That sucks. While Louisiana is chock full of corrupt politicians, they occasionally make it work for their residents. Our no call list requires that business who make unsolicited calls to Louisiana residents subscribe to it (to the tune of $800). Hefty fines for those that call a number that's on the list.
I get really pissed off when I get a call on my prepaid, expensive per minute cell phone, especially while I'm driving/riding my bike/sleeping/whatever. I'll have to figure out a way to simulate a car crash sound, so I can scream in agony, and then hang up.
I'm really curious how the legality of this works...the state controls access to it's phone lines under their conditions? Will they actually have the power to impose these fines on businesses that don't pay what amounts to their telemarketing tax? Our state constitution is based on Napoleonic Code...
Yeah, but they didn't *test* it. They didn't test the Highpoint, didn't test the IEEE 1394, used PC2100 memory...kinda lame test setup, huh? Do some DV captures onto yer 250GB RAID 5 setup and I'll consider it a good review!
Hey, I still have yet to use the Highpoint on my KT7A...
It looks like a solid board, and even for ~$200, it's worth it to not have to buy/config sound, ethernet, firewire so you can get right to overclocking. And with the absence of a jillion PCI cards means more room for custom cooling rigs and better airflow!
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I've got an old Thinkpad 760XL (P166MMX 64MB! 2GB 20x CD). It's heavy like a bowling ball.
I also have a second 2GB with Win95 on it, somewhere;). Win seemed faster on it, X grinds the hell out of audio output while doing simple stuff liek scrolling windows. I get better apm support in Linux (I can hibernate and sleep), better network performance, and 60+ day uptimes!
The battery is fried on it, so it's really just being used as a spare machine and always-on, low power development server (apache/mysql/php/etc) so I can do work from my gaming machine and see how pages look in IE. It'll probably run my mail server and local proxy eventually, and I don't have to pay for a 300W power supply on the monthly bill.
(Actually, I'll gladly take a Powerbook over a PC laptop. The reason I quit buying Apples back in, what, '97, was the operating system slowly turning into shite and the proprietary hardware. Now that the PC world is becoming increasingly proprietary with it's hardware, like the HP modem/soundcard, or winfrisbees^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmodems...I just might be going back to the Apple fambly. I'm sure I'm not alone here)
Great idea. This could power a house, and as the distribution system for hydro gets more developed, the price will drop, as will the cost of use.
One of the reasons the damned things are so expensive (but cheaper per kw that solar iirc) is the catalyst used is usually platinum, which is horribly expensive and rare. People aren't certain if they can get the amount of platinum to do mass production of larger units. Luckily, other alloys can do the job, but with some lost efficiency.
Fuel cells are highly efficient, and farily cost efficient (not like, say, *coal* is). It' s main problems is the hydrogen. But this is more of a factor that limits their use in vehicles then for home use.
The problem with this is that most large companies deliberately give patent applications vague and general titles. This is because the title of the patent becomes public before the body of it - and there's no point telling your competition what you're working on until necessary
Plus, the broader the patent, the more possibilities for it's application.
Consider the person who discovers boiling water in a pot on a stove. It wouldn't behoove this person to describe the holding device as a "metal pot" when a glass beaker could also be covered. Or on a gas flame when it can also be done on an electric burner.
I read that article when it came out in Wired, and thought it was crap. That's been well-beaten here, so I won't get into it. But basially people are willing to accept a system that does everything, no matter how poorly, than something that does a few things very well, and somethings it can't do (yet)
I run an ecommerce website, admin a dozen-ish desktop computers with vastly different needs (sales, accounting, shipping/warehouse, development). We use Linux for the server (always have) and that's how I cut my teeth using Linux. I had always been eye-ing it for the desktop, and about a year ago I tried it out, first on my ancient 586 laptop, then on my new tower at home, and now I keep it on my desktop at work. I've had a ton of problems with w2k, and I had to ditch it at home and go to 98 (had to ditch 95 too), but that' mostly a game system and TV/VCR.
