I use WSUS at all of my installations, Small Business Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003. If you do not have MSDE or SQL, WSUS installs the MSDE for you.
Installation is painless and flawless, though be prepared to spend a weekend letting the machine download updates. Depending upon your installation, you could use 10GB or more storage space. In an environment with Server 2003, SBS2003, Exchange 2003, Windows XP, Office XP and 2003, and Windows Defender, I easily used 13GB. And that is without feature packs and other non-critical updates.
Supposedly, WSUS will import your existing SUS store, but even following MS's documentation to the letter I have been unsuccessful. After several failures I just gave up and uninstall SUS before installing WSUS.
A domain *is* helpful because you can push out GPO defining your update settings, but not entirely necessary as you can just manually install registry settings to do the same.
Unfortunately, I cannot get to the article, so I cannot see exactly what they are talking about.
But to be short, the D410 and D610 BIOSes I work with have an option to default to the docking station video as well. IIRC, Dell produces docking stations (not just the advanced port replicators we use in the field) which have PCI and AGP slots. It seems only reasonable that they also intend to produce models with PCIe slots (none currently show on the website.)
So, this may not be anything new or stunning.
As an aside, I am disappointed that the newer Latitudes do not have docking ports. The USB port replicators are crap, and the drivers constantly crash on at least two models I have in customer sites (not my purchase, mind you.) I believe that the ability to dock could be viewed by home users as a replacement of the desktop. Of course, that would mean that people would not buy a desktop AND a laptop, so lower bottome line, eh?:)
Actually it does work. I have tried it more than once -- twice in IRC with two willing participants, and several times beyond that with my system admin when I worked for an ISP.
In fact, the first time I tried it I dropped myself, as my Motorola 28.8 was "Hayes dumb." Not all modems properly implement(ed) the Hayes protocol. To correct this, I changed the escape character (I do not remember the S-register, but I had it set as my configuration string in Miami TCP) to code 127 since it was unlikely, and proved never, to have three 127's in a row going outbound.
I want to say that all but my Emerson and Wang 2400 modems (well, and true Hayes modems) were vulnerable to this. But I cannot remember now if I ever tested the 14.4 modem I had.
Agreed, and pretty much my point. In your regular channel (bar) you have good ops (bartenders/bouncers) that work to keep out the riff-raff (script kiddie assholes.) Browsing around unfamiliar channels (bars) and you are likely to run into those bikers. Not always, but you are likely to.
Well, that and idlers. I love a channel of 150 idlers. heheheh
Thanks, Troll. Actually, the attempts were PoC on two friends who knew it was coming. It was neat, but not a cunning attack. Rather it is a prety cowardly approach. Kind of like your post as an AC. Who's the fucktard now?
Pretty much why I quit IRC a number of years back. Not to be mistaken, IRC has many valuable functions and features -- beyond downloading warez and moviez -- but not for casual chat. If you know the specific channel to go to, you are most likely fine. But for the casual chatter, browse around open channels and you will invariably end up with mass invites, notices, spam, DOS, MSG/CTCP/DCC floods, and my favorite, the mIRC scripts sent via DCC.
I only used mIRC briefly in my IRC career. It had little to no built-in protection at the time and I went back to AmIRC (Amiga.) Using WildIRC and Kuang11, AmIRC could not be beat. Later scripts for mIRC became much more solid and advanced, and I am sure the program is much better today?
Brings back some memories, actually. Back around 1997 we used to use a simple ICMP ECHO (ping) packet with a payload of "+++ATH0". Anyone with a modem which did not follow the Hayes specification for the escape sequence (+++ followed by two seconds of "silence") would immediately hang up as the TCP/IP stack sent an ICMP ECHO RESPONSE with the same payload. Was great fun for two or three times.
It has to rank up there with being a collections agent. A long time ago I was between jobs after having gotten let go from a job I had only two or three months (short story, I was not an authorized hire to begin with, go figure.) During that time I was working cleaning up local bars at 4am with an old manager I had at a previous job, making just enough to squeek by. A collection agency call me (RMS - Risk Management Services, to be exact) and the lady went into a tirade about how she did not think that I ever intended to pay back the account, and so forth. I explain to her that I had been laid off by no fault of mine, and that I hope when her company down-sizes people are more understanding than she.
