Dude! I'll second your emotion. As someone who grew up reading MAD Magazine, I feel like weeping whenever I pick up one of the current issues.
I think advertizing is a by-product of their incorporation into the AOL/Time Warner conglomerate years ago. But ads I can stand. The problem is, there is very little funny material in the magazine. Plus, almost all of the "Usual Gang of Idiots" seem to be gone (who remains? Sergio Aragones?) so nostalgia is not going to make me buy it.
But then again, I'm not in the target group for MAD Magazine, and maybe kids today find "Monroe" funny. And that's fine by me, provided they keep off my lawn...
Very good points, to which I'll add what I probably shouldn't:
Make sure you know what you are doing. If this is your first e-mail setup, don't throw yourself into the water before testing several possible scenarios.
Service doesn't come up? Service is up but doesn't answer to SMTP requests? SMTP is up, but email is being rejected? Emails are received but never get to the appropiate mailbox?
etc, etc.
Make sure you know how to trace an email using your server logs. Make sure you know how to emulate an SMTP session by hand (telnet to smtp port)
Like Jhon said, practice backup and restore. This can't be stressed enough. Every so often, try a restore from scratch (bare metal restore) to an unused machine. Make sure you keep spares handy.
Make arrangements with somebody to keep a mail fallback server (your ISP might offer this service) just in case your network goes down.
If you don't have the bandwidth, think twice about hosting your own email. Spam attacks, joe jobs, virus outbreaks can clog your pipes.
Simple answers are the best. But if you don't have the know-how or won't hire somebody with the know-how, the simplest answer is to keep outsourcing your email.
It will change Wikipedia, but for the better. As you may have seen on Wikipedia, there has been some vandalism, and this looks dumb and takes away from the greatness of Wikipedia
I agree absolutely. Adding a simple registration and verification system could go a long way. I just hope they don't add a "reputation" system like E2, where people will post crap in order to increase their number of articles.
(but I'll admit that Emperor Palpatine's picture in Pope Benedict XVI was funny).
YOU are not a good guy if you see evil and don't do anything about it. If you see someone breaking the law then that's something for the police, depending if you agree with that law you should call the cops. On the other hand, police can't be everywhere and not all evil is covered by law. There are evil things people can do without breaking the law. That's where the good guys come in.
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. "
--- Martin Luther King, Jr.
This was also true before MLK and is true today. Part of me knows that apathy is a terrible thing. And yet I don't care enough that it is...:-(
Like Terry Pratchett said, I think it was in Hogfather: "Why is that when people say 'Somebody should do something' they don't say 'and that somebody is me!!'" (quoted (badly) from memory).
$x for GPS stabilised NTP appliance. $y for some bonehead in IT to open the port up.
And don't forget to include installation costs in the breakdown. Depending on your building infrastructure, you might have to run wiring for an external gps antenna, plus related costs of mounting an outdoor equipment, which will probably be done by the maintenance people or subcontracted.
I know I'm not answering your question, but before commiting your dad's thousands of messages, remember that Gmail is still in beta. I still get messages like "can't access your mailbox. cross your fingers and try again later" or something to that effect.
Gmail is very convenient, but I'd keep a local copy or backup copy of the messages somewhere just to be safe.
What if at a silo, a crazy Air Force colonel decides to take his silo into lockdown, no communication in or out. He then conveys a presidential order to launch. Can he get away with it? And what about nukes that are on air force jets, how are they launched? Could the pilot decide to launch his nuke?
Then you''ll just have to send the recall code prefixed by a combination of the letters "POE". And if *that* fails, there's always the limestone mineshafts you can flee to in order to preserve the human race.
Great idea. That way you'll only be inconvenienced by a libel/slander lawsuit if the bank is so inclined. Even if it has no grounds, you'll still have to spend time/money until it's thrown out of the court.
Doh! You are right, of course. I'll plead guilty to ignorance. I'm so set in my ways that sometimes several versions go by before I find out a particular utility has gained new capabilities.
Whenever I want to find the open ports, I just do "netstat -na | grep LISTEN" or "lsof -i -n". It's almost automatic. So much that one of the first thing I install in windows machines are "unixutils". Can't live without good old grep, cat, ls and company.
Actually, it would be more along the lines of "lsof -i -n"
Just knowing the ports won't tell you which process is responsible for them.
I'm sure there's a Windows equivalent if you use that
Sysinternals has some very nifty freewares that give this info and more.
Still, I'd rather keep the firewall. I like granularity. What if I want to limit access to certain source ips? Limiting them on application level might still leave open to buffer overrun kind of vulnerabilites.
