Jeebis Crise. I knew I was either going to be chided for NOT mentioning channel 14, or for forgetting to attach an off-topic explanation about channel 14 being available in certain European countries. The bottom line is, unless you're an ASS who doesn't mind interfering with more people, or who just doesn't understand how straddling multiple frequencies INCREASES the interference AND increases the NOISE your router has to deal with, then only use channels 1, 6, 11 and 14 as they are each clear of each other, and this will maximize the frequencies available in your zone. It boggles the mind how many people want to publicly rationalize their use of other channels. People like that are just admitting they're inconsiderate idiots who think that other's effort to promote cooperative use of the airwaves is tantamount to challenging their god-given right to JAMM DE TRANSZZMISSSONS.
1, 6, 11 and maybe 14. Seriously.
NO. If you use channel 2, then you're straddling channel 1 and 6, so you actually have to compete with more interference. Unless you live somewhere with no other wifi neighbors, like out in a desert or 3rd world country, never use anything but channels 1, 6, 11 or 14!
Oh yeah, "dude", I *really* want to do your Googling for you.
Start by studying the revelations that came to light after what Wired Magazine calls "the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web."
Fine. We agree that Hotmail originally used an *nix-like operating system and not a microsoft product.
Can you confirm microsoft's deception that I spoke of? What was the reasoning for it?
I distinctly remember reading in the major tech blogs about how, shortly after microsoft announced that they'd *finished* converting hotmail to windows server, someone detected that they had really just placed a wall of windows servers on the public facing side, and that everything important was still running linux. Linux that had been imperfectly configured to pretend that they were windows servers. Microsoft briefly tried to claim that there were simply a handful of legacy linux servers that were being seen, but this didn't adequately explain why these 'legacy' servers were lying about their os and httpd. All of the servers were successfully converted to windows server in later months, and the whole thing's been forgotten.
I love how "hacker" has become an euphemism for "tyrannical authority figure", just as "zombie" has become an euphemism, among preppers, for "attacking horde".
I recall the saying "It is better to apologize later than to ask permission first." As long as noone has done any research on legal implications, then they can operate under the shadow of 'plausible deniability'.
You see, "ignorance of the law" is no excuse, citizen. Unless you're an authority.
Wow, looks like we had a chat 10/6/2001 about IO's refusal to implement Front Page Extensions:
You said:
> Did you ever bother to *check*? I cant imagine that a single "no" to a
> customer would result in a "harsh reprimand". IO certainly didn't seem like
> that kind of a place when I almost went to work for them in mid-'98
> (unfortunately, they wanted me to take a pay *cut* from where I was already
> putting in 80 hour weeks).
Later in the email, I said "You may be amused to hear that your chapter in the Book of IO is still told
in hushed tones by the light of flickering monitors late at night. And the
story of many others, who have come and gone. IO receives quite a few
visits by ex employees and friends and there's always new things learned
each time. Word sifts from one shift to the next.", LOL
Seriously, we Illuminati Online Alumni ought to have some kind of reunion... any takers?
I see you were warned about having a mail spool greater than 10MB by lori fife around 12/22/2000, lol. I kept all of my work email. Deliverator was always smoking and groaning. It was the cause of most of our customer complaints during business hours. 400Mhz isn't much power when 10,000 business customers are emailing big attachments. The other two email servers were only used for spooling email that was coming in too fast to toss into inboxes. For some bizarre reason, IO staff used the SAME email server as the customers! We'd get yelled at for not knowing the contents of some memo, when the memo was still lost somewhere.
I was a CST there 2000-2001 and I don't actually remember encountering any legacy DSL customers...
IO entered and withdrew from the DSL scene in a very short timeframe. There should still be some apologetic articles in Illuminati Online's news posts. Being resellers, IO's staff were at a disadvantage with regard to provisioning and troubleshooting DSL issues. The truth is either that IO was mistreated by SBC, or IO management simply screwed up in trying to establish the process. Possibly a combination of both. I'm sure it lost IO a lot of money. IO continued to offer dialup and ISDN.
"Illuminati Online, dropped its ADSL in December after offering it for only two months. A worker there who asked not to be identified says the ISP also had problems with Southwestern Bell." (see tinyurl com ioquitsadsl, second from last paragraph -but their dates are off since i'm certain that IO had given up on ADSL some time before June 2000)
Some of your security holes remained as late as 2002. I used to telnet to io.com, log in as guest, where lynx was provided as the shell to access legacy customer self-maintenance and create new accounts, type "g." and drop right down to the filesystem! Since directory permissions under/home were all over the map, I could enter and browse over half of the user's home folders, including downloading files locally. Someone fixed this after IO was moved to PrismNet. I worked at IO from 2000-2001, and presented a survey of overly-permissive/home file permissions to the "engineers". They didn't have a high regard for the phone techs. They had more important things to do, like giggle to themselves as they flirted in MUDs. Ahh, kitten....