I've been studying the feasibility of switching the others at work to a Linux system.
Less than half of the office staff has a computer at home. Those that do have gotten them in the past year. Many of them have terrible usage habits, mainly from lack of training. They save images as W*rd documents, browse the web in Outlook, and generally do things that I would never have thought possible until they actually do them. No matter what system these people are using, if they aren't taught how to use them, they will make silly mistakes.
People also have this idea of computers that they will do all the work for them. They don't understand that, yes, even in the year 2001, computers have limited resources, people don't like spending 20 minutes downloading TIFF files, and the like. It has become so EASY to screw things up using a computer, that I'm about to scrap the mess and go back to Xerox, film, fax, and snail mail, since that's what these people understand. But even with all of the shortfalls, using computers saves lots of time and makes things possible that wouldn't be without them.
Sadly, the possibilities for using Linux in our office are limited. Sales needs a good contact management system, something they can browse through while on the phone with people. instead, they use Outlook which, although it's a virus risk, it's easy enough for them to use, they all know it, and until someone points me to a similar system in Linux, I can't switch them. Everything else they do (email, basically) I've got covered.
Accounting is hopelessly entrenched in Microsoft. We just got an expensive accounting package that's MS-only. I spent a lot of time looking for an industrial-strength accounting package that was open-source, or even just available for Linux...no dice. Same thing with our shipping department...carriers aren't getting anything out of developing software for more than one vendor's OS,
The only way around this is go develop/extend web-like apps for CRM, which is in the long-range plan. phpGroupware is a nice package, but a little rough around the edges, but I'll help fix that when I get a little more time
And as far as my department...I and my assistant both have Win2K and RH7 on our drives...and we have problems with both, surprisingly similar ones. One scanner we have only works in Linux, and vice versa with the other one. Printing/communication is fine in both (it was strange installing HP drivers on my Linux box).
As far as the Gimp goes, it doesn't do what I want. I need to do heavy batch operations and corrections on whole rolls of film at a time, and according to everything I've seen, it's a limitation of Scheme/script-fu that won't allow this to happen. I'll look into using Python, again, when I get the time. But for now, we use Photoshop, which I have 50 scripts for already, and it takes no time for me to make more.
So even while I stay in Linux 99% of the time, I still can get rid of that damned Microsoft OS. And although we;ve got an office full of people who are prime to learn any OS, I can't give them anything but MS. I'd also have to spent a lot more of my time training users, and less time doing what I enjoy
As far as the future goes, Linux has got a lot more potential than people realize. It's always fresh (we just bought an OS from MS that was released in 1999!) and you can't get current without paying. And I find getting things done in Linux is much faster...UI wise. Find/replace in Windows is a sick joke.
Oh, and this document was spell checked using ispell! Works fine for me, but when I tried to select the text to re-copy it into the browser, I got hung for 4 minutes in a stupid text-scrolling loop where it insisted on processing every scroll-up-line command, one-by-one, redrawing the screen -each time-, way back into the scroll buffer. Not a good thing to do to a Pentium with XMMS and Mozilla loaded and running...Gnome bug?
Agreed. I've only seen 2 mainstream solutions to the text input problem:
-- Shrink the standard QWERTY keyboard, and wait 10,000 years for us to develop super skilly thumbs
-- Cell-phone style keypads. This is great if you like hitting the same key 1-3 times per character.
Why not make a, say, 32-ish key pad. 13 (x2) for characters, 10 for nums, plus enter, meta keys, etc. Set it up 6x5 plus 2 on the side/bottom.
Because we are buying them for where we w*rk adn we aren't about to have the PHB see an invoice for a mb/cpu/mem upgrde under $200.
Heh. I like AMD's, I've been getting them for the desktops (my boss had been buying Celerons! Ack!). I'm completely happy with them. They take abuse well too (which is a requirement for our location, dust, heat, humidity). But for the server? I'm looking for Tueys. Twin Tualatins, please.
And what's next for this happy company? StongARMs...
