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IPv6 is Here
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When will Slashdot get an IPv6 address. Everything supports it - DNS, Apache, etc, nd all they need is to either get an IPv6 tunnel from a broker (the cheap option), or get their ISP to let them have it natively.
I went to an interesting seminar where Vint Cerf was speaking, and one of his passions is the Interplanetary Network. There are some big problems to overcome when you're thinking that packets will take years to arrive. Anyway, lots of the nameservers and mailservers that I use are already running v6. When will Slashdot do it, being the pioneering geek site that it is?
People at work ask me if I watch the traffic through the firewall, or read their emails. I tell them "No - there are things I just wouldn't want to know."
This is what I wonder. Why don't Sendmail, Apache, etc try and grab patents so that there is the chance of a counter attack, if Microsoft started to try and enforce patents that it held?
Religion is terrible
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Game with God
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Mod me down if you're religious, up if you're not.
We don't care about your actual facts for Windows - here at Slashdot we have FUD, rumour, and downright persistence. I think you will find if you read up on it more closely that 2003 Datacentre can only support up to 2 CPUs, and 256Mb maximum.
Please stop letting facts get in the way of a good MS bashing session.
Thus, you may very well have the same number of successes in the same amount of time even if your hit rate is much lower.
Yes, but without flooding the network with easily noticeable packets.
I might miss one packet on port 139 in the midst of normal traffic. But when it is 95% of the traffic, it shows up really easily on tcpdump.
I think worms should be more intelligent about how they find other hosts. Assuming they're looking for Windows machines, what about trying the following?
Local subnet
NBTSTAT -C
NETSTAT
Looking for \\ in the registry.
RIP/OSPF packets?
RFC 1918 address ranges (less chance of hitting IDS/firewalls on the edge of the networks)
Finally, maybe a few days after exploring these ranges, start looking for random hosts, but excluding the large chunks of address spce that are unassigned.
I think it should only scan, and change files between 3 and 7 am, to minimise the chance of a network admin wondering what the traffic was.
Unfortunately, it will move to click through pages.
Several sites I visit randomly spring an advert on you when you are trying to move from one page to the next. You don't know when they will do it, and you have to find the "Continue" button to carry on. Gits.
There is no such thing as "enough". Whatever profit you make in any given year must be bested the next year or you are a failure.
And doesn't that suck. To my mind, if you make enough money to pay the bills, the staff, buy all the new offices/computers/whatever that you need, and you have 1 left over, then you're OK.
Dickens said something like: Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
And that makes sense. As long as a company is earning 1 more than it needs to spend to keep the company happy, and profitable, it's OK.
One thing that should be present on EVERY Linux distro. Some kind of GUI app for setting up X.
I don't know. XGUISetup, which tries to work out what card you have, and tests it out. XF86Config setting up is silly and painful.
From what I understand, it is the fact that you configure your system to never build packages with support for a, b, and c, and with support for x, y, and z.
No point building mozilla with GTK2 support if you don't need it, is there? Or Samba with any of the following with question-marks:
It's the fact that you get packages on your system that match the settings you set before, not the fact you can compile every package with -fomit-frame-pointer that gives Gentoo its strength.
But this is just me, I don't run a server. If I did, I'd probably run a binary distro like Debian...
Why? I run servers - firewalls, DNS servers, mail servers, file servers, web servers on Gentoo. You just only update when you a: need new functionality, or b: when there is a security vuln in one of your packages. Gentoo is excellent for servers.
calum@fw calum $ uprecords # Uptime | System Boot up
1 99 days, 07:45:50 | Linux 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 Mon Nov 3 09:19:14 2003 -> 2 98 days, 17:24:21 | Linux 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 Sat Mar 27 15:58:05 2004 3 43 days, 03:56:52 | Linux 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 Wed Feb 11 09:10:08 2004 4 23 days, 00:39:52 | Linux 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 Wed Oct 8 17:27:12 2003 5 1 day , 03:43:36 | Linux 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 Thu Mar 25 13:15:25 2004
no1 in 0 days, 14:21:30 | at Mon Jul 5 00:43:26 2004 calum@fw calum $
Some pretty good uptimes there. (We've had unexpected power failures. And yes, we have a UPS. And a redundant UPS. Don't ask me.)
Why don't Apache play dirty in the Microsoft do (don't flame me, read some sites), and include a robots.txt in their distribution that blocks Microsoft spiders. If IIS ran 60% of websites, I'm sure they'd "leverage", and "innovate" to "protect users" in a similiarly underhanded way.
