There's downsides to everything. I don't use anything in the 25.0.0.0/8 range, as the entire block is owned by the Ministry of Defense in GB. I'd wager that nobody who reads this article has ever connected to a 25/8 IP, including you, and the user inquiring about a solution to his CGN conundrum.
I've been using LogMeIn's Hamachi system to accomplish this. It's a virtual LAN solution that links machines behind firewalls or CGN devices. The down side is that it has to be installed on all devices that access the virtual LAN, and they don't have any mobile clients (yet), but if you need access from a device you can't install the Hamachi client on, you can always get a cheap VPS, install the linux client on it, and set up some port forwarding - the Hamachi IPs are static, so each machine always gets the same one.
There are some limitations with the free version (5 machines in a virtual LAN, connection only works with a logged in user on desktop clients), but the $30ish it costs per year for a 32 user license is very reasonable. And it supports IPv6 and IPv4 across the VLAN, too.
I've been using the Acuvue series for years, with no discomfort. In fact, I've fallen asleep with them in and woken in the morning to only mild discomfort - and being 2 week disposables means that if I lose one, I just order replacements a week sooner...
Over all, I've had much more luck with these than glasses - though I have a pair of glasses too, my contacts seem to distort less providing for more natural vision. Sometimes I even forget I'm wearing 'em. Give them a try, you'll probably never go back.
I'd love to see something a bit more intellegent... recently we switched to running Services Update Server on our corporate LAN for our workstations (all of our servers are Gentoo linux) and I rather like it (I have to admit). Here's what we do:
The windows admin checks windowsupdate for updates twice a day, and approves what he wants, and those push to the client every night...
The servers (my responsability) run an emerge sync every night, and then an emerge -Upv world (gentoo's tool to upgrade the whole system, in pretend mode, so it doesn't actually MAKE changes, just says what it WOULD do), and then e-mail me the results... every morning when I get in, I review those results and apply the necessary patches manually...
What I'd love to see in commercial apps is this feature:
Automatic upgrades, that DISABLE THE PRODUCT if not used. Now, before you flame the crap out of me, I don't mean that all patches need to be APPLIED to use it... I simply mean have Windows refuse to get on-line if it hasn't been to windowsupdate in a week. The only way to get it on-line is to attempt to get to windowsupdate.
Make the end user consciously aware that the updates to in fact exist, and let them decide if they should be applied or not... but force them to at least check... It comes down to rights and responsabilities... You can argue that they have the right to run whatever they want on their computer, just like they have the right to speak their mind... And I mostly agree... however their rights can't interfere with others... for example, I may have the right of free speech, but I don't have the right of slander. I may have the right to run whatever I want, but I don't have the right to let somebody else compromise my system and DDoS somebody else into the ground...
Windows: use Moosoft's The Cleaner (http://www.moosoft.com/products/cleaner/download/ ) - it can detect trojans and things that virus scanners don't pick up...
Linux: nmap the box from a trusted PC on the same network, and then build a copy of netstat on the trusted PC for the server in question... copy the binary over, and run "netstat -pultw" as root... it'll list all ports that are listening for connections, and, the processes that are opening them (by PID, and usually by name). The reason for the clean copy is that a lot of root kits replace netstat on infection...
Hope this helps...
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Yea, when I was 11 or so, I had a Tandy 1000 RL with a 1200 BPS modem in it...
Memories of playing Legend Of the Red Dragon in the early 90s, my first chatroom, learning what shareware was for the first time... All things I fondly remember. Getting laid by Violet back then somehow made me feel like more of a man (er, boy):-)
And the cool thing is they were all local for the most part ('cept those comming in from telnet, of course). Some of the best memories I have, for instance, are from years after that BBS shut down, and I met a few of the old time members in real life (highschool, work, etc).
If anybody else was from Techlands BBS in South Florida, please e-mail me... I used to be "Davy Crockett" back then:-)
Not quite an inside joke, just not well-known. They're the core values and beliefs for the company (and I believe available on their website) which staff is supposed to reference and strive to uphold.
I'm the "sysadmin" for a small ISP (about 11k customers), and my day mostly consists of 3 basic categories...
Maintaining existing systems - this means applying patches as necessary, performing maintenance on servers, and keeping everything we use running...
Upgrading/Adding new systems - this means deploying new systems/services for our customers and/or staff to use. Usually they're feature requests our help desk asks for, and every so often we roll out new services to our customers. Most of them are home-grown solutions, or custom installed public domain software (our implementation of SpamAssassin for our mail servers, for instance)
Waiting - Literally, waiting for things to break. When both other areas are up to date, or pending something I can not do myself, I mostly spend my time chatting on IRC, surfing the web, or working on projects of my own.
