And perhaps set your SSH port to a non-standard port, where possible? Brute-force attackers seem to ignore high (> 1023) ports.
This has been the single most useful thing I've done on my public-facing servers. I've gone from hundreds of BF attacks a day down to 0 just by moving the SSH port from 22 to [some number in the upper range].
That's kind of like saying, "Why put this code that has been copied and pasted 300 times into a shared function? We have plenty of memory, this way we don't have to worry about if one caller wants to change the functionality."
Of course, if you also don't see the problem with that, I really can't help you...
Yeha, I can't think of anything else that could have been a contributing factor there... One could also make a case that what we're encountering now is the continuation and culmination of what started then - because that era marks the start of steep increases in the national debt which have nevr been reversed.
Though I daresay even FDR would drop dead of massive coronary (if he wasn't already dead) with the numbers that have been bandied about as part of this 'recovery plan'.
Yeah, and I'm so far off-base right? Let's also not forget that unemployment numbers only measure the people currently receiving unemployment benefits, which is a subset of the total unemployed.
That's just "noise" - the backgruond thoughts that go on without you really giving them attention. ANd I agree that this is what Wave seems to be modeled after... but IMO that kind of thinking isn't very productive [most of the time]; I'd hesitate to say that anything modeled after it will be a tool useful for any reason beyond creating more noise.
But I'll try it first, could easily be mistaken. I think perhaps the blogger in this post was more focused on trying to use it as an IM replacement, than in any meaningful way. That surely makes a difference as well.
well... apple did a lot less things to piss people off five years ago, while the ipod was a success they weren't actively trying to kill anything and everything that could interact with it by any means possible like they are now.
For me it's simpler. Diehard apple fans were a lot less numerous. I don't think they are any more rabid than they were - but there are so many more of them, and so quick to tell us how "if this was mac it wouldn't.. " or "on mac this isn't a..." or... or...
I find the same attitude equally annoying from diehard linux fans, and diehard windows 7 fans. (I didn't see many windows fanatics before win7, not the way we do now.) There is no single operating system or platform that's a panacea. Stop trying so hard to convince everyone that yours is just that, because it just makes you sound like that annoying kid who plugs his hears and shouts "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
Erm... oops, that looks suspiciously like a rant. But there you have it... the dirty core of my own distaste for [vocal] mac [people].
Comcast-NBC will be merging while the economy is on the rise
Do you really believe that the economy is on the rise? That pumping a couple of trillion dollars of debt into it has magically fixed all of the problems? We'll see a short-term improvement, perhaps, but in the long term we're just building it up to be worse than it ever would have without government "stimulus", tarp, and other such foolishness./uninformed-but-common-sense-opinion
I suspect I'd feel much like I did when I first swapped my grill's propane tank at a 'tank swap' refill place. Annoyed: I walked in with an empty but brand-new tank... and left with a beaten up, dented well-used full tank.
And that's just with a $20 propane tank. How irritating would it be when my multi-thousand dollar brand new battery pack gets swapped for something two years old and near the end of of its lifespan?
I thought their changes to java were to optimize it further for efficiency/stability/security, or were those just Google excuses for putting something more proprietary? Would you agree that Android still seems to be the most open & promising phone/pda OS out there currently?
Well - the optimizations could be done at the JVM level, without tossing out the standards-based APIs, etc. The only reason I can think that they would ahve done this is to keep android apps exclusive to android.
Because of this, I can't agree that it's the most open & promising phone OS out there.
In addition, almost every other major phone out there has a java runtime that is also capable of running those same apps -- that's literally hundreds of thousands of J2ME apps that google decided they don't want running on their OS. This also means anyone developing for the wider J2ME market who also wants to release for android must re-create their software from scratch -- a J2ME build and an Android build.
If they had written this as a new OS, without Java, I would probably love it. But to call it Java without supporting any of the Java standards -- indeed, not even compatible JVM implementation -- is frustrating.
you'd be better off increasing the size of the battery.
Or reducing the hunger of your phone. My $15 Nokia lasts 2-3 weeks per recharge if I'm not using it for conversations. I have another phone I use regularly, this one just sits on my desk all day long, functioning mostly as a clock and a paperweight.
yes, typically if you do not use your phone for anything, you can expect to enjoy extended battery life;)
ut the things that are actually useful and make it valuable are proprietary and can't be messed with without being sued.
