No, no, no! Good sysadmins are lazy, they don't need to grep through proxy logs when they can run dsniff on the gateway and capture all the great asian schoolgirl sites and the passwords and logins to those sites!
It would be simpler to launch a rocket to a asteroid that was mineral rich, and then push it back to earth, and have it impact in a deserted area and mine it there.
A skyhook/space elevator is a good idea for science and space travel etc. However, if you had one of these, the best way to make money off of it would not be by importing asteroids, remember, conservation of angular momentum would mean that getting asteroids to earth probably requires more energy than mining minerals on earth and sending them up the elevator...
No, if you wanted to make money or, at least get closer to breaking even, you would need space tourism. Having a hotel in space would generate revenue, and you have a large body of people who would want to stay in the hotel for a week or so. Look how many millionaires try to get to the space station.
The other way you could "profit" from this would, again be bringing asteroids in from a large distance, but not slowing them down, rather using them as weapons in a war. Not nice, and not exactly "profit" but it would be a non-nuclear weapon that could certanly turn the tide in a war. And, if you are the victor in a war, you generally profit. (Generally...)
I have seen variant A and B on my network (I admin about 200 machines, but unfortunately the customers themselves, not I are in charge of patching their systems. I only go in and fix it when the customers realize something is wrong. Sort of a "meta-admin" if you will.)
I have not seen variant C, which I believe uses port 1978. Once the worm hit we blocked all the ports it uses at the router. This mitigated much of the damage, even though the exploit comes in on port 443.
HOWEVER be aware I have seen some attempted backdoor exploits that were not worm based. That is, an apache shell was obtained and someone was in on the system installing extra software and attempting to escalate privliages and crack the root account.
This is far more serious than the worm by itself. Fortunately, all I have seen so far is skript kiddies attempting to install backdoors that don't work because they do not have a rootshell. These backdoors were clearly not part of the regular worm. So other exploits than just the worm itself are out there.
Fortunately this worm is waking my customers up, and the systems are getting patched. (It does not matter how many times I run nessus, and send the customer a report saying "fix this", when I send them a message saying "you have now been hit" they suddenly spring into action, or get me to fix it. Funny how that works.)
Seems there is a rule amongst Astronomers that if you get hit by a meteorite, it belongs to you.
Or you belong to it. At least it might be kind enough to dig you a large grave for you while it owns you.
Insert "all your base" joke here.
Possible, but unlikely. Abilation is key.
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From the article:.Noticing it was "quite hot", she showed it to her father Niel.
The problem with this is that meteors are not hot. See this link and this one. From the first link:
Objects from space that enter Earth's atmosphere are -- like space itself -- very cold and they remain so even as they blaze a hot-looking trail toward the ground. "The outer layers are warmed by atmospheric friction, and little bits flake away as they descend," explains Yeomans. This is called ablation and it's a wonderful way to remove heat. (Some commercial heat shields use ablation to keep spacecraft cool when they re-enter Earth's atmosphere.) "Rocky asteroids are poor conductors of heat," Yeomans continued. "Their central regions remain cool even as the hot outer layers are ablated away."
And from the second:
Are asteroids hot or cold as they descend through Earth's atmosphere? (Level II, They are cold as they enter and remain so even as they blaze a hot-looking trail toward the ground. The outer layers are warmed by friction and little bits flake away as they descend.)
So I suppose it is part of abilated material if it is real, that would explain why it was hot. That would probably still make it a meteor. It might also explain why she still owns her foot.
Quite! I am posting this from Shaw cable as well. I get the same speeds that you do, and I am also running a NAT firewall with extra machines behind it, they are all consuming large amounts of bandwith without problem.
I am also a sysadmin for a hosting company, and one of our backbones is provided by Shaw. Our customers are located worldwide, (but most are from the U.S.) are surprised that we can offer such low hosting rates.
We can do it for 2 reasons:
1) The Canadian dollar is worth about 40% less than the U.S. dollar.
2) Our bandwith allotment is *HUGE* we can scale up to 1-TB if required, and it is still cheap. We pay our provider approx $4.00 CDN per GB, and it is on a really fast pipe.
Take a look at this link. The program Hunt can crash through a Telnet session and steal it. It is also possible to use a simililar attack on systems using SSH 1, which is why you should not use it.
