If you don't already have quotas you might run into some users eating more then there fair share of disk space. Run something like this nightly from cron job and place the output in/etc/motd. Your biggest diskhogs will be known to everyone that logs in.
#!/bin/bash # Usage: diskhog [dir] [count] # If nothing given defaults to/home and 10
If conficted of a felony in Ohio would he lose his right to vote? What a good way for a school to teach someone a leason...
"THE ISSUE:
Almost 4 million Americans, or 1 in 50 American adults, are not allowed to vote because they have been convicted of a felony, regardless of the nature or seriousness of the offense. Three fourths of these Americans are no longer in jail. 13% of African American males - 1.4 million - are prohibited from voting.
Furthermore, state laws vary when it comes to defining a felony and in determining if people who are no longer incarcerated can vote. Thus it is possible that in some states, a person can lose their right to vote forever if he or she writes one bad check. Furthermore, the process to regain one's right to vote in any state is often difficult and cumbersome. Most states require specific gubernatorial action, and in 16 states federal ex-felons need a presidential pardon to regain their voting rights."
Above quote was take from the following PDF the NAACP created April 13 2005.
So then you need a method of being able to hide precisely what is encrypted and what is not. Look around and you'll find systems for filling a file system with chaff files to make finding the real data more interesting.
It looks like the original site has been gone for awhile but you can still find the source. It would appear that it does what you want.
"Rubberhose works by initially writing random characters to an entire hard
drive or other dynamic storage device. This random noise is
indistinguishable from the encrypted data to be stored on that disk. If
you have a 1 GB drive and want to have two Rubberhose encrypted portions
of 400 MB and 200 MB, it assumes that each aspect (as the encrypted
partitions are called) will be 1 GB and fill the entire drive. It will
keep doing this until the drive is really filled to capacity with
encrypted material. It breaks up the pieces of each aspect into small
pieces and scatters them across the entire 1 GB drive in a random manner,
with each aspect looking as if it is actually 1 GB in size upon
decryption."
Then when you "have" to hand over your passphrase you can. That passphrase will only grant them access to one encrypted portion. The other encrypted portion would have another password. You could have multiple encrypted portions thus making it harder for the people asking for your passphrase if they got all the data unencrypted...
Its all about consolidation of resources. When G4/Comcast grabbed TechTV they removed the competitions and they didn't want to run two studio's. One had to go. The studio in the S.F. closes it doors and if you weren't willing to move your were out of a job. I just guessing since some of the hosts moved while others stayed.
I use to like TSS from time to time, heck my girlfriend who is not that tech savvy liked the show alot. Now with the "Attack of the (stupid) Show" its mind less and dull. With choppy jump cuts and randomly babbling hosts. They have a short sit down chat with the guest which can be good but after that it channel flipping time.
Even the set design looks like its being shot at one of those poorly supported community public access studios. The production quality of the G4 studio shows to me always looks flat and cheap. Maybe they could save some more bucks and just make it a radio show or podcast if they don't want to higher another set designe team and turn on some more lights.
Maybe being in my 30's I'm completely out of there demograhics now. TechTV's TSS worked for everyone before it was purchased. I knew teens and 50+ year olds who watched the show. Now is seems to me G4 really only cares about the 8 - 25 year old market.
Dealing with Col locations for machine rack space I always seem to get stuck with there Viso files. The only tool I found to be even close to doing what I need (measuring object to scale and maping them out) is Xfig.
Get this support into Inkscape plus the Xfig library of premade objects and more export/import file types I might think about switching.
Dia and Xfig have some features I would love to see in Inkscape. I actually prefer Xfig over Dia for drawing layouts and wiring plans (checkout the library for some 2u machines ). Dia is better for doing UML objects and such. Then there is DiaCanvas which seems more like Inkscape.
The item I like about Xfig is I can create template objects quickly and easily and add them to it library of objects. The last time I tried to make an object for Dia I just gave up.
Now if Inkscape could export to the.xfig format and Xfig to the proper.svg format that would be great! Using both tools would save me sometime.
Well I still happen to use Xfig and would find it handy if I could use both tools together without exporting/importing item and losing the ability to scale the object. Not sure if thats on the roadmap but I would love to see it added.
Hey people will find it. This flood crap happens from time to time. The developers are alway working on ways to prevent it. However at the same time the troll that flood the site are working to get around the developers.
Some days are better then the next. Good luck with Maestro.
Cool but what about my current needs..
