Then add in something like a hard drive password, those are stored on the platter.
Wrong aproach. Instead add hard drive encryption. The key is not stored on the platter. The key must be manualy entered by the user to mount the encrypted volume. No amount of chip jumpering will provide the correct key or magicaly mount the encrypted volume as plaintext. My NAS uses this feature. It is one of the reasons I picked that model. Powering it down to remove the box either with the power switch or just unplugging it secures the drive as it is already encrypted. Upon re-powering it, the encryption key will need to be entered to remount the volume, no exceptions.
Your only options are to brute force the password, or wipe the drive and start over. Both options go a long way to secure the data from unauthorised eyes. (My key is not on a post-it anywhere near my desk. Check my bank safety deposit box for the key in the event of my passing for my banking data. See the will for the details.)
There is no such thing as security when you have physical access to the device.
Sure there is. My NAS has drive encryption. If you take it, you will also need the key to remount the volume. You may have the physical drive, but breaking the encryption may take you a while to brute force. The barrier caused by the encryption does provide some security even though you may have physical access to the device. Since the NAS is a small physical device, it is also easy to hide someplace on the wired LAN. Your chances of picking it up when you swipe the PC's is slim. Hint, don't look in the locked alarm cabinet. It's an item seldom opened during a burglary. Most of the time, crooks are just interested in silencing the local horn and clipping the phone line so the alarm can't phone home. Good alarms have built-in cellphone backup. Most homeowners don't have this option because of the additional cell subscription cost.
Disclaimer I used to work in the alarm industry and installed some cellphone backup alarms in jewlery stores. I know of one that did use the cell to phone home one night.
Only a matter of time.. sooner, now, with the AppleTV box.
or Linux MCE. I have the media server up. I am still building the PC on an E6700 Core 2 Dueo chip as funds come in. Memory and a hot video card are next.
Well, that's the thing. I wouldn't -buy- DRM'd files
The root of the problem is the DRM titles look exactly like a non-DRM title in many cases. That was the case with the DVD. I found out it had problems when I couldn't rip it with Acidrip. I then found out online that SONY has a set of DRM'ed DVD's. There are enough DRM'ed CD's out there that the absence of the Compact Disk logo on anything has poisoned the pot to the point I simply don't bother buying CD's anymore. SONY is starting to do the same favor to DVD's. Hopefully the recall and exchange program is the end of their dirft into DRM DVD.
Really?... That's pretty interesting. I'd have thought Sony would have a DMCA lawsuit in the mail to you the instant you mentioned ripping one of their DVDs.
I did take a risk admiting to them I was ripping the DVD. I honestly told them what player I was having trouble with(AcidRip). I hope they add it to their database. However in light of the recent MPAA announcement and the Kalidascope decision, I took an educated risk that they were not willing to sue a buying consumer. If I posted it on Bit-Torrent, I'm sure the results would not be the same. Distribution is still a probelm for them. Ripping it to a media server and for the kid's Zen Vision is a grey area and they are not willing to lose as a prcedence setting case in court. The flow is curently pro-consumer use of mobile phones, video MP3 players, and Multimedia PC's. The biggie for them is I bought one of their movies and I may stop because they don't work due to DRM. They are in damage control at the moment. Killing retail sales is not a good thing at this time. Pushing DRM and suing because I am putting the purchased movie on a home media server is not in their best intrest at the moment. I took the opertunity to let them know how I use purchased DVD's. I made it clear killing use will kill sales. If SONY DVD's don't work on my system then I won't buy them. In spite of DRM, I still have a vote at the retail counter and they know it. I made sure I voted and made it clear how to win my vote in the future.
In fact, I'm strongly considering switching from iPod to Zen Vision to get the To Go service.
I'm on the other side of the fence. I've stayed with easy to use formats such as MP3 and only use services that cater to the consumer instead of trying to herd people into a walled garden someplace. When I get a file, I expect to play it on my Linux PC, Living room DVD player (Plays MP3 CD's), Car Stereo (same as DVD player), as well as my off brand MP3 flash player (Non-DRM MP3 & WMA). Selling a limited function file for a high price at lower than the bitrates I use in the wrong format is a deal breaker.