I live in Gold River, CA (not that far from Placerville) and basically did your trip in reverse... A co-worker of mine had to move back to Philly, PA, and we decided to road-trip it... Reno, believe it or not, doesn't provide an abundance of internet access at all... They want everybody to gamble instead... I think I found 1 cafe that provided internet access while up there (And it was for a LAN party months prior, not on this trip), and, it wasn't even wireless... was your standard RJ-45 jack, but it worked... There was nothing between there and Salt Lake City, at least on I-80... I didn't even see many signs of civilization, let along, technology...
Salt Lake City has a few internet cafe's, though I don't remember any of their names... I know they were relativly close to the highway... We only passed through Salt Lake, so I didn't get to patron any of them, nor do I know if they're wireless or not...
We then went out to Cheyenne and didn't find a hotel with access, or any establishments either... Over all, it was pretty dull... Nebraska was the same way... I did find a nice location out in Indiana that had wireless access advertized, but it was closed when we drove by... The only internet access I got my entire trip was in Chicago, when we stayed at a friend's house... He let me plug my laptop into his cable modem for a few to check my mail and what not... That's about the extent of my trip... We didn't look that hard, so I probably am missing a whole hell of a lot... but I hope it helps...
From my point of view (A network administrator), I provide both ftp and http servers for the same files (stick all downloads off/download or something, and set the ftp root to that). This has several benefets...
1) I've found HTTP transfers are a little faster than FTP transfers (just personally, and I can in no way prove it - it may be user error, or just the programs I'm using)
2) I've found that FTP clients are everwhere - Windows, Linux, BSD, everything I've ever installed has included a command line FTP client, but not a web browser unless I specifically remember to install one. Further more, most of the "live CDs/boot disks" that I use don't have a web browser, but do have FTP... Thus, if you're serving files that a person with out a web browser/server might need, I'd set up both...
3) FTP security is what you/your daemon makes of it. wu-ftpd has a long history of being rooted... ProFTPd dosn't. VSFtp doesn't. HTTP security is the same way... IIS has a long history of being rooted... Apache doesn't... *(Not to say that there haven't been occasional exploits for these platforms)
There is no clear "Use this" or "Use that" procedure here, it depends entirely on your situation, what you're serving, what your network setup is, etc...
Red Hat likes everything nicely tucked away in/usr/bin, and/etc, completly forgeting/opt and/usr/local/bin, and/usr/local/etc ever existed. It kinda breaks some traditional locations of files. Also, a major difference with them is if you use their version of GCC, you're going to find more than one project that just won't compile. Red Hat also offers a heavily patched kernel as opposed to the standard vanilla sources.
Gentoo is what I use on all my servers currently. It's compiled all from source right out of portage, so I can apply any patches as needed, or as they're available. They take longer to install than an RPM, but I feel better installing them as source anyway. I'm also not afraid of having to recompile software that's a dependancy of other software (RPMs are terrible for this). Gentoo also offers a heavily patched kernel against the vanilla sources, however it's very easy to install them if you don't want the patches.
SuSe and Debian I've never actually used to the point I'm familiar with their layouts, and what's different "under the hood", so I can't really comment...
We have a MySQL database that is used for e-mail, RADIUS, and FTP logins, and all those records are kept in MySQL... I'm not familiar with LDAP enough to suggest it, but it is there if you'd like to try... From what I've seen, and what we're doing, here's what I know is possible...
Apache has a mod_auth_mysql which will auth based on a MySQL database already... (http://sourceforge.net/projects/modauthmysql/)
That's trivial... They have a pam_mysql module as well that we use - it works... (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pam-mysql)...
Next on your list is inn, which I have no experience with. You'd most likely need to hack some form of parsing by e-mail address or IP (or password on a secured server) to verify/force identity...
ircd would be very easy to do... Shell account running a slightly modded "dircproxy" (http://www.dircproxy.net) would force identity based on a password, and would "proxy" the connection to the server transparantly.
Scp, if you're not using keys, could just use regular pam, with pam_mysql. Anyway, hope this helps.
LDAP may be a better solution, but I know for a fact this is possible (we're using these tools across apache, proftpd, scp, Courier-pop3/imap, and Exim for an MTA... we run a full ISP off these tools. Best of luck!
A couple years ago, I hung myself in the archway to my door. My feet were about half a meter off the ground, and, the only thing supporting me was the rope comming from behind my head... (It in reality went down to a harness, rather than just around my neck)... The looks on some of the parent's face was classic, and, I do have to admit, I think I scared more adults than kids that night... This year, I'm planning on doing the same thing again, only, much better... I have a real harness this years instead of having to tye my own using hemp ropa (Yeeeeowch, that stuch chaifs), so I'll be more comfortable, and, of course, it'll look a little more real...
