I will vouch for mrsam (Sam), one well respected in the net-abuse community. Heck, I'm surprized he applied anti-spam techniques to E*Trade via the legal process. Way to go Sam!
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WolfSkunks for a better Linux Kernel
$Stalag99{"URL"}="http://stalag99.keenspace.com";
I wrote up a few scripts myself. One polls a directory for *.wav files and launches the other to do encoding. The other waits for the *.wav file to finish being pulled, launches lame, and then cleans up the resulting.wav automatically. All I do is launch the monitor in one window and cdparanoia rip in another.
But then, getting a pack or two of Lego Mindstorms and making an arm to remove the CD once ejected and putting in a new one would be a very cool hack to do.
The code I have will be on PerlMonks soon.
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
UnderGroundOnline (http://www.ugo.com) has an article about this, plus two different fixes on how to get Windows working again. The problem stems from the Athilon's handling of the AGP port with some drivers (aka the drivers fault). If you can, try this out (from what I remember of the articles:)
Disable AGP 4x. Go with 2x.
Set the AGP aperature to 256MB
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
Call it a "Poor man's location finder," the way I did it. But DNS, however, is an intresting idea. Maybe Akamai pharzes DNS records to select the best server to go with. They're doing alot with DNS these days...
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
Wait a min... any moron could figure out how the 'secret sauce' works. Let me see now:
Get the IP address of the client.
Forward to closest recorded cache server if there's a cache hit on that IP address.
Ping it to get a timing. (If it fails, it's a client problem, just serve the content)
Ask another set of servers that you know span north, south, east, and west to ping the client.
Hand off the request (via HTTP's moved-temporary error) to the server who can ping the client faster.
And for the record, I have not seen any data or information from either side of this lawsuit. But shouldn't be too hard to implement anyway. Proxy server anyone?
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
It gives ISP's a federal-level control on enforcing their AUP, and the DMA *HAS* to comply with *ALL* of them. (If you read the article, you would read the dismay of the DMA and it's concerns.)
No ADV tag required, yes. Legit verifiable address required, yes. 99% of spammers use fake tags, the others either newbies or with IQ's in the freezer range.
State laws can only reach so far, and spammers reach all over the world. This law can quite possibly help with spam relaying from China.
Doesn't prevent you from suing against someone for a DOS attack, which what spam boils down to.
Drop by
news.admin.net-abuse.email and ask about these. Oh, and use a good scoring newsreader, the spammers are there too.
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
I'm glad that the RBL is able to list Harris for being clueless about their spam problems. I'm not glad that there's a restraining order for YesMail. BUT -- I'm glad that YesMail's IP addresses are already public, and many sites are blocking them now for their fsck'ed up action.
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
First of all, it should have the twenty recent posts on the front page. In bold, please.
Second, the description pages for each post should have the top 10 scored comments listed automatically, and, of course, trunicated to about 5K overall.
Think how a such a site would work. I don't want to use a 5-level pull for 250K of site when I only view about 40k of it. I mean, the organization needs alot of work. Maybe have a special Palm section for our accounts: One to activate, another to set how it's viewed. Then http://www.slashdot.org/palm would be a form that's filled out on the Palm/Avantigo.
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
* I already have an account with Erols. I want something cheap for my Palm Pilot that I can use in the USA. Don't need a e-mail box or NNTP or whatnow when I'm checking it off of my normal e-mail, and I may be using Erols at that particular time with my home box (tygris). Am I cheap? Maybe.
* $2 is a rough figure. Heck, $5 for just pure TCP/IP service is worth it. May be nice for those connections who just want to hang off of a modem 24/7 with a static IP, or have two modems and want an extra connection to help out with the routing.
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
Seriously, if the card is an embedded x86 with memory on a PCI card, with some networking on it (say a NE2000 emulator), then they could go quick to those who want a compact BeoWulf cluster. Heck, I'll buy one myself if I can put on the flash memory anything else besides SETI -- like distributed.net's dnetc.
So? Is it a embedded x86?
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
No, this was a good idea, because AOL is becoming very net-security paranoid with it's user base. It also details many of the internal problems AOL has.
