Yep, running a Netgear Nighthawk but it's been running Tomato Shibby since day one. The feature set is way beyond anything in the stock firmware, and I don't have to worry about Netgear's incompetence.
So let's say you need core Java programmers in Charlotte, and can't find them. Now, under this law, you can't bring in people from Bangalore either. So are you likely to find them in SC or WV or AL?
They are not doing away with H1-B visas. The changes are designed to prevent situations like we've seen over and over lately where a company fires their entire IT department to outsource them to Wipro or the like who fill the positions with H1-Bs. That isn't what the program was supposed to be used for and it's being abused right now.
Lol how would I use login scripts to push out a host file to non-domain joined PCs? Also, you probably mean startup scripts since logon scripts a) run in user context so would not (unless you are an idiot) have the required rights to modify the hosts file and b) do NOT run at boot, they run at logon.
Also you CANNOT modify the host files on iOS without jailbreaking, so your solution is definitely not the easiest. Your solution is a giant fail, admit it.
And I didn't say I created it, ever. It is the solution I use, therefore it's "my solution".
And, again, it adds zero cost to my network since I ALREADY NEED A FIREWALL ANYWAY. The firmware is third party open source and costs nothing to install. The hardware I already need anyway. Only an idiot would run a network without an edge firewall. Relying on the OS firewall is asking for ownage.
Answer my question: How does your "solution" protect an iOS devices on the local network? Mine protects it, yours cannot. Ditto for game consoles, smart TVs (preventing phone-home data reporting), or new machines just booted.
Answer my question: How does your "solution" protect an iphone on the local network? Mine protects it, yours cannot. Ditto for game consoles, smart TVs (preventing phone-home data reporting), or new machines just booted.
Again, all a decade or more in the past. You went stale and you know it. As for me, I was too busy getting paid to do work at the enterprise level to be bothered with shilling myself to magazine articles or contests. 27 years and counting in my career. 18 years and already a has-been. That has to sting.
I noticed you are still avoiding my question: How does your "solution" protect an iphone on the local network? Mine protects it, yours cannot. Ditto for game consoles, smart TVs (preventing phone-home data reporting), or new machines just booted.
I sold my first software project in 1986 child. Don't even try to come at me claiming experience. You still use Delphi let me guess you learned Pascal in school and never managed to master any other language. Delphi is horrible and it is why Borland failed. I was writing in MASM before you were out of diapers. I went through my Pascal phase but unlike you I've kept my skull relevant over the years.
Considering how you spam under AC accounts I'm going to wager most of those/. "Praises" are you creating fake accounts.
Fact is your app is a bandaid. It lacks the ability to protect every device on a network that current open firmware can do for free (it's open firmware it adds zero cost to the firewall boy). Like your skills your solution lost relevance over a decade ago.
Unless you suggest I run without a network firewall then this entire post of yours is moot. I have the device anyway. The added functionality adds zero overhead (unless you are trying to argue hosts in a Linux box adds overhead, which means your software has the same problem ). It hey you keep spamming forums like a lunitic for your probably malware infested closed source crap ware.
Yea, those people I say: Fire. How many paper records have been lost to fires. Just look at what happened with the National Personnel Records Center in St Louis. Tens of millions of records lost.
Bad practices are bad practices, be it with physical copies or digital.
Eh, I've backed a few dozen and I would say about 95% I got what I was pledging for. Some failed to deliver but that's going to happen, there is an inherit risk to it. It's just knowing what to avoid, like hardware. I won't fund hardware projects, way too many of them fail. Sometimes it's due to outright fraud, but usually it's that they underestimate the actual costs of producing their products.
Unfortunately most people think Kickstarter is some kind of store for new products and if it's on there, then they will absolutely get it, and get it on time (always assume any KS will miss their deadlines, people are really bad at estimating how long it will take to get to the end of a project and ship). KS needs to start making people sit through a training video with quizzes or something when signing up for an account.
