I took COBOL in college. I use RPGILE now. We do have a few COBOL programs left from about 20 years ago. Still run with no changes. COBOL was designed to be easy, plain English code;
MULTIPLY B BY B GIVING B-SQUARED.
MULTIPLY 4 BY A GIVING FOUR-A.
MULTIPLY FOUR-A BY C GIVING FOUR-A-C.
SUBTRACT FOUR-A-C FROM B-SQUARED GIVING RESULT-1.
COMPUTE RESULT-2 = RESULT-1 **.5.
SUBTRACT B FROM RESULT-2 GIVING NUMERATOR.
MULTIPLY 2 BY A GIVING DENOMINATOR.
DIVIDE NUMERATOR BY DENOMINATOR GIVING X.
as per that WIKI page.
What I find is that it is not the language (COBOL/RPG) that makes me love these systems over PC's. It is that if you run a line of code, the results are always the same.
On a PC I might run a line of code through one PC and get one result, while another generates a different result. This could be due to the Intel FDIV issue, or due to different print drivers which affect the printout, bad RAM, not trapping errors(on error resume next), whatever.
If I run code on a Midrange or Mainframe, the results do not vary like this. We have never replaced one of these systems with a PC based system without accuracy going down. Now, productivity is another story. Some of the PC systems with integrated maps, forms, and so forth can really boost productivity. But they never seem to be as stable.
To clarify, the name war dialing did not come from the movie. It was around long before the movie. The movie did a rather nice job of being accurate with how it worked - until the computer just started speaking on it's own later in the movie.
War dialing turned up interesting results because many locations dropped VT100 onto a POTs line and had no log in authentication. In many cases you would dial up and if you had your emulator set right, you were root.
With most interested in hacking the Internet, I often wonder if these type of open doors have come back into existence. There are many Ethernet->analog line "out of band" maintenance devices being put in place...
One of our cooperate laptops was detained by DHS indefinitely. I think they sold it on eBay. The hard drive wasn't re-formatted, so our admin software was still tracking it when it showed up at a truck stop thousands of miles away a few months later.
We watched it move around the Eastern sea board for a while before our "remote wipe hard drive" task actually worked correclty.
I wonder when we will get this one back?
This is a violation of the 5th amendment; "..nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
Cam movies? I suppose people with small screens such as iPod and WM would be fine with that.
So here is a question. If one went to see a movie, bought a DVD (license?) to watch the same movie, then download it in PSP format - is one breaking US law? Do they count that as lost revenue?
>>my DD-WRT router isn't running a DNS server on it, and the DHCP static DNS settings are set for my Server 2008 box
You are using NAT right? This doesn't protect you any more as your NAT router is still listening for those UDP 53 replies and forwarding them onto your 2008 server. So the same thing could occur.
However, if you've put Microsoft's patch for this on your 2008 server then yes, you are protected.
This is a nasty thing.
Switching to OpenDNS is kinda of ironic. To protect myself from someone possibly spoofing IP addresses in DNS requests I will switch to OpenDNS which in the FAQ states that THEY WILL DO THIS same thing to deliver advertising in searches..... hello?
OpenDNS is great as a simple porn blocker on the cheap, along with some of the free Windows URL filters. But nothing I'd run myself.
Have two vaults. Different locations. In vault is a file cabinet. Each system which requires unique passwords has it's own file. The file is secured so that it has to be opened and proof of that occurring must be evident. Access to the vaults are recorded.
We always joked about someone getting hit by a bus and suddenly dieing with the admin passwords to their system in their head. Well, it wasn't a bus, but it happened. We had such vaults and we had admin access which allowed us to reset other admin accounts too.
This could be done physically or virtually. It doesn't stop the case of someone being bad and holding the password hostage. I'm not sure what you can do about that. My RFID system from 1995 is running DOS. It's not like we can install auditing software on it for cases of me changing the admin passwords. There has to be a level of trust. The punishment for this guy needs to be huge as to deter future cases.
