It seems like everyone is in agreement that moving sshd to a non-standard port is stupid and a waste of time.
I disagree. It is of course not a matter of just changing the port and then be done with it. In addition to all the other security measures (fail2ban, iptables-woodo, key-based auth, etc) moving your sshd (or any service) to a non standard port is both an advisable and mildly effective security enhancing activity.
It might be that some bots are taking the time to scan the entire port space, but the number probes that bother to try your high hanging ports are negligible compared to the never ending avalanche of zombies that tries to squeeze through port 22 (or any other standard port for any other popular service for that matter.)
There is also the matter of bugs in the software. Though sshd is one of the most vetted, and hardened pieces of code out there it only takes one bug to cause a disaster (which has happened before). Attacks never get worse, they only get better! In the case of a 0-day in sshd that allows for arbitrary code execution I sure as hell don't want to be amongst the masses running on port 22.
In conclusion: If your only security measure is to move your services to non-standard ports, you might as well not bother. But your security level is a shade of gray, and using non-standard ports moves the slider a tad in the right direction.
I'm a highschool dropout that spent my spare time tinkering with unix and general tech.
I started as a customer service consultant at a telco, and now I work as a network engineer at a marjor telecom equipment vendor. I never lied about anything, just applied for positions that seemed interesting, and did convincing interviews and solid good work.
It did and does require a considerable amount of self study and eksperimentation, but I really do enjoy tech, so it's not a problem for me.
The tech industry is generaly forgiving with regards to lacking formal education. Basically, whatever gets the job done.
With no higher education what so ever (stopped at high school) the internet has been my salvation. I now work as as an engineer at one of the worlds biggest telecom network equipment vendors.
I belive that future generations will be more focused on finding, evaluating, and applying information rather than outright remembering it. Computers do remembering alot better than humans do, but we still have the upper hand in dynamic evaluation and application of information and data, so it only makes sense that a shift will occure to focus on educating a mind to be highly capable of absorbing and utilizing available information.
I ended up doing as most in this thread did. Networking.
I bought a BubbaII from http://www.excito.com/ its a small fan less linux box with 2x usb, 2x ethernet, and 2x extSata.
NB: NICs are gigEthernet, but they perform substantially slower than one expects. This according to the manufacturer, is by design to keen the temperature at a resonable level to accommodate the fan less design.
I work as a sysadmin in a pretty large mobile network operator. This is a business packed with obscure and higly proprietary systems (tho most protocols are free and open), yet I use OSS every single day. All of our machines, from the most mission critical call handling clusetrs to the most insignificant terminal pc, are in some way depending on OSS tools. Even an ancient Sinix/Reliand UNIX cluster from like... 1996 runs openssh and some other gnu apps.
I could not for my life imagine a world without OSS tools readily available for almost any platform I use. So, a big thank you to everyone who is making it possible!
I have my music store right here on my computer. Amazon and iTunes ftw! I cant understand why I should hit a Wall Mart and buy a cd for $15 when I can get it on iTunes/Amazon for much less.
First think Id do is to slap that CD in my computer and rip it anyway (who doesnt these days?).
I work as a VAS sysadmin at a network operating telco. Me and my team have a bunch of machines and clusters with insane uptime/abailability requirements, all of which are running some kind of unixish OS (ranging from Linux/BSD to ancient Sinix/ReliantUnix). We are not strages to rebooting the machines, it really depends on what kind of error or outage we are dealing with. If one machine has stopped taking requests alltogeather the first thing we will do (save from checking for smoke and fried powerconnectors) is rebooting. Simply because in a fair share of situations it actualy DOES bring the platform back online and minimize the impact. Now, if the platform is only having some minor hicups and still taking traffic, then we wont reboot to save our life.
This is an important thing to notice, people or management or whoever doesnt give a rats ass about uptime. All they care about is availabillity and economic impact. Also, we schedule servicereboots of most of the machines once every 6 or 12 months, just to make sure that any configuration changes or patches or upgrades we have made havent broken anything so we CAN reboot should the situation call for it.
I live in Norway, just googeled up a random US zipcode and added a new shippingadress and voila! I could buy music to my hearts content! I reallt love this store, they offer more of the music I like (classical and opera) than iTunes does and its so easy to doesnt feel like a pest to download the songs from outside iTunes.
Kudos to Amazon! My bittorrent activity has dropped to a bare minium after I got access to these legal music stores online (eMusic, iTunes and now Amazon) but my visa is hurting:(
Now, all that is lcking is LOSSLESS music! Give me that and Il promise not to download a single illegal mp3 for the rest of my life!
