Yeah...I guess there's no such thing as linux running on a router.
Well, I've heard of people running Linux on toy routers using x86 hardware, but not "real" routers that use IOS. That's just silly. Why would you want to?
Turned out it was overall easier to just grab an old machine and throiw DOS on it.
But how do you connect it to the Internet to download patches for the game?;-)
Ah, the days when companies actually took the time to make the game halfway usable before shipping it in a box. Now they ship it broke and make you patch it before playing it. I blame Doom for starting that trend with the different versions of the shareware game.
nah, you'll be abe to tell because Kevin Mitnick will be elected Prime Minister of India.
And if the elections go off without a hitch then all the Slashdot whiners will apologize to Diebold and other electronic voting machine makers right? Electronic voting is coming whether you like it or not. It's no worse than Florida's "I can sort of see a pinhole of light through this ballot so I think the guy intended to vote for Gore" recount debacle.
While AES is better then the RC4 algorithm used in WEP, it dosen't mean that a product using AES will be more secure. RC4 is not the problem with WEP. The poor implementation of RC4 is the problem. Specially WEP allows known weak keys.
My main problem with WEP is it's silly to use outside of a group of about 10 people. After that you really need to use rotating keys that are different for each person, otherwise when some employee leaves your company then everyone's changing their WEP key. It just doesn't scale. It's fine for home use where you really don't care if your neighbor breaks into your porn stash (hell, I'd share my access if they had computers, but they don't). Cisco's LEAP protocol was a good step in the right direction, but alas, it was too immature and not battle tested and now has problems. We'll see how the other competing standards stack up.
True, but their profits don't come out of thin air. Other companies could pay for more employees if their costs for anti-spam, anti-virus, etc. software weren't as high as they are. Add the costs for bandwidth (almost never free for companies), wasted time, annoyance (which results in lower productivity) etc. - then do the math.
Jesus, I thought it was a bit obvious I was being sarcastic. Spam sucks and companies that sell anti-spam software are scum sucking asswipes. They're one step below anti-virus companies (which most likely develop most of the viruses IMHO).
What to you count as an "offense"? I would expect all spammers have sent more than 2 spam messages. Do you have to be caught, let off scott free, and then caught again before anything happens? Sounds like an easy ride to me...
I'm a little sick and tired of the whining on Slashdot about direct e-mail marketing. These people bring jobs into the industry that would've never existed if they weren't "spamming", as you would say. How many thousands of people across the country owe their jobs to the fight against "spam"? Entire companies whose anti-spam products are sold at substantial profit to businesses would go out of business forcing them to lay off their employees. Do you want that on your head? I certainly don't. I salute you Mr. Direct Bulk E-mailer. Spam on. You truly are a real American hero.
and the week before that, and the month before that. Do not rely on your wireless access point's built-in encryption and authentication under any circumstances. Use it as a barebones minimum and then drop a VPN on top of that. Make sure the access points terminate on an insecure network isolated from the rest of your trusted LAN and require VPN access to reach the trusted side. Anybody that was trusting LEAP just got burned last week so don't make the same mistakes about trusting a hardware implementation when there's proven software VPN solutions that have stood the test of time.
They did that for realplayer 10 for the PC to, no spyware. Looks like they are changing their tune.
When someone comes up and takes a dump on my desk it's very hard for me to take them seriously from that point on. I've very reluctantly gone back to using TurboTax this year, but Real has continually defectated upon not only my desk, but my keyboard, chair, and my new living room carpet. They can suck it.
without being a standard label of some kind it'll be useless
Well that would've been a better idea. Just force spammers via the law to label all their spam in the subject line with a common word like "[UBE]" or "[ADULT]". Then let the READER decide whether they want to filter that stuff easily or not. The problem is, of course, that spammers don't obey the laws anyway and couldn't care less whether you really want to receive their crap so they'd ignore such requirements. If spammers played fair and clearly labeled their crap I would stop complaining because then I could just filter advertisements that I'm not interested in. It'll never happen though.
99.9% of my 20gig collections comes from ripping CD's that I (or my friends) already own. When spread out over 15 years and multiple people, the idea of collecting 1000 songs is not as painfull on the pocket book.