That way if me and the folks in my building all need Vista SP1, it could download to one of our set top boxes over wires and then distribute to the 400 others by means of the local mesh network.
I could envision bringing my mobile mesh P2P set top box to work where we have an open 100Mb Internet connect & letting the node fill, then I could take it home and everyone in my area with sucky bandwidth could benefit from my cache.
One of their features is a PIP satellite MPLS connection which has much less jitter (latency) than Hughes, DircPC, and such. They said they have customers using this for Citrix, VPN, and Voice and these customers find it much better than traditional satellite. They also offered to us to have one of their disaster recovery mobile MPLS satellite vans pull up so we could hook a laptop and VoIP phone up and test for ourselves.
They also offer such services over EVDO (or will) if you get Verizon EVDO in that area of Canada.
I don't speak from experience, but you asked for options and this might just be one.
My laptops have Antivirus that reports back to my admin server along with IP address (Local & the Firewall's.)
So when a laptop is stolen, I know where it is. But what good does that do me? If I call up the police myself and say I have this old company laptop worth $500 sitting somewhere in the open WIFI at the local truckstop, they will just say "so what?"
I can remote wipe the PC to eliminate any private data, if they don't do that prior to selling it on eBay.
I use P2P to get WoW updates, OpenSUSE, and other distro's.
P2P could conceivable run on any port using any protocol. We could embed the traffic as the echo request in ICMP. It could be embedded in directed sub delegated DNS using techniques like the Flash reverse proxy hack.
The only way they can possible block P2P in any future form is to block all inbound & outbound traffic with the exception of outbound HTTP, which is then heavily inspected. HTTPS would have to be through their proxy, which they can then inspect. That's the only way to stop it.
That's not going to fly. To be effective with technology, they really need to outlaw and then confiscate our computers (by that I mean in any form even my phone.)
This is not a problem technology can solve. This is something that can only be solved by social engineering. Such as 1 year prison for copyright infringement, 1st time. Only when the risks out weigh the benefits, and the odds of getting caught are high, will this stop.
Speeding is illegal. The penalty is pretty harsh for the average Joe, especially considering insurance increases. Have you ever exceeded the speed limit?
>>You have to give the *incoming* VOIP priority over the incoming torrent traffic, and for good results, this must be done at the ISP, before it has already clogged up your personal "last mile" link.
I concur. While I use QoS to rate limit incoming connections to many T1 & frame links, there is just so much you can do with an incoming stream which is congested.
We have a Packeteer 6Mb/s device at Corp throttling about 10 remote sites. Handles incoming/outgoing pretty well. But when the incoming traffic from a remote site to Corp get saturated, the user complain. We took our patch servers at rate limited them to 80%. Even when they are at 80% incoming and the graphs show this, the users still complain because the damage has been done already. You need QoS on both ends of the link to stop the choppyness. The outbound can be 100% and the users don't complain because it can prioritize that traffic prior to going over the link.
Odds are you are not going to go to your ISP and get them to QoS for you. So here are some other options;
Now if you don't mind slowing down your P2P, you can do something pretty simple. Most P2P clients allow you to limit incoming/outgoing bandwidth. Go into our client and set your download rate to 30% your bandwidth, and your upload rate to 30% your upload bandwidth (async probably.) If you can't control your client this way (WoW?) Smoothwall with the QoS option does very good. We have a 100Mb/s bidir connection at work. We pay based on usage and have open WIFI. Well, first qtr the bill came in and P2P traffic added $1500 that month. We setup ALL ports > 1024 bidir in Smoothwall w/QoS add on to LOW priority and maximum bandwidth cap.) The setting gives me about 50kb/s of P2P bandwidth over my 100Mb/s pipe.
My father's Pc just got killed off by one of these. He was watching a video of a Jaguar for sale on eBay. Of course, they provided the necessary codec too. This resulted in Antivirus XP 2008 getting installed (malware) and they put the PC in a continual BSOD loop.
