Who needs GameShark? There are plenty of tools out there that let you find codes on your own like ArtMoney and GameWiz32. Like most games these are for Windows, but both work very well. There are lots of others if you are prepared to look, but I found ArtMoney to do all I needed, which was actually circumventing a forgotten password lock rather than a lives cheat, but what the hell.
I have no idea where the name "War Driving" came from, though.
It's a corruption of "War Dialling", which is the brute force approach of finding modems to compromise by sequentially dialling all the telephone numbers in a range. Used most effectively in the film Wargames since I guess you haven't seen it.
Who says he is not detecting freely accesable networks that are made to be public
He almost certainly was detecting them, the point is made about every Starbuck's in the article, but even if the networks are for public access, they probably should have more restrictive access and do not. After all, I'm sure that Starbuck's would prefer you to buy a coffee and danish to "pay" for your use of their public connection, rather than sit outside in your car.
Also, having taken a more leisurely cruise around likely candidate sites for 802.11b compromises (hi-tech business parks) I can state for a fact that the majority of wireless networks are begging to be compromised by someone with a darker shade of hat than mine... One other statistic I drew was that the bulk of these unsecure networks are running under NT, which explains a lot.
While I think that arbitration is, on paper, a better solution than the "first-come, first-served" approachm with all the domain-squatting that ensued as a result of that. The problem for ICANN seems to be making arbitration work without any possible bias. If either of the two sides in the argument is allowed to choose the judge, then how can the result be anything other than biased? It seems incredibly naive of ICANN to think that anything other could be the case when money (and lawyers) are involved.
The best way forward might be to log the dispute with ICANN (or some other neutral body) and they randomly assign it to an one of the arbiters on a pro-rata basis. The more resources the arbitrator has the more cases they get. There definately needs to be a process of appeal as well; maybe to a committee of several arbiters whose decision is final.
I thought the ISS was using Linux on a collection of three IBM Thinkpads. Or is my memory faulty? This page would suggest not however, and IIRC the ESA uses Linux as well.
You could try the revamped Cant Get Enough Futurama site at http://www.gotfuturama.com. They have pretty much the entire old CGEF site back on-line now, including the Alien Language codecs - it's in the "Interactive" menu section.
I should be able to install the latest perl-xxx.rpm in a test location, test my scripts against it, and then reinstall it in the canonical place.
Since you appear to have an.RPM based distro you might want to investitgate the "--relocate==" switch, and possibly "--badreloc" as well, which should enable you to do just what you want.
but you'll still require something that will clean up all the symlinks that point off to nowhere.
A combination of "ls -l", "cut" and grepping for the subfolder you just "rm -rf"'d fed into "rm" perhaps? It shouldn't be too difficult to work out the regexp to sort out the "symlink -> target" bit at the end, but it's late in my day, so I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader...;)
I don't recall LFS saying you couldn't use "/usr/appname", so the article title is a bit misleading, but you certainly don't need 2000 entries in your path. The best solution for the problem that I can see is for coders of the multi-binary applications to take a leaf out of Windows' book and use the equivalent of "C:\Program Files\Common Files". Using an application (or environment, or vendor) specific directory for programs that only other programs need to use. The best I can see would be to use "/usr/appname/" for binaries and "/usr/lib/appname/" for libraries.
Actually, since the Taliban is not allowing independent validation of casualties and atrocities (if any) due to US action, there is probably a reason for that. Here in the UK though we are getting to hear the Taliban's claims, with the rider "not independantly verified" which is as it should be, I feel. In situations like this it's best to take all data with a pinch of salt, but I don't feel the lack of statistics is down to the US; it's a bit difficult counting bodies in a cave you've just tossed a bomb into, unless you are on the ground.
However, I understand that there *is* a very good reason for your "Proof of Bin Laden's guilt" point (IANAL). The US wants Bin Laden to stand trial for the events of Septemeber 11th, presumably at the Hague for crimes against humanity. If they release their evidence to the global population then there is a serious chance of a mistrial being declared on the grounds of a prejudiced jury (or what ever the correct term is). This is common practice in conventional legal cases, and I don't see why Bin Laden's is any different. Nor do I recollect much of the prosecution's evidence being made public prior to the trial of Slobodan Milosovich for that matter.
