Eventually, you will reach a single connection on the path that leads to the machine you are looking for. Many providers have redundant connection to the backbones, but, for example, there is only 1 connection from them to you. And actually, there are many providers who do not have redundant, topologically separate connections to the backbone.
The internet wasdesigned so that if any particular switching point went down, the others could keep up with it. The idea was nice 20 years ago when there were 50 NAP's. There's probably 50 NAPs within 10 miles of me right now. So we're not quite as redundant as intended, but we're still pretty redundant.
Eventually, you will reach a single connection on the path that leads to the machine you are looking for. Many providers have redundant connection to the backbones, but, for example, there is only 1 connection from them to you. And actually, there are many providers who do not have redundant, topologically separate connections to the backbone.
The internet wasdesigned so that if any particular switching point went down, the others could keep up with it. The idea was nice 20 years ago when there were 50 NAP's. There's probably 50 NAPs within 10 miles of me right now. So we're not quite as redundant as intended, but we're still pretty redundant.
mail to a series of common first names, usually a dozen or two...
This implies to me that they are delivering to local users, since someone wouldn't be trying to run usernames on a relay server, they would just be dumping mail, and the methods for blocking relays have been, and still are, very readily available. Not once does he mention 'relaying' despite the fact that he knows what he's talking about in his last few sentences.
It's a disability. Or a handicap. Or someone is retarted. And so, we discriminate against people who are disabled, handicapped, or retarted. We don't need to make up words to hide the fact that someone is disabled, or handicapped, or retarted.
This is the same mentality that keeps our children from being exposed to anything even slightly outside of the "norm". No Geek Clubs in high school (Integrate, integrate, integrate!). No drawings showing that pain-in-the-ass teacher hanging by a rope (Murderous tendencies must be squashed!). No sex on TV (*gasp* Perverts!). Then, when they've spent 18 years in their little bubble, and something pops it, they have no coping mechanisms in place, because Mommy and Daddy always made sure that nothing would offend "widdle Johnny". So he grabs a gun and kills 10 people. Or drives Daddy's new Range Rover into a McDonalds. Or jumps off of a bridge. All because his girlfriend broke up with him or something equally stupid.
You can't solve the world's problems by imposing your moral values on everyone and keeping them away from society until they're old enough to make their own decisions. Because when they can, they will rebel even more than they would have out of curiosity, and in 10 years, we're gonna see a generation of kids who may as well stay in a closet, because they won't socalize normally, interact normally, communicate normally, deal with stress normally, and won't react to external stimulii (sex, violence, people) normally. Good job, keep it up, thanks for your good work....
Your offended sense of morality has now deprived me and my wife of our right to buy films featuring naked women getting pounded by men who have units too large to fit into their pants. While you cry "Success for Free Market" and blather on with your rablming post, I now have lost a new place to expand my purchasing power, and obtain Yahoo! Points in the process, giving me the opportunity to eventually get a free T-Shirt.
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But seriously, why is it that the Religious Right decries things such as this, because god forbid we let our kids be exposed to it (um, watch your kids on the internet and talk to them about Penises without turning all red and stuttering and stuff, and maybe they'll respect your opinion); these free markets of sin and depravity are becoming the death of our society. But let them force someplace under, and all of a sudden it's "Up with Free Market! Hooray, this is what our country was founded on!", forgetting that the same right that allows them to protest said place of business also gives that place of business every right to remain open, regardless of what their morality tells them. If you don't like it, don't patronize them, and let the people who do like it enjoy the same freedoms that let you keep your children locked up in a box for the first 16 years of their life, only to have them break out and shoot 100 kids in their high school because they have lost every expressive outlet that kids for the last 100 years had.
Then game publishers should put out a patch to change the IP address inputs to a textbox input, require names to connect, and be done with it. The code to use a name instead of an IP address is about 5 lines longer and adds about half a second to execution times in bad DNS traffic conditions. Besides, if any number of names could map to a single IP address, then no company would have cause to prevent you from requesting TBONE.MYISP.COM on your account when you dialed in. In fact, you could have your own internal IP address in your provider, assuming every provider used the Class A private network for their internals.
Because if it's a permanent code entry, then it has to be changed in the kernel to implement new algorithms and such.