It became very quiet on the line for a couple of seconds, and aside from a few words of farewell nothing else was said.
That is a good point. In my experience, most people do not consider that information travels past the first point of interception. For instance, our finger prints on check that we cash at the local grovery store. Those finger prints pass through several hands with varying degrees of security.
Even if surveiled information never leaves the country, goverment and leaders change political agendas regularly.
It definitely is not about terrorism. I was not before, but terrorism gives the govm't a new card to play. The first time I heard about this as back in the 90's, and it was about child pornography, illicit business practices, and so forth. Whatever the guise, it was for our "protection."
I think it is funny that as new technology comes around, old technology seems to get forgotten. For instance, the buzz words I mostly see today are MySpace, BitTorrent, P2P, and chat rooms. Apparently we have forgotten about Usenet and various other sources. Understandably, we focus on the most popular technologies because those are what is in popular use, and that is where you will find the easy picks. But movie and music trading, child pornography, and plenty of other stuff still run rampant in the news groups, IRC, and other long-forgotten methods of Internet communication.
I imagine resurgence of the BBS. Ah, I remember the days of downloading plenty of dirty pictures to print for my friends. hrmmmm The underground BBS network, trading in plenty of contraband. Of course, the most reliable distribution for such items would be to carry them across the Internet. I wonder if the data retention would cover ALL ports, or only popular ports, like SMTP, HTTP, and so forth? SSH? SSL? IPSec? PPTP? This is will not be like checking ID cards at the door to a club.
Well, the problem with numbers is that the Gubornment will continue to say things like "We have stopped $_x terrorist attacks since we began $_y survielance program. We cannot elaborate on the specific incidents, in the interest of national security. But trust us, it is true, and we are winning thanks to our citizense."
My grandmother is a naturalized American citizen. I talked to her for several hours a few weeks ago. I was amazed to hear her say that she does not care if the Gooberment listens in on her conversations. I always saw her as someone very strict on what constitutes her business (privacy) and someone keeping their nose out of it.
But at the same time, I see where the philosophy "the people should not be afraid of their government, the government should be afraid of its people" comes into play. Unfortunately, such a philosophy only rings true in a perfect world.
Remember, if you vote against the New World Order, even though it is your right as a citizen to do so, you are a communist, a fag, a terrorist, a hippy, or whatever.
Just keep in mind "what the queers are doing to the soil."
But more on topic, the amount of data for even a small ISP would be immense. And thanks to companies like Western Digital introducing 500GB hard drives with 1.2M hours MTBF and 5-year warranties, it will not be as easy to say "oh, our hard drive(s) which hold those records failed. So sorry." Well, so long as they live up to the promise.
Passing such a law would be unjust. And any unjust law should not be considered law at all. I only hope we will see things happen with these types of bills like what happened during the Terry Schiavo case. So long as Shrub quits stacking the judical deck, we might be able to hold out for another couple of years until the next vote.
And this is yet more bullshit, especially from ComCast. I have at least one business customer on ComCast Business and it goes down for a day (or more) at a time at least once a month.
On my home connection (since I moved out into the boonies, I had to swallow my pride and ask for my ass reeming^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcable modem) loses its connection frequently. At other locations DNS servers do not always answer, and the SMTP server is a joke. I am only affected by the lost connection since I use an internal DNS server and SMTP server which sends through my main server via SMTP AUTH.
BTW, anyone on ComCast ever see their router pick up a 192.168.x.100 IP address? It would make me think someone has their router connected backwards, but ComCast has told me that traffic from one ComCast connection doesn't make it to another unless it's a direct IP-to-IP traversal.
I would like to think that SPF does positively protect against this, but the spf-milter I use with Sendmail only checks against the envelope FROM, not the From: header. That really sucks, and maybe I am missing a configuration somewhere (guess I have to head back to the documentation.)
In short, an SMTP session presenting a MAIL FROM: <biteme@biteme.com> gets spf-milter'ed against biteme.com. At the DATA phase the message contains a From: header of <security@chase.com>, and even though chase.com has an SPF record, the mail makes it into the system. I have received plenty of emails which have done just this.
