Why? You just have to telnet (or better off, ssh) into the box you've got Samba running and manage it from the command line (or with ssh, using X11). Why port BO to Linux when it's locked up tighter than what Microsoft can do with Win-Anything at this time?
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I take it you gotten spam through your normal e-mail address?
Don't 'cha know that spam comes postage due?
Yep. It's tacked on your ISP's bill. The ISP has to keep adding more mail servers to handle the load spammers put on 'em. Some even attempt a "scan" from a dialup. In all cases, it costs your ISP money, and in turn, you.
I like to save money, thank you very much. Which is why I complain. I get alot of nuke messages that way which saves my wallet every time.
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Let me go through this article and do a few items here, eh?
Why do I think Linux won't kill Windows? Two reasons. The Open Source Movement's ideology is utopian balderdash. You mean that you like your dependence on upgrades which don't fix bugs? Are you sure that Microsoft's products are secure? Sheesh, we already have holes in Win95, Win98, and NT 4! You have to pull patches to lock 'em down and be secure on the net, and yet still not be able to be fast enough to keep up with the continous hits on the Internet. Server software it isn't. It wasn't designed to be server software. I doubt Win2K will be server software. Besides, Linux and the Open Source Initiative is not just theory, it is fact. Alot of security patches go out for Linux and it's utility programs. Linux had a fix for the Pentium FOOF bug within a week, and that's not with Intel's help. Microsoft brushed it off, saying that it's products are for single users only!
And Linux is 30-year-old technology. Relibable 30 year old technology that's secure, and recoded, reapplied, and rewritten for current hardware. Also, many components such as GTK, GIMP, and IMlib are new software and toolkits, not 30 year old technology.
A Soviet Linux lies ahead, with successive five-year plans every three. Nope, we haven't had any shootings yet...
OK, communism is too harsh on Linux. Lenin too harsh on Torvalds. It's actually Socialism, not communism (which the two get so mixed up it's suprizing you even mention it). Socialism, by Karl Marx, dictates that everyone, not the government(that's Communism), owns everything. Marx also states that it will be a slow progression into Socialism. Communism got screwed up by Lenin et al trying to speed things up. Guess what Russia got into now?
If North America actually went back to the earth, close to 250 million people would die of starvation before you could say agribusiness. When they bring organic fruit to market, you pay extra for small apples with open sores -- the Open Sores Movement. Negative. My local Giant supermarket chain carries organic, "Back to earth" style apples. They're the same size and with no open sores, no defects, no bugs as the ones treated with chemicals. They taste the same too. Try one. They're in the next same-size pile over. Brought in from local farmers. And do some better research next time.
Stallman's EMACS was brilliant in the 1970s, but today we demand more, specifically Microsoft Word, which can't be written over a weekend, no matter how much Coke you drink. Multinational corporations are themselves technology invented to get big things done, things that sustain us in the complicated modern world. I find alot of users tripping over Word myself here in college, and I suggest to them more control in the form of Corel WordPerfect. Don't you know? WordPerfect been ported all over the place. Macs, Win3.1, Win9x/NT, Solaris, Linux, insert your favorite operating system here.... There's also alot of other good programs out there similar to Word.
The Open Sores Movement asks us to ignore three decades of innovation. Three decades of security enhancements, TCP/IP implementations (remember, Unix had the first implementation!), web servers (NCSA httpd), ftp servers, and more. Even e-mail was origionally on Unix. And before the Internet, before the first router, there was UUCP. These are innovations.
NT, now approaching 23x6 availability, is already overpowering Linux. Linux is 24/7. Virtually no maintance needed once properly set up. I have computer labs here that require me to reboot every few days just because NT's about to die. Every few weeks we have to put down a new image on a few NT computers. 23 hours/day, 6 days per week? No, we can't have that in a 24/7, we never close computer lab. It's on all the time or it's dead.
Let's hope there's something coming soon that's better than both Linux and W2K. What would that be? Java or what? Let's be looking. I'm looking, but all I see is a penguin giving me source code and saying "BBBBWWWWAAAAPPPPP!!!!"
Bob Metcalfe, you forget your computing history. Back to the university library with you.
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>From support@slashdot.org Thu Jun 17 19:57:36 1999 >Return-Path:
We can ignore these lines.
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FYI: tygris.strw.org doesn't exist, it's really a dialup from Erols.
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Can we say I worship ESR?;)
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From the border server to my pop server.
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From mx.icp.rssi.ru's servers to Erols. Some spammers just connect directly to Erols and spew junk there. This isn't the case.
>Message-Id:
This tells us one thing: mx.icp.rssi.ru is broken. It should of made it's own Message ID tag.
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Well, at least it's recording the IP address. However, post.office (unlike Sendmail) defaults to relaying, which is a Very Bad Thing(tm).
