A friend of mine gave me a dual P3 933 machine with a gig of ram, I put a 100gig sata drive in it, and put Vmware server on it. Now I have 12 virtual machines defined... (no for all you picky types, not all run at the same time, 3-4 at most)... and out went all the old hardware in the basement. My wife was happy.
Of course, I'd like to buy a nicer 64 bit machine for this server... but I have the ability to sit back and wait.
I don't know why there's so many Naysayers on here!
I'd like to say to anyone who's badmouthed this: have you tried it? Where's your project?
Personally, I think it's a good idea. It's important to note... This is an option! In other words, I'm filing this in my head under "You might wanna try this...". If you don't like it, don't use it. If you do, well then good. If you think you can do better, do that too.
I've personally had RoadRunner as an ISP for over 8 years. Sometimes their DNS is horrible. So I have run my own. At work (I work for another ISP), we provide plain vanilla DNS as best we can. Most ISPs do this. OpenDNS is "fancy" DNS, for clients. It's nice someone had the piece of mind to think of these ideas. Next time I'm at lunch with a nerdy group of friends I'm going to bring it up... to see how they might use it in their organizations and personal use. Others might want to do the same.
I saw the article this morning. Realized it's the same guy (and team) who's been doing EveryDNS (which I use as secondary for my domains) and quickly rattled off an IM. Nice project! Not longer than 1.3 seconds later, "Thanks!". I then popped the nameserver IPs in a Windows 2000 VM and proceeded to try it out. If my sister-in-law on dialup has a problem with phishing sites, or typos, I might recommend this. If she tries it for a week and doesn't like it, so be it.
My point is... (and this is something I've said for years and appears on the site)... phishing, spam, etc is a social problem not a technical one. The only way to stop these guys is the foundation in which the internet was developed on... clever ideas and cooperation.
So stop complaining and start cooperating. And David, keep up the good work!
To which copyright holder? The one who holds the copyright for "blanks"? What about blank paper? You can infringe copyright on that. How about pens, pencils? Crayons? Markers? A sharp stick in the dirt?
Hmm 3,141 genes huh? Did anyone recognize those numbers? 3141... really close to 1000 times Pi. (Well minus some change). Very interesting. Perhaps we're all just circles and we're made up of our circumference divided by our diameter.
The article is really good. (Whoa, I read it!). It's difficult to communicate over written medium. But given time, you can become better at it. I actually wrote a customer this morning and used the terms "woops I goofed!". He have built prior rapport, over the phone.
Email should be one communication tool in your toolbelt. Not the only one. Re-read your email before you send it. See if you can understand it, reading it from an objective point of view. I'm sure editors and authors do this all the time.
I typically put a bunch of garbage in an email, re-read it, and throw 90% of the garbage out, and am left with two short sentences that get my point across. When I ramble on and on and on, people get bored. (like this post).
I've been working with VMWare and virtual servers for a while now (Xen still won't run on my main workstation at home, some ACPI problem or whatnot), but I was really amazed at QEMU. I never really tried it until I read this month's issue of LinuxJournal (all about Virtualization!)... some of the Xen and VMWare stuff I was already familiar with.
QEMU's ability to emulate other CPUs is invaluable. You can emulate a MIPS architecture and test your favorite Linksys firmware (I believe the OpenWRT guys already do this). I would really like the m68k emulation to stabalize so I can run old Amiga stuff (or try linux on m68k). Or emulate an ARM processor , drop a PocketPC firmware on it, and test drive Windows Mobile software (or porting Linux to those devices). The possibilities are endless.
I'm an admin at an ISP... who's newsgroup servers were confiscated in 1998 (before I worked here) by a certain Attorney General, and set sort of a legal precident for ISPs. (The guy did it as a PR stunt, he was up for re-election. If you search google, you can find the story).
I've never understood the need for filters. Sure, there's "bad stuff" out there on the internet. And I have a teenager in the house. I *know* he goes to porn sites, and I don't care. I care when he gets viruses on his machine from those sites, that's about it. (Of course, he is a bit older).
