Nah, I still have my old trusty P200 running just fine, and it will run for another 2-3 years. this box is about 4 years old, and cost me ~ USD 1000 then. Heres my response to the Mac bit though: My budget is USD 1000. If you have a sytem that fits in that budget, I'll consider it, otherwise I can't afford it. Macs simply don't fit into that budget, while PCs do. End of story.
I have been using Linux as my desktop for four years, used to support Win 9x/NT for my friends/office, nowdays I don't touch the stuff as far as possible. Last thing I did was get samba working with LDAP, now that its running, I am not supporting windows any longer. (Oh, and often enough I use FreeBSD for my desktop too, and I mostly stay in console mode). Lack of X is a benefit on both Linux and FreeBSD.
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Its the other guy. Mostly, the virus will not forge the return-path header, but some variants do that too. As mentioned elsewhere, the only solution is to contact the ISP concerned. You will be clean.
There is a postgresql port, that ships with cygwin. It is as simple as clicking setup.exe, downloading the postgresql binary and starting it. The big problem is that postgreSQL doesn't run properly on NT as a service by default, you need something like firedaemon to start it. The PgAccess GUI is available on windows as well, but it lacks a few features that psql supports. Pg doesn't run on Win 9x at all, AFAIK.
Nah, just use a lighter WM like Windowmaker, or fluxbox, or..... You can use whatever you like, not just the latest KDE or whatever. (Oh, and don't bother to upgrade your hardware, I am writing this on a Celeron 266MHz, 64 megs of RAM, and this is quite fast with KDE, Mozilla and Netscape running.).
Ask your ISP to change their root servers. Popularize alternate roots. (I'm getting involved in one of these attempts, lets see what comes of it. Push alternate roots, put your money into those roots, rather than into ICANNs.
Hmmm, I have more than one email address, each for different mailing lists. If I authenticate through your server, it becomes worthless for me, since the from is overwritten. Plus, you are giving away the username, which is half the information needed to do a bruteforce attack. What you need to do is put the authenticated header in your SMTPd logs, but not in the mail. Maybe just a X-authenticated-from: header which allows for easy checking of spam by the admins.
Not a good thing to force the from. there is a legitimate need to allow multiple from addresses, even if you authenticate as any user.
Ummm, I am an Admin for a small ISP in India. We block spam rather aggressively. Filter out code read, nimda and the like, run ingress and egress filtering on our routers. The block is 203.109.64.0/19 and the abuse address is abuse@worldgatein.com
It works (I handle it) and I *have* LARTed a user off our network when he spammed. Go ahead and complain, and I'll be glad to kick a few more spammers off. You keep your networks clean, I'll keep mine. Oh, and most of my spam comes from the US, so I guess the world should block the US:).
Hmmm, since I am trying to get a stable 2.4.x kernel for my proxy, heres my problem (RH 7.1 fully patched):
Squid will start consuming CPU like crazy. This does not happen on RH 6.2.
The box is under heavy load
$netstat -ant|grep ESTAB
1019
is common enough. The box starts off normally, and then goes into 100% CPU usage (in system as reported by vmstat. Rarely will a user process get 1% of CPU [~ every 2 min]).
Could you test your box under very heavy disk IO?
The system in question is an IBM netfinity 5000, 1GB RAM 1x4.5 + 3x9GB disks, with 2x9+1x4.5 being dedicated to cache. Squid is a transparent proxy.
If you could figure this out and release a newer kernel, I would be grateful.
Aaah, but the text configurationfiles are exactly what make Apache so simple to administer.
And please, learn to read the manuals. Use
kill -USR1 `pidof apache` to restart Apache.
Even NT has that stuff, I believe (not kill, but something similar).
And for a enterprise, homogenity should not matter somuch. Keep the servers unix, desktop windows. Samba is great for filesharing and authentication. Dump your userdata into Ldap and mod_ldap with apache will rock for you.
Perl is available by default, and almost veerything can be scripted, leaving the admin free to look after reading slashdot:).
Well, seems like MS is doing far more lobbying here than Linux (and probably far more bribing).
The government isn't in favour of Linux yet, but one state (Goa) is pushing Linux. They have old secondhand donated Pcs (486/P100s, with low RAM) in schools.
