. Several lists auto-blocked us because our reverse DNS said dsl in it.
The right answer is to get your rDNS set up correctly. A huge chunk of spam comes from dynamic IP ranges so blocking dynamic looking rDNS is becoming more and more common. If you're serious about running a mail server, do it right and get the rDNS set up to be something tied to your domain.
Im concerned about freedom. Im concerned about privacy. People in general, and the goverment in particular, have no business interfereing in other peoples private lives. What members of the Taliban do amongst themselves in their churches or bedrooms is no concern of mine, except for when they want to impose their belifes on others.
If one chooses to partake of porn in one's own home etc. with the porn payed for out of one's on pocket that's one thing, however requiring another to provide, and pay for porn is a separate issue.
I've seen no evidence that is the motivation. I have seen lots of evidence that the American Taliban wants to have their religious police in everyones living rooom, bedroom, and hospital room to guarentee that their beliefs are forced on to everyone.
The thought of running my PBX on Windows... scares me. Really, really scares me.
Amen to that. When I looked at the Cisco Call Manager a couple years back, that was the one thing that I really did'nt like. Im not sure the Cisco folks got the idea that "It runs on Windows!", and "It integrates great with Exchange!" are not always a selling point
Nope. Apple has stated they want to make "drag-n-drop" type copying difficult for joe blows if not impossible for the nerds. There's a reason the whole thing is shunted under a hidden directory.
FWIW, while there is certainly noise like that, I think a fair bit of it is fluff to placate the RIAA clowns. The approach with taking humongus long random file names and flatening them with short names split across directories has been around for a long time. From what I've seen it does generally improve performance. My bet is they did it for technical reasons and then someone (Steve?) said "Hey! We can tell the RIAA its encrypted."
Not really. From the article, Sony actually re-writes the MP3 files with a bunch of header crap and strips out some of the ID frames inside the body of the MP3. What Apple has done is a file naming scheme (probably for file system performance) with an index file. The actual MP3 files are untouched.
The problem with IPCop and Smoothwall for that matter, is the inability to filter traffic outbound.
But one of the neat things about IPcop is that it's one of them open source things. So while youre quite correct that the pretty GUI doesnt have an interface for egress filtering, you *can* hop into the shell and add in the iptables commands of your choice.
Now if I can only find what neighbour's net I've been using.
A directional antenna is handy thing to have to narrow down where a network is. Not to mention a WiFi equiped PDA is much less obvious than wandering around with a laptop.
Actually I've had CISCO support reps in the Phillipines stay on the phone with me ALL NIGHT fixing our firewall problems. And these guys REALLY knew what they were doing.
Yeah. I've found that Cisco's support is about the only one that is worth a damn any more. Smartnet is not cheap, but it seems worth it to me.
Its actually boot.iso. We mirror the distribution and update trees to an internal webserver and then do the install over the LAN. Actually much faster to do it over the wire than shuffle CDs.
The grandparent is certainly correct about not having to reinstall everything. Who the hell are these so called experts?. Unplug the damn network cable, run some removal tool, lather, rince, repeat.
OK, 'splain to me why you have the slightest reason to believe that whatever worm was running around did not install a few unusual back doors that "some removal tool" wont find? These are systems that have access to all kinds of personal information probably including social security numbers, not the desktop you play Doom on. Scrubing them and installing from known good media is the only way to be sure that something isnt missed.
you added a couple extra harddrives... without rebooting?
Sure, DEC designed these with uptime in mind. The drives were probably on a HSC storage controller, a separate box with serial interfaces to the drives (think a SAN). If you had the ports in the HSC you could add drives and the cluster wouldnt miss a beat.
Interesting links. What I think is fascinating is the percentages for IIS seem to be highest in.gov (37.86%) and.mil (66.13% !!). At least from march to april, the IIS percentages for those domains *grew*.
Sure. But in the case of the commercial software support I get to deal with, the people that answer the phone call are almost always clueless drones. OTOH, when I've posted questions about open source software, a good chunk of the time the answer comes from the person that wrote it.
Would you want to live in a city where the city owned the cable system and all you got was two dozen channels?
I work in a city that has a municipal power as well as a cable tv/internet system. On the cable front Time Warner is also in the area. The locals tell me the service on the city cable is better than road runner and cheaper to boot.
there isn't a real migration path from RedHat to RedHat Enterprise
Yeah, I could'nt believe that when I saw it in their migration FAQ. Its great that they want to dramatically increase my costs, *and* make it a PITA to boot. Clever marketing move.
The way I read:
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/purchase/index.html
That $179 is for one year of updates, not three. So youre looking at 179*3=$537 vs 3*60=$180.
wonder if Fedora Linux will be supported via Red Hat Network or if we're fucked now into paying hundreds of dollars per CPU for RH Enterprise Linux. Lovely, just lovely.
Nope, no up2date support for Fedora. I've purchased every boxed set since 5.2 and paid for several machines on RHN since it came out, but the jump to the Enterprise $$s is too big, too fast. Instead of my couple hundred dollars/year, Red Hat is going to get nothing.
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Umh. VMware is (now) from EMC, not Microsoft. If you want to annoy Mr Bill its more like http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default .mspx
. Several lists auto-blocked us because our reverse DNS said dsl in it.
The right answer is to get your rDNS set up correctly. A huge chunk of spam comes from dynamic IP ranges so blocking dynamic looking rDNS is becoming more and more common. If you're serious about running a mail server, do it right and get the rDNS set up to be something tied to your domain.
