Damn right! Pork chop in a bottle if its not in the horse piss category.
As for sex , umm guys that's what 'mods' are for. No not the/. ones who screw you because you're funnier than they are, I mean 'modifications'. Check out the fleshlight , all three needed openings right in one place.
Some servos would be needed to dispense lube and some coding for a more 'intuitive' vibe action however I think we could come up with something.
Only thing I can't get past is the self-cleaning feature I know we'd all want. Hmmmmmmmmm.....
You mean they don't already? The last company I worked for actually employed a pee break nazi and demanded up to 7 20 hour shifts. The wording in the employment agreement was really specific, if you take ownership of an issue you don't leave your desk until its solved. This meant lunch, dinner, etc - and pee / smoke breaks. If you didn't pick up the phone when the Nazi called to check the status, for any reason - you got written up. Didn't matter where you were. Their theory "Don't drink anything when working on issues"
I left before they started handing out cortical implants.
Reminds me of school days... :
Teacher "TIM, where are you going?!"
Tim : "To the bathroom... "
Teacher "You need to raise your hand to go to the bathroom"
Gates doesn't have a problem with a sub $100 laptop. His problem is that someone other than Microsoft will receive the praise associated with it.
As Microsoft continues to trip over their dicks geting VISTA out the door, I for one am glad these kids will get these laptops prior to becoming senior citizens.
I'd like to take a minute to remind everyone that there are areas in the US that aren't much better off than the third world, and could benefit from devices similar to this. Here's a parts list if you'd like to try your hand at constructing one :
P III ULV Single Board Computer with 10/100 NIC, USB and I/O riser for IDE and LCD : $65 , these usually come with a power supply.
128 MB SODIMM $30
Linux (free)
LCD : $10 - $15 depending on what you can find on e-bay.
Enclosure : You can use almost anything you want thats non conductive. Get creative.
Throw in a small travelstar drive , keyboard and mouse and you're slightly above the $100 limit, however only by $20 or so. Still much cheaper than conventional. Easy to build.
If you are an educator, you may consider having some of your kids strive to build a project similar to the one featured in this article. I'd love to see Gates go after an army of 12 year olds. Start a pen pal program to go along with it and send their creations where they are needed.. be it Indonesia or Kentucky.
Teach kids to enrich culture, compassion and not (always) their wallets so we limit the amount of future 'Gates' produced.
Is he trying to piss off the world? Or just so self absorbed he doesn't notice he's doing it?
There, that is my fart. It is unique, can't be copied and I'd like to trademark it please. Like everything else that is published on the internet, I'm going to throw a big fat copyright on it so nobody can steal it. Don't you dare fart like I just did, that is my intellectual property and trademark!
I illustrated my point with a fart to signify that the I.T world is rapidly becoming a very smelly place to conduct business. Small companies follow the examples of larger successful companies and paranoia is highly contageous - beginning to show. How many non disclosure agreements have YOU signed this month?
I can't believe they tried to patent something so.. idiotic in the first place. Can they for once, just ONCE produce something quietly, release it and sell it like everyone else does?
If MS was truly concerned about covering their ass they would write more secure operating systems. They don't do that, they patent everything they possibly can to try to squeeze every last cent out of the junk they produce and have turned suing small companies into a cottage industry over stupid technicalities. This was aimed to get their 'digs' into the EU so they could snuff out anyone who stole the font they already stole.
Will each Vista PC come with an attached penis that pops out of the top and urinates "BILL WAS HERE" on your wall? If they hope to keep *any* of the market share they've enjoyed gouging over the past decades they need to do a complete about face and focus on serving the needs of their customers.
I wish I could make neat cartoons in flash. I see willy wonka's chocolate factory making fonts as secret as the ever-lasting-gob-stopper for Microsoft.
Mr Gates, You have my permission to use my newly patented {pffftwh} to blow your HEAD out of your ASS so you can actually RELEASE something useful.
Or the biggest publically edit-able clusterfuck ever launched. I would hope that it is used as intended and doesn't become an ego whirlpool, or a 'clique' club where only the edits of the elite favorites seem to be left in place.
I would love (and avidly use) such a beast with the capabilities they are talking about. If I am not mistaken, I could search for something like
VT Enabled Xen Windows 2003 Server
And get what I need out of it quickly. I've also got a laundry list of very odd cryptic errors in openSSI I'd love to find the causes of.. which nobody else seems to have ever happend upon.
Looks like experts exchange is about to be selling cheap ad space:) I just really, *really* hope it stays as community focused as they say it will.
>> Well, this is exactly the sort of technology that should be designed--ideally--to serve every consumer.
I think the appeal of these machines to the people who are making them a success is they feel a little more like a customer than a consumer.
The simple fact that it appears to be designed 100% with them in mind makes it novel on a more personal level.
>> Not surprisingly, it seems as though the article's author wants to make this seem like a case in which users are polarly divided.
