...isn't my wrists but in my hands. What gets me is on the back of the hand abive the wrist, straight across from the base of my double-jointed thumbs (where the veins usually meet). I think it has to do with the way I mouse. I mouse with my fingertips, not my palm. My palm isn't rested on the mouse but is instead held up by my fingertips. I think that's what does it to me.
My solution was to make it setuid root, grouped by my sysadm group, and only executable by that group and root. Basic user/group works like a champ. Now if your non-prived sysadm user (you do have a prived and non-prived sysadm user besides your personal user, don't you?) get 0wned, well, you're screwed if nmap has sploitable code. Of course if that user gets 0wned, you probably have more to worry about.
Personally I still use nslookup. I simply haven't taken the time to learn dig or I'd probably use it. IIRC however, the later versions of Bind include a warning at each use that says:
Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with
the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.
That said teaching dig instead of nslookup was probably wise. Both should have been thaught though. For the record, I keep an old copy of nslookup in my ~/bin so I don't have to put up with the warning. Yes I know about -sil. It seems like I also ran into something that the new version wouldn't do that the old one would. I think....
err, I am there. I'm 22.5 and am the Network & Systems Manager a a regent's school in the midwest. I've had to deal with this exact same thing since day 1. I started this job 1.5 years ago and had a great deal of industry experience before that. Still I faced resentment from my super, the associate director (read: top bitch), and some from the director. Most of the people there seem to like me very much. I get along with most of them and have the X-mas cards to prove it. A select few seem to be out to get me. Here's one thing I can tell you for absolute certain. DO NOT confide in ANYONE at your place of work unless you are ABSOLUTELY and UNDOUBTEDLY sure that you can trust them. That includes you boss. Sorry for the shouting but it is a major point that needs to be made. You may think that someone is being nice to you but it truth they may very well be getting the dirt on you that they can use later. All people have one thing in common. They want security. Job security. If they feel you threaten their job, even in the slighest way, they may consciously or unconsciously aide in the removal of the threat: you. It could be something as simple as you and a person that's below you that wanted (or wants) the job you were hired for. It could be something seemingly unrelated like you always want to push the cutting edge of technology and move quickly whereas a certain programmer doesn't want to learn something new because they have a monopoly on something old and antiquated that only they know. They're afraid that management might like the way you do things and try to implement a faster change in their area. Since we're all afraid of change to a certain point, they will be afraid of you. Carefully select the people that you confide in. I have a few at work that are in similar positions as I am so we all feel we can trust eachother. There are others that I work closely with that have to take much of the same type of crap that I do. Because of that I can confide in certain related topics with them because we feel the same on that topic. Be very careful about this. An excellent example is a woman that was pretty nice to me when I first started work. She was always asking if I needed anything or offering this or that. She seemed like a person that knew who to talk to to get things done so I thought she'd be a good ally. Some people gave me discreet warnings about people in the office, not always naming names. Some others weren't so discreet and came right out and said "don't trust this woman". Well I confided in her my initial impressions of my co-workers after a month or so. Mysteriously the ones that I didn't give an excellent review of started avoiding me or being much less nice to me. Turns out that she told those people (and a few others) imbellished versions of what I said; greatly BSed versions of what I said. I found this out when one of them, that I get along well with now, told me what she'd said. What I'd said about him was that I thought he was a good person that was leary about taking on too much for fear of being swamped by too much work. She told them that I said they were worthless and lazy and should be fired on the spot. She's the "top bitch" that I mentioned above. Another time in a car ride with her she was playing nice nice and asked about my younger years in high school; what I did, sports I played, etc... I told her band, football, basketball, and track. She asked about what I did in track. I told her three long distance events and a relay. She said something about hating to run far and asked why I choose long distance instead of something shorter. I explained to her that our track team was small so there were very few multiple person events I could do (relays), that I lived in one of the smaller towns that made up my school district and that I was the only track person in that town, and that I liked to go out and run by myself for relaxation. The next day during a 3 on 1 gangbang (which is what this raping session could only be called), she said I told her yesterday that I hated working with people and that I thought only my work could be trusted while the rest was shit. I told her that was an out and out lie and she mentioned what I'd told her in the car about track. Turns out while she was playing nice nice, she was digging for any piece of info she could twist around and use. Bitch. I should have taken the hints I was given early on to separate myself from her.
