I've seen numerous trackers down for various different OSS projects. Trackers go down just like DNS, web and email servers. This is a redundancy solution should a tracker become unavailable. Don't condemn a feature as something only used for piracy when it can be used in plenty of other situations.
Most of the warez, music, etc, that I have seen use only a couple of non-US hosted trackers. Hate to break it to you, but the BSA/MPAA/RIAA/US Government have no jurisdiction over them.
I use Firefox every day on my computer at work, which is on a US Air Force network. It is approved and I do my best to encourage the users I support to use it. Since I am IT Support, I sure as hell provide support to them.
Another poster mentioned TCO for using Firefox over IE and while I can't provide numbers, I know I rarely see a system with spyware/adware who's user primarily uses Firefox.
Yet another to add to those singing praises for OpenVPN. I had a setup with a friend between a linux box and a sparc running solaris. The linux box was setup to initiate the connection and the solaris box had openvpn startup via inetd. The linux box had a cronjob to do a pgrep for openvpn every few minutes and start it up if it weren't running. If there were ever any connection issues on my side or his, the tunnel would be initiated again as soon as the connectivity was restored. It was so much easier than IPSec and didn't care about NAT at all. If I ever need another VPN tunnel, OpenVPN will be it.
When I impulse buy, I want to have the product in my hand and out of the box once I get my card back from the cashier. Online buying means you have to wait for shipping, hence there being no instant gratification. If you know you're going to have to wait, then you might as well take the extra time to find the best deal possible.
Why would you use something like HTML, which is limited in it's layout abilities when you have PDF, which most formats can be converted to and distributed in a more managable package. PDF can be viewed on almost every system and it makes the most sense to use something that will be accessible by the most people. If you have such an issue with PDF, download it and take the text and convert it to HTML. When you are done, submit it back to the author and let him release it. Have fun typing argumentative ass.
I know it's a common cry around here, but this is FUD to get people to buy into Websense. Since the USAF has moved over to using Secure Computing's SmartFilter embedded into the Bluecoat proxy, Websense is losing business.
Oh know, 200 sites! Buy our software and we'll keep you safe!
I have used BCWipe to declassify Secret hard drives. They have a DOS version you can throw on a MS-DOS boot disk and a linux version you can put on a livecd. Either works equally well.
You can protect your children through products you can purchase yourself.
See Net Nanny
Also Norton Internet Security for your anti-virus and anti-spam. There are more products to "protect" your family. It should be a personal decision, not one for the government, at any level.
Hardware support is something tied to the Linux kernel. If one distro supported it, it was because the kernel packaged with that distro supported it. Nothing says you can't go, get the kernel sources and build yourself a kernel that does support your hardware after you install any other distro.
Like so many other people have said, Microsoft has nothing to do with the number of drivers available for Windows. That has everything to do with marketshare of the Windows operating system and the commercial gain for creating drivers for that operating system. If there were more Linux users, there would be more Linux drivers. ATI devotes roughly 3% of it's efforts to Linux drivers because roughly 3% of their customers want them. That is smart business, plain and simple. They are out to make money, afterall.
I can't say that it's all that bad considering they still have the updates available to download on the site. If they locked out people who run Wine from applying the updates by downloading them individually from the site, then that would be wrong, but not being able to use the update service is more of an annoyance than anything. I guess it is something for people to get their panties in a wad about. As much work goes in to making Wine work, what is a couple more steps to those users? If it's such a big deal, use OpenOffice.org.
That is why most anti-virus products now have an active component that scans files from email and media as they are opened. I've seen them catch numerous things throughout the last couple of years. I've also seen them catch files that had not yet been accessed and clean them out. Yes, they were sitting resident on the hard drive, but nothing had executed or accessed the file, so it was able to stop things before they went bad. Usually, for an infected system, you have to use a removal tool, which is usually free and independent of an anti-virus program. The point you have missed is that the anti-virus programs are there as a prevention measure to save you from opening that infected file, not so much to recover from an infection.
Not ready for everyday usage? That's funny because I use it every day. People should write sites that are standards compliant and Firefox wouldn't have problems rendering it. I can't think of any time that Firefox has had problems rendering a site for many months, certainly since well before 1.0. Standards are there for a reason and just becuase certain browsers decided to ignore them doesn't mean that the authors of those sites should be catering to those non-compliant browsers. But all of this is off-topic.
You have to produce a good bit of documentation stating who you are and where you are before you will get a key. If you managed to pull it off, I would imagine it would be fairly hard not to get caught if you were to be found out.
I've tried those out (something similar anyway) and had issues with over heating. Despite what you may think, fans are not the only cooling factor in your case. If you stuck those on the inside of an aluminum case, you would lose the passive cooling properties of the case. Those act as insulation for sound and heat. By the way, that was on a P3 550.
