Comment hosted in Romania (Score 2, Interesting) 94
Apparently it's hosted in Romania and the local RIAA already tried to take it down.
Pirate Bay Archive Goes Online 94
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "With the main Pirate Bay website experiencing DNS issues, downtime and uncertainty about both the lawsuits and potential sale to GGF, a Pirate Bay clone has already gone online. True to their principles, someone at TPB put up a torrent with a 21.3 GB copy of the site as it exists today. And now that archive is alive, at BTArena.net. Linus' old adage about backing up everything by putting it on FTP and letting the world mirror it may need to be updated. Torrents are much more efficient." "Downtime" may be a nice word for it; reader Underholdning writes "The Register has a story about a Swedish court ordering ISPs to disconnect The Pirate Bay or face a massive daily fine. The reason for the shutdown was an upcoming civil lawsuit by copyright holders. As usual, Torrentfreak has an updated story. It seems like the takedown until now has been successful." Believe what you will; the site itself says they'll be back up "in a few hours."
Comment Re:free upgrades? (Score 1) 647
Vista can resize partitions easily. But it cannot move them, so if you would want to grow that 20 GB partition, you would have to delete "D:" first, do the resize and then recreate D:.
Oh, and the answer to your question: probably yes :p
Comment Re:Are you crazy if you rush out and install it? (Score 2, Informative) 647
You can do the install yourself. I haven't tried 9.04 PPC, but 8.10 ran pretty fine (with the obvious limitations of the PPC platform) on my iBook G4. If configured properly, it even feels snappier than OS X.
Comment Re:Spammer's delight? (Score 2, Interesting) 248
My ISP does it like this: outbound port 25 is blocked (probably inbound too, never tried) by default, you can use only their SMTP server. But if you need it, you can ask them to open it up for you, explaining shortly why you need it. The whole thing is done online, within their website. They specifically state there that if you're sending spam, they will block it again.
Disclaimer: I'm in Europe, but I think such a solution would be legal even under the net neutrality act, and still prevent large amounts of spam from infected PCs. The approach seems right: if a user doesn't know what port 25 is, they probably don't need it. :)
Comment Re:We put an OS in your browser in your OS! (Score 1) 165
The easy one is the 'ssh on 443'. In our environment, we use authenticated proxies to get to the Internet, which also are doing SSL MITM attacks, ie terminating the client's ssl session on the proxy, inspecting the traffic, and then re-encrypting it to send out.
How do you prevent the user from getting an SSL security warning? Or they just know what's going on and have to deal with it...
Comment Re:Don't care how they do it.. (Score 1) 176
I have that same rule, with a slight variation:
2. If the originating IP address is from within the US, it is probably spam.
Comment Re:TCP? (Score 1) 536
Sparse files.
How do sparse files relate to a failed ftp transfer?
Comment Re:Many othere services are probably vulnerable (Score 1) 203
I would be interested in how do you do that.
Comment Re:Lingering connections handling (Score 1) 203
That depends on the ISP. My connection is PPPoE based, and most of the time bringing the connection down and up again is all it takes to get a new IP address (from a quite large pool).
Comment Re:Solution For College's Bad Network Policy? (Score 1) 699
Or just get a Mac. If you need Windows, run it in a VM. Without installing their client security shit, of course.
Comment Re:Funny combination (Score 1) 828
Interestingly, right now "other explained below" is third, with 671 votes. Yet, there are only 565 comments on the article. Looks like someone forgot to explain.
Mozilla Preparing To Scrap Tabbed Browsing? 554
Barence writes "Mozilla Labs has launched a design competition that aims to find an alternative to tabbed browsing. 'Tabs worked well on slow machines on a thin internet, where ten browser sessions were "many browser sessions,"' Mozilla claims on its Design Challenge website. 'Today, 20+ parallel sessions are quite common; the browser is more of an operating system than a data display application; we use it to manage the web as a shared hard drive. However, if you have more than seven or eight tabs open they become pretty much useless.' Aza Raskin, the head of user experience at Mozilla Labs, has already blogged on the possibility of moving tabs down the side of the browser, with tabs grouped by the type of activity involved (i.e. applications, work spaces)."
Comment Re:Jails (Score 4, Funny) 204
Nope, there's no reiserfs support.
Windows 7 Starter Edition — 3 Apps Only 695
CrustyFace writes "Cybernit reports that the Starter Edition version of Windows 7 will only allow the user to run 3 applications at once. Targeted at notebooks, this doesn't seem like such a bad limitation, however it is a bold move from Microsoft, and it will be interesting to see how the operating system sells."
