ObLegoThreadFlame: It's 'Lego' or 'Lego bricks'. 'Legos' ought to be what the Lego robotic controller module thing runs, except I don't think it is, so I guess it's just another infuriating Merkinism.
Some of.uk is still something other than a cesspit. A given company gets exactly one.ltd.uk - the name of the limited company, as registered at Companies House. (Likewise for.plc/PLCs).ltd.uk deserves more recognition as a nice, well-regulated part of the namespace.
.se is similarly tightly controlled, and.it also to some degree.
Erm.. no. *{host|domain}names* on the UK *acadmic* network (JANET) used to be 'back-to-front', and ISTR it caused more confusion with email than anything else.
It was running in parallel (uk.ac.ukc and ukc.ac.uk both worked) when I was at uni (about 8-9 years ago), and I believe JANET now fully believes in names in the same direction as everyone else.
The commercial UK Internet has always been the 'right' way around.
Regards,
Tim.
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Sit down and configure a Solaris box when all you know is AIX / HP-UX / IRIX / Ultrix / *BSD and see where you end up.
(You can shuffle any of the others into the 'Solaris' position there with much the same effect.)
That's exactly *why* a book that tries to teach the *concepts* behind Unix is a great idea, rather than learning the right magic for just the box you happen to be using now.
So 'speech' is whatever the majority of public opinion wants it to be. Splendid. You've just removed any need to any right to 'free speech', at least outside of a police state.
Hint: it's *unpopular* speech that needs protecting. People don't, on the whole, attack popular speech, so it remains 'free' by default.
Of course the public have a right not to have material they find distasteful. When was the last time anyone came round to your house and forced you to watch or listen to anything? The only people I know of who do anything like that are street-corner evangelists (you can't switch them off or change channel) and junk-mailers, not pornographers and anarchists. But if you're not prepared to carry others' messages, don't expect them to carry yours.
You're *badly* missing the point here. The whole point of Freenet is that it won't make any of your distinctions as to things that "shouldn't be kept alive" or "are not 'speech'". It moves information around with *no* value judgements whatsoever.
There's an alarming tendancy for people to jump and say "yeah, free speech!", when they really mean that they want the right to post DeCSS, speak out against The Man, or whatever else *they* feel is important. Defending someone else's right to say things which you personally find distasteful (to whatever degree) is a far more difficult thing as a person to do.
Trying to make Freenet a "much cleaner place than the web" is so far off the mark it's frightening.
Personally, I'm undecided on Freenet. I believe people should have the right to say things I don't like, but I'm not entirely convinced that they should be able to use my personal resources in order to be able to say them. I wouldn't try and use it to say the things I want to without taking the shit in return though...
For a box that's not on your desktop, a bloody good reason to get a Sparc (or other grown-up computer) is simple: serial console, from the PROM stage upwards. This is a *major* failing of PeeCee hardware for non-desktop work; you must have keyboard / monitor attached to interact with the BIOS or anything before at least the first-stage boot-loader. (I know you can do serial consoles from within Linux - that's not a help if the machine is halted with a 'duff CMOS - press F1 to continue' style message).
Also, and bear in mind this is subjective, the Sparcs I've used feel much more responsive under load than equivalent or even slightly higher spec PeeCees. I don't know if there is some difference in the CPU / supporting chipset design that is better optimised for a task-switching environment than Intel's (any CPU design gurus here?), but a high load average seems to bring my Pentia to a crawl much worse than the Sparcs. I don't generally run just a single benchmark task on machines, so that's quite useful to me;)
Unless things have changed recently, you'll probably be better with NetBSD on an IPC. There are many reports that memory management in Linux
on 4c-class machines is less than optimal -
certainly NetBSD feels more responsive on my SS1/SS2s than RedHat did when I tried it.
