You're looking for netfilter for Linux 2.4. Two different projects. As far as I know, netfilter is GPL'd since it is included in the kernel. It probably has everything ipfilter does except a BSD license. If you're just looking to build a stateful firewall it should work fine.
That is too bad. I really liked IPF and OpenBSD for my firewall. I guess Theo has to stick to making hot-headed decisions. Time to switch to Linux 2.4 and Netfilter.:-)
DSL is too limited as a technology. Not only do the ILECs have a stranglehold on their last mile loops but the technology itself is limited in range, quality of the line, and having a copper pair from your house all the way to the DSLAM. The only way around that would probably be to put DSLAMs in the boxes where the fiber-copper transition is happening.
After dealing with Ameritech for several months just to get one DSL line installed I can honestly say anything is better than that. The local cable company is doing lightning-quick installs. I called to order service on a Friday afternoon and had my parents up and running on a cable modem on Tuesday morning. With DSL I can expect at least a month or two wait on a service install just for the local loop.
Ah well, I guess I'm just bitter. I had Northpoint at 17,700 feet from my CO and it ran just peachy at 384Kbps. I was happy as a clam and it was rock solid. Then that dark day came and the connection went dead and all the troubles started. Can't get Covad.. max distance for line sharing is 15000 feet. Can't get Ameritech DSL, max distance is 12000 feet. The only CLEC that might've reused the old Northpoint pair that worked fine went under a couple weeks after Northpoint. Yes, I've been soured on DSL. To have it snatched from your grasp and then receive the runaround that "you're too far away" is quite disheartening. When I move I will make sure to move within 10,000 feet of a CO and promptly order cable modem service instead.;-)
2.) National pride. People like to sing "I did it my way", without anyone else's help.
Personally, I agree with you, but large-scale unity won't happen for a while yet. I don't count the ISS, because it's really just a collection of modules that were made by nation's individually.
And in Russia's case, financed by the United States as a technological corporate welfare program. Yes, yes. Truly international when we're paying them to build it. We could have had Boeing or some other US company build the modules we let the Russians build for less money! Only in the interests of international politics were they even involved.
I have an idea. I should probably patent this first but I'll pass it along since I love Open Source ideas. How about we create some kind of huge distributed database of "names" to would map to these IPv6 addresses? Then we could just remember these names instead.:-) Then the only time you'd need the IP address is when you're configuring thie naming database thingamajig and your machine.
You don't want a yahoo driver hitting YOU? You should come around here during the summertime then. All the lunatics on their crotch rockets come out of the wood work. Nothing like happily driving along at 60mph (the speed limit here) just minding your own business when 2 or 3 fuckers on crotch rockets just zoom past you in the passing lane easily doing 120mph. What the HELL are these people thinking? You don't even see them coming since they come up upon you so fast and they're so small. There have been many accidents where these idiots end up crashing and the result is instantaneous death at such high speeds. We had a few last summer. Guy gets a new bike and acts like a fucking idiot and wipes out into a divider wall on the freeway.. instant cream corn. Darwin at its finest. Don't even get me started on the morons who buy a nice quiet motorcycle and feel the need to rip the innards out of their muffler to get that really "cool" noisy sound. You know, the one where if my car sounded like that the cops would impound it and write me a ticket for noise pollution. Bah.
Oh come on now... you can never get enough Dances With Wolves, The Postman, and Waterworld! I think I'll line them all up next weekend for a star studded extravaganza of Kevin Costner snore flicks.:-) Now, Field of Dreams was good but he probably didn't have a hand in that.
The problem with this is people would only complain even more. "Why are we spending government tax dollars subsidizing space flight so a bunch of rich tourists can get their jollies orbiting the earth when we have children starving to death down here?" No, commercial spaceflight would be the death of NASA. If that's how it is to be then so be it but I don't think we can have a government agency subsidizing this kind of thing. $20 million is a piss in the bucket of how much it costs to fund a trip into orbit.
I would think the price would go up rather than down the more you clicked it. "Hey, this guy is REALLY interested in this laptop. Let's raise the price for him $50 and if he comes back to view the page again a few times raise it some more since he's really hot for it." Now THAT is evil.
