When I first saw the name andover.com, I had to check to see if someone thought to name a host in their domain "over". I didn't remember seeing one before, and I remember feeling disappointed, but I see they have one there now.
I would have to agree - the following statement at the end of the article really caught my eye: "For Z., blurring the line between truth and fiction is what makes his work unique".
I think we might all be becoming part of his work; the video clip (the truth of which the site apparently left in doubt), followed by a story (in a well known media source) of federal agents behaving in a manner that sounds more like what was apparently portrayed in the video than real life, followed by our real reaction to it.
If this was his intent, for the fictional video with a faint suggestion of truth to produce several layers of apparent reality arount itself, I admire his creation:-)
Or, I could be half alseep, and my normal paranoia overrun by fatigue, with an inexplicable flashback to an art history class I attended several years ago.
>June 9, 1999 was her 18th birthday. Before that, assuming he really is 19 (or older) there was a window of time >when statutory rape laws prevented him from consummating a relationship with her.
Or, they could have just moved to a different state - I seem to recall the lowest age of consent in the US is 14, but I can't remember what state that is. I'm pretty sure that it is 16 in Michigan (I think you might have to be within 5 years of age as well).
I'm sitting here with a stopwatch, and a fire extinguisher to see how long this server stands up. (pentium 120, 96 megs of ram, FreeBSD, Roxen, on a tci-met cable modem)
I've converted it to mpeg at various bitrates. As soon as I hear back from the person who runs the slashdotted site, (assuming they give me permission to do so) I'll put the mpeg files on a server and post the URL on slashdot.
(I've got the fire extingusher all ready for the poor little server when the wave of people hit it)
He never says it's a vmware problem - he says he has the NT system firewalled off (which, is probably a good idea for the security of his machine).
Personally, I believe you have no idea what you are talking about - I haven't had any network connectivity problems with vmware (I'm posting this now from netscape, under windows 95, under slackware.)
I also see this as a problem for other classes of machines, namely those with no networking hardware installed. If Microsoft will only allow you to run the install in a web browser, and not just downloand the install files, how do they intend people trying to use Windows NT as a C2 secure install? (assuming they found the obsecure hardware it is rated as C2 on - and remember, no network card or modem)
I have to agree about the disk partitioning being exciting - It was the excitement of feeling like a newbie all over again, the overwealming urge to understand what I was playing with. I was so excited by the new things to explore, it was like I was a young (non burned out from grad school) geek all over again:-)
(on a humorous note, I accidentaly blew away that first install at 3:00 am later that night, when I was trying to figure out if I had assigned space correctly, and decided to run mkfs on the c slice, which appeared to have a lot of room on it... I learned a lot about FFS exploring the resulting damaged filesystems )
On a final aside, if anyone out there runs Roxen on OpenBSD, and they've been able to get multithreading working, or have an easier way to get user authentication working than patching the pike crypt functions to use blowfish, please let me know...
6) I like the weasling on the C-2 security ratings. Last I heard, NT only got C-2 by disabling the networking. And 4.0 wasn't certified for years- so long the guy who was originally suing them was threatening to take them to court. Oh, and C-2 doesn't mean that much- the only lower rating is D (no security at all, ala DOS). Some versions of Unix can even hit B levels of security (there's a version of HP-UX that does this, IIRC). The only reason Linux hasn't gotten C-2 is simply that no one has walked it through the paperwork (i.e. for the same reason it's not "Unix").
To the best of my understanding, normal Linux systems would fail C2 certification as chown allows root to give ownership of files, not just take ownership of the file. C2 requires that no one can give away ownership of a file, you can only take ownership of it from someone. (this is to prevent someone taking ownership of a file, reading it, then giving ownership of it back)
Hey - it's what I do. When I'm coding, I usually turn down all of the lights most of the way - I find it improves the contrast on my old monitors. I also hate direct light when I'm really deep into a project. I stick 2 desk lamps in corners of the room, and aim them up.
True, which is why what I said wouldn't stop anyone, just probably annoy them a little bit. It's a moot point anyway, seeing as I was way off base in describing how the password system works...
I've only been using OpenBSD for a week or two now, and I think I see a way to configure it so that changing the root password would be a real pain after booting from a floppy disk.
On OpenBSD, all account information is stored in a non-text format file called (on my system) pwd.db. Editing user information is done by running the new password entries through a program called pwd_mkdb which preforms some checks, then modifies the database.
