First, try and avoid the surgery. Some people react perfectly well to cortizone injections. If it does come down to surgery, it's actually pretty simple.
First, understand that the 'tunnel' that is referred to is a tendon that holds the two bones in your forearm together. Through this tunnel you have nerves and blood vessels and such. In the surgery, a cut is made at the base of your hand, almost at the wrist, between the mounds of your thumb and the one on the otherside of your hand. A good doctor will cut along one of your already existing lines so as to better hide the scar when it heals. Then, they go in and cut the tendon. This allows it to open up the tunnel. When healing is complete, the tendon heals back together and you're left with a much larger tunnel.
The sergery is outpatient, but if you have to drive to/from the hospital, you'll need a ride as you have -no- use of that hand for quite a while. From the time they wheeled my wife into surgery to the time I met up with her in recovery, I had about 30 minutes to kill. -Very- quick. Oh, and it's local anethesia.
After the surgery, follow -every- instruction your doctor gives you. Keep it elevated, don't get the bandages wet, etc.
My wife recently had the sugery. We learned quite a bit during the whole ordeal.
While you're correct in that surgery is the last resort, go see a chiropractor. If you wait too long, you risk permanant muscle and nerve damage. My wife put off seeing a chiropractor and ended up with some nerve damage, but the doc said that unless it's major, the nerves will repair themselves. The muscle damage is the big problem, though, as I gathered that that was near impossible to fix without major surgery.
Anyways, go see the chiropractor. Plunk down however much it costs if your insurance won't cover it (ours did) and have a -doctor- look at it. There's all sorts of tests they can run to determine the severity.
Also, the way it generally goes is that they will see how severe the carpal tunnel is, and make treatment recomendations based upon the results. The low end treatment is physical therapy, then cortizone injections, then surgery. Surgery is a last resort, but the carpal tunnel syndrome is highly unlikely to return (my mom had the surgery 25 years ago ans has never had the pain again).
In the end, go see a doctor if you're worried, it's worth it. For a lot of us, our hands are every bit as important to our livelyhood as a doctor's.
Assuming you're not already using OpenBSD, there's a port of their ftpd to Linux. Get it at http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/programs/#prog_ftpd-BSD. There's been some patches from the OpenBSD folks for their ftpd since the port, but they apply pretty cleanly. My only beef is that the Linux port doesn't include 'ls' in the ftpd binary. I'm trying to fix that, but it's not turning out to be as simple as planned.
It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that ProFTPD has, but it's probably a lot more secure.
To give you some idea of the features, the man page is here.
GTE makes systems similar to this. They aren't Tempest shielded (the systems sit in metal shelters on the back of Hummers -- when the doors are closed on the shelters, the systems are Tempest protected), but they are called 'ruggedized'. Basically, this means these things can sit out in the desert in all the dust and have no problems. One came back from the field with a cup full of sand and it's not uncommon to find rocks in them. The systems can operate after being dropped (just don't drop them on anything you like, they are -way- heavy) and they can operate while being bounced around. One of the cool things is that these are high end systems. Ultra 2's and 10's with major memory and disk space. Basically, they're decent systems designed for harsh environments (the Army's battlefield, for instance).
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The FAQ states that you use ssh to encrypt the control port and because of that, only the control information is encrypted, not the data portion. It's been my experience that if you use passive mode, both control and data go across the same port. Since they use the same port, control -and- data are protected.
Um, for some strange reason Red Hat blocks ICMP traffic at their firewall. Go to http://www.redhat.com, then ping www.redhat.com. If I remember correctly, they got tired of people contantly pinging their servers.
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First, try and avoid the surgery. Some people react perfectly well to cortizone injections. If it does come down to surgery, it's actually pretty simple.
First, understand that the 'tunnel' that is referred to is a tendon that holds the two bones in your forearm together. Through this tunnel you have nerves and blood vessels and such. In the surgery, a cut is made at the base of your hand, almost at the wrist, between the mounds of your thumb and the one on the otherside of your hand. A good doctor will cut along one of your already existing lines so as to better hide the scar when it heals. Then, they go in and cut the tendon. This allows it to open up the tunnel. When healing is complete, the tendon heals back together and you're left with a much larger tunnel.