We need a law that if you are caught serving up malware or fraudulent ads, both you and the ad network are fined, with the proceeds going to the person or persons who discovered it and reported it first. Not a crazy large fine, but an amount that stings enough that the networks and sites would be forced to better police their ads.
Also you do realize this is a dedicated firewall device, right? This isn't some slapped together implementation of iptables. The entire OS is dedicated to being a firewall, including quite a bit of custom code. This isn't some PC you install Linux on and turn on a client firewall. You hounding on about windows and linux "firewalls" you are talking about client firewalls on the OS. THIS IS NOT WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. This is a dedicated hardware device running custom open firmware (Tomato Shibby).
Lol what? Of course firewalls can resolve host names. Why would you think they could not? It's a linux OS running the firewall. Look, it's obvious you wrote APK and that's fine. But it's also obvious that you don't know anything about networking or IT. Stop arguing when you are arguing from a position of ignorance. I showed you a screenshot of the firewall using the same lists that you can use with APK. It works the same, but it doesn't require any configuration on the clients and protects everything behind the firewall. It's a vastly superior way to do it.
Your program uses more resources than my firewall, and that multiplies with the number of machines that need to be protected. Again, if my firewall fails there is no point because NOTHING is getting out. Although if I wanted I could always load balance the firewalls to provide redundancy. Seems overkill for my house but I could do it without much effort. My solution protects EVERYTHING behind the firewall, yours only works on devices where the host file can be modified and, it only "protects" windows machines. Yours requires a bunch of hoops to protect multiple machines, mine just works. One device or 1000. If I need to add a host name quickly, I just add it and done. No replication to machines required. Takes about 5 seconds. New machines are protected the moment they touch the network, yours requires the admin to do work to protect them. As for speed, the difference between a local hosts lookup and a local network DNS lookup would be meaningless. We are talking maybe a millisecond or two at the most, not seconds or minutes. I also don't know why you keep going on about layer drivers. My firewall is not using a "layer driver" since it's NOT INSTALLED ON THE PC. I don't know how you are not getting that yet. It's a hardware device, the block lists feature is incorporated into the firmware and used EXACTLY like a local host file on a linux box (which is essentially what it is). My firewall is unaffected by processes running on the client PCs (nice that you lock the file, but what stops malware from terminating your process first? Nothing. Also assuming malware would be running in a user vs admin context is foolish. There is NOTHING APK can do that my firewall doesn't already do. In fact APK can't do some things, like protect every device on the network, that my firewall can.
If my firewall fails, then I'm 100% safe because NOTHING is getting out. With your "solution" I have to make sure every machine is running the host files, and has the latest updates. That's massively inefficient. Any one of those can stop updating or fail outright and I have no way to know. My firewall I can just check the logs. Plus now you are using up system RAM on every machine, yet you complained earlier about the RAM that plugins take up? It's fewer moving parts, not more. I have one place to manage it. I also can protect systems that you absolutely cannot. Plus how do I know APK isn't going to inject an exploit or sell out like AdBlock plus did? I've got a closed source app running on all my PC's, with elevated privileges, with your "solution". With mine nothing needs to be installed or run on the endpoint. Your solution is much more open to exploitation than mine is. My firewall can't be easily altered by malware, a host file on a Windows OS can be. It's closed source so I can't inspect the source. Trust failure.
Why did Shockwave ever exist? I don't understand what the differences between it and Flash were.
To be a malware vector that everyone forgets about seems to be it's main purpose these days. "Our Flash plugins are always up to date!" "Yea, what about shockwave?" "Shock-what?" Scans machines "It's only 5 years out of date, so not the worse I've seen."
You have no idea what you are talking about. None. It literally works like what your program does, but at the firewall on the edge of my network. The firewall downloads the lists and any DNS request goes against that cache first before forwarding the lookup. There is NOTHING running on the PC, the DNS lookup is just as fast (faster actually since it doesn't have to use the forward DNS servers). Your solution uses MORE system resources since I have to run your app on the PC. Also big hosts files are not resource free when the TCP stack goes to do a lookup. Your solution also does not protect every machine behind the firewall. Mine does. Using the exact same lists. I can manage them from one place and can cover devices your solution cannot (game consoles, TVs, IoT devices, tablets, phones, etc) plus any device that comes on my network. Also APK's GUI looks like a nightmare to deal with.
