... it would make you wonder how many of the preventative measures, and their technological implementations, get - in fact - to be learned, reverse engineered and then avoided by same (or more skilled) level of people, as those who have designed them. Link to the book here.
Somehow related to what you are asking for: I have a cell phone, with $10/month unlimited data plan, on which I have installed Skype. I have reasons to believe that any other VoIP soft-phone solution could be installed, if an appropriate client for the platform existed, thus the "hope" into VoIP that you are asking for.
My provider could probably never figure out (if he would ever care) how I could keep a consulting business on a minimal dial plan;)
No discussion about this, w/out VoIPsec list
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Please visit the VoIPsec archives, before assuming that any one article could cover it all. There you could find links and comments from some of the most pertinent contributors to this subject.
Unlike the more popular x86 platforms, this has never been the object of upgrades;( I would love to hear about what new stuff could be done, to revive my basement-forgotten Zaurusl. Last QT-based upgrade I had done totally killed it, in regards to functionality...
Hmmm... as much as I am NOT a Microsoft backer, I can only say two things, based on the location of my US property:
- Microsoft's Earth-MSN view is more detailed (their max zoom is better than Google's), at least as far as my property is concerned
- Microsoft's Earth-MSN managed to capture the hot tub I had installed in my backyard, just a few months back, which makes them "somehow_up_to_date" (whatever that means in terms of accurate mapping), while the same thing is hardly identifiable via Google maps (maybe because of issue above)
I am not sure how Apple will approach this, with its own MacOSX just recently announced to be moving to Intel, when - in fact - running a BSD flavor under the hood?!? What would keep Linux from following that?... probably much easier than reverse engineering (then improving) on the SMB stuff, anyway...
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There should be absolutely no discussion of ICMP without considering the fundamental research carried out by Orfin Arkin. His work should be read by anyone willing to discuss the issue beyond the/. gossiping...
P.S.... what the heck is going on with the HTML formatted postings?!?
The title says it all - so for those of us (unlucky enouch) to be running Linux, the VMWare Windows XP install does not seem to support the faster method of DirectX... that much for it...
Why not?!? Considering recent experience (G.W.), I think that the founding fathers are, in fact, becoming "former", as The_One_Who_Came_Around_The_Second_Time (i.e. "born again") is becoming the new Founding Father...
"...where else can you get such a diverse range of people, and pick up wonderful little tidbits like the true story behind that wonderful legend about solving unsolved problems?..."
As long as Rush Limbaugh hasn't succeeded in brain-washing all the Americans, some of them may still have a chance to find such tidbits here
As of last night my Panther became a Tiger;) No updates posted for this one - would that mean Tiger is completely safe, or that Apple didn't get to it, yet?!?
Same issues with CUPS on MacOSX: after having used it, and - when gotten it to work - prayed every time I had a print job, to actually see it through, on all my Linux boxes, I got myself an iBook (my first Mac ever - OSX 10.3.x), to find it installed there, also. Ever since day one, after tweaks of all sorts, I still have instances when only the first page prints, or cups just leaves behind all junk files in its log directory, etc. Oh, well - just my $0.02.
In the future? Probably because - if I would be AOL and would like to charge you for MY services - I would prioritize traffic for my application (of course - making sure it is identifiable somehow, either by TCP/UDP port, or using a specialized field in the header or payload), and let you decide whether Skype would still compare. Even worse, I would block or put Skype in low priority queue, on the network I have contol over, to make sure you are not happy with it, and start paying me the big bucks.
I did not need to click on anything to have the spammers generate traffic - all I had to do was to setup a honeypot, then advertise an email address "having used" the honeypot through Newsgroups (actually my research related to much more than that, but this is a/. simplification), then identify test messages, to let them through and let spammers believe that my honeypot is in fact an open proxy - and in 11 hrs I got a few GB of spam running to my "open proxy", allowing me to study it. I have never let it out of my box, but it definitely gave the spammers adrenaline enough to keep them around for longer... and they are still pounding my box, one year after the end of the project, and from allowing their test messages go through, and half a year since the domain whom the box belonged to, expired. Is anybody still wondering about spammers longevity?!?
