In Switzerland we have SwissText. (Sorry, only in German/French/Italian)
I kid you not, I sometimes use it to get the information. Though I'm on the net, the familiar simple interface and trustworthy information make it more compeling than going through "normal" web pages.
Example - to get a weather bulliten I have a link in my bookmarks directly to the page 793 on TSR (Swiss French TV), with direct, no BS information, whereas look at the same info on their site: TSR Meteo. The info is the same, the source is the same, but to get the temperature for Geneva on next Monday I have to go through some flash menues...
Well, in case of air-traffic it is much more easy to determine the country of origin (ie. you flew in on the flight XY 1234 from Utopia), than guessing someones citizenship (ie. am I really citizen of US if I have a non-valid passport, or do you have dual citizenship, or are you facing an arrest in your home country).
If they send you to the country of origin they do not have these problems, because they know the vector, and being that you entered from there they assume that you were there legally in the first place.
According to IATA rules, it is airlines obligation to verify that you have the neccessary paperwork (be it passport, visa, medical checks) to travel to the country of destination. Failure to check this leads to the airline having to transport you back to the country of origin (not neccesarily to the same airport, but to the country from which you entered).
The part I don't understand about this deportation, if it really is deportation, is that when deported you are sent to the country from which you illegaly entered the offended country - he should be sent to US only if he has entered from US. And if he flew from US, why didn't the feds book him there?
Some weeks ago I had a bizzare problem with my ISP (Colt) and the sites hosted by Akamai. It seems that they have updated their relaying DNS servers and the updated version seems to have problems with caching the DNS records with short TTL (as is the case with Akamai - the short TTL allows to respond with different address each time).
The solution - I have switched first to directly sending requests to roots (proving that the problem is not with the bandwidth as root requests take more), and was later given the set of the Colt DNSs that are still running the older version of software.
I am not so much into new versions od DNS servers, so I cannot tel if the problem is with a broken version of BIND or other doing the rounds.
Well, they would have to hurry up with the integration of Evolution before MicroSoft releases Entourage 2004 that will probably integrate better with Exchange.
Not to pick nits, but you can only block/allow INBOUND connections in ICF. So what you said means that people can connect to your machine on said ports. And if you are running a web server, or worse yet a mail server on a windows machine with only protection of ICF, boy you have more problems then the simple sasser worm...
And then, there is the free (as in no monetary exchange takes place) download of.NOT framework, with compilers for VB.NET, C#, J# and JScript.NET.
Console application can be done without much fuss in notepad, if you care, and with a lot of trial and error tests, even a Windows.Forms application can be written.
If you want a better IDE environment... well there is C#Builder from Borland, which is a free (as above) download for non-comercial use. There is also free (as in GPL) IDE for both C# and VB.NET called #develop (http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/) but I have no experience with it.
Fact is, kids these days have a world of options at their fingertips. Now, if only the programming could be made as interesting for them as it was for me some 20 odd years ago when I wrote 10 PRINT "Blah Blah" for the first time.
But, yes it does make content! Just enter =rand(5,8) in Word and you get instant content - a never ending story of animal kingdom, supremacy of nimblness over lazyness, the story with inner metpahore that surpasses most mission statments I have seen.
You have just voiced my concerns over the next November elections. As the things slide, I am more and more assured that end of October thre will be some sort of "national emergency", then by elections it will be decided that election booths are a prime "soft" target, leading to military deployments across the States... An armed soldier by every booth...
Then, you will know how elections in Iraq, USSR or Romania used to look like.
Kodak DID produce a range of 35mm SLR cameras, but it was back in the day. It was the range of Retina Reflex cameras, and it was quite successful (around 500,000 Retina Reflex IV cameras were sold), but the production ended some 30 years ago.
Since then, you can safely say that Kodak has not produced a noteworthy camera.
The part about RFID tags used for tracking is utter and total BS. In fact yesterday I was at WSIS. I did have the badge, and yes it is marked with a RFID, but the bugger is passive and I had to put it real close to the scanner to read it. I tried to just casualy swipe it from afar, but I had to actualy put it right in front of the reader.
More on security: at the entrance you walk through metal detector gates, with a X-ray scanner for the bags. You are processed by 4 security guys - one takes your bags, other works the gate and X-ray scanner, third scans your badge and compares your face to picture on the badge to picture in the DB they get based on the RFID tag. All these images have to match. If there is any problem there is the fourth guy standing behind with a rifle.
