Thanks for your reply. You're of course right about Britain and France. They haven't been (aren't) treating developing countries right in any strict terms.
Since some peeps mentioned the tech... I use Sonera 1m/512 DSL - bridged ethernet - dynamic IP (though it hasn't changed as I keep my firewall machine on constantly) - no ports blocked any direction
Saunalahti blocks incoming SMTP but apparently you can get mail routed to you via their mail server, at least if you've bought static IP addresses.
I've never heard of bandwidth caps in Finland, though a cable modem operator took action over a year ago when some clients transferred some crazy amounts in a short period.
Helsinki DSL Sonera 1m/512k 61,99e/month Saunalahti 256k/256k 35e/month Saunalahti 1m/512k 54e/month (+8e for static IP)
Helsinki SHDSL Nebula 2m/2m 225e/month
In the northern city of Oulu the local phone company OPOY offers outrageously cheap and fast ~10mbps connections. Ditto student housing all ove r the country.
These are private connections. Increasingly you get broadband as part of your housing, and it can be as low as 10e/month.
It's horses for courses, dude. And why is someone a "fanboy" the moment they say they like the current distro they use?
USB: Just choose the 2.4 kernel by typing bf24 after you put the coaster in the cup holder.
I've moved in the opposite direction away from Mandrake to Slackware. I just want a simple platform where I can compile the very latest server software from source without getting tangled up in package dependencies.
Installation is simple as well as you don't have to uncheck the 2 billion packages Mandrake (4 browsers!) and Debian want to install by default.
I still like Mandrake, but not for my current needs. For desktop use it's another matter altogether.
Germany has a humane society, wonderful arts, excellent science, a great economy and a good social system. I'd be proud to be German.
It's all about how that reflects on how you relate to other people. You can be proud while holding people from less achieving nations as equals.
It's also healthy to base your self esteem on other things than nationality. You shouldn't be ashamed or feel superior on a personal level. You're judged on who *you* are, what you are like and what you do, not what your grandparents did or what kinds of cars some factory churns out in some part of your country.
It's more subtle than your 101. Defining Fascism narrowly as a political belief misses some defining features: directing public opinion and support by playing up to people's nationalist passions and prejudices (demagoguery).
This is exactly what a European sees in Bush. See how easily the US gov't has been able to manipulate public opinion and get support by bashing the French in the Iraq question rather than addressing the actual issues. He's ridden roughshod over democratic principles in domestic policy and is detaining civilian prisoners without access to a lawyer in Guantanamo, all in the name of "national security".
You must realise that European history is really about nationalism and the hurt that has caused. People look at lessons from their own history when they interpret the present. Some Europeans look at America today and see the mistakes from their past: nationalism, jingoism, demagoguery, imperialism, colonialism, crusades, concentration camps and war. Europeans are very cautious, pessimistic and critical because of these lessons. They teach us that things are rarely simple, clear cut or 100% certain and that there is always another side to the story.
Nothing wrong with being patriotic or being proud of your country as such. However, there's the issue of "we're best" being very close to "I'm better than you" and the implications that has. Jingoism and racism are the darker side of nationalism.
Nationalism is a good motivator, but it can be dangerous as a political tool. It's also not a very clever way of dealing with people from other countries on a personal level when you have an attitude that says "we're better than you." Things work much smoother on all levels when you try to be respectful of their right to be who they are.
I'm sure most Americans act in good faith. What were the lessons for the US from its history, for example WWII? How do they affect American thinking?
Because you can get a cheap high performance box without user limitations of "hardware" firewalls. For example, I replaced a SonicWall SoHo 2 which had a 20 or 30 user limit with Mandrake Multinetwork Firewall. Same goes for VPN user limits. Also you get superior logging, routing between multiple (3+) networks, built in proxy and NIDS etc etc. The only downside is you've got a hard disk to worry about which isn't an issue in solid state boxes like the SonicWall.
BTW, the "hardware" firewalls from Nokia are just Celeron-based PCs running a modified version of BSD (FreeBSD?).
