two years ago, my girlfriend's school had the typical university setup - unix serverside, clients using pine or (if they're a little savvy) pop servers to get their mail.
that summer they switched to NT and everyone *had* to use microsoft exchange to get mail. this didn't bother many people that much - it's a pretty artsy-fartsy school and it's something like 80% girls. not a high geek factor. other than the hassle of setting it up, people liked the pretty pictures.
but then came the crashes. at least once a month the mail server would go down and nobody would be able to send or receive mail. sometimes this would happen two or three times a week - one of the most common conversations i had with my girlfriend was: "did you get my email?" "no.." "damn it, tania's mail is broken too.. mail servers must be down. AGAIN."
so there was widespread dissatisfaction and anger at NT. but - and this is the important part - because NT is 'better supported, runs faster, fud fud fud' they're not switching back. so 4 years from now almost no one will remember how much more reliable the network was when it wasn't NT, but it will be too late to switch back. and then, if they like, microsoft can switch to a more costly licensing scheme.
this entire thing is scary and ugly.. but it's also the move of a company that is starting to seriously worry about its own superiority. things will only get uglier.
oh, the fun black-hat uses
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i'm surprised no one has commented on the other possibilities of this thing...
..bring it to an office building/computer lab/dorm and hook it to an ethernet port.. run a packet sniffer / tcp connection hijacker. sniff/steal the passwords of everyone in the building.
..add a speaker and you have a exceedingly flexible tone generator. remember those radio shack telephone dialers that were so easily modified to make pay-phone coin drop tones?
there's probably more, but i'm just not l33t enough to think of them. but you see where this thing can be a powerful force for eeeevil as well, don't you?
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because Good is dumb." -- Dark Helmet
well, palm pilots have that - tap the little 'abc' thing and a standard QUERTY keyboard appears. it's very simple, so when people who don't know graffiti try to use my pilot they invariably sit there tap-tap-tapping away at the letters. simple, yes, but it's like typing with one finger on a very small keyboard. a keyboard with no keys, no less.
i don't like redhat. not the company, the distribution. it doesn't have slack. redhat is not the enemy though. they are a potent force for good in the linux community. but let me have my slack. it truly bothers me when i find software that's ONLY distributed as an RPM, or when people answer questions with "well if you were using redhat that would be easy.."
dammit. pokey the penguin was truly funny. it was zen-like humor: to the simpleton, it was meaningless and ugly. but some of us read pokey and were Enlightened, and quaked with mirth at every panel.
same here, my machine is running 2.2.1 without any trouble, and i'm really starting to like my uptime now that it's into its second month (check out my stats page).
rifling through the changelogs didn't reveal anything that makes me wanna do the kernel dance, but these rumored TCP DoS attacks worry me slightly. any specifics on this?
YES COWS DO RULE!@#%!@%$# it's good that those gnome people realize the power of the bovine side.. perhaps we shall kill them last them when the revolution comes. or allow them to live as slaves.
Slackware is a superior distribution because it has Slack. Does any other distribution include a Dobbshead anywhere within it? i think not. J.R. "Bob" Dobbs -> Slack -> Eternal Salvation or TRIPLE YOUR MONEY BACK!
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Nah. boston's already the center of the universe. let one of the other little states have this one.
"'Internet C@pital'? Aww, Virginia thinks it's important! that's awful cute."
two years ago, my girlfriend's school had the typical university setup - unix serverside, clients using pine or (if they're a little savvy) pop servers to get their mail.
that summer they switched to NT and everyone *had* to use microsoft exchange to get mail. this didn't bother many people that much - it's a pretty artsy-fartsy school and it's something like 80% girls. not a high geek factor. other than the hassle of setting it up, people liked the pretty pictures.
but then came the crashes. at least once a month the mail server would go down and nobody would be able to send or receive mail. sometimes this would happen two or three times a week - one of the most common conversations i had with my girlfriend was:
"did you get my email?"
"no.."
"damn it, tania's mail is broken too.. mail servers must be down. AGAIN."
so there was widespread dissatisfaction and anger at NT. but - and this is the important part - because NT is 'better supported, runs faster, fud fud fud' they're not switching back. so 4 years from now almost no one will remember how much more reliable the network was when it wasn't NT, but it will be too late to switch back. and then, if they like, microsoft can switch to a more costly licensing scheme.
this entire thing is scary and ugly.. but it's also the move of a company that is starting to seriously worry about its own superiority. things will only get uglier.
i'm surprised no one has commented on the other possibilities of this thing...
..bring it to an office building/computer lab/dorm and hook it to an ethernet port.. run a packet sniffer / tcp connection hijacker. sniff/steal the passwords of everyone in the building.
..add a speaker and you have a exceedingly flexible tone generator. remember those radio shack telephone dialers that were so easily modified to make pay-phone coin drop tones?
there's probably more, but i'm just not l33t enough to think of them. but you see where this thing can be a powerful force for eeeevil as well, don't you?
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because Good is dumb."
-- Dark Helmet
well, palm pilots have that - tap the little 'abc' thing and a standard QUERTY keyboard appears. it's very simple, so when people who don't know graffiti try to use my pilot they invariably sit there tap-tap-tapping away at the letters. simple, yes, but it's like typing with one finger on a very small keyboard. a keyboard with no keys, no less.
i don't like redhat. not the company, the distribution. it doesn't have slack. redhat is not the enemy though. they are a potent force for good in the linux community. but let me have my slack. it truly bothers me when i find software that's ONLY distributed as an RPM, or when people answer questions with "well if you were using redhat that would be easy.."
THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS NUMBSKULLERY!!!
dammit. pokey the penguin was truly funny. it was zen-like humor: to the simpleton, it was meaningless and ugly. but some of us read pokey and were Enlightened, and quaked with mirth at every panel.
at least we still have Space Moose.
http://www.geek-girl.com/bugtraq/1999_1/1079.html
i found it, tee-hee. details of the bug and its exploit.
same here, my machine is running 2.2.1 without any trouble, and i'm really starting to like my uptime now that it's into its second month (check out my stats page).
rifling through the changelogs didn't reveal anything that makes me wanna do the kernel dance, but these rumored TCP DoS attacks worry me slightly. any specifics on this?
and it scares the pants off of me.
wait, i wasn't wearing pants in the first place.
oh totally. although i have this theory that all movies with john leguizamo are kinda like that.. q.v. The Pest.
plus the part where they're talking about the fact that they're Luigi Mario and Mario Mario.. heh
YES COWS DO RULE!@#%!@%$#
it's good that those gnome people realize the power of the bovine side.. perhaps we shall kill them last them when the revolution comes. or allow them to live as slaves.
-the COW OF DOOM (tm)
Slackware is a superior distribution because it has Slack. Does any other distribution include a Dobbshead anywhere within it? i think not.
J.R. "Bob" Dobbs -> Slack -> Eternal Salvation or TRIPLE YOUR MONEY BACK!