They call Compaq or HP or whoever still owns that now. We had a production VAX in 2002 when I left a place, and they would very happily send a tech to fix anything, and then dance all the way to the bank with ridiculous charges. But they *always* came quick and fixed the problem.
It's not good for random areas you are passing through, but AT&T DLS routers with WiFi use a 10 digit passcode which is a nice short key space to search if your using pyrit (https://code.google.com/p/pyrit/)
Comcast defaults to I think a 12 character passcode, but even though it's alpha-numeric they inexplicably used all uppercase, way to screw up the better security decision and needlessly limit your key space as well...
The short of the above is most people seem to leave the default settings, so grab a few modern GPU's and have a party, backup wifi will be yours in no time. Just be sure to have a good disk on the server storing all the results, they can get large.
You seem to be implying that I should care that you, an admitted telemarketer, might be put out of a job along with four others.
I just don't understand your position.
I believe his post indicates he is an installer, not a telemarketer. Huge difference as he would be the guy climbing on the roof for people who do want DISH's service.
That is correct at that location as well, the land it sits on is reclaimed via fill dirt from dredging the river and expensive to add too. The island to the south is now leased by them and could be a growth area, it was a small naval base and has facilities, but not for heavy construction. The road being a huge causeway cannot handle the heavy materals needed for that. To the east sits the old shipyard, in use from the late 30's to the 70's but it was compeletely shut down and stripped of useful construction equipment and large areas filled in because of low level but expensive to clean up radiation left over from building nuclear attack subs in the 70's
In the end it's just cheaper to stay with a steady low level production suited to the needs of really the only customer that US yards have, the US armed forces.
I should have stated that it's multiple factors, but space is indeed one for some of the US shipyards:
This is the Ingalls Shipyard in MS https://www.google.com/maps/pl... Where some of the larger military ships are built, I can't tell, not knowing when the photo was taken, but my guess is the large ship in the river to the right is LHA-6 before being turned over to the navy. You can see there just is not space to build many at one time.
Yes, there are larger shipyards in the US, but many of them are completely surrounded by urban areas and have to room to grow. So it's not the only facter but is a real one.
I suspect it is a space limittion more than anything that prevents most western shipyards from building multiple ships that size. While this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... ship is about half the length is is undeniably large. Had no other ships been being constructed while she was on land the yard could have handled building a second one, and *maybe* a third, but that is unlikely. There just would not have been enough ground to fit them on. Cheap labor long ago reduced shipyards in most western countries to building military ships and some extremely spicalised or luxury ships.
Kyocera, which I have never used seems to be winning on the new printer front here, but I was given a few slightly used HP 4xxx series printers and just upgraded one into a monster, the thing works great, is cheap to run and may outlive me.
I am sure some Ebay searching or even craigslist could turn up several of these. With cheap parts from China they should run forever.
Everything you have said is true, so perhaps the warehouse example was a bad one, but not entirely. There are cases where the inventory is stable, or the task never changes, such as controlling a milling machine or something similar. These are the cases I was mainly referring to, or to point to a larger market, small businesses. They are the worlds worst about putting off upgrades as is because what they have is "Good Enough"
It is not an imposable task to design a device that can be stable in the long run for these tasks, and an infrastructure to maintain it for the long term. Perhaps it's time to start SBM (Small Business Machines).
This actually shows that in a way *we* in the IT field have the wrong idea. At least some of the time.
Computers *are* just equipment to the end users in say a warehousing operation. Why are we not designing systems with this in mind?
In the warehousing example much used above if you avoid the latest gee whiz features and give them exactly what is needed there is no reason why the VAX of yesteryear cannot keep doing it's job other than it can't be maintained anymore. That's a failing on IT's part though, why was the machine not designed with a 20 year lifecycle? It can be done, there is no reason it can't. Yes it will be slow at the end of it's lifecycle but it will still do it's job perfectly well. Data? We have open and well documented means of storing data now, take your pick of method, so store the data in an open standards format and do the magic inside the program.
I can see where companies would not like building and selling to the maket like this, they are killing future revenues, but speciality machine manufactures have been existing like this forever, so why aren't we doing this?
I may have to put up a test copy then. I suspect there are few real world test cases being run, but an RC is far enough along for me to justify spending some cycles at work on it. There are more samba 3 + LDAP setups out there than people may realise and all of them stand to benefit from Samba 4.
