Out of curiosity, did you try using the AOL setup stuff. I don't know much at all about AOL anymore(other than I avoid it like the plague, but I have a few Brit friends on ICQ that have the same story as you for using it), I haven't used it since the days of beating up my Dad's old 486 with a 14.4 modem under Win3.1... Anyway, If I remember right, you can tell it COM#'s. What if you try telling it COM2 (/dev/ttyS1) or where ever your modem is.
Here's a small part of my ~/.wine/config:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[serialports]
"Com1" = "/dev/ttyS0"
"Com2" = "/dev/ttyS1"
"Com3" = "/dev/ttyS2"
"Com4" = "/dev/modem"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
So I suspect that if you tell AOL to use a specific "COM Port", it *should* (in theory, of course) work.
Try it, see what happens.
Besides, I think the thought and effort the artist put into the map to help us visualize this disaster was pretty nifty...
I hate to even admit it but, AFTER letting the horrific reality of what the pics were showing sink into my head, my first thought was "I wonder what package they used to do that with?" They really are some seriouly detailed graphics...
Thank you for psting this (simple) logic. Really, I mean it (it never even occured to me...). I couldn't figure out for the life of me why I've been getting some seriously HORRIBLE throughput to some ftp servers in Europe (sunet.se & free.fr). I just thought maybe it was Nimda clogging things up. After reading this, I ran some traceroutes and found that my electrons go through New York city. That would certainly explain it...
Thank you for the enlightment. Someone mod this up.
31373 d00d,
I guess you didn't actually read my post. I said I chose *NIX over M$'s junk because of simple security flaws such as this (in M$'s crap). My decision was not based out of something as small-minded as "hatred" or "emotion". It was based on what is in the best interest of my company; security and up-time. Sure, I've got a few NT.x boxes as well. (There's a few things some developers need NT.x for) The NT.x boxes don't house anything "mission critical", my *NIX boxes do. Why? Security and availibility.
I also don't see your point on "ease of administration". What, pretty Next buttons I guess you're refering to?
ASP - There's Apache modules for that now.
"simple DB conectivity" - MySQL (and that's only one that will do the job 100%).
"inexpensive"? - How does free sound to you? It sounds GREAT to management...
A poorly configured Linux box is just as dangerous as a poorly configured Windows box.
Sort of, but I still agree. *BUT*, which would you choose if you wanted something that simply "ships" secure? Can you say that for ANYTHING M$ has ever released? No. Not even they can. While you are correct in saying that our needs/wants may be different, I'll be more than happy to rub a little extra elbow-grease on to make for damn sure that my company stays a-float as much as I can and *NOT* have to worry about stupid things like automatic script-firing in e-mails. Or getting a box "rooted" just because I run a web server. Sorry. No soup for you.
P.S.
If you just seeing this now, you really need to read/. abit more often (and all the security messages that have been brighter than the sun for 3 months now...
'bashing' windows and its users is a good way to show what a non-professional moron you are.
This "professional" chooses SECURE and TRUSTWOTHY OS's to run my company's business. I chose NOT to use M$'s crap because of simple holes like this. *THIS* is proof that YOU, sir, are NOT a "professional". If you cared about your company (and thus your JOB), you would would do eveything in your power to convince them that there are MUCH better things out their than M$'s junk..
Oh, but wait, you never would've thought about that it seems...
In all fairness, I thought that too. *BUT* it then hit me:
The guy apperently has acess to the Box's Logs or the Router's Logs. Given that, he *COULD* do something about it.
I turned Apache on at home (disabling everthing but the ability to serve index.html). I see a ton of Code-Red hits all the time. Can iptables do this? I'm not totallyu sure. I see port 80 hits everytime a Code-Red comes in (I allow the packets, but I them still).
Just a thought...
Damn. I just got an e-mail from my ISP (corporate LAN/WAN) telling us of this. Here's their text:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Many ISPs, including [ISP], are under attack by a new worm that appears
to be related to the recent CodeRed worm. This worm attacks Microsoft web
servers via a known vulnerability and seeks to replicate itself by
searching for other vulnerable servers.
The traffic caused by this worm has caused severe network problems
worlwide this morning (18 Sep 2001) according to many ISP-related mailing
lists. More information will be sent to this announcement list as it
becomes available.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
OK, so they say it's a Code-Redish bug. According to Taco's post, it's not even close (sort of).
I'm using *NIX/Apache.
I'm not gonna worry about this one (yet again...). Y'all with them damn Win boxes keeping the Internet flooded with this sort of junk, PLEASE either shut of your machines, or get a real OS...
(or at least, apply the damn patch already)
I had an older SMP box (dual MMX-233's). The procs I found shipped with super cheap-o fans. They both went dead in a few weeks after ordering (only the CPU's themselves were covered by the warrenty...). I hadn't noticed at first. I started wondering why KDE (really, the OS in general) was starting to run VERY slow.