I"m about to evaluate this myself at work. While I don't use -much- of Orfice, I use Excel and there's a -lot- of Outlock going on where I w*rk. So I was very excited to see a review of the new Staroffice beta...
Since I don't use the Microsoft suite all that often, if at all these days, I really don't know what features are included there that are missing from StarOffice. However, I have found one feature in StarOffice that I have never seen in any Microsoft Office version (it may be there now, but I haven't seen it yet; remember, I don't use MS-Office).
Ugh. I was hoping to find out if it had any sort of CRM (contact relatoinship mgmt) so I can quit diagnosing lookOut! problems and go back to completeing tasks...
I'll carve out some time this weekend (I do want a good spreadsheet/data format). Any reports of integrated email/contact databases? I'm about at my wits end with MicroSoft TCO.
This is a fine box, 7 port + uplink, web-based admin (http://192.168.0.1), firewalled out of the box, and you can open common ports through a drop down menu. It Just Worked until the phone company figured out that the MAC address of the machine they set us up with had changed. Tech support was great and cloning a MAC address is simple.
I don't get the "use an old box" idea. How many ISA NIC's do you have lying around? You're going to want at least a 5 port if you're that much of a geek to set up a Pentium to do this, which negates the Pentium. And do you love the electric company that much to buy another 100W from them?
It's an interesting project, but save that Pentium for a diskless workstation or something.
These people still have them, and they have quick service. I buy from them 3-4 times a year and I've never had a problem with them.
I'm looking for a wireless version of the same thing to use at home, so I can keep my neighbors off of AOL. Any suggestions?
Yeah, I get the Seagate literature too. 100000 hour MTBF? How do they know this? They manufactured these things back when I was a kid?
A lot of it is simply supply/demand. Demand for SCSI drives is low, since every PC comes with IDE plugs, and SCSI costs extra. SCSI is probably 5% of the consumer market, more on the server end, and people who buy servers have bigger budgets.
Complaining about termination? Wah. Thats like saying "don't use linux, you have to split your drive into multile partitions". RDRAM also needs to be terminated, but it's bitchin fast, too.
Hell, I once paid over $400 for a 40MB drive. But I'm with you, I'm gonna set up a twin 40GB IDE RAID. Less than $200 with cables and shipping. I've spent more than that on boots.
I love my Thinkpad. P-150, MMX, 64MB/2.1 GB, 56K and 100-BT. 800x600x16 screen, which made it IMPOSSIBLE to read the article without sidescrolling. -You- may have a 19" monitor, but I don't (not on my porch, anyway):
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I like it for doing design and programming, because I don't need a hella-fast machine for that, and it keeps me honest;)
I'm using xfce with RH6.2, and it's completely fantastic. I get 160K/s steady on a DSL link, and for the most part it's as fast as my K62/475 Win98 box at work...but anything to do with graphics is crap. Scrolling, drawing windows is slooow. Xmms-P150 uses less cpu than Winamp-K62/475, but when I scroll a window, even one line, it sounds like a frog sat on the record needle.
I kinda want either a G4 titanium, or a Sony picturebook (the Transmeta sub-notebook), btu the first one is real pricey and the second has a slow hard drive...anyone usign these?
This has got to be the coolest thing I'e seen in a while...well, code-wise anyway:
The concept is simple. The attacker scans networks looking for a "live"
connection. We give them that:-) and we use TCP/IP's stubbornness against
them. When the scanner attempts to make a connection to a port with a SYN
packet, we send them back a SYN/ACK and then simply ignore them. Because
they've "completed" a three-way handshake, their TCP/IP stack assumes that they
have a good connection and tenaciously attempts to hang onto it, retrying the
connection until they finally time out.
I'm sure it'll be modified to work as an all-purpose portscan-blocker in no time flat.
Not quite. I admin a Red Hat/Apatchy server, and during the first wave we got 85 unique attempts. In the "break" between waves there were two, adn I checked on it casually last night. As of midnight PST there were no new attempts, but this afternoon I found 42 new malformed client requests. Ahh...43 now.
