As I've written before, the only way this spam stuff will be sorted out is when they redesign the SMTP protocol. All the legislation and 'pay-per-email' stuff won't solve anything. What e-mail requires is authentication in the protocol combined with black/whitelisting. They should have the domain registrars hand out domain certificates with which e-mail communication has to be signed. In which case domain spoofing will be impossible and you could create domain block lists that work.
Re:Looks like Dirvish, but less features.
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Dirvish certainly is the most easy to administer, reliable and maintenance free backup tool I've found upto date. I'm even using Dirvish to make backups of the files on my laptop when the server detects it's on the network. It required some additional scripting, but still.:) Works like a charm!
BTW, I'm using Dirvish to backup more than 10 systems for some years now. It has never failed me.
They need to redesign the e-mail protocol, as it seems to allow insufficient control to block spam. Some clever people need to sit down together and invent something new and future-proof, since the e-mail protocol as it exists has had it's best time. The anti-spam battle can go on forever until it's technically impossible to keep sending spam. The whole spam filtering stuff is just hogging down e-mail servers, it's like fixing a leak by putting a bucket underneath it.
The best solution would be some opensource e-mail/instant messaging/VOIP/file exchange/blog integrated solution. It would fix many problems at the same time!
You might want to take a look at Dirvish ( http://www.dirvish.org/ ). I use it at work all the time. Dirvish can handle multiple backups using hardlinks, thus reducing the required space while keeping full images.
From their site: Dirvish is a fast, disk based, rotating network backup system.
With dirvish you can maintain a set of complete images of your filesystems with unattended creation and expiration. A dirvish backup vault is like a time machine for your data.
Where people are calling Vista crippled, it is actually the opposite, as it supports the new formats. PERIOD.
The only reason that DRM in HD formats is going to succeed, is because the largest software maker in the world supports it.
If MS would say 'no' to DRM, they wouldn't have succeeded in pushing it through. Somehow, you believe it is a good thing that Vista "supports" the "new formats". But Vista is only facilitating something that is going to be a very bad thing for consumers in general.
So I hope everyone is going to be very happy with their crippled OS while I'm sticking with Linux.
In projects that I've done, it made more sense to go with MS, in others, *nix. I haven't let development model politics cloud my judgement in order to get the job done. Isn't that how it should be?
Why that may work for project work, it isn't going to get the job done as a sysadmin. While I have to admit that configuring a Windows server is done faster than a *nix server, maintaining it is the trick. In project work you don't have to think about maintenance, since you're usually long gone when the stuff goes down, which is why project members are often not as anti-ms in contrast to maintance staff.
If you look at the maintenance issues, there are three types of IT departments:
- Well staffed (in quantity) MS mentality people who experience *A LOT* of problems and schedule a lot of downtime.
- *nix kind of people working with a lot of Unix boxes and some Windows boxes which they are constantly bitching about.
- *nix only departments who handle a lot of systems with few staff and near-zero downtime.
So personally, I believe your view of things only works because you have the "luxury" of being gone when the stuff your project team has build horribly crashes.
Too bad you just seem to be offended instead of using the information in your professional advantage.
The objection in your second post is why I've mentioned enabling MAC filtering on the switches.
I'm not going to explain why this renders your post/objection invalid. It seems clear you come with a windows background.
While your statement is kind of off-topic, I'll respond.
Is you want to use NFS securely, use MAC filtering in your routers/swithes and use iptables to match the IP's to the MAC adressses.
But NFS is quite old, is you wish to be up-to-date with AD kind of features, use Samba with the CIFS protocol. (that's "mount -t cifs" instead of "mount -t smbfs") Not only will it give you AD kind-of features, but your performance as well as stability will also be *a lot* better.
From the article: "Microsoft lifted caps on the amount of legal fees it would reimburse to makers of embedded devices that are sued for intellectual property infringement as a result of licensing Microsoft code. . .."
IANAL, but wouldn't this mean that if an IP lawsuit would actually be filed against a device maker, the lawsuit would be invalid? For it is Microsoft infriging the patent, and not the device maker? Since the devicemaker just bought a product for which he should be able to assume there are no patent infrigements in it?
