The state next door did this already...
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Linux Hits the Road
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The Australian CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Org.) got together with the NSW RTA (New South Wales (the state just north of Victoria, where this story's system came from) Roads and Traffic Authority) already hopped into bed together to come up with what sounds like, by all accounts, a technically better system...
The CSIRO's RoadCrack system is designed to find cracks in the pavement as small as 1mm wide, at 'highway speeds' of up to 105Km/h (65Mph).
The link doesn't say when this one was built, but it won awards in 1999, and was 'upgraded' in 2001.
I find myself imagining coming home from my holidays to discover my camera's been hacked and I've got someone else's holiday photos...spooky.
A sequel for 'Total Recall' right there. You call up Total Recall, tell them what kinda holiday you want to have, and they upload the holiday photos to your camera as you stroll past their office on the way to work.
Funny, as I read the slashdot article, my first thought was "must jump in and warn off buying the laserjet 4600"!
My predecssor got suckered by the very cheap up-front purchase price on this machine. It was, IIRC, something in the order of AUD$3900.00.
'course, it is during my reign and my budget that the beast needs new toner cartridges, isn't it! AUD$400.00 a pop (times four, C, M, Y, and K)
This machine proved to be so expensive to run that we made a commercial decision to shut it off for a few months, and now we run it with a FreeBSD box bridging it from the rest of the network, with MAC layer filtering restricting access to just a couple of people.
It isn't even that nice a printer on quality terms. Any cheap inkjet gives far better quality (resolution, clarity, colour match, etc) results than this huge beast!
Note that the vast majority of fiber optics that were laid during the dot com period are all what's called "dark" fiber-- that is, they are not currently in use.
That's not what 'dark fibre' means. Dark fibre is 'private' fibre - a physical run of fibre that your traffic, and only your traffic, passes over. It's 'dark' 'cos it's 'secure', not 'cos the light is turned off.
Hey! I resemble that remark...
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I learned how to make hot air ballons from those books! My Mother made us follow the balloons around town on our bicycles to make sure they came down somewhere safe... "You'll set fire to some old lady's washing line!".
'course, when I was a boy, wheelie bins didn't exist, so we had to trawl around the cheap supermarkets for the really cheap (ie: really thin and light) regular sized bins. Nowadays, 300+litre lightweight garbage bags can be had as cheap as ten for a dollar. Today's kids get it easy. We had to walk five miles to the shop, and carry the bags back on our shoulders, uphill both ways
My brother learned garbage bag hot air ballooning by another means: The Really Cool Science Teacher method. As he tells it, they were shown how to make the balloons, but were instructed that they must fly them tethered, "for safety reasons". The teacher gave them nylon fishing line to tether the balloons with, and showed them how to tie it nice and tight to the centre of the frame, right beside the petrol-soaked rag....
Apparently the Really Cool Teacher even pretended to be surprised when the tether burned through;-)
The yanks here on Slashdot aren't gonna know what we're talking about when you say "knock off work". Hell, the 'yanks' probably won't even realise that I'm talking about them!
First up, note the other posters words on whether or not the EDR will be recording at all.
Second, take a look at the law. Where I am (state of NSW, Australia)(Sydney, Australia), most traffic offences are worded in such a way that they are what is technically defined as "offences of specific liability". Basically, they all say "if you drive a car at xx Km/h over the posted speed limit, you're gone". It doesn't matter if you were blacked out, being beaten by a carjacker, or you had an out-of-control JATO unit strapped to the back of your 1967 Chevy Impala firing you off into the Arizona Desert (just outside of Sydney, Australia)!!!
They write them this way to save clogging the courts with lots of challenges to what they consider 'insignificant' offences. Speeding fines are just another form of taxation - "pay up and go away" is what the Government wants.
Other bits of the law add stuff like "if the cop measured your speed with an approved speed measuring device, then his word is Gospel. Fuck off.".
