That's the beauty of a free market. If you don't want an all-in-one device like this, then don't buy one. I'm sure there are plenty of people (like myself) who would like to consolidate several electronic playthings into one and get one of these babys.
If its anything like SO 5.2 (sorry, I haven't had a chance to play with 6.0beta yet), if you run the installer as root with the/net option, then you can do a "network install". This install will be available to all users on the machine, you do the/net install first, and then re-run the installer as the user in question.
Get _TCP/IP Illustrated_, volumes I, II, and III, all by W. Richard Stevens. These are, hands down, the most informative books regarding the TCP/IP protocol. I have yet to find any other book that contains even a tenth the information that any one of these have, the closest runner-up being O'Reilly's TCP/IP handbook for UNIX admins. Volume I has become required reading at my job (Network Engineer for a large ISP), and I'm sure anyone who works with TCP/IP networks for a living or hobby would find these books invaluable.
Go to www.shoutcast.com and do a search for "Hitch hiker". Someone there is running a HHGTTG server that continuously plays the first 12 episodes of the radio show.
Thanks Douglas for giving me more laughs than anyone else I know for the last 8 years (since I discovered the books). In my household (and may others I am sure), you will be sorely missed.
Maybe I'm not understanding things here, but why would you NEED to send mail through your work.com smtp server?
You can still send mail *from* your work account by using your work email address as the "from" address and still use your ISP's smtp server. I've never seen a situation where your mail would need to come from one particular smtp server over another. Now just because I've never seen it doesn't mean its not worth doing, but I'm interested to hear why you can't just use your ISP's mail server for all outgoing mail.
If you have a desperate need to use your company's mail server, you can always use a VPN and tunnel smtp traffic.
You can blame your fellow Internet users who spam for this. Its another case of having to create policies that prevent everyone from doing something so a few 'bad apples' can be stopped. If there weren't EarthLink users who used other smtp servers as spam relays, then this policy wouldn't be needed. Look at the laws in any city/state/country and you see the same thing. Unfortunate-- yes, but censorship-- no. Your ISP isn't a public facility-- they have investors to answer to and if their bandwidth is being used for impropper purposes (like spam) that violate their AUP, its their right/necessity to stop that from happening.
The original poster stated that her company's smtp servers were/are blocked by @home's smtp servers. Earthlink is not doing this-- they are not allowing users dialed into them to use someone ELSE's smtp servers directly; the users must instead use EarthLink's smtp servers to send mail. Why this bothers people still manages to stump me-- IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO'S SMTP SERVER YOU USE TO SEND MAIL. It will all get to the same place regardless. The reason that EarthLink chose to do this was simple, to prevent people using their dualup lines from spamming via someone else's poorly-configured smtp server. It really amazes me how some technically-sound decisions made by a company are twisted into bloddy-murder when people who don't know what they are talking about gripe about free speech this or censorship that. This is nothing to do with censorship and its not at all the same as the original poster's problem, which is a legitimate gripe.
Here here, I'd really like to know the answer to this question. I graduated High School 4 years ago, and things like AP Computer Programming, the Computer Club, and such were still rather geeky things in my school. That's where I came from (although I did do the sports thing-- Varsity Track & Cross-Country, although they weren't very popular sports in my school). I'd like to know if the 'kewl' thing in school is still football and cheerleading, or if computers have managed to grab a small foothold in all that is cool.
I live in Atlanta (Virginia Highlands area), I'm not in college, and I live in what could be considered a geek house. I work for an ISP in the area, and I decided to move out of my ultra-cramped apartment. I managed to find a steal of a house... well, half a house. Its been subletted into two seperate dwellings, one upstairs, and one in the basement. The basement dwelling was available. I quickly moved into this place, put an add out on Yahoo, and found a like-minded techie working in the same field as myself. Both of us being geeks (him, an NT administrator, and myself a security engineer using Linux and BSD), we had half an army of computers between us, so we signed-up for DSL through Speakeasy, I setup FreeBSD on a spare PPro200 for a NAT-firewall, and we now have 7 PCs running various operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, WinNT, Win2k, and Win98) with all the bandwidth we really need for around $60 a month.