Actually, I'd say that the approach taken by the Chinese, Saudi's and even the Taliban is more Internet friendly than the path taken by more industrialised nations to deal with their differences of opinion with the Internet. These countries' governments are basically accepting that the Internet is a global thing and are choosing to opt out on their own instead of, say, trying to get a foreign company to stop selling Nazi memorabilia to your citizens via the courts because it's against your local laws. The Internet is a global thing, and very few governments seem prepared to deal with this fact on a local level.
Of course, the big problem with the countries above is that their respective populaces have absolutely no say in the matter, for which they do deserve the derision of rest of the world. It's not so much an issue "what is being done", as "who decided it was a good thing".
IBM's Home project found that people would "lose" things in a 3D environment and in fact the visual cues of the 2D desktop were better suited to the task.
Interesting, I've never heard of that one. I do recall that Xerox, doyen of innovation in the user interface department, actually released a simulated-3D desktop add on for MS Windows almost a decade ago. It was called "Xerox Rooms" and never made it past it's first release, which more or less proves the opinion we clearly share; developer's ideas of "cool" != user's ideas of "usable".
Ultimately, it's horses for courses. A 3D interface would probably work very well for a surgeon performing an operation remotely, but for general bulk file management I have yet to find a faster interface the good old fashioned shell prompt. GUIs are very nice when arbitrary selections are required, and definately have their place, but 3D and voice? Let's just say I'm skeptical, but prepared to be blown away.
Yeah. I've seen spam purporting to originate from IP space that hasn't been allocated yet. Shame that having gone to all that trouble the spammer concerned hadn't checked what else was going into his SMTP headers...
And for those that want a GUI, check out Xlogmaster. It comes in a variety of themes (OK, colours) and can pretty much capture everything you can cat, grep and cut out of your standard *NIX commands and logfiles. And a good deal more besides.
Perhaps, too, that this story is in religious texts, but how are we to know which? The symbolism may be too obscure or too abstract for us to pick up on immediately.
In addition to the cited Gilgamesh, there are actually quite a few obvious stories to choose from in the Bible alone. Many of the incidents of the "Wrath of God" smashing a city to dust would do, Sodom and Gomorrah for example. This appears to be quite a significant event, so those that observed from a distance are more likely to have given it a more significant and lengthy writeup than some obscure comments.
Of course, large scale meteor impacts can create any of a large plethora of side effects to the environment which can cause futher side effects in their own right far beyond the immediate observation zone. There may well be more obscure collabaratory evidence in the Americas and eastern Asia that will never be connected with the event.
Unless it's actually pouring off the set and cast in close-up I believe you can't actually see rain on film unless it's being backlit, so rain alone doesn't cause too much disruption, more an inconvenience and some discomfort.
There are a *lot* of ccTLDs that are also words (.TO), abbreviations (.IQ), or short-hand (.CU), it really depends on your imagintion. You could also potentially use foreign language words if that would appeal to your target audience. Of course, just because a ccTLD is available doesn't mean a foreign national can register a domain with-in it.
It's not too clearly written, but I read that as "no one has brought the subject up, but it may be just around the corner", rather than "it may be hazardous to Linux's health". Source forks do seem to have this "whoo... bad stuff happening" stigma attached to them for many people though.
It's all part of giving people the choice and letting the masses decide, as you advocate, although even for the tech-savvy Linux crowd I think this is going to a small mass. It's not like it's going to cause most users sleepless nights, is it?
I dumped COMMAND.EXE for JP Software's 4DOS as soon as I found out about it - way back when it was on version 2.x. It's evolved a lot since then and the current version, 7.0, gives modern *NIX shells a pretty good run for their money and interfaces very well with the GUI.
There is still the problem of having to wait for each stage of the pipe to finish before the next can begin, but there is definately life in the old DOS yet and I'll be using JP's shells long after COMMAND/CMD has gone the way of the dodo.
There are on-going charges on top of that too, of up to $1000 per application developed. I expect there is a $POA license for unlimited applications as well that the big service companies will go for. Microsoft really has a thing going for generating income through licensing at the moment doesn't it?