True, newspapers and magazines would be more expensive. But all of the products with huge advertising budgets would be cheaper. How much would an iMac cost if Apple hadn't shelled out for their ubiquitous advertising? How much would a pair of Nike trainers cost if they weren't paying sports stars (or whoever else they pay) to wear the things? (Assuming of course that lower cost base == lower price to consumers.)
Sadly the genie is out of the bottle - now companies know about advertising, they'll keep on in this ridiculous arms race that benefits no-one apart from advertising agencies. Not advertising is no longer an option:(
Some channels, at least in the UK, are already making digital broadcasts with Macrovision on, to prevent analogue recording. Some of the movie channels do, and one of the Asian channels (SETA?) recently got a fair bit of bad press for Macrovisioning *everything* without warning, leading to people time-shifting a lot of garbage.
There's nothing needs doing to stop people making analogue recordings of digital TV - the technology is out there.
Now stopping people making digital recordings, that may be another kettle of fish. What do things like the Tivo make of Macrovision?
M&S are making a song and dance about the fact that they do now accept credit / debit cards. (Sorry, it's one or the other that they never did before, memory fails me). Signs on the door "For your convenience... [blah]" - like every other shop hasn't done it for $DEITY-knows how long.
Even the corner-shop across the road from me will take Switch / VISA et al if you spend more than a fiver.
BTW, it's still four months til the 21st century:-P
Demon customers only get mail directly to their machines if they've made arrangements to use something other than their *@*.demon.co.uk address, or the sender is using a broken MTA.
There are no MX records for foo.demon.co.uk pointing at foo.demon.co.uk - even when you are online, mail goes to Demon's mail servers first and then on to you. (Unless the mail's coming from the aforementioned broken MTA that delivers to A records rather than MXs.)
The advantage is that you have a fixed IP, which makes it easy to set up foo.demon.co.uk as the best MX for mydomain.org. This sort of thing is beyond the vast majority of Internet users, even the vast majority of Demon customers.
Yes, TV tuner cards require a TV license. Any device capable of receiving TV transmissions requires a TV license. Displaying them is not the issue, leading the anamoly where, AIUI, you need a colour TV license for a B/W TV and a video.
Vendors are required to take your name and address when selling you a device capable of receiving TV transmission, to pass on to TV licensing to check that you have a license. They apparently catch a lot more people through this route than 'random snooping'.
I was amused when Tesco's insisted on taking my details when I bought my DVD player. I did try explaining that it couldn't receive transmissions, but they couldn't understand why I would want a 'new video recorder' that didn't receive TV pictures, so I gave up:(
Close, but no banana. You can talk smtp, pop3, http et al with a telnet client, but they're based on the *TCP/IP* stack, not the telnet stack (whatever a 'telnet stack' is).
smtp doesn't send usernames or passwords at all, let alone in clear text. http *can*, but if you're using this for anything other than trivial access controls or in a tightly secured network, you're very silly. Websites that ask for logins should be using https, especially if those logins are the same as logins used for other protocols.
pop3 *does* send usernames and passwords in plain text, and these will often been the same user names and passwords that can be used to gain shell access on other machines (or on the mail server in a poorly-designed setup).
The issue is not that there's something wrong with the telnet protocol as such. The issue is that there's *lots* wrong with sending clear-text passwords on broadcast media (campus or even company ethernet) or networks you don't control (the Internet). telnet, ftp and pop3 show this problem - they can be replaced with ssh, scp and pop3 over ssh tunnels.
As to '90 percent of the traffic on the internet' being insecure - most of that traffic (I take it you mean http traffic) doesn't contain user names and passwords!
I think you're confusing 'pornographic' and 'obscene'. A great deal of pornography is legally produced and consumed in the UK every day (much like Tunnock's Caramel Wafers).
The only thing explicitly banned from posession in the UK is child pornography (or, I believe, anything which *looks* to be, but I could be wrong on that).