What? What can be better than police videos? I can never get enough of real-life car chases, bank heists gone wrong, and raunchy hilarious antics on the part of restaurant workers sneezing into someone's pizza. That kind of classic real-life drama couldn't be scripted! We need more reality TV Fox!! PLEASE!:-)
Clearly this kind of wholesale signal piracy will not be tolerated for much longer. When will the TV stations cut off this copyright abuse and start broadcasting encrypted digital signals where you are required to have a special box that you have to pay a subscription for to unlock? I can't believe Hollywood puts up with letting people have this stuff for free. Hell, we already know many people will PAY for cable TV or DSS and still watch the commercial too. Why should they give it away at all anymore?
Tell that to the 13 year old kid who murdered his baby daughter here in Ohio. I think he got out of being tried as an adult. He'll spend a few years in juvenile lockup and then be off scott free. Must be nice to be able to murder a human being and then claim ignorance of youth. I don't know, but I kind of draw the line with teenagers. I can see raping and murdering people, but hacking? Give me a break. As long as the school wasn't clueless he couldn't have done any permanent damage. They should've had backups of any critical data (yea right). He should've gotten 6 months of community service helping old people or handicapped kids work with computers. Find some constructive outlet for the kid's energies and skills, don't just write him off.
Ummm, they do. If you're running Win98 or Win2k just go to Start->Windows Update. Does everything for you and tells you what updates are available for your system. I don't understand what people are getting all high and mighty about. I don't like MS much but Win2k is a decent desktop OS and Windows Update is certainly pretty easy to use to stay up to date on patches. There's also the critical update notification thing but that's annoying.:-)
Solaris 8 is free software too. Go download the ISO image from Sun's web site for either x86 or Sparc. Ohhhh you mean you need the source and you might happen to need to run it on your 8 processor system at home right? hehe. Whatever. Solaris kicks ass on decent Sparc hardware.
No, you'd get tons of CD's with AOL for Linux on them. Probably just an RPM at that. They make interesting coasters though but I wish they were more absorbent. Now, if they shipped CDRW discs to the Linux people that'd be useful.
Well, anybody that leaves telnet, much less remote root logins, open on such a mission critical system deserves what they get.;-) Let's just hope Jack Kevorkian doesn't take up computers.
I suppose you're being a smartass but there already is one: Internet2? Though, if you're not at a university of government research site connected to it you're SOL right now. I bet there's hardly any spam and porn flowing across those nice fat pipes. *sigh*:-)
Well, this is certainly nothing new. They make matrix KVM switches that do that just fine today. If your colocation facility doesn't have some kind of KVM switch and requires you to "roll a mobile monitor/keyboard around" I'd look elsewhere.:-)
Why don't you just get a laptop then? You must have ogre-sized hands if you think the V is "small". Personally I want a PDA the size of a credit card.. maybe a little thicker, but running PalmOS. I want to keep it in my shirt pocket without looking like an ubergeek.
I've taken my Palm V on vacation or a week and never had the battery go dead on me. When I got back to the office I just stuck it in the cradle to hotsync, picked it up a bit later to take to a meeting and it was all charged up. The only place this would be useful is in power hungry PDAs that suck (energy) more than the Palm stuff like WinCE machines.
For all the evils of the ATT/Bell monopoly, it did subsidize necessary but unprofitable services like pay phones and hard to service local lines with the profits from more lucrative and voluntary things like long distance.
I wouldn't worry for too much longer. With the recent telecommunications mergers in the last 5 years we should be back to the AT&T/Bell monopoly in oh... about 3 years now. Has Verizon announced merger talks with SBC yet? I'll put my bet on sometime next year. Then who is left.. hmm.. Qwest? Oh oh I forgot. SBC has to merge with Worldcom first. Then Sprint will merge with Qwest. Then Qwest will merge with Verizon. Then Verizon will merge with SBC, then SBC will merge with AT&T. It's like the six degrees of Kevin Bacon! How far are we from an AT&T monopoly again! hehe.
Good, that frees up the cell towers for the rest of us to use. I think more people should discover the freedom and independence of not having a cellular phone. I mean, there's nothing I like more when it's 10 degree below zero and my car dies than to take a brisk 5 mile walk to the local payphone. Ahh, such independence invigorates me.:-)
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You're looking for netfilter for Linux 2.4. Two different projects. As far as I know, netfilter is GPL'd since it is included in the kernel. It probably has everything ipfilter does except a BSD license. If you're just looking to build a stateful firewall it should work fine.
