Last Thursday I was installing a T1 and reading Slashdot on a baking hot Florida roof. I've read via wireless on a Yacht, in a moving car wardriving and the obvious hotel / poolside / backyard scenarios....
I can't get into the basic My Yahoo now. I was actually referring to the calendar / Mail / Address Book section of My Yahoo. I can still get into Yahoo's home page and assorted links./East Coast
If you haven't noticed yet, My Yahoo has a whole new look to go with the 100Mb of mail storage. Rounded edges and fonts. They never can leave well enough alone.
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If you bother to read the RFP, the third party will build and manage a paid service at the rest areas for laptops and a kiosk. Texzas won't be paying the company anything to install the network.
Most laws enacted do not apply on the Hill. You can't arrest someone for something that wasn't illegal. Morality and ethics aside - this is done everyday by both sides and is old news.
It always surprises me how liberal the average Slashdot reader appears to be. Such a waste.
All it takes is a few greedy P2P users to hose the business model for home broadband. The reason you pay a lot less at home than a business user for the same circuit is expected usage rates. You can argue that this is false advertising "UNLIMITED" but unlimited really means that you are not cut off after X MB download in 30 days. (or charged at $.Y per MB over X)
I am a RHCE (7-2000) with 16 RH 9.0 servers, routers, firewalls and laptops in the Enterprise. As soon as our 4 figure up2date contract expires, I will rebuild each and every box with either Slack, Debian or SuSE. This behavior is corporate suicide. I would like to thank RH for significantly devaluing my certification. *sigh*
Yeah for me - I was one of the few quoted in the article. I am now awaiting the flood of spam thanks to the convenient email link they posted in our names. I also look forward to the corporate lawyer blowback I'll receive tomorrow for saying that we need not fear SCO's lawyers. FWIW - we are heavily invested in Open Source software, and since we don't have a programming shop, we give back financially. I don't know what I would do without Linux, Apache, MRTG, Nagios, sendmail, Squirrel Mail, DHCPD, NTPD, BIND, SQUID, and countless other projects.
My sister used to work for SCO in government sales. She was very good at it. The horror stories of how poorly run they were (and are) give me a clearer picture of their desperation now. Their best hope is to get bought out by someone. Anyone.
Among other systems, I manage 16 Red Hat servers running from production web, DNS, firewall and backup systems. I standardized on Red Hat with 6.2 (late 99/early 2k), and have upgraded to the latest distro about a month after its release. During this period, I have had 100% system uptime barring kernel upgrades.
I am now running RHN and couldn't be happier. The auto-upgrades have performed flawlessly with exceptional download speed. I contemplated using apt to substitute for RHN, but the PHBs agreed to the RHN expense. It is a great way to support a Linux company, and fairly reasonable in price ($60 basic, $90 enterprise). Manual updates are no longer an option without daily checks of bugtraq. Even then you could be too late. I had a system with outdated openssh that was cracked 2 days after the bug was announced. I was away at the time and couldn't have fixed it anyway.
I am now on RH 9 standard edition. No stability issues at all. The other versions appear to be marketing hype. But there is nothing scientific about that comparison.
As a medium sized Telecom integrator - On average, we get our T1s terminated by Verizon and Bell South in 30 to 45 days. Our Qwest lines are usually done in under 15. The Bells are much better now than when they were under the AT&T umbrella - but quite a bit of collusion still exists. The Feds didn't go far enough to rip that monopoly apart.
Nerds are unpopular for many reasons. Being smart isn't one of them - but the behaviors associated with it in school are relevant. Spending more time studying than involved in activities. Being involved in activities considered uncool (yearbook, chess, etc). But the real problem is social interraction. There was a FARK blogged article not so long ago discussing engineering students at a prominent US college being taught to interract socially.
Think "Office Space" and Tom's character. I work with the customers so the engineers don't have to.
Dell sells servers with no OS, but all other systems come with Windows. My current SC500 Dell server is running RH7.3. I could have had them install that for me as well - but I prefer to do it myself.
I use spews, along with both DUL and RBL, and pop before smtp. I have had a problem with a couple of netblocks being blocked by spews. I have an easy solution that has worked well for me.
