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#7 on the list searching for "register", the first link related to domain registration.
And of course, it doesn't even appear on the first page of google results...
It's not even because of IRC, I wish people would make the distinction, IRC is simply the tool that is used by botnet authors to COORDINATE the attacks. What's to stop botnet authors from using a different communication method to synchronize their bots?
Why not attack the root of the problem, dumbass people leaving unsecured, easy to root machines lying around, connected to the Internet?
Well, thats still more then something like counterstrike or equiv can offer. Pay $40 for the game, play for hundreds of hours, and get nothing back in return except for a few broken mice, carpal tunnel, blood shot eyes, etc.
I work at a small home improvement chain, and that's what we use to clock in. it seems to work pretty well from an employee standpoint, it's certainly tons better than other, non-digital timeclocks I've seen.
"That could mean that Vonage is loosing at least some ground in its battle against government VOIP regulations."
Looks like the only people losing ground are their customers.
On the flipside, I don't understand how governments can possibly expect to tax such things, yahoo messenger can do voice chat, will we see taxes on that? What about the millions of other VoIP programs out there? Eventually the government will realize there are some things that you just can't regulate.
From your description, i.e. "Once per second", that is quite beyond monitoring, and that is an EXCESSIVE use of bandwidth and resources.
Now, if you charge your customers based on gigs transferred, it seems like this would fill up their quota for the month quite quickly. What are your customers going to think when they get a large overcharge bill for the bandwidth? They signed up for the service after all.
If you aren't hosting for money, then you probably aren't able to profit from this monitoring companies actions in the same way, so I suggest you blackhole their ip's. Downloading files from your server once per second goes way beyong monitoring, and into the realms of denial of service(It crashed your server you say).
What I would do? Make a change to the aup for your service stating that customers that use monitoring services that abuse bandwidth will have their accounts revoked, or be charge for the excess bandwidth used. There's no reason in the world why these people need to hit your servers as often as they are.
If you are unable to do business with your servers being hammered, then I suggest blackholing the monitoring service's IP's. It's only sensible.
Is there anything I can do to minimise the chances that someone succeeds with such an attack? (settings changes, etc?)
Disable file sharing:)
Actually, you could probaly set windows to ignore requests from anything other than 192.168.* I imagine, though I'm better versed in *nix networking for that sort of thing.
I personally have found a couple of exploits in my linksys router. I talked to linksys about it, after about an hour with tech support they finally said "We don't have a fix for it, I've never heard about it, but I'll forward this to our developers.
Which was the last I heard about it.
Basically, the gist of the problem was that outsiders on the internet were able to access SMB shares through the router on the internal network even though the ports were not forwarded. Even null routing those ports didn't work.
So, no, consumer NAT devices aren't really secure, but they are still an extra layer between you and "The world", which is nice if you run windows(I didn't need to worry about Blaster, or it's variants thanks to the linksys).
...and when you are PAYING to use apache, you have every right to complain about such things. However, last I checked, apache is free software, so get over it.
My vision is pretty good, though it has worsened a bit in the last couple years(I assume from staring at computer displays so much), but I use a 19" monitor, and I run 1600x1200 resolution. Before I tweaked anything, almost all websites were impossible to read. I upped the dpi of my fonts, and it made all the difference.
Now, pretty much all sites are clearly readable. In fact, I think the fonts are a little larger now with the larger dpi settings than they were before when I used 1024x768.
The only thing that bothers me, is sites that attempt to be "trendy", and lock the font sizes to 10(On Helvetica, without fail of course). As long as the fonts on your site are scalable, I don't really think that you need to make any adjustments. Just make it clearly laid out, with a cohesive style. Those with disability issues will(should) have their computers adjusted accordingly.
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So for home use - Mandrake has always been the sweet spot - excellent NTFS support out of the box as well just generally very user friendly interface... not the heavyweight server backend that other distros are... My 2 cents...
Care to enlighten me on what you mean by "excellent NTFS support"? As in, what sets Mandrake apart from all the other distro's NTFS support?
Seeing as how, you either have it enabled in the kernel, or you don't, it's not like one distro can have _better_ support for it than another... or is there something I'm not getting?
From what I can tell, a lot of semi-audio professionals like usb sound cards because there isn't quite the interference with them, that one gets from a sound card sitting inside your case.
The only real downside(other than price), is that they use more cpu than traditional PCI soundcards. However, not enough to make a difference these days.:-)
And of course, I want the extigy because it looks so neat. Too bad it's still $150 at Compusa, I'm waiting for it to hit $75 or so and then I plan to pick one up. Since I use a real amplifier and speakers connected to my computer(the only way to go), it will be nice to drop the 1/8" -> RCA adapter coming out of the soundcard.
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I found your post amusing up until the point that I realized I was eating Fritos AND Drinking a Mountain Dew...
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Care to elaborate?
#7 on the list searching for "register", the first link related to domain registration.
And of course, it doesn't even appear on the first page of google results...
It's not even because of IRC, I wish people would make the distinction, IRC is simply the tool that is used by botnet authors to COORDINATE the attacks. What's to stop botnet authors from using a different communication method to synchronize their bots?
Why not attack the root of the problem, dumbass people leaving unsecured, easy to root machines lying around, connected to the Internet?
I'm not so sure it's an SDK.
It's pretty complete, and weighs in at 100 megs unpacked, for this to be _not_ the source, I'd have to say it's a pretty damn good hoax.
There is also the complete source to worldcraft in there.
Most interesting thing though, is the presence of a linux/, *gets his hopes up*
I'm offline a lot of the time so I'll just fire up notepad and play single player...
Well, pretty much any cpu you buy is going to be marked up pretty heavily.