This was posted in a previous Code Red article, but I think I'll include it anyway. If you're running Apache on.*N?X, use this to check for attempts (note: only goes back as far as your error_log has been rotated)
grep default.ida/path/to/apache/logs/access_log |
sed "s/.*$//g" | wc -l
(get rid of the wc part to list the IP's)
And yes, buffer overflows are generically possible, but can you get libsafe for MS products?
What I think more closely applies is the law that says you can't leave the key to your car in your ignition. This is in most places in the US. I've seen it as a checkbox on parking tickets I've gotten.
The idea is that if your car gets stolen, but you leave the keys for anyone to get, you are at fault. The police are now spending taxpayer money, and the insurance company would (but doesn't) have to pay for your enabling the criminal to take your car.
And if someone notices that you have left your keys in your car, do you arrest them for looking inside of your car? If they publish a paper on how stupid it is to leave your keys in your car, do you arrest them?
Maybe so. But there are a lot of people out there that aren't using computers on a daily basis, aren't use to the Win world, and could easily be raised on Linux, and be happy about it.
Look at KDE. They're trying to keep the same type of functionality that Windows offers, nad enhance it. The kitchen sink is thrown in with this WM, and that's a good reason to switch. It's all about the apps, baby. Why do you think Flash support is such a huge deal? Of course, there are ways to get 4ppz on any OS, but they all seem to want the local computer guy's help with it, don't they?
And there is an economical reason not to use it...although that's been locked up with the OEM Windows install Catch-22, which can be broken if more Linux users were available to help. For the price of the OS one can get better equipment (which, admittedly, Linux likes/needs sometimes)
My neighbor is getting her first computer. She knows about how a mouse works, but that's it. No brand loyalty. I'm planning on installing Mandrake on her box, sharing internet access with her, and yes, I'll need to be available to answer any questions. I don't forsee a lot of hardware upgrades neccesary, and I'm not giving up the root password on her system, to minimize the possibility of damage. This may wind up a huge nightmare and time drain for me, or it might not.
But I was not raised on MS...I used Commodores for years, then Macs (about 8 years), then MS (roomate's box, and at w*rk) adn now I'm using Linux. The difference in how you do things in different OSen isn't far from the diff in another version of the OS...use a KDE/Mandrake box (until I want to scan anything with my ancient UMAX scanner) and a GNOME/RH laptop, then go to work and use a Win98 desktop and admin a Win2K machine and 2 RH servers. Even my 98 box and another office dweller's 98 box have huge differences.
I don't recall the kid ever passing himself off as anything but an 'expert', which is a completely reltaive term. There is no 'Law Expert' registry, but there is a Bar Association.
The kid fudged his name (common on the internet) as well as age. Then he posted his real age after he had gained status, and posted his real phone number!
IMO anyone asking for legal advice for free isn't going to get a real expert opinion, unless it's a teaser/advertisement from a law firm. I assume that all the advice I get from the internet comes from a 15yo kid, and I take it accordingly (ie do further research).
Anonymous advice is a good way to -start- a research project, but anyone who considers it their 'final answer' needs a lesson. Hopefully they'll get one by reading this article rather then getting burned badly.
And of course we wind up naming the one kid the abuser, since it's easier than making the 1000's of people who sought advice from total strangers (with no verifiable credentials) accountable.
Caveat scavenger!
And to all of the lawyers: Yes, my personal freedom =is= priceless, but charging $200/hour to maintain it is not getting-what-you-pay-for. That turns me into a slave to the bills you send</$0.02>
I'd be happy to take on the task. I've got a team of developers that would love to make this happen. We're very interested in giving back to the community. If you'd like to join us, send an email to bill@gatesfoundation.com and we'll be happy to answer all of your questions.
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That sucks. While Louisiana is chock full of corrupt politicians, they occasionally make it work for their residents. Our no call list requires that business who make unsolicited calls to Louisiana residents subscribe to it (to the tune of $800). Hefty fines for those that call a number that's on the list.
