This is the way NFS is *designed*. It's based on a model where all the machines accessing the server are trusted. If this isn't the case - eg many of the machines are PCs, maintained by dumb and/or malicious users - then NFS is likely not appropriate for that environment. (Samba probably is, or you could investigate something a bit more esoteric like AFS or CODA.)
A DSL connection and an ISDN PRI (even at a minimum spec like 6 or 8) channels aren't though. AFAIK you can't do the caller-ID setting on BRI. (Or at least with sane telcos, you can't.)
Betamax lost to VHS because the electrical retail chains pushed VHS devices more heavily than Betamax, and because Sony refused (or at least tried to) to let anyone release pr0n on Betamax.
And to think that before the last reshuffle I was complaining about Jack Straw (who incidentally is a dead ringer for the Demon Headmaster, for those of you who remember) and *his* erosion of civil liberties with things like RIP. (It's down to you to prove you *don't* have the key to decode an encrypted message? Wouldn't that be, like, guilty until proven innocent?)
It's a walk in the park compared to Herr Blunkett of ze Gestapo.
The Internet is full of people of many different ages. It's just the ones who haven't managed to advance beyond "j00 ch34ting f4g! I w1ll 0wn ur b0x & k1c| ur l4m3 h0m0 4ss!! d00d!" who can reasonably be assumed not to be over 13.
I automatically assume that anyone on the Internet who can string a coherent sentence together in something resembling standard English is not 13. But maybe that's just me;)
Odd. The really mind-boggling thing to me is that designers still think it's acceptable to ask you to press B and X, or circle and square, or any other combination of buttons that both sit underneath your right thumb, at the same time.
Two shoulder buttons I can live with, likewise shoulder button + face button. (I don't like either, but I can live with them). Two face buttons at once is fucked-up ergonomics.
Nonsense. This was true in the days of dial-up - the expectation was that you'd have one dynamic address for each modem in your modem pool. I worked for the only UK ISP to offer a static IP address with a useful hostname and working reverse DNS to *every* dial-up user as a matter of principle through the mid-to-late 90s, and the hostmasters did have a hard time justifying each new block of addresses to RIPE.
The expectation with DSL or cable is that all of your customers are connected all of the time. Go to RIPE with *real* subscriber numbers, and you will have no difficulty getting a corresponding block of IP addresses. RIPE do not have a shortage, they get new/8s from IANA as and when they need them. IPv4 will run out, but not tomorrow. It's going to be something that requires lots of new addresses all at once, like mobile phones all acquiring an IP address, that prompts the move into v6.
The "good reason" they won't do it is market segmentation. If you can make static IP addresses, user-defined (or even any) reverse DNS, the permission to run servers etc "business" or "premium" services, you can screw customers out of a whole bunch of extra cash. As long as all the broadband providers loosely agree on what's a "business" feature and what's a "residential" feature, geeks are stuffed:(
Or alternatively, if I learn to divide $100 by about-eight (316/40) instead of about-four (Doh!), it costs around $12. Sorry:(
Still seems vaguely right - capex for broadband aggregation devices is not cheap, and nor are techies. Customer service droids are, but you end up needing a lot of them...
Your ISP will likely be getting transit at somewhere between about $50/Mbit and $150/Mbit. That's dollars per mega*bit* per second of capacity, rather than data transferred.
1Mb/s * (60 * 60 * 24 * 30) = 2,592,000 Mbit/month, or 324,000 MB/month, or about 316 GB/month.
Assuming the mid-range $100 figure, your 40GB costs about $25. That's not a lot left for providing all the local ISP infrastructure, personnel, and the all-important step 3 - profit!
Beware far more 'Content-Disposition-To', which does delightful things like sending a mail back to someone telling them you deleted their email unread or moved it to your "Annoying Fucktards" folder.
Thankfully, procmail in conjuction with formail is quite adept at removing all of these little intrusions.
*If* you consider that usuable threading. It inserts extra header lines for each "group" of messages into my list of messages, reducing the number of messages visible at any one time, and requires lots of extra clicking messing about expanding and collapsing things to actually read anything.
I'm stuck with Outlook for work email, and a manual 'sort by subject, then sort by sent timestamp' is more usuable that Microsoft's attempt at a real thread tree.
Mulberry gets it right (on all sorts of platforms). mutt gets it right. Why is it so hard for Outlook to get it right?
Why are people so hung up on boot speed? If you're rebooting enough to care, there's something *badly* broken somewhere other than in init.
If it's a box in the office that you *have* to turn off at night, you just get your first coffee of the day while it boots. Otherwise, just don't shut down for anything other than power outages or kernel upgrades.
