This scheme is as temporary as any other and it also prevents me from sending mail with my own computer, I will have to route my mail through my ISP's mail server in order to tag on to their SPF
What's your problem with doing that? If you're coming from DSL, cable, dialup, or some other residential service then you should be relaying through your ISP and your ISP should be blocking outbound port 25. It doesn't hurt you to relay through an additional hop and add an additional 5 seconds to your e-mail. If your ISP introduces intolerable delay then find a new one or complain that their service is unacceptable. If you're worried about relaying SSL mail to work for business purposes so you can post with your @work.com address then you should be using port 465 (smtps) anyway with authentication to connect to your work's mail server, authenticate via cram-md5 or even just a password so it opens relaying for you and then out you go.
The problem is those machines aren't actually the spammer, they are comprimised machines that the spammer is controlling.
Why would a legitimate businessman in the bulk e-mail industry use hacked machines? That'd be clearly illegal. Oh that's right, sometimes I forget, they're fucking scumbag criminals who would steal their parents' social security checks if they could get away with it.
If you don't know what was changed then you need to rebuild any machines suspected of being compromised from scratch and restore the data from a clean backup. Unless you're very sure your file checksum database is accurate (you run tripwire or aide hopefully) you will need to rebuild. Don't screw around and contribute to the global insecurity of the Internet.. especially with people's credit card data at stake!!! WTF is your company thinking keeping that on a public network?
Nothing against India, his character wouldn't work well in my home city of Atlanta either. They just don't have the rows and rows and rows of skyscrapers for him to climb up, scale over and swing through.
He's going to swing on the hundreds of thousands of outsourced jobs, broken promises, and shattered dreams of American tech workers. Oh wait Spider-man? I thought we were talking about George W. Bush's re-election.
Is this to make him look more Indian or would there be a cultural backlash against tights?
I imagine it's similar to how most female comic book superheroes have extraordinarily large breasts. It's best to appeal to your target demographic.
So does anyone know what sites are infected? I'm sure most of us would like to avoid them...
Avoid them? Hell, I'd start by blocking them on my web proxy immediately until I get the all clear. We've got thousands of desktop users running IE. This could get nasty.
How about the fact that ISP's SMTP server is very slow, has a lot of down-time, requires pointless authentication that opens me up to having my password stolen.
I do believe that is a reason.
Nope, those are weak excuses. If your ISP's SMTP server is so slow then you need to complain to them so they add more servers, seperate them by region for their users or load balance them in some other fashion. There's no reason *outbound* SMTP servers should be slow unless you're at a small ISP that uses the same mail servers for incoming mail as they do outgoing mail. As for having your password stolen, why aren't they using TLS to encrypt the communications or cram-md5 over an unencrypted link? The problem here is your ISP if those are your excuses.
Think of people who run mailing lists from their home servers, these can easily send out more than 500 messages a day.
No problem, just set the ISP mail server as a smarthost relay. There's no reason home users need to be sending directly to the smtp port on another Internet mail server without relaying through their ISP first. For the telecommuters, you'd be using a VPN anyway or using the authenticated mail port.
as long as were are locking people in to Linux, this will be a better place. Distro nuts need not apply.
Because Red Hat Linux sucks. I am sitting here doing a system migration from Red Hat 9 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and there's one minor tiny little fucking problem. They chose to remove reiserfs support from RHEL so my quick 5 minute disk swap is going to turn into 60 minutes while I rsync the data from the old disk to the new one so their lame ass "enterprise" kernel can mount it. It's utterly pathetic that a distribution in this day and age would not only not have reiserfs support, but actually chose to remove it from future distributions!
Before anyone says anything, I *would* be using Debian if I had the choice, but this business insists on sticking to commercial supported software. RHEL can suck my sweaty nut sack. They don't even include xcdroast anymore for burning CDs in the workstation version. Actually fuck, don't even get me started on WS vs. ES vs. AS. It's the biggest pile of horseshit I've ever seen. Sorry kiddies, if you have the choice, run away.. run far far away from Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
I love my Mac, so I'd MUCH rather have those ten years of Mac Operating Systems than Windows (yes, even System 7.5!) but that doesn't change the fact that it IS more expensive to keep a Mac up-to-date.
On the other hand, I do have Apple to thank that it's much easier to pirate their operating system. With Windows I have to work around that activation garbage so I just broke down and bought it. With MacOS X 10.3 I just burned a copy of my friend's CDs and installed with those. Worked perfectly. Thanks Apple!
Think back to when ST:TNG came out. It was slick to look at, but the stories were very tame and seemed to dwell heavily on gizmos and soap opera moments. Time did the show no favors. After the first season I gave up on following it regularly, and checking in from time to time found it getting scarcely better (about 20 minutes of material stretched into 1 hour show most of the time.)