Yes - the 1337 h4x0rz could have bypassed this by getting the official badges, because when you have the badge you don't have anything standing in your way. No - they could not have gotten to the bigwigs, because that part of the conference was separated, with stronger security checks, which were obviously not done just at the place, since the bigwigs were escoreted from their mansions, with the whole entourage, and I suppose that you don't expect presidents and prime-ministers to go around carrying badges on the straps around their necks, and walk through the metal-detector gates a few times.
In fact, the easiest way for "terrorists" to sneak in would be to get listed as active participants by a frendly government of a rogue state.
I wish that people would concentrate more on the positive results of WSIS, instead of spreading FUD.
The way I see it, they are not in business of selling a service, but of selling the software. And as Red Hat has seemingly learned, selling software and GPL are sort of mutually exclusive.
What stops me from subscribing to their updates, for one machine, $60/yr, and later sharing the packages I have downloaded to the rest of the world? Remember, all RH packages were covered by GPL, the patches Progeny will apply are covered by GPL, therefore the packages they provide are covered by GPL.
On the other hand if they were to provide an up2date service like Red Hat used to, now that would be a service... OK they do with Red carpet, but they are trying to sell me something that is free (as in "speech", and I believe also as in "beer") for $5/mo... Why should I pay?
Depends what kind of VPN you want, and what kind of Cisco VPN server you have. PPTP can run through NAT, but only one machine at a time, whereas L2TP over IPSEC can pass any kind of NAT nowdays. It is called NAT Transparency (NAT-T), and is supported on Cisco IOS routers v12.2.13T upwards (12.3 included) and Cisco VPN concentrators (don't know for PIX).
You could have some problems on the client side though, I have tested this setup only with WinXP, and for that you need a hotfix (KB818043) which was responsable for disconnecting some computers I believe a year ago...
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Short answer: No. Long answer: if you can get Apache to work with a .NET implementation (perhaps Mono?) this just might work.
My guess is that the spread of the worms is already covered by "no networking ability" part.
And for the rest of the world (OECD included) the name of the country is Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (or F.Y.R.O.M. for short).
I kid you not, I sometimes use it to get the information. Though I'm on the net, the familiar simple interface and trustworthy information make it more compeling than going through "normal" web pages.
Example - to get a weather bulliten I have a link in my bookmarks directly to the page 793 on TSR (Swiss French TV), with direct, no BS information, whereas look at the same info on their site: TSR Meteo. The info is the same, the source is the same, but to get the temperature for Geneva on next Monday I have to go through some flash menues...
Well, in case of air-traffic it is much more easy to determine the country of origin (ie. you flew in on the flight XY 1234 from Utopia), than guessing someones citizenship (ie. am I really citizen of US if I have a non-valid passport, or do you have dual citizenship, or are you facing an arrest in your home country).
If they send you to the country of origin they do not have these problems, because they know the vector, and being that you entered from there they assume that you were there legally in the first place.
According to IATA rules, it is airlines obligation to verify that you have the neccessary paperwork (be it passport, visa, medical checks) to travel to the country of destination. Failure to check this leads to the airline having to transport you back to the country of origin (not neccesarily to the same airport, but to the country from which you entered).
The part I don't understand about this deportation, if it really is deportation, is that when deported you are sent to the country from which you illegaly entered the offended country - he should be sent to US only if he has entered from US. And if he flew from US, why didn't the feds book him there?
Ken is live and well, listed as the first reference...
Some weeks ago I had a bizzare problem with my ISP (Colt) and the sites hosted by Akamai. It seems that they have updated their relaying DNS servers and the updated version seems to have problems with caching the DNS records with short TTL (as is the case with Akamai - the short TTL allows to respond with different address each time).
The solution - I have switched first to directly sending requests to roots (proving that the problem is not with the bandwidth as root requests take more), and was later given the set of the Colt DNSs that are still running the older version of software.
I am not so much into new versions od DNS servers, so I cannot tel if the problem is with a broken version of BIND or other doing the rounds.
Oh, wait...
Well, they would have to hurry up with the integration of Evolution before MicroSoft releases Entourage 2004 that will probably integrate better with Exchange.
Not to pick nits, but you can only block/allow INBOUND connections in ICF. So what you said means that people can connect to your machine on said ports. And if you are running a web server, or worse yet a mail server on a windows machine with only protection of ICF, boy you have more problems then the simple sasser worm...