Right now, AOL's filtering all e-mail traffic through their servers to determine if it's spam or not. This is a boon for anti-spammers: People who use the socket interface to AOL will be promptly identified in the headers if it went through the proxies. Does such a thing violate privacy? What's to stop my mail server admin from reading my mail, she/he has root access?!?!?
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
I've written up a Perl proxy for 1 person use that blocks ads and does some resemblance of caching. It's called wsproxy. Check freshmeat for the listing.
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
Serious though on this. All we're doing is digitizing audio (and possibly video) over an IP link and keeping it under 2.4K/sec. There's alot of algorithms that are out there and can do it (performance not mentioned but still important).
Dr. Dobbs Jornal had one called idtAudio, and did an audio stream. The decoder was in Java, and the encoder in C. It streamed over HTTP. You can get the source there.
Most of the networking and some base info on setting up a server carries over, but if you play around with a distro (Slackware I know can be installed non-destructively on a VFAT partition) you can become on of "us" in no-time flat (can't say flat, actually, with how pudgy Tux is).
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
Nothing like the GeekCorps to up the ante. It's not one days travel to a phone anymore: It's one's day travel to any communication -- be it phone or Internet.
Iridium can also help in this respect, I just realize. It can actually reach some of the remote areas!
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
From what I can tell, Napster's service is being abused in relation to Metalica. I mean, 1.4 *MILLION* hits. Chump change for the record company and artists, yeah, but to people having to manage the bandwidth?
I can see Lars main point: If it was a small amount, yeah, it'll generate enough buzz to get the high-quality CD out. But 1.4 *MILLION* in 48 hours?!?
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
Several file formats use 12-bit color, including the TGA (targa) picture format. It's been known to produce some good pictures. Yeah, it's a lower color resolution, but do we really need 24-bit color when we can't see all of the spectrum anyway?
Give me 15-bit color anyday. That's what my artwork is done in.
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
Simson's mostly right in showing the problem, and the shortcommings of some solutions. However, the following is *BAD*:
Congress should order the Federal Communications Commission to create a nationwide list of people who do not wish to receive junk e-mail. Then it should target pornographers by making it a crime, with a $1,000-per-violation penalty, to send e-mail that advertises a sexually explicit Web site to any of those registered e-mail addresses. If this system works, it could then be expanded to other domains, such as "get rich quick" schemes and eventually to unsolicited advertisements of any kind.
Why is it bad? First of all, it legitimizes opt-out lists, which is what spammers want. Not only will they think they'll be free to send us their junk, it'll cost us. We'll still be in the same situation that we are in now.
Second, it doesn't address the potential of abuse hidden in unverified opt-in lists. To recap, verified opt-in lists send you an e-mail asking if you really want to subscribe to a list before actually subscribing. This is done no matter what method is used to subscribe. Unverified Opt-in just spams you in a haze wondering who the !)@)*#( signed you up.
Third, it doesn't address the best current practices as subscribed in the RFC's. There are many RFC's out there dealing with spam now. I suggest everyone read them. Faqs.Org has them.
There are better ways of success. Spread the word. Remain calm. Kill spam.
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
We simply don't have time to respond to spam complaints... way way WAY too many of them.
All I'm looking for is a semi-personal form letter saying you've nuked the account afflicted. This is insanely eazy to implement, and can even be hooked up into an existing reporting database. Infact, I wrote one up in this Usenet post to news.admin.net-abuse.email for UUNet. Just this setup time works well with ISP's as big as AOL.
We can't tell you any specific details of any action we take against a member's account, because AOL's privacy policy guidelines prohibit this.
[humor] I don't care if you used a five-kiloton thermonuke missile to get a spammer off your system, or a three-kiloton. [/humor] All I ask is that the user who sent me the junk to my account has been delt with. Not "We'll deal with it." I'm looking for a "We've dealt with him. He will not be spamming from us again."
