Was working in 1984 at a computer lab for a large
university in LA (Lower Alabama). We had just wired an engineering lab for token-ring - my job was to get the boot proms working with Netware v3.x. Did that - was quite impressed with myself. Sadly so were others. Next thing I realize is that I'm a lab manager. (grin)
A (the) graduate assistance over us handled a rather large cluster of IBM RT115s/RT120s running AIX 1.x/2.x. One day he goes bonkers - literally. Dropped out of school and just....left. *poof* The dean of engineering comes to me and says "Ok, even though you are an undergrad you are now responsible for the Unix boxes as well...we will let you hire OTHERPERSON to handle the day to day Novell 3.x stuff...". No sweat - things were great!
....until a professor walks in three days later and says "...blah blah...oh, by the way,/home on SERVER3 is almost full..."
I had no clue. Crash course in reading and much help from a friend in the university's computer center got me thru that episode. I then started learning about unix commands, scripts, variables, (etc) and after about two years (with _much_ help from a much older, more experienced unix admin at the school's computer center) I was managing the boxes just fine (5 servers, 300 client machines, NFS/yellow pages from hell. etc). Was hired full time when I graduated in 1988.
Fast forward to 1990. The computer center finally realizes "Oh shit! Perhaps SNA is not the 'end-all--be-all' we think it is. What is Novell? We need to know!" and now wants a Novell person. I apply. Since I had unix experience at the COEnginnering, I was able to play with this new OS called AIX370 (AIX running as a guest OS under an IBM4090 running VM/CMS). The computer center also got a brand new, pre-production IBM RS6000 running this new OS called AIX v3.x and also needed someone to help with cisco routers (Cisco TRouters, AGS routers, etc). I volunteered. From there to Solaris/X86/Enterprise 6000 and Cisco 4700s, 2500s, 7600s, etc. Finally (recently) to linux and back to Netware v4.x/5.x and 6.x
Each step along the way saw me learn various new skills. The fact that I started out on a non-linux OS seemed to have helped me alot. Bottom line - you got to 1) want to do it and 2) be willing to re-install after issuing stupid commands like "rm -rf `find / -print`". It will happen to you.
It's not quite as bad as that. Micro$oft has no way of obtaining your telephone number (provided
you disabled caller ID), and hence no way of obtaining your name or address, etc.
Yes they do. While you, the consumer, can block Callerid (CID) by dialing *67 (or whatever) you can not block ANI. If you have _ever_ called an 800 number your phone number is transmitted to the called-party via ANI.
So yes, they can/do/will get your phone number if you call them. Want privacy somehow? Use a payphone.
1. Why and how is a computer program expressive speech? What does it express?
A simple question to ask. A hard one to answer. I personally compare creating code to creating music. As such, perhaps we need to change the question a bit to:
1. Why and how is (sheet)
music expressive speech? What does it express?
What is music? A bunch of symbols which correspond to certain sounds at a certain frequencies. When combined in a certain order you get a product (output) which may or may not be pleasing to the ear.
People with superior skills in writing music have written Handel's Messiah. Those with less skill have written "Jingle Bells". Both of these are examples of people expressing something contained in their soul, karma, a deep-seated "something".
Some people hate Handel's Messiah. Some people like listening to it. And other become completely engrossed in listening to how the complex harmonies come together
It's the same with people who write code. Think about it.....
If you happen to have an account on a Unix box (most ISPs use Unix) you can add a "plussed" designation to your name. For example, lets say you want information about cows from company X. In their webform (or whatever) you type:
youruserid+cowX@yourdomain.blah
The mail would get delivered to your box. If you start getting SPAM (Stupid People's Advertising Method) to "youruserid+cowX" or perhaps a "Dear Mr. YourUserid CowX" you will _immediately_ know where they got your address.
Paul Allen does indeed care about homeless people. A quick search turned up the following:
HOMELESS USERS BUILDING LICENSE AGREEMENT - PLEASE READ
By stepping thru the doorway in order to live in and use the Building, You agree that You must obtain one of the following three types of licenses: (1) Non-Commercial Use License, (2) Evaluation for Commercial Use License, or (3) Commercial Use License.
To qualify for a Non-Commercial Use License, You must: (1) be homeless or 2) be homeless or (3) be homeless.