If it's a module, then the API is exported from the kernel in a number of structures, and you can implement whatever type of security thing you want. A few ideas I've seen scroll by:
Encrypted filesystems
User runtime profiles
Network access
...just to name a few.
In fact, there won't have to be anything in the kernel that you will need to explicitly configure. It will be some additional information in the loadable kernel module model that new modules can take advantage of to implement security functions.
The same way CA_Unicenter implements security as a loadable module in (at least) Solaris. It inserts a few modules that intercept and reruote filesystem access calls, and run them through their security module to see if user X has command Y in their allowed profile, and if so, runs it.
RFC 1591, written by Mr. John Postel, outlined these guidelines for the allocation of second-level domains under the original 7 top-level domains. The following are cut directly from that RFC...
COM - This domain is intended for commercial entities, that is, companies. This domain has grown very large and there is concern about the administrative load and system performance if the current growth pattern is continued. Consideration is being taken to subdivide the COM domain and only allow future commercial registrations in the subdomains
EDU - This domain was originally intended for all educational institutions. Many Universities, colleges, schools, educational service organizations, and educational consortia have registered here. More recently a decision has been taken to limit further registrations to 4 year colleges and universities. Schools and 2-year colleges will be registered in the country domains
NET - This domain is intended to hold only the computers of network providers, that is the NIC and NOC computers, the administrative computers, and the network node computers. The customers of the network provider would have domain names of their own (not in the NET TLD).
ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. Some non-government organizations may fit here
INT - This domain is for organizations established by international treaties, or international databases
GOV - This domain was originally intended for any kind of government office or agency. More recently a decision was taken to register only agencies of the US Federal government in this domain. State and local agencies are registered in the country domains
The UN, who have the power to essentially allow and deny a country governmental access to the rest of the world. How many non-UN countries are there that the rest of the world deals with on a regular basis?
The World Court in The Hague. Anyone up for a little centralized Crime and Punishment?
The WTO, who can set trade policy for any country involved with it. And, by association, cut off non-member countries from trading with member countries
If I have to have a centralized body ruling something, then make one ruling the Domain hierarchy. Who cares. As if whether someone is allowed to host naked pictures at http://goat.sex or at http://sexy.kids is going to cause me to lose sleep at night.
And what's wrong with a little content control in the DNS Hierarchy? Move all the porn to.xxx or.sex. Anyone allowed to get to it can, and kids that log on will have their resolvers deny access to them. There's your filter, huzzah. Technically, there is supposed to be content control in the heirarchy right now, except NSI sucked at enforcing anything but the.edu rules..org was supposed to be only got Non-profits, and.net only for backbone, redistribution providers. If ICANN wants to have the various TLD admins police their domains, then I'm all for it.
We need a way to change the score of this post to (Score 3: I live in a box)
Science fiction has always been about looking ahead, theorizing, and mainly, entertainment. It's fiction. It's not real. Take the blue pill and it'll all go away.
Science fiction had Airplanes, men in space, on the moon, in a spacestation, meeting new life forms....decades (and in some cases, centruies) before science actually got us there. In fact, you could consider Science Fiction the impetus for many of these progresses we have made.
If you thing our society depends on us living in a box, then you're all set. If you don't like this, take the red pill, get up, and do something about it. Vote for people who "Get It" (like Orrin Hatch, or people who think like our new FCC head). Don't put Dumbaya in office, hell, he won't even use Email (probably because he's afraid his soul will turn black from being on the internet or some other crap like that, forget the FIOA).
Yahoo was already selling items that may as well have been pornographic through it's auction site. Now it's got a commercial category. Whee, big deal.
If you can't tell the difference between pornography and rape, then you have some serious issues to contend with. And it seems to me that people like Jerri (tossed from Survivor 2 weeks ago) aren't going to be in "dire economic need" any time soon with all the endorsements she can pick up, yet she's still willing to do a Playboy stint. Perhaps you're thinking of Snuff, or child porn, or something else. But just because you wouldn't put yourself in the position to be the object of art-that-may-be-considered-porno doesn't mean there are many people who would.
So you're also going to boycot every convenience store that sells Penthouse or Cherry or Big Breasts magazine, too? And which 10 commandments would those be, that's not in any bible I've ever seen.
And, as many people have pointed out, what about all those women who buy Playgirl? It's not nearly as prolific, but there's plenty of male Porn out there as well.
If you want to do something about it, do to your local women's shelter and help there, teach women who _do_ sell themselves to porn how to do better, make a tangible difference. Spouting your mouth off about what a bad moral state we live in won't do anything but get people to help you pack your bags so you can move to Antarctica.
You're in violation of George Lucas' copyright, please cease and desist from using the term Stormtroopers to refer to what you believe to be brainwashed strongmen acting on behalf of the Evil Liberal Empire. Or at least capitalize it. Grammar Nazi.
It's a fact. Their religion was considered "unacceptable" and they were exterminated
Just like your very own organization promotes. If you aren't reformed Christian, you're wrong. Heh. You know, there was no Christian until 2000 years ago. Before that, we were all Catholics. And, according to your own organization, you wouldn't have condoned Koresh's "congregation" - where in the Bible does it say you need to stockpile massive amounts of firearms and force your way upon the unsuspecting masses?
The FBI monitors and harasses many churches whose views are considered "politically incorrect". Just a year ago, we narrowly escaped imposition of a brutal military dictatorship which would have outlawed Christianity entirely
You say this as though it's the bleeding liberals who are guilty of this heinous act. That's funny, because the last time I checked:
The Nazi's (a right-aligned political party in Germany in the first half of the 1900's) kept tabs on churches and people whose views were unacceptable. Like Jews. And Blacks.
Republican hero Sen. Joseph McCarthy wanted to keep tabs on people whose views were unacceptable. Like Communists. And people who contributed to political causes. Like Republican fundraising committees.
Affirmative Action seeks to keep tabs on who works where. Hey, look, that's a Republican-sponsored initiative, too...
The Conservative Right has plenty to brag about when it comes to suppressing and repressing groups it doesn't believe in.
If Y2K disruption had not been kept under control by the wisdom and forsight of American business and the patriot community
During the Y2K Disruption, most of your "Patriot Community" was hiding out in their bomb shelters with enough canned food to feed the homeless in a major city for a week and enough ammunition to kill those homeless multiple times over. And those that weren't hiding in basements were raving like a bunch of lunatics that the end of the world was coming, and were counting the minutes until they were taken up. Well, you're still here, I'm still here, and the world goes on. What exactly did you do to control the Y2K disruption?
Secret documents were leaked and have found their way into the patriotic resistance underground
Please post these documents along with their obvious equivalents OT-III and such, please. And Kennedy was killed by a bunch of heathens because he was a good Catholic boy.
It is insane and unjust that I am subject to the same laws as a citizen of Massachusetts
I assume you aren't in Massachussets, because if you are, then you're just an idiot spouting off, because you make no sense. You are subject to the laws of the state you live in, and to the laws of the country which contains the state you live in. The only reason you would be subject to the laws of Massachussets would be if you were either physically in MA, or doing business in MA, in which case, you are involved the the daily life of the state of MA. Where's the confusion here?
Federal interference in the housing market directly violates my Constitutional right to freedom of association
What does your right to associate have to do with someone else's right to buy a house in a neighborhood. I've lived in my house for a year and haven't even seen half of my neighbors, let alone associate with them. If you're buying real estate to make a profit when you sell it, then you should
Stop being a hypocrite and decrying the Free Market when it's the Free Market that's pumping your property values up, and...
Stop living in the houses you are buying to later sell for a profit. You're messing up the interior by living there, who wants to by a lived-in house...
I posted this thought as a reply down lower, but it'll get lost.
Running a program on your network to tell you if your web server goes down is worth exactly zero. If your net connection goes down, your web server is still up, it's just not reachable by the rest of the world. In the end, you could care less if your local connection dies, as long as people out in the world can still see your web site.
None of these programs will help you determine if you are reachable from the outside world unless you get yourself another colocated server in a completely different location to run the scripts on:
Nocol
Big Brother
NetSaint
mon
Servers Alive
What's Up
Internet Exploder
What you want is something like:
Toolshack.com
AlertMeFirst.com
NetWhistle.com
WebmasterSolutions
Website Monitor
I didn't look hard for these, they are all on Yahoo's World Wide Web Software category. I haven't researched them, so YMMV.
This doesn't really answer his question, and I don't mean to pick on this post, since most of the posts here are telling how to locally monitor servers, and every good aadmin knows that it's not the local server connection you care about, but the external connection
That being said, Big Brother is a very good program for internal monitoring of just about anything you can think of. There's scripts for most things, and if there isn't, and you can figure out how to script it, there's an "API" for throwing events to the BBDISPLAY host. Full paging/notification capabilities, even to the point of different methods based on what event and what time it is (Email everyone all the time, page oncall if it's between 6 PM and 7 AM, etc). I've used it at multiple places, and just recently set it up at home (Of course, Apache is being a bitch and not authing me through to see it...oh well). For a small-to-mid sized shop that doesn't want to spend the $$$ on something like Tivoli or Unicenter, and doesn't need full interactivity and auto-discovery and all that crap, BB will do good for ya.
You implement a one-time pad within the PAM 'realm' (for lack of a better term) to encrypt the password. This password is then passed onto the local authentication method for yanking passwords from the shadow file. Yes, it may be broken, but so can SSL, RC4, or any other encryption, given enough time and effort.
Even better, have that PAM module encrypt the auth request within SSL or something itself. No public sniffable traffic any more. The PAM module just had to request the password. What it does behind the scenes (sending it elsewhere, querying files, etc) is up to the implementation. What's the problem with SSL'ing to the host where the shadow passwords are at, connecting to, say,/usr/lib/shadowpamd, and comparind passwords?
The man doesn't want to broadcast his passwords across the network, he wants a PAM plugin to to the logical Shadow authentication. You can set up the module, for example, to run one-time pads to encrypt the password so that the part of the PAM that does run as root can get the passwd back, and run it through the salt in/etc/shadow.
Actually, PAM is very cool...it lets you authenticate in umpteen ways from Sunday, and write _one_ method for authentication, letting the PAM libraries sort out the messy details about what's needed for the auth
When you lease a dedicated server, you're getting a box and the root password, on a network of some sort, plugged into some power.
Unlimited bandwidth? Heh. You're going to get limited to 100mbps whether you want to or not. And I doubt you can push that much bandwith anyway. Regardless, "unlimited" simply means "not restricted" in this case, not "without end". So they're telling you that they will not cap your bandwidth. Not that you can use all the bandwidth you want.
You want them to admin the system? Isn't this why you leased a colocated server in the first place? So you could admin the server and not have to worry about physically housing the box? Because that's all you're leasing - a home for the box. If someone broke into my house, I wouldn't call my alarm company and tell them I wanted them to come *3 my alarm panel every night before I went to bed...that's just stupid
As far as the rest, bail on the contract, tell your credit card company to stop payments to them, and go find someone else. Colocation services, really, are a dime a dozen, like dialup ISP's were a few years ago. Of course, that assumes you can move. You didn't set up your DNS so that they are responsible for yout domain, too, did you?
...is not due to Sun open sourcing their toolkits for NFS and XV and such; it's due to that fact that they all but give the OS away with their servers. And SUN servers, frankly, kick ass, which is why they sell so many of them.
What crack are you smoking? It's a biological fact that, at 30 FPS, your brain blurs the motion enough that you don't see the frames any more. This isn't some trick or arbitrary number made up by the MPAA to cheat you out of your deserved 60 FPS movies with THX and such. If you or anyone you know claim to see frames at 30 FPS, you need to go submit yourself someplace to be studied.
What do you mean, how are they going to modify it? It's got 3 controls; a right-click, a left-click- and the directional control. OK, put two of the triggers to simulate the wheelmouse functionality, but that's about it, all done. What about the analog stick make it so you can't draw spirals and hearts?
OK, I keep reading all these flames about how Michael spouts his mouth off, how he doesn't read, and I gave him the chance. But if you aren't even going to read about something that has been out for months, then you need to stop talking/typing/contributing.
Places where you're wrong:
UD isn't new, PCWorld mentioned them in an article about free stuff a few months ago.
It's rather plainly stated on their page here, right off the front page, thay they sell their service.
United Devices supplies customers such as corporations and research facilities with the computing resources required to solve large computational problems, run financial analyses, or find cures for diseases. United Devices makes access to teraflops of power available at a fraction of the traditional cost, making previously impossible projects possible.
