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Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record | Politics and Law - CNET News
Wednesday at 9:52 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP. - Alan Cheslow via Bookmarklet
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South Carolina sheriff buys tank to conduct raids - Boing Boing
South Carolina sheriff buys tank to conduct raids - Boing Boing
Wednesday at 1:49 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"The Richland County, South Carolina Sheriff's Department (that's them above) just obtained an armored personnel carrier, complete with a belt-fed, .50-cal turreted machine gun. Sheriff Leon Lott has charmingly named the vehicle "The Peacemaker," and insists that using a caliber of ammunition that even the U.S. military is reluctant to use against human targets (it's generally reserved for use against armored vehicles) will "save lives."" - Alan Cheslow via Bookmarklet
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Engineering Windows 7 : Product Planning for Windows...where does your feedback really go?
Wednesday at 1:00 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Written by the GM I work for, about the job my team does. - Alan Cheslow via Bookmarklet
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Where are Madonna's wrinkles? - Times Online
Where are Madonna's wrinkles? - Times Online
Tuesday at 5:12 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"And there's another thing about ageless ageing: it really isn't ageless. In fact, any woman whose face doesn't move is a woman well past her teenage years. Why the aspiration to look ageless anyway? Isn't that what shop dummies are?" - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
CS3 - Ryan
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Same place Joan Rivers wrinkles went. - Michael Tefft
this pic looks like Lindsay enhanced it a la anime - Josh Haley
In all of her vinyl records. - Akiva Moskovitz
Botox and a variety of other injectable fillers. - Rochelle
There was a piece on this recently- though she denied she'd had any work: http://beauty.about.com/b/2008... - Abby Martin
She's had work, and it's good. - Chris Baskind
I have something inappropriate to say here, but I'm not gonna. - Pete Delucchi
Chris- She is who she is, you know. Of course, it's good. - Donna Mugavero
But, according to that piece, she's in large part been responsible in a shift from one kind of desired "work" for women of a certain age to another standard altogether. Called "The new new face" - Abby Martin
Abby, that just sounds so wrong, LOL! - Helen Is SOOO Not Of Troy
I know! See: http://friendfeed.com/search?q... - Abby Martin
LOL @ Josh!! - Lindsay Donaghe
Personally, I like a woman who looks her age. A few wrinkles? Earned -- maybe even sexy. And a person's natural face will tell you a lot about who they really are. But Madonna's work is pretty damn immaculate. I guess if you want to take that risk and spend lots of money, do it right. - Chris Baskind
SHE'S A WITCH!!! - Outsanity
Good thing she got work. Now everyone can see who she really is - anemotionless alien-spawned cyborg with pointy alien breasts and a taste for doughnuts. - Zach Landes
outsanity: ha! - edythe
Ever since HD ... there seems to be a lot more 'work' goin' on - Charlie Anzman
charlie, the other phenomenon of HD is that the makeup artists have seemed to agree that red is a natural color for all the people on the news channels. - faboo mama
http://tinyurl.com/6onmb4 - no wonder our perception of beauty is distorted - Alan Cheslow
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Federal government involved in raids on protesters - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Federal government involved in raids on protesters - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Monday at 10:17 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"There seems to be little doubt that it was this domestic spying by the Federal Government that led to the excessive and truly despicable home assaults by the police yesterday." - j1m via Bookmarklet
Vehemently unlike. :-( - Ruchira S. Datta
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grrr - Jason Wehmhoener
Didn't the same stuff go on in Denver? I know on Bill Maher's show they showed the "free speech" zone in Denver that was out of sight and totally removed from the convention. - Tad - just Tad
it feels like our country is being taken away from us - Alan Cheslow
A reminder of the preparations for this: http://www.boingboing.net/2008... "FBI looking for vegan potluck terrorists". From May 21st. "[The informant] would be compensated for his efforts, but only if his involvement yielded an arrest." - Ruchira S. Datta
@Tad There is a huge difference between a designated area for protests to occur and preemptive raids on potential protesters in their homes. This is completely f'd up. I am outraged. - Sacca
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Report: Massive, warrantless raids on peace protesters in Minneapolis, ahead of RNC.
