We the Congress of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect spam heaven, establish Protection, insure domestic Annoyance, provide for the miserable defence, promote the general Chaos, and secure the Blessings of Financial Freedom to ourself and our Contributors, do ordain and establish this Anti-Spam Bill for the United States of America.
SmoothWall Express 2.0 was released at 21:00 GMT on Monday 8th December 2002.
http://www.smoothwall.org/
** Please see http://smoothwall.org/ for the latest release
** information, downloads and updates!
SmoothWall Express 2.0 Release Notes
** Please note that the https web access port has moved from
** TCP/445 to TCP/441! Use https://x.x.x.x:441/ from now on!
Changes from SmoothWall GPL 1.0:
* SmoothWall GPL is now SmoothWall Express!
http://community.smoothwall.org/topic/1086
* Stateful packet inspection using Linux 2.4 kernel with iptables
and netfilter.
* Improved installer:
- Network card skip.
- Displays MAC address of detected cards.
- Prefilled IP addresses.
- Configure upstream web proxy for fetching update list.
when a direct connection cannot be made or is not allowed.
* Improved web user interface; more user friendly, better error
reporting, more orange:)
* Improved connectivity device support:
- More USB ADSL modems; ECI chipset, USR SureConnect.
http://smoothwall.org/beta/eci.html
- BeWAN PCI ADSL.
- BT Home Highway USB TA.
* Universal Plug-n-Play support for Microsoft Windows XP users.
* Improved network usage graphs with RRDtool.
* Improved proxy performance through diskd and other squid tweaks.
* Static assignments in DHCP server options based on MAC address.
* SmoothWall time sync with internal or external NTP server. Can
sync from a built-in list of servers. (Does not provide ntpd
service to Green or Orange network however)
* Configuration backup to floppy disk for quick install on another
machine, or re-install on same machine (compatible with backup
floppies from Express 2.0 RC1, timesync server list bug when
using backup floppy from Express 2.0 beta7 "pendolino" - see
http://community.smoothwall.org/topic/2180 for more info)
* Simpler port forwarding; no need to open ports with external
access page, the port (or ports - port ranges are allowed now)
is opened and forwarded on one page.
* IP Blocking feature; block any given internal IP address or
subnet from accessing your SmoothWall or any port forwarded
hosts. Additionally, blocking rules can be added from the
firewall log interface.
* Advanced networking features; block ICMP ping, block multicast
traffic and enable SYN cookies.
* Improved VPN; no need for "next hop" setting, optionally enable
compression on the tunnel, still possible to connect to a
SmoothWall GPL 1.0 VPN.
* Perform network diagnostic (ping, traceroute) from web interface.
* New Java SSH client (replaced due to licence conflict).
* Added clear cache option to web proxy.
* Updates list location changed
http://updates.smoothwall.org/express/2.0
Thanks to those on the team and the forums for their hard work on mods and patches:)
----- Rebooting -----
During the reboot, notice the nice boot screens.:)
You will notice differences if you use either the ECI or the USR SureConnect USB ADSL modems.
For all USR ADSL modems, have the unit plugged in prior to booting. If you are using an ECI-chipset driver (generic of FDX310), you will see your screen fill with diagnostics as the firmware is uploaded and the line synced. Occasionally this can appear to hang part way through, but it should not stall for more then 30 seconds at a time. The line should be synced when this process is complete.
The USR SureConnect will behave in a similar fashion, but with less diagnostics.
There is no such thing as "this web site" as "any web site" in this case.
"This web site" is The Federation of American Scientists and they have released information on nuclear policy, WMD's and intelligence since the early fifties. They are in a somewhat uniqe position.
I'm pretty sure that would not release anything unless they thought they could get away with it without problems. And they have alwayse stretched the limit of what's acceptable.
You are such a Troll..
Anandtech is a big site, they have ads from every major computer brand known to mankind (almost).
If you watch closely or reload the page you will see Intel ads. On the left side of one of the pages there is a "Intel; Click here to get more performance" ad
The so called exceptionally growth rate of Internet adoptation compared to that of radio and television:
"It took 38 years for radio to attract 50 million listeners. 13 years for television to attract 50 million viewers. In just 4 years the Internet has attracted 50 million surfers! Those figures can hardly be balked at, especially when you consider the Internet's beginnings. "
Oh, yes. The embedded community uses FAT all over the place. They are going to absolutely go bonkers when this hits the news.