>>Or somewhat more recently we had a virus that slipped by our e-mail scanner. It did so by sending itself in encrypted zip files, and then putting the decryption key in the message. That meant you had to open the mail, save the zip, open the zip, enter the code, extract the executable, and run it. Two users did just that and got infected
Once bitten, twice shy. Most people I know only do that once.
Perhaps our schools should teach Internet security 101 to our students so that people are educated not to do this sort of stupid stuff. I don't know what you do with us old farts though.
I still think that application should be virtualized each running with their own virtual registry and file system. Let that ActiveX control try to write to %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. It don't matter too much, it is a virtual file system which is not the real hosts file so it has no impact. Let that launched attachment run. If it crashes the virtual Outlook, a restart and everything is ok as the virtual part is clean each launch -- kinda like XP Embeded in it's normal mode (not write mode.)
Ditto -- got 12,000 photos backed up to DVD/HDD and now to Mozy. Proceding to backup rest of library to Mozy. Looks like one can get about 100GB/mo uploaded to Mozy at 1Mb/s if left on 24/7 and Mozy is up all the time (they aren't.)
$4.95mo / unlimited storage.
If the 1Mb/s scares you off, Amazon S3 has many wonderful applications for this type of backup & is cheap.
There are also P2P backup solutions where you remotely store your crap on others HDD, in turn allowing others to backup to yours - however I doubt these current P2P solutions will last 20 years.
These streams are 800Kb/s each. On top of that, they run over SSL which adds to the overhead. And each connection streams from one of hundreds of IP ranges.
We have 500 users sharing a dual T1, all wanting to watch this. So why did business transactions begin failing? I wonder.
Yea, we saw this.
Since it was SSL we can't inspect it at the application layer for QoS. Since it's a huge number of IP ranges, that gets us too. We can't transparently proxy SSL so Squid can't help. It's a flash stream over https.
So we QoSed the end users on port 443 in this case. 300b/s seems about right.:P
It is in the best interests of game consoles to protect their copy protection so that their content creators will continue to support the console. If they get scared off by a large mod chip community, they might quit making products for that console.
So Microsoft, Sony, et al will fight this. As they should. Just because it is not illegal doesn't mean it is moral.
Just because I buy an AK47, made for killing, doesn't mean I am justified to use it for it's intended purpose of killing. (Killing != illegal btw.) Buying a now legal mod'ed Xbox doesn't make it justified to play pirated (copied) discs/games.
FTA - Judge likes porn, has porn, has site with porn. Me - So what? Who cares? FTA - This presents a conflict of interest because he is handling a case which has to deal with porn. Me - WTF? So if a judge drives a car and perhaps has a been now and then, he can't preside over a DWI case? If he owns a home with a flag on it, he can't preside over a case where someone is in violation of HOA rules by having a flag at their house? Come one.
You could always run Kerio on *nix. It has the KOFF connector which gives my most of Exchange's features. It also supports OTA SYNC with Windows Mobile as well as a very nice webmail interface. It's a lot less $ than M$.
>>If I had an Intel Mac, I'd just put Windows on a partition.
I have two games that run on the Mac under this platform. Eve online and Secondlife. I have the games both on the Mac side and on the Windows XP side. On the Mac side, they are playable but not great. Secondlife is somewhat slow. On the Windows side they scream.
Guess what side I play?
We don't need more games runing under Wine, we need more native binaries.
>>That one single thing would be the difference in $GOBS spent on MS Office, Exchange, server hardware / OS
What you *could* do is purchase an Exchange seat with 1and1.com for $6.99/mo.
For that, you get a copy of the latest Outlook, you get an Exchange seat @yourdomain.com, you get antivirus & antispam, active sync, Outlook Web Access, 1GB of space.
Since this is Exchange, you can do OTA sync too.