>Received: from ras1.icp.rssi.ru by mx.intra.ru with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange > Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1458.49) > id MQ9VDJNV; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:40:21 +0400
EW! mx.intra.ru is running non-IP-recording Microsoft Crapware!!! Extreemly Bad Thing(tm). What are they running, NT?!?
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Spamware. news.admin.net-abuse.email knew about this and tried to get it taken off. I think it may be a good thing to Slashdot the makers of this product in your distain against spam.
More tutorials for the pissed off at Sam Spade's library (via http://www.samspade.org).
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Right out of the books from SPUTUM and Sam Spade, both good anti-spam sites...
mx.icp.rssi.ru is an OPEN RELAY used by spammers to hide their tracks. Complain to postmaster@rssi.ru about it and send this spam to them, with full headers.
The spammer is hosted via intra.ru. Send mail to abuse@intra.ru and postmaster@intra.ru with the full headers and spam and say "You have a spammer on your system which is compromizing security and profits. Please remove."
Alot of customers of US West have complained about how bad service has been, and also alot of spam with sites pointing into US West's IP space has been spewing out. Getting someone who knows how to handle the business at the other end of the line is like finding a needle in a hay-filled silo. I think they're up for a nomination into the Realtime Blackhole List for not being responsive to complaints.
They don't say US WORST for nothing.
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Deceptive advertizing? All the ads, the websites, even the boxes that stored the product have this nice lovely disclaimer in 12-point or 14-point type saying that FCC regs won't let you hit 56K. The manual also has additional disclaimers concerning phone lines and Canada's restrictions.
They're going to have a hard time proving it.
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SPUTUM(tm) has been tracking net-abuse issues since the 'Net was brought out into the mainstream. They put in some information on the Cabal Network Security site. PICK UP A ANTI-NET-ABUSE SLACK PAMPHLET!!!
The MAPS RBL should be manditory (it's availible with Sendmail), but ORBS is more radical in it's relay checking. It's very similar to a UDP but invoked often for lesser reasons. A better Relay blocker, the Radparker Relay Spam Stopper (RRSS), is availble and practices the same goals as the MAPS RBL in respect to open relays.
If every admin read news.admin.net-abuse.email and.usenet, then the world would be less spam-free.
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Wouldn't that make it a "R" instead of a "G" rated film?
-1 is for Troll in the sence of annoying idiot who just wants attention. Best way of dealing with them is to ignore them, and the moderators score it apropriately.
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It looks good, but how efficent is the task switcher? Is it truly paring out the jobs efficently, or being held back due to the equipment's (ie body's) own slowness?
If it's the latter, maybe adding extra capacities (say, extra arms, eyes, or even fingers) could optimize the system. Multitasking at it's greatest. It's been proven to work, according to Anormalities and Curiosities of Medicine dating back to the 1800's. You'll need to use Project Gutenberg to find the text.
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Some distributions of Linux hard-code the kernel version into a few utilites or into the file system. IMHO this is a bad thing, since you'll be mixing different module versions.
Slackware doesn't have this problem, thankfully. It depmod's/lib/modules/[version loaded number here] every time, so there's no conflicts.
I belive I have under/lib/modules: 2.2.6 2.2.7 2.2.8 2.2.9 ... but no default!
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Running deathmatch on it through UNC, and my Pentium MMX 200 w/a passthrough Voodoo 1 card worked well. I think I got 10 frames per sec or more, but I can't tell.
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PalmStation recently got a few e-mails and a letter from 3com, similar to this, about using the word "Palm". Apparently, it's very misguided by 3com, but no matter which company is trying to pull what, it's protected, either by federal laws, the Consitutional Ammendments, court rulings, or internal rules and regulations.
Isn't that like establishing a Postscript printer to talk back to the computer, or say using IP, saying "Yeah, we can handle that natively" or an old HP saying "Well, we can't do this, this, or this, but that, yeah, that's ok", but still in Postscript? Sounds like someone jury-rigging Ghostscript on a remote computer to test for certian features required (such as color) and automatically forwarding the job to the right printer.
I haven't read 2600 in such a long time it's probably to my benifit to only passively read it if it ever shows up. But anyway, baised off of ZDNET and WIRED, the goverment was witholding evidence after alot of discovery motions were filed, causing the motions of continuence to be filed too just to cope with it. If the DOJ complied, then Kevin would of been tried already. Not off of 2600, but ZDNET and WIRED articles. If a third mainstream resource pops up which collaborates everything, I'll believe it. ZDNET has a ton of salt to it's name. ZDNET backed up by WIRED has a salt-shaker full. 2600 is *not* a mainstream resource AFAIAC.
Imagine running the biggest spamhouse... and constantly going down because *EVERYONE* was pinging it just to see if it was up or not.
Slashdotting is similar.