But that's piracy. I can understand ripping your own CDs, but ripping your friends' CDs is illegal.
very simple.... whens the last car trip you have taken where you get even remotely close to playing 1000 songs? I sure havent come close with my 5gig 1st gen
Geez, I could never imagine filling up 4 gigabytes of space with music. Don't forget to figure in the $1000 for buying 1000 songs off the Apple iTunes store! That stuff adds up quick. I just don't understand how people can afford to have huge collections with 10,000+ songs in them. They must spend every penny on music, no wonder they hate the RIAA!!
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Now they can spam up all the cable ISP's IP blocks, and once a block gets blacklisted they can just switch to a new set of users. Brilliant.
Yes, very "brilliant" of them. The only thing this will accomplish is getting port 25/tcp blocked all across the Internet completely whether you're an offender or not. Thanks asshole.
It's really easy to compile Padlock on Mandrake 9.2. First install libqt3-devel, the QT deveoper package. Then, call/usr/lib/qt3/bin/qmake and make, that's all.
Or just run it. The "Redhat 9" version runs perfectly fine on my Debian Sid system, albeit I'm not sure of what the point of it is. It seems terribly difficult to use. To share files between people peer-to-peer I need to manually get everyone else's keys and setup a connection to each of them and vice versa? That seems like an incredible pain in the ass.
Remember that the backup DNS really shouldn't be geographically located near the primary. Even though 9/10 they are on the same network sadly.
Yes, it would be terrible if your network is down and people weren't able to resolve your hostnames in order to connect to your web servers which are also down. Really, what's the point of that unless you have multiple geographically diverse webservers as well?
Securing wireless connections at VPN or application level is so much hassle that only 0.01% of users bother.
Ever hear of SSL? How difficult is it to open a browser and go to an SSL website? How difficult is it to use IMAPS or POPS? How difficult is it to use SSH instead of Telnet? Getting users to understand PKI and client side certificates to manage in their IPSEC VPN client is one thing (and I agree it's entirely too complex a solution for the problem people use it to solve), but teaching users to type https instead of http isn't that difficult. I blame most of bad press encryption has gotten over the past few years on IPSEC. It's a bloated solution that is unnecessarily complicated and must integrate tightly into the client's IP stack to handle the lower-layer levels of encryption.
Cisco now owns Linksys. Can anyone alleviate my "phears" and tell me that this vulnerability is more for the hardware found in big companies like Bell Canada, and not my WEP 64 wireless?
This is for Cisco wireless products (their Aironet series for example), not Linksys products. I'm sure they're still pretty seperate companies even though Linksys may be a wholly owned subsidiary. i.e. Linksys access points don't run IOS (hell, some run Linux). Plus, your Linksys box wouldn't support LEAP anyway. Now, the problem with you is that 64-bit WEP is already easy to crack with enough data so it's a thin veil of security, nothing more. Don't rely on it to encrypt your traffic! If you're doing anything that needs encryption then use higher layers like SSL or even IPSEC.
At least you get good native IPv6 support and VLAN done right. Most switches (specially Cisco) are a real disgrace for security. You can easily overflow the MAC buffers, in which case they will act as hubs (so you can kiss your VLANs goodbye.)
Actually, being halfway serious for a moment, VLANs are not intended to be for security purposes. They're meant to seperate broadcast domains. Any decent architecture would never rely on VLANs to seperate an insecure network from a secure network, no matter who the manufacturer is. Use two physically seperate switches with a proper firewall between them.
Check out the 8 port Asante GX5-800P. You can find them for ~ $160.
I guess that would do for amateur installations, but any serious home network engineer deploying gigabit would opt for something with a little more kick. I recommend the Cisco Catalyst 3750G-24T switch for these kinds of applications. 24 ports of 10/100/1000 managed switch goodness and only $4000!! That's unbelievable! Now, if you're you're looking at a modular solution with possibilities of doubling as a router then look no further than the Catalyst 4500 series. Bump up to a 4507R and get redundant supervisor IV support and 5 slots for adding in module goodies.
For those of us network geeks with serious port density needs at home, I would recommend purchasing a Catalyst 6513 w/redundant sup 720's (makes a kickass cable/DSL router w/reflexive access list support and even server load balancing of your home web servers!). If you're interested in protecting your network of Windows and Linux boxes, throw in a PIX firewall blade and the IDS blade and you're rockin'.
Now, I suppose you're saying "but all I need is a $160 8 port switch" in which case I'd say you're not a real networking geek. I suppose you buy those cheapo $40 Linksys switches instead of a proper Cisco Catalyst 3500XL series managed 10/100 switch too right? Fucking amateurs.