I hit every newsboard I could find looking for suggestions. Every suggestion was a flop. One day, I cracked open the case (I forget why exactly) and had a found esentially a microwave oven inside the box. WTF?!? I thought. I quick scan of everything showed me the 2 fans just sitting there jittering (not spinning). DOH!
(No, I don't don't work for these guys)
3d-cool.com has a great selection of cooling things for just about anything. I've since ordered a ton of stuff from them. Fast and reliable, they are. I ordered a couple of the super-duty fans for the older slot-CPUs and the thing ran great! A bit loud but...
The SMP box is now collecting dust (but I know it's 100% ready for mnore when I need it)since I found a Super-Worth box for real damn cheap at an EggHead Auction.
JScript (JavaScript) at least, can detect mouse movement and clicks. Well, IE anyway (I haven't had much luck under Nav and it's varients...).
I have a couple eggs written into my company's website that rely on clicks and such...
One thing both debian and mandrake have in common is a convenient way to get security updates.
Indeed, if you're tied to a GUI. Don't get me wrong. I love Mandrake (and am typing this with it now), and have been using it for a few years (or so) now. The biggest thing I hate about any RPM based distro is the dependency hell that is easy to fall into.
Debian-based distribs have this super-easy-to-use-and-love-app called: apt. "apt-get install upgrade". What can be easier than that to get the latest updates? Well, guess what: Conectiva Linux (from Brazil) reworked apt-get to work with RPM. This is SO wonderfull. Not all distribs have caught on, but MDK was the first (that I noticed) to notice Conectiva's work.
Unfortunatly I don't have a link to post, but I read about this on LWN (like a month or so ago) that they were already running (mostly) Linux in the back-end of the shop. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong...
Ah... those were the days. I remember my (second:-) ) C=64. I tried using Geos. 2 5.25" floppys only to gain not much when I could go across the street to a friend's house who had one of the first Macs...:-)
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So when is the Jig-a-watt model coming out?
I follow the like to the Yahoo! page talking about bad advertising tactics, what happens? One of them damn X-10 camera adds pops-up. Geesh...
Cool. Feel free to let me/us know how it goes. Yes this mail address works.
Out of curiosity, did you try using the AOL setup stuff. I don't know much at all about AOL anymore(other than I avoid it like the plague, but I have a few Brit friends on ICQ that have the same story as you for using it), I haven't used it since the days of beating up my Dad's old 486 with a 14.4 modem under Win3.1... Anyway, If I remember right, you can tell it COM#'s. What if you try telling it COM2 (/dev/ttyS1) or where ever your modem is.
Here's a small part of my ~/.wine/config:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[serialports]
"Com1" = "/dev/ttyS0"
"Com2" = "/dev/ttyS1"
"Com3" = "/dev/ttyS2"
"Com4" = "/dev/modem"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
So I suspect that if you tell AOL to use a specific "COM Port", it *should* (in theory, of course) work.
Try it, see what happens.
Although a couple of the pics don't have the greatest clarity, can someone PLEASE mod this up? I think we all need to see this...
Besides, I think the thought and effort the artist put into the map to help us visualize this disaster was pretty nifty...
I hate to even admit it but, AFTER letting the horrific reality of what the pics were showing sink into my head, my first thought was "I wonder what package they used to do that with?" They really are some seriouly detailed graphics...
Thank you for psting this (simple) logic. Really, I mean it (it never even occured to me...). I couldn't figure out for the life of me why I've been getting some seriously HORRIBLE throughput to some ftp servers in Europe (sunet.se & free.fr). I just thought maybe it was Nimda clogging things up. After reading this, I ran some traceroutes and found that my electrons go through New York city. That would certainly explain it...
Thank you for the enlightment. Someone mod this up.
Yes, the other folks are right, it is indeed called "M.A.C.H. 3". Damn cool game. And you can see some screenshots here.
31373 d00d,
I guess you didn't actually read my post. I said I chose *NIX over M$'s junk because of simple security flaws such as this (in M$'s crap). My decision was not based out of something as small-minded as "hatred" or "emotion". It was based on what is in the best interest of my company; security and up-time. Sure, I've got a few NT.x boxes as well. (There's a few things some developers need NT.x for) The NT.x boxes don't house anything "mission critical", my *NIX boxes do. Why? Security and availibility.
I also don't see your point on "ease of administration". What, pretty Next buttons I guess you're refering to?
ASP - There's Apache modules for that now.
"simple DB conectivity" - MySQL (and that's only one that will do the job 100%).
"inexpensive"? - How does free sound to you? It sounds GREAT to management...
A poorly configured Linux box is just as dangerous as a poorly configured Windows box.
Sort of, but I still agree. *BUT*, which would you choose if you wanted something that simply "ships" secure? Can you say that for ANYTHING M$ has ever released? No. Not even they can. While you are correct in saying that our needs/wants may be different, I'll be more than happy to rub a little extra elbow-grease on to make for damn sure that my company stays a-float as much as I can and *NOT* have to worry about stupid things like automatic script-firing in e-mails. Or getting a box "rooted" just because I run a web server. Sorry. No soup for you.
