Perhaps people who are interested in more than a passing glance at a secure network setup.
But what would I know. I only engineer network solutions for companies with global presences, with literally hunderds of network egresses, all of which need to be secured.
But that's for businesses....I mean...hackers only go after THOSE IP addresses...not your cable modem IPs, so why bother with the same level of security, even if it can be accomplished with some old boat anchor 486 that's hardly useful for anything else.
Okay, but a 486 isn't this size. Perhaps you missed the significance of this article..
Sin you've obviousl suffered some loss of higher brain function, I'm not going to take the time to find the links. It will be a good exercise for you to google forthem yourself. But there haver been both 486 and Pentium/Celeron, and probably PII and III class machines of this size. No, nt by the same company, no, not looking exactly the same. But nearly the same size, and some even smaller.
No, I did not miss the significance of the article.
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That's like saying they shouldn't publish shop manuals for cars, because people might use them to install illegal nitrous kits, etc...
Nirous kits aren't illegal. Nor is installing one.
The only thing illegal is not getting that vehilce re-inspected (which it will fail) before driving it on the public roadways.
That exists in various forms in various packages (that I want to see in Outlook, because that's what I use...bash as will...but it works best for me for various reasons) is:
- Only load images from HTML mail from addresses in your personal address book
and
- Whitelist/classify based on users in your address book.
If those two additional features and my Spambayes setup, I'd be very happy.
With a P4 in that little case, they have to push a lot of air, so this thing will be loud. What they need is:
Not if all the CPU heat is dissapated directly out of the case....like if they drilled a hole right above the CPU. Which they did.
- Add a second ethernet port, so this can be used as a home gateway/firewall/proxy/etc.
Why the hell do you need a P4 as a proxy/firewall? You trying to run MS Proxy server or something? Try Linux with IPChanins if you must run a software firewall. Or Smoothwall. Runs just fine on a 486.
It is insecure by default and the maximum secuirty you can apply to it is flawed and easily hackable.
Really? You mean that the AP's I deploy on their own network segment that have 128 bit WEP on them are insecure? Oh..that maximum security I apply is that "own network segment" thing. It's as trusted as Internet traffic. Meaning users must VPN from that network to get to the real network.
I think you need to learn more about network before declaring a technology "flawed and easily hackable".
Oh yeah...the VPN client pushes mandatory personal firewall rules to each client keeping any wifi user from rooting another in an effort to gain access.
4. I can use my phone in virtually every country in Europe. If dozens (maybe 100+) of European providers can come up with a system that works from one end of the continent to another, why can't a handful of US providers do the same?
Because we have freaking theme parks that are bigger than entire countries over there. I heard Warren Buffet's back yard is at least the size of Switzerland. It takes just a few more towers to make this whole thing work over here.
Nextel is a great example of marketing a technically inferior product as superior. And they seem to be successful at it.
Technical superiority != most useful for everyone
While a Nextel is a toy for all the spoiled high school children who like to carry them these days, they make our lives much easier at the fire department. There is no need for person-to-person traffic to get carried over county-wide radio. And now it doesn't anymore.
Sure, we could call each other, but that's just not the kind of traffic we generate, or how we normally operate. "Hey...put the trailer on the other ramp....I can't get the boat on the firs one because there's some jack ass jet-skier there." "Does anyone know how to put a horse down?" "The channel 10 chopper is coming over the field. Get a sheet over the dead one."
NONE of this traffic needs to be broadcast, but it needs to be communicated. Walking across a scene or making a phone call doesn't cut it.
Just because it doesn't help you, doesn't mean it doesn't help anyone else.
It's not a modem. It's a terminal adapter. And it runs standard SIP, so any SOHO router you didn't pick out of the trash bin and spent more than $10 on should work.