I've got a better idea for a T-shirt - "I read your SMSs and listen to your voicemail".
Disclaimer: Although I work for a mobile telco, I don't do this. However, the UK government might.. The guy in that story works for the same company I do too.
Slashdot Mirror
When will Slashdot get an IPv6 address. Everything supports it - DNS, Apache, etc, nd all they need is to either get an IPv6 tunnel from a broker (the cheap option), or get their ISP to let them have it natively.
I went to an interesting seminar where Vint Cerf was speaking, and one of his passions is the Interplanetary Network. There are some big problems to overcome when you're thinking that packets will take years to arrive.
Anyway, lots of the nameservers and mailservers that I use are already running v6. When will Slashdot do it, being the pioneering geek site that it is?
People at work ask me if I watch the traffic through the firewall, or read their emails. I tell them "No - there are things I just wouldn't want to know."
This is what I wonder. Why don't Sendmail, Apache, etc try and grab patents so that there is the chance of a counter attack, if Microsoft started to try and enforce patents that it held?
Mod me down if you're religious, up if you're not.
I've never looked at the Zend/PHP licence, but I assume that people would just fork PHP from the moment before the sellout occured.
I still get my internet access at 1200 baud via Sputnik, tovarishi.
We don't care about your actual facts for Windows - here at Slashdot we have FUD, rumour, and downright persistence. I think you will find if you read up on it more closely that 2003 Datacentre can only support up to 2 CPUs, and 256Mb maximum.
Please stop letting facts get in the way of a good MS bashing session.
Minister for Dis-Information.
Ik wil een ham en kaas brodje, aub. Oh, en een blikje cola, ook. Dank U wel. :)
It's all those iPods that the techies bring in.
I should think those people going to Oxford can afford 500.
Yes, but without flooding the network with easily noticeable packets.
I might miss one packet on port 139 in the midst of normal traffic. But when it is 95% of the traffic, it shows up really easily on tcpdump.
I think worms should be more intelligent about how they find other hosts. Assuming they're looking for Windows machines, what about trying the following?
Local subnet
NBTSTAT -C
NETSTAT
Looking for \\ in the registry.
RIP/OSPF packets?
RFC 1918 address ranges (less chance of hitting IDS/firewalls on the edge of the networks)
Finally, maybe a few days after exploring these ranges, start looking for random hosts, but excluding the large chunks of address spce that are unassigned.
I think it should only scan, and change files between 3 and 7 am, to minimise the chance of a network admin wondering what the traffic was.
Unfortunately, it will move to click through pages.
Several sites I visit randomly spring an advert on you when you are trying to move from one page to the next. You don't know when they will do it, and you have to find the "Continue" button to carry on. Gits.
Grr. No-one understands what I meant.
I prefer to just block images by right clicking them, and kill off flash with flashblock.mozdev.org. That, coupled with no popups makes surfing fun.
And doesn't that suck. To my mind, if you make enough money to pay the bills, the staff, buy all the new offices/computers/whatever that you need, and you have 1 left over, then you're OK.
Dickens said something like: Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
And that makes sense. As long as a company is earning 1 more than it needs to spend to keep the company happy, and profitable, it's OK.
One thing that should be present on EVERY Linux distro. Some kind of GUI app for setting up X.
I don't know. XGUISetup, which tries to work out what card you have, and tests it out. XF86Config setting up is silly and painful.
No point building mozilla with GTK2 support if you don't need it, is there? Or Samba with any of the following with question-marks:It's the fact that you get packages on your system that match the settings you set before, not the fact you can compile every package with -fomit-frame-pointer that gives Gentoo its strength.
Is strange your surname, or a description? :)
Why? I run servers - firewalls, DNS servers, mail servers, file servers, web servers on Gentoo. You just only update when you a: need new functionality, or b: when there is a security vuln in one of your packages. Gentoo is excellent for servers.
Some pretty good uptimes there. (We've had unexpected power failures. And yes, we have a UPS. And a redundant UPS. Don't ask me.)
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Why don't Apache play dirty in the Microsoft do (don't flame me, read some sites), and include a robots.txt in their distribution that blocks Microsoft spiders. If IIS ran 60% of websites, I'm sure they'd "leverage", and "innovate" to "protect users" in a similiarly underhanded way.
I've got a better idea for a T-shirt - "I read your SMSs and listen to your voicemail".
Disclaimer: Although I work for a mobile telco, I don't do this. However, the UK government might.. The guy in that story works for the same company I do too.