Sometimes we don't realize we are in a bad position and it takes a kick in the butt to improve your situation.
I do feel bad for her, but I am not surprised. If she is worth it, I truly do hope market forces work their thing and she finds something more meaningful and pays enough.
I recall working a job for $11 an hour in college in Hawaii and thinking, I just need to make $30k a year as a manager and I will have my life set, then I graduated from college and a lot of classmates were making $80k some $100k a year.
I tried it out took a chance and moved to the "Mainland" and financially and spiritually I am in a much better place. I miss Hawaii, but am at peace with the choice I made.
So like I said, hope she will find something better, but she needs to be worth it.
I recall I purchased one of TP-Link's Mini Pocket Router. There was a US version that did I could not install openwrt but there was a Chinese version that could. So hopefully we can still purchase ones outside of the country that can be modified.
Over time I start to trust some applications, I keep an eye out for vulnerabilities though, but one of those applications is openvpn. I block all my IOT devices from accessing the Internet, and when I want access I VPN in. In some cases, I can put a web server in front of the IOT device, with cameras, I like ZoneMinder and others have said they like Blue Iris.
I am looking at outside services, like Adafruit.IO and AWS IoT to show me some pretty graphs. Still assessing, but would hope there is a way I can proxy the data through a Linux box and securely via SSL, send the data to them. At least in that case I can control what data goes to them, some stuff I might not care if the public knows, like the temp outside my house or if the deck lights turned on.
I still have prolific and ftdi chips but I have moved on to the CP2102 models. The original reason was that the particular one I had was 3.3V, my FTDI one required soldering. But found that it works well with the Raspberry Pi, and ESP8266 without needing a logic level shifter. Also with short wires (less than 10 inches) I was able to power my raspberry pi as well. I've happily used it reading JTAG as well.
Maybe there should a be a fee made a that starts at $1 USD a year and doubles each year. At year 10 a patent should be $1024 at year 20, it would be $1,048,576, at year 30 it would be over a billion to keep that patent.
Change the base or the start point, but my point is the longer you own a patent, the more it should cost in a geometric way.
My mom told me Maui Electric sent two different people to check on my her Solar setup, she has these credits from the power company that she can't cash out, but it was nice seeing her go from paying the electric company to being owed money. She was paying about $400 a month, she owes the solar panel installers $13k, I think it was worth it for her. Maybe I should set up some bitcoin mining there.
Also, I was there last week and power went out early in the morning, not sure why. She said it was a common occurrence and killed her LCD TV.
BTW, Hawaii also has a pretty big military installation (Pearl Harbor, Hickam , Schofield, Kaneohe), so I nice chunk of income comes from the military, not just tourism.
Yes cause I pay Amazon more money than Netflix. I happily paid for Walking Dead on Amazon after watching Season 1 and 2 on Netflix. I don't think Under the Dome is worth the ~$2 an episode.
I worked for a company that did not offer cell phones, even to IT folk. They said that they will call my personal cell phone if they needed me on the weekend. Their reasoning is that a cell phone is like clothes, everyone is going to wear them.
It was weird because the company did provide a lot of other tools, personal protective gear, and even had segways on the factory floor so we did not have to walk so much.
So I gave them my land line and cancelled my cell phone. Then one weekend I was out and about, and they could not get a hold of me. Monday I was told to go buy a phone.
Yeah I have clothes (land line) but if the tool you need me to have is a mobile phone much like I need steel toed boots rather than running shoes when working in the shop.
But I don't know if I can pull that today, I am so reliant on my phone. But I did notice when I look in OWA I can remotely delete any mobile device that I have checks email on OWA. We haven't fully implemented our MDM Mobileiron solution, but Exchange already can wipe phones. So I think I would just "give" my phone to my wife or kids, if any employer pulled this on my again and the can call my google voice number.
I have the QC444 and you can telnet to it as root with no password.
Also when you access the camera, your creds go out via cleartext and you can easily see what your password is.
ActiveX is used to log in and manage the box remotely, also if you use a password longer than 6 characters, you cannot use the PSS software that they put otu on their web site.
There was also some weirdness with it trying to talk to IP address 70.151.24.203
Bummer, was about to say we could put Linux on these devices, then you reminded me about SecurBoot, EFI or whatever it was.