Parents (and political types), here's the formula. Send your kid's machines' through a proxy. You can control where they go from there. You can see whatever site they go to, etc. Don't want them online when you're not around? Setup special policies. (Aka, on a router). Internet time is 6-10pm, etc. You can enforce this in the router. I'm not saying every parent has to be an admin, but I am saying every parent should know more about the Internet than their kids. Don't allow the federal government to enable you to be lazy.
This works! It works wonders! It's called... ready, something conservative types should know about: BEING A PARENT. Wow, we *don't* need filters, and magic subpeonas and laws.
Why are we wasting our time finding difficult solutions to easy problems? Is our government really that dumb, beuracratic and full of red tape? Since when did the government become the parents of every kid in America? Is that what you're trying to accomplish here?
This brings up an interesting thought. On Star Trek, they have that Replicator thing. If Captain Picard wants a steak, he asks for a steak and it seemingly materializes out of thin air. If he wants a million steaks and that replicator thing can create them all, efforlessly, exact duplicatible copies... is he _stealing_ those steaks? Where did they come from? Did he kill a million cows? (Or more accurately, did 1 cow divided by steaks multiplied by a million get killed? Were they real or virtual cows?)
So now Mr Picard can duplicate a million sticks of gum and steal them all... _then_ it's just like stealing a million sticks of gum from a shop... right? Well at least it's more like performing an illegal download.
The materialized steak was someone's idea of a steak... at the very least you may be stealing the idea, not the steak itself.
Author, you took one facet of security and tore it apart. Good for you. Yes, Windows can be highly secure, let's say, given the correct group policies.
Ooooh but wait a minute. A typical home user wouldn't be concerned with group policy. Let's please compare apples to apples, or at least try.
I think we should replace the word "security" with "awareness". I am aware of certain things, so I run my Windows XP pro laptop a certain way. I choose Linux for my home workstation. A typical home user isn't aware of certain things, so of course it doesn't make sense for them to use Linux.
Here's an example. I'm not aware of how to drive a typical standard transmission automobile. So if my goal is to get to work on time, I won't pick that as my method of transportation. I stick to what I'm comfortable with, and what I'm aware of. When I become more educated with a standard transmission vehicle, I will be more aware of what's involved. Until then, feel free to call me Mr "stick-shift idiot". In fact, I have a rough time getting to work on time with an automatic transmission vehicle... perhaps I'm a getting-to-work-on-time idiot as well. But I can do some slick stuff with computers.
But a home user aware of a certain number of things, can be pretty secure. Even in Windows.
And to make my point clear, "awareness" isn't a strict number, in fact, it fluctuates daily. Noone can be 95% "aware". If you're "aware" of a flaw in my system, and I'm not "aware" of it, then I'm not really secure am I? No matter what OS I'm running.
That would explain a few things. Or even better yet, mobius strip-like. We're traveling on the surface, without anyway to go "out" and keep going in cycles. Without a way to mark our spot (putting something in a time period, waiting to come back to it), because nothing appears to be immune to the effects of time, we'd have a hard time proving it.
Think about it, much of what we use to explain time (planetary cycles) involves spheres or elliptical rotations/paths. Our planet comes back to the same "spot" (well relatively close anyhow) every year... why should time be any different?
3 - dumb. I'm totally secure because I have the latest patches, a firewall (two even!) and updated antivirus. And instead of using [IE|Windows], I use [Mac|Linux|*BSD|Firefox] 3 - smart. Modifying your habits, educating and empowering yourself (even just a little) will help. Having the right tools is only half of it.
I've seen all too often people get confused by the fact they have tons of spyware/viruses/trojans on their system, yet have *no idea* how they got there. Yet when you dig deeper, you see twelve different filesharing programs, virus software updated (but disabled) and 258 porn sites in their history (from yesterday alone) where they clicked the banner that said "click here to get naked bodies for free!".
