There's an idea...encrypting a.gif file. You could conceivably pad a standard image (say of the U.S. flag) with your encrypted message, with the resultant file conformable to the.gif format. The image might come out looking like a picture of bin Laden playing Nintendo (i.e. a distorion, or non-image), but carnivore would have no way of knowing that the rendered streaks and blobs were not actually intended to be viewed as such.
By arbitrarily, forcefully partitioning the land...
Um, you might want to pick up your Bible again and take a look at the maps in the back. The State of Israel today is exactly where it was in Old Testament times. Nothing arbitrary about it.
Are we forgetting all the l33t h4x0rz that run Linux to be cool? These guys are just about on par with the lusers that crack and script on AOL. No sense at all, and these bozos would run anything as root if it advertised itself as a l33t cr4ck1ng t00l.
Hey, I noticed something was wrong. I was in the middle of metamodding at the time, and after I finished, it dawned on me that some comments were posted the wrong topic.
Actually, you're in luck. IANANTG (I am not an NT guru), but the NT 4 Resource Kit has the Switch User (SU) utility. It does what you'd expect --- you run it off the command line, and you can either have it give you an administrator-privilege window, or you can specify an app (SU user program_name domain_name).
Heh, I got this out of and old copy of Internet Security Advisor Magazine I picked up at CA World last year here in New Orleans (no, I didn't pay for the conference, I um, "visited" the show).
They ought to be glad I'm not the admin. I'd LART 'em in a second.
"Well, you know, we had a guy down the hall that blew a breaker, and our whole floor lost power. Too bad about your site. You do have backups, don't you?"
Linux (and every Unix and Unix-like OS we geeks use) is a multi-user OS. Sure, we use it primarily as single users for our home boxes (yeah, we might give a shell to our wives and close friends), but that is not what our OS was designed for.
Absolutely no reason why we can't take Tux and make him do the mainframe gig (a dual-athlon 1.whatever with 2 gigs of ram ought to do nicely) again.
My company (sorry, no NDA, no info) is going to put up just such a network for its clients at their site. We are doing high-security stuff, with a need to lock down all users to a restricted set of apps (staroffice, netscape, etc.), and this is the perfect way to administrate the whole thing. Remotely administrate, I might add --- I don't have to go on-site unless there's a hardware issue:)
I've been farting around with electronics since I was 14 (I'm 38 now), and Radio Trash harldly ever has what I want. I went in this just week to pick up connectors to go from a 1/4" mono microphone I got laying around to the 1/8" stereo input on my sound card. After 15 minutes, I left in disgust. I tried every conceivable combination of connectors they had in stock, and I just could not make it work. Short of buying solder connectors and wiring my own (and having to cut the end off my microphone to boot), there was simply no way to do it from their selection of parts.
I don't know how many times through the years that has happened.
A long time ago, they used to sell little kits, where you got a (say) 16-pin chip, and a fold-out data sheet, with schematics for one or two projects. Buy a few resistors, capacitors, transistors, and a little enclosure, and you'd have a pretty neat project on the cheap.
No way, never happened. They never had all the right parts in stock. And they were the ones that sold the schematic in the first place!
Grumble, grumble... I hate Radio Trash. If I have the time, I usually head over to Electronic Parts in Harahan --- they always have what you need, and way cheaper than Radio Trash.
...but what is wrong with having your application (let's say you are using php in a web page) access the database (mysql) in a two-stage fashion, if you are needing to insure that these purchase orders get updated correctly, regardless of how the order get entered in.
you write each method of order-entry
instead of actually having each script write directly to the DB, have it pass the sql as string variables to a function
have this sublayer function actually write to the DB, insuring that any order place updates everything correctly, leaving out no little-used rules, etc.
What's wrong with this? Just code the sublayer correctly, and you're on your way...
Ok, so all they ever learned me at collidge was procedural programming, no OOP:/
I thought my uncle was off his rocker when he proposed it to me, but sure enough, he set an old Volkswagen engine on fire one Friday night (things get kinda lonely in Cherokee County, Georgia). It took about 2 hours, but he finally got it to catch.
We saw a little spark now and then, which I thought was cool, but his persistent stirring of the wood fire created enough heat and the thing took off like a rocket (the fire, that is). Mighty bright, it was! All the neighbors turned off all the lights and we were able to read a newspaper with no trouble over 500 feet away from the blaze.
Man pages? Just read the secure-POP howto and that'll get you going. You can forward lots of things, like ftp, vnc (way cool), etc.. You don't have to do the sleep thing, btw.
Um, back during my days (daze?) at LSU, I once furnished an entire apartment with the stuff students thrown out during spring semester finals week --- no kidding. Perfectly good stuff, most of it --- apparently they'd rather throw it out than borrow a truck to cart it back home, I guess...
I guess you've never done tech support for an isp, have you? Man, I could tell you nightmares about grandpas that didn't understand what "double-click" means --- it takes half an hour just to get to the network neighborhood properties, let alone actually changing dialup adapter config, etc..
Some people will never, never, never be able to use Linux. They will never be able to competently use any computer, no matter how simple we make it.
I have said before, however, that any reasonably competent windoze user can be helped toward using Linux, what with the existing tutorials (this one will surely help things a bit) and the fact that SuSE, Mandrake and perhaps a few other distros, and KDE, etc., are definitely ready for prime-time:)
Did anyone pipe up yet to say that the probable reason for M$ "helping" the Mono guys is so that they can have an actual product?
We've all been saying that.NET is vaporware, so woudn't it make sense that since Mono looks as if it will actually be put into use and be made to work, all M$ has to do is embrace and extend and viola! M$ now has a working.NET implementation?
Instead of just posting your diatribe to slashdot, joinopennic and see just how we vote (in fact, you can vote on the issue yourself).