The term "Non-Commercial Entity" is limited to the following: homeless people at universities or other educational institutions (such as pre-schools, elementary schools, middle or junior high schools, high schools, and community or junior colleges), non-profit organizations (such as public libraries, charities, and other organizations created for the promotion of social welfare), "Education Affiliated homelessUsers," and individual homeless users who use the Building for personal use (such as connecting to an Internet Service Provider for personal use, hobby, recreational, or educational purposes). The term "Education Affiliated homeless Users" is limited to homeless students, faculty members, researchers, administrators, support staff, and employees of a university or other educational institution. The term "Excluded homeless Contractor" is limited to homeless independent, solo contractors while performing work for a Non-commercial Entity, such as a university or other educational institution in an individual capacity. If You qualify for a Non-Commercial Use License, You may use the Building free of charge.
If You do not qualify for a Non-Commercial Use License, then You may obtain either an Evaluation for Commercial Use License or a Commercial Use License.
If You would like to try using the Building before obtaining a Commercial Use License, then You may wish to obtain an Evaluation for Commercial Use License. This will allow You to use the Building for free for a period of up to thirty (30) days ("Free Trial Period"). After expiration of the Free Trial Period, if You want to continue using the Building, then You must purchase a Commercial Use License.
If You do not qualify for a Non-Commercial Use License or if the Free Trial Period has expired and You want to use or continue using the Building, You must either purchase a Commercial Use License or get the fuck out.
rm $HOME/.netscape/cookies (remove any cookies)
ln -s/dev/null $HOME/.netscape/cookies
Configure Netscape to accept all cookies - they will all be given to your good friend Dave Null.
Of course, your SOL when a site uses cookies for their shopping carts....
Getting govt to refuse GPL would be a huge point to them. What they really want is probably to get universities to ban GPL (something like : you can't get govt fund if you produce
They may run into some problems here. IBM, while no longer a factor in the personal computer, does have a massive foothold in the higher education world - at least in the administrative side. MVS is deeply ingrained....more so since those people who are responsible for payroll have to manage MVS systems and get paid to do so. The academic side is slightly more interesting - most CS departments (and some engineering) usually use some form of Unix - AIX, Solaris, variations of the Linux kernel, etc.
An interesting attack angle is the court challenge of the GPL. You can bet that millions of dollars are currently spent to find how, and to bribe key people. But will MS have the balls to challenge the GPL ? This would be a disastrous PR, in an order that have never been done before. They may loose big time.
The article states that "Sun has embraced GPL.." - one has to assume that Sun has people on capital hill also. Sun is _not_ a small company. IBM has done some nice hacks for the opensource community itself.
Some are toast. I feel _extremely_ sorry for those small to medium ISPs who do DSL - you have to purchase over 1,000 DSL accounts to get good discount. That or pay a left nut to put your own equipment into a telecom CO. Otherwise you offer DSL for $49.95/mo and wind up making a whopping $2.75/mo profit. No thank you.
Other small to medium ISPs will build their own infrastructure and blow by MaBell's local loop. All one needs is two tall structures with a good view of the surrounding area, the right equipment, and the desire not to get butt-slammed by your ILEC.
I would be real interested in see them enforce their patent on the makers of Antiviral Toolkit Pro. However I'm sure they will approach the Russian Mafia and ask advice.....
I had thought that TinyTim was (I believe) the oldest but in browsing their webpage they seem to have come around in 1990 or so. Oh well. It is an interesting place to get lost in......
Just have the company release an object file with their own code (secret.o) and open source the rest. You get the source code, the respective object file for your OS and recompile. All said company would have to do is have about 10 to 20 different versions of "secret.o" available for download.
Is this site connected to the net? If so, I strongly suggest using an RFC1918 address range and use NAT or PAT to keep things happy. IPChains or TCP Wrappers would be nice. A good generic/etc/hosts.deny and/etc/hosts.allow file would be:
--------------/etc/hosts.deny ----------------- ALL: ALL : spawn (echo "%d from %a (%n) on `/bin/date` - output from \ reverse finger is `/usr/sbin/safe_finger -l @%h`." |/bin/mail -s \ "Security Alert - `uname -n`/%d" USER@domain,USERID@another.domain ) & ------------------------------------------------
------------/etc/hosts.allow ------------------ ALL : ( your_ip_address_range.domain.blah x.y.z.q ) ------------------------------------------------
Change "USERID@domain, USERID@another.domain" to addresses of your security/admin people Solaris users can use the same by removing the word "spawn".