I get really pissed off when I get a call on my prepaid, expensive per minute cell phone, especially while I'm driving/riding my bike/sleeping/whatever. I'll have to figure out a way to simulate a car crash sound, so I can scream in agony, and then hang up.
I'm really curious how the legality of this works...the state controls access to it's phone lines under their conditions? Will they actually have the power to impose these fines on businesses that don't pay what amounts to their telemarketing tax? Our state constitution is based on Napoleonic Code...
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Yeah, but they didn't *test* it. They didn't test the Highpoint, didn't test the IEEE 1394, used PC2100 memory...kinda lame test setup, huh? Do some DV captures onto yer 250GB RAID 5 setup and I'll consider it a good review!
Hey, I still have yet to use the Highpoint on my KT7A...
It looks like a solid board, and even for ~$200, it's worth it to not have to buy/config sound, ethernet, firewire so you can get right to overclocking. And with the absence of a jillion PCI cards means more room for custom cooling rigs and better airflow!
I've got an old Thinkpad 760XL (P166MMX 64MB! 2GB 20x CD). It's heavy like a bowling ball.
;). Win seemed faster on it, X grinds the hell out of audio output while doing simple stuff liek scrolling windows. I get better apm support in Linux (I can hibernate and sleep), better network performance, and 60+ day uptimes!
I ditched GNOME for xfce and never looked back
I also have a second 2GB with Win95 on it, somewhere
The battery is fried on it, so it's really just being used as a spare machine and always-on, low power development server (apache/mysql/php/etc) so I can do work from my gaming machine and see how pages look in IE. It'll probably run my mail server and local proxy eventually, and I don't have to pay for a 300W power supply on the monthly bill.
To each his own, my parents used to tell me.
(Actually, I'll gladly take a Powerbook over a PC laptop. The reason I quit buying Apples back in, what, '97, was the operating system slowly turning into shite and the proprietary hardware. Now that the PC world is becoming increasingly proprietary with it's hardware, like the HP modem/soundcard, or winfrisbees^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmodems...I just might be going back to the Apple fambly. I'm sure I'm not alone here)
Unfortunately, with the current "oil first - the world later" attitude of the Bush government, this will not have the impact it should have.
Doesn't matter. They've been making fuel cells for cars and busses (which have a much larger power requirement) since the 70's-80's.
Plus there's the rest of the developed world to sell to. I'm sure the EU is a fine market for this.
Pure hydrogen? Medical equipment?
You certainly wouldn't want to use them near any oxygen tanks. Why, if the two were to combine they would form the (very deadly) dihydrogen monoxide!
Great idea. This could power a house, and as the distribution system for hydro gets more developed, the price will drop, as will the cost of use.
One of the reasons the damned things are so expensive (but cheaper per kw that solar iirc) is the catalyst used is usually platinum, which is horribly expensive and rare. People aren't certain if they can get the amount of platinum to do mass production of larger units. Luckily, other alloys can do the job, but with some lost efficiency.
Fuel cells are highly efficient, and farily cost efficient (not like, say, *coal* is). It' s main problems is the hydrogen. But this is more of a factor that limits their use in vehicles then for home use.
poink!
Plus, the broader the patent, the more possibilities for it's application.
Consider the person who discovers boiling water in a pot on a stove. It wouldn't behoove this person to describe the holding device as a "metal pot" when a glass beaker could also be covered. Or on a gas flame when it can also be done on an electric burner.
Web people need more B&D, imho.
What does the maintaining a website have to do with bondage and discipline?!?
Oh, wait...
I read that article when it came out in Wired, and thought it was crap. That's been well-beaten here, so I won't get into it. But basially people are willing to accept a system that does everything, no matter how poorly, than something that does a few things very well, and somethings it can't do (yet)
I run an ecommerce website, admin a dozen-ish desktop computers with vastly different needs (sales, accounting, shipping/warehouse, development). We use Linux for the server (always have) and that's how I cut my teeth using Linux. I had always been eye-ing it for the desktop, and about a year ago I tried it out, first on my ancient 586 laptop, then on my new tower at home, and now I keep it on my desktop at work. I've had a ton of problems with w2k, and I had to ditch it at home and go to 98 (had to ditch 95 too), but that' mostly a game system and TV/VCR.
