Just be sure not to call them repeatedly from your home phone. The phone company can and will track your 1-800 usage, and if there is a pattern of abuse, they will not be amused.
So avoid leaving a pattern on YOUR line by using payphones instead.
...so I'm a bit worried, of course. While there is a possible attack via the DSLAM or an attacker with access to your copper pair and a DSLAM emulator, those are a bit above the script kiddie level.
As to TCP/IP attacks, it can be a real bitch to talk to a host outside your subnet but on the same LAN. Even setting an ARP entry, I couldn't get a response from my modem. I have to use a second machine with two shared ethernets, and set its DSL-side interface to the 10.0.0.x subnet. And I have to set it back to let that machine run normally. (I could put a third Ethernet card in, but it's not really worth the effort.) So I'm not too worried about spoofed UDP packets being bounced into it.
What did surprise me, though, was that the challenge/response code for my old 1000 was computable from the CGI script at http://security.sdsc.edu/self-help/alcatel/challen ge.cgi. So at least now I can telnet into the thing. But so can anyone else, if they can perform the necessary TCP/IP routing wizardry to get to it.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be anything that I can do to it from telnet that I can't do with the web interface.
My girlfriend wouldn't let me buy the 1/2 ton VAX for $105 though:(
(Oops, didn't see that line!) What I'm waiting for is someday in the distant future when an E4500 is officially "junk", because with the appropriate top and bottom cover plates, it can run un-racked and is quite happy sharing a regular 15A 117VAC outlet with a display.
Same here. Mine was an ELC (33mhz?) in a SLC case, with a dead IDPROM battery. But I was able to install Solaris 7 on it! Okay, so Solaris 7 ran real slow, and the lowest load average I saw was about 0.5, and that was just typing on the console in text mode with a freshly cleared screen, but it ran.
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Is it too much innovation to ask for a freaking handle on top of a lightweight case?
As long as the case is light. I found this monster 386 tower for 10 bucks at a Goodwill once that had a handle on top. Just as I was leaving I picked it up and one of the handle points broke from all the weight! The thing had a 160 meg or so full-height MFM drive, and a motherboard big enough to play football on, and it must have weighed 40 pounds.
Turned out the only really good part was the 4 megs of 1Mx1 DRAM chips (36 total), which went straight into an old Apple IIgs. But I might still find a use for an MFM drive that large.
86. On Monday, March 28, 1988, "B" and the KGB carried out
an exchange operation at the "PARK/PRIME" dead drop site.
The package from "B" to the KGB included his fourth computer
diskette ("D-4"), a TOP SECRET document entitled "The FBI's
Double Agent Program" and a document that the KGB described as a
Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) document entitled "Stealth
Orientation."
The package from the KGB to "B" included $25,000 cash and a
letter explaining why the KGB had not been able to check the
"PARK/PRIME" dead drop site on March 21. In the letter, the KGB
also advised it had been unable to read the diskettes "B" had
passed to the KGB. The KGB asked "B" for information about codes and cryptograms, intelligence support for the Strategic Defense
Initiative, submarines, and other classified material.
The next day, the KGB observed that "B" had removed the
signal from the "PARK/PRIME" site, indicating he had removed the
package.
87. On April 4, 1988, the KGB received an envelope from "B"
at an accommodation address in the Eastern District of Virginia.
The envelope bore a return address of "Jim Baker" in "Alexandria"
and was postmarked in Northern Virginia, on March 31, 1988. The
envelope contained a note from "B" reading: "use 40 TRACK MODE,
this letter is not a signal."
The term "use 40-track mode" refers to a technical process
for re-formatting a computer diskette in order to conceal data by
putting the data onto specific tracks on the diskette. Unless a
person uses the correct codes to decrypt such a diskette, the
diskette would appear to be blank.
You know what, guys? It may be simpler than everyone thinks. He specifically said "use 40 track mode", not "look on track 40" or some other phrase. I have to wonder if these were 360K disks written with a 1.2M drive, that had been previously formatted/written in a 360K drive (different track widths), and the Russians had a problem trying to read it on a 360K drive?