Lemme guess... -It's an entire system involving servers and backend software, not just the desktops -They get the hardware and support in the same package -Sun's distro is customised for standardised desktops, easy roll-out and maintenance unlike regular distros -They get a company who they can pin problems on -They already know and trust Sun, since it provides their current server hardware
"I started reading it for the mob references, but kept on reading for the details of how to run an illegal gambling organization."
The submitter and mr. Columbine could join forces and see if tldp.org would accept an Illegal-gambling-admin HOWTO seeing there already is a Linux consultancy HOWTO and similar bits.
Sure, my friend with a GeForce Pro was jealous of how good Unreal Tournament looked on my Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, but it was useless with D3D. In the early days of 3D cards programmers would have to write separate drivers for the each family of graphics cards. Glide was the last vendor-specific API. The Voodoo 5 was stilborn because it was a Glide/OpenGL card released while everyone else was converging on D3D/DirectX. That and the OEM/STB sh*t.
Yeah, bought a dual cpu Dell PE2600 this spring and the disk subsystem just blew up two days ago. Apparently a known issue.
I'll only by HP/IBM/Sun from now on.
And they will continue to do so, so long as Sun still make their own motherboards, certify their own memory, and just generally build proper server systems.
Sun x86 boxes come out of the same factory as Dell servers...:|
The Finnish side of Telia, TeliaSonera, has been in deep sh*t the last few weeks. Their email has been clogged up, apparently at least partly due to the fact that they have been listed in a few blacklists. Even the comms authority has intervened and told them to put their act together.
Trojanised PCs on broadband are the likely cause, and the block is most probably a measure designed to prevent such from happening again.
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Thanks for your reply. You're of course right about Britain and France. They haven't been (aren't) treating developing countries right in any strict terms.
Yeah, the article is bull in this respect. It even sites Kazaa, which works well past NAT, as well as both proxying and packet filtering firewalls.
Some systems exist to block Kazaa - like FTWALL. http://www.lowth.com/p2pwall/ftwall/
Since some peeps mentioned the tech... I use Sonera 1m/512 DSL
- bridged ethernet
- dynamic IP (though it hasn't changed as I keep my firewall machine on constantly)
- no ports blocked any direction
Saunalahti blocks incoming SMTP but apparently you can get mail routed to you via their mail server, at least if you've bought static IP addresses.
I've never heard of bandwidth caps in Finland, though a cable modem operator took action over a year ago when some clients transferred some crazy amounts in a short period.
Helsinki DSL
Sonera 1m/512k 61,99e/month
Saunalahti 256k/256k 35e/month
Saunalahti 1m/512k 54e/month (+8e for static IP)
Helsinki SHDSL
Nebula 2m/2m 225e/month
In the northern city of Oulu the local phone company OPOY offers outrageously cheap and fast ~10mbps connections. Ditto student housing all ove r the country.
These are private connections. Increasingly you get broadband as part of your housing, and it can be as low as 10e/month.
It's horses for courses, dude. And why is someone a "fanboy" the moment they say they like the current distro they use?
USB: Just choose the 2.4 kernel by typing bf24 after you put the coaster in the cup holder.
I've moved in the opposite direction away from Mandrake to Slackware. I just want a simple platform where I can compile the very latest server software from source without getting tangled up in package dependencies.
Installation is simple as well as you don't have to uncheck the 2 billion packages Mandrake (4 browsers!) and Debian want to install by default.
I still like Mandrake, but not for my current needs. For desktop use it's another matter altogether.
Because we geeks know the commandline is quicker. In Mandrake:
urpmi dosbox
Germany has a humane society, wonderful arts, excellent science, a great economy and a good social system. I'd be proud to be German.
It's all about how that reflects on how you relate to other people. You can be proud while holding people from less achieving nations as equals.
It's also healthy to base your self esteem on other things than nationality. You shouldn't be ashamed or feel superior on a personal level. You're judged on who *you* are, what you are like and what you do, not what your grandparents did or what kinds of cars some factory churns out in some part of your country.
-- A fellow European from Finland
It's more subtle than your 101. Defining Fascism narrowly as a political belief misses some defining features: directing public opinion and support by playing up to people's nationalist passions and prejudices (demagoguery).