All I'm getting is a "We're looking into it." I've gotten too many "We're looking into it's" from ISPs. I've gotten too many bounce messages, too. I've already helped get Real Networks on the MAPS RBL for being unrepentant in sending me junk. XOOM's getting there now. I have 84 spams waiting for LARTS to be fired off again, 4 relays to nominate to the RSS, and 74 spams filtered out according to the RBL or RSS. I'm tempted to start doing a spam or four a day. I only delete spams when I see the user responsible removed or reeducated. I wouldn't be suprized if I get a third of the load cut down because it's all AOL origionating stuff.
I'm not saying that the job gets done. I just don't have any proof of it, and it shows on other servers.
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
Ok, now we have some reassurance from another source that AOL's looking into it's spam problem.
NOW if it will only tell me what they have done to several spammers I've reported. All I'm getting is a virtual "We're won't tell you anything. It's our 'security' policy. NYAH!" when I'm still getting junk from AOL's dialups and servers are slowly banning AOL manually. This isn't just for spamming, it also encompases harrassment of the users of those non-AOL servers. (IRC, MUCK's, interative services, even AOL's own AIM are examples of this)
--- Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
Slashdot Mirror
It's been up for the past year. Try it again, there's more good stuff there.
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WolfSkunks for a better Linux Kernel
$Stalag99{"URL"}="http://stalag99.keenspace.com";
But then, just putting Slack on a Sparc would be the best thing out there. Solaris' memory management isn't the best thing out there.
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WolfSkunks for a better Linux Kernel
$Stalag99{"URL"}="http://stalag99.keenspace.com";
A Siameze cat, I can tell you from the pics and the specs... now if it purrs....
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WolfSkunks for a better Linux Kernel
$Stalag99{"URL"}="http://stalag99.keenspace.com";
I will vouch for mrsam (Sam), one well respected in the net-abuse community. Heck, I'm surprized he applied anti-spam techniques to E*Trade via the legal process. Way to go Sam!
--
WolfSkunks for a better Linux Kernel
$Stalag99{"URL"}="http://stalag99.keenspace.com";
- cdparanoia
- lame
- perl
I wrote up a few scripts myself. One polls a directory for *.wav files and launches the other to do encoding. The other waits for the *.wav file to finish being pulled, launches lame, and then cleans up the resultingBut then, getting a pack or two of Lego Mindstorms and making an arm to remove the CD once ejected and putting in a new one would be a very cool hack to do.
The code I have will be on PerlMonks soon.
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
Call it a "Poor man's location finder," the way I did it. But DNS, however, is an intresting idea. Maybe Akamai pharzes DNS records to select the best server to go with. They're doing alot with DNS these days...
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
And for the record, I have not seen any data or information from either side of this lawsuit. But shouldn't be too hard to implement anyway. Proxy server anyone?
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
http://www.linuxce.org should have the answer.
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
I'm glad that the RBL is able to list Harris for being clueless about their spam problems. I'm not glad that there's a restraining order for YesMail. BUT -- I'm glad that YesMail's IP addresses are already public, and many sites are blocking them now for their fsck'ed up action.
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
First of all, it should have the twenty recent posts on the front page. In bold, please.
Second, the description pages for each post should have the top 10 scored comments listed automatically, and, of course, trunicated to about 5K overall.
Think how a such a site would work. I don't want to use a 5-level pull for 250K of site when I only view about 40k of it. I mean, the organization needs alot of work. Maybe have a special Palm section for our accounts: One to activate, another to set how it's viewed. Then http://www.slashdot.org/palm would be a form that's filled out on the Palm/Avantigo.
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
* I already have an account with Erols. I want something cheap for my Palm Pilot that I can use in the USA. Don't need a e-mail box or NNTP or whatnow when I'm checking it off of my normal e-mail, and I may be using Erols at that particular time with my home box (tygris). Am I cheap? Maybe.
* $2 is a rough figure. Heck, $5 for just pure TCP/IP service is worth it. May be nice for those connections who just want to hang off of a modem 24/7 with a static IP, or have two modems and want an extra connection to help out with the routing.
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
So? Is it a embedded x86?
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
No, this was a good idea, because AOL is becoming very net-security paranoid with it's user base. It also details many of the internal problems AOL has.
Right now, AOL's filtering all e-mail traffic through their servers to determine if it's spam or not. This is a boon for anti-spammers: People who use the socket interface to AOL will be promptly identified in the headers if it went through the proxies. Does such a thing violate privacy? What's to stop my mail server admin from reading my mail, she/he has root access?!?!?
