Both of these products block proxy servers. They do a good job of keeping up with which proxy servers are out there. If Joe Blow puts up a proxy in his house and sends the traffic via winsocks over sTunnel for his own personal use, then he might get away with it. But that takes a lot of work and your average user is not going to figure that out.
>>Under that ruling, Microsoft must open up parts of their operating system to competitors, and change how they bundle Media Player. >>Just for clarification before anyone gets on their soapbox about how Microsoft shouldn't have to open their code to competitors, that is not the parts that the EU wants. They want MS to dislose API type information so that competitors can better interface with Windows. i.e. Samba.
Don't leave out the virus writers. As soon you you show the EU this information, the virus writers will also have it.
I side on Microsoft in this regard. Microsoft has a superior operating system. That is why they control over 90% of the desktop market. Why punish them for making it better? That must be a socialist ideal.
Personally, I'd love to have access to the Exchange interface specifications. But I don't think I, nor anyone, has a right to demand they release that information.
And if anyone asks again why Microsoft Vista is going to be so expensive, you know. The EU just wants to get their hands in the pot.
Lets see. All my Compaq/HP servers have embeded ATI video cards and run Intel chipsets. My HP desktops run AMD chipset, and have embeded ATI video cards. All my clones have ASUS and AGP nVidia video cards.
What does this mean to me? Anything?
All I really want is a vendor to make a STABLE release of their drivers for my 500 PC's. I hate having to figure out which driver worked best with a certain video card. Unified driver, my ass.
if browser agent contains Windows CE or any other mobile platform then dispaly an alternate web page.
I have a SDA with Windows mobile 2005. Some sites already do this. Some do not.
I don't see how MOBI solves anything. If I'm not going to add the few lines of javascript I need to display my mobile website, why would I register a.mobi domain?
I guess if I hit www.google.com and they http-redirect me over to www.google.mobi to let me know the site is a cell phone verion, then that's fine.
We use RFID. But we don't use the cheap ones like this.
We have Active RFID. They are password protected, encrypted, and only transmit data when a properly encrypted password protected SEND DATA command is transmitted. We use a special encoding, not off the shelf encoding. A standard reader cannot read these tags.
The batterys last 5 years on average. 3 on heavy use, 7 on minimum use.
We've been doing this for 10 years now.
To me, this seems to be the solution. And if anyone trys to hack this, the DMCA would be the way to lock them up and throw away the key, right?
I have Novell Linux 10.0 installed. I ran RedHat from version 6 on to 9. Most of our RedHat servers ended life at version 8 and switched over to Mandrake 10.1o. Aka Mandriva 10.1, aka Madriva 2005?
Novell makes it almost impossible to get the free download of version 10.0, but if you are patient you can get it. Took me about 2 weeks to get the ISOs from their FTP server.
I was looking at Novell's Distro to provide DNS/DHCP. As a desktop, I was rather impressed. What I think is missing from most distro's is a central place to manage the system. Novell/SuSe has YaST which blows away apt-get, RPM, Urpmi, and has all the configuration settings in one well defined application with a constant feel. And unlike Urpmi and many of these tools, it actually works right out of the box. The live update works very well and is very user friendly. It handles Kernel updates and walks you through it.
This is one awesome distro. But it comes at a cost. It really is bloated inside of VMWare. It seems to lock up every 5 seconds for half a second. It is not what I am looking for in a DHCP/DNS server.
I almost went with Trustix, but wasn't sure of it's future. BSD seemed a good choice for this, but as everyone knows BSD is dead:)
We use Zenworks, Netware, eDirectory, and many other tools from Novell. But we are no loyalist. We are moving away from their solutions due to the lack of direction at Novell.
We have e-mails we send out each week. These are paid for by the person getting the e-mail. They pay from $4 to $200 a week for them.
Some of our folks that pay for these e-mails are AOL members.
Numerious times AOL has decided to blocklist us because they sent us job apps and we responded, then they click on SPAM to our response e-mail. This causes these paid for e-mails to fail.