The only reason I tolorate DVD's is because CSS is essentualy broken. I can rip DVD's, add them to my media server and preserve the originals. To top it off, I can buy recent DVD's between 2-4 of them for $20 unlike CD's. I can buy realy old stuff for under $1 unlike CD's. The recent Kalidascope case and the announcement recently by the MPAA showes a shift of content to portable devices such as the Zen Video and media servers on a home LAN is OK. The MPAA seem to be getting a clue. SONY is slowly being drug onboard with their latest batch of DRM'ed DVD's. I got one and I called them. Even though I explained I was having trouble ripping it to my Media Center fileserver, they are sending me a replacement DVD of Open Season. I hope this trend continues. They did not try to educate me that ripping the DVD is bad. The MPAA is learning from the RIAA, that overprotection of content hurts sales. SONY has gone a long way in damage control. They did not even ask for a reciept for shipping a replacement DVD. Nice Touch.
Thats why I have a little switch on my box that automatically self destructs the hard drive if anyone tries to open or move the case. Maybe I've played too many hacker games.;-P
May I suggest an off the shelf solution?
Look into the SimpleShare NAS with version 1.02-1.07 version of firmware. 1.09 lost the encryption. If it is shut down, the encrypted partition (they call it pool) un-mounts and does not remount. To mount the encrypted pool so you can use the folders, you have to enter the configuration utility (like a router) and enter the encryption key. Resetting the drive may get you past the configuration utility password by resetting to defaults, but it does not get you past the un-mounted encrypted pool. I have one just for taxes, banking, and other sensitive information. Physicaly removing the drive locks the encrypted data. Hacker games or not, data security is important for identity theft.
The RIAA thanks you for your support in its fight against piracy and theft.
I haven't purchased any CD's lately because they are overpriced, lower quality (compressed to sound loud), and might not work properly to the point of damaging the operating system on a computer (DRM).
For less money I can and do buy buy better content for less money. (Recent DVD's 2 or 3 for $20) I can Rip them to my media server (see recent MPAA ARS article on Slashdot and the Kalidascope rulling).
Even the recent SONY copy protected DVD's seem to have had to be recalled. I'm avoiding the SONY DVD's for the time being until I figure out where they are on this issue going forward. I got burnt on their release of Open Season. I'm going to see if the replacement disk works OK.
Both the music industry and DVD industry MUST do a better job labeling their defective by design products so I know what to avoid in the future. Poisoning the whole barrel is what has kept me from buying CD's along with high prices and low value. It is very hard to find a Compact Disk logo on a shiny round music disc anymore to assure me it is a real Compact Disc tm.
For Windows and other OS'es on a laptop, a PCMCIA card is a simple solution. Most of the time you use the built in NIC. For other activities, use a slide in card. I use that for road warrier stuff. The built in connection is for my home LAN (Static IP & Gateway) and the slide in is for on the road (DHCP Lease). Having an extra slide in card is trivial. Making it vanish is trivial. Explaining it away is simple. My old one broke/lost and it has been replaced. Using it with a spoofed MAC for each session is simple. Using it on a live CD leaves no traceable footprints when you use a USB drive.
I always thought it was a bad idea to take a limited resource such as Oxygen, combine it with Carbon and then remove the product from the natural order. It is an inconvienent truth Oxygen is an element of a finite supply. Why would we want to deplete the Oxygen? Think about it.. CO2 is one carbon and two oxygen. For every carbon we store away, we are storing away 2 Oxygen. I think more effort needs to be made on releasing the Oxygen back to where it belongs or simply burning less carbon in the first place so the natural process can keep up.
Dry Ice is a by-product of the air products industry. Air is cooled to condense it. Valuable gasses are fractionaly distilled out such as Oxygen, Argon, etc. CO2 is mostly a byproduct of the process. It is one of the reasons it is relatively cheap in bulk compaired to the other gasses. The bulk of air is Nitrogen. It is cheap enough to be used as a refrigerant in addition to being used for it's chemical properties.
Argon is a valuable inert gass used in welding and manufacturing. Oxygen is valuable in medical, manufacturing and welding. By comparison CO2 and Nitrogen are surplus gasses left over from the manufacturing process. CO2 and water must be removed ahead of time so the solids do not plug the plumbing. (Helium comes from natural gas. It's too rare in the atmosphere to distill commercialy. It is present in natural gas as a by-product of radioactive decay.)