That's because if you present anything as though there are one of two sides to pick, most people are inclined to pick one.. and will most likely thank you for keeping them 'informed' either way and continue to read your publications. Social engineering , similar to the engineering that put together Vcom.. just a little more obvious:)
My argument is with those that spin the research in lieu of the presentation. One is a decietful thing to do, the other is the art of media. But that's what we all visit/. to discuss.. well that and cute pink ponies.
VCom machines make a fortune from people who normally do not hold bank accounts. The check cashing is ideal for people who work the swing shift and miss most of the check cashing joints an liquor stores.
Many people who don't have a bank account also pay their bills via western union, either a moneygram or purchasing money orders to mail off to someone , or drop in the rent box on the way home.
These people really don't give a rat's ass who gets their social security number, they hope whoever steals it manages to pay off their bills and fix their credit score.
They also don't care about the $1.75 fee, as most people who appreciate the machines don't in fact use the ATM feature.
Vcom cornered a market nobody else has been able to touch. There's a 7-11 in every blue collar neighborhood in most first , and third world countries and those things are popping up globally.
So.. as the game show used to say.. 'SURVEY SAYS' -> once again, nothing useful because the people surveying are just too dense to realize exactly who these things were designed to serve.
I think all that pink made us inhale too much hairspray. I think the question was meant to be:
'when purchasing something, how heavily do you weight your decision on the user interface pictured with the product packaging ' - being a 3'rd party review or the back of the box itself.
If I'm going to spend a considerable amount of time installing something (~ 3 minutes or more) or God forbid actually buy it, the UI is important to me. If its , say... a network monitor I want lots of pretty graphs and colors, but something that doesn't bother my eyes to view for prolonged periods of time. I look for nice contrasting alternating rows for any text displays, and if a web interface is involved I like seeing some nice css/xhtml looking screens that say it won't take 10 minutes to load a screen.
If its some sort of productivity ap or an IDE, a glance at the top tool bars gives me an idea of how intuitive the thing is.. for instance look at the difference between Paint Shop Pro and Fireworks. To (me), Fireworks looks much more approachable.
Games too, I'm really picky about combat styles in RPG's, and I want a really cool heads up if its a first person game. The faster I can find junk the better I can play.
So I think it carries some weight and more people should put more time into a more intuitive UI and less into junk 'value adds' that just make more buttons to push.
I'm 100% times more likely to try or buy something if I can play with a mock up first. Most web based control panels have a non functioning demo that let you explore the UI.
I think if someone is *just* offering screen shots, and no demo.. they're only showing me the 3 cool parts of the program and the rest is crap (generally true). This holds true for 3'rd party reviews too, as the screen shot is the focal point and attention grabber to the article.
Agreed. They're about to spend $300M to make Exchange server look even better. Unless they plan on using a version of Notes I've never seen or worked with, this might not be the best marketing idea IBM has ever come up with.
Microsoft has Bob, IBM has notes. Notes is better than Bob, therefore IBM is better. The comparison being both were amazingly bad things to try and market so aggressively.
However after coming out with both barrels blasting like this, IBM has really boxed themselves into a corner they can't quietly retreat from like MS did with Bob and (many) of their other blunders.
So the conclusion of this is easy to predict, notes will get better after IBM gets a larger market telling them how it should be made better. I think this is an opportunistic strike capitalizing on MS's current woes and bad publicity.. I would not be at all amazed to learn a new version or re-write is soon to come out - just launching at the most opportune time and rallying growing support and enthusiasm for Linux.
I've often thought "If that weenie head doesn't STFU about his ping times I'm going to install BOB on his desktop and take the following week off".. now I can do it with Notes and get $20k to spend on the vacation! Wooo Hooooooo!
Your average web server only has a 10mbps uplink. Some have 100mbps, but most only have 10.
You go from Backbone Provider -> Datacenter's Router -> [shaped for internal distro] -> Public access switch [10 or 100] -> isp -> DSLAM or switch -> cable, fiber or 30 year old copper -> home user
While having that kind of speed is great, and you're sure you can take advantage of all of the speed the serving server is willing to give you... until there's some major changes at most data centers, you aren't gonna get much over 5 or 6. If you use DSL you have to take the age of the copper running to your home into consideration, how many places its spliced, etc.
Have a look at the topography of Savvis, here and you'll see what I mean. Many sites you visit live there, or in a place pretty much like it for all intensive purposes.
So FTTP users, enjoy the capacity.. but you are still limited to whatever the nic in the web server you are accessing is going to give you.. and the quality of the network its connected to. For an average surfer that's a future handicap in getting the speed you pay for and its not the fault of your provider.
For people who use it for endpoint VPN's etc, yeah it rocks - but speed only happens if the other end of it is suitably connected.
So next time you see SIX MEG DOWNLINK.. subtract a few.. but still good speed:)
You can't look at AIDS like a picture on a wanted poster, there are simply too many mutations.