I believe, that if the authentication technique for Root is set to One Time Passwords, that you would have to edit pwd.db itself to revert to normal passwords, as I do not think that pwd_mkdb will make that change.
I was feeling that way for a while. It was very worrying, I found myself wondering what was wrong, why did I change. I eventualy realized that I hadn't taken any time to just relax in a long time.
I took some time off, dropped most of my responsibilities for a summer, and lived (mostly) off of savings, not doing much work, playing around on my own, and trying to recover that spark of an urge to learn that had been burned out of me.
I did have to spend some time totally away from computers. A day spent at (47 19'45"N) / (84 36'49"W) facing south, just watching the horizon and sky will do wonders to refresh the mind! (A few quick dips, and some short hikes will help wake up the body as well:-). Several days left me ready for anything!
Now, a few short months later, I feel back to normal! Try taking a break from your life - it worked for me:-)
I had been wondering about that slow rise myself - The slow downward drift of MTWK was an annoying red mark on my e-trade portfolio, as well as causing concern about the health of a company who makes products I really like.
Hopefully this is a good thing for Code Warrior, I'd hate to see it go downhill.
I'm planning on trying to see if the wall switch will control a flourescent light if a normal light is hooked up as well - From reading X10's web page, it looks liek it will either work, or wrech the wall switch unit...
Slashdot Mirror
Plausable deniability is always a good thing.
-Pathwalker
(This whole thing makes me mad enough to throw this keg at the MPAA...)
Java? Why be half assed. Don't use that mangled version of ((C++) - C). Use a real object oriented programming language:
Smalltalk!
Available in Free , gratis, and commercial flavors!
Seriously, I use java - I like java, but I think smalltalk would be a much better choice for the backend to a slashdot style site than java would be.
Where I work, the servers are shut down for two reasons:
1. This way no one has to stay there and watch them.
2. We don't have to worry about damage due to power problems.
I think you might be thinking of A86 and D86 by Eric Isaacson.
If not, there is probably a copy of the program you were thinking of here.
When I first saw the name andover.com, I had to check to see if someone thought to name a host in their domain "over".
I didn't remember seeing one before, and I remember feeling disappointed, but I see they have one there now.
I would have to agree - the following statement at the end of the article really caught my eye:
:-)
"For Z., blurring the line between truth and fiction is what makes his work unique".
I think we might all be becoming part of his work; the video clip (the truth of which the site apparently left in doubt), followed by a story (in a well known media source) of federal agents behaving in a manner that sounds more like what was apparently portrayed in the video than real life, followed by our real reaction to it.
If this was his intent, for the fictional video with a faint suggestion of truth to produce several layers of apparent reality arount itself, I admire his creation
Or, I could be half alseep, and my normal paranoia overrun by fatigue, with an inexplicable flashback to an art history class I attended several years ago.
>June 9, 1999 was her 18th birthday. Before that, assuming he really is 19 (or older) there was a window of time >when statutory rape laws prevented him from consummating a relationship with her.
Or, they could have just moved to a different state - I seem to recall the lowest age of consent in the US is 14, but I can't remember what state that is. I'm pretty sure that it is 16 in Michigan (I think you might have to be within 5 years of age as well).
It's one of the Civ:CTP hacks...
What's the password for CVS login?
leave the password blank.
I'm putting MPEG versions up at http://house.ofdoom.com/~hungerf 3/video/index.rxml.
Ok - I have permission to mirror and convert it.
You can get the original quick time version, as well as mpeg versions at varying bit rates from http://house.ofdoom.com/~hungerf 3/video/index.rxml
I'm sitting here with a stopwatch, and a fire extinguisher to see how long this server stands up.
(pentium 120, 96 megs of ram, FreeBSD, Roxen, on a tci-met cable modem)
I've converted it to mpeg at various bitrates. As soon as I hear back from the person who runs the slashdotted site, (assuming they give me permission to do so) I'll put the mpeg files on a server and post the URL on slashdot.
(I've got the fire extingusher all ready for the poor little server when the wave of people hit it)
He never says it's a vmware problem - he says he has the NT system firewalled off (which, is probably a good idea for the security of his machine).
Personally, I believe you have no idea what you are talking about - I haven't had any network connectivity problems with vmware (I'm posting this now from netscape, under windows 95, under slackware.)
