Name one occasion where you can recall Apple or a Mac user in general saying that "the Unices are security hazards". Come on, name one. You can't, can you? That's because it's a MicroTakeItInTheAss tactic, not an Apple one! Apple has been a good supporter of Linux in the past (although we could use some help right now with the new Cube and dual-G4s..).
...am I finally free to use that SSH client in the US now (which I've been using for years.. sssshhhhh....) or does RSA have some other means of bending me over a barrel if they find out?
I bought an AppleVision 1710 back in the fall of '97 with my Apple Dev Discount ($660 for the monitor). It started going pink and green and flashing on me within a few weeks. I got it replaced with another 1710. Same damn thing with a month. I got it replaced with another 1710. (BTW, both of the replacements were *not* new monitors. They were refurbs which really fscking pissed me off. My bran new monitor blows and they send me a "repaired" version?!) That replacement monitor had visible damage to it's case (scratches, dings, looked like it had been pried open with a screw driver, etc...). I called and raked them over the coals with an axe. 4 months later they finally agreed to replace it. By this time the Colorsync series came to the market. They are exactly the same monitors. The Colorsync series has a different emblem and a minor change on the rear of the case. That is it! Most of the part numbers for the two are the same! They wanted to replace my AppleVision 1710 with a 1705 which had a smaller viewable, worse resolution, and costed half the price of the one I bought. 3 guess on where I told them to go. They finally gave in and gave me a Colorsync 17 (which is the working version of what I originally bought!). With each replacement they boosted my warranty by a year. That monitor last a year and 3 months before it started doing the same damn things. I called. They refused to honor my warranty. I called a lawyer; we contacted the BBB since I really couldn't afford court costs. I haven't heard anything since.
For the record as a former Apple Tech, I can tell you with every shred of fact possible, that of 3 Apple Authorized Apple Service Center's I've been associated with, not one ever successfully made repairs Apple insisted on doing to repair one of those fscked monitors. They required us to tear is apart and replace the main deflection board ourselves (occasionally a few other parts). I did this repair many, many times and not once have I ever seen or heard about it working. After we made the defunct repair, we had to call Apple to order a certified box to ship it back in. Frequently those boxes were back ordered. Try explaining that to a customer. Joy. After a few weeks after we sent it to them, they would possibly send it back. Not always, just possibly. Occasionally they said it was fscked and to have the customer call customer service and that we couldn't help them anymore. Bastards. Now don't get me wrong, I love Apple. I love the hardware (most of it--laserprinters, some monitors, the new machines, and the good PCI powermacs especially) but when it hits home like this, I really get pissed off. Like I said, I can relate.
Daniel,
Debian is on my list of things to add but I'm out of drive space at the moment. Since I'm supplying the hardware out of my own pocket, upgrades progress slowly.:-(
How you access an I2 server from an I2 network depends on how you University set it up. Some, like mine, simply used routing tables on our border router to direct I2 packets towards our I2 line and likewise for I1 packets. Some unvs only hook up certain areas or buildings to that specific network. It really depends on the Unv. Email me and I'll give you the URL of my I2-only virtualhost. here
I submitted this to/. earlier this morning but it appears they didn't use it or look at it for links. Here is the original scoop on the deal by the guys at MacCentral.
Like I said when I submitted it, if Steve had been more pissed about this major leak than they were about ATI fsckup, my new dual-500 G4 that I'm typing this on might have a nice Radeon instead of last year's crummy video card. Grrrrrrr.....
I administer a public Linux Distribution mirror at a University with Internet2 access via a DS3. It serves out LinuxPPC, Mandrake, RH Sparc-Alpha-i386, YellowDog, and many more. Our Internet1 bandwidth usage was becoming a major factor a number of months ago so I throttled back the FTP server and created a FTP virtualhost for all you lucky Internet2 users. That virtualhost isn't rate limited. The users that use that virtualhost love it because of its sheer speed. The only problem is no one advertises that it's there. The distros don't put it on their download pages. It's in my welcome.msg but we all know how apt users are to read that. grrrrr.......
All of SBC is 384/128. I was a customer until I moved to a town wo/ DSL a month ago. Also, they garuntee you the speed. They don't explicitly say that it is only for HTTP transfers. They garuntee those speeds from them to the 'Net. They can't rewrite what they've already advertised and say it's only for certain services. Also, it's not 12,000. The ADSL specs say 17,500 feet. Most DSL providing ISPs say 15,000 to cover their butts in case someone right at 17,499 feet can't quite get it. How do I know this? I contract admin for an ISP that provides such services. In fact they also provide long-range DSL to customers many, many miles away. They drop the connection off onto a single channel in a T1 and route it back to their CO. How can they afford to do this? They are also the phone company and they own the lines in the ground.