Unless you consider the world outside the US, where slow hardware is much more common. Oh, and far more expensive. I prefer rather restrictive limits on my applications.
And yes, I bitch about Perl being slow. mod_perl helps my requirements a lot, but it barely scrapes in. Sorry, your JVM hits my runtime memory limits.
This isn't a bitch about Java, its just that I hate the way Java is implemented.
I prefer gcc --ansi and Posix.
Much better for me. C does its job, produces readable code which if properly written can be easily maintained. Object oriented programming is pretty limited, IMHO.
On the other hand, designing in an object oriented fashion is a Good Thing. Programming that way is not. It might be good for a project where you have the entire design in your head, but it is far easier to slurp up the design from good C doe than good Java/C++ code.
The code can be the documentation with C, but not with OOP.
The idea of Java is a good thing, the implementation sucks. I may change my ideas later, when I find a JVM that runs on a command line, is blazingly fast on my slow machine (P 200 MMX, 64M RAM), which also runs a lot more things.
I scream about bloatware from anywhere, including X and Windows.
Happily, I can get rid of those two, but Java just does not match my requirements in performance yet.
Read the source, Luke simply doesn't work with OOP.
Ok , a rather confused rant, but hopefully, my point came through.
"You know, I'm feeling very very depressed. Brain the size of a universe and all that I get to do is talk to those stupid researchers who think I am a child."
"I don't think they even like talking to me"
See http://www.gipiproject.org for an initiative by netizens on this topic.
I had proposed a Internet Legal Task Force (ILTF)in a mailing list discussion. GIPI could very well be the solution for this.
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Thats what Linux wants *you* to think. Take the red pill
Content != Content representation. HTML is for content markup, but shuld not be used for exact representation (thats bad design).
Transmit time is only a few seconds/minutes :) (including patching the code). :)
The problem is that the source takes 9 months to compile
No. Here. Patch.
Thats two or three new viruses out there attacking smb shares. Discussion on incidents@securityfocus.com
SCP. WinSCP for the pretty windows GUI.
FTP as a protocol is horrible for security.
Hmmm, the limit is the speed of light in absolute vacuum.
We already know FTL motion exists in media (Cerenkov effect). Google for that.
ORDB
com0-9 are device files (the stuff that lies under /dev on unixy systems).
Nah, I still have my old trusty P200 running just fine, and it will run for another 2-3 years. this box is about 4 years old, and cost me ~ USD 1000 then.
Heres my response to the Mac bit though:
My budget is USD 1000. If you have a sytem that fits in that budget, I'll consider it, otherwise I can't afford it.
Macs simply don't fit into that budget, while PCs do. End of story.
I have been using Linux as my desktop for four years, used to support Win 9x/NT for my friends/office, nowdays I don't touch the stuff as far as possible. Last thing I did was get samba working with LDAP, now that its running, I am not supporting windows any longer.
(Oh, and often enough I use FreeBSD for my desktop too, and I mostly stay in console mode). Lack of X is a benefit on both Linux and FreeBSD.
Its the other guy. Mostly, the virus will not forge the return-path header, but some variants do that too. As mentioned elsewhere, the only solution is to contact the ISP concerned.
You will be clean.
Just another postmaster.
Dude, its a Tolkien ring.
There is a postgresql port, that ships with cygwin.
It is as simple as clicking setup.exe, downloading the postgresql binary and starting it.
The big problem is that postgreSQL doesn't run properly on NT as a service by default, you need something like firedaemon to start it.
The PgAccess GUI is available on windows as well, but it lacks a few features that psql supports.
Pg doesn't run on Win 9x at all, AFAIK.
Nah, just use a lighter WM like Windowmaker, or fluxbox, or.....
You can use whatever you like, not just the latest KDE or whatever.
(Oh, and don't bother to upgrade your hardware, I am writing this on a Celeron 266MHz, 64 megs of RAM, and this is quite fast with KDE, Mozilla and Netscape running.).
Ask your ISP to change their root servers. Popularize alternate roots. (I'm getting involved in one of these attempts, lets see what comes of it. Push alternate roots, put your money into those roots, rather than into ICANNs.
http://www.opennic.org is another good place.
Hmmm, I have more than one email address, each for different mailing lists. If I authenticate through your server, it becomes worthless for me, since the from is overwritten.
