Even that is kind of sketchy-seeming; however, you're on their property and presumably you're placed under a 'citizen\'s arrest' by them, which I believe it technically legal, though you'd better know exactly what you're doing lest you find yourself the target of a tremendous lawsuit and/or unlawful detention charges.
If you break into the RIAA headquarters, and they hold you there until the police arrive, it's probably legal. But if they randomly run around -- in public or, better yet, on your private property -- pretending to be the police, it's suddenly a blatant felony.
Is this a joke? I have a hard time believing this, except that I'm worried it's true.
How is this not a mob? Extortion? Impersonating a police officer? Harassment? Vandalism? I'd like to see the people involed with this arrested and held accountable for the numerous felonies they're committing!
We occasionally use AIM here for things like that; everyone here has their own computer (or three in my case: gotta have the Linux desktop, Windows laptop, and a caching DNS server since your ISP's sucks) and at least one screenname (or 20+ if you're really pathetic... *cough*) on AIM.
What happens more often is that someone'll call me on my cell phone from the cordless phone in the kitchen to let me know it's dinner, since there isn't a computer it in the kitchen. Yet. (We're due for a cell phone upgrade, really. Maybe it's time for phones with AIM.)
I never realized until now how pathetic I am... I should e-mail a memo to my family suggesting that we occasionally talk to each other in person.
This gesture is far more useful to those who are "stuck" with an end-of-lined server.
This could serve as a really nice precedent, actually. A ton of things end up dying out because the manufacturer never makes them, but still owns the rights to it. If they're not going to use it, giving it away free does them no harm, and is really beneficial to those who use it.
I'd really like to see other places do the same. If you're never going to make a dime off it again, consider making it public domain.
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Webmin is good for server administration (it's what I use when I don't feel like ssh), and it has an offshoot, Usermin, for users to manage their accounts and such. There's also Virtualmin, another offshoot (that's ransomware, though), that gives more of what you might be looking for, such as the ability for users to manage their VirtualHost site in Apache, a MySQL table, etc. I never really used any of the RaQ/Cobalt code, though, so I couldn't begin to guess how it compares.
The seeminly-ubiquitous web panel for servers is CPanel, but that's not free. (They do give it out free to academic institutions; I'm not sure about non-profits, though. Worth a look, though; I love CPanel.)
What does this require hardware-wise? Is it specifically designed for the hardware they ran it on? Can I download the code and have a 'Cobalt' 486 server? And is it distro-dependent?
Sorry if these are answered somewhere, but I can't find them, and I'd like to know if it's worthwhile for me to download a 12 MB file at 4.8 KB/sec, or if it won't work on anything here.:)
I think there's a bit of a difference between speech and nudity. A lot (not all, but a good portion) of the people who'd be going around nude if it were legal are probably perverts. Public nudity sounds cool until it's an overweight 60-year-old pedophile standing behind me in line somewhere, or sitting next to me in a restaurant.
Freedom of speech has limits, just as public dress should. For the most part, you can say what you want, but if you're sexually harassing someone, threatening someone, etc., it's illegal, and just about everyone likes it that way. Similarly, you can pretty much dress as you like, but if you're completely nude in public, it's illegal, and most people like it that way. The will of the majority, IMHO, is more important than extreme right-wing interpretations of the constitution.
I've always considered myself pretty liberal in most things. However, I'm a little confused on this one. She essentially publishes 'proof' of a crime, and it's outrageous when she's convicted of it?
I'll grant you that public nudity probably isn't the biggest crime out there right now, but I'm really baffled here. If I rob a bank and have a friend videotape it, then put the videotape up on the web, being convicted based on the videotape makes me a complete moron, not the victim of some 1984-style society.
The Internet isn't a guarantee of anonymity and complete prevention of liability. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone here.
I've been known to be kind of dense before, but can someone explain this? I read the article, and found it to be completely incoherent; as if someone took an article and randomly threw "spam" into the middle of it. Maybe I'm just really tired, but that article made _no_ sense to me.
What's actaully meant is that SCO owns the rights to DOS, not DoS, and not DDoS. Expect lawsuits against Microsoft next week, along with a $699 fee for each computer with DOS installed.
