Wow, what a weird post to read right now... I'm actually brewing beer as I type this. There's about 52 minutes left in the boil. Unfortunately I'm doing it the old analog method.
If anyone is interested in reading the recipe for the beer I'm making, look here.
That firewall of which you speak advertised a Belkin service, it didn't serve serve adware, which is advertising software which becomes installed on one's local machine.
Also, the option to disable this was one of the first things on the first page in the setup utility.
If someone even went into their device's config to perform the most basic securing, they'd see the options to adjust this readily available.
That's interesting, but it looks like it would take more effort to write the "commented text file" it uses for input than it would be just to fill out the form by hand.
This article mentions how a particular mail server was shut down for a few days to be upgraded. It sort of makes me wonder if possibly some anti-spam measures were also put in place at the same time?
I know that when I began subscribing to a few blacklists, my spam dropped way off. Perhaps they added some sort of SpamAssassin config with automatic deletion? A similar config on my site (with filtering, but no automatic deletion) has cut my spam down so that I only 'see' one or two messages a day.
The author of the original artcle clearly isn't in a position to understand what was actually done to the server, so he is just assuming that an unreachable mail server for two days stopped most of his spam. I have to call shenanigans on this. I'd bet that the Exchange upgrade also included a number of other changes.
People may wonder why a group of intelligence insiders would come forward to a non-major media outlet with such tantalizing information at this time. The corporate-beholden media cannot be trusted to report such a news story. A common theme from all the intelligence and ex-intelligence officials with whom I have communicated is that George W. Bush made a major mistake in attacking and purging the clandestine service of the CIA. The "agency," which extends far beyond the confines of Langley, Virginia, is having its revenge. It has willingly exposed a portion of a traditional clandestine CIA money route to expose the vote scam that was used to ensure Bush's election.
That's practically a tell-tale sign of a fake article...
While the article is interesting, the connections run all the way to 419-ers...
I want more info. After all, extraordinary claims (like these) demand extraordinary proof.
Yahoo Shopping has them floating around US$500. The device actually does a lot more than I mentioned... When I first happened across it, I read through the manual and was really amazed at what all it would do. To borrow some 80s/90s terms, it's very much a turnkey device for shops wanting to sell wireless access.
There's something just great about being able to tell a user "here's your receipt, just enter the code on it in your web browser and you'll be all set" and have it just *work*.
I think this might be the kind of thing you are looking for: ZyXEL ZyAIR B-4000. It's basically an AP and receipt printer, with a few buttons on it. Via a web-based interface, you set the device up, and a clerk presses a button, and out pops a receipt you had to the user. They use the information on the receipt to log into the system, allowing their MAC to access the internet for a specified period of time.
I recommended this to a small shop, and they've been using it since with no problems. It's trivial to get set up, and the clerks selling the access don't need to be technical.
IIRC, you can also allow certain machines access all the time, use it as a normal NAT box for some devices and pay for others, etc.
Yes, lots of people do, but also lots of people don't. There are a vareity of tools out there but FOSS and not. The FOSS ones are not always the best tools for the job... Case in point, MS Outlook. It (at least the 2003 version) works very, very well, and coupled with Exchange 2003, there are a lot of things that it does which other tools don't.
With regards to GAIM, GAIM doesn't support everything that AIM (official) does, and those bits that GAIM don't support happens to be what I use. The solution? Use the best tool for the job.
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Of course I'm running Outlook on this machine... Nothing else supports Exchange-based shared calendering (and it's integration with Tasks and other such things being sent via email). And it also does it very well.
GAIM (at least on Windows) also doesn't support HTTPS proxies... I don't really care for it either, but that's a debate about personal preferences.
Think about the reasons why people use various tools before flapping your gums, eh? FOSS isn't always the best solution for every problem.
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I've had it for a long time, moving it from machine to machine... I don't honestly remember where I'd gotten it, but it was disappeared not long after it was posted.
Yes, DVD masters are typically delivered on DLT. DVD Studio Pro has direct support for doing this.
Actually, Yggdrasil Linux was responsible for writing the first open source tool for producing DVD masters on tape, which they used for releasing a DVD-based Linux distro back in... 1998? Info about it here.
That said, for CD mastering use CD-Rs that are designed to be used as masters (they are REAL gold media, and are not cheap, ~US$10ea), burn at 1x, make sure your disc is *really* standard compliant...
Also, for mastering DVDs you need to be certain to have a drive which will write the CSS bits. Standard drives won't, and mastering drives cost ~$1k, last I checked, because of all the licensing required for implementing CSS.