Feel free to email me about the problem you're having. Your's and mine are very similar problems. macdaddy@ieee.org
I'm in a similar boat. I got my first desk job (netadmin) about 1.5 years ago. I weighed 165lbs when I started @ 6' 1 1/2" and I'm now at 210lbs. I've never been fat in my life. I've always been the skinny guy that could out eat anyone and never show it. Well damn. It's catching up. My solution will be purchased in a month or two. I'm going to buy a Bowflex. I just moved into a house today. It has a very large living room that can easily hold a Bowflex. I prefer to lift by myself. Going to a gym after work really doesn't work unless you have a group of people to go with you. The group movtivates itself that way. This thing will be close enough to the TV that I can work out and watch HBO at the same time. I think I can pull it off that way. It can't hurt to try. Give it a whirl!
My solution is to purchase $100 dollars worth of the CDs one day and return the next day as being defective because they don't comply with the Red Book standard. Universal said they would honor the refunds to the retailers. That would cost them more in the end than not buying the CDs in the first place. I think that's the best solution.
Not to knock your data, I must say that it's commonly recognized that 70% of the spam actually comes from the US. Much of most people see as foreign (to the US) spam doesn't actually originate from there. It's usually a US-based spammer like Alan Ralsky with a US ISP relaying spam through a foreign open relay. This is really really common. In fact almost all of the Ralsky spam I've received lately originated froma Broadwing.net dialup (a known spam supporting ISP: BLOCK THEM!) and was sent through a foreign open relay. Hell I've even seen Ralsky abuse a NASA owned open relay. This isn't to say that foreign countries don't spam. Many people have great luck in filtering on TLDs or netblocks of foreign countries. I've heard of people filtering all of China's netblocks, as well as the.cn,.tw,.jp,.ar,.br, and more tlds and having little foreign spam left in their inbox. I can't justify doing that at a provider level but I can justify recommending it to individuals that never correspond with people in those countries. Give it a try sometime and see how you like it. Use the procmail 'clone' bit to test it.
"Have a place to submit spam incidents, such as a web form. Then process them to look for patterns."
Have you ever tried to run more than a handful of LARTS through a web form? It's a nightmare. I have 1200 pieces of Broadwing.net spam that I need to LART tonight. I don't know how I'd LART all of them via a web form.
Patterns aren't something that the average Joe would pick up on anyhow. Few people noticed that recently more and more spam uses a spoofed From: in the form of BSUser@yourowndomain.tld. If they do want to look for patterns, they could easily view thousands of spam reports in news.admin.net-abuse.sightings. Numerous people post their spam to it.
Provide separate zones for blocking sources of spam, and blocking web sites and ISPs where spammers might be hosting a web page. Not everyone wants to block the latter; I only want to block the source of spam."
Many DNS blacklist authors do just this. MAPS is a good example. You have the DUL which lists dial-up IPs only. The RSS which lists known && abused open relays. The RBL contains ISPs that are known to harbor spammers or at least be neutral to their abuse and ignore abuse complaints. The RBL+ is a combination of those 3. All 4 of those are their own zones. SPEWS lists/24's from which spam originates. Occasionally they'll even list a whole provider that harbors spammers or spamware sites, repeated lies to people that mail abuse@, or are known to bit bucket abuse complaints. relays.osirusoft.com hosts many lists. Individual queries can be made to for any of the lists it hosts or you can transfer them all at once in a big zone file. relays.visi.com is the home of the RSL. It only lists open relays that have been abused, like the RSS and relays.osirusoft.com's base DNSbl. blackholes.2mbit.com is the home of the SBL (Summit Block List), not to be confused with the SBL (Spamhaus Block List) which is hosted by osirusoft. The Summit Block List contains abused open relays and hosts that have been directly involved in spamming. The Spamhaus Block List contains "known spammers, spam gangs, or spam support services" and is "by the same team that maintains the ROKSO database", a list of those spammers.
"Some anti-spammers are on a crusade to maximize collateral damage. I am not. I won't block a whole ISP because of a spammer unless that ISP is making it difficult to isolate and focus on the spammer."
In a small way I agree. I used to feel like you do now. I was very leary about blocking an entire ISP just because of the possibility of lossing legit mail. I quickly came to realize that blocking just a small piece of that ISP that's know to spam wasn't solving the problem. They'd just move elsewhere within that ISP.