It's Criminal Law 101 here. Serious crimes, like murder for example, say stuff like "caused death.... with intent". The lesser evils like speeding, parking and crossing over double lines don't have the "with intent" bit.
If your flight data recorder was recording, and if you can get the data out of it, and if you can be arsed dragging it into the courts (hey, if you're American, you probably can. Here in Oz, we don't care much for courtrooms), and if you can get it past all the specific liability stuff, you might make something of it. At the end of the day though, it's just a speeding fine. Pay your taxes like everyone else, and move along - there's nothing to see here.
The very BIG thing, is Snort will not "clean" or delete the infected message. It will simply report a problem.
You're right, it is a BIG thing, and a good one
The biggest trap for young players with intrusion detection is to configure your IDS to do all sorts of funky lock-down things every time it detects a problem.
What happens when Joe BadGuy figures out that a certain type of probe on your swerver shuts down smtp for thirty minutes? That's right, he probes your server in that way once every 25. Instant self-inflicted DOS.
Danni Ashe claims to be the most downloaded woman with over a billion hits. Even if she's using those little American 'billions' (the ones you only need a thousand millions to make), that still leaves kazaa in the weeds at less than a third of her downloads.
I used to run two and three day 'intro to security' classes for folks
who were already competent system admins, but needed a solid grounding
in TCP/IP and network security. The classes tended to spend a day or
so on TCP theory - network layers, packets, ports, payloads - routing
(everyone knew what an IP address and a subnet mask looked like, but
they rarely knew what they did) - and then combined those with a bit of
basic filtering, and covered proxies and blah-di-blah.
The object
wasn't to turn them into security wizzes in a day, but to give them a
grounding in some of the more fundamental bits of the game so that they
could go away and do sensible things with their new firewall, etc, etc.
I gave a suggested reading list for the keen ones. The list was as
follows:
1) Mccarthy, Linda
"Network Security, Stories from the Trenches"
ISBN: 0138947597
For 'fear of god', and a general real-life example of the kind of
wierd shit you're dealing with. (Mccarthy is also an excellent book to pass on to your boss when
you're done with it. A *Very* usefull tool if you've been having
trouble getting security budget - it will scare the bejesus out
of him/her. This is not a particularly technical book, but it's very
good for laying the groundwork, and getting your head around the
security business. Teaches you to think outside the square too.
Perhaps the most important thing about the Mccarthy book is that it almost
completely ignores technical subjects, and concentrates on the human and
social engineering sides of security. Blocking ports and changing passwords
every month is all well and good, but if someone can sweet talk your
receptionist into handing over her password, then...
2) Stoll, Clifford
"Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage"
ISBN: 0743411463
A real world, entertaining, walk-through the process of tracking a
bad guy around the world. A nice easy to read book - technologically
outdated now, but still interesting from the point of view of
forensics and legals. This is not a technical book at all, but your boss
still won't understand this one.
NOTE: Don't make the mistake of being impressed by this book and
running out to buy Cliff's other books. The first is a masterpiece, the
rest are the ramblings of a tired and cynical man - not worth, frankly, the
paper they're printed on. The Cuckoo's Egg is a nice book - buy it when
your brain is just completely full of technical stuff, and you need a nice
light (but still on-topic) story to give your brain a break.
3) Cheswick, William/Bellovin, Steven
"Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker, Second Edition"
ISBN: 020163466X
A bible for network and unix security. A detailed run-down on packets, ports,
bells, whistles and how it all works. This book spends a lot of time analising
specific network services, and their weaknesses. One chapter on a real-life
tracking a bad guy, and some discussion of honeypots and lures.
If you only buy one book, buy this one.
4) Garfinkel, Simson et-al
"Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition" (The Safe Book)
ISBN: 0596003234
A practical, real-world, HOWTO on implementation of sensible security practices for
unix administrators in particular. This is one you keep on your desk at work
(well, chained to your desk with all your other O'Rielly books!) for day
to day use.