I've been studying the feasibility of switching the others at work to a Linux system.
Less than half of the office staff has a computer at home. Those that do have gotten them in the past year. Many of them have terrible usage habits, mainly from lack of training. They save images as W*rd documents, browse the web in Outlook, and generally do things that I would never have thought possible until they actually do them. No matter what system these people are using, if they aren't taught how to use them, they will make silly mistakes.
People also have this idea of computers that they will do all the work for them. They don't understand that, yes, even in the year 2001, computers have limited resources, people don't like spending 20 minutes downloading TIFF files, and the like. It has become so EASY to screw things up using a computer, that I'm about to scrap the mess and go back to Xerox, film, fax, and snail mail, since that's what these people understand. But even with all of the shortfalls, using computers saves lots of time and makes things possible that wouldn't be without them.
Sadly, the possibilities for using Linux in our office are limited. Sales needs a good contact management system, something they can browse through while on the phone with people. instead, they use Outlook which, although it's a virus risk, it's easy enough for them to use, they all know it, and until someone points me to a similar system in Linux, I can't switch them. Everything else they do (email, basically) I've got covered.
Accounting is hopelessly entrenched in Microsoft. We just got an expensive accounting package that's MS-only. I spent a lot of time looking for an industrial-strength accounting package that was open-source, or even just available for Linux...no dice. Same thing with our shipping department...carriers aren't getting anything out of developing software for more than one vendor's OS,
The only way around this is go develop/extend web-like apps for CRM, which is in the long-range plan. phpGroupware is a nice package, but a little rough around the edges, but I'll help fix that when I get a little more time
And as far as my department...I and my assistant both have Win2K and RH7 on our drives...and we have problems with both, surprisingly similar ones. One scanner we have only works in Linux, and vice versa with the other one. Printing/communication is fine in both (it was strange installing HP drivers on my Linux box).
As far as the Gimp goes, it doesn't do what I want. I need to do heavy batch operations and corrections on whole rolls of film at a time, and according to everything I've seen, it's a limitation of Scheme/script-fu that won't allow this to happen. I'll look into using Python, again, when I get the time. But for now, we use Photoshop, which I have 50 scripts for already, and it takes no time for me to make more.
So even while I stay in Linux 99% of the time, I still can get rid of that damned Microsoft OS. And although we;ve got an office full of people who are prime to learn any OS, I can't give them anything but MS. I'd also have to spent a lot more of my time training users, and less time doing what I enjoy
As far as the future goes, Linux has got a lot more potential than people realize. It's always fresh (we just bought an OS from MS that was released in 1999!) and you can't get current without paying. And I find getting things done in Linux is much faster...UI wise. Find/replace in Windows is a sick joke.
Oh, and this document was spell checked using ispell! Works fine for me, but when I tried to select the text to re-copy it into the browser, I got hung for 4 minutes in a stupid text-scrolling loop where it insisted on processing every scroll-up-line command, one-by-one, redrawing the screen -each time-, way back into the scroll buffer. Not a good thing to do to a Pentium with XMMS and Mozilla loaded and running...Gnome bug?
Agreed. I've only seen 2 mainstream solutions to the text input problem:
-- Shrink the standard QWERTY keyboard, and wait 10,000 years for us to develop super skilly thumbs
-- Cell-phone style keypads. This is great if you like hitting the same key 1-3 times per character.
Why not make a, say, 32-ish key pad. 13 (x2) for characters, 10 for nums, plus enter, meta keys, etc. Set it up 6x5 plus 2 on the side/bottom.
OK then, now that this is archived, I'm off to fill out my patent applications.
Because we are buying them for where we w*rk adn we aren't about to have the PHB see an invoice for a mb/cpu/mem upgrde under $200.