Because there's nothing valuable in the underlying operating system... oh, right, except for the fact that those "useful" things can't be run without it.
Sure, that's mostly what I was referring to. The code for a crawler is simple - the resources to use them effectively is something else entirely; the intarwebs are just too big for a startup to do it without laying down tons of cash for hardware/"cloud" hardware.
What about following established J2ME/CLDC standards instead of going in a completely different and incompatible direction, meaning that all of the existing J2ME apps that work on phones and devices around the world simply can't , in spite of the fact that android is a java platform.
Erm, oops. A bit of bitterness leaked through there...
It's expensive and inefficient to set up your own crawlers. This gives a viable alternative -- with bandwidth and CPU that is provided by people who know what they're giving up [presumably]; and who are doing it in exchange for some other value received.
All in all, I'd have to say this is a pretty good idea.
I'm not sure why I do that, but I do have tendency to omit words - I usually catch it on preview though. I considered posting to correct it, but ultimately figured that the point was made regardless -- it wasn't worth having to wait five minutes on the page to be able to make the post.
I'm usually first to argue with the vehement anti-twitter sentiment 'round here, but this is just an asinine and foolhardy idea.
Since the launch of our new MyVantage online account management system in April, many members have asked for a mobile banking solution. We'r
And this is what you've come up with? Not... I don't know, secure email, hell even text messages... no, we'll use twitter for submitting private banking info? And oh, just happen to share it with the twitter corp as well? Genius, pure genius.
Now the government has pushed laws that turn them into fat, power greedy (at the expense of civil liberties), money hungry (ticket/fine scams and other dirty practices) pigs
Oh come on... how many police officers do you know? You're basing this on a stereotype - and like most stereotypes there is an element of truth to it, but that's hardly the whole picture; and it's certainly not accurately representative of the whole.
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If they didn't grossly overcharge for the product, most people would have no complaints.
I daresay that you don't know "most people" so well... ;)
My /var/log/auth.log might be filled with WARNING BRIAN YOUR DOG HAS BEEN COMPROMISED BY ENEMY AGENTS for all I know.
It is. Also, I've changed your password for you. You can thank me later.
And perhaps set your SSH port to a non-standard port, where possible? Brute-force attackers seem to ignore high (> 1023) ports.
This has been the single most useful thing I've done on my public-facing servers. I've gone from hundreds of BF attacks a day down to 0 just by moving the SSH port from 22 to [some number in the upper range].
IPv4 Exhaustion is expected approximately 734 days from today's date. That is just about 2 years.
Remember the story about the boy who cried wolf? Yah. This is that.
Except this time the boy is 32 bits , and the wolf is a roll royce.
Crap. That didn't work at all.
Of course, if you also don't see the problem with that, I really can't help you...
Though I daresay even FDR would drop dead of massive coronary (if he wasn't already dead) with the numbers that have been bandied about as part of this 'recovery plan'.
Yeah, and I'm so far off-base right? Let's also not forget that unemployment numbers only measure the people currently receiving unemployment benefits, which is a subset of the total unemployed.
But I'll try it first, could easily be mistaken. I think perhaps the blogger in this post was more focused on trying to use it as an IM replacement, than in any meaningful way. That surely makes a difference as well.
well... apple did a lot less things to piss people off five years ago, while the ipod was a success they weren't actively trying to kill anything and everything that could interact with it by any means possible like they are now.
For me it's simpler. Diehard apple fans were a lot less numerous. I don't think they are any more rabid than they were - but there are so many more of them, and so quick to tell us how "if this was mac it wouldn't.. " or "on mac this isn't a ..." or... or...
I find the same attitude equally annoying from diehard linux fans, and diehard windows 7 fans. (I didn't see many windows fanatics before win7, not the way we do now.) There is no single operating system or platform that's a panacea. Stop trying so hard to convince everyone that yours is just that, because it just makes you sound like that annoying kid who plugs his hears and shouts "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
Erm... oops, that looks suspiciously like a rant. But there you have it... the dirty core of my own distaste for [vocal] mac [people].