I also like repairs to be more granular: having to replace a motherboard just because an Ethernet port dies is ridiculous.
Assuming your motherboard has PCI slots, nothing is stopping you from putting in third party components. I'm perfectly content with the onboard nforce2 audio on the MSI board I have at home for gaming. It sounds the same, if not much better than the SB PCI 512 I had my old machine. The nvidia ethernet works fine as well under Windows XP. Now that I think about it, the only thing that isn't integrated into my motherboard is my graphics card, since this is my gaming system, and a firewire card. Everything else onboard is more than adequate if not superior to what I had in my 2-3 year old former gaming system that had all third party components for sound, graphics, nic, etc. If it dies, so what... it was $68, I'll just buy another one. A decent sound card used to cost at leasta hundred bucks and a good NIC used to be $60 (3com 3c905) by itself.
I thought the same as you.. but ever since I got my Asus A7N8X Deluxe, I've changed my mind about onboard audio. This baby has an amplified main output, 6.1-channel dolby digital capability, and an SPDIF output, onboard!
BTW, since this is Slashdot I should mention to people that if you plan on running Linux, avoid this board like the plague. It is HORRIBLE under Linux. I've got one with 1 GB of Infineon DDR RAM and an Athlon XP 3200+. I've had to underclock my processor down to 2500+ and completely disable APIC support and compile a vanilla Linux kernel with absolutely no reference to APIC or ACPI before the system would run stable for more than an hour. Now I MAYBE get 2 weeks out of it before it just crashes hard... sometimes it locks up, sometimes it just reboots itself. memtest shows memory is fine, replaced video card, and am using the onboard ATA controller and an Intel gigabit ethernet card with onboard NICs disabled. 2.4.25 kernel still causes crashes. I don't know if it's temperature or what, but this system sucks ass. Average (remember, running at XP 2500+ speeds) is 48C idle. If I bump it up to 3200+ it sits at 52-53C idle and gets up past 70C on high CPU load and is probably going into thermal shutdown. This is with a huge Zalman flower cooler on it and 3 other fans blowing onto it. Piece of shit system.. I wanted a Mac G5!
I suppose that turning things digital isn't always the best solution. These kind of issues proves that fact.
Digital doesn't mean bad, they just have a stupid buggy system. How do the SATs and other standardized testing services handle millions of those scantron sheets without problems? Instead of poking holes in a piece of paper and leaving hanging chads, have people use a friggin pencil and bubble in a box. If you don't follow the instructions and the computer can't read your bubble for whatever reason then your vote simply is discarded. Humans should not be involved in deciding who the vote was "supposed" to go to because they can be influenced.
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No need to upgrade and shell out additional cash. And hey KDE Games are GREAT for kids..and they're free!!!
Bah if that's they way you think you can raise kids, they're going to be ridiculed at school and your family will be branded as being poor. Way to screw up your kids' social status for years to come. Look, if you want to be a cool parent, shell out $3000 for the top of the line Alienware system with Windows XP Pro running on it. You will be the COOLEST parent on the block. Material wealth is very important to the social status of children and is second only to how good looking their family is.
True. But I thought we were talking about them acquiring SCO's assets?
What on earth would any legitimate company need with that many lawyers? Microsoft and SCO's legal teams combined would be a legal powerhouse rivaling the largest law firms.
WITF are you working? You imply spare time to actually get proper design accomplished before marketing says it's ready to ship.
So you justify crappy documentation and buggy software based on marketing pushing it out the door? Since when does marketing decide that a product is finished or not? If companies would quit throwing buggy unfinished and undocumented software out the door with the assumption that they'll fix the problems in later patches this world would be a better place.
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Well, I've heard of people running Linux on toy routers using x86 hardware, but not "real" routers that use IOS. That's just silly. Why would you want to?
But how do you connect it to the Internet to download patches for the game? ;-)
Ah, the days when companies actually took the time to make the game halfway usable before shipping it in a box. Now they ship it broke and make you patch it before playing it. I blame Doom for starting that trend with the different versions of the shareware game.
And if the elections go off without a hitch then all the Slashdot whiners will apologize to Diebold and other electronic voting machine makers right? Electronic voting is coming whether you like it or not. It's no worse than Florida's "I can sort of see a pinhole of light through this ballot so I think the guy intended to vote for Gore" recount debacle.