There are restrictions (a total ban?) on the publication and distribution of *obscene* material. Thankfully, the law doesn't explicitly state what is and isn't obscene (we'd need to re-write the law with every generation (at least!)), but defines it in terms of what a representative jury would regard as obscene (I think the actual definition mentions "likely to corrupt and deprave"). Therefore *each case* needs to be brought to court for it to be decided whether or not the material in question is actually obscene or not.
(Clubs and Vice (I think it's them) allegedly tend to use this fact to confiscate anything *they* think is objectionable. Your typical small sex shop or specialist importer can't afford to go to court over a single item, or even a case of items, so they just take the hit of the confiscation and don't bother getting charged.)
The 'erect penis' myth was based on the fact that no case had ever passed an image of an erect penis as *not* being "likely to corrupt and deprave" (go figure!), so standard legal advice was to *assume* that such image would always be ruled 'obscene'. I understand that fairly recently a case was brought in which a contrary ruling was made, but it's always on a case-by-case basis - there's no legal precedent set by a decision either way, AIUI.
>>> I like the fact that unless you can prove you've forgotten the keys, or lost the keys or never had them, they can slap you in gaol for 2 years.... >>>
Which is great is you *are* a criminal. "30 years for murder if these encrypted messages are opened? Or 2 years for failure to disclose my key? Hmm..."
On the other hand, Joe Public who encrypts his letters to his SO 'cause they're a bit raunchy, and genuinely *has* forgotten his passphrase (OK, so that's fairly stupid, but...) can get 2 years for forgetfulness and the police being interested in the wrong piece of 'evidence'.
Proving that you don't have something is impossible - you can only fail to prove that you do have it, which all goes to show that it's a very *silly* law, even before you start looking at how *wrong* it is.
That's without even considering what a fundamental attack on the 'innocent until proven guilty' premise it is:(
Yes, totally. But *not* with a hard-cover. The things are bulky and expensive, and delay the release of the small, affordable version. This is one of my pet bugbears - why won't publishers allow people to make the *choice* as to which format they want their books in? It's pay through the nose for a format I don't want, or wait 1-2 years to read exactly the same material. I'm not going to buy hardbacks, not now, not ever, and I'm sure I'm not the only one - what sales would they be losing by releasing both formats simultaneously?
I don't know whether GNOME is "bloated" as such, or simply does lots of things I don't need, but *on my setup*, it's certainly a lot less responsive than either 'raw' WindowMaker (obviously) or KDE.
That's with everything running on a P133, displaying across the network to Exceed on a 'Doze box.
This raises an interesting (well, interesting to me!) question - is there a split in WM / desktop usage based on hardware? What happened to the wonders of using Linux on 'obsolete' hardware? (FVWM worked OK on my DX266. Does *anyone* still work with this kind of kit?) Does anyone have a feel for the hardware point at which GNOME / KDE / Whatever all run at subjectively the same speed (ie the GUI can do things as fast as you want - it's waiting for you, not vice versa)?
Ignoring, of course, the fact that ILOVEYOU wasn't written by 'someone with great computer skill', as you'll see if you look at the source.
Someone with a degree of *social engineering* skill - getting people to run the thing in the first place (although this is mostly down to simple user stupidy and the fact that Outlook is a big steaming pile of poo), and spotting several useful methods of propogation could, at a push, rank as some kind of social hack.
But the code itself should be obvious to anyone with any knowledge of how existing virii / trojans / worms replicate and half an hour with the VBScript manual.
Then again, ask yourself 'Do I really want to date someone stupid enough to type in all caps with no spaces?' Even AOLers generally manage spaces. Usually not punctuation, or at any rate correct punctuation, but spaces are normally there.
My first Linux box took *8 days* to recompile the kernel (2Mb 386sx33). I ran a lot of Stuff for a fair while on a box that took about 28 hours to do a kernel build. You *really* thought about giving the right answers to 'make config' at that point.
