That's right, I hope they pour every last dime they have into this nutcake technology, so much money that they end up putting their last card on the table.
Then some smart kid like Jon Johansen cracks it six ways to Sunday, someone totally blows the entire DRM system wide open. All the greedy a$$ money grabbers will go belly up and a whole new world is born. The greedsters die off and those that survive get a dose of reality and adopt a realistic distribution plan.
I really hope that people wake up and smell the coffee. Vote with your wallet. Don't buy this $hit..
I used to be anti IBM because I used to work for them and I sort of got to hating them for being the big, soul-less behemoth that they were/are. The blue suit/worker bee/drone mentality was too uptight for me. After having caught my tie in a big lineprinter once I refused to wear one any more and we butted heads. I really got to hate them.
But now, I find myself favoring Big Blue once again, I guess old wounds do heal to some degree. SCO is such a bunch of puss sack ass-weeds that their depravity far exceeds IBM's bullshit...
I'm pulling for IBM. I hope that SATAN eats the souls of everyone at SCO for dinner tonight. With Tabasco sauce....
If you have an old pc to spare, go smoothwall. If you decide you don't like it, change it. There are a LOT of Linux based firewall packages out there for FREE... Smoothwall (as most Nix FW paks) will run on obsolete hardware quite well. Mine is running on a Pentium 90mhz like a charm. There's a 500meg hard drive in there, it only needs 100megs but more is better because I setup a 300meg cache.
It also has the ability to use transparent anonymous proxy too... Another neat and handy feature...
Also, you could take an old pc and load a stripped down version of Linux on it and run CUPS http://www.cups.org/ on it. Then set all your PC's to print to the CUPS server via your lan. Hang as many printers on it as you like.
As a matter of fact, you could even share your printers with your friends. My neighbor can print to my laserjet with IPP. We both use Linux, CUPS and cable modems. Very easy to share my printer that way.. I don't keep the port open normally so he calls me when he wants to print and I open the port, he prints, I close the port back down..
HA! He's a bible thumper, going to church college, taking theology to be a preacher. No beer, no drugs, no wild parties. He's not your typical teen.. I'm VERY, VERY lucky.....
Oh yes, and sadly, as a follow up, ClarkConnect includes RAV antivirus. I just read that on the http://www.clarkconnect.org website. RAV was recently purchased by M$. So much for security. I won't use or recomend any products based on M$ and most certainly won't use and products produced or owned by M$..
Honestly, because I discovered Smoothwall first. I will end up trying out Clarkconnect sometime in the future, I evaluate lots of stuff because I get requests from people that have different needs. I don't believe that there is ONE package that will suit the needs of EVERYONE. That "one size fits all" theory just never works out in actual practice...
What I would really like to find is a GPL firewall package that will also retrieve email, filter it for virus, then serve to the lan. I have M$ customers that could use something like that.
I suppose if it could strip HTML code from email and any attachment that's not a REAL jpeg, that that would catch a HUGE amount of it..
Did you RMFP? In case you didn't notice, and not to flame, but I mentioned that all my boxes are running Linux. No backdoor concerns here.
Now if I had some Windows machines on the lan then I *would* have cause for concern. But of course I *don't* have any windows boxes so I sleep really well at night.. Really well...
I have 7 PC's here at home, all of them are Linux. I have ONE laptop from work that has Windows on it. I only fire it up when I *HAVE NO CHOICE*....
I *USED* to be 100% Windows here, at home and work. I work on Windows computers for people, professionally. I'm IT..
It's not FUD, it's FACT.. I know it from experiance. I've worked on computers for a living since 1981 and "played with them" since 1978. I didn't just fall off of the turnip truck...
That's an interesting setup too. I may play with something like that myself. I also want to play with chained firewalls, that is one physical firewall going into another one then into my lan. Like the mega-paranoid version.. Just for fun..
Two confessions are in order. 1. I'm lazy. I have plenty of old nics laying around too. I'll get more elaborate with it another day. Besides, I don't feel overly compelled to put much effort into it, he's moving off to college this fall. This simple fix works. In two months he'll be moving out (Hooray!! Shhhh!! I didn't say that!!)
2. My son just got his Linksys adapter and was bugging me. This was the most easy and the fastest way to shut him up..
"Every fscking worm/backdoor is allowed to call home"
Simple. Don't use Windows.. That's a Windows problem. I quit using Windows in August of 2002 and have not had a single worm, virus, trojan, backdoor, hack, sneeze, fart, or burp since..
