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  1. Re:I don't need it if .. on The World's Most Devious Alarm Clock · · Score: 1

    oh! and this one

  2. Re:I don't need it if .. on The World's Most Devious Alarm Clock · · Score: 5, Informative

    man that thumbnail size is really annoying. its so small its useless. how am i supposed to efficiently goto through and virtually stalk her to find good pictures like this , this , this or this

  3. bittorrent?? on Sun Wants to Make Linux 3D · · Score: 1

    Since the movies are /.'d, does anyone have a bittorrent?

    http://webcast-east.sun.com/archives/GSN-1312/GS N- 1312_forjds.mov

  4. Re:BitTorrent Links on King Kong: Don't Mess With the Monkey · · Score: 1

    so if the site goes down, how would someone download those torrents from that site?

  5. Re:How to Help Us - 3 Steps on Swarthmore Students Keep Diebold Memos Online · · Score: 1

    The torrent has 126 seeds now. I downloaded at 126K/s

  6. Re:Aw MAN. on Pirate Anime FAQ Updated · · Score: 1

    why not?

    this seems to work to get to the hello kitty vibrator

  7. Re:Torrent file on Local Area Security Linux 0.4a · · Score: 1

    make sure you port forward inbound TCP/6881 (and higher if you have multiple bittorrent windows open).

    Since tcp is bidirectional, you're going to upload and download from any open tcp stream to other peers/seeds. Allowing inbound connections allows you to connect to more peers, which should allow your bittorrent client to pick from a great number of peers/seeds. In other words you'll get faster download speeds.

    It should speed up once you start uploading and when you start accepting inbound connections.

  8. Re:Borken dynamism link on Sharp Zaurus SL-C750 English Conversion · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Improvements on Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    The experimental client has a rate limiter for uploading. This is awesome for people who are on broadband with an upload cap. If you set the upload speed to just under your cap browsing the web becomes tolerable again. The experimental client also a great statistics that tell you about the "health" of the torrent.

  10. Re:most obvious question... on Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    whoops... I called him Brain not Bram... my bad...

  11. Re:most obvious question... on Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent · · Score: 4, Informative

    No it was originally developed as a "regular" P2P application... a highly scalable way to download stuff.

    The first slashdot story on it was in March 2002, where its was used to distribute CodeCon 2002 .mp3s where Brian presented on bittorrent

    This is for CodeCon 2003:
    "CodeCon 2.0 is the premier event in 2003 for the P2P, Cypherpunk, and network/security application developer community.
    It is a workshop for developers of real-world applications with working code and active development projects."

    you get the idea...
    peek-a-booty (top 10 vaporware of 2001) was also presented at CodeCon 2002.

  12. If you want Linux support you need the Cisco cards on Linksys Ships Dual-band, Tri-standard A+G Wireless · · Score: 1
    the Cisco Aironet 350 802.11b series cards are the best cards that are supported under linux.

    Cisco has not only drivers for linux but also their config tools: cisco Aironet 350 linux drivers

    Cisco Aironet 5 GHz 54 Mbps Wireless LAN Client Adapter 802.11a cards don't mention linux drivers on the data sheet, but hopefully they will soon.

    If you're interested in linux and 802.11 stuff check out linux wlan project and wlan resources for linux

  13. Re:Working better now? on Snag the Red Hat 9 ISOs, via Cash or BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    After I portforwarded TCP port 6881 inbound through my firewall, speeds went up, but they are still pretty slow.

    Download rate: 27 kB/s
    Upload rate: 25 kB/s

    According to Torent Spy:
    Complete: 308
    Incomplete: 2798

    So we still have a 10:1 ratio of leechers like me. (yah yah I know it downloads from people who are incomplete too)

    I'm on SBC DSL 1.5M down/256K up.

  14. Re:90% Loss? on Microsoft Writes Off Corel · · Score: 1
    if you need more proof, there are articles. if you need more proof look at their SEC filings:

    MSFT's 10-Q

    New Products and Services. The Company has made significant investments in research, development and marketing for new products, services and technologies, including Microsoft .NET, Xbox, business applications, MSN, mobile and wireless technologies, and television. Significant revenue from these investments may not be achieved for a number of years, if at all. Moreover, these products and services may never be profitable, and even if they are profitable, operating margins for these businesses are not expected to be as high as the margins historically experienced by Microsoft.

  15. Foundstone... on WinXP and WinAmp Vulnerable to Malicious MP3s · · Score: 1
    According to the Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-072, the "whitehat" hacking R&D team found this vulnerability.

    The foundstone advisory is amazing considering what that company has gone through

    Within the security community, they have been criticized for their treatment of the their people and their general lack of ethics.

  16. Re:News for Geeks? Stuff that Matters? on An Unbiased Analysis of Gun Crime vs. Gun Control? · · Score: 1

    I can't agree more... k5 has turned more and more political... I guess slashdot is as well... maybe we need another icon for political stuff... or if i could moderate the top post as OT.

