Only port forward what ports you absolutely need and keep your servers out in the DMZ. IPcop will easily allow you to seperate your network into zones with multiple nics and will likely only take a 486 or Pentium class machine to keep up with your bandwith. Hey, you asked for cheap. Doesn't get much cheaper than that.
You can also keep detailed logs and it also features a good SNORT setup for NIDS. It sets up convieniently with a web browser.
There is also Smoothwall. Both are really Linux based software firewalls. The difference is that IPCop is totally free and supports a wide variety of features that you would likely have to pay for in Smoothwall. Updating NIDS signatures automatically comes to mind.
I would personally avoid Windows software firewalls like the plague, as they run at escalated priveledges and can potentially put your system at even more risk as they add to the number of possible vulnerabilities, but that is just me.
If you can't afford a PIX or something in hardware, FreeBSD and Linux software firewalls are always the best way to go IMHO.
How true. Has it really been 10 years? Man. Time flies indeed!
The sad thing is that Alanis was a whole lot better than the garbage people are listening to today. I tune into an alternative station and the rock that is coming out these days is so bad it makes me want to cry. Since most things on the rock side of music have been done to death by the late 70s and early 80s (even punk was dead by then) I can appreciate the lack of new frontiers to pursue, but this crap that is coming out now all just sounds like a wannabe Linkin Park (I hate them too) or Radiohead or whatever else is the flavour of the weak. I won't even get into all the NIN and Marilyn Mason wannabes out there.
Even hip hop isn't all that great anymore. Top put it in the words of the GZA, its all just R&B, Rap and Bullshit. I guess I've always just preferred the old skool.
I do like some of the new electronica that is coming out (Boards of Canada, Squarepusher, Autechre, etc), but I really wish that someone would push electronic envelope a bit more. Jazz with breakbeats? Funk with jungle beats. I wish more people would think outside of the 4/4 box.
Anyways, I'll quit rambling and bitching and go back to listening to some Meat Beat Manifesto. Jack Dangers always has a way of putting a smile on my face. I could listen to 99% and a few others a million more times.:)
With so many ways of playing half-life multiplayer, you will likely have a blast. Add in some of the GREAT free mods out there (I recommend Azure Sheep, great muplitplayer maps, and the counterpart where you play as the aliens). Also Opposing Forces is really great as a teamplay mod.
Forget about steam and activation and all that crap and get a copy of the original 3-in-1 pack and set up a LAN game. You don't even need to set up a dedicated server or something, just have whoever picks the server option be on the fastest machine, and if you got one with a cracked serial, make sure that it doesn't dial home and disable itself. Oh, be sure to set the option for the low ping time physics.
Yeah, it's like that alanis moronissette song where everything she sings about has nothing to do with irony at all. Amazing what people listen to these days.
You forget who you are replying to. Clearly condoms would be first one my mind, but for this guy, he's just worried about the damned chocolate and beer. Clearly a case of mixed up priorities.
I checked that out and man, his prices are really cheap. Personally I think he might be better off offering larger disk drives, but I guess with what he is working with on the cost side of things, it would just be a more expensive product. 80 gigs at home would get filled up awfully quick around my house, but I guess I'm not the typical user. For instance, in a one month period of time I had logged over 70 gigabytes of downloads. You should see my MP3 box....talk about something in desperate need of a backup solution. At least the older WD-120gig is still kicking it and a whole lot more quietly than this ancient 40gig on my desktop. Heh, as long as I keep the platter spinning 24/7 I figure I'll at least maximize the stepper motor's life.;)
As much as I hate what video game reporting and especially gamespot has become, I still find myself going there on a regular basis for the simple fact that even though their garbage site takes 5 minutes to load over a 1.5 DSL link, the reviews there are highly informative and generally fairly harsh as you say. I've yet to play a game that they scored highly that was not at least enjoyable or well designed. It is really hard to review games for PCs when they first come out as well, because often, many games these days ship with a lot of bugs in the hopes that the bugs can be fixed after people have bought the games.
I wish Gamespot still did import reviews as frequently as they used to. It was always a great way to get a review of a product before it even made it to our shores.
