Google already has given Linux users plenty. Think of all the newbies that had a problem, and Google helped. How many of those newbies would still be using Linux today? Google has saved my arse I don't know how many times, where other search engines came up with nothing. That all being said, I think it is one hell of a good show on their part.
I love Google, and think this is an excellent idea, but geeks owe Google, not vice-versa. Geeks (and normal users as well) depend on Google. While it could be said that Google does the same, and makes its money from geeks and users, they do not, IMHO owe us anything.
This actually is called an internet keyword....very annoying if you use a hosts file, or similar for hosts in your network (devel goes to an RFC on encrypted communications). Any browser that supports internet keywords will take you to microsoft.com for the host http
Apple? You mean the company with the expensive, proprietary hardware? No, most people I've talked to about alternatives laugh at Apple. Face it- most PC users are *VERY* adament about their hatred towards Apple.
Linux, on the other hand, shows some potential for the desktop. Large amounts of money from IBM, and HP I also believe, are being poured into Linux desktop improvements.
On a side note, this article is mainly geared towards the server versions of Windows. In addition, Microsoft probably has zero nightmares over Linux on the desktop for Joe Blow. Corporate installations, however, may be causing a sweat droplet or two.
Other than getting automatic updates, if configured properly, I do not recall anything like this. Do you have a link or two to confirm this? Sounds like an overly amount of paranoia, given that ive seen in the 30s-40s of pirated installations, that Microsoft never knew of. These installations were probably active for 3, maybe 4 years. Windows 98 and 2000 were the main culprits of piracy, I've found.
1.) Just how much exactly is Microsoft afraid of Linux? How much marketshare does Microsoft percieve Linux to take?
2.) How will Microsoft know if its plugged into the network? As well as the fact that a server w/o updates or recent data (yeah, I'm sure you could use removeable storage for that, but there goes the TCO), will be pretty much worthless. If it takes 8 hours to get recent data on it, and install the past 6 months worth of updates, how useful is it really? In addition, I don't like the idea that a server may be "calling home" to confirm that it is not in use. Sounds like a setup to me.
3.) With the longer product life, is Microsoft realising that people actually don't want to upgrade their OS every 5 years, especially for mission critical devices?
Operators at a Northwest Side call center may see some relief from the flood of fraudulent calls they've been handling by scam artists in other countries trying to defraud American merchants
Sprint has put in place a system to block calls by suspicious users of its Internet-relay service for the hearing- and speech-impaired.
The effort answers operators' complaints that scam artists from Nigeria, Ghana and other places have been using the system to buy American goods using stolen credit-card numbers. But not everyone is convinced the strategy will work over the long run, because scam artists may adapt.
Since January, relay operators at Communication Service for the Deaf, a call center at Foothills Mall, have spent much of their time handling thousands of calls from such scam artists.
These callers access the relay service intended for deaf people simply by getting on a Web site operated by Sprint, entering a phone number and pressing a "connect" button. The operators act as intermediaries, talking to the person receiving the call and typing messages back to the original caller.
Because federal regulations require the operators to transmit all calls faithfully and confidentially, they have been forced into facilitating fraud. About 200 people work at CSD, as the Tucson call center is known.
Sprint spokesman Steve Lunceford, would not detail how Sprint is trying to block the calls other than to say the company is looking at problematic Internet-protocol addresses and finding ways to block them before calls go through to operators.
So far, the effort appears successful. The volume of Internet-relay calls has returned to the level it was in early January, before massive abuse of the system began, Lunceford said.
CSD call-center manager Paul Hawkins declined to comment, as did several current CSD operators.
On the surface, the effort appears similar to those carried out by MCI and AT&T. Since late last year, MCI has been measuring daily which Internet-protocol addresses are using the system in high volumes, analyzing the usage, then blocking suspicious sources of calls, said Steven Johnson, MCI's vice president of information services and solutions.
AT&T has been blocking Internet protocol addresses from other countries, an approach that has been very successful, according to a company statement.
But one former MCI relay operator said blocking internet addresses will only be a temporary obstacle for abusers of the Internet-relay system. That's because the scam artists can continuously find alternative Internet-protocol addresses, said Rob Grodevant of Madison, Wis., who moderates an Internet message board for relay operators.
"Obviously it's had the effect of cutting down these calls, but they're going to find new hosts and call back anyway," Grodevant said. "It's always going to be a cat-and-mouse game."
Grodevant would prefer a system in which legitimate users register in advance to gain access to the system.
