I can tell you this... The mouse is killing my wrists.
I starting having problems with my right wrist, so I switched the mouse to my left. Then I started having problems with my left wrist (years later). I switched back to my right, but it starts hurting after about 30 minutes. Now I have a Wacom tablet and that is working out well for now. The only problem is that it's so far away from the keyboard and you have to hold something. I can't stand touch pads, but they might be a bit better if they were bigger. I try not use use the mouse as much as I can, but in Mac OSX you have to use it much more than any other system (like paging down and the cursor doesn't follow you, thankfully I have VIM on the Mac).
I agree with the person that was talking about tracking where I'm looking. That would be the best. I'm waiting for that.
My business partner doesn't like me having a blog. He says that what I write in my blog may reflect badly on the business. Since it's a Public thing, and all you have to do is type my name into a search engine to find it, it may be true. I mean, people do have their opinions of others. If some big corporate type happens across my blog and finds out that I'm a skateboarder, or that I like 4x4 wheeling and that corporate type doesn't like those activities, then they may think badly of my company for having me as a partner. Never mind that I am writing their whole computer system and it works great.
Some people just look down on others for no good reasons.
It's not as much is Apple the new MS. It's that Apple realized that you have to treat people like crap for them to like you.
The biggest difference between MS and Apple is that Apple has better stuff. As long as their stuff doesn't turn to shit like MS's, then I don't really care. All I care about is being able to do my job or other computer related things without having to fight with my computer.
"Most scans and penetration efforts are conducted via zombie machines, and shutting down infected users who probably haven't the faintest clue what's going on just isn't worth the headache it causes ISPs."
I run a small ISP. When I see a computer on my network with a virus on it, I block it's access and inform the customer to fix it. I don't allow it access to the network until it's fixed.
I also firewall almost everything and open ports on a one by one basis. If someone wants to play a game, I open ports to their system only.
You don't encrypt while you backup. You backup to super fast RAID, Encrypt data on that RAID, then copy to tape. This way your DB is not down. The cycles to encrypt data does not effect operations, and you get secure backups.
My dad is on Social Security retirement. A few months back someone changed his bank routing number at SS. His direct deposit went to some bank in NJ. Since the money was withdrawn right away there was nothing that SS would do about it. My dad lost his whole check and nobody would do anything about it. The problem was clearly at SS for allowing someone to change his info.
My dad now has a password protecting his account at Social Security so that nobody can make changes to it. It's a shame that he had to go a whole month with no money. It's a bigger same that SS would not do anything about it.
Beware of your credit and money. The instant something goes wrong, get on the phone.
"Today's user wants to grab just about anything and not worry about installing it and making it work."
If this was true, then the Mac would be on top of the world. Since installing a program is simply drag and drop the app into the folder you want it.
People love messing with drivers and install programs. They love bugs and crashes. They love viruses, worms, and spyware. 90% has said so by using MS Windows.
We are the ones that are wrong in thinking that people want easy to use computers.
It was getting so bad for me that I just quit and went to Blockbuster. I get my DVD's right on time now, and I never have to wait for new releases.... So far...
I have been using Dish Network's DVR for one year now. All I can say is that their DVR sucks ass. It crashes all the time. When the show times change my DVR just tapes what's on in that slot. I'm constantly recording crap because the times are always changing.
I was just getting ready to switch to Direct TV with TiVo so that I can record the shows I like and not miss them. Plus the dual tuner is a very nice option when you want to record two shows at the same time slot.
Now I'm being told that TiVo is going under? I sure hope not. The subscription is worth getting to watch the shows. Basically they are working to keep the program guide updated. I don't mind paying for that.
The only reason I signed up with Dish Network is because all my neighbors switched to them, and said they were better. From what I've seen about Direct TV, they have better, cheaper programming. Heck, I'm paying $50 a month and I don't even get TechTV (now gone and I never got to see it).