I just started new sysadmin job. All I can say it that my office rox. Here's why. My workstation (that arrived yesterday) is Apple G4 dual-500 dedicated to the MacOS. Next to it is a G4 400 dedicated to LinuxPPC. Behind me is my personal server--a G3 333 running LinuxPPC. Next to that is a badass. It's a Sun Ultra30 with a 24" Sun monitor. All this is in my office. The only downsides are that it's really hard to leave that little place of heaven and go home for the evening (and I don't have a bed there), the abient (sp?) noise is not noticeable to me but others tend to notice it (the machines, switches, and hubs I have running in there), and I am getting a little cramped for space. But hey, I still have room for that mini-fridge of Mountain Dew so I'm still good.:-)
In my honest opinion, I wouldn't filter anything. I would write a very string AUP (Authorized Use Policy) that users must sign before being allowed access to the computers, even if they are just a by-stander looking over the shoulder of a friend. In that AUP, I would relinquish (sp?) your company/group from any problems they encounter from you computers blah blah blah, prohibit chatroom abuse, impersonating someone, the viewing of pornographic material, etc... Say that "Violaters are responsible for all whatever brought about from their violations of the AUP, not your company".
As far as I'm concerned, if I give out MY e-mail address to someone, they sell it (which would also make them liable), and someone then sends me unsolicted mail to MY account on MY server, that's tresspassing. They are using MY resources to send me their shit. I didn't authorize them to use MY resources. I didn't ask for them to send me their shit.
Example:I didn't ask that crook to enter MY garage and use MY electricity when he turned on MY light. I didn't authorize his walking on MY concrete which is causing wear and tear on MY resources.
Oklahoma has had this for quite a while. Their fine is $500 per piece of unsolicited commercial e-mail. I read a page about one guy that frequently sues over the spam he receives and has won all but his first suit--he knows the ropes now and doesn't lose. I can't remember where I found his URL (maybe here a long time ago). Search for it; you'll probably find it.
One *VERY* friendly spam site is popsite.net. Their whole damn page is dedicated to 'preventing' spam. BS! That's a dead give-away to their real business. 90% of the spam I get is from them on more than one of my accounts, but not for much longer. I'm implementing a sendmail filter to bounce the spam back (with a cease and desist letter) to root@ postmaster@ and abuse@ popsite.net AND their admin/tech/billing contacts on their domain. Each time I get a message originating from popsite.net, I'll increment by one the number of times their spam (with my letter) gets sent back to them. With all the spam they send me, that will be up to over a hundred with a month and a half. That should get their attention pretty fsckin' quick. I have sent numerous letters to them asking them to take action, even threatening legal action, and have never gotten a response from them, or their upstream providers that also received my messages.
Registrant:
StarNet, Inc. (POPSITE5-DOM)
473 W. Northwest Hwy., Ste. 1A
Palatine, IL 60067
US
Domain Name: POPSITE.NET
Administrative Contact:
Intravartolo, Susanna (IS168-ORG) sue@STARNETUSA.NET
Susanna Intravartolo
473 W. Northwest Hwy. St., 1A
Palatine,, IL 60067
US
(847)963-0116
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Technical, Support (TS548-ORG) postmaster@STARNETUSA.NET
StarNet, Inc.
473 W. Northwest Hwy., Ste. 1A
Palatine,, IL 60067
US
(847)963-0116
Fax- (847)963-1302
Billing Contact:
Billing, Department (BD829-ORG) billing@STARNETUSA.NET
StarNet, Inc.
473 W. Northwest Hwy., Ste. 1A
Palatine,, IL 60067
US
(847)963-0116
Fax- (847)963-1302
They are from IL and I'm in KS. Who wants to meet me at their office next Friday for a bitch-slapping session?
Go out and have a beer or two! Having a beer or two at a titty bar would also suffice! Hell take a laptop with you. You might get so "inspired" after just one lap dance that you could build the whole project in one sitting!;-)
BTW, congrats on your attaching of the ole ball and chain!
This patent is soo damned vague it could technically apply DSS and could be argued that it applies to cable TV! A library works on this system too. You ask the librarian or card catalog for a certain book or general material and she or it either provides it or helps you get there. Are they going tyo sue libraries too? I think they predate 1980 a wee bit.