Just FYI: got the Powerpad 160 first time for a trip to Europe, from the US, five years ago, with a Toshiba 8000 (running MDK, for the Linux fanatics here), and was able to handle movies and my own tweaking stuff throughout a flight from Chicago to Amsterdam (9 hrs), and another leg of 1.5 hrs to London (including change of airplanes) with the original battery on the Toshiba still reporting 100% juice. The best $350 investment in that trip... of course, before reaching the Red Light District;)
Last year I had to fly to Eastern Europe, in another two leg trip, and I was "fully covered" with a Powerpad 120, this time for my iBook...
Both the Powerpad 160 and 120 are still re-charghing fine, and being in one of my briefcases, "just in case", when I travel with either the iBook or a Toshiba 8200 (the devices are not intechangeable:( )
How? - simply: it's people like myself, who have identified them as having a proper business model (Mandrake Club subscriptions + a well established support community + very good paid support + products which fit every requirement I had, in time, and within costs (e.g. latest being the 64-bit CPU support among the first distros), who have then - provided the finacial support they needed (as a result of their services, of course) ... and when the US economy got derailed but its leadership, a small migration of my money, from US stocks, into MDKFF stock, came to prove to me, in time, that they also knew and know HOW to make money;)
Are people really so childish to believe that there is no relationship between big software manufacturers, and the big profit-producing cert authorities? Try to use even a mid-tier (I am not even getting to the free ones) authority, like Thawte, and let me know if you will ever get the Jinitiator client in Oracle 9i working, without manually redistibuting a new cert file to all clients... what you end up doing is paying Verisign a few more thousands, for all the servers, to avoid paying the admins tens of thousands, to customize clients, distributions and updates...
I have been "blessed", a few years back, with such a position: Fortune 500 company - ubergeek & final decision maker (managing a budget of over 4 mil). Road to success? - to the overall knowledge (already there, probably), add the followings:
- finance + budgeting skills (I am talking learning the ins and outs of asset management, accounting, depreciation, etc.)
- sharpen the presentation and reporting skills (CEOs and CFOs want to see nice colors on 3D pie-charts or 3D bars, on high level reports/memorandums/etc.)
- learn how to measure/quantify your group's work; come up with metrics fundamental to their responsibilities, related to them being able to carry out their jobs, and good enough for you to believe in those (otherwise how could you sell them to your ex-peers?!?) - and learn how to draw key performance measures out of those, for ongoing reports/adjustments, and future end-of-year appraisals
- related to the above: assign doable goals, right from the beginning - set expectations, and document progress
- lead by example, not as a dictator (people trust those who - even if more rarely than before - get their hands "dirty", once in a while)
- come up with some programs for training and cross-training your people
- reward, where reward is due, and be fair, but firm, when things go wrong
- last (but not least): set aside for yourself one or two projects, all the time, to keep yourself "on your toes", in "sync" with the technology ... and as far as talking to the higher echelons: if they trusted you with this, you probably already have an idea how to manage the executive level above you.
Good luck - and do NOT stop reading/.!!!
Re:It's not the business model...
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by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 21, @01:02PM (#11433701)
Buying decisions are made by suits, though. Most CIO's are former CFO's working towards becoming COO's. They don't give two shits about what "hackers" like.
Wrong! That was the Stone Age. Now WE (i.e../-ters) ARE becoming "those" CIOs... maybe even the CEOs. We may or may not be wearing suits, but that becomes less and less relevant. As professionals, we grew up with Linux [mentality], and Linux grew up where it is today - all we had to do was follow our beliefs, and materialize them all the way up to the top. And now we have a saying about how and what gets to be done, because our "why" does not come from the golf course, anymore. And this is part of why IBM, Cisco, Dell, HP gets to listen and - more so - able to "see in action" and trust their businesses with Linux-like solutions...