I suppose that's one way of dealing with the industry downturn in the hope of keeping your shareholders happy. It'll be interesting to see how well it fares in real life of course...
GPL: Free to download, free to upgrade, free to use next year, but you may need to pay for support.
MS: Pay to have delivered, pay to upgrade, pay to use next year, and you will have to pay for support.
Well, my cash-strapped industry-downturn budget's made up it's mind...
Do NOT leave router configs lying around, especially not Cisco ones as the passwords are as they are so trivially encrypted it's untrue. The following from l0pht should illustrate:
The boot time password could be put on a sticker and pasted to the machine -- it could even go next to the serial number.
If you are going down that route, it might as well be the serial number. My laptop and desktop both can display their serial numbers in their BIOSes, so why not a router? It's an ugly enough number to make people change it who need remote access and also a secure default for people who only need console access, providing that the router is physically secure, which is probably overlooked more often that the password. You'd be surprised how many people leave routers in data centers with their console ports accessible, and you just know some won't have password protected console ports...
On the otherhand, I'd prefer the approach of no default password set at all, but you can't access the router until a password is set.
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Who needs GameShark? There are plenty of tools out there that let you find codes on your own like ArtMoney and GameWiz32. Like most games these are for Windows, but both work very well. There are lots of others if you are prepared to look, but I found ArtMoney to do all I needed, which was actually circumventing a forgotten password lock rather than a lives cheat, but what the hell.
It's a corruption of "War Dialling", which is the brute force approach of finding modems to compromise by sequentially dialling all the telephone numbers in a range. Used most effectively in the film Wargames since I guess you haven't seen it.
He almost certainly was detecting them, the point is made about every Starbuck's in the article, but even if the networks are for public access, they probably should have more restrictive access and do not. After all, I'm sure that Starbuck's would prefer you to buy a coffee and danish to "pay" for your use of their public connection, rather than sit outside in your car.
Also, having taken a more leisurely cruise around likely candidate sites for 802.11b compromises (hi-tech business parks) I can state for a fact that the majority of wireless networks are begging to be compromised by someone with a darker shade of hat than mine... One other statistic I drew was that the bulk of these unsecure networks are running under NT, which explains a lot.
Three more "Pixar shorts too!"
Not to mention LoTR trailers (and more).
The best way forward might be to log the dispute with ICANN (or some other neutral body) and they randomly assign it to an one of the arbiters on a pro-rata basis. The more resources the arbitrator has the more cases they get. There definately needs to be a process of appeal as well; maybe to a committee of several arbiters whose decision is final.
I thought the ISS was using Linux on a collection of three IBM Thinkpads. Or is my memory faulty? This page would suggest not however, and IIRC the ESA uses Linux as well.
You could try the revamped Cant Get Enough Futurama site at http://www.gotfuturama.com. They have pretty much the entire old CGEF site back on-line now, including the Alien Language codecs - it's in the "Interactive" menu section.
Since you appear to have an .RPM based distro you might want to investitgate the "--relocate==" switch, and possibly "--badreloc" as well, which should enable you to do just what you want.
Well, you can get freekaaaayyy if you want, but you might want to read Daniel's about page first... ;)
A combination of "ls -l", "cut" and grepping for the subfolder you just "rm -rf"'d fed into "rm" perhaps? It shouldn't be too difficult to work out the regexp to sort out the "symlink -> target" bit at the end, but it's late in my day, so I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader... ;)
I don't recall LFS saying you couldn't use "/usr/appname", so the article title is a bit misleading, but you certainly don't need 2000 entries in your path. The best solution for the problem that I can see is for coders of the multi-binary applications to take a leaf out of Windows' book and use the equivalent of "C:\Program Files\Common Files". Using an application (or environment, or vendor) specific directory for programs that only other programs need to use. The best I can see would be to use "/usr/appname/" for binaries and "/usr/lib/appname/" for libraries.