$6.99/mo. That's pretty cheap. There is a free 3 month trial right now. 1and1.com
>>Any SUV owners reading this? Look forward to watching the second hand sale value of your vehicle plummet even while fuel costs rise to the point where you can no longer afford to drive your (now) useless vehicle.
This is actually pretty awesome to me. There are used car lots full of trade in SUV's and they are priced very attractive. I can afford the $4 gas. Even if it goes up to $5, c'est la vie. I'm an IT worker, I'm paid decent. I have a 28MPG car I just paid off, got a 2006 Sienna. But I always wanted a big Toyota Land Cruiser or the Lexus variant. But I'm not buying one at $40,000+.
All you have to do is go to Autotrader or Cars.com and search... They've dropped like 5% off what they were selling for!! woo hoo. (Yes, I'm being sarcastic as they haven't dropped much.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL
I took COBOL in college. I use RPGILE now. We do have a few COBOL programs left from about 20 years ago. Still run with no changes. COBOL was designed to be easy, plain English code;
MULTIPLY B BY B GIVING B-SQUARED. .5.
MULTIPLY 4 BY A GIVING FOUR-A.
MULTIPLY FOUR-A BY C GIVING FOUR-A-C.
SUBTRACT FOUR-A-C FROM B-SQUARED GIVING RESULT-1.
COMPUTE RESULT-2 = RESULT-1 **
SUBTRACT B FROM RESULT-2 GIVING NUMERATOR.
MULTIPLY 2 BY A GIVING DENOMINATOR.
DIVIDE NUMERATOR BY DENOMINATOR GIVING X.
as per that WIKI page.
What I find is that it is not the language (COBOL/RPG) that makes me love these systems over PC's. It is that if you run a line of code, the results are always the same.
On a PC I might run a line of code through one PC and get one result, while another generates a different result. This could be due to the Intel FDIV issue, or due to different print drivers which affect the printout, bad RAM, not trapping errors(on error resume next), whatever.
If I run code on a Midrange or Mainframe, the results do not vary like this. We have never replaced one of these systems with a PC based system without accuracy going down. Now, productivity is another story. Some of the PC systems with integrated maps, forms, and so forth can really boost productivity. But they never seem to be as stable.
Is that really more than IBM Windows support? IBM's rather expensive, but they bring some awesome and dedicated folks to the table.
My *nix servers (Mandriva, CentOS, Ubuntu, SUSE, others) have no support purchased -- as I don't need it.
For me, Google is my friend.
To clarify, the name war dialing did not come from the movie. It was around long before the movie. The movie did a rather nice job of being accurate with how it worked - until the computer just started speaking on it's own later in the movie.
War dialing turned up interesting results because many locations dropped VT100 onto a POTs line and had no log in authentication. In many cases you would dial up and if you had your emulator set right, you were root.
With most interested in hacking the Internet, I often wonder if these type of open doors have come back into existence. There are many Ethernet->analog line "out of band" maintenance devices being put in place...
One of our cooperate laptops was detained by DHS indefinitely. I think they sold it on eBay. The hard drive wasn't re-formatted, so our admin software was still tracking it when it showed up at a truck stop thousands of miles away a few months later.
We watched it move around the Eastern sea board for a while before our "remote wipe hard drive" task actually worked correclty.
I wonder when we will get this one back?
This is a violation of the 5th amendment;
"..nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
Cam movies? I suppose people with small screens such as iPod and WM would be fine with that.
So here is a question. If one went to see a movie, bought a DVD (license?) to watch the same movie, then download it in PSP format - is one breaking US law? Do they count that as lost revenue?
>>my DD-WRT router isn't running a DNS server on it, and the DHCP static DNS settings are set for my Server 2008 box
You are using NAT right? This doesn't protect you any more as your NAT router is still listening for those UDP 53 replies and forwarding them onto your 2008 server. So the same thing could occur.