We do things entirely democratic at opennic --- which is one of the problems that we have with ICANN, in that they are not democratic, and are not even playing by their own rules.
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Heh, never mind. I just followed one of the links on steganography and that is exactly the idea that I had.
There's an idea...encrypting a .gif file. You could conceivably pad a standard image (say of the U.S. flag) with your encrypted message, with the resultant file conformable to the .gif format. The image might come out looking like a picture of bin Laden playing Nintendo (i.e. a distorion, or non-image), but carnivore would have no way of knowing that the rendered streaks and blobs were not actually intended to be viewed as such.
I've heard that an old 486 is able to handle a T1, never mind a DSL connection.
Um, you might want to pick up your Bible again and take a look at the maps in the back. The State of Israel today is exactly where it was in Old Testament times. Nothing arbitrary about it.
I'll give you that there are more libs available for C, but fortran is the language of choice among engineers, physicists, and the like.
Are we forgetting all the l33t h4x0rz that run Linux to be cool? These guys are just about on par with the lusers that crack and script on AOL. No sense at all, and these bozos would run anything as root if it advertised itself as a l33t cr4ck1ng t00l.
I really get a kick out of going somewhere with my laptop and having people comment on the fact that it's not running windows :)
Oops. I guess somebody got metamodded wrong :/
You wanna post here, or email me? My email addy is revjoeykelly at yahoo dot com.
Thanks :)
Actually, you're in luck. IANANTG (I am not an NT guru), but the NT 4 Resource Kit has the Switch User (SU) utility. It does what you'd expect --- you run it off the command line, and you can either have it give you an administrator-privilege window, or you can specify an app (SU user program_name domain_name).
Heh, I got this out of and old copy of Internet Security Advisor Magazine I picked up at CA World last year here in New Orleans (no, I didn't pay for the conference, I um, "visited" the show).
"Well, you know, we had a guy down the hall that blew a breaker, and our whole floor lost power. Too bad about your site. You do have backups, don't you?"
So sue me.
Yeah, because I'll probably need to use the mic for what it was originally for in the first place --- a cheap(er) mic for a PA system.
I understand the rest of your comment, though. They do cater to the guys with bucks to buy a stereo or PC, etc..
Absolutely no reason why we can't take Tux and make him do the mainframe gig (a dual-athlon 1.whatever with 2 gigs of ram ought to do nicely) again.
My company (sorry, no NDA, no info) is going to put up just such a network for its clients at their site. We are doing high-security stuff, with a need to lock down all users to a restricted set of apps (staroffice, netscape, etc.), and this is the perfect way to administrate the whole thing. Remotely administrate, I might add --- I don't have to go on-site unless there's a hardware issue :)
I've been farting around with electronics since I was 14 (I'm 38 now), and Radio Trash harldly ever has what I want. I went in this just week to pick up connectors to go from a 1/4" mono microphone I got laying around to the 1/8" stereo input on my sound card. After 15 minutes, I left in disgust. I tried every conceivable combination of connectors they had in stock, and I just could not make it work. Short of buying solder connectors and wiring my own (and having to cut the end off my microphone to boot), there was simply no way to do it from their selection of parts.
I don't know how many times through the years that has happened.
A long time ago, they used to sell little kits, where you got a (say) 16-pin chip, and a fold-out data sheet, with schematics for one or two projects. Buy a few resistors, capacitors, transistors, and a little enclosure, and you'd have a pretty neat project on the cheap.
No way, never happened. They never had all the right parts in stock. And they were the ones that sold the schematic in the first place!
Grumble, grumble... I hate Radio Trash. If I have the time, I usually head over to Electronic Parts in Harahan --- they always have what you need, and way cheaper than Radio Trash.
What's wrong with this? Just code the sublayer correctly, and you're on your way...
Ok, so all they ever learned me at collidge was procedural programming, no OOP
Lame goatsex link --- some jerk used the IP to get around the slashcode...
I love putty, and actually use it far more than CygWin, even though they're both on the same winbox I got here at home...
We saw a little spark now and then, which I thought was cool, but his persistent stirring of the wood fire created enough heat and the thing took off like a rocket (the fire, that is). Mighty bright, it was! All the neighbors turned off all the lights and we were able to read a newspaper with no trouble over 500 feet away from the blaze.
Man pages? Just read the secure-POP howto and that'll get you going. You can forward lots of things, like ftp, vnc (way cool), etc.. You don't have to do the sleep thing, btw.
What's wrong with Mandrake's installer (DrakConf???)--- I only used it once or twice, but it pretty much does everything for you...
Um, back during my days (daze?) at LSU, I once furnished an entire apartment with the stuff students thrown out during spring semester finals week --- no kidding. Perfectly good stuff, most of it --- apparently they'd rather throw it out than borrow a truck to cart it back home, I guess...
I guess you've never done tech support for an isp, have you? Man, I could tell you nightmares about grandpas that didn't understand what "double-click" means --- it takes half an hour just to get to the network neighborhood properties, let alone actually changing dialup adapter config, etc..
Some people will never, never, never be able to use Linux. They will never be able to competently use any computer, no matter how simple we make it.
I have said before, however, that any reasonably competent windoze user can be helped toward using Linux, what with the existing tutorials (this one will surely help things a bit) and the fact that SuSE, Mandrake and perhaps a few other distros, and KDE, etc., are definitely ready for prime-time :)
We've all been saying that .NET is vaporware, so woudn't it make sense that since Mono looks as if it will actually be put into use and be made to work, all M$ has to do is embrace and extend and viola! M$ now has a working .NET implementation?
We do things entirely democratic at opennic --- which is one of the problems that we have with ICANN, in that they are not democratic, and are not even playing by their own rules.
And anyway, most mis-pronouncers say lie-nucks.