malignedtruth's comments

They Just Joined For The Education - Blog Entry

15 Feb 2007 07:58 AM

I sure agree! When I take a man's money, I am contracted to perform duty that is specified.

I served over 20 years in the Air Force, 1965 through 1985. There were times of strife for my family, and we served overseas at our great expense. But, we went where ordered and held to the honorable concepts of our obligation.

Every sacrifice was a moment of pondering the freedom and security we were providing to all Americans. Even ones we don't like or agree with.

I am ashamed to see the poor integrity of this generation of selfish, spoiled, children.

They want everything handed to them, with little or no investment on their part.

What loosers!

Shields Up! Port Scanning! - Blog Entry

15 Feb 2007 07:41 AM

I grab an old Pentium class box, stick http://ipcop.org on it, and kill the opportunity to be portscanned, and turned into a zombie! http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,116841-page,1/article.html

How To Set Up A Firewall - Blog Entry

15 Feb 2007 07:37 AM

Well, this option is better than none at all.

BUT, a software firewall has some basic weaknesses inherent to the Operating System it is running upon. I prefer the security of an external hardware device that contains a firewall program that logs events, is maleable by the system or network manager.

Mac OS X and many of the hundreds of *BSD and GNU/Linux Operating Systems, http://pclinuxos.com http://livecdlist.com http://simplymepis.org and others, there, have built-in Firewalls, included at no cost to the consumer. These more stable systems are fairly ironclad, and immune to the "114,000 Microsoft Virus Definitions", but, still have security features built-in!

So, I am applauding the article, and hope to see it expanded upon, with advice about home network security.

For DSL, or Cable, I grab old Pentium class computer boxes, make sure they have two network cards, a CDrom, a 1Gb hard drive, and install the FREE http://ipcop.org in about 8 minutes.

If we make sure it is a Pentium 300Mhz or faster unit, with 32Mb RAM, Spam Assassin and Dan's Guardian protect the entire home or small business network, up to 36 client nodes!

At a local private school, the Linux Users Group here installed 48 donated Pentium 4 Compaq computers, a Quad server, (Thank you, Walt Disney World!), and for the 5 extra CVD/fileservers, (thank you club members), and an 800Mhz machine, to handle 48 client nodes at teacher and student desks, on DSL. All run FedoraCore5, since updated, remotely, to FC6.

Yes, I gave three computers plus 5 DVD-roms, and each of we 16 members contributed 20 to 30 hours each of labor for the cable running, testing, setup.

Dan's Guardian protects from malignant adult content and websites via word filters. http://www.dansguardian.org

So, the FREE downloads, plus, initial setup takes about 20 minutes, and appears transparent, thereafter. Plus, we recycle more computer hardware, save hundreds of dollars!