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
I've written up a Perl proxy for 1 person use that blocks ads and does some resemblance of caching. It's called wsproxy. Check freshmeat for the listing.
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
Dr. Dobbs Jornal had one called idtAudio, and did an audio stream. The decoder was in Java, and the encoder in C. It streamed over HTTP. You can get the source there.
DDJ has covered alot of the compression field, and has many articles on the topic.
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
Most of the networking and some base info on setting up a server carries over, but if you play around with a distro (Slackware I know can be installed non-destructively on a VFAT partition) you can become on of "us" in no-time flat (can't say flat, actually, with how pudgy Tux is).
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
Iridium can also help in this respect, I just realize. It can actually reach some of the remote areas!
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
I can see Lars main point: If it was a small amount, yeah, it'll generate enough buzz to get the high-quality CD out. But 1.4 *MILLION* in 48 hours?!?
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
Give me 15-bit color anyday. That's what my artwork is done in.
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
- Spammers are STOOOPID!
- If you find a smart spammer, see #1 again.
Will we have people stupid enough to forget setting it Priority: Bulk? Is the sky blue?---
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
Congress should order the Federal Communications Commission to create a nationwide list of people who do not wish to receive junk e-mail. Then it should target pornographers by making it a crime, with a $1,000-per-violation penalty, to send e-mail that advertises a sexually explicit Web site to any of those registered e-mail addresses. If this system works, it could then be expanded to other domains, such as "get rich quick" schemes and eventually to unsolicited advertisements of any kind.
Why is it bad? First of all, it legitimizes opt-out lists, which is what spammers want. Not only will they think they'll be free to send us their junk, it'll cost us. We'll still be in the same situation that we are in now.
Second, it doesn't address the potential of abuse hidden in unverified opt-in lists. To recap, verified opt-in lists send you an e-mail asking if you really want to subscribe to a list before actually subscribing. This is done no matter what method is used to subscribe. Unverified Opt-in just spams you in a haze wondering who the !)@)*#( signed you up.
Third, it doesn't address the best current practices as subscribed in the RFC's. There are many RFC's out there dealing with spam now. I suggest everyone read them. Faqs.Org has them.
There are better ways of success. Spread the word. Remain calm. Kill spam.
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
All I'm looking for is a semi-personal form letter saying you've nuked the account afflicted. This is insanely eazy to implement, and can even be hooked up into an existing reporting database. Infact, I wrote one up in this Usenet post to news.admin.net-abuse.email for UUNet. Just this setup time works well with ISP's as big as AOL.
We can't tell you any specific details of any action we take against a member's account, because AOL's privacy policy guidelines prohibit this.
[humor] I don't care if you used a five-kiloton thermonuke missile to get a spammer off your system, or a three-kiloton. [/humor] All I ask is that the user who sent me the junk to my account has been delt with. Not "We'll deal with it." I'm looking for a "We've dealt with him. He will not be spamming from us again."
All I'm getting is a "We're looking into it." I've gotten too many "We're looking into it's" from ISPs. I've gotten too many bounce messages, too. I've already helped get Real Networks on the MAPS RBL for being unrepentant in sending me junk. XOOM's getting there now. I have 84 spams waiting for LARTS to be fired off again, 4 relays to nominate to the RSS, and 74 spams filtered out according to the RBL or RSS. I'm tempted to start doing a spam or four a day. I only delete spams when I see the user responsible removed or reeducated. I wouldn't be suprized if I get a third of the load cut down because it's all AOL origionating stuff.
I'm not saying that the job gets done. I just don't have any proof of it, and it shows on other servers.
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack
NOW if it will only tell me what they have done to several spammers I've reported. All I'm getting is a virtual "We're won't tell you anything. It's our 'security' policy. NYAH!" when I'm still getting junk from AOL's dialups and servers are slowly banning AOL manually. This isn't just for spamming, it also encompases harrassment of the users of those non-AOL servers. (IRC, MUCK's, interative services, even AOL's own AIM are examples of this)
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Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack