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  1. I have used JungleDisk for years on Open Source Alternative To Dropbox? · · Score: 1

    For this very reason. I use RackSpace and S3 for storage, the encryption occurs locally, so the cloud storage provider cannot get your data. They have free source code so you can validate how it works too. Has never failed on me and saved my data several times with backup and sync. Happy customer

  2. Re:MS on RHN Bind Update Brings Down RHEL Named · · Score: 1

    Ehm, no. The patch for this precise issue has been released by MS on July 8 (953230 MS08-037), more than a week ago.

  3. Re:Not without a private agreement with Apple on Sun Is Porting Java To the iPhone · · Score: 1

    And Sun's design does not include a mechanism for a Java applet to acquire rights outside the sandbox simply by the "zone" it's in. Erm, you can just sign native code to run it outside the sandbox to be able to do as you please with the actual machine. Is that so much better? If it's better, then why is being in a zone and requiring a signature (i.e. ActiveX) worse?
  4. Re:An inadvertently BRILLIANT scheme! on Why is Microsoft Patching XP? · · Score: 1

    You are hallucinating. MS announced the mix of their total Windows desktop OS license sales, not that they believe there's an 80% chance to "down-sell" to Windows XP on every Vista license...

  5. Re:My Question on 'Bad' Protein Linked to Numerous Health Problems · · Score: 1

    How come you think evolution is over?

  6. "The 'holes' in question are so obscure... on Network Penetration Scans and Executive Reaction? · · Score: 1

    ...as to be meaningless", you say; can you give a few examples of security holes that are 'obscure' and 'meaningless'?

    I mean - a vulnerabilty found should either be a false positive - which you should be able to explain to your boss easily - or it's actually relevant. If you are *knowingly, intentionally* running vulnerable systems, these hopefully do not share *any* infrastructure with your production networks.

  7. Re:Exchange ? on SUSE 9.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Effective immediately, you can use either Evolution as your client application and GroupWise on the server side (that's either on Linux, Netware, or Windows), or run GroupWise on the server side and use Outlook on Windows to connect to it. The latter is something that has been around for quite a while.

  8. Re:Finding a trojan on Tao of Security Monitoring · · Score: 1

    Sorry then, but you didn't mention this anywhere in the original post, and "web application" and "server" somehow didn't indicate to me that we were talking about infection on a local network. Even then, there should be some hardening and some degree of separation of the server LAN from the desktop machines, even though this is rarely fully implemented in actual environments.

  9. Re:Finding a trojan on Tao of Security Monitoring · · Score: 1

    No, I think it shows that your network design and firewall configuration was really dumb to begin with, not to mention OS hardening.

    Why was it reachable on port 445? Why could the box connect to outside hosts AT ALL?

  10. Re:Neoteris SSL-VPN on Windows XP SP2 Impressions · · Score: 1

    Neoteris are not the only SSL VPN vendor affected. Microsoft, in all its glory, has decided to limit connections to "localnet" listeners to the address 127.0.0.1, which will prevent SSL VPNs from functioning correctly. In addition, more advanced SSL VPNs using LSP/NSP functionality to provide access seem to be broken as well.

    I'm sure this will be worked around soon though.

  11. Re:Criticism without Solution on Bruce Sterling On Lovelock's Pro-Nuclear Stance · · Score: 1

    Doesn't 1/5th as efficient mean "not efficient at all", ie. you'd have to put more energy into production of your solar chimney than you will get out of it during its lifetime?

  12. Re:Or the UN version on An Anti-DoS Tool That Returns Fire · · Score: 1

    Oh, it did? Where?

  13. What *idiot* dared to post this on /.? on Recovering Secret HD Space · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In other news, witnesses reported UFO sightings all over the country...

  14. They have been doing this for ages on Yahoo To Charge For Search Listings · · Score: 1

    ...at least in Germany, Yahoo! has been selling the best entries in their directory. The way it worked was: Pay for an advertisement in connection with search words. Be the #1 site when each of the search words was part of a query, and be the #1 site in the directory for the corresponding category for the duration of the campaign. Prices were set depending on the category.

