Now I'm now Windows guru but all the.pif files I've seen are about 1kB in size. This virus tells Outlook that it's got a 78kB.pif and Outlook thinks that it's cool to run it. Is there no bounds checking at all going on here? SCO isn't the only software company smoking crack.
Now, the going radio theory is that there is a problem near the Niagra New York/Canada border. The Pentagon is saying that there is no indication of terrorism. That being said, I wish most cellular was working, so I could get in touch with my wife.
Regarding the trashing of ham radio here a few days ago: HA HA HA HA
I still have not seen a virus that can work with pine. I've used pine (under various Linus/BSD/SunOS ) for years and have not had ONE fscking virus. My friend that still runs elm hasn't either. If I need to grab a file from an email then I either export from pine or grab it via web with horde/imp. This is via *nix or winders. Never a fsckin' virus. Just say no to Outlook (which is actually the name of a town in central Washington that STS crewperson Bonnie Dunn grew up in) and use an email client that is just too dumb to fall for all this crap.
You have a NYT-phobia for some reason you might want to try a paper here in Seattle. The picture is better and very much younger. It looks to be about from the time M$ sold software on paper tape.
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would be one law that very much applies to the topic. The Secret Service provides the enforcement behind the law. I know the law very well, having spent over 3 years in Federal custody because of it. Back in 1987 I was the fourth person charged under the law for finding phone card numbers with a C64 and some off-board chips.
In this case, as in mine, the card number would be the "access device" and the computer (or even a laundry iron) would be "access device making equipment." Since this is a computer network one would also be well advised to read 18 USC 1030, which deals with computer hacking.
Did you ever wonder why the phone company hands out cards in the first place? It was to promote the idea that phone card phracking was the same as making your own Visa card (the original intent of the law.) Why else would they embose your phone number on a slab of plastic when there was never a valid reason to run it through a credit card imprinter?
My wife and I have 2 600s that we got from the amazon employee store. Our son also got one (he was an employee to) and we got one for a friend. After a year one of the batteries did start to die. We were able to pick up 4 new IBM batteries at the employee store for $15 each and none of them have given us any problems. My wife and I moved up to T23s for xmas and love these suckers! I don't run desktops anymore:) just servers (FreeBSD) I have my ThinkPads running BSD. Check with Seattle Laptop (seattlelaptop.com) about this. They really know their stuff and see alot of 600s.
I was part of a group that tested this in Anchorage using the Airvana equipment. I was not impressed at all. I really sucked for terminal sessions because it was very bursty. It was kinda ok for web but no where near the speed that was claimed. The test is still going on so they may have fixed some of the bugs. They didn't have anything other that Windows software for the PC card and it even used the dialup interface. I feel it still needs a lot of work before it goes mainstream. YMMV.
And remember this
little gaff by NetSol? w3.org, exodis.org, colorado.edu, emory.edu and (worse!) nethead.com was transferd to the same "person".. on a weekend!
I just hope that NetSol doesn't get a TIA contrat.
What did all those domains have in common? They all had IRC servers on EfNet. Now I keep all my domains with GoDaddy, great service and they have clueful people answer the phone, even late at night on weekends.
Thank you for the totally unhelpful reply. I'm surprised that you didn't post that anonymously.
I don't write anon posts, at least about video games. The idea of posting anon is to protect a person with unpopular political views from being fucked with by the state or within a work enviroment. I don't abuse the right to hide behind snide remarks about video games that simulate illegal activities. I just find it very funny that you bought something from a company that produces a product that promotes theft, and then you cry foul when they want to charge a bit more than you think is fair to replace the product that you damaged. And don't get your panties in a bunch over their use of copy protection methods. You could have found out if the game was protected before you bought it, and then decided if it was a wise investment at the time.
I see no reason the game producer even had to offer you a replacement of their product at a reduced price. You bought it, you broke it, you should have to buy a new one. Just because you don't like the offer they made you, in good faith at that, doesn't mean that "there should be a law." They really owe you nothing. They are in the business to make a profit. To one-off send you a replacement disk, one that has to be pulled from stock, packaged and mailed to you will cost the about $25 in labor. They didn't set the company up to replace items, the produce, publish and distribute. Anything outside of that is a hassle and costs money. They were offering you a favor and you trashed them on slashdot.
I suspect that you may have been playing GTA too long and really believe that it represents a valid and acceptable world view. Just so you are clear on it, Theft is wrong. The world doesn't owe you anything. You knew, or could have known the rules going in when you did business with them. Don't bitch now because you want to change the agreement you have with the company. Again, if you don't like the rules, don't buy from them. I hope this helps you, but I don't think you will feel that it does.
This clue stick brought to you by the word: Smack!
