My only problem with red-carpet is that it considers the -ximian version as an update to the ones that the distro has for the EXACT same release.
What happens is that redhat's up2date putss the RH version of the item, and then redcarpet wants to reinstall it as the -ximian version.
I understand that they do this to make sure that the dependancies are completely known to their system so that their own apps dont break... but still... annoying...
PS: this also makes it so that when upgrading a RH72+ximian system to rh73, you get that annoying warning... Luckily going ahead with the update (ignoring the warning, which installs RH versions of some of the same files that red-carpet had updated); and then RERUNNING red-carpet again on R73 gets things working correctly again by reinstalling the -ximian versions of things...
Many ISPs have been blocking certain "undesirable" services/traffic for a while...
Example: CharterPipeline in Glendale blocks users from setting up DNS servers [packets destined to port 53 blocked], WEB servers and Mail servers. They also throttle nntp traffic.
Some for example block ports used by competitor's software... [there is at least one ISP that I know of that blocks the traffic used by AOLs client]
I know I should not be feeding the trolls.... but here goes:
At least here if you want to you can fix it yourself. you have the source code; and permission to fix it if you want to.
this is compared to most MS products where you get can also sometimes get Buggy and slow programs, but even if you know who is to blame (all fingers pointing at the same destination), you cant get them to fix it.... and it would be illegal for you to try and fix it yourself.
Car rental companies get MUCH better deals for coverage from the insurance companies when they restrict the use of the vehicule to a certain range from the base site.
In some areas if the vehicule is only used in ONE state, then they may have a lower tax bill for the commercial nature of the use for the vehicule.
Some local branches get charged more by their "parent company" for "one-way" trips since there are "recovery costs" involved in getting the vehicule back/ reassigned to a different branch.
Normally those costs are simply passed on to the consumer; but then you get those "el-cheapo" rates that attempt to be lower than the competitionn, and they add those unclear restrictions.
But then think of what industry they are in... [have you recently tried to price an airline ticket and actually looked at the restritions disclaimer? There can be a large difference in what can be done between some flights that all have the exact same price]
Still... I personally will think twice before renting from budget again. [and I DO read the fine print...] especially since their contract is NOT clear on ALOT of stuff; and the non-disclosure of the GPS annoys me as well.
They dont even need to use srtatum 2 servers if they are on cable, or have a responsible isp.
Many isp's have an ntp server that they use for their own equipment. Ask them what they use.
Most Cisco routers with IOS 11.3 or higher (methinks...) can act as ntp servers for an end node.
Most cable providers "head end" equipment are also NTP servers. (Part of the DOCSIS standard requires that the cablemodems sync their clocks when they get their config files).
Most Linux/RH users can traceroute to somewhere... and then use ntptrace on each hop that traceroute shows to see if the device is an ntpserver.
Use the closest one that has the correct time.. [because unfortunately, some ISPs dont know how to properly/fully configure their equipment.]
argh.... I realize that you are probably not a spammer... but have been conned into using the phrase "double opt-in".
There really is no such thing as "double opt in". The misleading phrase "Double opt-in" was invented by the Direct Marketing Association, and the professional marketing spam-for-hire "bulk email" industries for political reasons.
What you are calling a "double opt-in" has been called, since the concept of mailing lists came about in the beginnings of the Internet, as a "Confirmed Opt-in" mailing list, or even simply as a "confirmed mailing list". Unfortunately, the only people who use this phrase, "double opt-in", are the professional spammers. The reason spammers like to call it "Double opt-in", and not "Confirmed opt-in", is so that you would feel that it would place an unnecessary burden on both sides.
It only supports 254 connections because the firmware only lets you select a class C netmask for the internal LAN side... Firmware "real estate" on some of the devices was such that it made the code MUCH simpler to do it the way they did...
