This brings me to a thought I have every time someone wants to know if they have enough bandwidth for voip. How much of h323, voip, etc.. is consumed to keep the whole accounting; pay per call, distance of call, who is calling, etc.. type stuff together? It seems to me a constant open stream where audio could traverse in any direction and any distance would not be that bandwidth intensive. Maybe I just don't understand everything involved.
if you wanted a secure linux system you could of had one 5/10 years ago, its just you had to actually do it yourself.
isn't that the way linux should be. having a guide line is exactly what you want when your starting out to do just that.
as far as how effective it is, i'd have to say it is good stuff too bad few people are ready for it. it would be great if everyone was to the point hardening the system is their weak spot but it isn't. IMHO most Linux machines don't get owned because they are administrated by newbies that don't keep the system up to date. they are administrated by lazy admins that don't even try to use a good password. web based applications that have exploits in them can be thwarted with selinux et el but it don't do $h1t if the root password can be guessed after a two hour ssh brute force attack.
I think most of your post is tongue and cheek but...
Back in the day when 3d applications were on Digital, Mac, and Irix machines microsoft focused on getting them ported to NT. This did a good job of killing Digital, Irix, and Apple. Getting Blender, IMHO the 3d tool with the most rapidly growing community, to run "best" on Windows would help thwart adoption of Linux. Not just adoption by users but adoption by hardware makers. If you can keep hardware makers focused on building for your platform, users will not leave.
Better yet, force the telco's to put up the fiber networks they were awarded huge tax cuts to put up! They don't have bandwidth problems they have accountability problems created by the RIAA et el backed by people desperately trying to find a way to sensor the net.
It makes it easier for me to succeed. Which is why I was trying to avoid posting. The Kauffman Foundation needs to stop giving out secrets. If 40 somethings found out they could take their experience and make a go at it on their own... hey wait! You little shit! What do you mean older?!? 40 isn't old!
I agree with the majority of what you say but it isn't exactly true. My code, of course, is perfect and should never be touched. However, I'm a grinder at best and nobody contributes to my projects but me. That being said, my code is very specific and for my own gratification. I would say a great majority of FOSS code at least started that way. I wouldn't use an application I couldn't make a change to its behavior. Nor would I use an application I couldn't rip apart and change because its behavior pissed me off. When something you do is liked by the public, when exactly does the code have to stop being "for yourself"?
tcp torrent traffic and spam bot traffic are virtually identical. vuze doesn't seem to know this because they look at tcp traffic and p2p lives on both tcp and udp. looking for packets with the rst bit set would better indicate blocked botnet traffic.
It has to be noted that the data gathering techniques Vuze uses are far from optimal. The plugin detects all TCP resets on a connection and doesn't make a distinction between BitTorrent and other traffic, and there is no control group.
if all they are doing is looking for rst flags then they have no real data. the only way to distinguish the traffic is p2p is by looking in the body of the packet for client information. if anyone here has sniffed traffic they know only the most popular p2p clients identify themselves.
You have to hand it to the author for his skill at being neutral. The beauty of the Eee PC is its simplicity, so filling it up with a heavy duty OS, when you simply don't need the majority of the features it offers seems pointless I envy him, and you. I can never keep myself from typing "bloated pile of..." when referring to xp.
Thanks to the telco's taking their tax breaks and leaving everyone high and dry on fiber nobody else has 50M. So what if people in the burbs have 50M. Nobody but the biggest companies have 50M.
I was thinking this was someone in the U.S. and was eventually found innocent until I read on. Unlike you, IMHO it is OK to brutalize innocent US citizens if the they are connected to the gov, or cherch, and the laws are of the "bs morality gone wild" stuff getting dumped on the US. It is really sad to hear brits have no freedom anymore either.
With Vista and other new products, Microsoft ships the hardening guide along with the product
Dell, Toshiba, HP, et el do not send that documentation along with a new machine when Vista is pre-installed. Could they be held accountable for people getting pwnd? Could this be an opening to get the M$ tax back when someone is forced to buy a machine with Vista on it?
Microsoft have used software libraries that were released by the BSD community in their products for years. They "incorporated" tools written by hobbiests into DOS, back in the day, without any note to the contributors. It only proves they move blindly towards the money, never look behind, and never clean the people they step on off the bottom of their shoes.
How can someone be sure the link is for the fed? If a link isn't for real, spoofing the ip address of someone you hate would be a lot of waisted time and effort. Even if you don't have to spoof. Like if you know they have open wireless or something it would be a pain. I mean, you go to a lot of trouble setting up on a wireless network. You have to find a spot, park the car, kismet and aircrack... If that isn't enough, then you have to make sure the links you hit are going to do someone in. I don't want to have to waist a bunch of gas keeping my laptops charged just for a bunch of sic pics.
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This brings me to a thought I have every time someone wants to know if they have enough bandwidth for voip. How much of h323, voip, etc.. is consumed to keep the whole accounting; pay per call, distance of call, who is calling, etc.. type stuff together? It seems to me a constant open stream where audio could traverse in any direction and any distance would not be that bandwidth intensive. Maybe I just don't understand everything involved.
if you wanted a secure linux system you could of had one 5/10 years ago, its just you had to actually do it yourself.
isn't that the way linux should be. having a guide line is exactly what you want when your starting out to do just that.
as far as how effective it is, i'd have to say it is good stuff too bad few people are ready for it. it would be great if everyone was to the point hardening the system is their weak spot but it isn't. IMHO most Linux machines don't get owned because they are administrated by newbies that don't keep the system up to date. they are administrated by lazy admins that don't even try to use a good password. web based applications that have exploits in them can be thwarted with selinux et el but it don't do $h1t if the root password can be guessed after a two hour ssh brute force attack.