What if I have a matter replicator and went into a store and used it to copy the DVD and packaging? Or better yet, just copied it from another source, like a friend? How about if I copied a car? I know, I'll copy it 1000's of times and give them away to anyone who wants them. Then what? Would I be a criminal or a hero? I'm mean, basically it's creating a whole new item from dirt. It's the holy grail.
I still have to figure out this anti-gravity thing first...
Get rid of the high priced WinTel systems and go back to terminals with custom applications. Depending on what your company does, do you really need MS Office on every PC? I've worked in companies that only had terminals hooked to main frames. Never had problems. I've worked in offices that had all PC's networked... Constant problems.
MS Windows is the money and time waster.
Heck, 500MHz Linux boxes will work in most places and a lots cheaper. Plus you can script the heck out of them.
Yeah, the police should take your car away if you leave it unlocked. You must live in California.
Personally I would rather see it this way; if your car is doing something bad, then it should be stopped and not allowed on the road until it's fixed. IE leaking oil on the road, lots of smoke coming out of it, or parts falling off.
If your driving down the freeway with a 300 feet of linked banners attached to the back of your car, then you should be stopped. Even if you didn't attach those banners to it.
Total Emails / Seven Days: 9688 Total Blocked Attempts: 3117 Total Filtered(SA) Junk Email: 1555 48.2% of email detected as junk Estimated 19,000 junk emails per month.
I know it's not a Linux distro, but after futsing around with Debian for years and years getting burned almost monthly I gave FreeBSD a try. The problem with Debian was that it never had the latest stable versions of, well, anything. I wanted to do development with PHP5, but the stable version of Debian didn't have it. So what do you do... Go to unstable, then after my system died like 12 times I figured I should try something else.
FreeBSD is very stable. My dev server has been running for 98 days. I'm running the most recent versions of software and everything is still stable. Installing and removing packages is simple. Server maintenance is nil. It basically runs itself and I can do other tasks that I need to do. I've switched everything to FreeBSD now because it's just much easier to use and keep current.
Because they would be blocked instantly. By using everyone else, they have a better chance of getting their junk out. It's hard to justify blocking all of Earthlink, AOL, and MSN.
This is because MS makes crappy software and Apple doesn't. If you do something good, then the bad is balanced. If you do everything bad you get tied to a stake.
This is exactly what I was thinking. How the hell can you point a laser into the eyes of a pilot in a airliner? That's just nuts. I can see doing it to a helicopter, because most of them have windows on the bottom.
I'll bet that someone reported seeing the laser and called it in. Then the helicopter was flying around and the laser hit it. Now their trying to make an example.
If bittorrent wasn't such a bandwidth killer, I would probably chip in. But when my customers turn it on to download movies it totally stops everything else from working. None of my other customers can even get a IP from DHCP. This is with just one user. I do everything I can just to block P2P application and tell customer to go to SBC if they want to steal music and movies.
I know my network is totally setup wrong. I should be limiting bandwidth to customers. But I don't have the $1000's to buy the hardware and I don't have the time to figure out IPTables.
My email server gets scans all day long for email addresses. [randomname]@kenoyer.com. It goes on and on until I blackhole the IP it's coming from. Then a few hours later another will start up.
They just send email to random names at whatever domain name until something goes through. Then they spam the hell out of that account that works.
I have spam assassin running and I still get 20-30 spams a day in my inbox. Mostly Cialis and Rolex. Boy am I getting sick of that Rolex spam.
I just found out that my new Postfix install doesn't run my procmail scripts...bummer.
Nice, Dovecot worked perfectly! It was easy to setup and now I finally got my new email server online. Now all I have to do is write a billing / user maintenance system in PHP for it.
I'm running a very small WISP and I have been working on software for years. I just haven't found the right combination of software to fit my wants. But I'm very close.
What I want is to have a Postgresql database server holding all the user information. I want wireless access, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and Webmail to get the authentication from the Postgresql server.
