I am still feeling funny....
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Archan Paul rearranged electrons thusly:
> > and subsequently, I will try to post my code and hacks in the list to get
> > rid of Stupid-SysAdmin kind of behaviour. Ha ha ha ha!!!!!
>
> Not so funny:
>
> 1. ICQ, IRC (and even IM clients like yahoo / aol / msn), and Napster, etc
> can be used for file sharing - and hence are one of the largest sources of
> worms / virii entering a network. Getting rid of them (at least on doze
> boxes) saves you a lot of time cleaning up infected computers (and getting
> hacked after the virus opens up ports on your NT server)
>
Getting the worm/virus is the problem of the concerned operating system. It
is very clear from ur comments that u are vulnarable because u can not a
Linux only user (hummmmmm!!!!) These things can be solved by writting using a
simple daemon which will keep ur system free from all the worm.... So again,
I can mention that the SysAdmins don't know the hardcore devel hence they cry
like u......
> 2. They are total bandwidth hogs - espeically as people leave them on all
> the time and sometimes have four or five windows popping up. Makes it
> rather tough to upload an oracle database of over 400 megs in size when
> somebody is downloading MP3s and chatting to a half dozen of his friends at
> the same time.
>
Bandwidth hogging due to the chat? How much? Then what will happen if a smart
guy telnet to the out side box and chat with 12??? popping up 4 window is
again due the motivation problem.... The ppl are not motivated to the work.
or don't have work, hence they are chatting.....
> 3. My employer pays nearly Rs.4 lakhs per month for bandwidth (a DSL and a
> 64 kbps leased line). When you look at an office leased line in those
> terms, you will definitely see the point (or your boss will make you see it
> when he realizes the fact)
>
If the company management can motivate the ppl, then this problem won't arise
at all. It is very clear that the top management are not enough capable to
manage ppl hence to hide that, they are axing ppl.
> Get the point?
>
are u getting the main point?
> > BLOCKING IS NOT THE SOLUTION, MOTIVATING THE CHATTER TO THE WORK
> > IS THE SOLUTION.
>
> This motivation is an essential *part* of the solution. Blocking is the
> second part of the solution - to back up all the motivation.
>
BLOCKING IS SAME AS APPLING THE STUPID BRUTE FORCE. AND I AN VERY
SURE THAT UR COMPANY HAS ENOUGH NUMBER OF PPL WITH GREY
CELLS WHO WILL BREAK THE BLOCKING TECHNICALLY.... which will be
clue less to the management and the sysadmins.....
> > BLOCKING AND SNIFFING IN THE PORTS BY SYS-ADMINS' IS INJURIOUS TO
> > THE HEALTH
>
> Is that so?
>
yes.... They are technically incompetent hence they used to do apply the
brute force and one thing is very good that the nice techie back door is
codded to break it.....
> Yash wrote:
> > > Then can someone tell me the port nos of yahoo,icq,msn,Aol messengers.
> > > I tried to block through ipchains RH Linux6.2
>
> You can do that - or block access to the hostnames using squid ACLs.
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