That is so true.
And when you think of the structure in the embedded world with many small players and companies there is a lot of dollars heading for Redmond.
On the other hand, I wonder how MS plans to enforce this in Asia. I'll guestimate that there are many hundred companies in China alone popping up and getting them to pay can become difficult.
One of the judge-experts is a guy from Linpro a Norwegian consulting firm and the leading Linux company in Norway.
He is off course neutral as a judge but at least he knows something about computers, crypto, Open Source/Free Software and Linux (probably a lot).
If you ask me; anyone that want their future decided by twelve/fourteen, possible 100% clueless, civil jury members rather than seven judges in a case like this is plain stupid.
Personally I think that the release of that iTunes hack was just fine..but let's not get into that.
I think you are wrong about that being a very bad thing for the trial though:
1. There is no jury consisting of 12 drawn people that would swallow the "Johansen has a blatant disregard for copyright" line. In this case there are seven persons; three "academic" judges, two experts (one from academica and one from business) and two other judges.
The actor can bitch as much as she wants about moral, personality and "hurting business" but they will to a large degree ignore that.
2. A trial like this in Norway is much more focused about technicalities, evidence and motive that moral and personality.
3. If the actor draggs in the iTunes case that might backfire as a sign of lack of evidence or unrelevant material.
Some newspaper mentioned that Okokrim really don't have any new evidence. They are running more witnesses this time. One of them is a gentleman from your beloved MPAA. I don't think it will work. Getting him to mourn about their "economic loss" because of DeCSS and linking that to DVD-Jon can become difficult.
I'm fairly confident that Okokrim will loose this case.
The person who sold it to him would be the person who would get the citation.
According to the article:
[..]California Assemblyman Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, plans to introduce legislation making it illegal for minors to buy the most violent video games and requiring game dealers to separate youth games from adult offerings.
Unless the journalist fucked up, not impossible, this seems like a criminalization of buying games that are rated above your age.
(or is it me who misinterpret that sentence?)
That would affect a lot of youngsters between 15 an 18 in California.
Off course they would go after the dealer first (deja vu), but it's not unlikey that someone would get their first entry on their record.
2010:
Knock Knock! And there comes the police to you with your 14 year son after busting him when he successfully bought the 18 year/R-rated GTA 5.
Ooops, now he got a criminal record.
Kudos to Leland Yee for his long term visions that will help create new jobs in the prison industry and follow up on the war on drugs.
A great way to catch those kids that don't do drugs.
This is what I like about California; equal opportunity for everyone to get busted by addjusting the laws so you can catch the crim.. uhh everyone.
You have to see this in the same view as the executives at the major record companies to understand why they would want this protection. They see a different market reality than we do.
Recently EMI wanted to buy the music division of Time Warner and Sony and Bertelsman also want to do a large merger. This could be stopped in USA or Europe by monopoly laws,[legitimate] fear of even more anticompetitive behaviour and anti-trust laws.
But if they proactivly construct laws that can exempt them from lawsuits the mergers could get through easier and with less complications later.
Even after Bronfman bought the TW music division they are planning on mergers to squeeze out a couple of hundred million dollars in "long term" (two year) cost savings.
So expect to se RIAA release a couple of dubious reports that "proves" that "piracy" is hurting their business.
It's sad to see how easily some US politicians are bribed.
Without touching your other points; I think you are wrong on #1:
1) Most spam that ends up in U.S. mailboxes comes from overseas, so no US law is going to stop that.
Even though the spam comes from overseas, 90% of the worst spammers comes from US. According to ROKSO 90% of the 200 worst spam operatios are US based.
So if the US Congress criminalized sending spam people could have sued the shit out of these people as long as you can prove it.
But hey, can't do that; that would have destroyed the industry!
..the Oscar is about the Big studios and their latest blockbusters.
I'm pretty sure that if someone analyzed the data they would find that a *very* high percentage of the Oscar winners came from the big studios.