Intelligent user organization scheme - Because OS X has real, actual unix permissions (unlike windows), it is by default very secure on a multiuser system, with excellent user home folder organization.
Actually, NTFS permissions are quite versatile, maybe more so than unix permissions (check the Advanced or special permissions). Of course most of the time they are rendered moot since usually every user runs with administrator privileges.
This got me thinking... and what exactly is the prognosis for Open Source implants? Who wants to go first on the test bed? This ain't no operating system... testing could result in deaths and a lot of pain.
There are too sides to that.
On one hand, it's a lot more complicated than pain and death. There are probably a lot of people who would volunteer for it. Some would do it because they believe they are contributing for a greater good. Some would because they get a kick out of risks and pain. And who knows what else.
But the main problem would be regulation. In any first world country I can think of (and probably most third world countries), local health authorities are going to want to regulate it, and rightly so. Just look at all the hoops that pharmaceutical companies have to jump thru just to get a new drug tested on human subjects. And didn't just recently the FDA denied permission to implant a patient with a bionic heart? This is goint to be tested to hell and back before someone gives permission for this.
On the other hand, open source does not necesarily mean a lone coder in his basement/garage, tho sometimes that is the image that is sold by many. A consortium or a corporation with enough resources to comply with regulation could very well embrace the OS movement and develop OS implants. I don't know how likely this is since this would probably mean slower return of investment.
Slashdot Mirror
This topic has been discussed a good dozen times already on slashdot
And will be discussed a dozen times over and over again because slashdot editors insist in publishing every single download milestone firefox reaches.
Dude! I'll second your emotion. As someone who grew up reading MAD Magazine, I feel like weeping whenever I pick up one of the current issues.
I think advertizing is a by-product of their incorporation into the AOL/Time Warner conglomerate years ago. But ads I can stand. The problem is, there is very little funny material in the magazine. Plus, almost all of the "Usual Gang of Idiots" seem to be gone (who remains? Sergio Aragones?) so nostalgia is not going to make me buy it.
But then again, I'm not in the target group for MAD Magazine, and maybe kids today find "Monroe" funny. And that's fine by me, provided they keep off my lawn...
The new chair moved everyone to GNU\Linux (Debian) because he hates everythin M$ stands for.
... And everybody knows that personal feelings are the best justification for business decisions.
Very good points, to which I'll add what I probably shouldn't:
Make sure you know what you are doing. If this is your first e-mail setup, don't throw yourself into the water before testing several possible scenarios.
Service doesn't come up?
Service is up but doesn't answer to SMTP requests?
SMTP is up, but email is being rejected?
Emails are received but never get to the appropiate mailbox?
etc, etc.
Make sure you know how to trace an email using your server logs. Make sure you know how to emulate an SMTP session by hand (telnet to smtp port)
Like Jhon said, practice backup and restore. This can't be stressed enough. Every so often, try a restore from scratch (bare metal restore) to an unused machine. Make sure you keep spares handy.
Make arrangements with somebody to keep a mail fallback server (your ISP might offer this service) just in case your network goes down.
If you don't have the bandwidth, think twice about hosting your own email. Spam attacks, joe jobs, virus outbreaks can clog your pipes.
Simple answers are the best. But if you don't have the know-how or won't hire somebody with the know-how, the simplest answer is to keep outsourcing your email.
You can at least take consolation in the fact that if you were a handlinger, you'd be a member of the nobility caste.
It will change Wikipedia, but for the better. As you may have seen on Wikipedia, there has been some vandalism, and this looks dumb and takes away from the greatness of Wikipedia
I agree absolutely. Adding a simple registration and verification system could go a long way. I just hope they don't add a "reputation" system like E2, where people will post crap in order to increase their number of articles.
(but I'll admit that Emperor Palpatine's picture in Pope Benedict XVI was funny).
YOU are not a good guy if you see evil and don't do anything about it. If you see someone breaking the law then that's something for the police, depending if you agree with that law you should call the cops. On the other hand, police can't be everywhere and not all evil is covered by law. There are evil things people can do without breaking the law. That's where the good guys come in.
:-(
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. "
--- Martin Luther King, Jr.
This was also true before MLK and is true today. Part of me knows that apathy is a terrible thing. And yet I don't care enough that it is...
Like Terry Pratchett said, I think it was in Hogfather: "Why is that when people say 'Somebody should do something' they don't say 'and that somebody is me!!'" (quoted (badly) from memory).
Give them a breakdown of costs like so:
$x for GPS stabilised NTP appliance.