I hope someone will find a way to root these devices so I can get an Android ROM or Linux Distro on it. Maybe a hypervisor like vmware horizon mobile with our own OS on it.
I recall the fire at the Fisher Plaza Colo in Seattle July 2009. They got power up using rented generators they placed on the street.
They were getting fined for have those generators there, but what you gonna do, those customers in your colo need power. But costs like the fine are rolled into the cost of doing business. More like a fee rather than a fine.
Totally agree, its a passion for me and I have a BSCS.
I originally went to school for a Civil Engineering degree, one of the requirements was a Fortran programming class, I really liked it and switched to a CS degree.
School forced me to get a wider view of things and where I learned to step out of my comfort zone, I have no interest in being a DBA but learned SQL in school. If it weren't for school, I think I would have not gotten into Unix/Linux at all. I regularly step out of my comfort zone and learn things on my own like Android programming and the Arduino platform.
Now I do Linux and virtualization at work, and I do it as a hobby at home too, I'm sure some here in the slashdot crowd are the same. I like to find out why things are a best practice, .
Pretty sure some out there would say I don't have a life or I am going to burn out soon; right now at over 40, I feel blessed because I like what I do, am good at what I do, and there is a demand for my skills in technology, problem solving and planning. If I wasn't happy with were I am at, I could leave, I've done it before and picked up something new quickly.
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In places with a lot of sun and solar panels like Hawaii, wouldn't there be more power during daylight hours?
Will it to https or some other secure type of encryption over the Internet? I mean we all been talking about how IoT stuff is insecure.
Sometimes we don't realize we are in a bad position and it takes a kick in the butt to improve your situation.
I do feel bad for her, but I am not surprised. If she is worth it, I truly do hope market forces work their thing and she finds something more meaningful and pays enough.
I recall working a job for $11 an hour in college in Hawaii and thinking, I just need to make $30k a year as a manager and I will have my life set, then I graduated from college and a lot of classmates were making $80k some $100k a year.
I tried it out took a chance and moved to the "Mainland" and financially and spiritually I am in a much better place. I miss Hawaii, but am at peace with the choice I made.
So like I said, hope she will find something better, but she needs to be worth it.
I recall I purchased one of TP-Link's Mini Pocket Router. There was a US version that did I could not install openwrt but there was a Chinese version that could. So hopefully we can still purchase ones outside of the country that can be modified.
If you have a Q-SEE QC444 DVR, you can telnet as root and hit enter and you have CLI
Then add your own account to /mnt/mtd/Config/passwd and you will have a username and password to log in to the box.
The banner when you log in says "Welcome to HiLinux." so there may be other DVRs that use this version that are vulnerable too.
Over time I start to trust some applications, I keep an eye out for vulnerabilities though, but one of those applications is openvpn. I block all my IOT devices from accessing the Internet, and when I want access I VPN in. In some cases, I can put a web server in front of the IOT device, with cameras, I like ZoneMinder and others have said they like Blue Iris.
I am looking at outside services, like Adafruit.IO and AWS IoT to show me some pretty graphs. Still assessing, but would hope there is a way I can proxy the data through a Linux box and securely via SSL, send the data to them. At least in that case I can control what data goes to them, some stuff I might not care if the public knows, like the temp outside my house or if the deck lights turned on.
After years of coding.
I still have prolific and ftdi chips but I have moved on to the CP2102 models. The original reason was that the particular one I had was 3.3V, my FTDI one required soldering. But found that it works well with the Raspberry Pi, and ESP8266 without needing a logic level shifter. Also with short wires (less than 10 inches) I was able to power my raspberry pi as well. I've happily used it reading JTAG as well.
Somebody's project was late and needed an excuse so they crashed github.
So because you can't see Linux means it doesn't run Linux? So a lot of these Servers, NAS, routers and search engines do not run Linux then.
So they are like AWS with their on demand or reserve instances.
I read OCZ and think bad quality lost data. They should have used a different name.
So its like taking a test were you automatically get some points just for signing your name then lose points if you answer wrong.
Saw this posted
http://hackaday.com/2015/08/31...
It is for 5GHz but if they can get away with 5Ghz why not 2.4
So if that ever happens, I may become a criminal, flashing my own router to protect myself.
