TELECOM Digest Fri, 3 Mar 0 10:56:18 EST Volume 20 : Issue 7
Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson
Book Review: "Using Samba" (Rob Slade)
ICB: Free Daily Headlines, New Domain Name Content (Judith Oppenheimer)
Re: Telephone-Pole Battle: Steel Takes On Wood (anonymous)
Re: Telephone-Pole Battle: Steel Takes On Wood (Mark S. Brader)
Re: Telephone-Pole Battle: Steel Takes On Wood (Jeremy Greene)
Re: U.S. Wants Less Web Anonymity (Herb Stein)
FTC Orders Credit Bureau to Stop Selling Marketing Lists (Monty Solomon)
Intuit Acts to Curb Quicken Leaks (Monty Solomon)
DoubleClick Puts Hold on Tying Personal Info to Online Habits! (M Solomon))
Re: F.C.C. Debates Changes to Cell Phone Fees (Jeremy S. Nichols)
Telco 214 Licenced (Clay Nanton)
Re: Stop Missing Calls While You're Online! (Ed Ellers)
Communication Tower Being Built (Linda Harris)
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From: Rob Slade <rslade@sprint.ca>
Organization: Vancouver Institute for Research into User
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 15:38:44 -0800
Subject: Book Review: "Using Samba"
Reply-To: rslade@sprint.ca
BKUSAMBA.RVW 20000126
"Using Samba", Robert Eckstein/David Collier-Brown/Peter Kelly, 2000,
1-56592-449-5, U$34.95/C$51.95
%A Robert Eckstein
%A David Collier-Brown
%A Peter Kelly
%C 103 Morris Street, Suite A, Sebastopol, CA 95472
%D 2000
%G 1-56592-449-5
%I O'Reilly and Associates
%O U$34.95/C$51.95 707-829-0515 fax: 707-829-0104 nuts@ora.com
%P 416 p.
%T "Using Samba"
Server Message Block (SMB) is a protocol used for simple client-server
networking. More importantly, however, it is the protocol used in
Microsoft's basic Windows products. There are Windows clients for
other protocols, such as NFS (Network File System), but these are not
supplied with the operating system and must be purchased separately.
As well, these add-on clients are not as tightly coupled with the
Windows operating system and its functions.
Samba is a UNIX server program using the SMB protocol. This allows
UNIX administrators to set up file and print sharing on UNIX machines,
for access and use by Windows PCs without specialized clients on all
the workstations.
Chapter one is an introduction to Samba and the basic SMB concepts.
Compilation and installation of Samba on the UNIX server are covered
in chapter two. Setup of Windows clients is dealt with in chapter
three, as well as some header level information about the protocol
itself. The material details configuration of Windows 9x and NT
separately, because of the slight differences in menus and dialogue
boxes. The instructions are quite detailed, even down to the
information that the IP 192.168.x.x address range can be used for
internal LANs, although more time is spent with the 9x versions than
with NT.
Most of the rest of the book is spent on configuration options for
Samba. Chapter four provides an outline of the smb.conf file and the
basic preference settings. Browsing (functions advertising and
searching for resources) and advanced file sharing choices are given
in chapter five. Security related settings are discussed in chapter
six, along with some practical tips. Chapter seven looks at printing
and name resolution, while miscellaneous functions are presented in
chapter eight.
Chapter nine outlines not just troubleshooting tools, but also
detailed procedures. Appendices list information on the use of SSL
(Secure Sockets Layer), performance tuning, daemons and commands, as
well as a command reference.
The book is aimed at experienced UNIX administrators. The
explanations of how Windows works will definitely be of help to these
people. However, it is a bit of a pity that slightly more information
wasn't included about UNIX for those not familiar with the system.
While there certainly are good references for UNIX administration
available (many of them coming from O'Reilly), it is arguably the case
that the greater "market" for Samba is among those who administer
Windows networks, and need the basic and reliable server functions
that UNIX can provide.
copyright Robert M. Slade, 2000 BKUSAMBA.RVW 20000126
====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer)
rslade@vcn.bc.ca rslade@sprint.ca slade@victoria.tc.ca p1@canada.com
A European says, `I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?'
An American says, `I can't understand this, what's wrong with
him?' - Terry Pratchett (author)
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From: Judith Oppenheimer <joppenheimer@icbtollfree.com>
Subject: ICB: Free Daily Headlines, New Domain Name Content
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:29:57 -0500
Pat, this release went out a month ago, and in your absence I didn't forward
it to the Digest.
Now that you're back (hooray!), I'd like to submit it. ICB is offering free
daily email headlines plus limited site access at no charge; we've upgraded
the site (it's now completely databased - load, search, etc., are quite
fast.) And we've added a substantial amount of domain name news content.
We've also raised the price for full subscription, from $399 to $549. But
I'd like to offer Telecom Digest readers the old price through the end of
March. Here's the original release.