It would be very easy to find out. Run a packet sniffer or watch what connections are going through your router. Most decent consumer routers will at least give you netstat. I'm sure a little googling would give you the answer.
The article states that the APs are being used to service connections provided by cable and dsl providers. Read the article so you don't waste an entire paragraph.
My solution would be one of "keep the honest honest". Proxying and firewalling are good first steps. Good policies will keep your children from finding a lot of things and getting into questionable content. If you have an older system sitting around, setup an iptables firewall and start blocking traffic going out on ports and utilize Squid to proxy your mail. You could also go so far as utilizing Fetchmail/Procmail (throw SpamAssassin in while you're at it) and you can filter mail.
Does it take time and (possibly) research, yes, but it does make it harder for your kids to get into questionable material. Yes, if they want to find things, they will, but you can at least make it harder for them. At the same time, grant them some privacy and trust. They will respect you more for that. (coming from an early twenties who still remembers being a teenager)
This isn't a way to keep track of downloaded files from P2P networks. This is a standard way for online sales to be tracked. This is going to be something probably integrated into the backend processing of online orders for downloaded music purchased from a site. This will be like a standardized counter so the RIAA and the artists they represent can get their appropriate cut without having to deal with hundreds of home made systems.
Me...being a former shit-hot teenage geek...disagree with this move by Redhat. This looks like a ploy to increase its market share by targetting youth who will have very little real world experience if any at all. This will only devalue their certification in the end making it nothing more than another MCSE.
Unix takes time and experience to learn it effectively. I was in high school not too long ago (almost 4 years) and I know they won't teach Unix. The cirriculum will consist of exactly what is needed to know to pass the test.
I have met folks who have CCNA's from High School Tech-prep programs...and I wouldn't trust them with two WinXP systems, a hub and two network cables. To stump them, I would ask them what "sh ru" did or what the difference was between a Router and a Layer 3 Switch.
People download movies becasue it is easy, convenient, and fast.
I don't know what you're talking about. I have personally avoided downloading movies because it takes so damned long, the quality is usually subpar and I don't like watching grainy video on my computer. This is one area where you actually give something up for being cheap. Not only does it take too much time/effort, the payoff just isn't worth it other than saying you've seen a bad rip of a movie a month before it is released in the theatres.
This is a little late, but I wanted to add to your comment.
My employer restricts outgoing traffic and yes it is a headache when there is a new service that needs to be added or a website that redirects to some odd port (such as 81 or 8080), but I much rather it that way. If there is something you need opened up, you submit a request for it. That way the security folks (me) can look into it and decide whether or not the opening is justified.
No, the higher ups don't like it because they are used to getting their way, but thankfully they trust us and realize that we know our jobs better than they know our jobs and let us do it.
With all that said, I feel much better knowing what I'm letting out just as much as I am letting in. Not only can I see what is coming in, I can also see if I'm contributing to any DDoS attacks or had a box rooted because for everything that comes in, there must be something that goes back out.
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Most of the warez, music, etc, that I have seen use only a couple of non-US hosted trackers. Hate to break it to you, but the BSA/MPAA/RIAA/US Government have no jurisdiction over them.
I use Firefox every day on my computer at work, which is on a US Air Force network. It is approved and I do my best to encourage the users I support to use it. Since I am IT Support, I sure as hell provide support to them.
Another poster mentioned TCO for using Firefox over IE and while I can't provide numbers, I know I rarely see a system with spyware/adware who's user primarily uses Firefox.
Yet another to add to those singing praises for OpenVPN. I had a setup with a friend between a linux box and a sparc running solaris. The linux box was setup to initiate the connection and the solaris box had openvpn startup via inetd. The linux box had a cronjob to do a pgrep for openvpn every few minutes and start it up if it weren't running. If there were ever any connection issues on my side or his, the tunnel would be initiated again as soon as the connectivity was restored. It was so much easier than IPSec and didn't care about NAT at all. If I ever need another VPN tunnel, OpenVPN will be it.
When I impulse buy, I want to have the product in my hand and out of the box once I get my card back from the cashier. Online buying means you have to wait for shipping, hence there being no instant gratification. If you know you're going to have to wait, then you might as well take the extra time to find the best deal possible.
Why would you use something like HTML, which is limited in it's layout abilities when you have PDF, which most formats can be converted to and distributed in a more managable package. PDF can be viewed on almost every system and it makes the most sense to use something that will be accessible by the most people. If you have such an issue with PDF, download it and take the text and convert it to HTML. When you are done, submit it back to the author and let him release it. Have fun typing argumentative ass.
Oh know, 200 sites! Buy our software and we'll keep you safe!