A definitive bible on TCP/IP and how it works. All the guts from a techo (but not a
programmer) point of view. This one doesn't spend much time on security per-se,
but it is the book for TCP/IP.
The Sixth book in the pentology, for extra keen readers is The Cricket
Book...
6) Liu, Cricket/Albitz, Paul
"DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition"
ISBN: 0596001584
I used to run two and three day 'intro to security' classes for folks
who were already competent system admins, but needed a solid grounding
in TCP/IP and network security. The classes tended to spend a day or
so on TCP theory - network layers, packets, ports, payloads - routing
(everyone knew what an IP address and a subnet mask looked like, but
they rarely knew what they did) - and then combined those with a bit of
basic filtering, and covered proxies and blah-di-blah.
The object
wasn't to turn them into security wizzes in a day, but to give them a
grounding in some of the more fundamental bits of the game so that they
could go away and do sensible things with their new firewall, etc, etc.
I gave a suggested reading list for the keen ones. The list was as
follows:
1) Mccarthy, Linda
"Network Security, Stories from the Trenches"
ISBN: 0138947597
For 'fear of god', and a general real-life example of the kind of
wierd shit you're dealing with. (Mccarthy is also an excellent book to pass on to your boss when
you're done with it. A *Very* usefull tool if you've been having
trouble getting security budget - it will scare the bejesus out
of him/her. This is not a particularly technical book, but it's very
good for laying the groundwork, and getting your head around the
security business. Teaches you to think outside the square too.
2) Stoll, Clifford
"Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage"
ISBN: 0743411463
A real world, entertaining, walk-through the process of tracking a
bad guy around the world. A nice easy to read book - technologically
outdated now, but still interesting from the point of view of
forensics and legals. This is not a technical book at all, but your boss
still won't understand this one.
NOTE: Don't make the mistake of being impressed by this book and
running out to buy Cliff's other books. The first is a masterpiece, the
rest are the ramblings of a tired and cynical man - not worth, frankly, the
paper they're printed on. The Cuckoo's Egg is a nice book - buy it when
your brain is just completely full of technical stuff, and you need a nice
light (but still on-topic) story to give your brain a break.
3) Cheswick, William/Bellovin, Steven
"Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker, Second Edition"
ISBN: 020163466X
A bible for network and unix security. A detailed run-down on packets, ports,
bells, whistles and how it all works. This book spends a lot of time analising
specific network services, and their weaknesses. One chapter on a real-life
tracking a bad guy, and some discussion of honeypots and lures.
If you only buy one book, buy this one.
4) Garfinkel, Simson et-al
"Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition" (The Safe Book)
ISBN: 0596003234
A practical, real-world, HOWTO on implementation of sensible security practices for
unix administrators in particular. This is one you keep on your desk at work
(well, chained to your desk with all your other O'Rielly books!) for day
to day use.
A definitive bible on TCP/IP and how it works. All the guts from a techo (but not a
programmer) point of view. This one doesn't spend much time on security per-se,
but it is the book for TCP/IP.
The Sixth book in the pentology, for extra keen readers is The Cricket
Book...
6) Liu, Cricket/Albitz, Paul
"DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition"
ISBN: 0596001584
Because, if you're working with the Internet, you're gonna be working with
DNS, and if your DNS is broken (or you don't have the skills to tell that
your DNS is broken) then you're screwed! You haven't arrived until you have
a GOOD understanding of DNS, what it is, and how it works. After reading this
one, go back and re-read Cheswick & Bellovin's discussion on securing DNS,
and giving different answers to different people depending on who they
are.
No need to find the GPS receiver, just bring your
own GPS receiver with you, and hang it on the handlebar. A pair of receivers operated in close proximity will jam each other, and neither of them will give appropriate results. GPS receivers don't work in faraday cages either, so just make sure that the mini-pantech you hired (for $20!) to carry the Segway away with has a metal body, and you're set.
