Firstly, its unlikely that ISPs are going to ignore zombie boxes. Spammers operating on their networks directly mabie. But almost certainly not owned zombie machines spewing out spam (its far easier for a spammer to just find another zombie box to spam through than it is to try and keep the one they have now alive)
Someone should set up a page ranking how well ISPs do when it comes to combating spam, viruses and malware that is on their networks and being spread via them.
In particular they need to do more to stop the vectors used for the spammers to get the zombies on their users macine in the first place.
ISPs should all be running good email virus scanners to remove viruses and infected attachments (including spam and DDOS zombie bots) They should be blocking ports used by these zombies (i.e. things like MSRPC, windows file sharing etc and also ports used to send control messages to the trojans) They should be educating users about how not to get infected with trojans. And they should be taking steps to shut off zombies when they are detected (i.e. if a users machine is spewing out SPAM, block port 25 immediatally and point the user at tools to remove the trojan)
Something that would be usefull is a page (run by the people who do spam blocklists and other spam research) that shows the ISPs around the world that host spammers. At least that would enable the clued-in to avoid those ISPs where possible.
Better yet, how about starting with a port of Quicktime. Make a quicktime player and a libquicktime.so that people can use to play and deal with quicktime video on linux.
the electronics side of SONY is much bigger than the content side (movies/music/TV). How come the electronics side continues to listen to the content side? Why doesnt Sony Consumer Electronics tell Sony Music and Sony Pictures to go jump?
Thats a question I could ask about the tech industry in general, how come the consumer electronics industry, computer industry etc (well excluding those like Microshaft who seem to be benifiting from Big Media) dont fight back with their superior size. Why havent the tech companies used their big size to fight back against the onslaught from Big Media?
I guess the real question is, is there any current for-sale 802.11x WiFi device where hardware documentation is available or where open source drivers written by people with access to the HW docs are available.
the ipw2200 driver is being written (as far as I can tell from the site anyway) by people without hardware docs or firmware specs so it is really (IMO) no better off than the other 802.11x reverse engineering projects out there.
Is there any 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi LAN card (either PCI or PCMCIA, not something built into a motherboard) out there that is truely Open? I dont mean some driver someone has figured out by reverse engineering, I mean a card where the manufacturer has released the specs and/or the driver code.
What I want to see is for someone to build a PC with all the features one would expect for a decent linux setup using only hardware components where either any driver code required to access the full features of the device is released by the company (firmware that runs from a ROM chip and/or that runs on a seperate CPU on the card doesnt need to be open for the hardware to qualify) or alternativly, enough specifications are released to enable someone to completly re-create said drivers. It should have (in addition to the regular hardware features): 802.11 Wireless WiFi lan CD/DVD burner 10/100 ethernet (most motherboards include this anyway these days) Video Capture Card that has inputs for all the common standards (including the standards used for High Definition Digital cable/sattelite/free-to-air). Does anyone make a high definition capable capture card that supports that CableCard stuff? If so, that would fit perfectly here. If not, there is almost certainly a market for such a thing from those making PVR boxes.
Such a system (even just a list of bits to buy to pull it off would be nice) or systems (e.g. one for PVR use with the video capture card and one for use as a desktop without the extra bits) would be a great thing IMO. Related to this, a list of companies and/or products that support open operating systems in various ways. Each product would have one of these designations: Totally closed, doesnt run on linux at all Runs on linux only though closed binary driver (e.g. nvidia gfx stuff) Reverse Engineered open driver exists for the hardware. official company written open driver exists (the companies and hardware with this designation would be the ones that open-source people could then patronise)
Does anyone produce a box (TIVO or otherwise) that would be able to directly access Foxtel listings (e.g. foxtel EPG or manually typed in or screen-scraped from foxtel website or whatever)
Since RTCW and RCTW Eenmy Territory are (AFAIK) essentially a modified Quake 3 engine, once the source code to that engine is released, there is a lot less reason for ID to hold back releasing the source code to RCTW and RCTW:ET.
Seriously, they should open source all this:) Also, they should make the stuff at http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Research/Software/ Open Source too (like binaudit, deszip, lsu, mftp, noshell etc) For some wierd reason you gotta jump through hoops to download anything good from NASA:(
I want to see the code that is currently "mozilla" go away and be replaced with a new suite built around Firefox/Thunderbird (with the features from the current Mozilla that FF/TB dont have added in to FF/TB). Dont forget to port Chatzilla too, I use that for IRC:) Ideally it would be done by making closer links between Firebird and Thunderbird (with both being seperate applications and any code they share being put into shared DLLs that both apps can use). It would still act like the suite does now. If you select "mail" on the menu in any part of the suite it would launch Thunderbird. If you select "browser" or "new browser window", it would launch Firefox. Ditto when it comes to clicking on mailto: links in Firefox and web etc links in Thunderbird.