What I have is a Postgresql server holding the billing, account, and RADIUS data. m0n0wall is setup as a captured portal authenticating from the RADIUS server. I have m0n0wall running on Soekris and WRAP single board computers with mini-pci WIFI radios. I have Postfix setup to access the PGSQL database for authentication. I have POP3 setup using RADIUS. I can't find an IMAP server that works with either RADIUS or PGSQL (not from lack of trying). Since I don't have IMAP, I can't get webmail to work.
For billing, I'm using Modernbill. I don't really like it so I'm going to write my own billing software that works the way I want.
The problems I have run into is: * Wireless card locks up when client goes into powersave mode. * m0n0wall does not have anyway to detect problems and reboot. * I have a Pebble Linux system running that works great but NoCAT does not work very well. It has a nasty login bug that look like will never be fixed. With Pebble I have scripts that detect problems and reboot. * Billing system leans more to web hosting than ISP billing. It has a bunch of bugs also, but I have to pay Modernbill to fix them. Not going to happen. Bug fixes should be free. My service contract ran out before they fixed the bugs. * Customers don't like to pay for service, so you have to cut them off if late. This should be setup in the billing system to turn off their access. * People like to steal internet from you, so make sure your firewall is working. * SPAM clogs up your email server, so better get a dual processor work horse just for email. * Back up power, put UPSes on everything. I have a quad bank of 100amp/hrs deep cycle batteries hooked up to a inverter and charger to supply me with 10 hours of run time.
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I can tell you this... The mouse is killing my wrists.
I starting having problems with my right wrist, so I switched the mouse to my left. Then I started having problems with my left wrist (years later). I switched back to my right, but it starts hurting after about 30 minutes. Now I have a Wacom tablet and that is working out well for now. The only problem is that it's so far away from the keyboard and you have to hold something. I can't stand touch pads, but they might be a bit better if they were bigger. I try not use use the mouse as much as I can, but in Mac OSX you have to use it much more than any other system (like paging down and the cursor doesn't follow you, thankfully I have VIM on the Mac).
I agree with the person that was talking about tracking where I'm looking. That would be the best. I'm waiting for that.
My business partner doesn't like me having a blog. He says that what I write in my blog may reflect badly on the business. Since it's a Public thing, and all you have to do is type my name into a search engine to find it, it may be true. I mean, people do have their opinions of others. If some big corporate type happens across my blog and finds out that I'm a skateboarder, or that I like 4x4 wheeling and that corporate type doesn't like those activities, then they may think badly of my company for having me as a partner. Never mind that I am writing their whole computer system and it works great.
Some people just look down on others for no good reasons.
It's not as much is Apple the new MS. It's that Apple realized that you have to treat people like crap for them to like you.
The biggest difference between MS and Apple is that Apple has better stuff. As long as their stuff doesn't turn to shit like MS's, then I don't really care. All I care about is being able to do my job or other computer related things without having to fight with my computer.
"Most scans and penetration efforts are conducted via zombie machines, and shutting down infected users who probably haven't the faintest clue what's going on just isn't worth the headache it causes ISPs."
I run a small ISP. When I see a computer on my network with a virus on it, I block it's access and inform the customer to fix it. I don't allow it access to the network until it's fixed.
I also firewall almost everything and open ports on a one by one basis. If someone wants to play a game, I open ports to their system only.
I'm doing my part to make the internet better.
You don't encrypt while you backup. You backup to super fast RAID, Encrypt data on that RAID, then copy to tape. This way your DB is not down. The cycles to encrypt data does not effect operations, and you get secure backups.
PS, don't forget the password.
I've heard 1000's of stories about all banks taking money and messing things up. It doesn't matter what bank it is.
Personally, I've banked with BofA for over 10 years and not even once had a problem.