    Oh, and I know for sure, as I actually BOUGHT the search words for a customer.

  15. Re:The Hummer on Last Great Internet Bubble Auction · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Hummer was designed and built for military use. This does NOT include going 100'000 km a year w/o a visit to your local mechanic, but it includes reliably travelling 150 km over rough terrain at high speed with a broken wheel. AFTER THAT, of course, you'll have to see a mechanic, which - in a military environment - is something you will do every 1000 or so km, or after using the car in the field, whichever comes first... the original Hummer vehicle needed a new set of wheels every 10'000 km, and a new transmission every 40'000 km.

    After all, it was never designed for the average home user...

  16. Re:Unnecessary violence on U.S. Representatives Torpedo UN Information Summit · · Score: 2

    What did he make up? Hint: being undereducated and misinformed cannot be compensated for by being more patriotic.

  17. Re:Good news on Desktop Linux Share Overtaking Macintosh · · Score: 1

    Compare an average American car's engine efficiency to an Audi, or BMW engine. Find that getting 225 hp @ 9-12 l per 100 km is possible with a 1.8 l engine. I think this explains a lot. More engineering leads to higher development cost AND allows for higher profit margins.

    Whether your personal priorities dictate that you NOT buy such a beast is a matter of personal taste, but claiming that you'd be getting the same as in an average American car at three times the cost is ridiculous.

  18. Re:Good news on Desktop Linux Share Overtaking Macintosh · · Score: 1

    How come so many /.ers apparently don't know jack about cars and can't tell the difference between a well-engineered, technologically advanced car (such as some of the BMW, Audi, Mercedes cars, including the new BMW 3 series) with loads of active and passive safety, engines that last for ages, are examples of great production quality and craftsmanship, and most other cars? Is it possible that these cars actually ARE superior designs, which causes them to come at a higher (initial) price than others, makes them affordable to only some and not all people, and THIS causes the much critized prestige?

    I mean please... stop being so fucking envious and admire great technology when you see it.

  19. Re:Your job shouldn't be your life. on Dream Jobs of 2004 · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's just not true. The legal minimum is 21 days a year, depending on one's age. That translates to about 4 'real' (ie., non-work) weeks.

  20. Re:Enterprise-readiness questions on MySQL 5.0.0 (Alpha) Released · · Score: 1

    You're right, but - that was not what the poster said. Instead, he questioned the proclaimed readiness for the enterprise market.

  21. Re:What do you mean "hardware firewall?" on SmoothWall 2.0 Linux-Based Firewall Released · · Score: 1

    Look at how NetScreen (someone mentione it before), Fortinet or Watchguard Vclasses work you claim everything is software running on top of commodity hardware...

  22. Want a good laugh? on Netcraft Web Server Stats Challenged · · Score: 1

    Have a look at their products... Security through obscurity is one of them (ServerMask), and a "custom error page" deployment tool is another. Then there's a HTTP-gzip compression package. I won't even mention the rest - "highly innovative", isn't it.

  23. Re:No vell, no thanks on Novell & SUSE In Link Up? · · Score: 2, Informative
    With W2k microsoft came up with ADS which is as good as NDS (though it does not play well with other OSes as netware does).

    You are clueless. Value-level (as opposed to replication of full objects only, like ADS does), transitive, event-driven (unlike ADS, which does a scan for changed objects at intervals, the default being 10 (TEN!) minutes) synchronisation; the ability to scale to hundreds of thousands of objects in a single partition; working backup/restore technology - all make NDS eDirectory far superior to ADS.

    Oh, and Gartner still agrees on that and regards Novell as the leader in the meta directory field.

  24. Re:I wait until... on Patching Paranoia - How Fast Do You Patch? · · Score: 1

    Could you name one - I can't think of a single MS patch that would break GroupWise?

  25. Re:Other's don't do journaling? on Linux File System Shootout · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is a difference between journaling DATA and METADATA. Don't get confused by that...