"So I'm also really curious as to why he chose this arrangement... if it's not the third reason, I hope he shares his reason with us, because undoubtedly I could learn from it."
The PS2 did not like being behind a firewall. The game people say to open up huge blocks of ports to allow unsolicited incoming traffic. I don't like that concept.
If I open up 1000 ports (ports 6,000 to 7,000) plus a handful of other ports, and the PS2 is on the same zone as my other machines, well you get the picture.
I *THINK* that what was happening was that the PS2 would send data out through certain ports and when the other players would respond on those same ports, all was well. But I think the PS2 was LISTENING on other ports for incoming but unsolicited traffic. That traffic came in and hit the firewall, IP tables saw it as unsolicited and stopped it.
I could rewrite the IPtables if I were smart enough but I'm rather new to Linux, I've been a Linux user less than a year. The EASY thing to do was to add a third nic that is just naked. It's unfiltered so all traffic that it needs gets through. So far it's worked well.
I *DID* try opening a few holes in the firewall at first when he was plugged into the switch with the rest of the house but I just did not like that option. I ran a seperate wire from his PS2 to the third nic.
His block of 192.168.2.xxx can NOT communicate with my block of 192.168.1.xxx nor can mine see his unless I open a pinhole in the orange, which would be pointless...
I decided to use DHCP on my side and the 192.168.1.xxx scheme since it is the most common one in use, making it extremely handy when other people bring other pc's and devices over for repair or fun.
On my son's side, the 192.168.2.xxx side I hardcoded the IP's because there is no DHCP served to the orange zone.. (Smoothwall people call the DMZ the orange zone)
Several of the games did not like the firewall. There was *some* connectivity but not total cooperation between the PS2 and the firewall.
Several of the games want huge chunks of ports opened up. Uh uh. Not gonna do that. So I added the third nic as a DMZ (smoothwall calls it "Orange Zone") so that the PS2 has unhindered access to the web.
There are three nics, red=nic to modem (dhcp) orange= nic to PS2 - 192.168.2.1 green=nic to my lan - 192.168.1.1
The red zone is the nic that goes to the cable modem, it gets it's IP from RR's DHCP.
The orange zone nic is hard coded to 192.168.2.1 (by me) and the PS2 is 192.168.2.2 There are no port restrictions on it, it's raw and naked on the net, as it wants to be.. Since it's a PS2 it doesn't matter.
Smoothwall provides DHCP for the green zone so whatever I plug in to it works. Nice. People bring me PC's all the time to work on.
Another nice thing smoothwall does is take care of dynamic DNS for me, I have a freebee domain from dyndns.org so I can FTP to a private box on my lan from remote sites (while working) and I have accounts setup for my friends so they can ftp in too.
I hard coded one of my boxes to a specific IP then port forward from port XXXX to port 21 at my internal IP of 192.168.1.205. Only my friends and I know it's there and can access it. Very handy.
Veyr often I get somewhere and remember that I forgot something important! Bada bing! I can connect up to the house and get it... Smoothwall is VERY handy for my needs. I have no complaints about it...
Of course the power draw is more. But the firewall is MUCH better.
Besides, you can add one or more DMZ nics in a PC. And if you find a serious problem with your firewall, you just fix it. You can even totally change the software out and get very, very precise tunning of your iptables. I think they call it granular control..
No can do with a $50 bestbuy firewall/router... A $50 router is kind of like a having a Chihuahua guarding your home.
Um, well, internel security is not the issue. I'm just a cheap bastard. Hence the PC from the trash pile. I drive around and rescue them, clean them up real nice, convert them to Linux based firewalls and resell them for $$$....
Now for the people that I sell them to, well headless *IS* a good deal for them, they need it that way..
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Not anymore. That just went bye-bye...
Hmmmmm.... I smell a conspiracy here...
god damnit guys!
I've told you before, it's spelled
kurnul !
Just make CD's and DVD's that explode if they spin any faster than the normal playback RPM that's used in a set top DVD or CD player?
Use shitty plastic that can't take the stress of spinning at 52x....
Someone sticks one in a PC and BOOM!!! Plastic shards come flying out of your drive..
Disc and drive kaput.
That would pee in the lemonaid of most pirates.
That's right, I hope they pour every last dime they have into this nutcake technology, so much money that they end up putting their last card on the table.