Here's a pic from the last time... http://phaseburn.net/pictures/showpic/pb7 .jpg
I was in the Earth and Beyond beta test as well, from Phase 4, as well as being previously in the WarCraft 3 beta, the Diablo 2 LOD Exp beta, and many other betas in the past, so, I speak from experience here mostly...
Once you're in a beta, it's a lot easier to get into others. The first, on the other hand, is usually luck. I went to E3 (http://www.e3expo.com) several years ago, and met with a few people in the gaming industry... One of them was kind enough to give me a beta back then, and register me as a "press/site beta" which means I wasn't in the technical beta phase, but rather, was trying to get a preview of the product. After a few bug reports though, I was then asked to join their next beta project after this one was over. That built a rep for the company, and on subsequent beta apps to places, I now put down past experience (most places that don't choose at random ask for this - the ones that do choose at random is exactly that), and they take that into consideration.
Basically, it's just about being in the right place at the right time. You can e-mail betareq@microsoft.com reguarding all MS betas (they're always doing something - Office 11 should be in beta soon, for example), some of the links mentioned above are good - BetaNews is on my slashdot homepage as a side box, as is Blue's News - they post a lot about the gaming betas, usually a few days too late though... If you're looking specifically for gaming betas, getting affiliated with a gaming site and put on press contacts may be the best way to go... I run a small gaming site that has gotten me on the press-release mailing lists for most companies, and, that's the first place betas are announced...
Hope this helps...
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I'm the network administrator for an ISP based in California with 10k customers, currently. We use radius + e-mail services authenticated against MySQL, and I can very easily help you configure it...
First off, we use ICRadius for our RADIUS server... Using MySQL replication, we avoid a single point of failure... ICRadius is free, and based on Cistron Radius... It works for our needs. Secondly, we use the Exim MTA for SMTP, and Courier IMAP for pop3/imap services... Mail is stored on a RAID exported over NFS, so mail servers are quite easily clustered... Lastly, we have a home-grown account management program we wrote, called "Nebula" that manages all aspects of an account...
If you'd like examples of a config file, implementation suggestions, of even a copy of Nebula (it's open source, free), please let me know. You can e-mail me personally at work at dbauman (at) infostations (dot) net. I even have the origional ICRadius + MySQL howtos from years ago when we migrated away from Cistron, and also the ISP-Planet's ISP-Radius mailing list can be of help to you...
I've been doing this for several months now, it does work, but it takes some doing...
Start off with the streaming URL that your radio station offers... You'll want to open this in wget, and download the data inside. You'll have a 2nd stream inside this file, and some other info as well... The stream is what we're most concerned with... Download that stream with ASFRecorder. Link here. This will take up some disk space so don't leave it going when you're not listening (I usually let it write for 8 to 9 hours a day, and it fills up 100 megs or so, which I delete at the end of the day). Now, you can use the AVI plugin for XMMS to play this file on your computer. Link here.
I hope this helps, if you have any questions, you're more than welcome to e-mail me at phaseburn at phaseburn.net and I'll try to help ya out...
I'm a former student at DBHS, and, we used to play Quake 1, StarCraft, Diablo, Shadow Warrior, Marathon, and other games before, during, and after school on a regular basis... Was a lot of fun, though, it wasn't exactly "school sponcered" either... And, it was in the days before Columbine, so, we didn't have many problems with parents complaining (partially because they didn't really know)... May I suggest just a "permission slip" that is signed by the parent, letting them know what games are on the list, and, asking them to go over with their child what is acceptable... Use feedback from those to compile a list that the lab uses... Get feedback first, based on a wide list, and narrow it down... Eventually, you'll come up with a list that the parents find acceptable, that the students should enjoy, as well...
I reciently attended E3 down in the LA area, and stayed at the Wyndam Gardens hotel, in Commerce...
All Wyndham hotels offer broadband internet access through Waypoint's network, at $9.95 a day, or for free if you sign up to become a waypoint member (it's free at the hotels)...
They do implore a Linux box that does MAC-based access control, so switching NICs/MAC addresses or using more than one computer will result in a seperate charge per system. Hope this helps...
Earthlink. (I'm a former employee, and I can't believe I'm recommending their services, but...)
They have what's called GRIC, and you can get more info at gric.com... It works rather well, from several experiences of tting tech calls from france and england. It's available in Germany as well, as well as most of Europe...
