The other way to deal with port 25 blocking is to make sure your SMTP server supports TLS and SMTP AUTH.
You will then need to configure your client to send a login and password for authentication. The connections are encrypted, as a bonus. The server can allow authenticated users to relay from anywhere, without hacks like POP3-before-SMTP.
It's also not a bad idea to run POP3 over SSL for your inbound mail.
Download and share music that can be legitimately shared. Frankly, I'm so pissed off at the media cartel that I don't want to even bother pirating their products, let alone buy them. Even commercial radio stations thoroughly suck these days.
...is one involving how it handles MIME types, especially within IFRAMEs. What happens is, the message headers will say it's one type, such as audio/x-midi, while the payload is really an EXE file, sometimes misidentified as a.bat or a.pif. The unpatched Outlook or OE thinks, "Ah, a MIDI file! Let's play it!" and blithely passes it to the OS, which thinks, "Ah, an executable! Let's run it!".
One more example of why HTML doesn't belong in email, aside from web bugs and other BS.
Don't forget, however, that the.torrent file contains a link to the tracker that acts as the "traffic cop" for a BitTorrent session. Kill the tracker, and the.torrent file becomes useless.
Thus, BitTorrent is best used, as the OP said, for legitimate material.
1. Avoid sugary drinks. A 20-oz. bottle of full-fat Coke is 250 empty calories. If you're as much of a sodaholic as I am, that can add up real quick! I found there were some diet sodas that I actually liked, and avoided the sugary stuff. Note also that beer can really load you up with excess calories, both from the malt and from the alcohol.
2. Eat smaller portions; stop eating as soon as (or before) you feel full. This is especially important if you eat out; lots of restaurants give you unnecessarily big portions. Eat a Whopper Jr. instead of a full-size Whopper; throw out half your french fries. Pay attention to portion sizes on food packages. Remember, feeling a little bit hungry is not a bad thing.
3. Cut down or eliminate deep-fried stuff. It's loaded with fat. Eat grilled chicken instead of fried; have broiled fish instead of fish-and-chips. Substitute flank steak for hamburger. Have an occasional vegetarian/vegan meal. While I have no intention of going 100% vegan, there are plenty of meatless meals that I've found I like.
4. Avoid between-meal snacks. The calories can really add up. It's OK to have a treat now and then; just don't overdo it. Choose low-calorie snacks, and eat fresh fruit instead of candy.
I once weighed 245 lbs/111 kilos. Then, I made those four changes to my eating habits. For a month, I avoided stepping onto the scale, and when I finally did so, I found that I had lost a little weight. After six months, I was down to 210 lb/95 kg, and after a year, I leveled off at 170 lb/77 kg.
As for keeping the weight off, get some exercise. After my weight leveled off, I dragged my old mountain bike out of storage and started riding for the first time in eight years. I then switched to a recumbent for more comfort and speed (Mine is the 2001 model). I've taken many long rides on it; my personal distance record so far for a one-day ride is 150 miles/241 km.
This winter, the weather discouraged me from riding much, so I went back into diet mode when I noticed that I had gained a little. Now I'm down to 165 lb/75 kg...
HTTP can be abused to send spam. All you need to do is find an open proxy server listening on port 80. I've seen this done when a spammer tried to do a dictionary attack on a mail server that I run at work. The scumbag used open SMTP relays, open SOCKS proxies, and open HTTP proxies to do its dirty work.
Eventually, the spammer gave up - it must have noticed that I was firewalling the connections as soon as I detected them. MIMEDefang, combined with a modified filter script and ipchains or iptables, can do some neat tricks.
Such as from places like here, or here. My disgust with the music business has reached an all-time high, even though I have never used Napster or Kazaa.
I guess I have no sympathy for the music biz, and, equally, no sympathy for the Kazaa crowd.
