People's working definition of DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) depends greatly on the hardware they use.
If the only network you admin is a Linksys box connected to a few computers and a cable modem/dsl, the DMZ (as defined by Linksys/D-Link/Belkin) is the IP address all incoming packets are forwarded to. Effectively, one of the computers on your internet is directly connected to the internet. Trafic between the 'DMZ Zone' and the rest of your network is unmonitored by the router.
If you use something more sophisticated, such as ipcop.org (runs on any ancient machine and a few network cards) or a true firewall appliance (ShoreWall, Cisco, etc), then you have the option of having the DMZ a seperate segment of the network. You can have incoming connections forwarded to different boxes in the DMZ, all of which can communicate with each other and the outside world, but cannot talk to things on the other zones without explicit permision (called DMZ Pinholes in ipcop).
Of course, you can also achieve this by cascading routers, as one of my friends does. He likes to share the internet freely with his neighbors, so anybody in range can connect to the internet via his wireless router. They cannot connect to his personal hardwired computers, as those are behind a seperate router which is itself plugged into the first router.
Just how do you think big business got big? By hiring millions of people at a time? Or by buying companies of 20-1000 people here and there and integrating them into divisions? With the exception of a very few businesses, the general trend for a small business is to start and grow. Then, one of three things happens:
Die. (probably a little over half, depending how you define a 'business')
Become 'Big Businesses' (depends on definition. of Big, but around 0.1-1%). Even then, their growth often comes from buying smaller businesses and merging.
Be bought by a big company (20-40%)
This is why the US has small business development centers in every county (at least in NJ). They know that small businesses fuel growth. Have you ever tried to start a small business in both America and Europe? I've worked as in independent computer consultant in America, England, and Spain. There is -0- paperwork or requirements in the US. I can just start seeing clients. At the end of the year I fill out the tax form for businesses - one page. That's it. Spain? Get registered, define your business, get a sales tax number, pay 500 Euros every month for their version of Social Security from day 1, even if you aren't making a penny. Hiring someone in the US isn't a walk in the park, but try hiring someone in France (and when things don't work out, fire them).
The only thing that saddens me about the US Small business model is that we seem to be giving up on it. Welcome to Walmart.
Dirt? It's all around him (and the US). Does anybody know why Guatamala has had a shaky political record? From wikipedia:
Guatemalan history has been marked by the Cold War between the USA and the USSR. The Central Intelligence Agency, supported by a small group of Guatemalan citizens, orchestrated the overthrow of the democratic socialist freely-elected Guatemalan government in 1954. This was known as Operation PBSUCCESS and led to over thirty years of unrest in the nation during which over 200,000 Guatemalans were killed (students, workers, professionals and opossitors of all political tendencies during the first 10 years of the repression and thousands of mostly Mayan Indians in the last phases of the conflict), more than 450 Mayan villages were destroyed, and over one million people became refugees. This is considered to be one of the worst ethnic cleansings in modern Latin America. Contributing reasons include US support of every successive, mostly non-democratic and military governments in Guatemala. From the 1950s until the 1990s, the U.S. directly supported Guatemala's army by supplying it with combatant training, weaponry, and money. The U.S. sent the Green Berets to Guatemala to transform its Army into a "modern counter-insurgency force," making their army the most powerful and sophisticated in Central America.
For more amusement, type guatamala and CIA into google.
I went to (or wandered into, more aptly) the Ubuntu conference in Mataro, Spain, I think the first or second Ubuntu somewhere-in-the-world Ubuntu meeting. I didn't speak personally to Mark Shuttleworth, but I overheard him talking about how (this is from my foggy memory) he wanted Ubuntu to be the top distribution, about how when people decided to install linux, they would reach straight for Ubuntu.
It wasn't dissimilar to things I heard out of Red Hat some 5 years ago, when they said they wanted the words "Linux" = "Red Hat". He has gone farther producing a smooth distribution that can be used at home or at work in production (choose the server install for those complaining about bloat), farther then Red Hat or others, all for free.
As for the money thing, someone who goes into Space for the Sh*ts and Giggles of it probably has a massive interest in exploring new and intersting things. I'd say Ubuntu does two things for him: It allows him to help the world by providing (what he thinks is) the best linux distribution, for free, which focuses on more spoken languages than most; and it allows him to explore the process of starting, developing, and maintaining both the team and distribution behind Ubuntu. And, as he ins't a business n00b, he has done it in such a way that the most intellegent place to look for paid support for Ubuntu (which is fast going on more and more IT guys desktops) is from his very-for-profit company Canonical.