Call up Earthlink and ask... They have a lot more info that I do...
I use it daily on Win2k pro... no problems at all... I'm actually working on compiling gnome under it... have XFree86 working great... presumably it should work just as well under NT 5.1 (XP) but having never had the horror of using XP, I can't speak for what it does right... so far, I haven't found a thing:-)
I use bash personally in my cygwin enviornment, and am quite happy with it.
Well, I used to live in fla, off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale... 2 miles from the beach my whole life, so, I've actually had some experience with this...
First, I'd recommend the laptop as the start. You can rig the battery slot to run off the boats battery a lot easier than having to convert that to AC instead... That usually works the best, rather than converting power and worrying about a monitor and everything else..
Secondly, they have clear plastic shims that a you should be able to pick up at most aquatic sports shops (Not fishing outlets)... They're used to protect diving equipment and other electronics on the boat. Personal suggestion is to just seal the computer inside a layer of this stuff (it'll conform to the keys and should provide some protection against the sun as well when using the system during that blinding sunrise/set). You will have to make arragements for airflow in/outtakes through the base of the stand, where you can make sure no water will seep into...
The heating/cooling issue I've never had a problem with... granted, I've never kept a sysem out on a boat 24/7 before... As long as it's dry, I can't really imagine it being that much worse than just using it in a non-airconditioned enviornment... Maybe if you got a laptop with a mobile dock so you don't have to leave it out there 24/7 (not sure if that's something you'd want to do, but if it was my laptop, considering the security of the docks and everything, I'd never leave it not locked down) you could get one of those mobile docking stations inside, and just protect keyboard/mouse externally... the laptop would be completly sealed...
for 2D/Vector, I've come to love Kontour, actually, and Paint Shop Pro 7 actually does run well under Wine for me. Both do vector nicely, and PSP 7 under Wine does nice rastor, as well... I've been "almost" successful in getting Adobe Pagemaker 6.5 to run under wine, too...
Kontour can be found in KOffice, at http://www.koffice.org/kontour/
Hope this helps slightly... I'm in the same boat as you, actually... and I am totally 100% linux at work now... If you have any more questions, feel free to e-mail me.
I had to order through their corporate division, and call them up. I believe I put it under the name "Earthlink" since Earthlink employees get 10% off due to the employee purchase program, and I used to work for 'em... know several people down there who lent a hand making sure things got to me... If you work for somebody with a corporate account, try that route... I know you can do it through the small business division, as well... Just worked out cheaper for me to do it this way...
Best bet is to call 'em, too... Tall with somebody, be up front and tell them you want a Linux laptop... They'll probably have problems finding it... Might want to check out http://www.dell.com/linux first, as they mention everything they can install Linux on... Some of which have been discontinued, too... For instance, I couldn't get an Inspiron with anything but WinXP on it... After you get the specs you want (it'll most likely be a Latitude, as well) be sure to ask for their "Spare Parts Team" extention, as well, as you'll find it ships with a lot of limitations... All Latitude series machines have a built-in ethernet and modem port, with wires that run to a MiniPCI type 3A card... They wouldn't put one in to my machine because it's a 3Com DSP WinModem built in... but since they couldn't ship a system with out a modem (for DellNet by MSN, of all things:-) they did make me pay for a PCMCIA modem, but the PCMCIA NIC they provided free... I ordered a MiniPCI card anyway, plan to install it myself, and while there aren't available LinModem drivers for the 3Com yet, I don't need a modem anyway (And in the rare instance that I might, I have a PCMCIA one that works well right now)...
Other than that, everything else is nice... I'm rather happy, and the best thing about the small trouble I had with parts, is that I know they're compatible, I have the right drivers and specifications for everything, I know it's compatible, and if I ever call up Dell and say "I can't get this to work under Linux" they have to tell me something other than "tough crap, reinstall windows" and actually be proactive... but the level of support I've recieved has actually been very good... the one time I called 'em up to get those 'extra' buttons on my keyboard working, they helped greatly... gave me everything I needed, (they DID make me sign an NDA, which I laughed at... an NDA, for Tech Support... hehe:-) But after it was done, everything is bliss... Hope this info helps...
Oh, as a side note... I found this the funniest of all... when I recieved my new toy, the first thing I noticed was the "Designed for Windows 2000" sticker on it:-) It has since been replaced by a "Powered by Red Hat" sticker, but I still find it amusing... so did the Dell guy who helped me with the keyboard thing:-)
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There's downsides to everything. I don't use anything in the 25.0.0.0/8 range, as the entire block is owned by the Ministry of Defense in GB. I'd wager that nobody who reads this article has ever connected to a 25/8 IP, including you, and the user inquiring about a solution to his CGN conundrum.