I tried using a BitTorrent session to grab the latest Knoppix (the link was posted in yesterday's Knoppix thread). Just for kicks, I went to one of the official mirrors and checked the MD5 sum of the ISO image that I received with the MD5 sum listed on the official mirror. They did NOT match. I summarily deleted the suspect image. In retrospect, I probably should have just gone ahead and downloaded the official image, and did a file-by-file comparison.
Basically, you should check MD5 checksums, or better yet, GPG signatures, if you're going to download a.iso from a P2P network instead of getting it from an official mirror site.
You should check them anyway, even when you get them from an official mirror, IMHO.
Because if the files you were exchanging were legitimate, you wouldn't need to use peer-to-peer systems like Gnutella, Freenet etc etc, which add a lot of inefficiency just to make it harder to find the source of a file. If what you are sending weren't in some way illegal, you would just stick it on a web page.
Not necessarily. Consider etree, for instance. Etree specializes in trading live music from trade-friendly bands such as the Grateful Dead and its sucessors, Phish, etc. However, etree trades involve lossless formats such as FLAC or Shorten, which take far more bandwidth than MP3 or Ogg Vorbis.
FTP and Web servers serving these files tend to be overloaded, so a peer-to-peer solution such as BitTorrent can be very handy for such trading.
Japan's Secret War (ISBN 1-56924-815-X), by Robert K. Wilcox, documents Japan's effort to build its own bomb. There was circumstantial evidence that they even managed to explode a test weapon, but, in the end, they lost the race to use one in combat.
Most of the development occured on the Korean Peninsula, at Hungnam (known as Konan under Japanese occupation), in what is now North Korea.
Allegedly, the test weapon was exploded three days before the war ended.
Blood and Water: Sabotaging Hitler's Bomb, by Dan Kurzman, ISBN 0-8050-3206-1
Aside from an interesting quote from Werner Heisenberg, it gives a lot of information about the efforts at sabotaging the heavy water processing plant. If you can find a copy, it's well worth the price.
In the past week, I've started seeing some scumball who is trying a dictionary attack against a server that I run. It tries about 50 randomly selected names at a time, always from an open SMTP relay or an open proxy server (usually a SOCKS proxy, but apparently HTTP proxies can be abused too).
It always uses "john@some-randomly-selected-domain" as its From: address.
Fortunately, the targetted domain is one whose users never pick up mail, so I can use it as a honeypot, and feed systems not found in relays.osirusoft.com into a private DNS blacklist. However, I got tired of chasing this dirtball, and set up MIMEDefang to automatically add this cretin to the server's firewall rules when one of its attacks is detected.
The problem is, if you look at the linuxrouter.org main page, you'll find that the site hasn't been updated since May 3, 2001. Most LRP development these days is on the LEAF site.
LEAF, with several versions, would be a good starting point. One variant in particular would be Dachstein-CD, which boots off a CD and uses a floppy to back up configuration changes. Note that the Dachstein releases are 2.2/ipchains-based, while Bering, which is floppy-based, is a 2.4/iptables system.
I'm using a floppy-based Bering system where I work as a multi-ISP router/firewall, and it works quite well.
A case in point is the fate of the Schwinn Bicycle Company - what was once a famous Chicago bike manufacturer is now nothing more than a brand name slapped on Chinese bikes sold at Wal-Mart.
How did that happen? Several factors: first, the third-generation family owners preferred to kick back and party rather than concentrate on the business. Even during the 1970s, the signs were showing. For a long time, they produced a line of lightweight, high-quality bikes in their Chicago plant, along with their heavier, mass-produced cousins like the Varsity. However, the utterly failed to promote them, and they were easily mistaken for the low-end bikes.
Meanwhile, out in California, people were taking old heavyweight cruiser bikes and fitting them with derailleur gears, and the mountain bike was born. Schwinn basically ignored this trend until it was too late.
Also, labor strife reared its ugly head. The Chicago factory was unionized, and the United Auto Workers decided that Schwinn workers should be paid on the same scale as GM, Ford, and Chrysler workers. Management's response was to build a plant in Mississippi, which turned into a complete boondoggle. Production eventually was shifted over to the Far East.