My main problem with WEP is it's silly to use outside of a group of about 10 people. After that you really need to use rotating keys that are different for each person, otherwise when some employee leaves your company then everyone's changing their WEP key. It just doesn't scale. It's fine for home use where you really don't care if your neighbor breaks into your porn stash (hell, I'd share my access if they had computers, but they don't). Cisco's LEAP protocol was a good step in the right direction, but alas, it was too immature and not battle tested and now has problems. We'll see how the other competing standards stack up.
Jesus, I thought it was a bit obvious I was being sarcastic. Spam sucks and companies that sell anti-spam software are scum sucking asswipes. They're one step below anti-virus companies (which most likely develop most of the viruses IMHO).
I'm a little sick and tired of the whining on Slashdot about direct e-mail marketing. These people bring jobs into the industry that would've never existed if they weren't "spamming", as you would say. How many thousands of people across the country owe their jobs to the fight against "spam"? Entire companies whose anti-spam products are sold at substantial profit to businesses would go out of business forcing them to lay off their employees. Do you want that on your head? I certainly don't. I salute you Mr. Direct Bulk E-mailer. Spam on. You truly are a real American hero.
and the week before that, and the month before that. Do not rely on your wireless access point's built-in encryption and authentication under any circumstances. Use it as a barebones minimum and then drop a VPN on top of that. Make sure the access points terminate on an insecure network isolated from the rest of your trusted LAN and require VPN access to reach the trusted side. Anybody that was trusting LEAP just got burned last week so don't make the same mistakes about trusting a hardware implementation when there's proven software VPN solutions that have stood the test of time.
When someone comes up and takes a dump on my desk it's very hard for me to take them seriously from that point on. I've very reluctantly gone back to using TurboTax this year, but Real has continually defectated upon not only my desk, but my keyboard, chair, and my new living room carpet. They can suck it.
Well that would've been a better idea. Just force spammers via the law to label all their spam in the subject line with a common word like "[UBE]" or "[ADULT]". Then let the READER decide whether they want to filter that stuff easily or not. The problem is, of course, that spammers don't obey the laws anyway and couldn't care less whether you really want to receive their crap so they'd ignore such requirements. If spammers played fair and clearly labeled their crap I would stop complaining because then I could just filter advertisements that I'm not interested in. It'll never happen though.
But that's piracy. I can understand ripping your own CDs, but ripping your friends' CDs is illegal.
Geez, I could never imagine filling up 4 gigabytes of space with music. Don't forget to figure in the $1000 for buying 1000 songs off the Apple iTunes store! That stuff adds up quick. I just don't understand how people can afford to have huge collections with 10,000+ songs in them. They must spend every penny on music, no wonder they hate the RIAA!!
Yes, very "brilliant" of them. The only thing this will accomplish is getting port 25/tcp blocked all across the Internet completely whether you're an offender or not. Thanks asshole.
Or just run it. The "Redhat 9" version runs perfectly fine on my Debian Sid system, albeit I'm not sure of what the point of it is. It seems terribly difficult to use. To share files between people peer-to-peer I need to manually get everyone else's keys and setup a connection to each of them and vice versa? That seems like an incredible pain in the ass.
Yes, it would be terrible if your network is down and people weren't able to resolve your hostnames in order to connect to your web servers which are also down. Really, what's the point of that unless you have multiple geographically diverse webservers as well?
Ever hear of SSL? How difficult is it to open a browser and go to an SSL website? How difficult is it to use IMAPS or POPS? How difficult is it to use SSH instead of Telnet? Getting users to understand PKI and client side certificates to manage in their IPSEC VPN client is one thing (and I agree it's entirely too complex a solution for the problem people use it to solve), but teaching users to type https instead of http isn't that difficult. I blame most of bad press encryption has gotten over the past few years on IPSEC. It's a bloated solution that is unnecessarily complicated and must integrate tightly into the client's IP stack to handle the lower-layer levels of encryption.
Woh, imagine that! Two different companies using wireless products from Cisco. What are the odds of that!?
This is for Cisco wireless products (their Aironet series for example), not Linksys products. I'm sure they're still pretty seperate companies even though Linksys may be a wholly owned subsidiary. i.e. Linksys access points don't run IOS (hell, some run Linux). Plus, your Linksys box wouldn't support LEAP anyway. Now, the problem with you is that 64-bit WEP is already easy to crack with enough data so it's a thin veil of security, nothing more. Don't rely on it to encrypt your traffic! If you're doing anything that needs encryption then use higher layers like SSL or even IPSEC.