"Most commercial oxygen is produced using a variation of the cryogenic distillation process originally developed in 1895. This process produces oxygen that is 99+% pure. More recently, the more energy-efficient vacuum swing adsorption process has been used for a limited number of applications that do not require oxygen with more than 90-93% purity."
"Because this process utilizes an extremely cold cryogenic section to separate the air, all impurities that might solidify--such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, and certain heavy hydrocarbons--must first be removed to prevent them from freezing and plugging the cryogenic piping."
It's just hard for me to believe that kids are at the local Starbucks checking out some porn.
I have another reason to believe kids are not going to Starbucks for free WiFi. Starbucks doesn't have free wireless. The service is provided by T-Mobile. I used to think Starbucks had free WiFi and went to one on my travels to use it. It was at Starbucks I learned the truth. While at Starbucks, I found an open WiFi network and used it instead. (not for porn)
The number of clogged print heads due to non-brand ink was enormous.(1) I rarely saw a warrented printer with our ink clogged.*
To tell the truth, I have limited my refills to printers with integrated printheads such as the HP722c and the HP950. I have heard the horror stories and know enough to avoid most of the pitfalls. On of the pitfalls is the HP950 for example remembers the last 2 cartridge serial numbers. Puttin a refilled cart right back in will not reset the estimated ink level. The solution is to rotate a stock of 3 cartridges. Keep 1 new cart on hand in the event one dies or you need a super quality print.
1) There was also the mess it made on the platen as well.
I've never had that problem. That is usualy an issue with overfilled cartridges that drool. HP carts work under a spring driven partial vacuum. I fill them, then draw the air bubble out of the cartridge through the printhead setting the partial vacuum. I've had no issues with printhead drool. It's all related to knowing how they work and knowing what you are doing. Drilling a hole and squirting in some ink is not the way to do it.
Only on slashdot would poor prints and fucked up printheads be considered a "win". Sometimes you all are too cheap for your own good.
Having a choice to have cheap poor prints is the issue. I buy my black ink at $14 per Pint, not $28 per 28 mL. When the print quality is not noticable after 5 refills, I can chose to put in a new cart. The point being I have a choice.
Screwing up a printer is not an issue. In the above 5 refills example I spent less than $14 instead of $28 * 5. The savings has already paid for the next printer and then some. My last printer failure was not due to refills. It was due to use and age. That printer had over 100 refills run through it. The savings in ink is enough to buy a very nice laptop. I simply wore out the drive belt. Refills are only partialy to blame as I felt free to print more proofs of my work. It was the use of the printer, not the brand of ink that led to the failure.
Some Slashdotters like to choose to plug money pits and stop throwing money in them.
Corporate bean counters will quickly catch on if this printer is more expensive to run than the competition. This will limit the price per page. Free market economy has natural balances.
Flash has the very obtrusive lack of end user control that makes many webpage advertisements in your face, noisy, and cover up the content. I found the easy solution on Linux is to set up a couple user accounts. Flash does not install to all accounts by default. It has to be installed per account.
When I visit Yahoo, I do so with the flash not installed account. When I want to catch the latest Google Videos such as as the cell phone videos of the Sadam Hanging or the Virgina Tech shootings, I use the Flash enabled account.
I don't think you have that luxury in a Windows machine. Getting Flash removed was a major pain in the backside. They didn't make it easy. Keeping it off was even harder since the kids had an account. After moving to Linux, the problem has been solved.
Audio-CD's with copy-protection cannot have the Compact Disc label. To have that label, they must conform to RedBook (Not sure about the color... some kind of color-book)
The problem is everyone thought they knew what a CD looked like after a while, so they stopped paying Phillips for the logo. Without the logo, they did whatever they pleased and put them on the shelf next to the real CD's which finaly vanished.
Try this for an excerise. Go to your local music retailer and pick out a couple dozen CD's. Put back any without any Philips Compact Disc logo. Take what is left of the $5 bill you took with you and have lunch.
Red Book is the original Audio Compact Disc specification. Orange Book covers a multi-session CD that may contain other content such as a music video.
nobody's going to believe you're a real, unpaid poster.