Then some smart kid like Jon Johansen cracks it six ways to Sunday, someone totally blows the entire DRM system wide open. All the greedy a$$ money grabbers will go belly up and a whole new world is born. The greedsters die off and those that survive get a dose of reality and adopt a realistic distribution plan.
I really hope that people wake up and smell the coffee. Vote with your wallet. Don't buy this $hit..
Fuck SCO..
I used to be anti IBM because I used to work for them and I sort of got to hating them for being the big, soul-less behemoth that they were/are.
The blue suit/worker bee/drone mentality was too uptight for me. After having caught my tie in a big lineprinter once I refused to wear one any more and we butted heads. I really got to hate them.
But now, I find myself favoring Big Blue once again, I guess old wounds do heal to some degree.
SCO is such a bunch of puss sack ass-weeds that their depravity far exceeds IBM's bullshit...
I'm pulling for IBM. I hope that SATAN eats the souls of everyone at SCO for dinner tonight. With Tabasco sauce....
how do they plan to enforce it?
With MP5 sub-machine guns, black ski masks and battering rams..
Go ahead and try my box then...
If you have an old pc to spare, go smoothwall. If you decide you don't like it, change it. There are a LOT of Linux based firewall packages out there for FREE...
Smoothwall (as most Nix FW paks) will run on obsolete hardware quite well. Mine is running on a Pentium 90mhz like a charm. There's a 500meg hard drive in there, it only needs 100megs but more is better because I setup a 300meg cache.
It also has the ability to use transparent anonymous proxy too... Another neat and handy feature...
Also, you could take an old pc and load a stripped down version of Linux on it and run CUPS http://www.cups.org/ on it. Then set all your PC's to print to the CUPS server via your lan. Hang as many printers on it as you like.
As a matter of fact, you could even share your printers with your friends. My neighbor can print to my laserjet with IPP. We both use Linux, CUPS and cable modems. Very easy to share my printer that way..
I don't keep the port open normally so he calls me when he wants to print and I open the port, he prints, I close the port back down..
HA! He's a bible thumper, going to church college, taking theology to be a preacher.
No beer, no drugs, no wild parties. He's not your typical teen..
I'm VERY, VERY lucky.....
Oh yes, and sadly, as a follow up,
ClarkConnect includes RAV antivirus. I just read that on the http://www.clarkconnect.org website.
RAV was recently purchased by M$. So much for security.
I won't use or recomend any products based on M$ and most certainly won't use and products produced or owned by M$..
Honestly, because I discovered Smoothwall first.
I will end up trying out Clarkconnect sometime in the future, I evaluate lots of stuff because I get requests from people that have different needs.
I don't believe that there is ONE package that will suit the needs of EVERYONE. That "one size fits all" theory just never works out in actual practice...
What I would really like to find is a GPL firewall package that will also retrieve email, filter it for virus, then serve to the lan. I have M$ customers that could use something like that.
I suppose if it could strip HTML code from email and any attachment that's not a REAL jpeg, that that would catch a HUGE amount of it..
Been smoking with the Dali Lama again eh??
Did you RMFP? In case you didn't notice, and not to flame, but I mentioned that all my boxes are running Linux. No backdoor concerns here.
Now if I had some Windows machines on the lan then I *would* have cause for concern.
But of course I *don't* have any windows boxes so I sleep really well at night..
Really well...
SageTV only runs on M$..
Self defeating.. If you seek to subvert the M$ system you have to NOT use M$ based systems...
If you use ANY M$ products then why not just use the system advertised in the first place??
I have 7 PC's here at home, all of them are Linux.
I have ONE laptop from work that has Windows on it. I only fire it up when I *HAVE NO CHOICE*....
I *USED* to be 100% Windows here, at home and work. I work on Windows computers for people, professionally. I'm IT..
It's not FUD, it's FACT.. I know it from experiance.
I've worked on computers for a living since 1981 and "played with them" since 1978. I didn't just fall off of the turnip truck...
That's an interesting setup too. I may play with something like that myself.
I also want to play with chained firewalls, that is one physical firewall going into
another one then into my lan. Like the mega-paranoid version..
Just for fun..
Two confessions are in order.
1. I'm lazy. I have plenty of old nics laying around too. I'll get more elaborate with it another day.
Besides, I don't feel overly compelled to put much effort into it, he's moving off to college this fall.
This simple fix works. In two months he'll be moving out (Hooray!! Shhhh!! I didn't say that!!)
2. My son just got his Linksys adapter and was bugging me. This was the most easy and the fastest way to shut him up..
There! Now I feel better that the truth is out...