However, if you've put Microsoft's patch for this on your 2008 server then yes, you are protected.
This is a nasty thing.
Switching to OpenDNS is kinda of ironic. To protect myself from someone possibly spoofing IP addresses in DNS requests I will switch to OpenDNS which in the FAQ states that THEY WILL DO THIS same thing to deliver advertising in searches..... hello?
OpenDNS is great as a simple porn blocker on the cheap, along with some of the free Windows URL filters. But nothing I'd run myself.
Have two vaults. Different locations. In vault is a file cabinet. Each system which requires unique passwords has it's own file. The file is secured so that it has to be opened and proof of that occurring must be evident. Access to the vaults are recorded.
We always joked about someone getting hit by a bus and suddenly dieing with the admin passwords to their system in their head. Well, it wasn't a bus, but it happened. We had such vaults and we had admin access which allowed us to reset other admin accounts too.
This could be done physically or virtually. It doesn't stop the case of someone being bad and holding the password hostage. I'm not sure what you can do about that. My RFID system from 1995 is running DOS. It's not like we can install auditing software on it for cases of me changing the admin passwords. There has to be a level of trust. The punishment for this guy needs to be huge as to deter future cases.
>>You don't need to switch to a new ISP if they haven't patched yet - just switch to a new DNS server such as OpenDNS.
Is this really true?
From what I gather this doesn't solve the problem, just makes it a little more difficult. Correct me if my understanding is wrong.
Your router still uses default of 53 -> OpenDns -> public on random port.
UDP
You still listen on 53, so the hacker can spoof the response as though it's from OpenDNS's two IP's and send that straight to your router on port 53.
Am I wrong?
What would really be cool is adding a mesh network based on Mobile IPv6 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IPv6 )
That way if me and the folks in my building all need Vista SP1, it could download to one of our set top boxes over wires and then distribute to the 400 others by means of the local mesh network.
I could envision bringing my mobile mesh P2P set top box to work where we have an open 100Mb Internet connect & letting the node fill, then I could take it home and everyone in my area with sucky bandwidth could benefit from my cache.
I just sat through an hour long presentation where Verizon was trying to sell me on switching to their MPLS;
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/032107-verizon-business-mpls-vpn.html
One of their features is a PIP satellite MPLS connection which has much less jitter (latency) than Hughes, DircPC, and such. They said they have customers using this for Citrix, VPN, and Voice and these customers find it much better than traditional satellite. They also offered to us to have one of their disaster recovery mobile MPLS satellite vans pull up so we could hook a laptop and VoIP phone up and test for ourselves.
They also offer such services over EVDO (or will) if you get Verizon EVDO in that area of Canada.
I don't speak from experience, but you asked for options and this might just be one.
My laptops have Antivirus that reports back to my admin server along with IP address (Local & the Firewall's.)
So when a laptop is stolen, I know where it is. But what good does that do me? If I call up the police myself and say I have this old company laptop worth $500 sitting somewhere in the open WIFI at the local truckstop, they will just say "so what?"
I can remote wipe the PC to eliminate any private data, if they don't do that prior to selling it on eBay.
I think that whitelists wouldn't work either.
Why?
One example would be Amazon.com;
http://www.amazon.com/AWS-home-page-Money/b/ref=gw_br_websvcs?ie=UTF8&node=3435361&pf_rd_p=413541701&pf_rd_s=left-nav-3&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=507846&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1AS2996111KQQC29RYZ7
With Amazon, I can upload instances of servers. Now my P2P node is running on Amazon.com, and my home PC is making an HTTPS connection to Amazon.com.
They also have hosted databases and file services at very cheap prices.
YaHoo and Google also have developer networks that could be exploited;
http://developer.yahoo.com/
http://code.google.com/
A white list will not work - you have to inspect the traffic and identify what's being copied.
