Privacy isn't an issue - SMTP's a plaintext protocol.
What is an issue is that I can't access my external mail server to send mail directly through it.
Situation: my laptop is with me most of the time - whether I'm with a client and plugged into their network or back at home through my ADSL connection.
I use my laptop for my mail as if I don't have access to a net connection, I've still got the cache of mail with me. If I want to send e-mail though, if I connect to anything other than my ISP's mail server on port 25 I get:
554 Please check that your outgoing mail server settings are correct. To do this go to http://www.freeserve.com/help/email/freeserveemail settings/oe5easysettings.htm. Or contact technical support for assistance.
Which means I then have to set up my mail server to run on another random port as well as 25. Luckily for me, I'm the admin of the system and can do that - a lot of people who are hosting with any other hosting provider probably won't be able to have SMTP access on another port.
Instead, they'll have to either set up a local SMTP server to deliver it or multiple SMTP profiles which they choose depending on their location.
Needless to say, I'm moving from this ISP as soon as the 12 months is up. Decent connection from them but this is a pain.
A colleague had huge problems installing the Community version - and apparently so did quite a few people out there. It trashed his partition tables, MBR or something like that.
I've got an ADSL connection right now... so by using VOIP, my phone data is going over the IP link provided by my phone line. Which is kind of strange to think about...
Analogue voice being converted to digital, then back down to analogue to be carried across my phone line, converted back into digital at the phone exchange. Carried hundreds/thousands of miles as digital data only to have the reverse happen to it...!
However mirror.ac.uk are deleting all their content as we speak I believe
According to the mirror.ac.uk announcement, they'll delete sites before the 1st August by their request.
We are, however, in the process of informing source sites of the end of contract and will, at their request, discontinue and delete mirrors prior to this date. [emphasis my own]
Right. I'll trust you on that... I don't use AVG to be honest, Avast if I have to install one. I was merely using it as an example of one of the few free virus scanners out there. Thanks for the warning anyway!:-)
We've traditionally sold Norton, but in the last couple years
Unfortunately, it isn't me who downloads these things... customers. I do exactly the same as you - it's all you can do on the user side, but try telling a member of the public that!
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Welchia perhaps? It doesn't remove spyware and was designed to remove just one worm but that's kind of what you're on about I think.
I ran into Welchia.B the other day which went after MyDoom (SCO) and downloaded 5 patches or so from MS and installed them on the system. Trouble is, that it's still a worm - nobody wants it on their system - it took me a couple hours to identify and remove it then get Windows running again.
Welchia.B was trying to run four different exploits on remote IPs - I sniffed all the traffic it was generating - trying to exploit up to a hundred IPs a second at one point. Max of 10 times to conserve bandwidth...? It has to find the other PCs first.
The patches it downloaded screwed up the XP installation badly, so a reinstall over the top brought it back. I don't want worms that try and fix other worms (get Avast or AVG etc instead).
Agreed. Only problem I forsee with a firewall on a switch is that legitimate traffic has to be filtered out from illegitimate. It'd block stuff like Sasser which opens high ports to spread but when it comes to something that compromises SMB (for example) or infects files on an SMB share then it's no barrier (except for stringent virus scanning...).
I know exactly what you mean - I gave in with my personal site just to keep up with the "important" ones... and I know right now I've got some software to upgrade across a number of servers to start with now!
Ditto... the Toyota website has some video clips (haven't watched them) but it states underneath that "Music is unavailable in accordance with copyright protection."
The kind that is already doing very well financially and wants to solidify a reputation of innovation. Similar to Microsoft's $1 billion donation to Africa.
Innovation? Hrmm... I suppose you could call blue screens that...
No operating system in use before that did them quite as often and well as Windows!
Of course it's useless when it comes to regular phonelines... probably rather useful if you're migrating or creating an internal phone system with VoIP technology.
I took have had problems getting my SB 4.1 card (uses emu10k1) running on 2.6.3. I can't say I tried particularly hard, but ALSA doesn't appear to be detecting it on boot up.
2.6.3 is running on my laptop with a VIA card inside it and the sound's perfect (listening to it now).
I hope not... most people off the street have a hard time as it is remembering "XP"...!
"Windows FX" would just confuse them even more than they currently are... most get confused between Win 2000 and 98 (thinking they're in the same series).
We're fighting ourselves on this issue. Not until this licensing problem is sorted out will big companies be able to take deploying Linux based desktop machines seriously...
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Privacy isn't an issue - SMTP's a plaintext protocol.
l settings/oe5easysettings.htm. Or contact technical support for assistance.
What is an issue is that I can't access my external mail server to send mail directly through it.
Situation: my laptop is with me most of the time - whether I'm with a client and plugged into their network or back at home through my ADSL connection.
I use my laptop for my mail as if I don't have access to a net connection, I've still got the cache of mail with me. If I want to send e-mail though, if I connect to anything other than my ISP's mail server on port 25 I get:
554 Please check that your outgoing mail server settings are correct. To do this go to http://www.freeserve.com/help/email/freeserveemai
Which means I then have to set up my mail server to run on another random port as well as 25. Luckily for me, I'm the admin of the system and can do that - a lot of people who are hosting with any other hosting provider probably won't be able to have SMTP access on another port.
Instead, they'll have to either set up a local SMTP server to deliver it or multiple SMTP profiles which they choose depending on their location.