Schwinn eventually went bankrupt, and the pieces were picked up by vulture capitalist Sam Zell. Eventually, the Zell-operated version of Schwinn went bankrupt again.
It was picked up by GT, went on for a few more years, and went Tango Uniform yet again.
Now it is in the hands of Pacific Cycle, a mass-marketer whose products grace the shelves of department stores.
The only member of the Schwinn family who is still in the bike business is Richard Schwinn, who owns Waterford, an ultra-high-end manufacturer located in Waterford, Wisconsin. The factory, once upon a time, built Schwinn's high-end Paramount line. What a pity he didn't have the resources to buy back the name.
Every time I see a "Schwinn" in Wal-Mart, it sets my teeth on edge.
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The other way to deal with port 25 blocking is to make sure your SMTP server supports TLS and SMTP AUTH.
You will then need to configure your client to send a login and password for authentication. The connections are encrypted, as a bonus. The server can allow authenticated users to relay from anywhere, without hacks like POP3-before-SMTP.
It's also not a bad idea to run POP3 over SSL for your inbound mail.
Anyone remember WarGames? I couldn't believe the cluelessness of their depiction of computer tech.
It's called file permissions. Of course, it isn't the Hollywood-wet-dream type of DRM...
Download and share music that can be legitimately shared. Frankly, I'm so pissed off at the media cartel that I don't want to even bother pirating their products, let alone buy them. Even commercial radio stations thoroughly suck these days.
Ah, but the don't have to imprision everyone. Just nail a few high-profile folks, and the rest of the sheeple will fall into line.
In recent Mozilla versions, from the View menu while in Messenger, you can choose Message Body As/Plain Text. Works like a charm...
...is one involving how it handles MIME types, especially within IFRAMEs. What happens is, the message headers will say it's one type, such as audio/x-midi, while the payload is really an EXE file, sometimes misidentified as a .bat or a .pif. The unpatched Outlook or OE thinks, "Ah, a MIDI file! Let's play it!" and blithely passes it to the OS, which thinks, "Ah, an executable! Let's run it!".
One more example of why HTML doesn't belong in email, aside from web bugs and other BS.
That link for GWC should be here.
Last fall, I used "Gnome Wave Cleaner to clean up the sound from a bunch of LP's that I had recorded. I was quite happy with the results.
Thus, BitTorrent is best used, as the OP said, for legitimate material.
2. Eat smaller portions; stop eating as soon as (or before) you feel full. This is especially important if you eat out; lots of restaurants give you unnecessarily big portions. Eat a Whopper Jr. instead of a full-size Whopper; throw out half your french fries. Pay attention to portion sizes on food packages. Remember, feeling a little bit hungry is not a bad thing.
3. Cut down or eliminate deep-fried stuff. It's loaded with fat. Eat grilled chicken instead of fried; have broiled fish instead of fish-and-chips. Substitute flank steak for hamburger. Have an occasional vegetarian/vegan meal. While I have no intention of going 100% vegan, there are plenty of meatless meals that I've found I like.
4. Avoid between-meal snacks. The calories can really add up. It's OK to have a treat now and then; just don't overdo it. Choose low-calorie snacks, and eat fresh fruit instead of candy.
I once weighed 245 lbs/111 kilos. Then, I made those four changes to my eating habits. For a month, I avoided stepping onto the scale, and when I finally did so, I found that I had lost a little weight. After six months, I was down to 210 lb/95 kg, and after a year, I leveled off at 170 lb/77 kg.
As for keeping the weight off, get some exercise. After my weight leveled off, I dragged my old mountain bike out of storage and started riding for the first time in eight years. I then switched to a recumbent for more comfort and speed (Mine is the 2001 model). I've taken many long rides on it; my personal distance record so far for a one-day ride is 150 miles/241 km.