I think most of your post is tongue and cheek but...
Back in the day when 3d applications were on Digital, Mac, and Irix machines microsoft focused on getting them ported to NT. This did a good job of killing Digital, Irix, and Apple. Getting Blender, IMHO the 3d tool with the most rapidly growing community, to run "best" on Windows would help thwart adoption of Linux. Not just adoption by users but adoption by hardware makers. If you can keep hardware makers focused on building for your platform, users will not leave.
Better yet, force the telco's to put up the fiber networks they were awarded huge tax cuts to put up! They don't have bandwidth problems they have accountability problems created by the RIAA et el backed by people desperately trying to find a way to sensor the net.
i will now sing the doom song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqcn_TPu4qQ
what if you use both hands? will you have twins?
or you can just go build the thing, put it on the road, and make modifications from there to the finish line.
Hell, Microsoft works that way and look where they are.
me thinks the government is worried about smelling funny. http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/01/129230
It makes it easier for me to succeed.
Which is why I was trying to avoid posting. The Kauffman Foundation needs to stop giving out secrets. If 40 somethings found out they could take their experience and make a go at it on their own... hey wait! You little shit! What do you mean older?!? 40 isn't old!
I agree with the majority of what you say but it isn't exactly true. My code, of course, is perfect and should never be touched. However, I'm a grinder at best and nobody contributes to my projects but me. That being said, my code is very specific and for my own gratification. I would say a great majority of FOSS code at least started that way. I wouldn't use an application I couldn't make a change to its behavior. Nor would I use an application I couldn't rip apart and change because its behavior pissed me off. When something you do is liked by the public, when exactly does the code have to stop being "for yourself"?
you are 100% correct. i'm a windows hater but still admit; if someone has physical access to your computer your fscked regardless of the os.
interfering with torrents on their network
tcp torrent traffic and spam bot traffic are virtually identical. vuze doesn't seem to know this because they look at tcp traffic and p2p lives on both tcp and udp. looking for packets with the rst bit set would better indicate blocked botnet traffic.
It has to be noted that the data gathering techniques Vuze uses are far from optimal. The plugin detects all TCP resets on a connection and doesn't make a distinction between BitTorrent and other traffic, and there is no control group.
if all they are doing is looking for rst flags then they have no real data. the only way to distinguish the traffic is p2p is by looking in the body of the packet for client information. if anyone here has sniffed traffic they know only the most popular p2p clients identify themselves.
You have to hand it to the author for his skill at being neutral. The beauty of the Eee PC is its simplicity, so filling it up with a heavy duty OS, when you simply don't need the majority of the features it offers seems pointless I envy him, and you. I can never keep myself from typing "bloated pile of..." when referring to xp.
See!
wait. what is wrong with the waterfalls in oblivion?
Like all technology races, simplicity wins. If Intel provides tools that make it easier to develop ray tracing games, the GPU will be displaced.
as many hardware hackers there are reading /. i would think this response would already be here...
It would be very easy to disguise a device that effects aircraft instruments as a cell phone.
It must be because Windows has had such a long and stable history of running on 64bit hardware.
http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/
Thanks to the telco's taking their tax breaks and leaving everyone high and dry on fiber nobody else has 50M. So what if people in the burbs have 50M. Nobody but the biggest companies have 50M.
I was thinking this was someone in the U.S. and was eventually found innocent until I read on. Unlike you, IMHO it is OK to brutalize innocent US citizens if the they are connected to the gov, or cherch, and the laws are of the "bs morality gone wild" stuff getting dumped on the US. It is really sad to hear brits have no freedom anymore either.
With Vista and other new products, Microsoft ships the hardening guide along with the product
Dell, Toshiba, HP, et el do not send that documentation along with a new machine when Vista is pre-installed. Could they be held accountable for people getting pwnd? Could this be an opening to get the M$ tax back when someone is forced to buy a machine with Vista on it?
Could someone please explain to me why anyone wanting an interface that uses Kon.. er QT.. er Safari would be using Windows in the first place?
It is so hard to be facetious these days.
Microsoft have used software libraries that were released by the BSD community in their products for years. They "incorporated" tools written by hobbiests into DOS, back in the day, without any note to the contributors. It only proves they move blindly towards the money, never look behind, and never clean the people they step on off the bottom of their shoes.
How can someone be sure the link is for the fed? If a link isn't for real, spoofing the ip address of someone you hate would be a lot of waisted time and effort. Even if you don't have to spoof. Like if you know they have open wireless or something it would be a pain. I mean, you go to a lot of trouble setting up on a wireless network. You have to find a spot, park the car, kismet and aircrack... If that isn't enough, then you have to make sure the links you hit are going to do someone in. I don't want to have to waist a bunch of gas keeping my laptops charged just for a bunch of sic pics.
Sorry about the bold.