Also, if you have ever heard of anything such as dsnifff you know that Telnet is practically useless in terms of security. Combine dsniff and hunt and you have one crappy method of defense. I don't care how strong your password is if I can:
1) Read it and capture it. (dsniff)
or
2) Simply steal the sesion, and thus have no need to type the password at all. (hunt)
Don't take anything in security for granted. For example I know of an admin who recently decided to implement backups to a remote NFS system, thus he opened up NFS, and thus portmap (port 111) to the world through his firewall. He still has no idea why this is bad, which explains why I will be completely reinstalling his servers in a few days.
You might not know why portmap is bad - but it is - you might also assume Telnet is ok. It is not. I have watched over 25 machines get compromised by Telnet, and I was the one who had to fix them. (I always get called in AFTER the fact - never before which I think is dumb.)
So, operate like OpenBSD - trust no one. Trust no protocol until you have a reason to trust it to some degree. And if you don't know why portmap / port 111 is bad, you may want to look that up at the same time.
What do Americans teach their kids at school, if not that the Earth goes around the Sun once a year?
That the Earth revolves around America.
This is such an apt comment, I fully agree. It's incredibly concise too, but just to beat a dead horse I feel I need to elaborate:
Of two previously powerful Empires in history (make no mistake, the U.S. is more or less an Empire) The Roman Empire and The British empire suffered from what is basically Ethnocentrism. That is, that American culture is in power, thus it's citizens view the world from their position of power and conclude that: "Since we are the most powerful and influential country in the world, why bother caring about the world outside my little realm? I live in the best country in the world, and I don't need to go elsewhere to know that."
Furthermore, this leads to inward looking, and a decline of the very social forces that put an Empire into power in the first place. It happend to the Romans and The British, and probably many more.
So, I find it interesting that this "apathy" on the part of a large percentage of the American population is just a symptom of a larger problem at work: Ethnocentrism. Make no mistake - the United States will continue to be the major power for some time, probably well after everyone who is reading this comment is dead and gone. However, this attitude will eventually lead to the erosion of the foundation that makes the United States as powerful as it is right now.
(No, this is not a troll, just an observation, look this stuff up yourself.)
If you have a titanium ring it may be difficult to cut it off, but there is another method that often works.
Wrap a piece of string around the finger *BELOW* the ring, winding it towards the ring. When you arrive at the ring thread the string through the ring, then "unwind" the string, the coiled string acts like a screw thread and pulls the ring off.
An illustration of this technique can be found here. (The page also reccomends trying a dremel... which most geeks own, but modifying cases is one thing, modifying fingers is another.
That was a default server installation. At the time everyone admitted that the default server install was quite insecure. But it is hardly fair to call it a "typical installation". It was something that almost everyone knew was insecure, whether or not they knew what to do about it.
Unfortunately I wish this was true. A large part of my job involves building (or helping people build) Red Hat boxes as firewalls or samba servers. They can send their server to me, and I will setup their system in a secure and functional manner. Up until RH 7.2 came out (I will not use any RH distro until it ends in a.2) we were using 6.2, and it had, as many have noted bad holes in the inital install.
Most of these things could be fixed by bastille, but I personally prefer to do everything manually, so I know it gets done.
However, many of our customers, and a networking company that we are affiliated with often perform their own installs. These are installed often with 6.2 in a "default" install (because the people installing don't know what to adjust, despite the documentation we have provided for free..).
I won't comment on how many of these things have been owned. (True, I have seen NT servers get owned in the same environment/manner, but I work far more with Linux.)
I can remember one distinctly that I was taking a look at because it was operating improperly. It was only connected to the net for about 10 min so that a bunch of RPM's could be downloaded. In that time it got hit by a scanner and a script, and was owned. I first discovered it by accident, troubleshooting this server for the guy who set it up, and I noticed that "ls -alh" did not work properly. The "-h" flag was not functioning. I could not figur out why... Then I ran an MD5 sum on ls and found it did not match with known good binaries. Most of the binaries on that system were fsked with. We formatted, and I reinstalled and configured the system for him.
Of course, it has happened to me too, I have made some mistakes (and learned a great deal from them too...) You should check out (as another poster mentioned) the honynet project and try building your own honeypot and see how fast it gets owned. Of course, if you are monitoring your logs (logcheck!), or using tools such as portsentry you should see hits on a regular basis to your outside systems on your network. If you are *NOT* looking for these things, I pity you. Hell, I just went through a great deal of trouble with the latest SSH bug, not a fun time when you find the crc messages in your logs. (Sure, as an admin I could have fixed it faster, but I was on vacation, and I did not get the alert.)
