You realise the Queen has no real power over policy/government these days right? She's a figurehead. Your post reads like you think she's running the show!
I have to agree, Slashdot articles is getting more and more cryptic and the editing is non existent! Not even the smallest attempt at explaining what is being referenced. It's a summary for a reason, you should only need to Google if you want more information, not to find out what the hell it's talking about! Maybe that's part of the fun?
www.facebook.com has IPv6 address 2620:0:1c18:0:face:b00c:: cisco.v6day.akadns.net has IPv6 address 2001:420:80:1:c:15c0:d06:f00d www.luns.net.uk has IPv6 address 2a01:8900:0:1::b00b:1e5 www.bbc.net.uk has IPv6 address 2001:4b10:bbc::1
Does v6 kick off 'IP addresses as a marketing tool'?:)
What I found quite interesting is that they're planning to save something like 15bn a year in austerity measures, but something like 10-12bn of that will go on interest! So they'll only be managing to pay back 3bn each year at best! Crazy.
I tend to do something like:
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -p TCP --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -m limit --limit 5/min
to limit bruteforce attempts. Of course, this does open you up a little to someone DoSing your SSH, but you could always stick some specific IPs in there two which aren't rate-limited.
I'm still running my 2k install from 2001, soon to be retired though. It's been through several different PCs and is still fine. Only app that i've ever been told by the installer it can't run is MSN messenger - so I just used an opensource MSN app.
Somewhat unfortunately, I agree. Having fairly recently been a student at a UK city academy, AND afterwards been the IT admin in more than one, they tend to spend a massive amount of money on tech, for which the majority of teachers have no idea how to use. If anything the budget should be split in half, and half go to tech, and half go to teaching people how to use it. Hundreds of thousands spent on interactive whiteboards is pointless if no one has any idea how to use them.
In addition, computers ARE very distracting, even if they are locked down to hell. At least with a textbook I can't spend half my lesson trying to get around the lockdowns, or seeing what internet pages weren't blocked, or reading slashdot. I think there is quite a niche in the market for education software that isn't quite covered or well known yet. An easy way to cusomise web use for a lesson would be a start, rather than global blocking - "for this lesson this bunch of PCs in this classroom can only access this webpage, and this application" would be a neat feature. I'm sure it's available somewhere, but it's not well known and probably not free (unless you want to be scripting it yourself - this needs to be something a teacher can do).
Anyway blabbering - as a UK taxpayer, I too would like some more thought to go into the way school IT is run, maybe a government policy, but without stifling those schools which actually have good IT techs who spend wisely (few and far between).
Haha you joke, but I've actually opened a cabinet before to find a broken fibre taped up with a note on it saying 'inline splice, don't touch'. If you nudged it, the connection went down! Quality.
I've always made a point of buying the GTA titles as I enjoyed them so much, even if I didn't play them loads, but if this is in the pay for version, I'll more than likely just get the DRM free download... it isn't worth the hassle.
I've still never seen an implementation of wimax that actually meets the specification. I work in a small ISP deploying 'wimax' branded alvarion radios, but they sure as hell don't transmit through buildings/objects like 3G might. They're still very much LoS dependant. They also suffer greatly from interference once your number of available channels run out (particularly in the UK). We started off with 2.4GHz radios, moved to 5.8GHz, and now we're having to move everything again to 5.4GHz purely due to interference from other operators. That said, when in good LoS they operate at up to 15Km plus, so 400m does sound odd unless your channel space is heavily congested/contested.
And this is what annoys me the most. It's annoying that we have to go through this whole validation thing, but when you phone up and are just given the code anyway without giving any explanation, you just think, so what exactly is the point anyway?
Indeed, slow news day? What's the fuss here? Anyone that has worked with computers or electronics for any length of time will have seen something like this. These things are complicated and sometimes they go wrong, nothing new. I've had sparks and flames from PSU's many times when they have failed, unless it is happening on a daily basis to the same bit of kit, it is just part and parcel of the technology.
Change your apt sources to testing and apt-get dist-upgrade. Testing is adequately stable for the majority of needs. Half the problems people have with debian are due to them not knowing about debian.
What benefit do you gain from 3 layers of NAT and 2 proxies other than a ton of lag? A single well configured version of each should surely be sufficient.
Yup and with BGP routes would swap over eventually if a link was broken. Unfortunately though, we rely too much on DNS which is a fairly fragile infrastructure to say the least.
True. I also think it would help to have better systems in place to detect, locate and inform the owners of bottified machines... or at least for the ISP to place some kind of restricted service on machines which are known bots until they are sorted out (no outgoing connections to port 25, for example).
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Sorry but these days it does, that battle is lost. The common lexicon doesn't wait around for the old school.
You realise the Queen has no real power over policy/government these days right? She's a figurehead. Your post reads like you think she's running the show!