Maybe you haven't heard (it wasn't announced almost a year ago I believe) but QuickTime was adopted as he MPEG-4 standard. I've got it bookmarked somewhere. It would be nice to have a Linux player though, damn nice.
Obivously you've never ever tried to provide tech support for their shitty products. If you actually had you would realize how much more it costs to keep their *shit* running.
Hands down, no contest. My 300Mhz PPC 604evMach5 had one helluva good FPU. It beat the G3 up until the G3 hits speeds of around 350 or so. The G4 just rocks my world.
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Subject: CmdrTaco Age: Old enough to know better, too damn young to care. Sex: Questionable. Seen with few women and some hairy men. Undertermined at this time. Hobbies: Combing armpit hair; complaining about our bosses, Slick Willie and Bad Ass Bill; drinking Mountain Dew; playing "Quake"; toying with our demise, "Linux" Conclusion: Rebel. Misfit. Square peg, round hole. Must be stopped at all costs. Repeat, must be stopped at all costs. HAL? HAL? Are you there? We need you Hal...
So far its been pretty limited to non-US addresses. There are some US ones in there but not a lot. Its quite a geography lesson to say the least. Sign it today!
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Name one occasion where you can recall Apple or a Mac user in general saying that "the Unices are security hazards". Come on, name one. You can't, can you? That's because it's a MicroTakeItInTheAss tactic, not an Apple one! Apple has been a good supporter of Linux in the past (although we could use some help right now with the new Cube and dual-G4s..).
For the record as a former Apple Tech, I can tell you with every shred of fact possible, that of 3 Apple Authorized Apple Service Center's I've been associated with, not one ever successfully made repairs Apple insisted on doing to repair one of those fscked monitors. They required us to tear is apart and replace the main deflection board ourselves (occasionally a few other parts). I did this repair many, many times and not once have I ever seen or heard about it working. After we made the defunct repair, we had to call Apple to order a certified box to ship it back in. Frequently those boxes were back ordered. Try explaining that to a customer. Joy. After a few weeks after we sent it to them, they would possibly send it back. Not always, just possibly. Occasionally they said it was fscked and to have the customer call customer service and that we couldn't help them anymore. Bastards. Now don't get me wrong, I love Apple. I love the hardware (most of it--laserprinters, some monitors, the new machines, and the good PCI powermacs especially) but when it hits home like this, I really get pissed off. Like I said, I can relate.
Let's get Linus to whip up a special flavor of kernel source just for the occasion!
Debian is on my list of things to add but I'm out of drive space at the moment. Since I'm supplying the hardware out of my own pocket, upgrades progress slowly.
How you access an I2 server from an I2 network depends on how you University set it up. Some, like mine, simply used routing tables on our border router to direct I2 packets towards our I2 line and likewise for I1 packets. Some unvs only hook up certain areas or buildings to that specific network. It really depends on the Unv. Email me and I'll give you the URL of my I2-only virtualhost. here
Like I said when I submitted it, if Steve had been more pissed about this major leak than they were about ATI fsckup, my new dual-500 G4 that I'm typing this on might have a nice Radeon instead of last year's crummy video card. Grrrrrrr.....
I administer a public Linux Distribution mirror at a University with Internet2 access via a DS3. It serves out LinuxPPC, Mandrake, RH Sparc-Alpha-i386, YellowDog, and many more. Our Internet1 bandwidth usage was becoming a major factor a number of months ago so I throttled back the FTP server and created a FTP virtualhost for all you lucky Internet2 users. That virtualhost isn't rate limited. The users that use that virtualhost love it because of its sheer speed. The only problem is no one advertises that it's there. The distros don't put it on their download pages. It's in my welcome.msg but we all know how apt users are to read that. grrrrr.......
All of SBC is 384/128. I was a customer until I moved to a town wo/ DSL a month ago. Also, they garuntee you the speed. They don't explicitly say that it is only for HTTP transfers. They garuntee those speeds from them to the 'Net. They can't rewrite what they've already advertised and say it's only for certain services. Also, it's not 12,000. The ADSL specs say 17,500 feet. Most DSL providing ISPs say 15,000 to cover their butts in case someone right at 17,499 feet can't quite get it. How do I know this? I contract admin for an ISP that provides such services. In fact they also provide long-range DSL to customers many, many miles away. They drop the connection off onto a single channel in a T1 and route it back to their CO. How can they afford to do this? They are also the phone company and they own the lines in the ground.