  17. Re:If you think that cell phone and driving mix we on Car Cellphone Bans Driving Bluetooth · · Score: 1

    hmm so I supposed you're supposed to not talk to your passengers as well.

    If you have a good handsfree kit or headset, you fine. Unless you sit in the car with your hands at 10 and 2 o'clock, you don't talk to your passeners and you don't touch the radio ever you really can't talk.

    There are many things while driving a car that can be distracting from the hotty on the sidewalk, your itchy toe, or talking on having a discussion on your cell phone. Handling this distractions is part of good defensive driving. This is in addition to keeping good stopping distnaces and being aware of your surroundings.

    The comparisons to talking on the cell phone while playing video games is silly. Playing video games takes more concentration than driving. If driving were just as intense as playing need for speed 2 you wouldn't have people driving to gameworks or dave and buster.

    I guess my point is that it doesn't take a cell phone to make someone a bad driver.

  18. talking on a cell phone distracting? on Car Cellphone Bans Driving Bluetooth · · Score: 1

    hmm so I supposed you're supposed to not talk to your passengers as well.

    If you have a good handsfree kit or headset, you fine.

    The comparisons to talking on the cell phone while playing video games is silly. Playing video games takes more concentration than driving. If driving were just as intense as playing need for speed 2 you wouldn't have people driving to gameworks or dave and buster.

  19. Forensics and network trouble shooting on Bootable Linux Demo Distro - Knoppix · · Score: 3, Informative

    We've used this distro for forensics and network trouble shooting.

    Because its on a CDR we know the tools are safe. We use dd to image a drive off via the network (piped to netcat/cryptcat), firewire, another drive etc etc... just add a few scripts to do some MD5 hashing an away you go.

    It would make network trouble shooting tool as well because you have your network tools, tcpdump, etherreal, etc to check out the network on any users desktop or laptop. You don't have to lug aroung your linux laptop.

  20. Re:Small budget security training on Security Gatherings for the Little Guys · · Score: 1

    If you have that kind of money you should look into some of the week long classes like Ernst and Young's eXtreme Hacking. Its a week long hands on class. Its a mix of lecture and lab excercises.
    I know people that have gone and they say its pretty good. The thing with DefCon/Blackhat and such people only talk about 0-day exploit of the day. The Ernst and Young class is more for corporate america and the complex IT enviornment that admins face.

  21. Re:And Palm will give you the ROM! on Palm OS Emulator Ported to Sharp Zaurus · · Score: 1

    yeah, but Palm OS 5 is going to be StrongARM based: Palm OS on ARM Processors

  22. Re:How's the latency? on Ricochet Bounces Back, Cautiously · · Score: 1

    latency is roughly 220ms. which means there is a noticable difference when typing over telnet/ssh. if you type fast it buffers up 10 characters or so. its weird watching your keystrokes after you've typed out bunch of sentences. i used to be able to type including backspaces without any screen feedback.

    there would be no way that you can play quake/ut/counterstrike or somthing. you would have atleast 220ms added to your ping.

  23. Nessus does (Re:Not much scanning for it yet. ) on Security Hole In SNMP · · Score: 1
  24. Updated story on cnet's news.com and some links on Security Hole In SNMP · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://news.com.com/2100-1001-835602.html

    To mitigate this vulnerability OULU (the guys that found this a year ago) has some good links at http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testin g/c06/snmpv1/

    Securing SNMP on Solaris
    http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/howto/2000-10-04/
    Securing SNMP in Windows
    http://www.sans.org/infosecFAQ/incident/SNMP.htm
    Securing your Cisco Router when using SNMP
    http://www.sans.org/infosecFAQ/netdevices/router.h tm
    SNMP - simple management tool for hackers?
    http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/1004sec1.h tml
    Windows 2000, SNMP and Security
    http://www.securityfocus.com/focus/microsoft/2k/sn mp.html

  25. Re:Why use a whole computer? on Run Your Firewall Halted for Extra Security · · Score: 1

    I have a linksys BEFW11S4 the one with the wireless access point with the 4 port switch and it does stateful packet inspection.

    nobody said that you can't use two firewalls... and create a real DMZ... personally a firewall with three NICs can't create a real DMZ... if you compromise the "outside" interface, you've compromised the "inside" as well...

    firmware 1.39.2 and up supported stateful packet inspection (SPI)... you just have to enable it in the advanced tab... its got integration with the pc host based firewall zone alarm as well as virus protection pc-cillian...

    I tested out the SPI using nmap SYN/FIN/UDP scans inbound and outbound.

    checkout: EvanC's Linksys BEFW11S4 Site

    from the linksys FAQ for VPN:

    Q. What is Stateful Packet Inspection?

    A. Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) is a technology used in firewalls which instead of simply hiding an IP address from the internet, will look at each individual packet for information such as its source and destination addresses and protocol that is being used, in order to take certain actions based upon a set of pre-established criteria. SPI can be used to prevent DoS attacks, since the contents within the packet are known.