I feel that the benefits that drew me ( and im sure others) to firefox was that it was feature rich and had a pop blocker before IE did out of the box.
The fact that Im also using Linux made me move over from the Mozilla Suite.
With much of the sensationalist press that covers google they are in a good position to really grow and if they remain true to many of the google etho's about keeping it simple and nice nothing to in your face with advertising then it may become a threat to microsoft. However If that occurs then google will start to be impacted by the same negative press that microsoft has suffered from irrespecive of what the company does or doesnt do in comparison to what MS has done over the years in what many people would claim as dirty business practices. Thats the unfortunate world that we live in. Also the reality is that competition is good for everyone. look at what Microsoft has done in recent years. it has come from a company that was offering products that in many circumstances where substandard in areas of stability and security but now they have evolved and become a company that offers some much improved software that is stable and fairly secure. It can only improve from here. As many people say.. any vulnerability in an operating system is a good thing. as once its patched there is one less for people to find and exploit in the future.
This is where people get all up and at em about different claims from different people. At the end of the day linux is only a kernel. Its not an entire operating system. Whilst windows is a full operating system it cant do many of the things that linux, unix, bsd or any ofthe other flavors of *nix can do. There is where unix is strongest and always will be. Windows can have 30 different versions but it will never be as adaptable as unix has been and will always be.
And then there was the subpoena that forced the project to hand over all records because of a "thread to national security" all of a sudden we are back to 1939 because my 448th cousin has decided to go and blow himself up in a shopping centre.
Sounds really good!.. cant wait to join.. just like i cant wait to join some mercenary force in africa run by a bunch of stupid british people!.
I have been using RBLs for several years and found MAPs to be the most useless. At times its listed mys server because someone spoofed the source address in the email.
I have since removed the MAPS servers from my rbl list and stick with spamhaus (which ive never had a problem with in several years) and if someone i know gets blocked its normally a pretty easy process to get unblocked. I also use dsbl and ordb of which stop a fair bit of spam at the door.
Originally I would reject all messages from RBL hosts with a 421 and provide them with an error based on the RBL that blocked them. I have since changed that to a 500 series error. All in all the amount of spam being recieved across several thousand is about 10% of what it was previously.
With the server doing well over a million emails every week thats a fair percentage. The load that would cause on spam assassin often makes it difficult NOT to use rbls.
Working with over 5000 redhat boxes I see it across the board on many different platforms. I have not used SLES8 however Ive expereinced no problems with Dell 2650 or 2850 or 6650's since our install with SuSe. However with redhat we have had ext3 corruptions plus a list longer than slashdot will let me post of other issues ranging from an update disabling services from starting to not including particular packages within a package update. for example update mysql without including the -server release.
Novel vs Redhat. In a corporate environment with directory services novel wins hands down. Novel (suse) also has a much much better QA procedure on its Enterprise linux products. I have not seen to date one issue to date (yet) that has caused systems to go down after patches have been applied. However with redhat we see it all the time.
For anyone serious about an enterprise level linux novel is the only real choice.
We have several hundred Dell 2650 systems all with the "PERC" based raid card. Originally these cars where an LSI based and everything was nice, we rarely if ever had any problems with the RAID or issues with mirror sets not mirroring and reporting as being ok in both windows and linux.
After we upgraded to the 2650 with the Adaptec based cards (to support higher speed CPUs etc etc) we found that we started to get corruptions with the file systems and often the RAID would report as being ok but the mirror would be broken (one disk working the other empty). After many upgrades and bug fixes new drivers and all sorts of things the platform is now relativly stable. however it does not perform as well as the LSI based raid cards that we have grown to love.
Anyone that is stupid enough to give anone any details about themselves when they are called almost deserve to have their identity or information stolen and used against them. I remember when I got an account with my bank that had a pin number on my card when I was about 12 (15years ago).. back then the bank said they would NEVER call me to ask for my details. So what is new?... or is it that people dont listen to the paper/information sheets that are given to you with your account?...
If anyone ever rings me and asks for any personal details I just tell them to get stuffed.. Or if it sounds legit ill request to ring them back on a number that I have for them. Its not that hard to stay safe from bank fraud.
Having worked on some.gov systems over my time the bigget problem is often that the resources are spread very thinly across the country. They really need each department to invest in people that will just focus on keeping things upto date.
Primary focus can be desktop and internet facing systems. This can be made alot easier. Windows update for example is much more reliable than it has been in the past (not perfect but better). And most unix systems are compatable with systems like pkgsrc which would make it much easier to at least try and resist incoming attackers.
Having centralised management and control over all systems would be a great start. Thats something that many countries have however from my experience many american departments have different staff in different offices/regeons making the mismatch in staff quality and skillset diverse enough to affect security.
