I imagine any company that has anything to do with reproducing sound has a couple. I was in one at Nortel back when it was BNR. They had them for phones, so i bet people making stereo equipment would have them.
That one fluorescent light bulb in the chamber sounded like a swarm of bees.
I think people who are paying 800CDN a month for a measly 1.5 mbit are crazy. I have had a 2.2 mbit down 1.1mbit up DSL line to my house since january 98 and it has been down for all for 1 day that I noticed in the last 2.5 years.
At my summer job we had a 5mbit line for 500$ a month. Mind you the ISP was directly below us so it was a real short ethernet run.
What I really want is to get my hands on that ICQ module that let you do file transfers through an IP Masq. It existed for 2.2 but i can't even find a copy of the source for that anymore, the webpage seems to have disappeared. With all the changes to the ip masquerading code the old module doesn't work for 2.4.
I know it may not seem like a big deal but every student house around me complains that their ICQ file transfers don't work, no matter if they are using a router, windows internet connection sharing or linux.
You can do it by forwarding ports and configuring the ICQ clients but the module would have been nice because then I wouldn't be responsible for all my housemates icq installs too.
gronk is more of a frontend for playing MP3s but it also has them all organized by artist, using CDDB. you may wish to take a look at how it works.
personally i have perl scripts that extract ID3 information and store stuff like the CD# i burned it on or directory it is currently in, bitrate, size, filename, all ID3 info in a text file and that can be searched easily. that way it is easy to find songs by searchnig and i don't have to rename them all the time.
This kid got his punishment in the form of a slashdotting!
His disk is grinding away, his connection is saturated and there are too many connections to his mysql database! Perhaps he is not using persistent connections?
We can't see the messageboard post anymore, but the fact that his credits page doesn't mention that he lifted the images off other sites does rub me the wrong way. Site layout is one thing, but the exact same images is another.
An aside:
It would be nice if some[one|thing] would cache all pages linked to from slashdot so that when they go down we can at least see what was there to discuss it. Google cache works sometimes...
Aroo!
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I too would like to browse your psychadelic (sp?) wallpaper collection.
email me craig at ottawa . com !
thanks
Neither Interbase nor MySQL could be tested for TPC-C (The TPC-C is a challenging test with five transactions running at once while querying against the database and the
stress of a growing number of users.) benchmarks. MySQL could not run the test because the application is not adequately compliant with minimal ANSI SQL standards set in 1992.
they didn't even do one of the tests with mysql... benchmarks always seem to be biased in favour of one competitor.
i probably didn't even know it was running, if i needed it or not... I don't blame anyone or anything for me getting compromised, it's just something that happened and it didnt cost me anything but time... linux is just something to toy with, not something i have bet the farm on so it wasn't a big deal
I think i did net installs of whatever was the latest... the first time I didn't have a clue what was going on for a long time... I think it was rooted in February and it wasn't until July when school was done ( I was in grade 10) that i started playing with the thing and realized it didn't work quite like people said it was supposed to (thanks to backdoored/trojaned/tampered ps,/bin/login, logs etc)
I agree that this type of thing happens with every OS, and the more services a machine runs the more vulnerable it is. I guess me real beef is that all that trash that most people won't need comes enabled by default.
My dad wants to read his email, write his papers. He doesn't give a damn what OS he uses as long as it works and doesn't give him any trouble. I don't want to be a system administrator and neither does he.
I agree that if we wanted to avoid trouble, we should not be on the internet 24/7, and my fileserver should definitely not double as a firewall:P
this is in fact my current set up... running redhat 4.0.
it does it all, and i know it has a million vulnerabilities, but copying/home to an i-drive every week is easier than reinstalling, i don't have the time.
I didn't even know what bind was at the time, and i still don't fully understand all the trash i see running when you do ps aux, after all that i just disabled everything that i didn't know exactly what it was
the time is eternally wrong on my box because of that, but i can deal with it
I have been compromised twice before. Both times through bind. The first time some hax0r group found my box by scanning for computers running bind. they installed all kinds of root kits, and i didnt realized it was jooked for a few months. Its a headless ipmasq, so as long as it works i dont care... Anyway i unplugged it from the net when i found out. I found out when i tried to install something and ps aux was not showing a bunch of things that were supposed to be running. they had messed with it so it didn't show their eggdrops.
the next time was bind again, but the guy rebooted the box for some reason and then i found him on irc (was using the same nick as the account that he added, and IPs matched), and i asked him how he did it and he said bind.
i dont run bind anymore...
i reinstalled after the first time, but not the second.
That kind of thing can't really happen with windows, yeah you can get back orifice but norton antivirus takes care of that. For someone moving from windows to linux (say like my dad) if he hears that he has to check some web page and subscribe to mailing lists to keep on top of latest exploits that will root his box, it's a good reason to stay with windows.
Of course it looks better on a term... stole it from a company because it seemed kind of menacing.
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I too am very pleased with my ADSL. I get mine from Sympatico in Ottawa, Ontario. I signed up originally because cable wasn't available in my area, and that was about 2.5 years ago. My installation date was pushed back a few months because of the Ice storm, but it did come.
It is supposed to be 2.2 mbit downstream, 1.1 up but I have found my max speeds to be about 140k/s both ways, with the record at 180 down. I get 1 static IP and they have no options for more
I pay 65$ CDN a month, which is 43.36$ US. If it has ever gone down, I haven't noticed. Fortunately for me they don't offer this service anymore so people can't suck up my bandwidth quite as easily. Now they sell the nortel 1 meg modem service with PPPOE which i think is 900/128kb/s i think.