That is too bad. I really liked IPF and OpenBSD for my firewall. I guess Theo has to stick to making hot-headed decisions. Time to switch to Linux 2.4 and Netfilter. :-)
After dealing with Ameritech for several months just to get one DSL line installed I can honestly say anything is better than that. The local cable company is doing lightning-quick installs. I called to order service on a Friday afternoon and had my parents up and running on a cable modem on Tuesday morning. With DSL I can expect at least a month or two wait on a service install just for the local loop.
Ah well, I guess I'm just bitter. I had Northpoint at 17,700 feet from my CO and it ran just peachy at 384Kbps. I was happy as a clam and it was rock solid. Then that dark day came and the connection went dead and all the troubles started. Can't get Covad.. max distance for line sharing is 15000 feet. Can't get Ameritech DSL, max distance is 12000 feet. The only CLEC that might've reused the old Northpoint pair that worked fine went under a couple weeks after Northpoint. Yes, I've been soured on DSL. To have it snatched from your grasp and then receive the runaround that "you're too far away" is quite disheartening. When I move I will make sure to move within 10,000 feet of a CO and promptly order cable modem service instead. ;-)
2.) National pride. People like to sing "I did it my way", without anyone else's help.
Personally, I agree with you, but large-scale unity won't happen for a while yet. I don't count the ISS, because it's really just a collection of modules that were made by nation's individually.
And in Russia's case, financed by the United States as a technological corporate welfare program. Yes, yes. Truly international when we're paying them to build it. We could have had Boeing or some other US company build the modules we let the Russians build for less money! Only in the interests of international politics were they even involved.
I have an idea. I should probably patent this first but I'll pass it along since I love Open Source ideas. How about we create some kind of huge distributed database of "names" to would map to these IPv6 addresses? Then we could just remember these names instead. :-) Then the only time you'd need the IP address is when you're configuring thie naming database thingamajig and your machine.
You don't want a yahoo driver hitting YOU? You should come around here during the summertime then. All the lunatics on their crotch rockets come out of the wood work. Nothing like happily driving along at 60mph (the speed limit here) just minding your own business when 2 or 3 fuckers on crotch rockets just zoom past you in the passing lane easily doing 120mph. What the HELL are these people thinking? You don't even see them coming since they come up upon you so fast and they're so small. There have been many accidents where these idiots end up crashing and the result is instantaneous death at such high speeds. We had a few last summer. Guy gets a new bike and acts like a fucking idiot and wipes out into a divider wall on the freeway.. instant cream corn. Darwin at its finest. Don't even get me started on the morons who buy a nice quiet motorcycle and feel the need to rip the innards out of their muffler to get that really "cool" noisy sound. You know, the one where if my car sounded like that the cops would impound it and write me a ticket for noise pollution. Bah.
Oh come on now... you can never get enough Dances With Wolves, The Postman, and Waterworld! I think I'll line them all up next weekend for a star studded extravaganza of Kevin Costner snore flicks. :-) Now, Field of Dreams was good but he probably didn't have a hand in that.
The problem with this is people would only complain even more. "Why are we spending government tax dollars subsidizing space flight so a bunch of rich tourists can get their jollies orbiting the earth when we have children starving to death down here?" No, commercial spaceflight would be the death of NASA. If that's how it is to be then so be it but I don't think we can have a government agency subsidizing this kind of thing. $20 million is a piss in the bucket of how much it costs to fund a trip into orbit.
I would think the price would go up rather than down the more you clicked it. "Hey, this guy is REALLY interested in this laptop. Let's raise the price for him $50 and if he comes back to view the page again a few times raise it some more since he's really hot for it." Now THAT is evil.
What? What can be better than police videos? I can never get enough of real-life car chases, bank heists gone wrong, and raunchy hilarious antics on the part of restaurant workers sneezing into someone's pizza. That kind of classic real-life drama couldn't be scripted! We need more reality TV Fox!! PLEASE! :-)
Clearly this kind of wholesale signal piracy will not be tolerated for much longer. When will the TV stations cut off this copyright abuse and start broadcasting encrypted digital signals where you are required to have a special box that you have to pay a subscription for to unlock? I can't believe Hollywood puts up with letting people have this stuff for free. Hell, we already know many people will PAY for cable TV or DSS and still watch the commercial too. Why should they give it away at all anymore?
