And what surprises you about this. A large corporation is lobbying both politically and publicly in favor of a position that supports its own interest and is contrary to the general public's interest. This is surprising? This is news?
Here's a news flash. Whining about SBC on Slashdot will have zero effect on this issue. ZERO There is, as yet, no law stopping you from putting up your own website and running your own television "propaganda" campaign on the matter.
What's more is that SBC is at least partly correct when they state that it is unfair that some providers, such as themselves, are regulated while others, such as any new comer, are not. It is unfair. I'm sure you aren't going to lose any sleep over SBC's losses, and neither am I but, if it were you that was being prejudiced against, you'd be crying the blues and singing another story completely.
More than anything else, even more than Microsoft, closed drivers will be the downfall of Linux and open source. First they lock you in and then they rip the rug from under you.
Drivers are too low level and critical to the entire OS. Drivers aren't like some accounting app that you can get by without. When the ATI and nVidia say, we can't be bothered with writing Linux drivers anymore, but we still won't open the source, what are you going to do?
OK, I'm not trying to troll here but, can someone please explain to me what the sudden infatuation with Ubuntu is? I tried Ubuntu. It was OK. Nothing stupendous but OK. It wasn't so good as to make me want to switch from any other distro.
Why the hell is everyone so totally infatuated with Ubuntu. It seems to have eclipsed Gentoo, so far as fan boys and that just seems ridiculous.
The only people who won't get your mail are the people who CHOSE to use a particular RBL.
Ah ha!! You just hit the nail on the head, so to speak. The supposed recipient's provider/administrator is the one that is causing the blockage, no one else.
You will notice that there are two points of view in this story's comments. Those that are viamately opposed to RBL's and those that are in favor of them.
The people that are for them, such as yourself, are the network operators that are tired of dealing with the constant onslaught of spam and the complaints that it generates, not to mention the resources that it consumes.
The ones that are opposed to RBL's are the "site operators" and business owners. They are upset because their business critical emails and "news letters" are blocked, supposedly unreasonably. They fail to realize that regardless of the fact that they feel their emails and "news letters" are of critical importance, they are in fact only important to them. Everyone else, including their beloved customers, thinks those emails are spam! They are the reason that the other group started using an RBL!
For those senders of emails to people who actually subscribed to their lists, I pose a challenge. Every three months, send a message to your subscribers telling them that they will be unsubcribed and that they must opt-in again to continue to receive the "all important news letters". Most of you will never do this. But, if you did, you probably won't be surprised to find that your subscriber list shrinks drastically. Hey CNN, give it a shot!
I for one am probably going to block the entire countries of croatia, hungary, china, and korea pretty soon.
Most of my US customers have a list of country domains that are blocked. It works very well for them. in fact, I have only had one customer where this was a problem because.de was being blocked.
Removing the distribution layer is perfectly possible. The main requirement though, is having sufficient processing power and redundancy on the core to handle the access layer's connections.
Basically, if you eliminate distribution, you have to have a lot more processing power and lots more ports in the core. Depending on the network's size and distribution it will probably be more costly to build such a robust core. Also, don't forget that this thing is certain to grow. Can it scale easily and cost effectively with the more robust core? There will come a point that it will not scale effectively and the distribution layer will have to be introduced.
What's the point in spending several times the develeopment effort on making it work properly instead of adding polish or just doing new stuff?
What's the point of making it work properly?!?!? Surely you have mis-spoken here.
Let's play a game. Let's suppose a bunch of little apps for which speed is not a critical factor for any one of them. As a forinstance, look at all those apps presently running in the system tray. Let's suppose that those apps are written badly or are written in inefficient languages. That shouldn't be too much of a stretch.
Now, let's try to do something. Whether you are trying to run a realtime application like desktop video conferencing or create a document in a word processor, it doesn't really matter. What ever it is that you try will be a struggle because the system's resources (CPU cycles, memory, swap space) are consumed by all those "noncritical" apps and their inefficiencies. A 1Ghz processor with 1 gig of RAM is no longer adequate? That's ridiculous! And yet, that is where we are at today.
Everyone seems to feel that their "Ultimate MP3 player" is the only app in the world or at least the only one that will ever be run on a machine. They don't think that speed and size are important. After all, they have a very powerful machine at their disposal with oodles of available resources, right?. They fail to realize that their program, no matter how wonderful, is only one of countless others that are all running at the same time and are required to share the resources. They fail to realize that their app may not be too slow when run by itself but, it becomes too slow when run with everything else.
Today, the preferred system is 3Ghz, 64bit, with at least 2 gigs of RAM. Why? What's the point of such a powerful system? Speed! That's the point. Speed is important. Code efficiency is important. But, as programmers continue to deny this and produce poorly written and bloated/slow apps or use inefficient languages, the time will come when a 6Ghz processor is not enough. Doesn't that sound stupid?
