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--Quentin
This isn't just the UK, it's everywhere
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My school is having major problems with their "firewall" right now. Namely, there's just too much traffic for the crappy hardware boxes they're using - so they bought a $10,000 Packeteer packet shaper. Anyway, I offered to retrofit one of their old servers as a Linux-based firewall. The sysadmin said no. The reason? "I've got nobody to blame when it breaks."
I especially like this one: 814017 Windows Does Not Detect a SCSI Device After a Surprise Removal I should hope it doesn't detect a missing device! I guess MS really does intentionally introduce bugs. Soooo typical.
I just took a look at www.sco.de, and it loads just fine for me. I don't read German, but it seems to be in German. Is this a diversionary tactic by SCO?
--Quentin
Tweedle Dum has a firewall. The BitTorrent docs readily say that firewalled users (those who can't accept incoming connections) will be penalized with slow speeds.
Forget about search queries, what about referers? I've met a lot of interesting people by looking at the referrer logs for my blog/website, and following them back to their blogs. I've even met some of them in person after talking to them online.
Talk about coincidence... I met someone <wink wink> less than 50 miles from me, who linked to an obscure page on my web site.
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Can't you just tunnel to a different local port and use port forwarding or redir to map 139 on the proper interface to whatever you connected the tunnel to? It seems the patch is unnecessary... --Quentin
Doesn't this just sound like fiber optics without the fiber? I seem to remember this being done a long time ago. I've got an electronics book with a schematic for a serial 28k transmitter using visible light. --Quentin
> Back in the day, I seem to rember these tools called Archie and Veronica. These were, well basically, search engines. You could search for a file, and it would tell you what FTP site and directory where you could get it.
Not quite. Archie was an FTP search engine, and it is indeed dead. But Veronica was a gopher search engine, and its descendent, Veronica-2 is still alive and kicking.
Here's a good introduction to Gopher: http://gopher.quux.org:70/Software/Gopher
And here is Veronica-2 itself (running on a mySQL database): gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/v2
The jokes are/.ed and Microsoft's site is fine. Maybe this article was sponsored by M$ so that they would bring down their enemies? It wouldn't surprise me:)
--Quentin
Yeah, it's a great idea. But is it typical Microshit? Have they actually published the necessary technical information for linux to be ported to it? Somehow I don't think so.
--Quentin
Hi- Exactly! They sent him his visa in the mail well after he was already dead. (months, IIRC) How hard is it for the INS to realize that he was one of the hijackers? --Quentin
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The First First Post Award, given to the earliest first post to be posted.
--Quentin
My school is having major problems with their "firewall" right now. Namely, there's just too much traffic for the crappy hardware boxes they're using - so they bought a $10,000 Packeteer packet shaper. Anyway, I offered to retrofit one of their old servers as a Linux-based firewall. The sysadmin said no. The reason? "I've got nobody to blame when it breaks."
I especially like this one:
814017 Windows Does Not Detect a SCSI Device After a Surprise Removal
I should hope it doesn't detect a missing device! I guess MS really does intentionally introduce bugs. Soooo typical.
You mean like angif? It does just this, making a true color image from tiles. Mozilla takes a long time to draw these images though.
--Quentin
How to announce software on /.:
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1) Go to SourceForge.
2) Register a project; upload files
3) Post link to SourceForge page on
4) ???
5) Profit
How not to announce software on
1) Upload software to your web server behind a T1
2) Post link to
4) ???
5) Cry over the money you just wasted.
--Quentin
Anyone got the tarball of this? The google cache is all well and good, but how am I supposed to try it on my friends^W rogue users?
--QUentin
I just took a look at www.sco.de, and it loads just fine for me. I don't read German, but it seems to be in German. Is this a diversionary tactic by SCO?
--Quentin
> "Security improvement"? I guess it improves security dramatically if it kills the network access. Thanks, Microsoft!
:)
How much do you want to bet that it still allows inbound SMB and Windows Messenger?
--Quentin
Tweedle Dum has a firewall. The BitTorrent docs readily say that firewalled users (those who can't accept incoming connections) will be penalized with slow speeds.
Forget about search queries, what about referers? I've met a lot of interesting people by looking at the referrer logs for my blog/website, and following them back to their blogs. I've even met some of them in person after talking to them online.
Talk about coincidence... I met someone <wink wink> less than 50 miles from me, who linked to an obscure page on my web site.
And what's wrong with the audio files on their website?
http://cartalk.cars.com/Radio/Show/online
Sure, they're RealAudio, but that's not a problem *cough*mencoder*cough*Audio Hijack*cough*.
Can't you just tunnel to a different local port and use port forwarding or redir to map 139 on the proper interface to whatever you connected the tunnel to? It seems the patch is unnecessary...
--Quentin
Wait a minute, what's wrong with "pictures of dead babies being eaten by a man covered in feces"? That's not evil, that's what keeps our Net alive!
Doesn't this just sound like fiber optics without the fiber?
I seem to remember this being done a long time ago. I've got an electronics book with a schematic for a serial 28k transmitter using visible light.
--Quentin
> Back in the day, I seem to rember these tools called Archie and Veronica. These were, well basically, search engines. You could search for a file, and it would tell you what FTP site and directory where you could get it.
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Not quite. Archie was an FTP search engine, and it is indeed dead. But Veronica was a gopher search engine, and its descendent, Veronica-2 is still alive and kicking.
Here's a good introduction to Gopher:
http://gopher.quux.org:70/Software/Gophe
And here is Veronica-2 itself (running on a mySQL database):
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/v2
--Quentin
Check out the song "Log into you" by the Arrogant Worms.
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/86/the_ar
Now, what's your phone number?
For those of you who are sick of using the search "feature", here is the previous story, "Cable TV A La Carte?":
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/07/13824
Really? Then what does Ctrl+F do?
The jokes are /.ed and Microsoft's site is fine. Maybe this article was sponsored by M$ so that they would bring down their enemies? It wouldn't surprise me :)
--Quentin
Yeah, it's a great idea. But is it typical Microshit? Have they actually published the necessary technical information for linux to be ported to it? Somehow I don't think so. --Quentin
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Exactly! They sent him his visa in the mail well after he was already dead. (months, IIRC) How hard is it for the INS to realize that he was one of the hijackers?
--Quentin
I put up a mirror of the hard to reach page. Yes, I see the google cache link, but don't you want to see the pretty pictures? :)
Mirror is here