True. I thought that after I hit send. Maybe I should have posted several other NAS in a box items. I have 2 of these and use them for media storage instead of a PC. It's cheaper to use a NAS then upgrade 3 PC's and 2 laptops with larger drives. My P-III only has a 30 Gig drive and my laptop only has a 20. They both play movies from the servers just fine. It saves lots of local storage space for files used all over the house.
Linksys, Buffalo, Seagate, and others also have NAS solutions. I picked the one I did because of the encryption. If it is shut off or powered down the encrypted shares do not auto mount on power up. I use that for my tax returns, banking info, and other sensitive information. If you walk off with my drive, good luck.
1 The configuration menu is password protected. A factory reset will fix that. 2 The encrypted partition won't mount without entering the encryption key even after a factory reset. No key, no data recovery. You can delete the encrypted partition, but not access it. I like that.
Here is a Linux package without the bulk and power requirements of a PC. The wall wart to power it is rated at 36 Watts max. It provides disk encryption, user based or share based access control, SMB and nfs. With the addition of external USB drives it provides RAID mirroring and striping. If you don't use RAID, it can simply expand using external USB drives. If you are not using both USB ports for drives, it can be used as a USB printserver.
For the ultimate geek, the firmware is hackable. You can add telenet for example. No warranty for making a brick however.
Units other than the 160 Gig model have a 3 year warranty. (I've used it. I mis-configured the software by enabling user based rights and share password based rights (a no-no that is not documented) and they recovered it under warranty.
Drive spin-down works except under version 1.07 of the firmware where drive health monitoring keeps it awake.
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Then add in something like a hard drive password, those are stored on the platter.
Wrong aproach. Instead add hard drive encryption. The key is not stored on the platter. The key must be manualy entered by the user to mount the encrypted volume. No amount of chip jumpering will provide the correct key or magicaly mount the encrypted volume as plaintext. My NAS uses this feature. It is one of the reasons I picked that model. Powering it down to remove the box either with the power switch or just unplugging it secures the drive as it is already encrypted. Upon re-powering it, the encryption key will need to be entered to remount the volume, no exceptions.
Your only options are to brute force the password, or wipe the drive and start over. Both options go a long way to secure the data from unauthorised eyes. (My key is not on a post-it anywhere near my desk. Check my bank safety deposit box for the key in the event of my passing for my banking data. See the will for the details.)
There is no such thing as security when you have physical access to the device.
Sure there is. My NAS has drive encryption. If you take it, you will also need the key to remount the volume. You may have the physical drive, but breaking the encryption may take you a while to brute force. The barrier caused by the encryption does provide some security even though you may have physical access to the device. Since the NAS is a small physical device, it is also easy to hide someplace on the wired LAN. Your chances of picking it up when you swipe the PC's is slim. Hint, don't look in the locked alarm cabinet. It's an item seldom opened during a burglary. Most of the time, crooks are just interested in silencing the local horn and clipping the phone line so the alarm can't phone home. Good alarms have built-in cellphone backup. Most homeowners don't have this option because of the additional cell subscription cost.
Disclaimer I used to work in the alarm industry and installed some cellphone backup alarms in jewlery stores. I know of one that did use the cell to phone home one night.
Only a matter of time.. sooner, now, with the AppleTV box.
or Linux MCE. I have the media server up. I am still building the PC on an E6700 Core 2 Dueo chip as funds come in. Memory and a hot video card are next.
Well, that's the thing. I wouldn't -buy- DRM'd files
The root of the problem is the DRM titles look exactly like a non-DRM title in many cases. That was the case with the DVD. I found out it had problems when I couldn't rip it with Acidrip. I then found out online that SONY has a set of DRM'ed DVD's. There are enough DRM'ed CD's out there that the absence of the Compact Disk logo on anything has poisoned the pot to the point I simply don't bother buying CD's anymore. SONY is starting to do the same favor to DVD's. Hopefully the recall and exchange program is the end of their dirft into DRM DVD.
Really?... That's pretty interesting. I'd have thought Sony would have a DMCA lawsuit in the mail to you the instant you mentioned ripping one of their DVDs.