OK, now this sounds like a good lead. CX are dodgy little crooks, but sometimes, they're all there is!:-) I'm close-ish to them too, so I'll give this one a try. Thanks for the pointer. (Interestingly, razorprices.com lists this cart at AUD$165-$175 with most vendors, unusual for CX to be cheaper, but then their (cx.com.au) web site has been down for about three months, so who can tell!):-)
Thanks:-) Had a look-see. The Cisco support is the 'an' driver for Cisco Aironet. All of the other support seems to be for ISA or PCMCIA, but no PCI. AFAICS, the problem is actually with broken PCI-PCMCIA bridge support rather than an issue with the 'wi' driver itself.
At the CeBit show here in Sydney, Australia last
week, this mob were demoing a little 'joint' motor and some control gear. You buy a bunch of them, assemble them together in different shapes ('humanoid' and 'doggie' seem to feature heavily), program it up and make a robot.
Reasonably interesting stuff, granted, but the really funny bit was the big-screen demo movie they had running on the stand. A little robot built out of some of these things and a controller board dragging a big pink Aibo ball around, taunting, and running rings around a Sony Aibo! The Aibo didn't stand a chance, this thing was kicking it's arse!
I always wanted an Aibo until I saw one in action. It was nothing but a stupid shit-fer-brains toy - you'd need a *real* imagination to consider that to be a pet.
FreeBSD, 802.11b, and PCI seems to be a mix that
just doesn't work. The DLink DWL-520 is the only card I know about that does work with FreeBSD, and I can't buy it.
Does anyone (a) know of an alternative known-good card that works, or (b) have a DLink DWL-520 (not 520+) that they wanna sell to little old me in Australia?:-)
'Phoenix' is like the 'Jane Smith' of the corporate world. Every company that ever went under, got bought out by the employees, and 'rose from the ashes' got names phoenix. Someone challenges you for using 'phoenix' as a name, and you cite 27,000 other people doing exactly the same thing, and tell them to take a hike. Beats being spammed to hell by a bunch of childish database wankers!
Oh, I know what SAGE is alright. Of course, my definition and yours might conflict.
'SAGE' is an acronym for 'Sanctimonious Arseholes, true Geeks Excluded'.
It is a fact of life that, faced with the inability to make any real contribution to a field or a situation, some people will revert to reinventing wheels in order to look busy and to make themselves feel good. This is what Kolstad is doing with this renaming business.
Fact is, SAGE make no contribution to the field, they are irrelevant. They're a small group of people who, unable to contribute meaningfully, need to be seen to be doing something in order to feel good about themselves.
Have you seen the SAGE people at a trade show recently? They're there, right down the back corner in the cheap section, usually wedged in between the disk box salesmen and the customised mousepad drone. They're conspicuous by the fact that nobody ever pays them any attention.
Slashdot Mirror
The CSIRO's RoadCrack system is designed to find cracks in the pavement as small as 1mm wide, at 'highway speeds' of up to 105Km/h (65Mph).
The link doesn't say when this one was built, but it won awards in 1999, and was 'upgraded' in 2001.
A sequel for 'Total Recall' right there. You call up Total Recall, tell them what kinda holiday you want to have, and they upload the holiday photos to your camera as you stroll past their office on the way to work.
Don't panic, the mirror *is* slashdotted already!
My predecssor got suckered by the very cheap up-front purchase price on this machine. It was, IIRC, something in the order of AUD$3900.00.
'course, it is during my reign and my budget that the beast needs new toner cartridges, isn't it! AUD$400.00 a pop (times four, C, M, Y, and K)
This machine proved to be so expensive to run that we made a commercial decision to shut it off for a few months, and now we run it with a FreeBSD box bridging it from the rest of the network, with MAC layer filtering restricting access to just a couple of people.
It isn't even that nice a printer on quality terms. Any cheap inkjet gives far better quality (resolution, clarity, colour match, etc) results than this huge beast!