OS X, in as far as I can make out from the couple of init scripts I've had to write for it, is very much like rcNG. Specify "things that must be started before me", and let init sort out what order to run everything in.
You're assuming everyone uses their ISP's smarthost. It's not the case, and it shouldn't have to be the case. Requiring signed certs doesn't affect end-user Windows PCs, it *does* affect everyone running a mail server that knows how to look up an MX record.
Unless you're saying that only ISPs are allowed to run mail servers now?
One of the wonders of the Internet as it stands is that I can pay my ISP (or another third party) to do pretty much everything for me, or I can pay for unfiltered IP connectivity and run everything else myself. Or indeed, anywhere in between.
Every step we take that *requires* centralization, registration, additional fees or anything else that's trivial for a mega-corp but burdensome for an individual is another step towards turning the Internet into a clone of TV. Dumb, paying consumers at the edges, a few fat-cat suppliers of everything in the middle:(
If email, IRC/"chat rooms" *spit* and SMS are anything to go by, a great number of young and not-so-young people who *do* have English as a first language are barely capable of forming even simple sentences in it correctly.
This was exactly my worry. It starts off with a grand goal of "empowering end-users" then tells you that in order to be empowered you have to be certified but some big-brother organisation that decides who is to be trusted and who is not.
I bought the first version of the Missing Manual when I was considering a Mac rather than a new PeeCee (for Linux, not Windows) just before Christmas. It was a really good introduction to the Mac way of doing things, and together with a couple of afternoons wasted on demo machines in PCWorld and a stray copy of MacWorld convinced me to switch. (At least for my primary desktop. The server boxen still have Linux on, although not all of them are x86, thank $deity!)
It's been of a lot of use since for the few bits and pieces that aren't immediately obvious and some tricks / shortcuts that I wouldn't have thought to look for without knowing they were there.
From the way it's presented, I imagine it's aimed at people coming from pre-OS X Macs, but it's still pretty useful for Mac virgins. (Or at least for me!)
Single-user mode on any civilized unix should prompt you for the root password before allowing a login.
Doesn't stop you booting a recovery floppy / cd if you have physical access to the machine (unless you set the BIOS (assuming PeeCee) to disallow this, and password-protect it), which is of course the same "exploit" for 'Doze that was being argued in the first place...
One word - eMac. Still this side of 1K UKP by the time I'd upgraded it to 640MB and added a USBPS2 box to carry on with my ergonomic keyboard / touchpad. 700 MHz G4, 17" CRT built-in (essentially the same as the old iMac, but nicer / bigger monitor), CDRW/DVD (no DVD burner), 40GB HD.
To me, that's a reasonable price for a reasonable spec box. Internal expansion is limited compared to the (much more expensive) G4 towers, but there's plenty of USB and Firewire if you want to bolt things on to it.
With the caveat that Name of the Rose has, at a guess, about 20% of the dialogue in Latin. It's a great book, and a passably good film, but it's quite hard work (and I do have a qualification in Latin, although obtained a good few years ago now.)
Cool - I have an piece on the new Domesday Book that I wrote when I was about 9. Only a couple of paragraphs about East Mersea Oyster Fisheries, but all the same, I'm going to have my words immortalized! Or not, to take the point of the article, I guess...
"There hasn't been a new djbdns release because djbdns is complete, hasn't had any security problems, and does virtually everything anyone wants a DNS server to do."
Other than, of course, have zone files which someone might be able to read and make any sense of. Or support zone transfers rather than telling to go away and rsync your gibberish-zone-files behind the scenes. But neither of those is important in a name server, right?
I hate qmail too, for what it's worth, and I especially hate the bizarre inetd replacement whose name currently escapes me, but which believes in unfeasibly long command lines rather than config files. djb seems insistant on throwing away anything that's been done before and re-inventing the wheel, only making it harder...
Well, nearly. vi doesn't work so good on a teletype (ie printer + keyboard), which is why ed is the way it is.
But I'll grant you, vi works on any terminal session anyone with remaining SAN is likely to be using. Then again, so does emacs, it just takes longer to start...
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This is the way NFS is *designed*. It's based on a model where all the machines accessing the server are trusted. If this isn't the case - eg many of the machines are PCs, maintained by dumb and/or malicious users - then NFS is likely not appropriate for that environment. (Samba probably is, or you could investigate something a bit more esoteric like AFS or CODA.)
Use the right tool for the right job.
Regards,
Tim.
A DSL connection and an ISDN PRI (even at a minimum spec like 6 or 8) channels aren't though. AFAIK you can't do the caller-ID setting on BRI. (Or at least with sane telcos, you can't.)