TIA -
Judith
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From: No-reply-required <withheld@as.per.my.request>
Subject: Re: Telephone-Pole Battle: Steel Takes On Wood
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 08:14:41 -0400
Organization: Netcom Canada
Thanks for the good read.
I think any pole and wire is an eye sore. I await the day when
wireless technology rules and hydrogen fuel cells are plentiful. No
more poles, steel or wood. I wonder how much copper we've got
suspended above ground on this planet.
PS - I might be in for a long wait. :-)
From: msb@vex.net
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 01:09:01 EST
Subject: Re: Telephone-Pole Battle: Steel Takes On Wood
Organization: -
Mike Pollock quotes Robert Guy Matthews in The Wall Street Journal:
> The U.S. currently has about 90 million wood telephone poles. Steel poles
> have tripled since 1997, but they still represent less than 2% of the
> market. The key, the steel industry believes, is in the telephone-pole
> replacement market: Four million wood poles each year need to be replaced
> because of routine maintenance, accidents, construction, and steel's
> friend, the woodpecker.
About two years ago Toronto Hydro, the local electric company, rewired my
street and replaced the old wooden poles with concrete ones. Is concrete
not a common choice of for utility poles in the US? Is there an important
distinction for some reason between *telephone* poles and those for other
utilities?
Mark Brader, Toronto | Any company large enough to have a research lab
msb@vex.net | is large enough not to listen to it. --Alan Kay
My text in this article is in the public domain.
From: Jeremy Greene <celloboy@DIESPAMearthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Telephone-Pole Battle: Steel Takes On Wood
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 01:59:47 -0500
How can anyone in their right mind be debating what type of pole to
use in a new residential development? Just bury the damn wires! As
long as you're digging up the street to lay pavement, sewers, gas,
water, etc., why not just bury the electricity, coax, fiber, telephone
cable, etc. along with it? You won't have to worry about drunk
drivers mowing down poles and knocking out phone and electrical
service. Your modems won't choke when squirrels start chewing on the
phone lines. And if the phone/cable companies would just spend the
extra money for decent infrastructure like fiber optics and good
watertight conduit, they won't have to come dig up the sidewalk in 10
years to replace obsolete cables. Why do they sometimes bury
residential feeder cables bare, with no conduit? Isn't that just
asking for trouble when a woodchuck decides to burrow through your
front yard?
Jeremy
From: herb@herbstein.com (Herb Stein)
Subject: Re: U.S. Wants Less Web Anonymity
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 04:19:08 GMT
Good grief. Protect us all from more "sweeping new powers" in the hand
of the Federal government. If they're the solution, I'd rather live
with the problem.
In article <telecom20.6.10@telecom-digest.org>, Monty Solomon
<monty@roscom.com> wrote:
> by Declan McCullagh
> 3:00 a.m. 1.Mar.2000 PST
> WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government may need sweeping new powers to
> investigate and prosecute future denial-of-service attacks, top law
> enforcement officials said Tuesday.
> Anonymous remailers and free trial accounts allow hackers and online
> pornographers to cloak their identity, deputy attorney general Eric
> Holder told a joint congressional panel.
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34659,00.html
Herb Stein
The Herb Stein Group
www.herbstein.com
herb@herbstein.com
314 215-3584
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 23:19:52 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: FTC Orders Credit Bureau to Stop Selling Marketing Lists
http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/CWFlash/0003024transunione
By Sharon Machlis
03/02/2000 The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has ordered Trans Union
LLC to stop selling information from its consumer credit reports to
third-party marketers.
In a statement issued yesterday, the FTC said it told Trans Union to
stop selling the target marketing lists through its subsidiary,
Performance Data, to outside marketers "who lack an authorized purpose
for receiving them under the Fair Credit Reporting Act."
Chicago-based Trans Union is one of three nationwide credit bureaus and
holds data on roughly 160 million consumers.
In a statement issued yesterday, Trans Union vowed to appeal the decision to
the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Trans Union argues that the portion of the Fair Credit Reporting Act barring
the sale of consumer data violates the First Amendment. The company says it
doesn't sell confidential credit information in its lists, only "names,
addresses and types of credit held by consumers." Consumers also can opt out
of having their names on those target-market lists.
However, the FTC maintains that target marketing isn't a permissible use of
credit bureau data under federal law, which was designed to protect the
privacy of such data.
The unanimous ruling by the FTC involves a complaint first filed in 1992
against Trans Union for allegedly violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
The company has 14 days to file a petition for reconsideration.
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 23:21:15 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Intuit Acts to Curb Quicken Leaks
By Glenn R. Simpson
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
March 2 - Personal financial information that consumers key into
Intuit Corp.'s popular Quicken Web site has been leaking out to
advertisers, and the company moved swiftly to address the problem.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/376864.asp
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 23:59:14 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: DoubleClick Puts Hold on tying Personal Info to Online Habits!
Forwarded to the Digest, FYI:
From: mclark@cdt.org
Subject: DoubleClick puts hold on tying Personal Info to Online Habits!
