There is no law asking you to follow RFC. Killing the "required" mailbox is like putting your firewall in stealh mode. It don't follows the convention but it only harms the bad people. The mail service is made in a way that helps spammer. It's severly broken IMHO.
Apple II is a 8 bits computer with barely enough ram to run a BASIC interpreter. OTOH, Doom needed AT LEAST a 386-33 with at least 4Mo RAM and a VGA card. A better setup was a 486-66 with 8Mo RAM.
And Doom was developed on a NExT workstation. Yes, NExT was from the same guy as the Apple II. But there is a HUGE difference between a NExT workstation and an Apple II....
For a long time, I had no firewall. Now I use ZoneAlarm. There is a really large number of thing I don't understand about firewall and while the article was an interresting reading, there is many thing I don't understand. Can somebody give me a little info about internet security?
Leak -------------------- As I understand it, a leak occur when a firewall don't block a connection that should be blocked. How can this append? This sound like a very basic fonctionnality of a firewall and a firewall failing this sound totally broken to me. Is it more complex than that? How can a firewall effectively block some connection and not other that should be blocked?
Browser test -------------------- To do cookies check and referrer check, the firewalls need to analyse the contents of the packets and not only their source, port and destination to filter them. Is this really something one should expect from a firewall?
Port scan -------------------- How can a firewall fail to stealth a specific port? Some ports are harder to stealth than others? To this day, I was thinking of ports like arbitrary numbers conveniently standardized in their usage.
I know a couple of cybercafes that are ISP at the same time.
I know one who do web-hosting, PC repair, furniture selling, english/french/spanish translation, web-page and business card conception, typing job, ect.
One I kwow has pool tables and become a bar with a DJ at night. They also have shows and movies and exhibitions.
The cybercafe is only one of their activities. Diversification let them survive.
Surely, it can't be the huge market out there for Yet Another Operating System.
How many DIFFERENT operating systems is out there?
I count all these unix-like as only one because they are not so different and inovative from each other.
So there are (in no particular order):
-Windows -UNIX and UNIX-like (Linux, BSD, ect) -OSX (UNIX-like but don't use X)
In the somewhat-usable-for-the-desktop market, i think that's all. There is many other specialised OS but SkyOS want to be a desktop OS. Only three...
And don't count these os that are no longer maintained or don't have a significative market share: -Amiga -BeOS -OS/2 -put your favorite unknown desktop os here
1- Enforce the validity of the From: field. I don't have a clear idea of how to achive this but it is clear that the main default of the mail protocols is that the From: field can be so easily spoofed.
Any OS maybe secure but are often not secure by default (ala OpenBSD). The most popular distro (RedHat, Suse, Mandrake, ect) want to be user friendly but there is always a tradeoff between security and usability.
It's up to the sysadmin to make sure his server is secure. If his Windows or Linux or BSD server is defaced he can't blame anyone but himself because he is the one who made the choice to use Windows or Linux or BSD and he is the one who made the configuration.
Some links to learn how to increase the security on your linux box:
Will the future of space exploration be dominated by names other than Russia and the USA?"
In a word: yes.
We see more and more countries involved in space exploration. USA and Russia are not the only players anymore.
Russia is out of money so they can't have ambitious project.
USA are founding the NASA less and less. This is a pity. Maybe this will change in the future. If it happen, USA will make a comeback in space exploration
Now many countries want to do space exploration and are willing to trow money in it. This is a good thing because this will speed up the space exploration race. But USA will now have competition not only from russia but from many country.
What will be real great is when there will be private corporation involved in space exploration. Anyone could think of a business model involving space exploration?
Humankind, by the power of brain, disrupt the natural equilibrium of mother earth. The system want to reach its equilibrium back. Expect more and more destruction by natural disaster if people don't learn the law of nature.
The better implementation of Win32 is Microsoft Windows. It permits any shrink-wrapped software bought at BestBuy to be run.
Again, Microsoft Office fully support all the heavily-used Microsoft file formats.
Finally, the Microsoft Windows user-interfaces look enough like Microsoft application interfaces so retraining costs is minimized.