However, I understand that there *is* a very good reason for your "Proof of Bin Laden's guilt" point (IANAL). The US wants Bin Laden to stand trial for the events of Septemeber 11th, presumably at the Hague for crimes against humanity. If they release their evidence to the global population then there is a serious chance of a mistrial being declared on the grounds of a prejudiced jury (or what ever the correct term is). This is common practice in conventional legal cases, and I don't see why Bin Laden's is any different. Nor do I recollect much of the prosecution's evidence being made public prior to the trial of Slobodan Milosovich for that matter.
Of course, the big problem with the countries above is that their respective populaces have absolutely no say in the matter, for which they do deserve the derision of rest of the world. It's not so much an issue "what is being done", as "who decided it was a good thing".
Interesting, I've never heard of that one. I do recall that Xerox, doyen of innovation in the user interface department, actually released a simulated-3D desktop add on for MS Windows almost a decade ago. It was called "Xerox Rooms" and never made it past it's first release, which more or less proves the opinion we clearly share; developer's ideas of "cool" != user's ideas of "usable".
Ultimately, it's horses for courses. A 3D interface would probably work very well for a surgeon performing an operation remotely, but for general bulk file management I have yet to find a faster interface the good old fashioned shell prompt. GUIs are very nice when arbitrary selections are required, and definately have their place, but 3D and voice? Let's just say I'm skeptical, but prepared to be blown away.
There's a pretty good "howto" thing here that should get you started.
Yeah. I've seen spam purporting to originate from IP space that hasn't been allocated yet. Shame that having gone to all that trouble the spammer concerned hadn't checked what else was going into his SMTP headers...
Still, choice is good.
In addition to the cited Gilgamesh, there are actually quite a few obvious stories to choose from in the Bible alone. Many of the incidents of the "Wrath of God" smashing a city to dust would do, Sodom and Gomorrah for example. This appears to be quite a significant event, so those that observed from a distance are more likely to have given it a more significant and lengthy writeup than some obscure comments.
Of course, large scale meteor impacts can create any of a large plethora of side effects to the environment which can cause futher side effects in their own right far beyond the immediate observation zone. There may well be more obscure collabaratory evidence in the Americas and eastern Asia that will never be connected with the event.
Having to sandbag the set however...
IANA has a complete list if you want a perusal.
It's all part of giving people the choice and letting the masses decide, as you advocate, although even for the tech-savvy Linux crowd I think this is going to a small mass. It's not like it's going to cause most users sleepless nights, is it?
There is still the problem of having to wait for each stage of the pipe to finish before the next can begin, but there is definately life in the old DOS yet and I'll be using JP's shells long after COMMAND/CMD has gone the way of the dodo.
I suppose that's one way of dealing with the industry downturn in the hope of keeping your shareholders happy. It'll be interesting to see how well it fares in real life of course...
GPL: Free to download, free to upgrade, free to use next year, but you may need to pay for support.
MS: Pay to have delivered, pay to upgrade, pay to use next year, and you will have to pay for support.
Well, my cash-strapped industry-downturn budget's made up it's mind...
One other thing:
//, " tfd;kfoA,.iyewrkldJKD";
Do NOT leave router configs lying around, especially not Cisco ones as the passwords are as they are so trivially encrypted it's untrue. The following from l0pht should illustrate:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
@constant = split
$length = 22;
$i = 0;
$passwd = $ARGV[0];
$zlength = length($passwd);
$plength = length($passwd) / 2;
while ($i < $zlength)
{
$temp = substr ($passwd, $i, 2);
push (@new, $temp);
$i = $i + 2;
}
$start = $new[0];
$count = 1;
print "\nThe decrypted password -> ";
while ( $count < $plength)
{
print $constant[$start] ^ pack(c, hex($new[$count]));
$start++;
$count++;
if ( $start == $length )
{
$start = 0;
}
}
print "\n\n";
If you are going down that route, it might as well be the serial number. My laptop and desktop both can display their serial numbers in their BIOSes, so why not a router? It's an ugly enough number to make people change it who need remote access and also a secure default for people who only need console access, providing that the router is physically secure, which is probably overlooked more often that the password. You'd be surprised how many people leave routers in data centers with their console ports accessible, and you just know some won't have password protected console ports...
On the otherhand, I'd prefer the approach of no default password set at all, but you can't access the router until a password is set.