I think the current main box takes about 2 hours. I don't do it often enough to care much, but maybe I would if I was a kernel developer. I'd guess quite a lot of/. posters aren't kernel developers either;)
Telewest allegedly have cable modem service available (at least where I live) now - see www.blueyonder.co.uk. No public servers, "authenticated, low-connection-limit" servers are OK, so ssh back to your box from outside is OK, Quake 3 servers are out. I'm not sure where that leaves SMTP servers or DNS, which are the important bits...
London is about last on their list of deployment areas, which given the history of any kind of technology roll-out in the UK only prompts me to say "Ha ha!" in my best Nelson voice;)
If it's the same service they're offering as part of the Demon trial, the ADSL 'modem' is also a NAT box. You technically *can't* run servers of any kind, irregardless of the AUP / T&C.
Given the frequent gibbering about portals and content, and the above-mentioned NATing, I suspect it's a 'web-and-email' service rather than an Internet service. If it was a *real* IP service, they'd risk cutting into their ludicrously-expensive leased line market:(
Bah. I don't want facilities from my ISP. I don't want their mail servers, their DNS, their games servers, their 'unique content'. Not even their news servers, if I had an always-on link. I want a pipe, with some IP addresses allocated to me on one end and routeing on the other.
screen. screen is great - you can run one or many shells in one console / xterm / telnet session / whatever, and switch between them when logged in.
Before you log out, detatch the screen session. All the shells will continue to run, and when you log back in, you can reconnect to screen and continue as if nothing had happened.
It's not that the server cannot connect to EFNet because the DoS attacks soak up all the bandwidth or something.
It's because when it's connected to EFNet, it becomes a target for DoS. When it isn't connected, none of the weenies know or care it exists, and your ISP is no longer chosen to receive DoS attacks.
"due to" in the sense of "to prevent", rather than "because of".
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ObLegoThreadFlame: It's 'Lego' or 'Lego bricks'. 'Legos' ought to be what the Lego robotic controller module thing runs, except I don't think it is, so I guess it's just another infuriating Merkinism.
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Some of .uk is still something other than a cesspit. A given company gets exactly one .ltd.uk - the name of the limited company, as registered at Companies House. (Likewise for .plc/PLCs) .ltd.uk deserves more recognition as a nice, well-regulated part of the namespace.
.it also to some degree.
.se is similarly tightly controlled, and
Regards,
Tim.
Erm.. no. *{host|domain}names* on the UK *acadmic* network (JANET) used to be 'back-to-front', and ISTR it caused more confusion with email than anything else.
It was running in parallel (uk.ac.ukc and ukc.ac.uk both worked) when I was at uni (about 8-9 years ago), and I believe JANET now fully believes in names in the same direction as everyone else.
The commercial UK Internet has always been the 'right' way around.
Regards,
Tim.
Sit down and configure a Solaris box when all you know is AIX / HP-UX / IRIX / Ultrix / *BSD and see where you end up.
(You can shuffle any of the others into the 'Solaris' position there with much the same effect.)
That's exactly *why* a book that tries to teach the *concepts* behind Unix is a great idea, rather than learning the right magic for just the box you happen to be using now.
Regards,
Tim.
So 'speech' is whatever the majority of public opinion wants it to be. Splendid. You've just removed any need to any right to 'free speech', at least outside of a police state.
Hint: it's *unpopular* speech that needs protecting. People don't, on the whole, attack popular speech, so it remains 'free' by default.
Of course the public have a right not to have material they find distasteful. When was the last time anyone came round to your house and forced you to watch or listen to anything? The only people I know of who do anything like that are street-corner evangelists (you can't switch them off or change channel) and junk-mailers, not pornographers and anarchists. But if you're not prepared to carry others' messages, don't expect them to carry yours.
Regards,
Tim.
You're *badly* missing the point here. The whole point of Freenet is that it won't make any of your distinctions as to things that "shouldn't be kept alive" or "are not 'speech'". It moves information around with *no* value judgements whatsoever.
There's an alarming tendancy for people to jump and say "yeah, free speech!", when they really mean that they want the right to post DeCSS, speak out against The Man, or whatever else *they* feel is important. Defending someone else's right to say things which you personally find distasteful (to whatever degree) is a far more difficult thing as a person to do.
