<Disclaimer> I am the maintainer of this project and the comments here are of my own and no one else's </Disclaimer>
I run a small project called the Technology Explorer (http://db2mc.sf.net).
The Technology Explorer (TE) is a light weight web based framework for prototyping interactive database applications. Being a flexible and customization interface (think phpMyAdmin meets Drupal or Lego for database administrators), the TE allows for rapid development of UI driven processes and visualizations of database information in hours, whereas tradition processes might take weeks or month. The TE is primarily used as a teaching tool for IBM DB2 users as well as demonstrating and prototyping new interfaces. It is also used as a management consoled across a multitude of databases and database vendors (DB2, Derby, SolidDB, MYSQL and ORACLE (Were just starting to add PostgreSQL support)).
Were always looking for help to expand our library of content for different database vendors. It take a lot of understand of a given DBMS to be able to produce useful material. I would be thrilled if someone would be interested in writing tutorial for other vendors as we are currently mainly focused around IBM DB2.
Well there you have it, my plug. Were a small project, easily accessible, low barrier to entry and contributions and still lots room for growth. If your interested come on over and take a look.
-- Kari: There are a lot of things we really don't want you to try at home! Tory: Yes, try it at your neighbor's house.
If they have a good regression system setup, it will mean you will write a test case once and it will automatically run for you, and you are good, you will automate all of this is it is not already done. You will only go back to look at these if something breaks.
You will also likely get the specifications for a new component and a script and be expect to try all possibilities, the better once know how to program and thus do thing that they know we likely miss. Bad testers are a dime a dozen, good tester are golden.
Generally think about it like being the first customer and having to learn a new components all the time. A person who's job it is to figure out all the ways to use something within the rules given (not that much different then hacking, actually if you think about it hackers are just really good testers, they win when they find a bug).
Testers are also involved often in customer deployments and trials here where I work because they have the most experience using new software. Developers know how to write thing, testers know how to use it (Big difference).
In the end, you will make what you will of it. Go talk with them, all you have to lose is a bit of time.
Best of luck,
--- I'm a programmer not a English major, if you have a problem with my writing, write a better grammar and spell checker, then we can talk.
What you have is great but you should check out: http://ucosp.ca/ and participate if you can.
I am mentor with the program and work with a small group of students on a project. The student get to work for an entire semester on an open source project producing or contributing things of real value. On top of that they learn how to work in a distributed environment, which is essential these days. Really it is just amazing for the students.
This my not be a system rootkit but it has just as much potential to do just as much damage. As a vehicle to run any number of thing or provide an entry point to a system for something far more nefarious...
And I do use Ubuntu, but most of the world uses Windows, whether it be by societal force or inheritance.
Vandilzer... Kari: There are a lot of things we really don't want you to try at home! Tory: Yes, try it at your neighbor's house.
1. Digital SLR camera, pick your flavor, I like the Canon EOS 5D Mark II 2. Tripod to Stabilize the camera and allow for constant distances & angle (right angle) when shooting... Your going to want something with a center column so you can adjust the hight without adjusting the legs. 3. Some kind of ambient lighting to prevent shadows and so you can shoot at a low ISO (less noise) and a high f-stop 4. Stitching software like this: http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~brown/autostitch/autostitch.html (If you are are using the tripod and keeping a constant distance any photo program should do.
Put map on a surface, take many photos, stitch, takes some time for the first one but it will be quick once you get going.
Old maps and geo coordinates...maybe a Google maps or earth API like this: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/overlays.html
"However, considering the fact that just 202 of these 80-core processors could replicate the floating point performance of today's highest performing supercomputer, those power consumption numbers appear even more convincing: The Department of Energy's BlueGene/L system, rated at a peak performance of 367 TFlops, houses 65,536 dual core processors."
So much for not asking Slashdot for legal advice:P
Well fine there is a lot of thoughts here if you find something use full good. For the rest of you please pick this a part if I am wrong (because I would like to know to).