I'd just cruise around eBay and buy something cheap. At the risk of sounding like an old man, they don't make cameras like they used to. A friend gave me an old SLR (Minolta XG1) that was 'taking up space,' along with some decent lenses. I'm not sure of the value, but if you cruise around eBay, you'll probably find a ton that will suit you just fine.
I've found photo.net to be chock-full of discussion about any camera you can imagine; if you find a good deal, see what the people there have said about it.
I'm really not all that familiar with the inner workings of cryptography, but it seems like it'd make sense to do more system-specific hashing. (Not in all cases, of course.)
For example, I was looking at the MySQL tables on a site I run, and realized that my password hash there is the same as on other boxes I have accounts on. For example, 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 is the MD5 sum of "password," anyone with access to a set of passwords could simply skim through looking for this and other well-known hashes.
In many cases, wouldn't it make a fair amount of sense to use machine-specific algorithms for generating password hashes? It could even be something simple, like taking the hash of "$hostname-$username-$password". You could generate all the hashes you wanted, but if you didn't know my username and the hostname, the hash would end up being different. The end result is that, even though I (insecurely, I know) use the same password (and often, the same username), I would have a different password hash on each machine; you'd have to know all three fields before you could brute-force my password.
Is there something I'm overlooking? This idea seems like it'd work out really well; I can't possibly have just described some revolutionary new idea, though.
I can't imagine life without being able to get directions, and a custom-made map, to somewhere an hour and a half away that no one's ever heard of. I really don't think I could navigate with a paper map anymore.
But technology's most amusing when it all blows up. I wish I could find the link, but I distinctly remember reading about some lady who tried to plot an intracity voyage, and got routed through about 12 states -- even venturing into Canada for a while. (Does anyone else remember this?) And someone I know was talking about how on a recent trip, he tried navigating only by GPS; it worked perfectly, until it had him turn down onto what was a dead-end street. It turns out that the GPS assumed he could drive about 100' through the woods, up a steep embankbent, to get onto the highway. (I suppose it would have been a convenient shortcut, if only he had been in a Hummer and had a chainsaw for those pesky trees.)
I wouldn't see why a floppy wouldn't work sideways. In fact, an old computer (486 I think) I used to use had it mounted sideways; there was never a problem. CD drives can be mounted sideways and have tabs to hold them in place, but I'd still tend to want to mount it normally, although it probably doesn't really matter any.
One of my (former) teachers was showing me one of these not too long ago. While I scrawl illegible notes on my pad of paper, he can do the same on his tablet, and then convert it to text. But for times when I just want to type (when X dies?;)), he still has the keyboard he can use. If I recall correctly, though, it has neither a CD drive nor a floppy drive; I guess you're expected to carry external ones and use them over USB. Integrated wireless would make up for it here, but not 'in the field' when I can't count on having whatever I need on a network share.
I haven't seen this done, but it might be really nice for graphics work, too. In Photoshop, it's a pain to try to use a mouse to do exact selections of images, etc. With Photoshop on one of these, it's even better than a graphics tablet.
I actually oppose any anti-spam legislation, not because I enjoy spam, or even think people ought to be able to blast out spam, but because of the potential loopholes in the law.
What I mean by that is this: the Do Not Call movement provided several exemptions; namely, politicians, charities, and anyone you've done business with in the past 9 months (?) is allowed to call you. What I fear is that similar loopholes in spam laws will actually make it harder to block certain spam. As it is today, I can forward spam to whoever owns the netblock it's on and request that they take action; network owners who don't often end up blacklisted, or at least shunned. Suddenly, however, it's harder to get people shut down. A _lot_ of spam comes from places that I've "done business" with in the past 9 months, even if doing business simply means giving my address to them.
All of a sudden, this bill is giving spammers loopholes to hide under; spammers could actually use the legislation in their defense.
From the top of the page: There are 21 registered and 9773 anonymous users currently online. Current bandwidth usage: 2263.41 kbit/s
I don't think we've linked to a site that shows cool stats like these for a while. I somehow think that, on an average day, they don't have 9,773 unregistered users visit at a time. But they seem to handle that, and the 3+ Mbps bandwidth peaks, without a hitch. Do you know how many jokes could have been made had we Slashdotted it and left their server a smoldering wreck?
