I've used different firmwares for these devices. It's really nice to be able to configure different things that Linksys wouldn't normally allow you to do, but why get all charged up because it's Linux.
Can you run an MTA on it? An X server? And if you could, why? Doesn't that go against the "let the firewall be the firewall and not host a bunch of other crap on it"?
If you really wanted a good, cheap firewall, check out Smoothwall. Get a $10 crappy PC.. throw in 2 NE2000 (or similar) ISA based NICs (you've probably thrown them away before.. I have). Then you have a very VERY useful firewall, that DOES a helluva lot more than these little failure prone Linksys devices.
And yes, I used to love the Linksys hardware, but now I have a pile of dead ones from my clients and from personal use. Smoothwall is running and -ZERO- failures as of yet.
One of my clients is a buy here pay here used car dealer. They had that system for a while, but they said their clientele looked on the Internet and found a way to bypass the system altogether. End result? Car started, no payment, and the old fashioned repo man had to go looking for the cars.
What my problem is, and what sparked this, is that I have been using OOo and I've been experiementing with various setup file copy, and it seems that sometimes it just works, and sometimes it does not.
If you have anything you'd like to enlighten on...:)
The convincing has been done. We like the direct export PDF, we like the compatibility (and direct use of same product on Linux), might even be doing some linux stuff on the desktop in the future..
What he's saying IS possible. If you have Windoze admins running a Netware box, you probably DO have issues like that.
However, it probably isn't Netware's fault.
Background: I took over the Netware part of a 4000 user network. They had daily Netware crashes, instability of the NDS, and just "BAD THINGS"(TM) going on.
They looked to me (the Netware guru) to fix it. I told the bosses that I would and could fix it, but they had to lend FULL CONTROL of all decisions relating TO the Netware servers. I rebuilt the server (ok, re-installed onto a different machine) holding the root of the tree, un-partitioned things that NEVER should have been partitioned, cleaned up some VERY bad NDS replicas (i.e. make a change to the replica ring, and lock up some servers) the had way.. All of the above were symptoms of BAD administration of the Netware stuff..
Once I got done with that, the only downtime we had was when I requested / performed whatever it was I needed to do.
And the bosses smiled in happiness. Now, if only Microsoft didn't EXTORT the company into "switching".
Maybe it's because the RETAIL stores I go to have mostly AMD stuff on their shelves.
One Saturday morning, my father's PC blew chunks. It was a P4 1.7. We went to the retail stores, and had.. like.. zero choice on P4. True, I coulda bought the one kind of motherboard they had for a P4 (ECS, barf), but it wasn't compatible with his P4 chip. I'd have had to buy another P4 for him.
Now, had it been an AMD in his PC (and I mean, almost ANY AMD that was made in the last 3 years) I coulda bought all kinds of motherboards/cpus/replacement parts.
Dad ended up waiting until Monday when I could get things from my wholesaler... (well, kinda, I took over a spare computer for him...)
So you think the numbers are right? No.
You get what you pay for. IMO AMD's are crap. They've always been crap. They're sold in cheap assed systems with crappy parts. Why? Cause they're cheaper. They fail at a higher rate than Intel PCs do.
I've replaced more FAILED AMD based PCs than Intel based PCs over my 10 years as a consultant. Just because you can go to Best Buy / Circuit City / Joe Schmoe's Computer Palace and Ice Skating Rink, and pick up a $250 PC... Doesn't mean that PC will actually be useful for something.
How does Novell, aquiring Suse, consist of theatre. They needed a distro on which to build their OES/NLD products, and since they seem to be partly in bed with IBM - who also uses Suse - that distro was the natural choice.
Either run it on Netware or OES. Running it on Netware gives you full clustering capability.. which means very little, if any downtime. (I run GW7 on a NW6.5 cluster, and if a node fails or is taken down for maintenance, it's back and running within about 5-10 seconds on a different node. The clients never see it being down, they only notice a few second delay in sending/opening an email).
GW 7 has NICE webmail, pop3/imap/pop3s/imaps/SOAP, is LDAP compliant, has PDA connect software, and the ability to do webmail with light devices (i.e. your phone).