If the protection was actually usefull, lawsuits could be filed against users for running a Microsoft product which infrige patents.
I get the strong impression this news is just a MS PR stunt to give the impression MS actually defends the device makers for some existing danger.
I have taken a look on their website, and there is nothing about a Linux phone. The phone specs are not at all detailed, they focus too much on design. Who would want a phone that looks like a rock? And the whole HelloMoto thing is just weird. Maybe it works for Japan, but not for the rest of the world.
Above stuff has at least kept me away from motorola. Sony Ericsson does a lot better on the presentation area. Motorola should promote the tech side of the phone more. If I'd known about a Linux phone with decent features and specs I'd have bought it.
The thing with Google is that they went to the stock market and received insane amounts of money. Then the stock has risen to insane levels. To prevent the stock from crashing, they need to materialise and be more than just a bunch of IP. So now they are trying to jump at all markets at the same time and just wait for something that will work. When they have viable bussiness in different markets, they have something to fall back on when something else suddenly fails or temporarely performs badly. Also, investors won't freak out as easily when something goes wrong, which would cause the stock price to collapse.
It's all very interesting to see how things wil evolve!
At first I used to copy book reports 1 on 1 from the internet and hand them in.
After 1.5 years the teacher learned about Google and I got cought and he freaked out.
So I got the lowest grade possible.
The thing I learned from this event was to always rewrite everything you copy.
I know for sure he checked everything I handed in from that point on, but he failed to catch me again.
God, I always hated reading fiction books!
I run a small IT department at a construction company. Every once in a while management decides to evaluate my department by hiring an IT company to have a look at my department. That way they'll get a thirth party view that they "trust". And I encourage them to do this! Therefore I always fully cooperate by showing them [the thirth party] everything I have running and how I'm handling things.
In the end, my own way of handling things always tends out to have to best price/value comparison. After that, they'll always let me handle things my own way and give clearance to my projects whithout much hassle.
Management will never fully trust your own numbers, because it's just too easy to fiddle with the numbers and just make it seem like the way you're doing things is the best way.
Why go through all of the trouble with camera's, heartbeat, etc.?
What are the things that people *always* do when they get upset with the computer? The following things: - Hit the keys (especially the enter key) harder. - Start clicking the mouse hard and repeatedly, usually the computer does nothing at that point. - People also tend to smack the mouse against the mousepad. - Hit the computer casing. - Start swearing.
Seems to me that with: - some smart software - extra sensors in the mouse and the keyboard - shock sensors in the PC casing - a microphone
You could determine with 95% certainty if the user is upset and to what degree. Especially when the user knows the computer will be responding to their behavior!
The exploit writers have had the exploit ready for quite a while now. While MS was 'testing' everyone has been installing 'fixes' from other sites.. Even IF their patch was not 100% it wouldn't really have mattered in this case.
There was a gaping security hole in their OS and they still needed 12 days to come up with a fix! For such a large company whose software is being used by *millions* of people worldwide and 7 billion a quarter profit, they've sure taken their sweet time!
Why don't they take some 0.01 procent of that 7 billion and test/release it sooner?
MSFT has nothing to do about it anymore. SCOX has long accepted the loss by now. They've lost most of their customers and the rest is still migrating away, everyone knows by now they are never going to win.
But what do they have now? A lot of left over lawsuits from the time the issue was still very hot. Now SCOX is just stalling, hoping everything dies out eventually and everyone forgets about the issue.
MS has (had) so many monopoly lawsuits on their hands which cause them to ease up on the Linux lawsuits FUD campain.
2 years have gone by sinds they lawsuits started.. the world has changed and SCO lost.. These are just a few legal remainders from the past boiling up just before some court deadline passes...
I remember having read something about a ceiling agreement they have with their legal company. Namely that there was a maximum price they would have to pay for legal support, above that amount of money the costs were for the legal company.
There are discussions about even the smallest details in Wikipedia's articles! From my point of view, when you read both the article as well as the discussion, you get a -very good- view about the subject. A lot of articles will never be 100% finished since there are more ways to look at the same thing.
But can't blaim the press for their stories though... they're always trying to get a story out of -anything-.. Owww.. so does slashdot...