Trying to make Freenet a "much cleaner place than the web" is so far off the mark it's frightening.
Personally, I'm undecided on Freenet. I believe people should have the right to say things I don't like, but I'm not entirely convinced that they should be able to use my personal resources in order to be able to say them. I wouldn't try and use it to say the things I want to without taking the shit in return though...
Regards,
Tim.
For a box that's not on your desktop, a bloody good reason to get a Sparc (or other grown-up computer) is simple: serial console, from the PROM stage upwards. This is a *major* failing of PeeCee hardware for non-desktop work; you must have keyboard / monitor attached to interact with the BIOS or anything before at least the first-stage boot-loader. (I know you can do serial consoles from within Linux - that's not a help if the machine is halted with a 'duff CMOS - press F1 to continue' style message).
;)
Also, and bear in mind this is subjective, the Sparcs I've used feel much more responsive under load than equivalent or even slightly higher spec PeeCees. I don't know if there is some difference in the CPU / supporting chipset design that is better optimised for a task-switching environment than Intel's (any CPU design gurus here?), but a high load average seems to bring my Pentia to a crawl much worse than the Sparcs. I don't generally run just a single benchmark task on machines, so that's quite useful to me
Regards,
Tim.
Unless things have changed recently, you'll probably be better with NetBSD on an IPC. There are many reports that memory management in Linux
on 4c-class machines is less than optimal -
certainly NetBSD feels more responsive on my SS1/SS2s than RedHat did when I tried it.
Regards,
Tim.
True, newspapers and magazines would be more expensive. But all of the products with huge advertising budgets would be cheaper. How much would an iMac cost if Apple hadn't shelled out for their ubiquitous advertising? How much would a pair of Nike trainers cost if they weren't paying sports stars (or whoever else they pay) to wear the things? (Assuming of course that lower cost base == lower price to consumers.)
:(
Sadly the genie is out of the bottle - now companies know about advertising, they'll keep on in this ridiculous arms race that benefits no-one apart from advertising agencies. Not advertising is no longer an option
Regards,
Tim.
Some channels, at least in the UK, are already making digital broadcasts with Macrovision on, to prevent analogue recording. Some of the movie channels do, and one of the Asian channels (SETA?) recently got a fair bit of bad press for Macrovisioning *everything* without warning, leading to people time-shifting a lot of garbage.
There's nothing needs doing to stop people making analogue recordings of digital TV - the technology is out there.
Now stopping people making digital recordings, that may be another kettle of fish. What do things like the Tivo make of Macrovision?
Regards,
Tim.
M&S are making a song and dance about the fact that they do now accept credit / debit cards. (Sorry, it's one or the other that they never did before, memory fails me). Signs on the door "For your convenience... [blah]" - like every other shop hasn't done it for $DEITY-knows how long.
:-P
Even the corner-shop across the road from me will take Switch / VISA et al if you spend more than a fiver.
BTW, it's still four months til the 21st century
Regards,
Tim.
Demon customers only get mail directly to their machines if they've made arrangements to use something other than their *@*.demon.co.uk address, or the sender is using a broken MTA.
There are no MX records for foo.demon.co.uk pointing at foo.demon.co.uk - even when you are online, mail goes to Demon's mail servers first and then on to you. (Unless the mail's coming from the aforementioned broken MTA that delivers to A records rather than MXs.)
The advantage is that you have a fixed IP, which makes it easy to set up foo.demon.co.uk as the best MX for mydomain.org. This sort of thing is beyond the vast majority of Internet users, even the vast majority of Demon customers.
Regards,
Tim.
Yes, TV tuner cards require a TV license. Any device capable of receiving TV transmissions requires a TV license. Displaying them is not the issue, leading the anamoly where, AIUI, you need a colour TV license for a B/W TV and a video.
