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Subject: [TenTec] SPAM & VIRUSES
From: k_yarina@hotmail.com (Kirk Yarina)
Date: Sat Jun 21 23:02:08 2003
Of course mapper was tremendous; it ran on the 1108.  I was a Exec 8 (refuse 
to call it the 1100 series OS, sorry) systems programmer on Univac 
1106/1108/1110s (not to mention Exec 2 on the 1107 and a little bit on an 
1100/42).  It still lives on, sort of, in the 2200.

I've also run/ran/administered Solaris, BSD, and many variants of System 5 
since about 1980, as well as a bunch of other OSes on machines mighty, mini, 
and micro, real-time and unreal-time; right now my kitchen table is covered 
with bits and pieces from a RedHat 9.0 file server who's CPU quit.  I'm also 
well aware that Linux systems run by amateur sysadms are too often easily 
hackable, and even those run by professionals get hit sometimes - been 
there, done that, chrooted BIND after the kiddie hacked the DNS server 
through the patch I missed.  I'm writing this on a WinXP machine

135K spams and viruses blocked today is about a mid-size regional ISP.  
Nothing too special...

But, what does this have to do with TenTec?  What shade red dots are on 
their covers?

Kirk, KC8MMU


tongaloa <tongaloa@alltel.net> said:
>
>LARRY GREENBERG, N5BEA wrote:
>
>>The filtering is minimal.  There is no way to gage the amount of unwanted 
>>data enter the Linux based servers.  They are resistant to infections but 
>>when infected, fixes are usually non-existent.  This means hard disk 
>>formatting and redundant systems to facilitate minimum down time at xx 
>>thousand dollars per hour.
>
>I'm no Linux bigot. I run Solaris and W2K as well :-)
>With appropriate logging and interpretation of the logs. Virtually all of 
>which may be
>automated, there is nothing that can happen to a Unix and little to a W2K 
>system
>that the administrator may not uncover and fix.
>Whether he can or not is another story.
>Large hardware investment does not imply adequate administration...
>
>
>|  Linux is a great system. I use it for many operations.  I believe Mapper 
>was tremendous, the answer to all problems |  when Sperry developed it back 
>in the 80's .  Do you recall the name  of the Operating System developed 
>for DEC?
>
>
>Which one?
>VMS, Ultrix, one of the multitude of DOS's or RTOS's ???
>
>Personally I like BSD unix for network operations.
>
>-t
>

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