Cool notebook. Brings up an unrelated topic I want to ask you (yes, you) about: Remote Mouse Protocol (RMP).
On my desktop I have two computers, a Mac (PowerBook G4) and a Dell Inspiron 5150, and two monitors. While the extended desktop on the Mac works flawlessly, I am constantly frustrated when I try to use the sam mouse to reach the other computer (of course, this makes perfect logical sense as to why it does not work, it just frustrates me that it doesn't work). What I want to do: mouse my mouse not only to different monitors on the same computer but to different monitors with different computers on my desk (though, not necessarily limited to "on my desk").
Then, a thought: I share files via SMB protocol between the systems as if the hard drive of the other machine were local...why not the mouse coordinates -- and if the mouse coordinates, why not the contents of the clipboard? Thus the idea for Remote Mouse Protocol was born!
Abstract: a network protocol to share the coordinate values of a Human Interface Device, such as a mouse, between systems. Also, clipboard contents could be shared between systems (perhaps on special request only?). Each system would configure its "screen boundary" similar to the way dual monitors are configured today and upon breaching the edge of an aptly configured screen the RMP would be invoked and mouse coordinates would be communicated to the properly configured network address. The remote machine would treat the RMP as a local mouse for all intents and purposes. Thus seamless mouse control between disparate machines would be allowed.
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw! Even though the sound of it Is something quite atrocious If you say it loud enough You'll always sound precocious mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw ! Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay Because I was afraid to speak When I was just a lad My father gave me nose a tweak And told me I was bad But then one day I learned a word That saved me aching nose The biggest word I ever heard And this is how it goes: Oh, mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw! Even though the sound of it Is something quite atrocious If you say it loud enough You'll always sound precocious mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw !
Windows/Linux users, see it here. Pretend it's rotating, or, sit in a front-loading dryer while viewing. (Note: don't actually sit in a front-loading dryer.)
#!/bin/bash # Look out for random spaces added by slashcode LINK="ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/stats" F ILE="delegated-ripencc-latest" TMP="/tmp" COUNTR Y="IT"# Country codes separated by spaces. Codes can be found at http://www.maxmind.com/app/iso3166 OUT="$TMP/ipta bles-drop-$COUNTRY"
cd $TMP rm $TMP/delegated-ripencc-latest -f echo "Downloading the database from RIPE servers..." wget -q $LINK/$FILE rm $OUT echo "Now parsing the database..." echo "Saving country databases under:"
for country in $COUNTRY
do IPS=`cat $TMP/$FILE | grep "$country" | egrep '[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}' | sed -re "s/(ripencc|$country|ipv(4|6)|allocated|assigned|( 199|200)[0-9]{5})//g;s/\|128/\/25/;s/\|256/\/24/;s/\|512/\/23/;s/\|1024/\/22/;s/\|2048/\/21/;s/\|409 6/\/20/;s/\|8192/\/19/;s/\|16384/\/18/;s/\|32768/\/17/;s/\|65536/\/16/;s/\|131072/\/15/;s/\|262144/\/14/;s/\|524288/\/13/;s/\|1048576/\/12/;s/\|209715 2/\/11/;s/\|4194304/\/10/;s/\|8388608/\/9/;s/\|167 77216/\/8/"`
for ips in $IPS do echo "-A INPUT -s `echo $ips|tr -d '|'` --dport 25 -j DROP" >> $OUT done
If you're paying $5/mo. for webhosting, do you really think you're getting top-notch service??
True. Though, "if you're paying $500/mo. for webhosting, do you really think you're getting top-notch service??" is also a valid question.
My suggestion: get a solid, reputable provider such as Rackspace, EV1, Peer1, thePlanet, etc., and one or several cheap hosting providers as backup in case of disaster. Served me well several times.
You're disposed to large company thinking I see. What about those of us who are technology, marketing, accounting, HR, and sales? Oh, I forgot sanitation (ASIDE: "Yes, dear, I'll take the trash out now...").:-)
tiBook! I had a TiBook G4 550 when it first came out. Loved it. Had to part with it as I took on a roll that required Windows 2000/XP on my lap (sniff) but I returned to the OS X fold ASAP with the iBook G4 12". Now my wife uses it as I bought the PowerBook G4 15" last Fall. It runs very well for my purposes, especially now that I maxed out the memory (unless someone knows a good way to cram more ram?).
But, I admit Intel-lust. I want an Intel-based processor not so much for the definite speed bump but for what I, delusionally?, believe will come soon from Mr. Jobs: the "oh, we run Windows apps natively" announcement.