Of course Linux has a higher instance of breach. There's only like 15 Unix customers any more...
Seriously, you keep your linux system patched and you probably won't get hacked.
That being said, the two hacks I've seen on my boxen - one was from a vulnerable version of Ikonboard - and the IRCBot was running with "NOBODY" permissions... The other one someone found a way to drop a fake paypal site on (a different) box and I have the box sitting on by tech bench to figure out how they got in. Though, I'm guessing through a vulnerable version of the FTP daemon.
I hope that it might be a little more humane than lobbing teargas at someone.
Of course, someone will sue the inventor, the user, his boss, the bosses boss, the company, the government and some guy named Joe - because their cousin's niece's daughter's friend's cat got nuked by that thing...
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Weird. Same here. And I've not suffered any carpal tunnel syndrome, despite having worked in the computer industry for +10 years now.
.. 90wpm / very few errors, not using the standard system.
Also used to do dictation
Windows secure? Shyeah .. when pigs come flying out of my butt.
Or was this test completed with the network wire UNPLUGGED ??!?!?!
IIRC that's how Windows NT4 got it's whatever certification...
You have it all wrong. Bill Gates' method is ..
Give a man a fish, they will come back to you for more.
Teach a man to fish, he will patent it and sue you for fishing..
That's why he gives us fish and won't let us know how he gets them!!
My TPM will have the following information.
.. then I guess it's back to my C= 64...
Richard Cranium
9191919 Nunya Street
Overstock, MO 64999
901-555-5555
And if I can't do that
I've used different firmwares for these devices. It's really nice to be able to configure different things that Linksys wouldn't normally allow you to do, but why get all charged up because it's Linux.
.. throw in 2 NE2000 (or similar) ISA based NICs (you've probably thrown them away before .. I have). Then you have a very VERY useful firewall, that DOES a helluva lot more than these little failure prone Linksys devices.
Can you run an MTA on it? An X server? And if you could, why? Doesn't that go against the "let the firewall be the firewall and not host a bunch of other crap on it"?
If you really wanted a good, cheap firewall, check out Smoothwall. Get a $10 crappy PC
And yes, I used to love the Linksys hardware, but now I have a pile of dead ones from my clients and from personal use. Smoothwall is running and -ZERO- failures as of yet.
One of my clients is a buy here pay here used car dealer. They had that system for a while, but they said their clientele looked on the Internet and found a way to bypass the system altogether. End result? Car started, no payment, and the old fashioned repo man had to go looking for the cars.
Wish I could mod you up.
That would work better than anything else mentioned so far.
I'll give it a whirl.
What my problem is, and what sparked this, is that I have been using OOo and I've been experiementing with various setup file copy, and it seems that sometimes it just works, and sometimes it does not.
... :)
If you have anything you'd like to enlighten on
Yes, we use Home directories.
It's a 130 user government entity (county level). We have 1.5 people administrating it.
/w the machine.
(one 40 hour per week and 1 20 hour per week).
The network is Novell/Email is Groupwise/Desktops are a mix of 98, 2K and XP.
Existing licenses were purchased
$65k for an office upgrade isn't in the cards, when we're having trouble getting $ budgeted for things we REALLY need, much less upgrading Office.
We're doing mostly real plain jane documents, so complexity is not really an issue.
Government entity (county level)
..
The elected official has approved the move.
The convincing has been done. We like the direct export PDF, we like the compatibility (and direct use of same product on Linux), might even be doing some linux stuff on the desktop in the future..
Think of this as a first step
In OOo with multiple user profiles, this is saved PER USER!
You cannot expect a user to do this on every machine.
I either need this globally set or some other elegant solution.
That's a "Microsoft Answer"(TM).
.. RedHat won't recognize you then.
Sure, you *can* download a RHEL. It's just called Centos. Or WhiteBox.
But you're right
Yesss!!! But .. uuh .. did they paint their hats an off shade of GREEN??!?!
.. and.. and .. bounce off of me..
Then the signals think that I'm a tree
Kinda like my WiFi connection..
What he's saying IS possible. If you have Windoze admins running a Netware box, you probably DO have issues like that.
