Aside from the fact you can turn it off ( for now )
What if new PCs start shipping with this turned on by default? Linux distros/*BSD/Random-Recovery-Tool are going to have a hard time convincing people to first go to the BIOS and turn it off.
What if Microsoft Windows refuses to start unless it is turned on, so the choice is either run Windows OR (this is an exclusive OR) run Linux/*BSD/Whatever. Those who use Windows as their primary OS sure don't want to switch any more.
About 2 years ago, we've introduced SVN to check in and keep control over our config files in/etc on our rootserver.
It allows us to see when, what and - given the administrator provided this information when the file was committed - WHY changes have been applied. That's pretty important in an environment, where up to 9 administrator have access to the files.
Saves you from losing precious configurations and allows for easy rollback if a certain configuration change doesn't work. You can even use your config on more than one server. Use branches and switching files for configs that are host-dependant.
On the downside, this system only works if all administrators commit their files immediately after the change and document the reason for changing.
What about e-mail? It is very important and widely used by everyone; but it doesn't even make the list!
Maybe they just count Port-80-Connections. A lot of application use port 80 to tunnel through firewalls despite port 80 should be used for HTTP only. Email applications on the other hand, use ports 25 (SMTP) and 110 (POP3),143 (IMAP), 993 (IMAP/SSL or 995 (POP3/SSL).
CVS serves great for our/etc directory. There are 9 administrators that may fiddle around with the configuration and CVS is used to keep track of the who-changed-what-and-why thing.
All it takes is a bit of discipline to check in your changes in case you're not used to it. A daily cvs -nq up -dPR helps to find the files you forgot to check in.
Deep linking almost always generates only one hit/page impression/whatever you like to call it per user while a visitor that starts out on the homepage is likely to generate more than two clicks.
Remember, most sites use banner ads as a way to earn money and every hit means more money to them. Guess why so many news site just have a teaser of their articles on the homepage? Yes, to make you click on that link that provides you the full story and generates them another hit.
If a site doesn't want anyone to "deep link" to them, why not just check the HTTP_REFERER HTTP header, and send those requests that come frome a "deep link"
Unfortunally, that approach is inherently flawed. Some proxies remove the HTTP_REFERER header or change it to something else (ever seen those XXX_REFERER removed by SoftwareXYZ in your logs?).
In addition, caches (built into your browser or proxy) in general might get confused by different content that comes with the same URL because it depends upon the HTTP_REFERER header.
POP3 with SSL is a trivial, easy alteration that many POP3 clients support
Unfortunally, there's a big disadvantage. SSL consumes CPU. This is no problem for the client but those servers hosting thousands of POP3 or IMAP boxes can serve a significant higher amount of users without SSL.
So, after all, SSL is a cost issue for many ISPs and certainly the main reason, why they don't push it.
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Hey, you're the first user in this thread whose user id starts with 15680 to say THAT.
Think of production costs. All the money the production of a full album costs must come from somewhere. Traditionally, the labels do the funding.
What if new PCs start shipping with this turned on by default?
Linux distros/*BSD/Random-Recovery-Tool are going to have a hard time convincing people to first go to the BIOS and turn it off.
What if Microsoft Windows refuses to start unless it is turned on, so the choice is either run Windows OR (this is an exclusive OR) run Linux/*BSD/Whatever. Those who use Windows as their primary OS sure don't want to switch any more.
void dwim(void);
About 2 years ago, we've introduced SVN to check in and keep control over our config files in /etc on our rootserver.
It allows us to see when, what and - given the administrator provided this information when the file was committed - WHY changes have been applied. That's pretty important in an environment, where up to 9 administrator have access to the files.
Saves you from losing precious configurations and allows for easy rollback if a certain configuration change doesn't work. You can even use your config on more than one server. Use branches and switching files for configs that are host-dependant.
On the downside, this system only works if all administrators commit their files immediately after the change and document the reason for changing.
bye,
Settel
Because a browser is all you've got when you use a public terminal.
Because every user behind a firewall has resigned to coax his admin to open up another port in the corporate firewall.
Because a browser is what's already installed on your computer.
Because WWW has the biggest user base ever.
Oh, BTW, you're still using IPv4, don't you?
>the earliest known bird
I wonder how many worms it must have caught
The most disturbing thing about the parent post is, that it has been modded Insightful, not Funny :)
Maybe they just count Port-80-Connections. A lot of application use port 80 to tunnel through firewalls despite port 80 should be used for HTTP only. Email applications on the other hand, use ports 25 (SMTP) and 110 (POP3),143 (IMAP), 993 (IMAP/SSL or 995 (POP3/SSL).
bye,
Settel
CVS serves great for our /etc directory. There are 9 administrators that may fiddle around with the configuration and CVS is used to keep track of the who-changed-what-and-why thing.
All it takes is a bit of discipline to check in your changes in case you're not used to it. A daily cvs -nq up -dPR helps to find the files you forgot to check in.
Deep linking almost always generates only one hit/page impression/whatever you like to call it per user while a visitor that starts out on the homepage is likely to generate more than two clicks.
Remember, most sites use banner ads as a way to earn money and every hit means more money to them. Guess why so many news site just have a teaser of their articles on the homepage? Yes, to make you click on that link that provides you the full story and generates them another hit.
bye,
Settel
Unfortunally, that approach is inherently flawed. Some proxies remove the HTTP_REFERER header or change it to something else (ever seen those XXX_REFERER removed by SoftwareXYZ in your logs?).
In addition, caches (built into your browser or proxy) in general might get confused by different content that comes with the same URL because it depends upon the HTTP_REFERER header.
bye,
Settel
Unfortunally, there's a big disadvantage. SSL consumes CPU. This is no problem for the client but those servers hosting thousands of POP3 or IMAP boxes can serve a significant higher amount of users without SSL.
So, after all, SSL is a cost issue for many ISPs and certainly the main reason, why they don't push it.
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If I were you, I'd prefer to be me
Maybe patenting the patenting process could stop that shit
> Just think, you can cause all the internet security firms to work overtime, just by: /dev/urandom
:-)
> nc
you've just posted an ISS DoS attack
Don't forget FUSE (filesystem in userspace) by the same author as AVFS. It recently hit version 1.0 BTW.
No. That won't happen unless they elicit some more episodes out of the trilogy.
Oh wait, there're already several animatrix movies out there ... never mind.
>95.7% of statistics are meaningless.
Even worse, 105% of all statistics are wrong.
Having an embedded OS installed in your BMW gives a new meaning to the sentence "I have a FAST computer".
Anyone remeber ATARI's TV ad?
Introducing Alien vs. Predator for the 64 bit ATARI Jaguar
*silence, lil' boy playing in dark room, scary ambiente*
You might not wanna play it alone!
Maybe some ATARI fan around here still has a digitized version of it?