I just started new sysadmin job. All I can say it that my office rox. Here's why. My workstation (that arrived yesterday) is Apple G4 dual-500 dedicated to the MacOS. Next to it is a G4 400 dedicated to LinuxPPC. Behind me is my personal server--a G3 333 running LinuxPPC. Next to that is a badass. It's a Sun Ultra30 with a 24" Sun monitor. All this is in my office. The only downsides are that it's really hard to leave that little place of heaven and go home for the evening (and I don't have a bed there), the abient (sp?) noise is not noticeable to me but others tend to notice it (the machines, switches, and hubs I have running in there), and I am getting a little cramped for space. But hey, I still have room for that mini-fridge of Mountain Dew so I'm still good. :-)
That's my 0.2 pesos
Get 'em while they're hot! no pun intended....
Example:I didn't ask that crook to enter MY garage and use MY electricity when he turned on MY light. I didn't authorize his walking on MY concrete which is causing wear and tear on MY resources.
One *VERY* friendly spam site is popsite.net . Their whole damn page is dedicated to 'preventing' spam. BS! That's a dead give-away to their real business. 90% of the spam I get is from them on more than one of my accounts, but not for much longer. I'm implementing a sendmail filter to bounce the spam back (with a cease and desist letter) to root@ postmaster@ and abuse@ popsite.net AND their admin/tech/billing contacts on their domain. Each time I get a message originating from popsite.net, I'll increment by one the number of times their spam (with my letter) gets sent back to them. With all the spam they send me, that will be up to over a hundred with a month and a half. That should get their attention pretty fsckin' quick. I have sent numerous letters to them asking them to take action, even threatening legal action, and have never gotten a response from them, or their upstream providers that also received my messages.
Registrant:
StarNet, Inc. (POPSITE5-DOM)
473 W. Northwest Hwy., Ste. 1A
Palatine, IL 60067
US
Domain Name: POPSITE.NET
Administrative Contact:
Intravartolo, Susanna (IS168-ORG) sue@STARNETUSA.NET
Susanna Intravartolo
473 W. Northwest Hwy. St., 1A
Palatine,, IL 60067
US
(847)963-0116
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Technical, Support (TS548-ORG) postmaster@STARNETUSA.NET
StarNet, Inc.
473 W. Northwest Hwy., Ste. 1A
Palatine,, IL 60067
US
(847)963-0116
Fax- (847)963-1302
Billing Contact:
Billing, Department (BD829-ORG) billing@STARNETUSA.NET
StarNet, Inc.
473 W. Northwest Hwy., Ste. 1A
Palatine,, IL 60067
US
(847)963-0116
Fax- (847)963-1302
They are from IL and I'm in KS. Who wants to meet me at their office next Friday for a bitch-slapping session?
BTW, congrats on your attaching of the ole ball and chain!
This patent is soo damned vague it could technically apply DSS and could be argued that it applies to cable TV! A library works on this system too. You ask the librarian or card catalog for a certain book or general material and she or it either provides it or helps you get there. Are they going tyo sue libraries too? I think they predate 1980 a wee bit.
Maybe you haven't heard (it wasn't announced almost a year ago I believe) but QuickTime was adopted as he MPEG-4 standard. I've got it bookmarked somewhere. It would be nice to have a Linux player though, damn nice.
A patch was made for this a *long* time ago. It wasn't a PPC problem anyhow. It was a SSH fuckup. I'm running 2.0.13 right now.
Obivously you've never ever tried to provide tech support for their shitty products. If you actually had you would realize how much more it costs to keep their *shit* running.
Hands down, no contest. My 300Mhz PPC 604evMach5 had one helluva good FPU. It beat the G3 up until the G3 hits speeds of around 350 or so. The G4 just rocks my world.
-------
TOP SECRET--US Gov. required level of encryption, 8 bit
Subject: CmdrTaco
Age: Old enough to know better, too damn young to care.
Sex: Questionable. Seen with few women and some hairy men. Undertermined at this time.
Hobbies: Combing armpit hair; complaining about our bosses, Slick Willie and Bad Ass Bill; drinking Mountain Dew; playing "Quake"; toying with our demise, "Linux"
Conclusion: Rebel. Misfit. Square peg, round hole. Must be stopped at all costs. Repeat, must be stopped at all costs. HAL? HAL? Are you there? We need you Hal...
Blame Canada!!
http://linuxguiden.linpro.no/protesteng .php
So far its been pretty limited to non-US addresses. There are some US ones in there but not a lot. Its quite a geography lesson to say the least. Sign it today!
I'll just call my buddy Steve Jobs and have him send his nice new jet out to pick me up and run me to the hearing. Damn... I wish that were true...