Make the sticks bootable, install your own OS on it so you can control the flow of data yourself. Encrypt it if you like to for extra (theft of device) security.
Did anybody of you read Russian Spring? I refer to the picture of the USA in this book. Riot control guns that let people poo all over each other, ass-tight borderlines... I will not count every parallel.
Everytime such an article as this is posted I am thrown right back into this book.
Please respond only if you read this book. Flames will be answerd with a tired ass wrinkling.
Looks to me like a borked drivermodel, unstable hardware-abstraction and a general nonpredictability of the os' behaviour. It (difference of on-line and off-line installs) also looks like a total design failure of the software management facility of the os.
My question is: Why does Microsoft expect its users to do the job of the os?! And by that I include Microsoft in it's userbase. They should have designed a system which requires them to do the test only once. Can't imagine how much time they must burn up every day!
In fact his Webserver still runs perfectly. Why do I know? Because I am reading his article. Slashdottings occur when webservers use more RAM than the system has. Kernel swaps, webserver allocates some more memory, tilt. So the obvious solution is to configure your webserver not to.:) I guess this is what he did. All incoming connects get queued by the kernel and handed over to the webserver if a slot gets available. It gets terribly slow (I can tell!), but if the user has a high timeout-value (of a minute or 2) then no error will occur at his end either.
If you can reinstall, use the latest distro of your choice (I use FC3 as its quite a nice polished distro) and xfce or some other window-manager which consumes less memory. xfce gives you a complete desktop environment inclusive SMB browser... Should be as fast or faster then w98 on that machine. mp3 decoding is practible (if not done exclusivly) in software above 120MHz pentiums, so no problem there. Compiling can be quite boring but so what.
The gforce2 with 3d acceleration is supported by nvidias binary-only driver which can be installed by total newbies as it has an interactive setup program. Get the driver from nvidias website.
"Dear Mr. Schneider, just because you don't see the 500 people working in front of your house trying hard to secure the barrage doesn't mean that you have no problem with the high water levels."
And yes, I ran a mailserver too. Changed the job. No fun there.
His book "Secrets and Lies" though I found quite interesting and inspring. It helped me to see securitiy problems I didn't see before.
Set it up with cron, get a mail every day and keep them for a few days. Saves you a lot of headache.
For all other stuff use egrep (or grep), awk and sed. I did my own scripts to search for specific abuses. vim in command line mode may also come in handy.
[...], but I haven't done any digging to find out if it's possible to directly create a ('standard') filesystem as an image file. (Hints welcome...)
Huh? Just run mkfs.whatever on your file. Should work without problems. Your filesystem is as large as it would be on an equally large blockdevice.
Example:
$ mkfs.ext3 file mke2fs 1.36 (05-Feb-2005) file is not a block special device. Proceed anyway? (y,n) y Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 1784 inodes, 7116 blocks 355 blocks (4.99%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 Maximum filesystem blocks=7340032 1 block group 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 1784 inodes per group
I just removed all references to IE (shortcuts, menu entries) so they can not get the dumb idea to use it. I renamed Firefox to "Firefox Webbrowser" and thats it. No problem persuading them, I just say "Thats good for you." and they believe me - most of the time.
1. I don't really care if Joe Sixpack uses Windows or Linux.
I DO care however if he uses his Windows to send (unknowingly) massive amounts of Spam and malicious packets to my server.
2. I don't really care if Joe Sixpack uses Internet Explorer or Firefox.
I DO care however if websites must resort to 5 year old techniques to display properly in IE. This slows the development of the web itself. Things like Google-Maps or Gmail could have been possible years ago! Imagine where we would be now!
3. I don't really care if Joe Sixpack uses Office or OpenOffice.
I DO care however if I can't read documents sent to me, or if I have to clean the latest Macrovirus from my parents computer. And don't tell me to buy a virusscanner. This is only control of symptoms! I prefer prophylaxis.:-)
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As far as I am informed, this theory is not yet proven. It is thus still only a theory.
1. Have Firefox 2. Install FastDic (see link below) 3. Set up your favourite online dictionaries 4. Now you can Ctrl-click, Alt-click or even Shift-click on the word in question and query different dictionaries which open in a different tab.
In other news, my car is "Not a car" because it has a non-functioning headlight and therefore would not pass the standards set down for a "car" by the government of the area in which I live.
Please spare me with this stupid analogy. Of course is a car a car if its light is broken. There is no standard (as HTTP) which defines what a car is regarding the status of its lights (even if its illegal to drive without a working light in certain countries).
There is however a standard which defines what a webbrowser must do to fulfill it's duty as a webbrowser. IE does not even try to do it. And even if this document I pointed to is factually shaky, the HTTP implementation is absolutely unpredictable! I checked it out myself. For me IE is no webbrowser, but a bad joke with a massive userbase.
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We must use the same framework, as mine does exactly the same.
Pretty easy (in principle).
Make the sticks bootable, install your own OS on it so you can control the flow of data yourself. Encrypt it if you like to for extra (theft of device) security.
Did anybody of you read Russian Spring? I refer to the picture of the USA in this book. Riot control guns that let people poo all over each other, ass-tight borderlines... I will not count every parallel.
Everytime such an article as this is posted I am thrown right back into this book.
Please respond only if you read this book. Flames will be answerd with a tired ass wrinkling.
Not really funny, but rather disturbing.
Looks to me like a borked drivermodel, unstable hardware-abstraction and a general nonpredictability of the os' behaviour. It (difference of on-line and off-line installs) also looks like a total design failure of the software management facility of the os.