He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Ask him what experience he has with software in general, electrical and computer engineering deal with the hardware not software in general. Ask him at those security conferences what he spoke about? In all likely hood it has to do with network security that is all this guy dose. He has no credential to analyze the disk image of your client. What he can and did tell you is that yes the computer was linked to the internet and yes it was possibly using the p2p client program. It dose not indicate that any copyright material was transferred to or from the computer. Actually the Wikipedia article gives a pretty clear idea of MediaSentry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaSentry) and the unreliability of the evidence they give.
Odd thought to MediaSentry is hired by the RIAA what integrity do they have? A good analogy would be: A Shop owner realizes that he has been robed. He hires someone to point the finger and find who did it. They look at what is there and see 10 people in the store but can not figure out who did what so they say they all involved and provided evidence to such e.g. they were all in the store and here is a photo to prove it. The shop owner goes on to sue all of them.
Now it gets better. In section/point 6 of the 'expert' report he states that this is "not the same hard drive that was used to share copyrighted sound recordings". By that no amount of analysis will show stolen files. (I found a gun in your home, it was not the one used in the murder but further investigation might show something!) Now he might be referring to the fact that the defended formatted his computer. (Think using an eraser to clean a page, this information is gone but if you look really hard you might still be able to read it) In ether case if this is true then the information he used to like the ip address of the computer would be a lie since the logs and anything else on the computer at the time of the crime would have been erased.
Next: Cleaning up the blood. As anyone hear can tell you if you have ever tried to remove Kazaa or any other file sharing program it is near impossible to do. If Kazaa was on the computer there should be some evidence unless A) it was formatted or B) you paid a vary skilled computer technician to clean it up or C) it is a different hard drive.
Last but not lest there is the who done it clause. They can show that it was his computer but can not show that it was him. On that same note if there are no loges from the system unless they have the Mac address (This is a unique id assigned to every peace of network hardware. Though in reality it is not and can be copied) from the computer they can not even say that it was that computer that was hocked up.
Being ADHD is kind of fun! Ritalin is good but only for some thing (caffeine make a good lit substitute)
As long as you are doing something you enjoy Ritalin will only slow you down! Well actually it speeds you up Which makes you slow down by making the rest of you mind go faster well you know what I mean.
I do not know about you but I never place rest my palm on the mouse. To do so I find is inconvenient, annoying and impedes my work. Hell even on by ball mouse only 4 finger usually touch it.
You think the **AA would ever allow this the ability to make a perfect digital copy of what ever is displayed on you screen. Now your monitor will have to be disabled every time a copyrighted work is displayed on your screen.
"...right to install digital rights management software, and the right to disable any other programs which may circumvent DRM on your computer..."
While Most OS's do have the capability to circumvent DRM.
MS can't read, we will say most none MS native file system the only sure way if for MS to ensure that you are not using any program that can circumvent the DRM is to "DISABLE" those File system / partitions.
So in then end of all of this MS has found a new Legal way in which you give them permission to kill your own alternative OS.
KaZaA already take up 99.8% of my CPU usage I don't suppose that I would notes any difference. It is already unbearable to play solitaire when KaZaA is running. GO AHEAD YOU TRY TO GET THAT 0.2% MORE OUT OF MY SYSTEM.
and if you are wondering 1.2 Athlon - 512 ram so i don't think it is my system.
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there." - George Santayanna
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<Disclaimer> I am the maintainer of this project and the comments here are of my own and no one else's </Disclaimer>
I run a small project called the Technology Explorer (http://db2mc.sf.net).
The Technology Explorer (TE) is a light weight web based framework for prototyping interactive database applications. Being a flexible and customization interface (think phpMyAdmin meets Drupal or Lego for database administrators), the TE allows for rapid development of UI driven processes and visualizations of database information in hours, whereas tradition processes might take weeks or month. The TE is primarily used as a teaching tool for IBM DB2 users as well as demonstrating and prototyping new interfaces. It is also used as a management consoled across a multitude of databases and database vendors (DB2, Derby, SolidDB, MYSQL and ORACLE (Were just starting to add PostgreSQL support)).
