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AOpen Debuts The Funniest Motherboard Ever
Anonymous Coward X-11 writes "Has AOpen gone flipping nuts by putting vacuum tubes on its motherboards?
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No, it's not replacing logic ICs with discrete components. The tubes are part of the on board audio. Not sure if they are serious about this. April 1 was two months ago." As an owner of a tube headphone amplifier I applaud AOpen's move to accomodate the high-end audio enthusiast, while simultaneous wondering about the ability of a switched psu to properly drive a tube amplification stage cleanly. There's no way this is for real, right? Right? Here's a link that seems to work pretty well. And this looks pretty, well, real. Update: /. reader Jedi1USA noted that HardOCP has more pics of the board.
Maybe the admin can just telnet in over a wireless connection and fix the problem!
Windows is so cool!
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
Not that this is by any means acceptible, but at least they are trying!
[quoting your link]
To address this weakness, Microsoft modified the Telnet implementation that the company includes in Win2K. Win2K's Telnet server can handle not only clear-text authentication but also NT LAN Manager (NTLM) authentication. NTLM encrypts usernames and passwords as they cross the network so that they can't be discovered.
However, there's a catch. To use NTLM to authenticate to the Telnet server, you must have a Telnet client that supports NTLM. The only client that supports NTLM authentication is Microsoft's Telnet client. So, if you intend to telnet into your systems only from Win2K's Telnet client, you can secure your Telnet service by restricting it to support only NTLM authentication. If you plan to accept Telnet sessions from clients that don't support NTLM authentication, you'll need to step down your security
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
NTLM will help prevent your initial login credentials from being sniffed easily. But after that, everything is still in plaintext! And Windows has pretty bad packet sequencing (nmap usually says something along the lines of "trivial joke"), making insertion of data, or outright hijacking, easier.
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
The NTLM authentication is susceptable to dictionary attacks like any other hash. But like you said... it prevents credentials from being sniffed easily
There was an advisory about a year ago where they found out that by tricking IE or Outlook into activating a telnet:// URL, they could have a Win2k system automatically send the hash of the userid and credentials for the current logged on user.
"It's about freakin' time! Now when are we going to replace these markedly inferior CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs with the gloriously mellifluous LP-ROM?"
Actually, it's already been done. In my garage, I have a copy of Interface Age Magazine, one of the early PC mags (back when PC meant IMSAI 8080 or Altair or SWTPC 6800 boxes with S-100 buses, or if you were really flush with cash, the incredibly slick boxes from The Digital Group or CompuColor!)
This issue includes one of those LPs pressed on thin vinyl that were sometimes bound into magazines in the '70s. The interesting thing about this one (which they billed as the first "floppy ROM") is that instead of musical audio, it contained a BASIC interpreter (I think, I really don't remember what he program was, since I had no computer myself, I just read and dreamed) encoded on the disk in "Standard" Kansas City format - the same way data was commonly encoded on cassette tapes at the time. (Those of you that have never loaded a program from cassette have no concept of "slow" - I want no more griping about kernel build times on your 2 GHz P4s and Athlons!)
Therefore, you could just hook your turntable and stereo (line level out) up to the cassette interface on your computer, and voila!, you had a BASIC interpreter, dumped directly into your computer from a magazine delivered via regular mail.
This is so cool that it's one of the few magazines I kept from that era - I wish I had hung on to more, as the hacking was really far more adventurous back then than it is now... It's amazing how we're just now getting back to doing the things they were doing back then, things like voice recognition and such, which hasn't really improved all that much (perhaps 10-20x) despite CPU hardware that's 100,000 times faster.
Makes you wonder where we'd be if the vibrant CP/M hacker community that was dominant prior to the IBM PC had been able to somehow survive and continue to grow.
"The future's good and the present is nothing to sneeze at." - Roblimo's last