They haven't had a hard time getting people to install the client, they haven't tried yet. Technically, the service is still in beta. Or was until a few days ago
There are currently 4 projects in the UD queue, the other big one of which is Genetic research, looking for gene sequences.
You're not stuck doing the Cancer research project - each device you have running the UD agent can chose any or all of the projects available to run.
The agent will run disconnected from the network, and either connect only when it needs to upload results and download data, or will watch your connection state and only send info when you connect yourself.
They run prize promotions fairly frequently. These are also listed just off their main page
So what if it's closed source. So it the UOLinux client. So is Everquest. So is WordPerfect. Wah, get over it, everything needs not be open-source to be good. Why do you need the source code for the client anyway, they don't want you running altered clients.
OK, go back to your XScreensaver. At least this is a little more interesting than watching my computer try to decode Signals from Aliens, or wondering how many keyblocks are left until I actually get a message.
Have you used the Gnome suite of stuff? Or StarOffice? Or any of the other office suites that are out there? If you know how to use Office, and can't figure out how to use Abiword, you need to get that lobotomy finished up....
You will need to seriously train only a very small number of people (your current power users) if you were to switch to a new product. Most people will get by knowing how to open and save documents, and how to do basic editing. The rest will be able to survive on a 3-hour group class with handouts that tell you how to "use" the software. Not everyone needs to know how to cascade formulas across 4 worksheets, collect the results on a 5th, import that data to create a graph, then embed that graph in a document for circulation.
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If your ISP is linked only to PSInet, you have more problems than a non-redundant connection - PSINet may only have 1 month of $$$ left.
Eventually, you will reach a single connection on the path that leads to the machine you are looking for. Many providers have redundant connection to the backbones, but, for example, there is only 1 connection from them to you. And actually, there are many providers who do not have redundant, topologically separate connections to the backbone.
The internet wasdesigned so that if any particular switching point went down, the others could keep up with it. The idea was nice 20 years ago when there were 50 NAP's. There's probably 50 NAPs within 10 miles of me right now. So we're not quite as redundant as intended, but we're still pretty redundant.
Eventually, you will reach a single connection on the path that leads to the machine you are looking for. Many providers have redundant connection to the backbones, but, for example, there is only 1 connection from them to you. And actually, there are many providers who do not have redundant, topologically separate connections to the backbone.
The internet wasdesigned so that if any particular switching point went down, the others could keep up with it. The idea was nice 20 years ago when there were 50 NAP's. There's probably 50 NAPs within 10 miles of me right now. So we're not quite as redundant as intended, but we're still pretty redundant.
mail to a series of common first names, usually a dozen or two...
This implies to me that they are delivering to local users, since someone wouldn't be trying to run usernames on a relay server, they would just be dumping mail, and the methods for blocking relays have been, and still are, very readily available. Not once does he mention 'relaying' despite the fact that he knows what he's talking about in his last few sentences.
Did you say ablism?
YOU PEOPLE NEED TO GET OVER IT!!!!
It's a disability. Or a handicap. Or someone is retarted. And so, we discriminate against people who are disabled, handicapped, or retarted. We don't need to make up words to hide the fact that someone is disabled, or handicapped, or retarted.
This is the same mentality that keeps our children from being exposed to anything even slightly outside of the "norm". No Geek Clubs in high school (Integrate, integrate, integrate!). No drawings showing that pain-in-the-ass teacher hanging by a rope (Murderous tendencies must be squashed!). No sex on TV (*gasp* Perverts!). Then, when they've spent 18 years in their little bubble, and something pops it, they have no coping mechanisms in place, because Mommy and Daddy always made sure that nothing would offend "widdle Johnny". So he grabs a gun and kills 10 people. Or drives Daddy's new Range Rover into a McDonalds. Or jumps off of a bridge. All because his girlfriend broke up with him or something equally stupid.
You can't solve the world's problems by imposing your moral values on everyone and keeping them away from society until they're old enough to make their own decisions. Because when they can, they will rebel even more than they would have out of curiosity, and in 10 years, we're gonna see a generation of kids who may as well stay in a closet, because they won't socalize normally, interact normally, communicate normally, deal with stress normally, and won't react to external stimulii (sex, violence, people) normally. Good job, keep it up, thanks for your good work....
And stop modding this troll up!!!!!