Were always looking for help to expand our library of content for different database vendors. It take a lot of understand of a given DBMS to be able to produce useful material. I would be thrilled if someone would be interested in writing tutorial for other vendors as we are currently mainly focused around IBM DB2.
Well there you have it, my plug. Were a small project, easily accessible, low barrier to entry and contributions and still lots room for growth. If your interested come on over and take a look.
--
Kari: There are a lot of things we really don't want you to try at home!
Tory: Yes, try it at your neighbor's house.
If your felling lazy here it is:
http://slashdot.org/story/02/02/14/143254/kathleen-fent-read-this-story
If they have a good regression system setup, it will mean you will write a test case once and it will automatically run for you, and you are good, you will automate all of this is it is not already done. You will only go back to look at these if something breaks.
You will also likely get the specifications for a new component and a script and be expect to try all possibilities, the better once know how to program and thus do thing that they know we likely miss. Bad testers are a dime a dozen, good tester are golden.
Generally think about it like being the first customer and having to learn a new components all the time. A person who's job it is to figure out all the ways to use something within the rules given (not that much different then hacking, actually if you think about it hackers are just really good testers, they win when they find a bug).
Testers are also involved often in customer deployments and trials here where I work because they have the most experience using new software. Developers know how to write thing, testers know how to use it (Big difference).
In the end, you will make what you will of it. Go talk with them, all you have to lose is a bit of time.
Best of luck,
---
I'm a programmer not a English major, if you have a problem with my writing, write a better grammar and spell checker, then we can talk.
One really smooth and acuter game of pong! or asteroids if that suits you fancy... though it will require a bit more computing power :)
It already is, 3erd semester, running and growing...
What you have is great but you should check out: http://ucosp.ca/ and participate if you can.
I am mentor with the program and work with a small group of students on a project. The student get to work for an entire semester on an open source project producing or contributing things of real value. On top of that they learn how to work in a distributed environment, which is essential these days. Really it is just amazing for the students.
tar -xf gulf.tar &
Right because nobody had every jailbroke an iPhone with a PDF exploit
Let me put on my tin foil hat here for a second...
1) Unknown extension
2) Online transactions (internet banking, e-bay, amazon, etc...)
This my not be a system rootkit but it has just as much potential to do just as much damage. As a vehicle to run any number of thing or provide an entry point to a system for something far more nefarious...
And I do use Ubuntu, but most of the world uses Windows, whether it be by societal force or inheritance.
Vandilzer...
Kari: There are a lot of things we really don't want you to try at home!
Tory: Yes, try it at your neighbor's house.
Well,
Apple - $0.99 - $1.25
RIAA - $750 - $150,000
You can pick who you want to bend over for, at least Apple makes the effort to look sleek, sexy, and it easy to get.
1. Digital SLR camera, pick your flavor, I like the Canon EOS 5D Mark II
2. Tripod to Stabilize the camera and allow for constant distances & angle (right angle) when shooting... Your going to want something with a center column so you can adjust the hight without adjusting the legs.
3. Some kind of ambient lighting to prevent shadows and so you can shoot at a low ISO (less noise) and a high f-stop
4. Stitching software like this: http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~brown/autostitch/autostitch.html (If you are are using the tripod and keeping a constant distance any photo program should do.
Put map on a surface, take many photos, stitch, takes some time for the first one but it will be quick once you get going.
Old maps and geo coordinates...maybe a Google maps or earth API like this: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/overlays.html
Let me ask you this...
If you have a /8 would you give it back with out a fight?
No, I thought not, and these companies pay lawyers to sit around, and in some cases pay the judges or just others to write the laws....