Idealy to cut costs further the cinemas could just stream the movies from the one location each time the movies are being shown. Especially with the growth in cheap fibre across europe especially.
The over all cost savings will be more significant than just the film cases. Ive been in cinemas on several occasions where the film has screwed up and we have had to get a refund from the cinema.. Taking that out out or reducing it seriously would be a great bonus for the cinemas.
At the end of the day competition is good. Look what competition has done for microsoft in recent years. Many people dispute that linux/open source software has any affect on the big MS however its clearly not the case.
Over recent years windows has gone from 95 (super super crap) to 98 ( super crap ) to windows me ( ok but still crap) to XP on the desktop market. XP maybe slow in some situations but it works pretty well. There are still all the issues with worms and other issues with stupid users but at the end of the day windows has improved significantly and thats not going into the server market where its improved even more.
I personally see linux as a better server operating system than a desktop system even though I use it every day as my desktop at both work and home. Taking that into account its still a rock solid stable desktop (Slackware current) and I dont have any problems running it on my laptop.
So often there are big projects in the opensource community that fill real gaps but the lead programmers get to a point where they are happy and leave it at that. Its then taken up by other coders and the project is dead in few months or years because its become a mess, people have not realised how much time is involved in writing good efficient, secure code.. they got to the point where they are happy with it and so on..
One of the problems with where things are going with linux is that we will have redhat/suse and a few other distributions all running corporate level software.. and then there will be distributions like slackware, gentoo and others that will be used more in the technical enthusiest market. All of the different distributions have their place.. so do the different versions of windows.
At the end of the day you can have a secure user level windows box and linux / open source box with a web browser and you can almost bet that the windows box will be trojaned before the linux/open source one..
I run several servers with a few businesses etc hosting their email across the board I probably have 400 users give or take 20. In recent months the spam problem was getting worse and worse. I have had spamassassin and other software running on the system to mark the messages as spam but the over all problem wasnt resolved and it kept getting worse. I have since changed the way that our servers operate by using RBL firewalls across the board with several different RBLs including spamhaus, sorbs, spamcop and dsbl. Since taking that action the spam has dropped from just under a million emails marked as spam a month to around 34000. That is a huge drop in spam. I also log all connections that are refused because of RBLs so that I can see if there are any bad entries if anyone complains about failed email delivery. All in all the amount of emails being rejected has also been falling as the "spammers" and other "bulk email" providers that are listed on the RBLs and have users emails remove the emails from the lists they are using.
Its not a perfect solution but it has reduced it to such an extent that the servers are now performing much better. Customers are more happy, spammers get screwed and everyone lives happily ever after.
your a fool if you think there is still not enough evidence that the weather isnt changing. They can see dramatic changes over the last 10 years letalone the 10years before that an so on.
This is something that will be very interesting. The information in wikipedia should be available to everyone for free. There could be an interesting situation where people could subscribe to a service to have no advertising. That way it would pay for the wikipedia services to continue running, while still providing the benefit to the community. I know I use online services reguarly and its something that I would pay a nominal fee for without complaining to much. However it must have both free and subscription based services for it to be a viable system.
I know so many people that own pdas and never actually use them. the concept is great but the usability is the killer. Its just not really viable for most people to use them all the time.
I agree with this. Also the whole benefit is that its all open closing it off or making it private may result in all sorts of issues in the future.. (see microsoft's traditionally slow response to security issues.. aka win nuke).
Telstra isnt the only provider. PowerTEL, Optus, Connect.com (AAPT) are all much cheaper than the leading monopoly telco. You can easily cut the telstra quote down to about 25% or less if you shop around for point to point ethernet unmetered.
If you have your own sxc connection you can also reduce your international transit costs significantly.
Plus even if you do use telstra as your upstream provider when your buying more than 155mbps the cost is massivly cheaper. The more you buy the cheaper it gets and the more bargaining power you get. I used to network engineer a national ISP in aus so I know how it works.
Its simple maths. iinet often attracts higher users than many other ISPs because of thier high speed pipes. The usage of the traffic / quota isnt that high compared to many other ISPs but the PIPES around australia still cost a fortune leased line, dedicated ATM/WDM etc all costs alot of cash because of the huge distances that are covered to get around the country for the small amount of population.
The Sykpe service is often pretty poor within Australia for international calls because the latency is circa 180ms on average. This leaves a call from west coast australia to east coast US with a heavy lag and poor quality.
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I feel that the benefits that drew me ( and im sure others) to firefox was that it was feature rich and had a pop blocker before IE did out of the box.
The fact that Im also using Linux made me move over from the Mozilla Suite.