I don't WANT to run Windows programs, but I need to. I hate that, but it's reality. So, let me retire my Dell 5150 permanently and let me have my OS X with a side of Windows apps. Please.
Tell you what. I'll sell my PowerBook G4 15" for the "going price" so I can buy a MacBook. Smaller screen? Fine. I did fine with my iBook. Takers? Drop a note. Specify "I want your PowerBook" in the subject or I'll never see it:-)
Like a wholesale club such as Costco or Sam, a membership gives one access to discounts off of retail pricing. After paying $35 for a wholesale license I buy my family's mangosteen juice at $25 per 25 ounce bottle.
Actually, my net cost of buying the juice is "free" since the commission checks I get from sponsoring others more than covers my own consumption. Benefits of membership...
My sponsor's commissions actually cover his mortgage and two car payments -- in fact he resigned his position as VP of Technology in a public company to pursue his juice distribution business full-time. So, it's a product I believe in and a business model that's compelling to me. Not a bad combination.
At first I thought you might have bought some of their stock, but now I see that you got sucked into their MLM scheme
I gave up on getting sucked into stock schemes after March 2000 (besides, XanGo, the company, is privately held and doesn't have publicly available stock).
Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild, and replace the OS X kernel from source code
Good, because we know how that's helped Windows reach it's apex of security.
"If your OS is secured by keeping the code private, pray it's never, ever, released." Only takes one slip into the public to break that "security model."
Then there's those OSes that *assume* publicity of the source code and have different expectations for ensuring security. These "published" OSes also happen to be the "more secure" OSes available.
Go figure.
P.S. I'm not only referring to GPL'ed and BSD'ed OSes. There are other published OSes, the source of which are publicly accessible.
Disclosure: Mac OS X user here. Linux user here. Reluctant Windows user here.
"Sure, if you are a regular "end user" who doesn't want to learn how to responsibly use their computer, you should have all these things installed on your system. If you actually know what you're doing with Windows, you don't need any of these thing"
Pshaw.
Securing Windows for use on a network is not trivial even to experienced admins. Moreover, when it comes to a desktop computer "regular end users" are the norm and should not be ridiculed (as you have done) for being "regular." In fact, even seasoned professional admins are, at times, "regular end users" and deserve to expect their desktops to "just work."
There is NO EXCUSE for the state of Windows in regards to network vulnerabilities. NONE.
Can Windows be secured? Yeah, but not without effort, vigilance and forgiveness.
Yes, your content-less post got under my skin. You've not "defended Windows"; you've embarrassed yourself in an attempt to "one-up" others by your delusional assertions of superiority. My response isn't about Windows as much as it is about the vile arrogance you exude.
No doubt Ask Slashdot is helpful. I would just like to see some slight effort put into the request before a submitter asks everyone else to do that one's work.
If you find a package that sounds interesting, Google it. If you still have questions, submit an Ask Slashdot question and mention the ones that interest you along with an open-ended request for expert opinion.
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Seriously, though. Although I put up that site last January, I no longer have a MySpace account. Became too weird to be associated with the weirdness surrounding MySpace. And, I got tired of editing out the "dirty-old-man" submissions to my site. Yeech.
comparing hypothetical investments made one year ago. I put this link in my profile back-in-the-day. Running this with the market numbers, MSFT tracks with the market. That's another sign of being dead in the water -- flowing with the current.
Having actually read the article I discovered that the two morons making the library announcement were county officials in the county dept of "Homeland Security" and were not part of the US Gov't Dept of Homeland Security. Moreover, these two blokes were acting on their own initiative and without approval from their superiors.
Stupid as these two guys were this was not related to the Patriot Act, it wasn't related to Bush, it wasn't related to the GOP, it wasn't related to Ashcroft, Alito, Cheney, Halliburton, Microsoft, SCO, or Rush Limbaugh.
Please becareful navigating posts in this story as the knee jerks could cause serious damage.
Advertising, as you surmised is undoubtedly important, but my gut reaction is that this is about AIM. When AOL was the king of online-service providers (when that mattered more than the nascent Internet to corporatedom, I mean) IM was the killer-app that sped AOLs growth. That and chat rooms (shudder). Recall that Google recently enabled a Jabber service for its registered customers; there was some noise when it started (with a well-placed "leak" on this site, IIRC) but I haven't heard anything about it in a long time nor have my tech friends deigned to use it instead of their regular IM services they're already comfortable with (which includes ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and private Jabber servers).
