The guy said he couldn't be fussed with activation and didn't want the OEM crap that's installed off these vendor-supplied CDs. Both very valid points for using a devilsown.
I was mortified when Virgin stopped their smoking carriage. On the way to a festival it was like being in a very friendly pub, and even on more mundane trips it was a godsend when the inevitable "this train is going to be running 4 hours late" announcement came along:)
Unfortunately they don't (and according to a source at Valve, won't) make a FreeBSD server binary, so my dual opteron server is sitting struggling running the 32-bit linux version of CS under emulation.
Other than screws, I suggest buying some paper washers that go between the screw and the motherboard. Not really necessary, but they insure that there's no electrical short and prevent damage of the motherboard.
around the screwholes in motherboards is usually a ring of soldered area which is actually designed to meet the risers and form a ground connection...
an 11GB transfer during office hours at 100Mbits wouldn't make a dent on my network graphs.
you should notice a connection that has been up for days
You're making the presumption that Valve's internet connection is used by one person who knows exactly what's going down it at all times. We're talking about a corporate network, not a home network
From what I can tell, Valve run steampowered.com from their network which with the release of Steam hasd probably been close to maxing their line (155Mbit?) out 24/7. If you've got a graph that's hovering between 80% and 100% of a 155Mbit pipe, tell me how you'd expect to see anything as trivial as a 10GB transfer?
Ahh, but this sounds like (I haven't read up on it yet) the sort of thing I'd be glad to slap on an apache proxy between the world and an IIS box running badly written yet essential commercial web applications.
Microsoft offers for free Softwar Update Server, which lets you run your own update server.
Which requires connectivity to other boxes. Why do you think I'm burning CDs?
There are a lot of updates no matter what OS you run, and they all have to be downloaded
Funny that, because before I left work last night, I built a couple of FreeBSD 4.8 servers for testing over the weekend. They're bog standard installs with known vulnerabilities and they're completely unprotected on the internet. The only thing I've done is limit sshd to my home IP.
Why haven't I patched them? Because I don't need to. If you have no listening services and you make no outbound connections with buggy software, you're fine.
And on another note, the complete time to install was 10 minutes per box. There's a few of them, so I feel sorry for the guy who's got to slap win2000 on them next week. Last time I tried, it was a good few hours to get the os installed and patched, especially with all the faffing around with the floppy disks for the drive controllers...
Oh, and they all have to be downloaded is complete FUD. If you don't use konquorer for example, you don't need to patch it. If you are running a sensible server (bare-bones, no x, etc) 80% of those patches are irellevant - although this isn't the case under windows...
I am responsible for a number of win2000 boxes which, due to an unmovable security policy, service incoming HTTP requests but have no means of establishing external connections.
Windows update is extremely difficult to work when you have no net access.
Have you ever tried to update windows without using windows update? I've had several MS-qualified people say it's a case of guesswork and/or a LOT of time as to what patches to download, burn to CD, and install. And then there's no guarantee you've got them all.
Just because you're irresponsible or arrogant enough to put a Windows-based box in a position where it can launch an attack on another network, doesn't mean everyone else is.
You don't want to update the OS when you install it, but you want to download the entire OS? I'm missing the sense in this.
Lets put it this way. You install Windows. You connect to the internet to update. You get infected by blaster BEFORE you've had a chance to update. Great...
Try getting patches for Red Hat 3.0, you can't do it.
Correct. However that product became obsolete somewhere around 7 years ago. What excuse do MS have for XP? Hmm slow down my computer considerably by installing media player 9? I don't think so.
The fact of the matter is MS seem to be doing everything they can to make the Internet a pain in the arse for everybody. Would there be so may worms floating around if they put some simple protection around the RPC ports? If they prevented outlook (express) from being able to execute code conatined within a malicious email without user intervention?
And why the hell are they making life next to impossible for modem users? My father connects via modem. Now he can't keep his machine secure-ish from magazine cover disks, he's refusing to connect to the internet - and rightly so. How long would it take him to download a service pack while his modem connection is being maxed out by the worm-du-jour?
You've never used NFS or Samba? How do you maintain a shared filesystem between multiple hosts?
There's nothing wrong with RPC-based services - in the right environment they're absolutely vital.
However opening them up to the internet at large is suicidal. Even the *NIX RPC implimentations have been dodgy at best and although Samba is pretty secure, I still would bever be seen dead opening it up to the internet. Luckily most *NIX distributions agree with this train of thought, but MS? Do they get a sizable income from AV companies or something?
noooo! Those things are excellent! Not only for lighting the keyboard, but in case you need a raised light somewhere (soldering, etc). Also when the lighting breaker tripped in my house the other night, I found they make a superb impromptu torch!