Im concerned about freedom. Im concerned about privacy. People in general, and the goverment in particular, have no business interfereing in other peoples private lives. What members of the Taliban do amongst themselves in their churches or bedrooms is no concern of mine, except for when they want to impose their belifes on others.
If one chooses to partake of porn in one's own home etc. with the porn payed for out of one's on pocket that's one thing, however requiring another to provide, and pay for porn is a separate issue.
I've seen no evidence that is the motivation. I have seen lots of evidence that the American Taliban wants to have their religious police in everyones living rooom, bedroom, and hospital room to guarentee that their beliefs are forced on to everyone.
hit the transfer button and hung up on him.
Heh. Dont feel too bad, (or fault Asterisk for it for that matter) I still do that regularly with our Nortel phone system here.
The thought of running my PBX on Windows... scares me. Really, really scares me.
Amen to that. When I looked at the Cisco Call Manager a couple years back, that was the one thing that I really did'nt like. Im not sure the Cisco folks got the idea that "It runs on Windows!", and "It integrates great with Exchange!" are not always a selling point
Nope. Apple has stated they want to make "drag-n-drop" type copying difficult for joe blows if not impossible for the nerds. There's a reason the whole thing is shunted under a hidden directory.
FWIW, while there is certainly noise like that, I think a fair bit of it is fluff to placate the RIAA clowns. The approach with taking humongus long random file names and flatening them with short names split across directories has been around for a long time. From what I've seen it does generally improve performance. My bet is they did it for technical reasons and then someone (Steve?) said "Hey! We can tell the RIAA its encrypted."
Not really. From the article, Sony actually re-writes the MP3 files with a bunch of header crap and strips out some of the ID frames inside the body of the MP3. What Apple has done is a file naming scheme (probably for file system performance) with an index file. The actual MP3 files are untouched.
The problem with IPCop and Smoothwall for that matter, is the inability to filter traffic outbound.
But one of the neat things about IPcop is that it's one of them open source things. So while youre quite correct that the pretty GUI doesnt have an interface for egress filtering, you *can* hop into the shell and add in the iptables commands of your choice.
Now if I can only find what neighbour's net I've been using.
A directional antenna is handy thing to have to narrow down where a network is. Not to mention a WiFi equiped PDA is much less obvious than wandering around with a laptop.
USA Today, People, Enquirer...
I can see it now, Elvis, Bigfoot and Paris Hilton say... Use Firefox.
Actually I've had CISCO support reps in the Phillipines stay on the phone with me ALL NIGHT fixing our firewall problems. And these guys REALLY knew what they were doing.
Yeah. I've found that Cisco's support is about the only one that is worth a damn any more. Smartnet is not cheap, but it seems worth it to me.
Its actually boot.iso. We mirror the distribution and update trees to an internal webserver and then do the install over the LAN. Actually much faster to do it over the wire than shuffle CDs.
The grandparent is certainly correct about not having to reinstall everything. Who the hell are these so called experts?. Unplug the damn network cable, run some removal tool, lather, rince, repeat.
OK, 'splain to me why you have the slightest reason to believe that whatever worm was running around did not install a few unusual back doors that "some removal tool" wont find? These are systems that have access to all kinds of personal information probably including social security numbers, not the desktop you play Doom on. Scrubing them and installing from known good media is the only way to be sure that something isnt missed.
An SPF record is really just a TXT record with formatted contents. If you can create TXT records, you're golden.
you added a couple extra harddrives... without rebooting?
Sure, DEC designed these with uptime in mind. The drives were probably on a HSC storage controller, a separate box with serial interfaces to the drives (think a SAN). If you had the ports in the HSC you could add drives and the cluster wouldnt miss a beat.
Interesting links. What I think is fascinating is the percentages for IIS seem to be highest in .gov (37.86%) and .mil (66.13% !!). At least from march to april, the IIS percentages for those domains *grew*.
Sure. But in the case of the commercial software support I get to deal with, the people that answer the phone call are almost always clueless drones. OTOH, when I've posted questions about open source software, a good chunk of the time the answer comes from the person that wrote it.
Dunno who this "Heintz" is, but FWIW John Kerry's wife calls herself "Teresa Heinz Kerry".
Would you want to live in a city where the city owned the cable system and all you got was two dozen channels?
I work in a city that has a municipal power as well as a cable tv/internet system. On the cable front Time Warner is also in the area. The locals tell me the service on the city cable is better than road runner and cheaper to boot.
she passed out lengths of wire, explaining how they related to how far light could travel in a given timeframe
That would be a nanosecond.
there isn't a real migration path from RedHat to RedHat Enterprise
Yeah, I could'nt believe that when I saw it in their migration FAQ. Its great that they want to dramatically increase my costs, *and* make it a PITA to boot. Clever marketing move.
The way I read:x .html
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/purchase/inde
That $179 is for one year of updates, not three. So youre looking at 179*3=$537 vs 3*60=$180.
wonder if Fedora Linux will be supported via Red Hat Network or if we're fucked now into paying hundreds of dollars per CPU for RH Enterprise Linux. Lovely, just lovely.
Nope, no up2date support for Fedora. I've purchased every boxed set since 5.2 and paid for several machines on RHN since it came out, but the jump to the Enterprise $$s is too big, too fast. Instead of my couple hundred dollars/year, Red Hat is going to get nothing.