This was reported to the mozilla bugzilla a while ago. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29269 1
the kde print manager using cups is easy to navigate and use. Ive setup hundreds of printers using it over the last year to 18months.
With much of the sensationalist press that covers google they are in a good position to really grow and if they remain true to many of the google etho's about keeping it simple and nice nothing to in your face with advertising then it may become a threat to microsoft. However If that occurs then google will start to be impacted by the same negative press that microsoft has suffered from irrespecive of what the company does or doesnt do in comparison to what MS has done over the years in what many people would claim as dirty business practices.
Thats the unfortunate world that we live in. Also the reality is that competition is good for everyone. look at what Microsoft has done in recent years. it has come from a company that was offering products that in many circumstances where substandard in areas of stability and security but now they have evolved and become a company that offers some much improved software that is stable and fairly secure. It can only improve from here. As many people say.. any vulnerability in an operating system is a good thing. as once its patched there is one less for people to find and exploit in the future.
This is where people get all up and at em about different claims from different people. At the end of the day linux is only a kernel. Its not an entire operating system. Whilst windows is a full operating system it cant do many of the things that linux, unix, bsd or any ofthe other flavors of *nix can do. There is where unix is strongest and always will be. Windows can have 30 different versions but it will never be as adaptable as unix has been and will always be.
And then there was the subpoena that forced the project to hand over all records because of a "thread to national security" all of a sudden we are back to 1939 because my 448th cousin has decided to go and blow himself up in a shopping centre.
Sounds really good!.. cant wait to join.. just like i cant wait to join some mercenary force in africa run by a bunch of stupid british people!.
I have been using RBLs for several years and found MAPs to be the most useless. At times its listed mys server because someone spoofed the source address in the email.
I have since removed the MAPS servers from my rbl list and stick with spamhaus (which ive never had a problem with in several years) and if someone i know gets blocked its normally a pretty easy process to get unblocked. I also use dsbl and ordb of which stop a fair bit of spam at the door.
Originally I would reject all messages from RBL hosts with a 421 and provide them with an error based on the RBL that blocked them. I have since changed that to a 500 series error. All in all the amount of spam being recieved across several thousand is about 10% of what it was previously.
With the server doing well over a million emails every week thats a fair percentage. The load that would cause on spam assassin often makes it difficult NOT to use rbls.
Working with over 5000 redhat boxes I see it across the board on many different platforms. I have not used SLES8 however Ive expereinced no problems with Dell 2650 or 2850 or 6650's since our install with SuSe. However with redhat we have had ext3 corruptions plus a list longer than slashdot will let me post of other issues ranging from an update disabling services from starting to not including particular packages within a package update. for example update mysql without including the -server release.
Novel vs Redhat. In a corporate environment with directory services novel wins hands down. Novel (suse) also has a much much better QA procedure on its Enterprise linux products. I have not seen to date one issue to date (yet) that has caused systems to go down after patches have been applied. However with redhat we see it all the time.
For anyone serious about an enterprise level linux novel is the only real choice.
We have several hundred Dell 2650 systems all with the "PERC" based raid card. Originally these cars where an LSI based and everything was nice, we rarely if ever had any problems with the RAID or issues with mirror sets not mirroring and reporting as being ok in both windows and linux.
After we upgraded to the 2650 with the Adaptec based cards (to support higher speed CPUs etc etc) we found that we started to get corruptions with the file systems and often the RAID would report as being ok but the mirror would be broken (one disk working the other empty). After many upgrades and bug fixes new drivers and all sorts of things the platform is now relativly stable. however it does not perform as well as the LSI based raid cards that we have grown to love.
Anyone that is stupid enough to give anone any details about themselves when they are called almost deserve to have their identity or information stolen and used against them. I remember when I got an account with my bank that had a pin number on my card when I was about 12 (15years ago).. back then the bank said they would NEVER call me to ask for my details. So what is new?... or is it that people dont listen to the paper/information sheets that are given to you with your account?...
If anyone ever rings me and asks for any personal details I just tell them to get stuffed.. Or if it sounds legit ill request to ring them back on a number that I have for them. Its not that hard to stay safe from bank fraud.
Having worked on some .gov systems over my time the bigget problem is often that the resources are spread very thinly across the country. They really need each department to invest in people that will just focus on keeping things upto date.
Primary focus can be desktop and internet facing systems. This can be made alot easier. Windows update for example is much more reliable than it has been in the past (not perfect but better). And most unix systems are compatable with systems like pkgsrc which would make it much easier to at least try and resist incoming attackers.
Having centralised management and control over all systems would be a great start. Thats something that many countries have however from my experience many american departments have different staff in different offices/regeons making the mismatch in staff quality and skillset diverse enough to affect security.