I can't believe that these industries are legally allowed to get away with customer gouging.
Let me get this right here: You bitch because they want to charge you $18 to replace the media for a thieft simulation game? I'd thank them for extending the game into the real world for you.
If you don't like the policy, don't buy from them. You really don't NEED to play GTA, sucka.
At least this time the link for monorails.org was only in the sub-article. The last time it showed up in/. for Kim's backyard monorail it really slammed my server. (It's a FreeBSD box so it took it fine at 25Mb/s for the next week.)
Anyway, take a look at Rise Above It All to find out more about the Seattle monorail vote. And if you live in Seattle, GET OUT TUESDAY AND VOTE FOR THE MONORAIL (again)!
This is the third time we have had to put this thing on the ballot so the "leaders" on the city councel would let us build it. This vote will bypass the city councel. One of the best slogans from the last vote was "Re-elect the Monorail!"
If you think this is bad, look at the early 80's
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If you look at page 6 of this pdf from the US Census you will see that we had 9.7% unemployment in 1982. I'm 41 now and things are good for me, but when I was just out of high school the best option for me was to join the Air Farce (not something I would advise now.) I took a long time for me to get on my feet. (Going to Federal prison for 3 years for phone hacking didn't help much.)
Things aren't that bad now in the work place. I did make a killing in the dot-boom working for ISP's, pr0n shops and big online book sellers. Now I have my own compamy, my own house, a car and a truck (paid for) and working with a great group moving a states phone system to IP phones. But I also had my step daughter and her two kids move in so that they could get out of a bad economy (Yakima). She is now going to law school and the grandkids are doing great in grade school in a good school district.
So, how did this all happen? I meet a woman (now my wife) that taught me not to spend all my paycheck and to save some money. I still have all the toys I need (ham radio and computers) but now I have my own place (and garage!) to play with them in.
Moral: Get a good woman that will ride you ass about saving money and investing in the future and you just might have a future in which you can enjoy life and help out others.
You won't see much static RAM (SRAM) in a server farm. SRAM is what most call CMOS RAM (for most of the wrong reasons.) A server farm runs on Dynamic RAM (DRAM) but it's not where the power is chewed up. Disk drives and CPU's take the power, esp. the 10,000 and 15,000 RPM SCSI drives in use today.
The devices that will gain some power savings are those that we'll enjoy it most in; handheld toys!
You guys chewed up 15Mb/s of my bandwidth on monorails.org just a few days ago and now you have to put links in again. Look, we get this bandwidth gratis from
ColoCenters and I don't want to have them bitch about all the traffic. The FreeBSD server takes the hits ok, but it sure shows on the MRTG graphs. Today UserFriendly also had us linked as LOTD so we're really pushing the bits.
WSDOT has SRweb which is a software tool that allows users to view digital images of the State Highway
System via a web browser. SRview was first created and designed for WSDOT's internal use; however, it was soon recognized that SRview would also be beneficial for the general public's use with little or no technical impact to the user. Thus, SRweb was created.
...as well as to use multiple internet connections to increase overall bandwidth...
That really requires BGP to do right.. and BGP means you have an ASN, which costs money now and you wouldn't be able to get your braodband provider to peer with you anyway.
Interesting that you list Watchguard as a high-tech firm. I know some of the people there, they suggest using something other that Watchguard for security:)
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Now I'm now Windows guru but all the .pif files I've seen are about 1kB in size. This virus tells Outlook that it's got a 78kB .pif and Outlook thinks that it's cool to run it. Is there no bounds checking at all going on here? SCO isn't the only software company smoking crack.
Regarding the trashing of ham radio here a few days ago: HA HA HA HA
Or as we say on the air: .... .. .... ..
73 de W7COM
I hope they don't try to run any of this under Part 97 (ham) rules. There would be some major issues then.
-Joe W7COM
It's days like this I'm REALLY glad that I'm a unemployyed network engineer! This looks like a very serious headache!
For such a geek board it's funny to see how many don't have a clue about Ohm's law.
I still have not seen a virus that can work with pine. I've used pine (under various Linus/BSD/SunOS ) for years and have not had ONE fscking virus. My friend that still runs elm hasn't either. If I need to grab a file from an email then I either export from pine or grab it via web with horde/imp. This is via *nix or winders. Never a fsckin' virus. Just say no to Outlook (which is actually the name of a town in central Washington that STS crewperson Bonnie Dunn grew up in) and use an email client that is just too dumb to fall for all this crap.
I tried 5.1-BETA2 on my Thinkpad and it wouldn't even install or run the generic kernel. I guess that's why they call it beta :)
You have a NYT-phobia for some reason you might want to try a paper here in Seattle. The picture is better and very much younger. It looks to be about from the time M$ sold software on paper tape.
