Start a WISP! Band together with the rest of the pissed off userbase in your area, and go in together for a T1 or better and some equipment. No, it's not easy, but it would be worth the effort to be free and clear of Comcast, and give others an opportunity to break away as well.
Just as long as you don't get your upstream bandwidth from Comcast...;-)
Anything we reject will bounce with a 500 category error and an explanation (blacklisted IP, checksum matching, known spamming address, known spamming URL). We have had calls, but they've been from people who were blacklisted because they had machines infected with trojans or were part of a bot-net sending out tons of SPAM.
People are upset until we ship them a copy of the logs pertaining to their account or IP address. Once they have the proof, they tend to argue less, or even ask for assistance (which we provide in most cases).
FortiNet FortiGate 1000A hardware firewalls, which block 99% of the SPAM we receive (a couple slip through for various reasons), and we run Zimbra with AV/AS scanning enabled.
The FortiGates are configured to just drop the SPAM, so 100% of SPAM detected by the firewalls never get past the firewalls.
I work at an ISP and we do SPAM detection and elimination at our border routers. We scan both incoming and outgoing email, and will auto blacklist our own internal IPs if we detect SPAM.
The highest two-week percentage of rejected incoming email that I've seen broke 97% a few months ago. It's normally between 90% and 95%.
Simply because I don't really need ZFS's capabilities (or the NetApp's), and no one else where I work has ever touched Solaris before aside from myself.
Absolutely correct. The NetApp unit we have at work is a neat piece of hardware, but it's plain stupid what they charge for hard drives. We've decided to not upgrade the unit like we wanted to, and are now looking at building a larger SAN/NAS using Linux and off-the-shelf components.
If they drop their prices by about 66%, they'd be competitive.
Oh, I don't know about all of that. If your subscribers are pounding the hell out of your border routers with P2P traffic, isn't that effectively restricting network services for those who are not running P2P?
Rate limiting P2P can be used for good, if it means VoIP, HTTP, SMTP, POP and IMAP have a better chance to get through in a timely fashion. So what if you get 30 minutes added to a 9GB Bittorrent download?
As long as no one is BLOCKING access to or from your systems, I think it can work out for the benefit of the subscribers on the network.
How about active scanning for viruses and other malware embedded in web pages and emails? Does that go against the idea of an unrestricted internet?
Winning an automotive race isn't about leading the most laps around a track during a race.
The last lap is all that matters.;-)
I personally think we're all batshit crazy for not cooperating between nations and just knocking this whole moon colony and trip to Mars thing out. We CAN work together.
I've had great success backing up Windows servers by simply running a system state backup every day and storing it to the local server. At night you can use just about anything to back up the filesystem, and you will pull that system state file as well.
I've done bare metal restores using this method, and have not had a failure yet. This includes two different active directory servers.
Open files on a workstation or laptop might be a different issue, but I've not found a case where doing a tar through Cygwin plus the system state backup couldn't put a server back together again.
I'm currently looking at Bacula + system state backups so I can do off-site backups using tape.
There ARE people running for public office in this country who are FOR protecting and individual's rights and privacy. Please remember this, and take the time to evaluate your choices BEFORE the next election!
You'd pick Red Hat over Solaris simply for the sake of package management? I hate to tell you this, but it's not exactly rocket science to figure out how to keep a Solaris system up to date and manage third party software packages on one of those systems.
Solaris, especially on Sun hardware, is a very solid operating system.
You certianly don't live up to your name here, "Professor UNIX".
A little off topic, but you'd think that, since the politically correct group sees no difference between men and women, that they'd be a little less negative about gays.
I don't work for OpenDNS, but they've got some nice DNS servers out there for use. http://www.opendns.com/
Kind of sad, the first thing I thought about when I started reading about this was, "Wow... Who'd a thought you needed TOR to get proper DNS resolution?"
$400,000 is not too far off what my parents ended up paying for 480+ acres in rural Indiana. 180 acres tillable farmland, the rest is forest. Very beautiful area, I might add.
The only thing going on here is a shift to a global economy. Local (and by that I mean within a given nation) economies are shifting gears, inflation is bouncing around, and costs are starting to level out. It's a bit painful, but eventually things will settle down, and everyone will be happy again.
A perfect example is the whole outsourcing to India for call centers and programming jobs. That has slowed down, and even started going to OTHER countries, because the markets are stabilizing, and India is no longer the cheapest place to go. International competition is something a lot of people and businesses need to adjust to.
What the US needs to figure out, is where they want to be in all of this once developing nations finish ramping up to be a part of the global market. I don't think the US is going to go away, and once we get baby boomers out of public offices, the next crowd of people should be a little more in touch with the global community.
All the scaremongering is getting old. It's time for companies, and some individuals who have economic or political power, to modernize or die.
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Start a WISP! Band together with the rest of the pissed off userbase in your area, and go in together for a T1 or better and some equipment. No, it's not easy, but it would be worth the effort to be free and clear of Comcast, and give others an opportunity to break away as well.
;-)
Just as long as you don't get your upstream bandwidth from Comcast...
Anything we reject will bounce with a 500 category error and an explanation (blacklisted IP, checksum matching, known spamming address, known spamming URL). We have had calls, but they've been from people who were blacklisted because they had machines infected with trojans or were part of a bot-net sending out tons of SPAM.