Your Mileage May Vary - mine obviously does!
That's not what 'dark fibre' means. Dark fibre is 'private' fibre - a physical run of fibre that your traffic, and only your traffic, passes over. It's 'dark' 'cos it's 'secure', not 'cos the light is turned off.
'course, when I was a boy, wheelie bins didn't exist, so we had to trawl around the cheap supermarkets for the really cheap (ie: really thin and light) regular sized bins. Nowadays, 300+litre lightweight garbage bags can be had as cheap as ten for a dollar. Today's kids get it easy. We had to walk five miles to the shop, and carry the bags back on our shoulders, uphill both ways
My brother learned garbage bag hot air ballooning by another means: The Really Cool Science Teacher method. As he tells it, they were shown how to make the balloons, but were instructed that they must fly them tethered, "for safety reasons". The teacher gave them nylon fishing line to tether the balloons with, and showed them how to tie it nice and tight to the centre of the frame, right beside the petrol-soaked rag....
Apparently the Really Cool Teacher even pretended to be surprised when the tether burned through ;-)
The yanks here on Slashdot aren't gonna know what we're talking about when you say "knock off work". Hell, the 'yanks' probably won't even realise that I'm talking about them!
Second, take a look at the law. Where I am (state of NSW, Australia)(Sydney, Australia), most traffic offences are worded in such a way that they are what is technically defined as "offences of specific liability". Basically, they all say "if you drive a car at xx Km/h over the posted speed limit, you're gone". It doesn't matter if you were blacked out, being beaten by a carjacker, or you had an out-of-control JATO unit strapped to the back of your 1967 Chevy Impala firing you off into the Arizona Desert (just outside of Sydney, Australia)!!!
They write them this way to save clogging the courts with lots of challenges to what they consider 'insignificant' offences. Speeding fines are just another form of taxation - "pay up and go away" is what the Government wants.
Other bits of the law add stuff like "if the cop measured your speed with an approved speed measuring device, then his word is Gospel. Fuck off.".
It's Criminal Law 101 here. Serious crimes, like murder for example, say stuff like "caused death.... with intent". The lesser evils like speeding, parking and crossing over double lines don't have the "with intent" bit.
If your flight data recorder was recording, and if you can get the data out of it, and if you can be arsed dragging it into the courts (hey, if you're American, you probably can. Here in Oz, we don't care much for courtrooms), and if you can get it past all the specific liability stuff, you might make something of it. At the end of the day though, it's just a speeding fine. Pay your taxes like everyone else, and move along - there's nothing to see here.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Beowulf cluster jokes!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
You're right, it is a BIG thing, and a good one
The biggest trap for young players with intrusion detection is to configure your IDS to do all sorts of funky lock-down things every time it detects a problem.
What happens when Joe BadGuy figures out that a certain type of probe on your swerver shuts down smtp for thirty minutes? That's right, he probes your server in that way once every 25. Instant self-inflicted DOS.
Danni Ashe claims to be the most downloaded woman with over a billion hits. Even if she's using those little American 'billions' (the ones you only need a thousand millions to make), that still leaves kazaa in the weeds at less than a third of her downloads.
The object wasn't to turn them into security wizzes in a day, but to give them a grounding in some of the more fundamental bits of the game so that they could go away and do sensible things with their new firewall, etc, etc.
I gave a suggested reading list for the keen ones. The list was as follows:
1) Mccarthy, Linda
"Network Security, Stories from the Trenches"
ISBN: 0138947597
For 'fear of god', and a general real-life example of the kind of wierd shit you're dealing with. (Mccarthy is also an excellent book to pass on to your boss when you're done with it. A *Very* usefull tool if you've been having trouble getting security budget - it will scare the bejesus out of him/her. This is not a particularly technical book, but it's very good for laying the groundwork, and getting your head around the security business. Teaches you to think outside the square too.
