"First step was getting the firmware patches onto a TFTP server near the switch (had to be less 3 hops from the switch, TFTP doesn't work over longer hops)."
I've tftp'd images to cisco's and ascend's across the Internet (many hops) without problems. It's not smart because if you loose your path to the server you're screwed, but it does work.
It was hard to find people who were willing to play Descent. It seems too many people were made physically ill by the realistic nothing-is-up-or-down environment.
My favorite part was when you blew up your opponents their "goodies" would float there for the taking.
The bastards released it during finals week. I set up a spare 386-40 in the frat house and it was played 24hrs/day for that whole week.
Oh yeah, I remember when Quake came out too. It did like 0.5 frames per second on my 486-120, so I never *ever* played it again. That machine would play Descent just fine.
They should send up a bunch of LEGO. It would have great theraputic and social benefits. They could also use it for "customizing" the station if necessary.
You might be surprised how fast and how little memory a C language CGI runs. Of course if
you are doing lots of DB queries each instance, you would benefit from a persistant app.
Now all NASDAQ needs to do is figure out how to *cool* a datacenter. Last time I was in their MD facility it was like 80 degrees. Of course that was a couple of years ago and I'm sure the fixed it by now...
Isn't computational physics a part of theoretical physics? It's just as valid a method of investigation as physical experiments (sometimes better). Perhaps your department chair depends on $$$ for physical experiments (i.e. particle accelerator) and wants to hear no talk of "computational physics".
The single most important feature lacking in Mozilla is speed. It's hard to believe anything would run slower than 4.x (especially on older machines), but it does. I would be much happier if they just released the source for Netscape 3 and let us hack on any necessary features (IMAP, modern javascript).
I think Mozilla is a great project, but does it really have to run so damn slow?
The hard drive copy protection is the most invasive and unfucking believably stupid idea yet.
First of all it issues massive, unprecedented prior restraint. Who says I'm ever going to write copyright protected content on it.
Second, it's a technological heinous crime. You should not ever introduce unnecessary complexity, latency, incompatilbility and additional failure modes to existing technology. Maybe I'm missing something here, but would you even be able to put Linux on such a hard drive? Would the kernel need a license key? It couldn't possibly be that bad. I must be reading it wrong.
I can't imaginge that hardware manufacturers would go along with this. If they are forced by new laws, that would be legislating a bad technology solution to a business model problem. How dumb!
Ok, styrafoam is bad, but McD has not yet found a suitable replacement that keeps the hot side hot and the cool side cool. Man that was a great sandwitch (compared to the regular stomach grenades).
What were they thinking? "Hey, let's design a failure mode into the kernel!"
Why couldn't it optionally enable features specific to a detected chip, starting with 386
as default?
This is just as bad as a BIOS that halts on any error. That's the kind of thing that makes remote server rebooting extremely dangerous. The system should be designed to work at all cost, and send errors to syslog if there is any reason for concern.
After reading the report, the following is quite clear:
1. Carnivore explicitly has the ability and functionality to collect any and all IP traffic, not just email, delivered to it's network interface (just like a packet sniffer). This means that "Carnivore is an email tap" is DOJ spin. In reality it is a complete IP tap and should be publicized/discussed as such. I doubt a court order would restrict tapping to just email.
2. It is up to the FBI's internal procedures and trustworthiness to prevent or discourage "overcollection" (fishing expeditions)
3. The report points out that civil remedies exist to fix "overcollectoin" after the fact.
(I hope you can afford a good lawyer).
4. They use PC Anywhere to dialin to the carnivore box. Oh yeah, that's safe!
The real unknown now is exactly *what* traffic is redirected (tapped) to the carnivore box? Exactly where in an ISP's topology does this redirection or "tapping" occur? Only for dialup customers? T1 customers? T3? Nebraska and Deluth or only in big cities?
Hopefully this will force them to admit that the system uses transparent redirection (like on high end switches) to redirect smtp/pop/imap traffic through the carnivore box. There is absolutely no other way for a 350MHz pII to log "all unfiltered" traffic at a pop site to a 1GB hard drive.
The real question is exactly where this redirection occurrs, and what subscriber links bypass it (if any).
This should dispell any idea that Carnivore was just to be put in front of the ISP's email srevers.
It is *not* hard to set up Solaris, sendmail, imap,pop and ldap. Perhaps what you meant is it takes different skill sets. True, an MCSE might not have those skills. Minesweeper != sendmail:)
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... anyone with a machine using little endian to write to ...
So what? Everyone knows that no important data is stored on little endian machines!
(man, where did that quote come from anyway, I can't find it with google).
First none of the sysadmins read /. at 2am, now the editors don't read it either. If you guys don't read your own shit, why should we?
"First step was getting the firmware patches onto a TFTP server near the switch (had to be less 3 hops from the switch, TFTP doesn't work over longer hops)."
I've tftp'd images to cisco's and ascend's across the Internet (many hops) without problems. It's not smart because if you loose your path to the server you're screwed, but it does work.
That's really cool! Of course it looks like they copied the color scheme from BrickShelf
It was hard to find people who were willing to play Descent. It seems too many people were made physically ill by the realistic nothing-is-up-or-down environment.