Even with that, what's to prevent a stenography type P2P system from going into effect, where the exchanges occur in our hosted web sites images?
http://www.infosyssec.net/infosyssec/security/cry2.htm
One could post the 3MB MP3 into 10 5MP images which are uploaded to your Flickr account and tagged so that the P2P network knows what to get.
Anyway, you can't stop P2P - only escalate it.
I use P2P to get WoW updates, OpenSUSE, and other distro's.
P2P could conceivable run on any port using any protocol. We could embed the traffic as the echo request in ICMP. It could be embedded in directed sub delegated DNS using techniques like the Flash reverse proxy hack.
The only way they can possible block P2P in any future form is to block all inbound & outbound traffic with the exception of outbound HTTP, which is then heavily inspected. HTTPS would have to be through their proxy, which they can then inspect. That's the only way to stop it.
That's not going to fly. To be effective with technology, they really need to outlaw and then confiscate our computers (by that I mean in any form even my phone.)
This is not a problem technology can solve. This is something that can only be solved by social engineering. Such as 1 year prison for copyright infringement, 1st time. Only when the risks out weigh the benefits, and the odds of getting caught are high, will this stop.
Speeding is illegal. The penalty is pretty harsh for the average Joe, especially considering insurance increases. Have you ever exceeded the speed limit?
>>You have to give the *incoming* VOIP priority over the incoming torrent traffic, and for good results, this must be done at the ISP, before it has already clogged up your personal "last mile" link. I concur. While I use QoS to rate limit incoming connections to many T1 & frame links, there is just so much you can do with an incoming stream which is congested. We have a Packeteer 6Mb/s device at Corp throttling about 10 remote sites. Handles incoming/outgoing pretty well. But when the incoming traffic from a remote site to Corp get saturated, the user complain. We took our patch servers at rate limited them to 80%. Even when they are at 80% incoming and the graphs show this, the users still complain because the damage has been done already. You need QoS on both ends of the link to stop the choppyness. The outbound can be 100% and the users don't complain because it can prioritize that traffic prior to going over the link. Odds are you are not going to go to your ISP and get them to QoS for you. So here are some other options; Now if you don't mind slowing down your P2P, you can do something pretty simple. Most P2P clients allow you to limit incoming/outgoing bandwidth. Go into our client and set your download rate to 30% your bandwidth, and your upload rate to 30% your upload bandwidth (async probably.) If you can't control your client this way (WoW?) Smoothwall with the QoS option does very good. We have a 100Mb/s bidir connection at work. We pay based on usage and have open WIFI. Well, first qtr the bill came in and P2P traffic added $1500 that month. We setup ALL ports > 1024 bidir in Smoothwall w/QoS add on to LOW priority and maximum bandwidth cap.) The setting gives me about 50kb/s of P2P bandwidth over my 100Mb/s pipe.
My father's Pc just got killed off by one of these. He was watching a video of a Jaguar for sale on eBay. Of course, they provided the necessary codec too. This resulted in Antivirus XP 2008 getting installed (malware) and they put the PC in a continual BSOD loop.
>>Or somewhat more recently we had a virus that slipped by our e-mail scanner. It did so by sending itself in encrypted zip files, and then putting the decryption key in the message. That meant you had to open the mail, save the zip, open the zip, enter the code, extract the executable, and run it. Two users did just that and got infected
Once bitten, twice shy. Most people I know only do that once.
Perhaps our schools should teach Internet security 101 to our students so that people are educated not to do this sort of stupid stuff. I don't know what you do with us old farts though.
I still think that application should be virtualized each running with their own virtual registry and file system. Let that ActiveX control try to write to %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. It don't matter too much, it is a virtual file system which is not the real hosts file so it has no impact. Let that launched attachment run. If it crashes the virtual Outlook, a restart and everything is ok as the virtual part is clean each launch -- kinda like XP Embeded in it's normal mode (not write mode.)
my .02
Ditto -- got 12,000 photos backed up to DVD/HDD and now to Mozy. Proceding to backup rest of library to Mozy. Looks like one can get about 100GB/mo uploaded to Mozy at 1Mb/s if left on 24/7 and Mozy is up all the time (they aren't.)