I used to read EGM quite a bit years ago, but all of that information is so condensed and the reviews are so short that you cannot do a 30+ hour game justice in 50 words or less. EGM has always been fairly fair in their scoring IMHO.
Also, sometimes (sheesh, I admit it) I watch the Tommy and Victor show on G4, because I completely love how they trash some of the games out there and Tommy is about as harsh as it gets. I know the shows format totally sucks and the pacing is really terrible amongst many other bad things, but really Tommy Tallarico is just pure entertainment and Victor Lucas isn't all that bad.
Gamerankings is pretty good as well and will give you a fairly good overview of how a game does over a series of reviews. Personally, I always start with Gamefaqs and look at user reviews and then look at Gamerankings which conviently is linked to from Gamefaqs.
Hate Gamespot and Ziff-Davis all you want, but I think that with the combination of EGM, Gamespot, Gamefaqs, and Gamerankings, they have the market fairly cornered. I guess 1up, ign, gamespy, and a few other sites do fairly well but for the most part a great deal of the news is replicated across all the sites. What someone really needs to do is create a slashdot style gaming site that posted all the interesting news for the day in one spot, with user comments of course.:)
I don't think such a thing really exists as of yet.
Yeah, damned near impregnable until the air force flies in with cruise missiles. You would have to build it DEEP underground and they have some nifty tactical nukes that will quickly eliminate that problem. You simply cannot build a fortress anymore. A highly mobile, covert force would be much more effective. Just ask the Vietnamese.
I do agree with the multiple NIDS though, especially if the NIDS software is not the same on both ends. Its always at least a good failsafe to let you know that your firewall is operating effectively.
The courts have already decided this. More than once. The Betamax decision should have already decided this over 20 years ago. The FCC does not have the jurisdiction in the eyes of the federal court. Tough luck. Now, get over it!
Seriously, why should American's rights be trampled upon because the MPAA and the networks are all crying?
Can we fire all of congress and start anew somehow? Perhaps these 80+ year old senators need some goddamned term limits. I remember watching an interview with one of the oldest Senators (forget which one) from the 80s and when asked if he knew how much a trillion dollars even was, he didn't know. He said something to the extent that it seemed like an awful lot of money, but he had no idea how much.
Secondly, we need to close this stupid awful back door policy. We need to stop adding sections to bills that are wholly unrelated, especially since lawmakers have so candidly told us that they don't even have time to actually read what they are voting for, but at the same time, they can waste days and days of congress sessions for filibusters on Supreme Court nominees.
Well, I guess nobody would ever say that big government is efficient.
That's all I gotta say for now, but I could definately ramble on about the feds for days and weeks and still never exhaust my discontent with the state of the union.
Becuase you all know how well The USA treated its own citizens of Japenses decent during the war. And fire bombing/nuclear bombing of Japan and carpet bombing of germany is ok. Yah i gotta say i feel guilty for some of the things my country (USA) did during that war, I think there aren't many countires involved that can think they upheld all of their values by the end of the war. This is not a reason to dislike one country but is a reason to dislike war.
Why feel guilty? Feel proud man! War is brutal and demoralizing. World War II was no doubt one of the worst (WWI actually takes that honor IMHO), and every country that participated did terrible things to their enemies. The gloves were off, it was us or them. If it wasn't for the United States, we would all be speaking german right now, or worse perhaps, maybe Russian. We needed the nuclear bomb then probably more than we need it now. Without anyone to counter Russia it would have sliced Europe into pieces and the EU would have been the CU, that is, Communist Union. By launching a second (though debatably unnecessary) bomb, we were showing the USSR that we had the means to potentially take out a few of their cities as well in one fell swoop. Do you honestly think that the occupation of east germany would have stopped just there without our atomic weapons of mass destruction? The USSR was poised to keep on fighting and I honestly don't know if we would have had the resources and manpower to take on the red army at the end of WWII. Technologically we could have had an upper hand, but WWII was still fought more or less man to man and we were greatly outnumbered.
