I've seen call center employees running 20 apps at the same time. When they started their shift, it took them 10 minutes to start all the apps and log in to all the systems. Some of them had 200+ accounts and passwords.
And some of those people couldn't format a floppy diskette to save their souls.
Unfortunately, a lot of mainframe software is hardcoded for 80x24 (or was it 80x25?).
I haven't had to sit in front of a bona-fide 3270 for ~10 years, but it was frustrating to realize that even if the terminal could change modes, most of the apps didn't benefit.
You're right, 3270 is pretty neat technology, but I sure didn't shed any tears when they hauled my green monster away and replaced it with an XTerm.
Chances are, your school has a hefty existing contract with one of the vendors bidding on your cluster. If you like that vendor, and they haven't fucked you over in the past, why not go with them?
The are less likely to take advantage, since they want to continue doing business with you. Your existing relationship will give you a little leverage.
Internet play is now supported, which beats the hell out of the null modem that I needed with Perfect General on my 486.
The graphics are dated, but the interface has improved, and you can now play at a decent resolution, i.e. see more of the map.
Speaking of interfaces, if you've ever tried to go back and play eg. Ultima IV, you realize how incredibly annoying those interfaces were, compared to what we're used to now. I can't play those games any more, they're too freaking annoying.
>Thanks but no thanks. I'd rather my/etc/fstab not be corrupted in the >event I edit/etc/hosts , try to save and sh*t happens.
Relax, this is old news! The Novell Netware filesystem did this 10 years ago, they called it "sub-block allocation". I never had a problem with it on my servers. I've never heard of anyone else having problems with it, either.
They're split into multiple files, but the A-Z keyspace will actually fit on 1 CD.
I just did a run off the CD, here's some of the output:
plaintext found: 4 of 5 (80.00%) total disk access time: 144.03 s total cryptanalysis time: 81.53 s total chain walk step: 31417316 total false alarm: 30646 total chain walk step due to false alarm: 22102890
The 52x CDROM is ~2 minutes slower then running from my HD, or about ~700% slower.
You could certainly argue that [A-Z] is not an effective crack, but it's so fast that I'm gonna keep that CD around:)
While Slashdotters often make fun of Windows admins, as you have found
out, its not as simple as you think it'd be.
No, and I've got the grey hairs to prove it.
Tip for the day:
A masochistic Windows admins bragging about how difficult it is to secure a Windows box is no more appealing or interesting than a hard core *nix guy bragging about how he does everything with/bin/ed over a 300 baud serial connection.
Source compiles under Linux just fine. NTFS read support is built in.
Good point, thx.
If you crack passwords from read-only media, where do you put the results?
/dev/tty
Or you could optionally output to a floppy.
The USB keychain drives are getting amazingly cheap. In a year, a 1GB keychain will probably be <$50. In 3 years, maybe I'll be able to keep the whole 180GB keyspace in my pocket:)
I took a closer look at the examples on the website. The database for [A-Z] is 610MB, which would leave lots of room for boot sector + freebie NTFSDOS.
A boot CD checking only alpha characters would still catch a surprising # of accounts, I bet.
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Maybe you need to play with a different group/DM?
Actually Toronto is damn warm compared to the rest of Canuckistan, because the Great Lakes are a giant heat-sink.
Torontonians are the butt of a lot of jokes up here, because of their abysmal cold-weather coping skills.
> companies where rapid solutions, fast and intelligent responses
> matter.
I've heard of those, but never worked at one.
Multitasking doesn't require technical knowledge.
I've seen call center employees running 20 apps at the same time. When they started their shift, it took them 10 minutes to start all the apps and log in to all the systems. Some of them had 200+ accounts and passwords.
And some of those people couldn't format a floppy diskette to save their souls.
No, but the US Gov't Department of Black Helicopters could easily archive it for them, or pay them to do it.
Unfortunately, a lot of mainframe software is hardcoded for 80x24 (or was it 80x25?).
I haven't had to sit in front of a bona-fide 3270 for ~10 years, but it was frustrating to realize that even if the terminal could change modes, most of the apps didn't benefit.
You're right, 3270 is pretty neat technology, but I sure didn't shed any tears when they hauled my green monster away and replaced it with an XTerm.
IBM 3270 terminals did 132 columns waaay before the PC existed.
Chances are, your school has a hefty existing contract with one of the vendors bidding on your cluster. If you like that vendor, and they haven't fucked you over in the past, why not go with them?
The are less likely to take advantage, since they want to continue doing business with you. Your existing relationship will give you a little leverage.
The poster's question implies he doesn't know enough about clusters to write a good RFP.
He sorta brought them up to modern standards.
Internet play is now supported, which beats the hell out of the null modem that I needed with Perfect General on my 486.
The graphics are dated, but the interface has improved, and you can now play at a decent resolution, i.e. see more of the map.
Speaking of interfaces, if you've ever tried to go back and play eg. Ultima IV, you realize how incredibly annoying those interfaces were, compared to what we're used to now. I can't play those games any more, they're too freaking annoying.
before you went out and bought all that gear?
>Thanks but no thanks. I'd rather my /etc/fstab not be corrupted in the /etc/hosts , try to save and sh*t happens.
>event I edit
Relax, this is old news! The Novell Netware filesystem did this 10 years ago, they called it "sub-block allocation". I never had a problem with it on my servers. I've never heard of anyone else having problems with it, either.
So fucking killfile him and STFU.
Here's a good starting place - Google groups has 36 thousand hits on my good buddy Derek Smart, PhD.
OT - Was Cmdr Taco involved in that flamewar? I dimly recall some talk about the "supreme taco commander".
Pffft.
I know people in New Brunswick who've been in town >1 year, and are still waiting for a GP.
Oh, you mean advsh?
Turn based strategy, kinda like Panzer General/Fantasy General.
Anyone who rolls out patches without testing in their own enviroment deserves whatever they get.
Patches for *any* software can cause problems, regardless of license.
I just did a run off the CD, here's some of the output:
The 52x CDROM is ~2 minutes slower then running from my HD, or about ~700% slower.You could certainly argue that [A-Z] is not an effective crack, but it's so fast that I'm gonna keep that CD around :)
Tip for the day:
Just write your virus in Perl - portability problems greatly reduced.
Or you could optionally output to a floppy.
The USB keychain drives are getting amazingly cheap. In a year, a 1GB keychain will probably be <$50. In 3 years, maybe I'll be able to keep the whole 180GB keyspace in my pocket :)
I took a closer look at the examples on the website. The database for [A-Z] is 610MB, which would leave lots of room for boot sector + freebie NTFSDOS.
A boot CD checking only alpha characters would still catch a surprising # of accounts, I bet.
Nifty.
How big do the hashes get? Could I comfortably fit rainbowcrack+database on a bootable CDROM?
I've learned a tremendous amount from my mistakes.
:)
I bet the various employers where I did the [learning|screwing up] wish I'd found another way to learn it