Nope. That's the old Code Red.
/. abit more often (and all the security messages that have been brighter than the sun for 3 months now...
P.S.
If you just seeing this now, you really need to read
'bashing' windows and its users is a good way to show what a non-professional moron you are.
This "professional" chooses SECURE and TRUSTWOTHY OS's to run my company's business. I chose NOT to use M$'s crap because of simple holes like this. *THIS* is proof that YOU, sir, are NOT a "professional". If you cared about your company (and thus your JOB), you would would do eveything in your power to convince them that there are MUCH better things out their than M$'s junk..
Oh, but wait, you never would've thought about that it seems...
In all fairness, I thought that too. *BUT* it then hit me:
The guy apperently has acess to the Box's Logs or the Router's Logs. Given that, he *COULD* do something about it.
SHUT THE BOX THE HELL OFF!!!
What a freakin' asshole...
I'm at 572 hits from this one in just under a couple hours. Damn. It took Code-Red 2 days to get that high on my box...
Oh, Taco: ALL of them are from the 216.x.x.x range...
I don't know about you or him, but:
I turned Apache on at home (disabling everthing but the ability to serve index.html). I see a ton of Code-Red hits all the time. Can iptables do this? I'm not totallyu sure. I see port 80 hits everytime a Code-Red comes in (I allow the packets, but I them still).
Just a thought...
Damn. I just got an e-mail from my ISP (corporate LAN/WAN) telling us of this. Here's their text:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Many ISPs, including [ISP], are under attack by a new worm that appears to be related to the recent CodeRed worm. This worm attacks Microsoft web servers via a known vulnerability and seeks to replicate itself by searching for other vulnerable servers.
The traffic caused by this worm has caused severe network problems worlwide this morning (18 Sep 2001) according to many ISP-related mailing lists. More information will be sent to this announcement list as it becomes available.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
OK, so they say it's a Code-Redish bug. According to Taco's post, it's not even close (sort of).
I'm using *NIX/Apache.
I'm not gonna worry about this one (yet again...). Y'all with them damn Win boxes keeping the Internet flooded with this sort of junk, PLEASE either shut of your machines, or get a real OS...
(or at least, apply the damn patch already)
I had an older SMP box (dual MMX-233's). The procs I found shipped with super cheap-o fans. They both went dead in a few weeks after ordering (only the CPU's themselves were covered by the warrenty...). I hadn't noticed at first. I started wondering why KDE (really, the OS in general) was starting to run VERY slow.
I hit every newsboard I could find looking for suggestions. Every suggestion was a flop. One day, I cracked open the case (I forget why exactly) and had a found esentially a microwave oven inside the box. WTF?!? I thought. I quick scan of everything showed me the 2 fans just sitting there jittering (not spinning). DOH!
(No, I don't don't work for these guys)
3d-cool.com has a great selection of cooling things for just about anything. I've since ordered a ton of stuff from them. Fast and reliable, they are. I ordered a couple of the super-duty fans for the older slot-CPUs and the thing ran great! A bit loud but...
The SMP box is now collecting dust (but I know it's 100% ready for mnore when I need it)since I found a Super-Worth box for real damn cheap at an EggHead Auction.
JScript (JavaScript) at least, can detect mouse movement and clicks. Well, IE anyway (I haven't had much luck under Nav and it's varients...).
:-)
I have a couple eggs written into my company's website that rely on clicks and such...
Take look at this project:
www.squidguard.org/
I will have to be honest and say that I have yet to implemt this, but geeze, a small amount of Googling can save much turmoil...
One thing both debian and mandrake have in common is a convenient way to get security updates.
Indeed, if you're tied to a GUI. Don't get me wrong. I love Mandrake (and am typing this with it now), and have been using it for a few years (or so) now. The biggest thing I hate about any RPM based distro is the dependency hell that is easy to fall into.
Debian-based distribs have this super-easy-to-use-and-love-app called: apt. "apt-get install upgrade". What can be easier than that to get the latest updates? Well, guess what: Conectiva Linux (from Brazil) reworked apt-get to work with RPM. This is SO wonderfull. Not all distribs have caught on, but MDK was the first (that I noticed) to notice Conectiva's work.
Enjoy!
P.S.
Read the man page for use... (man apt-get)
So if Media Player isn't included what replaces it?
.ASF files you may ask?
Easy. WinAmp and/or RealPlayer. What about
Bag 'em or (at the least) still "allow" M$ to offer it as a free download.
It's all in italics on my box (MDK8.1)...
Unfortunatly I don't have a link to post, but I read about this on LWN (like a month or so ago) that they were already running (mostly) Linux in the back-end of the shop. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong...
Ah... those were the days. I remember my (second :-) ) C=64. I tried using Geos. 2 5.25" floppys only to gain not much when I could go across the street to a friend's house who had one of the first Macs... :-)
This article ties together several of the recent stories ...
Yes, indeed. several stories now. When does reduntant become a bad thing?