Needless to say, I'm moving from this ISP as soon as the 12 months is up. Decent connection from them but this is a pain.
I believe the previous Community edition did (was withdrawn shortly after), but that should be resolved in the Official version.
A colleague had huge problems installing the Community version - and apparently so did quite a few people out there. It trashed his partition tables, MBR or something like that.
This one should have been beta tested hopefully!
Agreed... VIA IDE chipsets (I believe)! My laptop definitely didn't like it... moved back one release to 2.6.5 and all was well.
I've read that a "Len" has created a patch for it (IRQ management was the problem) but I haven't tried it.
I've got an ADSL connection right now... so by using VOIP, my phone data is going over the IP link provided by my phone line. Which is kind of strange to think about...
Analogue voice being converted to digital, then back down to analogue to be carried across my phone line, converted back into digital at the phone exchange. Carried hundreds/thousands of miles as digital data only to have the reverse happen to it...!
However mirror.ac.uk are deleting all their content as we speak I believe
According to the mirror.ac.uk announcement, they'll delete sites before the 1st August by their request.
We are, however, in the process of informing source sites of the end of contract and will, at their request, discontinue and delete mirrors prior to this date. [emphasis my own]
Where'd you get that bit of info from?
Right. I'll trust you on that... I don't use AVG to be honest, Avast if I have to install one. I was merely using it as an example of one of the few free virus scanners out there. Thanks for the warning anyway! :-)
We've traditionally sold Norton, but in the last couple years
Unfortunately, it isn't me who downloads these things... customers. I do exactly the same as you - it's all you can do on the user side, but try telling a member of the public that!
Welchia perhaps? It doesn't remove spyware and was designed to remove just one worm but that's kind of what you're on about I think.
I ran into Welchia.B the other day which went after MyDoom (SCO) and downloaded 5 patches or so from MS and installed them on the system. Trouble is, that it's still a worm - nobody wants it on their system - it took me a couple hours to identify and remove it then get Windows running again.
Welchia.B was trying to run four different exploits on remote IPs - I sniffed all the traffic it was generating - trying to exploit up to a hundred IPs a second at one point. Max of 10 times to conserve bandwidth...? It has to find the other PCs first.
The patches it downloaded screwed up the XP installation badly, so a reinstall over the top brought it back. I don't want worms that try and fix other worms (get Avast or AVG etc instead).
Agreed. Only problem I forsee with a firewall on a switch is that legitimate traffic has to be filtered out from illegitimate. It'd block stuff like Sasser which opens high ports to spread but when it comes to something that compromises SMB (for example) or infects files on an SMB share then it's no barrier (except for stringent virus scanning...).
Or admins realise that firewalls aren't just for the outside of the organisation. Run a firewall on the internal systems too - makes sense.
Fair enough (OP wasn't meant to be a dig!).
I just noticed your homepage URL - when I used to work in ASP (I'm out of that loop now luckily), I found 4GFR a fantastic site.
Lovely clear articles, and a brilliant writing style - I considered it one of the best sites on the net.
I'm working in PHP now but thanks for a brilliant resource.
My last blogger entry was Apr. 16, but the one before that was back in Sept. 2003
I wonder how many reader(s) you have...
Robotstext.org operate a web robots database which is fairly comprehensive - not sure how current it is though.
Yeah, and I bet somebody has put in some specific code to stop Googlebot finding those ;-)
The link in the press release http://gmail.google.com doesn't work
It does here... could be caching on your side. It links to lots of pages on www.google.com itself.
Or use distccKNOPPIX and no need to boot into the horrid, unreliable beast at all :)
If this was some other site I'd say RTFA but no... this is /.
It's only the second paragraph!
AOL won the car - a $47,000 Boxster S - as part of a court settlement against an unnamed e-mailer last year.
As suggested elsewhere, presumably AOL asked for these assets not to be liquidated.
Hehe... not trying to troll :)
I know exactly what you mean - I gave in with my personal site just to keep up with the "important" ones... and I know right now I've got some software to upgrade across a number of servers to start with now!
All fun!
Ditto... the Toyota website has some video clips (haven't watched them) but it states underneath that "Music is unavailable in accordance with copyright protection."
Typical...
The kind that is already doing very well financially and wants to solidify a reputation of innovation. Similar to Microsoft's $1 billion donation to Africa.
Innovation? Hrmm... I suppose you could call blue screens that...
No operating system in use before that did them quite as often and well as Windows!
Well you'd be talking mission critical if you needed a bunker for it...
yet your homepage isn't even up
Of course it's useless when it comes to regular phonelines... probably rather useful if you're migrating or creating an internal phone system with VoIP technology.
I took have had problems getting my SB 4.1 card (uses emu10k1) running on 2.6.3. I can't say I tried particularly hard, but ALSA doesn't appear to be detecting it on boot up.
2.6.3 is running on my laptop with a VIA card inside it and the sound's perfect (listening to it now).
I'll try out 2.6.2 - thanks for the suggestion.
I hope not... most people off the street have a hard time as it is remembering "XP"...!
"Windows FX" would just confuse them even more than they currently are... most get confused between Win 2000 and 98 (thinking they're in the same series).
Divide and conquer...
We're fighting ourselves on this issue. Not until this licensing problem is sorted out will big companies be able to take deploying Linux based desktop machines seriously...