Sunday at 10:15 am - Link
What the hell!? This country's government is getting worse every day. - Alan Cheslow
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August 22 at 4:41 pm - Link
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We were hoping to stop at Pixie Wonderland but got there too late - Alan Cheslow
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My next TV will Import RSS Feeds - Mark Krynsky via Bookmarklet
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New Travelstreaming Site Offers Great Niche Based Form of Lifestreaming | Lifestream Blog
New Travelstreaming Site Offers Great Niche Based Form of Lifestreaming | Lifestream Blog
August 13 at 5:19 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
I also provide info on another Lifestreaming concept for the R.E.M. Tour site. - Mark Krynsky via Bookmarklet
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The Future of Blogging Revealed - ReadWriteWeb
August 8 at 11:34 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Huh, just realized my website was profiled here :-) - Alan Cheslow via Bookmarklet
it was how I started following you and used the idea for my own lifestreem (actually had to write my own script because blogger didn't have one like wordpress) .. so thanks ! - Pascal
Nice, would be interested to hear how it affects your traffic. - Hayes Haugen
I normally don't get much traffic -- about 150 visits/day -- but it's gone to about 500/day since that article. - Alan Cheslow
@Pascal, awesome, looks good! - Alan Cheslow
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Fuelly Shares and Compares Your Gas Mileage [Gas]
August 8 at 9:31 am - Link
eager to try this out. sounds like they don't assume your tank is empty before each fill-up, like fuelfrog does. - Alan Cheslow
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The Future of Blogging
The Future of Blogging
August 1 at 9:33 pm - Link
Squinting to see this but it looks like the FF stream and the comments are separated. I don't like that because the discussion is part of the stream. Is this how the FF embed is designed by default? Also, I wish there was an embed for rooms. Been waiting for that a while. Come to think of it, there's been little new from FF in a while. Has the innovation stopped or is there something big in the works? - IRWebReport.com via twhirl
you can click on it you know! lol (or be lazy and click this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/s...) - Sarah Perez
I can guess what Sarah's next story is about. :) - Mike Fruchter
It may be me, or it may be that there's a buzz in the air, but I've been seeing and hearing a lot like this the past couple days. People are really looking for ways to be out there on the networks and still have a spot of their own; just as long as you don't call it a blog of course. - Nils Geylen
looks familiar :-) - Alan Cheslow
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Dave Winer posted an entry on Scripting News
Could Vista fail?
August 8 at 6:49 am - Link
You ask as though it hasn't already happened. - Brent Logan
Re: #2. My main beef with Vista is the loss of control. I have to phone MS for permission to use my OS after a re-install. Unsolicited balloon tips popping up everywhere, providing me with useless information. Rebooting my machine without permission, or pestering me every 15 mins to reboot. - Paul Grav
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I like Vista - andy brudtkuhl
Right on the money. I think for developers like myself, Vista is utterly attrocious. I just doesn't gel with anything else other than developing on .Net using Visual Studio. Sure you can run Python & Ruby on Vista, but the "method of development" and the interface to those technologies is sooo much more clunky than on Mac OS X or Ubuntu. - Ijonas
Isn't the rapid release of the next windows and the support extention pretty much saying that MS expects Vista to never get picked up by enterprise? - Aram Zucker-Scharff via twhirl
The answer is no. Vista is selling incredibly well with new PC's and the installed base is already huge by any reasonable measure. The adoption rate is well within the ballpark set for other major OS upgrades like XP. There have been no major security flaws and in fact Vista's track record on this is great. What would define "failure" then? It sells. It sells well and the adoption rate is good. There is a PR problem - but that is soluble. - Soulhuntre