My dad is on Social Security retirement. A few months back someone changed his bank routing number at SS. His direct deposit went to some bank in NJ. Since the money was withdrawn right away there was nothing that SS would do about it. My dad lost his whole check and nobody would do anything about it. The problem was clearly at SS for allowing someone to change his info.
My dad now has a password protecting his account at Social Security so that nobody can make changes to it. It's a shame that he had to go a whole month with no money. It's a bigger same that SS would not do anything about it.
Beware of your credit and money. The instant something goes wrong, get on the phone.
"Today's user wants to grab just about anything and not worry about installing it and making it work."
If this was true, then the Mac would be on top of the world. Since installing a program is simply drag and drop the app into the folder you want it.
People love messing with drivers and install programs. They love bugs and crashes. They love viruses, worms, and spyware. 90% has said so by using MS Windows.
We are the ones that are wrong in thinking that people want easy to use computers.
It was getting so bad for me that I just quit and went to Blockbuster. I get my DVD's right on time now, and I never have to wait for new releases.... So far...
I have been using Dish Network's DVR for one year now. All I can say is that their DVR sucks ass. It crashes all the time. When the show times change my DVR just tapes what's on in that slot. I'm constantly recording crap because the times are always changing.
I was just getting ready to switch to Direct TV with TiVo so that I can record the shows I like and not miss them. Plus the dual tuner is a very nice option when you want to record two shows at the same time slot.
Now I'm being told that TiVo is going under? I sure hope not. The subscription is worth getting to watch the shows. Basically they are working to keep the program guide updated. I don't mind paying for that.
The only reason I signed up with Dish Network is because all my neighbors switched to them, and said they were better. From what I've seen about Direct TV, they have better, cheaper programming. Heck, I'm paying $50 a month and I don't even get TechTV (now gone and I never got to see it).
Total Emails / Seven Days: 10503
Total Blocked Attempts: 3371
Total Filtered Junk Email: 1778
49.0% of email detected as junk
Estimated 20,596 junk emails per month.
What if I have a matter replicator and went into a store and used it to copy the DVD and packaging? Or better yet, just copied it from another source, like a friend? How about if I copied a car? I know, I'll copy it 1000's of times and give them away to anyone who wants them. Then what? Would I be a criminal or a hero? I'm mean, basically it's creating a whole new item from dirt. It's the holy grail.
I still have to figure out this anti-gravity thing first...
Yes, and it would only cost you half of what it would cost to move from Linux to Windows.
Get rid of the high priced WinTel systems and go back to terminals with custom applications. Depending on what your company does, do you really need MS Office on every PC? I've worked in companies that only had terminals hooked to main frames. Never had problems. I've worked in offices that had all PC's networked... Constant problems.
MS Windows is the money and time waster.
Heck, 500MHz Linux boxes will work in most places and a lots cheaper. Plus you can script the heck out of them.
I have 60 email accounts on my server. Here is my current stats:
Total Emails / Seven Days: 11240
Total Blocked Attempts (DNS): 4043
Total Filtered Junk Email (SA): 1669
50.8% of email detected as junk
Estimated 22,848 junk emails per month.
Yeah, the police should take your car away if you leave it unlocked. You must live in California.
Personally I would rather see it this way; if your car is doing something bad, then it should be stopped and not allowed on the road until it's fixed. IE leaking oil on the road, lots of smoke coming out of it, or parts falling off.
If your driving down the freeway with a 300 feet of linked banners attached to the back of your car, then you should be stopped. Even if you didn't attach those banners to it.
Junk Email Stats for my 52 user WISP:
Total Emails / Seven Days: 9688
Total Blocked Attempts: 3117
Total Filtered(SA) Junk Email: 1555
48.2% of email detected as junk
Estimated 19,000 junk emails per month.
This is for like 60 email addresses.
I know it's not a Linux distro, but after futsing around with Debian for years and years getting burned almost monthly I gave FreeBSD a try. The problem with Debian was that it never had the latest stable versions of, well, anything. I wanted to do development with PHP5, but the stable version of Debian didn't have it. So what do you do... Go to unstable, then after my system died like 12 times I figured I should try something else.
