Also, I just wanted to say, I liked someone else's idea of (only for mass violations from one single IP address) banning an entire/24 IP block, identifying the IP address and UID of the violator to anybody who tries to get to Slashdot from that range, telling them, "Sorry, somebody in your subnet has broken the rules. The violator was at so-and-so IP address. Have your network administrator find out who they are, and make them stop doing what they're doing."
That sounds good until you consider that some people have ISPs who don't want to get involved in that sort of thing, and switching ISPs isn't always feasable. How do you lock out the bad guys but let the good ones in then?
I've never actually done this under Linux, but whenever I wanted to move the contents of drives on other Unixes, I always ran dump and restore. Create a new fs on the new drive, mount it on/new, then try something like:
dump -0 -f - / | (cd/new && restore -rf -)
(You may want to refer to the man pages to make sure the switches are correct -- it's been a while since I've done this. The idea is to dump to stdout and restore from stdin.)
BTW, using dd to copy filesystems is a BAD idea -- the fact your FS is the same size as the old one is evidence of that. There are some things dd just shouldn't be used for. =)
Alright, in all seriousness, exactly how is this card going to invade privacy? Lots of states already put your SSN on there, so that's not a real change. Just seems like everyone is screaming "Orwellian!" but never saying why...
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I have a very similar setup using system commander myself. It's the perfect tool for the task.
Also, I just wanted to say, I liked someone else's idea of (only for mass violations from one single IP address) banning an entire /24 IP block, identifying the IP address and UID of the violator to anybody who tries to get to Slashdot from that range, telling them, "Sorry, somebody in your subnet has broken the rules. The violator was at so-and-so IP address. Have your network administrator find out who they are, and make them stop doing what they're doing."
That sounds good until you consider that some people have ISPs who don't want to get involved in that sort of thing, and switching ISPs isn't always feasable. How do you lock out the bad guys but let the good ones in then?
I've never actually done this under Linux, but whenever I wanted to move the contents of drives on other Unixes, I always ran dump and restore. Create a new fs on the new drive, mount it on /new, then try something like:
dump -0 -f - / | (cd /new && restore -rf -)
(You may want to refer to the man pages to make sure the switches are correct -- it's been a while since I've done this. The idea is to dump to stdout and restore from stdin.)
BTW, using dd to copy filesystems is a BAD idea -- the fact your FS is the same size as the old one is evidence of that. There are some things dd just shouldn't be used for. =)
Alright, in all seriousness, exactly how is this card going to invade privacy? Lots of states already put your SSN on there, so that's not a real change. Just seems like everyone is screaming "Orwellian!" but never saying why...