Better question - when did Vista "jump the shark" or what feature pushed it over the edge? - Wayne Schulz
Anyway, even if it fails in the sense of sales, I still think that--for all the bad PR--Vista is a pretty good OS, I love using it on my laptop. - Aram Zucker-Scharff via twhirl
@Soulhunte. You mean, PCs are selling well. End users don't have a choice, unlike businesses. According to HP: "What we have been able to do with Microsoft is ship PCs with a Vista Business licence but with XP pre-loaded. That is still the majority of business computers we are selling today." - Paul Grav
Another thing -- in the 90s, before blogging was big, Microsoft had a big outreach program to build buzz around its products. It was really impressive. Now that blogging is established -- nothing -- silence. Esp when there's so much buzz around Apple, this may be the biggest mistake they're making with Vista. - Dave Winer
LOL @Brent Logan. Vista is the reason our soon-to-be purchased laptops will be Macs. It will be the first time in 25 years. I will use a mac on purpose or without getting paid/forced to do so. We're running XP on all of computers and we know we'll have to "upgrade" soon. - faboo mama
@Soulhuntre: Seconding @Paul Gray; Arguing that Vista's install base is huge, and that it's commercial adoption rate is high (and the product is therefore 'successful') is much like arguing that cramped, uncomfortable seats continue to be the most popular ones in air travel. And re: 'PR problem': I have to agree with you there. Thousands of pesky users vociferously hating your product is a real PR nightmare. - Derrick Burns
Assuming Windows 7 is on schedule, we'll be seeing RTM in a little over 12 months. So for the users currently on XP, what's the point in upgrading to Vista when it'll soon be obsolete. @Soulhuntre. I don't think MS have enough time to solve their PR problem. The damage is already done, and MS will be busy selling Windows 7 by the time they get anywhere close to fixing it. MS are just limiting the damage at the moment. - Paul Grav
Media Center on Vista works really well and is a great improvement over the previous version. - Thomas Hawk
Dave? It's 404 =( - Mona N.
MS still actively promotes its products; it may be Dave's just not getting freebies or phone calls or other coddling from them anymore. Must be a slow news day. As for biz use, Vista uptake isn't really much slower than XP's was, or any other Windows version for that matter. Considerably more secure by default, Media Center's greatly improved... lots to like. I think the MS logo is the biggest mental hurdle for most people to overcome. An Apple logo on the box would have people vigorously humping Vista. - abacab
seems a bit unfair to slam windows for malware and then refuse to try the version that attempts to do something about it. Personally, I like Vista. I use it and OS X daily, and can't really say I prefer one too much over the other. - Rob
@Thomas. My experience of Windows Media Center has always been positive but according to Paul Thurrott, it doesn't seem like MS is putting much resources into it anymore. http://twit.tv/ww67 - Paul Grav
404 for me too. - Art
The permalink is 404'd but its the first story on http://www.scripting.com/ - Jesse Wolgamott
If we aren't going measure success in objective terms like adoption rate, sales, market share or income generation then what possible measure do we use? Do things fail just because the vocal A-list pundit-o-sphere doesn't like it (and usually hasn't tried it?). That makes no sense. The HP thing is a non-issue as well.. at this point in XP's life biz was still buying new machines with the old OS as well. - Soulhuntre
BTW - the best current information points Windows 7 as targeted for 2010 which is well in keeping with the release cycles we see from MS. We will see widespread beta availability at least 12 months before an RTM release. There is no financial or technical reason to try and rush Windows 7 out the door. Once again, Vista is doing just fine (despite attempts to paint it as a failure) so it's not necessary to push W7 ahead in the time line. Besides, releasing R7 in 12 months wont SOLVE any PR problem. - Soulhuntre
@Paul - don't agree that "end users have no choice" when they increasingly do choose other PCs running Mac OS, Linux, etc. And if you admit that some users choose not to purchase Windows PCs then you have to admit that the rest *are choosing* to purchase Windows PCs. - Alan Cheslow