Coolermaster make a range of 8cm fans which light up in all sorts of lame colours. However, they also do one which shines white! I've got to say I really do like these things - the illumination you get when you're fiddling under the desk is fantastic! Plus they're low RPM hence very quiet.
Not sure if this is just a Banks' (Midlands-based brewery) thing or if it's law, but staff in Banks' pubs are trained to give you a fresh glass each time, never refill on health&safety grounds.
Try taking a sniff around the servers of larger, more clueful ISPs - They almost all use FreeBSD. Why? Because that's the place FreeBSD grew up. Linux has the hobyist hackers working on it whereas a high proportion of FreeBSD users/developers work in the ISP biz. It's just evolved into the perfect serious server OS.
I've seen FreeBSD boxes (mail servers to be precise) with load averages approaching 1000. They were sluggish, but perfectly usable both over ssh and smtp. That was during a rather nasty spam attack - yet the boxes kept on working. You couldn't say that for a Linux box in that situation. Sorry, but it would be stone cold dead by then.
Sure, we don't have all the twinkly bits that Linux users enjoy, but we go get one mother of a workhorse:D
The fundamental thing about public key crypto is your private key and passphrase will never be compromised unless your local box has been owned and something's logging keystrokes.
A man-in-the-middle attack will be unable to retrieve a key because it's only public keys sent over the wire. A man-in-the-middle attack will be unable to retrieve the passphrase since it never leaves the local box in any form. A man-in-the-middle attack will not be able to intercept any of the ssh data either as long as you're using a sound cypher mechanism (read as SSH2). All a man-in-the-middle can do is proxy the session.
If you're still using SSH1 OTOH, you deserve everything you get.
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The guy said he couldn't be fussed with activation and didn't want the OEM crap that's installed off these vendor-supplied CDs. Both very valid points for using a devilsown.
There's only 2 games I have a Windows machine for:
Counter-Strike
Eve Online
Neither of which work under wine/winex. You'd think that given CS is the world's most popular online game, they'd have made running it a priority?
I tried running Eve the other week from CVS. Still falls on its face because it uses DX9.
WineX still has a long way to go before I'll be paying for it.
the new virgin trains have plug sockets by every seat
I was mortified when Virgin stopped their smoking carriage. On the way to a festival it was like being in a very friendly pub, and even on more mundane trips it was a godsend when the inevitable "this train is going to be running 4 hours late" announcement came along :)
Unfortunately they don't (and according to a source at Valve, won't) make a FreeBSD server binary, so my dual opteron server is sitting struggling running the 32-bit linux version of CS under emulation.
Niiiiiiiice.... not.
speed cheats, which were defeated shortly after they appeared, appeared long before CS went to retail
Funny that... I banned a player from my CS server this evening for using a speedhack...
Sarcasm aside, it's still a problem. One which Valve really should have got totally licked by now.
Other than screws, I suggest buying some paper washers that go between the screw and the motherboard. Not really necessary, but they insure that there's no electrical short and prevent damage of the motherboard.
around the screwholes in motherboards is usually a ring of soldered area which is actually designed to meet the risers and form a ground connection...
the spike would stick out like a sore thumb
an 11GB transfer during office hours at 100Mbits wouldn't make a dent on my network graphs.
you should notice a connection that has been up for days
You're making the presumption that Valve's internet connection is used by one person who knows exactly what's going down it at all times. We're talking about a corporate network, not a home network
From what I can tell, Valve run steampowered.com from their network which with the release of Steam hasd probably been close to maxing their line (155Mbit?) out 24/7. If you've got a graph that's hovering between 80% and 100% of a 155Mbit pipe, tell me how you'd expect to see anything as trivial as a 10GB transfer?
they only seem to sell pig or vegi haggis in England
Have you tried a few small local butchers, instead of supermarkets?
don't suppose you know of a similar thing for *BSD? specifically FreeBSD....
usb drives are recognised? damn! i got one of those with a laptop... i could have saved myself having to buy a fixed one :/
Serial ports are incredibly useful for remotely fixing broken BSD boxes (or Linux if you bother to set it up)
Floppy drives are (unfortunately) REQUIRED to install Windows on SATA drives.
Ahh, but this sounds like (I haven't read up on it yet) the sort of thing I'd be glad to slap on an apache proxy between the world and an IIS box running badly written yet essential commercial web applications.
Microsoft offers for free Softwar Update Server, which lets you run your own update server.
Which requires connectivity to other boxes. Why do you think I'm burning CDs?
There are a lot of updates no matter what OS you run, and they all have to be downloaded
Funny that, because before I left work last night, I built a couple of FreeBSD 4.8 servers for testing over the weekend. They're bog standard installs with known vulnerabilities and they're completely unprotected on the internet. The only thing I've done is limit sshd to my home IP.
Why haven't I patched them? Because I don't need to. If you have no listening services and you make no outbound connections with buggy software, you're fine.