I did take a risk admiting to them I was ripping the DVD. I honestly told them what player I was having trouble with(AcidRip). I hope they add it to their database. However in light of the recent MPAA announcement and the Kalidascope decision, I took an educated risk that they were not willing to sue a buying consumer. If I posted it on Bit-Torrent, I'm sure the results would not be the same. Distribution is still a probelm for them. Ripping it to a media server and for the kid's Zen Vision is a grey area and they are not willing to lose as a prcedence setting case in court. The flow is curently pro-consumer use of mobile phones, video MP3 players, and Multimedia PC's. The biggie for them is I bought one of their movies and I may stop because they don't work due to DRM. They are in damage control at the moment. Killing retail sales is not a good thing at this time. Pushing DRM and suing because I am putting the purchased movie on a home media server is not in their best intrest at the moment. I took the opertunity to let them know how I use purchased DVD's. I made it clear killing use will kill sales. If SONY DVD's don't work on my system then I won't buy them. In spite of DRM, I still have a vote at the retail counter and they know it. I made sure I voted and made it clear how to win my vote in the future.
In fact, I'm strongly considering switching from iPod to Zen Vision to get the To Go service.
I'm on the other side of the fence. I've stayed with easy to use formats such as MP3 and only use services that cater to the consumer instead of trying to herd people into a walled garden someplace. When I get a file, I expect to play it on my Linux PC, Living room DVD player (Plays MP3 CD's), Car Stereo (same as DVD player), as well as my off brand MP3 flash player (Non-DRM MP3 & WMA). Selling a limited function file for a high price at lower than the bitrates I use in the wrong format is a deal breaker.
The only reason I tolorate DVD's is because CSS is essentualy broken. I can rip DVD's, add them to my media server and preserve the originals. To top it off, I can buy recent DVD's between 2-4 of them for $20 unlike CD's. I can buy realy old stuff for under $1 unlike CD's. The recent Kalidascope case and the announcement recently by the MPAA showes a shift of content to portable devices such as the Zen Video and media servers on a home LAN is OK. The MPAA seem to be getting a clue. SONY is slowly being drug onboard with their latest batch of DRM'ed DVD's. I got one and I called them. Even though I explained I was having trouble ripping it to my Media Center fileserver, they are sending me a replacement DVD of Open Season. I hope this trend continues. They did not try to educate me that ripping the DVD is bad. The MPAA is learning from the RIAA, that overprotection of content hurts sales. SONY has gone a long way in damage control. They did not even ask for a reciept for shipping a replacement DVD. Nice Touch.
Thats why I have a little switch on my box that automatically self destructs the hard drive if anyone tries to open or move the case. Maybe I've played too many hacker games. ;-P
May I suggest an off the shelf solution?
Look into the SimpleShare NAS with version 1.02-1.07 version of firmware. 1.09 lost the encryption.
If it is shut down, the encrypted partition (they call it pool) un-mounts and does not remount. To mount the encrypted pool so you can use the folders, you have to enter the configuration utility (like a router) and enter the encryption key. Resetting the drive may get you past the configuration utility password by resetting to defaults, but it does not get you past the un-mounted encrypted pool. I have one just for taxes, banking, and other sensitive information. Physicaly removing the drive locks the encrypted data. Hacker games or not, data security is important for identity theft.
The RIAA thanks you for your support in its fight against piracy and theft.
I haven't purchased any CD's lately because they are overpriced, lower quality (compressed to sound loud), and might not work properly to the point of damaging the operating system on a computer (DRM).
For less money I can and do buy buy better content for less money. (Recent DVD's 2 or 3 for $20)
I can Rip them to my media server (see recent MPAA ARS article on Slashdot and the Kalidascope rulling).
Even the recent SONY copy protected DVD's seem to have had to be recalled. I'm avoiding the SONY DVD's for the time being until I figure out where they are on this issue going forward. I got burnt on their release of Open Season. I'm going to see if the replacement disk works OK.
Both the music industry and DVD industry MUST do a better job labeling their defective by design products so I know what to avoid in the future. Poisoning the whole barrel is what has kept me from buying CD's along with high prices and low value. It is very hard to find a Compact Disk logo on a shiny round music disc anymore to assure me it is a real Compact Disc tm.
Hey RIAA - read this first.
For Windows and other OS'es on a laptop, a PCMCIA card is a simple solution. Most of the time you use the built in NIC. For other activities, use a slide in card. I use that for road warrier stuff. The built in connection is for my home LAN (Static IP & Gateway) and the slide in is for on the road (DHCP Lease). Having an extra slide in card is trivial. Making it vanish is trivial. Explaining it away is simple. My old one broke/lost and it has been replaced. Using it with a spoofed MAC for each session is simple. Using it on a live CD leaves no traceable footprints when you use a USB drive.