I wanted to take a moment to plug a couple of things... The first is my personal moblog which really isn't anything special. However, the way the photos are published is kinda unique, and I thought other people might find it nice to play with.
What I use is the rather well-known PHP-based Gallery photo management / presentation software, combined with an implementation of the Nokia Image Upload Server API as a plugin for Gallery.
It works great... I just snap a picture on the phone, go to the Gallery (on the phone) which is where you generally sort through all the pictures, pick Image Uploader then Upload. A GPRS connection is made, you are prompted for the default folder or a new one, and the image is uploaded. That's how I get all the pictures in my moblog. The only limitation is that you cannot caption the photos. The API seems to support it, but it's not implemented in the plugin, nor do the phones support it.
(I looked into this a bit, and here's what I found: Captioning isn't enabled on the server, the phone doesn't prompt for any sort of caption info, and since the phone doesn't detect the capabilities of the server, implementing it on the server won't make any difference. Ah well. At least the photos get there, and you could always rename the file, because that name will be automatically set as the caption in lieu of one.)
I've twice been able to return products to Costco because I was dissatisfied with them. The catch? They were (mostly) software products which would have been next to impossible to return elsewhere.
The first was a $200 negative scanner. The thing just didn't hold the negatives flat enough, and parts of them were out of focus. The resolution was also too low to work very well. I took it back, the store manager seemed genuinely interested in why I didn't like it (I think he had been interested in buying one himself) and I got a cash refund.
The second was the National Geographic Topo! maps on CD-ROM set they are selling. Sure, the maps are great, and the box claimed various types of GPS compatability, but was kinda cagey as far as the description goes. I picked up the software, tried it, and found that it will only transfer routes, waypoints, and points of interest to the GPS, not the maps itself. This really wasn't what I was expecting, so I packaged it all back up, took it back the next day, and received a full refund.
That, combined with good prices, treating it's customers and employees very well, and a nice clean store makes Costco one of my more favorite places to shop.
What works really well for me is running a copy of CGIProxy on a https vhost on my personal server. That way the URLs are obfuscated and all content is wrapped up in SSL. Works rather nicely, and it works for most types of sites.
I agree, I don't think it was much of a threat, but it really is the Secret Service's job to investigate such things. I also don't think that the Secret Service feels she is a threat either, anymore, after they took a look and investigated things. After all, that's all they did...
I think it comes down to not wanting anything to fall through the cracks. What if someone really was to want to injure the President and was really quiet about it, but occasionally let things slip and made ranting (such as the aforementioned) posts online? If something happened, the Secret Service would have it's head on a plate for having had a lead and not investigating at all.
Sorry, I must have somehow screwed up the link to the PDF. That mirror of the Google cache (in case she asks for it to be removed) is at http://www.nuxx.net/files/dumbgirl.pdf.
That girl wasn't too bright to get herself into trouble. If you read the original post (also mirrored here in PDF format) she made threatening statements about the President. The Secret Service, doing it's job of protecting the President, investigated, found nothing, and went about their way.
Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, the President-elect, the Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President of the United States, or the Vice President-elect, or knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the President, President-elect, Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President, or Vice President-elect, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
That said, this has nothing to do with the First Amendment and free speech, because while there are protections of free speech, it is well established that there are things you cannot say. These are commonly summed up as the 'yelling FIRE in a theater' statements. This also does not apply to anything Patriot-act related. It's a simple Secret Service investigation of a percieved threat. End of story.
Hopefully she has now learned that publishing something on the internet (and that's what LJ is) is not much different from standing on a street corner and shoting something, except with an eternal echo.
Eh, that's possible... It does say that your iPod will be set up for the current library, though. But, you know... One can never underestimate users.:)
Why didn't you do some research before reformatting your iBook? Why didn't you do some research on how to pull music from your iPod back into iTunes? This process is very well documented all over the place.
It sounds to me like you are either trolling, or really didn't know what you were doing when you started this process.
Remember, data, especially purchased data, is important. Always back it up.
Just curious, was that including shipping? I wouldn't mind acquiring some more of these, but they are getting harder to come by, and without scratches on the screen they fetch nearly $200/ea (before shipping) on eBay.:(
Can I ask where you got them? A local place had them off-lease (and less than a year old at the time) for $180.
Talk about a swanky monitor...
I can't believe how much a second display has helped out when working on things. A terminal/browser for reference, the TV tuner, IM / IRC windows, etc. It can all be open, and visable, at once.
I do find myself using Exposé a lot less now, though...