I have to agree, Slashdot articles is getting more and more cryptic and the editing is non existent! Not even the smallest attempt at explaining what is being referenced. It's a summary for a reason, you should only need to Google if you want more information, not to find out what the hell it's talking about! Maybe that's part of the fun?
I've seen a few already today!
www.facebook.com has IPv6 address 2620:0:1c18:0:face:b00c::
cisco.v6day.akadns.net has IPv6 address 2001:420:80:1:c:15c0:d06:f00d
www.luns.net.uk has IPv6 address 2a01:8900:0:1::b00b:1e5
www.bbc.net.uk has IPv6 address 2001:4b10:bbc::1
Does v6 kick off 'IP addresses as a marketing tool'? :)
What I found quite interesting is that they're planning to save something like 15bn a year in austerity measures, but something like 10-12bn of that will go on interest! So they'll only be managing to pay back 3bn each year at best! Crazy.
So why did we move from centralised mainframes with dumb terminals to having the power at the edge hosts?
Whoops yeah that wouldn't work against this attack, didn't realise we were talking about such low frequency attempts!
I tend to do something like: iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -p TCP --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -m limit --limit 5/min to limit bruteforce attempts. Of course, this does open you up a little to someone DoSing your SSH, but you could always stick some specific IPs in there two which aren't rate-limited.
I'm still running my 2k install from 2001, soon to be retired though. It's been through several different PCs and is still fine. Only app that i've ever been told by the installer it can't run is MSN messenger - so I just used an opensource MSN app.
Somewhat unfortunately, I agree. Having fairly recently been a student at a UK city academy, AND afterwards been the IT admin in more than one, they tend to spend a massive amount of money on tech, for which the majority of teachers have no idea how to use. If anything the budget should be split in half, and half go to tech, and half go to teaching people how to use it. Hundreds of thousands spent on interactive whiteboards is pointless if no one has any idea how to use them. In addition, computers ARE very distracting, even if they are locked down to hell. At least with a textbook I can't spend half my lesson trying to get around the lockdowns, or seeing what internet pages weren't blocked, or reading slashdot. I think there is quite a niche in the market for education software that isn't quite covered or well known yet. An easy way to cusomise web use for a lesson would be a start, rather than global blocking - "for this lesson this bunch of PCs in this classroom can only access this webpage, and this application" would be a neat feature. I'm sure it's available somewhere, but it's not well known and probably not free (unless you want to be scripting it yourself - this needs to be something a teacher can do). Anyway blabbering - as a UK taxpayer, I too would like some more thought to go into the way school IT is run, maybe a government policy, but without stifling those schools which actually have good IT techs who spend wisely (few and far between).
Haha you joke, but I've actually opened a cabinet before to find a broken fibre taped up with a note on it saying 'inline splice, don't touch'. If you nudged it, the connection went down! Quality.
I've always made a point of buying the GTA titles as I enjoyed them so much, even if I didn't play them loads, but if this is in the pay for version, I'll more than likely just get the DRM free download... it isn't worth the hassle.
Use the virgin media mirror, they don't throttle that ;)
I've still never seen an implementation of wimax that actually meets the specification. I work in a small ISP deploying 'wimax' branded alvarion radios, but they sure as hell don't transmit through buildings/objects like 3G might. They're still very much LoS dependant. They also suffer greatly from interference once your number of available channels run out (particularly in the UK). We started off with 2.4GHz radios, moved to 5.8GHz, and now we're having to move everything again to 5.4GHz purely due to interference from other operators. That said, when in good LoS they operate at up to 15Km plus, so 400m does sound odd unless your channel space is heavily congested/contested.
And this is what annoys me the most. It's annoying that we have to go through this whole validation thing, but when you phone up and are just given the code anyway without giving any explanation, you just think, so what exactly is the point anyway?
Indeed, slow news day? What's the fuss here? Anyone that has worked with computers or electronics for any length of time will have seen something like this. These things are complicated and sometimes they go wrong, nothing new. I've had sparks and flames from PSU's many times when they have failed, unless it is happening on a daily basis to the same bit of kit, it is just part and parcel of the technology.
Doo doo doobie doo. Oh sorry, what?
You're just about as useless as jpegs to Hellen Keller.
Change your apt sources to testing and apt-get dist-upgrade. Testing is adequately stable for the majority of needs. Half the problems people have with debian are due to them not knowing about debian.
What benefit do you gain from 3 layers of NAT and 2 proxies other than a ton of lag? A single well configured version of each should surely be sufficient.
Ahh good old NHS.
Perhaps running a DCHP server is why you are still small.
Yup and with BGP routes would swap over eventually if a link was broken. Unfortunately though, we rely too much on DNS which is a fairly fragile infrastructure to say the least.
True. I also think it would help to have better systems in place to detect, locate and inform the owners of bottified machines... or at least for the ISP to place some kind of restricted service on machines which are known bots until they are sorted out (no outgoing connections to port 25, for example).
Ah ok, yeah, I think I only did that because the mac I was using only seemed to have one sata connector.