$y for some bonehead in IT to open the port up.
And don't forget to include installation costs in the breakdown. Depending on your building infrastructure, you might have to run wiring for an external gps antenna, plus related costs of mounting an outdoor equipment, which will probably be done by the maintenance people or subcontracted.
I know I'm not answering your question, but before commiting your dad's thousands of messages, remember that Gmail is still in beta. I still get messages like "can't access your mailbox. cross your fingers and try again later" or something to that effect.
Gmail is very convenient, but I'd keep a local copy or backup copy of the messages somewhere just to be safe.
"Do you really want to do this?"
yes
"Carefully saving this file..."
I even worked with two Mac guys with beards
No, no... those are called "goatees".
What if at a silo, a crazy Air Force colonel decides to take his silo into lockdown, no communication in or out. He then conveys a presidential order to launch. Can he get away with it? And what about nukes that are on air force jets, how are they launched? Could the pilot decide to launch his nuke?
Then you''ll just have to send the recall code prefixed by a combination of the letters "POE". And if *that* fails, there's always the limestone mineshafts you can flee to in order to preserve the human race.
Too bad I don't have mod points or you'd be at least +1 Funny.
therefore probably causing a few trucks to be late. maybe $10,000 in economic damage. Should I be jailed?
Yes, you should.
That's nothing. In basketball, the last 15 seconds include about 3 timeouts.
And stop dribbling and take the goddamm free throw shot already! Or at least keep the clock running.
Great idea. That way you'll only be inconvenienced by a libel/slander lawsuit if the bank is so inclined. Even if it has no grounds, you'll still have to spend time/money until it's thrown out of the court.
I mean a meat alternative with the same nutritional and taste value that can be produced for the same cost.
Screw cost and nutritional value! If those soy/tofu things are not as tasty as a steak, I'm not changing!
Soy milk *is* pretty tasty. That's the only milk I drink now.
Doh! You are right, of course. I'll plead guilty to ignorance. I'm so set in my ways that sometimes several versions go by before I find out a particular utility has gained new capabilities.
Whenever I want to find the open ports, I just do "netstat -na | grep LISTEN" or "lsof -i -n". It's almost automatic. So much that one of the first thing I install in windows machines are "unixutils". Can't live without good old grep, cat, ls and company.
netstat -lp --inet --numeric-ports
Actually, it would be more along the lines of "lsof -i -n"
Just knowing the ports won't tell you which process is responsible for them.
I'm sure there's a Windows equivalent if you use that
Sysinternals has some very nifty freewares that give this info and more.
Still, I'd rather keep the firewall. I like granularity. What if I want to limit access to certain source ips? Limiting them on application level might still leave open to buffer overrun kind of vulnerabilites.
I only wish I could protect my less-technically-inclined family members and friends more effectively, as I don't charge them for removal. :P
:-)
Send them my way. I'll charge them.
Intelligent user organization scheme - Because OS X has real, actual unix permissions (unlike windows), it is by default very secure on a multiuser system, with excellent user home folder organization.
Actually, NTFS permissions are quite versatile, maybe more so than unix permissions (check the Advanced or special permissions). Of course most of the time they are rendered moot since usually every user runs with administrator privileges.
There are too sides to that.
DOH! I meant "two sides".
And I did use the preview button. *grumble*
This got me thinking... and what exactly is the prognosis for Open Source implants? Who wants to go first on the test bed? This ain't no operating system... testing could result in deaths and a lot of pain.
There are too sides to that.
On one hand, it's a lot more complicated than pain and death. There are probably a lot of people who would volunteer for it. Some would do it because they believe they are contributing for a greater good. Some would because they get a kick out of risks and pain. And who knows what else.
But the main problem would be regulation. In any first world country I can think of (and probably most third world countries), local health authorities are going to want to regulate it, and rightly so. Just look at all the hoops that pharmaceutical companies have to jump thru just to get a new drug tested on human subjects. And didn't just recently the FDA denied permission to implant a patient with a bionic heart? This is goint to be tested to hell and back before someone gives permission for this.
On the other hand, open source does not necesarily mean a lone coder in his basement/garage, tho sometimes that is the image that is sold by many. A consortium or a corporation with enough resources to comply with regulation could very well embrace the OS movement and develop OS implants. I don't know how likely this is since this would probably mean slower return of investment.
c# minor is an amazing piece of music
GO MICROSOFT!
What's the best way to find out if my laptop is nuking the family jewels?
Breed. If your kids come out with extra limbs, scales-for-skin or superpowers, then it is.