Just goes to show that a) you don't need to be in college to have a geekhouse, b) FreeBSD can make a damn good firewall, and c) its all possible in Atlanta. Good luck with your searching!
I'd like to write a history of the Axe, except that mine keeps rebooting itself for no reason. I'm running WinAxe 3.1 with Internet Axplorer 3 and many people have told me to upgrade to 95, although I don't see why-- I don't use many 32-bit Axe apps anyway.
Um... perhaps I'm not making my point clear. PETA tried to remove a domain that was NOT ORIGINALLY OWNED BY THEM because of trademark infringement. This is them actively defending their trademark (rather poorly, in my mind, to kill a parody site). My point is that once you buy a domain name, then default on it, you have in essence FORGONE YOUR ABILITY to protect the trademark. If you don't pay to maintain your domain, then you are not trying to protect that domain as a trademark, and subsequently the rights to that domain are also not applicable by trademark law.
This is how I see it. If Apple doesn't have enough business sense to maintain its ownership of apple.com, then it looks like it really doesn't care about its trademark, so it should not have the right to sue somebody to get it back under the guise of trademark law. Does this illustrate my point a little more clearly?
Actually, I think they were only using internic.net two years ago. AFAIK networkwolutions.com only came about after the government disbanded the monopoly that Network Solutions had on domain name registration.
Then again, I don't claim to know anything that is of any importance to anybody, even myself.
Right. I did read the PETA decision from yesterday. This particular instance (defaulting on a domain, and losing it even though you have trademark rights) is not the same situation-- apples and oranges. While the judge did give the right of PETA.ORG to PETA, it was not because of a payment failure.
Again, I'm not involved with the law industry in any way (thank goodness), but I do think that if a company/person/corporate entity does not pay for a domain name that they registered then they no longer have the rights to it, even if they try to use trademark law to prove otherwise. Since they are not paying for it, they are (in essence) not actively pursuing to protect the trademark and would probably (read: should) lose in court.
I'm no judge, but in my own experiences, "you snooze you lose" holds true. If someone with a copyright or trademark on a domain registers the domain and doesn't pay for it, and you get it from an auction, I don't see where they have ANY right to try and reclaim the domain. They had it in the first place, and they decided to default on the payment. I don't think that's actively pursuing damages from trademark infringement, and it sounds logical that the winner of the auction would have full rights to keep the domain name (so long as he or she is actually paying for it).
Maybe I'm a little old-fashioned, but I always thought that BASIC made a good initial lanaguage. Its relatively easy to learn, and it starts down the right track for learning good programming methodology (except for all the GOTO statement limbo), instead of using a clunky RAD-type language.
I'd say that if your kids want to learn how to PROGRAM, not how to whip-up a quick-and-dirty app, then BASIC would be a good start.
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It looks like someone in Washington is starting to realize the value of an open-sourced crypto. I wonder what made them think to include special considerations for OSS.
to an already-existing non-profit group? Probably because they don't like the way they are being run.
If I had my own company and I had the oppertunity to throw $8mil into a non-profit group, I'm going to make sure the group is founded and run by my idea an open source project should be.
Please understand that I'm not saying that Debian of the FSF aren't doing a good job. I'm just saying that if I were in the same situation as RH, I would probably start my own project, just so I could have at least some input into the finished product.
Why not let them put their own efforts into a community project, instead of just watching someone else use their donations?
BTW-- I'm one of those few who think that RH is actually doing something good for the free software and open source movements. They are NOT MICROSOFT, and don't plan to be. They aren't hell-bent on distruction of every other Linux Distro. They're just trying to make a little money (like everyone else), and showing appreciation by giving some back to the community that gave it roots.
more to come, as soon as I get some more machines to add to my network. Granted this is for my home network of machines. For the intranet servers I help to admin at work, we use the names of cities in Georgia (where I am):
Atlanta Savannah Tifton Roswell
You see how it goes. I personally think it is easier to remember a server's function if a creative naming convention is used. Since we have MANY clusters of different servers where I work, we use a different convention for each one. I may not be able to tell exactly what a particular server does by its name, but I can at least guess its general function (mail, news, web server, app, etc).
I believe MTV started the downhill route about the time their first REAL gameshow, Remote Control, aired (sometime in the early '90s). One good thing that came out of that show was Adam Sandler.
