Sftp uses ssh as the transport. Chances are your ssh configuration defaults to 3des which is painfully slow, you might do better by specifying blowfish as your cipher, or if you are really lucky, your sysadmin has compiled ssh with "none" cipher enabled (but my guess is you are not so lucky, even though ssh with none as cipher addresses your problem precisely - passwords are encrypted, and the rest isn't).
To tell sftp to tell ssh to use blowfish I believe you need "sftp -oCipher=blowfish"
It highlights the big problem with people using GNU software in proprietary closed-source projects without realizing the implications.
I find it very hard to believe that Cisco didn't know that Linksys used Linux-based software at the time of purchase, in fact I'd bet it was a subject of hot debate inside the company, but then the business folks had their last say, and now there are probably cisco techs sending "I told you so" e-mails to their bosses.
But the lesson is - if you're going proprietary, stick to BSD licensed stuff, and never ignore what the license says.
I had a similar problem in my car - I turn the key and it would just click and do nothing, but sometimes it would start, and then it ran solid, until I powered it off. On good days it would start right away, but sometimes I really had to play tricks to get it going.
Turned out I needed a new starter. I'd check the starter on that thing. May be it just needs a new solenoid.
Definitely the space of a single monitor is too limited. Right now on my desk I've got a whole slew of documents and couple of open books laid out, and I'm looking at all of them (well, I'm looking @/. actually:) ).
Some day I hope the monitor will be part of my desk, probably in a form of a flexible transparent overlay taking the *whole* area of the desk (and perhaps working in conjunction with a screen on the wall(s)). It will also be touch sensitive, so it will act as a keyboard (and mouse) as well, and I will be able to "drag" the windows that I have open (as well as the keyboard, which is just a window) across the whole desk.
Now picture virtual desktops, where I can flip from one busy desk to another!
I wonder how new dollar bills affect vending machines that accept cash. Granted, most coke machines don't deal in anything but one dollar, but with the "self-checkout" popping up in supermarkets (i hate it btw), the machines accept bills in any denomination - they will probably have to adjust whatever it is they use to recognize new bills.
Everyone I have come across in person who claimed to have used XP turned out to be someone who didn't have a clue.
On the other hand I know plenty of people who use what could be termed XP on daily basis, yet I doubt they ever read XP books or even care about it.
In general XP is a buzzword for the managerial types, the process described therein is pretty much common sense with a bunch of bells and whistles attached.
Most people will probably agree that in-depth stuff isn't available on the internet (or is, but for $$). E.g. it's pretty easy to find information on using malloc() with examples and endless discussions, but try to find something about "Origins of Bysantine Notation" and you will only see superflous information while on paper there are volumes written on the subject.
This is particularly visible with older publications - people who rely on the Internet exclusively (as many here have claimed) - have no access whatsoever to any printed material published before late 1990's, and it wouldn't be fair to say that there isn't a lot of it.
If your trade is computers, then the Internet is probably a good source of info. But if you're a historian, an archeologist, a musician or a doctor, or most any other profession requiring access to a lot of info, the Internet can provide only small pointers, and the books and printed magazines are it. And my prediction is that it will stay this way for a while.
The advantage of Sun is more consistent and reliable hardware, especially the fact that you get a command line interface on the serial console and can do things like power the machine up/down.
On the Intel side management via serial port is available on many high-end boards, but it is in a state of continous flux and not consistent.
Having said this, as far as the OS goes, having once managed huge numbers of Sun, Linux and FreeBSD machines, I say FreeBSD wins hands down. I am not quite sure what it is about it, it seems that people who write it are the ones who use it primarily on the server side, and so very often when you're thinking of something and ways to do it, you often find that FreeBSD already has a utility for it of some sort.
Size is not the problem - look at Cisco devices, a lot of them now have RJ45 as the serial connector.
