Very simple - an alarm does everything that you have asked for, plus covers breakins, etc. Use Ademco equipment (used in banks, armories, etc). Any self respecting geek can wire it up yourself, or you can hire it out. High and low temp sensors are available, water bugs (detect water on the floor), smoke detectors (nice to know when the fire is smoldering, instead of when the neighbors see the flames coming out the roof...). Add in some motion detectors, glass break sensors, whatever you want. You can get a module that allows you to call the house and arm/disarm, check status, speak the temperature in the house, adjust the thermostat, control X-10 modules, anything you want. If you do it yourself, you should be able to do everything I listed here for around $1000. You can get a panel that supports paging (if by some chance you still have a pager), buy a dialer to have it call you, or best yet, pay $10 - $20/month to have it professionally monitored. If something trips, they will call the phone numbers on your list until they find someone to alert.
Come on, I couldn't have been the only geek here to spend my alotted turns each day exploring, trading, mining, etc. Collecting log files and transferring them to a big poster board with the spider web like map. That was the first online game I ever played (BBS = online, right?) - and actually one of the ones I enjoyed the most. No fast reflexes, no huge learning curve, just you and the Cabal putzing around the galaxy.
My Wife:"Honey! He (our 2 year old son) is playing with your laptop!"
Me (too lazy to get up): "He can't hurt anything"
Short version: I spent quite some time renaming all of the icons on my desktop to different extensions (.exe,.doc,.xls,.jpg) until I figured out which one would actually allow them to open, then figuring out what the file originally was and giving it a sensible name. Then I had to go through my "Recent Documents" list and edit the random characters out of all of the docs listed there.
Maybe running with "Hide extensions for known filetypes" unchecked should be on the 'don't do this' list as well...
Flamebait!? Flamebait?!? Who the FUCK is modding today? This poor guy points out what a lousy job the mods did, and how unfairly the posts tend to be judged, and gets modded Flamebait?!? BULLSHIT! Give me my -1 Offtopic so I can get on with it.
Actually, according to the article, the week that it took incorporated writing the software, ordering and installing the hardware, testing and setting everything up. The actual exploit took around a few hours as I recall, and my understanding was that the time it took to crack was at least partially based on the amount of traffic. This may mean that a very busy network could be cracked even quicker?
I already have this. My DirecTV box has "interactive" features. This is normally used to get more info about the current program, sports scores, etc....but occasionally it pops up during a commercial and offers to send you more info at the press of a button. Around Christmas one of the electronics stores (I think it was BestBuy) had one. I hit the button (cause I have the mentality of a 3 year old, and can't resist playing with any toy placed before me), and it pops up and asks me what denomination of gift card I want to purchase - $50 or $100. I appeared to be 1 button press away from buying a giftcard...needless to say, my 2 year old doesn't get to play with the remote anymore....
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Very simple - an alarm does everything that you have asked for, plus covers breakins, etc. Use Ademco equipment (used in banks, armories, etc). Any self respecting geek can wire it up yourself, or you can hire it out. High and low temp sensors are available, water bugs (detect water on the floor), smoke detectors (nice to know when the fire is smoldering, instead of when the neighbors see the flames coming out the roof...). Add in some motion detectors, glass break sensors, whatever you want. You can get a module that allows you to call the house and arm/disarm, check status, speak the temperature in the house, adjust the thermostat, control X-10 modules, anything you want. If you do it yourself, you should be able to do everything I listed here for around $1000. You can get a panel that supports paging (if by some chance you still have a pager), buy a dialer to have it call you, or best yet, pay $10 - $20/month to have it professionally monitored. If something trips, they will call the phone numbers on your list until they find someone to alert.
Come on, I couldn't have been the only geek here to spend my alotted turns each day exploring, trading, mining, etc. Collecting log files and transferring them to a big poster board with the spider web like map. That was the first online game I ever played (BBS = online, right?) - and actually one of the ones I enjoyed the most. No fast reflexes, no huge learning curve, just you and the Cabal putzing around the galaxy.
Lemmings....damn Lemmings....why did you have to say that....another 2 weeks of my life gone....
My Wife:"Honey! He (our 2 year old son) is playing with your laptop!"
.doc, .xls, .jpg) until I figured out which one would actually allow them to open, then figuring out what the file originally was and giving it a sensible name. Then I had to go through my "Recent Documents" list and edit the random characters out of all of the docs listed there.
Me (too lazy to get up): "He can't hurt anything"
Short version: I spent quite some time renaming all of the icons on my desktop to different extensions (.exe,
Maybe running with "Hide extensions for known filetypes" unchecked should be on the 'don't do this' list as well...
I don't care if you two keep arguing, just quit spelling LOSE wrong...
The terrorist attacks were on September 11th, not November 11th...not to be nit picky or anything....
Flamebait!? Flamebait?!? Who the FUCK is modding today? This poor guy points out what a lousy job the mods did, and how unfairly the posts tend to be judged, and gets modded Flamebait?!? BULLSHIT! Give me my -1 Offtopic so I can get on with it.
And yet, when I take the battery out of my laptop, the screen goes black...
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LMAO! My thoughts exactly!
format c: /autotest will format a drive from a batch file with no prompts, IIRC.
I know in Win98 you could (can?) do this with the undocumented /autotest switch...
Actually, according to the article, the week that it took incorporated writing the software, ordering and installing the hardware, testing and setting everything up. The actual exploit took around a few hours as I recall, and my understanding was that the time it took to crack was at least partially based on the amount of traffic. This may mean that a very busy network could be cracked even quicker?
I already have this. My DirecTV box has "interactive" features. This is normally used to get more info about the current program, sports scores, etc....but occasionally it pops up during a commercial and offers to send you more info at the press of a button. Around Christmas one of the electronics stores (I think it was BestBuy) had one. I hit the button (cause I have the mentality of a 3 year old, and can't resist playing with any toy placed before me), and it pops up and asks me what denomination of gift card I want to purchase - $50 or $100. I appeared to be 1 button press away from buying a giftcard...needless to say, my 2 year old doesn't get to play with the remote anymore....