I've been missing smart support for SATA for as long as it exists.
It's a shame that SATA support has been developing so slow..
This seems like a usefull kernel release!
Re:More features than Gaim
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True, Gaims supports MSN file transfer, but not directly P2P (which is why they pass your NAT firewall fine). Unfortunately, sending a file trough a Microsoft MSN server makes the tranfer go *VERY* slow.
It appears aMSN supports direct file transfers.
Re:OK, there is NO WAY...
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Remember that up till now, Microsoft has not really done anything harsh to any opensource project. And, since this is not commercial software, the odds are that they don't really care too much. Especially now, when they are having such a hard time with all of the monopoly lawsuits.
The RIAA is missing out on the convenience part of their offerings, which is why I actually never buy any music. I do, however, download music on the internet, below is why:
I have a busy life and a mp3 player in my car-radio. I am not a fan of any particular artist, neither do I know much about the current music offerings. Sometimes, I hear a song on the radio/tv/whatever I *really* like. This may be some quite unfamous song remix by a random artist and I want to have that song in mp3 format on my Linux workstation in 10 minutes. Call me lazy, but where can I get that song within 10 minutes? I've usually forgotten the title/artist, unless I download it immediately. P2P applications are the only way.
What the world needs is the Definitive Music Collection on the internet that charge by the megabyte. Then they should make some weekly music collections ready to download for all types of music. So I can easily fill a CD with mp3 music to listen to while on the road.
But since the RIAA etc. all make this stuff SO HARD, I don't ever buy any music. I mean, I couldn't even play WMV (or whatever) even if I really wanted to! Even if they succeeded in completely banning out P2P networks I wouldn't buy any music with the current offerings. I would just stop listening to music like I did before I got broadband internet! (Except for radio and TV)
I guess there are a lot more people like me, which is why the RIAA keeps failing untill they finally resolve the practical issue at hand!
"said Axel Gerlt, an engineer at Siemens tasked with helping packaging companies implement the technology."
Maybe if they asked the guy at Siemens tasked with helping digital equiptment makers (e.g. e-paper) to implement the technology, the article would have made more sense!
I am supprised about the fact nobody seems to be worried about the fact that if you put a CD in your tray, while thinking it is just a music CD, a rootkit can be installed. It seems as if everyone is just accepting this?
IMHO this should not be able to happen.. MS should disable the autoplay feature, or at least make it a lot more safe.
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As I've written before, the only way this spam stuff will be sorted out is when they redesign the SMTP protocol. All the legislation and 'pay-per-email' stuff won't solve anything. What e-mail requires is authentication in the protocol combined with black/whitelisting.
They should have the domain registrars hand out domain certificates with which e-mail communication has to be signed. In which case domain spoofing will be impossible and you could create domain block lists that work.
Dirvish certainly is the most easy to administer, reliable and maintenance free backup tool I've found upto date. :) Works like a charm!
I'm even using Dirvish to make backups of the files on my laptop when the server detects it's on the network.
It required some additional scripting, but still.
BTW, I'm using Dirvish to backup more than 10 systems for some years now. It has never failed me.
They need to redesign the e-mail protocol, as it seems to allow insufficient control to block spam.
Some clever people need to sit down together and invent something new and future-proof, since the e-mail protocol as it exists has had it's best time. The anti-spam battle can go on forever until it's technically impossible to keep sending spam.
The whole spam filtering stuff is just hogging down e-mail servers, it's like fixing a leak by putting a bucket underneath it.
The best solution would be some opensource e-mail/instant messaging/VOIP/file exchange/blog integrated solution. It would fix many problems at the same time!
You might want to take a look at Dirvish ( http://www.dirvish.org/ ).
I use it at work all the time. Dirvish can handle multiple backups using hardlinks, thus reducing the required space while keeping full images.
From their site:
Dirvish is a fast, disk based, rotating network backup system.
With dirvish you can maintain a set of complete images of your filesystems with unattended creation and expiration. A dirvish backup vault is like a time machine for your data.
If MS would say 'no' to DRM, they wouldn't have succeeded in pushing it through.
Somehow, you believe it is a good thing that Vista "supports" the "new formats".
