Nmap is definitely a step in the right direction, but that would only handle the port scanning. AFAIK, nmap doesn't know how to parse SSL certificates. While nmap could probably be helpful in port scanning for services running on port 433, it's definitely not a complete solution.
Really you need to find a programmer to do this for you. With a budget of $10,000 I'm sure that you could get a decent crawler, and if you shop around a bit you could certainly get it done for less. There are a lot of consultants who do this for a living, and I wouldn't be surprised if you had someone with the requisite skills in-house. I would talk to the people around you and find a solid programmer who also knows a thing or two about networking and SSL certs.
If you'd like to contract the job out, contact me via e-mail through contact at biosysadmin.com and I'd be happy to give you a quote.
It looks like the writers of the virus DOS'ed themselves (from the aformentioned Yahoo! article):
Bagle also tries to download an unknown program from one of more than 30 Web sites located mostly in Germany and Russia. None of those Web sites was reachable as of Monday afternoon.
Or is it more likely that these servers in Russia and Germany were also hacked and were just being used?
In any rate, this doesn't look so bad. The searchsecurity.com article says that "Removing the worm manually is just a matter of killing "bbeagle.exe" in the Task Manager. The registry keys created by the worm also need to be removed." Hopefully this one won't be as bad as Sobig.:)
How can paying more for a system that doesn't perform as well as comparable hardware be "more efficient?" The primary drive is an IDE drive with only a 2MB cache. You're right, Solaris 8 is definitely a weird choice considering that 9 has been out for so long.
Also, are there really that many pieces of good software that only run on Solaris these days?
It's unfortunate but not unexpected that they wouldn't advertise about free alternatives to their paid support, they probably consider up2date a valuable part of their business model.
There's a simple solution to this problem: we'll have the big five charge consumers twice the price of a DRM CD because they're getting twice the product.
It's good to see Israel encouraging competition (from the Yahoo Article:
"Seeking to cut costs, the Finance Ministry recently said it would not purchase new software from Microsoft this year.
It also said it would encourage the development of lower-priced alternatives. To that end, it is cooperating with Sun Microsystems (NasdaqNM:SUNW - News) and IBM (NYSE:IBM - News) to design a Hebrew language version of OpenOffice software, a freely distributed open-source alternative to Office."
After all of the anticompetitive and unethical behavior that we've seen out of Microsoft, I think that they deserve this. Especially after their I'm glad that Israel is standing firm on this. Netscape may be dead, but perhaps we've learned some lessons on how to effectively deal with an unethical monopoly.
When did parents stop taking responsibility for the games that their children play, the cd's that their children listen to, and the movies that their children watch? In my opinion, a game is free speech, and should therefore be protected under the First Amendment.
To quote the Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
Lyx is how I do what you're talking about. It's a WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) document processor, and it's great. I use it to write term papers, HOWTO documents, and lots of other stuff. You can export your document to many different formats, including HTML, PDF, plain text and Postscript.
You should try it out, I really like it.
That's true, but one of the advantages of this approach that's mentioned in the article is the ability to sync up files from your home directory to any random machine that you may be working on.
This is also the reason Linux was not a good choice for our system -- it doesn't make sense to put XFS/ext3/ReiserFS drives into a USB2.0/Firewire external box.
After skimming the article, I have some questions:
Why does it not make sense to put a journaling filesystem in an external box?
Why not just use ext2 if they don't want a journaling filesystem?
Do they mention their choice of OS anywhere else in the article?
To me, this read more like an advertisement for some of the latest and greatest in computer technology than a real article on building a 1TB fileserver from commodity parts. For example:
"For this application we'll use an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 128MB card to stay within budget. No one should mistake this card for a 3D powerhouse though; it is among the slowest 3D cards on the market -- fast enough for us, but slow compared to the other NVIDIA and ATI offerings. Most "servers" do with an integrated graphics chip like an ATI Rage XL or less.
Cost: $70 with free t-shirt or hat"
Why the heck would you need a fileserver to support "at least 1024x768 resolution" and have "good drivers?" Are you actually going to be using it as a workstation?
I just read the article posted, and it doesn't appear to have a single relevant statistics. I feel like I gained three pieces of information from this article:
There are people out there whose minds are so closed off to change that they don't even know how ridiculous they sound.
Howard Strauss could use an education in deductive logic. This article totally failed to substantiate any of the claims that it made. I've heard more coherent arguments from Rush Limbaugh.
Strauss could also stand to learn a thing or two about the way that the software industry works. How does gaining the source code to an application give up the "project planning, quality control, coding standards, accountability, version control, and support" of proprietary software? Does he really think that proprietary software companies are willing to employ best practices at the expense of their bottom line?
I am extremely grateful to the Princeton financial aid department for not matching the offers that I received from other colleges. I could have ended up taking a class from this tool.
I don't really have a problem with high ratings in book reviews on Slashdot these days, it seems likely that the reviewer really does think that the book deserves 9/10. I think that the lack of low reviews means that people aren't willing to invest resources in buying, reading and reviewing a book that they don't like. I personally will never finish a book that strikes me as low quality. I would also never review a book that I haven't finished.