I mean, I just don't see him going to that much trouble to stick the data on a single out-of-range track when there's not much you can put there anyhow, and then not tell the Russians until after they had trouble with it. And it was dead-dropped, not mailed, so there wasn't much chance of interception.
Even if he did use some paranoid trick, in the end it didn't matter. After a little research (CNN.com) I found out that he was discovered when the pheds got a copy of some KGB files about his case. The KGB didn't know who he was (probably not until this week!), but the pheds were able to correlate the information rather easily.
It seems his main failing was insisting on dead-drops within walking distance of his home, in spite of the Russians wanting them much farther away. He had been trying to restore communications with the Russians, and was noticed driving by and pausing at the dead-drop area many times, and even waving a flashlight up and down a wooden post. He was arrested at the location, known as "ELLIS".
The disk format used on the 1541 and its predecessors (1540, 4040, etc.) was a technological marvel of it's day. Only thirty-five tracks, single sided, variable number of sectors per track, and the directory in the middle on track 18. Each sector was written in GCR format, allowing far higher data density than acheived on the IBM 9-sector format.
The Apple II also used GCR. The Macintosh and Apple IIgs 3.5" disk added variable numbers of sectors. I think the Amiga also had a variable-speed format. And TRSDOS was probably the only other 8-bit DOS to keep the directory in the middle of the disk (track 17 on a 35-sector disk).
And I think that the Dreamcast's GD-ROMs probably use some sort of GCR to achieve higher density. What does the G stand for?
But where Commodore failed was in the crappy interface, which was a serial version of the IEEE-488 parallel interface, and it couldn't even run at a decent speed because of a bug in one of the chips (VIA?) in the C64.
If they developed it further, we'd have had 82-track, double sided, double density floppies, holding more than a megabyte, and the 3.5" floppy might not be here today.
No, the 3.5" floppy won out for two reasons: size and durability. It certainly had nothing to do with the lack of a GCR format, as Apple was one of the first to use the 3.5" format.
Of course, the thing about the CBM drives that made them the most fun drives to play with was the onboard 6502 processor with its 2k of memory, allowing you to download and execute code in the drive
Whereas us TRS-80 users had full direct control of the disk controller chip, instead of having copy-protection built into the drive like the C-64 and Atari did.
Ah yes, back in the old days when my main computer was still a TRS-80 Model I, and I knew exactly how many tracks each of my drives could handle. There was a 35 track that could do 36, and two 40 track drives that could do 42 and 43. Towards the end I got an 80 track single-side drive that could do either 83 or 85, I can't remember. And it was pretty well known that the Apple ][ floppy drives had a 40-track head with an 80-track stepper, so you could do "half track" tricks, too.
I'm sure most people, pheds or otherwise, would have a hard time comprehending the idea of storing data outside of the high-level-formatted area of a disk drive, much less the idea of using strange formatting to hide things in the gap spaces of a track, and have an otherwise apparently empty disk. I can even think of a couple of easy tricks you could do with CD-R disks to hide data, without going into the steganographic possibilities of what appears to be a disc full of pr0n.
I am not talking about the Public Beta here! I ended up with two copies of that! $500 level developers are not getting seed betas of OS X newer than PB! You know, like 4K17 and later.
At least not in the automatic monthly mailings. I suppose if you asked real nice you could get one, but it's not automatic, and I can't find on connect.apple.com where one can be downloaded.
But I don't mind much, since it's so close to release anyhow.
I hate to tell you this, but the $500 level developers are not getting seed betas. I'm one, and the only one I ever got (including looking for downloads on the Developer Connection web site) was PB. I ran across a 4K17 on a file server one day, but I found that to be less stable for me than PB. So I gave up and upgraded to 9.1 already, since by the time I get a new OS X beta it'll probably support 9.1.
As the previous poster suggested, Hotline is your best option if you're itching for some beta action.
This is something that really erks me about freedom of expression and racism laws. In France for example, it's illegal to market or sell products with a racist slant to them (ie. the Yahoo auction problem).
With the definition of "racist" left, I'm sure, to be set by the Ministry of Friendship, or whatever that translates to.