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Your offended sense of morality has now deprived me and my wife of our right to buy films featuring naked women getting pounded by men who have units too large to fit into their pants. While you cry "Success for Free Market" and blather on with your rablming post, I now have lost a new place to expand my purchasing power, and obtain Yahoo! Points in the process, giving me the opportunity to eventually get a free T-Shirt.
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But seriously, why is it that the Religious Right decries things such as this, because god forbid we let our kids be exposed to it (um, watch your kids on the internet and talk to them about Penises without turning all red and stuttering and stuff, and maybe they'll respect your opinion); these free markets of sin and depravity are becoming the death of our society. But let them force someplace under, and all of a sudden it's "Up with Free Market! Hooray, this is what our country was founded on!", forgetting that the same right that allows them to protest said place of business also gives that place of business every right to remain open, regardless of what their morality tells them. If you don't like it, don't patronize them, and let the people who do like it enjoy the same freedoms that let you keep your children locked up in a box for the first 16 years of their life, only to have them break out and shoot 100 kids in their high school because they have lost every expressive outlet that kids for the last 100 years had.
Then game publishers should put out a patch to change the IP address inputs to a textbox input, require names to connect, and be done with it. The code to use a name instead of an IP address is about 5 lines longer and adds about half a second to execution times in bad DNS traffic conditions. Besides, if any number of names could map to a single IP address, then no company would have cause to prevent you from requesting TBONE.MYISP.COM on your account when you dialed in. In fact, you could have your own internal IP address in your provider, assuming every provider used the Class A private network for their internals.
Because if it's a permanent code entry, then it has to be changed in the kernel to implement new algorithms and such.
If it's a module, then the API is exported from the kernel in a number of structures, and you can implement whatever type of security thing you want. A few ideas I've seen scroll by:
In fact, there won't have to be anything in the kernel that you will need to explicitly configure. It will be some additional information in the loadable kernel module model that new modules can take advantage of to implement security functions.
The same way CA_Unicenter implements security as a loadable module in (at least) Solaris. It inserts a few modules that intercept and reruote filesystem access calls, and run them through their security module to see if user X has command Y in their allowed profile, and if so, runs it.
Troll elsewhere.....
RFC 1591, written by Mr. John Postel, outlined these guidelines for the allocation of second-level domains under the original 7 top-level domains. The following are cut directly from that RFC...
Any more questions?
And no, Natalie Portman doesn't count....
What about organizations like:
If I have to have a centralized body ruling something, then make one ruling the Domain hierarchy. Who cares. As if whether someone is allowed to host naked pictures at http://goat.sex or at http://sexy.kids is going to cause me to lose sleep at night.
And what's wrong with a little content control in the DNS Hierarchy? Move all the porn to .xxx or .sex. Anyone allowed to get to it can, and kids that log on will have their resolvers deny access to them. There's your filter, huzzah. Technically, there is supposed to be content control in the heirarchy right now, except NSI sucked at enforcing anything but the .edu rules. .org was supposed to be only got Non-profits, and .net only for backbone, redistribution providers. If ICANN wants to have the various TLD admins police their domains, then I'm all for it.
We need a way to change the score of this post to (Score 3: I live in a box)
Science fiction has always been about looking ahead, theorizing, and mainly, entertainment. It's fiction. It's not real. Take the blue pill and it'll all go away.
Science fiction had Airplanes, men in space, on the moon, in a spacestation, meeting new life forms....decades (and in some cases, centruies) before science actually got us there. In fact, you could consider Science Fiction the impetus for many of these progresses we have made.
If you thing our society depends on us living in a box, then you're all set. If you don't like this, take the red pill, get up, and do something about it. Vote for people who "Get It" (like Orrin Hatch, or people who think like our new FCC head). Don't put Dumbaya in office, hell, he won't even use Email (probably because he's afraid his soul will turn black from being on the internet or some other crap like that, forget the FIOA).
Yahoo was already selling items that may as well have been pornographic through it's auction site. Now it's got a commercial category. Whee, big deal.
If you can't tell the difference between pornography and rape, then you have some serious issues to contend with. And it seems to me that people like Jerri (tossed from Survivor 2 weeks ago) aren't going to be in "dire economic need" any time soon with all the endorsements she can pick up, yet she's still willing to do a Playboy stint. Perhaps you're thinking of Snuff, or child porn, or something else. But just because you wouldn't put yourself in the position to be the object of art-that-may-be-considered-porno doesn't mean there are many people who would.