"If they corner the spammer operation to a specific static subnet, I'll gladly block that, and I'd want to use a DNS blacklist that is equally focused."
This doesn't accomplish anything in the long term and little in the short term. Sure you block some spam from a spammer for a couple of weeks but they'll quickly figure that out and move to another block. If the ISP facilitates their move then they are supporting spammers. It's an all or nothing deal. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Personally I block entire ISPs myself, in my personal access lists that are independant of group maintainted DNS blacklists, that are known to harbor spammers and ignore complaints. A perfect example of this is Broadwing.net. I have blacklisted every IP they have registered to them. That includes 3/14's, a/24, and a/28. That's a lot of IPs. I have never seen anything but spam come directly from them. They harbor Alan Ralsky and many other well known spammers. They ignore spam complaints. They simply don't care. Whenever I LART their spam, I also LART their upstreams because I believe someone there will eventually notice. I know that no one at Broadwing will.
"Some of the anti-spammers are on the wrong crusade and not very many people will follow them."
This I have to strongly disagree with. I've been involved in protecting my resources from spam for some time now and have implemented many steps to prevent as much spam from entering my system as possible. I reject just under 1400 known spamming domains. I also reject all mail from a number of providers that harbor spammers as well. I utilize all the lists hosted by Osirusoft, relays.visi.com, blackholes.2mbit.com, and I'm in the process of resubscribing to the RSS and DUL. I even do some filtering on message content which has been incredibly successful. Last week I rejected almost 96,000 pieces of spam on one of my servers. That's pretty darn good. Of the 2400 users on this particular server, I've only had complaints from 3. 3 of them couldn't receive mail from a particular person on the 'Net that wsa being filtered by me. 1 was on an osirusoft list. 1 was attempting to send mail through their mailing list that's run by cybercon.com (a known spam supporter) and mail to subscribers on our end was bouncing. The other was a customer of a customer of Broadwing's. After explaining to them that we couldn't selectively allow mail to just them from the affected host and that we'd have to allow all mail to them unfiltered, they decided to suffer from more spam than miss out on their friend's email. One has changed his mind though. The rest seem to love it. The best advice I can say to you is to keep an open mind about these lists and what they do for us. Not every list is meant for all situations. I personally don't want to use the RBL. In the beginning I was leary about SPEWS. The rest I like. Join news.admin.net-abuse.email and keep up with some of the conversations of the anti-spammers that reside there. A plethora of information and insight can be had with them (I'm there too). good luck!
The easy answer to that is to use a credit card via Paypal, not a bank account. They tried to screw me once like they did you. I paid the guy and never got the goods. After 2 weeks of no contact, I called them and asked to have the transfer nixed. They gave me the run around and kept transferring me to different people. I seriously think that they do what a cartoon I once saw did. In that cartoon was a helpdesk. One person had an irate customer on the phone demanding the supervisor of the tech they were talking to. The tech put them on hold and looked around at his colleagues in the cubical farm and asked who wanted to play super. Someone said I'll play super for you if you play super for my guy on line 6. I swear they did that to me. I know I got a couple of those people twice and they played super a couple of times too. After a couple of weeks of getting jacked with by them, I threatened to call my credit card company, contest the Paypal charge, and let my card carrier sort it out. The person playing super that time bucked up and sent me to a person whom I think really was a super, or the designated person to call when that happened. He told me in a really pissed voice that if I did that, they'd "turn the matter over to our legal department and sue my ass off". Yes, I can quote those exact words. I told him to [censored] and hung up. My next call was to my Visa card carrier. I told them what was going on and that I wanted to contest the charge in the amount of $abc.de. They happily responded. They contested the charge and credited my account. They said they would get back with me if they needed more information. A few months later I received an official letter from my card company saying that they had investigated, received little cooperation from the and that they were siding with me and the credit to my account. It worked like a charm. I absolutely do not use bank account transfers from them. I use my Visa Check Card that withdraws straight from my checking account. It affords me all the protection from Visa like contesting charges and fraud protection. However I should use a card with a limit so that if it's stolen, my real $$ funds aren't possibly in limbo while I wait on a credit. I hope this helps someoen.
Yes. They do nothing but spam. I have an extensive list of spamming domains. Another really bad one is Broadwing.net. Bad bad bad. Nothing legti comes from them.