In short: Why people won't consider running Linux more in their enterprises? Because there is Windows for the desktop and the what Linux is doing for the desktop is simply trying to clone (badly) popular OS.
Now you have a great working OS. What can you do with it? If you only want to clone what Microsoft do, you are fighting in his own arena. You CAN'T win. The last things Linux and the open source community need is clone of existing softwares. What the open source community need is innovative softwares. A new niche. Something that can't be replaced by proprietary code. Then you got a chance.
1- Start your own company 2- Take all the Good Decisions 3- Profit!!!!
Seriously, as an employee, you may have to accept many of your employer's decisions that look bad to you. If you think you can do better, you don't have to sell your soul to PHB.
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"The camel has a single hump; The dromedary two; Or else the other way around. I'm never sure. Are you? -- Ogden Nash"
Suppose I have a stereo. Then someone stole it to me. When the thief get caugh, it's too late because he sold my stereo to you. So I am screwed and I can't get my stereo back?
This FAQ explains how to access most of the internet using only a standard email client.
The above document explain how to access:
FTP ARCHIE (deprecated) FTPSEARCH (deprecated) GOPHER (deprecated) VERONICA (deprecated) JUGHEAD (deprecated) USENET WWW WWW SEARCH (using standard search engine like altavista, yahoo or google) FINGER WHOIS [...]
All these protocols can be accessed via email, according to the FAQ. The FAQ has been around for a long time. This explains why many (most) involved protocols are now deprecated. I used this faq in the early '90 and I don't know how it works now. At the time, it was great. The last update is 2002/04/16.
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There is no law asking you to follow RFC. Killing the "required" mailbox is like putting your firewall in stealh mode. It don't follows the convention but it only harms the bad people. The mail service is made in a way that helps spammer. It's severly broken IMHO.
Apple II is a 8 bits computer with barely enough ram to run a BASIC interpreter. OTOH, Doom needed AT LEAST a 386-33 with at least 4Mo RAM and a VGA card. A better setup was a 486-66 with 8Mo RAM.
And Doom was developed on a NExT workstation. Yes, NExT was from the same guy as the Apple II. But there is a HUGE difference between a NExT workstation and an Apple II....
WINE isn't an alternative to VMWare.
Wine can run win32 software on linux.
VMWare can run windows or linux and other on windows or linux.
Two completely different aproach to two different problems.
No. It's potential energy converted in kinetic energy. Magnetism is a bit like gravity.
For a long time, I had no firewall. Now I use ZoneAlarm. There is a really large number of thing I don't understand about firewall and while the article was an interresting reading, there is many thing I don't understand. Can somebody give me a little info about internet security?
Leak
--------------------
As I understand it, a leak occur when a firewall don't block a connection that should be blocked. How can this append? This sound like a very basic fonctionnality of a firewall and a firewall failing this sound totally broken to me. Is it more complex than that? How can a firewall effectively block some connection and not other that should be blocked?
Browser test
--------------------
To do cookies check and referrer check, the firewalls need to analyse the contents of the packets and not only their source, port and destination to filter them. Is this really something one should expect from a firewall?
Port scan
--------------------
How can a firewall fail to stealth a specific port? Some ports are harder to stealth than others? To this day, I was thinking of ports like arbitrary numbers conveniently standardized in their usage.
If they wait long enough, inflation alone will bring them to their objective :P
You mean one of these things?
I got one. Pretty neat stuff. My girl says it's really orgasmic.
They are marketed under a name different than WinDildo though.
CC explained
First time i hear about it. Look like realy cool. The document I linked too is really interresting.
I know a couple of cybercafes that are ISP at the same time.
I know one who do web-hosting, PC repair, furniture selling, english/french/spanish translation, web-page and business card conception, typing job, ect.
One I kwow has pool tables and become a bar with a DJ at night. They also have shows and movies and exhibitions.
The cybercafe is only one of their activities. Diversification let them survive.
Surely, it can't be the huge market out there for Yet Another Operating System.
How many DIFFERENT operating systems is out there?
I count all these unix-like as only one because they are not so different and inovative from each other.
So there are (in no particular order):
-Windows
-UNIX and UNIX-like (Linux, BSD, ect)
-OSX (UNIX-like but don't use X)
In the somewhat-usable-for-the-desktop market, i think that's all. There is many other specialised OS but SkyOS want to be a desktop OS. Only three...