Tell that to the 13 year old kid who murdered his baby daughter here in Ohio. I think he got out of being tried as an adult. He'll spend a few years in juvenile lockup and then be off scott free. Must be nice to be able to murder a human being and then claim ignorance of youth. I don't know, but I kind of draw the line with teenagers. I can see raping and murdering people, but hacking? Give me a break. As long as the school wasn't clueless he couldn't have done any permanent damage. They should've had backups of any critical data (yea right). He should've gotten 6 months of community service helping old people or handicapped kids work with computers. Find some constructive outlet for the kid's energies and skills, don't just write him off.
He's AUSTRALIAN not Austrian. :-) If anything he should sound like Crocodile Dundee right? G'day.
Ummm, they do. If you're running Win98 or Win2k just go to Start->Windows Update. Does everything for you and tells you what updates are available for your system. I don't understand what people are getting all high and mighty about. I don't like MS much but Win2k is a decent desktop OS and Windows Update is certainly pretty easy to use to stay up to date on patches. There's also the critical update notification thing but that's annoying. :-)
Solaris 8 is free software too. Go download the ISO image from Sun's web site for either x86 or Sparc. Ohhhh you mean you need the source and you might happen to need to run it on your 8 processor system at home right? hehe. Whatever. Solaris kicks ass on decent Sparc hardware.
No, you'd get tons of CD's with AOL for Linux on them. Probably just an RPM at that. They make interesting coasters though but I wish they were more absorbent. Now, if they shipped CDRW discs to the Linux people that'd be useful.
Well, anybody that leaves telnet, much less remote root logins, open on such a mission critical system deserves what they get. ;-) Let's just hope Jack Kevorkian doesn't take up computers.
I suppose you're being a smartass but there already is one: Internet2? Though, if you're not at a university of government research site connected to it you're SOL right now. I bet there's hardly any spam and porn flowing across those nice fat pipes. *sigh* :-)
Well, this is certainly nothing new. They make matrix KVM switches that do that just fine today. If your colocation facility doesn't have some kind of KVM switch and requires you to "roll a mobile monitor/keyboard around" I'd look elsewhere. :-)
Why don't you just get a laptop then? You must have ogre-sized hands if you think the V is "small". Personally I want a PDA the size of a credit card.. maybe a little thicker, but running PalmOS. I want to keep it in my shirt pocket without looking like an ubergeek.
Hehe. I wouldn't call them inexpensive. When we bought our Raq4r it was over $4k. Probably cheaper now.
Mandrake 7.1 supports reiserfs on / just fine. Or at least, if it doesn't then I'm really luck since I've been using it and it's been rock solid. :-)
I've taken my Palm V on vacation or a week and never had the battery go dead on me. When I got back to the office I just stuck it in the cradle to hotsync, picked it up a bit later to take to a meeting and it was all charged up. The only place this would be useful is in power hungry PDAs that suck (energy) more than the Palm stuff like WinCE machines.
For all the evils of the ATT/Bell monopoly, it did subsidize necessary but unprofitable services like pay phones and hard to service local lines with the profits from more lucrative and voluntary things like long distance.
I wouldn't worry for too much longer. With the recent telecommunications mergers in the last 5 years we should be back to the AT&T/Bell monopoly in oh... about 3 years now. Has Verizon announced merger talks with SBC yet? I'll put my bet on sometime next year. Then who is left.. hmm.. Qwest? Oh oh I forgot. SBC has to merge with Worldcom first. Then Sprint will merge with Qwest. Then Qwest will merge with Verizon. Then Verizon will merge with SBC, then SBC will merge with AT&T. It's like the six degrees of Kevin Bacon! How far are we from an AT&T monopoly again! hehe.
Good, that frees up the cell towers for the rest of us to use. I think more people should discover the freedom and independence of not having a cellular phone. I mean, there's nothing I like more when it's 10 degree below zero and my car dies than to take a brisk 5 mile walk to the local payphone. Ahh, such independence invigorates me. :-)