Well then you're in the minority. I think if you took a poll ST:TNG would rank at the top of all the ST series. DS9 was second, TOS third, Voyager fourth, and Enterprise dead last. TNG was art.
Perhaps a better re-statement of your point is to say that you should use a seperate non-windows-based firewall rather than one which is installed locally on the windows machine.
That's what I meant. Running a firewall on the same box you're looking to protect is silly. We've already seen in the past that malicious e-mail viruses can and do disable anti-virus software and "software" firewalls installed on Windows boxes.
One day, in a galaxy...never mind...One day, internet connections won't even be possible with an exposed PC address. DSL/cable won't even be permitted to connect directly to a PC without DHCP/NAT interposed between.
I'm suprised ISPs aren't taking proactive steps and setting up firewalls in front of their DSL/cable/dialup users. Even a Cisco CBAC firewall or simple router access-lists would be better than nothing. I know some of them block NetBIOS ports, but they should really just block anything incoming to an enduser unless it is part of an established connection. Also, block outbound SMTP and require HTTP/HTTPS access to go through a proxy server to stop worms from just hitting other ISPs willy-nilly.
reallocate was just following the instructions that Microsoft and Symantec gave him/her.
If ANY piece of software ever lists "disable all firewalls" as a part of the instructions, toss it and run away. There's no reason to ever disable a hardware firewall on a properly written piece of software. As for software firewalls, well those are trash so I won't even bother.
Don't even try to pull this one. Huge bulky cars are only safer for those that *drive* them ( and even that's debatable). God forbid you are the person in the sub-compact getting run over by those god awful things and their idiot drivers.
He said they were safer for the driver. If you're stupid enough to be driving a subcompact car on a highway then you deserve to die. Nothing like the sound of a lame ass Toyota Prius as I drive over it in my Suburban.
This reminds me of something I read about upgradability somewhere (Penny Arcade?). With PCs you have the complexity of replacing confusing components like
CPUs, RAM, PCI cards, etc. A Mac is much easier to upgrade. Just unplug it, throw it in the trash and buy a new one.
The copyright owner has only limited rights on his creation. The moment he publishes the work he can not control further trade in the copies that he made. (And who gets to read/see/enjoy the work.)
So I can take a piece of software and copy it as many times as I want because the copyright owner has no rights to decide who reads it.
I paid $20 for it at the university bookstore. I bought it at the same time I picked up Windows XP Pro (also $20). Now, don't get me wrong, that's a highly subsidized campus license agreement program which is ending soon... that reminds me I need to go pick up some more software!;-)
Personally I really like Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. It gives me the power and flexibility I need without the hassle and incompability of the competitors' solutions.
/holds up Office box and smiles
"Microsoft Office 2003 Professional, Where do you want to go today?"
rom cnn: The cards were purchased in 1999 for about $24 million, including supposed installation charges. The price is with installation charges included.
Don't forget the $15 million shipping and handling fee paid to the Teamsters Union to make sure the cards didn't accidently fall off the back of the truck in a, shall we say, less than reputable neighborhood.
I take it this is where my $5/month universal service fee tacked onto my phone bill is going. Thank god I know it's not wasted.
So don't be surprised if some companies take htr same concept, put a less 1984-esque label on it, and market it successfully to people. DRM is here to stay, in one form or another, and for better or worse.
How about Liberty Management Technology, or LMT? Nobody would be stupid enough to argue against Liberty!!
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What's your problem with doing that? If you're coming from DSL, cable, dialup, or some other residential service then you should be relaying through your ISP and your ISP should be blocking outbound port 25. It doesn't hurt you to relay through an additional hop and add an additional 5 seconds to your e-mail. If your ISP introduces intolerable delay then find a new one or complain that their service is unacceptable. If you're worried about relaying SSL mail to work for business purposes so you can post with your @work.com address then you should be using port 465 (smtps) anyway with authentication to connect to your work's mail server, authenticate via cram-md5 or even just a password so it opens relaying for you and then out you go.
Why would a legitimate businessman in the bulk e-mail industry use hacked machines? That'd be clearly illegal. Oh that's right, sometimes I forget, they're fucking scumbag criminals who would steal their parents' social security checks if they could get away with it.
If you don't know what was changed then you need to rebuild any machines suspected of being compromised from scratch and restore the data from a clean backup. Unless you're very sure your file checksum database is accurate (you run tripwire or aide hopefully) you will need to rebuild. Don't screw around and contribute to the global insecurity of the Internet.. especially with people's credit card data at stake!!! WTF is your company thinking keeping that on a public network?
He's going to swing on the hundreds of thousands of outsourced jobs, broken promises, and shattered dreams of American tech workers. Oh wait Spider-man? I thought we were talking about George W. Bush's re-election.
Is this to make him look more Indian or would there be a cultural backlash against tights?