You may take this drug, and be able to counter act some strains of the pathogen however if you contract someone else's weakened (but not yet dead) strain, your body could become an incubator for a new strain that tolerates this medication and find yourself infected.
What nobody has mentioned or pointed out, you would have to take these pills for the rest of your life in order for them to be effective. AIDS sleeps more than a NOC engineer, especially in a weakened state.
I'd recommend the condom approach to prevention. If you are broke, try some saran wrap, duck tape and 3-in-1 oil.
I think this is going to turn out to be the 'edlin' of AIDS prevention. Absolutely useless.
'.. click on my name to send me an email' , err man, I'd hate to see his inbox. Wonder how long the mail servers choked to death before they realized what was happening.
What would have been funnier is if he *had* actually called the FBI..
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BIND comes out of the box ready to answer requests from anyone, digging the roots itself and caching. Most people don't set it otherwise, and most 'leading' control panels don't advise you to do much of anything about it. However in cases like this, all of the hardening in the world isn't going to help you if the botnet is as big as the one that got Joker.
Fortinets, ciscos, Junipers all handle a set number of sessions. Some as low as 1500 - 2000, throw those away when you're talking about a large botnet. Depending on how big the botnet is, and how diverse the attacking blocks are sometimes there is very little to do other than wait it out. Even with higher end Fortinets that support up to 35k sessions, if you have 100k uniques over 30k blocks.. well you're just screwed. Your firewall will either shut out all traffic, or open wide, depending on how its set until the attack subsides.
DNS records must remain public in order to resolve anything. Sorry folks, but if the network you pissed off is large enough.. there's very very little that can be done about it given hardware most medium to medium-large companies use. They come on fast and just do not stop.
Some pretty scary chit, especially if you are the one who gets called to deal with it. If you want to yell at someone about it, take your pick from one of the thousands of shared web hosting providers who provide a nice comfy woumb for these networks to grow.
So the next time your host tells you that they've disabled exec(), passthru() and shell_exec() in php for security and restricted access to wget and lynx, go a little easier on them. This is why. They have no control over what their users upload and make available to the world.
Even well hardened servers are easy targets if some jackass uploads phpbb version 1. If any script interpreter can make shell calls, you ought to be checking sockets and connections often.
lsof is your friend, learn how to use it:) Takes you right to them.
'Wanna see something *really* scary?' heheh What homeland security doesn't realize is one of the largest threats we have regarding domestic 'cyber terror' is the fleet of hundreds of thousands of compromised web servers residing in places like Texas (ironic, isn't it).
Here's how the process works:
Step 1 - Joe Q Host wanna be goes to The Planet and orders himself a spiffy new server with C-Panel
Step 2 - Joe Q Host spends 10 minutes setting up the server and just assumes its all nice and secure. Builds PHP with everything and gives unrestricted access to 13 fiber rings to anyone who has a PayPal account or credit card.
Step 3 - Joe Q Host gets tons of sign ups, makes bank, and doesn't realize his server is more infested with spam bots, rouge torrent trackers, UDP blasters, IRC bombs.. and moreover doesn't care unless his users make an issue out of it.
Considering the several Million servers re-sold to people vastly underqualified to maintain them, I'd say that constitutes one hell of a DOS network. The scary, scary, scary part? Those bots are controlled centrally, and most places (like The Planet) do *not* watch outgoing traffic.
You are 100% correct , 'script kiddie' is the word, not 'hacker'.
Hosts can't disable that kind of functionality in PHP else their customers will go to someone who allows it, too many things depend on php being able to make shell calls, like image galleries / etc. suexec + php breaks too many things, people don't care about security they want their freebie sourceforge specials to work.
We create the need that creates the opportunity folks. Plain and simple. You need a license to fart in most states (figure of speech), should need some sort of cert to be a provider. That not only increases our domestic IT security, it cuts down on spam drastically.
I've worked for ISP's, and people threaten to do that, and worse on a daily basis. Interrupting people's poon surfing to reboot a DNS server really, *really* ticks 'em off !
I agree.. none of these are really useful for administration. Most companies I work for farm out their racks to a place like Savvis, or similar. I never actually get to touch or see the servers I work on unless I order a KVM installed to mess with the bios.
What I was hoping to see was things like :
Advanced Policy Firewall / Shorewall BFD (From the APF people) They have other goodies too rkhunter Nagios.. things that actually make the job a little easier.
While all things listed are nice projects and useful, I wouldn't quite call that a tool box for Linux admins. Quite a mis-leading article.
Even if I did have console access, nothing on that list is really.. useful in monitoring and maintaining a Linux network. Hope that kid's boss doesn't read that:)
The ones running on compromised web servers do. Try taking one down and dealing with the resulting denial of service attack. They are slapper and r0nin variants and are becoming increasingly popular. Most hosts don't use egress filtering because so many users need so many varied ports open.