Judging books before really reading the entire thing is much easier than it sounds. It's very easy to go down to Narnes and Boble and flip through a book and assess it's value within a couple of minutes.
To me, book reviews like this present book reviews to me that I might be interested in. If you really have that much of a problem with the reviews, go find a crappy book yourself and review it.:)
VeriSign has announced that votes cast for a candidate whose name isn't on the ballot will result in a redirect to VeriSign's new "Candidate Finder" service.
"Yeah, all of these security problems are there because the... N... S... A? Yeah, the NSA asked us to put them in." -- Discussion about submitting a story to Slashdot at a Microsoft PR Board Meeting
Using a method of buffering output at both ends and transferring only changes across sounds a lot like the Rsync algorithm. It seems like using a buffer at both ends and rsyncing everything over ssh would be a natural way to approach this, are there any open source projects that have tried it?
In my opinion, go with Linux. You'll generally get more bang for your buck than with Solaris workstations. Unless you've already invested a great deal in classes based on Solaris, I strongly recommend Linux.
I actually run a much smaller lab of 12 workstations of Sun Ultra 5's, and we're running Aurora Linux (link). In my opinion, we'd be much more happy with Intel hardware running Linux, it's more upgradeable (our lab was set up in 2000 and the computers are already too slow to run applications like Mozilla). The main reason that we're running Aurora is that we know and like RedHat Linux, and nobody ever liked working on CDE.
Perhaps things have changed since Solaris 8, but I truly think that Linux is the way to go for a situation like this. Perhaps you could compromise go with Sun boxes for your fileservers and other servers that you set up in the future.
Your little brother doesn't care that he's feeding a monopoly by buying that 50 Cent CD, and your sister doesn't give a damn that buying the new Justin Timberlake disc is feeding the RIAA's legal-enforcement hit squad.
"50 Cent CD" is a cruel joke, considering the context of the discussion.
Rob Owen, a retired clown, and two other riders surged up Mount Washington at 12.5 mph, the AP reports.
Did all three of them ride the same scooter? Can a clown who rides up a mountain with two other guys on an underpowered scooter in very unpleasant weather really be called "retired"? Or is this his "coming out of retirement" show?
Good thing it's not April 1st, or else I never would have believed this.:)
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Nmap is definitely a step in the right direction, but that would only handle the port scanning. AFAIK, nmap doesn't know how to parse SSL certificates. While nmap could probably be helpful in port scanning for services running on port 433, it's definitely not a complete solution.
:)
Really you need to find a programmer to do this for you. With a budget of $10,000 I'm sure that you could get a decent crawler, and if you shop around a bit you could certainly get it done for less. There are a lot of consultants who do this for a living, and I wouldn't be surprised if you had someone with the requisite skills in-house. I would talk to the people around you and find a solid programmer who also knows a thing or two about networking and SSL certs.
If you'd like to contract the job out, contact me via e-mail through contact at biosysadmin.com and I'd be happy to give you a quote.
What the heck would a lawyer working for SCO do with a product? Find a superior product in the marketplace and threaten to sue anyone who bought it?
Unless something outrageous happens in the courts, this company is already dead.
It looks like the writers of the virus DOS'ed themselves (from the aformentioned Yahoo! article):
:)
Bagle also tries to download an unknown program from one of more than 30 Web sites located mostly in Germany and Russia. None of those Web sites was reachable as of Monday afternoon.
Or is it more likely that these servers in Russia and Germany were also hacked and were just being used?
In any rate, this doesn't look so bad. The searchsecurity.com article says that "Removing the worm manually is just a matter of killing "bbeagle.exe" in the Task Manager. The registry keys created by the worm also need to be removed." Hopefully this one won't be as bad as Sobig.
For example, while you might post your address as:
user@NOSPAM.domain.com
I may post mine as
user2@no_spam_damnit.domain.com
To me, using relatively simple tricks like this to make the job of a spammer harder is definitely worthwile.
How can paying more for a system that doesn't perform as well as comparable hardware be "more efficient?" The primary drive is an IDE drive with only a 2MB cache. You're right, Solaris 8 is definitely a weird choice considering that 9 has been out for so long.
Also, are there really that many pieces of good software that only run on Solaris these days?
Here's a link to the patent.
So, anyone have a website log or e-mail from before November 23,1999?
It's unfortunate but not unexpected that they wouldn't advertise about free alternatives to their paid support, they probably consider up2date a valuable part of their business model.
How long will Fedora be providing RPMs for RedHat 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0?
There's a simple solution to this problem: we'll have the big five charge consumers twice the price of a DRM CD because they're getting twice the product.
How's that for added value?
It's good to see Israel encouraging competition (from the Yahoo Article:
"Seeking to cut costs, the Finance Ministry recently said it would not purchase new software from Microsoft this year.
