Date   : Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:30:39 +0100
From   : mike@... (Mike Tomlinson)
Subject: bbcdocs website problem

In article <4C4EC3CB.1070802@...>, Rick Murray <rick@...>
writes

>And if a rootkit like tdss, many virus scanners won't find it.

Indeed.

>I set up a test server to try something with Rob, ages ago. You don't 
>want to know how many access attempts the thing, the unlisted 
>unpublished, transient server received from random IP addresses, in a 
>single half hour!

Tell me about it.  I'm behind the uni firewall, thankfully, but my desk
machine has a hole poked to allow incoming sshd.  I protect this with
iptables so only specified IPs are allowed access, all others being
silently dropped, but it's instructive watching the attempts to access
sshd in the logs.  Several hundred a day and 99% of them come from
Chinese IP space.

>Thank God my Livebox filters out all this junk (but... if you are paying 
>for a data slice, like xGb/month, does all this crap count to your 
>allocation?).

Of course it does.

>Ah-ah, I said NO "vista was horrible, 7 is better". If that's your 
>logic, you're probably best off sticking with XP.

:-)

>Slightly trickier on an eeePC

We use some of those at the telescope. http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk/
I found they are /very/ susceptible to RFI noise; won't be buying any
more.

> Do I trust Microsoft never to get this wrong?

'Course not.  One word: Linux.

>I see half a dozen versions - Basic, Home, Home Basic... WTF?!? Can't we 
>have a "home" and a "business" and leave it at that?

It's just to confuse the great unwashed and lull them into spending more
than they need to.

>What spec?

Athlon 64 X2 5600+, 2Gb, 74Gb Raptor for OS (soon to be replaced with
SSD), 2Tb Hitachi for data, DVDRW.  Toying with the idea of getting a
Phenom X4 but managing to resist so far as it'll also mean a new board
and memory.  Don't play games.

>My two XP machines claim to have been built for 98, but they run XP okay:
>   Aiko:    450MHz P2, 128M RAM, 80Gb HD + DVD-W + DVD-W
>   Ayleigh: 1.1GHz AMD, 1Gb RAM, 80+40+320Gb HD + DVD-W

That must be painful.  You should give XPSP3 1Gb.  512Mb is enough to
load the OS but not to run any apps.  A newer, faster disk also makes a
surprisingly big difference (real world experience).

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