How would nmap know which app is really listening on a port? All it has are the ARIN-assigned port numbers from/etc/services. What you were looking for was
# netstat -tcp -l
which will list all TCP ports that are in state "LISTEN" along with the PID of the program that opened the port.
You've confused UW and WSU. University of Washington is where Pine was developed and the student in TFA studied. Washington State University ('wazzu') is where the drinking and sports occur.
I posted this elsewhere in this thread, but I'll post it here too so more people catch it:
I work at a school, and am the phone admin. Washington State law requires that room identification be provided with E911 data coming from schools, and I would imagine that this is true for other states as well. One or two POTS lines used for outgoing 911 will not be sufficient to comply with state and local laws.
The way it works is when dispatched EMS knows exactly which room they're going to via E911. We have provided our local fire department with detailed maps of our campus in addition to the posted maps that the fire panels, so they can get to the location where 911 was called without needing to stop by the office and ask for directions.
E911 is not something to skimp on, even if it isn't required by state and local laws.
Honestly sending E911 exact room numer is way overkill. EMS or police will always come to the office first before responding, and the office will lead them there instead of having them wander looking for room 302. much faster and in an emergency speed is more important.
I work at a school, and am the phone admin. Washington state law requires that room identification is provided with E911 coming from schools, and I would imagine that this is true for other states as well.
EMS or police will always come to the office first before responding, and the office will lead them there instead of having them wander looking for room 302
We're required to provide up-to-date campus maps for our fire department.
E911 is not something to skimp on, even if it isn't required by state and local laws.
I've had good luck with ORFEE. After implementing the Greylist, our spam went down about 75%. I then blacklisted the remaining spam-sending networks (only if I knew we wouldn't need to mail them) and it has now been several weeks since I've received a single piece of spam.
It doesn't have an outlook plugin, but we haven't really needed one. It also has a trial version.
Its 4:30 in the afternoon on the 31st. Whats with OSTG going early with the April Fools? They have my timezone on file... Oh well. suppose I can put up with the pink for two days instead of one.
If you're trying to keep working during a blackout (as opposed to keeping your RAID consistent), look into these: a Kohler Generator. Sure, you still need a small UPS for your server/desktop, but it only has to last ~45 seconds until the generator kicks in. Have an electrician (or authorized Kohler rep) install it. I wish I had one sometimes.
UPS-Wise, K-12 systems aren't that mission critical. If you can configure the bios and everything on the systems to boot up silently without any human intervention. Make it so that once the power gets back on, everything gets back up.
Uh, NO. If you've put any serious thought into what your servers are acutally holding (financial records, tax information, student data, budgets, insurance information) you dont want to risk corrupting your file systems when some dumbass construction worker up the street kills power to the school/office, let alone storms, floods, earthquakes, or any other even when the school will need to file an insurance claim.
My advice would be to talk to your Director about how bad it would be if every file on the server were corrupted. My guess is that would be bad. Sure, you could restore from your off-site backups (you do those, right?!) but if you can prevent that, do it!
5 & 7: At my school we just rolled out images with DeepFreeze on them. Best thing ever. A lot of our boxes have <10Gb hard disks and the students roaming profiles get huge after a year- having 50 of them on one harddisk (in a lab) will fill the disk up right quick- DeepFreeze prevents the profiles from sticking around after a reboot.
2: The one thing keeping us on exchange (OK, two things) is calendaring (and its cousin, scheduling meetings). We have an exchange calendar for everything. I know there are alternatives, but I cant justify the cost of switching since a parent donated our Exchange 2k3 licences for free.
Someone above said that a UPS isn't important. Bull shit. Maintaining your SIS records is one of your top priorities, next to the financial records. If those go down (expecially in a disaster) your school (district) will have a harder time getting back on its feet.
When I first got where I am, my predicessor had spent the last 6-8 months doing nothing but putting out fires. The first thing I did was get the backend up to specs, and everyone (well, almost =P ) was happy about it- the servers were more reliable and people had fewer problems. Then I got all the computers running 2k or XP (also donated to the school) and most of the problems went away.
At least they're not the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) - if they were, I'd start stocking up on ammunition now if I were you. Damn inter-dimensional gateways.
It seems to me that a good BOFH wouldn't worry about little things like regular maintenance. Or any maintenance. Or users, for that matter. In fact, why do you even go into work, except to delete files?
Thats not what the RIAA would have you believe. May I direct your attention to Monday's UserFriendly: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050620. Note the similar tactics by the BSA and RIAA.
Symantec Security Response lists this:
Trojan.Pgpcoder They give the following details:
# Any files found which match this prerequesite are encoded and become unreadable.
# Ceates the file ATTENTION!!!.txt in every folder in which it encoded a file. The textfile contains the following:
Some files are coded.
To buy decoder mail: [user]@yahoo.com
with subject: PGPcoder 000000000032
# If the Trojan successfully completes its encoding routine on all files, it will delete itself through the creation of the file c:\tmp.bat. This.bat file will also delete itself.
I've already dropped one ISP over shitty service in the last 9 months, I have nothing against dropping another. If enough people with Vonage do the same thing, mabye the ISP's will figure it out.
However, I have Comcast in Seattle and I have no problems with my Vonage line. It's actually clearer than Sprint PCS.