FUD FUD FUD... its like propaganda with M$. This is the one from that page I like the most:
"Linux only provides access controls for files and directories. In contrast, every object in Windows NT, from files to operating system data structures, has an access control list and its use can be regulated as appropriate. "
DUH!! If they had actually done some research into this they would have seen that EVERYTHING IN LINUX IS REPRESENTED AS A FILE. Devices, interrupts, and data structures. Not only does this give a working security model, but it allows for more consistant administration of the machine. Besides, the Windows NT "security model" is ambiguous at best. Look at networked file sharing for example-- you set permissions on a file, then share it, then set MORE permissions on the same damn file. You don't need that to have protected file sharing across a network.
The day I choose Win over Linux is the day I lose my free will.
Has anyone thought that maybe the reason "geeks" (like myself and many other/. readers) have an aversion to reality is because the norm is just plain boring?!? I like computers (and most anything technical for that matter) because they expand my mind with thoughts of what is possible. I cannot stand it when I'm forced to occupy space with some "normal" guy who just talks about the weather, the game last night, or some woman he just de-atomized. None of that really gets me to think. When I put time into my computer, I get something back-- knowledge and a process of logical thought. Unless I'm in front of a PC, or speaking with another technically-minded person, I don't get that knowledge in return. I feel like I'm wasting my time.
I think its like the idea of scientific circles, where scientists converse with each other in their area of expertise (BTW-- spelling is definitely not mine). Only computing is a scientific circle that has most every area of contemporary humanity. We can communicate with each other at the speed of type. We can live in a world where there are no geographic or political boundaries, only the boundaries of human thought. Is it not in our best interests to do what we do best?
Besides, having a girlfriend that is not at all interested or learned in computers (she's still freaking over the media's Y2K hype) can be a calm window into the mundane world of the normal. Maybe I'll break up with her and sever all my normal ties forever!:-)
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That's the beauty of a free market. If you don't want an all-in-one device like this, then don't buy one. I'm sure there are plenty of people (like myself) who would like to consolidate several electronic playthings into one and get one of these babys.
If its anything like SO 5.2 (sorry, I haven't had a chance to play with 6.0beta yet), if you run the installer as root with the /net option, then you can do a "network install". This install will be available to all users on the machine, you do the /net install first, and then re-run the installer as the user in question.
Get _TCP/IP Illustrated_, volumes I, II, and III, all by W. Richard Stevens. These are, hands down, the most informative books regarding the TCP/IP protocol. I have yet to find any other book that contains even a tenth the information that any one of these have, the closest runner-up being O'Reilly's TCP/IP handbook for UNIX admins. Volume I has become required reading at my job (Network Engineer for a large ISP), and I'm sure anyone who works with TCP/IP networks for a living or hobby would find these books invaluable.
Thanks Douglas for giving me more laughs than anyone else I know for the last 8 years (since I discovered the books). In my household (and may others I am sure), you will be sorely missed.
Public service announcement aside...
/etc/ssh/sshd_config (or /usr/local/etc/sshd_config, if you installed the OpenSSH port)
vi
PermitRootLogin yes
Maybe I'm not understanding things here, but why would you NEED to send mail through your work.com smtp server?
You can still send mail *from* your work account by using your work email address as the "from" address and still use your ISP's smtp server. I've never seen a situation where your mail would need to come from one particular smtp server over another. Now just because I've never seen it doesn't mean its not worth doing, but I'm interested to hear why you can't just use your ISP's mail server for all outgoing mail.
If you have a desperate need to use your company's mail server, you can always use a VPN and tunnel smtp traffic.
You can blame your fellow Internet users who spam for this. Its another case of having to create policies that prevent everyone from doing something so a few 'bad apples' can be stopped. If there weren't EarthLink users who used other smtp servers as spam relays, then this policy wouldn't be needed. Look at the laws in any city/state/country and you see the same thing. Unfortunate-- yes, but censorship-- no. Your ISP isn't a public facility-- they have investors to answer to and if their bandwidth is being used for impropper purposes (like spam) that violate their AUP, its their right/necessity to stop that from happening.
Um...... no, this is not the same thing.
