I work for a mainframe datacenter, all the IBM equipment have service consoles which run OS/2. the ones for the newer z/ series mainframes are 3ghz P4's with DVD burners and SATA, all running OS/2 extremely fast
I gotta plug my favorite ad blocking software for windows: Admuncher http://www.admuncher.com
this thing is fucking great, its written in x86 assembler so the thing is literally kilobytes "large". Its extremely fast, faster than adblock, privoxy or any other similar program. And its comlpetely transparent, working on the kernel level. No fiddling with proxy settings and shit. it works on any internet connected program, not just browsers. And it blocked every form of advertisement known to man, not just popups.
install it for the 30 day trial, its incredible. I would pay triple the $25 registration fee for this program, and people who know me know I'm not one to pay for software. *cough*pirate*cough* but this is some good shit
This is common practice at my job... I work as a state-licensed privately-run datacenter, to which state gvt agencies outsource their mainframe and other large scale Unix processing.
When we sign a new contract for an agency, we send computer operators and other staff there for a week to get trained by the state employees that are about to get laid off
you know whats really scary, I could read the grandparent post easily, only having to 'double-take' a word maybe once, and I read it the first time at probably 90% my usual reading speed (which is pretty quick already being a slashdot junkie etc)
Show that to post to an old person, and they would balk at trying to decipher it. Being able to easily read obfuscated computer text, an environmental factor of the young tech generation? Someone should do a study...
well I'm well below your 300,000 uid limit, and my first machine was an IBM PCjr with one floppy drive, 2 cartidge drive and a chicklet wireless keyboard. (also had the nicer replacement wireless kb)
I later added a 40mb hard drive, which was phsyically larger than the PCjr itself, and stacked on top of it. it had roughly 5 expansion cards, which you screwed into the side of the box one after the other.
In the end, it was a quite ugle machine with this side-growth thing and buldging hard drive topper which had a ribbon cable going to one of the side-appendage expansion cards.
I programmed in cartdige BASIC and played countless hours of Infocom text adventure games, Kings Quest, a disney Black Cauldron king's quest ripoff, and my favorite - JET ! a graphic flight simulator controlled via joystick (another expansion card) this game was l33t for this machine, simulated 3d world with dogfighting and a seemingly endless world.
suffice it to say half my living preteen hours were spent on this thing, i even soldered a switch which allowed me to switch on the fly between using the original 5.25" floppy drive, and a low-density 3.5" floppy drive I hacked into it later
nights spent sweating through IBM and MS DOS manuals, library-rented BASIC programming books, etc
oh man... I found some random file on a floppy in my PCjr collection. it was a text input to speech synthesizer, some shoddy homebrew shit.
it was hilarious though! the pcjr had decent sound capabilities for the time, but the AI of the program was terrible. intput "fuck" and it says "ffff-youuuuu-cuk-cuk"
my university offers free dialup access for students who live off-campus. when I lost cable access for a year due to moving outside of the city limits, I used it and would stay connected for weeks at a time. amazing really
my Xbox running Gentoo linux took like over a DAY to emerge mplayer... mainly because unless you disable some things in your use flags, it had to have SDL, and QT which are some more bitches
actually, know you do not need the soldering iron, etc.
I recently hacked my xbox without opening it once, using the 007 hack which launches Evox, I then FTP into the xbox and install 2 hacked font files on the hard drive, along with the 'Phoenix Bios Loader' which proceeds to load whatever 3rd party or hacked retail BIOS I choose.
this of course allows me full access to my xbox, as if I had a modchip, but never having opened the box. I can run backed up games from dvd or the hard drive, and I can run homebrew software (Xbox Media Player is awesome), emulators for whatever gaming old console or whatever handheld gaming sytem you want..
and its all free! 'cept for the game backups of course.. but the only game i play is halo (bought the day it came out with the xbox) I have too much fun with Gentoo Linux and homebrew software
I ran windows 95 for 2 years on a 386 with 16mb ram. this 386 was a recycled workstation from Texas Intruments, it had some seperate card with what looks like another 386 processor, perhaps it was a math coprocessor?
used 'litestep' as win95 shell replacement, it was actually usable... even ran AOL 2.0 on it for a while (barf!)