I also forgot to take the bounces to the LARTs you sent to abuse@ and postmaster@ those domains and report them to,rfc-ignorant.org. Abuse and postmaster accounts are required to be RFC-compliant. Reporting bounces to those addresses doesn't neccessarily benefit the anti-spam fight directly but it does help some administrators when they try to contact those non-RFC-compliant sites. FYI
I'm reading the previous comments and there's something I notice that's disturbing. Most are quick to say how they hate spam and how spam will kill the Internet. Many are even providing information on how to filter spam. But no one has said anything about reporting spam. If there is something going on that you're so adamantly against, why don't you LART it? Doing your own personal filtering or simply ignoring the spam (UCE or UBE) only benefits yourself and only in the short term I might add. If you take a little time to LART messages, you'll not only help get A) spammers booted from their provider, b) spam sites get shut down, and c) companies that use a spammer's services to find a better way to advertise, you'll assistant in decreasing your's and everyone else's future spam. Examine the headers. Learn the signs of an open relay. Check for and report open relays. LART the abuse and postmaster addresses of the owner of the IP, the provider for that netblock, the owners (and sometimes providers) of the spamertised sites in the spam, CC uce@ftc.gov, and CC NANAS (news.admin.net-abuse.sightings) so that there is a record of spam for others to confirm that they aren't the only ones getting a particular spam. Also include the FDA on spams that say things about prescription drugs without and prescription or other FDA-related topics. Also include the US Secret Service on Nigerian Money scams. The SEC also accept reports of stock market scams. There is a plethora of things you should do with the spam you receive. Doing nothing with it is the real crime. I strongly recommend you become a member of news.admin.net-abuse.email and follow the discussions there. There are many spam FAQs floating around. Do you part to help other fight spam.
I filter spam based off of numerous DNS blacklists. I also have an extensive list of spamming domains and spam supporting providers that I blacklist. Last week I rejected 95,837 pieces of mail from just one of my servers that I deemed to be spam. If people didn't report that spam to the maintainers of the DNS blacklists, I would have to rely on my own access lists to reject spam. This colaborative effort really works.
Actually Cat5 is the requirement. Cat5e "has improved signal carrying capabilities" over Cat5 but aren't required for GigE. 1000Base-T (802.3ab) standards have a complex signal encoding scheme that is very similar to 100Base-T2. It also uses all 4 pairs. My source (besides my own knowledge) is O'Reilly's Ethernet: The Definitive Guide". An excellent read BTW.
I'd like to see them and every other person caught for virus authoring to be held prosecuted to the farthest possible extreme. The newsgroup Hip Crime flooding is a good example of that. My newsgroups noise is so high that I can hardly find legit postings anymore, the goal of the flooding. I'd love to meet the bastard responsible for that in a dark alley with one of my old Sparc keyboards w/ the metal sub-structure so I can show him how us country geeks deal with problems like him.
I suffered some nerve damage back in junior high many years ago. No, it wasn't from worthless teachers or bad food (although...). I had a wrestling accident in eigth grade. My right solder hit the mat in such a way to pull/pry the arm from the socket. Didn't feel to great. The good news is that I still wont the match, on points. The bad news is that tore the rhomboid muscle and stretched a brachial plexus nerve. The muscle is the muscle that sits at the base of your neck, more so on the back. With your right arm at complete rest, push in on the soft muscle a couple inches out from the spine on the back a couple inches below the top of the shoulder with your left hand. Not on the scapula, closer to the spine. Nice and soft, right? Ok, raise your arm just the slighest from the shoulder. Hard as a rock now isn't it? That's the rhomboid. Most of the arm function is lost when you injure that. The nerve I stretched runs around the backside of the shoulder to your hand. It controls things like touch, grip, etc.. of the hand (there are many nerves in that vacinity). I lost all feeling in my right hand by the next day. It came back a month or so later, fortunately. The doctor strongly warned against wrestling again because of the chances of me severing the nerve in a future accident. I wonder if treatment like this could have worked on my shoulder...
I thought I read a long while back that QuickTime 3 or 4 was going going to be used as the basis for MPEG-4. Does anyone else remember that? If so, can you explain it better?