I agree, a serial port is needed - I'd like to run UNIX on one of those things, and I'd like a serial console. In fact, if they had a board that had no video and just serial, that'd be grand, I'd buy one.
In other words, with good ol' Dubya in charge, the only government response we're likely to see is a hearty "Good going, guys!"
Which wouldn't be a bad thing. I think gornment regulation of the Internet is bad, because it usually is very capable of regulating itself. E.g., the Verisign stunt will be addressed by a BIND patch shortly. What Verisign really wants is the government to step in, then they can unleash their lobbyists and make the government bureaucrats dance to their tune.
I find it very hard to believe that they will be able to get away with this without some response from the US (and EU) government(s).
Sorry to say this, but this is going to be a precedent for Internet being regulated, this time for real. And you'll be able to thank Verisign for it. Perhaps that's a provocative step to achieve what they are really after - being regulated, which will guarantee them longevity.
Something that he doesn't mention but immediately came to mind - I live in a house and have one of those curb-side mailboxes. Anyone can swing by soon after the mailman does his delivery and go through my mail.
I found this place that sells a "locking mailbox": http://www.oregontrailbox.com/ I think I'm going to get one from them. If you come across anything better, or have experience, please reply.
I've been putting this off for a long time - it used to be cool to have your address and info listed in WHOIS back in 1994, but these days it's just bait for telemarketers or (worse) identity thiefs.
So I just went and changed my WHOIS info to a bogus address...
I have experience managing outsourced projects (in our case it was China). You definitely get more skill for the buck, but only up to a certain level. In the end I think most of the money spent on the offshore programmers was wasted (it wasn't a lot of money though).
First, there is the time difference. You send an e-mail and get no reply until tomorrow. Then there is the language barrier - sometimes I think the offshore programmers used it their favor (i thought you ment this, not that, sorry). The lack of responsibility - loyalty is a two-way street, and they know that we only like them cause they're cheap; after a while you start getting the vibe that they only care about the project as much as you care about them. Worst of all, they didn't really know what "responsibility" is, as we know it (in America, or western Europe), i.e. little things dropping here or there are OK. They don't understand that the paycheck depends on their performance - for them it arrives from somewhere in the wild west where everyone is rich.
After a while we tried to improve things by sending an employee to china for several months. While he was there, we thought things were improving, but in the end not much has changed.
All this leads me to believe that the offshoring thing is going to prove a bitter disappointment for many companies, and it will also damage reputation, especially for those in the consulting business, e.g. Accenture or PWC, etc. Imagine how happy an exec at a large company will be when he finds out that the consulting firm that charged him $120/hr has a bunch of guys somewhere working for $.50, especially after it becomes apparent that what they've been writing for the past 6 months is all unusable crap?
To the unemployed out there I'd say don't worry, and keep your skills current. If you have no project - go help some big open source project, like Apache, it will look good on your resume when companies will learn their lesson and start hiring based on skill and character, not on salary.
because it's not like it costs anything to build sound studios, or to equip them with professional equipment or staff them with sound engineers who know how to master decent CDs.
This is done in a recording studio, which is usually a business completely independent from what is referred to as "music industry". These guys charge by the hour, and that's their business. They are here to stay.
And promotion and advertising is free, too
There you may have a point, but it has been demonstrated that you can get more attention by simply posting something to/. than paying a million for an advertizing campain.
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Sftp uses ssh as the transport. Chances are your ssh configuration defaults to 3des which is painfully slow, you might do better by specifying blowfish as your cipher, or if you are really lucky, your sysadmin has compiled ssh with "none" cipher enabled (but my guess is you are not so lucky, even though ssh with none as cipher addresses your problem precisely - passwords are encrypted, and the rest isn't).
To tell sftp to tell ssh to use blowfish I believe you need "sftp -oCipher=blowfish"
Bring me a programmer who knows COBOL, RPG, and AS/400 and I'll show you someone whose working.
Not sure what your point is - I know RPG and AS/400 (both pretty well, though not COBOL) and I am not interested in working with any of those.