This ILOVEYOU trojan brings back memories of the VM/CMS CHRISTMAS EXEC trojan. At least got an ascii christmas tree on your terminal as the program parsed your USERID NAMES file and sent itself back out.
Fortran: A language for people with real problems.
Sites using sendmail v8.9.x for receiving email give users the ability to have/use "plussed users". This can allow you to tag your email address such that you can track how it proprogates among the spammers. (The sendmail page shows plusses users as an alias but it works without an alias file - at least for me.)For example, if you feel like you need to give a real email address when downloading program foo, enter
userid+TheCompanyNameHere@your-domain.com or userid+programFoo@your-domain.com
The message will be delivered to "userid" but can be filtered on "TheCompanyNameHere" or "programFoo". You can use this to track if/how another company gets your email address.
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A (the) graduate assistance over us handled a rather large cluster of IBM RT115s/RT120s running AIX 1.x/2.x. One day he goes bonkers - literally. Dropped out of school and just....left. *poof* The dean of engineering comes to me and says "Ok, even though you are an undergrad you are now responsible for the Unix boxes as well...we will let you hire OTHERPERSON to handle the day to day Novell 3.x stuff...". No sweat - things were great!
I had no clue. Crash course in reading and much help from a friend in the university's computer center got me thru that episode. I then started learning about unix commands, scripts, variables, (etc) and after about two years (with _much_ help from a much older, more experienced unix admin at the school's computer center) I was managing the boxes just fine (5 servers, 300 client machines, NFS/yellow pages from hell. etc). Was hired full time when I graduated in 1988.
Fast forward to 1990. The computer center finally realizes "Oh shit! Perhaps SNA is not the 'end-all--be-all' we think it is. What is Novell? We need to know!" and now wants a Novell person. I apply. Since I had unix experience at the COEnginnering, I was able to play with this new OS called AIX370 (AIX running as a guest OS under an IBM4090 running VM/CMS). The computer center also got a brand new, pre-production IBM RS6000 running this new OS called AIX v3.x and also needed someone to help with cisco routers (Cisco TRouters, AGS routers, etc). I volunteered. From there to Solaris/X86/Enterprise 6000 and Cisco 4700s, 2500s, 7600s, etc. Finally (recently) to linux and back to Netware v4.x/5.x and 6.x
Each step along the way saw me learn various new skills. The fact that I started out on a non-linux OS seemed to have helped me alot. Bottom line - you got to 1) want to do it and 2) be willing to re-install after issuing stupid commands like "rm -rf `find / -print`". It will happen to you.
Take the person to a room and boot up a Windows system - a Windows system without a mouse.
Ask the person to copy all files from C:\Program Files to C:\TEMP
Those who have their "SH" with their "IT" won't break a sweat. The others will ask for a mouse...
So yes, they can/do/will get your phone number if you call them. Want privacy somehow? Use a payphone.
What is music? A bunch of symbols which correspond to certain sounds at a certain frequencies. When combined in a certain order you get a product (output) which may or may not be pleasing to the ear.
People with superior skills in writing music have written Handel's Messiah. Those with less skill have written "Jingle Bells". Both of these are examples of people expressing something contained in their soul, karma, a deep-seated "something". Some people hate Handel's Messiah. Some people like listening to it. And other become completely engrossed in listening to how the complex harmonies come together
It's the same with people who write code. Think about it.....
youruserid+cowX@yourdomain.blah
The mail would get delivered to your box. If you start getting SPAM (Stupid People's Advertising Method) to "youruserid+cowX" or perhaps a "Dear Mr. YourUserid CowX" you will _immediately_ know where they got your address.
HOMELESS USERS BUILDING LICENSE AGREEMENT - PLEASE READ
By stepping thru the doorway in order to live in and use the Building, You agree that You must obtain one of the following three types of licenses: (1) Non-Commercial Use License, (2) Evaluation for Commercial Use License, or (3) Commercial Use License.
To qualify for a Non-Commercial Use License, You must: (1) be homeless or 2) be homeless or (3) be homeless.