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Wow, what a weird post to read right now... I'm actually brewing beer as I type this. There's about 52 minutes left in the boil. Unfortunately I'm doing it the old analog method.
If anyone is interested in reading the recipe for the beer I'm making, look here.
That firewall of which you speak advertised a Belkin service, it didn't serve serve adware, which is advertising software which becomes installed on one's local machine.
Also, the option to disable this was one of the first things on the first page in the setup utility.
If someone even went into their device's config to perform the most basic securing, they'd see the options to adjust this readily available.
That's interesting, but it looks like it would take more effort to write the "commented text file" it uses for input than it would be just to fill out the form by hand.
It's interesting, though.
This article mentions how a particular mail server was shut down for a few days to be upgraded. It sort of makes me wonder if possibly some anti-spam measures were also put in place at the same time?
I know that when I began subscribing to a few blacklists, my spam dropped way off. Perhaps they added some sort of SpamAssassin config with automatic deletion? A similar config on my site (with filtering, but no automatic deletion) has cut my spam down so that I only 'see' one or two messages a day.
The author of the original artcle clearly isn't in a position to understand what was actually done to the server, so he is just assuming that an unreachable mail server for two days stopped most of his spam. I have to call shenanigans on this. I'd bet that the Exchange upgrade also included a number of other changes.
That's practically a tell-tale sign of a fake article...
While the article is interesting, the connections run all the way to 419-ers...
I want more info. After all, extraordinary claims (like these) demand extraordinary proof.
Yahoo Shopping has them floating around US$500. The device actually does a lot more than I mentioned... When I first happened across it, I read through the manual and was really amazed at what all it would do. To borrow some 80s/90s terms, it's very much a turnkey device for shops wanting to sell wireless access.
There's something just great about being able to tell a user "here's your receipt, just enter the code on it in your web browser and you'll be all set" and have it just *work*.
-Steve
I think this might be the kind of thing you are looking for: ZyXEL ZyAIR B-4000. It's basically an AP and receipt printer, with a few buttons on it. Via a web-based interface, you set the device up, and a clerk presses a button, and out pops a receipt you had to the user. They use the information on the receipt to log into the system, allowing their MAC to access the internet for a specified period of time.
I recommended this to a small shop, and they've been using it since with no problems. It's trivial to get set up, and the clerks selling the access don't need to be technical.
IIRC, you can also allow certain machines access all the time, use it as a normal NAT box for some devices and pay for others, etc.
Hope this helps...
Yes, lots of people do, but also lots of people don't. There are a vareity of tools out there but FOSS and not. The FOSS ones are not always the best tools for the job... Case in point, MS Outlook. It (at least the 2003 version) works very, very well, and coupled with Exchange 2003, there are a lot of things that it does which other tools don't.
With regards to GAIM, GAIM doesn't support everything that AIM (official) does, and those bits that GAIM don't support happens to be what I use. The solution? Use the best tool for the job.
Of course I'm running Outlook on this machine... Nothing else supports Exchange-based shared calendering (and it's integration with Tasks and other such things being sent via email). And it also does it very well.
GAIM (at least on Windows) also doesn't support HTTPS proxies... I don't really care for it either, but that's a debate about personal preferences.
Think about the reasons why people use various tools before flapping your gums, eh? FOSS isn't always the best solution for every problem.
I've had it for a long time, moving it from machine to machine... I don't honestly remember where I'd gotten it, but it was disappeared not long after it was posted.
http://www.nuxx.net/files/longhorn_gray.zip
Enjoy.
Oh, you'll want to change from the default wallpaper... Currently I'm using... Uhm... This one. (Link leads to my personal wallpaper archive.)
In case SCO ever gets around to fixing their site, a screenshot I took of the affected site is available here.
Any idea on the battery life on those eMachines? I've seen quotes of ~3 hours under Windows floated around.
The eMachine laptops also weigh 7-8lbs, compared with the 4.9 and 5.9lbs (12" and 14", respectively) of the iBooks.
Two words:
Lego Mindstorms
The perfect getting started programmable robotics kit...
Yes, DVD masters are typically delivered on DLT. DVD Studio Pro has direct support for doing this.
Actually, Yggdrasil Linux was responsible for writing the first open source tool for producing DVD masters on tape, which they used for releasing a DVD-based Linux distro back in... 1998? Info about it here.
That said, for CD mastering use CD-Rs that are designed to be used as masters (they are REAL gold media, and are not cheap, ~US$10ea), burn at 1x, make sure your disc is *really* standard compliant...