I currently have a 'brick' phone -- an older (though not ancient) block-shaped phone. I've been thinking of ditching it and buying something smaller, perhaps a clamshell phone with a color screen. Kyocera's 7135 seemed extremely appealing; it's got PalmOS and an MP3 player.
As weird of a question as this may sound... Where would you put the Treo 600 when you're not using it? As I typically don't wear a suitcoat with an inside pocket, I usually find myself shoving the phone into a pants pocket, but this can be uncomfortable, and I sometimes fear what people might think of the enormous bulge in my pocket. Wearing the type of phone I have on your belt isn't really an option either, as it looks incredibly tacky. A nice clamshell flip-phone would fit nicely into my pocket, or I could wear it on a belt easily. But where on Earth do people carry their Treo 600s?
You hear people saying "RTFA" (Read The Fscking Article) all the time. In this case, it seems more like "RTFS" -- at least read the story on Slashdot first? This has nothing to do with SiteFinder at all.
Agreed. It really depends on how you define the Internet. (As weird as that sounds.) I can walk out tomorrow and (with adequate money, which I unfortunately dont' have...) buy some fiber and run 10 Gbps Ethernet over it. The technology exists today.
It really depends on where you draw the distinction between LAN and the Internet, but the trend seems to be running everything over Ethernet nowadays. I'm waiting for someone to bring a new 10GigE backbone online and run something like this.
5 Gbps really isn't a lot. Companies like RackShack chew through several Gbps on a daily basis, but over more than a dozen connections and with thousands (if not millions) of different TCP connections.
There's nothing stopping you from using 10 Gbps tomorrow. Might cost a lot to implement, and you might have a devil of a time trying to generate 10 Gbps of intelligent data, but the technology's there to pump out 10 Gbps. 5 Gbps really isn't all that earth shattering.
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Even that is kind of sketchy-seeming; however, you're on their property and presumably you're placed under a 'citizen\'s arrest' by them, which I believe it technically legal, though you'd better know exactly what you're doing lest you find yourself the target of a tremendous lawsuit and/or unlawful detention charges.
If you break into the RIAA headquarters, and they hold you there until the police arrive, it's probably legal. But if they randomly run around -- in public or, better yet, on your private property -- pretending to be the police, it's suddenly a blatant felony.
Is this a joke? I have a hard time believing this, except that I'm worried it's true.
How is this not a mob? Extortion? Impersonating a police officer? Harassment? Vandalism? I'd like to see the people involed with this arrested and held accountable for the numerous felonies they're committing!
I think you mean Faschial.
We occasionally use AIM here for things like that; everyone here has their own computer (or three in my case: gotta have the Linux desktop, Windows laptop, and a caching DNS server since your ISP's sucks) and at least one screenname (or 20+ if you're really pathetic... *cough*) on AIM.
What happens more often is that someone'll call me on my cell phone from the cordless phone in the kitchen to let me know it's dinner, since there isn't a computer it in the kitchen. Yet. (We're due for a cell phone upgrade, really. Maybe it's time for phones with AIM.)
I never realized until now how pathetic I am... I should e-mail a memo to my family suggesting that we occasionally talk to each other in person.
This gesture is far more useful to those who are "stuck" with an end-of-lined server.
This could serve as a really nice precedent, actually. A ton of things end up dying out because the manufacturer never makes them, but still owns the rights to it. If they're not going to use it, giving it away free does them no harm, and is really beneficial to those who use it.
I'd really like to see other places do the same. If you're never going to make a dime off it again, consider making it public domain.
Webmin is good for server administration (it's what I use when I don't feel like ssh), and it has an offshoot, Usermin, for users to manage their accounts and such. There's also Virtualmin, another offshoot (that's ransomware, though), that gives more of what you might be looking for, such as the ability for users to manage their VirtualHost site in Apache, a MySQL table, etc. I never really used any of the RaQ/Cobalt code, though, so I couldn't begin to guess how it compares.