But Vista is only facilitating something that is going to be a very bad thing for consumers in general.
So I hope everyone is going to be very happy with their crippled OS while I'm sticking with Linux.
In project work you don't have to think about maintenance, since you're usually long gone when the stuff goes down, which is why project members are often not as anti-ms in contrast to maintance staff.
If you look at the maintenance issues, there are three types of IT departments:
- Well staffed (in quantity) MS mentality people who experience *A LOT* of problems and schedule a lot of downtime.
- *nix kind of people working with a lot of Unix boxes and some Windows boxes which they are constantly bitching about.
- *nix only departments who handle a lot of systems with few staff and near-zero downtime.
So personally, I believe your view of things only works because you have the "luxury" of being gone when the stuff your project team has build horribly crashes.
Too bad you just seem to be offended instead of using the information in your professional advantage.
The objection in your second post is why I've mentioned enabling MAC filtering on the switches.
I'm not going to explain why this renders your post/objection invalid. It seems clear you come with a windows background.
While your statement is kind of off-topic, I'll respond.
Is you want to use NFS securely, use MAC filtering in your routers/swithes and use iptables to match the IP's to the MAC adressses.
But NFS is quite old, is you wish to be up-to-date with AD kind of features, use Samba with the CIFS protocol. (that's "mount -t cifs" instead of "mount -t smbfs") Not only will it give you AD kind-of features, but your performance as well as stability will also be *a lot* better.
From the article: "Microsoft lifted caps on the amount of legal fees it would reimburse to makers of embedded devices that are sued for intellectual property infringement as a result of licensing Microsoft code. . . ."
IANAL, but wouldn't this mean that if an IP lawsuit would actually be filed against a device maker, the lawsuit would be invalid? For it is Microsoft infriging the patent, and not the device maker? Since the devicemaker just bought a product for which he should be able to assume there are no patent infrigements in it?
If the protection was actually usefull, lawsuits could be filed against users for running a Microsoft product which infrige patents.
I get the strong impression this news is just a MS PR stunt to give the impression MS actually defends the device makers for some existing danger.
I have taken a look on their website, and there is nothing about a Linux phone.
The phone specs are not at all detailed, they focus too much on design.
Who would want a phone that looks like a rock?
And the whole HelloMoto thing is just weird. Maybe it works for Japan, but not for the rest of the world.
Above stuff has at least kept me away from motorola.
Sony Ericsson does a lot better on the presentation area.
Motorola should promote the tech side of the phone more.
If I'd known about a Linux phone with decent features and specs I'd have bought it.
The thing with Google is that they went to the stock market and received insane amounts of money.
Then the stock has risen to insane levels. To prevent the stock from crashing, they need to materialise and be more than just a bunch of IP. So now they are trying to jump at all markets at the same time and just wait for something that will work. When they have viable bussiness in different markets, they have something to fall back on when something else suddenly fails or temporarely performs badly. Also, investors won't freak out as easily when something goes wrong, which would cause the stock price to collapse.
It's all very interesting to see how things wil evolve!
At first I used to copy book reports 1 on 1 from the internet and hand them in.
After 1.5 years the teacher learned about Google and I got cought and he freaked out.
So I got the lowest grade possible.
The thing I learned from this event was to always rewrite everything you copy.
I know for sure he checked everything I handed in from that point on, but he failed to catch me again.
God, I always hated reading fiction books!
I run a small IT department at a construction company.
Every once in a while management decides to evaluate my department by hiring an IT company to have a look at my department.
That way they'll get a thirth party view that they "trust".
And I encourage them to do this! Therefore I always fully cooperate by showing them [the thirth party] everything I have running and how I'm handling things.
In the end, my own way of handling things always tends out to have to best price/value comparison.
After that, they'll always let me handle things my own way and give clearance to my projects whithout much hassle.
Management will never fully trust your own numbers, because it's just too easy to fiddle with the numbers and just make it seem like the way you're doing things is the best way.
Why go through all of the trouble with camera's, heartbeat, etc.?
What are the things that people *always* do when they get upset with the computer?
The following things:
- Hit the keys (especially the enter key) harder.
- Start clicking the mouse hard and repeatedly, usually the computer does nothing at that point.
