Not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet, but port sentry with a little tweaking can clean up what you describe really well - automatically drops the results into a firewall or hosts.deny.
Only problem is that it's not much of a user friendly program, can on rare occurances block IP addresses that were not intended to be blocked, so it takes a little bit of an active hands on approach.
Cutting edge 1970's brown tones, rounded corners, and sideburns. It might be brilliant with functionality, but it's still ugly. (Unless you like brown)
Never underestimate the lack of skill some people manage to attain in the military.
One might find the first week working HFDF to be 'pretty fun', watching MTV all night, feet getting all toasty and warm propped up on top of the ultra's and an odd sparc or two, relaxing in a nice cloth recliner (I would say leather, but it 'is' the military)
The second week is when you start to question exactly why the government is wasting away your high and mighty intellectual abilities on an orange phosphor scope built in the 1960's for 12 hours a day/night.
A year later they take the scope away and replace it with an uber box that does it all 50,000 times faster - without human intervention - and then some anal OH&S scam bans staff from dragging down the 60 inch TV because it's... what... only 220 kilograms or something.
I don't work as a security guard, but would easily consider Australian Customs as an alternative. (Providing the black smears on my record 'vanish' after a little creative blackmail. Posting at slashdot does not help my career either.)
Way back working with the tactical EW Navy hat on, we took thousands of photographs of 'them' taking pictures of us. (As too did they) 'Them' being any military or government entity that was not allied to our own. None of us were trained in photographics, thus the multitude of 'my shit was bigger than yours - and here's some colour, infra-red, and funky spectral proof' shots for you chief.
RANTEWSS, it's no longer what it used to be.
I'm a little suprised that so many find this 'odd' - the more perspective, generally speaking, the better the vision.
I'm thinking you are trolling a little Andrewkov, is it because the parent got then and than mixed up?
I personally also know (as of today) 14 ex-military idividuals that went from DSD analysts, linguists, or technical weenies, on to the more sedate life of security guard. Some are at airports, some at crappy little supermarkets that most of us hate shopping at, let alone working.
After running through Positive Vetting a few times and having to spend a months of ones life chatting with those voyeristic types from DSB - driving a truck for a dump site really does seem like an enjoyable lazy life to retire to. (Or driving a taxi in Toowoomba QLD AU.)
Unless you were making a joke.... If so, please ignore me...
Sir, can you explain that simple concept to my wife? I get in serious trouble every time I try:-)
The first 350 attempts for me are totally calm, compassionate, and loving, after that I have a tendency to mutter various sentences starting with 'WTF' under my breath.
The WRT54G I have here can (according to the web interface) pump out over 200 milliwatts. While the stock antennas are pretty k-mart brandish (cheap) the thing does not seem to be lacking in the radiated output department. (Testing on an old HP8566B spec-an shows actual output at 104 milliwatts after required calculations) I live in Asia, so doing this is not illegal where I am, though I'd still do it even if it was.
I also have a DI-624+ which has given no problems at all, though I do wish I'd purchased a little more wisely and obtained something better.
Sveasoft still appears to be shrouded in clouds of negative sentiment - given that the head honcho is very quick to threaten anyone (with violence) distributing the GPL firmware releases.
I'd go for something like wrt-dd - also based on sveasoft, but better (or worse depending upon ones actual requirements)
I personally would not give a single cent to the guy, but that's just me.
This provides some basic tweaks to get postfix working in a more useful way. (That work for me at least)
paulresis@yahoo.com was meant to read: Prolific spammer, this is an example of one of the reject lines I used to kill all the poetry spam I've been geting lately. Slashdot what is wrong with you?
While I know it's not an option unless you happen to be running your own mailserver, postfix does a good job (for me) of scanning message content and rejecting it based on common items. In particular that weird poetry rubbish.
Much of the spam I get has identical features embedded in it somewhere, such as a recurring email address, domain name, specific words and so on.
Secret bloke business with the department of defence. Nothing more exciting than your typical scope goat sitting in front of an array of radio and satellite gear really.
You may well think I'm trolling but - the internet existed long before this odd notion about any perceived difference between residential and business connections based on IP assignment.
If someone doesn't want to receive mail for whatever reason, more power to them, but to be controlled by the opinionated few about who can actually send email - that is just silly. Contracts? Zombied PC's would not be a problem if more ISP's actually blocked ports for all residential connections by default.
3 days ago my ISP here in the Philippines upped my caps from a T1 in both directions to 10Mbps down, 5Mbps up ($20US/month) - This is what they consider a 'domestic' or 'home' connection - back in Australia (from where I originate) the cost for such a line is typically only in reach of larger corporate entities or those fortunate enough to live a few doors away from the ISP.