And then, there is the free (as in no monetary exchange takes place) download of .NOT framework, with compilers for VB .NET, C#, J# and JScript .NET.
Console application can be done without much fuss in notepad, if you care, and with a lot of trial and error tests, even a Windows.Forms application can be written.
If you want a better IDE environment... well there is C#Builder from Borland, which is a free (as above) download for non-comercial use. There is also free (as in GPL) IDE for both C# and VB.NET called #develop (http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/) but I have no experience with it.
Fact is, kids these days have a world of options at their fingertips. Now, if only the programming could be made as interesting for them as it was for me some 20 odd years ago when I wrote 10 PRINT "Blah Blah" for the first time.
Or as an alternative - join the foreign legion :)
But, yes it does make content! Just enter =rand(5,8) in Word and you get instant content - a never ending story of animal kingdom, supremacy of nimblness over lazyness, the story with inner metpahore that surpasses most mission statments I have seen.
Pray tell, on which non-x86 arch are you going to use Intel Centrino drivers for the INTEL Centrino processor on the INTEL board?
For a nice set of command line utilities for windows (no cygwin needed) check unxutils.sourceforge.net.
You have just voiced my concerns over the next November elections. As the things slide, I am more and more assured that end of October thre will be some sort of "national emergency", then by elections it will be decided that election booths are a prime "soft" target, leading to military deployments across the States... An armed soldier by every booth...
Then, you will know how elections in Iraq, USSR or Romania used to look like.
I've found that the holy water is the best for BSODs.
Kodak DID produce a range of 35mm SLR cameras, but it was back in the day. It was the range of Retina Reflex cameras, and it was quite successful (around 500,000 Retina Reflex IV cameras were sold), but the production ended some 30 years ago.
Since then, you can safely say that Kodak has not produced a noteworthy camera.
The part about RFID tags used for tracking is utter and total BS. In fact yesterday I was at WSIS. I did have the badge, and yes it is marked with a RFID, but the bugger is passive and I had to put it real close to the scanner to read it. I tried to just casualy swipe it from afar, but I had to actualy put it right in front of the reader.
More on security: at the entrance you walk through metal detector gates, with a X-ray scanner for the bags. You are processed by 4 security guys - one takes your bags, other works the gate and X-ray scanner, third scans your badge and compares your face to picture on the badge to picture in the DB they get based on the RFID tag. All these images have to match. If there is any problem there is the fourth guy standing behind with a rifle.
Yes - the 1337 h4x0rz could have bypassed this by getting the official badges, because when you have the badge you don't have anything standing in your way. No - they could not have gotten to the bigwigs, because that part of the conference was separated, with stronger security checks, which were obviously not done just at the place, since the bigwigs were escoreted from their mansions, with the whole entourage, and I suppose that you don't expect presidents and prime-ministers to go around carrying badges on the straps around their necks, and walk through the metal-detector gates a few times.
In fact, the easiest way for "terrorists" to sneak in would be to get listed as active participants by a frendly government of a rogue state.
I wish that people would concentrate more on the positive results of WSIS, instead of spreading FUD.
The way I see it, they are not in business of selling a service, but of selling the software. And as Red Hat has seemingly learned, selling software and GPL are sort of mutually exclusive.
What stops me from subscribing to their updates, for one machine, $60/yr, and later sharing the packages I have downloaded to the rest of the world? Remember, all RH packages were covered by GPL, the patches Progeny will apply are covered by GPL, therefore the packages they provide are covered by GPL.
On the other hand if they were to provide an up2date service like Red Hat used to, now that would be a service... OK they do with Red carpet, but they are trying to sell me something that is free (as in "speech", and I believe also as in "beer") for $5/mo... Why should I pay?
Depends what kind of VPN you want, and what kind of Cisco VPN server you have. PPTP can run through NAT, but only one machine at a time, whereas L2TP over IPSEC can pass any kind of NAT nowdays. It is called NAT Transparency (NAT-T), and is supported on Cisco IOS routers v12.2.13T upwards (12.3 included) and Cisco VPN concentrators (don't know for PIX).
You could have some problems on the client side though, I have tested this setup only with WinXP, and for that you need a hotfix (KB818043) which was responsable for disconnecting some computers I believe a year ago...
Search Cisco site for NAT-T...
Google has spoken - LinuxGazette.com is the winner.
It is best represented by a pictogram of a waiwing window :)
Or more probably pissed enough to rip the damn thing from the car.