Unfortunately, it's not a DOS attack because it's everyone plumetting one server with one request each, not one person wacking on it with massive amounts of requests.
Palm Computing, 3com's division for Palm Pilots, noticed the Rom problem, and did the next logical step: Releasing their Debug ROMs for free.
Yes, a Debug ROM.
You have to be declared a developer, and fill out a form, but afterwards you can pull their POSE and a Debug ROM. http://www.palm.com, developer section for details.
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Why? You just have to telnet (or better off, ssh) into the box you've got Samba running and manage it from the command line (or with ssh, using X11). Why port BO to Linux when it's locked up tighter than what Microsoft can do with Win-Anything at this time?
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I take it you gotten spam through your normal e-mail address?
Don't 'cha know that spam comes postage due?
Yep. It's tacked on your ISP's bill. The ISP has to keep adding more mail servers to handle the load spammers put on 'em. Some even attempt a "scan" from a dialup. In all cases, it costs your ISP money, and in turn, you.
I like to save money, thank you very much. Which is why I complain. I get alot of nuke messages that way which saves my wallet every time.
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Why do I think Linux won't kill Windows? Two reasons. The Open Source Movement's ideology is utopian balderdash. You mean that you like your dependence on upgrades which don't fix bugs? Are you sure that Microsoft's products are secure? Sheesh, we already have holes in Win95, Win98, and NT 4! You have to pull patches to lock 'em down and be secure on the net, and yet still not be able to be fast enough to keep up with the continous hits on the Internet. Server software it isn't. It wasn't designed to be server software. I doubt Win2K will be server software. Besides, Linux and the Open Source Initiative is not just theory, it is fact. Alot of security patches go out for Linux and it's utility programs. Linux had a fix for the Pentium FOOF bug within a week, and that's not with Intel's help. Microsoft brushed it off, saying that it's products are for single users only!
And Linux is 30-year-old technology. Relibable 30 year old technology that's secure, and recoded, reapplied, and rewritten for current hardware. Also, many components such as GTK, GIMP, and IMlib are new software and toolkits, not 30 year old technology.
A Soviet Linux lies ahead, with successive five-year plans every three. Nope, we haven't had any shootings yet...
OK, communism is too harsh on Linux. Lenin too harsh on Torvalds. It's actually Socialism, not communism (which the two get so mixed up it's suprizing you even mention it). Socialism, by Karl Marx, dictates that everyone, not the government(that's Communism), owns everything. Marx also states that it will be a slow progression into Socialism. Communism got screwed up by Lenin et al trying to speed things up. Guess what Russia got into now?
If North America actually went back to the earth, close to 250 million people would die of starvation before you could say agribusiness. When they bring organic fruit to market, you pay extra for small apples with open sores -- the Open Sores Movement. Negative. My local Giant supermarket chain carries organic, "Back to earth" style apples. They're the same size and with no open sores, no defects, no bugs as the ones treated with chemicals. They taste the same too. Try one. They're in the next same-size pile over. Brought in from local farmers. And do some better research next time.
Stallman's EMACS was brilliant in the 1970s, but today we demand more, specifically Microsoft Word, which can't be written over a weekend, no matter how much Coke you drink. Multinational corporations are themselves technology invented to get big things done, things that sustain us in the complicated modern world. I find alot of users tripping over Word myself here in college, and I suggest to them more control in the form of Corel WordPerfect. Don't you know? WordPerfect been ported all over the place. Macs, Win3.1, Win9x/NT, Solaris, Linux, insert your favorite operating system here.... There's also alot of other good programs out there similar to Word.
The Open Sores Movement asks us to ignore three decades of innovation. Three decades of security enhancements, TCP/IP implementations (remember, Unix had the first implementation!), web servers (NCSA httpd), ftp servers, and more. Even e-mail was origionally on Unix. And before the Internet, before the first router, there was UUCP. These are innovations.
NT, now approaching 23x6 availability, is already overpowering Linux. Linux is 24/7. Virtually no maintance needed once properly set up. I have computer labs here that require me to reboot every few days just because NT's about to die. Every few weeks we have to put down a new image on a few NT computers. 23 hours/day, 6 days per week? No, we can't have that in a 24/7, we never close computer lab. It's on all the time or it's dead.
Let's hope there's something coming soon that's better than both Linux and W2K. What would that be? Java or what? Let's be looking. I'm looking, but all I see is a penguin giving me source code and saying "BBBBWWWWAAAAPPPPP!!!!"
Bob Metcalfe, you forget your computing history. Back to the university library with you.
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Shall we romp though my lovely copies? Let's go!
;)
>From support@slashdot.org Thu Jun 17 19:57:36 1999
>Return-Path:
We can ignore these lines.
>Received: from localhost (tygris@localhost [127.0.0.1])
> by tygris.strw.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA00173
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FYI: tygris.strw.org doesn't exist, it's really a dialup from Erols.
