Ah, *you* guys are running that. Weird - I didn't get a response from the email I sent to that 'hidden' port, and from *you* I would have expected better...
No, I dont think so - as far as I know the version check is different from what the default bookmarks are doing. It's possible the home page setting is connected to the version check, personally I have it set to "blank" so I'm not running into that.
Having said all that, the article only talks about default bookmarks as shipped with the product - I agree with you that the version check is annoying as well, but that's a whole seperate can of worms...
If that's with the default bookmarks only, the issue is not with microsoft, but with yourself. I mean, of course the default bookmarks are whatever microsoft wants them to be. If you want Yahoo as a bookmark, bookmark them yourself.
I agree, there's plenty of things I don't know about (including the things I don't know of that I don't know about them..), and would like to know about, and I most certainly am not able to stay abreast of everything that interests me - however, advertising is not the way I tend to find out about them - usually it's from conversations with others (okay, word-of-mouth advertising, the only one I'm willing to put up with) followed up by research on my part if it pegs my interest, which it frequently does. I am not an island, and the people I interact with on a daily or not so daily basis are excellent sources of interesting information. Advertising is not.
Funny that you mention that. I'm interested in SF books actually, but despite the lack of advertising for said books I'm oddly enough very aware of new releases... so, no offense, but tell me again why I should need advertising for that?
As author of the firewall mentioned in the article, I tend to agree with you - one of my goals was: fire-and-forget firewall (since SOHO users will never look at log files anyway), and must run on left-over hardware, driving the cost down to zero as much as possible. Also, I made the install as simple and straightforward as possible. Take a look at www.dubbele.com, and let me know what you think.
I remember a quote Douglas Adams made during a developer conference at Apple: "We may have only ten percent of the users, but it's the top ten percent!"
Read this week that loyalty cards are (here in the Netherlands) topping out at 20% of the population - more growth is not expected. Still, hell of a lot of folks indeed don't care.
Then perhaps, although probably not, if he's a PHB, pointing him to GNATbox and/or www.dubbele.com will help - these are the 'plug it in' boxes he talks about, and they use BSD variants..
Most european countries have that, nowadays. However, remember that's its probably possible to find out who you are by your call patterns, should anybody really want to.
yep, we're talking about GSM here. Prepaid phones, and use them only for the one phone call where you do your misschief, that way they can't find you buy tracing all the calls you do with that phone. Oh, and for bonus points, assume that when you use the phone they are ably to track your location by finding out what GSM base station you're connected to - so do this from a moving train during rush hour.
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Ah, *you* guys are running that. Weird - I didn't get a response from the email I sent to that 'hidden' port, and from *you* I would have expected better...
Aha. Thanks. I usually do a post-install and uncheck all that kind of things and completely forget about it....
No, I dont think so - as far as I know the version check is different from what the default bookmarks are doing. It's possible the home page setting is connected to the version check, personally I have it set to "blank" so I'm not running into that.
Having said all that, the article only talks about default bookmarks as shipped with the product - I agree with you that the version check is annoying as well, but that's a whole seperate can of worms...
-John
If that's with the default bookmarks only, the issue is not with microsoft, but with yourself. I mean, of course the default bookmarks are whatever microsoft wants them to be. If you want Yahoo as a bookmark, bookmark them yourself.
I agree, there's plenty of things I don't know about (including the things I don't know of that I don't know about them..), and would like to know about, and I most certainly am not able to stay abreast of everything that interests me - however, advertising is not the way I tend to find out about them - usually it's from conversations with others (okay, word-of-mouth advertising, the only one I'm willing to put up with) followed up by research on my part if it pegs my interest, which it frequently does. I am not an island, and the people I interact with on a daily or not so daily basis are excellent sources of interesting information. Advertising is not.
-John
Funny that you mention that. I'm interested in SF books actually, but despite the lack of advertising for said books I'm oddly enough very aware of new releases... so, no offense, but tell me again why I should need advertising for that?
-John
True, somewhat. I see others 'jump' into that market: Free NetBSD/i386 Firewall
There's a good NetBSD based free firewall at www.dubbele.com if you have an old box lying around...
-John
That's why I made a free firewall that runs off hard disk - sure, it can be done from floppy, but I consider them too failure prone...
-John
As author of the firewall mentioned in the article, I tend to agree with you - one of my goals was: fire-and-forget firewall (since SOHO users will never look at log files anyway), and must run on left-over hardware, driving the cost down to zero as much as possible. Also, I made the install as simple and straightforward as possible. Take a look at www.dubbele.com, and let me know what you think.
Thanks for promoting my firewall. If you need any changes to it to facilitate your setup, let me know..
-John
I have not tried this, so I could just be blowing smoke here, but how about running the emulaters in a chroot'd enviro?
www.dubbele.com has a free netbsd based firewall. Also, on the web site there's a good list of resources you may want to check out.
-John
No, no - the cheesy scams go under dotcon.
.cum instead :-)
And to make things interesting for the pr0n industry, let's give them
-John
I remember a quote Douglas Adams made during a developer conference at Apple: "We may have only ten percent of the users, but it's the top ten percent!"
It's always that way. Take the Internet for example.
"Step 1. The Internet is never going to amount to much."
"Step 2. Our Internet is going to be Better"
"Step 3. We Invented the Internet."
Repeat cycle for the next technology. In your example, the NetPC.
-John
Read this week that loyalty cards are (here in the Netherlands) topping out at 20% of the population - more growth is not expected. Still, hell of a lot of folks indeed don't care.
Look at www.dubbele.com for a free firewall project.
Then perhaps, although probably not, if he's a PHB, pointing him to GNATbox and/or www.dubbele.com will help - these are the 'plug it in' boxes he talks about, and they use BSD variants..
I'm not sure if this qualifies, but take a look at www.dubbele.com
It makes sense to have a distinction between what you can do as a local user, and what you can do in a server and then retransmit to random people.
That would make all proxy servers illegal. Squid essentially does what you describe.
-John
Most european countries have that, nowadays. However, remember that's its probably possible to find out who you are by your call patterns, should anybody really want to.
-John
With Short Messaging Service (SMS) standard in GSM phones, you can send up to about 180 characters to a mobile phone.
The practical upshot is that nobody cares about pages anymore.
-John
yep, we're talking about GSM here. Prepaid phones, and use them only for the one phone call where you do your misschief, that way they can't find you buy tracing all the calls you do with that phone. Oh, and for bonus points, assume that when you use the phone they are ably to track your location by finding out what GSM base station you're connected to - so do this from a moving train during rush hour.
-John
no, no, far easier:
/dev/rwd0a
mkfs
-John