One benifit of my idea is that if the user has selected something other than Thunderbird as their default email client, Firefox would talk to that instead. (I dont know if that is possible now with the current suite or not) Same for Thunderbird and your default web browser.
By putting as much code as possible into shared DLLs and modules (that could be loaded at startup by something like the Gecko Runtime Engine service someone else suggested), loading one part of the suite when another one was already loaded wouldnt take very long.
Or, another option is to combine FF/TB into a single program. Even this would have benifit over the current mozilla suite given that (AFAIK) the UI of Firefox and Thunderbird is lighter on the system than that of the currnt mozilla suite.
Like several other posters on this story, I use the mozilla suite because everything is there in one place. But it is possible to have the same "everything is in one place" feel whilst making use of all the good things (more lightweight UI etc) FireFox and Thuderbird have.
If I was living somewhere where there are a lot of religious nuts (i.e. bible belt religious conservatives etc), I would think of the most blasphemous thing possible that is still a valid SSID. (perhaps something like GodSucks or ThereIsNoGod)
Probobly the biggest fear is that the cable internet companies like Comcast will start offering packages that combine TV, Internet and phone (via VOIP) all in one which would mean people could disconnect their PSTN phone lines completly.
I tried to find one of those covers that lets you keep it covered but still use it but I was never able to find anywhere that sold them:( If anyone knows where in australia I can get one, do tell:)
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Firstly, its unlikely that ISPs are going to ignore zombie boxes.
Spammers operating on their networks directly mabie.
But almost certainly not owned zombie machines spewing out spam (its far easier for a spammer to just find another zombie box to spam through than it is to try and keep the one they have now alive)
Someone should set up a page ranking how well ISPs do when it comes to combating spam, viruses and malware that is on their networks and being spread via them.
Is this affecting boxes that have been owned and are being used for DDOS or just boxes that have been owned and are being used for SPAM?
In particular they need to do more to stop the vectors used for the spammers to get the zombies on their users macine in the first place.
ISPs should all be running good email virus scanners to remove viruses and infected attachments (including spam and DDOS zombie bots)
They should be blocking ports used by these zombies (i.e. things like MSRPC, windows file sharing etc and also ports used to send control messages to the trojans)
They should be educating users about how not to get infected with trojans.
And they should be taking steps to shut off zombies when they are detected (i.e. if a users machine is spewing out SPAM, block port 25 immediatally and point the user at tools to remove the trojan)
Something that would be usefull is a page (run by the people who do spam blocklists and other spam research) that shows the ISPs around the world that host spammers. At least that would enable the clued-in to avoid those ISPs where possible.
Better yet, how about starting with a port of Quicktime.
Make a quicktime player and a libquicktime.so that people can use to play and deal with quicktime video on linux.
the electronics side of SONY is much bigger than the content side (movies/music/TV).
How come the electronics side continues to listen to the content side? Why doesnt Sony Consumer Electronics tell Sony Music and Sony Pictures to go jump?
Thats a question I could ask about the tech industry in general, how come the consumer electronics industry, computer industry etc (well excluding those like Microshaft who seem to be benifiting from Big Media) dont fight back with their superior size.
Why havent the tech companies used their big size to fight back against the onslaught from Big Media?
Actually, by the sounds of it its more like Soyuz than Apollo.
Put a cover on it like a fire alarm button has.
They can be pressed very fast when you need to but are very hard to just bump accidentially.
I guess the real question is, is there any current for-sale 802.11x WiFi device where hardware documentation is available or where open source drivers written by people with access to the HW docs are available.
the ipw2200 driver is being written (as far as I can tell from the site anyway) by people without hardware docs or firmware specs so it is really (IMO) no better off than the other 802.11x reverse engineering projects out there.
Lots of newer cars already have buttons on the steering wheel that control the audio.
Is there any 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi LAN card (either PCI or PCMCIA, not something built into a motherboard) out there that is truely Open?
I dont mean some driver someone has figured out by reverse engineering, I mean a card where the manufacturer has released the specs and/or the driver code.