People will often do on the internet what they won't do "in real life" because there's this false sense of obscurity, anonymnity and privacy. This equates to poor habits and poor security. There are places to get the things you're looking for without having to install viruses to get them. In reality, you wouldn't buy a car from a dealership none of your friends has ever heard of, out in the middle of nowhere, that you came across by chance, and had to give your singature fifty times... why is the Internet any different?
No, you're not safer on dialup just because it's slow. Your friend's logic is marred. Now one could argue, if I was a bad guy and wanted to hack you, (because I wanted your resources), I might swear a bit if I was successful and found out you were on dialup. There goes one resource I wanted (bandwidth) and lack of others (static IP, always on connection) is detrimental. But most (or at least many) threats nowawdays are automatic. And they don't care what type of connection you are on.
I work for an ISP (won't say which one) but the majority of our abuse complaints are from home dialup users. Granted there's thousands of them, and probably thousands more than any other type of connection, so the stats speak for themselves.
But in a nutshell, no... you're not more secure because you have a dialup. You're not more secure if you have a small-name ISP (or large name for that matter), or if you live out in the middle of nowhere, or if you use a different OS or if you don't use english as your primary language.
Security is a state of mind. There's not one contributing factor that trumps the "majority" of security threats.
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$.05 USD if I like you (category 1).
$1000 USD if I don't (category 2).
If my post gets popular, my price for reading this post will jump to $100 in category 1 and $10,000 in category 2.
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That's crazy... I have the same combination on my luggage!
... Virtualization.
... and out went all the old hardware in the basement. My wife was happy.
... but I have the ability to sit back and wait.
A friend of mine gave me a dual P3 933 machine with a gig of ram, I put a 100gig sata drive in it, and put Vmware server on it. Now I have 12 virtual machines defined... (no for all you picky types, not all run at the same time, 3-4 at most)
Of course, I'd like to buy a nicer 64 bit machine for this server
I don't know why there's so many Naysayers on here!
... This is an option! In other words, I'm filing this in my head under "You might wanna try this...". If you don't like it, don't use it. If you do, well then good. If you think you can do better, do that too.
... (and this is something I've said for years and appears on the site) ... phishing, spam, etc is a social problem not a technical one. The only way to stop these guys is the foundation in which the internet was developed on ... clever ideas and cooperation.
I'd like to say to anyone who's badmouthed this: have you tried it? Where's your project?
Personally, I think it's a good idea. It's important to note
I've personally had RoadRunner as an ISP for over 8 years. Sometimes their DNS is horrible. So I have run my own. At work (I work for another ISP), we provide plain vanilla DNS as best we can. Most ISPs do this. OpenDNS is "fancy" DNS, for clients. It's nice someone had the piece of mind to think of these ideas. Next time I'm at lunch with a nerdy group of friends I'm going to bring it up... to see how they might use it in their organizations and personal use. Others might want to do the same.
I saw the article this morning. Realized it's the same guy (and team) who's been doing EveryDNS (which I use as secondary for my domains) and quickly rattled off an IM. Nice project! Not longer than 1.3 seconds later, "Thanks!". I then popped the nameserver IPs in a Windows 2000 VM and proceeded to try it out. If my sister-in-law on dialup has a problem with phishing sites, or typos, I might recommend this. If she tries it for a week and doesn't like it, so be it.
My point is
So stop complaining and start cooperating. And David, keep up the good work!
"I just only wish there was an alternative..." typed the man in his slashdot repsonse on his Linux workstation.
To which copyright holder? The one who holds the copyright for "blanks"? What about blank paper? You can infringe copyright on that. How about pens, pencils? Crayons? Markers? A sharp stick in the dirt?
Dear Spanish friends, this is el stupido.
So is it ... "The power of Linux brought to you by Microsoft." or
"The power of Microsoft brought to you by Linux." ???
...cannot ... resist ...
"Oil gurus killed the electic car"
For the Iraq Reconstruction Tax. I'm looking forward to paying this one for the nex 100 years.