The Oscar is not about quality.
It's all about money, ratings, glory and power. Even if they(small studios) win this case they won't win any more Oscar's; if any at all.
Slashdot Mirror
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 512kb L2 Cache, 2GHz at:
$249
Pre-release to create a buzz?
They fell off a truck?
We the Congress of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect spam heaven, establish Protection, insure domestic Annoyance, provide for the miserable defence, promote the general Chaos, and secure the Blessings of Financial Freedom to ourself and our Contributors, do ordain and establish this Anti-Spam Bill for the United States of America.
/.'ed
:)
:)
:)
SmoothWall Express 2.0
SmoothWall Express 2.0 was released at 21:00 GMT on Monday 8th December 2002.
http://www.smoothwall.org/
** Please see http://smoothwall.org/ for the latest release
** information, downloads and updates!
SmoothWall Express 2.0 Release Notes
** Please note that the https web access port has moved from
** TCP/445 to TCP/441! Use https://x.x.x.x:441/ from now on!
Changes from SmoothWall GPL 1.0:
* SmoothWall GPL is now SmoothWall Express!
http://community.smoothwall.org/topic/1086
* Stateful packet inspection using Linux 2.4 kernel with iptables
and netfilter.
* Improved installer:
- Network card skip.
- Displays MAC address of detected cards.
- Prefilled IP addresses.
- Configure upstream web proxy for fetching update list.
when a direct connection cannot be made or is not allowed.
* Improved web user interface; more user friendly, better error
reporting, more orange
* Improved connectivity device support:
- More USB ADSL modems; ECI chipset, USR SureConnect.
http://smoothwall.org/beta/eci.html
- BeWAN PCI ADSL.
- BT Home Highway USB TA.
* Universal Plug-n-Play support for Microsoft Windows XP users.
* Improved network usage graphs with RRDtool.
* Improved proxy performance through diskd and other squid tweaks.
* Static assignments in DHCP server options based on MAC address.
* SmoothWall time sync with internal or external NTP server. Can
sync from a built-in list of servers. (Does not provide ntpd
service to Green or Orange network however)
* Configuration backup to floppy disk for quick install on another
machine, or re-install on same machine (compatible with backup
floppies from Express 2.0 RC1, timesync server list bug when
using backup floppy from Express 2.0 beta7 "pendolino" - see
http://community.smoothwall.org/topic/2180 for more info)
* Simpler port forwarding; no need to open ports with external
access page, the port (or ports - port ranges are allowed now)
is opened and forwarded on one page.
* IP Blocking feature; block any given internal IP address or
subnet from accessing your SmoothWall or any port forwarded
hosts. Additionally, blocking rules can be added from the
firewall log interface.
* Advanced networking features; block ICMP ping, block multicast
traffic and enable SYN cookies.
* Improved VPN; no need for "next hop" setting, optionally enable
compression on the tunnel, still possible to connect to a
SmoothWall GPL 1.0 VPN.
* Perform network diagnostic (ping, traceroute) from web interface.
* New Java SSH client (replaced due to licence conflict).
* Added clear cache option to web proxy.
* Updates list location changed
http://updates.smoothwall.org/express/2.0
Thanks to those on the team and the forums for their hard work on
mods and patches
-----
Rebooting
-----
During the reboot, notice the nice boot screens.
You will notice differences if you use either the ECI or the USR
SureConnect USB ADSL modems.
For all USR ADSL modems, have the unit plugged in prior to booting.
If you are using an ECI-chipset driver (generic of FDX310), you will
see your screen fill with diagnostics as the firmware is uploaded and
the line synced. Occasionally this can appear to hang part way
through, but it should not stall for more then 30 seconds at a time.
The line should be synced when this process is complete.
The USR SureConnect will behave in a similar fashion, but with less
diagnostics.
---
In other words; when the fake ATM front steal the file with your fingerprint, face shape and retina scan you are fucked.
Looks like an integrated part of the ATM unless you are familiar with that ATM.
Apple Newton - nice idea, bad implementation.
Palm Pilot - same idea (copied), nice implementation.
"This web site" is The Federation of American Scientists and they have released information on nuclear policy, WMD's and intelligence since the early fifties. They are in a somewhat uniqe position.