Should I pay their fee to get these paid for e-mails through their PoS e-mail system? It's not my responsibility that a small percentage of AOL members are stupid and can trigger false blocking for ALL AOL members.
No, we won't pay their fee. The problem is between the AOL member and AOL. The problem is on AOL's side. There is nothing we can do. But with this fee, there is something we could do - bribe AOL to let our legit e-mail through. It is a bribe imo.
No, AOL's hey-day is behind it. Actions like these are the reasons why so many are leaving AOL. "Goodbye."
Or what if you sent them a flood of UDP 53 DNS responses (fake replys) with this in the contents? I wondered why NAV was under $20 on NewEgg the other day, now I know.
>>So there's no "irony" here, nor is there any "comeuppance". It's just a common bookkeeping error.
Yup. Completely agree. It took me over 1 year to write the bulk of our code to handle ONE area of fueltax. You have IFTA, with NY and others which have very nasty road tax laws. You have Tractor fuel tax, but also non-tractor fuel which the Feds give you back.22c per each gallon purchased. They loan it for a month and pay no interest. And then the states which refund back different amount, and are loaned out for much longer.
Then you have different rules for highway use than for toll or in town use. The list goes on. It takes a hell of a lot of work to do company tax. We have to pay tens of thousands a year just to do our fuel tax alone. Of course, we are talking about millions of dollars in taxes and much more if we calculate it wrong and get audited.
It's job security. You make a mistake once in a while being human. You correct for it. Humans do this every day.
OS/2 secure? BS. I ran a firewall on the thing in 1999. It was an IBM firewall. I ran it until IBM quit supporting it.
I was constantly loading patches. Reviewing these patches, and it was apparent some were exploitable. There were ways to send the firewall a certain string that would crash it. I happened upon this due to an application I ran crashing it - and then trying to figure out why it would crash.
Memory leaks, lots of tweaking that reminded me of the DOS days with memory management.
IBM was paid to install and configure the firewall, and support was paid yearly. IBM configured the Firewall to use shared NIC's so that the same NIC on the WWW was on the LAN.
OS/2 sucked. I'm glad Bill split directions from IBM. IBM's vision of the OS was very bad. IBM's only great OS is i5.
>>At least Google has teams of people working 24/7 keeping their machines whitelisted.
I guess that is why Google and Hotmail have been on SORBS' spam DNSbl for the last month?
If I get a large number of spams from a netblock, the class C gets blocked. Sometimes 1 spam will trigger the entire class C to be blocked. I do analysis about once every couple of months.
I watch, and any signs of false positives and I'll remove the block.
This effectivly rejects tens of thousands of spam's a day. It makes working quarantine for false positives go from a full time job to about 15 minutes a day.
What we really need is a re-write of e-mail MTA protocols. We need verified sender at each level. From Outlook/Thunderbird all the way to the POP3/IMAP server the sender needs to have a signed and verified certificate.
Certificates would not be free. The user would have to buy one - at low cost. And each MTA would have to have one.
We have morons who send us e-mails asking for a job, then when we reply to their e-mail they hit the SPAM button. This ends up getting us blocked.
So when we send out our e-mail pay summary (same time as we direct deposit) they bounce because AOL or YaHoo have us blocked. (These are only to folks who want this pay e-mailed. Otherwise we snail mail, or they can view them on a secured site.)
What we've done is told our employee's who use YaHoo or AOL to complain to these ISP's as there is nothing we can do. AOL postmaster service admits it's a sucky system, but were SOL. We also recommend that they get an e-mail address with a decent ISP/host and have these e-mails sent there.
We are the people they are addressing with this system. We will not pay the fees. Our members will change ISP's. This will result in these ISP's loosing more customers.
>>This applies to federal contractors begining today. It kicks in for pretty much everyone in the US (>50 employees) later this year.
Does this need further qualification?
Shouldn't it say;..It kicks in for pretty much everyone in the US (with more than 50 employees doing work for the US Federal government) later this year...
If I am Joe with 60 employees running a food joint that does no business with the Feds, then it doesn't apply.