So, unfortunately, I must disagree that the "default" installation (from what I have seen) is far far too often the typical installation. Heck, up until recently the "default" installation was used on a regular basis by most of the members of our LUG!
I wish this were not the case, I really do. It is not what I have witnessed however.
I myself am an afficianado of the shaken_ballz bungee style of winged_phoot kung foo. There is nothing like useless KUNG FOOEY techniques and weapons kata to bring MA to a new low. Try full contact TKD or the ultimate fighting style competitions and come down off the pansy wagon.
Nice attempt at a troll. I will give you that, you managed to elicit a response.
However, many of the people at our martial arts school have studied with people such as Danny Inosanto, and Frank Shamrock. (You may have heard of these people.)
And some of our students have already won full contact TKD matches.
Please study the martial arts more deeply grasshopper, you still have much to learn.
No, not going to flame you for that. He does use the same techniques consistently. Then again, that is what a particular style is about. I would say he used more in his earlier movies, but then I stopped watching his later ones.
But then I am not qualified to comment on Aikido as I have 2 friends who study it, but I do not study it myself.
Funny, I thought Snipes studied Capoiera (Brazilian street fighting a la Eddy Gordo in Tekken) I believe you are correct. However the moves he is coreographed using are from various styles in all his movies. I have seen him use Kenpo techniques and Tae Kwon Do as well.
The thing is, in a movie an actor rarely sticks to one individual style (unless you are someone like Segal).
Snipes was not exclusively using the Cheung Wing Chun style (there was much in there that was not from that style, like the WWF moves...) but this is the first place I have seen so much of it. The fight scene after he gets out of the pool of blood has the most Wing Chun (the bear hug defense/takedown) and he uses some Biu Gee eye jabs in a very apparent Wing Chun form in this scene, as well as various basic Wing Chun techniques (applicable to all Wing Chun styles, not just Cheungs) and probably common to many other styles as well.
(And if you want to get picky the way the "Ninjas" used the swords, and Blade used his sword is more of a Chinese Wushu style more applicable to a "Dan Dao" Chinese sword. And not a katana (Japanese) style weapon. Those who practice Kendo or Iado probably cringe at those scenes.)
Still, none of this matters. It looked cool, and there were some real techniques in there that I noticed. Things that really work in the real world. Sure, most of the stuff was the "flowery" stuff. But every now and then there was a "gritty" no-nonsense technique that is simple and effective. The combination of all that really made me enjoy the film overall.
Bottom line, if you are a martial artist, you will probably enjoy the fight scenes. (Just remember that you are supposed to laugh at the really silly stuff.)
You should rent the DVD (Support the MPAA!!;) and check out the special features. You should see what the blood god was originally, and how the movie ended before they came up with the present ending to Blade I.
The blood god really was a god, but the audience did not identify with it, and became disenchanted with the movie at that point, so they changed it. (And the effects are *BAD* for the blood god there, but then, that is because they are just the test shots.)
Don't worry, no spoilers in this review. (Not that there CAN be any spoilers for this movie, but perhaps that is a spoiler in and of itself.)
I saw Blade 2 on Sunday, and normally I cringe at plotless movies. In some ways Blade 2 has more of a plot than the first movie.
Are there plot holes? Oh sure, you can drive a few trucks through most of them.
However, I found myself not caring a whit.
If you want to see a pure unmitigated action fest, Blade 2 is it.
Personally I loved the movie because I have studied Martial Arts for 11 years, and I loved seeing some techniques that I have not seen in movies before. (Mostly the Cheung Style Wing Chun - Specifically the Biu Gee techniques Snipes uses.)
However, the movie is so campy that when the fight scenes start to incorporate WWF moves (no really, I am not joking!) instead of groaning I found myself howling with laughter.
If you go to see it, go to see it for pointless action, and no other reason. (Unless you would like to see Danny John-Jules, The "Cat" from Red Dwarf in a new role.)
It *is* a measly sum - as the email says - how many government agencies have this sort of funding? More than just a couple of US agencies that's for sure.
Exactly.
For those of you who would like a breakdown of how a system like this would work, you may want to read Cracking DES by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (Note, this book is out of print, but the EFF has made versions available online.)
It discusses building a computer from scratch that can crack DES quite fast. This same principle can be applied to any brute-force technique. And if the cost is $1Billion now, it will be considerably less in a few years.
Saving files is cheating... But I remember some...
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You can always enter explore mode as another poster pointed out....
However, many of the "Cheats" such as poly-piling are not really cheats. Those are legit techniques. I still miss the really old "cheats"... Er, I mean "features".