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Secure PDAs
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I love my Zaurus but I have to say I still need to carry my Visor since nobody has put out a good One Time Password (S/KEY) mannager tool like Strip. Yes there is ZSafe but it just holds passwords. To generate a S/KEY you need another peice of software like LEP-Gen
Having Biometrics is neat-o but I need tools that work with what I have already have in place. I need to generate my S/KEY on my laptop when/if my Visor dies (can we say PalmOS Emulator). No what happens in you Biometric PDA dies, hope they will provide software and readers I can uses on my laptop or workstation for those days that PDA just doesn't want to work.
OSDN is part of VA Software you knew that already, and the main offices for VA Software are in Fremont CA. The machines in Boston MA are moving to Santa Clara CA. The office in Acton MA is closing and moved to a smaller place in downtown Boston.
In the end its a budget thing. I don't know the full answer, I just try to keep machines working....
PS: Which means I'm moving to San Francisco CA since CowboyNeal I think would hate having to be on-call.
Ok not a clean move as everyone would have liked.
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Welcome to the new Cluster
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· Score: 5, Informative
Looks like some miss communications. Its kinda working.
Yes the $TTL 1D was set to high. I'll be taking the heat for that one for awhile I think.
Spent all day today trying to build enough machines, 8 server died in shipping. Not enought time talking to everyone involved.
The admins were thinking everything was going to just go to http://brak.slashdot.org/ for a bit. The Developers were thing something else.
Admins thought the Arrowpoint could do the RedirectMatch we were looking for. It can and it can not.
Well this was the first site to move from Boston Exodus 2 and well we will try to do better on the next group of website.
Well since I spent a few day out in CA putting these new machines in place (with the help of John B., Uriah W., and Robert F.). I can tell you what we currently have for brak.slashdot.org
3 DB (4G RAM Quad cpu, MySQL DB, 1 main, 1 search, and 1 for slashd crushing)
Some might want to know what OS/Distro. Well the DB's seem to be happiest running RedHat (7.3) since the folks at MySQL test and build there binaries on it (plus Brian A. has to deal with the DB and he asked for RH). The web heads are currently running Debian Stable (this might change to RH at some point. I like Debian but using RedHat Network up2date via the web interface does make upgrading system in mass easier, now if Debian only had that).
Thats the basic setup not to mention the firewalls, load balancers, switch/router, patch cables, terminal servers, tape labler,etc. Lots of machine moving this month and next.
Things that changed...
Odyssey, that never happened.
The BSD firewalls are long gone replaced with iptables.
I like knowing what the hit count is on my spam with out having to keep changing my view to "Show E-mail Source" then back to "Normal Display". I did uses mutt but now that I can sync Evolution with my palm pilot (Address Book and Calendar, still waiting to have Memo Pad support) I might not go back...
First, developing for themes.org was a pain as it was. They had a VPN and wouldn't give access to new comers, even though I feel I'm a part of the community enough to be trusted.
The way we have the setup here is nothing like what VA had when t.o. was on the West coast. No shell servers or public spaces. Also after the defacement of t.o. and all the r00ted systems on the West coast there was just no way the company would set up another shell's box for t.o. Plain and simple, access had to be restricted.
So Chris (who seemed like a nice guy the couple times I talked to him) decided to develop it on his own, which took months even though it seems he's just using the freshmeat code.
Actually he did work on his own version (he showed it to me once) but as time went on there were decission made about how many different backends people/company wanted to support. A good number of OSDN site have been moving over to uses either slashcode or freshmeat code bases...
So I would like to know, why the staff was cut?
You and me both. I don't know the whole story but I have never been one to follow company politics and such things... I just disable accounts when told to.
All I got to say about the 2.4 kernel is DON'T use a Mylex RAID controller.
The trip down hardware failure started with a hand
full of Redhat 7.2 machines. Fresh installs. The install uses 2.4.7-10-smp. The site using that kernel have been complaining about the VM, random lock ups, bad disk I/O, the list goes on. One persons solution. Upgrade the kernel. Sounds ok with me, but Kernel Panic's aren't.
The hardware is one of the no longer made VA Linux^H^H^H^H^HSoftware 3500's. A Quad Xeon, 4G RAM, and a Mylex DAC960PRL. Not all have the same Mylex, some have eXtreamRAID 1100 (DAC1164P). All have the same problem. Kernel Panic! We can't install the latest 2.4.9-13-smp kernel from Redhat. Fine compile our own from source. The same problem even when we do the compile. Tried the latest -ac patches and have visited Dandelion
s page and followed the steps there. Visited kernel mailing lists searching for people with similar problems. Afew from Nov. but not much of a follow-up. Its driving the Admins nuts not to mention the developers of the websites that now have some unstable hardware/software combination.