The resulting attack comes from literally tens of thousands, to hundreds of thousands of IP addresses. r0nin is used to remotely direct and trigger them.
>> it wouldn't accomplish much as Bittorrent clients are designed to initiate a connection less than once every 5 minutes to any given host or tracker.
Its the trackers I was referring to. The networks are dying and more 'trojan' trackers are being crafted and deployed to help keep warez networks alive.
>> tell little Nicky he can shove his Harry Potter up his ass.
How little could Nicky be then? Nimbus 2000 and all? OUCH... the wand alone is hard enough to think about..
>> Stop buying DVD movies, stop going to the cinemas
That isn't likely to happen, however many have stopped going to the cinemas just due to the prices. What you are then doing is simply alienating your children from their peers who have parents who make sure they see what they want. Film companies count on that. I don't think you are a parent or your comments would have been different. Have a kid , its a whole new reality.
>> They won't listen to our voice, but they will listen to our dollars.
Show me a way to organize an effective boycott of one of the largest entertainment producers, keeping that 'kid' factor in mind and I'm all for it. Your solution is great in theory however impractical but does indrectly demonstrate the larger issue:
People are just too lazy to do anything about it.
>> Man can I borrow your soapbox ? Looks like yours has a big built-in amplifier:)
You just did:) Fender fuzzy tube. Turn on distortion and start screaming in-a-gadda-da-vida.. its fun, entertaining, and doesn't cost $40:)
Ah no, they had to anticipate the new tier AT&T / Verizon surcharges into consideration when setting their pricing. I'm sure 'ma bell is going to want her cut of this too.. can't be making money off their network with 'cheap servers' like Google does, that would be simply unacceptable.
It is bad enough the average parent can't afford to take a family of 3 - 4 to see a movie. Now they've gone and done this. Nimrods.
What next, do I have to go buy my nachos at a cinema before I can watch the movie at home? Screw DRM, and screw them for gouging. Just wait till all of the torrent networks start forwarding traffic directly to them to let them know just what they think of the idea. You thought the slashdot effect baked a CPU.. heh. Ever try to reach an abuse contact in China?
Or in layman's terms baud barf. This has already been done by several companies and exists as open source. OpenQRM is a good example of (almost) the exact thing Novell is going to do.
IMHO, they're squatting on what's already done and regurgitating it as cutting edge emerging technology. But because they're huge, its news. I use this stuff daily and cross platform management is not rocket science.
Wow, setup "roles" and "scenarios" and write scripts to change gears based on demand? Sorry but that's not anying 'novel', Novell. Ever heard of ssh key pairing? (sigh). Ever heard of low level portable C? (double sigh). The practice of centralizing control over many servers is as old as Slashdot itself.
Perhaps they'll make things a little more intuitive. I'm not saying its a bad project, I'm saying market things for what they are and stop squatting on open source.
I actually moved to the Philippines to conserve expenses and maximize the amount of investment cap I have to put into projects. I couldn't live on that here , much less in the US.
$50k buys you a few months for a small team. I know this because I have been to 4 countries recruiting them.
Nevermind your start up and legal expenses. I'm sorry folks, but true innovation is just too damn expensive to be done domestically. $50k and a plane ticket to Malaysia I'd have believed it.
Think about your start up costs, and the amount of 'plums' you have to make available to even attract researchers, or people who are seriously interested in development. Do you want grad students who want something to do? Or do you want people who want to become part of a project and see it through?
Everyone sees the latest headlines here, Novell making DC management tools, OpenBSD having issues and facing financial doom, etc. I (and others) anticipated needs and took steps *years* ago to start developing solutions. Nice to see big business catch on but to us its yesterday's news.
You need 2 people to just keep up on emerging technology (like Xen) so that when you release, you have included the best that you can find. $50k... laughable. Just plain laughable.
Go ask Qlusters how much OpenQRM cost to develop. Then ask them where the bulk of the R$D (yes, $ not &) took place. But when Novell does it, its news.
This gets my 'sensational-waste-of-quality-airspace' award for the month. Not that anyone cares. But I've spent a few hundred K of my own money and we're still not done what we set out to do. Its not lack of management, Its keeping up with big business regurgitating stuff that's already done as 'emerging' technology - so that your efforts are received as innovation and not copy cat. The companies supposedly propelling innovation are actually just stomping (and squatting) on it.
$50k, go get 5 high priced hookers. Have a blast. You'll look back on it as money well spent later, otherwise you may need to be treated for anxiety disorder.
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Thats not an affiliate number. I googled 'fleshlight' and pasted the link I found. If anything, its tracking hits from Google. :)
Damn right! Pork chop in a bottle if its not in the horse piss category.
/. ones who screw you because you're funnier than they are, I mean 'modifications'. Check out the fleshlight , all three needed openings right in one place.