Vista is better than XP, except in the case of older machines. I think most people bitching about Vista simply don't remember the early days of XP - an OS that brought the spyware plague upon us and didn't become remotely usable until SP2. Against XP in the same time period of its launch, Vista is *considerably* better. - Eric
I agree with Eric, I wish that my old desktop could run Vista. - Aram Zucker-Scharff via twhirl
It already did. Agree that MS will just do minimal damage control until they hump out Windows 7. - Steve Follmer via twhirl
But in the mean time, once you try Mac, you never go back. Why Apple is currently blowing their second chance in a few decades to sell their OS to everyone is beyond me. I guess they just can't break out of their comfort zone of selling notebook hardware in various pacakges. Pity. - Steve Follmer via twhirl
Vista feels like it was built with the noob in mind rather than the power user. Once UAC is turned off, it's not too terrible. I'm happy to see the OS fade into the background so I can get back to productive activities like Facebook and Twitter. :-) - Brett Nordquist
@Steve: That's because Apple would then have to support all kinds of new hardware. You know, the same kind of issue that hardware vendors made Vista have... - Jordan Hofker
@Eric Rice, but I do remember the early years of XP. I was so excited about it, installed it and got nothing but headache. It took them almost 2 yrs. to get it working right, but I had gone back to WinServer 2000 or whatever it was called. That forced my hesitation of acquiring Vista. After last year's rollout and watching my friends/clients being frustrating over some of the same issues that bugged us early XP adopters, I was fine with waiting. - faboo mama
@Alan. Well if you want to be pedantic, then "end users have no choice when buying a Windows machine". - Paul Grav
Vista has the feel of an operating system at the end of the Baroque era. The human interaction layer is migrating up the stack into the browser; the requirements for an OS can be much simpler. More Bauhaus. MSFT seems to sense this with Mesh and Midori. They need to establish a new cash machine before formally winding it down. - Cliff Gerrish
YES VISTIA WILL FAIL - Victor via twhirl
@Alan Cheslow: Keep in mind, though, that a large number of 'average users' barely understand that options like Mac or Linux exist, or, if they do, are afraid of stepping outside their computing comfort zone to learn a new system. Consequently, the 'choice' of operating system, for many people, is an illusory one; - Derrick Burns
"I think Microsoft is in bed with Hollywood" - And Apple isn't? What's with you guys who go on and on about being 'open' and 'free' but continue to use Apple products? Is there a more closed company than Apple? I don't like using XP anymore. Vista is a lot more usable *once-you-get-used-to-it* -- just like OS X and KDE/Gnome/Others on Linux. - Dileepa Prabhakar
If we are measuring success by OS usage figures, then Vista is a complete flop. 17 months after its release, XP was already at 29% usage. Vista in comparison is only at 11%. http://bit.ly/CKKl - Paul Grav
And @Everyone comparing Vista to early XP: yes, the first two years of XP were a disaster. And, yes, Vista at this stage is probably better all around than that first iteration of XP. But arguing that this makes Vista a good operating system is, to use yet another metaphor, like arguing that being shot in the foot is a really good thing because it hurts so much less than being shot in the stomach. Besides which, when did we resign ourselves to accepting "less painful than it could be" as good enough? - Derrick Burns
@Dileepa, you're absolutely right. I used to think MSFT was the dark side, but recently I watched Star Wars episode V with my kids. Yoda said that the dark side is "quicker, easier, more seductive." We all know who that is! - Bruce Lewis via fftogo
I have only been using Vista extensively for the past week or so (I actually went out and bought a copy of Home Premium). The installation went pretty much without a hitch and I have been using it without problems so far.I get why developers and such would find that working on Vista would be a pita, but for average users, it's just fine imo. - Haris bin Ali