>>Indeed, the combined talents of the Alpha crew from DEC, with the PA-RISC >>developers from HP, the SPARC group from Sun, those behind the MIPS at SGI and >>MIPS Technologies, and the PPC people from IBM, for instance, could have come up >>with a CPU that completely trumped what Intel was putting out at the time.
ROFL - that is hilarious. Can you imagine the politics in a chip like this? By the time the chip meets everyone at these companys requirements you would have a horrific chip.
And as we all know, the chip itself really makes no difference. Look at x86 for example with all it's legacy routines that continue to haunt it. What makes the difference is marketing.
Had any one of these chips had the proper marketing department and sales force, Microsoft would have an OS for it. I have an NT 3.5 for Alpha CD somewhere. They did write 3.51 for PPC and reportably SPARC, but didn't release SPARC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
Novell 4.11 with NDS has features that Windows 2003 AD still doesn't have. For example, while I can mark a drive compressed on both OSes, on Netware I can configure it to compress the file only after not used after x many days. And I can tell the OS to leave a file uncompressed after use for y many days. I can mark a file as executable or not, such as with *nix. I can do bulk operations on the directory which I still find difficult with Active Directory. With some lesser known options, I can put the same user in multiple leafs in the tree to associate the same user with multiple departments leafs, applications leafs, or what have you. In AD if I put my user objects in department leafs, I can't associate GPO's to groups of users such as managers from each department. I have to create a subcontainer leaf and put managers in there and associate the GPO to each of these leafs. What a pain.
Active Directory is still not where Netware NDS was 10 years ago. But that's not what matters. Marketing is paramount.
The US government has a long history of supporting anonymous proxy. They opened up one many years back and ran it for a while. It shut down. We found out it was CIA ran I believe, and they then went after child porn abusers.
I have children. I am in no way supporting any of these illegal activitys. My concern is that the US is looking more and more like the USSR looked in the 80's. And my public education taught me to despise a country where you had to have your papers with you at all times, a country where you had to be carefull what you said because you may get reported and taken away to far away prisons where you had no trial.
Doesn't that sound like where President Bush is leading us? And I voted for him twice. Thank God he can't be re-elected. Things will get better.
My gMail account gets thousands of spams a week. Yes, thousands. I get 100% spam rate on it.
This is because my gMail account is used for one thing only. Posting to newsgroups. Because of the posting via Google Groups, the account is in just about every spammers list.
I have other accounts that get no spam because no-one knows about them. Others have been clean until directory harvest and figuring out how to bypass Thunderbirds blocking of remote images.
Slashdot Mirror
www.surfcontrol.com
www.websense.com
Both of these products block proxy servers. They do a good job of keeping up with which proxy servers are out there. If Joe Blow puts up a proxy in his house and sends the traffic via winsocks over sTunnel for his own personal use, then he might get away with it. But that takes a lot of work and your average user is not going to figure that out.
Caller ID can be faked. So if I get the phone # of someone I know uses this system, I can route my call via my PBX and get *free* parking?
Seems to be a flaw in this system.
>>Under that ruling, Microsoft must open up parts of their operating system to competitors, and change how they bundle Media Player.
>>Just for clarification before anyone gets on their soapbox about how Microsoft shouldn't have to open their code to competitors, that is not the parts that the EU wants. They want MS to dislose API type information so that competitors can better interface with Windows. i.e. Samba.
Don't leave out the virus writers. As soon you you show the EU this information, the virus writers will also have it.
I side on Microsoft in this regard. Microsoft has a superior operating system. That is why they control over 90% of the desktop market. Why punish them for making it better? That must be a socialist ideal.
Personally, I'd love to have access to the Exchange interface specifications. But I don't think I, nor anyone, has a right to demand they release that information.
And if anyone asks again why Microsoft Vista is going to be so expensive, you know. The EU just wants to get their hands in the pot.
These type of drives usually see use in optical jukeboxes first.