Plus:
The device is meant for a home user with maybe a MAX of 10 machines...
if you have anywhere near the 100 hosts range you should be looking at a real router like a Cisco or a properly configured Linux box.
no use... most telemarketers hide their numbers/names... or use "innocent" sounding names...
I screen ALL my calls
Horror story: Get a cable modem, go to jail...
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Speaking of cable horror stories... I know this was WAAY back in '99... but may still be relevant... many here might have forgotten this poor chaps issue: http://www.geocities.com/flutocracy/cablem odem.htm
Or how about the resulting story on Slashdot "Get a cable modem, go to jail" http://slashdot.org/articles/99/04/26/12292 27.shtm l
I used to be an "end user beta tester" for some hardware products... The thing is that it is no longer really worth the time and effort that correctly testing a product requires {paperwork; actually USING the product as if you just paid your last $$$$ for it}.
[it used to be that you got a small payment to test them or even a free one of the final unit; but most companies stopped doing that; thinking that it should be an honor for the beta tester to test it]
They dont have to listen to what we find... but some did and I KNOW it makes a difference...
And depending on what they do, he may be able to place it under "research" if they plan on doing more wireless links for their internal use/ or even for other employees...
eg: If they give employees laptops w/ wireless cards and want to configure it so that the employees can seamlessly use the device both at home and at work......
At this point its too late. They have already flagged you as a troublemaker. All you can do now is to get it in writing that there may be a problem..
The issue is that since it is not in your job description to be looking at this, in the best case situation you may have already put yourself on a "short list"... If ANYTHING goes wrong, you are going to be the first person they suspect; and the MCSE may even try to use you as the scapegoat... "we didnt have any problems till he mentioned them"....
[I know of at least one sitiation where a person informed an ISP of a security issue on thier network that they failed to fix. When it was exploited, to cover their asses, they blamed the person that told them of the issue by saying that it could only have been exploited by someone with "specific" knowledge]
They wont do that (without charging a SUBSTANTIAL premium) because they they dont want to get sued; its not giving you free access that they are worried about... Its the liability and costs that they would have to incur (spare equipment for ALL the stuff they have that may go out; personnell working or on call 24/7 that can install such equip.)...
1- Dont like crowded theatres 2- Dont like waiting in line 3- I dislike paying full price for a movie ($9.50 in this neck of the woods) [and this one is still in the "no-passes" state] 4- Dont care about spoilers 5- Sound quality is VERY important to me. I only enjoy the movie when I am in the "optimum" sound location in the theatre... which is hard to do in a crowded theatre unless you get there AGES or wait in line for a Long time.
So in about a week or two, i'll go see it on a matinee showing and be able to almost have it be like a private showing.... at a Digital Projection / THX theatre....
The only problem I had with linksys cards was that they used the SAME model number [LNE100TX] for what is actually 4 different fards [http://www.linksys.com/download/driver.asp?dlid=2 ] that use several different driver versions.
I actually had a conversation (At Quakecon 2000 of all places) with someone at Linksys who finally admitted [off the record officially; but since they are no longer there... here goes] that they were aware of it, and that it was a marketing decision made high up at the time...
It could be that "only on request"; but they may charge the OEM a "License Fee" for the rights to distribute the driver making it so that they have to inrease the price of the product, which may make it uncompetitivly priced when compared to the OEMS that went windows-only.... [consumers and OEMs are fickle... How else can you explain winmodems?]
No. By default it should not ship that way. "Features" should be opt-in and a concious descision made to acttivate such features.
The corporate installation should be configured so that it can be turned on during the install script/procedure or via a policy....
[btw: even normal users can update their sytstem selectivly by going to http://corporate.windowsupdate.microsoft.com which allows downloading of specific patches/updates to be done at a later stage]
another item that also annoys me is XP configured to use time.windows.com as an ntp server. That should be a selectable option, or one that should be picked up from the dhcp server... but then I digress...