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This killed me: The stories about a FireWire breakout box for GarageBand, code-named 'Asteroid.'
The story is = The story's != The stories
'stories' means plural story, not 'story is'.
OK,OK, maybe grammar geek needs to get laid, but still!
I have already founded a company that does just this, and using clever malware have installed it on all Linux machines. If you'd like to test it, open a terminal and type
Could someone please describe what Netwosix so we can appreciate the purported dilemma?
It's just like NetwoEight (Minute Abs) but you can accomplish the same thing in Six Minutes. And if you're not satisfied . . . (I'm sorry, this joke's not going to get any funnier if I finish it. You know the rest)
Many of the criteria used here are subjective, and based upon existing human estimation of the movie's success. For instance, when a movie opens in a large numbers of theatre's simultaneously, it usually means people have already predicted it will be successful. Also, movies are often chosen to 'Open' on a date that doesn't conflict with other movies, and is chosed to maximise revenue. It's a real stretch to call this software's process 'scientific'.
People can read, right now and for free, 16,000 titles at Project Gutenberg http://gutenberg.org/ but they don't. Simply, people prefer to hold the parchment, crease the pages, and bend the spine. If they were going to pay money for ebooks, they would have started by reading the classics for free.
An unpatched Windows system, directly connected to the internet, is comprimised in minutes, while an unpatched OSX system is never comprimised. Are we to blame that on the bad rap because [Windows is] expected to run with every piece of hardware out there?
Exactly - Sexual Selection occurs every day for humans. Natural selection is very crude - you are either dead or alive.
Sexual selection allows mates to select the best possible candidate based on whatever arbitrary characteristics he or (usually) she desires. Have you noticed some people are more successful in bars than others? This is sexual selection in action.
If you want to learn more, google for "Sexual selection", and even for "peacock" at the same time to see how peacocks are an excellent example of sexual selection in action. Do you thing those giant tails help them fly farther or faster? Or require less energy to maintain? Those tails are about one thing - telling the female you are a healthy male. The female isn't concsious of this, but she selects based on tail size, and the cycle continues.
But he added: "The real issue is elsewhere. And it is immense."
The French minister took another drag from his Marlboro cigarette before continuing . . .
It is confirmation of the risk of a crushing American domination in the definition of how future generations conceive the world."
I'm an american who's lived in 3 European countries, and they all love to bash America, literally while smoking Reds. They breath second hand smoke into my face as they complain about emissions from SUV's. I'd like to respect their ideals, but it's amazing how blind they are to themselves. Thank god (cough cough) America doesn't have any (cough) hypocrisy.
I don't care about cameras, music, ringtones, etc. What I really want is a Cellular/VoIP phone that intelligently switches between the two depending on my location, day/time, etc, that always uses the same number.
The cellular phone aspect exists already (it's probably in your pocket right now), and Vonage is coming out with their own VoIP WiFi phone in a month or two. If they can combine 8 other functions, then they can combine cellular (CDMA, GSM, whatever) with Wifi VoIP. I could use this phone in the US and get amazing coverage, and then travel anywhere in the world and pay no roaming charges, just as easily as I could use the wifi aspect during peak times at home to save on cellular minutes.
I know they don't do this because their goal is to extract money, not proide us a service we want. Someday some company will, and we will hear a giant sucking noise as customers flee their current providers to get this. If Verizon teamed up with Vonage and did this tomorrow, they would gain incredible market share. Or Cingular with Skype. Or anything.
I'm an American living in Spain, and the gist of this article is familiar to me, but the author is missing a lot. European coverage may be more, and a larger percent might own them, but they don't use their phones nearly as much because everything is ridiculously expensive. The article also says
They pay nothing to receive mobile phone calls in their home country.
The result of this? MUCH higher charges to the caller when calling a mobile number vs a land line. Call a Spanish landline from the US - 4 cents a minute. Call a Spanish Cell Phone from the US - 30 cents a minute. Call from within Spain and you pay about the same price, and same difference.
What the US calls Number portability, where you move a number from a land-line to mobile, is impossible here, and will remain so indefinately.