Perhaps the most important thing about the Mccarthy book is that it almost completely ignores technical subjects, and concentrates on the human and social engineering sides of security. Blocking ports and changing passwords every month is all well and good, but if someone can sweet talk your receptionist into handing over her password, then...
2) Stoll, Clifford
"Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage"
ISBN: 0743411463
A real world, entertaining, walk-through the process of tracking a bad guy around the world. A nice easy to read book - technologically outdated now, but still interesting from the point of view of forensics and legals. This is not a technical book at all, but your boss still won't understand this one. NOTE: Don't make the mistake of being impressed by this book and running out to buy Cliff's other books. The first is a masterpiece, the rest are the ramblings of a tired and cynical man - not worth, frankly, the paper they're printed on. The Cuckoo's Egg is a nice book - buy it when your brain is just completely full of technical stuff, and you need a nice light (but still on-topic) story to give your brain a break.
3) Cheswick, William/Bellovin, Steven
"Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker, Second Edition"
ISBN: 020163466X
A bible for network and unix security. A detailed run-down on packets, ports, bells, whistles and how it all works. This book spends a lot of time analising specific network services, and their weaknesses. One chapter on a real-life tracking a bad guy, and some discussion of honeypots and lures. If you only buy one book, buy this one.
4) Garfinkel, Simson et-al
"Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition" (The Safe Book)
ISBN: 0596003234
A practical, real-world, HOWTO on implementation of sensible security practices for unix administrators in particular. This is one you keep on your desk at work (well, chained to your desk with all your other O'Rielly books!) for day to day use.
5) Hunt, Craig
"TCP/IP Network Administration (3rd Edition)" (The Crab Book)
ISBN: 0596002971
A definitive bible on TCP/IP and how it works. All the guts from a techo (but not a programmer) point of view. This one doesn't spend much time on security per-se, but it is the book for TCP/IP.
The Sixth book in the pentology, for extra keen readers is The Cricket Book...
6) Liu, Cricket/Albitz, Paul
"DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition"
ISBN: 0596001584
Because, if
The object wasn't to turn them into security wizzes in a day, but to give them a grounding in some of the more fundamental bits of the game so that they could go away and do sensible things with their new firewall, etc, etc.
I gave a suggested reading list for the keen ones. The list was as follows:
1) Mccarthy, Linda
"Network Security, Stories from the Trenches"
ISBN: 0138947597
For 'fear of god', and a general real-life example of the kind of wierd shit you're dealing with. (Mccarthy is also an excellent book to pass on to your boss when you're done with it. A *Very* usefull tool if you've been having trouble getting security budget - it will scare the bejesus out of him/her. This is not a particularly technical book, but it's very good for laying the groundwork, and getting your head around the security business. Teaches you to think outside the square too.
2) Stoll, Clifford
"Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage"
ISBN: 0743411463
A real world, entertaining, walk-through the process of tracking a bad guy around the world. A nice easy to read book - technologically outdated now, but still interesting from the point of view of forensics and legals. This is not a technical book at all, but your boss still won't understand this one. NOTE: Don't make the mistake of being impressed by this book and running out to buy Cliff's other books. The first is a masterpiece, the rest are the ramblings of a tired and cynical man - not worth, frankly, the paper they're printed on. The Cuckoo's Egg is a nice book - buy it when your brain is just completely full of technical stuff, and you need a nice light (but still on-topic) story to give your brain a break.
3) Cheswick, William/Bellovin, Steven
"Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker, Second Edition"
ISBN: 020163466X
A bible for network and unix security. A detailed run-down on packets, ports, bells, whistles and how it all works. This book spends a lot of time analising specific network services, and their weaknesses. One chapter on a real-life tracking a bad guy, and some discussion of honeypots and lures. If you only buy one book, buy this one.
4) Garfinkel, Simson et-al
"Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition" (The Safe Book)
ISBN: 0596003234
A practical, real-world, HOWTO on implementation of sensible security practices for unix administrators in particular. This is one you keep on your desk at work (well, chained to your desk with all your other O'Rielly books!) for day to day use.