From work:
- on my PC: Skype client and Skypeout account and an adapter-phone, USB-based . This way I talk to friends or clients over Skype (free), if they have it installed, or over POTS, if they do not have Skype
From home:
- setup similar to the above, for my little office, in addition to which - for the reast of the house - I use Net2phone
I have commented on a "somehow similar" thread just recently, when someone was asking about migration from Windows to MacOSX, and I replied that I have - in fact - migrated from Linux to MacOSX. And here is why: I am not as much of a *nix geek, as a network person, and I NEED all my tools, and I do NOT need to fool around with systems, to make them work. Having said that - after years of carrying around various versions of Linux, installed on various versions of Toshiba and IBM laptops, with all sorts of sniffers and security tools, I have decided to give one day a try to an iBook, with OSX 10.3.5 (where I am writing this email from).
So... I have installed fink, the development tools from Apple, and I started porting my tools from Linux, and even installing some that never worked before properly (were "crippled")... after six months of using the iBook, and with ABSOLUTELY NO problems in working with anything, I left Linux where it is best fit: on my servers. And I have never looked back at my i386 laptops, since - I actually turned around just recently, to start playing with *BSD on those... but that is another issue.
Papi...
Is it just me who reads /. and bought Fry's $99 PC
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How Cheap Can A PC Be?
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Hmmm - I bought one of Fry's brand new $99 PCs, at their grand opening in Chicago, loaded with Lindows... I know that was a one time deal, but - hey! - it was possible, and other deals should come, then...
Slashdot Mirror
... application integration and network convergence . A resounding "DUH" for the Intel guru ...
... it would make you wonder how many of the preventative measures, and their technological implementations, get - in fact - to be learned, reverse engineered and then avoided by same (or more skilled) level of people, as those who have designed them. Link to the book here.
Somehow related to what you are asking for: I have a cell phone, with $10/month unlimited data plan, on which I have installed Skype. I have reasons to believe that any other VoIP soft-phone solution could be installed, if an appropriate client for the platform existed, thus the "hope" into VoIP that you are asking for.
;)
My provider could probably never figure out (if he would ever care) how I could keep a consulting business on a minimal dial plan
May not be exactly what you're looking for, but I am investigating GSM solutions right now, for a slightly different reason: I want to make all my GSM-to-land calls appear "in the network", and eliminate the huge costs associated with cell-to-land calls. Here are a couple of links:. htm I GSM.htm ? tech=GSM / gsm/eurotech1/
http://www.westlakecommunications.co.uk/Bluetower
http://www.qiiq.com/products/productsGoldenGatePR
http://www.telular.com/products/product_index.asp
http://www.mobilecomms-technology.com/contractors
(sorry - I did not have the time to "a href" beautify the above)
Please visit the VoIPsec archives, before assuming that any one article could cover it all. There you could find links and comments from some of the most pertinent contributors to this subject.
Unlike the more popular x86 platforms, this has never been the object of upgrades ;( I would love to hear about what new stuff could be done, to revive my basement-forgotten Zaurusl. Last QT-based upgrade I had done totally killed it, in regards to functionality ...
Hmmm ... as much as I am NOT a Microsoft backer, I can only say two things, based on the location of my US property:
- Microsoft's Earth-MSN view is more detailed (their max zoom is better than Google's), at least as far as my property is concerned
- Microsoft's Earth-MSN managed to capture the hot tub I had installed in my backyard, just a few months back, which makes them "somehow_up_to_date" (whatever that means in terms of accurate mapping), while the same thing is hardly identifiable via Google maps (maybe because of issue above)
I am not sure how Apple will approach this, with its own MacOSX just recently announced to be moving to Intel, when - in fact - running a BSD flavor under the hood?!? What would keep Linux from following that? ... probably much easier than reverse engineering (then improving) on the SMB stuff, anyway ...