Plus, you are giving away the username, which is half the information needed to do a bruteforce attack.
What you need to do is put the authenticated header in your SMTPd logs, but not in the mail.
Maybe just a X-authenticated-from: header which allows for easy checking of spam by the admins.
Not a good thing to force the from. there is a legitimate need to allow multiple from addresses, even if you authenticate as any user.
Ummm, I am an Admin for a small ISP in India. We block spam rather aggressively. Filter out code read, nimda and the like, run ingress and egress filtering on our routers. The block is 203.109.64.0/19 and the abuse address is abuse@worldgatein.com
:).
It works (I handle it) and I *have* LARTed a user off our network when he spammed. Go ahead and complain, and I'll be glad to kick a few more spammers off. You keep your networks clean, I'll keep mine. Oh, and most of my spam comes from the US, so I guess the world should block the US
Regards
dodobh
SMTP AUTH will do fine.
:)
And simply disallow plaintext auth methods, and no SSL and that kicks Outlook Express and Outlook off the net too. Major riddance for spam
Hmmm, since I am trying to get a stable 2.4.x kernel for my proxy, heres my problem (RH 7.1 fully patched):
Squid will start consuming CPU like crazy. This does not happen on RH 6.2.
The box is under heavy load
$netstat -ant|grep ESTAB
1019
is common enough. The box starts off normally, and then goes into 100% CPU usage (in system as reported by vmstat. Rarely will a user process get 1% of CPU [~ every 2 min]).
Could you test your box under very heavy disk IO?
The system in question is an IBM netfinity 5000, 1GB RAM 1x4.5 + 3x9GB disks, with 2x9+1x4.5 being dedicated to cache. Squid is a transparent proxy.
If you could figure this out and release a newer kernel, I would be grateful.
TIA.
Aaah, but the text configurationfiles are exactly what make Apache so simple to administer.
:).
And please, learn to read the manuals. Use
kill -USR1 `pidof apache` to restart Apache.
Even NT has that stuff, I believe (not kill, but something similar).
And for a enterprise, homogenity should not matter somuch. Keep the servers unix, desktop windows. Samba is great for filesharing and authentication. Dump your userdata into Ldap and mod_ldap with apache will rock for you.
Perl is available by default, and almost veerything can be scripted, leaving the admin free to look after reading slashdot
Well, seems like MS is doing far more lobbying here than Linux (and probably far more bribing).
The government isn't in favour of Linux yet, but one state (Goa) is pushing Linux. They have old secondhand donated Pcs (486/P100s, with low RAM) in schools.
Sadly, this seems like it will be an exception.
Unless you consider the world outside the US, where slow hardware is much more common. Oh, and far more expensive. I prefer rather restrictive limits on my applications.
And yes, I bitch about Perl being slow. mod_perl helps my requirements a lot, but it barely scrapes in. Sorry, your JVM hits my runtime memory limits.
This isn't a bitch about Java, its just that I hate the way Java is implemented.
I prefer gcc --ansi and Posix.
Much better for me. C does its job, produces readable code which if properly written can be easily maintained. Object oriented programming is pretty limited, IMHO.
On the other hand, designing in an object oriented fashion is a Good Thing. Programming that way is not. It might be good for a project where you have the entire design in your head, but it is far easier to slurp up the design from good C doe than good Java/C++ code.
The code can be the documentation with C, but not with OOP.
The idea of Java is a good thing, the implementation sucks. I may change my ideas later, when I find a JVM that runs on a command line, is blazingly fast on my slow machine (P 200 MMX, 64M RAM), which also runs a lot more things.
I scream about bloatware from anywhere, including X and Windows.
Happily, I can get rid of those two, but Java just does not match my requirements in performance yet.
Read the source, Luke simply doesn't work with OOP.
Ok , a rather confused rant, but hopefully, my point came through.
"You know, I'm feeling very very depressed. Brain the size of a universe and all that I get to do is talk to those stupid researchers who think I am a child."
"I don't think they even like talking to me"
See http://www.gipiproject.org for an initiative by netizens on this topic.
I had proposed a Internet Legal Task Force (ILTF)in a mailing list discussion. GIPI could very well be the solution for this.