5) Hunt, Craig
"TCP/IP Network Administration (3rd Edition)" (The Crab Book)
ISBN: 0596002971
A definitive bible on TCP/IP and how it works. All the guts from a techo (but not a programmer) point of view. This one doesn't spend much time on security per-se, but it is the book for TCP/IP.
The Sixth book in the pentology, for extra keen readers is The Cricket Book...
6) Liu, Cricket/Albitz, Paul
"DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition"
ISBN: 0596001584
Because, if you're working with the Internet, you're gonna be working with DNS, and if your DNS is broken (or you don't have the skills to tell that your DNS is broken) then you're screwed! You haven't arrived until you have a GOOD understanding of DNS, what it is, and how it works. After reading this one, go back and re-read Cheswick & Bellovin's discussion on securing DNS, and giving different answers to different people depending on who they are.
Anyone know if this is available over the counter somewhere in Hong Kong?
Mirrored here
You mean, like, get the spinning hard drive to generate electricity to spin the hard drive to gener... no, wait...
No need to find the GPS receiver, just bring your own GPS receiver with you, and hang it on the handlebar. A pair of receivers operated in close proximity will jam each other, and neither of them will give appropriate results. GPS receivers don't work in faraday cages either, so just make sure that the mini-pantech you hired (for $20!) to carry the Segway away with has a metal body, and you're set.
OK, now this sounds like a good lead. CX are dodgy little crooks, but sometimes, they're all there is! :-) I'm close-ish to them too, so I'll give this one a try. Thanks for the pointer. (Interestingly, razorprices.com lists this cart at AUD$165-$175 with most vendors, unusual for CX to be cheaper, but then their (cx.com.au) web site has been down for about three months, so who can tell!) :-)
Thanks :-) Had a look-see. The Cisco support is the 'an' driver for Cisco Aironet. All of the other support seems to be for ISA or PCMCIA, but no PCI. AFAICS, the problem is actually with broken PCI-PCMCIA bridge support rather than an issue with the 'wi' driver itself.
Reasonably interesting stuff, granted, but the really funny bit was the big-screen demo movie they had running on the stand. A little robot built out of some of these things and a controller board dragging a big pink Aibo ball around, taunting, and running rings around a Sony Aibo! The Aibo didn't stand a chance, this thing was kicking it's arse!
I always wanted an Aibo until I saw one in action. It was nothing but a stupid shit-fer-brains toy - you'd need a *real* imagination to consider that to be a pet.
Does anyone (a) know of an alternative known-good card that works, or (b) have a DLink DWL-520 (not 520+) that they wanna sell to little old me in Australia? :-)
OK, so what about those paperless office things, what are they called? :-)
'Phoenix' is like the 'Jane Smith' of the corporate world. Every company that ever went under, got bought out by the employees, and 'rose from the ashes' got names phoenix. Someone challenges you for using 'phoenix' as a name, and you cite 27,000 other people doing exactly the same thing, and tell them to take a hike. Beats being spammed to hell by a bunch of childish database wankers!
Oh, I know what SAGE is alright. Of course, my definition and yours might conflict.
'SAGE' is an acronym for 'Sanctimonious Arseholes, true Geeks Excluded'.
It is a fact of life that, faced with the inability to make any real contribution to a field or a situation, some people will revert to reinventing wheels in order to look busy and to make themselves feel good. This is what Kolstad is doing with this renaming business.
Fact is, SAGE make no contribution to the field, they are irrelevant. They're a small group of people who, unable to contribute meaningfully, need to be seen to be doing something in order to feel good about themselves.
Have you seen the SAGE people at a trade show recently? They're there, right down the back corner in the cheap section, usually wedged in between the disk box salesmen and the customised mousepad drone. They're conspicuous by the fact that nobody ever pays them any attention.