Heh. I like AMD's, I've been getting them for the desktops (my boss had been buying Celerons! Ack!). I'm completely happy with them. They take abuse well too (which is a requirement for our location, dust, heat, humidity). But for the server? I'm looking for Tueys. Twin Tualatins, please.
And what's next for this happy company? StongARMs...
Since I don't use the Microsoft suite all that often, if at all these days, I really don't know what features are included there that are missing from StarOffice. However, I have found one feature in StarOffice that I have never seen in any Microsoft Office version (it may be there now, but I haven't seen it yet; remember, I don't use MS-Office).
Ugh. I was hoping to find out if it had any sort of CRM (contact relatoinship mgmt) so I can quit diagnosing lookOut! problems and go back to completeing tasks...
I'll carve out some time this weekend (I do want a good spreadsheet/data format). Any reports of integrated email/contact databases? I'm about at my wits end with MicroSoft TCO.
This is a fine box, 7 port + uplink, web-based admin (http://192.168.0.1), firewalled out of the box, and you can open common ports through a drop down menu. It Just Worked until the phone company figured out that the MAC address of the machine they set us up with had changed. Tech support was great and cloning a MAC address is simple.
I don't get the "use an old box" idea. How many ISA NIC's do you have lying around? You're going to want at least a 5 port if you're that much of a geek to set up a Pentium to do this, which negates the Pentium. And do you love the electric company that much to buy another 100W from them?
It's an interesting project, but save that Pentium for a diskless workstation or something.
These people still have them, and they have quick service. I buy from them 3-4 times a year and I've never had a problem with them.
I'm looking for a wireless version of the same thing to use at home, so I can keep my neighbors off of AOL. Any suggestions?
Yeah, I get the Seagate literature too. 100000 hour MTBF? How do they know this? They manufactured these things back when I was a kid?
A lot of it is simply supply/demand. Demand for SCSI drives is low, since every PC comes with IDE plugs, and SCSI costs extra. SCSI is probably 5% of the consumer market, more on the server end, and people who buy servers have bigger budgets.
Complaining about termination? Wah. Thats like saying "don't use linux, you have to split your drive into multile partitions". RDRAM also needs to be terminated, but it's bitchin fast, too.
Hell, I once paid over $400 for a 40MB drive. But I'm with you, I'm gonna set up a twin 40GB IDE RAID. Less than $200 with cables and shipping. I've spent more than that on boots.
On it, yes.
In it, no.
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I love my Thinkpad. P-150, MMX, 64MB/2.1 GB, 56K and 100-BT. 800x600x16 screen, which made it IMPOSSIBLE to read the article without sidescrolling. -You- may have a 19" monitor, but I don't (not on my porch, anyway):
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I like it for doing design and programming, because I don't need a hella-fast machine for that, and it keeps me honest
I'm using xfce with RH6.2, and it's completely fantastic. I get 160K/s steady on a DSL link, and for the most part it's as fast as my K62/475 Win98 box at work...but anything to do with graphics is crap. Scrolling, drawing windows is slooow. Xmms-P150 uses less cpu than Winamp-K62/475, but when I scroll a window, even one line, it sounds like a frog sat on the record needle.
I kinda want either a G4 titanium, or a Sony picturebook (the Transmeta sub-notebook), btu the first one is real pricey and the second has a slow hard drive...anyone usign these?
The concept is simple. The attacker scans networks looking for a "live" connection. We give them that :-) and we use TCP/IP's stubbornness against
them. When the scanner attempts to make a connection to a port with a SYN
packet, we send them back a SYN/ACK and then simply ignore them. Because
they've "completed" a three-way handshake, their TCP/IP stack assumes that they
have a good connection and tenaciously attempts to hang onto it, retrying the
connection until they finally time out.
I'm sure it'll be modified to work as an all-purpose portscan-blocker in no time flat.
OK, now after stripping the log file line down to the IP, save it to a file and run this to sort them by number of attacks.