</masochist>
Hmm 3,141 genes huh? Did anyone recognize those numbers? 3141 ... really close to 1000 times Pi. (Well minus some change). Very interesting. Perhaps we're all just circles and we're made up of our circumference divided by our diameter.
Woops I goofed.
The article is really good. (Whoa, I read it!). It's difficult to communicate over written medium. But given time, you can become better at it. I actually wrote a customer this morning and used the terms "woops I goofed!". He have built prior rapport, over the phone.
Email should be one communication tool in your toolbelt. Not the only one. Re-read your email before you send it. See if you can understand it, reading it from an objective point of view. I'm sure editors and authors do this all the time.
I typically put a bunch of garbage in an email, re-read it, and throw 90% of the garbage out, and am left with two short sentences that get my point across. When I ramble on and on and on, people get bored. (like this post).
I think anyone who has to go out of their way to brag about a certification sounds like they're really trying to convince themselves they deserve it.
Do you think I'm certified? Don't ask me, go talk to the people I've worked for, or with.
Is it Why like "Why the heck did they name it that?" ... or is it "weeeeeeeeee" like the Gonads and Strife squirrel flash thing?
Either way, someone is cracking some smoke.
...you mean there's other websites? Besides Slashdot? I've been doing this since 1999 and noone let me know?!?!
I've been working with VMWare and virtual servers for a while now (Xen still won't run on my main workstation at home, some ACPI problem or whatnot), but I was really amazed at QEMU. I never really tried it until I read this month's issue of LinuxJournal (all about Virtualization!) ... some of the Xen and VMWare stuff I was already familiar with.
QEMU's ability to emulate other CPUs is invaluable. You can emulate a MIPS architecture and test your favorite Linksys firmware (I believe the OpenWRT guys already do this). I would really like the m68k emulation to stabalize so I can run old Amiga stuff (or try linux on m68k). Or emulate an ARM processor , drop a PocketPC firmware on it, and test drive Windows Mobile software (or porting Linux to those devices). The possibilities are endless.
I'm an admin at an ISP... who's newsgroup servers were confiscated in 1998 (before I worked here) by a certain Attorney General, and set sort of a legal precident for ISPs. (The guy did it as a PR stunt, he was up for re-election. If you search google, you can find the story).
... ready, something conservative types should know about: BEING A PARENT. Wow, we *don't* need filters, and magic subpeonas and laws.
I've never understood the need for filters. Sure, there's "bad stuff" out there on the internet. And I have a teenager in the house. I *know* he goes to porn sites, and I don't care. I care when he gets viruses on his machine from those sites, that's about it. (Of course, he is a bit older).
Parents (and political types), here's the formula. Send your kid's machines' through a proxy. You can control where they go from there. You can see whatever site they go to, etc. Don't want them online when you're not around? Setup special policies. (Aka, on a router). Internet time is 6-10pm, etc. You can enforce this in the router. I'm not saying every parent has to be an admin, but I am saying every parent should know more about the Internet than their kids. Don't allow the federal government to enable you to be lazy.
This works! It works wonders! It's called
Why are we wasting our time finding difficult solutions to easy problems? Is our government really that dumb, beuracratic and full of red tape? Since when did the government become the parents of every kid in America? Is that what you're trying to accomplish here?
This brings up an interesting thought. On Star Trek, they have that Replicator thing. If Captain Picard wants a steak, he asks for a steak and it seemingly materializes out of thin air. If he wants a million steaks and that replicator thing can create them all, efforlessly, exact duplicatible copies ... is he _stealing_ those steaks? Where did they come from? Did he kill a million cows? (Or more accurately, did 1 cow divided by steaks multiplied by a million get killed? Were they real or virtual cows?)
So now Mr Picard can duplicate a million sticks of gum and steal them all... _then_ it's just like stealing a million sticks of gum from a shop... right? Well at least it's more like performing an illegal download.
The materialized steak was someone's idea of a steak... at the very least you may be stealing the idea, not the steak itself.