...there is a handful of people that basically doom projects to failure. If they don't think of the idea, the project dies. If the project doesn't greatly involve them, they kill it. If they are involved too much, they cite how incompetent they think you are because they have to be involved so much, claim they're too busy, and kill it. I've found that if they kill something, the rule of 3's applies. 3 minutes, weeks, or months after they kill your project they either a) completely reverse their opinion on it to a superior, b) reinvent it as their own pet project of which they are of course an expert in the field, or c) a combination shot of both to the mid section. Even when you involve the big cheese that oversees all and get his endorsement on something, they somehow manage to later convince him with a, b, or c and cut you from the loop. One person in particular is as incompetent as they come. Literally this person doesn't know Jack®. Still this worthless person manages to get their hands into every single pot and slow things down, fsck the process up, or kill the thing entirely. There really is no reason for this person to be employeed with us. Worthless doesn't begin to describe this person in all honesty. What dooms projects to failure? Incompetent management, staff, and politics IMHO.
When I finally got my license not that long ago, it was recognized that the vast majority of motorcycle accidents were caused by drunk driving. Almost all the rest could be contributed to driver error. Not the motorcycle driver's error but the error of those other drivers around him/her. Someone pulling out in front of you is the most common. Maybe it's because they didn't see you. Maybe it's because they thought you were farther away. I've had people stare me in the eye and pull out less than 15yds in front of me. Nice. If you ride a bike, you have to be one helluva defensive driver. So many riders I know aren't and they will probably wreck at some point. I was taught to be a defensive driver (and I taught myself to be offensive too:) ) from an early age so I have a leg up on the people who went through the system later and weren't taught that.
Note, I haven't read the article yet. I haven't had time.
I dislike the idea of replacing or supplimenting workgroup switches with these wall plate things. Does this switch support 802.1Q or 802.1D and things of that nature? Can software upgrades be preformed on these things? Is the thing manageable at all? If not, port-based VLANs are out the window. Switching off a port for security reasons is also out the window. Basic administrative tasks could be greatly inhibited or prohibited if this device has little managment capabilities or none at all. I see people jumping at this idea and embracing it as the next great thing. They did this to 802.11B too. These are also the type of people think wireless is a replace for a wired connection. It is not a replacement for a wired connection. It's convienent for laptops, kioks, printers in odd places, dynamically changing rooms like temporary cubical farms, and PDA access. It can not replace a wired connection for a desktop. So many basic network administrative tasks are inhibited by wireless connections. Most people don't realize it because the extent of their networking ability is buying a 4 port hub and plugging in purchased cables. Perhaps they know how use a crimper and can pull a little wire between rooms. They still don't do the network tasks that a network admin like myself have to do. They just see it as a easier way to connect things together. bad bad bad
...and yet the biggest black hole competition is still left undecided. The final two contestants are "The Space Between Bush's Legs", and "The Vacum Between John 'beat by a dead guy" Ashcroft's ears".
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...isn't my wrists but in my hands. What gets me is on the back of the hand abive the wrist, straight across from the base of my double-jointed thumbs (where the veins usually meet). I think it has to do with the way I mouse. I mouse with my fingertips, not my palm. My palm isn't rested on the mouse but is instead held up by my fingertips. I think that's what does it to me.
My solution was to make it setuid root, grouped by my sysadm group, and only executable by that group and root. Basic user/group works like a champ. Now if your non-prived sysadm user (you do have a prived and non-prived sysadm user besides your personal user, don't you?) get 0wned, well, you're screwed if nmap has sploitable code. Of course if that user gets 0wned, you probably have more to worry about.
Feel free to email me about the problem you're having. Your's and mine are very similar problems. macdaddy@ieee.org
I'm in a similar boat. I got my first desk job (netadmin) about 1.5 years ago. I weighed 165lbs when I started @ 6' 1 1/2" and I'm now at 210lbs. I've never been fat in my life. I've always been the skinny guy that could out eat anyone and never show it. Well damn. It's catching up. My solution will be purchased in a month or two. I'm going to buy a Bowflex. I just moved into a house today. It has a very large living room that can easily hold a Bowflex. I prefer to lift by myself. Going to a gym after work really doesn't work unless you have a group of people to go with you. The group movtivates itself that way. This thing will be close enough to the TV that I can work out and watch HBO at the same time. I think I can pull it off that way. It can't hurt to try. Give it a whirl!
Oh man, that would rock. Do you know how much damage a 7.5 ton BLU-82 can do? Kick ass! Makes Internet Exploder look like a paint ball in comparison.
