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The Internet

Submission + - What's the BEST way to host a website from home?

Submitted by
lucas.clemente
lucas.clemente writes: "Currently, I use a very rudimentary system to host my website(s). I have a Time Warner cablemodem, protected by a Linksys router. That Linksys router does port forwarding (port 80) to a $50 Powermac G3 running OSX. For DNS, I use dyndns.org. (they offer both free and pay dynamic DNS clients).

This is adequate enough to support a website that has gotten no more than a dozen visitors at a time.

My question is: Are there any slashdot readers who have been able to use a cable modem's bandwidth to host a website with a significant volume of traffic? EG thousands of users a day...(& still use it for day-to-day internet surfing)?

If so, how many other configurations are there (of comparable cost & simplicity) to accomplish this?"
The Internet

Submission + - Net Neutrality Act Once Again on the Agenda

Submitted by
Michael Talbert
Michael Talbert writes: "On January 9th, Republican Senator Olympia Snowe and Democrat Byron Dorgan reintroduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act to the Senate. Better known as the Net Neutrality Act, the bill was killed by the Senate last year in a vote split down party lines (Democrats yea, Republicans nay), with the exception of Senator Snowe. With the Democrats having a slight majority in the Senate, the bill certainly has a better chance this time around, but it still needs 60 votes to prevent a Republican filibuster.

The impetus for the bill started back in 2005, when broadband network executives began discussing the possibility of charging companies that use a high percentage of bandwidth. Most notably, in an interview with a Business Week, SBC chairman Ed Whitacre Jr (now AT&T CEO) stated: "How do you think they're going to get to customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain't going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So there's going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes?"

Whitacre went on to say, "The Internet can't be free in that sense, because we and the cable companies have made an investment and for a Google or Yahoo! or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes free is nuts!"

What's nuts is that he actually said that...

Read the entire article Net Neutrality Act Once Again on the Agenda on VoIP-Facts.net."
Privacy

Submission + - UK tracking and road taxing petition

Submitted by Jaknet
Jaknet writes: The UK government is at it again with attempts to track and charge extreme amounts for using the roads. If your from the UK please sign up at the petition site below

The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it.

The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest MONTHLY bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a delivery drive. The road tax at the moment is about £110 for small cars and £170 for all other cars PER YEAR

On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit you can expect a speeding fine and points on your licence with your monthly bill.

If you care about our freedoms and stopping the constant bashing of the car driver, please sign the petition on No 10's new website:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/
The Courts

Submission + - Spammer Convicted of Phishing Scam

Submitted by
eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "Jeffrey Brett Goodin has been convicted under the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act. He is facing a sentence of up to 101 years in a federal prison after being found guilty. From the article, "The law forbids e-mail marketers from sending false or misleading messages and requires them to provide recipients with a way to opt out of receiving future mailings." And somehow he's the first person to violate this law since 2003? I'd gladly turn over my inbox to the DoJ if it results in even one of the people responsible spending 101 years in federal-pound-me-in-the-ass prison!"
Data Storage

Submission + - LG's 'Dual' HD DVD/Blu-ray Player not so Dual

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: LG did a great job rushing out the industry's first (it appears) dual-format Blu-ray/HD DVD player, giving consumers some assurance that they can simply buy any movie they want, without having to worry about compatibility issues. But in LG's rush, the company failed to include some key features in the HD DVD component of its Multi Blue player. It seems LG had all of the Blu-ray features completed, but only some of the HD DVD. The hardware can indeed play HD DVDs, but apparently LG did not have time to implement the iHD software engine that makes that player interactive.
Printer

Submission + - The Surprising Security Threat: Your Printers

Submitted by jcatcw
jcatcw writes: Networked printers are more vulnerable to attack than many organizations realize. Symantec has logged vulnerabilities in five brands of network printers. Printers outside firewalls, for ease of remote printing, may also be open to easy remote code execution. They can be possible launching pads for attacks on the rest of the network. Disabling services that aren't needed and keeping up with patches are first steps to securing them.
Announcements

Submission + - Linux-based console to compete with Wii, 360, PS3

Submitted by Wertigon
Wertigon writes: The Open Game Console Consortium aims to create an open console that will be free of royalties of any kind. Right now the project is in it's early phases, but the people behind it are hoping to make it in time to Christmas this year.

FTA:
I'm sure some are saying things like, "How is this going to be any more successful than the 3DO or Indreama?" or "Is this just another Phantom?" The 3DO was a similar idea in that it was going to allow multiple manufactures to release the same consoles; however, it was a very closed platform. If you wanted to make a 3DO compatible system you would have to license proprietary chips and software from Matsushita, and by having an open standard, with open source software and off-the-shelf PC components the barrier to entry will be much simpler and less restrictive.
The Courts

Submission + - Nokia gets fire investigator to flip-flop

Submitted by
netbuzz
netbuzz writes: "One mystery solved, and more burning questions arise. After days of having the information shielded by officials, we now know that it was Nokia that made the cell phone at the center of a residential hotel fire in California that left a man critically injured and sparked worldwide media attention. However, the investigator who originally fingered the phone as the ignition point now says that Nokia engineers have shown him the error of his ways. Meanwhile, the fire victim has an attorney and there could be a press conference as early as today. Seems unlikely that the lawyer will be as easily sold as the fire investigator.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1053 1"
Television

Journal Journal: TivoToGo Transfers broken.