Idealy to cut costs further the cinemas could just stream the movies from the one location each time the movies are being shown. Especially with the growth in cheap fibre across europe especially.
The over all cost savings will be more significant than just the film cases. Ive been in cinemas on several occasions where the film has screwed up and we have had to get a refund from the cinema.. Taking that out out or reducing it seriously would be a great bonus for the cinemas.
At the end of the day competition is good. Look what competition has done for microsoft in recent years. Many people dispute that linux/open source software has any affect on the big MS however its clearly not the case.
Over recent years windows has gone from 95 (super super crap) to 98 ( super crap ) to windows me ( ok but still crap) to XP on the desktop market. XP maybe slow in some situations but it works pretty well. There are still all the issues with worms and other issues with stupid users but at the end of the day windows has improved significantly and thats not going into the server market where its improved even more.
I personally see linux as a better server operating system than a desktop system even though I use it every day as my desktop at both work and home. Taking that into account its still a rock solid stable desktop (Slackware current) and I dont have any problems running it on my laptop.
So often there are big projects in the opensource community that fill real gaps but the lead programmers get to a point where they are happy and leave it at that. Its then taken up by other coders and the project is dead in few months or years because its become a mess, people have not realised how much time is involved in writing good efficient, secure code.. they got to the point where they are happy with it and so on..
One of the problems with where things are going with linux is that we will have redhat/suse and a few other distributions all running corporate level software.. and then there will be distributions like slackware, gentoo and others that will be used more in the technical enthusiest market. All of the different distributions have their place.. so do the different versions of windows.
At the end of the day you can have a secure user level windows box and linux / open source box with a web browser and you can almost bet that the windows box will be trojaned before the linux/open source one..
I run several servers with a few businesses etc hosting their email across the board I probably have 400 users give or take 20. In recent months the spam problem was getting worse and worse. I have had spamassassin and other software running on the system to mark the messages as spam but the over all problem wasnt resolved and it kept getting worse. I have since changed the way that our servers operate by using RBL firewalls across the board with several different RBLs including spamhaus, sorbs, spamcop and dsbl. Since taking that action the spam has dropped from just under a million emails marked as spam a month to around 34000. That is a huge drop in spam. I also log all connections that are refused because of RBLs so that I can see if there are any bad entries if anyone complains about failed email delivery. All in all the amount of emails being rejected has also been falling as the "spammers" and other "bulk email" providers that are listed on the RBLs and have users emails remove the emails from the lists they are using.
Its not a perfect solution but it has reduced it to such an extent that the servers are now performing much better. Customers are more happy, spammers get screwed and everyone lives happily ever after.
A science degree with a business degree will be good for management growth while still staying technical.
your a fool if you think there is still not enough evidence that the weather isnt changing. They can see dramatic changes over the last 10 years letalone the 10years before that an so on.
This is something that will be very interesting. The information in wikipedia should be available to everyone for free. There could be an interesting situation where people could subscribe to a service to have no advertising. That way it would pay for the wikipedia services to continue running, while still providing the benefit to the community. I know I use online services reguarly and its something that I would pay a nominal fee for without complaining to much.
However it must have both free and subscription based services for it to be a viable system.
Is it complete.. doesnt really seem to answer
Slackware runs a vanilla kernel as far as Im aware..
I know so many people that own pdas and never actually use them. the concept is great but the usability is the killer. Its just not really viable for most people to use them all the time.
I agree with this. Also the whole benefit is that its all open closing it off or making it private may result in all sorts of issues in the future.. (see microsoft's traditionally slow response to security issues.. aka win nuke).
Telstra isnt the only provider. PowerTEL, Optus, Connect.com (AAPT) are all much cheaper than the leading monopoly telco. You can easily cut the telstra quote down to about 25% or less if you shop around for point to point ethernet unmetered.
If you have your own sxc connection you can also reduce your international transit costs significantly.
Plus even if you do use telstra as your upstream provider when your buying more than 155mbps the cost is massivly cheaper. The more you buy the cheaper it gets and the more bargaining power you get. I used to network engineer a national ISP in aus so I know how it works.
Its simple maths. iinet often attracts higher users than many other ISPs because of thier high speed pipes. The usage of the traffic / quota isnt that high compared to many other ISPs but the PIPES around australia still cost a fortune leased line, dedicated ATM/WDM etc all costs alot of cash because of the huge distances that are covered to get around the country for the small amount of population.
The Sykpe service is often pretty poor within Australia for international calls because the latency is circa 180ms on average. This leaves a call from west coast australia to east coast US with a heavy lag and poor quality.