In any case, WWII was brutal, dehumanizing, and an awful display of what happens when humans become disposable for a potentially greater good. I can only hope (and I'm not optimistic given the current climate) that it will be the last great war. The last world war, but unfortunately, history tends to repeat itself.
Those who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat the mistakes that those have made in the past.
It would likely be a version where you could raise your stats or do all the other menial things you do in a MMORPG. I dunno, like farm or something, then you could go home and waste all of your time playing the real game with improved standings. A PSP only online world would be kind of interesting though. Something like second life streamed to the PSP would be kind of neat.
Maybe make a DS port? That would make a whole lot more sense.
This is truly quite sad. Oh how the mighty have fallen indeed. A folk HERO singing a benefit for Amazon. I hope they at least sold a lot of his goddamned albums.
Dylan was really at his best in his early years. After his tragic motorcycle accident all of his albums steadily declined in quality. He was easily the most influential singer/songwriter of the 60s.
I almost died when I saw him do those horrible Klein commercials. Or was it the GAP?
I call BS. Most geeks wouldn't use alexa so it wouldn't likely rank very high. Personally I find it very sad that slashdot gets the traffic that it does on alexa. Must be a lot of slashdotters out there with this crap installed.
While the quality of slashdot is at best arguable, clearly they are still making money and going strong otherwise they still wouldn't be around.
Page ranking is a better indicator IMHO. Slashdot has a PR9 while Kuro5hin is PR7 IIRC.
Personally I found this interesting and can think of at least 1 million uses for a flexible lcd, grayscale or not. Clearly you are too simpleminded to think of how revolutionary such an invention can and probably will be.
This isn't a slashvertisment (though there likely have been a few, who the hell cares?) There isn't even a fucking working product yet. Get a fucking hold of yourself and take a break from slashdot and if you hate it that much, well then, don't come back and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
A bunch of other people too. 28 bits is real common in audio as well now. RiscOS based computers (ARM,StrongARM) used to be 26 bits as well. I know it sounds wierd to use a wordsize that is not a multiple of 8, but it is a lot more common than you may think.
I'm not an expert on strange 34-bit hardware, but I don't find it all that unusual to hear about such things.
Sorry, I read your question and suddenly started thinking about reviews. A book about computer software is an educational tool. Also covered under fair use.
You can't teach someone something without showing it to them right? Make your screenshots black and white too (it'll be cheaper anyways), unless of course you are writing a book about the gimp, but I digress. You should be ok to write a book with screenshots, free speech is a wonderful thing.
You are representing a product in a review correct?
For reporting purposes you can show a lot of things. The worst you will likely get is a cease and desist letter, but from OSS, I would highly doubt it.
Fair use covers reporting if I remember correctly. A screenshot is not even in any way related to the actual product other than as a representation, much less than say a picture of a painting or a snippet of an MP3.
Seriously, just post screenshots. If you get a cease and desist, just take them down. Microsoft and a few other companies have used this tactic (witness the longhorn screenshot debacle), but nobody was sued.
All I gotta say is that I listened to three songs and they all sucked. These guys need to learn how to properly mix out their volume levels in a real bad way. Everything sounded real muddled and parts that should have been in the foreground were almost blending into the backbeat. Not good. The guitar synth sounded weak too. It really just sounds like they just took the NSF files and made MIDIs out of them and plugged in sounds that sounded good to them.
For what it is worth, I tried the same thing and what is funny is that the only synth sounds that made them sound good were synth sounds that sounded more like the NES. It was hard to even get the drums to sound good but different from the NES version, given how the defined the drums in the first place. The toms would make weird rises in parts. Anyways, kind of cool, but they could have done much, much better.
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Sorry about that
It's free.
Only port forward what ports you absolutely need and keep your servers out in the DMZ. IPcop will easily allow you to seperate your network into zones with multiple nics and will likely only take a 486 or Pentium class machine to keep up with your bandwith. Hey, you asked for cheap. Doesn't get much cheaper than that.
You can also keep detailed logs and it also features a good SNORT setup for NIDS. It sets up convieniently with a web browser.