My solution is to purchase $100 dollars worth of the CDs one day and return the next day as being defective because they don't comply with the Red Book standard. Universal said they would honor the refunds to the retailers. That would cost them more in the end than not buying the CDs in the first place. I think that's the best solution.
This is more like saying sure we'll sell you a car but to drive it on the road with other owners, you must belong to a special club.
Not to knock your data, I must say that it's commonly recognized that 70% of the spam actually comes from the US. Much of most people see as foreign (to the US) spam doesn't actually originate from there. It's usually a US-based spammer like Alan Ralsky with a US ISP relaying spam through a foreign open relay. This is really really common. In fact almost all of the Ralsky spam I've received lately originated froma Broadwing.net dialup (a known spam supporting ISP: BLOCK THEM!) and was sent through a foreign open relay. Hell I've even seen Ralsky abuse a NASA owned open relay. This isn't to say that foreign countries don't spam. Many people have great luck in filtering on TLDs or netblocks of foreign countries. I've heard of people filtering all of China's netblocks, as well as the .cn, .tw, .jp, .ar, .br, and more tlds and having little foreign spam left in their inbox. I can't justify doing that at a provider level but I can justify recommending it to individuals that never correspond with people in those countries. Give it a try sometime and see how you like it. Use the procmail 'clone' bit to test it.
Have you ever tried to run more than a handful of LARTS through a web form? It's a nightmare. I have 1200 pieces of Broadwing.net spam that I need to LART tonight. I don't know how I'd LART all of them via a web form.
Patterns aren't something that the average Joe would pick up on anyhow. Few people noticed that recently more and more spam uses a spoofed From: in the form of BSUser@yourowndomain.tld. If they do want to look for patterns, they could easily view thousands of spam reports in news.admin.net-abuse.sightings. Numerous people post their spam to it.
Many DNS blacklist authors do just this. MAPS is a good example. You have the DUL which lists dial-up IPs only. The RSS which lists known && abused open relays. The RBL contains ISPs that are known to harbor spammers or at least be neutral to their abuse and ignore abuse complaints. The RBL+ is a combination of those 3. All 4 of those are their own zones. SPEWS lists /24's from which spam originates. Occasionally they'll even list a whole provider that harbors spammers or spamware sites, repeated lies to people that mail abuse@, or are known to bit bucket abuse complaints. relays.osirusoft.com hosts many lists. Individual queries can be made to for any of the lists it hosts or you can transfer them all at once in a big zone file. relays.visi.com is the home of the RSL. It only lists open relays that have been abused, like the RSS and relays.osirusoft.com's base DNSbl. blackholes.2mbit.com is the home of the SBL (Summit Block List), not to be confused with the SBL (Spamhaus Block List) which is hosted by osirusoft. The Summit Block List contains abused open relays and hosts that have been directly involved in spamming. The Spamhaus Block List contains "known spammers, spam gangs, or spam support services" and is "by the same team that maintains the ROKSO database", a list of those spammers.
In a small way I agree. I used to feel like you do now. I was very leary about blocking an entire ISP just because of the possibility of lossing legit mail. I quickly came to realize that blocking just a small piece of that ISP that's know to spam wasn't solving the problem. They'd just move elsewhere within that ISP.
This doesn't accomplish anything in the long term and little in the short term. Sure you block some spam from a spammer for a couple of weeks but they'll quickly figure that out and move to another block. If the ISP facilitates their move then they are supporting spammers. It's an all or nothing deal. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Personally I block entire ISPs myself, in my personal access lists that are independant of group maintainted DNS blacklists, that are known to harbor spammers and ignore complaints. A perfect example of this is Broadwing.net. I have blacklisted every IP they have registered to them. That includes 3 /14's, a /24, and a /28. That's a lot of IPs. I have never seen anything but spam come directly from them. They harbor Alan Ralsky and many other well known spammers. They ignore spam complaints. They simply don't care. Whenever I LART their spam, I also LART their upstreams because I believe someone there will eventually notice. I know that no one at Broadwing will.
