkill for the need, but it works like a charm, and linux supports everything there.
I am under the impression that English-language versions will just be pirated instead of the localized Chinese/Korean/whatever versions.
Granted, there will be a fair amount of users who will have difficulty using the pirated English versions of the products, but I'm sure that a good percentage of technically trained people have
sufficient English skills to use the latest version of Photoshop.
Ahh.... The conspiracy has been found! This is a way for the US to ensure that English continues to be the default language of the Internet, if not the world!
Never belive there isn't a ulterior motive in any action!
the Patriot Act has a four year sunset, since it was indended to deal with terorists associtated with the current "war".
Davis has not made any comment about this, and has not even suggested that the "war" is the reason. So in effect he is asking for more than the feds have (or at least will (hopefully) have in 4 years).
They can either make it hard to dupilicate (read rip) cd's OR take a cut on every blank (audio) cd made..... Assuming this holds up (which it should)
What they will have to do is figure out if they make more from the pennies they get on those blank Audio CDs (Humm... Have you ever bought a box of those?), DATs, and MDs compared to how much they think they loose by people not buying CDs since they pirate them.
In this case, the RIAA cant have their cake if you can't eat it:-)
The TTL is a count of the number of hops that a packet can make in the future. There is no requirement of what a system must set it to.
So if you do something that causes a DSL host to generate a packet locally, you will get a TTL of X.
If you see packets that have a TTL of X - 1, then there is a good chance that the DSL host is acting as a router and that means (in their eyes) that you have a NAT, and thus you a a thief.
In my case, I have a nat, and a 802.11b, but I drop anything from the wireless that I can't authenticate. The only exception I have is when I have vistors with their own 802.11b cards, when I put my firewall/router into vistor mode, and allow my guests to have conectivity to the outside.
2. Maybe they can check the number of hops a packet has made. I would think that all of packets coming from a machine would be allowed so many hops before they expire. Machines behind a firewall would use one hop to go from the machine to the firewall...so unless the firewall also rewrites that part of the packet, that's possibly another method by which a firewall could be sniffed out.
This is a good thought. It would be easy to probe a system and determine the TTL of packets that originate from it. If you start seeing packets with lower TTL's then there is a 95% chance that it's a NAT. The other 5% are ICMP (traceroutes and such) and hackers.
This seems a little to easy to detect. I guess it's time to add a feature to IP Tables to bump up the TTL to the system's default.
It doesn't have the liberating implications for consumers in general of a black box though
Yes... But it may have the advantage of getting a number of windows weenies to be willing to "build" a linux box and use it. Some of them may see that MS is not the only answer, and open their minds to free software (as opposed to free pirated software) and linux.
If it's done right, the system could be the base for a lot more than a mp3 player/server. When we are able to add internet radio, www access (with a spinning TuX logo:-)), DVD player, etc.... people will take notice.
I bet that people would rather buy a system (or use a older one) than pay $500 - $1000 for a DRM
hampered box.
No... Do not sell a box... Give a CD and instrustions away. Make it so that someone burns a copy of the cd, sticks it into one of the "supported" boxes that they put togeter, sticks cd in, an it just installs itself. When it's done, the cd pops out, and they are ready to go.
Some of the booksize PCs that are out there are really easy to put together, and have 99% of the HW you need to make this a reality.
I am considering doing this as a one of on the system that I have which is a warm spare for my home router/server.
Think about a system where you want to use IP filter to control what a network host/ports a service (or the hacker that has cracked your service) accesses.
If it addresses many of the issues that normal chroot has, then it may be good.
Isolation of applications against each other.
It's going to be intresting to see how much overhead this has when compared to vmware, usermode linux, or just chroots. (Tried 'em all).
If the overhead of this is not higher than chroot then it will be a big win.
I had hopes for the HP unit, but hearing this I will avoid it like a Hand Addressed Envelope full of white powder.
We all know that this stuff is simple with a linux box. Why dont we get together, and build up a mini-distribution and software for a roll your own version of this.
Find a smallish PC box that can do reasonable audio in and out, tv out, cdrw, IR for remote control. The software is there, it just has to be put together to make it appliance simple to use.
Make it so simple to install, setup, and use that even a windows user can do it:-)
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Hell ... I still have not found a good reason to move off of fvwm2 ... I use a 3x3 grid, and map both Alt-any_arrow_key and Alt-Keypad to move either relitivly or directly. Toss in a Ctrl and it draggs windows with me.
... Too many of the new Window Mangers are just eye candy, and dont anything much more useful.
I have been doing this for ~10 years
So ... What is inside of this box? Are there any free pci slots?
Is it possible to get shell access?
Is it possible to get at the WMA codecs?
When you run a XFree86 alpha or beta server, it prints a warning when starting up that it is most likely out of date.
It would be nice to have a way to know when software needs to be updated and get it done, but it has to be under the control of the administrator.
I think apt-get up one of the rpm auto-updaters is a better approch. What is needed, is a script that you run (nightly from crontab) that checks installed versions vs. current versions vs. suggested-for-security-reasons versions and produces a report/email suggesting updates happen.
The fact that every Ass-End podunk has one or more PBS affiliates is what drives me crazy. With PBS in so much trouble, they should do what all of the sensable neteworks have done, and produce one stream and time shift it based upon timezone.
Sure it would limit local oriented PBS programming, but there is very little (if any) of that. The bigger PBS stations do produce programming, and it gets played network wide. This would continue.