I've been using LogMeIn's Hamachi system to accomplish this. It's a virtual LAN solution that links machines behind firewalls or CGN devices. The down side is that it has to be installed on all devices that access the virtual LAN, and they don't have any mobile clients (yet), but if you need access from a device you can't install the Hamachi client on, you can always get a cheap VPS, install the linux client on it, and set up some port forwarding - the Hamachi IPs are static, so each machine always gets the same one.
There are some limitations with the free version (5 machines in a virtual LAN, connection only works with a logged in user on desktop clients), but the $30ish it costs per year for a 32 user license is very reasonable. And it supports IPv6 and IPv4 across the VLAN, too.
I've been using the Acuvue series for years, with no discomfort. In fact, I've fallen asleep with them in and woken in the morning to only mild discomfort - and being 2 week disposables means that if I lose one, I just order replacements a week sooner...
Over all, I've had much more luck with these than glasses - though I have a pair of glasses too, my contacts seem to distort less providing for more natural vision. Sometimes I even forget I'm wearing 'em. Give them a try, you'll probably never go back.
I'd love to see something a bit more intellegent... recently we switched to running Services Update Server on our corporate LAN for our workstations (all of our servers are Gentoo linux) and I rather like it (I have to admit). Here's what we do:
The windows admin checks windowsupdate for updates twice a day, and approves what he wants, and those push to the client every night...
The servers (my responsability) run an emerge sync every night, and then an emerge -Upv world (gentoo's tool to upgrade the whole system, in pretend mode, so it doesn't actually MAKE changes, just says what it WOULD do), and then e-mail me the results... every morning when I get in, I review those results and apply the necessary patches manually...
What I'd love to see in commercial apps is this feature:
Automatic upgrades, that DISABLE THE PRODUCT if not used. Now, before you flame the crap out of me, I don't mean that all patches need to be APPLIED to use it... I simply mean have Windows refuse to get on-line if it hasn't been to windowsupdate in a week. The only way to get it on-line is to attempt to get to windowsupdate.
Make the end user consciously aware that the updates to in fact exist, and let them decide if they should be applied or not... but force them to at least check... It comes down to rights and responsabilities... You can argue that they have the right to run whatever they want on their computer, just like they have the right to speak their mind... And I mostly agree... however their rights can't interfere with others... for example, I may have the right of free speech, but I don't have the right of slander. I may have the right to run whatever I want, but I don't have the right to let somebody else compromise my system and DDoS somebody else into the ground...
Just my 2 cents...
Windows: use Moosoft's The Cleaner (http://www.moosoft.com/products/cleaner/download/ ) - it can detect trojans and things that virus scanners don't pick up...
Linux: nmap the box from a trusted PC on the same network, and then build a copy of netstat on the trusted PC for the server in question... copy the binary over, and run "netstat -pultw" as root... it'll list all ports that are listening for connections, and, the processes that are opening them (by PID, and usually by name). The reason for the clean copy is that a lot of root kits replace netstat on infection...
Hope this helps...
Yea, when I was 11 or so, I had a Tandy 1000 RL with a 1200 BPS modem in it...
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Memories of playing Legend Of the Red Dragon in the early 90s, my first chatroom, learning what shareware was for the first time... All things I fondly remember. Getting laid by Violet back then somehow made me feel like more of a man (er, boy)
And the cool thing is they were all local for the most part ('cept those comming in from telnet, of course). Some of the best memories I have, for instance, are from years after that BBS shut down, and I met a few of the old time members in real life (highschool, work, etc).
If anybody else was from Techlands BBS in South Florida, please e-mail me... I used to be "Davy Crockett" back then
http://gtetrinet.sourceforge.net/
Loads of fun, multiplayer, great for an office enviornment, and very light on hardware...
Not quite an inside joke, just not well-known. They're the core values and beliefs for the company (and I believe available on their website) which staff is supposed to reference and strive to uphold.
We did this at Earthlink. I think the pics speak for themself :-)
http://home.onemain.com/~edsoffice/
I'm the "sysadmin" for a small ISP (about 11k customers), and my day mostly consists of 3 basic categories...
Maintaining existing systems - this means applying patches as necessary, performing maintenance on servers, and keeping everything we use running...
Upgrading/Adding new systems - this means deploying new systems/services for our customers and/or staff to use. Usually they're feature requests our help desk asks for, and every so often we roll out new services to our customers. Most of them are home-grown solutions, or custom installed public domain software (our implementation of SpamAssassin for our mail servers, for instance)
Waiting - Literally, waiting for things to break. When both other areas are up to date, or pending something I can not do myself, I mostly spend my time chatting on IRC, surfing the web, or working on projects of my own.
