They might very well be able to ported to Postgres (We use postgres a lot, and I love it). But the problem is these apps are closed source, and are all supported on Sun/Oracle platform. In fact it is only supported on a specific versions of Solaris/Oracle. One of the apps is supported on mysql, but only in dealing with X amount of nodes in the management domain, and we are currently at almost x*2 nodes, so that configuration is only supported on oracle. All of this seems to be based on the fact that all telecom's have oracle and sun deployed as the apps we are deploying are for the management of SONET and DWDM gear.
Considering the fact that I just "met" my oracle rep, AKA License Police, yesterday. I already tend to agree with you. We have no need to switch all of our DB's to Oracle as our existing DB's work just fine. The only reason we need Oracle is because 2 Applications that we have to Run "require it". We spent the better part of a day working with an SE, to figure out the cheapest way to license it, got his blessing, then our "rep" shows up out of the blue. We explain to her what we need it for (Managing a 60+ node DWDM / SONET network), and she goes off on a rant about how we we aren't going to be liscense correctly since it sounds like internet, that they (oracle) would really like to see us in a per proc license spec. Of course you would as the price is $32K more then the amount of named users that we need. The she starts babbling about we need to move to grid computing. Sometimes it feels good to tell someone off:) The other part is that she was both arrogant and stupid. If you are going to be arrogant you at least need to have some sort of skillz to back it up. (her) "I would be a million dollars you are licensed wrong, and I have never been wrong" (Us) "You SE said we are licensed correctly". Priceless...
I am using it now. seems to be working very well. has a Javascript library and both PHP and ASP backends. Can't talk to how the ASP side works, but the php side is very simple/straightforward.
The big problem with OpenSSH right now is that it doesn't protect against brute force password attacks good enough.
You still use passwords? Any publicly accessible server that I use ssh on doesn't allow password authentication anymore. Kinda hard to brute force a password that way. All of us just use our keys for authentication. Then again I don't have to support tons of users doing this as we don't provide shell accounts any more. I only have to support myself and a set of friends who have accounts.
i haven't read the entire thread -- way to long. I stopped by the Apple Store in Albany after work and grabbed one. Played with it a couple minutes in the store. Installed the software (tiger here), set the middle button to just be plain old button 3 and I am super happy that it pastes just like my *nix boxes. Now if only it was wireless, but I am not complaining.. I will use the Bluetooth mouse at my desk on the road (have an 17" PB). Will save me $$ on batteries.
I use ZDE on my Powerbook and it runs Great. While it isn't free or come with the Operating system, it has helped to make me much more productive. The other bonus is that I can run in a Linux box also...
Hmm wonder why it didn't see it (I never had a problem installing it.). Anyway could have saved the trouble of coping it over and just typed " open x11.pkg" (or whatever it was called).
We did this at the office on a FreeBSD box and it fixed the problem. Enabled encrypted passwords on our Samba Server, cleared our keychains and smbpasswd our FreeBSD accounts, and now it works fine again.
As a long time Slackware and FreeBSD user, I'm just waiting for a good check to come in so I can get a Mac. My problem is that I'm afraid I'll find it so cool and so much better that I will drop my beloved OS's and lose interest.
I am the same as you, longtime slack and FreeBSD user. My main day to day computer is now a 17"AL powerbook. My x86 PCS at home all still run Slackware or FreeBSD (well and an OpenBSD firewall), and I find myself using them more in server roles. I do find myself using the powerbook most of the time though. I can write code, do my e-mail, export my displays from other computers around my house to it, etc. Also the reason I like it so much is that now that I am older and have less time to mess with stuff. The OS just works on a portable. Whereas sometimes getting Slack or the lastest version on FreeBSD to work on a laptop was an adventure.
So i guess after my ramblings, I like MacOSX, I love my powerbook, I don't see myself replacing my FreeBSD based Server farms with XServes anytime soon. So my desktop is now OSX, but my server and older laptops are still Slack/BSD
Use command line file commands on HFS+ items with proper results -- utilities such as cp, mv, tar, rsync now use the same standard APIs as Spotlight and access control lists to handle resource forks.
Being both a Mac User and a Command LIne Junky. This makes me happy.
When I assume Whitelist, I mean guarenteed to not get blocked by the filters. Their's doesn't do this... From the the link you sent.
This form allows you to request whitelist status, whitelist status exempts an IP address from certain blocking filters, but does not guarantee delivery of mail originating from such addresses..
Yeah i would love to get out that way, but based on the fact that I live on the east coast the commute was killing me. My wife and I used to drive down to Video Video IN morristown, NJ to play there. 25 games, all in great condtion, run by the nicest guy around. Too bad it had to close down.. I miss that place already..