I also commented above, Samba 4 *is* intended to be a full AD server implementation. It is using the documents Microsoft was forced to release as a result of an EU lawsuit.
How complete an implementation it ends up being and how well it works will have to wait to be seen once it exits Alpha status and gets a few beta releases under it's belt.
Samba 4 *is* intended to be a full AD implementation. Currently it has a built in LDAP and Kerberos server set in the same daemon. That is a problem for some, like myself, that use Samba 3 + LDAP for shared auth. When complete is *should* be a fairly complete implementation of the AD specs, all of them. I have no idea how long this will take, or just how complete it is, but those are the design goals. All of this is a result of Microsoft releasing the full spec due to the European Union lawsuit.
Samba 4 is in it's Alpha release stage and is not recommended for production. That said it's a remains to be seen thing if it will be. It also depends a great deal on how and what you use AD for. For simple authentication you can use samba 3 + LDAP for that now. For programs that require AD not so much with either.
Even in HAN deployments the utility doesn't poll that frequently, the in home display can, the utility? once a day just as they do on their non-HAN meters. No sane utility company would even *want* that much data, the volume after a month would be staggering.
I finally got to the article, and reporting in every 2 seconds? That's way, way more frequently then most meters are read, once a day is the norm, once and hour is the extreme. In fact the only devices I have seen that can read the meters I work with that frequently are in home display units, certainly not the utilities putting the meters out there, they simply don't want that volume of data.
I can negate the need for the tinfoil hat with a small amount of authority, my current company builds smart meters, mostly for the US market and the software to run many of them (not naming names but if you really want to know look up cell based meters, should find us) and the simple fact is that with that type of meter the power profile lacks the resolution for such snooping, the most often I have seen the usage profile read is once an hour, and that (probably) is not enough info to do what they are doing. (H-online is down for me as I write this, I will try again later to read it) In the type of meter's I see such detailed information is just that, too detailed. A 2mb a month data plan is the typical provisioning and the meters generally use half that in a given month.
Note wireless mesh meters may be another story, at least in some deployments, however the only such network like that I have any direct experience with uses a cell based relay station to phone home with and again doesn't seem to send enough data for such evil observations to be made.
End result? You could do it, but real life smart meter systems have one giant consideration that stops this from working, cost effectiveness, power companies don't want to pay for data, that just want to know how much of your money to take.
Agreed, thier mgmt. console could use some work to make "At a glance" use easier, but we had great results with Sophos in a mixed win/*nix enviroment. I did not however see the problems with pushing to clients even with a totaly broken setup (two smb domains, one a screwed up AD, the other an improperly trusted by the AD doman samba controled domain, don't ask...) It "just worked" (TM)
I agree that graphing is not needed in the tester really, but it would be handy sometimes. Mostly I just eneter my data into a custom php page and dump it to MySQL, then it makes pretty MRTG style graphs for me and is way more flexable than any software I've seen from the testers themselves. An open data transfer method from the testers would help greatly here as then I could automate the process.
If the OS's involved are linux or you can insert a low cost box into the mix then Freeswan is a good choice.
I have had great sucess using it to connect a main office with a wharehouse across the highway. After setting it up I only had to touch the boxes to do upgrades. The only downside is the need for two servers, one for each end of the tunnel.
All the features mentioned so far, Graphing, download to computer (preferable in an open format), and noting insulin ammounts are key to me as well.
But the key "feature" I'd like to see is low cost test strips. When you have no insurance coverage the strips get expensive and tend to discourage regular testing.
Perhaps this explains it, root nameserver hack?
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whois microsoft.com@rs.internic.net
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Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the.com,.net, and.org domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.i>>> Last update of whois database: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:55:29 EST >> Last update of whois database: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:55:29 EST
The Registry database contains ONLY.COM,.NET,.ORG,.EDU domains and
Registrars.
But it _does_ do just that, if you download media with the copyright bit set it seems you will be unable to back it up or move it to another disk, a real pain in the a** for people like me who have 6 disks and constantly move stuff around.
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They call Compaq or HP or whoever still owns that now. We had a production VAX in 2002 when I left a place, and they would very happily send a tech to fix anything, and then dance all the way to the bank with ridiculous charges. But they *always* came quick and fixed the problem.