Another example of something where a company dows not follow the RFCs is HP using 192.0.0.192 [do an nslookup on that address for an interesting reverse name] as the default IP address for their devices instead of going through a formal rfc process... [or something to get ball rolling for "newly" unconfigured devices to allow config on an ip only network. without a bootp/dhcp server..]
The list of addresses to control at border routers is growing... [hint many firewall admins block the RFC1918 addresses, but forget the Autoconfig address space 169.254.0.0, or 192.0.0.192, or 192.0.2.0/255.255.255.0...]
No; but an Supercomputer would allow them to test thories that they would (SHOULD) never contemplate with real nukes. They can test scenarios that initially would seem impossible.... {flashback: Anyone remember that old movie, WarGames...}
[Even the US Govt. admits that without its computing power in WWII they would never have been able to develop the devices used on Japan in time; why do you think they treat computers and encryption as AMMUNITION]
I was just looking at the TiVO web page recently and noticed that they were pushing the version 2 of the recorder. (With USB ports for future expansion)
My question is why not Firewire?
Having an external firewire connection to me makes MUCH more sense in that they can use to for additional storage for drives. They can also make the device communicate with a PC easier where it acts as a "camera"; of course these very same suggestions might get them into "hotter" water with the Media companies..
If they had a Tivo that had the firewire features, the rate increase may be worth it... but as of now... nope...
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My only problem with red-carpet is that it considers the -ximian version as an update to the ones that the distro has for the EXACT same release.
What happens is that redhat's up2date putss the RH version of the item, and then redcarpet wants to reinstall it as the -ximian version.
I understand that they do this to make sure that the dependancies are completely known to their system so that their own apps dont break... but still... annoying...
PS: this also makes it so that when upgrading a RH72+ximian system to rh73, you get that annoying warning... Luckily going ahead with the update (ignoring the warning, which installs RH versions of some of the same files that red-carpet had updated); and then RERUNNING red-carpet again on R73 gets things working correctly again by reinstalling the -ximian versions of things...
Many ISPs have been blocking certain "undesirable" services/traffic for a while...
Example: CharterPipeline in Glendale blocks users from setting up DNS servers [packets destined to port 53 blocked], WEB servers and Mail servers. They also throttle nntp traffic.
Some for example block ports used by competitor's software... [there is at least one ISP that I know of that blocks the traffic used by AOLs client]
I know I should not be feeding the trolls.... but here goes:
.... and it would be illegal for you to try and fix it yourself.
At least here if you want to you can fix it yourself. you have the source code; and permission to fix it if you want to.
this is compared to most MS products where you get can also sometimes get Buggy and slow programs, but even if you know who is to blame (all fingers pointing at the same destination), you cant get them to fix it
Car rental companies get MUCH better deals for coverage from the insurance companies when they restrict the use of the vehicule to a certain range from the base site.
In some areas if the vehicule is only used in ONE state, then they may have a lower tax bill for the commercial nature of the use for the vehicule.
Some local branches get charged more by their "parent company" for "one-way" trips since there are "recovery costs" involved in getting the vehicule back/ reassigned to a different branch.
Normally those costs are simply passed on to the consumer; but then you get those "el-cheapo" rates that attempt to be lower than the competitionn, and they add those unclear restrictions.
But then think of what industry they are in... [have you recently tried to price an airline ticket and actually looked at the restritions disclaimer? There can be a large difference in what can be done between some flights that all have the exact same price]
Still... I personally will think twice before renting from budget again. [and I DO read the fine print...] especially since their contract is NOT clear on ALOT of stuff; and the non-disclosure of the GPS annoys me as well.
Could the ISP has found a way to limit the bandwidh at a higher level?
Most of the bottleneck is NOT in the local system, but at the border and regional routers.
If they did find a way to limit it at the regional level and not the modem itself this would exaplin this move...
Cap the modem at 3mb for local transfers and network games within the region.
Allow local users to access p2p connections from the regional network at 3mbs
use a cache [I am very much pro cacheing, BUT only when it is optional]
If using a cache server, then make access to it unrestricted by the measures above.