And don't count these os that are no longer maintained or don't have a significative market share:
-Amiga
-BeOS
-OS/2
-put your favorite unknown desktop os here
1- Enforce the validity of the From: field. I don't have a clear idea of how to achive this but it is clear that the main default of the mail protocols is that the From: field can be so easily spoofed.
2- Make everyone build a list of trusted domain.
3- Add a bayesian filter to clients.
But in my last job, we used a terminal running a SCO OpenServer session. I don't know wich software was used.
Grey goo
Big brother
Asteroid impact
Nuclear war
MS-Linux
homeopathy
If I buy a can of Coke and I analyse it and then I deduce the formula all by myself, am I liable?
It's up to the sysadmin to make sure his server is secure. If his Windows or Linux or BSD server is defaced he can't blame anyone but himself because he is the one who made the choice to use Windows or Linux or BSD and he is the one who made the configuration.
Some links to learn how to increase the security on your linux box:
Linux Security HOWTO
Security Quick-Start HOWTO for Linux
Security Quick-Start HOWTO for Red Hat Linux
Computers > Software > Operating Systems > Linux > Security
Will the future of space exploration be dominated by names other than Russia and the USA?"
In a word: yes.
We see more and more countries involved in space exploration. USA and Russia are not the only players anymore.
Russia is out of money so they can't have ambitious project.
USA are founding the NASA less and less. This is a pity. Maybe this will change in the future. If it happen, USA will make a comeback in space exploration
Now many countries want to do space exploration and are willing to trow money in it. This is a good thing because this will speed up the space exploration race. But USA will now have competition not only from russia but from many country.
What will be real great is when there will be private corporation involved in space exploration. Anyone could think of a business model involving space exploration?
Humankind, by the power of brain, disrupt the natural equilibrium of mother earth. The system want to reach its equilibrium back. Expect more and more destruction by natural disaster if people don't learn the law of nature.
This is the best softwares meeting your criteria:
The better implementation of Win32 is Microsoft Windows. It permits any shrink-wrapped software bought at BestBuy to be run.
Again, Microsoft Office fully support all the heavily-used Microsoft file formats.
Finally, the Microsoft Windows user-interfaces look enough like Microsoft application interfaces so retraining costs is minimized.
In short: Why people won't consider running Linux more in their enterprises? Because there is Windows for the desktop and the what Linux is doing for the desktop is simply trying to clone (badly) popular OS.
Now you have a great working OS. What can you do with it? If you only want to clone what Microsoft do, you are fighting in his own arena. You CAN'T win. The last things Linux and the open source community need is clone of existing softwares. What the open source community need is innovative softwares. A new niche. Something that can't be replaced by proprietary code. Then you got a chance.
1- Start your own company
2- Take all the Good Decisions
3- Profit!!!!
Seriously, as an employee, you may have to accept many of your employer's decisions that look bad to you. If you think you can do better, you don't have to sell your soul to PHB.
"The camel has a single hump; The dromedary two; Or else the other way around. I'm never sure. Are you? -- Ogden Nash"
If the time is continuous and if there is no single point in time, can this be the proof that the universe we live in is NOT a simulation?
1- Bible
2- Holy water
3- Garlic
4- Sacrificial knife
5- Lambs
I don't understand.
Suppose I have a stereo. Then someone stole it to me. When the thief get caugh, it's too late because he sold my stereo to you. So I am screwed and I can't get my stereo back?
This FAQ explains how to access most of the internet using only a standard email client.
The above document explain how to access:
FTP
ARCHIE (deprecated)
FTPSEARCH (deprecated)
GOPHER (deprecated)
VERONICA (deprecated)
JUGHEAD (deprecated)
USENET
WWW
WWW SEARCH (using standard search engine like altavista, yahoo or google)
FINGER
WHOIS
[...]
All these protocols can be accessed via email, according to the FAQ. The FAQ has been around for a long time. This explains why many (most) involved protocols are now deprecated. I used this faq in the early '90 and I don't know how it works now. At the time, it was great. The last update is 2002/04/16.