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 15:55:29 -0500 (EST)
Internet advertiser DoubleClick announced today that it will NOT move
forward with its plans to tie personally identifiable information to
Internet users' online surfing habits until government and industry have
reached a consensus on privacy rules for the Internet. You can see
DoubleClick's statement at:
http://www.cdt.org/privacy/000302doubleclick.shtml
This would not have happened without you. Thousands of Internet
activists joined CDT's DoubleClick campaign opting out of DoubleClick
and writing to its chairman and its partners, complaining about the
company's new invasive privacy practice. This really made a
difference. Please make sure that those to whom you forwarded our
alerts on this issue know that, with their help, the tide is beginning
to turn in favor of Internet privacy.
CDT will continue to keep you informed about privacy legislation and
concerns as well as other issues that will affect the Internet. We
have ended our targeted campaign against DoubleClick. CDT will let you
know when you are needed to contact someone else about privacy or some
other Internet related issue.
CDT is still urging those concerned about privacy to use our
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help you learn how to get off direct marketing, telemarketing, online
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From: Jeremy S. Nichols <jsn@tc.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: F.C.C. Debates Changes to Cell Phone Fees
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:29:01 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus
I would like a pair of phone numbers for my phone: one for which I pay
the charges, and the other for which the calling party pays.
My (U.S.) mobile account gives me first incoming minute free, so I can
leave my phone powered on full time risk-free. I am careful to whom I
give the number, however, as I don't want to be bombarded with junk
calls like I am on my land-line phone. Calling-party-pays would seem
to be a disincentive to junk callers and I could be much more free
distributing that number. But there are many people who would never
call me if it were going to cost them $0.50 US per minute. I would
want to give them a free number to call.
One potential problem with calling-party-pays is that there is no
price pressure. As a mobile subscriber I choose a calling plan to
minimize my costs and the carriers compete for my business. As a
caller to a mobile I have to accept the price I will be charged and
have no way to shop for a better rate. I likely won't call.
The calling-party-pays plans I have seen here have a per-minute rate
2-5 times the subscriber's rate.
It boils down to who's convenience is being served by the mobile
phone. Ideally the extra charge for a mobile call would be paid by
the party benefitting the most.
Of course, this perspective is from someone in an area where all local
non-mobile calls have no per-minute charge.
Jeremy S. Nichols, PE j.nichols@ieee.org
Minneapolis MN USA jsn@tc.umn.edu
Maxime Flament <maxime.flament@s2.chalmers.se> wrote in message
> By SETH SCHIESEL
>> A debate is raging at the Federal Communications Commission about
>> whether cellular telephone customers must continue to pay to
>> receive calls as well as to make them.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/articles/22phon.html
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 19:33:41 -0500
From: Clay Nanton <bambam@westnet.com>
Subject: Telco 214 Licenced
Mr. Townson
My name is Noel Nanton. I have found your site to be very
informative through my many searches. This specific search is one that
has stumped me or possible just been starring me in my face due to poor
research techniques on my part. I am in search of Telco 214 licensed
companies. I am starting my own small business and I am in need of
information on these specific licensed companies because I am looking
for the same licensing. If possible would you know of any possible
areas where I might find some information. If this is a shot in the air
It's ok to tell me. I thank you so much for your help and keep this
site moving strong. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Noel Nanton
e-mail - reyel40@aol.com
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I hope readers with information on
the licensing required by Mr. Nanton will write to him to share
their information. PAT]
From: Ed Ellers <ed_ellers@msn.com>
Subject: Re: Stop Missing Calls While You're Online!
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 22:38:08 -0500
My answer to the same problem was to set up Call Forwarding On Busy to go to
a digital wireless phone with voice mail. This gives me coverage any time
that the wireline phone is in use -- for Internet access or otherwise.
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I did basically the same thing but I
included 'Call Forwarding on No Answer' as well as on Busy. This for
me allows not having to remember if I turned on forwarding or not.
Then if I am on the computer calls go to my voicemail but they will
also go there if I walk away from my phone. The nice thing that
Southwestern Bell (no United Tel/Sprint here in Independence; they
are in Junction City and Fort Riley) only charges $1 per month for
the service instead of $8 like Sprint. I forward all those calls to
my 800 number which in turn rings my cell phone first and my
voicemail second. PAT]
From: Linda Harris <tamworth@voicenet.com>
Subject: Communication Tower Being Built
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 15:38:53 GMT
We have been approached by a communications company, who wish to put a
cellular communications tower on our property.
We meet all their requirements regarding site, elevation etc., They
had done all their homework before they approached us, and they know
its in a prime site. Its known throughout this district, that our area
is a black spot for cellular phones. We would like to know, before we
go any further, as to the payment for the lease offered by them. The
lease is to run for over 50 years. Is there anyone who has had
similar dealings with having towers put on their property, and could
give us an Idea as to what they were given as payment. Its obvious
that they offer you the very minimum as an opening offer. We are
curious as to the "going" rate. We live in western PA.
Yours Faithfully,
Linda Harris
e-mail address....Tamworth@voicenet.com
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