Here is one such example;
http://www.storageflex.com/nsm.htm
We don't mind paying $2000 per drive for our optical silos because we can store many TB of data on them. This is great for imaging systems.
The limitations of this drive might be because it is designed for such use. Though I'd imagine to see SCSI and not IDE as the interface.
Lets see. All my Compaq/HP servers have embeded ATI video cards and run Intel chipsets. My HP desktops run AMD chipset, and have embeded ATI video cards. All my clones have ASUS and AGP nVidia video cards.
What does this mean to me? Anything?
All I really want is a vendor to make a STABLE release of their drivers for my 500 PC's. I hate having to figure out which driver worked best with a certain video card. Unified driver, my ass.
I have a WIFI phone. The battery life sucks. And WIFI is far from as reliable as GSM for making a call. The handoff doesn't work well either.
While I agree, that would be a long term effect, it would not be felt for 10 years.
if browser agent contains Windows CE or any other mobile platform then dispaly an alternate web page.
.mobi domain?
I have a SDA with Windows mobile 2005. Some sites already do this. Some do not.
I don't see how MOBI solves anything. If I'm not going to add the few lines of javascript I need to display my mobile website, why would I register a
I guess if I hit www.google.com and they http-redirect me over to www.google.mobi to let me know the site is a cell phone verion, then that's fine.
We use RFID. But we don't use the cheap ones like this.
We have Active RFID. They are password protected, encrypted, and only transmit data when a properly encrypted password protected SEND DATA command is transmitted. We use a special encoding, not off the shelf encoding. A standard reader cannot read these tags.
The batterys last 5 years on average. 3 on heavy use, 7 on minimum use.
We've been doing this for 10 years now.
To me, this seems to be the solution. And if anyone trys to hack this, the DMCA would be the way to lock them up and throw away the key, right?
We have tens of thousands of dollars (US) of Novell software that runs on Windows.
If Novell didn't run Windows, how could they support us and their products?
eDirectory for NT.
ZfDS6.5.
Middle Tier.
Netware Client for Windows.
ConsoleOne
iManager
Zenworks Imaging
OMG - a company that sells both Windows and Linux software has machines that dual boot to both Windows and Linux. Who would have thought such a thing?
These are all RFID in action saving you money. They save you money because they save truckers money;
d =57,1302257,57_1302270&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
http://www.illinoistollway.com/portal/page?_pagei
http://www.ezpassde.com/
http://www.sunpass.com/
http://www.prepass.com/
Weight in motion, which usually uses RFID;
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question626.htm
We've been doing RFID since 1996. It's not new technology. We are just talking about new applications.
I have Novell Linux 10.0 installed. I ran RedHat from version 6 on to 9. Most of our RedHat servers ended life at version 8 and switched over to Mandrake 10.1o. Aka Mandriva 10.1, aka Madriva 2005?
:)
Novell makes it almost impossible to get the free download of version 10.0, but if you are patient you can get it. Took me about 2 weeks to get the ISOs from their FTP server.
I was looking at Novell's Distro to provide DNS/DHCP. As a desktop, I was rather impressed. What I think is missing from most distro's is a central place to manage the system. Novell/SuSe has YaST which blows away apt-get, RPM, Urpmi, and has all the configuration settings in one well defined application with a constant feel. And unlike Urpmi and many of these tools, it actually works right out of the box. The live update works very well and is very user friendly. It handles Kernel updates and walks you through it.
Novell/SuSe has Ximian Evolution which looks very much like Outlook and has Exchange integration. http://helpdesk.its.uiowa.edu/exchange/ximian.htm
This is one awesome distro. But it comes at a cost. It really is bloated inside of VMWare. It seems to lock up every 5 seconds for half a second. It is not what I am looking for in a DHCP/DNS server.
I almost went with Trustix, but wasn't sure of it's future. BSD seemed a good choice for this, but as everyone knows BSD is dead
We use Zenworks, Netware, eDirectory, and many other tools from Novell. But we are no loyalist. We are moving away from their solutions due to the lack of direction at Novell.