I am a mainframe console operator at a large computer datacenter, with several state government agencies outsourcing their mainframe processing to our center. We have every day, UPS and Fedex shipments of 3480- and 3490-format tapes (look like 8-track audio tapes) to load into the mainframe, even some old ass 3420 tapes (the big magnetic reel tapes)
some of the files on these tapes are litereally only a few kilobytes large.. (!)
certainly is NOT faster than ftp'ing the data over, considering the agencies main offices have dedicated T1's and T3's going into the mainframes. but due to the beaurocracy, and fear of changing ANYTHING mindset these agencies have, they still mail these tapes back and forth
granted, some of the sites have started mailing floppy disks or burned cd's instead (laugh)
actually its more like 49.999999999999....% to 49.99999999999999999.... %
there is always a tiny chance, that the coin will land on its edge.
reminds me of an old black-and-white episodes of the twilight zone, or outer limits, cant remember. anyway some shmoe every day walks by a newsie on the way to work and flips him a quarter for a paper.. well on this particular day, the quarter landed in the newsie's change bucket on its edge. the whole rest of that day, he found he now had the mystical power to read peoples minds. then the next day at the newstand again, some shmuck knocks the quarter over (which had been standing on edge since the day before, the newsie kept it that way to tell people how it landed on its edge) anyway once the quarter fell over, the guy lost his powers, or died, or something
unfortunately, this is all MUCH over my head! you two sound quite experienced in the art of Snort.
I undforutuantely am only experienced in running a little firewall/router pre-made distro on my home lan.
and, in actuality i disabled snort recently, to see if there was any chance my network latency in online gaming, and in general, would improve by taking snort out of the picture
i didnt notice any difference really, so I think i will re-enable snort. but i dont know what good it is really doing me, the only real thing it reports are thousands of bogus intrustion attemps which actually originaly from wthin my lan, which i need to find a way to fix =/
I'll look into this, the reports are run every morning at 4am (default on clarkconnect), I'll see if I can 'nice' the command in the cron entry for snortsnarf.pl which is what uses the 100% for 30 minutes
however one thing I dont think I can change is the power Snort uses on a minute by minute basis. If I am transferring across my cable modem at its full potential (3mbit down, 256k up) then snort takes on average about 25% cpu contstantly according to top. I also run 'ntop' in the backgroud (it generates protocal ananlysis reports and bandwidth numbers, pretty neat) and under heavy network load it also chews 10-20% cpu along with snort
however since I only run those two cpu-hungry processes, the box still is about 50% idle most of the time, until the 4am cron jobs start going at the logfiles.
then I'm treated to a nice churning hard drive and cpu/load spikes that stand out like a champ on my MRTG graphs.
by the way, if anyone is looking for a great robust linux 2.4 iptables based firewall or router linxu distro, check out clarkconnect, its pretty nice, even if it is based on (barf)Redhat
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I use ClarkConnect linux for my firewall/router, which includes snort
one thing, you need some relatively decent hardware for it to work, as it chews significant processing power sorting thru your packets, and even more cpu time to sort thru all your logs and generate an intrusion detection report.
on my k6-2 500mhz firewall with 256mb ram on my home cable connection, it takes ~30 minutes at 100% cpu to generate a report
you forget, the server was -meant- to be exploited.
it was trinity's fate to enter the matrix to save neo.. she was destined to access the server with just enough time for her first attempt to work flawlessly
of course you also must notice her already knowing the command to vary all the emergency systems offline, so i would guess the Operator had already researched the facility, and downloaded into Trinity's mind total knowledge of the computer system the power plant was running. due to their pirate link to the matrix and general hacking skills, they could probably find all sorts of shit out about computer systems inside the matrix.
just got thru rewatching the APM vcd release of Reloaded
the Architect tells Neo that this is the sixth version of the matrix. And this will be the sixth time they have destroyed Zion
Each "One" before Neo had the fate of returning to the source, reinserting his code into the matrix and choosing 23 humans to rebuild Zion from scratch (because zion and the One are all just a part of the Matrix under control by the machines, to "balance the equation") otherwise the system would fail and humans would become extinct. machines fall back to a lesser power source which they have "prepared for"
Neo however, lovestuck.. (the failure of our species according to the Architect) chooses to save Trinity at the risk of the destruction of Zion, the matrix, and humanity. which should be wrapped up nicely in The Matrix : Revolutions
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you misunderstoood.. 5203 is the projected release year for Longhorn.