I cannot completely agree with this approach. I continue to use email lists over RSS feeds and web forums because email is still ubiquitous across most platforms -- I can monitor a stream of conversation on my Amiga, Palm, or PC. The clients are lightweight and work very well off-line.
The majority of web forums with which I have had contact are awkward to use, in function, design, and by shear abuse of ignorant users. The result is difficult-to-find information. Some study recently showed that most users of web search engines (was is specifically Google?) do not browse past the third page of results. I imagine that many users do not get past the first page in a forum thread.
That is not to say that email lists are too much better, but at the same time email lists generally demand less on an Internet connection and client application. Not to mention my patience.
Speaking of, mine is shot so I will stop rambling.
heheheh I'm beginning to think that finding a mention of Amiga in articles covering aged, long-standing, or break-through technologies or philosophies, or just places of honor in computing history, is almost like a "Where's Waldo" using web pages as the pictures:)
It was in school, our GATE program had an Apple ][+, and I had a subscription to COMPUTE! Magazine. Later that year my parents bought a TI-99/4A. I want to say this was around 1980/1981, I was about 6. Later that spring I wrote my first video game on the TI.
Check it out. I think I saw the link here before, in fact. It is a great site, if a little difficult to navigate.
This site (obviously, perhaps) falls under fair use, but I wonder if the RIAA will put this on its list. I mean, the site has money generating ads and unlicensed excerpts of the real lyrics. I am sure the RIAA will ignore that 1) the bandwidth, hosting, et al needs to be paid for and 2) the RIAA is receiving FREE promotion of its wares.
How about this: lyrics sites respond by sending the RIAA invoices for promotional fees.
That cannot be nailed down to hardware. The fact that reseting it fixed the issue points to a software problem, and those kinds of problems afflict most router manufacturers at some point in time.
Cases in point: The Pipeline P50 and P75 would lock up after running for a while in NAT mode, so would early versions of the LinkSys BEFSR41, as well as the Efficient Networks SpeedStream 5660 and later model NetGears (after the switch from Zynos.) Oh, and my beloved SMC Barricade 7004ABR did the same thing in original releases.
I traced the Pipeline problem to the NAT table. By default setting, the Pipeline used a 24 hour expiration time for TCP connection entries. If you put a lot of traffic through the box, eventually it would lock up. I toyed with mine and found that every so often a new connection (or a few) would be allowed, but then new connections would stop. Interestingly, established connections would continue without failing. It appeared that the 24 hour expiration time was causing the system to run out of outgoing references. Changing that to a lower number (I think I used five minutes) allowed the box to run for over a year at a time, and no adverse affects were detected due to the change.
I assume that other NAT implementations suffered from the same type of problem. At the time, there were a lot of people who would hack 5660 (router) firmwares into their 5260 (modem) since they were built on the same base hardware. However, I had it on good authority from within Efficient that early 5260s lacked additional RAM needed for the NAT tables and would lock up after a while. Same type of situation.
I've had opposite experiences with the Microsoft gear. In fact, I have heard a (small) number of people lament Microsoft's withdrawal from the networking market. I was pretty impressed with some of the features, and of course the interaction with Windows XP (whoda thunk it?) But, everyone has their own experiences with various products.
But I'll go so far as to agree with you about their support. Phooey. Unfortunately, most things are getting that way, anyway, and it seems there is no easy way to stop the downward spiral. Cellphones, motherboards, hard drives, etc. You spend a few clams on a device, find a valid problem with it, and the response from support is generally "oh, we discontinued that product. You should buy a new product if you want any support." Said new product will be discontinued in a couple of months as well. So the endless cycle of buy-and-suffer continues.
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Dell and Sony have been doing the same thing.
hehehe I will throw in my "Me, Too!"
I use WSUS at all of my installations, Small Business Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003. If you do not have MSDE or SQL, WSUS installs the MSDE for you.
Installation is painless and flawless, though be prepared to spend a weekend letting the machine download updates. Depending upon your installation, you could use 10GB or more storage space. In an environment with Server 2003, SBS2003, Exchange 2003, Windows XP, Office XP and 2003, and Windows Defender, I easily used 13GB. And that is without feature packs and other non-critical updates.