>Received: from pop.erols.com
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Can we say I worship ESR?
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> for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 01:42:52 -0400
From the border server to my pop server.
>Received: from mx.icp.rssi.ru (mx.icp.rssi.ru [194.85.223.7])
> by mx04.erols.com (8.8.8-970530/8.8.5/MX-980323-gjp) with ESMTP id
> BAA06613
> for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 01:42:51 -0400 (EDT)
From mx.icp.rssi.ru's servers to Erols. Some spammers just connect
directly to Erols and spew junk there. This isn't the case.
>Message-Id:
This tells us one thing: mx.icp.rssi.ru is broken. It should of made
it's own Message ID tag.
>Received: from mx.intra.ru ([194.135.182.7]) by mx.icp.rssi.ru
> (post.office MTA v1.9.3b **** trial license expired ****)
> with ESMTP id AAA232 for ;
> Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:41:11 +0400
Well, at least it's recording the IP address. However, post.office
(unlike Sendmail) defaults to relaying, which is a Very Bad Thing(tm).
>Received: from ras1.icp.rssi.ru by mx.intra.ru with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange
> Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1458.49)
> id MQ9VDJNV; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:40:21 +0400
EW! mx.intra.ru is running non-IP-recording Microsoft Crapware!!!
Extreemly Bad Thing(tm). What are they running, NT?!?
>From: "slashdot.org"
We can start ignoring stuff now.
>To:
>Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:44:07 +0300
>Subject: Dear Member of slashdot.org (tygris@erols.com)
>Reply-To: support@slashdot.org
>Organization: slashdot.org
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Spamware. news.admin.net-abuse.email knew about this and tried to get
it taken off. I think it may be a good thing to Slashdot the makers of
this product in your distain against spam.
More tutorials for the pissed off at Sam Spade's library (via
http://www.samspade.org).
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mx.icp.rssi.ru is an OPEN RELAY used by spammers to hide their tracks. Complain to postmaster@rssi.ru about it and send this spam to them, with full headers.
The spammer is hosted via intra.ru. Send mail to abuse@intra.ru and postmaster@intra.ru with the full headers and spam and say "You have a spammer on your system which is compromizing security and profits. Please remove."
Also, visit The Radparker Relay Spam Stopper to block the relay on subscribed systems.
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Alot of customers of US West have complained about how bad service has been, and also alot of spam with sites pointing into US West's IP space has been spewing out. Getting someone who knows how to handle the business at the other end of the line is like finding a needle in a hay-filled silo. I think they're up for a nomination into the Realtime Blackhole List for not being responsive to complaints.
They don't say US WORST for nothing.
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Oh yes, WWIV. I have the source printed out for the first version. www.wwiv.com
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They're going to have a hard time proving it.
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The MAPS RBL should be manditory (it's availible with Sendmail), but ORBS is more radical in it's relay checking. It's very similar to a UDP but invoked often for lesser reasons. A better Relay blocker, the Radparker Relay Spam Stopper (RRSS), is availble and practices the same goals as the MAPS RBL in respect to open relays.
If every admin read news.admin.net-abuse.email and .usenet, then the world would be less spam-free.
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-1 is for Troll in the sence of annoying idiot who just wants attention. Best way of dealing with them is to ignore them, and the moderators score it apropriately.
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If it's the latter, maybe adding extra capacities (say, extra arms, eyes, or even fingers) could optimize the system. Multitasking at it's greatest. It's been proven to work, according to Anormalities and Curiosities of Medicine dating back to the 1800's. You'll need to use Project Gutenberg to find the text.
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Slackware doesn't have this problem, thankfully. It depmod's /lib/modules/[version loaded number here] every time, so there's no conflicts.
I belive I have under /lib/modules:
... but no default!
2.2.6
2.2.7
2.2.8
2.2.9
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Sigh...
Shel, Theo... Will the last one out please turn off the light?
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But this means we could see a way of speeding up Distributed.net's RC-64 contest!!!
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Running deathmatch on it through UNC, and my Pentium MMX 200 w/a passthrough Voodoo 1 card worked well. I think I got 10 frames per sec or more, but I can't tell.
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There's more up his sleeve than what is being reported.
ZDTV is reporting that the defense was held up by goverment prosecutors in gathering evidence, so the end blame is the Justice Department.
I would not be surprized if a lawsuit AGAINST the DOJ for causing such delays is filed.
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Slashdotting is similar.
Unfortunately, it's not a DOS attack because it's everyone plumetting one server with one request each, not one person wacking on it with massive amounts of requests.
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The printer manual also has driver alternatives you can use. I use the CDJ550 driver for my CDJ670.
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Yes, a Debug ROM.
You have to be declared a developer, and fill out a form, but afterwards you can pull their POSE and a Debug ROM. http://www.palm.com, developer section for details.
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