As for sex , umm guys that's what 'mods' are for. No not the
Some servos would be needed to dispense lube and some coding for a more 'intuitive' vibe action however I think we could come up with something.
Only thing I can't get past is the self-cleaning feature I know we'd all want. Hmmmmmmmmm.....
You mean they don't already? The last company I worked for actually employed a pee break nazi and demanded up to 7 20 hour shifts. The wording in the employment agreement was really specific, if you take ownership of an issue you don't leave your desk until its solved. This meant lunch, dinner, etc - and pee / smoke breaks. If you didn't pick up the phone when the Nazi called to check the status, for any reason - you got written up. Didn't matter where you were. Their theory "Don't drink anything when working on issues"
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I left before they started handing out cortical implants.
Reminds me of school days
Teacher "TIM, where are you going?!"
Tim : "To the bathroom
Teacher "You need to raise your hand to go to the bathroom"
Tim : "No ya don't
WTF Mods?! How is that off topic? Jesus did the SS come back to life with mod points??
Gates doesn't have a problem with a sub $100 laptop. His problem is that someone other than Microsoft will receive the praise associated with it.
As Microsoft continues to trip over their dicks geting VISTA out the door, I for one am glad these kids will get these laptops prior to becoming senior citizens.
I'd like to take a minute to remind everyone that there are areas in the US that aren't much better off than the third world, and could benefit from devices similar to this. Here's a parts list if you'd like to try your hand at constructing one :
P III ULV Single Board Computer with 10/100 NIC, USB and I/O riser for IDE and LCD : $65 , these usually come with a power supply.
128 MB SODIMM $30
Linux (free)
LCD : $10 - $15 depending on what you can find on e-bay.
Enclosure : You can use almost anything you want thats non conductive. Get creative.
Throw in a small travelstar drive , keyboard and mouse and you're slightly above the $100 limit, however only by $20 or so. Still much cheaper than conventional. Easy to build.
If you are an educator, you may consider having some of your kids strive to build a project similar to the one featured in this article. I'd love to see Gates go after an army of 12 year olds. Start a pen pal program to go along with it and send their creations where they are needed.. be it Indonesia or Kentucky.
Teach kids to enrich culture, compassion and not (always) their wallets so we limit the amount of future 'Gates' produced.
Is he trying to piss off the world? Or just so self absorbed he doesn't notice he's doing it?
There, that is my fart. It is unique, can't be copied and I'd like to trademark it please. Like everything else that is published on the internet, I'm going to throw a big fat copyright on it so nobody can steal it. Don't you dare fart like I just did, that is my intellectual property and trademark!
.. idiotic in the first place. Can they for once, just ONCE produce something quietly, release it and sell it like everyone else does?
I illustrated my point with a fart to signify that the I.T world is rapidly becoming a very smelly place to conduct business. Small companies follow the examples of larger successful companies and paranoia is highly contageous - beginning to show. How many non disclosure agreements have YOU signed this month?
I can't believe they tried to patent something so
If MS was truly concerned about covering their ass they would write more secure operating systems. They don't do that, they patent everything they possibly can to try to squeeze every last cent out of the junk they produce and have turned suing small companies into a cottage industry over stupid technicalities. This was aimed to get their 'digs' into the EU so they could snuff out anyone who stole the font they already stole.
Will each Vista PC come with an attached penis that pops out of the top and urinates "BILL WAS HERE" on your wall? If they hope to keep *any* of the market share they've enjoyed gouging over the past decades they need to do a complete about face and focus on serving the needs of their customers.
I wish I could make neat cartoons in flash. I see willy wonka's chocolate factory making fonts as secret as the ever-lasting-gob-stopper for Microsoft.
Mr Gates, You have my permission to use my newly patented {pffftwh} to blow your HEAD out of your ASS so you can actually RELEASE something useful.
Or the biggest publically edit-able clusterfuck ever launched. I would hope that it is used as intended and doesn't become an ego whirlpool, or a 'clique' club where only the edits of the elite favorites seem to be left in place.
.. which nobody else seems to have ever happend upon.
:) I just really, *really* hope it stays as community focused as they say it will.
I would love (and avidly use) such a beast with the capabilities they are talking about. If I am not mistaken, I could search for something like
VT Enabled Xen Windows 2003 Server
And get what I need out of it quickly. I've also got a laundry list of very odd cryptic errors in openSSI I'd love to find the causes of
Looks like experts exchange is about to be selling cheap ad space
>> Well, this is exactly the sort of technology that should be designed--ideally--to serve every consumer.
I think the appeal of these machines to the people who are making them a success is they feel a little more like a customer than a consumer.
The simple fact that it appears to be designed 100% with them in mind makes it novel on a more personal level.
>> Not surprisingly, it seems as though the article's author wants to make this seem like a case in which users are polarly divided.
