1. Firefox is not the dominant browser 2. Windows is the dominant operating system (in fact it is defined as a monopoly by the Court) 3. IE is bundled with Windows 4. For IE to make MSN Search the default search engine without at least offering the user a choice, violates anti-trust
These are the only points that really matter here.
I wrote a script to stop brute force ssh attempts after I got tired of seeing so many frequent attempts on my server. It's a Perl script, see http://erichendrickson.org/output/scanassassin/. It has been tested on Linux and FreeBSD but shouldn't be hard to make it work on other Unices - if you need help, send me a sample of your logs.
It works by adding the offending ip/hostname to/etc/hosts.deny after a configurable number (default 10) of failed authentication attempts. Not restricted to ssh, also works on ftp attempts or anything that uses the same authentication mechanism as ssh (such as pam under Linux).
I have swatch call it when it matches a line in the log file, but it can also be run from the command line or cron on any log file. I have a short to-do list of new features in the comments. This appears to be very basic compared to DenyHosts but gets the job done cleanly and quickly.
Works like a charm and it's a real pleasure to see these almost daily attempts getting shut down.
I've been using IRC since 1989 or so, and set up the first IRC server in Minnesota - was the op for it until 1994 or so. At my current employer, I set it up as an IM tool for the development teams in geographically distant offices to stay in touch. IM (e.g. MSN or Yahoo) are also in use. Of course, for urgent things we meet f2f or use the phone:)
But IRC is an excellent workplace mechanism and alternative to email, enabling lots of people near or far to communicate asynchronously and ask questions of each other, etc. And chat logs or screen shots are great for recording those hard to remember answers or cut/pasted code bits that get passed around.
possibly that's all there is to it, but even then if the college gives an external entity the power to monitor their network like that, and they abuse that, or screw it up and mistakenly sue an innocent person, the college opens itself up to lawsuits from that direction too.
This is why bandwidth at an "all you can eat" rate per month is best. This is why the Internet took off so much faster in the US than elsewhere in the world - local phone calls are free with a monthly bulk rate. Trying to break down the cost by quantity is fraught with complex issues that just aren't worth the trouble compared to a flat rate.
Fox News always presents their stories in an almost tabloid-ish, pushing panic buttons manner... not a good news source in general.
Domino doesn't adhere to standards?
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Does this mean that Domino isn't adhering to SMTP standards? If so, then what is the problem? Domino users can't sue for DoS if their software is being used properly (according to standards).
IT is a personal anti-grav transportation device
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Remember the developments not long ago that showed that superconducting coils were found to serve as a gravity shield?
simulcasting over the phone == extra license fees?
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Does this mean that, if I call a radio station and they put me on hold, and they are simulcasting the broadcast over the phone while I am one hold, that they have to pay an extra license fee?
Just because it would be stupid to bad mouth your company using company e-mail doesn't make it right for them to snoop on you. This is no different than if it were OK to wiretap our work phones. This kind of legislation moves us closer to a reality where we are all slaves to our employer - where everything we think or do is not our own.
is that "deep linking" or linking in general is no different than a footnote in a book, an entry in a bibiliography, or just a conversation between two people where one supplies the source of a piece of information to another.
Indicating the source of a piece of information is in no way the same thing as supplying that information. DUH. Therefore there can be no patent violations, threats for linking to dangerous/controversial (to some people) information, etc...
It doesn't do this issue justice to say that it shouldn't be allowed just because it is anti- the purpose of the web.
Or almost. I think the newspaper is still the best single source for local and global news and information. I use My Yahoo! too, and read scattered articles here and there at Salon, etc. But the newspaper is still quicker and easier to use than the Web.
I think as long as newspapers continue to keep an open mind and an eye on the types of information people look for on the web, they have an advantage.
The real reason the MPAA is fighting this so much is to enforce their hegemony over the DVD player manufacturers. If the code to play (decode) DVD's were available to anyone (such as Linux users, who may very well own a DVD player and DVD's already) then they would lose a revenue stream from DVD manufacturers for the right to build players.
It is little to do with actual pirating. CD's are pirated too but only because the audio industry charges so much per disc relative to the perceived value of a movie vs. a record album.
DVD's are priced very reasonably, very little more than video tapes cost before the advent of DVD's. In fact, very little more than CD's. It is the price of CD's that is driving the "theft" of music and is helping push MP3 as an alternative. They are cutting their own throats by charging so much. If the price of CD's were cut in half, CD's would sell like candy and the studios would still make just as much profit. And this would cut the legs out from under the "theft" of music. MP3 would still advance but not as quickly.