1. They have significant voicemail problems. I think the consensus at dslreport's voip forums is that they are overselling/pushing their VM system too hard or they just expanded too quickly. Its not just lost VM but sometimes my phone wont ring when VM is enabled. Workaround: use a plain-jane answering machine. Afterall, you get a normal POTS phone jack from the Cisco ATA they send you.
You might want to be sure about what you are suggesting before posting. Oh...nevermind. It's/. Just make it up.
Answering machines DON'T WORK WITH VONAGE.
Why? A Cisco ATA does NOT provide full signaling capability. You machine will pick up on however many rings it's set to, but it will have no idea when the caller hangs up, and will run until it times out/runs out of tape/runs out of memory.
The implication was that the same principle applies in the US. To the best of my knowledge it does. However I can only speak with any authority regarding the legal system in the UK.
Dood...
My post was not an opinion of the US legal system. It it a fact, and is phrased that way.
Then explain how it's different to someone who thought packet radio was really cool, got a TNC, played with it for a few months and decided that they were wrong...packet radio was not cool, it in fact both sucked and blew at the same time. What could be done different at 11 meters that HF and VHF packet radio is not currently doing, short of being 802.11ish/long haul building to building wirelessish?
If all copies of AIX actually do end up being destroyed... since so many financial mainframes run on it
Ummm. No.
"So many financial mainframes" run on OS/390.
AIX on a mainframe is an anomoly. There was (possibly still may be) a distribution for big iron, but very few people want anything to do with it. It was a poor attempt on IBM's part to provide a migration path from traditional AIX boxen to big iron for scalibility and reliability, etc.
A 1200 RPM idling diesel with 30 bhp/hour will only use about 2.25 gallons of diesel. And even for this example it would be running a refrigeration unit on the trailor. The average rig uses around 1.2 gallons/hour.
You ALMOST sound like you know what you're talking about. Too bad that 1200 RPM is WAY WAY WAY over any kind of idle on a diesel.
So have I...but not long haul. Mostly triaxles. I was definitely the only one with a laptop and GPS in the cab, which I got crap for at first. That is until the first time the turnpike was closed down and I immediately had an alternate route.;)
This is such bullshit. We have a progressive tax system they are not supposed to achieve the same percentage. The fact that they can hide income and avoid paying their percentage tells volumes.
Then go out and bust your ass to make the money it takes to be in the bracket and fill out a 1040EZ. See how long you ass hurts too much to sit down.
Depending on how long the engine is off (at a stoplight, say), the engine oil will drain back down into the pan, causing slightly more wear when the engine is restarted. Also, any oil left clinging to the otherwise lubricated and cooled engine parts will not be circulating and will quickly bake into a crackly crunch thanks to heat soak.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if you though of it with an off-hand comment on/., don't you think the people who do this for a living have done so too? I find it hard to believe that the gas engines in hybrids have the same oil circulation design as traditional gas motors.
It's highly unlikely. Your average joe can not hire a good enough CPA to hide income and shuffle paperwork and money to offshore accounts and such. You are still missing the point. The average Joe doesn't make enough money to have to bother with that. But for someone getting hit with most of their income in the highest tax bracket, they have to use the loopholes in the system to acheive the same percentage.
But I'm not going to argue this point with you any further. You are obviously unequipped to even discuss it if you think that a CPA is something the "average joe" can't afford/doesn't have access to/doesn't need. Just stay in your parent's basenent and you'll be fine.
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Who runs a dedicated proxy/firewall?
Perhaps people who are interested in more than a passing glance at a secure network setup.
But what would I know. I only engineer network solutions for companies with global presences, with literally hunderds of network egresses, all of which need to be secured.
But that's for businesses....I mean...hackers only go after THOSE IP addresses...not your cable modem IPs, so why bother with the same level of security, even if it can be accomplished with some old boat anchor 486 that's hardly useful for anything else.
Okay, but a 486 isn't this size. Perhaps you missed the significance of this article..