My question is: Why does Microsoft expect its users to do the job of the os?! And by that I include Microsoft in it's userbase. They should have designed a system which requires them to do the test only once. Can't imagine how much time they must burn up every day!
Ah... never mind. Just grumbling.
In fact his Webserver still runs perfectly. Why do I know? Because I am reading his article. Slashdottings occur when webservers use more RAM than the system has. Kernel swaps, webserver allocates some more memory, tilt. So the obvious solution is to configure your webserver not to. :) I guess this is what he did. All incoming connects get queued by the kernel and handed over to the webserver if a slot gets available. It gets terribly slow (I can tell!), but if the user has a high timeout-value (of a minute or 2) then no error will occur at his end either.
:)
Very reliable tech I guess.
If you can reinstall, use the latest distro of your choice (I use FC3 as its quite a nice polished distro) and xfce or some other window-manager which consumes less memory. xfce gives you a complete desktop environment inclusive SMB browser... Should be as fast or faster then w98 on that machine. mp3 decoding is practible (if not done exclusivly) in software above 120MHz pentiums, so no problem there. Compiling can be quite boring but so what.
The gforce2 with 3d acceleration is supported by nvidias binary-only driver which can be installed by total newbies as it has an interactive setup program. Get the driver from nvidias website.
I second that...
Never mind. I found it quite funny. :)
I am fully aware on the performance penalty of an index.
What I meant is: SQLite (and presumably other RDBMS as well) is quite fast. Even with an index.
I agree. In fact SQLite performs quite well on a reasonable sized machine. 3000+ SQL updates on an indexed table should be no problem.
Does this mean I have to wrap my cell-phone in tin foil too?
No. A hat is all you need.
Let me rephrase you statement:
"Dear Mr. Schneider, just because you don't see the 500 people working in front of your house trying hard to secure the barrage doesn't mean that you have no problem with the high water levels."
And yes, I ran a mailserver too. Changed the job. No fun there.
His book "Secrets and Lies" though I found quite interesting and inspring. It helped me to see securitiy problems I didn't see before.
Lost 3 drives in the last 2 month. 3 of them are Maxtor. The other 7 are good. The good thing: I now have no Maxtor left to go bad.
pflogsumm.
Set it up with cron, get a mail every day and keep them for a few days. Saves you a lot of headache.
For all other stuff use egrep (or grep), awk and sed. I did my own scripts to search for specific abuses. vim in command line mode may also come in handy.
No, didn't know. Thanks for the info though. :-)
I reckon the intent putting classical music in the video is to distract customers of the sound of the pumps? Found it nowhere on their page.
I certainly do not want a 120dB monster of an elevator in my home/business/whatever.
[...], but I haven't done any digging to find out if it's possible to directly create a ('standard') filesystem as an image file. (Hints welcome...)
Huh? Just run mkfs.whatever on your file. Should work without problems. Your filesystem is as large as it would be on an equally large blockdevice.
Example:
$ mkfs.ext3 file
mke2fs 1.36 (05-Feb-2005)
file is not a block special device.
Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
1784 inodes, 7116 blocks
355 blocks (4.99%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
Maximum filesystem blocks=7340032
1 block group
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
1784 inodes per group
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (1024 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
This filesystem will be automatically checked every 38 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
Thank you! :-) Very funny.
Ahh, the joy of being a family admin.
I just removed all references to IE (shortcuts, menu entries) so they can not get the dumb idea to use it. I renamed Firefox to "Firefox Webbrowser" and thats it. No problem persuading them, I just say "Thats good for you." and they believe me - most of the time.
1. I don't really care if Joe Sixpack uses Windows or Linux.
:-)
I DO care however if he uses his Windows to send (unknowingly) massive amounts of Spam and malicious packets to my server.
2. I don't really care if Joe Sixpack uses Internet Explorer or Firefox.
I DO care however if websites must resort to 5 year old techniques to display properly in IE. This slows the development of the web itself. Things like Google-Maps or Gmail could have been possible years ago! Imagine where we would be now!
3. I don't really care if Joe Sixpack uses Office or OpenOffice.
I DO care however if I can't read documents sent to me, or if I have to clean the latest Macrovirus from my parents computer. And don't tell me to buy a virusscanner. This is only control of symptoms! I prefer prophylaxis.
As far as I am informed, this theory is not yet proven. It is thus still only a theory.
1. Have Firefox
i nfo.php?id=278
2. Install FastDic (see link below)
3. Set up your favourite online dictionaries
4. Now you can Ctrl-click, Alt-click or even Shift-click on the word in question and query different dictionaries which open in a different tab.
5. Glee!!!
Link to FastDic: https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/more
Exactly my thought. I don't really remember how often I wanted to download a rpm and RealPlayer kicked in. This is so ridiculous.
In other news, my car is "Not a car" because it has a non-functioning headlight and therefore would not pass the standards set down for a "car" by the government of the area in which I live.
Please spare me with this stupid analogy. Of course is a car a car if its light is broken. There is no standard (as HTTP) which defines what a car is regarding the status of its lights (even if its illegal to drive without a working light in certain countries).
There is however a standard which defines what a webbrowser must do to fulfill it's duty as a webbrowser. IE does not even try to do it. And even if this document I pointed to is factually shaky, the HTTP implementation is absolutely unpredictable! I checked it out myself. For me IE is no webbrowser, but a bad joke with a massive userbase.