In this case, as in mine, the card number would be the "access device" and the computer (or even a laundry iron) would be "access device making equipment." Since this is a computer network one would also be well advised to read 18 USC 1030, which deals with computer hacking. Did you ever wonder why the phone company hands out cards in the first place? It was to promote the idea that phone card phracking was the same as making your own Visa card (the original intent of the law.) Why else would they embose your phone number on a slab of plastic when there was never a valid reason to run it through a credit card imprinter?
-Joe
I was part of a group that tested this in Anchorage using the Airvana equipment. I was not impressed at all. I really sucked for terminal sessions because it was very bursty. It was kinda ok for web but no where near the speed that was claimed. The test is still going on so they may have fixed some of the bugs. They didn't have anything other that Windows software for the PC card and it even used the dialup interface. I feel it still needs a lot of work before it goes mainstream. YMMV.
What did all those domains have in common? They all had IRC servers on EfNet. Now I keep all my domains with GoDaddy, great service and they have clueful people answer the phone, even late at night on weekends.
-Joe
Thank you for the totally unhelpful reply. I'm surprised that you didn't post that anonymously.
I don't write anon posts, at least about video games. The idea of posting anon is to protect a person with unpopular political views from being fucked with by the state or within a work enviroment. I don't abuse the right to hide behind snide remarks about video games that simulate illegal activities. I just find it very funny that you bought something from a company that produces a product that promotes theft, and then you cry foul when they want to charge a bit more than you think is fair to replace the product that you damaged. And don't get your panties in a bunch over their use of copy protection methods. You could have found out if the game was protected before you bought it, and then decided if it was a wise investment at the time.
I see no reason the game producer even had to offer you a replacement of their product at a reduced price. You bought it, you broke it, you should have to buy a new one. Just because you don't like the offer they made you, in good faith at that, doesn't mean that "there should be a law." They really owe you nothing. They are in the business to make a profit. To one-off send you a replacement disk, one that has to be pulled from stock, packaged and mailed to you will cost the about $25 in labor. They didn't set the company up to replace items, the produce, publish and distribute. Anything outside of that is a hassle and costs money. They were offering you a favor and you trashed them on slashdot.
I suspect that you may have been playing GTA too long and really believe that it represents a valid and acceptable world view. Just so you are clear on it, Theft is wrong. The world doesn't owe you anything. You knew, or could have known the rules going in when you did business with them. Don't bitch now because you want to change the agreement you have with the company. Again, if you don't like the rules, don't buy from them. I hope this helps you, but I don't think you will feel that it does.
This clue stick brought to you by the word: Smack!
Let me get this right here: You bitch because they want to charge you $18 to replace the media for a thieft simulation game? I'd thank them for extending the game into the real world for you.
If you don't like the policy, don't buy from them. You really don't NEED to play GTA, sucka.
This is the third time we have had to put this thing on the ballot so the "leaders" on the city councel would let us build it. This vote will bypass the city councel. One of the best slogans from the last vote was "Re-elect the Monorail!"
The Stranger (pdf file) has a very good editorial on why you should vote yes.
So, how did this all happen? I meet a woman (now my wife) that taught me not to spend all my paycheck and to save some money. I still have all the toys I need (ham radio and computers) but now I have my own place (and garage!) to play with them in.
Moral: Get a good woman that will ride you ass about saving money and investing in the future and you just might have a future in which you can enjoy life and help out others.
You won't see much static RAM (SRAM) in a server farm. SRAM is what most call CMOS RAM (for most of the wrong reasons.) A server farm runs on Dynamic RAM (DRAM) but it's not where the power is chewed up. Disk drives and CPU's take the power, esp. the 10,000 and 15,000 RPM SCSI drives in use today.
The devices that will gain some power savings are those that we'll enjoy it most in; handheld toys!
I could see Apple porting over to the Sparc platform... but I've always seen Sparc as kind of a MacPro.
What the fuck do you expect when you put a 1200W transmitter next to a 0.03W transciever? Just be glad that you don't fry your laptop.
What is it with geeks and monorails anyway?
And the Simpsons song just isn't funny anymore.
Thanks, but the FreeBSD box running Apache is doing just fine. It's on a PentII 400MHz and showing a load of 0.08 with 240 apaches running.
-Joe
Host of monorails.org
Now I just hope that I don't slashdot the sight.
First the boss makes a stink about ORBZ an then they get slashdotted. Glad I don't work there.
That really requires BGP to do right.. and BGP means you have an ASN, which costs money now and you wouldn't be able to get your braodband provider to peer with you anyway.
Interesting that you list Watchguard as a high-tech firm. I know some of the people there, they suggest using something other that Watchguard for security :)