My big science fair blunder was electrolysis of water. Nice principle, but what I didn't realize was that the distilled water I used was not a very good conductor of electricity! If I had added some salt, I would have gotten a lot more H2/O2 in the test tubes. What someone pointed out as interesting was that I did get some small bubbles of gas, in the right proportion, and that if I had used salt, the chlorine in salt would have put extra gas in one of the test tubes. I think I got an Honorable Mention on it, though.
My second blunder was a year or two later in late 1978, when I tried to build a computer from an 8080A chipset that Radio Shack was selling. I know it was late 1978 because around that time I got a TRS-80 for my 14th birthday. Even if I hadn't made any mistakes with the wiring, I didn't understand the concept of fan-out very well, and most of the pins on the 8080A have a TTL fan-out of one, and needed bus buffer chips. Oops. I know I got an Honorable Mention on this one.
There are those out there who claim that cell phones cause brain/eye cancer.
Now imagine zillions of little chips emitting radiation.
Sigh, another karma whore who posted before reading the article. These things only transmit a signal when exposed to "the energy field of a nearby reader". Which means they're obviously RF-powered. No power signal, no radiation, no cancer. The FUD line is over there in Redmond, take a number.
And then, we'll have script kiddies and hardware gurus making an electronic version of the dog whistle. They turn it on, and VOILA! each and every chip within 10 miles responds and gets fried.
Remember those little tags on mattresses and pillows that say "Do not remove under penalty of law"? Well, now you can have them on everything!
And how easy will it be to remove the tags if they hide them by molding them into the plastic of your keyboard or mouse? The only good thing is that these would have very low range (presumably being RF-powered), and would not be networkable. At least not until they come up with base stations for them.
Just imagine walking around with these things embedded in the credit cards in your wallet, as you walk through various doorways with receiver units in the doorframes. Big Brother really will be watching you then!
Apparently whoever wrote this article had never heard of the quote mark: "
Hint: it's right there next to the return key. It's real hard to tell what is a quote and what is being written by the author without them. Apostrophes are missing, too. Looking at the HTML source shows that they really are missing, rather than using some wierd Windows-only characters. Someone must have been using some gooey HTML tool that stripped 'em. Youd think theyd notice theyre missing.
As for this revelation in the case, all I can say is send in the attack lawyers!
On the other hand, I have yet to discover, or see described, a mechanism for even getting the SSID of a network.
If I have understood correctly that the SSID is the "name" of the network, it's trivial if you have a PowerBook with AirPort installed. While I haven't yet found something that will display them automatically in real time, there is a pop-up menu which will display all the ones it currently sees. Even ones using 128-bit WEP, which the AirPort card does not support.
Just position the AirPort control panel strip thingy to the left side of the strip, hold the PowerBook sideways with the mouse button on the left and the cursor over the strip, then drive down the road clicking on the button every few seconds. In a big city, you can surprise yourself by how many you see.
But you still can't connect if it's encrypted and you don't know the WEP key.
Besides, Mir's got the Fungus From Outer Space, and who wants that crap on ISS anyhow? Yes, I know ISS will probably end up with its own fungal infection, but Mir's been up there 15 years, so it could be a decade before ISS has fungus problems.
Too bad Mir and Alpha are probably too far apart to dock together
They're probably on different orbits, and I'm sure it would be a real pain in the butt to change one orbit to match another. That's why the shuttle launches for ISS have a 5-minute window. (I'm sure there are actually lots of 5-minute windows, spaced about 90 minutes apart.) Even then, the shuttle spends a whole day catching up. And ISS is probably in a higher orbit now that the shuttle has been boosting it. It would probably be easier to try to crash Mir on the moon than to have it dock with ISS.
Besides, I'm sure that Mir stinks inside. 15 years of sweaty astronauts has got to be as bad as an athlete's sweatsocks and jockstrap combined. And there's the nice toasty smell of burnt wire insulation from the fires they've had.
From what I understand, some commercially-produced DVD's do not play properly.
On my Powerbook G3 500, the only disc so far that I have had any trouble with is Creature Comforts, which plays really choppy, and I suspect the problem is they pegged the bit rate as close to 10Mbits as possible when mastering the disc. I have some region 2 discs which are pegged to the max bit rate, but I haven't had time to try them yet.