From everyone I talked to at various levels, it is actually recommended. The important part is that it supports the DoD prescribed method.
I have used BCWipe to declassify Secret hard drives. They have a DOS version you can throw on a MS-DOS boot disk and a linux version you can put on a livecd. Either works equally well.
Use Azureus with the AutoSpeed plugin. This dynamically changes your global upload speed depending so you are always in that "sweet spot".
See Net Nanny Also Norton Internet Security for your anti-virus and anti-spam. There are more products to "protect" your family. It should be a personal decision, not one for the government, at any level.
Like so many other people have said, Microsoft has nothing to do with the number of drivers available for Windows. That has everything to do with marketshare of the Windows operating system and the commercial gain for creating drivers for that operating system. If there were more Linux users, there would be more Linux drivers. ATI devotes roughly 3% of it's efforts to Linux drivers because roughly 3% of their customers want them. That is smart business, plain and simple. They are out to make money, afterall.
I can't say that it's all that bad considering they still have the updates available to download on the site. If they locked out people who run Wine from applying the updates by downloading them individually from the site, then that would be wrong, but not being able to use the update service is more of an annoyance than anything. I guess it is something for people to get their panties in a wad about. As much work goes in to making Wine work, what is a couple more steps to those users? If it's such a big deal, use OpenOffice.org.
That is why most anti-virus products now have an active component that scans files from email and media as they are opened. I've seen them catch numerous things throughout the last couple of years. I've also seen them catch files that had not yet been accessed and clean them out. Yes, they were sitting resident on the hard drive, but nothing had executed or accessed the file, so it was able to stop things before they went bad. Usually, for an infected system, you have to use a removal tool, which is usually free and independent of an anti-virus program. The point you have missed is that the anti-virus programs are there as a prevention measure to save you from opening that infected file, not so much to recover from an infection.
Not ready for everyday usage? That's funny because I use it every day. People should write sites that are standards compliant and Firefox wouldn't have problems rendering it. I can't think of any time that Firefox has had problems rendering a site for many months, certainly since well before 1.0. Standards are there for a reason and just becuase certain browsers decided to ignore them doesn't mean that the authors of those sites should be catering to those non-compliant browsers. But all of this is off-topic.
You have to produce a good bit of documentation stating who you are and where you are before you will get a key. If you managed to pull it off, I would imagine it would be fairly hard not to get caught if you were to be found out.
I've tried those out (something similar anyway) and had issues with over heating. Despite what you may think, fans are not the only cooling factor in your case. If you stuck those on the inside of an aluminum case, you would lose the passive cooling properties of the case. Those act as insulation for sound and heat. By the way, that was on a P3 550.
It would be very easy to find out. Run a packet sniffer or watch what connections are going through your router. Most decent consumer routers will at least give you netstat. I'm sure a little googling would give you the answer.
The article states that the APs are being used to service connections provided by cable and dsl providers. Read the article so you don't waste an entire paragraph.
Baghdad International Airport. I was there from November of last year to March of this year. Good time and /. was there for me (most of the time).
Does it take time and (possibly) research, yes, but it does make it harder for your kids to get into questionable material. Yes, if they want to find things, they will, but you can at least make it harder for them. At the same time, grant them some privacy and trust. They will respect you more for that. (coming from an early twenties who still remembers being a teenager)
Read the article next time...
Finally, a reason to be proud of being in the chAir Force!!!
Unix takes time and experience to learn it effectively. I was in high school not too long ago (almost 4 years) and I know they won't teach Unix. The cirriculum will consist of exactly what is needed to know to pass the test.
I have met folks who have CCNA's from High School Tech-prep programs...and I wouldn't trust them with two WinXP systems, a hub and two network cables. To stump them, I would ask them what "sh ru" did or what the difference was between a Router and a Layer 3 Switch.
I don't know what you're talking about. I have personally avoided downloading movies because it takes so damned long, the quality is usually subpar and I don't like watching grainy video on my computer. This is one area where you actually give something up for being cheap. Not only does it take too much time/effort, the payoff just isn't worth it other than saying you've seen a bad rip of a movie a month before it is released in the theatres.
My employer restricts outgoing traffic and yes it is a headache when there is a new service that needs to be added or a website that redirects to some odd port (such as 81 or 8080), but I much rather it that way. If there is something you need opened up, you submit a request for it. That way the security folks (me) can look into it and decide whether or not the opening is justified.
No, the higher ups don't like it because they are used to getting their way, but thankfully they trust us and realize that we know our jobs better than they know our jobs and let us do it.
With all that said, I feel much better knowing what I'm letting out just as much as I am letting in. Not only can I see what is coming in, I can also see if I'm contributing to any DDoS attacks or had a box rooted because for everything that comes in, there must be something that goes back out.