However, it probably isn't Netware's fault.
Background: I took over the Netware part of a 4000 user network. They had daily Netware crashes, instability of the NDS, and just "BAD THINGS"(TM) going on.
They looked to me (the Netware guru) to fix it. I told the bosses that I would and could fix it, but they had to lend FULL CONTROL of all decisions relating TO the Netware servers. I rebuilt the server (ok, re-installed onto a different machine) holding the root of the tree, un-partitioned things that NEVER should have been partitioned, cleaned up some VERY bad NDS replicas (i.e. make a change to the replica ring, and lock up some servers) the had way.. All of the above were symptoms of BAD administration of the Netware stuff..
Once I got done with that, the only downtime we had was when I requested / performed whatever it was I needed to do.
And the bosses smiled in happiness. Now, if only Microsoft didn't EXTORT the company into "switching".
Maybe it's because the RETAIL stores I go to have mostly AMD stuff on their shelves.
.. like .. zero choice on P4. True, I coulda bought the one kind of motherboard they had for a P4 (ECS, barf), but it wasn't compatible with his P4 chip. I'd have had to buy another P4 for him.
One Saturday morning, my father's PC blew chunks. It was a P4 1.7. We went to the retail stores, and had
Now, had it been an AMD in his PC (and I mean, almost ANY AMD that was made in the last 3 years) I coulda bought all kinds of motherboards/cpus/replacement parts.
Dad ended up waiting until Monday when I could get things from my wholesaler...
(well, kinda, I took over a spare computer for him...)
So you think the numbers are right? No.
You get what you pay for. IMO AMD's are crap. They've always been crap. They're sold in cheap assed systems with crappy parts. Why? Cause they're cheaper. They fail at a higher rate than Intel PCs do.
I've replaced more FAILED AMD based PCs than Intel based PCs over my 10 years as a consultant. Just because you can go to Best Buy / Circuit City / Joe Schmoe's Computer Palace and Ice Skating Rink, and pick up a $250 PC... Doesn't mean that PC will actually be useful for something.
How does Novell, aquiring Suse, consist of theatre. They needed a distro on which to build their OES/NLD products, and since they seem to be partly in bed with IBM - who also uses Suse - that distro was the natural choice.
As I'm on the Level 3 side, I cannot get to the cogent site to SEE the status report.
Either run it on Netware or OES. Running it on Netware gives you full clustering capability .. which means very little, if any downtime. (I run GW7 on a NW6.5 cluster, and if a node fails or is taken down for maintenance, it's back and running within about 5-10 seconds on a different node. The clients never see it being down, they only notice a few second delay in sending/opening an email).
GW 7 has NICE webmail, pop3/imap/pop3s/imaps/SOAP, is LDAP compliant, has PDA connect software, and the ability to do webmail with light devices (i.e. your phone).
Of course Linux has a higher instance of breach. There's only like 15 Unix customers any more...
Seriously, you keep your linux system patched and you probably won't get hacked.
That being said, the two hacks I've seen on my boxen - one was from a vulnerable version of Ikonboard - and the IRCBot was running with "NOBODY" permissions... The other one someone found a way to drop a fake paypal site on (a different) box and I have the box sitting on by tech bench to figure out how they got in. Though, I'm guessing through a vulnerable version of the FTP daemon.
did you get burned? that's what the HD commercials say. That you can feel the action ;)
Morse code can be transmitted even in high-noise situations - as you're not trying to hear someone yelling CQ! THIS IS QC! OVER!!
Clicks, beeps, bloops, etc -- easy to hear over static.
I hope that it might be a little more humane than lobbing teargas at someone.
Of course, someone will sue the inventor, the user, his boss, the bosses boss, the company, the government and some guy named Joe - because their cousin's niece's daughter's friend's cat got nuked by that thing...
Excellent way of putting it without ranting or raving.
He admitted he was lying.
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From: NeonNeon | Posted: 7/11/2005 1:53:02 PM | Message Detail
I have already...said that it is lies.
Shoulda ran it through Cisco's troubleshooter (Output Parser .. is that what they call it) .. whatever .. saves time and headaches..