They dont even need to use srtatum 2 servers if they are on cable, or have a responsible isp.
Many isp's have an ntp server that they use for their own equipment. Ask them what they use.
Most Cisco routers with IOS 11.3 or higher (methinks...) can act as ntp servers for an end node.
Most cable providers "head end" equipment are also NTP servers. (Part of the DOCSIS standard requires that the cablemodems sync their clocks when they get their config files).
Most Linux/RH users can traceroute to somewhere... and then use ntptrace on each hop that traceroute shows to see if the device is an ntpserver.
Use the closest one that has the correct time.. [because unfortunately, some ISPs dont know how to properly/fully configure their equipment.]
1- Spam is theft
2- Spammers lie.
3- If a spammer seems to be telling the truth, see rule 2.
4- Spammers are stupid. Otherwise they would not be spamming.
argh.... I realize that you are probably not a spammer... but have been conned into using the phrase "double opt-in".
There really is no such thing as "double opt in". The misleading phrase "Double opt-in" was invented by the Direct Marketing Association, and the professional marketing
spam-for-hire "bulk email" industries for political reasons.
What you are calling a "double opt-in" has been called, since the concept of mailing lists came about in the beginnings of the Internet, as a "Confirmed Opt-in" mailing list, or even simply as a "confirmed mailing list". Unfortunately, the only people who use this phrase, "double opt-in", are the professional spammers. The reason spammers like to call it "Double opt-in", and not "Confirmed opt-in", is so that you would feel that it would place an unnecessary burden on both sides.
Unfortiunately, they may actually have a reason for being there to show interoperability.
MS does have a product that they call "Unix Services for NT" and "Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX (SFU)"
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/productinf
Then there is the FUD from
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/migrat
It only supports 254 connections because the firmware only lets you select a class C netmask for the internal LAN side... Firmware "real estate" on some of the devices was such that it made the code MUCH simpler to do it the way they did...
Plus:
The device is meant for a home user with maybe a MAX of 10 machines...
if you have anywhere near the 100 hosts range you should be looking at a real router like a Cisco or a properly configured Linux box.
no use... most telemarketers hide their numbers/names... or use "innocent" sounding names...
I screen ALL my calls
Speaking of cable horror stories...m odem.htm
2 27.shtm l
I know this was WAAY back in '99... but may still be relevant... many here might have forgotten this poor chaps issue:
http://www.geocities.com/flutocracy/cable
Or how about the resulting story on Slashdot "Get a cable modem, go to jail"
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/04/26/1229
I used to be an "end user beta tester" for some hardware products... The thing is that it is no longer really worth the time and effort that correctly testing a product requires {paperwork; actually USING the product as if you just paid your last $$$$ for it}.
[it used to be that you got a small payment to test them or even a free one of the final unit; but most companies stopped doing that; thinking that it should be an honor for the beta tester to test it]
They dont have to listen to what we find... but some did and I KNOW it makes a difference...
And depending on what they do, he may be able to place it under "research" if they plan on doing more wireless links for their internal use/ or even for other employees...
eg: If they give employees laptops w/ wireless cards and want to configure it so that the employees can seamlessly use the device both at home and at work......
At this point its too late. They have already flagged you as a troublemaker. All you can do now is to get it in writing that there may be a problem..
The issue is that since it is not in your job description to be looking at this, in the best case situation you may have already put yourself on a "short list"... If ANYTHING goes wrong, you are going to be the first person they suspect; and the MCSE may even try to use you as the scapegoat... "we didnt have any problems till he mentioned them"....
[I know of at least one sitiation where a person informed an ISP of a security issue on thier network that they failed to fix. When it was exploited, to cover their asses, they blamed the person that told them of the issue by saying that it could only have been exploited by someone with "specific" knowledge]
They wont do that (without charging a SUBSTANTIAL premium) because they they dont want to get sued; its not giving you free access that they are worried about... Its the liability and costs that they would have to incur (spare equipment for ALL the stuff they have that may go out; personnell working or on call 24/7 that can install such equip.)...