Excuse me, but what machine are you running your Tiger on? There is a wide spread agreement that Tiger is faster than Panther (but you need 512mb+ of ram)
When I installed Tiger on my 1ghz Titanium PowerBook it feelt like getting a whole new machine. I had 1gig ram. Note that you need a fresh install to gain all the speedbenefits from Tiger, upgrading from Panther will limit the performance a tad.
You might be able to dig up, slap togeather and in some way get into an operating state, the needed basic components for a GSM network (MSC, HLR/VLR, SMSC etc) but you will most probably not be allowed to transmit on any frequency that normal handsets can use, and even if your country doesnt regulate or give you permission to do it you will still be faced with the issues of getting an IMSI range, a number series, implementning number portability (it applicable), producing SIM-cards etc. And as pointed out already, you will probably not be able to get a roaming agreement with any operator, thus your users would have to change SIM to use your network (or have a second handset).
All in all I think its best to leave this project be. GSM networks are not cheap or open. Period.
Ok! I am Norwegian and I just want it t be known that a _minority_ within this commiitee, which is composed of old and wery conservative people, is proposing this bill and just to inform you, there is no chanse in hell that this will ever make it past the Storting (Congress).
It is a shame that when a a comittee is called upon to make a statement on something like the internet there are never any young people included. I am now 22 years old, internet has been a part of my life since I was 10 (and even more so for my 11 years old sister). I can tell these old guys and researchers so much about online culture, society, human interaction and etiqette that they will never ever get to know or learn because internet will always be something "new" and foreign in their life, not something that has been there from the beginning.
Do you really think it will come to that? That if Sun should choose GPL for opening Java that they wont have thought of that? Do you seriously think that they will place Java under GPL and then yu can call their CEO and tell him that this will kill java because of this and that and what it means and hel go "Oh f***. For all our billions of $$ and all our lawyers we didnt think of that. WE R TEH NUBS:
It is so annoying that ever time some quasi famous person who did work that affects other people or had half published books or something gets wacked or arrested or whatnot there is always the nagging, penetrating, insanley annoying keepers of the morale trying to make themselves look good and richeous by pointing out the personal tragedies and making everybody else look curel for not really giving a rats ass about the personal fate of somone they never met or knew but rather beeing conserned about the work they did and what will happen to it now because this actualy has an influnece in their lives.
Go home naysayers! Shut your pieholes whiners! I dont care about the children or the wife! Worse things happens to people every day! C'est la vie! It is not every day we stand at the brink of loosing such a major contributor and contribution to OSS.
DEAD HORSE!!!! STOP GOD DAMED BEATING IT ALREADY!!
This project wont stand a chanse! If it, by some twist of fate and a serious divine intervention, manages to acutaly get released to the market they will be dragged down, held back and squeezed under the Amiga name. Thishere system will have nothing in common with Amiga og yore, and thus there will be no market for it under that name.
Maybe if they changed the name and tried some serious marketing...
Or maybe if they could just produce a tangible product we can evaluate..
They have been dead a while anyway. Or at least been reduced to a random Linux on Intel platform. Only spectacular thing about their machines now are the cases.
Irix is a really nice and ellegant OS. Its by far the best Unix Ive ever worked with. So why, oh why couldnt they just polish the GUI a bit and rewrite some network stuff to make it follow the time! It doesnt help to be a couple of years ahead of your time when that time is over ten years ago.
If they go out of buisness, at least it would mean that maybe the Tezro's would become cheap enough for us mortals!:D
THE PLURAL OF VIRUS IS _NOT_ VIRI OR VIRII! Its viruses. For to many years I have been pestered and laughed at on forums and IRC for calling it viruses. But once and for all, one virus, several viruses. NOT virii.
Now a days its all about getting under the skin of your character, playing the part to the full! BECOMING the role! I have acutaly played with groups that didnt want to use stats or skills at all, they just wanted to write character descriptions for three hours.
It was a relief when my group from the old days got togeather over christmas and dusted off our old heroes! Fireballs flew, dices where rolled, critical hit tables where once again hailed as manna from heaven!
I do enjoy some modern role playing. Its fun to dwell deep into a character, but sometimes I just want to take up my old Talornin a level 23 mage (I used MANY years to get him here) and battle dragons and liches once again for old friendships sake!
As you can see in the top left corner I am logged in. The "About this Mac" window should prove that the machine is a Mac. If you require further proof that its a PowerBook I can always take a photo with my camera.
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It seems like everyone is in agreement that moving sshd to a non-standard port is stupid and a waste of time.
I disagree. It is of course not a matter of just changing the port and then be done with it. In addition to all the other security measures (fail2ban, iptables-woodo, key-based auth, etc) moving your sshd (or any service) to a non standard port is both an advisable and mildly effective security enhancing activity.