Regards,
Tim.
Betamax lost to VHS because the electrical retail chains pushed VHS devices more heavily than Betamax, and because Sony refused (or at least tried to) to let anyone release pr0n on Betamax.
Regards,
Tim.
And to think that before the last reshuffle I was complaining about Jack Straw (who incidentally is a dead ringer for the Demon Headmaster, for those of you who remember) and *his* erosion of civil liberties with things like RIP. (It's down to you to prove you *don't* have the key to decode an encrypted message? Wouldn't that be, like, guilty until proven innocent?)
It's a walk in the park compared to Herr Blunkett of ze Gestapo.
Regards,
Tim.
The Internet is full of people of many different ages. It's just the ones who haven't managed to advance beyond "j00 ch34ting f4g! I w1ll 0wn ur b0x & k1c| ur l4m3 h0m0 4ss!! d00d!" who can reasonably be assumed not to be over 13.
;)
I automatically assume that anyone on the Internet who can string a coherent sentence together in something resembling standard English is not 13. But maybe that's just me
Regards,
Tim.
Odd. The really mind-boggling thing to me is that designers still think it's acceptable to ask you to press B and X, or circle and square, or any other combination of buttons that both sit underneath your right thumb, at the same time.
Two shoulder buttons I can live with, likewise shoulder button + face button. (I don't like either, but I can live with them). Two face buttons at once is fucked-up ergonomics.
Regards,
Tim.
Nonsense. This was true in the days of dial-up - the expectation was that you'd have one dynamic address for each modem in your modem pool. I worked for the only UK ISP to offer a static IP address with a useful hostname and working reverse DNS to *every* dial-up user as a matter of principle through the mid-to-late 90s, and the hostmasters did have a hard time justifying each new block of addresses to RIPE.
/8s from IANA as and when they need them. IPv4 will run out, but not tomorrow. It's going to be something that requires lots of new addresses all at once, like mobile phones all acquiring an IP address, that prompts the move into v6.
:(
The expectation with DSL or cable is that all of your customers are connected all of the time. Go to RIPE with *real* subscriber numbers, and you will have no difficulty getting a corresponding block of IP addresses. RIPE do not have a shortage, they get new
The "good reason" they won't do it is market segmentation. If you can make static IP addresses, user-defined (or even any) reverse DNS, the permission to run servers etc "business" or "premium" services, you can screw customers out of a whole bunch of extra cash. As long as all the broadband providers loosely agree on what's a "business" feature and what's a "residential" feature, geeks are stuffed
Regards,
Tim.
Or alternatively, if I learn to divide $100 by about-eight (316/40) instead of about-four (Doh!), it costs around $12. Sorry :(
Still seems vaguely right - capex for broadband aggregation devices is not cheap, and nor are techies. Customer service droids are, but you end up needing a lot of them...
Regards,
Tim.
Your ISP will likely be getting transit at somewhere between about $50/Mbit and $150/Mbit. That's dollars per mega*bit* per second of capacity, rather than data transferred.
1Mb/s * (60 * 60 * 24 * 30) = 2,592,000 Mbit/month, or 324,000 MB/month, or about 316 GB/month.
Assuming the mid-range $100 figure, your 40GB costs about $25. That's not a lot left for providing all the local ISP infrastructure, personnel, and the all-important step 3 - profit!
Regards,
Tim.
Beware far more 'Content-Disposition-To', which does delightful things like sending a mail back to someone telling them you deleted their email unread or moved it to your "Annoying Fucktards" folder.
Thankfully, procmail in conjuction with formail is quite adept at removing all of these little intrusions.
Regards,
Tim.
*If* you consider that usuable threading. It inserts extra header lines for each "group" of messages into my list of messages, reducing the number of messages visible at any one time, and requires lots of extra clicking messing about expanding and collapsing things to actually read anything.
I'm stuck with Outlook for work email, and a manual 'sort by subject, then sort by sent timestamp' is more usuable that Microsoft's attempt at a real thread tree.
Mulberry gets it right (on all sorts of platforms). mutt gets it right. Why is it so hard for Outlook to get it right?
Regards,
Tim.
Why are people so hung up on boot speed? If you're rebooting enough to care, there's something *badly* broken somewhere other than in init.
If it's a box in the office that you *have* to turn off at night, you just get your first coffee of the day while it boots. Otherwise, just don't shut down for anything other than power outages or kernel upgrades.
Regards,
Tim.
OS X, in as far as I can make out from the couple of init scripts I've had to write for it, is very much like rcNG. Specify "things that must be started before me", and let init sort out what order to run everything in.