When I explain to Spaniards that I had nights and weekends free, Verizon to Verizon calls for free, and 25 minutes a day of talktime for 40 Euros a month, they crap themselves. I don't care how many text messages they might send, the system here is years (or Dollars, depending on your viewpoint) behind.
What I can't believe the article didn't mention was VOIP. I'm not talking about Spanish companies offering VOIP, but US Companies competing internationally, offering local numbers everywhere. I can't wait for Vonage to come in and crush stodgy old Telefonica. And it's starting to happen. I can get a Vonage account for 15 dollars a month, and add a Spanish number to my account for $5 more a month. Spaniards won't know or care who I get my service from - they'll just call the Spanish number and I'll pick up the phone. Outgoing calls to Spanish numbers, both land-line and mobile, is about the same through Telefonica or Vonage. Calling anywhere else in the world is cheaper on Vonage. The savings to hassle ratio isn't enough for most Spanish Companies yet, but it's a matter of time.
One final aside - one of my consulting clients was an elderly businessman formerly in charge of running ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph) in Spain, as a partner to Telefonica - Spain's AT&T, if you will. During the Franco era, when state monopoly meant state monopoly, getting a new landline to a business took - get this - 16 months. John told me the story of how an old fraternity brother called him up and explained that he was opening a GE branch office in Spain, and they needed a telephone line. John, perhaps having more power in the phone business than anyone else in Spain, used all his abilities and got the lead time for a phone line down to 6 weeks. Admitedly, customer service has improved since the 60's, but not much.
This reminded me of James Lovelock's book Gaia, which explained his Gaia theory, also reviewed here.
Lovelock was hired by NASA in the 60's to begin the process of looking for life on Mars. He concluded that a lifeless planet would have a static environment in equilibrium (or chemical equilibrium), unlike a planet with life which would neither be static or have chemical equilibrium. This seemed to dovetail with the article's "
QUESTION #5:WHAT DOES LIFE ONOTHER PLANETS LOOK LIKE?". Readers of evolutionary biology and people who study game theory in economics will probably find much theory in common with the Zimmer article.
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People's working definition of DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) depends greatly on the hardware they use.
If the only network you admin is a Linksys box connected to a few computers and a cable modem/dsl, the DMZ (as defined by Linksys/D-Link/Belkin) is the IP address all incoming packets are forwarded to. Effectively, one of the computers on your internet is directly connected to the internet. Trafic between the 'DMZ Zone' and the rest of your network is unmonitored by the router.
If you use something more sophisticated, such as ipcop.org (runs on any ancient machine and a few network cards) or a true firewall appliance (ShoreWall, Cisco, etc), then you have the option of having the DMZ a seperate segment of the network. You can have incoming connections forwarded to different boxes in the DMZ, all of which can communicate with each other and the outside world, but cannot talk to things on the other zones without explicit permision (called DMZ Pinholes in ipcop).
Of course, you can also achieve this by cascading routers, as one of my friends does. He likes to share the internet freely with his neighbors, so anybody in range can connect to the internet via his wireless router. They cannot connect to his personal hardwired computers, as those are behind a seperate router which is itself plugged into the first router.
people don't throw their panties at me
What else don't people throw at Linus? Can we say . . . Baked Goods?
This is why the US has small business development centers in every county (at least in NJ). They know that small businesses fuel growth. Have you ever tried to start a small business in both America and Europe? I've worked as in independent computer consultant in America, England, and Spain. There is -0- paperwork or requirements in the US. I can just start seeing clients. At the end of the year I fill out the tax form for businesses - one page. That's it. Spain? Get registered, define your business, get a sales tax number, pay 500 Euros every month for their version of Social Security from day 1, even if you aren't making a penny. Hiring someone in the US isn't a walk in the park, but try hiring someone in France (and when things don't work out, fire them).
The only thing that saddens me about the US Small business model is that we seem to be giving up on it. Welcome to Walmart.
The Republicans are the most foul, corrupt, incompetent bunch that this country has ever seen in power.
Honestly, how can you say that? Need I quote this famous line?
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Now, I'll give you that the Republicans are the worst on this planet. But the universe? That's pushing it.
I don't complain to Microsoft when Firefox crashes on my XP machine.