It's not good for random areas you are passing through, but AT&T DLS routers with WiFi use a 10 digit passcode which is a nice short key space to search if your using pyrit (https://code.google.com/p/pyrit/)
Comcast defaults to I think a 12 character passcode, but even though it's alpha-numeric they inexplicably used all uppercase, way to screw up the better security decision and needlessly limit your key space as well...
The short of the above is most people seem to leave the default settings, so grab a few modern GPU's and have a party, backup wifi will be yours in no time. Just be sure to have a good disk on the server storing all the results, they can get large.
I'm sorry, I don't get it.
You seem to be implying that I should care that you, an admitted telemarketer, might be put out of a job along with four others.
I just don't understand your position.
I believe his post indicates he is an installer, not a telemarketer. Huge difference as he would be the guy climbing on the roof for people who do want DISH's service.
That is correct at that location as well, the land it sits on is reclaimed via fill dirt from dredging the river and expensive to add too. The island to the south is now leased by them and could be a growth area, it was a small naval base and has facilities, but not for heavy construction. The road being a huge causeway cannot handle the heavy materals needed for that. To the east sits the old shipyard, in use from the late 30's to the 70's but it was compeletely shut down and stripped of useful construction equipment and large areas filled in because of low level but expensive to clean up radiation left over from building nuclear attack subs in the 70's
In the end it's just cheaper to stay with a steady low level production suited to the needs of really the only customer that US yards have, the US armed forces.
I should have stated that it's multiple factors, but space is indeed one for some of the US shipyards:
This is the Ingalls Shipyard in MS https://www.google.com/maps/pl... Where some of the larger military ships are built, I can't tell, not knowing when the photo was taken, but my guess is the large ship in the river to the right is LHA-6 before being turned over to the navy. You can see there just is not space to build many at one time.
Yes, there are larger shipyards in the US, but many of them are completely surrounded by urban areas and have to room to grow. So it's not the only facter but is a real one.
I suspect it is a space limittion more than anything that prevents most western shipyards from building multiple ships that size. While this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... ship is about half the length is is undeniably large. Had no other ships been being constructed while she was on land the yard could have handled building a second one, and *maybe* a third, but that is unlikely. There just would not have been enough ground to fit them on. Cheap labor long ago reduced shipyards in most western countries to building military ships and some extremely spicalised or luxury ships.
It can be done, but practical may not be what you would call this. Needed perhaps.
http://www.fastcompany.com/281...
Kyocera, which I have never used seems to be winning on the new printer front here, but I was given a few slightly used HP 4xxx series printers and just upgraded one into a monster, the thing works great, is cheap to run and may outlive me.
I am sure some Ebay searching or even craigslist could turn up several of these. With cheap parts from China they should run forever.
Everything you have said is true, so perhaps the warehouse example was a bad one, but not entirely. There are cases where the inventory is stable, or the task never changes, such as controlling a milling machine or something similar. These are the cases I was mainly referring to, or to point to a larger market, small businesses. They are the worlds worst about putting off upgrades as is because what they have is "Good Enough"
It is not an imposable task to design a device that can be stable in the long run for these tasks, and an infrastructure to maintain it for the long term. Perhaps it's time to start SBM (Small Business Machines).
This actually shows that in a way *we* in the IT field have the wrong idea. At least some of the time.
Computers *are* just equipment to the end users in say a warehousing operation. Why are we not designing systems with this in mind?
In the warehousing example much used above if you avoid the latest gee whiz features and give them exactly what is needed there is no reason why the VAX of yesteryear cannot keep doing it's job other than it can't be maintained anymore. That's a failing on IT's part though, why was the machine not designed with a 20 year lifecycle? It can be done, there is no reason it can't. Yes it will be slow at the end of it's lifecycle but it will still do it's job perfectly well. Data? We have open and well documented means of storing data now, take your pick of method, so store the data in an open standards format and do the magic inside the program.
I can see where companies would not like building and selling to the maket like this, they are killing future revenues, but speciality machine manufactures have been existing like this forever, so why aren't we doing this?
It's rare on home devices, but if it's an option it could slow him down more.
I am not aware of what attacks are out there for it though, I may have to look into that later.