:(
Vendors are required to take your name and address when selling you a device capable of receiving TV transmission, to pass on to TV licensing to check that you have a license. They apparently catch a lot more people through this route than 'random snooping'.
I was amused when Tesco's insisted on taking my details when I bought my DVD player. I did try explaining that it couldn't receive transmissions, but they couldn't understand why I would want a 'new video recorder' that didn't receive TV pictures, so I gave up
Regards,
Tim.
Close, but no banana. You can talk smtp, pop3, http et al with a telnet client, but they're based on the *TCP/IP* stack, not the telnet stack (whatever a 'telnet stack' is).
smtp doesn't send usernames or passwords at all, let alone in clear text. http *can*, but if you're using this for anything other than trivial access controls or in a tightly secured network, you're very silly. Websites that ask for logins should be using https, especially if those logins are the same as logins used for other protocols.
pop3 *does* send usernames and passwords in plain text, and these will often been the same user names and passwords that can be used to gain shell access on other machines (or on the mail server in a poorly-designed setup).
The issue is not that there's something wrong with the telnet protocol as such. The issue is that there's *lots* wrong with sending clear-text passwords on broadcast media (campus or even company ethernet) or networks you don't control (the Internet). telnet, ftp and pop3 show this problem - they can be replaced with ssh, scp and pop3 over ssh tunnels.
As to '90 percent of the traffic on the internet' being insecure - most of that traffic (I take it you mean http traffic) doesn't contain user names and passwords!
Regards,
Tim.
I think you're confusing 'pornographic' and 'obscene'. A great deal of pornography is legally produced and consumed in the UK every day (much like Tunnock's Caramel Wafers).
The only thing explicitly banned from posession in the UK is child pornography (or, I believe, anything which *looks* to be, but I could be wrong on that).
There are restrictions (a total ban?) on the publication and distribution of *obscene* material. Thankfully, the law doesn't explicitly state what is and isn't obscene (we'd need to re-write the law with every generation (at least!)), but defines it in terms of what a representative jury would regard as obscene (I think the actual definition mentions "likely to corrupt and deprave"). Therefore *each case* needs to be brought to court for it to be decided whether or not the material in question is actually obscene or not.
(Clubs and Vice (I think it's them) allegedly tend to use this fact to confiscate anything *they* think is objectionable. Your typical small sex shop or specialist importer can't afford to go to court over a single item, or even a case of items, so they just take the hit of the confiscation and don't bother getting charged.)
The 'erect penis' myth was based on the fact that no case had ever passed an image of an erect penis as *not* being "likely to corrupt and deprave" (go figure!), so standard legal advice was to *assume* that such image would always be ruled 'obscene'. I understand that fairly recently a case was brought in which a contrary ruling was made, but it's always on a case-by-case basis - there's no legal precedent set by a decision either way, AIUI.
Regards,
Tim.
>>>
:(
I like the fact that unless you can prove you've forgotten the keys, or lost the keys or never had them, they can slap you in gaol for 2 years....
>>>
Which is great is you *are* a criminal. "30 years for murder if these encrypted messages are opened? Or 2 years for failure to disclose my key? Hmm..."
On the other hand, Joe Public who encrypts his letters to his SO 'cause they're a bit raunchy, and genuinely *has* forgotten his passphrase (OK, so that's fairly stupid, but...) can get 2 years for forgetfulness and the police being interested in the wrong piece of 'evidence'.
Proving that you don't have something is impossible - you can only fail to prove that you do have it, which all goes to show that it's a very *silly* law, even before you start looking at how *wrong* it is.
That's without even considering what a fundamental attack on the 'innocent until proven guilty' premise it is
Regards,
Tim.
Yes, totally. But *not* with a hard-cover. The things are bulky and expensive, and delay the release of the small, affordable version. This is one of my pet bugbears - why won't publishers allow people to make the *choice* as to which format they want their books in? It's pay through the nose for a format I don't want, or wait 1-2 years to read exactly the same material. I'm not going to buy hardbacks, not now, not ever, and I'm sure I'm not the only one - what sales would they be losing by releasing both formats simultaneously?