Maybe not to Microsoft. But about Microsoft? Come-on, be honest. Get it off your chest. We all do it.
Dirt? It's all around him (and the US). Does anybody know why Guatamala has had a shaky political record? From wikipedia:
Guatemalan history has been marked by the Cold War between the USA and the USSR. The Central Intelligence Agency, supported by a small group of Guatemalan citizens, orchestrated the overthrow of the democratic socialist freely-elected Guatemalan government in 1954. This was known as Operation PBSUCCESS and led to over thirty years of unrest in the nation during which over 200,000 Guatemalans were killed (students, workers, professionals and opossitors of all political tendencies during the first 10 years of the repression and thousands of mostly Mayan Indians in the last phases of the conflict), more than 450 Mayan villages were destroyed, and over one million people became refugees. This is considered to be one of the worst ethnic cleansings in modern Latin America. Contributing reasons include US support of every successive, mostly non-democratic and military governments in Guatemala. From the 1950s until the 1990s, the U.S. directly supported Guatemala's army by supplying it with combatant training, weaponry, and money. The U.S. sent the Green Berets to Guatemala to transform its Army into a "modern counter-insurgency force," making their army the most powerful and sophisticated in Central America.
For more amusement, type guatamala and CIA into google.
I went to (or wandered into, more aptly) the Ubuntu conference in Mataro, Spain, I think the first or second Ubuntu somewhere-in-the-world Ubuntu meeting. I didn't speak personally to Mark Shuttleworth, but I overheard him talking about how (this is from my foggy memory) he wanted Ubuntu to be the top distribution, about how when people decided to install linux, they would reach straight for Ubuntu.
It wasn't dissimilar to things I heard out of Red Hat some 5 years ago, when they said they wanted the words "Linux" = "Red Hat". He has gone farther producing a smooth distribution that can be used at home or at work in production (choose the server install for those complaining about bloat), farther then Red Hat or others, all for free.
As for the money thing, someone who goes into Space for the Sh*ts and Giggles of it probably has a massive interest in exploring new and intersting things. I'd say Ubuntu does two things for him: It allows him to help the world by providing (what he thinks is) the best linux distribution, for free, which focuses on more spoken languages than most; and it allows him to explore the process of starting, developing, and maintaining both the team and distribution behind Ubuntu. And, as he ins't a business n00b, he has done it in such a way that the most intellegent place to look for paid support for Ubuntu (which is fast going on more and more IT guys desktops) is from his very-for-profit company Canonical.
This killed me: The stories about a FireWire breakout box for GarageBand, code-named 'Asteroid.'
The story is = The story's != The stories
'stories' means plural story, not 'story is'.
OK,OK, maybe grammar geek needs to get laid, but still!
I have already founded a company that does just this, and using clever malware have installed it on all Linux machines. If you'd like to test it, open a terminal and type
wget -m google.com/search?q=cache
Could someone please describe what Netwosix so we can appreciate the purported dilemma?
It's just like NetwoEight (Minute Abs) but you can accomplish the same thing in Six Minutes. And if you're not satisfied . . . (I'm sorry, this joke's not going to get any funnier if I finish it. You know the rest)
Many of the criteria used here are subjective, and based upon existing human estimation of the movie's success. For instance, when a movie opens in a large numbers of theatre's simultaneously, it usually means people have already predicted it will be successful. Also, movies are often chosen to 'Open' on a date that doesn't conflict with other movies, and is chosed to maximise revenue. It's a real stretch to call this software's process 'scientific'.
People can read, right now and for free, 16,000 titles at Project Gutenberg http://gutenberg.org/ but they don't. Simply, people prefer to hold the parchment, crease the pages, and bend the spine. If they were going to pay money for ebooks, they would have started by reading the classics for free.
An unpatched Windows system, directly connected to the internet, is comprimised in minutes, while an unpatched OSX system is never comprimised. Are we to blame that on the bad rap because [Windows is] expected to run with every piece of hardware out there?
Games will continue to exist for the PC as long as the following equation holds:
Cost of porting from console to PC < Increase in Net Income from Porting to PC
All the discussions about videocards on slashdot will never change the fact that the companies want to make money, and will do whatever they have to.
Exactly - Sexual Selection occurs every day for humans. Natural selection is very crude - you are either dead or alive.