There is also Smoothwall. Both are really Linux based software firewalls. The difference is that IPCop is totally free and supports a wide variety of features that you would likely have to pay for in Smoothwall. Updating NIDS signatures automatically comes to mind.
I would personally avoid Windows software firewalls like the plague, as they run at escalated priveledges and can potentially put your system at even more risk as they add to the number of possible vulnerabilities, but that is just me.
If you can't afford a PIX or something in hardware, FreeBSD and Linux software firewalls are always the best way to go IMHO.
Happy hacking!
How true. Has it really been 10 years? Man. Time flies indeed!
:)
The sad thing is that Alanis was a whole lot better than the garbage people are listening to today. I tune into an alternative station and the rock that is coming out these days is so bad it makes me want to cry. Since most things on the rock side of music have been done to death by the late 70s and early 80s (even punk was dead by then) I can appreciate the lack of new frontiers to pursue, but this crap that is coming out now all just sounds like a wannabe Linkin Park (I hate them too) or Radiohead or whatever else is the flavour of the weak. I won't even get into all the NIN and Marilyn Mason wannabes out there.
Even hip hop isn't all that great anymore. Top put it in the words of the GZA, its all just R&B, Rap and Bullshit. I guess I've always just preferred the old skool.
I do like some of the new electronica that is coming out (Boards of Canada, Squarepusher, Autechre, etc), but I really wish that someone would push electronic envelope a bit more. Jazz with breakbeats? Funk with jungle beats. I wish more people would think outside of the 4/4 box.
Anyways, I'll quit rambling and bitching and go back to listening to some Meat Beat Manifesto. Jack Dangers always has a way of putting a smile on my face. I could listen to 99% and a few others a million more times.
With so many ways of playing half-life multiplayer, you will likely have a blast. Add in some of the GREAT free mods out there (I recommend Azure Sheep, great muplitplayer maps, and the counterpart where you play as the aliens). Also Opposing Forces is really great as a teamplay mod. Forget about steam and activation and all that crap and get a copy of the original 3-in-1 pack and set up a LAN game. You don't even need to set up a dedicated server or something, just have whoever picks the server option be on the fastest machine, and if you got one with a cracked serial, make sure that it doesn't dial home and disable itself. Oh, be sure to set the option for the low ping time physics.
Yeah, it's like that alanis moronissette song where everything she sings about has nothing to do with irony at all. Amazing what people listen to these days.
You forget who you are replying to. Clearly condoms would be first one my mind, but for this guy, he's just worried about the damned chocolate and beer. Clearly a case of mixed up priorities.
How interesting can a non-existing story about a non-existing operating system on a non-existing platform be?
I hear daydreaming is a lot more exciting (and relieving).
Slashdot
Rumors for nerds. Stuff that doesn't exist (yet).
I checked that out and man, his prices are really cheap. Personally I think he might be better off offering larger disk drives, but I guess with what he is working with on the cost side of things, it would just be a more expensive product. 80 gigs at home would get filled up awfully quick around my house, but I guess I'm not the typical user. For instance, in a one month period of time I had logged over 70 gigabytes of downloads. You should see my MP3 box....talk about something in desperate need of a backup solution. At least the older WD-120gig is still kicking it and a whole lot more quietly than this ancient 40gig on my desktop. Heh, as long as I keep the platter spinning 24/7 I figure I'll at least maximize the stepper motor's life. ;)
Time for a terabyte RAID array in my near future.
As much as I hate what video game reporting and especially gamespot has become, I still find myself going there on a regular basis for the simple fact that even though their garbage site takes 5 minutes to load over a 1.5 DSL link, the reviews there are highly informative and generally fairly harsh as you say. I've yet to play a game that they scored highly that was not at least enjoyable or well designed. It is really hard to review games for PCs when they first come out as well, because often, many games these days ship with a lot of bugs in the hopes that the bugs can be fixed after people have bought the games.
:)
I wish Gamespot still did import reviews as frequently as they used to. It was always a great way to get a review of a product before it even made it to our shores.