I always thought it was a bad idea to take a limited resource such as Oxygen, combine it with Carbon and then remove the product from the natural order. It is an inconvienent truth Oxygen is an element of a finite supply. Why would we want to deplete the Oxygen? Think about it.. CO2 is one carbon and two oxygen. For every carbon we store away, we are storing away 2 Oxygen. I think more effort needs to be made on releasing the Oxygen back to where it belongs or simply burning less carbon in the first place so the natural process can keep up.
Are we beginning our next crisis?
Dry Ice is a by-product of the air products industry. Air is cooled to condense it. Valuable gasses are fractionaly distilled out such as Oxygen, Argon, etc. CO2 is mostly a byproduct of the process. It is one of the reasons it is relatively cheap in bulk compaired to the other gasses. The bulk of air is Nitrogen. It is cheap enough to be used as a refrigerant in addition to being used for it's chemical properties.
Argon is a valuable inert gass used in welding and manufacturing. Oxygen is valuable in medical, manufacturing and welding. By comparison CO2 and Nitrogen are surplus gasses left over from the manufacturing process. CO2 and water must be removed ahead of time so the solids do not plug the plumbing. (Helium comes from natural gas. It's too rare in the atmosphere to distill commercialy. It is present in natural gas as a by-product of radioactive decay.)
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-4/Oxygen.html
"Most commercial oxygen is produced using a variation of the cryogenic distillation process originally developed in 1895. This process produces oxygen that is 99+% pure. More recently, the more energy-efficient vacuum swing adsorption process has been used for a limited number of applications that do not require oxygen with more than 90-93% purity."
"Because this process utilizes an extremely cold cryogenic section to separate the air, all impurities that might solidify--such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, and certain heavy hydrocarbons--must first be removed to prevent them from freezing and plugging the cryogenic piping."
PROTIP:
This is Slashdot. I don't get paid to post.. I'm an amature. At my other job I get paid for what I do well.
the internet is a series of tubes, and tubes can't run through thin air, that's preposterous
h tm
Not really..
http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/dir-003/_0401.
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-skip
It's just hard for me to believe that kids are at the local Starbucks checking out some porn.
I have another reason to believe kids are not going to Starbucks for free WiFi. Starbucks doesn't have free wireless. The service is provided by T-Mobile. I used to think Starbucks had free WiFi and went to one on my travels to use it. It was at Starbucks I learned the truth. While at Starbucks, I found an open WiFi network and used it instead. (not for porn)
The number of clogged print heads due to non-brand ink was enormous.(1) I rarely saw a warrented printer with our ink clogged.*
To tell the truth, I have limited my refills to printers with integrated printheads such as the HP722c and the HP950. I have heard the horror stories and know enough to avoid most of the pitfalls. On of the pitfalls is the HP950 for example remembers the last 2 cartridge serial numbers. Puttin a refilled cart right back in will not reset the estimated ink level. The solution is to rotate a stock of 3 cartridges. Keep 1 new cart on hand in the event one dies or you need a super quality print.
1) There was also the mess it made on the platen as well.
I've never had that problem. That is usualy an issue with overfilled cartridges that drool. HP carts work under a spring driven partial vacuum. I fill them, then draw the air bubble out of the cartridge through the printhead setting the partial vacuum. I've had no issues with printhead drool. It's all related to knowing how they work and knowing what you are doing. Drilling a hole and squirting in some ink is not the way to do it.
Only on slashdot would poor prints and fucked up printheads be considered a "win". Sometimes you all are too cheap for your own good.
Having a choice to have cheap poor prints is the issue. I buy my black ink at $14 per Pint, not $28 per 28 mL. When the print quality is not noticable after 5 refills, I can chose to put in a new cart. The point being I have a choice.
Screwing up a printer is not an issue. In the above 5 refills example I spent less than $14 instead of $28 * 5. The savings has already paid for the next printer and then some. My last printer failure was not due to refills. It was due to use and age. That printer had over 100 refills run through it. The savings in ink is enough to buy a very nice laptop. I simply wore out the drive belt. Refills are only partialy to blame as I felt free to print more proofs of my work. It was the use of the printer, not the brand of ink that led to the failure.