Right now were stuck with 2.4.7-10-smp from Redhat.. I would love to get rid of the Mylex and get another RAID controller. Maybe a ICP-Vortex Now if only I could get the higher ups to agree with me...
Well I have notice that if I do a "apt-get upgrade" true 95->98% of the packages come out of "unstable" but there are still afew that will be pulled from "testing". I haven't spent the time to see if the package listed in "testing" is the same one listed in "unstable". Which just might be the case...
The reason I listed all 3 is for someone first doing a dist-upgrade to "unstable" having the "stable" and "testing" listed I think should make installing it easier,atleast from what I have seen. I have had better luck with all 3 listed when doing my dist-upgrades on machines then just changing "stable" or "testing" to "unstable", might just be me.
In the end I agree it should really only need to have "unstable" listed but I have had enough small problems doing that I'll stick with what works for my setup at the moment.
Slashdot Mirror
Jack Bauer or surely Chloe O'Brian would know the backdoor password by heart...
"THE ISSUE:
Almost 4 million Americans, or 1 in 50 American adults, are not allowed to vote because they have been convicted of a felony, regardless of the nature or seriousness of the offense. Three fourths of these Americans are no longer in jail. 13% of African American males - 1.4 million - are prohibited from voting.
Furthermore, state laws vary when it comes to defining a felony and in determining if people who are no longer incarcerated can vote. Thus it is possible that in some states, a person can lose their right to vote forever if he or she writes one bad check. Furthermore, the process to regain one's right to vote in any state is often difficult and cumbersome. Most states require specific gubernatorial action, and in 16 states federal ex-felons need a presidential pardon to regain their voting rights."
Above quote was take from the following PDF the NAACP created April 13 2005.
NAACP Supports Voter Renfranchisement For Rehabilitated Felony Offenders
Sounds good but I remember playing with a deniable cryptography package called Rubberhose.
http://web.archive.org/web/20021124210754/http://It looks like the original site has been gone for awhile but you can still find the source. It would appear that it does what you want.
"Rubberhose works by initially writing random characters to an entire hard drive or other dynamic storage device. This random noise is indistinguishable from the encrypted data to be stored on that disk. If you have a 1 GB drive and want to have two Rubberhose encrypted portions of 400 MB and 200 MB, it assumes that each aspect (as the encrypted partitions are called) will be 1 GB and fill the entire drive. It will keep doing this until the drive is really filled to capacity with encrypted material. It breaks up the pieces of each aspect into small pieces and scatters them across the entire 1 GB drive in a random manner, with each aspect looking as if it is actually 1 GB in size upon decryption."Then when you "have" to hand over your passphrase you can. That passphrase will only grant them access to one encrypted portion. The other encrypted portion would have another password. You could have multiple encrypted portions thus making it harder for the people asking for your passphrase if they got all the data unencrypted...
I use to like TSS from time to time, heck my girlfriend who is not that tech savvy liked the show alot. Now with the "Attack of the (stupid) Show" its mind less and dull. With choppy jump cuts and randomly babbling hosts. They have a short sit down chat with the guest which can be good but after that it channel flipping time.
Even the set design looks like its being shot at one of those poorly supported community public access studios. The production quality of the G4 studio shows to me always looks flat and cheap. Maybe they could save some more bucks and just make it a radio show or podcast if they don't want to higher another set designe team and turn on some more lights.
Maybe being in my 30's I'm completely out of there demograhics now. TechTV's TSS worked for everyone before it was purchased. I knew teens and 50+ year olds who watched the show. Now is seems to me G4 really only cares about the 8 - 25 year old market.
I reloaded twice before seeing it hit the frontpage. Now mind you I have a subscription so I'm counting before it goes "live." -Yazz
If you had a subscription you would have seen it show up in under 30 sec (at least thats about how long it took me to see the post). Yazz
I'm waiting to see this USB device to hit the US market. Currently it looks like only the UK and others seem to have access to them.
Get this support into Inkscape plus the Xfig library of premade objects and more export/import file types I might think about switching.
The item I like about Xfig is I can create template objects quickly and easily and add them to it library of objects. The last time I tried to make an object for Dia I just gave up.
Now if Inkscape could export to the .xfig format and Xfig to the proper .svg format that would be great! Using both tools would save me sometime.
Well I still happen to use Xfig and would find it handy if I could use both tools together without exporting/importing item and losing the ability to scale the object. Not sure if thats on the roadmap but I would love to see it added.
Is show some more detail about what commercials were most watched also...
Some days are better then the next. Good luck with Maestro.
senior systems enginner / senior bofh
I think that covers it...