It also said it would encourage the development of lower-priced alternatives. To that end, it is cooperating with Sun Microsystems (NasdaqNM:SUNW - News) and IBM (NYSE:IBM - News) to design a Hebrew language version of OpenOffice software, a freely distributed open-source alternative to Office."
After all of the anticompetitive and unethical behavior that we've seen out of Microsoft, I think that they deserve this. Especially after their I'm glad that Israel is standing firm on this. Netscape may be dead, but perhaps we've learned some lessons on how to effectively deal with an unethical monopoly.
Something about your post reminded me of an old joke:
:P
Q: What's the difference between pornography and art?
A: A government grant.
When did parents stop taking responsibility for the games that their children play, the cd's that their children listen to, and the movies that their children watch? In my opinion, a game is free speech, and should therefore be protected under the First Amendment.
To quote the Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
Lyx is how I do what you're talking about. It's a WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) document processor, and it's great. I use it to write term papers, HOWTO documents, and lots of other stuff. You can export your document to many different formats, including HTML, PDF, plain text and Postscript. You should try it out, I really like it.
That's true, but one of the advantages of this approach that's mentioned in the article is the ability to sync up files from your home directory to any random machine that you may be working on.
This is also the reason Linux was not a good choice for our system -- it doesn't make sense to put XFS/ext3/ReiserFS drives into a USB2.0/Firewire external box.
After skimming the article, I have some questions:
- Why does it not make sense to put a journaling filesystem in an external box?
- Why not just use ext2 if they don't want a journaling filesystem?
- Do they mention their choice of OS anywhere else in the article?
To me, this read more like an advertisement for some of the latest and greatest in computer technology than a real article on building a 1TB fileserver from commodity parts. For example:"For this application we'll use an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 128MB card to stay within budget. No one should mistake this card for a 3D powerhouse though; it is among the slowest 3D cards on the market -- fast enough for us, but slow compared to the other NVIDIA and ATI offerings. Most "servers" do with an integrated graphics chip like an ATI Rage XL or less.
Cost: $70 with free t-shirt or hat"
Why the heck would you need a fileserver to support "at least 1024x768 resolution" and have "good drivers?" Are you actually going to be using it as a workstation?
I don't really have a problem with high ratings in book reviews on Slashdot these days, it seems likely that the reviewer really does think that the book deserves 9/10. I think that the lack of low reviews means that people aren't willing to invest resources in buying, reading and reviewing a book that they don't like. I personally will never finish a book that strikes me as low quality. I would also never review a book that I haven't finished.
:)
Judging books before really reading the entire thing is much easier than it sounds. It's very easy to go down to Narnes and Boble and flip through a book and assess it's value within a couple of minutes.
To me, book reviews like this present book reviews to me that I might be interested in. If you really have that much of a problem with the reviews, go find a crappy book yourself and review it.
"Get your own 'starter configuration' for only $90,000!"
:P
Can I get $10,000 if I include some Cracker Jack box tops? If not, I'm ordering a petabyte-capacity storage tank for sea monkeys.
VeriSign has announced that votes cast for a candidate whose name isn't on the ballot will result in a redirect to VeriSign's new "Candidate Finder" service.
:)
"Yeah, all of these security problems are there because the ... N ... S ... A? Yeah, the NSA asked us to put them in." -- Discussion about submitting a story to Slashdot at a Microsoft PR Board Meeting
Using a method of buffering output at both ends and transferring only changes across sounds a lot like the Rsync algorithm. It seems like using a buffer at both ends and rsyncing everything over ssh would be a natural way to approach this, are there any open source projects that have tried it?
In my opinion, go with Linux. You'll generally get more bang for your buck than with Solaris workstations. Unless you've already invested a great deal in classes based on Solaris, I strongly recommend Linux.
I actually run a much smaller lab of 12 workstations of Sun Ultra 5's, and we're running Aurora Linux (link). In my opinion, we'd be much more happy with Intel hardware running Linux, it's more upgradeable (our lab was set up in 2000 and the computers are already too slow to run applications like Mozilla). The main reason that we're running Aurora is that we know and like RedHat Linux, and nobody ever liked working on CDE.
Perhaps things have changed since Solaris 8, but I truly think that Linux is the way to go for a situation like this. Perhaps you could compromise go with Sun boxes for your fileservers and other servers that you set up in the future.
Your little brother doesn't care that he's feeding a monopoly by buying that 50 Cent CD, and your sister doesn't give a damn that buying the new Justin Timberlake disc is feeding the RIAA's legal-enforcement hit squad.
:)
"50 Cent CD" is a cruel joke, considering the context of the discussion.
Are there any Linux solutions that do this? Is IBM planning to release any of the Lotus software for Linux?
Rob Owen, a retired clown, and two other riders surged up Mount Washington at 12.5 mph, the AP reports.
:)
Did all three of them ride the same scooter? Can a clown who rides up a mountain with two other guys on an underpowered scooter in very unpleasant weather really be called "retired"? Or is this his "coming out of retirement" show?
Good thing it's not April 1st, or else I never would have believed this.