I live in Gold River, CA (not that far from Placerville) and basically did your trip in reverse... A co-worker of mine had to move back to Philly, PA, and we decided to road-trip it... Reno, believe it or not, doesn't provide an abundance of internet access at all... They want everybody to gamble instead... I think I found 1 cafe that provided internet access while up there (And it was for a LAN party months prior, not on this trip), and, it wasn't even wireless... was your standard RJ-45 jack, but it worked... There was nothing between there and Salt Lake City, at least on I-80... I didn't even see many signs of civilization, let along, technology...
Salt Lake City has a few internet cafe's, though I don't remember any of their names... I know they were relativly close to the highway... We only passed through Salt Lake, so I didn't get to patron any of them, nor do I know if they're wireless or not...
We then went out to Cheyenne and didn't find a hotel with access, or any establishments either... Over all, it was pretty dull... Nebraska was the same way... I did find a nice location out in Indiana that had wireless access advertized, but it was closed when we drove by... The only internet access I got my entire trip was in Chicago, when we stayed at a friend's house... He let me plug my laptop into his cable modem for a few to check my mail and what not... That's about the extent of my trip... We didn't look that hard, so I probably am missing a whole hell of a lot... but I hope it helps...
Best of luck, Chris, safe trip!
From my point of view (A network administrator), I provide both ftp and http servers for the same files (stick all downloads off /download or something, and set the ftp root to that). This has several benefets...
1) I've found HTTP transfers are a little faster than FTP transfers (just personally, and I can in no way prove it - it may be user error, or just the programs I'm using)
2) I've found that FTP clients are everwhere - Windows, Linux, BSD, everything I've ever installed has included a command line FTP client, but not a web browser unless I specifically remember to install one. Further more, most of the "live CDs/boot disks" that I use don't have a web browser, but do have FTP... Thus, if you're serving files that a person with out a web browser/server might need, I'd set up both...
3) FTP security is what you/your daemon makes of it. wu-ftpd has a long history of being rooted... ProFTPd dosn't. VSFtp doesn't. HTTP security is the same way... IIS has a long history of being rooted... Apache doesn't... *(Not to say that there haven't been occasional exploits for these platforms)
There is no clear "Use this" or "Use that" procedure here, it depends entirely on your situation, what you're serving, what your network setup is, etc...
Red Hat likes everything nicely tucked away in /usr/bin, and /etc, completly forgeting /opt and /usr/local/bin, and /usr/local/etc ever existed. It kinda breaks some traditional locations of files. Also, a major difference with them is if you use their version of GCC, you're going to find more than one project that just won't compile. Red Hat also offers a heavily patched kernel as opposed to the standard vanilla sources.
Gentoo is what I use on all my servers currently. It's compiled all from source right out of portage, so I can apply any patches as needed, or as they're available. They take longer to install than an RPM, but I feel better installing them as source anyway. I'm also not afraid of having to recompile software that's a dependancy of other software (RPMs are terrible for this). Gentoo also offers a heavily patched kernel against the vanilla sources, however it's very easy to install them if you don't want the patches.
SuSe and Debian I've never actually used to the point I'm familiar with their layouts, and what's different "under the hood", so I can't really comment...
We have a MySQL database that is used for e-mail, RADIUS, and FTP logins, and all those records are kept in MySQL... I'm not familiar with LDAP enough to suggest it, but it is there if you'd like to try... From what I've seen, and what we're doing, here's what I know is possible...
Apache has a mod_auth_mysql which will auth based on a MySQL database already... (http://sourceforge.net/projects/modauthmysql/)
That's trivial... They have a pam_mysql module as well that we use - it works... (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pam-mysql)...
Next on your list is inn, which I have no experience with. You'd most likely need to hack some form of parsing by e-mail address or IP (or password on a secured server) to verify/force identity...
ircd would be very easy to do... Shell account running a slightly modded "dircproxy" (http://www.dircproxy.net) would force identity based on a password, and would "proxy" the connection to the server transparantly.
Scp, if you're not using keys, could just use regular pam, with pam_mysql. Anyway, hope this helps.
LDAP may be a better solution, but I know for a fact this is possible (we're using these tools across apache, proftpd, scp, Courier-pop3/imap, and Exim for an MTA... we run a full ISP off these tools. Best of luck!