I agree with a developer's post on your blog Dave. I run Vista 64-bit with 10GB RAM on a MacPro (desktop) and it runs extremely well. On notebooks it's a mixed bag--it depends what device you have as to whether everything installs, runs, and is as easy to use as it should be. There are some things that I find better than in XP though. For example, WIFI config is better (EVDO config still lags though), sleep and hibernate are MUCH more reliable (w/SP1), and battery monitoring is improved. The problem for low end notebooks with limited resources is another challenge to Vista. Here you don't have much choice but to use XP or strip down Vista using a 3rd party tool which I think breaks the license. To me the issue with Vista is that processors/RAM haven't caught up with it on the notebook side. Maybe with the convergence going on w/smart phones this won't happen for awhile and Vista will struggle till it gets thinner. - Loren Heiny
I will say it then, Vista is GREAT - Stephen Edgar
I think Vista is great and I actually use it. You in your post really had nothing concrete besides media speak that would lead anyone not to use Vista. You sound like most blogger s, you are quick to kill something that you don't use. I know many people that have this preconceived notion about vista and if you use it on a daily basis like I do you see its relevance. - Zach Scott
I use Vista on a daily basis. It irritates me. - Neil H
I agree that there really is no need for new OSes. Look at Linux, it has just a version number that keeps incrementing. It'll always be called Linux. An exception might be if MS makes a complete rewrite, perhaps a windows-less OS, the promise of Midori? http://impl.emented.com/2008/0... - Jonas Bolinder
Well, Linux is basically Unix with a different name. And OSX is Unix with a good user interface. Maybe OSs don't have to be new, but they can be better. - Chris White
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Our $100 Trillion National Debt by Bill Walker
August 7 at 11:58 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"The "official" debt of the United States is only around $10 trillion dollars as of August 6, 2008. This is a manageable number; we could pay it off in a few decades if we quit buying luxuries like food and clothing, and take a few other minor economy measures. Unfortunately, the "$10 trillion" number was produced by government accounting, which among other things allows one to ignore Social Security, Medicare, and the new prescription drug benefit. This is like ignoring rent, food, and utilities in your household budget… it will lead to a few bounced checks. Our real debt is about ten times higher." - Alan Cheslow via Bookmarklet
and the only ones who can complain about this are people without credit card debt - Gregory Lent
I can complain all I want, this is the Internet ;) On the upside this is a psuedo-equivalent to a 40 year mortgage. - Hayes Haugen
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Medication increasingly replaces psychotherapy, study finds - Los Angeles Times
August 4 at 11:11 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Also fueling the trend, according to the report, was the aggressive marketing of psychotropic medications to psychiatrists and patients. That push, for example, has helped make antidepressants one of the largest-selling classes of drugs." - Alan Cheslow via Bookmarklet
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The Associated Press: Shoe containing human foot found on Wash. beach
August 4 at 11:08 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"An athletic shoe containing a human foot was found on a Washington state beach, and authorities are investigating whether it may be linked to a series of human feet found in shoes along the coast of British Columbia." - Alan Cheslow via Bookmarklet
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More than 1 percent of US adults are in jail or prison - Boing Boing
August 4 at 10:38 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"for the first time in history more than 1 percent of adults in the United States — one in 99.1 persons is held in jail or prison." - Alan Cheslow via Bookmarklet
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“Any good web 2.0 sites for making travel journals?”
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I'm considering a private friendfeed room. Any other ideas? - Alan Cheslow
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“Since I'm in a complaining mood tonight, can I mention that I am sick to death of Mac people intruding into conversations just to smugly mention Macs? 'Hey, in Windows, is there any way to hide the Recycle Bin on the desktop?' 'Buy a Mac!'”
