My honeypots have been trapping a ton of activity from Romania and Sweden. While TW and CN are in my top ten, they rank far below the big offenders. Does this suggest to me that these are all Romanian and Swedish hackers?! No way! These are all likely "owned" servers. In fact, all of the noticably "human" activity in my logs came from servers that are running long abandoned web sites and such, probably someone intelligently implimenting an ssh redirect. The point is, whenever you block by a huge subnet (ALL of China?!) you are going to cause issues for legitimet business AND you will not stop the hackers. They will just stick their redirect somewhere else and get a new bot setup on a server no one has noticed in the past five years.
The key to staying alive is to make sure you have a secure server. If you don't know how to make a secure server then you better learn today! If you are paranoid (not me!) trap them in a honeypot and send an alert, page, or automated event (Muhahahaha!). If you have thousands of attempts a day set up a perl script to redirect these ips to localhost with a set TTL (so they expire after x min).
just as well (or better) than the guy currently doing it is the key phrase there. The cold hard truth is the people replacing our American and EU workforce CAN'T do it "just as well or better!" In many examples, they replace an engeneer with three or four off shore IT folks because one can't do his job and three or four are _still_ a lower cost than one traditional employee. The long and short of it is, off-shoring is NOT about "two people who are on equal footing, only one is less costly" it is _only_ about "one is less costly".
That means switching off all your apps, and what current desktops that's pretty much like "rebooting" your computer.
No... Rebooting is very different than restarting the Xserver. I think it's pretty obvious that in one case EVERYTHING running on you system stops where as in the other only your current desktop closes (just like when you switch users). The only thing I have ever needed to reboot for in FC is a kernel upgrade... and there are those who have claim they have even avoided that!
"service network restart" isn't that hard to remember;) Not to mention the ROUGHEST thing that you can do to hardware (without a hammer) is reboot it. A computer that is left running 24/7 will have a longer life than something booted daily.
"Spatial file management" was really great and exactly what I wanted... back when I had an Amiga 500.:)
What someone really needs to think about is how to arrange the million plus files I have in a non-tree format where I can easily locate related content. Too many times have I arranged my directories thoughfully only to notice that a particular file required multiple distinctions or needed to be uselessly symlinked in a few different places so I could make coherant catagories or perform simple searches by different attributes.
rebooted to fix something??;) The only time I have ever rebooted my workstation in the past eight years is for a kernel upgrade, new distro, or installing hardware. If something isn't working, you should take a look around your system, do an 'strace -p pid' or something useful. Look in/tmp and/var/tmp for some stale cache files or locks. If you are not yet UNIX/LINUX savvy, you could at least try to log out of your session first. If you never figure out the root cause, you may find yourself rebooting alot!
AFAIK the CVS version didn't have any support for the various copy protection schemes used in most games. So unless people were playing cracked games, I doubt it was working very well for them anyway.
I completely agree. The entire manner in which he has handeled the situation is extremely imature. Personally, it sounds as if he feels the world should work for him because he wrote e. Now, his noted attempt at creating yet another desktop to go against kde and gnome is completely silly. You have to have a pretty serious grudge against one guy to say that you will quit his company and dedicate your time to writting a new desktop.
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Just look at the gnome discussion from a few days back. Every negative post was sytematically deleted... hmmm. Did everyone have such a great response at the nice stable gnome 1.0... even the gnome mailing list was filled with posts about an early release to conincide with RH6 and LinuxWorld. Seems to me that the "ideals" in the OSS community work when people can leverage them to their advantage. For instance, on of the arguments lined at kde by the gnome project was that it was something that could be controled by a comercial company. Well look at what we have now! A desktop that will become the defacto standard just because of the backing from a major linux distributor. And an early release so all the guys at RHDL can make a nice buck of finishing up just in time for the expo and 6.0. Real nice guys! Now is that the linux way? It sounds like something out of Redmond to me! Meanwhile Miguel champs on about the techinical superiority and stablity of his product, unfortunately he can't hide behind the "it's still in development clause". But after he rides the media hype for awhile people will begin to notice the 522 or so bugs still left in this great stable product and one of the Linux critics will be more than happy to harp on them for months. Look at kde 1.0 and gnome 1.0 they aren't even close in the completeness department. Hell you can't even change the default icons and mime types visually with gmc or change the default wm (enlightenment) launched from gnome-session (a binary not a script)... what a configurable new enviroment this is:)
Face it RMS is just a shabby bum he doesn't shave, carries everything he owns in a garbage bag and wants GNU before linux. Blah, blah, blah... he is just wining because he has faced up to the pitiful fact that he has accomplished very little in his life. The fsf was not his effort alone. Now he just wants to meddel in the community and stir up kde flame wars, etc. He wants to do nothing and get all the credit.
But of course this is slashdot.org where everyone worships gnome and rms and the comments of the opposing faction are repeatedly deleted (alot like those great commie countries with wonderful views of property rights:)) So get off the political high horse and face the facts... rms will be swept under the carpet with all the other people who talk alot and do little... and then brag about it.
The guy didn't even mention LoD in spew on old-school hackers. Instead he mentioned l0pht as the oldest and most respected hacking group:) (ya right) Also, who the hell are the Masters of "Downloading"???