$4.95mo / unlimited storage.
If the 1Mb/s scares you off, Amazon S3 has many wonderful applications for this type of backup & is cheap.
There are also P2P backup solutions where you remotely store your crap on others HDD, in turn allowing others to backup to yours - however I doubt these current P2P solutions will last 20 years.
These streams are 800Kb/s each. On top of that, they run over SSL which adds to the overhead. And each connection streams from one of hundreds of IP ranges.
:P
We have 500 users sharing a dual T1, all wanting to watch this. So why did business transactions begin failing? I wonder.
Yea, we saw this.
Since it was SSL we can't inspect it at the application layer for QoS. Since it's a huge number of IP ranges, that gets us too. We can't transparently proxy SSL so Squid can't help. It's a flash stream over https.
So we QoSed the end users on port 443 in this case. 300b/s seems about right.
The Atari ST line died a nice death due to the lack of software, which in turn was due to the lack of copy protection;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST#Software_2
http://www.mevagissey.net/atariads.htm
It is in the best interests of game consoles to protect their copy protection so that their content creators will continue to support the console. If they get scared off by a large mod chip community, they might quit making products for that console.
So Microsoft, Sony, et al will fight this. As they should. Just because it is not illegal doesn't mean it is moral.
Just because I buy an AK47, made for killing, doesn't mean I am justified to use it for it's intended purpose of killing. (Killing != illegal btw.) Buying a now legal mod'ed Xbox doesn't make it justified to play pirated (copied) discs/games.
FTA - Judge likes porn, has porn, has site with porn.
Me - So what? Who cares?
FTA - This presents a conflict of interest because he is handling a case which has to deal with porn.
Me - WTF? So if a judge drives a car and perhaps has a been now and then, he can't preside over a DWI case? If he owns a home with a flag on it, he can't preside over a case where someone is in violation of HOA rules by having a flag at their house? Come one.
You could always run Kerio on *nix. It has the KOFF connector which gives my most of Exchange's features. It also supports OTA SYNC with Windows Mobile as well as a very nice webmail interface. It's a lot less $ than M$.
>>If I had an Intel Mac, I'd just put Windows on a partition.
I have two games that run on the Mac under this platform. Eve online and Secondlife. I have the games both on the Mac side and on the Windows XP side. On the Mac side, they are playable but not great. Secondlife is somewhat slow. On the Windows side they scream.
Guess what side I play?
We don't need more games runing under Wine, we need more native binaries.
Who is watching the watchers?
>>That one single thing would be the difference in $GOBS spent on MS Office, Exchange, server hardware / OS
What you *could* do is purchase an Exchange seat with 1and1.com for $6.99/mo.
For that, you get a copy of the latest Outlook, you get an Exchange seat @yourdomain.com, you get antivirus & antispam, active sync, Outlook Web Access, 1GB of space.
Since this is Exchange, you can do OTA sync too.
$6.99/mo. That's pretty cheap. There is a free 3 month trial right now.
1and1.com
>>Any SUV owners reading this? Look forward to watching the second hand sale value of your vehicle plummet even while fuel costs rise to the point where you can no longer afford to drive your (now) useless vehicle.
This is actually pretty awesome to me. There are used car lots full of trade in SUV's and they are priced very attractive. I can afford the $4 gas. Even if it goes up to $5, c'est la vie. I'm an IT worker, I'm paid decent. I have a 28MPG car I just paid off, got a 2006 Sienna. But I always wanted a big Toyota Land Cruiser or the Lexus variant. But I'm not buying one at $40,000+.
All you have to do is go to Autotrader or Cars.com and search... They've dropped like 5% off what they were selling for!! woo hoo. (Yes, I'm being sarcastic as they haven't dropped much.)