- People also tend to smack the mouse against the mousepad.
- Hit the computer casing.
- Start swearing.
Seems to me that with:
- some smart software
- extra sensors in the mouse and the keyboard
- shock sensors in the PC casing
- a microphone
You could determine with 95% certainty if the user is upset and to what degree.
Especially when the user knows the computer will be responding to their behavior!
The exploit writers have had the exploit ready for quite a while now.
While MS was 'testing' everyone has been installing 'fixes' from other sites..
Even IF their patch was not 100% it wouldn't really have mattered in this case.
There was a gaping security hole in their OS and they still needed 12 days to come up with a fix!
For such a large company whose software is being used by *millions* of people worldwide and 7 billion a quarter profit, they've sure taken their sweet time!
Why don't they take some 0.01 procent of that 7 billion and test/release it sooner?
MSFT has nothing to do about it anymore. SCOX has long accepted the loss by now.
They've lost most of their customers and the rest is still migrating away, everyone knows by now they are never going to win.
But what do they have now? A lot of left over lawsuits from the time the issue was still very hot.
Now SCOX is just stalling, hoping everything dies out eventually and everyone forgets about the issue.
MS has (had) so many monopoly lawsuits on their hands which cause them to ease up on the Linux lawsuits FUD campain.
2 years have gone by sinds they lawsuits started.. the world has changed and SCO lost.. These are just a few legal remainders from the past boiling up just before some court deadline passes...
Nothing to see here.. move along..
I remember having read something about a ceiling agreement they have with their legal company.
Namely that there was a maximum price they would have to pay for legal support, above that amount of money the costs were for the legal company.
Couldn't find a link to it on Google though.
There are discussions about even the smallest details in Wikipedia's articles!
From my point of view, when you read both the article as well as the discussion, you get a -very good- view about the subject.
A lot of articles will never be 100% finished since there are more ways to look at the same thing.
But can't blaim the press for their stories though... they're always trying to get a story out of -anything-.. Owww.. so does slashdot...
It's a shame that SATA support has been developing so slow..
This seems like a usefull kernel release!
True, Gaims supports MSN file transfer, but not directly P2P (which is why they pass your NAT firewall fine).
Unfortunately, sending a file trough a Microsoft MSN server makes the tranfer go *VERY* slow.
It appears aMSN supports direct file transfers.
Remember that up till now, Microsoft has not really done anything harsh to any opensource project.
And, since this is not commercial software, the odds are that they don't really care too much.
Especially now, when they are having such a hard time with all of the monopoly lawsuits.
After having taken a look on their website, aMSN seems to support more MSN features than Gaim: File transfers, webcam.
Anyone who knows more about the specific advantages?
The RIAA is missing out on the convenience part of their offerings, which is why I actually never buy any music.
I do, however, download music on the internet, below is why:
I have a busy life and a mp3 player in my car-radio. I am not a fan of any particular artist, neither do I know much about the current music offerings.
Sometimes, I hear a song on the radio/tv/whatever I *really* like. This may be some quite unfamous song remix by a random artist and I want to have that song in mp3 format on my Linux workstation in 10 minutes.
Call me lazy, but where can I get that song within 10 minutes? I've usually forgotten the title/artist, unless I download it immediately.
P2P applications are the only way.
What the world needs is the Definitive Music Collection on the internet that charge by the megabyte. Then they should make some weekly music collections ready to download for all types of music. So I can easily fill a CD with mp3 music to listen to while on the road.
But since the RIAA etc. all make this stuff SO HARD, I don't ever buy any music. I mean, I couldn't even play WMV (or whatever) even if I really wanted to!
Even if they succeeded in completely banning out P2P networks I wouldn't buy any music with the current offerings. I would just stop listening to music like I did before I got broadband internet! (Except for radio and TV)
I guess there are a lot more people like me, which is why the RIAA keeps failing untill they finally resolve the practical issue at hand!
I am supprised about the fact nobody seems to be worried about the fact that if you put a CD in your tray, while thinking it is just a music CD, a rootkit can be installed. It seems as if everyone is just accepting this?
IMHO this should not be able to happen..
MS should disable the autoplay feature, or at least make it a lot more safe.