Lovely, we discovered after we had started to roll out SP2 that it broke CA's Anti-virus. Well not completely, only the remote install part of it stopped working as some of the remote RPC's had been turned off by default in SP2. Now everyone in the IT department is debating wither or not to turn this little feature back on. Windows XP with anti-virus or full SP2 without AV?
Geee, nasty virus writers using RAR files? WOW look out, next we will see viruses in.yz1 or.bza formats. Seriously, most of our users use Winzip or XP's native ZIP (*BaRF*) so most of them will not be able to open the file. But I do like IZarc, I like to send files to people with a.7z extension and see if they can figure it out;-)
Once the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) finds that Aust Consumers can't play most of the new DVD's, they will move to stop this kind of copy protection. They have already made it legal for multi-region DVD players to be sold here. My new Sony DVD-HDD recorder was Multi-region out of the box, apparently it was opened once it hit Sony's Australian warehouse, modded on the floor by Uni students (paid by Sony to do the work), then shipped off to the stores.
I have over 400 legal DVD's and If I ever buy a DVD I can't play, I'll be taking it back to the store asking for my money back, then I'll be writing a letter to the ACCC and Fair Trading.
Which reminds me... I once had a problem with a X-Files DVD (disc 1 was actually disc 3 with the wrong screen printing) after ringing FOX they told me they couldn't do anything as I had bought it over a year ago. So I rang ACCC and Fair trading, wrote a letter to FOX, and to make a long story short, I ended up with a working copy (and they didn't just replace the one disc, they send me another box set!).
But, I'm sure that this copy protection will be circumvented once they start using it.
Not difficult, just do a MX lookup on the current host DNS and then use the results for a SMTP host. I've been wondering how long it would take for the virus writers to figure this one out. Most Blacklists have a list of zombie IPs, so SMTP servers will just start getting on them now.
Ooops, VOIP traffic is routed through our WAN (not WLAN) but since our entire telephone network runs on VOIP, wireless VOIP on the Cisco 7920 phones works fine as long as you have enough AP's to cover all areas;-)
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At our Uni, we have 6 campuses over the eastern seaboard of Australia (over 4000km apart). I work in the Infrastructure team and we have been running VOIP since 2000. We are all using AARNET for WLAN traffic and VOIP works wonderfully (CISCO callmanager, CISCO 7960's phones and CISCO infrastructure). Any non-campus (other than Australia University traffic) phone calls (local or interstate calls) hop off at the nearest local AARNET node onto the old analog exchange to the phone number you are calling. This gives us local phone calls all over Australia! The reason it works so well is that AARNET has QOS. In the US, this is a problem and VOIP will never work as well. We are also starting to use Video over IP using the same network. About the only problems we have had is worms and viruses in the AARNET network, but we have blocks into the network and at campus boarder routers that stop this kind of thing happening (most of the time).
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Lovely, we discovered after we had started to roll out SP2 that it broke CA's Anti-virus. Well not completely, only the remote install part of it stopped working as some of the remote RPC's had been turned off by default in SP2. Now everyone in the IT department is debating wither or not to turn this little feature back on. Windows XP with anti-virus or full SP2 without AV?
Geee, nasty virus writers using RAR files? WOW look out, next we will see viruses in .yz1 or .bza formats. Seriously, most of our users use Winzip or XP's native ZIP (*BaRF*) so most of them will not be able to open the file. But I do like IZarc, I like to send files to people with a .7z extension and see if they can figure it out ;-)
Once the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) finds that Aust Consumers can't play most of the new DVD's, they will move to stop this kind of copy protection. They have already made it legal for multi-region DVD players to be sold here. My new Sony DVD-HDD recorder was Multi-region out of the box, apparently it was opened once it hit Sony's Australian warehouse, modded on the floor by Uni students (paid by Sony to do the work), then shipped off to the stores.
I have over 400 legal DVD's and If I ever buy a DVD I can't play, I'll be taking it back to the store asking for my money back, then I'll be writing a letter to the ACCC and Fair Trading.
Which reminds me... I once had a problem with a X-Files DVD (disc 1 was actually disc 3 with the wrong screen printing) after ringing FOX they told me they couldn't do anything as I had bought it over a year ago. So I rang ACCC and Fair trading, wrote a letter to FOX, and to make a long story short, I ended up with a working copy (and they didn't just replace the one disc, they send me another box set!).
But, I'm sure that this copy protection will be circumvented once they start using it.
Not difficult, just do a MX lookup on the current host DNS and then use the results for a SMTP host. I've been wondering how long it would take for the virus writers to figure this one out. Most Blacklists have a list of zombie IPs, so SMTP servers will just start getting on them now.
Ooops, VOIP traffic is routed through our WAN (not WLAN) but since our entire telephone network runs on VOIP, wireless VOIP on the Cisco 7920 phones works fine as long as you have enough AP's to cover all areas ;-)
At our Uni, we have 6 campuses over the eastern seaboard of Australia (over 4000km apart). I work in the Infrastructure team and we have been running VOIP since 2000. We are all using AARNET for WLAN traffic and VOIP works wonderfully (CISCO callmanager, CISCO 7960's phones and CISCO infrastructure). Any non-campus (other than Australia University traffic) phone calls (local or interstate calls) hop off at the nearest local AARNET node onto the old analog exchange to the phone number you are calling. This gives us local phone calls all over Australia! The reason it works so well is that AARNET has QOS. In the US, this is a problem and VOIP will never work as well. We are also starting to use Video over IP using the same network. About the only problems we have had is worms and viruses in the AARNET network, but we have blocks into the network and at campus boarder routers that stop this kind of thing happening (most of the time).