I work for a mainframe datacenter, all the IBM equipment have service consoles which run OS/2. the ones for the newer z/ series mainframes are 3ghz P4's with DVD burners and SATA, all running OS/2 extremely fast
I've been using Admuncher (www.admuncher.com) for years now, written in assembler, this program (for windows) is the best ad filter you will ever find
and actually looking at finance.yahoo he is making over $75 million. jeez what a rich fuck
I gotta plug my favorite ad blocking software for windows: Admuncher http://www.admuncher.com
this thing is fucking great, its written in x86 assembler so the thing is literally kilobytes "large". Its extremely fast, faster than adblock, privoxy or any other similar program. And its comlpetely transparent, working on the kernel level. No fiddling with proxy settings and shit. it works on any internet connected program, not just browsers. And it blocked every form of advertisement known to man, not just popups.
install it for the 30 day trial, its incredible. I would pay triple the $25 registration fee for this program, and people who know me know I'm not one to pay for software. *cough*pirate*cough*
but this is some good shit
actually Active Desktop didn't become available until you installed Internet Explorer 4.0, which came out in 1998 I believe
This is common practice at my job... I work as a state-licensed privately-run datacenter, to which state gvt agencies outsource their mainframe and other large scale Unix processing.
When we sign a new contract for an agency, we send computer operators and other staff there for a week to get trained by the state employees that are about to get laid off
you know whats really scary, I could read the grandparent post easily, only having to 'double-take' a word maybe once, and I read it the first time at probably 90% my usual reading speed (which is pretty quick already being a slashdot junkie etc)
Show that to post to an old person, and they would balk at trying to decipher it. Being able to easily read obfuscated computer text, an environmental factor of the young tech generation? Someone should do a study...
well I'm well below your 300,000 uid limit, and my first machine was an IBM PCjr with one floppy drive, 2 cartidge drive and a chicklet wireless keyboard. (also had the nicer replacement wireless kb)
I later added a 40mb hard drive, which was phsyically larger than the PCjr itself, and stacked on top of it. it had roughly 5 expansion cards, which you screwed into the side of the box one after the other.
In the end, it was a quite ugle machine with this side-growth thing and buldging hard drive topper which had a ribbon cable going to one of the side-appendage expansion cards.
I programmed in cartdige BASIC and played countless hours of Infocom text adventure games, Kings Quest, a disney Black Cauldron king's quest ripoff, and my favorite - JET ! a graphic flight simulator controlled via joystick (another expansion card) this game was l33t for this machine, simulated 3d world with dogfighting and a seemingly endless world.
suffice it to say half my living preteen hours were spent on this thing, i even soldered a switch which allowed me to switch on the fly between using the original 5.25" floppy drive, and a low-density 3.5" floppy drive I hacked into it later
nights spent sweating through IBM and MS DOS manuals, library-rented BASIC programming books, etc
oh man... I found some random file on a floppy in my PCjr collection. it was a text input to speech synthesizer, some shoddy homebrew shit.
it was hilarious though! the pcjr had decent sound capabilities for the time, but the AI of the program was terrible. intput "fuck" and it says "ffff-youuuuu-cuk-cuk"
ahh yes those days :)
my university offers free dialup access for students who live off-campus. when I lost cable access for a year due to moving outside of the city limits, I used it and would stay connected for weeks at a time. amazing really
six hours ? sheeeeiiiit
my Xbox running Gentoo linux took like over a DAY to emerge mplayer... mainly because unless you disable some things in your use flags, it had to have SDL, and QT which are some more bitches
actually, know you do not need the soldering iron, etc.
I recently hacked my xbox without opening it once, using the 007 hack which launches Evox, I then FTP into the xbox and install 2 hacked font files on the hard drive, along with the 'Phoenix Bios Loader' which proceeds to load whatever 3rd party or hacked retail BIOS I choose.
this of course allows me full access to my xbox, as if I had a modchip, but never having opened the box. I can run backed up games from dvd or the hard drive, and I can run homebrew software (Xbox Media Player is awesome), emulators for whatever gaming old console or whatever handheld gaming sytem you want..
and its all free! 'cept for the game backups of course.. but the only game i play is halo (bought the day it came out with the xbox) I have too much fun with Gentoo Linux and homebrew software
the thing is, this chip was labeled itel 386, same as the one on the motherboard
I ran windows 95 for 2 years on a 386 with 16mb ram. this 386 was a recycled workstation from Texas Intruments, it had some seperate card with what looks like another 386 processor, perhaps it was a math coprocessor?
used 'litestep' as win95 shell replacement, it was actually usable... even ran AOL 2.0 on it for a while (barf!)