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Jeebis Crise. I knew I was either going to be chided for NOT mentioning channel 14, or for forgetting to attach an off-topic explanation about channel 14 being available in certain European countries. The bottom line is, unless you're an ASS who doesn't mind interfering with more people, or who just doesn't understand how straddling multiple frequencies INCREASES the interference AND increases the NOISE your router has to deal with, then only use channels 1, 6, 11 and 14 as they are each clear of each other, and this will maximize the frequencies available in your zone. It boggles the mind how many people want to publicly rationalize their use of other channels. People like that are just admitting they're inconsiderate idiots who think that other's effort to promote cooperative use of the airwaves is tantamount to challenging their god-given right to JAMM DE TRANSZZMISSSONS. 1, 6, 11 and maybe 14. Seriously.
NO. If you use channel 2, then you're straddling channel 1 and 6, so you actually have to compete with more interference. Unless you live somewhere with no other wifi neighbors, like out in a desert or 3rd world country, never use anything but channels 1, 6, 11 or 14!
I just want to ask one very stupid question: name one human activity which drone strikes do not disrupt?
I always knew it was a bunch of bitter old attention seeking jackasses that ran hotmail. Thanks for the lulz!
Oh yeah, "dude", I *really* want to do your Googling for you. Start by studying the revelations that came to light after what Wired Magazine calls "the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web."
Fine. We agree that Hotmail originally used an *nix-like operating system and not a microsoft product. Can you confirm microsoft's deception that I spoke of? What was the reasoning for it?
I distinctly remember reading in the major tech blogs about how, shortly after microsoft announced that they'd *finished* converting hotmail to windows server, someone detected that they had really just placed a wall of windows servers on the public facing side, and that everything important was still running linux. Linux that had been imperfectly configured to pretend that they were windows servers. Microsoft briefly tried to claim that there were simply a handful of legacy linux servers that were being seen, but this didn't adequately explain why these 'legacy' servers were lying about their os and httpd. All of the servers were successfully converted to windows server in later months, and the whole thing's been forgotten.
I love how "hacker" has become an euphemism for "tyrannical authority figure", just as "zombie" has become an euphemism, among preppers, for "attacking horde".
I recall the saying "It is better to apologize later than to ask permission first." As long as noone has done any research on legal implications, then they can operate under the shadow of 'plausible deniability'. You see, "ignorance of the law" is no excuse, citizen. Unless you're an authority.
Wow, looks like we had a chat 10/6/2001 about IO's refusal to implement Front Page Extensions:
You said:
> Did you ever bother to *check*? I cant imagine that a single "no" to a
> customer would result in a "harsh reprimand". IO certainly didn't seem like
> that kind of a place when I almost went to work for them in mid-'98
> (unfortunately, they wanted me to take a pay *cut* from where I was already
> putting in 80 hour weeks).
Later in the email, I said "You may be amused to hear that your chapter in the Book of IO is still told in hushed tones by the light of flickering monitors late at night. And the story of many others, who have come and gone. IO receives quite a few visits by ex employees and friends and there's always new things learned each time. Word sifts from one shift to the next.", LOL
Seriously, we Illuminati Online Alumni ought to have some kind of reunion... any takers?
I see you were warned about having a mail spool greater than 10MB by lori fife around 12/22/2000, lol. I kept all of my work email. Deliverator was always smoking and groaning. It was the cause of most of our customer complaints during business hours. 400Mhz isn't much power when 10,000 business customers are emailing big attachments. The other two email servers were only used for spooling email that was coming in too fast to toss into inboxes. For some bizarre reason, IO staff used the SAME email server as the customers! We'd get yelled at for not knowing the contents of some memo, when the memo was still lost somewhere.
I was a CST there 2000-2001 and I don't actually remember encountering any legacy DSL customers...
IO entered and withdrew from the DSL scene in a very short timeframe. There should still be some apologetic articles in Illuminati Online's news posts. Being resellers, IO's staff were at a disadvantage with regard to provisioning and troubleshooting DSL issues. The truth is either that IO was mistreated by SBC, or IO management simply screwed up in trying to establish the process. Possibly a combination of both. I'm sure it lost IO a lot of money. IO continued to offer dialup and ISDN.
"Illuminati Online, dropped its ADSL in December after offering it for only two months. A worker there who asked not to be identified says the ISP also had problems with Southwestern Bell." (see tinyurl com ioquitsadsl, second from last paragraph -but their dates are off since i'm certain that IO had given up on ADSL some time before June 2000)
Some of your security holes remained as late as 2002. I used to telnet to io.com, log in as guest, where lynx was provided as the shell to access legacy customer self-maintenance and create new accounts, type "g ." and drop right down to the filesystem! Since directory permissions under /home were all over the map, I could enter and browse over half of the user's home folders, including downloading files locally. Someone fixed this after IO was moved to PrismNet. I worked at IO from 2000-2001, and presented a survey of overly-permissive /home file permissions to the "engineers". They didn't have a high regard for the phone techs. They had more important things to do, like giggle to themselves as they flirted in MUDs. Ahh, kitten....