If you have an area set aside in your home that you call your electronics lab, and know how to use breadboards, multimeters, and soldering irons, you may not get as much out of this book. If, however, you have to clear off your project area in order to eat...
So having an electronics bench and a place to eat are mutually exclusive? Where does that leave me when I have to clear my bench off to eat?!
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clicked wrong mod button, posting to undo...
And the actual version number on the file is 1.9.42
You've confused UW and WSU. University of Washington is where Pine was developed and the student in TFA studied. Washington State University ('wazzu') is where the drinking and sports occur.
I posted this elsewhere in this thread, but I'll post it here too so more people catch it:
I work at a school, and am the phone admin. Washington State law requires that room identification be provided with E911 data coming from schools, and I would imagine that this is true for other states as well. One or two POTS lines used for outgoing 911 will not be sufficient to comply with state and local laws.
The way it works is when dispatched EMS knows exactly which room they're going to via E911. We have provided our local fire department with detailed maps of our campus in addition to the posted maps that the fire panels, so they can get to the location where 911 was called without needing to stop by the office and ask for directions.
E911 is not something to skimp on, even if it isn't required by state and local laws.
I work at a school, and am the phone admin. Washington state law requires that room identification is provided with E911 coming from schools, and I would imagine that this is true for other states as well.
We're required to provide up-to-date campus maps for our fire department.
E911 is not something to skimp on, even if it isn't required by state and local laws.
Source [pdf warning!]
They should have thought of that before it got posted to slashdot. Oh well.
I've had good luck with ORFEE. After implementing the Greylist, our spam went down about 75%. I then blacklisted the remaining spam-sending networks (only if I knew we wouldn't need to mail them) and it has now been several weeks since I've received a single piece of spam.
It doesn't have an outlook plugin, but we haven't really needed one. It also has a trial version.
Actually if I remember correctly, squatting is perfectly leagal under Brittish Common Law. In fact, it goes so far as to protect the squatter from exactally what you describe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting#Squatting_i n_the_United_Kingdom
So, chalk that up to another failed analogy on /.
Its 4:30 in the afternoon on the 31st. Whats with OSTG going early with the April Fools? They have my timezone on file... Oh well. suppose I can put up with the pink for two days instead of one.
=P
Just in case someone actually wants to read TFA:w ww.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-sw ingswt/+awt+swing+swt+features+opensource+site:www .ibm.com&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&lr=lang_en
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:Sdg9JPdYswMJ:
If you're trying to keep working during a blackout (as opposed to keeping your RAID consistent), look into these: a Kohler Generator. Sure, you still need a small UPS for your server/desktop, but it only has to last ~45 seconds until the generator kicks in. Have an electrician (or authorized Kohler rep) install it. I wish I had one sometimes.
YMMV
5 & 7: At my school we just rolled out images with DeepFreeze on them. Best thing ever. A lot of our boxes have <10Gb hard disks and the students roaming profiles get huge after a year- having 50 of them on one harddisk (in a lab) will fill the disk up right quick- DeepFreeze prevents the profiles from sticking around after a reboot.
2: The one thing keeping us on exchange (OK, two things) is calendaring (and its cousin, scheduling meetings). We have an exchange calendar for everything. I know there are alternatives, but I cant justify the cost of switching since a parent donated our Exchange 2k3 licences for free.
Someone above said that a UPS isn't important. Bull shit. Maintaining your SIS records is one of your top priorities, next to the financial records. If those go down (expecially in a disaster) your school (district) will have a harder time getting back on its feet.
When I first got where I am, my predicessor had spent the last 6-8 months doing nothing but putting out fires. The first thing I did was get the backend up to specs, and everyone (well, almost =P ) was happy about it- the servers were more reliable and people had fewer problems. Then I got all the computers running 2k or XP (also donated to the school) and most of the problems went away.
Good luck!
At least they're not the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) - if they were, I'd start stocking up on ammunition now if I were you. Damn inter-dimensional gateways.
(DOOM reference if you didn't catch that)
Also, has anybody ever heard a Best Buy computer salesman say "This one has a Centrino processor."?
No, because none of us ever goes INTO Best Buy...
It seems to me that a good BOFH wouldn't worry about little things like regular maintenance. Or any maintenance. Or users, for that matter. In fact, why do you even go into work, except to delete files?
Thats not what the RIAA would have you believe. May I direct your attention to Monday's UserFriendly: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050620. Note the similar tactics by the BSA and RIAA.
OK, but the admin has to remember to use changelevel instead of map, I don't want to get kicked ;)
Symantec Security Response lists this: Trojan.Pgpcoder They give the following details:
.bat file will also delete itself.
# Any files found which match this prerequesite are encoded and become unreadable.
# Ceates the file ATTENTION!!!.txt in every folder in which it encoded a file. The textfile contains the following:
Some files are coded.
To buy decoder mail: [user]@yahoo.com
with subject: PGPcoder 000000000032
# If the Trojan successfully completes its encoding routine on all files, it will delete itself through the creation of the file c:\tmp.bat. This
So its not all BS.
Now if the update system would just not require a reinstall.
Most of the people I've converted aren't great at installing software, no matter how simple it may be.
I've already dropped one ISP over shitty service in the last 9 months, I have nothing against dropping another. If enough people with Vonage do the same thing, mabye the ISP's will figure it out.
However, I have Comcast in Seattle and I have no problems with my Vonage line. It's actually clearer than Sprint PCS.