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1. Negotiate ahead of time to get your servers whitelisted or registered as a "good" server. This means setting up proper forward/reverse DNS, configuring SPF, possibly registering with one or more "bonded sender" programs, looking at the AOL postmaster FAQ and getting into their whitelist system, etc.
Well that is all well and good, but AOL doesn't whitelist. IF you can prove you are for real and a valid mailling list server etc, they will take that into account when looking at the volume of complaints coming from said IP, but it isn't a guarenteed whitelist. At least what I can find in dealing with their Postmaster.info stuff. Couple that and with their Brain dead users and the report as spam button, we finally made a rule that you can nolonger forward mail from our Virt Servers to your AOL account. Since AOL decides who do blacklist based on the last server that the mail came through before it got to them. So if one of my 40K or so customers forwards xxx@domiain to yyy@aol, every time they hit the report as spam button (which I am told is very close to the delete button), I get a nasty gram, and if they do it enough, you get the AOL report card, that says we have concerns about your ability to send e-mail to us since your complaint level has hit zz%. THe other fun part of that, is that users think anything they don't like is spam, or they aim with the mouse isn't quite good enough to hit the correct button, as we get copies of Private notes responding to a message from an AOL user, stuff between friends. People responding back to a note from their mothers,etc... Me personally could care less if I can send e-mail to AOL, but if my mail clusters get blacklisted , I have a lot of very uspet customers, and it costs us a lot of money to fix.
Being a die hard pinhead (no not that pinhead), i can Say pinball rules. I miss the old days of being able to go into an arcade and merrily drop quarters into machines. Now that pinball is being removed from most arcades (the ones that are left are mostly redemption machines and DDR), it is getting harder and harder to play, a lot of us are starting to collect them. There is a pretty active discussion on all things pinball at Rec.games.pinball . Where all of the things in this article and the resulting discussion have be brought up and beat to death.
That being said here is a picture of my humble collection, once we upgrade from apartment 0.5 to house 1.0, we are building a pinball arcade in the basement and this number will grow. My Machines One skill that reading rec.games.pinball has shown me is important is fixing them. Part of the reason pins are leaving arcades it that they require maintenance. Changing balls, new rubbers, waxing. Whereas regular games you windex the screen and empty the coin box. I guess it is the engineer in me, and my sucking really bad at video games, that says I hope pinball never dies.
In theory yes, maintaining the physical plant is where the bulk of the costs are, but the problem is that NECA regulates the prices we can charge the ISP side of the house for that line. If it has dialtone the line is say $20, without dialtone the line is $75. Since this is a tarif and the telco's are regulated they must pay tarif rates..
Well in most cases the telco (which is regulated) just provides the pipe. The bandwidth and services on this pipe are provided by an ISP (normally unregulated). While it is possible to provide bare DSL without the phone line, do to the regulated nature of the Telecom industry, it really isn't in the telco's best intrest. The NECA tarrif for a bare DSL line, is much higher then the tarrif for a bundled DSL line. This comes back to bite us as we look to move to DSL/Voip for second lines, we can't compete with the cable world since our hands are bound by the tariff. If we remove dialtone the price goes up, and if we keep it on the price goes up since the consumer needs to pay for the dialtone also.
They need to learn to appropriately respond to what the market wants, not control what they can get.
Well Telco's Are a regulated entity, and can only charge what they have Tariffs for, and they need to go to the regulators to get the tariffs approved.
Vonage is not regulated, it is a communications service, not a telephone service (at least that is what the flyer that came with my vonage phone said), so it plays by different rules. The problem here is that on 1 side it wants to be an unregulated company, but wants the benefits that come with teh regulated side....
Authenticated SMTP on Port 587 Is your friend, even better if it is on a Server that supports Start TLS so you can encrypt it. We block outgoing (25) from any of our dynamic ranges as it cuts down on the crap that comes from the owned boxes in Terms of Direct to MX spam and Virii. I use this setup on my laptop and have had no problems going between cafe's, hotel's etc...
My guess is they use something like daapd. I know that is what I use at home to stream to all the macs from a FreeBSD server. Check out the project here
Well those of us at Albanywifi used to have our meetings at the one in Latham. Didn't realize there was one in Troy. Have to go check it out since My wife is taking classes at HVCC, so I could just hang out there while she was at class. Also since they are using SonicWall's with their content filtering enabled I can't get to some sites (like fark). Technically I could proxy it from a machine at home or the office but that sorta defeats the purpose.