We have e-mails we send out each week. These are paid for by the person getting the e-mail. They pay from $4 to $200 a week for them.
Some of our folks that pay for these e-mails are AOL members.
Numerious times AOL has decided to blocklist us because they sent us job apps and we responded, then they click on SPAM to our response e-mail. This causes these paid for e-mails to fail.
Should I pay their fee to get these paid for e-mails through their PoS e-mail system? It's not my responsibility that a small percentage of AOL members are stupid and can trigger false blocking for ALL AOL members.
No, we won't pay their fee. The problem is between the AOL member and AOL. The problem is on AOL's side. There is nothing we can do. But with this fee, there is something we could do - bribe AOL to let our legit e-mail through. It is a bribe imo.
No, AOL's hey-day is behind it. Actions like these are the reasons why so many are leaving AOL. "Goodbye."
Or what if you sent them a flood of UDP 53 DNS responses (fake replys) with this in the contents? I wondered why NAV was under $20 on NewEgg the other day, now I know.
>>So there's no "irony" here, nor is there any "comeuppance". It's just a common bookkeeping error.
.22c per each gallon purchased. They loan it for a month and pay no interest. And then the states which refund back different amount, and are loaned out for much longer.
Yup. Completely agree. It took me over 1 year to write the bulk of our code to handle ONE area of fueltax. You have IFTA, with NY and others which have very nasty road tax laws. You have Tractor fuel tax, but also non-tractor fuel which the Feds give you back
Then you have different rules for highway use than for toll or in town use. The list goes on. It takes a hell of a lot of work to do company tax. We have to pay tens of thousands a year just to do our fuel tax alone. Of course, we are talking about millions of dollars in taxes and much more if we calculate it wrong and get audited.
It's job security. You make a mistake once in a while being human. You correct for it. Humans do this every day.
My Chaintech (nVidia) card says right on the box that it comes with a remote control and a PVR software package.
Neither were in the box.
Chaintech said "Sorry, must have been a misprint."
Big misprint, imo.
OS/2 secure? BS. I ran a firewall on the thing in 1999. It was an IBM firewall. I ran it until IBM quit supporting it.
I was constantly loading patches. Reviewing these patches, and it was apparent some were exploitable. There were ways to send the firewall a certain string that would crash it. I happened upon this due to an application I ran crashing it - and then trying to figure out why it would crash.
Memory leaks, lots of tweaking that reminded me of the DOS days with memory management.
IBM was paid to install and configure the firewall, and support was paid yearly. IBM configured the Firewall to use shared NIC's so that the same NIC on the WWW was on the LAN.
OS/2 sucked. I'm glad Bill split directions from IBM. IBM's vision of the OS was very bad. IBM's only great OS is i5.
>>At least Google has teams of people working 24/7 keeping their machines whitelisted.
I guess that is why Google and Hotmail have been on SORBS' spam DNSbl for the last month?
If I get a large number of spams from a netblock, the class C gets blocked. Sometimes 1 spam will trigger the entire class C to be blocked. I do analysis about once every couple of months.
I watch, and any signs of false positives and I'll remove the block.
This effectivly rejects tens of thousands of spam's a day. It makes working quarantine for false positives go from a full time job to about 15 minutes a day.
What we really need is a re-write of e-mail MTA protocols. We need verified sender at each level. From Outlook/Thunderbird all the way to the POP3/IMAP server the sender needs to have a signed and verified certificate.
Certificates would not be free. The user would have to buy one - at low cost. And each MTA would have to have one.
They added a feature to WSUS for signature updates.
If you run WSUS, go into your options and select synchronize options, then select Update classifications.
You will see a new category for definition updates.
This One Live software will be able to get it's updates from Automatic Updates, or from WSUS.
If there is a cure, then be prepared for divorce rates to skyrocket. For every action...
We have morons who send us e-mails asking for a job, then when we reply to their e-mail they hit the SPAM button. This ends up getting us blocked.
So when we send out our e-mail pay summary (same time as we direct deposit) they bounce because AOL or YaHoo have us blocked. (These are only to folks who want this pay e-mailed. Otherwise we snail mail, or they can view them on a secured site.)