I may have to put up a test copy then. I suspect there are few real world test cases being run, but an RC is far enough along
for me to justify spending some cycles at work on it. There are more samba 3 + LDAP setups out there than people may realise
and all of them stand to benefit from Samba 4.
I also commented above, Samba 4 *is* intended to be a full AD server implementation. It is using the documents Microsoft was forced to release
as a result of an EU lawsuit.
How complete an implementation it ends up being and how well it works will have to wait to be seen once it exits Alpha status and gets a few
beta releases under it's belt.
It's a whole new samba in the end.
Samba 4 *is* intended to be a full AD implementation. Currently it has a built in LDAP and Kerberos server set in the same daemon. That is a problem
for some, like myself, that use Samba 3 + LDAP for shared auth. When complete is *should* be a fairly complete implementation of the AD specs, all
of them. I have no idea how long this will take, or just how complete it is, but those are the design goals. All of this is a result of Microsoft releasing the
full spec due to the European Union lawsuit.
Samba 4 is in it's Alpha release stage and is not recommended for production. That said it's a remains to be seen thing if it will be.
It also depends a great deal on how and what you use AD for. For simple authentication you can use samba 3 + LDAP for that now.
For programs that require AD not so much with either.
Next time on MythBusters, were cannons really less accurate then rifled artillery? We put it to test... Oops!!!
Even in HAN deployments the utility doesn't poll that frequently, the in home display can, the utility? once a day just as they do on their non-HAN meters. No sane utility company would even *want* that much data, the volume after a month would be staggering.
I finally got to the article, and reporting in every 2 seconds? That's way, way more frequently then most meters are read, once a day is the norm, once
and hour is the extreme. In fact the only devices I have seen that can read the meters I work with that frequently are in home display units, certainly not
the utilities putting the meters out there, they simply don't want that volume of data.
I can negate the need for the tinfoil hat with a small amount of authority, my current company builds smart meters, mostly for the US market and the software
to run many of them (not naming names but if you really want to know look up cell based meters, should find us) and the simple fact is that with that type
of meter the power profile lacks the resolution for such snooping, the most often I have seen the usage profile read is once an hour, and that (probably) is
not enough info to do what they are doing. (H-online is down for me as I write this, I will try again later to read it) In the type of meter's I see such detailed
information is just that, too detailed. A 2mb a month data plan is the typical provisioning and the meters generally use half that in a given month.
Note wireless mesh meters may be another story, at least in some deployments, however the only such network like that I have any direct experience with
uses a cell based relay station to phone home with and again doesn't seem to send enough data for such evil observations to be made.
End result? You could do it, but real life smart meter systems have one giant consideration that stops this from working, cost effectiveness, power companies
don't want to pay for data, that just want to know how much of your money to take.
Agreed, thier mgmt. console could use some work to make "At a glance" use easier, but we had great results with Sophos in a mixed win/*nix enviroment. I did not however see the problems with pushing to clients even with a totaly broken setup (two smb domains, one a screwed up AD, the other an improperly trusted by the AD doman samba controled domain, don't ask...) It "just worked" (TM)
I agree that graphing is not needed in the tester really, but it would be handy sometimes. Mostly I just eneter my data into a custom php page and dump it to MySQL, then it makes pretty MRTG style graphs for me and is way more flexable than any software I've seen from the testers themselves. An open data transfer method from the testers would help greatly here as then I could automate the process.
If the OS's involved are linux or you can insert a low cost box into the mix then Freeswan is a good choice.
I have had great sucess using it to connect a main office with a wharehouse across the highway. After setting it up I only had to touch the boxes to do upgrades. The only downside is the need for two servers, one for each end of the tunnel.
All the features mentioned so far, Graphing, download to computer (preferable in an open format), and noting insulin ammounts are key to me as well.
But the key "feature" I'd like to see is low cost test strips. When you have no insurance coverage the strips get expensive and tend to discourage regular testing.
whois microsoft.com@rs.internic.net [rs.internic.net] Whois Server Version 1.3 Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.i>>> Last update of whois database: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:55:29 EST >> Last update of whois database: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:55:29 EST
The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and
Registrars.
But it _does_ do just that, if you download media with the copyright bit set it seems you will be unable to back it up or move it to another disk, a real pain in the a** for people like me who have 6 disks and constantly move stuff around.