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My honeypots have been trapping a ton of activity from Romania and Sweden. While TW and CN are in my top ten, they rank far below the big offenders. Does this suggest to me that these are all Romanian and Swedish hackers?! No way! These are all likely "owned" servers. In fact, all of the noticably "human" activity in my logs came from servers that are running long abandoned web sites and such, probably someone intelligently implimenting an ssh redirect. The point is, whenever you block by a huge subnet (ALL of China?!) you are going to cause issues for legitimet business AND you will not stop the hackers. They will just stick their redirect somewhere else and get a new bot setup on a server no one has noticed in the past five years.
The key to staying alive is to make sure you have a secure server. If you don't know how to make a secure server then you better learn today! If you are paranoid (not me!) trap them in a honeypot and send an alert, page, or automated event (Muhahahaha!). If you have thousands of attempts a day set up a perl script to redirect these ips to localhost with a set TTL (so they expire after x min).
Is it just me or is a bunch of stuff here being scooped out of yesterdays OSNews :)
Who is posting these crap stories, this was over at OSNews days ago. It's nothing but a troll article. It doesn't even encourage healthy debate.
just as well (or better) than the guy currently doing it is the key phrase there. The cold hard truth is the people replacing our American and EU workforce CAN'T do it "just as well or better!" In many examples, they replace an engeneer with three or four off shore IT folks because one can't do his job and three or four are _still_ a lower cost than one traditional employee. The long and short of it is, off-shoring is NOT about "two people who are on equal footing, only one is less costly" it is _only_ about "one is less costly".
That means switching off all your apps, and what current desktops that's pretty much like "rebooting" your computer.
No... Rebooting is very different than restarting the Xserver. I think it's pretty obvious that in one case EVERYTHING running on you system stops where as in the other only your current desktop closes (just like when you switch users). The only thing I have ever needed to reboot for in FC is a kernel upgrade... and there are those who have claim they have even avoided that!
"service network restart" isn't that hard to remember ;) Not to mention the ROUGHEST thing that you can do to hardware (without a hammer) is reboot it. A computer that is left running 24/7 will have a longer life than something booted daily.
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"Spatial file management" was really great and exactly what I wanted... back when I had an Amiga 500. :)
What someone really needs to think about is how to arrange the million plus files I have in a non-tree format where I can easily locate related content. Too many times have I arranged my directories thoughfully only to notice that a particular file required multiple distinctions or needed to be uselessly symlinked in a few different places so I could make coherant catagories or perform simple searches by different attributes.
rebooted to fix something?? ;) The only time I have ever rebooted my workstation in the past eight years is for a kernel upgrade, new distro, or installing hardware. If something isn't working, you should take a look around your system, do an 'strace -p pid' or something useful. Look in /tmp and /var/tmp for some stale cache files or locks. If you are not yet UNIX/LINUX savvy, you could at least try to log out of your session first. If you never figure out the root cause, you may find yourself rebooting alot!
AFAIK the CVS version didn't have any support for the various copy protection schemes used in most games. So unless people were playing cracked games, I doubt it was working very well for them anyway.
I completely agree. The entire manner in which he has handeled the situation is extremely imature. Personally, it sounds as if he feels the world should work for him because he wrote e. Now, his noted attempt at creating yet another desktop to go against kde and gnome is completely silly. You have to have a pretty serious grudge against one guy to say that you will quit his company and dedicate your time to writting a new desktop.
Just look at the gnome discussion from a few days back. Every negative post was sytematically deleted... hmmm. Did everyone have such a great response at the nice stable gnome 1.0... even the gnome mailing list was filled with posts about an early release to conincide with RH6 and LinuxWorld. :)
Seems to me that the "ideals" in the OSS community work when people can leverage them to their advantage. For instance, on of the arguments lined at kde by the gnome project was that it was something that could be controled by a comercial company. Well look at what we have now! A desktop that will become the defacto standard just because of the backing from a major linux distributor. And an early release so all the guys at RHDL can make a nice buck of finishing up just in time for the expo and 6.0. Real nice guys! Now is that the linux way? It sounds like something out of Redmond to me!
Meanwhile Miguel champs on about the techinical superiority and stablity of his product, unfortunately he can't hide behind the "it's still in development clause". But after he rides the media hype for awhile people will begin to notice the 522 or so bugs still left in this great stable product and one of the Linux critics will be more than happy to harp on them for months.
Look at kde 1.0 and gnome 1.0 they aren't even close in the completeness department. Hell you can't even change the default icons and mime types visually with gmc or change the default wm (enlightenment) launched from gnome-session (a binary not a script)... what a configurable new enviroment this is
Face it RMS is just a shabby bum he doesn't shave, carries everything he owns in a garbage bag and wants GNU before linux. Blah, blah, blah... he is just wining because he has faced up to the pitiful fact that he has accomplished very little in his life. The fsf was not his effort alone. Now he just wants to meddel in the community and stir up kde flame wars, etc. He wants to do nothing and get all the credit.
:)) So get off the political high horse and face the facts... rms will be swept under the carpet with all the other people who talk alot and do little... and then brag about it.
But of course this is slashdot.org where everyone worships gnome and rms and the comments of the opposing faction are repeatedly deleted (alot like those great commie countries with wonderful views of property rights
The guy didn't even mention LoD in spew on old-school hackers. Instead he mentioned l0pht as the oldest and most respected hacking group :) (ya right) Also, who the hell are the Masters of "Downloading"???