The original poster stated that her company's smtp servers were/are blocked by @home's smtp servers. Earthlink is not doing this-- they are not allowing users dialed into them to use someone ELSE's smtp servers directly; the users must instead use EarthLink's smtp servers to send mail. Why this bothers people still manages to stump me-- IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO'S SMTP SERVER YOU USE TO SEND MAIL. It will all get to the same place regardless. The reason that EarthLink chose to do this was simple, to prevent people using their dualup lines from spamming via someone else's poorly-configured smtp server. It really amazes me how some technically-sound decisions made by a company are twisted into bloddy-murder when people who don't know what they are talking about gripe about free speech this or censorship that. This is nothing to do with censorship and its not at all the same as the original poster's problem, which is a legitimate gripe.
Here here, I'd really like to know the answer to this question. I graduated High School 4 years ago, and things like AP Computer Programming, the Computer Club, and such were still rather geeky things in my school. That's where I came from (although I did do the sports thing-- Varsity Track & Cross-Country, although they weren't very popular sports in my school). I'd like to know if the 'kewl' thing in school is still football and cheerleading, or if computers have managed to grab a small foothold in all that is cool.
Close enough to Redhat, recompiled for the Pentium chip. Once I replaced RedHat with this beauty, I never bothered to look back.
I live in Atlanta (Virginia Highlands area), I'm not in college, and I live in what could be considered a geek house. I work for an ISP in the area, and I decided to move out of my ultra-cramped apartment. I managed to find a steal of a house... well, half a house. Its been subletted into two seperate dwellings, one upstairs, and one in the basement. The basement dwelling was available. I quickly moved into this place, put an add out on Yahoo, and found a like-minded techie working in the same field as myself. Both of us being geeks (him, an NT administrator, and myself a security engineer using Linux and BSD), we had half an army of computers between us, so we signed-up for DSL through Speakeasy, I setup FreeBSD on a spare PPro200 for a NAT-firewall, and we now have 7 PCs running various operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, WinNT, Win2k, and Win98) with all the bandwidth we really need for around $60 a month.
Just goes to show that a) you don't need to be in college to have a geekhouse, b) FreeBSD can make a damn good firewall, and c) its all possible in Atlanta. Good luck with your searching!
I'd like to write a history of the Axe, except that mine keeps rebooting itself for no reason. I'm running WinAxe 3.1 with Internet Axplorer 3 and many people have told me to upgrade to 95, although I don't see why-- I don't use many 32-bit Axe apps anyway.
Um... perhaps I'm not making my point clear. PETA tried to remove a domain that was NOT ORIGINALLY OWNED BY THEM because of trademark infringement. This is them actively defending their trademark (rather poorly, in my mind, to kill a parody site). My point is that once you buy a domain name, then default on it, you have in essence FORGONE YOUR ABILITY to protect the trademark. If you don't pay to maintain your domain, then you are not trying to protect that domain as a trademark, and subsequently the rights to that domain are also not applicable by trademark law.
This is how I see it. If Apple doesn't have enough business sense to maintain its ownership of apple.com, then it looks like it really doesn't care about its trademark, so it should not have the right to sue somebody to get it back under the guise of trademark law. Does this illustrate my point a little more clearly?
Actually, I think they were only using internic.net two years ago. AFAIK networkwolutions.com only came about after the government disbanded the monopoly that Network Solutions had on domain name registration.
Then again, I don't claim to know anything that is of any importance to anybody, even myself.
Right. I did read the PETA decision from yesterday. This particular instance (defaulting on a domain, and losing it even though you have trademark rights) is not the same situation-- apples and oranges. While the judge did give the right of PETA.ORG to PETA, it was not because of a payment failure.
Again, I'm not involved with the law industry in any way (thank goodness), but I do think that if a company/person/corporate entity does not pay for a domain name that they registered then they no longer have the rights to it, even if they try to use trademark law to prove otherwise. Since they are not paying for it, they are (in essence) not actively pursuing to protect the trademark and would probably (read: should) lose in court.