Finally, my solution is fully open source, where APK appears to be closed source.
My U160 SCSI Cheetah 15K7's on a Mylex controller. For speed that's still a hard combo to beat.
Yea but who worries about speed from spinning disks anymore, outside of some enterprise uses and those are shrinking fast as cache and solid state storage are both quickly dropping in price. If you need speed, you go SSD.
Not sure what you don't understand, but do these look like IP addresses to you? https://imgur.com/a/44AnF
You can block hosts at the firewall, you are not limited to just IP's. I think it's you that needs to take a refresher in compsci and networking. Your understanding seems to be a few decades out of date.
Yea that was the last straw for me with Forbes. I actually added them to my personal blocklist addon so they don't show up in google searches anymore, and I try to avoid them where i can elsewhere. They are basically a blogging platform for out of work "journalists"... sorry... freelancers these day with virtually no editorial oversight. The writers just pump out as much crap as they can to maximize their meager revenue. Then they pull that crap with their adblock blocking, and the very day they turn it on they were serving up malware via a malicious ad.
See my post: If you don't want to use addons then do it at the firewall where you can more easily manage lists you use and you don't have to do it on a machine by machine basis.
There are firewall firmware available that can use the same blocklists APK uses, but they cover your entire network. Stop shilling for APK.
Bullshit. I can block hosts using any list you can use in APK at my firewall. And when I do it covers my entire network, not just the machines I put them on.
This is terrible. If you want to it this way use a firewall that supports block lists. Doing host files is idiotic. It's machine by machine and a PITA to manage.
Hostfiles are a horseshit way to manage this. If you don't want to use addons then do it at the firewall where you can more easily manage lists you use and you don't have to do it on a machine by machine basis. This is more than possible with consumer gear and third party open firmware.
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Yep, running a Netgear Nighthawk but it's been running Tomato Shibby since day one. The feature set is way beyond anything in the stock firmware, and I don't have to worry about Netgear's incompetence.
So let's say you need core Java programmers in Charlotte, and can't find them. Now, under this law, you can't bring in people from Bangalore either. So are you likely to find them in SC or WV or AL?
They are not doing away with H1-B visas. The changes are designed to prevent situations like we've seen over and over lately where a company fires their entire IT department to outsource them to Wipro or the like who fill the positions with H1-Bs. That isn't what the program was supposed to be used for and it's being abused right now.
Lol how would I use login scripts to push out a host file to non-domain joined PCs? Also, you probably mean startup scripts since logon scripts a) run in user context so would not (unless you are an idiot) have the required rights to modify the hosts file and b) do NOT run at boot, they run at logon.
Also you CANNOT modify the host files on iOS without jailbreaking, so your solution is definitely not the easiest. Your solution is a giant fail, admit it.
And I didn't say I created it, ever. It is the solution I use, therefore it's "my solution".
And, again, it adds zero cost to my network since I ALREADY NEED A FIREWALL ANYWAY. The firmware is third party open source and costs nothing to install. The hardware I already need anyway. Only an idiot would run a network without an edge firewall. Relying on the OS firewall is asking for ownage.
Answer my question: How does your "solution" protect an iOS devices on the local network? Mine protects it, yours cannot. Ditto for game consoles, smart TVs (preventing phone-home data reporting), or new machines just booted.
Answer my question: How does your "solution" protect an iphone on the local network? Mine protects it, yours cannot. Ditto for game consoles, smart TVs (preventing phone-home data reporting), or new machines just booted.
Again, all a decade or more in the past. You went stale and you know it. As for me, I was too busy getting paid to do work at the enterprise level to be bothered with shilling myself to magazine articles or contests. 27 years and counting in my career. 18 years and already a has-been. That has to sting.