Also, for mastering DVDs you need to be certain to have a drive which will write the CSS bits. Standard drives won't, and mastering drives cost ~$1k, last I checked, because of all the licensing required for implementing CSS.
I wanted to take a moment to plug a couple of things... The first is my personal moblog which really isn't anything special. However, the way the photos are published is kinda unique, and I thought other people might find it nice to play with.
What I use is the rather well-known PHP-based Gallery photo management / presentation software, combined with an implementation of the Nokia Image Upload Server API as a plugin for Gallery.
It works great... I just snap a picture on the phone, go to the Gallery (on the phone) which is where you generally sort through all the pictures, pick Image Uploader then Upload. A GPRS connection is made, you are prompted for the default folder or a new one, and the image is uploaded. That's how I get all the pictures in my moblog. The only limitation is that you cannot caption the photos. The API seems to support it, but it's not implemented in the plugin, nor do the phones support it.
(I looked into this a bit, and here's what I found: Captioning isn't enabled on the server, the phone doesn't prompt for any sort of caption info, and since the phone doesn't detect the capabilities of the server, implementing it on the server won't make any difference. Ah well. At least the photos get there, and you could always rename the file, because that name will be automatically set as the caption in lieu of one.)
I think it'd be interesting to see this available via a DNS request, similar to how a number of black hole lists (RBLs) handle lookups.
I've twice been able to return products to Costco because I was dissatisfied with them. The catch? They were (mostly) software products which would have been next to impossible to return elsewhere.
The first was a $200 negative scanner. The thing just didn't hold the negatives flat enough, and parts of them were out of focus. The resolution was also too low to work very well. I took it back, the store manager seemed genuinely interested in why I didn't like it (I think he had been interested in buying one himself) and I got a cash refund.
The second was the National Geographic Topo! maps on CD-ROM set they are selling. Sure, the maps are great, and the box claimed various types of GPS compatability, but was kinda cagey as far as the description goes. I picked up the software, tried it, and found that it will only transfer routes, waypoints, and points of interest to the GPS, not the maps itself. This really wasn't what I was expecting, so I packaged it all back up, took it back the next day, and received a full refund.
That, combined with good prices, treating it's customers and employees very well, and a nice clean store makes Costco one of my more favorite places to shop.
What works really well for me is running a copy of CGIProxy on a https vhost on my personal server. That way the URLs are obfuscated and all content is wrapped up in SSL. Works rather nicely, and it works for most types of sites.
I agree, I don't think it was much of a threat, but it really is the Secret Service's job to investigate such things. I also don't think that the Secret Service feels she is a threat either, anymore, after they took a look and investigated things. After all, that's all they did...
I think it comes down to not wanting anything to fall through the cracks. What if someone really was to want to injure the President and was really quiet about it, but occasionally let things slip and made ranting (such as the aforementioned) posts online? If something happened, the Secret Service would have it's head on a plate for having had a lead and not investigating at all.
Sorry, I must have somehow screwed up the link to the PDF. That mirror of the Google cache (in case she asks for it to be removed) is at http://www.nuxx.net/files/dumbgirl.pdf.
For more information as to what they were likely under take a look at US Code Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 41, 871(a):
That said, this has nothing to do with the First Amendment and free speech, because while there are protections of free speech, it is well established that there are things you cannot say. These are commonly summed up as the 'yelling FIRE in a theater' statements. This also does not apply to anything Patriot-act related. It's a simple Secret Service investigation of a percieved threat. End of story.
Hopefully she has now learned that publishing something on the internet (and that's what LJ is) is not much different from standing on a street corner and shoting something, except with an eternal echo.
Eh, that's possible... It does say that your iPod will be set up for the current library, though. But, you know... One can never underestimate users. :)
Why didn't you do some research before reformatting your iBook? Why didn't you do some research on how to pull music from your iPod back into iTunes? This process is very well documented all over the place.
It sounds to me like you are either trolling, or really didn't know what you were doing when you started this process.
Remember, data, especially purchased data, is important. Always back it up.
Just curious, was that including shipping? I wouldn't mind acquiring some more of these, but they are getting harder to come by, and without scratches on the screen they fetch nearly $200/ea (before shipping) on eBay. :(
Weird. You have the exact same tubes that I do...
Can I ask where you got them? A local place had them off-lease (and less than a year old at the time) for $180.
Talk about a swanky monitor...
I can't believe how much a second display has helped out when working on things. A terminal/browser for reference, the TV tuner, IM / IRC windows, etc. It can all be open, and visable, at once.
I do find myself using Exposé a lot less now, though...