I also see this as a problem for other classes of machines, namely those with no networking hardware installed. If Microsoft will only allow you to run the install in a web browser, and not just downloand the install files, how do they intend people trying to use Windows NT as a C2 secure install? (assuming they found the obsecure hardware it is rated as C2 on - and remember, no network card or modem)
I have to agree about the disk partitioning being exciting - It was the excitement of feeling like a newbie all over again, the overwealming urge to understand what I was playing with. I was so excited by the new things to explore, it was like I was a young (non burned out from grad school) geek all over again :-)
(on a humorous note, I accidentaly blew away that first install at 3:00 am later that night, when I was trying to figure out if I had assigned space correctly, and decided to run mkfs on the c slice, which appeared to have a lot of room on it...
I learned a lot about FFS exploring the resulting damaged filesystems )
On a final aside, if anyone out there runs Roxen on OpenBSD, and they've been able to get multithreading working, or have an easier way to get user authentication working than patching the pike crypt functions to use blowfish, please let me know...
6) I like the weasling on the C-2 security ratings. Last I heard, NT only got C-2 by disabling the networking. And 4.0 wasn't certified for years- so long the guy who was originally suing them was threatening to take them to court. Oh, and C-2 doesn't mean that much- the only lower rating is D (no security at all, ala DOS). Some versions of Unix can even hit B levels of security (there's a version of HP-UX that does this, IIRC). The only reason Linux hasn't gotten C-2 is simply that no one has walked it through the paperwork (i.e. for the same reason it's not "Unix").
To the best of my understanding, normal Linux systems would fail C2 certification as chown allows root to give ownership of files, not just take ownership of the file. C2 requires that no one can give away ownership of a file, you can only take ownership of it from someone. (this is to prevent someone taking ownership of a file, reading it, then giving ownership of it back)
Well, the readme file for it gives me the impression that FSN was around before the movie, and was what was used in the movie.
Because you don't have a SGI with a copy of this program.
Unfortunetly, it only works under Irix 5.3 and below, so I can't run it at work.
Hey - it's what I do. When I'm coding, I usually turn down all of the lights most of the way - I find it improves the contrast on my old monitors.
I also hate direct light when I'm really deep into a project.
I stick 2 desk lamps in corners of the room, and aim them up.
True, which is why what I said wouldn't stop anyone,
just probably annoy them a little bit. It's a moot point
anyway, seeing as I was way off base in describing
how the password system works...
I've only been using OpenBSD for a week or two now, and I think I see a way to configure it so that changing the root password would be a real pain after booting from a floppy disk.
On OpenBSD, all account information is stored in a non-text format file called (on my system) pwd.db. Editing user information is done by running the new password entries through a program called pwd_mkdb which preforms some checks, then modifies the database.
I believe, that if the authentication technique for Root is set to One Time Passwords, that you would have to edit pwd.db itself to revert to normal passwords, as I do not think that pwd_mkdb will make that change.
That sounds exactaly like me about 6 months ago!
:-). Several days left me ready for anything!
:-)
I was feeling that way for a while. It was very worrying, I found myself wondering what was wrong, why did I change. I eventualy realized that I hadn't taken any time to just relax in a long time.
I took some time off, dropped most of my responsibilities for a summer, and lived (mostly) off of savings, not doing much work, playing around on my own, and trying to recover that spark of an urge to learn that had been burned out of me.
I did have to spend some time totally away from computers. A day spent at (47 19'45"N) / (84 36'49"W) facing south, just watching the horizon and sky will do wonders to refresh the mind! (A few quick dips, and some short hikes will help wake up the body as well
Now, a few short months later, I feel back to normal! Try taking a break from your life - it worked for me
I had been wondering about that slow rise myself - The slow downward drift of MTWK was an annoying red mark on my e-trade portfolio, as well as causing concern about the health of a company who makes products I really like.
Hopefully this is a good thing for Code Warrior, I'd hate to see it go downhill.
Yes, but the grave robbers from space were coming to stop us from developing soem weapon which could ignite the entire universe...
>(I'm assuming that each MAC should have it's own unique ID number...)
Actually, once I bought two cheap, no brand ethernet cards, and they both had the same MAC address (all A6's !!!) that was VERY annoying...
I'm planning on trying to see if the wall switch will control a flourescent light if a normal light is hooked up as well - From reading X10's web page, it looks liek it will either work, or wrech the wall switch unit...