My setup is still better than cable here because cable is capped at 50kbyte/s send whereas i can send at 140 which is much better for running webservers and such.
I run the DVD club at work. Basically everyone with a DVD player enters their DVDs into a database, and other members of the club can request them over a website. The website keeps track of who is line to borrow the DVD next and whose hands it is in. It's pretty nice to just borrow a movie instead of renting it... i mean how many times do I want to watch the same movie anyway?
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lol, i wish i had some points to mod this up
That one fluorescent light bulb in the chamber sounded like a swarm of bees.
and silence truly is golden
I think people who are paying 800CDN a month for a measly 1.5 mbit are crazy. I have had a 2.2 mbit down 1.1mbit up DSL line to my house since january 98 and it has been down for all for 1 day that I noticed in the last 2.5 years.
At my summer job we had a 5mbit line for 500$ a month. Mind you the ISP was directly below us so it was a real short ethernet run.
What I really want is to get my hands on that ICQ module that let you do file transfers through an IP Masq. It existed for 2.2 but i can't even find a copy of the source for that anymore, the webpage seems to have disappeared. With all the changes to the ip masquerading code the old module doesn't work for 2.4.
I know it may not seem like a big deal but every student house around me complains that their ICQ file transfers don't work, no matter if they are using a router, windows internet connection sharing or linux.
You can do it by forwarding ports and configuring the ICQ clients but the module would have been nice because then I wouldn't be responsible for all my housemates icq installs too.
personally i have perl scripts that extract ID3 information and store stuff like the CD# i burned it on or directory it is currently in, bitrate, size, filename, all ID3 info in a text file and that can be searched easily. that way it is easy to find songs by searchnig and i don't have to rename them all the time.
This kid got his punishment in the form of a slashdotting!
His disk is grinding away, his connection is saturated and there are too many connections to his mysql database! Perhaps he is not using persistent connections?
We can't see the messageboard post anymore, but the fact that his credits page doesn't mention that he lifted the images off other sites does rub me the wrong way. Site layout is one thing, but the exact same images is another.
An aside:
It would be nice if some[one|thing] would cache all pages linked to from slashdot so that when they go down we can at least see what was there to discuss it. Google cache works sometimes...
Aroo!
I too would like to browse your psychadelic (sp?) wallpaper collection. email me craig at ottawa . com ! thanks
they didn't even do one of the tests with mysql ... benchmarks always seem to be biased in favour of one competitor.
i live in ottawa also, I would have liked to attend if I had only known... I was in town bustin my ass at nortel.
oh yeah, rain!
if i want my disks to be encrypted (a la mitnick) how do i go about doing this anyway?
i probably didn't even know it was running, if i needed it or not... I don't blame anyone or anything for me getting compromised, it's just something that happened and it didnt cost me anything but time ... linux is just something to toy with, not something i have bet the farm on so it wasn't a big deal
I agree that this type of thing happens with every OS, and the more services a machine runs the more vulnerable it is.
I guess me real beef is that all that trash that most people won't need comes enabled by default.
i agree, i wish they didn't enable everything by default..
I agree that if we wanted to avoid trouble, we should not be on the internet 24/7, and my fileserver should definitely not double as a firewall :P
it does it all, and i know it has a million vulnerabilities, but copying /home to an i-drive every week is easier than reinstalling, i don't have the time.
the time is eternally wrong on my box because of that, but i can deal with it
people who are new to *nix need time to learn the ropes, and if they lose all their data and have to reinstall it can be a major turn off
i don't care that much about my logs, but it's still interesting to see how many radom people try and connect to my box every day...
the next time was bind again, but the guy rebooted the box for some reason and then i found him on irc (was using the same nick as the account that he added, and IPs matched), and i asked him how he did it and he said bind.
i dont run bind anymore ...
i reinstalled after the first time, but not the second.
That kind of thing can't really happen with windows, yeah you can get back orifice but norton antivirus takes care of that. For someone moving from windows to linux (say like my dad) if he hears that he has to check some web page and subscribe to mailing lists to keep on top of latest exploits that will root his box, it's a good reason to stay with windows.
Mcdonalds also only sells poutine in quebec, its too bad too, it's really good!
We do a lot of things like that in Calculus in High School, so it shouldn't be much harder than that. Those weren't nested but it's the same idea.
Of course it looks better on a term... stole it from a company because it seemed kind of menacing.
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* computer system are either licensed to or are the property of *
* xxxxx xxxxxxxxxx and its subsidiaries and affiliates. Access *
* to any program, data or confidential information on this system *
* must be specifically authorized by xxxxx xxxxxxxxxx. Unauthorized *
* access to any program, data or confidential information on this *
* system is expressly prohibited. This system may be monitored at *
* any time for operational or security reasons. It is a criminal *
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It is supposed to be 2.2 mbit downstream, 1.1 up but I have found my max speeds to be about 140k/s both ways, with the record at 180 down. I get 1 static IP and they have no options for more
I pay 65$ CDN a month, which is 43.36$ US. If it has ever gone down, I haven't noticed. Fortunately for me they don't offer this service anymore so people can't suck up my bandwidth quite as easily. Now they sell the nortel 1 meg modem service with PPPOE which i think is 900/128kb/s i think.
My setup is still better than cable here because cable is capped at 50kbyte/s send whereas i can send at 140 which is much better for running webservers and such.
The first rule of dvd club is ...