Anyone think that though nervous, the oil industry isn't too worried yet because despite the conspiracy theories, the real reasons that these systems haven't been adopted yet are because they are inconvenient, expensive as hell and terribly useful for anything beyond short trips. Plus there's the whole; "I'd rather have a V8" or "if it weighs less than 6,000 pounds, I'm not interested" mentality.
SARCASM Naw, your probably right. It's the Saudi oil cartel that is controlling the development of the automobile and exerting mind control on the consumer. That's what it is./SARCASM
Correct me if I am wrong but, I believe that these features rely on the reader for enforcement. That means that readers such as Ghost Script can ignore the "feature". This makes them non-trackable, printable and copyable, no?
RFC 1149 was unexpected, well thought out and original. These attributes are key elements in a good joke. RFC 1149 was damn funny.
All these others that have followed, including todays jewel, are cheap knockoff copies. They aren't original. They aren't unexpected. It could even be argued that they aren't well thought out. In other words they just are not funny.
Even if the first couple of knockoffs were funny, like any joke that is told too much, the become not funny over time. These are beyond not funny. RFC 1149 is still funny but all of these subsequent attempts are just lame. People should really know when to stop flogging a dead horse.
It's too bad that TFA completely fails to even provide a hint that this is what it is about. In fact, it is impossible to determine what you state from TFA or any of the links within it.
So use your "superior intellect" and create the appropriate "belief pattern" for the masses. I thought I was smart too but, since I haven't been able to "enlighten" any of the goobers either, I'm starting to question my "superior intellect."
Pay for it. Pay Symantec et al. Start another free project.
I think that what Snort and Nessus are doing is perfectly fair. Nessus seems to be reasonably priced but, I think that Snort is priced too high and will likely cause a rules community to develop, perhaps even a fork.
I'd have to ask, what size company are we talking about? What is the present and immediate future computing environment? Most of the answers that you'll see here are going to be from home users or REALLY small shops.
I haven't used Dan's Guardian as yet. So far, most companies that I have seen that want content control are medium sized(100 users and up). The majority of these are Windows shops so the use MS ISA/Symantec, Novell BorderManager/eTrust, or some hardware based firewall/proxy/filter for content control. They "can't be bothered" with hacking together their own solution.
I have numerous smaller companies(100 users) using Squid/ClamAV to protect the surfers and Postfix/ClamAV to protect the email with stellar results. Both solutions work well, are very fast and would likely scale to much higher loads if given the chance. I see no reason to doubt the capabilities of Dan's Guardian either, I just haven't used it in a corporate environment. But, with Dan's Guardian, the antivirus protection is actually from Squid/ClamAV which works great.
The list is barely active. There only a couple of posts per day with most of the questions going unanswered.
The latest version of Evolution that ships with the latest version of Novell Linux, SuSE 9.2 Professional, is Evolution 2.0.1.
Evolution 2.0.1 is a buggy version that fails to upgrade older message stores more often than not. Has a cappy interface compared to 1.x versions. Missing features that were available in 1.x New features do not work or are not complete.
I wish Miguel would drop the Mono mess and come back to Evolution. It has turned to crap!
The funny thing about this was that in the past and at last year's Brainshare, Novell had stated that they had no intention of competing directly against Windows. They even insinuated that attempting such competition was madness.
By the way. Joe Barr reported yesterday that SuSE 9.3 Professional will also include Beagle. Not that you can't download Beagle anyway.
I've seen it many times. Someone leaves an IIS default install exposed to the world without sufficient patches. A script kiddie opens them up with an FTP exploit. They then create a directory that is invisible to all, including the administrator, and is impossible to remove with the OS(I thought that was interesting when I first saw it). They then start uploading warez and posting the ip on warez web sites.
They haven't rooted the box, they just fill up the disk with warez because of unpatched holes in IIS FTP service. The disk space and bandwidth is owned but, nothing else.
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And what surprises you about this. A large corporation is lobbying both politically and publicly in favor of a position that supports its own interest and is contrary to the general public's interest. This is surprising? This is news?
Here's a news flash. Whining about SBC on Slashdot will have zero effect on this issue. ZERO There is, as yet, no law stopping you from putting up your own website and running your own television "propaganda" campaign on the matter.
What's more is that SBC is at least partly correct when they state that it is unfair that some providers, such as themselves, are regulated while others, such as any new comer, are not. It is unfair. I'm sure you aren't going to lose any sleep over SBC's losses, and neither am I but, if it were you that was being prejudiced against, you'd be crying the blues and singing another story completely.