And on another note, the complete time to install was 10 minutes per box. There's a few of them, so I feel sorry for the guy who's got to slap win2000 on them next week. Last time I tried, it was a good few hours to get the os installed and patched, especially with all the faffing around with the floppy disks for the drive controllers...
Oh, and they all have to be downloaded is complete FUD. If you don't use konquorer for example, you don't need to patch it. If you are running a sensible server (bare-bones, no x, etc) 80% of those patches are irellevant - although this isn't the case under windows...
How is Windows Update hard to understand
I am responsible for a number of win2000 boxes which, due to an unmovable security policy, service incoming HTTP requests but have no means of establishing external connections.
Windows update is extremely difficult to work when you have no net access.
Have you ever tried to update windows without using windows update? I've had several MS-qualified people say it's a case of guesswork and/or a LOT of time as to what patches to download, burn to CD, and install. And then there's no guarantee you've got them all.
Just because you're irresponsible or arrogant enough to put a Windows-based box in a position where it can launch an attack on another network, doesn't mean everyone else is.
You don't want to update the OS when you install it, but you want to download the entire OS? I'm missing the sense in this.
Lets put it this way. You install Windows. You connect to the internet to update. You get infected by blaster BEFORE you've had a chance to update. Great...
Try getting patches for Red Hat 3.0, you can't do it.
Correct. However that product became obsolete somewhere around 7 years ago. What excuse do MS have for XP? Hmm slow down my computer considerably by installing media player 9? I don't think so.
The fact of the matter is MS seem to be doing everything they can to make the Internet a pain in the arse for everybody. Would there be so may worms floating around if they put some simple protection around the RPC ports? If they prevented outlook (express) from being able to execute code conatined within a malicious email without user intervention?
And why the hell are they making life next to impossible for modem users? My father connects via modem. Now he can't keep his machine secure-ish from magazine cover disks, he's refusing to connect to the internet - and rightly so. How long would it take him to download a service pack while his modem connection is being maxed out by the worm-du-jour?
You've never used NFS or Samba? How do you maintain a shared filesystem between multiple hosts?
There's nothing wrong with RPC-based services - in the right environment they're absolutely vital.
However opening them up to the internet at large is suicidal. Even the *NIX RPC implimentations have been dodgy at best and although Samba is pretty secure, I still would bever be seen dead opening it up to the internet. Luckily most *NIX distributions agree with this train of thought, but MS? Do they get a sizable income from AV companies or something?
noooo! Those things are excellent! Not only for lighting the keyboard, but in case you need a raised light somewhere (soldering, etc). Also when the lighting breaker tripped in my house the other night, I found they make a superb impromptu torch!
Coolermaster make a range of 8cm fans which light up in all sorts of lame colours. However, they also do one which shines white! I've got to say I really do like these things - the illumination you get when you're fiddling under the desk is fantastic! Plus they're low RPM hence very quiet.
34040 DATA "HTTP/1.0 200 OK",$,"Content-Type: text/html",$,$
;)
34041 DATA "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Error 404</TITLE></HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR=#"
is it just me who's spotted that the 404 page isn't really a 404?
Not sure if this is just a Banks' (Midlands-based brewery) thing or if it's law, but staff in Banks' pubs are trained to give you a fresh glass each time, never refill on health&safety grounds.
wouldn't bluetooth be more useful?
> > a crackdown on file-sharing. If they take that away from us, then whats the point of having that much space?
;)
> Legitimate content.
The source to the latest mozilla snapshot will fill that nicely
Try taking a sniff around the servers of larger, more clueful ISPs - They almost all use FreeBSD. Why? Because that's the place FreeBSD grew up. Linux has the hobyist hackers working on it whereas a high proportion of FreeBSD users/developers work in the ISP biz. It's just evolved into the perfect serious server OS.
:D
I've seen FreeBSD boxes (mail servers to be precise) with load averages approaching 1000. They were sluggish, but perfectly usable both over ssh and smtp. That was during a rather nasty spam attack - yet the boxes kept on working. You couldn't say that for a Linux box in that situation. Sorry, but it would be stone cold dead by then.
Sure, we don't have all the twinkly bits that Linux users enjoy, but we go get one mother of a workhorse
Where you get this idea from?
The fundamental thing about public key crypto is your private key and passphrase will never be compromised unless your local box has been owned and something's logging keystrokes.
A man-in-the-middle attack will be unable to retrieve a key because it's only public keys sent over the wire. A man-in-the-middle attack will be unable to retrieve the passphrase since it never leaves the local box in any form. A man-in-the-middle attack will not be able to intercept any of the ssh data either as long as you're using a sound cypher mechanism (read as SSH2). All a man-in-the-middle can do is proxy the session.
If you're still using SSH1 OTOH, you deserve everything you get.
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