There should be absolutely no discussion of ICMP without considering the fundamental research carried out by Orfin Arkin. His work should be read by anyone willing to discuss the issue beyond the /. gossiping ...
P.S. ... what the heck is going on with the HTML formatted postings?!?
I remember the "successful" deployment of the OSI model, after another, similar directive from the government, in the '80s ...
The title says it all - so for those of us (unlucky enouch) to be running Linux, the VMWare Windows XP install does not seem to support the faster method of DirectX ... that much for it ...
Why not?!? Considering recent experience (G.W.), I think that the founding fathers are, in fact, becoming "former", as The_One_Who_Came_Around_The_Second_Time (i.e. "born again") is becoming the new Founding Father ...
As long as Rush Limbaugh hasn't succeeded in brain-washing all the Americans, some of them may still have a chance to find such tidbits here
As of last night my Panther became a Tiger ;) No updates posted for this one - would that mean Tiger is completely safe, or that Apple didn't get to it, yet?!?
Same issues with CUPS on MacOSX: after having used it, and - when gotten it to work - prayed every time I had a print job, to actually see it through, on all my Linux boxes, I got myself an iBook (my first Mac ever - OSX 10.3.x), to find it installed there, also. Ever since day one, after tweaks of all sorts, I still have instances when only the first page prints, or cups just leaves behind all junk files in its log directory, etc. Oh, well - just my $0.02.
In the future? Probably because - if I would be AOL and would like to charge you for MY services - I would prioritize traffic for my application (of course - making sure it is identifiable somehow, either by TCP/UDP port, or using a specialized field in the header or payload), and let you decide whether Skype would still compare. Even worse, I would block or put Skype in low priority queue, on the network I have contol over, to make sure you are not happy with it, and start paying me the big bucks.
I did not need to click on anything to have the spammers generate traffic - all I had to do was to setup a honeypot, then advertise an email address "having used" the honeypot through Newsgroups (actually my research related to much more than that, but this is a /. simplification), then identify test messages, to let them through and let spammers believe that my honeypot is in fact an open proxy - and in 11 hrs I got a few GB of spam running to my "open proxy", allowing me to study it. I have never let it out of my box, but it definitely gave the spammers adrenaline enough to keep them around for longer ... and they are still pounding my box, one year after the end of the project, and from allowing their test messages go through, and half a year since the domain whom the box belonged to, expired. Is anybody still wondering about spammers longevity?!?
Just FYI: got the Powerpad 160 first time for a trip to Europe, from the US, five years ago, with a Toshiba 8000 (running MDK, for the Linux fanatics here), and was able to handle movies and my own tweaking stuff throughout a flight from Chicago to Amsterdam (9 hrs), and another leg of 1.5 hrs to London (including change of airplanes) with the original battery on the Toshiba still reporting 100% juice. The best $350 investment in that trip ... of course, before reaching the Red Light District ;)
Last year I had to fly to Eastern Europe, in another two leg trip, and I was "fully covered" with a Powerpad 120, this time for my iBook ...
Both the Powerpad 160 and 120 are still re-charghing fine, and being in one of my briefcases, "just in case", when I travel with either the iBook or a Toshiba 8200 (the devices are not intechangeable :( )
How? - simply: it's people like myself, who have identified them as having a proper business model (Mandrake Club subscriptions + a well established support community + very good paid support + products which fit every requirement I had, in time, and within costs (e.g. latest being the 64-bit CPU support among the first distros), who have then - provided the finacial support they needed (as a result of their services, of course)
... and when the US economy got derailed but its leadership, a small migration of my money, from US stocks, into MDKFF stock, came to prove to me, in time, that they also knew and know HOW to make money ;)
Are people really so childish to believe that there is no relationship between big software manufacturers, and the big profit-producing cert authorities? Try to use even a mid-tier (I am not even getting to the free ones) authority, like Thawte, and let me know if you will ever get the Jinitiator client in Oracle 9i working, without manually redistibuting a new cert file to all clients ... what you end up doing is paying Verisign a few more thousands, for all the servers, to avoid paying the admins tens of thousands, to customize clients, distributions and updates ...