I remember years ago when it was still called "hack" and I used to play it on the new MS-Dos machines at my high school. (I had a TRS-80 at home, and had never heard of Unix at the time.)
My friends and I discovered lots of "Features" in the game. I must say I miss them. The following "Features" were fixed in nethack quite some time ago.
If you entered "beginner mode" (All items were identified on the first level) as a wizard, and then left the dungeon on your first move, then chose a wizard again and repeated...
Eventually a loop in the program would add more and more wands to your inventory. With every 3 or 4 "new" wizards the total number of wands would increase by one. If you kept this up, you would eventually start with 64 wands. Then, if you tried it a few more times you would end up with 65 wands.... (Can you say overflow? I knew you could.;)
With 65 wands the program broke. One of two things would happen. A new item called a "Glorkum.S" would be created in your inventory, and if you wore it it had an AC of around -30 to -40.
The other thing that could happen is that one of the wands would become armour - and you could wear it. It was -10 AC plus for each charge the wand carried it added another minus to your AC. Since you had so many wands, one of them was a wand of polymorph (poly-pile time!) or of charging... And you could charge your newfound armor.
Wearing a fully charged wand you could only be hit by Killer Bees, Demons and the Wizard of Yendor.
Of course, the worst "cheat" was a wand of wishing. As soon as you aquired one of these, the game was over. You could not wish for a wand of wishing, nor could you wish for more wishes. However you could wish for a wand of cancellation, and then a wand of charging... (And as a third wish, usually a +3 crysknife or 3 tins of spinach). The next step was to charge the hell out of the wand of cancellation, because it was about to become your new best friend.
Once the wand of wishing was at zero charges, you just kept zapping it over and over. Finally you got the message: "you wrest one more spell from the worn out wand. What do you want to wish for?"
Now, you could not charge the wand of wishing, but you could cancel it, and bring it back to zero charges... and you could zap it again and again until it went to (-1), then you cancelled it....
A great deal has change with the game since then (sometime around 1985 IIRC). When I first started Ascending did not exist. You just got the amulet somewhere around level 30, exited the dungeon, and you won.
Nethack is still a wonderful game, and I started playing the new version again recently. I still polypile stuff, but none of my other favorite tricks work. As for the depth, it does not hurt to read the cheats and walkthroughs. I don't use the cheats, but I do use the walkthroughs because some of the designed levels lower down get really tricky, and I always forget the layout. I also forget things like blanking and writing spellbooks, or making multiple potions of bless out of potions of water.
So, have you "not" enjoyed it? I don't think so. I was poking at the game ever since I started playing it. I still poke at it. (And yes, every now and again I copy/save a very amusing character for posterity.)
The moral of the story about nethack is that it should be fun. You don't need to cheat, but if you are having fun, I am not one to judge. (But in the newer versions, Explore mode is a much better option IMO.)
In case you have not yet noticed the parts of a story in [i]italics[/i] are submitted by the poster, and the [b]other[/b] parts are by the/. crew. In this case, the only writing by the/. crew entails: "DarkZero writes:"
Thanks to the crew at www.mchawking.com we now know how Stephen feels about the second law; and by extrapolation, how he feels about "Energy from nothing".
Other posts seem to echo just this - Go see Iron Monkey instead.
I went to see The One with friends last night, and we were all dissapointed. (Especially my friend Jen and Myself who study Wing Chun Kung Fu).
The One is a Highlander/Matrix ripoff, and while Jet Li always has excellent Wushu, there is little of it in this film that is not enhanced with computer assistance.
Iron Monkey on the other hand has wall to wall Kung Fu action, with a cadre of excellent practioners and a multitude of styles (I saw Choy Li Fut and Lau Gar styles in the film along with the standard Wushu).
I won't get into plot or spoilers, but go see Iron Monkey - it has funny parts, and all of us in the theatre (only 8 of us, compared to a FULL theater for The One), and Iron Monkey has excellent action.
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No, no, no! Good sysadmins are lazy, they don't need to grep through proxy logs when they can run dsniff on the gateway and capture all the great asian schoolgirl sites and the passwords and logins to those sites!
It would be simpler to launch a rocket to a asteroid that was mineral rich, and then push it back to earth, and have it impact in a deserted area and mine it there.
A skyhook/space elevator is a good idea for science and space travel etc. However, if you had one of these, the best way to make money off of it would not be by importing asteroids, remember, conservation of angular momentum would mean that getting asteroids to earth probably requires more energy than mining minerals on earth and sending them up the elevator...