Didnt go... Several reasons:
1- Dont like crowded theatres
2- Dont like waiting in line
3- I dislike paying full price for a movie ($9.50 in this neck of the woods) [and this one is still in the "no-passes" state]
4- Dont care about spoilers
5- Sound quality is VERY important to me. I only enjoy the movie when I am in the "optimum" sound location in the theatre... which is hard to do in a crowded theatre unless you get there AGES or wait in line for a Long time.
So in about a week or two, i'll go see it on a matinee showing and be able to almost have it be like a private showing.... at a Digital Projection / THX theatre....
The only problem I had with linksys cards was that they used the SAME model number [LNE100TX] for what is actually 4 different fards [http://www.linksys.com/download/driver.asp?dlid=2 ] that use several different driver versions.
I actually had a conversation (At Quakecon 2000 of all places) with someone at Linksys who finally admitted [off the record officially; but since they are no longer there... here goes] that they were aware of it, and that it was a marketing decision made high up at the time...
It could be that "only on request"; but they may charge the OEM a "License Fee" for the rights to distribute the driver making it so that they have to inrease the price of the product, which may make it uncompetitivly priced when compared to the OEMS that went windows-only.... [consumers and OEMs are fickle... How else can you explain winmodems?]
No. By default it should not ship that way. "Features" should be opt-in and a concious descision made to acttivate such features.
The corporate installation should be configured so that it can be turned on during the install script/procedure or via a policy....
[btw: even normal users can update their sytstem selectivly by going to http://corporate.windowsupdate.microsoft.com which allows downloading of specific patches/updates to be done at a later stage]
another item that also annoys me is XP configured to use time.windows.com as an ntp server. That should be a selectable option, or one that should be picked up from the dhcp server... but then I digress...
Bah... No one checks the RFCs anymore.
...]
Another example of something where a company dows not follow the RFCs is HP using 192.0.0.192 [do an nslookup on that address for an interesting reverse name] as the default IP address for their devices instead of going through a formal rfc process... [or something to get ball rolling for "newly" unconfigured devices to allow config on an ip only network. without a bootp/dhcp server..]
The list of addresses to control at border routers is growing... [hint many firewall admins block the RFC1918 addresses, but forget the Autoconfig address space 169.254.0.0, or 192.0.0.192, or 192.0.2.0/255.255.255.0
My only concern is does it work with the Outlook Webaccess "feature" or the Web Terminal Server client?
If those two work then this may very well break one of the last barriers that some people were having to using Linux on the desktop...
[Yes.. I know about rdesktop.... but this is a different approach]
No; but an Supercomputer would allow them to test thories that they would (SHOULD) never contemplate with real nukes. They can test scenarios that initially would seem impossible .... {flashback: Anyone remember that old movie, WarGames...}
[Even the US Govt. admits that without its computing power in WWII they would never have been able to develop the devices used on Japan in time; why do you think they treat computers and encryption as AMMUNITION]
There is a list at
http://www.gj.net/~bhkraft/
of "legal" freely accessible specialized/support/company usenet servers.
Example:
Users of the Opera browsers: news.opera.no
Microsoft: msnews.microsoft.com
Intel: intelforums.com
Freshmeat: news.freshmeat.net
I was just looking at the TiVO web page recently and noticed that they were pushing the version 2 of the recorder. (With USB ports for future expansion)
My question is why not Firewire?
Having an external firewire connection to me makes MUCH more sense in that they can use to for additional storage for drives. They can also make the device communicate with a PC easier where it acts as a "camera"; of course these very same suggestions might get them into "hotter" water with the Media companies..
If they had a Tivo that had the firewire features, the rate increase may be worth it... but as of now... nope...