Journal by faedle

With all the chatter recently about TiVoToGo coming to Mac users, I'm a bit surprised that nobody mentioned the fact that a significant percentage of TiVo users have not been able to use TiVoToGo since a patch in November broke the functionality on a small (but significant) percentage of Series2 TiVos. This problem was discovered within days of the patch's release, and as of today there h
GNOME

Submission + - New Gnome Control Center for Ubuntu's Feisty Fawn

Submitted by
Michael
Michael writes: "http://lunapark6.com/?p=2728 In Herd 2 of Feisty Fawn, there is a new Gnome Control Center that resembles Windows XP's control panel. This article compares the new Gnome Control Center in the upcoming Gnome 2.17/2.18 and Ubuntu Feisty Fawn with the older cascading menu style familiar in the current Gnome 2.16 release. There are also plenty of screenshots."
Announcements

Submission + - Intel to launch cheaper quad core

Submitted by
Tommy Kino
Tommy Kino writes: ""On January 21st, Intel will launch their first mainstream quad-core processor — the Core 2 Quad Q6600. Like the Core 2 Extreme QX6700, it is made up of two Conroe dies sitting on a single package.

As such, its 8MB Level 2 cache is not completely shareable between all four cores. Rather, it's split into two separate 4MB caches, each of which is shareable between their respective core pairs.

According to Intel, we will not see a true quad-core (four cores on a die) processor until the second half of this year. Codenamed Yorkfield, it will debut in the new 45nm process and come with a fully-shared 8MB L2 cache."

Full report at http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=379& pgno=0"
The Internet

Submission + - EV1Servers is no more

Submitted by
symbolset
symbolset writes: "Netcraft is reporting that EV1Servers is no more. EV1Servers was Founded in January 2000 as Rackshack by Robert Marsh a.k.a. "headsurfer", as a branch of his Houston ISP — Everyone's Internet. EV1Servers was a pioneer in dedicated servers. The company was among the fastest growing web hosts from 2002-2004.

Marsh left the company in May when it was acquired by private equity firm GI Partners, to be merged with The Planet, a parallel acquisition, making The Planet the sixth largest web host and third largest SSL host on the Internet."
United States

Submission + - Outsourcing Recruiters and Headhunters?

Submitted by
fury88
fury88 writes: "I've recently begun the long and tedious job search for a Senior Software Engineer. It's been a few years since I've really looked at the market and what makes it more difficult is I need to relocate to another city and state. To my surprise, I've been getting dozens of calls from Indian recruiters. Of course they are going by "Justin" or "Ashley" but I can't understand a word they are saying. Here's what gets me that I thought I'd like to share. Do these companies really know who they are using to staff positions? I am all for listening to anyone that has a good offer for me no matter who they are but if I can't understand what they are saying, how does that help? I literally had to hang up on one of them because they weren't listening to me. It seems to me that if I was a company who hired a staffing agency, I would sure as hell want the recruiters to be able to communicate effectively, otherwise you risk losing qualified candidates. Am I wrong here and how long has this been going on?"
Software

Submission + - Good Samaritan Computer Law needed

Submitted by
Hyresse
Hyresse writes: "Companys release software based on Financial reasons... even if the software isnt complete and or tested. Those same companys then use the law or will sue to prevent any bugs and/or exploits from being exposed. Since all software can expose people to the open and present danger from the current Cyber war between criminials and the Law, everyone risks becoming a casuality to live fire. an example is for your computer showing porn to children even when you never went to any porn site. or all your personal information being stolen. Everyone risks great finiancial problems and/or legal action against themselves as a side effect. The criminials already know of exploits and are useing them. Anyone that exposes these exploits to the public Risk being Sued and/or Jailed... The public needs to know if the software they are using is currently being used by criminials for illgotten gains. Software companys dont want these flaws exposed because it damages their reputation and opens them up to the public sueing them for gross negiliance. Where to draw the line.... I draw the Line at this... any software that has a flaw and that flaw is currently being exploited to gain control needs to be labled a WEB RISK.. any company that tries to prevent the exposure of a WEB RISK Software needs to be considered a accomplice to any criminial activity... anyone that has evidence that a exploit exists and is being used needs to be protected from legal action so that they can speak about it.. to write about it. to announce it. THIS IS NOT ABOUT FIXING THE EXPLOIT... a software company will fix it or not.... its their future.... hiding dangerious flaws and allowing others to pay for their mistakes needs to be against the law."

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