Hack away at it...my log file is getting -big- (75MB), we've got 4 IP's here but only 650 attempts so far, and 200 from one machine alone.
<html><body><pre>
<?
$fil = fopen("CR2log","r");
while (!feof($fil)) {
$IP = fgets($fil,64);
$IPcnt[$IP]++;
}
arsort($IPcnt);
print("<html><body><table>");
while (list($key,$val) = each($IPcnt)) {
print("($val)\t$key\n");
}
?>
</body></html>
This was posted in a previous Code Red article, but I think I'll include it anyway. If you're running Apache on .*N?X, use this to check for attempts (note: only goes back as far as your error_log has been rotated)
grep default.ida /path/to/apache/logs/access_log |
sed "s/ .*$//g" | wc -l
(get rid of the wc part to list the IP's)
And yes, buffer overflows are generically possible, but can you get libsafe for MS products?
The idea is that if your car gets stolen, but you leave the keys for anyone to get, you are at fault. The police are now spending taxpayer money, and the insurance company would (but doesn't) have to pay for your enabling the criminal to take your car.
And if someone notices that you have left your keys in your car, do you arrest them for looking inside of your car? If they publish a paper on how stupid it is to leave your keys in your car, do you arrest them?
Maybe so. But there are a lot of people out there that aren't using computers on a daily basis, aren't use to the Win world, and could easily be raised on Linux, and be happy about it.
Look at KDE. They're trying to keep the same type of functionality that Windows offers, nad enhance it. The kitchen sink is thrown in with this WM, and that's a good reason to switch. It's all about the apps, baby. Why do you think Flash support is such a huge deal? Of course, there are ways to get 4ppz on any OS, but they all seem to want the local computer guy's help with it, don't they?
And there is an economical reason not to use it...although that's been locked up with the OEM Windows install Catch-22, which can be broken if more Linux users were available to help. For the price of the OS one can get better equipment (which, admittedly, Linux likes/needs sometimes)
My neighbor is getting her first computer. She knows about how a mouse works, but that's it. No brand loyalty. I'm planning on installing Mandrake on her box, sharing internet access with her, and yes, I'll need to be available to answer any questions. I don't forsee a lot of hardware upgrades neccesary, and I'm not giving up the root password on her system, to minimize the possibility of damage. This may wind up a huge nightmare and time drain for me, or it might not.
But I was not raised on MS...I used Commodores for years, then Macs (about 8 years), then MS (roomate's box, and at w*rk) adn now I'm using Linux. The difference in how you do things in different OSen isn't far from the diff in another version of the OS...use a KDE/Mandrake box (until I want to scan anything with my ancient UMAX scanner) and a GNOME/RH laptop, then go to work and use a Win98 desktop and admin a Win2K machine and 2 RH servers. Even my 98 box and another office dweller's 98 box have huge differences.
I don't recall the kid ever passing himself off as anything but an 'expert', which is a completely reltaive term. There is no 'Law Expert' registry, but there is a Bar Association.
The kid fudged his name (common on the internet) as well as age. Then he posted his real age after he had gained status, and posted his real phone number!
IMO anyone asking for legal advice for free isn't going to get a real expert opinion, unless it's a teaser/advertisement from a law firm. I assume that all the advice I get from the internet comes from a 15yo kid, and I take it accordingly (ie do further research).
Anonymous advice is a good way to -start- a research project, but anyone who considers it their 'final answer' needs a lesson. Hopefully they'll get one by reading this article rather then getting burned badly.
And of course we wind up naming the one kid the abuser, since it's easier than making the 1000's of people who sought advice from total strangers (with no verifiable credentials) accountable.
Caveat scavenger!
And to all of the lawyers: Yes, my personal freedom =is= priceless, but charging $200/hour to maintain it is not getting-what-you-pay-for. That turns me into a slave to the bills you send</$0.02>
I'd be happy to take on the task. I've got a team of developers that would love to make this happen. We're very interested in giving back to the community. If you'd like to join us, send an email to bill@gatesfoundation.com and we'll be happy to answer all of your questions.