I imagine it's similar to how most female comic book superheroes have extraordinarily large breasts. It's best to appeal to your target demographic.
Avoid them? Hell, I'd start by blocking them on my web proxy immediately until I get the all clear. We've got thousands of desktop users running IE. This could get nasty.
Nope, those are weak excuses. If your ISP's SMTP server is so slow then you need to complain to them so they add more servers, seperate them by region for their users or load balance them in some other fashion. There's no reason *outbound* SMTP servers should be slow unless you're at a small ISP that uses the same mail servers for incoming mail as they do outgoing mail. As for having your password stolen, why aren't they using TLS to encrypt the communications or cram-md5 over an unencrypted link? The problem here is your ISP if those are your excuses.
No problem, just set the ISP mail server as a smarthost relay. There's no reason home users need to be sending directly to the smtp port on another Internet mail server without relaying through their ISP first. For the telecommuters, you'd be using a VPN anyway or using the authenticated mail port.
Here in Sweden we have had 24mbps dsl network for quite some time now... both vdsl and adsl2+
And in Tokyo the porn stars personally come out to give you the blowjob.. it's that fast.
Insightful? How about flamebait. Slashdot is full of such asshole moderators it's not even funny.
Because Red Hat Linux sucks. I am sitting here doing a system migration from Red Hat 9 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and there's one minor tiny little fucking problem. They chose to remove reiserfs support from RHEL so my quick 5 minute disk swap is going to turn into 60 minutes while I rsync the data from the old disk to the new one so their lame ass "enterprise" kernel can mount it. It's utterly pathetic that a distribution in this day and age would not only not have reiserfs support, but actually chose to remove it from future distributions!
Before anyone says anything, I *would* be using Debian if I had the choice, but this business insists on sticking to commercial supported software. RHEL can suck my sweaty nut sack. They don't even include xcdroast anymore for burning CDs in the workstation version. Actually fuck, don't even get me started on WS vs. ES vs. AS. It's the biggest pile of horseshit I've ever seen. Sorry kiddies, if you have the choice, run away.. run far far away from Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
On the other hand, I do have Apple to thank that it's much easier to pirate their operating system. With Windows I have to work around that activation garbage so I just broke down and bought it. With MacOS X 10.3 I just burned a copy of my friend's CDs and installed with those. Worked perfectly. Thanks Apple!
Unplug it, throw it out, and buy a new one. Welcome to Steve Jobs' Apple.
OK, mod me down, I can take it, but you know it's the truth.
Well then you're in the minority. I think if you took a poll ST:TNG would rank at the top of all the ST series. DS9 was second, TOS third, Voyager fourth, and Enterprise dead last. TNG was art.
That's what I meant. Running a firewall on the same box you're looking to protect is silly. We've already seen in the past that malicious e-mail viruses can and do disable anti-virus software and "software" firewalls installed on Windows boxes.
I'm suprised ISPs aren't taking proactive steps and setting up firewalls in front of their DSL/cable/dialup users. Even a Cisco CBAC firewall or simple router access-lists would be better than nothing. I know some of them block NetBIOS ports, but they should really just block anything incoming to an enduser unless it is part of an established connection. Also, block outbound SMTP and require HTTP/HTTPS access to go through a proxy server to stop worms from just hitting other ISPs willy-nilly.
If ANY piece of software ever lists "disable all firewalls" as a part of the instructions, toss it and run away. There's no reason to ever disable a hardware firewall on a properly written piece of software. As for software firewalls, well those are trash so I won't even bother.
He said they were safer for the driver. If you're stupid enough to be driving a subcompact car on a highway then you deserve to die. Nothing like the sound of a lame ass Toyota Prius as I drive over it in my Suburban.
This reminds me of something I read about upgradability somewhere (Penny Arcade?). With PCs you have the complexity of replacing confusing components like CPUs, RAM, PCI cards, etc. A Mac is much easier to upgrade. Just unplug it, throw it in the trash and buy a new one.
Well, what were you expecting it to do, get you laid? "Hi, I'm a CCIE, wanna f*ck?"
So I can take a piece of software and copy it as many times as I want because the copyright owner has no rights to decide who reads it.
I paid $20 for it at the university bookstore. I bought it at the same time I picked up Windows XP Pro (also $20). Now, don't get me wrong, that's a highly subsidized campus license agreement program which is ending soon... that reminds me I need to go pick up some more software! ;-)
"Microsoft Office 2003 Professional, Where do you want to go today?"
Don't forget the $15 million shipping and handling fee paid to the Teamsters Union to make sure the cards didn't accidently fall off the back of the truck in a, shall we say, less than reputable neighborhood.
I take it this is where my $5/month universal service fee tacked onto my phone bill is going. Thank god I know it's not wasted.
How about Liberty Management Technology, or LMT? Nobody would be stupid enough to argue against Liberty!!
The copyright owner does.