No, if you wanted to make money or, at least get closer to breaking even, you would need space tourism. Having a hotel in space would generate revenue, and you have a large body of people who would want to stay in the hotel for a week or so. Look how many millionaires try to get to the space station.
The other way you could "profit" from this would, again be bringing asteroids in from a large distance, but not slowing them down, rather using them as weapons in a war. Not nice, and not exactly "profit" but it would be a non-nuclear weapon that could certanly turn the tide in a war. And, if you are the victor in a war, you generally profit. (Generally...)
Look for the following (from CERT):
/tmp/.uubugtraq /tmp/.bugtraq.c /tmp/.bugtraq /tmp/.unlock.c /tmp/.update.c /tmp/.cinik /tmp/.cinik.c /tmp/.cinik.go /tmp/.cinik.goecho /tmp/.cinik.uu
Variant "A"
Variant "B"
Variant "C"
I have seen variant A and B on my network (I admin about 200 machines, but unfortunately the customers themselves, not I are in charge of patching their systems. I only go in and fix it when the customers realize something is wrong. Sort of a "meta-admin" if you will.)
I have not seen variant C, which I believe uses port 1978. Once the worm hit we blocked all the ports it uses at the router. This mitigated much of the damage, even though the exploit comes in on port 443.
HOWEVER be aware I have seen some attempted backdoor exploits that were not worm based. That is, an apache shell was obtained and someone was in on the system installing extra software and attempting to escalate privliages and crack the root account.
This is far more serious than the worm by itself. Fortunately, all I have seen so far is skript kiddies attempting to install backdoors that don't work because they do not have a rootshell. These backdoors were clearly not part of the regular worm. So other exploits than just the worm itself are out there.
Fortunately this worm is waking my customers up, and the systems are getting patched. (It does not matter how many times I run nessus, and send the customer a report saying "fix this", when I send them a message saying "you have now been hit" they suddenly spring into action, or get me to fix it. Funny how that works.)
Dragons?
To quote Strongbad: "Someone get this freaking duck away from me!"
(Hint: homestarrunner for those who do not know.)
Seems there is a rule amongst Astronomers that if you get hit by a meteorite, it belongs to you.
Or you belong to it. At least it might be kind enough to dig you a large grave for you while it owns you.
Insert "all your base" joke here.
From the article: .Noticing it was "quite hot", she showed it to her father Niel.
The problem with this is that meteors are not hot. See this link and this one. From the first link:
Objects from space that enter Earth's atmosphere are -- like space itself -- very cold and they remain so even as they blaze a hot-looking trail toward the ground. "The outer layers are warmed by atmospheric friction, and little bits flake away as they descend," explains Yeomans. This is called ablation and it's a wonderful way to remove heat. (Some commercial heat shields use ablation to keep spacecraft cool when they re-enter Earth's atmosphere.) "Rocky asteroids are poor conductors of heat," Yeomans continued. "Their central regions remain cool even as the hot outer layers are ablated away."
And from the second:
Are asteroids hot or cold as they descend through Earth's atmosphere? (Level II, They are cold as they enter and remain so even as they blaze a hot-looking trail toward the ground. The outer layers are warmed by friction and little bits flake away as they descend.)
So I suppose it is part of abilated material if it is real, that would explain why it was hot. That would probably still make it a meteor. It might also explain why she still owns her foot.
You know, I hope someone steals the domain for goatse.cx so it points somewhere far more harmless.
My eyes have been permanently wounded by trolls posting that link here.
When do the slashdot troll stop saying BSD is dying and change their tune to "Microsoft is Dying"? /me runs
Quite! I am posting this from Shaw cable as well. I get the same speeds that you do, and I am also running a NAT firewall with extra machines behind it, they are all consuming large amounts of bandwith without problem.
I am also a sysadmin for a hosting company, and one of our backbones is provided by Shaw. Our customers are located worldwide, (but most are from the U.S.) are surprised that we can offer such low hosting rates.
We can do it for 2 reasons:
1) The Canadian dollar is worth about 40% less than the U.S. dollar.
2) Our bandwith allotment is *HUGE* we can scale up to 1-TB if required, and it is still cheap. We pay our provider approx $4.00 CDN per GB, and it is on a really fast pipe.
No, you are out to lunch.
Sorry, but Telnet is a severe security hole.
