Remember the Apex DVD player that you could bypass macrovision and region codes with? That's exactly what I did. Managed to buy two, sold one for over 2x what I paid for it. Profit, plus I got to keep one:)
They do. Because I have a list of about 110 addresses on my mail server that gets 3-4 messages a day, I was blocked "because your computer has a virus", smtp both inbound and outbound. Mailhop outbound and mailhop relay from dydns fixed the problem for now by letting me run on a different port.
Add to that Nancy Grace. Just passing through her show while channel flipping is enough to want me to pay for a hit on her. Latest big story was a drunk that killed 4 people in a car. Why is that particular drunk driver any more important than all of the others that are constantly killing people? It's always sensationalist unimportant crap with that woman.
You aren't giving the organizations in the military that work with this stuff enough credit. Hint: Your beloved internet started as a military research project. Now think how much farther they have come since then with stuff the private sector won't really see for quite some time (like all other applicable research that come out of the military).
No need to shoot me. I already know, and it is, indeed, very cool stuff. The military definitely embraces open source, especially with some of the more interesting high performance stuff that they do.
which seems quite broken, IMNSHO. Patents should protect people who plan to actually do something with their invention. At least have a prototype for crying out loud.
Yup. My dad had a heathkit clock in the 70's/80's. It was very pretty, and much nicer than what you would buy pre-built at the store back then. It was always fast, though.
I bet driving through the field (or even up the dirt road to the top of the mountain) to my campsite would be, um, interesting in this too. That's not talking about camping gear, either, which fit fine in my current non-suv car.
The problem that AV tries to 'solve' is simply a user behavior problem. Bad approach, and it obviously doesn't work. Worse, the AV software does what I would personally consider bad things on the systems it runs on: killing IO, potentially corrupting files that are being written, eating cpu cycles, etc.
Yes, I understand that attempts at education aren't working either. Most people are screwed either way. I deal with it by not supporting anybody who won't take the time and effort to learn how to properly use their tools (the computer in this case).
Yes, I know what you're going to say, there aren't any Linux viruses because there aren't many Linux desktops out there. But where are all the server exploits out there being actively used in the wild. I'm talking about commercial servers being hacked not some msging board..
It happens all the time. Usually through unpatched software, or misconfigured apache servers. The security team responsible for the DMZ network and firewall rules usually has no power over the guys who administer and program the systems.
Um. Many mail gateways are linux boxes. That is the place you should be scanning your incoming mail for stuff that your non-clueful users will gleefully run on their windows boxes. See mimedefang.
You can't hope to really fix bad behavior with technology. This is why instead of giving dad a false sense of security with cpu/disk thrashing AV software, I took the time to show him the nastiness that can go on, especially with email attachments, and downloading and running software he doesn't know anything about. I also set him up with firefox with the adblock plus extension. On his own (even though I didn't feel it was necessary), he manually runs adware detecting software to make sure nothing has been slipping by. Three years, and he has yet to be infected with anything (manual AV scan with latest signatures when I was there the other day confirms).
Tools and their uses: - Firewalls: block stuff you shouldn't be listening for anyway, also help to mitigate against attacks against stuff you do listen for. - Service Lockdown (difficult on windoze, see "Firewalls" above): You can't exploit something that's not there - Proper configuration of what you do need listening: default stuff on that linksys router, for example - Patches: Deal with worms (not viruses) - AV software: tries to correct user stupidity. Not exactly a winning battle, as can be seen by the existence of this article. - IDS: Never for an end user. How are they to know how to tune it, and what the messages mean, etc?
My experience has been that AV software gets in the way, causes system instability, and provides a false sense of security. None of this provides a significant benefit for a user who already practices good hygiene on their computer.
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Actually that was the BEST presentation I went to! Oh, you weren't talking about Mike Lynn's "Voice Over IP" presentation at Blackhat a few years ago:-)
Why people continue to buy ink jets is beyond me. I paid only $350 for an HP Color Laserjet 2605dn a year ago, and my starter cartridges are still going strong. This printer has built-in duplexing, networking, web management, and is postscript so works flawlessly with any computer you'd like to use with it. Bonus: no worrying about ink cartriges drying up, or print heads clogging.
Buy a laser printer. For pictures, have them developed at wal-mart for like $0.10 each.
BTW...HTH do I tag an article on/. I'm not a subscriber, but I've had this account for several years, so according to the FAQ I should be able to tag articles.
Ok, I'll bite: why? I read and compose mail while fetchmail (a background process) fetches new mail, spamassasin (about six background processes) filters it, mailagent (another background process) sorts it, and exim (another background process) delivers it to the appropriate mailboxes.
Which has what, exactly, to do with a non-multithreaded remote IMAP client that makes you wait to do one thing while it is doing something else (usually somewhat network intense)?
Careful. On the server I run sendmail with some custom mimedefang stuff to deal with quarantines, mailing lists, and non-rfc-compliant rejections, milter-greylist, and spamassassin as well. I also pre-sort into proper IMAP folders using procmail (not sure what mailagent is or what it offers over the flexibility of procmail), and use fetchmail against the IMAP server in order to process my SA bayesian learning folders once each hour.
I've run a similar system for a fortune 500 processing millions of messages a week in a former life.
Spawning a bunch of separate processes really has nothing to do with properly writing a multi-threaded app, which was the point of my original post.