I for one, welcome our Nintendo DS slaughtering overlords.
Author, you took one facet of security and tore it apart. Good for you. Yes, Windows can be highly secure, let's say, given the correct group policies.
Ooooh but wait a minute. A typical home user wouldn't be concerned with group policy. Let's please compare apples to apples, or at least try.
I think we should replace the word "security" with "awareness". I am aware of certain things, so I run my Windows XP pro laptop a certain way. I choose Linux for my home workstation. A typical home user isn't aware of certain things, so of course it doesn't make sense for them to use Linux.
Here's an example. I'm not aware of how to drive a typical standard transmission automobile. So if my goal is to get to work on time, I won't pick that as my method of transportation. I stick to what I'm comfortable with, and what I'm aware of. When I become more educated with a standard transmission vehicle, I will be more aware of what's involved. Until then, feel free to call me Mr "stick-shift idiot". In fact, I have a rough time getting to work on time with an automatic transmission vehicle... perhaps I'm a getting-to-work-on-time idiot as well. But I can do some slick stuff with computers.
But a home user aware of a certain number of things, can be pretty secure. Even in Windows.
And to make my point clear, "awareness" isn't a strict number, in fact, it fluctuates daily. Noone can be 95% "aware". If you're "aware" of a flaw in my system, and I'm not "aware" of it, then I'm not really secure am I? No matter what OS I'm running.
I knew that you knew that I knew that knew that I was going to post that again.
That would explain a few things. Or even better yet, mobius strip-like. We're traveling on the surface, without anyway to go "out" and keep going in cycles. Without a way to mark our spot (putting something in a time period, waiting to come back to it), because nothing appears to be immune to the effects of time, we'd have a hard time proving it.
Think about it, much of what we use to explain time (planetary cycles) involves spheres or elliptical rotations/paths. Our planet comes back to the same "spot" (well relatively close anyhow) every year... why should time be any different?
Mod parent up! Call me when Mr Gates donates $50 billion to a charity.
Otherwise, it's like everyone getting all happy because I donated 10 cents to this charity and 12 cents to another.
3 - dumb. I'm totally secure because I have the latest patches, a firewall (two even!) and updated antivirus. And instead of using [IE|Windows], I use [Mac|Linux|*BSD|Firefox]
3 - smart. Modifying your habits, educating and empowering yourself (even just a little) will help. Having the right tools is only half of it.
I've seen all too often people get confused by the fact they have tons of spyware/viruses/trojans on their system, yet have *no idea* how they got there. Yet when you dig deeper, you see twelve different filesharing programs, virus software updated (but disabled) and 258 porn sites in their history (from yesterday alone) where they clicked the banner that said "click here to get naked bodies for free!".
People will often do on the internet what they won't do "in real life" because there's this false sense of obscurity, anonymnity and privacy. This equates to poor habits and poor security. There are places to get the things you're looking for without having to install viruses to get them. In reality, you wouldn't buy a car from a dealership none of your friends has ever heard of, out in the middle of nowhere, that you came across by chance, and had to give your singature fifty times... why is the Internet any different?
No, you're not safer on dialup just because it's slow. Your friend's logic is marred. Now one could argue, if I was a bad guy and wanted to hack you, (because I wanted your resources), I might swear a bit if I was successful and found out you were on dialup. There goes one resource I wanted (bandwidth) and lack of others (static IP, always on connection) is detrimental. But most (or at least many) threats nowawdays are automatic. And they don't care what type of connection you are on.
I work for an ISP (won't say which one) but the majority of our abuse complaints are from home dialup users. Granted there's thousands of them, and probably thousands more than any other type of connection, so the stats speak for themselves.
But in a nutshell, no... you're not more secure because you have a dialup. You're not more secure if you have a small-name ISP (or large name for that matter), or if you live out in the middle of nowhere, or if you use a different OS or if you don't use english as your primary language.
Security is a state of mind. There's not one contributing factor that trumps the "majority" of security threats.