FreeBSD is very stable. My dev server has been running for 98 days. I'm running the most recent versions of software and everything is still stable. Installing and removing packages is simple. Server maintenance is nil. It basically runs itself and I can do other tasks that I need to do. I've switched everything to FreeBSD now because it's just much easier to use and keep current.
Disclaimer: I use a Mac for my desktop.
Because they would be blocked instantly. By using everyone else, they have a better chance of getting their junk out. It's hard to justify blocking all of Earthlink, AOL, and MSN.
This is because MS makes crappy software and Apple doesn't. If you do something good, then the bad is balanced. If you do everything bad you get tied to a stake.
This is exactly what I was thinking. How the hell can you point a laser into the eyes of a pilot in a airliner? That's just nuts. I can see doing it to a helicopter, because most of them have windows on the bottom.
I'll bet that someone reported seeing the laser and called it in. Then the helicopter was flying around and the laser hit it. Now their trying to make an example.
I think the whole thing is retarded.
If bittorrent wasn't such a bandwidth killer, I would probably chip in. But when my customers turn it on to download movies it totally stops everything else from working. None of my other customers can even get a IP from DHCP. This is with just one user. I do everything I can just to block P2P application and tell customer to go to SBC if they want to steal music and movies.
I know my network is totally setup wrong. I should be limiting bandwidth to customers. But I don't have the $1000's to buy the hardware and I don't have the time to figure out IPTables.
My email server gets scans all day long for email addresses. [randomname]@kenoyer.com. It goes on and on until I blackhole the IP it's coming from. Then a few hours later another will start up.
They just send email to random names at whatever domain name until something goes through. Then they spam the hell out of that account that works.
I have spam assassin running and I still get 20-30 spams a day in my inbox. Mostly Cialis and Rolex. Boy am I getting sick of that Rolex spam.
I just found out that my new Postfix install doesn't run my procmail scripts...bummer.
Nice, Dovecot worked perfectly! It was easy to setup and now I finally got my new email server online. Now all I have to do is write a billing / user maintenance system in PHP for it.
I'm running a very small WISP and I have been working on software for years. I just haven't found the right combination of software to fit my wants. But I'm very close.
What I want is to have a Postgresql database server holding all the user information. I want wireless access, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and Webmail to get the authentication from the Postgresql server.
What I have is a Postgresql server holding the billing, account, and RADIUS data. m0n0wall is setup as a captured portal authenticating from the RADIUS server. I have m0n0wall running on Soekris and WRAP single board computers with mini-pci WIFI radios. I have Postfix setup to access the PGSQL database for authentication. I have POP3 setup using RADIUS. I can't find an IMAP server that works with either RADIUS or PGSQL (not from lack of trying). Since I don't have IMAP, I can't get webmail to work.
For billing, I'm using Modernbill. I don't really like it so I'm going to write my own billing software that works the way I want.
The problems I have run into is:
* Wireless card locks up when client goes into powersave mode.
* m0n0wall does not have anyway to detect problems and reboot.
* I have a Pebble Linux system running that works great but NoCAT does not work very well. It has a nasty login bug that look like will never be fixed. With Pebble I have scripts that detect problems and reboot.
* Billing system leans more to web hosting than ISP billing. It has a bunch of bugs also, but I have to pay Modernbill to fix them. Not going to happen. Bug fixes should be free. My service contract ran out before they fixed the bugs.
* Customers don't like to pay for service, so you have to cut them off if late. This should be setup in the billing system to turn off their access.
* People like to steal internet from you, so make sure your firewall is working.
* SPAM clogs up your email server, so better get a dual processor work horse just for email.
* Back up power, put UPSes on everything. I have a quad bank of 100amp/hrs deep cycle batteries hooked up to a inverter and charger to supply me with 10 hours of run time.