I'm no judge, but in my own experiences, "you snooze you lose" holds true. If someone with a copyright or trademark on a domain registers the domain and doesn't pay for it, and you get it from an auction, I don't see where they have ANY right to try and reclaim the domain. They had it in the first place, and they decided to default on the payment. I don't think that's actively pursuing damages from trademark infringement, and it sounds logical that the winner of the auction would have full rights to keep the domain name (so long as he or she is actually paying for it).
Maybe I'm a little old-fashioned, but I always thought that BASIC made a good initial lanaguage. Its relatively easy to learn, and it starts down the right track for learning good programming methodology (except for all the GOTO statement limbo), instead of using a clunky RAD-type language.
I'd say that if your kids want to learn how to PROGRAM, not how to whip-up a quick-and-dirty app, then BASIC would be a good start.
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It looks like someone in Washington is starting to realize the value of an open-sourced crypto. I wonder what made them think to include special considerations for OSS.
I'd be careful using this. Use 2000 CE and watch Micro$oft try and take all your stuff away under some unbeknownst-to-all trademark.
to an already-existing non-profit group? Probably because they don't like the way they are being run.
If I had my own company and I had the oppertunity to throw $8mil into a non-profit group, I'm going to make sure the group is founded and run by my idea an open source project should be.
Please understand that I'm not saying that Debian of the FSF aren't doing a good job. I'm just saying that if I were in the same situation as RH, I would probably start my own project, just so I could have at least some input into the finished product.
Why not let them put their own efforts into a community project, instead of just watching someone else use their donations?
BTW-- I'm one of those few who think that RH is actually doing something good for the free software and open source movements. They are NOT MICROSOFT, and don't plan to be. They aren't hell-bent on distruction of every other Linux Distro. They're just trying to make a little money (like everyone else), and showing appreciation by giving some back to the community that gave it roots.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
Marvin
Ford
Zaphod
Arthur
more to come, as soon as I get some more machines to add to my network. Granted this is for my home network of machines. For the intranet servers I help to admin at work, we use the names of cities in Georgia (where I am):
Atlanta
Savannah
Tifton
Roswell
You see how it goes. I personally think it is easier to remember a server's function if a creative naming convention is used. Since we have MANY clusters of different servers where I work, we use a different convention for each one. I may not be able to tell exactly what a particular server does by its name, but I can at least guess its general function (mail, news, web server, app, etc).
I believe MTV started the downhill route about the time their first REAL gameshow, Remote Control, aired (sometime in the early '90s). One good thing that came out of that show was Adam Sandler.
FUD FUD FUD... its like propaganda with M$. This is the one from that page I like the most:
"Linux only provides access controls for files and directories. In contrast, every object in Windows NT, from files to operating system data structures, has an access control list and its use can be regulated as appropriate. "
DUH!! If they had actually done some research into this they would have seen that EVERYTHING IN LINUX IS REPRESENTED AS A FILE. Devices, interrupts, and data structures. Not only does this give a working security model, but it allows for more consistant administration of the machine. Besides, the Windows NT "security model" is ambiguous at best. Look at networked file sharing for example-- you set permissions on a file, then share it, then set MORE permissions on the same damn file. You don't need that to have protected file sharing across a network.
The day I choose Win over Linux is the day I lose my free will.
Has anyone thought that maybe the reason "geeks" (like myself and many other /. readers) have an aversion to reality is because the norm is just plain boring?!? I like computers (and most anything technical for that matter) because they expand my mind with thoughts of what is possible. I cannot stand it when I'm forced to occupy space with some "normal" guy who just talks about the weather, the game last night, or some woman he just de-atomized. None of that really gets me to think. When I put time into my computer, I get something back-- knowledge and a process of logical thought. Unless I'm in front of a PC, or speaking with another technically-minded person, I don't get that knowledge in return. I feel like I'm wasting my time.
:-)
I think its like the idea of scientific circles, where scientists converse with each other in their area of expertise (BTW-- spelling is definitely not mine). Only computing is a scientific circle that has most every area of contemporary humanity. We can communicate with each other at the speed of type. We can live in a world where there are no geographic or political boundaries, only the boundaries of human thought. Is it not in our best interests to do what we do best?
Besides, having a girlfriend that is not at all interested or learned in computers (she's still freaking over the media's Y2K hype) can be a calm window into the mundane world of the normal. Maybe I'll break up with her and sever all my normal ties forever!