The term "Non-Commercial Entity" is limited to the following: homeless people at universities or other educational institutions (such as pre-schools, elementary schools, middle or junior high schools, high schools, and community or junior colleges), non-profit organizations (such as public libraries, charities, and other organizations created for the promotion of social welfare), "Education Affiliated homelessUsers," and individual homeless users who use the Building for personal use (such as connecting to an Internet Service Provider for personal use, hobby, recreational, or educational purposes). The term "Education Affiliated homeless Users" is limited to homeless students, faculty members, researchers, administrators, support staff, and employees of a university or other educational institution. The term "Excluded homeless Contractor" is limited to homeless independent, solo contractors while performing work for a Non-commercial Entity, such as a university or other educational institution in an individual capacity. If You qualify for a Non-Commercial Use License, You may use the Building free of charge.
If You do not qualify for a Non-Commercial Use License, then You may obtain either an Evaluation for Commercial Use License or a Commercial Use License.
If You would like to try using the Building before obtaining a Commercial Use License, then You may wish to obtain an Evaluation for Commercial Use License. This will allow You to use the Building for free for a period of up to thirty (30) days ("Free Trial Period"). After expiration of the Free Trial Period, if You want to continue using the Building, then You must purchase a Commercial Use License.
If You do not qualify for a Non-Commercial Use License or if the Free Trial Period has expired and You want to use or continue using the Building, You must either purchase a Commercial Use License or get the fuck out .
OK Hemos, did you actually pay for this link? Be honest!!!
rm $HOME/.netscape/cookies (remove any cookies) /dev/null $HOME/.netscape/cookies
ln -s
Configure Netscape to accept all cookies - they will all be given to your good friend Dave Null. Of course, your SOL when a site uses cookies for their shopping carts....
IBM® Developer Kit for Linux® on Itanium(TM)
IBM-SOAP has been contributed to form the Apache SOAP project.
IBM is major contributor to Apache's Xerces-J code base
Computer hardware giants Hewlett-Packard, Intel, IBM, and NEC are joining together to fund an independent, nonprofit laboratory to help speed the development and testing of enterprise-targeted Linux projects.
Vested interest? Sure. IBM is not the powerhouse they used to be but IBM, Intel, HP, Sun (etc) do know how to play the capitol hill fiddle.
It will indeed be a very, very interesting next couple of years.....
Other small to medium ISPs will build their own infrastructure and blow by MaBell's local loop. All one needs is two tall structures with a good view of the surrounding area, the right equipment, and the desire not to get butt-slammed by your ILEC.
I would be real interested in see them enforce their patent on the makers of Antiviral Toolkit Pro. However I'm sure they will approach the Russian Mafia and ask advice.....
I had thought that TinyTim was (I believe) the oldest but in browsing their webpage they seem to have come around in 1990 or so. Oh well. It is an interesting place to get lost in......
YOU SCAN ME ONE MORE TIME AND I'LL COME TO YOUR HOUSE, RIP OUT YOUR CPU, AND SHOVE IT DOWN YOUR DOG'S THROAT
Or something similar. If your real lucky you'll see the results on their webcam. :-)
Just have the company release an object file with their own code (secret.o) and open source the rest. You get the source code, the respective object file for your OS and recompile. All said company would have to do is have about 10 to 20 different versions of "secret.o" available for download.
Is this site connected to the net? If so, I strongly suggest using an RFC1918 address range and use NAT or PAT to keep things happy. IPChains or TCP Wrappers would be nice. A good generic /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow file would be:
/etc/hosts.deny ----------------- /bin/mail -s \ -
/etc/hosts.allow ------------------ .domain.blah x.y.z.q ) -
--------------
ALL: ALL : spawn (echo "%d from %a (%n) on `/bin/date` - output from \
reverse finger is `/usr/sbin/safe_finger -l @%h`." |
"Security Alert - `uname -n`/%d" USER@domain,USERID@another.domain ) &
-----------------------------------------------
------------
ALL : ( your_ip_address_range
-----------------------------------------------
Change "USERID@domain, USERID@another.domain" to addresses of your security/admin people
Solaris users can use the same by removing the word "spawn".
No one has mentioned Distributed.Net client for Linux. One wonders what type of keyrate he would generate!
This ILOVEYOU trojan brings back memories of the VM/CMS CHRISTMAS EXEC trojan. At least got an ascii christmas tree on your terminal as the program parsed your USERID NAMES file and sent itself back out.
Fortran: A language for people with real problems.
userid+TheCompanyNameHere@your-domain.com
or
userid+programFoo@your-domain.com
The message will be delivered to "userid" but can be filtered on "TheCompanyNameHere" or "programFoo". You can use this to track if/how another company gets your email address.
S.P.A.M. - Stupid People's Advertising Methods