More than anything else, even more than Microsoft, closed drivers will be the downfall of Linux and open source. First they lock you in and then they rip the rug from under you.
Drivers are too low level and critical to the entire OS. Drivers aren't like some accounting app that you can get by without. When the ATI and nVidia say, we can't be bothered with writing Linux drivers anymore, but we still won't open the source, what are you going to do?
See Bitkeeper...
OK, I'm not trying to troll here but, can someone please explain to me what the sudden infatuation with Ubuntu is? I tried Ubuntu. It was OK. Nothing stupendous but OK. It wasn't so good as to make me want to switch from any other distro.
Why the hell is everyone so totally infatuated with Ubuntu. It seems to have eclipsed Gentoo, so far as fan boys and that just seems ridiculous.
Remember, you're not lengthening the day - you're taking time from the morning and adding it to the evening.
Why is this so incomprehensible for so many people?
The only people who won't get your mail are the people who CHOSE to use a particular RBL.
.de was being blocked.
Ah ha!! You just hit the nail on the head, so to speak. The supposed recipient's provider/administrator is the one that is causing the blockage, no one else.
You will notice that there are two points of view in this story's comments. Those that are viamately opposed to RBL's and those that are in favor of them.
The people that are for them, such as yourself, are the network operators that are tired of dealing with the constant onslaught of spam and the complaints that it generates, not to mention the resources that it consumes.
The ones that are opposed to RBL's are the "site operators" and business owners. They are upset because their business critical emails and "news letters" are blocked, supposedly unreasonably. They fail to realize that regardless of the fact that they feel their emails and "news letters" are of critical importance, they are in fact only important to them. Everyone else, including their beloved customers, thinks those emails are spam! They are the reason that the other group started using an RBL!
For those senders of emails to people who actually subscribed to their lists, I pose a challenge. Every three months, send a message to your subscribers telling them that they will be unsubcribed and that they must opt-in again to continue to receive the "all important news letters". Most of you will never do this. But, if you did, you probably won't be surprised to find that your subscriber list shrinks drastically. Hey CNN, give it a shot!
I for one am probably going to block the entire countries of croatia, hungary, china, and korea pretty soon.
Most of my US customers have a list of country domains that are blocked. It works very well for them. in fact, I have only had one customer where this was a problem because
(2000+ employees) have one Cisco router in a rack somewhere and use consumer grade linksys or d-link 10/100 switches everywhere else.
If you have such a network, please post pictures. The Slashdot populace would LOVE to see that beast. Shudder
Looks like you win. See here.
Removing the distribution layer is perfectly possible. The main requirement though, is having sufficient processing power and redundancy on the core to handle the access layer's connections.
Basically, if you eliminate distribution, you have to have a lot more processing power and lots more ports in the core. Depending on the network's size and distribution it will probably be more costly to build such a robust core. Also, don't forget that this thing is certain to grow. Can it scale easily and cost effectively with the more robust core? There will come a point that it will not scale effectively and the distribution layer will have to be introduced.
What's the point in spending several times the develeopment effort on making it work properly instead of adding polish or just doing new stuff?
What's the point of making it work properly?!?!? Surely you have mis-spoken here.
Let's play a game. Let's suppose a bunch of little apps for which speed is not a critical factor for any one of them. As a forinstance, look at all those apps presently running in the system tray. Let's suppose that those apps are written badly or are written in inefficient languages. That shouldn't be too much of a stretch.
Now, let's try to do something. Whether you are trying to run a realtime application like desktop video conferencing or create a document in a word processor, it doesn't really matter. What ever it is that you try will be a struggle because the system's resources (CPU cycles, memory, swap space) are consumed by all those "noncritical" apps and their inefficiencies. A 1Ghz processor with 1 gig of RAM is no longer adequate? That's ridiculous! And yet, that is where we are at today.
Everyone seems to feel that their "Ultimate MP3 player" is the only app in the world or at least the only one that will ever be run on a machine. They don't think that speed and size are important. After all, they have a very powerful machine at their disposal with oodles of available resources, right?. They fail to realize that their program, no matter how wonderful, is only one of countless others that are all running at the same time and are required to share the resources. They fail to realize that their app may not be too slow when run by itself but, it becomes too slow when run with everything else.
Today, the preferred system is 3Ghz, 64bit, with at least 2 gigs of RAM. Why? What's the point of such a powerful system? Speed! That's the point. Speed is important. Code efficiency is important. But, as programmers continue to deny this and produce poorly written and bloated/slow apps or use inefficient languages, the time will come when a 6Ghz processor is not enough. Doesn't that sound stupid?