I'm pretty sure that would not release anything unless they thought they could get away with it without problems. And they have alwayse stretched the limit of what's acceptable.
Anandtech is a big site, they have ads from every major computer brand known to mankind (almost).
If you watch closely or reload the page you will see Intel ads. On the left side of one of the pages there is a "Intel; Click here to get more performance" ad
Well, it turns out that this dot-com myth is somewhat wrong and the growth is not so much stronger than radio and TV.
Very interesting stuff, bumped into it on Usenet.
Anyway, who cares; If you just add more RAM Windows will stop using the swap space!!
Yeah, right, just like Windows 95.
And when you think of the structure in the embedded world with many small players and companies there is a lot of dollars heading for Redmond.
On the other hand, I wonder how MS plans to enforce this in Asia. I'll guestimate that there are many hundred companies in China alone popping up and getting them to pay can become difficult.
Any music released before 1973 should no longer be copyrighted.
If he consider a limited amount of co-workers to be friends sharing music with them is legal.
He is off course neutral as a judge but at least he knows something about computers, crypto, Open Source/Free Software and Linux (probably a lot).
If you ask me; anyone that want their future decided by twelve/fourteen, possible 100% clueless, civil jury members rather than seven judges in a case like this is plain stupid.
I think you are wrong about that being a very bad thing for the trial though:
1. There is no jury consisting of 12 drawn people that would swallow the "Johansen has a blatant disregard for copyright" line. In this case there are seven persons; three "academic" judges, two experts (one from academica and one from business) and two other judges.
The actor can bitch as much as she wants about moral, personality and "hurting business" but they will to a large degree ignore that.
2. A trial like this in Norway is much more focused about technicalities, evidence and motive that moral and personality.
3. If the actor draggs in the iTunes case that might backfire as a sign of lack of evidence or unrelevant material.
Some newspaper mentioned that Okokrim really don't have any new evidence. They are running more witnesses this time. One of them is a gentleman from your beloved MPAA. I don't think it will work. Getting him to mourn about their "economic loss" because of DeCSS and linking that to DVD-Jon can become difficult.
I'm fairly confident that Okokrim will loose this case.
Unless the journalist fucked up, not impossible, this seems like a criminalization of buying games that are rated above your age.
(or is it me who misinterpret that sentence?)
That would affect a lot of youngsters between 15 an 18 in California.
Off course they would go after the dealer first (deja vu), but it's not unlikey that someone would get their first entry on their record.
2010:
Knock Knock! And there comes the police to you with your 14 year son after busting him when he successfully bought the 18 year/R-rated GTA 5.
Ooops, now he got a criminal record.
A great way to catch those kids that don't do drugs.
This is what I like about California; equal opportunity for everyone to get busted by addjusting the laws so you can catch the crim.. uhh everyone.
Flying moose lands on car's roof
Driving along..smooth...KABOOM!...770 pound moose landing on your car.
[/tinfoil hat mode]
Recently EMI wanted to buy the music division of Time Warner and Sony and Bertelsman also want to do a large merger. This could be stopped in USA or Europe by monopoly laws ,[legitimate] fear of even more anticompetitive behaviour and anti-trust laws.
But if they proactivly construct laws that can exempt them from lawsuits the mergers could get through easier and with less complications later.
Even after Bronfman bought the TW music division they are planning on mergers to squeeze out a couple of hundred million dollars in "long term" (two year) cost savings.
So expect to se RIAA release a couple of dubious reports that "proves" that "piracy" is hurting their business.
It's sad to see how easily some US politicians are bribed.
Even though the spam comes from overseas, 90% of the worst spammers comes from US. According to ROKSO 90% of the 200 worst spam operatios are US based.
So if the US Congress criminalized sending spam people could have sued the shit out of these people as long as you can prove it.
But hey, can't do that; that would have destroyed the industry!
I'm pretty sure that if someone analyzed the data they would find that a *very* high percentage of the Oscar winners came from the big studios.
The Oscar is not about quality.
It's all about money, ratings, glory and power. Even if they(small studios) win this case they won't win any more Oscar's; if any at all.