A couple years ago, I hung myself in the archway to my door. My feet were about half a meter off the ground, and, the only thing supporting me was the rope comming from behind my head... (It in reality went down to a harness, rather than just around my neck)... The looks on some of the parent's face was classic, and, I do have to admit, I think I scared more adults than kids that night... This year, I'm planning on doing the same thing again, only, much better... I have a real harness this years instead of having to tye my own using hemp ropa (Yeeeeowch, that stuch chaifs), so I'll be more comfortable, and, of course, it'll look a little more real...
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Here's a pic from the last time...
http://phaseburn.net/pictures/showpic/pb
I was in the Earth and Beyond beta test as well, from Phase 4, as well as being previously in the WarCraft 3 beta, the Diablo 2 LOD Exp beta, and many other betas in the past, so, I speak from experience here mostly...
Once you're in a beta, it's a lot easier to get into others. The first, on the other hand, is usually luck. I went to E3 (http://www.e3expo.com) several years ago, and met with a few people in the gaming industry... One of them was kind enough to give me a beta back then, and register me as a "press/site beta" which means I wasn't in the technical beta phase, but rather, was trying to get a preview of the product. After a few bug reports though, I was then asked to join their next beta project after this one was over. That built a rep for the company, and on subsequent beta apps to places, I now put down past experience (most places that don't choose at random ask for this - the ones that do choose at random is exactly that), and they take that into consideration.
Basically, it's just about being in the right place at the right time. You can e-mail betareq@microsoft.com reguarding all MS betas (they're always doing something - Office 11 should be in beta soon, for example), some of the links mentioned above are good - BetaNews is on my slashdot homepage as a side box, as is Blue's News - they post a lot about the gaming betas, usually a few days too late though... If you're looking specifically for gaming betas, getting affiliated with a gaming site and put on press contacts may be the best way to go... I run a small gaming site that has gotten me on the press-release mailing lists for most companies, and, that's the first place betas are announced...
Hope this helps...
I'm the network administrator for an ISP based in California with 10k customers, currently. We use radius + e-mail services authenticated against MySQL, and I can very easily help you configure it...
First off, we use ICRadius for our RADIUS server... Using MySQL replication, we avoid a single point of failure... ICRadius is free, and based on Cistron Radius... It works for our needs. Secondly, we use the Exim MTA for SMTP, and Courier IMAP for pop3/imap services... Mail is stored on a RAID exported over NFS, so mail servers are quite easily clustered... Lastly, we have a home-grown account management program we wrote, called "Nebula" that manages all aspects of an account...
If you'd like examples of a config file, implementation suggestions, of even a copy of Nebula (it's open source, free), please let me know. You can e-mail me personally at work at dbauman (at) infostations (dot) net. I even have the origional ICRadius + MySQL howtos from years ago when we migrated away from Cistron, and also the ISP-Planet's ISP-Radius mailing list can be of help to you...
I've been doing this for several months now, it does work, but it takes some doing...
Start off with the streaming URL that your radio station offers... You'll want to open this in wget, and download the data inside. You'll have a 2nd stream inside this file, and some other info as well... The stream is what we're most concerned with... Download that stream with ASFRecorder. Link here. This will take up some disk space so don't leave it going when you're not listening (I usually let it write for 8 to 9 hours a day, and it fills up 100 megs or so, which I delete at the end of the day). Now, you can use the AVI plugin for XMMS to play this file on your computer. Link here.
I hope this helps, if you have any questions, you're more than welcome to e-mail me at phaseburn at phaseburn.net and I'll try to help ya out...
Best reguards
I'm a former student at DBHS, and, we used to play Quake 1, StarCraft, Diablo, Shadow Warrior, Marathon, and other games before, during, and after school on a regular basis... Was a lot of fun, though, it wasn't exactly "school sponcered" either... And, it was in the days before Columbine, so, we didn't have many problems with parents complaining (partially because they didn't really know)... May I suggest just a "permission slip" that is signed by the parent, letting them know what games are on the list, and, asking them to go over with their child what is acceptable... Use feedback from those to compile a list that the lab uses... Get feedback first, based on a wide list, and narrow it down... Eventually, you'll come up with a list that the parents find acceptable, that the students should enjoy, as well...
I reciently attended E3 down in the LA area, and stayed at the Wyndam Gardens hotel, in Commerce...
All Wyndham hotels offer broadband internet access through Waypoint's network, at $9.95 a day, or for free if you sign up to become a waypoint member (it's free at the hotels)...
They do implore a Linux box that does MAC-based access control, so switching NICs/MAC addresses or using more than one computer will result in a seperate charge per system. Hope this helps...
Earthlink. (I'm a former employee, and I can't believe I'm recommending their services, but...)
They have what's called GRIC, and you can get more info at gric.com... It works rather well, from several experiences of tting tech calls from france and england. It's available in Germany as well, as well as most of Europe...