So you're also going to boycot every convenience store that sells Penthouse or Cherry or Big Breasts magazine, too? And which 10 commandments would those be, that's not in any bible I've ever seen.
And, as many people have pointed out, what about all those women who buy Playgirl? It's not nearly as prolific, but there's plenty of male Porn out there as well.
If you want to do something about it, do to your local women's shelter and help there, teach women who _do_ sell themselves to porn how to do better, make a tangible difference. Spouting your mouth off about what a bad moral state we live in won't do anything but get people to help you pack your bags so you can move to Antarctica.
STOP MODERATING THIS TROLL UP!!!!!!
Um, anyhow, back to the stormtroopers
You're in violation of George Lucas' copyright, please cease and desist from using the term Stormtroopers to refer to what you believe to be brainwashed strongmen acting on behalf of the Evil Liberal Empire. Or at least capitalize it. Grammar Nazi.
It's a fact. Their religion was considered "unacceptable" and they were exterminated
Just like your very own organization promotes. If you aren't reformed Christian, you're wrong. Heh. You know, there was no Christian until 2000 years ago. Before that, we were all Catholics. And, according to your own organization, you wouldn't have condoned Koresh's "congregation" - where in the Bible does it say you need to stockpile massive amounts of firearms and force your way upon the unsuspecting masses?
The FBI monitors and harasses many churches whose views are considered "politically incorrect". Just a year ago, we narrowly escaped imposition of a brutal military dictatorship which would have outlawed Christianity entirely
You say this as though it's the bleeding liberals who are guilty of this heinous act. That's funny, because the last time I checked:
- The Nazi's (a right-aligned political party in Germany in the first half of the 1900's) kept tabs on churches and people whose views were unacceptable. Like Jews. And Blacks.
- Republican hero Sen. Joseph McCarthy wanted to keep tabs on people whose views were unacceptable. Like Communists. And people who contributed to political causes. Like Republican fundraising committees.
- Affirmative Action seeks to keep tabs on who works where. Hey, look, that's a Republican-sponsored initiative, too...
The Conservative Right has plenty to brag about when it comes to suppressing and repressing groups it doesn't believe in.If Y2K disruption had not been kept under control by the wisdom and forsight of American business and the patriot community
During the Y2K Disruption, most of your "Patriot Community" was hiding out in their bomb shelters with enough canned food to feed the homeless in a major city for a week and enough ammunition to kill those homeless multiple times over. And those that weren't hiding in basements were raving like a bunch of lunatics that the end of the world was coming, and were counting the minutes until they were taken up. Well, you're still here, I'm still here, and the world goes on. What exactly did you do to control the Y2K disruption?
Secret documents were leaked and have found their way into the patriotic resistance underground
Please post these documents along with their obvious equivalents OT-III and such, please. And Kennedy was killed by a bunch of heathens because he was a good Catholic boy.
It is insane and unjust that I am subject to the same laws as a citizen of Massachusetts
I assume you aren't in Massachussets, because if you are, then you're just an idiot spouting off, because you make no sense. You are subject to the laws of the state you live in, and to the laws of the country which contains the state you live in. The only reason you would be subject to the laws of Massachussets would be if you were either physically in MA, or doing business in MA, in which case, you are involved the the daily life of the state of MA. Where's the confusion here?
Federal interference in the housing market directly violates my Constitutional right to freedom of association
What does your right to associate have to do with someone else's right to buy a house in a neighborhood. I've lived in my house for a year and haven't even seen half of my neighbors, let alone associate with them. If you're buying real estate to make a profit when you sell it, then you should
I posted this thought as a reply down lower, but it'll get lost.
Running a program on your network to tell you if your web server goes down is worth exactly zero. If your net connection goes down, your web server is still up, it's just not reachable by the rest of the world. In the end, you could care less if your local connection dies, as long as people out in the world can still see your web site.