Take a look at this link. The program Hunt can crash through a Telnet session and steal it. It is also possible to use a simililar attack on systems using SSH 1, which is why you should not use it.
Also, if you have ever heard of anything such as dsnifff you know that Telnet is practically useless in terms of security. Combine dsniff and hunt and you have one crappy method of defense. I don't care how strong your password is if I can:
1) Read it and capture it. (dsniff)
or
2) Simply steal the sesion, and thus have no need to type the password at all. (hunt)
Don't take anything in security for granted. For example I know of an admin who recently decided to implement backups to a remote NFS system, thus he opened up NFS, and thus portmap (port 111) to the world through his firewall. He still has no idea why this is bad, which explains why I will be completely reinstalling his servers in a few days.
You might not know why portmap is bad - but it is - you might also assume Telnet is ok. It is not. I have watched over 25 machines get compromised by Telnet, and I was the one who had to fix them. (I always get called in AFTER the fact - never before which I think is dumb.)
So, operate like OpenBSD - trust no one. Trust no protocol until you have a reason to trust it to some degree. And if you don't know why portmap / port 111 is bad, you may want to look that up at the same time.
What do Americans teach their kids at school, if not that the Earth goes around the Sun once a year?
That the Earth revolves around America.
This is such an apt comment, I fully agree. It's incredibly concise too, but just to beat a dead horse I feel I need to elaborate:
Of two previously powerful Empires in history (make no mistake, the U.S. is more or less an Empire) The Roman Empire and The British empire suffered from what is basically Ethnocentrism.
That is, that American culture is in power, thus it's citizens view the world from their position of power and conclude that: "Since we are the most powerful and influential country in the world, why bother caring about the world outside my little realm? I live in the best country in the world, and I don't need to go elsewhere to know that."
Furthermore, this leads to inward looking, and a decline of the very social forces that put an Empire into power in the first place. It happend to the Romans and The British, and probably many more.
So, I find it interesting that this "apathy" on the part of a large percentage of the American population is just a symptom of a larger problem at work: Ethnocentrism. Make no mistake - the United States will continue to be the major power for some time, probably well after everyone who is reading this comment is dead and gone. However, this attitude will eventually lead to the erosion of the foundation that makes the United States as powerful as it is right now.
(No, this is not a troll, just an observation, look this stuff up yourself.)
If you have a titanium ring it may be difficult to cut it off, but there is another method that often works.
Wrap a piece of string around the finger *BELOW* the ring, winding it towards the ring. When you arrive at the ring thread the string through the ring, then "unwind" the string, the coiled string acts like a screw thread and pulls the ring off.
An illustration of this technique can be found here. (The page also reccomends trying a dremel... which most geeks own, but modifying cases is one thing, modifying fingers is another.
That was a default server installation. At the time everyone admitted that the default server install was quite insecure. But it is hardly fair to call it a "typical installation". It was something that almost everyone knew was insecure, whether or not they knew what to do about it.
.2) we were using 6.2, and it had, as many have noted bad holes in the inital install.
Unfortunately I wish this was true. A large part of my job involves building (or helping people build) Red Hat boxes as firewalls or samba servers. They can send their server to me, and I will setup their system in a secure and functional manner. Up until RH 7.2 came out (I will not use any RH distro until it ends in a
Most of these things could be fixed by bastille, but I personally prefer to do everything manually, so I know it gets done.
However, many of our customers, and a networking company that we are affiliated with often perform their own installs. These are installed often with 6.2 in a "default" install (because the people installing don't know what to adjust, despite the documentation we have provided for free..).
I won't comment on how many of these things have been owned. (True, I have seen NT servers get owned in the same environment/manner, but I work far more with Linux.)
I can remember one distinctly that I was taking a look at because it was operating improperly. It was only connected to the net for about 10 min so that a bunch of RPM's could be downloaded. In that time it got hit by a scanner and a script, and was owned. I first discovered it by accident, troubleshooting this server for the guy who set it up, and I noticed that "ls -alh" did not work properly. The "-h" flag was not functioning. I could not figur out why... Then I ran an MD5 sum on ls and found it did not match with known good binaries. Most of the binaries on that system were fsked with. We formatted, and I reinstalled and configured the system for him.
Of course, it has happened to me too, I have made some mistakes (and learned a great deal from them too...) You should check out (as another poster mentioned) the honynet project and try building your own honeypot and see how fast it gets owned. Of course, if you are monitoring your logs (logcheck!), or using tools such as portsentry you should see hits on a regular basis to your outside systems on your network. If you are *NOT* looking for these things, I pity you. Hell, I just went through a great deal of trouble with the latest SSH bug, not a fun time when you find the crc messages in your logs. (Sure, as an admin I could have fixed it faster, but I was on vacation, and I did not get the alert.)