If you are interested in wifi around the Capital District of NY, check out AlbanyWifi.com
I have it on my leg... I can start the story to my grandkids, yeah back when Operating Systems where cool... So Was I.
Ok so I was never cool... But isn't it a grandparents job to fill their grandkids head with stories? I know it was my Grandpa's job.
My Tat in case you are interested.
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They might very well be able to ported to Postgres (We use postgres a lot, and I love it). But the problem is these apps are closed source, and are all supported on Sun/Oracle platform. In fact it is only supported on a specific versions of Solaris/Oracle. One of the apps is supported on mysql, but only in dealing with X amount of nodes in the management domain, and we are currently at almost x*2 nodes, so that configuration is only supported on oracle. All of this seems to be based on the fact that all telecom's have oracle and sun deployed as the apps we are deploying are for the management of SONET and DWDM gear.
Considering the fact that I just "met" my oracle rep, AKA License Police, yesterday. I already tend to agree with you. We have no need to switch all of our DB's to Oracle as our existing DB's work just fine. The only reason we need Oracle is because 2 Applications that we have to Run "require it". We spent the better part of a day working with an SE, to figure out the cheapest way to license it, got his blessing, then our "rep" shows up out of the blue. We explain to her what we need it for (Managing a 60+ node DWDM / SONET network), and she goes off on a rant about how we we aren't going to be liscense correctly since it sounds like internet, that they (oracle) would really like to see us in a per proc license spec. Of course you would as the price is $32K more then the amount of named users that we need. The she starts babbling about we need to move to grid computing. Sometimes it feels good to tell someone off:) The other part is that she was both arrogant and stupid. If you are going to be arrogant you at least need to have some sort of skillz to back it up. (her) "I would be a million dollars you are licensed wrong, and I have never been wrong" (Us) "You SE said we are licensed correctly". Priceless...
OpenSSH or OpenSSL? They are not the same..
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I am using it now. seems to be working very well. has a Javascript library and both PHP and ASP backends. Can't talk to how the ASP side works, but the php side is very simple/straightforward.
First FreeBSD != Linux.
Not sure about wget, but fetch and ftp should honor the enviroment variables FTP_PASSIVE_MODE, FTP_PROXY, and FTP_PASSWORD
Hope that helps
You still use passwords? Any publicly accessible server that I use ssh on doesn't allow password authentication anymore. Kinda hard to brute force a password that way. All of us just use our keys for authentication. Then again I don't have to support tons of users doing this as we don't provide shell accounts any more. I only have to support myself and a set of friends who have accounts.
Which is vital if you need to drag something across the screen and run out of desk space.
I thought you needed Dogberts Mousepad Upgrade, or you had to reboot a bunch of times without saving...
i haven't read the entire thread -- way to long. I stopped by the Apple Store in Albany after work and grabbed one. Played with it a couple minutes in the store. Installed the software (tiger here), set the middle button to just be plain old button 3 and I am super happy that it pastes just like my *nix boxes. Now if only it was wireless, but I am not complaining.. I will use the Bluetooth mouse at my desk on the road (have an 17" PB). Will save me $$ on batteries.
I use ZDE on my Powerbook and it runs Great. While it isn't free or come with the Operating system, it has helped to make me much more productive. The other bonus is that I can run in a Linux box also...
Hmm wonder why it didn't see it (I never had a problem installing it.). Anyway could have saved the trouble of coping it over and just typed " open x11.pkg" (or whatever it was called).
We did this at the office on a FreeBSD box and it fixed the problem. Enabled encrypted passwords on our Samba Server, cleared our keychains and smbpasswd our FreeBSD accounts, and now it works fine again.
I am the same as you, longtime slack and FreeBSD user. My main day to day computer is now a 17"AL powerbook. My x86 PCS at home all still run Slackware or FreeBSD (well and an OpenBSD firewall), and I find myself using them more in server roles. I do find myself using the powerbook most of the time though. I can write code, do my e-mail, export my displays from other computers around my house to it, etc. Also the reason I like it so much is that now that I am older and have less time to mess with stuff. The OS just works on a portable. Whereas sometimes getting Slack or the lastest version on FreeBSD to work on a laptop was an adventure.
So i guess after my ramblings, I like MacOSX, I love my powerbook, I don't see myself replacing my FreeBSD based Server farms with XServes anytime soon. So my desktop is now OSX, but my server and older laptops are still Slack/BSD
From the list:
Use command line file commands on HFS+ items with proper results -- utilities such as cp, mv, tar, rsync now use the same standard APIs as Spotlight and access control lists to handle resource forks.
Being both a Mac User and a Command LIne Junky. This makes me happy.