Sin you've obviousl suffered some loss of higher brain function, I'm not going to take the time to find the links. It will be a good exercise for you to google forthem yourself. But there haver been both 486 and Pentium/Celeron, and probably PII and III class machines of this size. No, nt by the same company, no, not looking exactly the same. But nearly the same size, and some even smaller.
No, I did not miss the significance of the article.
That's like saying they shouldn't publish shop manuals for cars, because people might use them to install illegal nitrous kits, etc...
Nirous kits aren't illegal. Nor is installing one.
The only thing illegal is not getting that vehilce re-inspected (which it will fail) before driving it on the public roadways.
Bad example.
That exists in various forms in various packages (that I want to see in Outlook, because that's what I use...bash as will...but it works best for me for various reasons) is:
- Only load images from HTML mail from addresses in your personal address book
and
- Whitelist/classify based on users in your address book.
If those two additional features and my Spambayes setup, I'd be very happy.
With a P4 in that little case, they have to push a lot of air, so this thing will be loud. What they need is:
Not if all the CPU heat is dissapated directly out of the case....like if they drilled a hole right above the CPU. Which they did.
- Add a second ethernet port, so this can be used as a home gateway/firewall/proxy/etc.
Why the hell do you need a P4 as a proxy/firewall? You trying to run MS Proxy server or something? Try Linux with IPChanins if you must run a software firewall. Or Smoothwall. Runs just fine on a 486.
It is insecure by default and the maximum secuirty you can apply to it is flawed and easily hackable.
Really? You mean that the AP's I deploy on their own network segment that have 128 bit WEP on them are insecure? Oh..that maximum security I apply is that "own network segment" thing. It's as trusted as Internet traffic. Meaning users must VPN from that network to get to the real network.
I think you need to learn more about network before declaring a technology "flawed and easily hackable".
Oh yeah...the VPN client pushes mandatory personal firewall rules to each client keeping any wifi user from rooting another in an effort to gain access.
4. I can use my phone in virtually every country in Europe. If dozens (maybe 100+) of European providers can come up with a system that works from one end of the continent to another, why can't a handful of US providers do the same?
Because we have freaking theme parks that are bigger than entire countries over there. I heard Warren Buffet's back yard is at least the size of Switzerland. It takes just a few more towers to make this whole thing work over here.
Nextel is a great example of marketing a technically inferior product as superior. And they seem to be successful at it.
Technical superiority != most useful for everyone
While a Nextel is a toy for all the spoiled high school children who like to carry them these days, they make our lives much easier at the fire department. There is no need for person-to-person traffic to get carried over county-wide radio. And now it doesn't anymore.
Sure, we could call each other, but that's just not the kind of traffic we generate, or how we normally operate. "Hey...put the trailer on the other ramp....I can't get the boat on the firs one because there's some jack ass jet-skier there." "Does anyone know how to put a horse down?" "The channel 10 chopper is coming over the field. Get a sheet over the dead one."
NONE of this traffic needs to be broadcast, but it needs to be communicated. Walking across a scene or making a phone call doesn't cut it.
Just because it doesn't help you, doesn't mean it doesn't help anyone else.
I assume this also goes for a linux 2.2 box running ipchains as a NAT/MASQ router?
You can keep assuming, or check if your setup is SIP aware. I have no idea, as I don't think that PCs belong where firewalls are supposed to go.
It's not a modem. It's a terminal adapter. And it runs standard SIP, so any SOHO router you didn't pick out of the trash bin and spent more than $10 on should work.
1. They have significant voicemail problems. I think the consensus at dslreport's voip forums is that they are overselling/pushing their VM system too hard or they just expanded too quickly. Its not just lost VM but sometimes my phone wont ring when VM is enabled. Workaround: use a plain-jane answering machine. Afterall, you get a normal POTS phone jack from the Cisco ATA they send you.
/. Just make it up.
You might want to be sure about what you are suggesting before posting. Oh...nevermind. It's
Answering machines DON'T WORK WITH VONAGE.