Having Biometrics is neat-o but I need tools that work with what I have already have in place. I need to generate my S/KEY on my laptop when/if my Visor dies (can we say PalmOS Emulator). No what happens in you Biometric PDA dies, hope they will provide software and readers I can uses on my laptop or workstation for those days that PDA just doesn't want to work.
In the end its a budget thing. I don't know the full answer, I just try to keep machines working....
PS: Which means I'm moving to San Francisco CA since CowboyNeal I think would hate having to be on-call.
- Yes the $TTL 1D was set to high. I'll be taking the heat for that one for awhile I think.
- Spent all day today trying to build enough machines, 8 server died in shipping. Not enought time talking to everyone involved.
- The admins were thinking everything was going to just go to http://brak.slashdot.org/ for a bit. The Developers were thing something else.
- Admins thought the Arrowpoint could do the RedirectMatch we were looking for. It can and it can not.
Well this was the first site to move from Boston Exodus 2 and well we will try to do better on the next group of website.--Yazz
- 6 www (2G RAM Duel cpu, 4 dynamic content, 2 static content)
- 3 DB (4G RAM Quad cpu, MySQL DB, 1 main, 1 search, and 1 for slashd crushing)
Some might want to know what OS/Distro. Well the DB's seem to be happiest running RedHat (7.3) since the folks at MySQL test and build there binaries on it (plus Brian A. has to deal with the DB and he asked for RH). The web heads are currently running Debian Stable (this might change to RH at some point. I like Debian but using RedHat Network up2date via the web interface does make upgrading system in mass easier, now if Debian only had that).Thats the basic setup not to mention the firewalls, load balancers, switch/router, patch cables, terminal servers, tape labler,etc. Lots of machine moving this month and next.
Things that changed...
Odyssey, that never happened. The BSD firewalls are long gone replaced with iptables.
--
Yazz
http://www.aladdinpower.com/
http://www.snpower.com/products.htm
The way we have the setup here is nothing like what VA had when t.o. was on the West coast. No shell servers or public spaces. Also after the defacement of t.o. and all the r00ted systems on the West coast there was just no way the company would set up another shell's box for t.o. Plain and simple, access had to be restricted.
So Chris (who seemed like a nice guy the couple times I talked to him) decided to develop it on his own, which took months even though it seems he's just using the freshmeat code.
Actually he did work on his own version (he showed it to me once) but as time went on there were decission made about how many different backends people/company wanted to support. A good number of OSDN site have been moving over to uses either slashcode or freshmeat code bases...
So I would like to know, why the staff was cut?
You and me both. I don't know the whole story but I have never been one to follow company politics and such things... I just disable accounts when told to.
-- Yazz (one of the OSDN BOFH's)
On the Gray line that says "Hello <Yahoo-ID>" there is a link Edit Email Subscriptions.
All of thoses were not even set when I view the page the first time...
The trip down hardware failure started with a hand full of Redhat 7.2 machines. Fresh installs. The install uses 2.4.7-10-smp. The site using that kernel have been complaining about the VM, random lock ups, bad disk I/O, the list goes on. One persons solution. Upgrade the kernel. Sounds ok with me, but Kernel Panic's aren't.
The hardware is one of the no longer made VA Linux^H^H^H^H^HSoftware 3500's. A Quad Xeon, 4G RAM, and a Mylex DAC960PRL. Not all have the same Mylex, some have eXtreamRAID 1100 (DAC1164P). All have the same problem. Kernel Panic! We can't install the latest 2.4.9-13-smp kernel from Redhat. Fine compile our own from source. The same problem even when we do the compile. Tried the latest -ac patches and have visited Dandelion s page and followed the steps there. Visited kernel mailing lists searching for people with similar problems. Afew from Nov. but not much of a follow-up. Its driving the Admins nuts not to mention the developers of the websites that now have some unstable hardware/software combination.
Right now were stuck with 2.4.7-10-smp from Redhat.. I would love to get rid of the Mylex and get another RAID controller. Maybe a ICP-Vortex Now if only I could get the higher ups to agree with me...
Yea I work for OSDN but my opinions are my own
Here are two links to start you own search for such a beast.
I know most of you think I'm nuts but I just would love to own this one.
The reason I listed all 3 is for someone first doing a dist-upgrade to "unstable" having the "stable" and "testing" listed I think should make installing it easier,atleast from what I have seen. I have had better luck with all 3 listed when doing my dist-upgrades on machines then just changing "stable" or "testing" to "unstable", might just be me.
In the end I agree it should really only need to have "unstable" listed but I have had enough small problems doing that I'll stick with what works for my setup at the moment.