People are upset until we ship them a copy of the logs pertaining to their account or IP address. Once they have the proof, they tend to argue less, or even ask for assistance (which we provide in most cases).
FortiNet FortiGate 1000A hardware firewalls, which block 99% of the SPAM we receive (a couple slip through for various reasons), and we run Zimbra with AV/AS scanning enabled.
The FortiGates are configured to just drop the SPAM, so 100% of SPAM detected by the firewalls never get past the firewalls.
I work at an ISP and we do SPAM detection and elimination at our border routers. We scan both incoming and outgoing email, and will auto blacklist our own internal IPs if we detect SPAM.
The highest two-week percentage of rejected incoming email that I've seen broke 97% a few months ago. It's normally between 90% and 95%.
It's loads of fun dealing with this crap.
Simply because I don't really need ZFS's capabilities (or the NetApp's), and no one else where I work has ever touched Solaris before aside from myself.
Absolutely correct. The NetApp unit we have at work is a neat piece of hardware, but it's plain stupid what they charge for hard drives. We've decided to not upgrade the unit like we wanted to, and are now looking at building a larger SAN/NAS using Linux and off-the-shelf components.
If they drop their prices by about 66%, they'd be competitive.
Oh, I don't know about all of that. If your subscribers are pounding the hell out of your border routers with P2P traffic, isn't that effectively restricting network services for those who are not running P2P?
Rate limiting P2P can be used for good, if it means VoIP, HTTP, SMTP, POP and IMAP have a better chance to get through in a timely fashion. So what if you get 30 minutes added to a 9GB Bittorrent download?
As long as no one is BLOCKING access to or from your systems, I think it can work out for the benefit of the subscribers on the network.
How about active scanning for viruses and other malware embedded in web pages and emails? Does that go against the idea of an unrestricted internet?
Thanks for chiming in there, AC.
Ron Paul would support your continued right to privacy on the internet, but I don't know about the rest of the GOP gang or the Democrats.
This zealot votes, BTW. Do you?
Hey, he may not be perfect, but he's a pretty decent alternative to the other people who'd like to be in the oval office.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
The last lap was getting to the moon.
You're talking about the next race... getting BACK to the moon.
Going to Mars is the next season's line-up.
(Here comes the car analogy!)
;-)
Winning an automotive race isn't about leading the most laps around a track during a race.
The last lap is all that matters.
I personally think we're all batshit crazy for not cooperating between nations and just knocking this whole moon colony and trip to Mars thing out. We CAN work together.
I've had great success backing up Windows servers by simply running a system state backup every day and storing it to the local server. At night you can use just about anything to back up the filesystem, and you will pull that system state file as well.
I've done bare metal restores using this method, and have not had a failure yet. This includes two different active directory servers.
Open files on a workstation or laptop might be a different issue, but I've not found a case where doing a tar through Cygwin plus the system state backup couldn't put a server back together again.
I'm currently looking at Bacula + system state backups so I can do off-site backups using tape.
Please do, I use that address to test my anti-spam system.
There ARE people running for public office in this country who are FOR protecting and individual's rights and privacy. Please remember this, and take the time to evaluate your choices BEFORE the next election!
VOTE!
It's one thing to be a rabid fanboy, but something else to be THAT ignorant. ;-)
No kidding! I'd love to adopt a sweaty cheerleader!
Wait... what?
You'd pick Red Hat over Solaris simply for the sake of package management? I hate to tell you this, but it's not exactly rocket science to figure out how to keep a Solaris system up to date and manage third party software packages on one of those systems.
Solaris, especially on Sun hardware, is a very solid operating system.
You certianly don't live up to your name here, "Professor UNIX".
No shit!
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin /MS07-029.mspx
What was that again?
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
I don't work for OpenDNS, but they've got some nice DNS servers out there for use. http://www.opendns.com/
Kind of sad, the first thing I thought about when I started reading about this was, "Wow... Who'd a thought you needed TOR to get proper DNS resolution?"
Might as well mod me the same. I agree with the parent poster 100%.
Some people are only alive today because it is illegal to kill someone simply for being stupid.
$400,000 is not too far off what my parents ended up paying for 480+ acres in rural Indiana. 180 acres tillable farmland, the rest is forest. Very beautiful area, I might add.
Welcome to the iPhone of the automotive world. Except it's already out in 36 other countries. :-)
No kidding. I swear, parallel parking is like a lost art in some cities.
The only thing going on here is a shift to a global economy. Local (and by that I mean within a given nation) economies are shifting gears, inflation is bouncing around, and costs are starting to level out. It's a bit painful, but eventually things will settle down, and everyone will be happy again.
A perfect example is the whole outsourcing to India for call centers and programming jobs. That has slowed down, and even started going to OTHER countries, because the markets are stabilizing, and India is no longer the cheapest place to go. International competition is something a lot of people and businesses need to adjust to.
What the US needs to figure out, is where they want to be in all of this once developing nations finish ramping up to be a part of the global market. I don't think the US is going to go away, and once we get baby boomers out of public offices, the next crowd of people should be a little more in touch with the global community.
All the scaremongering is getting old. It's time for companies, and some individuals who have economic or political power, to modernize or die.