I disagree with your sentiment - I don't have port blocks on 25 anymore, though as I think is appropriate I did have to ask the ISP to unblock first, it wasn't open by default. I also have a business line over here that does not have an rDNS entry, no matter how much I pester the ISP about solutions, what do you do about that? Sucks to send email to AOL and a few others.
Australia has 20 million people spread across a landmass roughly the size of the US (minus Alaska) The USA has somewhere on the order of 250 million people units.
In Australia the average city can support maybe 5 or 6 free to air television stations, and we don't have nearly as many cities either, in the US? (many more usually)
I think it's about economics, while I agree that it sucks very badly, I think there just isn't enough money thrown around to support such a wide variety of television shows. (Television stations usually have to purchase the rights to air them I gather?)
I think if the Australian ISP's got in on the act and added a surcharge (small) for a local FTP server filled with these shows, many people would opt in. Downloads would have to be fast, and adverts - well, I think they'll never go away.
Be careful saying such things around any old time established physicists, they tend to hold these theories with the same charged emotions as that of any vocal religious fanatic. (non-violent types that is)
A week or two back I said I did not believe in relativity - that sparked some nasty email... I guess for some the world really is still flat, if you don't believe it, they'll punch you until you do.
I wouldn't be so quick to call RHEL 'more stable' - I run both it and FC3/4 side by side, on average they both fail about the same amount for me - (Very rarely, but it does happen)
At work, the enterprise stuff from sun is rock solid - no suprise there, though I do find the ultra 5's and 10's crash far more frequently than some of the x86 server stuff about the place with RH/FC etc.
YMMV of course. I'd personally think long and hard before throwing down $20,000 on OS's without at least 'trying' the free alternatives in parallel for an extended period first.
A slightly more expensive solution. I have little idea how accurate it is from the few specs listed, but... Pretty lights... That's got to be important right?
Mmmm, nothing like that new motherboard smell, fresh out of the silver anti-static bag... Hot asian taiwanese chick writing on the little green 'QC OK' sticker...
If only motherboards were as soft and good looking as the testers, complete with dual breast cards as a standard option...
(In real life I'm not that much of a deprived geek, I am living in asia though)
There are a significant number of reasons why electronic fingerprinting of the underlying modulation methods will not work - the same NRZI (or whatever encoding) stream will be modified every single time it passes through another 'box' Basically you will not (necessarily) be getting the actual electrons sent from the target machine, so any analysis is somewhat futile.
The manufacturer will list common tolerances for each NIC, but it makes no financial sense to database pulse characteristics for the 'millions upon millions' of cards currently in the world.
RADAR can be fingerprinted very accurately, the key difference is you receive the radiated energy directly from the emitter itself.
Not to disagree with you fully, there are other methods people are trying, but they are mostly borderline snake oil. Traffic analysis is the only viable solution, think of it like sifting through someones garbage, their friends garbage, and their friends friends garbage, and.... up to three or four association levels, any more and you begin to have issues with storage capacity.
Fingerprinting is indeed possible, but it will require very close access to the targets machine. Rarely possible without being noticed. Impossible unless you already know where the source is located.
I can expertly tell you there is no such technology in consumer network cards that will fire off information to 'them' - this can be confirmed with an off the shelf o-scope and some knowledge of coding schemes. Any other method can be detected with software. Protocol analysis.
Problem exists on CRT's as well, seems to be getting a little more common these days. I have a 21" sony trinitron with a dead spot of red phosphor, fortunately it is difficult to notice, it sits beneath one of the support wires (in the shadow)
I have a few AOC monitors (cheap I know) that have dead spots in various locations that are really easy to spot.
I also have a sony television (trinitron again) with a dead green spot. Too heavy to lug across the city for a replacement, too small to care about.
The USA has miles upon miles of old military aircraft from what I've seen on television. There should be quite a large amount of titanium left in wing attachments, turbines, and other hard points on decaying fighter jets. I have a small rod of it (from an Airforce friend) that was scrap from an F-111 wing repair. Not very big, but big enough to see how damn strong the stuff is. (few centimeters long)
Took some serious hitting with a sledge hammer and a vice to put any kind of a bend in the metal. Impressive stuff.
160 million registered users are, I suspect, mostly a result of yahoo messenger. As for the 300 odd million unique hits, yahoo messenger tends to set yahoo as the default 'everything' at install time, regardless of checkbox settings.
The site is far too busy to be taken in at a quick glance, I don't know many that actually use it, but it is still the default home page for most people I know.
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Not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet, but port sentry with a little tweaking can clean up what you describe really well - automatically drops the results into a firewall or hosts.deny.
Only problem is that it's not much of a user friendly program, can on rare occurances block IP addresses that were not intended to be blocked, so it takes a little bit of an active hands on approach.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sentrytools/
Cutting edge 1970's brown tones, rounded corners, and sideburns. It might be brilliant with functionality, but it's still ugly. (Unless you like brown)
Never underestimate the lack of skill some people manage to attain in the military.