My favorite part was when you blew up your opponents their "goodies" would float there for the taking.
The bastards released it during finals week. I set up a spare 386-40 in the frat house and it was played 24hrs/day for that whole week.
Oh yeah, I remember when Quake came out too. It did like 0.5 frames per second on my 486-120, so I never *ever* played it again. That machine would play Descent just fine.
They should send up a bunch of LEGO. It would have great theraputic and social benefits. They could also use it for "customizing" the station if necessary.
You are fired. Pack your bags.
The funny thing is that most of Slashdot's ads are actually just as entertaining as the rest of the content.
You might be surprised how fast and how little memory a C language CGI runs. Of course if
you are doing lots of DB queries each instance, you would benefit from a persistant app.
If the NSA puts their stamp of approval on an encryption algorythm for public use, you can damn well expect that they can compromise it.
It's like asking a burgular which locks to use.
What happens when the authentication server no longer exists? Do you still own the software? Did you ever?
Won't it be strange to see Gnome running on a Mac?
Remember Hackers where everyone was using a Mac? Or The Net where every computer must have had a 3D card and a T3? Hollywood is so full of shit.
00s of E10ks? 100s!??!!? **NO** site has 100s of them
I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA had 100's of them. I would be surprised if someone who worked there ever told anyone about it.
like NASDAQ
Now all NASDAQ needs to do is figure out how to *cool* a datacenter. Last time I was in their MD facility it was like 80 degrees. Of course that was a couple of years ago and I'm sure the fixed it by now...
Two hours? I'm not surprised...the memory check on 64GB would take fricking forever
OK>setenv selftest-#megs 1
problem solved. Now all Solaris needs is a background fsck (or jfs) so that part doesn't take forever.
Isn't computational physics a part of theoretical physics? It's just as valid a method of investigation as physical experiments (sometimes better). Perhaps your department chair depends on $$$ for physical experiments (i.e. particle accelerator) and wants to hear no talk of "computational physics".
Or you could bump yourself up by another factor of 10 and take physics. Or you could reduce yourself by a factor of 1000 and take chemistry :)
The single most important feature lacking in Mozilla is speed. It's hard to believe anything would run slower than 4.x (especially on older machines), but it does. I would be much happier if they just released the source for Netscape 3 and let us hack on any necessary features (IMAP, modern javascript).
I think Mozilla is a great project, but does it really have to run so damn slow?
The hard drive copy protection is the most invasive and unfucking believably stupid idea yet.
First of all it issues massive, unprecedented prior restraint. Who says I'm ever going to write copyright protected content on it.
Second, it's a technological heinous crime. You should not ever introduce unnecessary complexity, latency, incompatilbility and additional failure modes to existing technology. Maybe I'm missing something here, but would you even be able to put Linux on such a hard drive? Would the kernel need a license key? It couldn't possibly be that bad. I must be reading it wrong.
I can't imaginge that hardware manufacturers would go along with this. If they are forced by new laws, that would be legislating a bad technology solution to a business model problem. How dumb!
Ok, styrafoam is bad, but McD has not yet found a suitable replacement that keeps the hot side hot and the cool side cool. Man that was a great sandwitch (compared to the regular stomach grenades).
What were they thinking? "Hey, let's design a failure mode into the kernel!"
Why couldn't it optionally enable features specific to a detected chip, starting with 386
as default?
This is just as bad as a BIOS that halts on any error. That's the kind of thing that makes remote server rebooting extremely dangerous. The system should be designed to work at all cost, and send errors to syslog if there is any reason for concern.
After reading the report, the following is quite clear:
1. Carnivore explicitly has the ability and functionality to collect any and all IP traffic, not just email, delivered to it's network interface (just like a packet sniffer). This means that "Carnivore is an email tap" is DOJ spin. In reality it is a complete IP tap and should be publicized/discussed as such. I doubt a court order would restrict tapping to just email.
2. It is up to the FBI's internal procedures and trustworthiness to prevent or discourage "overcollection" (fishing expeditions)
3. The report points out that civil remedies exist to fix "overcollectoin" after the fact.
(I hope you can afford a good lawyer).
4. They use PC Anywhere to dialin to the carnivore box. Oh yeah, that's safe!
The real unknown now is exactly *what* traffic is redirected (tapped) to the carnivore box? Exactly where in an ISP's topology does this redirection or "tapping" occur? Only for dialup customers? T1 customers? T3? Nebraska and Deluth or only in big cities?
Hopefully this will force them to admit that the system uses transparent redirection (like on high end switches) to redirect smtp/pop/imap traffic through the carnivore box. There is absolutely no other way for a 350MHz pII to log "all unfiltered" traffic at a pop site to a 1GB hard drive.
The real question is exactly where this redirection occurrs, and what subscriber links bypass it (if any).
This should dispell any idea that Carnivore was just to be put in front of the ISP's email srevers.
It is *not* hard to set up Solaris, sendmail, imap,pop and ldap. Perhaps what you meant is it takes different skill sets. True, an MCSE might not have those skills. Minesweeper != sendmail :)