What I want to see is for someone to build a PC with all the features one would expect for a decent linux setup using only hardware components where either any driver code required to access the full features of the device is released by the company (firmware that runs from a ROM chip and/or that runs on a seperate CPU on the card doesnt need to be open for the hardware to qualify) or alternativly, enough specifications are released to enable someone to completly re-create said drivers.
It should have (in addition to the regular hardware features):
802.11 Wireless WiFi lan
CD/DVD burner
10/100 ethernet (most motherboards include this anyway these days)
Video Capture Card that has inputs for all the common standards (including the standards used for High Definition Digital cable/sattelite/free-to-air). Does anyone make a high definition capable capture card that supports that CableCard stuff? If so, that would fit perfectly here. If not, there is almost certainly a market for such a thing from those making PVR boxes.
Such a system (even just a list of bits to buy to pull it off would be nice) or systems (e.g. one for PVR use with the video capture card and one for use as a desktop without the extra bits) would be a great thing IMO.
Related to this, a list of companies and/or products that support open operating systems in various ways.
Each product would have one of these designations:
Totally closed, doesnt run on linux at all
Runs on linux only though closed binary driver (e.g. nvidia gfx stuff)
Reverse Engineered open driver exists for the hardware.
official company written open driver exists (the companies and hardware with this designation would be the ones that open-source people could then patronise)
Cool. :(
Howcome foxtel dont make an EPG driven PVR for their digital service
Does anyone produce a box (TIVO or otherwise) that would be able to directly access Foxtel listings (e.g. foxtel EPG or manually typed in or screen-scraped from foxtel website or whatever)
Actually, I think it will only use the IE widget for specific pages.
For example, if you open a new browser window, it will be in gecko mode.
Since RTCW and RCTW Eenmy Territory are (AFAIK) essentially a modified Quake 3 engine, once the source code to that engine is released, there is a lot less reason for ID to hold back releasing the source code to RCTW and RCTW:ET.
If they made the storyline (and visuals) of Tron 2.0 into a movie, that would probobly work.
Seriously, they should open source all this :) :(
Also, they should make the stuff at http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Research/Software/ Open Source too (like binaudit, deszip, lsu, mftp, noshell etc)
For some wierd reason you gotta jump through hoops to download anything good from NASA
I want to see the code that is currently "mozilla" go away and be replaced with a new suite built around Firefox/Thunderbird (with the features from the current Mozilla that FF/TB dont have added in to FF/TB). Dont forget to port Chatzilla too, I use that for IRC :)
Ideally it would be done by making closer links between Firebird and Thunderbird (with both being seperate applications and any code they share being put into shared DLLs that both apps can use).
It would still act like the suite does now. If you select "mail" on the menu in any part of the suite it would launch Thunderbird.
If you select "browser" or "new browser window", it would launch Firefox.
Ditto when it comes to clicking on mailto: links in Firefox and web etc links in Thunderbird.
One benifit of my idea is that if the user has selected something other than Thunderbird as their default email client, Firefox would talk to that instead. (I dont know if that is possible now with the current suite or not)
Same for Thunderbird and your default web browser.
By putting as much code as possible into shared DLLs and modules (that could be loaded at startup by something like the Gecko Runtime Engine service someone else suggested), loading one part of the suite when another one was already loaded wouldnt take very long.
Or, another option is to combine FF/TB into a single program. Even this would have benifit over the current mozilla suite given that (AFAIK) the UI of Firefox and Thunderbird is lighter on the system than that of the currnt mozilla suite.
Like several other posters on this story, I use the mozilla suite because everything is there in one place. But it is possible to have the same "everything is in one place" feel whilst making use of all the good things (more lightweight UI etc) FireFox and Thuderbird have.
The only problem with the NES version is that the team names suck (there has never been an AFL team in canberra, hobart or darwin)
So would it be something like Mozilla Quick Launch but that loads just the GRE dlls?
Or what?
Go watch the movie Office Space if you dont get the joke :)
My first thought was that they were going for an Australian Football League exclusive licence.
If I was living somewhere where there are a lot of religious nuts (i.e. bible belt religious conservatives etc), I would think of the most blasphemous thing possible that is still a valid SSID. (perhaps something like GodSucks or ThereIsNoGod)
Are any of the patents things OSS can actually USE?
Probobly the biggest fear is that the cable internet companies like Comcast will start offering packages that combine TV, Internet and phone (via VOIP) all in one which would mean people could disconnect their PSTN phone lines completly.
I tried to find one of those covers that lets you keep it covered but still use it but I was never able to find anywhere that sold them :( :)
If anyone knows where in australia I can get one, do tell