They are profitable b/c they work with the local gov't and give them free service for right of way on towers. The police dept in my burg is doing this with Aerie right now (my pop works there) and then with those they plan to offer service to people with laptops that would like to be able to surf the web any damn where they please. I'd pay for it, there is in fact one of their boxes 20 ft from my apartment.
I would think that the toroid shape of the network didn't occur naturally, it occured financially. It is cheaper and more selfish (ie, you can make money charging for bandwidth this way).
And their are many examples of cubic networks in use. Just look a some schemes for beowulf clusters.
But do we really have to cross post everything that gets posted on Newsforge? It is already sydicated everywhere else (linux.com, and others I'm sure).
I was referring more to the @Home/AT&T fiasco, but you are correct. ISP's in Denver are not um, the best. I've had pretty good luck with IdComm Communications, my father has used them for years. So when I had the chance to have DSL I used them and got a few static IP's (for pretty cheap I might add!). Now that Qwaste and MSN have buddied up it really is a good idea to use another ISP for you DSL service.
Here in Colorado things have been good. There was a few days of downtime and then magically one morning my service was turned back on. The only thing I had to do was pump the ethernet address and figure out what my new email address was.
The bandwidth cap isn't that restrictive, most places you won't pull more that about 425k/sec from anyway. The new email servers are much faster (with @Home it sometimes would take 30 seconds for a POP3 connection to authenticate). I wait and see who they shovel us all of to, I'm tired of mergers...
Most good car theives would look for cars WITH alarms as they would be able to get some cash for that part too. I takes about ten seconds for someone to smash the window, rip out the alarm system/turn it off and hotwiring the car isn't that big of a deal as I've seen some really organized car theft in my time using a tow truck...
As most of the forum here says, security doesn't start at the port level. It comes from that application itself. If you SOAP transport accepts data from whoever send it, that is bad (just restricting IP's is stupid as well as it is brainless to spoof that). I would suggest running an authentication method on all trafic coming and going.
This can be done in any number of ways. Signing all the XML data with a GPG key to verify ownership of the data or the cheesy secret key method. Read up on how SSH works and key based authentication will seem like a viable option
I wonder if dude here has ever heard of PGP? It seems to work for me, things that are signed by people that I trust, I open. If not then I want to know some good reason why I must open it.
If we look at the fact that _at_least_ 65% of all servers out there are non-MS products the TCP/MS protocol (being hypothetical) point would be moot.
We should all know by now that Outlook is a scourge on the face of the internet, and that XP will open the world of for dDoS attacks like we've never seen but hey, a good firewall works wonders (granted, a worm that works on server connections and actually downloading content would be twice as crippling).
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They are profitable b/c they work with the local gov't and give them free service for right of way on towers. The police dept in my burg is doing this with Aerie right now (my pop works there) and then with those they plan to offer service to people with laptops that would like to be able to surf the web any damn where they please. I'd pay for it, there is in fact one of their boxes 20 ft from my apartment.
I would think that the toroid shape of the network didn't occur naturally, it occured financially. It is cheaper and more selfish (ie, you can make money charging for bandwidth this way).
And their are many examples of cubic networks in use. Just look a some schemes for beowulf clusters.
I'm gonna be called a troll for this...
But do we really have to cross post everything that gets posted on Newsforge? It is already sydicated everywhere else (linux.com, and others I'm sure).
At least your desk doesn't shake when your neighbors decide to shag...
I was referring more to the @Home/AT&T fiasco, but you are correct. ISP's in Denver are not um, the best. I've had pretty good luck with IdComm Communications, my father has used them for years. So when I had the chance to have DSL I used them and got a few static IP's (for pretty cheap I might add!). Now that Qwaste and MSN have buddied up it really is a good idea to use another ISP for you DSL service.
Here in Colorado things have been good. There was a few days of downtime and then magically one morning my service was turned back on. The only thing I had to do was pump the ethernet address and figure out what my new email address was.
The bandwidth cap isn't that restrictive, most places you won't pull more that about 425k/sec from anyway. The new email servers are much faster (with @Home it sometimes would take 30 seconds for a POP3 connection to authenticate). I wait and see who they shovel us all of to, I'm tired of mergers...
BTW: the temperature in a safe like that can get to be the equivalent of the outside temp. Don't plan on that being 100%.
Most good car theives would look for cars WITH alarms as they would be able to get some cash for that part too. I takes about ten seconds for someone to smash the window, rip out the alarm system/turn it off and hotwiring the car isn't that big of a deal as I've seen some really organized car theft in my time using a tow truck...
How come nobody ever posts?
First meaningful post.
As most of the forum here says, security doesn't start at the port level. It comes from that application itself. If you SOAP transport accepts data from whoever send it, that is bad (just restricting IP's is stupid as well as it is brainless to spoof that). I would suggest running an authentication method on all trafic coming and going.
This can be done in any number of ways. Signing all the XML data with a GPG key to verify ownership of the data or the cheesy secret key method. Read up on how SSH works and key based authentication will seem like a viable option
So I can deal with the fact that Linux is (generally) faster. ;)
But I would like to see Solaris benchmarked in the same way...
I wonder if dude here has ever heard of PGP? It seems to work for me, things that are signed by people that I trust, I open. If not then I want to know some good reason why I must open it.
If we look at the fact that _at_least_ 65% of all servers out there are non-MS products the TCP/MS protocol (being hypothetical) point would be moot.
We should all know by now that Outlook is a scourge on the face of the internet, and that XP will open the world of for dDoS attacks like we've never seen but hey, a good firewall works wonders (granted, a worm that works on server connections and actually downloading content would be twice as crippling).
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