In March, the volume of calls exceeded 7,000 per day at Tucson's CSD, which is a contractor for Sprint, according to a company memo. Operators reported going through entire shifts without receiving calls from deaf Americans, but only from scam artists, largely located in West Africa.
The situation was so stressful that the company offered counseling to its operators. One former relay operator, Eric Reeves, said via e-mail that he quit in March in part because of the change from helping deaf people to aiding scam artists.
"After we started taking the calls for the villains overseas, the atmosphere was depressing and overall gloomy," Reeves said.
block all outgoing access to weatherbug.com, the 2 ip addresses used to show weather reports through weatherbug (I forget which ones, just run tcpdump to see them), and block the other major spyware (webshots, kazaa, etc). Then, you will have control adequately (and for those that think you can just cut admin access, try running autocad or something similar (claimzone, etc) as a mortal user.
Toshiba gets over the 80GB mark for laptops with their new hard drive. It's a mere 2.5 inches high, and only 9.5mm thick. Don't ask me why they use both metric and imperial measurements for these though. Seriously, I just had "inch" and "mm" in the same sentence!
Toshiba Corporation will begin OEM shipments in May of their 9.5mm thick 2.5 inch HD with a capacity of 100GB, called the "MK1031GAS."
With a 35% miniturization of the Femto Slider in the head unit, and an improvement of the thin film technology of the media, a recording density of 124MBit/mm2 has been achieved - making for a larger overall capacity. This is the highest recording density in the world for a 2.5" HD.
The disk rotation speed is 4,200rpm, and there are two platter, four heads, and the average seek time is 12msec. The supported interface is Ultra ATA/100. The main body size is 70 x 100 x 9.5mm, and the weight is 99g.
Apart from the capacity, however, there have been other improvements to the drive. First of all, the spindle motor rotation control system has been changed, a lower power consumption has been accomplished with the use of a DC/DC converter on the power component, allowing for a decrease of 20% versus previous models.
Also, the shock protection is about 1.5x that of previous models, with 325G(2msec) while operating, and 850G(1msec) while not operating. The operational sounds while the drive is idle has also been pushed down to 21dB.
at $400/seat/year, Google does just fine for me. Wikipedia as well. Google information is *MAYBE* a week old, whereas your friend's information is probably at least 100x that. That's what's so greate about the internet, information always gets updated.
Don't know about your vehicles, but most vehicles with ABS can be slightly over-ridden by shifting into neutral, and then hitting the brakes. Works like wonders in snow (I'm from MT). Granted, the only vehicles I've tried this on are a 1999 chevy cavalier and a 92 oldsmobile achiva.
or is it really hard to take this seriously when Microsoft's name is on it? On the other hand, pretty much anything that MS is involved in (other than anti-trust lawsuits) with the US is equally scary.
I doubt that it is actually "locking up". Is the ftp client freezing for a while? If so, you might want to try the 'passive' command. You are behind a firewall, right?
Get out of jail today!
Want to make your member^H^H^H^H^H^Hjailtime longer^H^H^H^H^H^Hshorter? Just give Smith at Law a call, we will do the rest! Guaranteed results! You only have to take^H^H^H^Hmake one pill^H^H^H^Hcall!
Are you using the source that your distribution has available? If not, then I sure hope that you have subscribed to BugTraq. One of the nice abilities of binary packages is security/bug updates. Otherwise, you have to really keep a keen eye on what is affecting the software you compile security-wise. Some, if not most, software rarely announces updates on their site pertaining to security. This is mainly with user-space programs though, server software is usually pretty good with mentioning vulnerabilities. I would just compile the source from my distro, if I were you. Personally though, little is to gain from compiling from source, compared with what you lose (support, updates, etc). Food for thought at least.
A gun behind the register isn't of very much use unless it is actually used. I don't really remember any gun shops getting robbed to be honest, its always gas stations around here. Maybe that's just my city.
Users that can't backup their data suck. I'm not a full-time admin to any of my clients, its the user's responsibility to backup their data, and verify it. I gave them the training, they have to follow through.
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Google already has given Linux users plenty. Think of all the newbies that had a problem, and Google helped. How many of those newbies would still be using Linux today? Google has saved my arse I don't know how many times, where other search engines came up with nothing. That all being said, I think it is one hell of a good show on their part.
I love Google, and think this is an excellent idea, but geeks owe Google, not vice-versa. Geeks (and normal users as well) depend on Google. While it could be said that Google does the same, and makes its money from geeks and users, they do not, IMHO owe us anything.