This is exactly what a European sees in Bush. See how easily the US gov't has been able to manipulate public opinion and get support by bashing the French in the Iraq question rather than addressing the actual issues. He's ridden roughshod over democratic principles in domestic policy and is detaining civilian prisoners without access to a lawyer in Guantanamo, all in the name of "national security".
You must realise that European history is really about nationalism and the hurt that has caused. People look at lessons from their own history when they interpret the present. Some Europeans look at America today and see the mistakes from their past: nationalism, jingoism, demagoguery, imperialism, colonialism, crusades, concentration camps and war. Europeans are very cautious, pessimistic and critical because of these lessons. They teach us that things are rarely simple, clear cut or 100% certain and that there is always another side to the story.
Nothing wrong with being patriotic or being proud of your country as such. However, there's the issue of "we're best" being very close to "I'm better than you" and the implications that has. Jingoism and racism are the darker side of nationalism.
Nationalism is a good motivator, but it can be dangerous as a political tool. It's also not a very clever way of dealing with people from other countries on a personal level when you have an attitude that says "we're better than you." Things work much smoother on all levels when you try to be respectful of their right to be who they are.
I'm sure most Americans act in good faith. What were the lessons for the US from its history, for example WWII? How do they affect American thinking?
Whereas if the horse is wearing trousers it's OK?
Sorry, I just had to.
Team Fortress II
Well, Valve almost made up for it with the sudden revelation of the upcoming HalfLife 2. But they blew that, too.
What about Doom III?
Ok, so you won't get this if you don't play FireArms.
Because you can get a cheap high performance box without user limitations of "hardware" firewalls. For example, I replaced a SonicWall SoHo 2 which had a 20 or 30 user limit with Mandrake Multinetwork Firewall. Same goes for VPN user limits. Also you get superior logging, routing between multiple (3+) networks, built in proxy and NIDS etc etc. The only downside is you've got a hard disk to worry about which isn't an issue in solid state boxes like the SonicWall.
BTW, the "hardware" firewalls from Nokia are just Celeron-based PCs running a modified version of BSD (FreeBSD?).
Lemme guess...
-It's an entire system involving servers and backend software, not just the desktops
-They get the hardware and support in the same package
-Sun's distro is customised for standardised desktops, easy roll-out and maintenance unlike regular distros
-They get a company who they can pin problems on
-They already know and trust Sun, since it provides their current server hardware
Just use your account config to not show Linux Business items on your front page. Problem solved.
Nokia is doing trials with North European bank Nordea involving using an RFID tag embedded in a mobile phone cover for payment.
How is this better than biometrics?
"I started reading it for the mob references, but kept on reading for the details of how to run an illegal gambling organization."
The submitter and mr. Columbine could join forces and see if tldp.org would accept an Illegal-gambling-admin HOWTO seeing there already is a Linux consultancy HOWTO and similar bits.
Sure, my friend with a GeForce Pro was jealous of how good Unreal Tournament looked on my Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, but it was useless with D3D. In the early days of 3D cards programmers would have to write separate drivers for the each family of graphics cards. Glide was the last vendor-specific API. The Voodoo 5 was stilborn because it was a Glide/OpenGL card released while everyone else was converging on D3D/DirectX. That and the OEM/STB sh*t.
The name made me think of the Aston Martin Volante. I'm an 80s kid. Oh, and the Gypsy Kings of course.
Yeah, bought a dual cpu Dell PE2600 this spring and the disk subsystem just blew up two days ago. Apparently a known issue. I'll only by HP/IBM/Sun from now on.
Sun x86 boxes come out of the same factory as Dell servers... :|
I stand corrected. :)
Another BOFH @ Hki
The Finnish side of Telia, TeliaSonera, has been in deep sh*t the last few weeks. Their email has been clogged up, apparently at least partly due to the fact that they have been listed in a few blacklists. Even the comms authority has intervened and told them to put their act together.
Trojanised PCs on broadband are the likely cause, and the block is most probably a measure designed to prevent such from happening again.
...and I'm your man.
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