Once each week, a script dumps the latest spews sendmail filters info a file, and diffs the old file for reference. The new file is then tacked onto my sendmail access filters which already allow incoming mail from the 'bad' blocks that affect our clients. Since the access.db is read top down, the message is received before the reject is seen. Spews is blocking 1500-2000 messages each week on 2 linux mailservers.
We were much more 'open' before pop-before-smtp came about. I had to allow relay from a few large netblocks for remote users using us for relay rather than their own ISP. Corporate dictate. Now with p-b-s, all of those holes are plugged.
This doesn't help everyone affected, but it cured my headaches.
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Last Thursday I was installing a T1 and reading Slashdot on a baking hot Florida roof. I've read via wireless on a Yacht, in a moving car wardriving and the obvious hotel / poolside / backyard scenarios....
...also me@work.com.....
This doesn't even register on the geek scale. It is just plain stupid.
I can't get into the basic My Yahoo now. I was actually referring to the calendar / Mail / Address Book section of My Yahoo. I can still get into Yahoo's home page and assorted links. /East Coast
If you haven't noticed yet, My Yahoo has a whole new look to go with the 100Mb of mail storage. Rounded edges and fonts. They never can leave well enough alone.
If you bother to read the RFP, the third party will build and manage a paid service at the rest areas for laptops and a kiosk. Texzas won't be paying the company anything to install the network.
Can I mount one on my motorcycle to stop idiot car yakkers from running me down?
Most laws enacted do not apply on the Hill. You can't arrest someone for something that wasn't illegal. Morality and ethics aside - this is done everyday by both sides and is old news. It always surprises me how liberal the average Slashdot reader appears to be. Such a waste.
Run OpenOffice and buy a copy of Access (or keep using Access 97 forever - it seems to have beeter help and functionality than XP).
All it takes is a few greedy P2P users to hose the business model for home broadband. The reason you pay a lot less at home than a business user for the same circuit is expected usage rates. You can argue that this is false advertising "UNLIMITED" but unlimited really means that you are not cut off after X MB download in 30 days. (or charged at $.Y per MB over X)
I am a RHCE (7-2000) with 16 RH 9.0 servers, routers, firewalls and laptops in the Enterprise. As soon as our 4 figure up2date contract expires, I will rebuild each and every box with either Slack, Debian or SuSE. This behavior is corporate suicide. I would like to thank RH for significantly devaluing my certification. *sigh*
My sister used to work for SCO in government sales. She was very good at it. The horror stories of how poorly run they were (and are) give me a clearer picture of their desperation now. Their best hope is to get bought out by someone. Anyone.
I am now running RHN and couldn't be happier. The auto-upgrades have performed flawlessly with exceptional download speed. I contemplated using apt to substitute for RHN, but the PHBs agreed to the RHN expense. It is a great way to support a Linux company, and fairly reasonable in price ($60 basic, $90 enterprise). Manual updates are no longer an option without daily checks of bugtraq. Even then you could be too late. I had a system with outdated openssh that was cracked 2 days after the bug was announced. I was away at the time and couldn't have fixed it anyway.
I am now on RH 9 standard edition. No stability issues at all. The other versions appear to be marketing hype. But there is nothing scientific about that comparison.
---RHCE 7-2k
Written by someone who has no idea just how bad the Feds can screw up a working company.
As a medium sized Telecom integrator - On average, we get our T1s terminated by Verizon and Bell South in 30 to 45 days. Our Qwest lines are usually done in under 15. The Bells are much better now than when they were under the AT&T umbrella - but quite a bit of collusion still exists. The Feds didn't go far enough to rip that monopoly apart.
One word. Upgrade.
Think "Office Space" and Tom's character. I work with the customers so the engineers don't have to.
Buy a high end used laptop and wipe the drive.
Once each week, a script dumps the latest spews sendmail filters info a file, and diffs the old file for reference. The new file is then tacked onto my sendmail access filters which already allow incoming mail from the 'bad' blocks that affect our clients. Since the access.db is read top down, the message is received before the reject is seen. Spews is blocking 1500-2000 messages each week on 2 linux mailservers.
We were much more 'open' before pop-before-smtp came about. I had to allow relay from a few large netblocks for remote users using us for relay rather than their own ISP. Corporate dictate. Now with p-b-s, all of those holes are plugged.
This doesn't help everyone affected, but it cured my headaches.