Supposedly, WSUS will import your existing SUS store, but even following MS's documentation to the letter I have been unsuccessful. After several failures I just gave up and uninstall SUS before installing WSUS.
A domain *is* helpful because you can push out GPO defining your update settings, but not entirely necessary as you can just manually install registry settings to do the same.
Have fun!
Unfortunately, I cannot get to the article, so I cannot see exactly what they are talking about.
:)
But to be short, the D410 and D610 BIOSes I work with have an option to default to the docking station video as well. IIRC, Dell produces docking stations (not just the advanced port replicators we use in the field) which have PCI and AGP slots. It seems only reasonable that they also intend to produce models with PCIe slots (none currently show on the website.)
So, this may not be anything new or stunning.
As an aside, I am disappointed that the newer Latitudes do not have docking ports. The USB port replicators are crap, and the drivers constantly crash on at least two models I have in customer sites (not my purchase, mind you.) I believe that the ability to dock could be viewed by home users as a replacement of the desktop. Of course, that would mean that people would not buy a desktop AND a laptop, so lower bottome line, eh?
You, sir, are lying through your teeth.
Sorry... that is not a lie, that is the meat from your ass stuck in my teeth.
Actually it does work. I have tried it more than once -- twice in IRC with two willing participants, and several times beyond that with my system admin when I worked for an ISP.
In fact, the first time I tried it I dropped myself, as my Motorola 28.8 was "Hayes dumb." Not all modems properly implement(ed) the Hayes protocol. To correct this, I changed the escape character (I do not remember the S-register, but I had it set as my configuration string in Miami TCP) to code 127 since it was unlikely, and proved never, to have three 127's in a row going outbound.
I want to say that all but my Emerson and Wang 2400 modems (well, and true Hayes modems) were vulnerable to this. But I cannot remember now if I ever tested the 14.4 modem I had.
Agreed, and pretty much my point. In your regular channel (bar) you have good ops (bartenders/bouncers) that work to keep out the riff-raff (script kiddie assholes.) Browsing around unfamiliar channels (bars) and you are likely to run into those bikers. Not always, but you are likely to.
Well, that and idlers. I love a channel of 150 idlers. heheheh
Thanks, Troll. Actually, the attempts were PoC on two friends who knew it was coming. It was neat, but not a cunning attack. Rather it is a prety cowardly approach. Kind of like your post as an AC. Who's the fucktard now?
Pretty much why I quit IRC a number of years back. Not to be mistaken, IRC has many valuable functions and features -- beyond downloading warez and moviez -- but not for casual chat. If you know the specific channel to go to, you are most likely fine. But for the casual chatter, browse around open channels and you will invariably end up with mass invites, notices, spam, DOS, MSG/CTCP/DCC floods, and my favorite, the mIRC scripts sent via DCC.
I only used mIRC briefly in my IRC career. It had little to no built-in protection at the time and I went back to AmIRC (Amiga.) Using WildIRC and Kuang11, AmIRC could not be beat. Later scripts for mIRC became much more solid and advanced, and I am sure the program is much better today?
Brings back some memories, actually. Back around 1997 we used to use a simple ICMP ECHO (ping) packet with a payload of "+++ATH0". Anyone with a modem which did not follow the Hayes specification for the escape sequence (+++ followed by two seconds of "silence") would immediately hang up as the TCP/IP stack sent an ICMP ECHO RESPONSE with the same payload. Was great fun for two or three times.
It has to rank up there with being a collections agent. A long time ago I was between jobs after having gotten let go from a job I had only two or three months (short story, I was not an authorized hire to begin with, go figure.) During that time I was working cleaning up local bars at 4am with an old manager I had at a previous job, making just enough to squeek by. A collection agency call me (RMS - Risk Management Services, to be exact) and the lady went into a tirade about how she did not think that I ever intended to pay back the account, and so forth. I explain to her that I had been laid off by no fault of mine, and that I hope when her company down-sizes people are more understanding than she.
It became very quiet on the line for a couple of seconds, and aside from a few words of farewell nothing else was said.