It highlights the big problem with people using GNU software in proprietary closed-source projects without realizing the implications.
I find it very hard to believe that Cisco didn't know that Linksys used Linux-based software at the time of purchase, in fact I'd bet it was a subject of hot debate inside the company, but then the business folks had their last say, and now there are probably cisco techs sending "I told you so" e-mails to their bosses.
But the lesson is - if you're going proprietary, stick to BSD licensed stuff, and never ignore what the license says.
It'd be nice if I could something like this to work to power my laptop!
I had a similar problem in my car - I turn the key and it would just click and do nothing, but sometimes it would start, and then it ran solid, until I powered it off. On good days it would start right away, but sometimes I really had to play tricks to get it going.
Turned out I needed a new starter. I'd check the starter on that thing. May be it just needs a new solenoid.
Definitely the space of a single monitor is too limited. Right now on my desk I've got a whole slew of documents and couple of open books laid out, and I'm looking at all of them (well, I'm looking @ /. actually :) ).
Some day I hope the monitor will be part of my desk, probably in a form of a flexible transparent overlay taking the *whole* area of the desk (and perhaps working in conjunction with a screen on the wall(s)). It will also be touch sensitive, so it will act as a keyboard (and mouse) as well, and I will be able to "drag" the windows that I have open (as well as the keyboard, which is just a window) across the whole desk.
Now picture virtual desktops, where I can flip from one busy desk to another!
I wonder how new dollar bills affect vending machines that accept cash. Granted, most coke machines don't deal in anything but one dollar, but with the "self-checkout" popping up in supermarkets (i hate it btw), the machines accept bills in any denomination - they will probably have to adjust whatever it is they use to recognize new bills.
Kramnik is the man right now, I agree. :-)
Everyone I have come across in person who claimed to have used XP turned out to be someone who didn't have a clue.
On the other hand I know plenty of people who use what could be termed XP on daily basis, yet I doubt they ever read XP books or even care about it.
In general XP is a buzzword for the managerial types, the process described therein is pretty much common sense with a bunch of bells and whistles attached.
All they are asked to do is to remove the wildcard from the second level DNS for .com and .net.
Most people will probably agree that in-depth stuff isn't available on the internet (or is, but for $$). E.g. it's pretty easy to find information on using malloc() with examples and endless discussions, but try to find something about "Origins of Bysantine Notation" and you will only see superflous information while on paper there are volumes written on the subject.
This is particularly visible with older publications - people who rely on the Internet exclusively (as many here have claimed) - have no access whatsoever to any printed material published before late 1990's, and it wouldn't be fair to say that there isn't a lot of it.
If your trade is computers, then the Internet is probably a good source of info. But if you're a historian, an archeologist, a musician or a doctor, or most any other profession requiring access to a lot of info, the Internet can provide only small pointers, and the books and printed magazines are it. And my prediction is that it will stay this way for a while.
I bet domain squatting companies are salivating over this!
The advantage of Sun is more consistent and reliable hardware, especially the fact that you get a command line interface on the serial console and can do things like power the machine up/down.
On the Intel side management via serial port is available on many high-end boards, but it is in a state of continous flux and not consistent.
Having said this, as far as the OS goes, having once managed huge numbers of Sun, Linux and FreeBSD machines, I say FreeBSD wins hands down. I am not quite sure what it is about it, it seems that people who write it are the ones who use it primarily on the server side, and so very often when you're thinking of something and ways to do it, you often find that FreeBSD already has a utility for it of some sort.
Me too - can you post an e-mail or a url to buy these?
Size is not the problem - look at Cisco devices, a lot of them now have RJ45 as the serial connector.
I agree, a serial port is needed - I'd like to run UNIX on one of those things, and I'd like a serial console. In fact, if they had a board that had no video and just serial, that'd be grand, I'd buy one.