This I have to strongly disagree with. I've been involved in protecting my resources from spam for some time now and have implemented many steps to prevent as much spam from entering my system as possible. I reject just under 1400 known spamming domains. I also reject all mail from a number of providers that harbor spammers as well. I utilize all the lists hosted by Osirusoft, relays.visi.com, blackholes.2mbit.com, and I'm in the process of resubscribing to the RSS and DUL. I even do some filtering on message content which has been incredibly successful. Last week I rejected almost 96,000 pieces of spam on one of my servers. That's pretty darn good. Of the 2400 users on this particular server, I've only had complaints from 3. 3 of them couldn't receive mail from a particular person on the 'Net that wsa being filtered by me. 1 was on an osirusoft list. 1 was attempting to send mail through their mailing list that's run by cybercon.com (a known spam supporter) and mail to subscribers on our end was bouncing. The other was a customer of a customer of Broadwing's. After explaining to them that we couldn't selectively allow mail to just them from the affected host and that we'd have to allow all mail to them unfiltered, they decided to suffer from more spam than miss out on their friend's email. One has changed his mind though. The rest seem to love it. The best advice I can say to you is to keep an open mind about these lists and what they do for us. Not every list is meant for all situations. I personally don't want to use the RBL. In the beginning I was leary about SPEWS. The rest I like. Join news.admin.net-abuse.email and keep up with some of the conversations of the anti-spammers that reside there. A plethora of information and insight can be had with them (I'm there too). good luck!
Then if that's the case, you have no right to complain about receiving spam. It's that simple IMHO.
The easy answer to that is to use a credit card via Paypal, not a bank account. They tried to screw me once like they did you. I paid the guy and never got the goods. After 2 weeks of no contact, I called them and asked to have the transfer nixed. They gave me the run around and kept transferring me to different people. I seriously think that they do what a cartoon I once saw did. In that cartoon was a helpdesk. One person had an irate customer on the phone demanding the supervisor of the tech they were talking to. The tech put them on hold and looked around at his colleagues in the cubical farm and asked who wanted to play super. Someone said I'll play super for you if you play super for my guy on line 6. I swear they did that to me. I know I got a couple of those people twice and they played super a couple of times too. After a couple of weeks of getting jacked with by them, I threatened to call my credit card company, contest the Paypal charge, and let my card carrier sort it out. The person playing super that time bucked up and sent me to a person whom I think really was a super, or the designated person to call when that happened. He told me in a really pissed voice that if I did that, they'd "turn the matter over to our legal department and sue my ass off". Yes, I can quote those exact words. I told him to [censored] and hung up. My next call was to my Visa card carrier. I told them what was going on and that I wanted to contest the charge in the amount of $abc.de. They happily responded. They contested the charge and credited my account. They said they would get back with me if they needed more information. A few months later I received an official letter from my card company saying that they had investigated, received little cooperation from the and that they were siding with me and the credit to my account. It worked like a charm. I absolutely do not use bank account transfers from them. I use my Visa Check Card that withdraws straight from my checking account. It affords me all the protection from Visa like contesting charges and fraud protection. However I should use a card with a limit so that if it's stolen, my real $$ funds aren't possibly in limbo while I wait on a credit. I hope this helps someoen.
Yes. They do nothing but spam. I have an extensive list of spamming domains. Another really bad one is Broadwing.net. Bad bad bad. Nothing legti comes from them.
I also forgot to take the bounces to the LARTs you sent to abuse@ and postmaster@ those domains and report them to ,rfc-ignorant.org. Abuse and postmaster accounts are required to be RFC-compliant. Reporting bounces to those addresses doesn't neccessarily benefit the anti-spam fight directly but it does help some administrators when they try to contact those non-RFC-compliant sites. FYI
I filter spam based off of numerous DNS blacklists. I also have an extensive list of spamming domains and spam supporting providers that I blacklist. Last week I rejected 95,837 pieces of mail from just one of my servers that I deemed to be spam. If people didn't report that spam to the maintainers of the DNS blacklists, I would have to rely on my own access lists to reject spam. This colaborative effort really works.
Actually Cat5 is the requirement. Cat5e "has improved signal carrying capabilities" over Cat5 but aren't required for GigE. 1000Base-T (802.3ab) standards have a complex signal encoding scheme that is very similar to 100Base-T2. It also uses all 4 pairs. My source (besides my own knowledge) is O'Reilly's Ethernet: The Definitive Guide". An excellent read BTW.
I'd like to see them and every other person caught for virus authoring to be held prosecuted to the farthest possible extreme. The newsgroup Hip Crime flooding is a good example of that. My newsgroups noise is so high that I can hardly find legit postings anymore, the goal of the flooding. I'd love to meet the bastard responsible for that in a dark alley with one of my old Sparc keyboards w/ the metal sub-structure so I can show him how us country geeks deal with problems like him.
