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Years ago, sometime around 1995. I remember hearing about research -- and seeing news clips on TV about a similar technology.
The Albany Medical Center in Upstate NY funded inhouse research into biofeedback devices for handicapped accessibility of computers. They showed an ANSI or VT100 terminal with a colored 'dot' that human test subjects could move about the screen after a bit of training.
I believe this was accomplished using magnetic resonance detectors of some sort on the surface of the skull. Im not completely sure about this part.
I always wondered what happened to that technology and why I had not heard anything since. Can anyone provide links/insight to back this up?.. or similar research along the same lines?
As someone who was put in this same situation at the end of '99. I can only say -- if the big boys were concerned -- it would not be a problem. Although its not a trivial problem, dynamic blocking rulesets on bordergate routers who get a rush of ICMP (or other sorts) of traffic to a single target would not be hard to block.
My small ISP which had been doing okay had been stranded without an uplink after a 150Mbit attack took out sprint links in our part of.ca. After the attack our ISP was quick to disconnect us with no alternatives we closed our doors (noone else in town wanted to touch us).
After the attack we were quick to contact the NOC of a few schools with unused 'open' blocks who refused to claim responsibility (of the DDoS packets) or fix the problem. About a month and a half later they had FBI knocking on their door after the ebay/yahoo etc attacks.
The question --
Do you think DDoS could be a tool for the bigger ISP's and players to squeeze smaller guys (ISP/ASP) out of business? I know that one quite is a stretch.
What other reasons have kept ``Tier-1'' networks from implementing fixes?
I know this is nothing special...
4:26pm up 421 days, 8:54,
... but this 2.2 (2.2.14-5.0smp) linux system has been running forever. Im a BSD zealot, and although 2.2.x has its problems, this kernel is pretty solid. It handles dozens of users all day every day running mission critical business applications.
Id like to hear anyone running 2.4 say the same.
BTW, Ive got 2.4 sitting on a test box and I decided a month ago Im not touching our current setup for those very reasons.
I remember reading about the five day CCNA+S (cisco certified network associate + security?) course SANS provides at their security conferance. This seems as the logical place to start, not to mention the networking potention of a SANS event.
I remembering reading someplace that many at the time attributed this to an experiment N.Tesla was running in the US; Trying to transmit usable electric current through the air. It was a theory of some that this experiment caused the damage on the other side of the planet. This along with utility companies realizing the downfall that would result if electricity was free to anyone who wanted to grab it out of air killed Tesla's final masterpiece of a project.
I live and work upstate at a manufacturing company. Although this is our primary presence, we do in fact have an office in NYC. After the ``WTC attack'' happened, the first thing I did, was ping a server in our NYC office.
No problems expected, our office in manhatten is located at 1775 Broadway in the NEWSWEEK building.
About a day or two passed, everything was still fine. All of a sudden our main factory T1 goes down, ouch, we'll have to fallback to ISDN, which of course was also down. It seems someplace upstream, a verizon T3 was out. All the data curcuits in the area where out. I called my local office to find the ISDN was out, because although the pop was local, the curcuit was of course routed through verizon's west street office.
Deluged with helpdesk calls, noone at uunet or verizon could take our calls. We called the local cable company and got a backup uplink onsite nextday. Upstream here was a qwest fibre feed -- now thats reliable.
I was mystified as to how the damage in NYC could have affected our curcuit here, 125 miles north of the city. The T1 was bouncing throughout the following week until power at west street was restored and equipment was again functioning. Note - all through this, our verizon->uunet link at 1775 broadway stayed up without a hitch.
Im not sure what anyone else experienced, but all Ive learned is if you think you are redundent, check your last mile. Depending on verizon is like depending on a politician's promise.
I would be interested to hear anyone with similar (or not) experiences.
I remember a 26k executable file, from the same people nearly two years ago or so. It rendered an island. I remember a PR saying they had a pay-version on CD which contained a fractile of earth -- fairly complete which took up a 1 or 2 cd set. What ever happened to this?
Does anyone else find it slightly odd that this almost 'anti-ibm' propoganda is popping up shortly after they publicised their stance on the DMCA? Nothing against the slashdot crew, but lots of companies make bad hardware, Ive used alot of it.
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Years ago, sometime around 1995. I remember hearing about research -- and seeing news clips on TV about a similar technology.
.. or similar research along the same lines?
The Albany Medical Center in Upstate NY funded inhouse research into biofeedback devices for handicapped accessibility of computers. They showed an ANSI or VT100 terminal with a colored 'dot' that human test subjects could move about the screen after a bit of training.