"Every fscking worm/backdoor is allowed to call home"
Simple. Don't use Windows.. That's a Windows problem.
I quit using Windows in August of 2002 and have not had a single worm, virus, trojan, backdoor, hack, sneeze, fart, or burp since..
"So I'm also really curious as to why he chose this arrangement... if it's not the third reason, I hope he shares his reason with us, because undoubtedly I could learn from it."
The PS2 did not like being behind a firewall. The game people say to open up huge blocks of ports to allow unsolicited incoming traffic. I don't like that concept.
If I open up 1000 ports (ports 6,000 to 7,000) plus a handful of other ports, and the PS2 is on the same zone as my other machines, well you get the picture.
I *THINK* that what was happening was that the PS2 would send data out through certain ports and when the other players would respond on those same ports, all was well. But I think the PS2 was LISTENING on other ports for incoming but unsolicited traffic. That traffic came in and hit the firewall, IP tables saw it as unsolicited and stopped it.
I could rewrite the IPtables if I were smart enough but I'm rather new to Linux, I've been a Linux user less than a year.
The EASY thing to do was to add a third nic that is just naked. It's unfiltered so all traffic that it needs gets through. So far it's worked well.
I *DID* try opening a few holes in the firewall at first when he was plugged into the switch with the rest of the house but I just did not like that option. I ran a seperate wire from his PS2 to the third nic.
His block of 192.168.2.xxx can NOT communicate with my block of 192.168.1.xxx nor can mine see his unless I open a pinhole in the orange, which would be pointless...
I decided to use DHCP on my side and the 192.168.1.xxx scheme since it is the most common one in use, making it extremely handy when other people bring other pc's and devices over for repair or fun.
On my son's side, the 192.168.2.xxx side I hardcoded the IP's because there is no DHCP served to the orange zone.. (Smoothwall people call the DMZ the orange zone)
Uh, that would be the emachine to Xbox upgrade.
I hear it's slated for release on freshmeat next week..
Yeah, but that's no fun. You HAVE to do the geek thing. What's more cool? A $25 ebay/worstbuy router or one you made from a POS game console??
Geek factor man, geek factor....
Several of the games did not like the firewall. There was *some* connectivity but not total cooperation between the PS2 and the firewall.
Several of the games want huge chunks of ports opened up. Uh uh. Not gonna do that. So I added the third nic as a DMZ (smoothwall calls it "Orange Zone") so that the PS2 has unhindered access to the web.
There are three nics,
red=nic to modem (dhcp)
orange= nic to PS2 - 192.168.2.1
green=nic to my lan - 192.168.1.1
The red zone is the nic that goes to the cable modem, it gets it's IP from RR's DHCP.
The orange zone nic is hard coded to 192.168.2.1 (by me) and the PS2 is 192.168.2.2 There are no port restrictions on it, it's raw and naked on the net, as it wants to be..
Since it's a PS2 it doesn't matter.
Smoothwall provides DHCP for the green zone so whatever I plug in to it works. Nice. People bring me PC's all the time to work on.
Another nice thing smoothwall does is take care of dynamic DNS for me, I have a freebee domain from dyndns.org so I can FTP to a private box on my lan from remote sites (while working) and I have accounts setup for my friends so they can ftp in too.
I hard coded one of my boxes to a specific IP then port forward from port XXXX to port 21 at my internal IP of 192.168.1.205. Only my friends and I know it's there and can access it. Very handy.
Veyr often I get somewhere and remember that I forgot something important! Bada bing! I can connect up to the house and get it... Smoothwall is VERY handy for my needs. I have no complaints about it...
Of course the power draw is more.
But the firewall is MUCH better.
Besides, you can add one or more DMZ nics in a PC.
And if you find a serious problem with your firewall, you just fix it. You can even totally change the software out and get very, very precise tunning of your iptables. I think they call it granular control..
No can do with a $50 bestbuy firewall/router... A $50 router is kind of like a having a Chihuahua guarding your home.
Um, well, internel security is not the issue. I'm just a cheap bastard. Hence the PC from the trash pile.
I drive around and rescue them, clean them up real nice, convert them to Linux based firewalls and resell them for $$$....
Now for the people that I sell them to, well headless *IS* a good deal for them, they need it that way..
"It is a concrete fact that that no MacOS based webserver has ever been hacked into in the history of the internet."
That's because there is a grand total of 1 (ONE) MacOS based webserver(s) on the internet.