Google, now a public company with a stock price that needs to be maintained with a show of increasing force and domination in markets it gives the appearance of making a presence needs to succeed in IM, mail, ads, content (the personalization page is fairly sparse and devoid of content selections for the masses unlike Yahoo, MSN, Netscape/AOL), news (Google news is still beta, remember, and doesn't stem from relationships with news providers, some of which have already begun telling Google to cease and desist crawling their pages for news headlines; thus, having a dubious future), community (usenet, webloging, etc.).
What Google can't do on it's own, it has already shown it will do by acquisition and partnership -- which is similar to a successful early tech industry company called MicroSoft, funnily enough.
Luckily uninstalling IE on the mac is a simple drag and drop in the trash can away.
True, and coming from a Windows background this was of particular joy to discover. Amazing what happens when business rules don't get in the way of computer owner preferences. (However, I haven't and wouldn't want to try to remove safari to see if Apple allows it so easily.)
Sorry to be Mr. Obvious this morning, but I take issue with submitter's conclusion that TinyDisk illustrates a security issue on the part of tinyurl.com. It rather illustrates the ease of creating a leachable web app that resource pirates can abuse. Yes, I have a negative opinion of those using such a creative hack against others who provide services to the general public in good faith.
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Cool notebook. Brings up an unrelated topic I want to ask you (yes, you) about: Remote Mouse Protocol (RMP).
:-)
On my desktop I have two computers, a Mac (PowerBook G4) and a Dell Inspiron 5150, and two monitors. While the extended desktop on the Mac works flawlessly, I am constantly frustrated when I try to use the sam mouse to reach the other computer (of course, this makes perfect logical sense as to why it does not work, it just frustrates me that it doesn't work). What I want to do: mouse my mouse not only to different monitors on the same computer but to different monitors with different computers on my desk (though, not necessarily limited to "on my desk").
Then, a thought: I share files via SMB protocol between the systems as if the hard drive of the other machine were local...why not the mouse coordinates -- and if the mouse coordinates, why not the contents of the clipboard? Thus the idea for Remote Mouse Protocol was born!
Abstract: a network protocol to share the coordinate values of a Human Interface Device, such as a mouse, between systems. Also, clipboard contents could be shared between systems (perhaps on special request only?). Each system would configure its "screen boundary" similar to the way dual monitors are configured today and upon breaching the edge of an aptly configured screen the RMP would be invoked and mouse coordinates would be communicated to the properly configured network address. The remote machine would treat the RMP as a local mouse for all intents and purposes. Thus seamless mouse control between disparate machines would be allowed.
Drats. I shoulda patented this first, huh?
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ayw !w !
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw!
Even though the sound of it Is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious
mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vm
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay
Because I was afraid to speak
When I was just a lad My father gave me nose a tweak And told me I was bad
But then one day I learned a word That saved me aching nose
The biggest word I ever heard And this is how it goes:
Oh, mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw!
Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious
mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vm
Sigh. This smells so 1990's.
At $5/per share and rising, the likelihood is increasing that Vonage will attack its non-paying customers to get low-hanging fruit. Good luck!
Windows/Linux users, see it here. Pretend it's rotating, or, sit in a front-loading dryer while viewing. (Note: don't actually sit in a front-loading dryer.)
(the unecessary tr was just for grins, btw)
My suggestion: get a solid, reputable provider such as Rackspace, EV1, Peer1, thePlanet, etc., and one or several cheap hosting providers as backup in case of disaster. Served me well several times.
You're disposed to large company thinking I see. What about those of us who are technology, marketing, accounting, HR, and sales? Oh, I forgot sanitation (ASIDE: "Yes, dear, I'll take the trash out now..."). :-)
tiBook! I had a TiBook G4 550 when it first came out. Loved it. Had to part with it as I took on a roll that required Windows 2000/XP on my lap (sniff) but I returned to the OS X fold ASAP with the iBook G4 12". Now my wife uses it as I bought the PowerBook G4 15" last Fall. It runs very well for my purposes, especially now that I maxed out the memory (unless someone knows a good way to cram more ram?).
:-)
But, I admit Intel-lust. I want an Intel-based processor not so much for the definite speed bump but for what I, delusionally?, believe will come soon from Mr. Jobs: the "oh, we run Windows apps natively" announcement.
I don't WANT to run Windows programs, but I need to. I hate that, but it's reality. So, let me retire my Dell 5150 permanently and let me have my OS X with a side of Windows apps. Please.