Sexual selection allows mates to select the best possible candidate based on whatever arbitrary characteristics he or (usually) she desires. Have you noticed some people are more successful in bars than others? This is sexual selection in action.
If you want to learn more, google for "Sexual selection", and even for "peacock" at the same time to see how peacocks are an excellent example of sexual selection in action. Do you thing those giant tails help them fly farther or faster? Or require less energy to maintain? Those tails are about one thing - telling the female you are a healthy male. The female isn't concsious of this, but she selects based on tail size, and the cycle continues.
But he added: "The real issue is elsewhere. And it is immense."
The French minister took another drag from his Marlboro cigarette before continuing . . .
It is confirmation of the risk of a crushing American domination in the definition of how future generations conceive the world."
I'm an american who's lived in 3 European countries, and they all love to bash America, literally while smoking Reds. They breath second hand smoke into my face as they complain about emissions from SUV's. I'd like to respect their ideals, but it's amazing how blind they are to themselves. Thank god (cough cough) America doesn't have any (cough) hypocrisy.
I don't care about cameras, music, ringtones, etc. What I really want is a Cellular/VoIP phone that intelligently switches between the two depending on my location, day/time, etc, that always uses the same number.
The cellular phone aspect exists already (it's probably in your pocket right now), and Vonage is coming out with their own VoIP WiFi phone in a month or two. If they can combine 8 other functions, then they can combine cellular (CDMA, GSM, whatever) with Wifi VoIP. I could use this phone in the US and get amazing coverage, and then travel anywhere in the world and pay no roaming charges, just as easily as I could use the wifi aspect during peak times at home to save on cellular minutes.
I know they don't do this because their goal is to extract money, not proide us a service we want. Someday some company will, and we will hear a giant sucking noise as customers flee their current providers to get this. If Verizon teamed up with Vonage and did this tomorrow, they would gain incredible market share. Or Cingular with Skype. Or anything.
Meesa thinks you gonna wait long time!
They pay nothing to receive mobile phone calls in their home country.
The result of this? MUCH higher charges to the caller when calling a mobile number vs a land line. Call a Spanish landline from the US - 4 cents a minute. Call a Spanish Cell Phone from the US - 30 cents a minute. Call from within Spain and you pay about the same price, and same difference.
What the US calls Number portability, where you move a number from a land-line to mobile, is impossible here, and will remain so indefinately.
When I explain to Spaniards that I had nights and weekends free, Verizon to Verizon calls for free, and 25 minutes a day of talktime for 40 Euros a month, they crap themselves. I don't care how many text messages they might send, the system here is years (or Dollars, depending on your viewpoint) behind.
What I can't believe the article didn't mention was VOIP. I'm not talking about Spanish companies offering VOIP, but US Companies competing internationally, offering local numbers everywhere. I can't wait for Vonage to come in and crush stodgy old Telefonica. And it's starting to happen. I can get a Vonage account for 15 dollars a month, and add a Spanish number to my account for $5 more a month. Spaniards won't know or care who I get my service from - they'll just call the Spanish number and I'll pick up the phone. Outgoing calls to Spanish numbers, both land-line and mobile, is about the same through Telefonica or Vonage. Calling anywhere else in the world is cheaper on Vonage. The savings to hassle ratio isn't enough for most Spanish Companies yet, but it's a matter of time.
One final aside - one of my consulting clients was an elderly businessman formerly in charge of running ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph) in Spain, as a partner to Telefonica - Spain's AT&T, if you will. During the Franco era, when state monopoly meant state monopoly, getting a new landline to a business took - get this - 16 months. John told me the story of how an old fraternity brother called him up and explained that he was opening a GE branch office in Spain, and they needed a telephone line. John, perhaps having more power in the phone business than anyone else in Spain, used all his abilities and got the lead time for a phone line down to 6 weeks. Admitedly, customer service has improved since the 60's, but not much.
Lovelock was hired by NASA in the 60's to begin the process of looking for life on Mars. He concluded that a lifeless planet would have a static environment in equilibrium (or chemical equilibrium), unlike a planet with life which would neither be static or have chemical equilibrium. This seemed to dovetail with the article's " QUESTION #5:WHAT DOES LIFE ONOTHER PLANETS LOOK LIKE?". Readers of evolutionary biology and people who study game theory in economics will probably find much theory in common with the Zimmer article.