You missed another good point... he also goes on to say:
;)"
"If you do quit AOL, be firm but nice, after all it's not the employees fault that they have such a crappy job.
That is a good point. In my experience, most people do not consider that information travels past the first point of interception. For instance, our finger prints on check that we cash at the local grovery store. Those finger prints pass through several hands with varying degrees of security.
Even if surveiled information never leaves the country, goverment and leaders change political agendas regularly.
Leaks are everywhere. Yeesh.
They're rated at 100% (24 hour) duty cycles, and WD assures me that means 24x7x365 reliance, what the industry considers enterprise-level reliability.
In any case, RAID arrays address both of your concerns.
It definitely is not about terrorism. I was not before, but terrorism gives the govm't a new card to play. The first time I heard about this as back in the 90's, and it was about child pornography, illicit business practices, and so forth. Whatever the guise, it was for our "protection."
I think it is funny that as new technology comes around, old technology seems to get forgotten. For instance, the buzz words I mostly see today are MySpace, BitTorrent, P2P, and chat rooms. Apparently we have forgotten about Usenet and various other sources. Understandably, we focus on the most popular technologies because those are what is in popular use, and that is where you will find the easy picks. But movie and music trading, child pornography, and plenty of other stuff still run rampant in the news groups, IRC, and other long-forgotten methods of Internet communication.
I imagine resurgence of the BBS. Ah, I remember the days of downloading plenty of dirty pictures to print for my friends. hrmmmm The underground BBS network, trading in plenty of contraband. Of course, the most reliable distribution for such items would be to carry them across the Internet. I wonder if the data retention would cover ALL ports, or only popular ports, like SMTP, HTTP, and so forth? SSH? SSL? IPSec? PPTP? This is will not be like checking ID cards at the door to a club.
Well, the problem with numbers is that the Gubornment will continue to say things like "We have stopped $_x terrorist attacks since we began $_y survielance program. We cannot elaborate on the specific incidents, in the interest of national security. But trust us, it is true, and we are winning thanks to our citizense."
My grandmother is a naturalized American citizen. I talked to her for several hours a few weeks ago. I was amazed to hear her say that she does not care if the Gooberment listens in on her conversations. I always saw her as someone very strict on what constitutes her business (privacy) and someone keeping their nose out of it.
But at the same time, I see where the philosophy "the people should not be afraid of their government, the government should be afraid of its people" comes into play. Unfortunately, such a philosophy only rings true in a perfect world.
Remember, if you vote against the New World Order, even though it is your right as a citizen to do so, you are a communist, a fag, a terrorist, a hippy, or whatever.
Just keep in mind "what the queers are doing to the soil."
But more on topic, the amount of data for even a small ISP would be immense. And thanks to companies like Western Digital introducing 500GB hard drives with 1.2M hours MTBF and 5-year warranties, it will not be as easy to say "oh, our hard drive(s) which hold those records failed. So sorry." Well, so long as they live up to the promise.
Passing such a law would be unjust. And any unjust law should not be considered law at all. I only hope we will see things happen with these types of bills like what happened during the Terry Schiavo case. So long as Shrub quits stacking the judical deck, we might be able to hold out for another couple of years until the next vote.
And this is yet more bullshit, especially from ComCast. I have at least one business customer on ComCast Business and it goes down for a day (or more) at a time at least once a month.
On my home connection (since I moved out into the boonies, I had to swallow my pride and ask for my ass reeming^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcable modem) loses its connection frequently. At other locations DNS servers do not always answer, and the SMTP server is a joke. I am only affected by the lost connection since I use an internal DNS server and SMTP server which sends through my main server via SMTP AUTH.
BTW, anyone on ComCast ever see their router pick up a 192.168.x.100 IP address? It would make me think someone has their router connected backwards, but ComCast has told me that traffic from one ComCast connection doesn't make it to another unless it's a direct IP-to-IP traversal.
Blah.
I would like to think that SPF does positively protect against this, but the spf-milter I use with Sendmail only checks against the envelope FROM, not the From: header. That really sucks, and maybe I am missing a configuration somewhere (guess I have to head back to the documentation.)