Tell you what. I'll sell my PowerBook G4 15" for the "going price" so I can buy a MacBook. Smaller screen? Fine. I did fine with my iBook. Takers? Drop a note. Specify "I want your PowerBook" in the subject or I'll never see it
Actually, my net cost of buying the juice is "free" since the commission checks I get from sponsoring others more than covers my own consumption. Benefits of membership...
My sponsor's commissions actually cover his mortgage and two car payments -- in fact he resigned his position as VP of Technology in a public company to pursue his juice distribution business full-time. So, it's a product I believe in and a business model that's compelling to me. Not a bad combination.
For more information from PubMed on the mangosteen fruit and its benefits, see these articles at PubMed via NIH.gov. Or, go to my website.
After learning about this fruit and its many documented benefits, I bought into the company that brought it to the market in the US.
"If your OS is secured by keeping the code private, pray it's never, ever, released." Only takes one slip into the public to break that "security model."
Then there's those OSes that *assume* publicity of the source code and have different expectations for ensuring security. These "published" OSes also happen to be the "more secure" OSes available.
Go figure.
P.S. I'm not only referring to GPL'ed and BSD'ed OSes. There are other published OSes, the source of which are publicly accessible.
Disclosure: Mac OS X user here. Linux user here. Reluctant Windows user here.
Choice sucks, doesn't it? :-)
"Sure, if you are a regular "end user" who doesn't want to learn how to responsibly use their computer, you should have all these things installed on your system. If you actually know what you're doing with Windows, you don't need any of these thing"
Pshaw.
Securing Windows for use on a network is not trivial even to experienced admins. Moreover, when it comes to a desktop computer "regular end users" are the norm and should not be ridiculed (as you have done) for being "regular." In fact, even seasoned professional admins are, at times, "regular end users" and deserve to expect their desktops to "just work."
There is NO EXCUSE for the state of Windows in regards to network vulnerabilities. NONE.
Can Windows be secured? Yeah, but not without effort, vigilance and forgiveness.
Yes, your content-less post got under my skin. You've not "defended Windows"; you've embarrassed yourself in an attempt to "one-up" others by your delusional assertions of superiority. My response isn't about Windows as much as it is about the vile arrogance you exude.
No doubt Ask Slashdot is helpful. I would just like to see some slight effort put into the request before a submitter asks everyone else to do that one's work.
Happy, happy, joy, joy.
Start here.
If you find a package that sounds interesting, Google it. If you still have questions, submit an Ask Slashdot question and mention the ones that interest you along with an open-ended request for expert opinion.
I bet you'll have better luck getting a response.
This shameless plug brought to you by... a karma defying fool.
Seriously, though. Although I put up that site last January, I no longer have a MySpace account. Became too weird to be associated with the weirdness surrounding MySpace. And, I got tired of editing out the "dirty-old-man" submissions to my site. Yeech.
comparing hypothetical investments made one year ago.
I put this link in my profile back-in-the-day. Running this with the market numbers, MSFT tracks with the market. That's another sign of being dead in the water -- flowing with the current.
Having actually read the article I discovered that the two morons making the library announcement were county officials in the county dept of "Homeland Security" and were not part of the US Gov't Dept of Homeland Security. Moreover, these two blokes were acting on their own initiative and without approval from their superiors.
Stupid as these two guys were this was not related to the Patriot Act, it wasn't related to Bush, it wasn't related to the GOP, it wasn't related to Ashcroft, Alito, Cheney, Halliburton, Microsoft, SCO, or Rush Limbaugh.
Please becareful navigating posts in this story as the knee jerks could cause serious damage.
Google, now a public company with a stock price that needs to be maintained with a show of increasing force and domination in markets it gives the appearance of making a presence needs to succeed in IM, mail, ads, content (the personalization page is fairly sparse and devoid of content selections for the masses unlike Yahoo, MSN, Netscape/AOL), news (Google news is still beta, remember, and doesn't stem from relationships with news providers, some of which have already begun telling Google to cease and desist crawling their pages for news headlines; thus, having a dubious future), community (usenet, webloging, etc.).
What Google can't do on it's own, it has already shown it will do by acquisition and partnership -- which is similar to a successful early tech industry company called MicroSoft, funnily enough.
Sorry to be Mr. Obvious this morning, but I take issue with submitter's conclusion that TinyDisk illustrates a security issue on the part of tinyurl.com. It rather illustrates the ease of creating a leachable web app that resource pirates can abuse. Yes, I have a negative opinion of those using such a creative hack against others who provide services to the general public in good faith.