August 2 at 9:40 pm - Link
It's like TV-hating people. 'Hey, did you guys watch that great show last night?' 'Oh, yeah, it was great!' 'Yeah, I loved it!' 'I don't own a TV.' Yeah, great, thanks for interrupting a conversation that clearly has nothing to do with you just to remind us how awesome you are that you don't watch TV like the rest of us dumb sheep do. - Akiva Moskovitz
I'd comment on this, but I don't have a comment. Sorry, I just don't think I need a comment what with the social progress we've made in the last 30 years. I just don't understand people who comment: we've moved past the dark ages, people! - Mark Trapp
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same thing with browsers as well - Steven Hodson
I am sensing some anger here...can't we all just get along? - Bren
And what's the deal with peanuts? It's not a pea... it's not a nut... who is it trying to fool? - Mark Trapp
+1 Mark. Bren, hey, I get along with everyone; they're just not getting along with me. - Akiva Moskovitz
Well, Rails? *Ducks. Runs. Dies* - Yuvi
Kinda like the way I intrude into conversations to tell people to use Vim. :) - Morton Fox
Mark, what's the deal with Ovaltine? It comes in a round container, you put it in a round glass... Why don't they call it Roundtine? - Akiva Moskovitz
That's gold, Akiva! Gold! - Mark Trapp
I love ovaltine. - Bren
Bren, me, too. My mom switched from Quik to Ovaltine one year when I was a kid and I never looked back (although I later did develop an unholy love for Strawberry Quik; a relationship to which my stomach and intestines strongly objected). - Akiva Moskovitz
I can't do the faux strawberry flavor... - Bren
I don't like Akiva Moskovitz. - Kaia ♥
I do! - Ernie Oporto
Kaia, block me! Ernie, subscribe! - Akiva Moskovitz
But if I block you, I can't complain about you and feel smug. I think I'll just hide your entries and comment that I am hiding them. - Kaia ♥
Awesome! Exploding high five! - Akiva Moskovitz
Exploding..? HAHA - Mona N.
not commenting. hiding. I don't drink things from a mix. (Mark Trapp, +1 for peanut. :D ) - edythe
I like complaining Akiva. Bwana approves. - Bwana McCall
I don't think Mona has seen Awesome Town. - Tad - just Tad
now, multiply number of those per 100 and substitute word Mac with word iPhone... - silpol
I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. - Tad - just Tad
Tad, I just made an attempt to correct that. - Akiva Moskovitz
Buy a Mac, Akiva. Makes you a more balanced person. No more complaining moods. ;-) - Ole Begemann
But if I buy a Mac, I can't complain about Macs and feel smug. I think I'll just not own a Mac and comment about not owning one. - Akiva Moskovitz
I have both. It is the best of times. It is the worst of times. - Robert Scoble
I have both in one box. Love it. - Tad - just Tad
TweakUI (http://www.microsoft.com/windo...) apparently hides the recycle bin, but I haven't tested it. Don't feel like booting my Windows VM. Also, who needs a TV when you can download anything worthwhile? Jeez. - flammable
I thought Smug 2.0 was platform-independent. - Chris Kim A
flammable: YOU'RE FIRED. - Akiva Moskovitz
Chris, I'm running Smug.NET which is currently not yet supported by Mono. - Akiva Moskovitz
Since no one has done so already, I'll make the obligatory "switch to Linux" comment. ;-) *Looks at Morton and coughs "Emacs"* ;-) ;-) ;-) - Joanmarie
Joanmarie, to be honest, I've tried to get into Emacs several times because it tickles my WordStar 2000 funnybone but I was born and bred on vi and anything else just seems uncivilized. - Akiva Moskovitz
Buy a Mac, put Linux on it ... there problem solved ... gd&r - Robert Couture
So things I've learned today: peanuts and Ovaltine are cousins, people who use Mac and Linux don't like watching TV, and geeks on FriendFeed have no life ;-) - Mohit
@Mohit and here I thought the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything was 42. Then you come along ... heh. - Robert Couture
Macs vs. PCs; PS3 vs Xbox 360 vs Wii; North vs South... it is all the same. It is in human nature. Don't you recall times where Windows users would bash Mac users? Essentially, people are just acting the same way, only the products change. - James Mowery via twhirl
+1 Mohit - Akiva Moskovitz
Perhaps we should use "Buy a Mac" as the answer to everything. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Akiva LOL...funny post! - Susan Beebe
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“If I have a VPN going, is it true that all my internet traffic will go through the servers I am VPNed into? Basically, I need to VPN to work to use a Remote Desktop, but I don't want them to monitor my internet activites outside of the RD since it's my personal computer. Am I misunderstanding VPN?”