What we've done is told our employee's who use YaHoo or AOL to complain to these ISP's as there is nothing we can do. AOL postmaster service admits it's a sucky system, but were SOL. We also recommend that they get an e-mail address with a decent ISP/host and have these e-mails sent there.
We are the people they are addressing with this system. We will not pay the fees. Our members will change ISP's. This will result in these ISP's loosing more customers.
>>This applies to federal contractors begining today. It kicks in for pretty much everyone in the US (>50 employees) later this year.
..It kicks in for pretty much everyone in the US (with more than 50 employees doing work for the US Federal government) later this year...
Does this need further qualification?
Shouldn't it say;
If I am Joe with 60 employees running a food joint that does no business with the Feds, then it doesn't apply.
The tin foil hat doesn't work well.
What you really need is an outfit and shopping bag made of this material;
http://www.mobilecloak.com/
That will stop the RFID's.
Of course, these will certainly be illegal once Walmart goes to RFID cash registers, for obvious reasons.
>>Indeed, the combined talents of the Alpha crew from DEC, with the PA-RISC
>>developers from HP, the SPARC group from Sun, those behind the MIPS at SGI and
>>MIPS Technologies, and the PPC people from IBM, for instance, could have come up
>>with a CPU that completely trumped what Intel was putting out at the time.
ROFL - that is hilarious. Can you imagine the politics in a chip like this? By the time the chip meets everyone at these companys requirements you would have a horrific chip.
And as we all know, the chip itself really makes no difference. Look at x86 for example with all it's legacy routines that continue to haunt it. What makes the difference is marketing.
Had any one of these chips had the proper marketing department and sales force, Microsoft would have an OS for it. I have an NT 3.5 for Alpha CD somewhere. They did write 3.51 for PPC and reportably SPARC, but didn't release SPARC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
Novell 4.11 with NDS has features that Windows 2003 AD still doesn't have. For example, while I can mark a drive compressed on both OSes, on Netware I can configure it to compress the file only after not used after x many days. And I can tell the OS to leave a file uncompressed after use for y many days. I can mark a file as executable or not, such as with *nix. I can do bulk operations on the directory which I still find difficult with Active Directory. With some lesser known options, I can put the same user in multiple leafs in the tree to associate the same user with multiple departments leafs, applications leafs, or what have you. In AD if I put my user objects in department leafs, I can't associate GPO's to groups of users such as managers from each department. I have to create a subcontainer leaf and put managers in there and associate the GPO to each of these leafs. What a pain.
Active Directory is still not where Netware NDS was 10 years ago. But that's not what matters. Marketing is paramount.
The US government has a long history of supporting anonymous proxy. They opened up one many years back and ran it for a while. It shut down. We found out it was CIA ran I believe, and they then went after child porn abusers.
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I forget the name of the website they used. It has been years ago.
I think this article is what I am talking about;
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-mahara
Read that article all the way through. Now read what they are doing today. They are up to the same tricks.
Articles of US supporting anonymous proxy;
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/08/29/us_sponso
Read what this says about that service;
http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Anonymi
Other articles of what they do;
http://castlecops.com/a4498-Police_to_Launch_Inte
I have children. I am in no way supporting any of these illegal activitys. My concern is that the US is looking more and more like the USSR looked in the 80's. And my public education taught me to despise a country where you had to have your papers with you at all times, a country where you had to be carefull what you said because you may get reported and taken away to far away prisons where you had no trial.
Doesn't that sound like where President Bush is leading us? And I voted for him twice. Thank God he can't be re-elected. Things will get better.
My gMail account gets thousands of spams a week. Yes, thousands. I get 100% spam rate on it. This is because my gMail account is used for one thing only. Posting to newsgroups. Because of the posting via Google Groups, the account is in just about every spammers list. I have other accounts that get no spam because no-one knows about them. Others have been clean until directory harvest and figuring out how to bypass Thunderbirds blocking of remote images.