This produces carbondioxide, so how does this reduce CO2
Not to mention Corbon Monoxide - CO
In other words, with good ol' Dubya in charge, the only government response we're likely to see is a hearty "Good going, guys!"
Which wouldn't be a bad thing. I think gornment regulation of the Internet is bad, because it usually is very capable of regulating itself. E.g., the Verisign stunt will be addressed by a BIND patch shortly. What Verisign really wants is the government to step in, then they can unleash their lobbyists and make the government bureaucrats dance to their tune.
There is nothing special about detecting the version of Apache, since Apache reports it in every response.
Take make sure noone can tell what you're running, put this in your config:
ServerTokens Prod
ServerSignature Off
Here is the documentation for ServerTokens and ServerSignature.
I find it very hard to believe that they will be able to get away with this without some response from the US (and EU) government(s).
Sorry to say this, but this is going to be a precedent for Internet being regulated, this time for real. And you'll be able to thank Verisign for it. Perhaps that's a provocative step to achieve what they are really after - being regulated, which will guarantee them longevity.
Greedy bastards.
What makes IT so off-shorable, is that it deals with information only, so the result of the work can be moved over as bits.
But IT is hardly the only information-only occupation. How about writing, law, engineering, architecture?
My point is that off-shoring IT in the end will show to be not anymore beneficial as any one of these other professions.
(Imagine a law firm that uses cheap lawyers from Bangalore)
Something that he doesn't mention but immediately came to mind - I live in a house and have one of those curb-side mailboxes. Anyone can swing by soon after the mailman does his delivery and go through my mail.
I found this place that sells a "locking mailbox": http://www.oregontrailbox.com/
I think I'm going to get one from them. If you come across anything better, or have experience, please reply.
I've been putting this off for a long time - it used to be cool to have your address and info listed in WHOIS back in 1994, but these days it's just bait for telemarketers or (worse) identity thiefs.
So I just went and changed my WHOIS info to a bogus address...
SG.
I have experience managing outsourced projects (in our case it was China). You definitely get more skill for the buck, but only up to a certain level. In the end I think most of the money spent on the offshore programmers was wasted (it wasn't a lot of money though).
First, there is the time difference. You send an e-mail and get no reply until tomorrow. Then there is the language barrier - sometimes I think the offshore programmers used it their favor (i thought you ment this, not that, sorry). The lack of responsibility - loyalty is a two-way street, and they know that we only like them cause they're cheap; after a while you start getting the vibe that they only care about the project as much as you care about them. Worst of all, they didn't really know what "responsibility" is, as we know it (in America, or western Europe), i.e. little things dropping here or there are OK. They don't understand that the paycheck depends on their performance - for them it arrives from somewhere in the wild west where everyone is rich.
After a while we tried to improve things by sending an employee to china for several months. While he was there, we thought things were improving, but in the end not much has changed.
All this leads me to believe that the offshoring thing is going to prove a bitter disappointment for many companies, and it will also damage reputation, especially for those in the consulting business, e.g. Accenture or PWC, etc. Imagine how happy an exec at a large company will be when he finds out that the consulting firm that charged him $120/hr has a bunch of guys somewhere working for $.50, especially after it becomes apparent that what they've been writing for the past 6 months is all unusable crap?
To the unemployed out there I'd say don't worry, and keep your skills current. If you have no project - go help some big open source project, like Apache, it will look good on your resume when companies will learn their lesson and start hiring based on skill and character, not on salary.
And I thought IBM discontinued those years ago!
because it's not like it costs anything to build sound studios, or to equip them with professional equipment or staff them with sound engineers who know how to master decent CDs.
/. than paying a million for an advertizing campain.
This is done in a recording studio, which is usually a business completely independent from what is referred to as "music industry". These guys charge by the hour, and that's their business. They are here to stay.
And promotion and advertising is free, too
There you may have a point, but it has been demonstrated that you can get more attention by simply posting something to