Regards,
Tim.
You're assuming everyone uses their ISP's smarthost. It's not the case, and it shouldn't have to be the case. Requiring signed certs doesn't affect end-user Windows PCs, it *does* affect everyone running a mail server that knows how to look up an MX record.
:(
Unless you're saying that only ISPs are allowed to run mail servers now?
One of the wonders of the Internet as it stands is that I can pay my ISP (or another third party) to do pretty much everything for me, or I can pay for unfiltered IP connectivity and run everything else myself. Or indeed, anywhere in between.
Every step we take that *requires* centralization, registration, additional fees or anything else that's trivial for a mega-corp but burdensome for an individual is another step towards turning the Internet into a clone of TV. Dumb, paying consumers at the edges, a few fat-cat suppliers of everything in the middle
Regards,
Tim.
Yes, the fact that you own, enjoy and are unashamed to admit you own a GameCube makes you secure in your manhood or gay.
;)
Which of the two is frankly your own business
Regards,
Tim.
If email, IRC/"chat rooms" *spit* and SMS are anything to go by, a great number of young and not-so-young people who *do* have English as a first language are barely capable of forming even simple sentences in it correctly.
Regards,
Tim. (Grumpy old man day)
This was exactly my worry. It starts off with a grand goal of "empowering end-users" then tells you that in order to be empowered you have to be certified but some big-brother organisation that decides who is to be trusted and who is not.
Doesn't sound like much of a way forward to me.
Regards,
Tim.
www.asterix.org. Someone already did :)
Regards,
Tim.
I bought the first version of the Missing Manual when I was considering a Mac rather than a new PeeCee (for Linux, not Windows) just before Christmas. It was a really good introduction to the Mac way of doing things, and together with a couple of afternoons wasted on demo machines in PCWorld and a stray copy of MacWorld convinced me to switch. (At least for my primary desktop. The server boxen still have Linux on, although not all of them are x86, thank $deity!)
It's been of a lot of use since for the few bits and pieces that aren't immediately obvious and some tricks / shortcuts that I wouldn't have thought to look for without knowing they were there.
From the way it's presented, I imagine it's aimed at people coming from pre-OS X Macs, but it's still pretty useful for Mac virgins. (Or at least for me!)
Regards,
Tim.
Single-user mode on any civilized unix should prompt you for the root password before allowing a login.
Doesn't stop you booting a recovery floppy / cd if you have physical access to the machine (unless you set the BIOS (assuming PeeCee) to disallow this, and password-protect it), which is of course the same "exploit" for 'Doze that was being argued in the first place...
Regards,
Tim.
One word - eMac. Still this side of 1K UKP by the time I'd upgraded it to 640MB and added a USBPS2 box to carry on with my ergonomic keyboard / touchpad. 700 MHz G4, 17" CRT built-in (essentially the same as the old iMac, but nicer / bigger monitor), CDRW/DVD (no DVD burner), 40GB HD.
To me, that's a reasonable price for a reasonable spec box. Internal expansion is limited compared to the (much more expensive) G4 towers, but there's plenty of USB and Firewire if you want to bolt things on to it.
Regards,
Tim.
With the caveat that Name of the Rose has, at a guess, about 20% of the dialogue in Latin. It's a great book, and a passably good film, but it's quite hard work (and I do have a qualification in Latin, although obtained a good few years ago now.)
Regards,
Tim.
Cool - I have an piece on the new Domesday Book that I wrote when I was about 9. Only a couple of paragraphs about East Mersea Oyster Fisheries, but all the same, I'm going to have my words immortalized! Or not, to take the point of the article, I guess...
Regards,
Tim.
"There hasn't been a new djbdns release because djbdns is complete, hasn't had any security problems, and does virtually everything anyone wants a DNS server to do."
Other than, of course, have zone files which someone might be able to read and make any sense of. Or support zone transfers rather than telling to go away and rsync your gibberish-zone-files behind the scenes. But neither of those is important in a name server, right?
I hate qmail too, for what it's worth, and I especially hate the bizarre inetd replacement whose name currently escapes me, but which believes in unfeasibly long command lines rather than config files. djb seems insistant on throwing away anything that's been done before and re-inventing the wheel, only making it harder...
Regards,
Tim.
Well, nearly. vi doesn't work so good on a
teletype (ie printer + keyboard), which is why
ed is the way it is.
But I'll grant you, vi works on any terminal
session anyone with remaining SAN is likely to be
using. Then again, so does emacs, it just takes
longer to start...
Regards,
Tim.