Why? A Cisco ATA does NOT provide full signaling capability. You machine will pick up on however many rings it's set to, but it will have no idea when the caller hangs up, and will run until it times out/runs out of tape/runs out of memory.
The rules of Brittish Common Law have a lot to do with US law. Almost all precedents ultimately go back to Brittish Common Law.
That's nice. And I'm already aware of that.
It has no bearing on this.
The implication was that the same principle applies in the US. To the best of my knowledge it does. However I can only speak with any authority regarding the legal system in the UK.
Dood... My post was not an opinion of the US legal system. It it a fact, and is phrased that way.
It certainly is in the UK.
This is a discussion of a US issue. The laws of any other country have no bearing here.
IBM: In the US SCO: In the US Linus: In the US
That's like saying "why waste time reading the law, it might give you ideas for crimes to commit".
It's nothing at all like that. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. Prior knowledge of a patent that you have violated INCREASES the peanlties.
Good answer. Thanks.
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Now how do we make that happen?
This ain't packet radio.
Then explain how it's different to someone who thought packet radio was really cool, got a TNC, played with it for a few months and decided that they were wrong...packet radio was not cool, it in fact both sucked and blew at the same time. What could be done different at 11 meters that HF and VHF packet radio is not currently doing, short of being 802.11ish/long haul building to building wirelessish?
Congratulations. You just (re)invented packet radio. Now go out and be happy with your 9600 baud connections.
Some folks call the Regatta a mainframe.
And some folks call 3.5" floppys "hard disks". Both groups are wrong.
If all copies of AIX actually do end up being destroyed... since so many financial mainframes run on it
Ummm. No.
"So many financial mainframes" run on OS/390.
AIX on a mainframe is an anomoly. There was (possibly still may be) a distribution for big iron, but very few people want anything to do with it. It was a poor attempt on IBM's part to provide a migration path from traditional AIX boxen to big iron for scalibility and reliability, etc.
A 1200 RPM idling diesel with 30 bhp/hour will only use about 2.25 gallons of diesel. And even for this example it would be running a refrigeration unit on the trailor. The average rig uses around 1.2 gallons/hour.
You ALMOST sound like you know what you're talking about. Too bad that 1200 RPM is WAY WAY WAY over any kind of idle on a diesel.
So have I...but not long haul. Mostly triaxles. I was definitely the only one with a laptop and GPS in the cab, which I got crap for at first. That is until the first time the turnpike was closed down and I immediately had an alternate route. ;)
This is such bullshit. We have a progressive tax system they are not supposed to achieve the same percentage. The fact that they can hide income and avoid paying their percentage tells volumes.
Then go out and bust your ass to make the money it takes to be in the bracket and fill out a 1040EZ. See how long you ass hurts too much to sit down.
Depending on how long the engine is off (at a stoplight, say), the engine oil will drain back down into the pan, causing slightly more wear when the engine is restarted. Also, any oil left clinging to the otherwise lubricated and cooled engine parts will not be circulating and will quickly bake into a crackly crunch thanks to heat soak.
/., don't you think the people who do this for a living have done so too? I find it hard to believe that the gas engines in hybrids have the same oil circulation design as traditional gas motors.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if you though of it with an off-hand comment on
Are they? Do you know that for sure?
Nice rebuttal. And YES. I know that they are.
It's highly unlikely. Your average joe can not hire a good enough CPA to hide income and shuffle paperwork and money to offshore accounts and such.
You are still missing the point. The average Joe doesn't make enough money to have to bother with that. But for someone getting hit with most of their income in the highest tax bracket, they have to use the loopholes in the system to acheive the same percentage.
But I'm not going to argue this point with you any further. You are obviously unequipped to even discuss it if you think that a CPA is something the "average joe" can't afford/doesn't have access to/doesn't need. Just stay in your parent's basenent and you'll be fine.