It might be that some bots are taking the time to scan the entire port space, but the number probes that bother to try your high hanging ports are negligible compared to the never ending avalanche of zombies that tries to squeeze through port 22 (or any other standard port for any other popular service for that matter.)
There is also the matter of bugs in the software. Though sshd is one of the most vetted, and hardened pieces of code out there it only takes one bug to cause a disaster (which has happened before). Attacks never get worse, they only get better! In the case of a 0-day in sshd that allows for arbitrary code execution I sure as hell don't want to be amongst the masses running on port 22.
In conclusion: If your only security measure is to move your services to non-standard ports, you might as well not bother. But your security level is a shade of gray, and using non-standard ports moves the slider a tad in the right direction.
I'm a highschool dropout that spent my spare time tinkering with unix and general tech.
I started as a customer service consultant at a telco, and now I work as a network engineer at a marjor telecom equipment vendor. I never lied about anything, just applied for positions that seemed interesting, and did convincing interviews and solid good work.
It did and does require a considerable amount of self study and eksperimentation, but I really do enjoy tech, so it's not a problem for me.
The tech industry is generaly forgiving with regards to lacking formal education. Basically, whatever gets the job done.
With no higher education what so ever (stopped at high school) the internet has been my salvation. I now work as as an engineer at one of the worlds biggest telecom network equipment vendors.
I belive that future generations will be more focused on finding, evaluating, and applying information rather than outright remembering it. Computers do remembering alot better than humans do, but we still have the upper hand in dynamic evaluation and application of information and data, so it only makes sense that a shift will occure to focus on educating a mind to be highly capable of absorbing and utilizing available information.
I use:
http://www.classicsonline.com/
http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/
http://www.linnrecords.com/
http://store.harmoniamundi.com/ (no download)
iTunes
Spotify
I ended up doing as most in this thread did. Networking.
I bought a BubbaII from http://www.excito.com/ its a small fan less linux box with 2x usb, 2x ethernet, and 2x extSata.
NB: NICs are gigEthernet, but they perform substantially slower than one expects. This according to the manufacturer, is by design to keen the temperature at a resonable level to accommodate the fan less design.
I work as a sysadmin in a pretty large mobile network operator. This is a business packed with obscure and higly proprietary systems (tho most protocols are free and open), yet I use OSS every single day. All of our machines, from the most mission critical call handling clusetrs to the most insignificant terminal pc, are in some way depending on OSS tools. Even an ancient Sinix/Reliand UNIX cluster from like... 1996 runs openssh and some other gnu apps.
I could not for my life imagine a world without OSS tools readily available for almost any platform I use. So, a big thank you to everyone who is making it possible!
I have my music store right here on my computer. Amazon and iTunes ftw!
I cant understand why I should hit a Wall Mart and buy a cd for $15 when I can get it on iTunes/Amazon for much less.
First think Id do is to slap that CD in my computer and rip it anyway (who doesnt these days?).
I work as a VAS sysadmin at a network operating telco. Me and my team have a bunch of machines and clusters with insane uptime/abailability requirements, all of which are running some kind of unixish OS (ranging from Linux/BSD to ancient Sinix/ReliantUnix). We are not strages to rebooting the machines, it really depends on what kind of error or outage we are dealing with.
If one machine has stopped taking requests alltogeather the first thing we will do (save from checking for smoke and fried powerconnectors) is rebooting. Simply because in a fair share of situations it actualy DOES bring the platform back online and minimize the impact.
Now, if the platform is only having some minor hicups and still taking traffic, then we wont reboot to save our life.
This is an important thing to notice, people or management or whoever doesnt give a rats ass about uptime. All they care about is availabillity and economic impact.
Also, we schedule servicereboots of most of the machines once every 6 or 12 months, just to make sure that any configuration changes or patches or upgrades we have made havent broken anything so we CAN reboot should the situation call for it.
VIVA SGI!
*hugs his Octane2 and SW1600*
I live in Norway, just googeled up a random US zipcode and added a new shippingadress and voila! I could buy music to my hearts content! I reallt love this store, they offer more of the music I like (classical and opera) than iTunes does and its so easy to doesnt feel like a pest to download the songs from outside iTunes.
:(
Kudos to Amazon! My bittorrent activity has dropped to a bare minium after I got access to these legal music stores online (eMusic, iTunes and now Amazon) but my visa is hurting
Now, all that is lcking is LOSSLESS music! Give me that and Il promise not to download a single illegal mp3 for the rest of my life!
Excuse me, but what machine are you running your Tiger on? There is a wide spread agreement that Tiger is faster than Panther (but you need 512mb+ of ram)
When I installed Tiger on my 1ghz Titanium PowerBook it feelt like getting a whole new machine. I had 1gig ram. Note that you need a fresh install to gain all the speedbenefits from Tiger, upgrading from Panther will limit the performance a tad.