This form allows you to request whitelist status, whitelist status exempts an IP address from certain blocking filters, but does not guarantee delivery of mail originating from such addresses..
Yeah i would love to get out that way, but based on the fact that I live on the east coast the commute was killing me. My wife and I used to drive down to Video Video IN morristown, NJ to play there. 25 games, all in great condtion, run by the nicest guy around. Too bad it had to close down.. I miss that place already..
Well that is all well and good, but AOL doesn't whitelist. IF you can prove you are for real and a valid mailling list server etc, they will take that into account when looking at the volume of complaints coming from said IP, but it isn't a guarenteed whitelist. At least what I can find in dealing with their Postmaster.info stuff. Couple that and with their Brain dead users and the report as spam button, we finally made a rule that you can nolonger forward mail from our Virt Servers to your AOL account. Since AOL decides who do blacklist based on the last server that the mail came through before it got to them. So if one of my 40K or so customers forwards xxx@domiain to yyy@aol, every time they hit the report as spam button (which I am told is very close to the delete button), I get a nasty gram, and if they do it enough, you get the AOL report card, that says we have concerns about your ability to send e-mail to us since your complaint level has hit zz%. THe other fun part of that, is that users think anything they don't like is spam, or they aim with the mouse isn't quite good enough to hit the correct button, as we get copies of Private notes responding to a message from an AOL user, stuff between friends. People responding back to a note from their mothers,etc... Me personally could care less if I can send e-mail to AOL, but if my mail clusters get blacklisted , I have a lot of very uspet customers, and it costs us a lot of money to fix.
ok Rant mode off..
That being said here is a picture of my humble collection, once we upgrade from apartment 0.5 to house 1.0, we are building a pinball arcade in the basement and this number will grow. My Machines One skill that reading rec.games.pinball has shown me is important is fixing them. Part of the reason pins are leaving arcades it that they require maintenance. Changing balls, new rubbers, waxing. Whereas regular games you windex the screen and empty the coin box. I guess it is the engineer in me, and my sucking really bad at video games, that says I hope pinball never dies.
In theory yes, maintaining the physical plant is where the bulk of the costs are, but the problem is that NECA regulates the prices we can charge the ISP side of the house for that line. If it has dialtone the line is say $20, without dialtone the line is $75. Since this is a tarif and the telco's are regulated they must pay tarif rates..
Well in most cases the telco (which is regulated) just provides the pipe. The bandwidth and services on this pipe are provided by an ISP (normally unregulated). While it is possible to provide bare DSL without the phone line, do to the regulated nature of the Telecom industry, it really isn't in the telco's best intrest. The NECA tarrif for a bare DSL line, is much higher then the tarrif for a bundled DSL line. This comes back to bite us as we look to move to DSL/Voip for second lines, we can't compete with the cable world since our hands are bound by the tariff. If we remove dialtone the price goes up, and if we keep it on the price goes up since the consumer needs to pay for the dialtone also.
my guess is that it has something to do with the Terry Schiavo case. Living Wills seem to be a pretty hot topic right now.
They need to learn to appropriately respond to what the market wants, not control what they can get.
Well Telco's Are a regulated entity, and can only charge what they have Tariffs for, and they need to go to the regulators to get the tariffs approved.
Vonage is not regulated, it is a communications service, not a telephone service (at least that is what the flyer that came with my vonage phone said), so it plays by different rules. The problem here is that on 1 side it wants to be an unregulated company, but wants the benefits that come with teh regulated side....
Authenticated SMTP on Port 587 Is your friend, even better if it is on a Server that supports Start TLS so you can encrypt it. We block outgoing (25) from any of our dynamic ranges as it cuts down on the crap that comes from the owned boxes in Terms of Direct to MX spam and Virii. I use this setup on my laptop and have had no problems going between cafe's, hotel's etc...
My guess is they use something like daapd. I know that is what I use at home to stream to all the macs from a FreeBSD server. Check out the project here
Well those of us at Albanywifi used to have our meetings at the one in Latham. Didn't realize there was one in Troy. Have to go check it out since My wife is taking classes at HVCC, so I could just hang out there while she was at class. Also since they are using SonicWall's with their content filtering enabled I can't get to some sites (like fark). Technically I could proxy it from a machine at home or the office but that sorta defeats the purpose.
If you are interested in wifi around the Capital District of NY, check out AlbanyWifi.com
-Patrick
I have it on my leg... I can start the story to my grandkids, yeah back when Operating Systems where cool... So Was I.
Ok so I was never cool... But isn't it a grandparents job to fill their grandkids head with stories? I know it was my Grandpa's job.
My Tat in case you are interested.