Actually, being halfway serious for a moment, VLANs are not intended to be for security purposes. They're meant to seperate broadcast domains. Any decent architecture would never rely on VLANs to seperate an insecure network from a secure network, no matter who the manufacturer is. Use two physically seperate switches with a proper firewall between them.
I guess that would do for amateur installations, but any serious home network engineer deploying gigabit would opt for something with a little more kick. I recommend the Cisco Catalyst 3750G-24T switch for these kinds of applications. 24 ports of 10/100/1000 managed switch goodness and only $4000!! That's unbelievable! Now, if you're you're looking at a modular solution with possibilities of doubling as a router then look no further than the Catalyst 4500 series. Bump up to a 4507R and get redundant supervisor IV support and 5 slots for adding in module goodies.
For those of us network geeks with serious port density needs at home, I would recommend purchasing a Catalyst 6513 w/redundant sup 720's (makes a kickass cable/DSL router w/reflexive access list support and even server load balancing of your home web servers!). If you're interested in protecting your network of Windows and Linux boxes, throw in a PIX firewall blade and the IDS blade and you're rockin'.
Now, I suppose you're saying "but all I need is a $160 8 port switch" in which case I'd say you're not a real networking geek. I suppose you buy those cheapo $40 Linksys switches instead of a proper Cisco Catalyst 3500XL series managed 10/100 switch too right? Fucking amateurs.
Assuming your motherboard has PCI slots, nothing is stopping you from putting in third party components. I'm perfectly content with the onboard nforce2 audio on the MSI board I have at home for gaming. It sounds the same, if not much better than the SB PCI 512 I had my old machine. The nvidia ethernet works fine as well under Windows XP. Now that I think about it, the only thing that isn't integrated into my motherboard is my graphics card, since this is my gaming system, and a firewire card. Everything else onboard is more than adequate if not superior to what I had in my 2-3 year old former gaming system that had all third party components for sound, graphics, nic, etc. If it dies, so what... it was $68, I'll just buy another one. A decent sound card used to cost at leasta hundred bucks and a good NIC used to be $60 (3com 3c905) by itself.
BTW, since this is Slashdot I should mention to people that if you plan on running Linux, avoid this board like the plague. It is HORRIBLE under Linux. I've got one with 1 GB of Infineon DDR RAM and an Athlon XP 3200+. I've had to underclock my processor down to 2500+ and completely disable APIC support and compile a vanilla Linux kernel with absolutely no reference to APIC or ACPI before the system would run stable for more than an hour. Now I MAYBE get 2 weeks out of it before it just crashes hard... sometimes it locks up, sometimes it just reboots itself. memtest shows memory is fine, replaced video card, and am using the onboard ATA controller and an Intel gigabit ethernet card with onboard NICs disabled. 2.4.25 kernel still causes crashes. I don't know if it's temperature or what, but this system sucks ass. Average (remember, running at XP 2500+ speeds) is 48C idle. If I bump it up to 3200+ it sits at 52-53C idle and gets up past 70C on high CPU load and is probably going into thermal shutdown. This is with a huge Zalman flower cooler on it and 3 other fans blowing onto it. Piece of shit system.. I wanted a Mac G5!
Digital doesn't mean bad, they just have a stupid buggy system. How do the SATs and other standardized testing services handle millions of those scantron sheets without problems? Instead of poking holes in a piece of paper and leaving hanging chads, have people use a friggin pencil and bubble in a box. If you don't follow the instructions and the computer can't read your bubble for whatever reason then your vote simply is discarded. Humans should not be involved in deciding who the vote was "supposed" to go to because they can be influenced.
Bah if that's they way you think you can raise kids, they're going to be ridiculed at school and your family will be branded as being poor. Way to screw up your kids' social status for years to come. Look, if you want to be a cool parent, shell out $3000 for the top of the line Alienware system with Windows XP Pro running on it. You will be the COOLEST parent on the block. Material wealth is very important to the social status of children and is second only to how good looking their family is.
What on earth would any legitimate company need with that many lawyers? Microsoft and SCO's legal teams combined would be a legal powerhouse rivaling the largest law firms.
So you justify crappy documentation and buggy software based on marketing pushing it out the door? Since when does marketing decide that a product is finished or not? If companies would quit throwing buggy unfinished and undocumented software out the door with the assumption that they'll fix the problems in later patches this world would be a better place.