Anyone think that though nervous, the oil industry isn't too worried yet because despite the conspiracy theories, the real reasons that these systems haven't been adopted yet are because they are inconvenient, expensive as hell and terribly useful for anything beyond short trips. Plus there's the whole; "I'd rather have a V8" or "if it weighs less than 6,000 pounds, I'm not interested" mentality.
/SARCASM
SARCASM Naw, your probably right. It's the Saudi oil cartel that is controlling the development of the automobile and exerting mind control on the consumer. That's what it is.
Correct me if I am wrong but, I believe that these features rely on the reader for enforcement. That means that readers such as Ghost Script can ignore the "feature". This makes them non-trackable, printable and copyable, no?
RFC 1149 was unexpected, well thought out and original. These attributes are key elements in a good joke. RFC 1149 was damn funny.
All these others that have followed, including todays jewel, are cheap knockoff copies. They aren't original. They aren't unexpected. It could even be argued that they aren't well thought out. In other words they just are not funny.
Even if the first couple of knockoffs were funny, like any joke that is told too much, the become not funny over time. These are beyond not funny. RFC 1149 is still funny but all of these subsequent attempts are just lame. People should really know when to stop flogging a dead horse.
It's too bad that TFA completely fails to even provide a hint that this is what it is about. In fact, it is impossible to determine what you state from TFA or any of the links within it.
Jeffrey Lee Parson, of Minnesota, was sentenced this year to 18 months in prison and 10 hours of community service.
So what is the significance of all these other numbers?
Also, since when did Microsoft have the authority to impose sentences and fines on individuals?
I want brain control over a portable tesla coil, or maybe a Jacob's ladder.
Yes! I'm talking to you.
So use your "superior intellect" and create the appropriate "belief pattern" for the masses. I thought I was smart too but, since I haven't been able to "enlighten" any of the goobers either, I'm starting to question my "superior intellect."
Kahn.
They can do any of the following:
Pay for it.
Pay Symantec et al.
Start another free project.
I think that what Snort and Nessus are doing is perfectly fair. Nessus seems to be reasonably priced but, I think that Snort is priced too high and will likely cause a rules community to develop, perhaps even a fork.
The pictures were captured by the Phantom V7 camera at a rate of 47,000fps.
I wonder how long it will take to get a digital equivalent of this camera?
Kent! Where'd you put the giant bag of popcorn at?
I have numerous smaller companies(100 users) using
The above should have read: smaller companies(less than 100 users)
I can't get it to work even when using tt tags.
I'd have to ask, what size company are we talking about? What is the present and immediate future computing environment? Most of the answers that you'll see here are going to be from home users or REALLY small shops.
I haven't used Dan's Guardian as yet. So far, most companies that I have seen that want content control are medium sized(100 users and up). The majority of these are Windows shops so the use MS ISA/Symantec, Novell BorderManager/eTrust, or some hardware based firewall/proxy/filter for content control. They "can't be bothered" with hacking together their own solution.
I have numerous smaller companies(100 users) using Squid/ClamAV to protect the surfers and Postfix/ClamAV to protect the email with stellar results. Both solutions work well, are very fast and would likely scale to much higher loads if given the chance. I see no reason to doubt the capabilities of Dan's Guardian either, I just haven't used it in a corporate environment. But, with Dan's Guardian, the antivirus protection is actually from Squid/ClamAV which works great.
The list is barely active. There only a couple of posts per day with most of the questions going unanswered.
The latest version of Evolution that ships with the latest version of Novell Linux, SuSE 9.2 Professional, is Evolution 2.0.1.
Evolution 2.0.1 is a buggy version that fails to upgrade older message stores more often than not.
Has a cappy interface compared to 1.x versions.
Missing features that were available in 1.x
New features do not work or are not complete.
I wish Miguel would drop the Mono mess and come back to Evolution. It has turned to crap!
that it plans to compete directly with Windows.
The funny thing about this was that in the past and at last year's Brainshare, Novell had stated that they had no intention of competing directly against Windows. They even insinuated that attempting such competition was madness.
By the way. Joe Barr reported yesterday that SuSE 9.3 Professional will also include Beagle. Not that you can't download Beagle anyway.
I've seen it many times. Someone leaves an IIS default install exposed to the world without sufficient patches. A script kiddie opens them up with an FTP exploit. They then create a directory that is invisible to all, including the administrator, and is impossible to remove with the OS(I thought that was interesting when I first saw it). They then start uploading warez and posting the ip on warez web sites.
They haven't rooted the box, they just fill up the disk with warez because of unpatched holes in IIS FTP service. The disk space and bandwidth is owned but, nothing else.
Perhaps it's because they don't have anything under /inf/new/security/
It's just a guess though