They did RTFA:
"However, considering the fact that just 202 of these 80-core processors could replicate the floating point performance of today's highest performing supercomputer, those power consumption numbers appear even more convincing: The Department of Energy's BlueGene/L system, rated at a peak performance of 367 TFlops, houses 65,536 dual core processors."
So much for not asking Slashdot for legal advice :P
Well fine there is a lot of thoughts here if you find something use full good. For the rest of you please pick this a part if I am wrong (because I would like to know to).
He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Ask him what experience he has with software in general, electrical and computer engineering deal with the hardware not software in general. Ask him at those security conferences what he spoke about? In all likely hood it has to do with network security that is all this guy dose. He has no credential to analyze the disk image of your client. What he can and did tell you is that yes the computer was linked to the internet and yes it was possibly using the p2p client program. It dose not indicate that any copyright material was transferred to or from the computer. Actually the Wikipedia article gives a pretty clear idea of MediaSentry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaSentry) and the unreliability of the evidence they give.
Odd thought to MediaSentry is hired by the RIAA what integrity do they have? A good analogy would be: A Shop owner realizes that he has been robed. He hires someone to point the finger and find who did it. They look at what is there and see 10 people in the store but can not figure out who did what so they say they all involved and provided evidence to such e.g. they were all in the store and here is a photo to prove it. The shop owner goes on to sue all of them.
Now it gets better. In section/point 6 of the 'expert' report he states that this is "not the same hard drive that was used to share copyrighted sound recordings". By that no amount of analysis will show stolen files. (I found a gun in your home, it was not the one used in the murder but further investigation might show something!) Now he might be referring to the fact that the defended formatted his computer. (Think using an eraser to clean a page, this information is gone but if you look really hard you might still be able to read it) In ether case if this is true then the information he used to like the ip address of the computer would be a lie since the logs and anything else on the computer at the time of the crime would have been erased.
Next: Cleaning up the blood. As anyone hear can tell you if you have ever tried to remove Kazaa or any other file sharing program it is near impossible to do. If Kazaa was on the computer there should be some evidence unless A) it was formatted or B) you paid a vary skilled computer technician to clean it up or C) it is a different hard drive.
Last but not lest there is the who done it clause. They can show that it was his computer but can not show that it was him. On that same note if there are no loges from the system unless they have the Mac address (This is a unique id assigned to every peace of network hardware. Though in reality it is not and can be copied) from the computer they can not even say that it was that computer that was hocked up.
Being ADHD is kind of fun! Ritalin is good but only for some thing (caffeine make a good lit substitute)
...
As long as you are doing something you enjoy Ritalin will only slow you down! Well actually it speeds you up Which makes you slow down by making the rest of you mind go faster well you know what I mean.
Now whereâ(TM)d I put that
I do not know about you but I never place rest my palm on the mouse. To do so I find is inconvenient, annoying and impedes my work. Hell even on by ball mouse only 4 finger usually touch it.
You think the **AA would ever allow this the ability to make a perfect digital copy of what ever is displayed on you screen. Now your monitor will have to be disabled every time a copyrighted work is displayed on your screen.
So Lets see now this security patch gives MS
...right to install digital rights management software, and the right to disable any other programs which may circumvent DRM on your computer..."
"
While Most OS's do have the capability to circumvent DRM.
MS can't read, we will say most none MS native file system the only sure way if for MS to ensure that you are not using any program that can circumvent the DRM is to "DISABLE" those File system / partitions.
So in then end of all of this MS has found a new Legal way in which you give them permission to kill your own alternative OS.
KaZaA already take up 99.8% of my CPU usage I don't suppose that I would notes any difference.
It is already unbearable to play solitaire when KaZaA is running. GO AHEAD YOU TRY TO GET THAT 0.2% MORE OUT OF MY SYSTEM.
and if you are wondering 1.2 Athlon - 512 ram so i don't think it is my system.
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there." - George Santayanna