That's because if you present anything as though there are one of two sides to pick, most people are inclined to pick one
My argument is with those that spin the research in lieu of the presentation. One is a decietful thing to do, the other is the art of media. But that's what we all visit
VCom machines make a fortune from people who normally do not hold bank accounts. The check cashing is ideal for people who work the swing shift and miss most of the check cashing joints an liquor stores.
.. as the game show used to say .. 'SURVEY SAYS' -> once again, nothing useful because the people surveying are just too dense to realize exactly who these things were designed to serve.
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Many people who don't have a bank account also pay their bills via western union, either a moneygram or purchasing money orders to mail off to someone , or drop in the rent box on the way home.
These people really don't give a rat's ass who gets their social security number, they hope whoever steals it manages to pay off their bills and fix their credit score.
They also don't care about the $1.75 fee, as most people who appreciate the machines don't in fact use the ATM feature.
Vcom cornered a market nobody else has been able to touch. There's a 7-11 in every blue collar neighborhood in most first , and third world countries and those things are popping up globally.
So
Rather swift marketing imho
I think all that pink made us inhale too much hairspray. I think the question was meant to be:
... a network monitor I want lots of pretty graphs and colors, but something that doesn't bother my eyes to view for prolonged periods of time. I look for nice contrasting alternating rows for any text displays, and if a web interface is involved I like seeing some nice css/xhtml looking screens that say it won't take 10 minutes to load a screen.
.. for instance look at the difference between Paint Shop Pro and Fireworks. To (me), Fireworks looks much more approachable.
.. they're only showing me the 3 cool parts of the program and the rest is crap (generally true). This holds true for 3'rd party reviews too, as the screen shot is the focal point and attention grabber to the article.
'when purchasing something, how heavily do you weight your decision on the user interface pictured with the product packaging ' - being a 3'rd party review or the back of the box itself.
If I'm going to spend a considerable amount of time installing something (~ 3 minutes or more) or God forbid actually buy it, the UI is important to me. If its , say
If its some sort of productivity ap or an IDE, a glance at the top tool bars gives me an idea of how intuitive the thing is
Games too, I'm really picky about combat styles in RPG's, and I want a really cool heads up if its a first person game. The faster I can find junk the better I can play.
So I think it carries some weight and more people should put more time into a more intuitive UI and less into junk 'value adds' that just make more buttons to push.
I'm 100% times more likely to try or buy something if I can play with a mock up first. Most web based control panels have a non functioning demo that let you explore the UI.
I think if someone is *just* offering screen shots, and no demo
I think that's what he was asking ?
Agreed. They're about to spend $300M to make Exchange server look even better. Unless they plan on using a version of Notes I've never seen or worked with, this might not be the best marketing idea IBM has ever come up with.
.. I would not be at all amazed to learn a new version or re-write is soon to come out - just launching at the most opportune time and rallying growing support and enthusiasm for Linux.
.. now I can do it with Notes and get $20k to spend on the vacation! Wooo Hooooooo!
Microsoft has Bob, IBM has notes. Notes is better than Bob, therefore IBM is better. The comparison being both were amazingly bad things to try and market so aggressively.
However after coming out with both barrels blasting like this, IBM has really boxed themselves into a corner they can't quietly retreat from like MS did with Bob and (many) of their other blunders.
So the conclusion of this is easy to predict, notes will get better after IBM gets a larger market telling them how it should be made better. I think this is an opportunistic strike capitalizing on MS's current woes and bad publicity
I've often thought "If that weenie head doesn't STFU about his ping times I'm going to install BOB on his desktop and take the following week off"
Your average web server only has a 10mbps uplink. Some have 100mbps, but most only have 10.
... until there's some major changes at most data centers, you aren't gonna get much over 5 or 6. If you use DSL you have to take the age of the copper running to your home into consideration, how many places its spliced, etc.
.. but you are still limited to whatever the nic in the web server you are accessing is going to give you .. and the quality of the network its connected to. For an average surfer that's a future handicap in getting the speed you pay for and its not the fault of your provider.
.. subtract a few .. but still good speed :)
You go from Backbone Provider -> Datacenter's Router -> [shaped for internal distro] -> Public access switch [10 or 100] -> isp -> DSLAM or switch -> cable, fiber or 30 year old copper -> home user
While having that kind of speed is great, and you're sure you can take advantage of all of the speed the serving server is willing to give you
Have a look at the topography of Savvis, here and you'll see what I mean. Many sites you visit live there, or in a place pretty much like it for all intensive purposes.
Other's would be The Planet , EV1 and similar.
So FTTP users, enjoy the capacity
For people who use it for endpoint VPN's etc, yeah it rocks - but speed only happens if the other end of it is suitably connected.
So next time you see SIX MEG DOWNLINK
You can't look at AIDS like a picture on a wanted poster, there are simply too many mutations.
You may take this drug, and be able to counter act some strains of the pathogen however if you contract someone else's weakened (but not yet dead) strain, your body could become an incubator for a new strain that tolerates this medication and find yourself infected.