It costs Intel or Amd the same whether they are making a 1ghz or a 3, the differences in prices are just their way of recouping development costs.
And of course, specialty cpus are marked up anymore, for example Athlon MP's.
Well, thats still more then something like counterstrike or equiv can offer. Pay $40 for the game, play for hundreds of hours, and get nothing back in return except for a few broken mice, carpal tunnel, blood shot eyes, etc.
And what, is the negatiev affects?
I work at a small home improvement chain, and that's what we use to clock in. it seems to work pretty well from an employee standpoint, it's certainly tons better than other, non-digital timeclocks I've seen.
"That could mean that Vonage is loosing at least some ground in its battle against government VOIP regulations."
Looks like the only people losing ground are their customers.On the flipside, I don't understand how governments can possibly expect to tax such things, yahoo messenger can do voice chat, will we see taxes on that? What about the millions of other VoIP programs out there? Eventually the government will realize there are some things that you just can't regulate.
Or he patched it when the vulnerability was originally released, OR he is behind NAT, or any other way the worm wouldn't have a clear shot at 135.
:)
Zone Alarm is not the be all and end all of worm prevention
Let the masses have their Kazaa.
Amen.
The only reason I don't want the RIAA shutting down P2P is because then the masses will discover the real methods.
From your description, i.e. "Once per second", that is quite beyond monitoring, and that is an EXCESSIVE use of bandwidth and resources.
Now, if you charge your customers based on gigs transferred, it seems like this would fill up their quota for the month quite quickly. What are your customers going to think when they get a large overcharge bill for the bandwidth? They signed up for the service after all.
If you aren't hosting for money, then you probably aren't able to profit from this monitoring companies actions in the same way, so I suggest you blackhole their ip's. Downloading files from your server once per second goes way beyong monitoring, and into the realms of denial of service(It crashed your server you say).
What I would do? Make a change to the aup for your service stating that customers that use monitoring services that abuse bandwidth will have their accounts revoked, or be charge for the excess bandwidth used. There's no reason in the world why these people need to hit your servers as often as they are.
If you are unable to do business with your servers being hammered, then I suggest blackholing the monitoring service's IP's. It's only sensible.
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My trusty password "god" triumphs again!
Would it be possible for mods to PAY ATTENTION?
Jesus christ, there is literally more text from karma whores repeating the fucking article, than there are meaningful comments.
Ok, often sites linked to on slashdot get overloaded. GET THE FUCK OVER IT
Do we reallyneed to mod up every single fucking re-post of the articles?
Is there anything I can do to minimise the chances that someone succeeds with such an attack? (settings changes, etc?)
Disable file sharing :)
Actually, you could probaly set windows to ignore requests from anything other than 192.168.* I imagine, though I'm better versed in *nix networking for that sort of thing.
I personally have found a couple of exploits in my linksys router. I talked to linksys about it, after about an hour with tech support they finally said "We don't have a fix for it, I've never heard about it, but I'll forward this to our developers.
Which was the last I heard about it.
Basically, the gist of the problem was that outsiders on the internet were able to access SMB shares through the router on the internal network even though the ports were not forwarded. Even null routing those ports didn't work.
So, no, consumer NAT devices aren't really secure, but they are still an extra layer between you and "The world", which is nice if you run windows(I didn't need to worry about Blaster, or it's variants thanks to the linksys).
Yes, you can.
However, FAT32 is limited to something like 20gigs, so you cannot format a partition larger than that as FAT, you must use NTFS.
A limitation of the filesystem, rather than of windows.
...and when you are PAYING to use apache, you have every right to complain about such things. However, last I checked, apache is free software, so get over it.
My vision is pretty good, though it has worsened a bit in the last couple years(I assume from staring at computer displays so much), but I use a 19" monitor, and I run 1600x1200 resolution. Before I tweaked anything, almost all websites were impossible to read. I upped the dpi of my fonts, and it made all the difference.
Now, pretty much all sites are clearly readable. In fact, I think the fonts are a little larger now with the larger dpi settings than they were before when I used 1024x768.
The only thing that bothers me, is sites that attempt to be "trendy", and lock the font sizes to 10(On Helvetica, without fail of course). As long as the fonts on your site are scalable, I don't really think that you need to make any adjustments. Just make it clearly laid out, with a cohesive style. Those with disability issues will(should) have their computers adjusted accordingly.
So for home use - Mandrake has always been the sweet spot - excellent NTFS support out of the box as well just generally very user friendly interface... not the heavyweight server backend that other distros are... My 2 cents...
Care to enlighten me on what you mean by "excellent NTFS support"? As in, what sets Mandrake apart from all the other distro's NTFS support?
Seeing as how, you either have it enabled in the kernel, or you don't, it's not like one distro can have _better_ support for it than another... or is there something I'm not getting?
From what I can tell, a lot of semi-audio professionals like usb sound cards because there isn't quite the interference with them, that one gets from a sound card sitting inside your case.
:-)
The only real downside(other than price), is that they use more cpu than traditional PCI soundcards. However, not enough to make a difference these days.
And of course, I want the extigy because it looks so neat. Too bad it's still $150 at Compusa, I'm waiting for it to hit $75 or so and then I plan to pick one up. Since I use a real amplifier and speakers connected to my computer(the only way to go), it will be nice to drop the 1/8" -> RCA adapter coming out of the soundcard.
Yes, because heaven forbid someone try to push the limits and advance technology.
Cars cost soooo much money! Why not ride horses?
You'd think that a nerd-centered site like slashdot wouldn't have so many of these attitudes...
And I am on a very reliable 600 up 400 down ADSL connection.
:-)
Apparently not