I suffered some nerve damage back in junior high many years ago. No, it wasn't from worthless teachers or bad food (although...). I had a wrestling accident in eigth grade. My right solder hit the mat in such a way to pull/pry the arm from the socket. Didn't feel to great. The good news is that I still wont the match, on points. The bad news is that tore the rhomboid muscle and stretched a brachial plexus nerve. The muscle is the muscle that sits at the base of your neck, more so on the back. With your right arm at complete rest, push in on the soft muscle a couple inches out from the spine on the back a couple inches below the top of the shoulder with your left hand. Not on the scapula, closer to the spine. Nice and soft, right? Ok, raise your arm just the slighest from the shoulder. Hard as a rock now isn't it? That's the rhomboid. Most of the arm function is lost when you injure that. The nerve I stretched runs around the backside of the shoulder to your hand. It controls things like touch, grip, etc.. of the hand (there are many nerves in that vacinity). I lost all feeling in my right hand by the next day. It came back a month or so later, fortunately. The doctor strongly warned against wrestling again because of the chances of me severing the nerve in a future accident. I wonder if treatment like this could have worked on my shoulder...
Haha! You've got to listen to that theme song. It reminds me of the Miss America theme song. hahahaha
I thought I read a long while back that QuickTime 3 or 4 was going going to be used as the basis for MPEG-4. Does anyone else remember that? If so, can you explain it better?
...there is a handful of people that basically doom projects to failure. If they don't think of the idea, the project dies. If the project doesn't greatly involve them, they kill it. If they are involved too much, they cite how incompetent they think you are because they have to be involved so much, claim they're too busy, and kill it. I've found that if they kill something, the rule of 3's applies. 3 minutes, weeks, or months after they kill your project they either a) completely reverse their opinion on it to a superior, b) reinvent it as their own pet project of which they are of course an expert in the field, or c) a combination shot of both to the mid section. Even when you involve the big cheese that oversees all and get his endorsement on something, they somehow manage to later convince him with a, b, or c and cut you from the loop. One person in particular is as incompetent as they come. Literally this person doesn't know Jack®. Still this worthless person manages to get their hands into every single pot and slow things down, fsck the process up, or kill the thing entirely. There really is no reason for this person to be employeed with us. Worthless doesn't begin to describe this person in all honesty. What dooms projects to failure? Incompetent management, staff, and politics IMHO.
When I finally got my license not that long ago, it was recognized that the vast majority of motorcycle accidents were caused by drunk driving. Almost all the rest could be contributed to driver error. Not the motorcycle driver's error but the error of those other drivers around him/her. Someone pulling out in front of you is the most common. Maybe it's because they didn't see you. Maybe it's because they thought you were farther away. I've had people stare me in the eye and pull out less than 15yds in front of me. Nice. If you ride a bike, you have to be one helluva defensive driver. So many riders I know aren't and they will probably wreck at some point. I was taught to be a defensive driver (and I taught myself to be offensive too :) ) from an early age so I have a leg up on the people who went through the system later and weren't taught that.
I dislike the idea of replacing or supplimenting workgroup switches with these wall plate things. Does this switch support 802.1Q or 802.1D and things of that nature? Can software upgrades be preformed on these things? Is the thing manageable at all? If not, port-based VLANs are out the window. Switching off a port for security reasons is also out the window. Basic administrative tasks could be greatly inhibited or prohibited if this device has little managment capabilities or none at all. I see people jumping at this idea and embracing it as the next great thing. They did this to 802.11B too. These are also the type of people think wireless is a replace for a wired connection. It is not a replacement for a wired connection. It's convienent for laptops, kioks, printers in odd places, dynamically changing rooms like temporary cubical farms, and PDA access. It can not replace a wired connection for a desktop. So many basic network administrative tasks are inhibited by wireless connections. Most people don't realize it because the extent of their networking ability is buying a 4 port hub and plugging in purchased cables. Perhaps they know how use a crimper and can pull a little wire between rooms. They still don't do the network tasks that a network admin like myself have to do. They just see it as a easier way to connect things together. bad bad bad
...and yet the biggest black hole competition is still left undecided. The final two contestants are "The Space Between Bush's Legs", and "The Vacum Between John 'beat by a dead guy" Ashcroft's ears".