What nobody has mentioned or pointed out, you would have to take these pills for the rest of your life in order for them to be effective. AIDS sleeps more than a NOC engineer, especially in a weakened state.
I'd recommend the condom approach to prevention. If you are broke, try some saran wrap, duck tape and 3-in-1 oil.
I think this is going to turn out to be the 'edlin' of AIDS prevention. Absolutely useless.
I'm guessing Mozilla is at the top of the list ...
You know, sending him a $5 amazon gift card with a note "Put toward Linux For Dummies, for the dummy." would almost be worth it.
I noticed his email is no longer on the site :
.. click on my name to send me an email' , err man, I'd hate to see his inbox. Wonder how long the mail servers choked to death before they realized what was happening.
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What would have been funnier is if he *had* actually called the FBI
BIND comes out of the box ready to answer requests from anyone, digging the roots itself and caching. Most people don't set it otherwise, and most 'leading' control panels don't advise you to do much of anything about it. However in cases like this, all of the hardening in the world isn't going to help you if the botnet is as big as the one that got Joker.
.. well you're just screwed. Your firewall will either shut out all traffic, or open wide, depending on how its set until the attack subsides.
.. there's very very little that can be done about it given hardware most medium to medium-large companies use. They come on fast and just do not stop.
:) Takes you right to them.
Fortinets, ciscos, Junipers all handle a set number of sessions. Some as low as 1500 - 2000, throw those away when you're talking about a large botnet. Depending on how big the botnet is, and how diverse the attacking blocks are sometimes there is very little to do other than wait it out. Even with higher end Fortinets that support up to 35k sessions, if you have 100k uniques over 30k blocks
DNS records must remain public in order to resolve anything. Sorry folks, but if the network you pissed off is large enough
Some pretty scary chit, especially if you are the one who gets called to deal with it. If you want to yell at someone about it, take your pick from one of the thousands of shared web hosting providers who provide a nice comfy woumb for these networks to grow.
So the next time your host tells you that they've disabled exec(), passthru() and shell_exec() in php for security and restricted access to wget and lynx, go a little easier on them. This is why. They have no control over what their users upload and make available to the world.
Even well hardened servers are easy targets if some jackass uploads phpbb version 1. If any script interpreter can make shell calls, you ought to be checking sockets and connections often.
lsof is your friend, learn how to use it
'Wanna see something *really* scary?' heheh What homeland security doesn't realize is one of the largest threats we have regarding domestic 'cyber terror' is the fleet of hundreds of thousands of compromised web servers residing in places like Texas (ironic, isn't it).
.. and moreover doesn't care unless his users make an issue out of it.
:)
Here's how the process works:
Step 1 - Joe Q Host wanna be goes to The Planet and orders himself a spiffy new server with C-Panel
Step 2 - Joe Q Host spends 10 minutes setting up the server and just assumes its all nice and secure. Builds PHP with everything and gives unrestricted access to 13 fiber rings to anyone who has a PayPal account or credit card.
Step 3 - Joe Q Host gets tons of sign ups, makes bank, and doesn't realize his server is more infested with spam bots, rouge torrent trackers, UDP blasters, IRC bombs
Considering the several Million servers re-sold to people vastly underqualified to maintain them, I'd say that constitutes one hell of a DOS network. The scary, scary, scary part? Those bots are controlled centrally, and most places (like The Planet) do *not* watch outgoing traffic.
You are 100% correct , 'script kiddie' is the word, not 'hacker'.
Hosts can't disable that kind of functionality in PHP else their customers will go to someone who allows it, too many things depend on php being able to make shell calls, like image galleries / etc. suexec + php breaks too many things, people don't care about security they want their freebie sourceforge specials to work.
We create the need that creates the opportunity folks. Plain and simple. You need a license to fart in most states (figure of speech), should need some sort of cert to be a provider. That not only increases our domestic IT security, it cuts down on spam drastically.
Food for thought
I've worked for ISP's, and people threaten to do that, and worse on a daily basis. Interrupting people's poon surfing to reboot a DNS server really, *really* ticks 'em off !
I agree.. none of these are really useful for administration. Most companies I work for farm out their racks to a place like Savvis, or similar. I never actually get to touch or see the servers I work on unless I order a KVM installed to mess with the bios.
.. things that actually make the job a little easier.
.. useful in monitoring and maintaining a Linux network. Hope that kid's boss doesn't read that :)
What I was hoping to see was things like :
Advanced Policy Firewall / Shorewall
BFD (From the APF people) They have other goodies too
rkhunter
Nagios
While all things listed are nice projects and useful, I wouldn't quite call that a tool box for Linux admins. Quite a mis-leading article.
Even if I did have console access, nothing on that list is really
>> Torrent networks don't "attack" things..
... the wand alone is hard enough to think about ..