One might find the first week working HFDF to be 'pretty fun', watching MTV all night, feet getting all toasty and warm propped up on top of the ultra's and an odd sparc or two, relaxing in a nice cloth recliner (I would say leather, but it 'is' the military)
The second week is when you start to question exactly why the government is wasting away your high and mighty intellectual abilities on an orange phosphor scope built in the 1960's for 12 hours a day/night.
A year later they take the scope away and replace it with an uber box that does it all 50,000 times faster - without human intervention - and then some anal OH&S scam bans staff from dragging down the 60 inch TV because it's... what... only 220 kilograms or something.
I don't work as a security guard, but would easily consider Australian Customs as an alternative. (Providing the black smears on my record 'vanish' after a little creative blackmail. Posting at slashdot does not help my career either.)
Way back working with the tactical EW Navy hat on, we took thousands of photographs of 'them' taking pictures of us. (As too did they) 'Them' being any military or government entity that was not allied to our own. None of us were trained in photographics, thus the multitude of 'my shit was bigger than yours - and here's some colour, infra-red, and funky spectral proof' shots for you chief.
RANTEWSS, it's no longer what it used to be.
I'm a little suprised that so many find this 'odd' - the more perspective, generally speaking, the better the vision.
I'm thinking you are trolling a little Andrewkov, is it because the parent got then and than mixed up?
I personally also know (as of today) 14 ex-military idividuals that went from DSD analysts, linguists, or technical weenies, on to the more sedate life of security guard. Some are at airports, some at crappy little supermarkets that most of us hate shopping at, let alone working.
After running through Positive Vetting a few times and having to spend a months of ones life chatting with those voyeristic types from DSB - driving a truck for a dump site really does seem like an enjoyable lazy life to retire to. (Or driving a taxi in Toowoomba QLD AU.)
Unless you were making a joke.... If so, please ignore me...
So long as you follow Mr Nyquists theorem, all will be well with your endeavour.
Sir, can you explain that simple concept to my wife? I get in serious trouble every time I try :-)
The first 350 attempts for me are totally calm, compassionate, and loving, after that I have a tendency to mutter various sentences starting with 'WTF' under my breath.
http://wrt54g.thermoman.de/ Here is one link - read the emails toward the bottom of the page.
I must acknowledge that your definition of 'violence' may differ from mine. Regardless, this is just one link, there are others.
The WRT54G I have here can (according to the web interface) pump out over 200 milliwatts. While the stock antennas are pretty k-mart brandish (cheap) the thing does not seem to be lacking in the radiated output department. (Testing on an old HP8566B spec-an shows actual output at 104 milliwatts after required calculations) I live in Asia, so doing this is not illegal where I am, though I'd still do it even if it was.
I also have a DI-624+ which has given no problems at all, though I do wish I'd purchased a little more wisely and obtained something better.
Sveasoft still appears to be shrouded in clouds of negative sentiment - given that the head honcho is very quick to threaten anyone (with violence) distributing the GPL firmware releases.
I'd go for something like wrt-dd - also based on sveasoft, but better (or worse depending upon ones actual requirements)
I personally would not give a single cent to the guy, but that's just me.
Slashdot really screwed that post up.
The last paragraph should read:
http://www.akadia.com/services/postfix_uce.html
This provides some basic tweaks to get postfix working in a more useful way. (That work for me at least)
paulresis@yahoo.com was meant to read: Prolific spammer, this is an example of one of the reject lines I used to kill all the poetry spam I've been geting lately. Slashdot what is wrong with you?
While I know it's not an option unless you happen to be running your own mailserver, postfix does a good job (for me) of scanning message content and rejecting it based on common items. In particular that weird poetry rubbish.
Much of the spam I get has identical features embedded in it somewhere, such as a recurring email address, domain name, specific words and so on.
paulresis@yahoo.com provides a quick guide.
www.navy.gov.au (one example of thousands) .mil is less common, but there are a few kicking around.
:-)
Unless you are meaning '.gov' or '.mil' without the country code? If so, ignore me please
Secret bloke business with the department of defence. Nothing more exciting than your typical scope goat sitting in front of an array of radio and satellite gear really.
You may well think I'm trolling but - the internet existed long before this odd notion about any perceived difference between residential and business connections based on IP assignment.
If someone doesn't want to receive mail for whatever reason, more power to them, but to be controlled by the opinionated few about who can actually send email - that is just silly. Contracts? Zombied PC's would not be a problem if more ISP's actually blocked ports for all residential connections by default.
3 days ago my ISP here in the Philippines upped my caps from a T1 in both directions to 10Mbps down, 5Mbps up ($20US/month) - This is what they consider a 'domestic' or 'home' connection - back in Australia (from where I originate) the cost for such a line is typically only in reach of larger corporate entities or those fortunate enough to live a few doors away from the ISP.