I noticed you are still avoiding my question: How does your "solution" protect an iphone on the local network? Mine protects it, yours cannot. Ditto for game consoles, smart TVs (preventing phone-home data reporting), or new machines just booted.
I sold my first software project in 1986 child. Don't even try to come at me claiming experience. You still use Delphi let me guess you learned Pascal in school and never managed to master any other language. Delphi is horrible and it is why Borland failed. I was writing in MASM before you were out of diapers. I went through my Pascal phase but unlike you I've kept my skull relevant over the years. Considering how you spam under AC accounts I'm going to wager most of those /. "Praises" are you creating fake accounts.
Fact is your app is a bandaid. It lacks the ability to protect every device on a network that current open firmware can do for free (it's open firmware it adds zero cost to the firewall boy). Like your skills your solution lost relevance over a decade ago.
Unless you suggest I run without a network firewall then this entire post of yours is moot. I have the device anyway. The added functionality adds zero overhead (unless you are trying to argue hosts in a Linux box adds overhead, which means your software has the same problem ). It hey you keep spamming forums like a lunitic for your probably malware infested closed source crap ware.
Yea, those people I say: Fire. How many paper records have been lost to fires. Just look at what happened with the National Personnel Records Center in St Louis. Tens of millions of records lost.
Bad practices are bad practices, be it with physical copies or digital.
Eh, I've backed a few dozen and I would say about 95% I got what I was pledging for. Some failed to deliver but that's going to happen, there is an inherit risk to it. It's just knowing what to avoid, like hardware. I won't fund hardware projects, way too many of them fail. Sometimes it's due to outright fraud, but usually it's that they underestimate the actual costs of producing their products.
Unfortunately most people think Kickstarter is some kind of store for new products and if it's on there, then they will absolutely get it, and get it on time (always assume any KS will miss their deadlines, people are really bad at estimating how long it will take to get to the end of a project and ship). KS needs to start making people sit through a training video with quizzes or something when signing up for an account.
We need a law that if you are caught serving up malware or fraudulent ads, both you and the ad network are fined, with the proceeds going to the person or persons who discovered it and reported it first. Not a crazy large fine, but an amount that stings enough that the networks and sites would be forced to better police their ads.
Also you do realize this is a dedicated firewall device, right? This isn't some slapped together implementation of iptables. The entire OS is dedicated to being a firewall, including quite a bit of custom code. This isn't some PC you install Linux on and turn on a client firewall. You hounding on about windows and linux "firewalls" you are talking about client firewalls on the OS. THIS IS NOT WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. This is a dedicated hardware device running custom open firmware (Tomato Shibby).
Lol what? Of course firewalls can resolve host names. Why would you think they could not? It's a linux OS running the firewall. Look, it's obvious you wrote APK and that's fine. But it's also obvious that you don't know anything about networking or IT. Stop arguing when you are arguing from a position of ignorance. I showed you a screenshot of the firewall using the same lists that you can use with APK. It works the same, but it doesn't require any configuration on the clients and protects everything behind the firewall. It's a vastly superior way to do it.
OK then how does your product block ads on my iPhone? My firewall does this.
Your program uses more resources than my firewall, and that multiplies with the number of machines that need to be protected. Again, if my firewall fails there is no point because NOTHING is getting out. Although if I wanted I could always load balance the firewalls to provide redundancy. Seems overkill for my house but I could do it without much effort. My solution protects EVERYTHING behind the firewall, yours only works on devices where the host file can be modified and, it only "protects" windows machines. Yours requires a bunch of hoops to protect multiple machines, mine just works. One device or 1000. If I need to add a host name quickly, I just add it and done. No replication to machines required. Takes about 5 seconds. New machines are protected the moment they touch the network, yours requires the admin to do work to protect them. As for speed, the difference between a local hosts lookup and a local network DNS lookup would be meaningless. We are talking maybe a millisecond or two at the most, not seconds or minutes. I also don't know why you keep going on about layer drivers. My firewall is not using a "layer driver" since it's NOT INSTALLED ON THE PC. I don't know how you are not getting that yet. It's a hardware device, the block lists feature is incorporated into the firmware and used EXACTLY like a local host file on a linux box (which is essentially what it is). My firewall is unaffected by processes running on the client PCs (nice that you lock the file, but what stops malware from terminating your process first? Nothing. Also assuming malware would be running in a user vs admin context is foolish. There is NOTHING APK can do that my firewall doesn't already do. In fact APK can't do some things, like protect every device on the network, that my firewall can.