I believe this was accomplished using magnetic resonance detectors of some sort on the surface of the skull. Im not completely sure about this part.
I always wondered what happened to that technology and why I had not heard anything since. Can anyone provide links/insight to back this up?
As someone who was put in this same situation at the end of '99. I can only say -- if the big boys were concerned -- it would not be a problem. Although its not a trivial problem, dynamic blocking rulesets on bordergate routers who get a rush of ICMP (or other sorts) of traffic to a single target would not be hard to block.
.ca. After the attack our ISP was quick to disconnect us with no alternatives we closed our doors (noone else in town wanted to touch us).
My small ISP which had been doing okay had been stranded without an uplink after a 150Mbit attack took out sprint links in our part of
After the attack we were quick to contact the NOC of a few schools with unused 'open' blocks who refused to claim responsibility (of the DDoS packets) or fix the problem. About a month and a half later they had FBI knocking on their door after the ebay/yahoo etc attacks.
The question --
Do you think DDoS could be a tool for the bigger ISP's and players to squeeze smaller guys (ISP/ASP) out of business? I know that one quite is a stretch.
What other reasons have kept ``Tier-1'' networks from implementing fixes?
I know this is nothing special ...
4:26pm up 421 days, 8:54,
... but this 2.2 (2.2.14-5.0smp) linux system has been running forever. Im a BSD zealot, and although 2.2.x has its problems, this kernel is pretty solid. It handles dozens of users all day every day running mission critical business applications.
Id like to hear anyone running 2.4 say the same.
BTW, Ive got 2.4 sitting on a test box and I decided a month ago Im not touching our current setup for those very reasons.
The daemon has been known as 'Chuck' for years.
I remember reading about the five day CCNA+S (cisco certified network associate + security?) course SANS provides at their security conferance. This seems as the logical place to start, not to mention the networking potention of a SANS event.
If I had a list of reasons why I choose FreeBSD over Linux for servers (and for workstations), this would be in my top 3.
... and if I had a list, I would not let it start a flame war =)
I heard that same story too, see my post below 'You mean it wasnt Tesla?'. Just thought Id let you know that Croatian wasnt just some nut.
I remembering reading someplace that many at the time attributed this to an experiment N.Tesla was running in the US; Trying to transmit usable electric current through the air. It was a theory of some that this experiment caused the damage on the other side of the planet. This along with utility companies realizing the downfall that would result if electricity was free to anyone who wanted to grab it out of air killed Tesla's final masterpiece of a project.
or something like that
Havn't we already seen a few stories about this system?
I live and work upstate at a manufacturing company. Although this is our primary presence, we do in fact have an office in NYC. After the ``WTC attack'' happened, the first thing I did, was ping a server in our NYC office.
No problems expected, our office in manhatten is located at 1775 Broadway in the NEWSWEEK building.
About a day or two passed, everything was still fine. All of a sudden our main factory T1 goes down, ouch, we'll have to fallback to ISDN, which of course was also down. It seems someplace upstream, a verizon T3 was out. All the data curcuits in the area where out. I called my local office to find the ISDN was out, because although the pop was local, the curcuit was of course routed through verizon's west street office.
Deluged with helpdesk calls, noone at uunet or verizon could take our calls. We called the local cable company and got a backup uplink onsite nextday. Upstream here was a qwest fibre feed -- now thats reliable.
I was mystified as to how the damage in NYC could have affected our curcuit here, 125 miles north of the city. The T1 was bouncing throughout the following week until power at west street was restored and equipment was again functioning. Note - all through this, our verizon->uunet link at 1775 broadway stayed up without a hitch.
Im not sure what anyone else experienced, but all Ive learned is if you think you are redundent, check your last mile. Depending on verizon is like depending on a politician's promise.
I would be interested to hear anyone with similar (or not) experiences.
I remember a 26k executable file, from the same people nearly two years ago or so. It rendered an island. I remember a PR saying they had a pay-version on CD which contained a fractile of earth -- fairly complete which took up a 1 or 2 cd set. What ever happened to this?
Hey, It sucks to have a harddrive die, but if you wanted quality -- why go IBM? IBM has _always_ been known to make extremely unreliable drives.
Does anyone else find it slightly odd that this almost 'anti-ibm' propoganda is popping up shortly after they publicised their stance on the DMCA? Nothing against the slashdot crew, but lots of companies make bad hardware, Ive used alot of it.
.. maybe it is just a coincidence...
or
There is a big revamp of the rc scripts in the works for the FreeBSD 5.x-current.