I used to read EGM quite a bit years ago, but all of that information is so condensed and the reviews are so short that you cannot do a 30+ hour game justice in 50 words or less. EGM has always been fairly fair in their scoring IMHO.
Also, sometimes (sheesh, I admit it) I watch the Tommy and Victor show on G4, because I completely love how they trash some of the games out there and Tommy is about as harsh as it gets. I know the shows format totally sucks and the pacing is really terrible amongst many other bad things, but really Tommy Tallarico is just pure entertainment and Victor Lucas isn't all that bad.
Gamerankings is pretty good as well and will give you a fairly good overview of how a game does over a series of reviews. Personally, I always start with Gamefaqs and look at user reviews and then look at Gamerankings which conviently is linked to from Gamefaqs.
Hate Gamespot and Ziff-Davis all you want, but I think that with the combination of EGM, Gamespot, Gamefaqs, and Gamerankings, they have the market fairly cornered. I guess 1up, ign, gamespy, and a few other sites do fairly well but for the most part a great deal of the news is replicated across all the sites. What someone really needs to do is create a slashdot style gaming site that posted all the interesting news for the day in one spot, with user comments of course.
I don't think such a thing really exists as of yet.
Anyways, I'll quit rambling.
You must be new here.
Dude, you are totally rad!
Yeah, damned near impregnable until the air force flies in with cruise missiles. You would have to build it DEEP underground and they have some nifty tactical nukes that will quickly eliminate that problem. You simply cannot build a fortress anymore. A highly mobile, covert force would be much more effective. Just ask the Vietnamese.
I do agree with the multiple NIDS though, especially if the NIDS software is not the same on both ends. Its always at least a good failsafe to let you know that your firewall is operating effectively.
The courts have already decided this. More than once. The Betamax decision should have already decided this over 20 years ago. The FCC does not have the jurisdiction in the eyes of the federal court. Tough luck. Now, get over it!
Seriously, why should American's rights be trampled upon because the MPAA and the networks are all crying?
Can we fire all of congress and start anew somehow? Perhaps these 80+ year old senators need some goddamned term limits. I remember watching an interview with one of the oldest Senators (forget which one) from the 80s and when asked if he knew how much a trillion dollars even was, he didn't know. He said something to the extent that it seemed like an awful lot of money, but he had no idea how much.
Secondly, we need to close this stupid awful back door policy. We need to stop adding sections to bills that are wholly unrelated, especially since lawmakers have so candidly told us that they don't even have time to actually read what they are voting for, but at the same time, they can waste days and days of congress sessions for filibusters on Supreme Court nominees.
Well, I guess nobody would ever say that big government is efficient.
That's all I gotta say for now, but I could definately ramble on about the feds for days and weeks and still never exhaust my discontent with the state of the union.
My girl is just impressed with my mounting skills.
It's her favorite part.
Becuase you all know how well The USA treated its own citizens of Japenses decent during the war. And fire bombing/nuclear bombing of Japan and carpet bombing of germany is ok. Yah i gotta say i feel guilty for some of the things my country (USA) did during that war, I think there aren't many countires involved that can think they upheld all of their values by the end of the war. This is not a reason to dislike one country but is a reason to dislike war.
Why feel guilty? Feel proud man! War is brutal and demoralizing. World War II was no doubt one of the worst (WWI actually takes that honor IMHO), and every country that participated did terrible things to their enemies. The gloves were off, it was us or them. If it wasn't for the United States, we would all be speaking german right now, or worse perhaps, maybe Russian. We needed the nuclear bomb then probably more than we need it now. Without anyone to counter Russia it would have sliced Europe into pieces and the EU would have been the CU, that is, Communist Union. By launching a second (though debatably unnecessary) bomb, we were showing the USSR that we had the means to potentially take out a few of their cities as well in one fell swoop. Do you honestly think that the occupation of east germany would have stopped just there without our atomic weapons of mass destruction? The USSR was poised to keep on fighting and I honestly don't know if we would have had the resources and manpower to take on the red army at the end of WWII. Technologically we could have had an upper hand, but WWII was still fought more or less man to man and we were greatly outnumbered.