Rant over, weekend time, I'm going home...
Tim.
I don't know whether GNOME is "bloated" as such, or simply does lots of things I don't need, but *on my setup*, it's certainly a lot less responsive than either 'raw' WindowMaker (obviously) or KDE.
That's with everything running on a P133, displaying across the network to Exceed on a 'Doze box.
This raises an interesting (well, interesting to me!) question - is there a split in WM / desktop usage based on hardware? What happened to the wonders of using Linux on 'obsolete' hardware? (FVWM worked OK on my DX266. Does *anyone* still work with this kind of kit?) Does anyone have a feel for the hardware point at which GNOME / KDE / Whatever all run at subjectively the same speed (ie the GUI can do things as fast as you want - it's waiting for you, not vice versa)?
Just my $0.02,
Tim.
Ignoring, of course, the fact that ILOVEYOU wasn't written by 'someone with great computer skill', as you'll see if you look at the source.
Someone with a degree of *social engineering* skill - getting people to run the thing in the first place (although this is mostly down to simple user stupidy and the fact that Outlook is a big steaming pile of poo), and spotting several useful methods of propogation could, at a push, rank as some kind of social hack.
But the code itself should be obvious to anyone with any knowledge of how existing virii / trojans / worms replicate and half an hour with the VBScript manual.
Regards,
Tim.
Then again, ask yourself 'Do I really want to date someone stupid enough to type in all caps with no spaces?' Even AOLers generally manage spaces. Usually not punctuation, or at any rate correct punctuation, but spaces are normally there.
Regards,
Tim.
Bah. People today don't know they're born.
/. posters aren't kernel developers either ;)
My first Linux box took *8 days* to recompile the kernel (2Mb 386sx33). I ran a lot of Stuff for a fair while on a box that took about 28 hours to do a kernel build. You *really* thought about giving the right answers to 'make config' at that point.
I think the current main box takes about 2 hours. I don't do it often enough to care much, but maybe I would if I was a kernel developer. I'd guess quite a lot of
Telewest allegedly have cable modem service available (at least where I live) now - see www.blueyonder.co.uk. No public servers, "authenticated, low-connection-limit" servers are OK, so ssh back to your box from outside is OK, Quake 3 servers are out. I'm not sure where that leaves SMTP servers or DNS, which are the important bits...
;)
London is about last on their list of deployment areas, which given the history of any kind of technology roll-out in the UK only prompts me to say "Ha ha!" in my best Nelson voice
Regards,
Tim.
If it's the same service they're offering as part of the Demon trial, the ADSL 'modem' is also a NAT box. You technically *can't* run servers of any kind, irregardless of the AUP / T&C.
:(
Given the frequent gibbering about portals and content, and the above-mentioned NATing, I suspect it's a 'web-and-email' service rather than an Internet service. If it was a *real* IP service, they'd risk cutting into their ludicrously-expensive leased line market
Bah. I don't want facilities from my ISP. I don't want their mail servers, their DNS, their games servers, their 'unique content'. Not even their news servers, if I had an always-on link. I want a pipe, with some IP addresses allocated to me on one end and routeing on the other.
Regards,
Tim.
screen. screen is great - you can run one or
:)
many shells in one console / xterm / telnet
session / whatever, and switch between them when
logged in.
Before you log out, detatch the screen session.
All the shells will continue to run, and when you
log back in, you can reconnect to screen and
continue as if nothing had happened.
screen rocks
Regards,
Tim.
You're missing the point entirely.
It's not that the server cannot connect to EFNet because the DoS attacks soak up all the bandwidth or something.
It's because when it's connected to EFNet, it becomes a target for DoS. When it isn't connected, none of the weenies know or care it exists, and your ISP is no longer chosen to receive DoS attacks.
"due to" in the sense of "to prevent", rather than "because of".
Regards,
Tim.