So, unfortunately, I must disagree that the "default" installation (from what I have seen) is far far too often the typical installation. Heck, up until recently the "default" installation was used on a regular basis by most of the members of our LUG!
I wish this were not the case, I really do. It is not what I have witnessed however.
I myself am an afficianado of the shaken_ballz bungee style of winged_phoot kung foo.
There is nothing like useless KUNG FOOEY techniques and weapons kata to bring MA to a new low.
Try full contact TKD or the ultimate fighting style competitions and come down off the pansy wagon.
Nice attempt at a troll. I will give you that, you managed to elicit a response.
However, many of the people at our martial arts school have studied with people such as Danny Inosanto, and Frank Shamrock. (You may have heard of these people.)
And some of our students have already won full contact TKD matches.
Please study the martial arts more deeply grasshopper, you still have much to learn.
No, not going to flame you for that. He does use the same techniques consistently. Then again, that is what a particular style is about. I would say he used more in his earlier movies, but then I stopped watching his later ones.
But then I am not qualified to comment on Aikido as I have 2 friends who study it, but I do not study it myself.
Funny, I thought Snipes studied Capoiera (Brazilian street fighting a la Eddy Gordo in Tekken)
I believe you are correct. However the moves he is coreographed using are from various styles in all his movies. I have seen him use Kenpo techniques and Tae Kwon Do as well.
The thing is, in a movie an actor rarely sticks to one individual style (unless you are someone like Segal).
Snipes was not exclusively using the Cheung Wing Chun style (there was much in there that was not from that style, like the WWF moves...) but this is the first place I have seen so much of it. The fight scene after he gets out of the pool of blood has the most Wing Chun (the bear hug defense/takedown) and he uses some Biu Gee eye jabs in a very apparent Wing Chun form in this scene, as well as various basic Wing Chun techniques (applicable to all Wing Chun styles, not just Cheungs) and probably common to many other styles as well.
(And if you want to get picky the way the "Ninjas" used the swords, and Blade used his sword is more of a Chinese Wushu style more applicable to a "Dan Dao" Chinese sword. And not a katana (Japanese) style weapon. Those who practice Kendo or Iado probably cringe at those scenes.)
Still, none of this matters. It looked cool, and there were some real techniques in there that I noticed. Things that really work in the real world. Sure, most of the stuff was the "flowery" stuff. But every now and then there was a "gritty" no-nonsense technique that is simple and effective. The combination of all that really made me enjoy the film overall.
Bottom line, if you are a martial artist, you will probably enjoy the fight scenes. (Just remember that you are supposed to laugh at the really silly stuff.)
You should rent the DVD (Support the MPAA!! ;) and check out the special features. You should see what the blood god was originally, and how the movie ended before they came up with the present ending to Blade I.
The blood god really was a god, but the audience did not identify with it, and became disenchanted with the movie at that point, so they changed it.
(And the effects are *BAD* for the blood god there, but then, that is because they are just the test shots.)
Don't worry, no spoilers in this review. (Not that there CAN be any spoilers for this movie, but perhaps that is a spoiler in and of itself.)
I saw Blade 2 on Sunday, and normally I cringe at plotless movies. In some ways Blade 2 has more of a plot than the first movie.
Are there plot holes? Oh sure, you can drive a few trucks through most of them.
However, I found myself not caring a whit.
If you want to see a pure unmitigated action fest, Blade 2 is it.
Personally I loved the movie because I have studied Martial Arts for 11 years, and I loved seeing some techniques that I have not seen in movies before. (Mostly the Cheung Style Wing Chun - Specifically the Biu Gee techniques Snipes uses.)
However, the movie is so campy that when the fight scenes start to incorporate WWF moves (no really, I am not joking!) instead of groaning I found myself howling with laughter.
If you go to see it, go to see it for pointless action, and no other reason. (Unless you would like to see Danny John-Jules, The "Cat" from Red Dwarf in a new role.)
This is not a "plot" movie.
It *is* a measly sum - as the email says - how many government agencies have this sort of funding? More than just a couple of US agencies that's for sure.
Exactly.
For those of you who would like a breakdown of how a system like this would work, you may want to read Cracking DES by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (Note, this book is out of print, but the EFF has made versions available online.)