Some Slashdotters like to choose to plug money pits and stop throwing money in them.
So this is what they're doing to stop refillers.
This won't stop refills. It just means the refills will be Epson or Cannon instead of HP.
Or is that included in the per page price?
Corporate bean counters will quickly catch on if this printer is more expensive to run than the competition.
This will limit the price per page. Free market economy has natural balances.
Flash has the very obtrusive lack of end user control that makes many webpage advertisements in your face, noisy, and cover up the content. I found the easy solution on Linux is to set up a couple user accounts. Flash does not install to all accounts by default. It has to be installed per account.
When I visit Yahoo, I do so with the flash not installed account. When I want to catch the latest Google Videos such as as the cell phone videos of the Sadam Hanging or the Virgina Tech shootings, I use the Flash enabled account.
I don't think you have that luxury in a Windows machine. Getting Flash removed was a major pain in the backside. They didn't make it easy. Keeping it off was even harder since the kids had an account. After moving to Linux, the problem has been solved.
Otherwise, you're paying a license to SoundExchange, period. They administer the statutory license.
Somehow I forsee many webcasters changing formats.. If music is out of reach, then talk radio is all that is left.
Audio-CD's with copy-protection cannot have the Compact Disc label. To have that label, they must conform to RedBook (Not sure about the color... some kind of color-book)
The problem is everyone thought they knew what a CD looked like after a while, so they stopped paying Phillips for the logo. Without the logo, they did whatever they pleased and put them on the shelf next to the real CD's which finaly vanished.
Try this for an excerise. Go to your local music retailer and pick out a couple dozen CD's. Put back any without any Philips Compact Disc logo. Take what is left of the $5 bill you took with you and have lunch.
Red Book is the original Audio Compact Disc specification. Orange Book covers a multi-session CD that may contain other content such as a music video.
That's what you say! I can see your ssh port open, and I'm already in! Count down to "rm -rf /": five, four, three, two...
Damn... That command asks for the administratior password. Anybody know the root password?
nobody's going to believe you're a real, unpaid poster.
True. I thought that after I hit send. Maybe I should have posted several other NAS in a box items. I have 2 of these and use them for media storage instead of a PC. It's cheaper to use a NAS then upgrade 3 PC's and 2 laptops with larger drives. My P-III only has a 30 Gig drive and my laptop only has a 20. They both play movies from the servers just fine. It saves lots of local storage space for files used all over the house.
Linksys, Buffalo, Seagate, and others also have NAS solutions. I picked the one I did because of the encryption. If it is shut off or powered down the encrypted shares do not auto mount on power up. I use that for my tax returns, banking info, and other sensitive information. If you walk off with my drive, good luck.
1 The configuration menu is password protected. A factory reset will fix that.
2 The encrypted partition won't mount without entering the encryption key even after a factory reset. No key, no data recovery. You can delete the encrypted partition, but not access it. I like that.
Want a Windows Home Server? Load a copy of Linux/*BSD and Samba on to a spare PC.
Want to save some power, desk space, and money on hardware?
http://www.simpletech.com/commercial/simpleshare/
Here is a Linux package without the bulk and power requirements of a PC. The wall wart to power it is rated at 36 Watts max. It provides disk encryption, user based or share based access control, SMB and nfs. With the addition of external USB drives it provides RAID mirroring and striping. If you don't use RAID, it can simply expand using external USB drives. If you are not using both USB ports for drives, it can be used as a USB printserver.
For the ultimate geek, the firmware is hackable. You can add telenet for example. No warranty for making a brick however.
Units other than the 160 Gig model have a 3 year warranty. (I've used it. I mis-configured the software by enabling user based rights and share password based rights (a no-no that is not documented) and they recovered it under warranty.
Drive spin-down works except under version 1.07 of the firmware where drive health monitoring keeps it awake.
Umm RTFM, I mean article
Would any bright egg here care to explain what the hell a 'fuzzer' is?
For those who didn't read the article and want to know what a fuzzer is;
"Aharoni said he found the flaws using a "fuzzer," a tool that probes an application for vulnerabilities by sending random input"
Snipped from the article.
Somehow clipping a line from the article doesn't make me feel light a bright egg.