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Remember the Apex DVD player that you could bypass macrovision and region codes with? That's exactly what I did. Managed to buy two, sold one for over 2x what I paid for it. Profit, plus I got to keep one :)
They do. Because I have a list of about 110 addresses on my mail server that gets 3-4 messages a day, I was blocked "because your computer has a virus", smtp both inbound and outbound. Mailhop outbound and mailhop relay from dydns fixed the problem for now by letting me run on a different port.
Add to that Nancy Grace. Just passing through her show while channel flipping is enough to want me to pay for a hit on her. Latest big story was a drunk that killed 4 people in a car. Why is that particular drunk driver any more important than all of the others that are constantly killing people? It's always sensationalist unimportant crap with that woman.
I'd use picasa, but their linux version is a horrid pile of crap.
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You aren't giving the organizations in the military that work with this stuff enough credit. Hint: Your beloved internet started as a military research project. Now think how much farther they have come since then with stuff the private sector won't really see for quite some time (like all other applicable research that come out of the military).
No need to shoot me. I already know, and it is, indeed, very cool stuff. The military definitely embraces open source, especially with some of the more interesting high performance stuff that they do.
which seems quite broken, IMNSHO. Patents should protect people who plan to actually do something with their invention. At least have a prototype for crying out loud.
Yup. My dad had a heathkit clock in the 70's/80's. It was very pretty, and much nicer than what you would buy pre-built at the store back then. It was always fast, though.
What does it cost to make those bulbs vs. the incandescents?
How about instead, you raise your own kids and stop burdening society with laws that try to do the same?
Did anyone, like, check the dates on those RFCs?
I bet driving through the field (or even up the dirt road to the top of the mountain) to my campsite would be, um, interesting in this too. That's not talking about camping gear, either, which fit fine in my current non-suv car.
"But that's a waffle iron!"
The problem that AV tries to 'solve' is simply a user behavior problem. Bad approach, and it obviously doesn't work. Worse, the AV software does what I would personally consider bad things on the systems it runs on: killing IO, potentially corrupting files that are being written, eating cpu cycles, etc.
Yes, I understand that attempts at education aren't working either. Most people are screwed either way. I deal with it by not supporting anybody who won't take the time and effort to learn how to properly use their tools (the computer in this case).
It happens all the time. Usually through unpatched software, or misconfigured apache servers. The security team responsible for the DMZ network and firewall rules usually has no power over the guys who administer and program the systems.
Um. Many mail gateways are linux boxes. That is the place you should be scanning your incoming mail for stuff that your non-clueful users will gleefully run on their windows boxes. See mimedefang.
You can't hope to really fix bad behavior with technology. This is why instead of giving dad a false sense of security with cpu/disk thrashing AV software, I took the time to show him the nastiness that can go on, especially with email attachments, and downloading and running software he doesn't know anything about. I also set him up with firefox with the adblock plus extension. On his own (even though I didn't feel it was necessary), he manually runs adware detecting software to make sure nothing has been slipping by. Three years, and he has yet to be infected with anything (manual AV scan with latest signatures when I was there the other day confirms).
Tools and their uses:
- Firewalls: block stuff you shouldn't be listening for anyway, also help to mitigate against attacks against stuff you do listen for.
- Service Lockdown (difficult on windoze, see "Firewalls" above): You can't exploit something that's not there
- Proper configuration of what you do need listening: default stuff on that linksys router, for example
- Patches: Deal with worms (not viruses)
- AV software: tries to correct user stupidity. Not exactly a winning battle, as can be seen by the existence of this article.
- IDS: Never for an end user. How are they to know how to tune it, and what the messages mean, etc?
My experience has been that AV software gets in the way, causes system instability, and provides a false sense of security. None of this provides a significant benefit for a user who already practices good hygiene on their computer.
Adblock plus, with its default easylist + easyelement blocks google stuff already.
Then this exercise should be (HPC)^2, right?
Actually that was the BEST presentation I went to! Oh, you weren't talking about Mike Lynn's "Voice Over IP" presentation at Blackhat a few years ago :-)
Ahh. That's obvious *now*. Thanks!
Ah cool. Now where are my mod points?
Why people continue to buy ink jets is beyond me. I paid only $350 for an HP Color Laserjet 2605dn a year ago, and my starter cartridges are still going strong. This printer has built-in duplexing, networking, web management, and is postscript so works flawlessly with any computer you'd like to use with it. Bonus: no worrying about ink cartriges drying up, or print heads clogging.
/. I'm not a subscriber, but I've had this account for several years, so according to the FAQ I should be able to tag articles.
Buy a laser printer. For pictures, have them developed at wal-mart for like $0.10 each.
BTW...HTH do I tag an article on
Which has what, exactly, to do with a non-multithreaded remote IMAP client that makes you wait to do one thing while it is doing something else (usually somewhat network intense)?
Careful. On the server I run sendmail with some custom mimedefang stuff to deal with quarantines, mailing lists, and non-rfc-compliant rejections, milter-greylist, and spamassassin as well. I also pre-sort into proper IMAP folders using procmail (not sure what mailagent is or what it offers over the flexibility of procmail), and use fetchmail against the IMAP server in order to process my SA bayesian learning folders once each hour.
I've run a similar system for a fortune 500 processing millions of messages a week in a former life.
Spawning a bunch of separate processes really has nothing to do with properly writing a multi-threaded app, which was the point of my original post.