In short, an SMTP session presenting a MAIL FROM: <biteme@biteme.com> gets spf-milter'ed against biteme.com. At the DATA phase the message contains a From: header of <security@chase.com>, and even though chase.com has an SPF record, the mail makes it into the system. I have received plenty of emails which have done just this.
I cannot completely agree with this approach. I continue to use email lists over RSS feeds and web forums because email is still ubiquitous across most platforms -- I can monitor a stream of conversation on my Amiga, Palm, or PC. The clients are lightweight and work very well off-line.
The majority of web forums with which I have had contact are awkward to use, in function, design, and by shear abuse of ignorant users. The result is difficult-to-find information. Some study recently showed that most users of web search engines (was is specifically Google?) do not browse past the third page of results. I imagine that many users do not get past the first page in a forum thread.
That is not to say that email lists are too much better, but at the same time email lists generally demand less on an Internet connection and client application. Not to mention my patience.
Speaking of, mine is shot so I will stop rambling.
heheheh I'm beginning to think that finding a mention of Amiga in articles covering aged, long-standing, or break-through technologies or philosophies, or just places of honor in computing history, is almost like a "Where's Waldo" using web pages as the pictures :)
(Uh, are we a cult yet?)
It was in school, our GATE program had an Apple ][+, and I had a subscription to COMPUTE! Magazine. Later that year my parents bought a TI-99/4A. I want to say this was around 1980/1981, I was about 6. Later that spring I wrote my first video game on the TI.
http://kissthisguy.com/
Check it out. I think I saw the link here before, in fact. It is a great site, if a little difficult to navigate.
This site (obviously, perhaps) falls under fair use, but I wonder if the RIAA will put this on its list. I mean, the site has money generating ads and unlicensed excerpts of the real lyrics. I am sure the RIAA will ignore that 1) the bandwidth, hosting, et al needs to be paid for and 2) the RIAA is receiving FREE promotion of its wares.
How about this: lyrics sites respond by sending the RIAA invoices for promotional fees.
Damn, I figured that is where they would end up. I wonder if I can still get concert tickets.
That cannot be nailed down to hardware. The fact that reseting it fixed the issue points to a software problem, and those kinds of problems afflict most router manufacturers at some point in time.
:)
Cases in point: The Pipeline P50 and P75 would lock up after running for a while in NAT mode, so would early versions of the LinkSys BEFSR41, as well as the Efficient Networks SpeedStream 5660 and later model NetGears (after the switch from Zynos.) Oh, and my beloved SMC Barricade 7004ABR did the same thing in original releases.
I traced the Pipeline problem to the NAT table. By default setting, the Pipeline used a 24 hour expiration time for TCP connection entries. If you put a lot of traffic through the box, eventually it would lock up. I toyed with mine and found that every so often a new connection (or a few) would be allowed, but then new connections would stop. Interestingly, established connections would continue without failing. It appeared that the 24 hour expiration time was causing the system to run out of outgoing references. Changing that to a lower number (I think I used five minutes) allowed the box to run for over a year at a time, and no adverse affects were detected due to the change.
I assume that other NAT implementations suffered from the same type of problem. At the time, there were a lot of people who would hack 5660 (router) firmwares into their 5260 (modem) since they were built on the same base hardware. However, I had it on good authority from within Efficient that early 5260s lacked additional RAM needed for the NAT tables and would lock up after a while. Same type of situation.
I've had opposite experiences with the Microsoft gear. In fact, I have heard a (small) number of people lament Microsoft's withdrawal from the networking market. I was pretty impressed with some of the features, and of course the interaction with Windows XP (whoda thunk it?) But, everyone has their own experiences with various products.
But I'll go so far as to agree with you about their support. Phooey. Unfortunately, most things are getting that way, anyway, and it seems there is no easy way to stop the downward spiral. Cellphones, motherboards, hard drives, etc. You spend a few clams on a device, find a valid problem with it, and the response from support is generally "oh, we discontinued that product. You should buy a new product if you want any support." Said new product will be discontinued in a couple of months as well. So the endless cycle of buy-and-suffer continues.
errrr end of rant
hahahah and Fork them all!!
(sorry)
It doesn't matter... 76% of all statistics are made up on the spot, anyway.
...lurking around with a Catweasel X and various drive equipment. Come see us.