Looks nice untill I saw the line
... I am looking for a linux based solution that I can have a shell and a web based interface to.
Music Collector runs on Windows 95, 98, NT4, ME, XP and 2000.
Oh well
I got a much of packs of the caselogic pages that hold 8 cd's (w/o inserts) on a page. Picked up 6 5" binders and migrated 1300+ cd's there.
:-)
Since I have players in the cars, various rooms, and at work a big changer is not a real option.
I keep all of the inserts in a few floppy disk holders, so I can reference them whenever I want.
Now I am starting ripping all of them, and am hunting for good indexing software that will let me manage them by the CD, track, playlist, and mp3 archive cd for things like artist, composer (for classical), song title, classification (allowing for multiple), etc.
Anyone seen anything that does that reasonably well. I am thinking a mySQL database, but ideas on schemas and naming criteria are the fun part
They say nothing about the products that are being advertised, just the form of advertising. This means that the "Every one else is spamming, so why cant we" mentality is working, and Doubleclick wants to get rich quick ... with the $$$ of those dumb enough to pay Doubleclick to send spam for them.
I replacded it with a FIC Sabre 1815 It shares a monitor/Keyboard with another PC via a kvm switch. The box is reasonably small, only has one fan, has 3 PCI and 1 PCcard, 1394 and usb, 10/100, audio, and video on the Motherboard. I put a slow (read cooler) 733 P3EB in it.
Overkill for the need, but it works like a charm, and linux supports everything there.
Gee ... I guess you just need someone with a little more "pie" experience :-)
Reading down some of the discussion I knew I had already answered it ... Last November.
Cable Co's Want More Control Over Your Network
Ahh
Never belive there isn't a ulterior motive in any action!
the Patriot Act has a four year sunset, since it was indended to deal with terorists associtated with the current "war".
Davis has not made any comment about this, and has not even suggested that the "war" is the reason. So in effect he is asking for more than the feds have (or at least will (hopefully) have in 4 years).
They can either make it hard to dupilicate (read rip) cd's OR take a cut on every blank (audio) cd made. .... Assuming this holds up (which it should)
... Have you ever bought a box of those?), DATs, and MDs compared to how much they think they loose by people not buying CDs since they pirate them.
:-)
What they will have to do is figure out if they make more from the pennies they get on those blank Audio CDs (Humm
In this case, the RIAA cant have their cake if you can't eat it
Gee ... This is a different approch to the same problem.
If you had systems with IP stacks that generated different default TTLs then this would not help.
But it is a good idea.
The TTL is a count of the number of hops that a packet can make in the future. There is no requirement of what a system must set it to.
So if you do something that causes a DSL host to generate a packet locally, you will get a TTL of X.
If you see packets that have a TTL of X - 1, then there is a good chance that the DSL host is acting as a router and that means (in their eyes) that you have a NAT, and thus you a a thief.
In my case, I have a nat, and a 802.11b, but I drop anything from the wireless that I can't authenticate. The only exception I have is when I have vistors with their own 802.11b cards, when I put my firewall/router into vistor mode, and allow my guests to have conectivity to the outside.
This is a good thought. It would be easy to probe a system and determine the TTL of packets that originate from it. If you start seeing packets with lower TTL's then there is a 95% chance that it's a NAT. The other 5% are ICMP (traceroutes and such) and hackers.
This seems a little to easy to detect. I guess it's time to add a feature to IP Tables to bump up the TTL to the system's default.
This story (and the 1936 movie) are amazing in the number of devices that are described well before their time.
This includes global war, helecopters, space craft, and a lot of other intresting things.
What we need is a *limited* way to have a single $PATH definition that will address arbitrary packages. I was thinking about
/opt/*/bin"
/opt once and cache the dirread so the hit for this only happens once.
/opt/b/bin/foo).
PATH="$PATH
This would look in
Of course this adds the problem of ordering (/opt/a/bin/foo vs.
Yes
If it's done right, the system could be the base for a lot more than a mp3 player/server. When we are able to add internet radio, www access (with a spinning TuX logo
I bet that people would rather buy a system (or use a older one) than pay $500 - $1000 for a DRM
hampered box.
No ... Do not sell a box ... Give a CD and instrustions away. Make it so that someone burns a copy of the cd, sticks it into one of the "supported" boxes that they put togeter, sticks cd in, an it just installs itself. When it's done, the cd pops out, and they are ready to go.
Some of the booksize PCs that are out there are really easy to put together, and have 99% of the HW you need to make this a reality.
I am considering doing this as a one of on the system that I have which is a warm spare for my home router/server.
Think about a system where you want to use IP filter to control what a network host/ports a service (or the hacker that has cracked your service) accesses.
If it addresses many of the issues that normal chroot has, then it may be good.
Isolation of applications against each other.
It's going to be intresting to see how much overhead this has when compared to vmware, usermode linux, or just chroots. (Tried 'em all).
If the overhead of this is not higher than chroot then it will be a big win.
I had hopes for the HP unit, but hearing this I will avoid it like a Hand Addressed Envelope full of white powder.
:-)
We all know that this stuff is simple with a linux box. Why dont we get together, and build up a mini-distribution and software for a roll your own version of this.
Find a smallish PC box that can do reasonable audio in and out, tv out, cdrw, IR for remote control. The software is there, it just has to be put together to make it appliance simple to use.
Make it so simple to install, setup, and use that even a windows user can do it