August 2 at 5:19 pm - Link
Any IT gurus out there who can give me some advice here? - Lindsay Donaghe
That's how it works when I connect to my company's VPN... when you disconnect from the VPN they don't see your traffic any more. - Tad - just Tad
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Yes, that's how it works. When you VPN in to your office all of your internet traffic goes through your office connection as if you were at the office. So all the URL's you access would be logged by their border router and VPN server and associated to your user ID. - Adam Turetzky
is there any way to isolate that? can I have a tunnel out of my own computer or something? - Lindsay Donaghe
There is on Mac/Linux/Unix I believe but I'm not enough of a networking Jedi to explain quickly how to assign specific apps to specific network interfaces. Personally, if I have to do something at work and they require me to use a VPN connection to do it. I log in, do what I need and log out. There is also a way of using a SOCKS proxy and SSH to create a tunnel to your work machine but your office may not allow SSH connections coming inbound. - Adam Turetzky
I know they won't allow SSH inbound. I can't just login and logout... if I'm working from home I'll be on a remote desktop so I'll have to be connected the whole time I'm working. I wish there was some way to keep my privacy while doing that. - Lindsay Donaghe
Nope, that's the way it works. I would call it a feature of the VPN technology. Most people would want all of their traffic going through the VPN connection, so that it's protected from snooping eyes on the regular internet connection. You would be the exception to the rule by wanting to have it both ways. I can see what you mean though, since I use a VPN connection almost daily from my home computer to my work computer. - Raoul Pop
I'm not an expert at this but I think there are ways to route only certain subnets through the VPN, but I assume it depends on the VPN client you're using. - Alan Cheslow
Your company's VPN software might be configure to only route traffic to their internal network. You can test this using traceroute (Linux/Mac) or tracert (Windows); check whether the route goes through your company's servers when on the VPN. Or look at http://whatismyip.org/ -- if your IP address seems to change when on the VPN, then it's a sure bet that your traffic is being redirected. - Tudor Bosman
A possible solution: install the VPN software (together with any other tools you need in order to do your work) in a separate (Parallels, VMWare) virtual machine, and only do work-related stuff from that VM. Then Internet traffic from outside that VM won't be affected by the VPN connection. - Tudor Bosman
Is that true, Tudor, if the VM has to use my home network to connect to the internet? Would there be a difference in using bridged vs NAT? I thought about doing that but figured it would end up being the same difference. - Lindsay Donaghe
Lindsay, ask if they allow split tunneling or not. When we give out VPN access to our user community at work we do not allow split tunneling, so all activity actually can only pass through the corporate networks while people are connected. If they allow split tunneling you should be able to use the public internet and your private connection to your company at the same time. I bet few would allow this though. - Michael Pardee
=Tudor. The VM solution may or may not work, depending on the VPN technology and the VM, but it would be important for the work instance to be the guest and the public instance to be the host. Bridged vs. NAT shouldn't matter, though the VPN might only work in one of those modes (or might not work at all). Also, consider physically separating the two - using different computers for work and personal computing - though I know that's inconvenient and potentially expensive. - ⓞnor
@nor, yeah, unfortunately I don't have a spare computer at home just to use for work. I do have VMWare though. - Lindsay Donaghe
YES, VPN's have traffic logs...so everything you do on a VPN can be logged! VPN user beware!! I am a certified Engineer and have configured numerous VPNs... Lots of corp networks do not allow bridging of networks or splitting the tunnel (think unable to connect to your home network while on corp. VPN), so you're really wise to be careful on corporate networks / VPNs. - Susan Beebe
The OSX VPN using L2TP has a checkbox that says "Send all traffic through VPN connection" under Advanced. Not sure what traffic isn't sent if you uncheck this. - Chris White
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