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It's a battle as old as time: good vs. evil. Fortunately, Linux and FOSS are on our side as we wage the battle against those who try to steal our secrets and invade our systems.
Checking your system's security is best done sooner rather than later. Test the locks with our article on security verification; find out how to use PAM to help secure your systems; use MinorFS and AppArmor to implement discretionary access control; learn more about Samba security in part III of our series; use Darknet to help detect bots and secure your systems; use the Yubikey to increase your site's security; and don't forget to lock the doors, because a cold boot attack could render your security useless if somebody has physical access to your computer.
But, we're not just about sowing the seeds of fear. We also show you how to use memcached in Rails, how to manage multiple servers efficiently, how to deploy applications easily with Capistrano, how to manage your videos with MythVideo, how to mix it up a bit (your audio that is), and even play a few games.
You're GREATLY misunderstanding me...
On June 26th, 2008 Skyler V (not verified) says:
I never said price was the issue. I think you're misunderstanding my point. The issue is QOS, a topic I covered VERY thoroughly at The Convergence Technology Council 18 months ago (thectc.info). People are making their choice based on price and (stated) speed, and they're expecting the same QOS. If you want governments controlling the QOS (something they have little understanding of), then perhaps it'd be best regulate the advertisement of ISPs' speed statements. We all know that most ISPs "burst" http traffic, perhaps they should advertise each protocol's QOS? That regulation I think most people could live with. But to make all ISPs serve the same QOS, is a bit much. I'm sure the guy working at home using a VoIP client for his teleconference wouldn't like to share his bandwidth equally with someone hosting a Debian repo mirror, a video podcast, or a torrent tracker, and hosting multiple Distro ISOs.
The ISP I work for (don't own), sits downtown in a population of roughly 1.2 million people, we serve 2 states for DSL, and 3 counties with FIOS (15-100mb), and the downtown area gets free wifi. (I used to live in a smaller town (~400k).
If you honestly believe that your ISP will degrade service levels beyond acceptable limits, switch ISPs, regardless of what you think you do have other options (unless you're living in the middle of the ocean, you aren't living in the middle of the ocean are you?)