This actually is called an internet keyword....very annoying if you use a hosts file, or similar for hosts in your network (devel goes to an RFC on encrypted communications). Any browser that supports internet keywords will take you to microsoft.com for the host http
Apple? You mean the company with the expensive, proprietary hardware? No, most people I've talked to about alternatives laugh at Apple. Face it- most PC users are *VERY* adament about their hatred towards Apple.
Linux, on the other hand, shows some potential for the desktop. Large amounts of money from IBM, and HP I also believe, are being poured into Linux desktop improvements.
On a side note, this article is mainly geared towards the server versions of Windows. In addition, Microsoft probably has zero nightmares over Linux on the desktop for Joe Blow. Corporate installations, however, may be causing a sweat droplet or two.
Other than getting automatic updates, if configured properly, I do not recall anything like this. Do you have a link or two to confirm this? Sounds like an overly amount of paranoia, given that ive seen in the 30s-40s of pirated installations, that Microsoft never knew of. These installations were probably active for 3, maybe 4 years. Windows 98 and 2000 were the main culprits of piracy, I've found.
1.) Just how much exactly is Microsoft afraid of Linux? How much marketshare does Microsoft percieve Linux to take?
2.) How will Microsoft know if its plugged into the network? As well as the fact that a server w/o updates or recent data (yeah, I'm sure you could use removeable storage for that, but there goes the TCO), will be pretty much worthless. If it takes 8 hours to get recent data on it, and install the past 6 months worth of updates, how useful is it really? In addition, I don't like the idea that a server may be "calling home" to confirm that it is not in use. Sounds like a setup to me.
3.) With the longer product life, is Microsoft realising that people actually don't want to upgrade their OS every 5 years, especially for mission critical devices?
Sprint has block to halt scam in place
By Tim Steller
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Operators at a Northwest Side call center may see some relief from the flood of fraudulent calls they've been handling by scam artists in other countries trying to defraud American merchants
Sprint has put in place a system to block calls by suspicious users of its Internet-relay service for the hearing- and speech-impaired.
The effort answers operators' complaints that scam artists from Nigeria, Ghana and other places have been using the system to buy American goods using stolen credit-card numbers. But not everyone is convinced the strategy will work over the long run, because scam artists may adapt.
Since January, relay operators at Communication Service for the Deaf, a call center at Foothills Mall, have spent much of their time handling thousands of calls from such scam artists.
These callers access the relay service intended for deaf people simply by getting on a Web site operated by Sprint, entering a phone number and pressing a "connect" button. The operators act as intermediaries, talking to the person receiving the call and typing messages back to the original caller.
Because federal regulations require the operators to transmit all calls faithfully and confidentially, they have been forced into facilitating fraud. About 200 people work at CSD, as the Tucson call center is known.
Sprint spokesman Steve Lunceford, would not detail how Sprint is trying to block the calls other than to say the company is looking at problematic Internet-protocol addresses and finding ways to block them before calls go through to operators.
So far, the effort appears successful. The volume of Internet-relay calls has returned to the level it was in early January, before massive abuse of the system began, Lunceford said.
CSD call-center manager Paul Hawkins declined to comment, as did several current CSD operators.
On the surface, the effort appears similar to those carried out by MCI and AT&T. Since late last year, MCI has been measuring daily which Internet-protocol addresses are using the system in high volumes, analyzing the usage, then blocking suspicious sources of calls, said Steven Johnson, MCI's vice president of information services and solutions.
AT&T has been blocking Internet protocol addresses from other countries, an approach that has been very successful, according to a company statement.
But one former MCI relay operator said blocking internet addresses will only be a temporary obstacle for abusers of the Internet-relay system. That's because the scam artists can continuously find alternative Internet-protocol addresses, said Rob Grodevant of Madison, Wis., who moderates an Internet message board for relay operators.
"Obviously it's had the effect of cutting down these calls, but they're going to find new hosts and call back anyway," Grodevant said. "It's always going to be a cat-and-mouse game."
Grodevant would prefer a system in which legitimate users register in advance to gain access to the system.
In March, the volume of calls exceeded 7,000 per day at Tucson's CSD, which is a contractor for Sprint, according to a company memo. Operators reported going through entire shifts without receiving calls from deaf Americans, but only from scam artists, largely located in West Africa.