Maybe there should a be a fee made a that starts at $1 USD a year and doubles each year. At year 10 a patent should be $1024 at year 20, it would be $1,048,576, at year 30 it would be over a billion to keep that patent.
Change the base or the start point, but my point is the longer you own a patent, the more it should cost in a geometric way.
My mom told me Maui Electric sent two different people to check on my her Solar setup, she has these credits from the power company that she can't cash out, but it was nice seeing her go from paying the electric company to being owed money. She was paying about $400 a month, she owes the solar panel installers $13k, I think it was worth it for her. Maybe I should set up some bitcoin mining there.
Also, I was there last week and power went out early in the morning, not sure why. She said it was a common occurrence and killed her LCD TV.
BTW, Hawaii also has a pretty big military installation (Pearl Harbor, Hickam , Schofield, Kaneohe), so I nice chunk of income comes from the military, not just tourism.
I know its hopeful thinking, but if the NSA was a person, they would know how it feels when you don't know what someone knows about you.
Yes cause I pay Amazon more money than Netflix. I happily paid for Walking Dead on Amazon after watching Season 1 and 2 on Netflix. I don't think Under the Dome is worth the ~$2 an episode.
Or Jackie Chan can prove he is not dead.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/jackie-chan-death-hoax_n_3498793.html
I worked for a company that did not offer cell phones, even to IT folk. They said that they will call my personal cell phone if they needed me on the weekend. Their reasoning is that a cell phone is like clothes, everyone is going to wear them.
It was weird because the company did provide a lot of other tools, personal protective gear, and even had segways on the factory floor so we did not have to walk so much.
So I gave them my land line and cancelled my cell phone. Then one weekend I was out and about, and they could not get a hold of me. Monday I was told to go buy a phone.
Yeah I have clothes (land line) but if the tool you need me to have is a mobile phone much like I need steel toed boots rather than running shoes when working in the shop.
But I don't know if I can pull that today, I am so reliant on my phone. But I did notice when I look in OWA I can remotely delete any mobile device that I have checks email on OWA. We haven't fully implemented our MDM Mobileiron solution, but Exchange already can wipe phones. So I think I would just "give" my phone to my wife or kids, if any employer pulled this on my again and the can call my google voice number.
Didn't they let one of their domains, passport.com, expire as well
http://news.cnet.com/Good-Samaritan-squashes-Hotmail-lapse/2100-1023_3-234907.html
I have the QC444 and you can telnet to it as root with no password.
Also when you access the camera, your creds go out via cleartext and you can easily see what your password is.
ActiveX is used to log in and manage the box remotely, also if you use a password longer than 6 characters, you cannot use the PSS software that they put otu on their web site.
There was also some weirdness with it trying to talk to IP address 70.151.24.203
Bummer, was about to say we could put Linux on these devices, then you reminded me about SecurBoot, EFI or whatever it was.
I hope someone will find a way to root these devices so I can get an Android ROM or Linux Distro on it. Maybe a hypervisor like vmware horizon mobile with our own OS on it.
I recall the fire at the Fisher Plaza Colo in Seattle July 2009. They got power up using rented generators they placed on the street.
They were getting fined for have those generators there, but what you gonna do, those customers in your colo need power. But costs like the fine are rolled into the cost of doing business. More like a fee rather than a fine.
Totally agree, its a passion for me and I have a BSCS.
I originally went to school for a Civil Engineering degree, one of the requirements was a Fortran programming class, I really liked it and switched to a CS degree.
School forced me to get a wider view of things and where I learned to step out of my comfort zone, I have no interest in being a DBA but learned SQL in school. If it weren't for school, I think I would have not gotten into Unix/Linux at all. I regularly step out of my comfort zone and learn things on my own like Android programming and the Arduino platform.
Now I do Linux and virtualization at work, and I do it as a hobby at home too, I'm sure some here in the slashdot crowd are the same. I like to find out why things are a best practice, .
Pretty sure some out there would say I don't have a life or I am going to burn out soon; right now at over 40, I feel blessed because I like what I do, am good at what I do, and there is a demand for my skills in technology, problem solving and planning. If I wasn't happy with were I am at, I could leave, I've done it before and picked up something new quickly.