I disagree with your sentiment - I don't have port blocks on 25 anymore, though as I think is appropriate I did have to ask the ISP to unblock first, it wasn't open by default. I also have a business line over here that does not have an rDNS entry, no matter how much I pester the ISP about solutions, what do you do about that? Sucks to send email to AOL and a few others.
That's corporate greed for you...
Australia has 20 million people spread across a landmass roughly the size of the US (minus Alaska) The USA has somewhere on the order of 250 million people units.
In Australia the average city can support maybe 5 or 6 free to air television stations, and we don't have nearly as many cities either, in the US? (many more usually)
I think it's about economics, while I agree that it sucks very badly, I think there just isn't enough money thrown around to support such a wide variety of television shows. (Television stations usually have to purchase the rights to air them I gather?)
I think if the Australian ISP's got in on the act and added a surcharge (small) for a local FTP server filled with these shows, many people would opt in. Downloads would have to be fast, and adverts - well, I think they'll never go away.
Be careful saying such things around any old time established physicists, they tend to hold these theories with the same charged emotions as that of any vocal religious fanatic. (non-violent types that is)
A week or two back I said I did not believe in relativity - that sparked some nasty email... I guess for some the world really is still flat, if you don't believe it, they'll punch you until you do.
I wouldn't be so quick to call RHEL 'more stable' - I run both it and FC3/4 side by side, on average they both fail about the same amount for me - (Very rarely, but it does happen)
At work, the enterprise stuff from sun is rock solid - no suprise there, though I do find the ultra 5's and 10's crash far more frequently than some of the x86 server stuff about the place with RH/FC etc.
YMMV of course. I'd personally think long and hard before throwing down $20,000 on OS's without at least 'trying' the free alternatives in parallel for an extended period first.
http://www.nsd.es.northropgrumman.com/Html/LTN-92/ index.htm
A slightly more expensive solution. I have little idea how accurate it is from the few specs listed, but... Pretty lights... That's got to be important right?
Mmmm, nothing like that new motherboard smell, fresh out of the silver anti-static bag... Hot asian taiwanese chick writing on the little green 'QC OK' sticker...
If only motherboards were as soft and good looking as the testers, complete with dual breast cards as a standard option...
(In real life I'm not that much of a deprived geek, I am living in asia though)
I can't figure out if you are trolling, serious, or simply joking...
I guess this all knowing super computer is in the same basement level room as the space aliens yes?
There are a significant number of reasons why electronic fingerprinting of the underlying modulation methods will not work - the same NRZI (or whatever encoding) stream will be modified every single time it passes through another 'box' Basically you will not (necessarily) be getting the actual electrons sent from the target machine, so any analysis is somewhat futile.
The manufacturer will list common tolerances for each NIC, but it makes no financial sense to database pulse characteristics for the 'millions upon millions' of cards currently in the world.
RADAR can be fingerprinted very accurately, the key difference is you receive the radiated energy directly from the emitter itself.
Not to disagree with you fully, there are other methods people are trying, but they are mostly borderline snake oil. Traffic analysis is the only viable solution, think of it like sifting through someones garbage, their friends garbage, and their friends friends garbage, and.... up to three or four association levels, any more and you begin to have issues with storage capacity.
Fingerprinting is indeed possible, but it will require very close access to the targets machine. Rarely possible without being noticed. Impossible unless you already know where the source is located.
I can expertly tell you there is no such technology in consumer network cards that will fire off information to 'them' - this can be confirmed with an off the shelf o-scope and some knowledge of coding schemes. Any other method can be detected with software. Protocol analysis.
No conspiracy.
Problem exists on CRT's as well, seems to be getting a little more common these days. I have a 21" sony trinitron with a dead spot of red phosphor, fortunately it is difficult to notice, it sits beneath one of the support wires (in the shadow)
I have a few AOC monitors (cheap I know) that have dead spots in various locations that are really easy to spot.
I also have a sony television (trinitron again) with a dead green spot. Too heavy to lug across the city for a replacement, too small to care about.
The USA has miles upon miles of old military aircraft from what I've seen on television. There should be quite a large amount of titanium left in wing attachments, turbines, and other hard points on decaying fighter jets. I have a small rod of it (from an Airforce friend) that was scrap from an F-111 wing repair. Not very big, but big enough to see how damn strong the stuff is. (few centimeters long)
Took some serious hitting with a sledge hammer and a vice to put any kind of a bend in the metal. Impressive stuff.
160 million registered users are, I suspect, mostly a result of yahoo messenger. As for the 300 odd million unique hits, yahoo messenger tends to set yahoo as the default 'everything' at install time, regardless of checkbox settings.
The site is far too busy to be taken in at a quick glance, I don't know many that actually use it, but it is still the default home page for most people I know.