If my firewall fails, then I'm 100% safe because NOTHING is getting out. With your "solution" I have to make sure every machine is running the host files, and has the latest updates. That's massively inefficient. Any one of those can stop updating or fail outright and I have no way to know. My firewall I can just check the logs. Plus now you are using up system RAM on every machine, yet you complained earlier about the RAM that plugins take up? It's fewer moving parts, not more. I have one place to manage it. I also can protect systems that you absolutely cannot. Plus how do I know APK isn't going to inject an exploit or sell out like AdBlock plus did? I've got a closed source app running on all my PC's, with elevated privileges, with your "solution". With mine nothing needs to be installed or run on the endpoint. Your solution is much more open to exploitation than mine is. My firewall can't be easily altered by malware, a host file on a Windows OS can be. It's closed source so I can't inspect the source. Trust failure.
Why did Shockwave ever exist? I don't understand what the differences between it and Flash were.
To be a malware vector that everyone forgets about seems to be it's main purpose these days. "Our Flash plugins are always up to date!" "Yea, what about shockwave?" "Shock-what?" Scans machines "It's only 5 years out of date, so not the worse I've seen."
You have no idea what you are talking about. None. It literally works like what your program does, but at the firewall on the edge of my network. The firewall downloads the lists and any DNS request goes against that cache first before forwarding the lookup. There is NOTHING running on the PC, the DNS lookup is just as fast (faster actually since it doesn't have to use the forward DNS servers). Your solution uses MORE system resources since I have to run your app on the PC. Also big hosts files are not resource free when the TCP stack goes to do a lookup. Your solution also does not protect every machine behind the firewall. Mine does. Using the exact same lists. I can manage them from one place and can cover devices your solution cannot (game consoles, TVs, IoT devices, tablets, phones, etc) plus any device that comes on my network. Also APK's GUI looks like a nightmare to deal with.
Finally, my solution is fully open source, where APK appears to be closed source.
My U160 SCSI Cheetah 15K7's on a Mylex controller. For speed that's still a hard combo to beat.
Yea but who worries about speed from spinning disks anymore, outside of some enterprise uses and those are shrinking fast as cache and solid state storage are both quickly dropping in price. If you need speed, you go SSD.
Not sure what you don't understand, but do these look like IP addresses to you? https://imgur.com/a/44AnF
You can block hosts at the firewall, you are not limited to just IP's. I think it's you that needs to take a refresher in compsci and networking. Your understanding seems to be a few decades out of date.
Yea that was the last straw for me with Forbes. I actually added them to my personal blocklist addon so they don't show up in google searches anymore, and I try to avoid them where i can elsewhere. They are basically a blogging platform for out of work "journalists"... sorry... freelancers these day with virtually no editorial oversight. The writers just pump out as much crap as they can to maximize their meager revenue. Then they pull that crap with their adblock blocking, and the very day they turn it on they were serving up malware via a malicious ad.
See my post: If you don't want to use addons then do it at the firewall where you can more easily manage lists you use and you don't have to do it on a machine by machine basis.
There are firewall firmware available that can use the same blocklists APK uses, but they cover your entire network. Stop shilling for APK.
Bullshit. I can block hosts using any list you can use in APK at my firewall. And when I do it covers my entire network, not just the machines I put them on.
This is terrible. If you want to it this way use a firewall that supports block lists. Doing host files is idiotic. It's machine by machine and a PITA to manage.
Hostfiles are a horseshit way to manage this. If you don't want to use addons then do it at the firewall where you can more easily manage lists you use and you don't have to do it on a machine by machine basis. This is more than possible with consumer gear and third party open firmware.