I have been "blessed", a few years back, with such a position: Fortune 500 company - ubergeek & final decision maker (managing a budget of over 4 mil). Road to success? - to the overall knowledge (already there, probably), add the followings:
... and as far as talking to the higher echelons: if they trusted you with this, you probably already have an idea how to manage the executive level above you. /.!!!
- finance + budgeting skills (I am talking learning the ins and outs of asset management, accounting, depreciation, etc.)
- sharpen the presentation and reporting skills (CEOs and CFOs want to see nice colors on 3D pie-charts or 3D bars, on high level reports/memorandums/etc.)
- learn how to measure/quantify your group's work; come up with metrics fundamental to their responsibilities, related to them being able to carry out their jobs, and good enough for you to believe in those (otherwise how could you sell them to your ex-peers?!?) - and learn how to draw key performance measures out of those, for ongoing reports/adjustments, and future end-of-year appraisals
- related to the above: assign doable goals, right from the beginning - set expectations, and document progress
- lead by example, not as a dictator (people trust those who - even if more rarely than before - get their hands "dirty", once in a while)
- come up with some programs for training and cross-training your people
- reward, where reward is due, and be fair, but firm, when things go wrong
- last (but not least): set aside for yourself one or two projects, all the time, to keep yourself "on your toes", in "sync" with the technology
Good luck - and do NOT stop reading
by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 21, @01:02PM (#11433701) Buying decisions are made by suits, though. Most CIO's are former CFO's working towards becoming COO's. They don't give two shits about what "hackers" like.
./-ters) ARE becoming "those" CIOs ... maybe even the CEOs. We may or may not be wearing suits, but that becomes less and less relevant. As professionals, we grew up with Linux [mentality], and Linux grew up where it is today - all we had to do was follow our beliefs, and materialize them all the way up to the top. And now we have a saying about how and what gets to be done, because our "why" does not come from the golf course, anymore. And this is part of why IBM, Cisco, Dell, HP gets to listen and - more so - able to "see in action" and trust their businesses with Linux-like solutions ...
Wrong! That was the Stone Age. Now WE (i.e.
From work:
- on my PC: Skype client and Skypeout account and an adapter-phone, USB-based . This way I talk to friends or clients over Skype (free), if they have it installed, or over POTS, if they do not have Skype
From home:
- setup similar to the above, for my little office, in addition to which - for the reast of the house - I use Net2phone
I have commented on a "somehow similar" thread just recently, when someone was asking about migration from Windows to MacOSX, and I replied that I have - in fact - migrated from Linux to MacOSX. And here is why: I am not as much of a *nix geek, as a network person, and I NEED all my tools, and I do NOT need to fool around with systems, to make them work. Having said that - after years of carrying around various versions of Linux, installed on various versions of Toshiba and IBM laptops, with all sorts of sniffers and security tools, I have decided to give one day a try to an iBook, with OSX 10.3.5 (where I am writing this email from).
... I have installed fink, the development tools from Apple, and I started porting my tools from Linux, and even installing some that never worked before properly (were "crippled") ... after six months of using the iBook, and with ABSOLUTELY NO problems in working with anything, I left Linux where it is best fit: on my servers. And I have never looked back at my i386 laptops, since - I actually turned around just recently, to start playing with *BSD on those ... but that is another issue.
...
So
Papi
Hmmm - I bought one of Fry's brand new $99 PCs, at their grand opening in Chicago, loaded with Lindows ... I know that was a one time deal, but - hey! - it was possible, and other deals should come, then ...