The situation was so stressful that the company offered counseling to its operators. One former relay operator, Eric Reeves, said via e-mail that he quit in March in part because of the change from helping deaf people to aiding scam artists.
"After we started taking the calls for the villains overseas, the atmosphere was depressing and overall gloomy," Reeves said.
block all outgoing access to weatherbug.com, the 2 ip addresses used to show weather reports through weatherbug (I forget which ones, just run tcpdump to see them), and block the other major spyware (webshots, kazaa, etc). Then, you will have control adequately (and for those that think you can just cut admin access, try running autocad or something similar (claimzone, etc) as a mortal user.
just like to clarify, none of my opinions, or input is on the grandparent post. that was a simple copy & paste of what TFA said.
Toshiba gets over the 80GB mark for laptops with their new hard drive. It's a mere 2.5 inches high, and only 9.5mm thick. Don't ask me why they use both metric and imperial measurements for these though. Seriously, I just had "inch" and "mm" in the same sentence! Toshiba Corporation will begin OEM shipments in May of their 9.5mm thick 2.5 inch HD with a capacity of 100GB, called the "MK1031GAS." With a 35% miniturization of the Femto Slider in the head unit, and an improvement of the thin film technology of the media, a recording density of 124MBit/mm2 has been achieved - making for a larger overall capacity. This is the highest recording density in the world for a 2.5" HD. The disk rotation speed is 4,200rpm, and there are two platter, four heads, and the average seek time is 12msec. The supported interface is Ultra ATA/100. The main body size is 70 x 100 x 9.5mm, and the weight is 99g. Apart from the capacity, however, there have been other improvements to the drive. First of all, the spindle motor rotation control system has been changed, a lower power consumption has been accomplished with the use of a DC/DC converter on the power component, allowing for a decrease of 20% versus previous models. Also, the shock protection is about 1.5x that of previous models, with 325G(2msec) while operating, and 850G(1msec) while not operating. The operational sounds while the drive is idle has also been pushed down to 21dB.
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In a smaller scale, encyclopedias (sp?) have errors as well, lots of them. One of my favorite pastimes as a kid was finding errors in them. :)
think this was a book review of the game nethack?
at $400/seat/year, Google does just fine for me. Wikipedia as well. Google information is *MAYBE* a week old, whereas your friend's information is probably at least 100x that. That's what's so greate about the internet, information always gets updated.
If its for Linux, you could also run User Mode Linux, and save on the VMware license.
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Don't know about your vehicles, but most vehicles with ABS can be slightly over-ridden by shifting into neutral, and then hitting the brakes. Works like wonders in snow (I'm from MT). Granted, the only vehicles I've tried this on are a 1999 chevy cavalier and a 92 oldsmobile achiva.
or is it really hard to take this seriously when Microsoft's name is on it? On the other hand, pretty much anything that MS is involved in (other than anti-trust lawsuits) with the US is equally scary.
I doubt that it is actually "locking up". Is the ftp client freezing for a while? If so, you might want to try the 'passive' command. You are behind a firewall, right?
actually, This was the first spam.
Get out of jail today!
Want to make your member^H^H^H^H^H^Hjailtime longer^H^H^H^H^H^Hshorter? Just give Smith at Law a call, we will do the rest! Guaranteed results! You only have to take^H^H^H^Hmake one pill^H^H^H^Hcall!
Are you using the source that your distribution has available? If not, then I sure hope that you have subscribed to BugTraq. One of the nice abilities of binary packages is security/bug updates. Otherwise, you have to really keep a keen eye on what is affecting the software you compile security-wise. Some, if not most, software rarely announces updates on their site pertaining to security. This is mainly with user-space programs though, server software is usually pretty good with mentioning vulnerabilities. I would just compile the source from my distro, if I were you. Personally though, little is to gain from compiling from source, compared with what you lose (support, updates, etc). Food for thought at least.
Not to troll, but OpenSSL is not Linux, and Linux is not OpenSSL.
According to this link ;)
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There are three vulnerabilities.
This was, like, sooo yesterday on the Bugtraq lists
asking slashdot on social skill questions is like asking a factory worker which distribution of Linux is better.
This is a joke, laugh.
A gun behind the register isn't of very much use unless it is actually used. I don't really remember any gun shops getting robbed to be honest, its always gas stations around here. Maybe that's just my city.
Users that can't backup their data suck. I'm not a full-time admin to any of my clients, its the user's responsibility to backup their data, and verify it. I gave them the training, they have to follow through.