I don't think DVD's will have this problem that music has, because the price is more reasonable, for what you get.
But I still do this - I insert an X-Spook header in every one of my outgoing mail/news messages with keywords like that... I used to call it X-NSA-Fodder, actually.
It is easy to do with the spook() function in Emacs with Gnus and a custom function to generate multiple keywords. I'd be glad to post the elisp if anyone else wants to do this too. E-mail me as I'm not likely to check back here...
to threaten Warcraft III. TS isn't even as good as Total Annihilation, which is alomst 3 years old now ($9.99 at stores now!) and still very popular. Starcraft may even be better than TS. TS is little better than Red Alert, which was a good game for it's time...
Actually you overlooked the game that has yet to be surpassed in real-time-strategy. Total Annihilation has a far better interface and strategy possibilities than starcraft, let alone warcraft 1/2. Tiberian Sun is little better than Red Alert, which was a good game for its time. TS does nothing to advance the art, not even as far as starcraft possibly.
OpenMail has nothing to do with ccMail except that ccMail is a "supported" client of OpenMail. As are various other mail clients, including now Outlook.
OpenMail is a big wrapper around Sendmail to provide features like an address directory and (allegedly) easier maintenance, etc. It supports LDAP and MAPI now too, which is good.
SGI is already going to bag MIPS (eventually) because it is such a niche chip. The super computers that SGI "owns" are Crays, not SGIs, and they run Unicos, not Irix. I'm sure Unicos will be around for a while, but it makes total business sense to drop Irix in favour of Linux.
Any hardware that "SGI" is designing to run 64k processors will run Unicos, not Irix.
This is hardly a "unified" Unix, more like 3 weak versions of Unix that are probably going to lose out to stronger versions like Linux or Solaris on their own in the long term.
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There is a group on facebook to lobby Senator Obama and follow-up groups to lobby every Senator individually:
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Groups for Minnesota Senators Klobuchar and Coleman:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17065979228
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18283117073
The key here is that:
1. Firefox is not the dominant browser
2. Windows is the dominant operating system (in fact it is defined as a monopoly by the Court)
3. IE is bundled with Windows
4. For IE to make MSN Search the default search engine without at least offering the user a choice, violates anti-trust
These are the only points that really matter here.
I wrote a script to stop brute force ssh attempts after I got tired of seeing so many frequent attempts on my server. It's a Perl script, see http://erichendrickson.org/output/scanassassin/. It has been tested on Linux and FreeBSD but shouldn't be hard to make it work on other Unices - if you need help, send me a sample of your logs.
/etc/hosts.deny after a configurable number (default 10) of failed authentication attempts. Not restricted to ssh, also works on ftp attempts or anything that uses the same authentication mechanism as ssh (such as pam under Linux).
It works by adding the offending ip/hostname to
I have swatch call it when it matches a line in the log file, but it can also be run from the command line or cron on any log file. I have a short to-do list of new features in the comments. This appears to be very basic compared to DenyHosts but gets the job done cleanly and quickly.
Works like a charm and it's a real pleasure to see these almost daily attempts getting shut down.
I've been using IRC since 1989 or so, and set up the first IRC server in Minnesota - was the op for it until 1994 or so. At my current employer, I set it up as an IM tool for the development teams in geographically distant offices to stay in touch. IM (e.g. MSN or Yahoo) are also in use. Of course, for urgent things we meet f2f or use the phone :)
But IRC is an excellent workplace mechanism and alternative to email, enabling lots of people near or far to communicate asynchronously and ask questions of each other, etc. And chat logs or screen shots are great for recording those hard to remember answers or cut/pasted code bits that get passed around.
possibly that's all there is to it, but even then if the college gives an external entity the power to monitor their network like that, and they abuse that, or screw it up and mistakenly sue an innocent person, the college opens itself up to lawsuits from that direction too.
Well, they are basically wiretapping everyone on the network without a judge's signature.
time to go buy 10000 shares of this flick! ;)
http://hsx.com
Sounds like an Onion headline! Truth is stranger than fiction, I guess.
This is why bandwidth at an "all you can eat" rate per month is best. This is why the Internet took off so much faster in the US than elsewhere in the world - local phone calls are free with a monthly bulk rate. Trying to break down the cost by quantity is fraught with complex issues that just aren't worth the trouble compared to a flat rate.