This I think, would not be possible.
You might be able to dig up, slap togeather and in some way get into an operating state, the needed basic components for a GSM network (MSC, HLR/VLR, SMSC etc) but you will most probably not be allowed to transmit on any frequency that normal handsets can use, and even if your country doesnt regulate or give you permission to do it you will still be faced with the issues of getting an IMSI range, a number series, implementning number portability (it applicable), producing SIM-cards etc. And as pointed out already, you will probably not be able to get a roaming agreement with any operator, thus your users would have to change SIM to use your network (or have a second handset).
All in all I think its best to leave this project be. GSM networks are not cheap or open. Period.
Ok! I am Norwegian and I just want it t be known that a _minority_ within this commiitee, which is composed of old and wery conservative people, is proposing this bill and just to inform you, there is no chanse in hell that this will ever make it past the Storting (Congress).
It is a shame that when a a comittee is called upon to make a statement on something like the internet there are never any young people included. I am now 22 years old, internet has been a part of my life since I was 10 (and even more so for my 11 years old sister). I can tell these old guys and researchers so much about online culture, society, human interaction and etiqette that they will never ever get to know or learn because internet will always be something "new" and foreign in their life, not something that has been there from the beginning.
Do you really think it will come to that? That if Sun should choose GPL for opening Java that they wont have thought of that? Do you seriously think that they will place Java under GPL and then yu can call their CEO and tell him that this will kill java because of this and that and what it means and hel go "Oh f***. For all our billions of $$ and all our lawyers we didnt think of that. WE R TEH NUBS :
It is so annoying that ever time some quasi famous person who did work that affects other people or had half published books or something gets wacked or arrested or whatnot there is always the nagging, penetrating, insanley annoying keepers of the morale trying to make themselves look good and richeous by pointing out the personal tragedies and making everybody else look curel for not really giving a rats ass about the personal fate of somone they never met or knew but rather beeing conserned about the work they did and what will happen to it now because this actualy has an influnece in their lives.
Go home naysayers! Shut your pieholes whiners! I dont care about the children or the wife! Worse things happens to people every day! C'est la vie! It is not every day we stand at the brink of loosing such a major contributor and contribution to OSS.
DEAD HORSE!!!! STOP GOD DAMED BEATING IT ALREADY!!
This project wont stand a chanse! If it, by some twist of fate and a serious divine intervention, manages to acutaly get released to the market they will be dragged down, held back and squeezed under the Amiga name. Thishere system will have nothing in common with Amiga og yore, and thus there will be no market for it under that name.
Maybe if they changed the name and tried some serious marketing...
Or maybe if they could just produce a tangible product we can evaluate..
That would be "Ignis" UI. Pyro is Greek, Aqua, Terra and Aearo is Latin, thus Ignis is more apropriate ^_^
Its encrypted. Encryption is done via the SIM-card number to the base station.
I didn't have to read it twice. Got it on my first try. Guess this proves the article, as I am both bilingual and play video games! :D
\o/
Oh well!
:D
They have been dead a while anyway. Or at least been reduced to a random Linux on Intel platform. Only spectacular thing about their machines now are the cases.
Irix is a really nice and ellegant OS. Its by far the best Unix Ive ever worked with. So why, oh why couldnt they just polish the GUI a bit and rewrite some network stuff to make it follow the time! It doesnt help to be a couple of years ahead of your time when that time is over ten years ago.
If they go out of buisness, at least it would mean that maybe the Tezro's would become cheap enough for us mortals!
Ok. THIS IS IT!
/ v/virus.html
THE PLURAL OF VIRUS IS _NOT_ VIRI OR VIRII! Its viruses.
For to many years I have been pestered and laughed at on forums and IRC for calling it viruses.
But once and for all, one virus, several viruses. NOT virii.
Take a look here: http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language
And to think that english isnt even my native language.
I hear you my friend!
:D
Now a days its all about getting under the skin of your character, playing the part to the full! BECOMING the role! I have acutaly played with groups that didnt want to use stats or skills at all, they just wanted to write character descriptions for three hours.
It was a relief when my group from the old days got togeather over christmas and dusted off our old heroes! Fireballs flew, dices where rolled, critical hit tables where once again hailed as manna from heaven!
I do enjoy some modern role playing. Its fun to dwell deep into a character, but sometimes I just want to take up my old Talornin a level 23 mage (I used MANY years to get him here) and battle dragons and liches once again for old friendships sake!
Man, Im almost crying now!
Hah! d20 is for inferior minds!
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2.ed, now THAT is role playing!
Long live Forgotten Realms and Elminster!
T'was my pleasure! ^_^
Ok. Here it is: http://www.goweee.com/pub/in_your_face_xtracto.png
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