Call up Earthlink and ask... They have a lot more info that I do...
Hope it helps...
I use it daily on Win2k pro... no problems at all... I'm actually working on compiling gnome under it... have XFree86 working great... presumably it should work just as well under NT 5.1 (XP) but having never had the horror of using XP, I can't speak for what it does right... so far, I haven't found a thing :-)
I use bash personally in my cygwin enviornment, and am quite happy with it.
Well, I used to live in fla, off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale... 2 miles from the beach my whole life, so, I've actually had some experience with this...
First, I'd recommend the laptop as the start. You can rig the battery slot to run off the boats battery a lot easier than having to convert that to AC instead... That usually works the best, rather than converting power and worrying about a monitor and everything else..
Secondly, they have clear plastic shims that a you should be able to pick up at most aquatic sports shops (Not fishing outlets)... They're used to protect diving equipment and other electronics on the boat. Personal suggestion is to just seal the computer inside a layer of this stuff (it'll conform to the keys and should provide some protection against the sun as well when using the system during that blinding sunrise/set). You will have to make arragements for airflow in/outtakes through the base of the stand, where you can make sure no water will seep into...
The heating/cooling issue I've never had a problem with... granted, I've never kept a sysem out on a boat 24/7 before... As long as it's dry, I can't really imagine it being that much worse than just using it in a non-airconditioned enviornment... Maybe if you got a laptop with a mobile dock so you don't have to leave it out there 24/7 (not sure if that's something you'd want to do, but if it was my laptop, considering the security of the docks and everything, I'd never leave it not locked down) you could get one of those mobile docking stations inside, and just protect keyboard/mouse externally... the laptop would be completly sealed...
Hope this helps some...
for 2D/Vector, I've come to love Kontour, actually, and Paint Shop Pro 7 actually does run well under Wine for me. Both do vector nicely, and PSP 7 under Wine does nice rastor, as well... I've been "almost" successful in getting Adobe Pagemaker 6.5 to run under wine, too...
Kontour can be found in KOffice, at http://www.koffice.org/kontour/
Hope this helps slightly... I'm in the same boat as you, actually... and I am totally 100% linux at work now... If you have any more questions, feel free to e-mail me.
Heh... Getting it was the hardest part :-)
:-) they did make me pay for a PCMCIA modem, but the PCMCIA NIC they provided free... I ordered a MiniPCI card anyway, plan to install it myself, and while there aren't available LinModem drivers for the 3Com yet, I don't need a modem anyway (And in the rare instance that I might, I have a PCMCIA one that works well right now)...
:-) But after it was done, everything is bliss... Hope this info helps...
:-) It has since been replaced by a "Powered by Red Hat" sticker, but I still find it amusing... so did the Dell guy who helped me with the keyboard thing :-)
I had to order through their corporate division, and call them up. I believe I put it under the name "Earthlink" since Earthlink employees get 10% off due to the employee purchase program, and I used to work for 'em... know several people down there who lent a hand making sure things got to me... If you work for somebody with a corporate account, try that route... I know you can do it through the small business division, as well... Just worked out cheaper for me to do it this way...
Best bet is to call 'em, too... Tall with somebody, be up front and tell them you want a Linux laptop... They'll probably have problems finding it... Might want to check out http://www.dell.com/linux first, as they mention everything they can install Linux on... Some of which have been discontinued, too... For instance, I couldn't get an Inspiron with anything but WinXP on it... After you get the specs you want (it'll most likely be a Latitude, as well) be sure to ask for their "Spare Parts Team" extention, as well, as you'll find it ships with a lot of limitations... All Latitude series machines have a built-in ethernet and modem port, with wires that run to a MiniPCI type 3A card... They wouldn't put one in to my machine because it's a 3Com DSP WinModem built in... but since they couldn't ship a system with out a modem (for DellNet by MSN, of all things
Other than that, everything else is nice... I'm rather happy, and the best thing about the small trouble I had with parts, is that I know they're compatible, I have the right drivers and specifications for everything, I know it's compatible, and if I ever call up Dell and say "I can't get this to work under Linux" they have to tell me something other than "tough crap, reinstall windows" and actually be proactive... but the level of support I've recieved has actually been very good... the one time I called 'em up to get those 'extra' buttons on my keyboard working, they helped greatly... gave me everything I needed, (they DID make me sign an NDA, which I laughed at... an NDA, for Tech Support... hehe
Oh, as a side note... I found this the funniest of all... when I recieved my new toy, the first thing I noticed was the "Designed for Windows 2000" sticker on it