The sergery is outpatient, but if you have to drive to/from the hospital, you'll need a ride as you have -no- use of that hand for quite a while. From the time they wheeled my wife into surgery to the time I met up with her in recovery, I had about 30 minutes to kill. -Very- quick. Oh, and it's local anethesia.
After the surgery, follow -every- instruction your doctor gives you. Keep it elevated, don't get the bandages wet, etc.
My wife recently had the sugery. We learned quite a bit during the whole ordeal.
While you're correct in that surgery is the last resort, go see a chiropractor. If you wait too long, you risk permanant muscle and nerve damage. My wife put off seeing a chiropractor and ended up with some nerve damage, but the doc said that unless it's major, the nerves will repair themselves. The muscle damage is the big problem, though, as I gathered that that was near impossible to fix without major surgery.
Anyways, go see the chiropractor. Plunk down however much it costs if your insurance won't cover it (ours did) and have a -doctor- look at it. There's all sorts of tests they can run to determine the severity.
Also, the way it generally goes is that they will see how severe the carpal tunnel is, and make treatment recomendations based upon the results. The low end treatment is physical therapy, then cortizone injections, then surgery. Surgery is a last resort, but the carpal tunnel syndrome is highly unlikely to return (my mom had the surgery 25 years ago ans has never had the pain again).
In the end, go see a doctor if you're worried, it's worth it. For a lot of us, our hands are every bit as important to our livelyhood as a doctor's.
Assuming you're not already using OpenBSD, there's a port of their ftpd to Linux. Get it at http://www.eleves .ens.fr:8080/home/madore/programs/#prog_ftpd-BSD. There's been some patches from the OpenBSD folks for their ftpd since the port, but they apply pretty cleanly. My only beef is that the Linux port doesn't include 'ls' in the ftpd binary. I'm trying to fix that, but it's not turning out to be as simple as planned.
It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that ProFTPD has, but it's probably a lot more secure.
To give you some idea of the features, the man page is here.
GTE makes systems similar to this. They aren't Tempest shielded (the systems sit in metal shelters on the back of Hummers -- when the doors are closed on the shelters, the systems are Tempest protected), but they are called 'ruggedized'. Basically, this means these things can sit out in the desert in all the dust and have no problems. One came back from the field with a cup full of sand and it's not uncommon to find rocks in them. The systems can operate after being dropped (just don't drop them on anything you like, they are -way- heavy) and they can operate while being bounced around. One of the cool things is that these are high end systems. Ultra 2's and 10's with major memory and disk space. Basically, they're decent systems designed for harsh environments (the Army's battlefield, for instance).
More info at: http://chs2.gte.com/product.htm
Right now, securityfocus.com seems to be the best bet.
The official response from Harvard (found at www.hackernews.com):
=======================
* S T A T E M E N T *
As a service to the Internet community, Harvard agreed to
host a Packet Storm Security Website for security-related
materials only. Without Harvard's knowledge, unrelated
content was put on the Harvard server, including
sexually-related material and personal attacks on an
individual not affiliated with the University. A Harvard
administrative site focused on security issues is not the forum
for this type of material. We are returning the
content on the site and hope that Packet Storm will make
its security tools available through its own Website.
Joe Wrinn
Director
Office of News and Public Affairs
Joe Wrinn
Director, Harvard News Office
1350 Massachusetts Ave., Rm. 1060
Cambridge, MA 02138
Not to mention the geek factor of having ethernet jacks in the walls.
CBC = Capitol Brodcasting Company, used to own Interpath
The FAQ states that you use ssh to encrypt the control port and because of that, only the control information is encrypted, not the data portion. It's been my experience that if you use passive mode, both control and data go across the same port. Since they use the same port, control -and- data are protected.
Am I wrong here?
Um, for some strange reason Red Hat blocks ICMP traffic at their firewall. Go to http://www.redhat.com, then ping www.redhat.com. If I remember correctly, they got tired of people contantly pinging their servers.
You know, that would make me just so freaking happy if IBM were actually to do that.