:)
:) Fender fuzzy tube. Turn on distortion and start screaming in-a-gadda-da-vida .. its fun, entertaining, and doesn't cost $40 :)
The ones running on compromised web servers do. Try taking one down and dealing with the resulting denial of service attack. They are slapper and r0nin variants and are becoming increasingly popular. Most hosts don't use egress filtering because so many users need so many varied ports open.
The resulting attack comes from literally tens of thousands, to hundreds of thousands of IP addresses. r0nin is used to remotely direct and trigger them.
>> it wouldn't accomplish much as Bittorrent clients are designed to initiate a connection less than once every 5 minutes to any given host or tracker.
Its the trackers I was referring to. The networks are dying and more 'trojan' trackers are being crafted and deployed to help keep warez networks alive.
>> tell little Nicky he can shove his Harry Potter up his ass.
How little could Nicky be then? Nimbus 2000 and all? OUCH
>> Stop buying DVD movies, stop going to the cinemas
That isn't likely to happen, however many have stopped going to the cinemas just due to the prices. What you are then doing is simply alienating your children from their peers who have parents who make sure they see what they want. Film companies count on that. I don't think you are a parent or your comments would have been different. Have a kid , its a whole new reality.
>> They won't listen to our voice, but they will listen to our dollars.
Show me a way to organize an effective boycott of one of the largest entertainment producers, keeping that 'kid' factor in mind and I'm all for it. Your solution is great in theory however impractical but does indrectly demonstrate the larger issue:
People are just too lazy to do anything about it.
>> Man can I borrow your soapbox ? Looks like yours has a big built-in amplifier
You just did
>> Aren't AT&T/Verizon == Ma Bell?
Yes. Yet another example of me too annoyed to be typing. I was grouping them together as 'ma bell'.
Ah no, they had to anticipate the new tier AT&T / Verizon surcharges into consideration when setting their pricing. I'm sure 'ma bell is going to want her cut of this too .. can't be making money off their network with 'cheap servers' like Google does, that would be simply unacceptable.
.. heh. Ever try to reach an abuse contact in China?
It is bad enough the average parent can't afford to take a family of 3 - 4 to see a movie. Now they've gone and done this. Nimrods.
What next, do I have to go buy my nachos at a cinema before I can watch the movie at home? Screw DRM, and screw them for gouging. Just wait till all of the torrent networks start forwarding traffic directly to them to let them know just what they think of the idea. You thought the slashdot effect baked a CPU
Bad move on that thar MS network guys. Bad Move.
Jackasses.
Off my soapbox.
Or in layman's terms baud barf. This has already been done by several companies and exists as open source. OpenQRM is a good example of (almost) the exact thing Novell is going to do.
IMHO, they're squatting on what's already done and regurgitating it as cutting edge emerging technology. But because they're huge, its news. I use this stuff daily and cross platform management is not rocket science.
Wow, setup "roles" and "scenarios" and write scripts to change gears based on demand? Sorry but that's not anying 'novel', Novell. Ever heard of ssh key pairing? (sigh). Ever heard of low level portable C? (double sigh). The practice of centralizing control over many servers is as old as Slashdot itself.
Perhaps they'll make things a little more intuitive. I'm not saying its a bad project, I'm saying market things for what they are and stop squatting on open source.
I actually moved to the Philippines to conserve expenses and maximize the amount of investment cap I have to put into projects. I couldn't live on that here , much less in the US.
... laughable. Just plain laughable.
$50k buys you a few months for a small team. I know this because I have been to 4 countries recruiting them.
Nevermind your start up and legal expenses. I'm sorry folks, but true innovation is just too damn expensive to be done domestically. $50k and a plane ticket to Malaysia I'd have believed it.
Think about your start up costs, and the amount of 'plums' you have to make available to even attract researchers, or people who are seriously interested in development. Do you want grad students who want something to do? Or do you want people who want to become part of a project and see it through?
Everyone sees the latest headlines here, Novell making DC management tools, OpenBSD having issues and facing financial doom, etc. I (and others) anticipated needs and took steps *years* ago to start developing solutions. Nice to see big business catch on but to us its yesterday's news.
You need 2 people to just keep up on emerging technology (like Xen) so that when you release, you have included the best that you can find. $50k
Go ask Qlusters how much OpenQRM cost to develop. Then ask them where the bulk of the R$D (yes, $ not &) took place. But when Novell does it, its news.
This gets my 'sensational-waste-of-quality-airspace' award for the month. Not that anyone cares. But I've spent a few hundred K of my own money and we're still not done what we set out to do. Its not lack of management, Its keeping up with big business regurgitating stuff that's already done as 'emerging' technology - so that your efforts are received as innovation and not copy cat. The companies supposedly propelling innovation are actually just stomping (and squatting) on it.
$50k, go get 5 high priced hookers. Have a blast. You'll look back on it as money well spent later, otherwise you may need to be treated for anxiety disorder.