It discusses building a computer from scratch that can crack DES quite fast. This same principle can be applied to any brute-force technique. And if the cost is $1Billion now, it will be considerably less in a few years.
You can always enter explore mode as another poster pointed out....
;)
However, many of the "Cheats" such as poly-piling are not really cheats. Those are legit techniques. I still miss the really old "cheats"... Er, I mean "features".
I remember years ago when it was still called "hack" and I used to play it on the new MS-Dos machines at my high school. (I had a TRS-80 at home, and had never heard of Unix at the time.)
My friends and I discovered lots of "Features" in the game. I must say I miss them. The following "Features" were fixed in nethack quite some time ago.
If you entered "beginner mode" (All items were identified on the first level) as a wizard, and then left the dungeon on your first move, then chose a wizard again and repeated...
Eventually a loop in the program would add more and more wands to your inventory. With every 3 or 4 "new" wizards the total number of wands would increase by one. If you kept this up, you would eventually start with 64 wands. Then, if you tried it a few more times you would end up with 65 wands.... (Can you say overflow? I knew you could.
With 65 wands the program broke. One of two things would happen. A new item called a "Glorkum.S" would be created in your inventory, and if you wore it it had an AC of around -30 to -40.
The other thing that could happen is that one of the wands would become armour - and you could wear it. It was -10 AC plus for each charge the wand carried it added another minus to your AC. Since you had so many wands, one of them was a wand of polymorph (poly-pile time!) or of charging... And you could charge your newfound armor.
Wearing a fully charged wand you could only be hit by Killer Bees, Demons and the Wizard of Yendor.
Of course, the worst "cheat" was a wand of wishing. As soon as you aquired one of these, the game was over. You could not wish for a wand of wishing, nor could you wish for more wishes. However you could wish for a wand of cancellation, and then a wand of charging... (And as a third wish, usually a +3 crysknife or 3 tins of spinach). The next step was to charge the hell out of the wand of cancellation, because it was about to become your new best friend.
Once the wand of wishing was at zero charges, you just kept zapping it over and over. Finally you got the message: "you wrest one more spell from the worn out wand. What do you want to wish for?"
Now, you could not charge the wand of wishing, but you could cancel it, and bring it back to zero charges... and you could zap it again and again until it went to (-1), then you cancelled it....
A great deal has change with the game since then (sometime around 1985 IIRC). When I first started Ascending did not exist. You just got the amulet somewhere around level 30, exited the dungeon, and you won.
Nethack is still a wonderful game, and I started playing the new version again recently. I still polypile stuff, but none of my other favorite tricks work. As for the depth, it does not hurt to read the cheats and walkthroughs. I don't use the cheats, but I do use the walkthroughs because some of the designed levels lower down get really tricky, and I always forget the layout. I also forget things like blanking and writing spellbooks, or making multiple potions of bless out of potions of water.
So, have you "not" enjoyed it? I don't think so. I was poking at the game ever since I started playing it. I still poke at it. (And yes, every now and again I copy/save a very amusing character for posterity.)
The moral of the story about nethack is that it should be fun. You don't need to cheat, but if you are having fun, I am not one to judge. (But in the newer versions, Explore mode is a much better option IMO.)
Yeah, thanks. I noticed right after I hit submit that I had the wrong brackets.
In case you have not yet noticed the parts of a story in [i]italics[/i] are submitted by the poster, and the [b]other[/b] parts are by the /. crew. In this case, the only writing by the /. crew entails: "DarkZero writes:"
That is it.
Exactly.
Two letters:
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Protect against that.
I think Hawking would say this.
Thanks to the crew at www.mchawking.com we now know how Stephen feels about the second law; and by extrapolation, how he feels about "Energy from nothing".
Other posts seem to echo just this - Go see Iron Monkey instead.
I went to see The One with friends last night, and we were all dissapointed. (Especially my friend Jen and Myself who study Wing Chun Kung Fu).
The One is a Highlander/Matrix ripoff, and while Jet Li always has excellent Wushu, there is little of it in this film that is not enhanced with computer assistance.
Iron Monkey on the other hand has wall to wall Kung Fu action, with a cadre of excellent practioners and a multitude of styles (I saw Choy Li Fut and Lau Gar styles in the film along with the standard Wushu).
I won't get into plot or spoilers, but go see Iron Monkey - it has funny parts, and all of us in the theatre (only 8 of us, compared to a FULL theater for The One), and Iron Monkey has excellent action.
Iron Monkey beats up The One any day.