None of these programs will help you determine if you are reachable from the outside world unless you get yourself another colocated server in a completely different location to run the scripts on:
What you want is something like:
- Toolshack.com
- AlertMeFirst.com
- NetWhistle.com
- WebmasterSolutions
- Website Monitor
I didn't look hard for these, they are all on Yahoo's World Wide Web Software category. I haven't researched them, so YMMV.This doesn't really answer his question, and I don't mean to pick on this post, since most of the posts here are telling how to locally monitor servers, and every good aadmin knows that it's not the local server connection you care about, but the external connection
That being said, Big Brother is a very good program for internal monitoring of just about anything you can think of. There's scripts for most things, and if there isn't, and you can figure out how to script it, there's an "API" for throwing events to the BBDISPLAY host. Full paging/notification capabilities, even to the point of different methods based on what event and what time it is (Email everyone all the time, page oncall if it's between 6 PM and 7 AM, etc). I've used it at multiple places, and just recently set it up at home (Of course, Apache is being a bitch and not authing me through to see it...oh well). For a small-to-mid sized shop that doesn't want to spend the $$$ on something like Tivoli or Unicenter, and doesn't need full interactivity and auto-discovery and all that crap, BB will do good for ya.
The web page for Big Brother is here
You implement a one-time pad within the PAM 'realm' (for lack of a better term) to encrypt the password. This password is then passed onto the local authentication method for yanking passwords from the shadow file. Yes, it may be broken, but so can SSL, RC4, or any other encryption, given enough time and effort.
Even better, have that PAM module encrypt the auth request within SSL or something itself. No public sniffable traffic any more. The PAM module just had to request the password. What it does behind the scenes (sending it elsewhere, querying files, etc) is up to the implementation. What's the problem with SSL'ing to the host where the shadow passwords are at, connecting to, say, /usr/lib/shadowpamd, and comparind passwords?
The man doesn't want to broadcast his passwords across the network, he wants a PAM plugin to to the logical Shadow authentication. You can set up the module, for example, to run one-time pads to encrypt the password so that the part of the PAM that does run as root can get the passwd back, and run it through the salt in /etc/shadow.
Actually, PAM is very cool...it lets you authenticate in umpteen ways from Sunday, and write _one_ method for authentication, letting the PAM libraries sort out the messy details about what's needed for the auth
When you lease a dedicated server, you're getting a box and the root password, on a network of some sort, plugged into some power.
As far as the rest, bail on the contract, tell your credit card company to stop payments to them, and go find someone else. Colocation services, really, are a dime a dozen, like dialup ISP's were a few years ago. Of course, that assumes you can move. You didn't set up your DNS so that they are responsible for yout domain, too, did you?
...is not due to Sun open sourcing their toolkits for NFS and XV and such; it's due to that fact that they all but give the OS away with their servers. And SUN servers, frankly, kick ass, which is why they sell so many of them.
Motion Blur movies 24 FPS huh?
What crack are you smoking? It's a biological fact that, at 30 FPS, your brain blurs the motion enough that you don't see the frames any more. This isn't some trick or arbitrary number made up by the MPAA to cheat you out of your deserved 60 FPS movies with THX and such. If you or anyone you know claim to see frames at 30 FPS, you need to go submit yourself someplace to be studied.
What do you mean, how are they going to modify it? It's got 3 controls; a right-click, a left-click- and the directional control. OK, put two of the triggers to simulate the wheelmouse functionality, but that's about it, all done. What about the analog stick make it so you can't draw spirals and hearts?
OK, I keep reading all these flames about how Michael spouts his mouth off, how he doesn't read, and I gave him the chance. But if you aren't even going to read about something that has been out for months, then you need to stop talking/typing/contributing.
Places where you're wrong:
OK, go back to your XScreensaver. At least this is a little more interesting than watching my computer try to decode Signals from Aliens, or wondering how many keyblocks are left until I actually get a message.
Have you used the Gnome suite of stuff? Or StarOffice? Or any of the other office suites that are out there? If you know how to use Office, and can't figure out how to use Abiword, you need to get that lobotomy finished up....
You will need to seriously train only a very small number of people (your current power users) if you were to switch to a new product. Most people will get by knowing how to open and save documents, and how to do basic editing. The rest will be able to survive on a 3-hour group class with handouts that tell you how to "use" the software. Not everyone needs to know how to cascade formulas across 4 worksheets, collect the results on a 5th, import that data to create a graph, then embed that graph in a document for circulation.