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I guess he didn't update on 1.1.1 because he had a hangover.
So avoid leaving a pattern on YOUR line by using payphones instead.
As to TCP/IP attacks, it can be a real bitch to talk to a host outside your subnet but on the same LAN. Even setting an ARP entry, I couldn't get a response from my modem. I have to use a second machine with two shared ethernets, and set its DSL-side interface to the 10.0.0.x subnet. And I have to set it back to let that machine run normally. (I could put a third Ethernet card in, but it's not really worth the effort.) So I'm not too worried about spoofed UDP packets being bounced into it.
What did surprise me, though, was that the challenge/response code for my old 1000 was computable from the CGI script at http://security.sdsc.edu/self-help/alcatel/challen ge.cgi. So at least now I can telnet into the thing. But so can anyone else, if they can perform the necessary TCP/IP routing wizardry to get to it.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be anything that I can do to it from telnet that I can't do with the web interface.
I mis-read that as C-Spam. Hmmm....
(Oops, didn't see that line!) What I'm waiting for is someday in the distant future when an E4500 is officially "junk", because with the appropriate top and bottom cover plates, it can run un-racked and is quite happy sharing a regular 15A 117VAC outlet with a display.
Same here. Mine was an ELC (33mhz?) in a SLC case, with a dead IDPROM battery. But I was able to install Solaris 7 on it! Okay, so Solaris 7 ran real slow, and the lowest load average I saw was about 0.5, and that was just typing on the console in text mode with a freshly cleared screen, but it ran.
As long as the case is light. I found this monster 386 tower for 10 bucks at a Goodwill once that had a handle on top. Just as I was leaving I picked it up and one of the handle points broke from all the weight! The thing had a 160 meg or so full-height MFM drive, and a motherboard big enough to play football on, and it must have weighed 40 pounds.
Turned out the only really good part was the 4 megs of 1Mx1 DRAM chips (36 total), which went straight into an old Apple IIgs. But I might still find a use for an MFM drive that large.
You know what, guys? It may be simpler than everyone thinks. He specifically said "use 40 track mode", not "look on track 40" or some other phrase. I have to wonder if these were 360K disks written with a 1.2M drive, that had been previously formatted/written in a 360K drive (different track widths), and the Russians had a problem trying to read it on a 360K drive?
I mean, I just don't see him going to that much trouble to stick the data on a single out-of-range track when there's not much you can put there anyhow, and then not tell the Russians until after they had trouble with it. And it was dead-dropped, not mailed, so there wasn't much chance of interception.
Even if he did use some paranoid trick, in the end it didn't matter. After a little research (CNN.com) I found out that he was discovered when the pheds got a copy of some KGB files about his case. The KGB didn't know who he was (probably not until this week!), but the pheds were able to correlate the information rather easily.
It seems his main failing was insisting on dead-drops within walking distance of his home, in spite of the Russians wanting them much farther away. He had been trying to restore communications with the Russians, and was noticed driving by and pausing at the dead-drop area many times, and even waving a flashlight up and down a wooden post. He was arrested at the location, known as "ELLIS".
Then it was either Flash or had a battery built into the module.
The Apple II also used GCR. The Macintosh and Apple IIgs 3.5" disk added variable numbers of sectors. I think the Amiga also had a variable-speed format. And TRSDOS was probably the only other 8-bit DOS to keep the directory in the middle of the disk (track 17 on a 35-sector disk).
And I think that the Dreamcast's GD-ROMs probably use some sort of GCR to achieve higher density. What does the G stand for?
But where Commodore failed was in the crappy interface, which was a serial version of the IEEE-488 parallel interface, and it couldn't even run at a decent speed because of a bug in one of the chips (VIA?) in the C64.
No, the 3.5" floppy won out for two reasons: size and durability. It certainly had nothing to do with the lack of a GCR format, as Apple was one of the first to use the 3.5" format.
Whereas us TRS-80 users had full direct control of the disk controller chip, instead of having copy-protection built into the drive like the C-64 and Atari did.