I recommend the VLA as well. I have been there twice, and it is a very interesting place
I am a mainframe console operator at a large computer datacenter, with several state government agencies outsourcing their mainframe processing to our center. We have every day, UPS and Fedex shipments of 3480- and 3490-format tapes (look like 8-track audio tapes) to load into the mainframe, even some old ass 3420 tapes (the big magnetic reel tapes)
some of the files on these tapes are litereally only a few kilobytes large.. (!)
certainly is NOT faster than ftp'ing the data over, considering the agencies main offices have dedicated T1's and T3's going into the mainframes. but due to the beaurocracy, and fear of changing ANYTHING mindset these agencies have, they still mail these tapes back and forth
granted, some of the sites have started mailing floppy disks or burned cd's instead (laugh)
actually its more like 49.999999999999....% to 49.99999999999999999.... %
there is always a tiny chance, that the coin will land on its edge.
reminds me of an old black-and-white episodes of the twilight zone, or outer limits, cant remember. anyway some shmoe every day walks by a newsie on the way to work and flips him a quarter for a paper.. well on this particular day, the quarter landed in the newsie's change bucket on its edge. the whole rest of that day, he found he now had the mystical power to read peoples minds. then the next day at the newstand again, some shmuck knocks the quarter over (which had been standing on edge since the day before, the newsie kept it that way to tell people how it landed on its edge)
anyway once the quarter fell over, the guy lost his powers, or died, or something
unfortunately, this is all MUCH over my head! you two sound quite experienced in the art of Snort.
I undforutuantely am only experienced in running a little firewall/router pre-made distro on my home lan.
and, in actuality i disabled snort recently, to see if there was any chance my network latency in online gaming, and in general, would improve by taking snort out of the picture
i didnt notice any difference really, so I think i will re-enable snort. but i dont know what good it is really doing me, the only real thing it reports are thousands of bogus intrustion attemps which actually originaly from wthin my lan, which i need to find a way to fix =/
I'll look into this, the reports are run every morning at 4am (default on clarkconnect), I'll see if I can 'nice' the command in the cron entry for snortsnarf.pl which is what uses the 100% for 30 minutes
however one thing I dont think I can change is the power Snort uses on a minute by minute basis. If I am transferring across my cable modem at its full potential (3mbit down, 256k up) then snort takes on average about 25% cpu contstantly according to top. I also run 'ntop' in the backgroud (it generates protocal ananlysis reports and bandwidth numbers, pretty neat) and under heavy network load it also chews 10-20% cpu along with snort
however since I only run those two cpu-hungry processes, the box still is about 50% idle most of the time, until the 4am cron jobs start going at the logfiles.
then I'm treated to a nice churning hard drive and cpu/load spikes that stand out like a champ on my MRTG graphs.
by the way, if anyone is looking for a great robust linux 2.4 iptables based firewall or router linxu distro, check out clarkconnect, its pretty nice, even if it is based on (barf)Redhat
http://condor.madoka.be/clusterKNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-0 5-20-EN-cl1.iso
I use ClarkConnect linux for my firewall/router, which includes snort
one thing, you need some relatively decent hardware for it to work, as it chews significant processing power sorting thru your packets, and even more cpu time to sort thru all your logs and generate an intrusion detection report.
on my k6-2 500mhz firewall with 256mb ram on my home cable connection, it takes ~30 minutes at 100% cpu to generate a report
you forget, the server was -meant- to be exploited.
it was trinity's fate to enter the matrix to save neo.. she was destined to access the server with just enough time for her first attempt to work flawlessly
of course you also must notice her already knowing the command to vary all the emergency systems offline, so i would guess the Operator had already researched the facility, and downloaded into Trinity's mind total knowledge of the computer system the power plant was running. due to their pirate link to the matrix and general hacking skills, they could probably find all sorts of shit out about computer systems inside the matrix.
NC0000000 XTC 03138 23:31:45.92 MVSUSER 00000210 ECHO "ZION1010" >> /USR/SHARE/DICT/GEEKS
NR0000000 XTC 03138 23:31:45.93 TSU06803 00000010 IEE305I ECHO COMMAND INVALID
just got thru rewatching the APM vcd release of Reloaded
the Architect tells Neo that this is the sixth version of the matrix. And this will be the sixth time they have destroyed Zion
Each "One" before Neo had the fate of returning to the source, reinserting his code into the matrix and choosing 23 humans to rebuild Zion from scratch (because zion and the One are all just a part of the Matrix under control by the machines, to "balance the equation") otherwise the system would fail and humans would become extinct. machines fall back to a lesser power source which they have "prepared for"
Neo however, lovestuck.. (the failure of our species according to the Architect) chooses to save Trinity at the risk of the destruction of Zion, the matrix, and humanity. which should be wrapped up nicely in The Matrix : Revolutions