In any case, WWII was brutal, dehumanizing, and an awful display of what happens when humans become disposable for a potentially greater good. I can only hope (and I'm not optimistic given the current climate) that it will be the last great war. The last world war, but unfortunately, history tends to repeat itself.
Those who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat the mistakes that those have made in the past.
It would likely be a version where you could raise your stats or do all the other menial things you do in a MMORPG. I dunno, like farm or something, then you could go home and waste all of your time playing the real game with improved standings. A PSP only online world would be kind of interesting though. Something like second life streamed to the PSP would be kind of neat.
Maybe make a DS port? That would make a whole lot more sense.
Why did I click on that? Please explain it to me.
My brain hurts.
This is truly quite sad. Oh how the mighty have fallen indeed. A folk HERO singing a benefit for Amazon. I hope they at least sold a lot of his goddamned albums.
Dylan was really at his best in his early years. After his tragic motorcycle accident all of his albums steadily declined in quality. He was easily the most influential singer/songwriter of the 60s.
I almost died when I saw him do those horrible Klein commercials. Or was it the GAP?
Bob Dylan. Sellout.
That's all I gotta say.
I call BS. Most geeks wouldn't use alexa so it wouldn't likely rank very high. Personally I find it very sad that slashdot gets the traffic that it does on alexa. Must be a lot of slashdotters out there with this crap installed.
While the quality of slashdot is at best arguable, clearly they are still making money and going strong otherwise they still wouldn't be around.
Page ranking is a better indicator IMHO. Slashdot has a PR9 while Kuro5hin is PR7 IIRC.
Personally I found this interesting and can think of at least 1 million uses for a flexible lcd, grayscale or not. Clearly you are too simpleminded to think of how revolutionary such an invention can and probably will be.
This isn't a slashvertisment (though there likely have been a few, who the hell cares?) There isn't even a fucking working product yet. Get a fucking hold of yourself and take a break from slashdot and if you hate it that much, well then, don't come back and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Ye gods, am I feeding the troll?
I mean these idiots designed a 28 bit wide input card. Who in the hell uses a 28 bit buss?
These guys do.
A bunch of other people too. 28 bits is real common in audio as well now. RiscOS based computers (ARM,StrongARM) used to be 26 bits as well. I know it sounds wierd to use a wordsize that is not a multiple of 8, but it is a lot more common than you may think.
I'm not an expert on strange 34-bit hardware, but I don't find it all that unusual to hear about such things.
Sorry, I read your question and suddenly started thinking about reviews. A book about computer software is an educational tool. Also covered under fair use.
You can't teach someone something without showing it to them right? Make your screenshots black and white too (it'll be cheaper anyways), unless of course you are writing a book about the gimp, but I digress. You should be ok to write a book with screenshots, free speech is a wonderful thing.
You are representing a product in a review correct?
For reporting purposes you can show a lot of things. The worst you will likely get is a cease and desist letter, but from OSS, I would highly doubt it.
Fair use covers reporting if I remember correctly. A screenshot is not even in any way related to the actual product other than as a representation, much less than say a picture of a painting or a snippet of an MP3.
Seriously, just post screenshots. If you get a cease and desist, just take them down. Microsoft and a few other companies have used this tactic (witness the longhorn screenshot debacle), but nobody was sued.
hotmenfuckingducks.com doesn't exist.
Next time give a GOOD porn site for us to go to!
All I gotta say is that I listened to three songs and they all sucked. These guys need to learn how to properly mix out their volume levels in a real bad way. Everything sounded real muddled and parts that should have been in the foreground were almost blending into the backbeat. Not good. The guitar synth sounded weak too. It really just sounds like they just took the NSF files and made MIDIs out of them and plugged in sounds that sounded good to them.
For what it is worth, I tried the same thing and what is funny is that the only synth sounds that made them sound good were synth sounds that sounded more like the NES. It was hard to even get the drums to sound good but different from the NES version, given how the defined the drums in the first place. The toms would make weird rises in parts. Anyways, kind of cool, but they could have done much, much better.
You mispelled Gort.
Go Google it. I just did.