I'm sure most people, pheds or otherwise, would have a hard time comprehending the idea of storing data outside of the high-level-formatted area of a disk drive, much less the idea of using strange formatting to hide things in the gap spaces of a track, and have an otherwise apparently empty disk. I can even think of a couple of easy tricks you could do with CD-R disks to hide data, without going into the steganographic possibilities of what appears to be a disc full of pr0n.
At least not in the automatic monthly mailings. I suppose if you asked real nice you could get one, but it's not automatic, and I can't find on connect.apple.com where one can be downloaded.
But I don't mind much, since it's so close to release anyhow.
I like it too. In the great tradition of typos which have become jargon, "Sony Bono" shall join the ranks along with other fun typos like "filk song".
...seed betas of OS X that is. You know what I mean.
As the previous poster suggested, Hotline is your best option if you're itching for some beta action.
Never mind that the "food pyramid" itself is built on bad science. But it sounds so nice and simple!
With the definition of "racist" left, I'm sure, to be set by the Ministry of Friendship, or whatever that translates to.
My second blunder was a year or two later in late 1978, when I tried to build a computer from an 8080A chipset that Radio Shack was selling. I know it was late 1978 because around that time I got a TRS-80 for my 14th birthday. Even if I hadn't made any mistakes with the wiring, I didn't understand the concept of fan-out very well, and most of the pins on the 8080A have a TTL fan-out of one, and needed bus buffer chips. Oops. I know I got an Honorable Mention on this one.
Sigh, another karma whore who posted before reading the article. These things only transmit a signal when exposed to "the energy field of a nearby reader". Which means they're obviously RF-powered. No power signal, no radiation, no cancer. The FUD line is over there in Redmond, take a number.
But I like that idea.
And how easy will it be to remove the tags if they hide them by molding them into the plastic of your keyboard or mouse? The only good thing is that these would have very low range (presumably being RF-powered), and would not be networkable. At least not until they come up with base stations for them.
Just imagine walking around with these things embedded in the credit cards in your wallet, as you walk through various doorways with receiver units in the doorframes. Big Brother really will be watching you then!
Hint: it's right there next to the return key. It's real hard to tell what is a quote and what is being written by the author without them. Apostrophes are missing, too. Looking at the HTML source shows that they really are missing, rather than using some wierd Windows-only characters. Someone must have been using some gooey HTML tool that stripped 'em. Youd think theyd notice theyre missing.
As for this revelation in the case, all I can say is send in the attack lawyers!
If I have understood correctly that the SSID is the "name" of the network, it's trivial if you have a PowerBook with AirPort installed. While I haven't yet found something that will display them automatically in real time, there is a pop-up menu which will display all the ones it currently sees. Even ones using 128-bit WEP, which the AirPort card does not support.
Just position the AirPort control panel strip thingy to the left side of the strip, hold the PowerBook sideways with the mouse button on the left and the cursor over the strip, then drive down the road clicking on the button every few seconds. In a big city, you can surprise yourself by how many you see.
But you still can't connect if it's encrypted and you don't know the WEP key.
Besides, Mir's got the Fungus From Outer Space, and who wants that crap on ISS anyhow? Yes, I know ISS will probably end up with its own fungal infection, but Mir's been up there 15 years, so it could be a decade before ISS has fungus problems.
They're probably on different orbits, and I'm sure it would be a real pain in the butt to change one orbit to match another. That's why the shuttle launches for ISS have a 5-minute window. (I'm sure there are actually lots of 5-minute windows, spaced about 90 minutes apart.) Even then, the shuttle spends a whole day catching up. And ISS is probably in a higher orbit now that the shuttle has been boosting it. It would probably be easier to try to crash Mir on the moon than to have it dock with ISS.
Besides, I'm sure that Mir stinks inside. 15 years of sweaty astronauts has got to be as bad as an athlete's sweatsocks and jockstrap combined. And there's the nice toasty smell of burnt wire insulation from the fires they've had.
On my Powerbook G3 500, the only disc so far that I have had any trouble with is Creature Comforts, which plays really choppy, and I suspect the problem is they pegged the bit rate as close to 10Mbits as possible when mastering the disc. I have some region 2 discs which are pegged to the max bit rate, but I haven't had time to try them yet.