Fox News always presents their stories in an almost tabloid-ish, pushing panic buttons manner... not a good news source in general.
Does this mean that Domino isn't adhering to SMTP standards? If so, then what is the problem? Domino users can't sue for DoS if their software is being used properly (according to standards).
Remember the developments not long ago that showed that superconducting coils were found to serve as a gravity shield?
Does this mean that, if I call a radio station and they put me on hold, and they are simulcasting the broadcast over the phone while I am one hold, that they have to pay an extra license fee?
Ridiculous.
Just because it would be stupid to bad mouth your company using company e-mail doesn't make it right for them to snoop on you. This is no different than if it were OK to wiretap our work phones. This kind of legislation moves us closer to a reality where we are all slaves to our employer - where everything we think or do is not our own.
is that "deep linking" or linking in general is
no different than a footnote in a book, an
entry in a bibiliography, or just a conversation
between two people where one supplies the
source of a piece of information to another.
Indicating the source of a piece of information
is in no way the same thing as supplying that
information. DUH. Therefore there can be no
patent violations, threats for linking to
dangerous/controversial (to some people)
information, etc...
It doesn't do this issue justice to say that
it shouldn't be allowed just because it is
anti- the purpose of the web.
Or almost. I think the newspaper is still
the best single source for local and global
news and information. I use My Yahoo! too,
and read scattered articles here and there
at Salon, etc. But the newspaper is still
quicker and easier to use than the Web.
I think as long as newspapers continue to
keep an open mind and an eye on the types of
information people look for on the web,
they have an advantage.
The real reason the MPAA is fighting this so
much is to enforce their hegemony over the DVD
player manufacturers. If the code to play
(decode) DVD's were available to anyone (such
as Linux users, who may very well own a DVD
player and DVD's already) then they would
lose a revenue stream from DVD manufacturers
for the right to build players.
It is little to do with actual pirating. CD's
are pirated too but only because the audio
industry charges so much per disc relative to
the perceived value of a movie vs. a record
album.
and I think DVD's have already adopted it.
DVD's are priced very reasonably, very little
more than video tapes cost before the advent of
DVD's. In fact, very little more than CD's.
It is the price of CD's that is driving the
"theft" of music and is helping push MP3 as an
alternative. They are cutting their own throats
by charging so much. If the price of CD's were
cut in half, CD's would sell like candy and the
studios would still make just as much profit.
And this would cut the legs out from under the
"theft" of music. MP3 would still advance but
not as quickly.
I don't think DVD's will have this problem that
music has, because the price is more reasonable,
for what you get.
Naturally it would be trivial for them to filter
such things. It is definately a joke. But even
so, the more they have to filter out, the better.
But I still do this - I insert an X-Spook header
in every one of my outgoing mail/news messages
with keywords like that... I used to call it
X-NSA-Fodder, actually.
It is easy to do with the spook() function in
Emacs with Gnus and a custom function to generate
multiple keywords. I'd be glad to post the elisp
if anyone else wants to do this too. E-mail me
as I'm not likely to check back here...
to threaten Warcraft III. TS isn't even as good
as Total Annihilation, which is alomst 3 years
old now ($9.99 at stores now!) and still very
popular. Starcraft may even be better than TS.
TS is little better than Red Alert, which was a
good game for it's time...
TA is the greatest at multiplayer, bar none.
Actually you overlooked the game that has yet to
be surpassed in real-time-strategy. Total
Annihilation has a far better interface and
strategy possibilities than starcraft, let alone
warcraft 1/2. Tiberian Sun is little better than
Red Alert, which was a good game for its time.
TS does nothing to advance the art, not even as
far as starcraft possibly.
OpenMail has nothing to do with ccMail except that
ccMail is a "supported" client of OpenMail. As
are various other mail clients, including now
Outlook.
OpenMail is a big wrapper around Sendmail to
provide features like an address directory and
(allegedly) easier maintenance, etc. It supports
LDAP and MAPI now too, which is good.
SGI is already going to bag MIPS (eventually)
because it is such a niche chip. The super
computers that SGI "owns" are Crays, not SGIs,
and they run Unicos, not Irix. I'm sure Unicos
will be around for a while, but it makes total
business sense to drop Irix in favour of Linux.
Any hardware that "SGI" is designing to run 64k
processors will run Unicos, not Irix.
This is hardly a "unified" Unix, more like 3
weak versions of Unix that are probably going to
lose out to stronger versions like Linux or
Solaris on their own in the long term.
Hence "unification", to try to forestall that.