Comcast-NBC will be merging while the economy is on the rise
Do you really believe that the economy is on the rise? That pumping a couple of trillion dollars of debt into it has magically fixed all of the problems? We'll see a short-term improvement, perhaps, but in the long term we're just building it up to be worse than it ever would have without government "stimulus", tarp, and other such foolishness. /uninformed-but-common-sense-opinion
And that's just with a $20 propane tank. How irritating would it be when my multi-thousand dollar brand new battery pack gets swapped for something two years old and near the end of of its lifespan?
Cars... not so much.
I thought their changes to java were to optimize it further for efficiency/stability/security, or were those just Google excuses for putting something more proprietary? Would you agree that Android still seems to be the most open & promising phone/pda OS out there currently?
Well - the optimizations could be done at the JVM level, without tossing out the standards-based APIs, etc. The only reason I can think that they would ahve done this is to keep android apps exclusive to android.
Because of this, I can't agree that it's the most open & promising phone OS out there.
In addition, almost every other major phone out there has a java runtime that is also capable of running those same apps -- that's literally hundreds of thousands of J2ME apps that google decided they don't want running on their OS. This also means anyone developing for the wider J2ME market who also wants to release for android must re-create their software from scratch -- a J2ME build and an Android build.
If they had written this as a new OS, without Java, I would probably love it. But to call it Java without supporting any of the Java standards -- indeed, not even compatible JVM implementation -- is frustrating.
Yes, and make sure you start flapping your arms 5-6 minutes before you wish to check your stocks
Wait, I do that even now...
What? Why are you looking at me that way?
you'd be better off increasing the size of the battery.
Or reducing the hunger of your phone. My $15 Nokia lasts 2-3 weeks per recharge if I'm not using it for conversations. I have another phone I use regularly, this one just sits on my desk all day long, functioning mostly as a clock and a paperweight.
yes, typically if you do not use your phone for anything, you can expect to enjoy extended battery life ;)
ut the things that are actually useful and make it valuable are proprietary and can't be messed with without being sued.
Because there's nothing valuable in the underlying operating system... oh, right, except for the fact that those "useful" things can't be run without it.
Sure, that's mostly what I was referring to. The code for a crawler is simple - the resources to use them effectively is something else entirely; the intarwebs are just too big for a startup to do it without laying down tons of cash for hardware/"cloud" hardware.
What about Android?
What about following established J2ME/CLDC standards instead of going in a completely different and incompatible direction, meaning that all of the existing J2ME apps that work on phones and devices around the world simply can't , in spite of the fact that android is a java platform.
Erm, oops. A bit of bitterness leaked through there...
integrating and deploying to Blackb*rrys is like grating your fingernails.
It is? Have you actually done so yet? So far, I've been finding it pretty easy... hope to post my first submission to BB appworld later this year.
But how else am I going to multiply the check amount by 15%?? It's not like I can punch N * .15 into any calculator and get the right answer...right?
It's not like you can easily calculate N *.1 in your head and then add half of that to get the right answer... right?
All in all, I'd have to say this is a pretty good idea.
I'm not sure why I do that, but I do have tendency to omit words - I usually catch it on preview though. I considered posting to correct it, but ultimately figured that the point was made regardless -- it wasn't worth having to wait five minutes on the page to be able to make the post.
He didn't say, all people who run windows can't manage their pc and should be put out to pasture.
No but he did mention only using 1 partiton. Why the hell would that matter how many partitions you have if you only have 1 hard disk using NTFS?
Because if you have two and set it up intelligently, you don't lose any of your user data (including photos) upon reformatting.
Since the launch of our new MyVantage online account management system in April, many members have asked for a mobile banking solution. We'r
And this is what you've come up with? Not ... I don't know, secure email, hell even text messages... no, we'll use twitter for submitting private banking info? And oh, just happen to share it with the twitter corp as well? Genius, pure genius.
Now the government has pushed laws that turn them into fat, power greedy (at the expense of civil liberties), money hungry (ticket/fine scams and other dirty practices) pigs
Oh come on... how many police officers do you know? You're basing this on a stereotype - and like most stereotypes there is an element of truth to it, but that's hardly the whole picture; and it's certainly not accurately representative of the whole.