This winter, the weather discouraged me from riding much, so I went back into diet mode when I noticed that I had gained a little. Now I'm down to 165 lb/75 kg...
Eventually, the spammer gave up - it must have noticed that I was firewalling the connections as soon as I detected them. MIMEDefang, combined with a modified filter script and ipchains or iptables, can do some neat tricks.
I guess I have no sympathy for the music biz, and, equally, no sympathy for the Kazaa crowd.
Basically, you should check MD5 checksums, or better yet, GPG signatures, if you're going to download a .iso from a P2P network instead of getting it from an official mirror site.
You should check them anyway, even when you get them from an official mirror, IMHO.
Not necessarily. Consider etree, for instance. Etree specializes in trading live music from trade-friendly bands such as the Grateful Dead and its sucessors, Phish, etc. However, etree trades involve lossless formats such as FLAC or Shorten, which take far more bandwidth than MP3 or Ogg Vorbis.
FTP and Web servers serving these files tend to be overloaded, so a peer-to-peer solution such as BitTorrent can be very handy for such trading.
Most of the development occured on the Korean Peninsula, at Hungnam (known as Konan under Japanese occupation), in what is now North Korea.
Allegedly, the test weapon was exploded three days before the war ended.
Aside from an interesting quote from Werner Heisenberg, it gives a lot of information about the efforts at sabotaging the heavy water processing plant. If you can find a copy, it's well worth the price.
Now we'll need to sacrifice goats for our routers, not just our disk drives!
It always uses "john@some-randomly-selected-domain" as its From: address.
Fortunately, the targetted domain is one whose users never pick up mail, so I can use it as a honeypot, and feed systems not found in relays.osirusoft.com into a private DNS blacklist. However, I got tired of chasing this dirtball, and set up MIMEDefang to automatically add this cretin to the server's firewall rules when one of its attacks is detected.
DAT and DDS cartridges use 4 mm tape, while MiniDV is 6 mm.
The problem is, if you look at the linuxrouter.org main page, you'll find that the site hasn't been updated since May 3, 2001. Most LRP development these days is on the LEAF site.
I'm using a floppy-based Bering system where I work as a multi-ISP router/firewall, and it works quite well.
How did that happen? Several factors: first, the third-generation family owners preferred to kick back and party rather than concentrate on the business. Even during the 1970s, the signs were showing. For a long time, they produced a line of lightweight, high-quality bikes in their Chicago plant, along with their heavier, mass-produced cousins like the Varsity. However, the utterly failed to promote them, and they were easily mistaken for the low-end bikes.
Meanwhile, out in California, people were taking old heavyweight cruiser bikes and fitting them with derailleur gears, and the mountain bike was born. Schwinn basically ignored this trend until it was too late.
Also, labor strife reared its ugly head. The Chicago factory was unionized, and the United Auto Workers decided that Schwinn workers should be paid on the same scale as GM, Ford, and Chrysler workers. Management's response was to build a plant in Mississippi, which turned into a complete boondoggle. Production eventually was shifted over to the Far East.
Schwinn eventually went bankrupt, and the pieces were picked up by vulture capitalist Sam Zell. Eventually, the Zell-operated version of Schwinn went bankrupt again.
It was picked up by GT, went on for a few more years, and went Tango Uniform yet again.
Now it is in the hands of Pacific Cycle, a mass-marketer whose products grace the shelves of department stores.
The only member of the Schwinn family who is still in the bike business is Richard Schwinn, who owns Waterford, an ultra-high-end manufacturer located in Waterford, Wisconsin. The factory, once upon a time, built Schwinn's high-end Paramount line. What a pity he didn't have the resources to buy back the name.
Every time I see a "Schwinn" in Wal-Mart, it sets my teeth on edge.
No wonder spammers like South Korea so much. I keep wondering if I'm going to have to blackhole all of Korea on the mail server that I run.
...try going to the National Weather Service instead, at least, if you're looking for U.S. weather information. No annoying pop-up BS!