The seeminly-ubiquitous web panel for servers is CPanel, but that's not free. (They do give it out free to academic institutions; I'm not sure about non-profits, though. Worth a look, though; I love CPanel.)
What does this require hardware-wise? Is it specifically designed for the hardware they ran it on? Can I download the code and have a 'Cobalt' 486 server? And is it distro-dependent?
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Sorry if these are answered somewhere, but I can't find them, and I'd like to know if it's worthwhile for me to download a 12 MB file at 4.8 KB/sec, or if it won't work on anything here.
I think there's a bit of a difference between speech and nudity. A lot (not all, but a good portion) of the people who'd be going around nude if it were legal are probably perverts. Public nudity sounds cool until it's an overweight 60-year-old pedophile standing behind me in line somewhere, or sitting next to me in a restaurant.
Freedom of speech has limits, just as public dress should. For the most part, you can say what you want, but if you're sexually harassing someone, threatening someone, etc., it's illegal, and just about everyone likes it that way. Similarly, you can pretty much dress as you like, but if you're completely nude in public, it's illegal, and most people like it that way. The will of the majority, IMHO, is more important than extreme right-wing interpretations of the constitution.
I've always considered myself pretty liberal in most things. However, I'm a little confused on this one. She essentially publishes 'proof' of a crime, and it's outrageous when she's convicted of it?
I'll grant you that public nudity probably isn't the biggest crime out there right now, but I'm really baffled here. If I rob a bank and have a friend videotape it, then put the videotape up on the web, being convicted based on the videotape makes me a complete moron, not the victim of some 1984-style society.
The Internet isn't a guarantee of anonymity and complete prevention of liability. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone here.
I've been known to be kind of dense before, but can someone explain this? I read the article, and found it to be completely incoherent; as if someone took an article and randomly threw "spam" into the middle of it. Maybe I'm just really tired, but that article made _no_ sense to me.
Right idea, wrong capitalization.
What's actaully meant is that SCO owns the rights to DOS, not DoS, and not DDoS. Expect lawsuits against Microsoft next week, along with a $699 fee for each computer with DOS installed.
I'd just cruise around eBay and buy something cheap. At the risk of sounding like an old man, they don't make cameras like they used to. A friend gave me an old SLR (Minolta XG1) that was 'taking up space,' along with some decent lenses. I'm not sure of the value, but if you cruise around eBay, you'll probably find a ton that will suit you just fine.
I've found photo.net to be chock-full of discussion about any camera you can imagine; if you find a good deal, see what the people there have said about it.
I'm really not all that familiar with the inner workings of cryptography, but it seems like it'd make sense to do more system-specific hashing. (Not in all cases, of course.)
For example, I was looking at the MySQL tables on a site I run, and realized that my password hash there is the same as on other boxes I have accounts on. For example, 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 is the MD5 sum of "password," anyone with access to a set of passwords could simply skim through looking for this and other well-known hashes.
In many cases, wouldn't it make a fair amount of sense to use machine-specific algorithms for generating password hashes? It could even be something simple, like taking the hash of "$hostname-$username-$password". You could generate all the hashes you wanted, but if you didn't know my username and the hostname, the hash would end up being different. The end result is that, even though I (insecurely, I know) use the same password (and often, the same username), I would have a different password hash on each machine; you'd have to know all three fields before you could brute-force my password.
Is there something I'm overlooking? This idea seems like it'd work out really well; I can't possibly have just described some revolutionary new idea, though.
You must be new here. You're not supposed to fill in all the steps; you use a ??? for one of them.
Their site seems to be crawling. I thought for a minute we'd have to take them off the map.
I can't imagine life without being able to get directions, and a custom-made map, to somewhere an hour and a half away that no one's ever heard of. I really don't think I could navigate with a paper map anymore.
But technology's most amusing when it all blows up. I wish I could find the link, but I distinctly remember reading about some lady who tried to plot an intracity voyage, and got routed through about 12 states -- even venturing into Canada for a while. (Does anyone else remember this?) And someone I know was talking about how on a recent trip, he tried navigating only by GPS; it worked perfectly, until it had him turn down onto what was a dead-end street. It turns out that the GPS assumed he could drive about 100' through the woods, up a steep embankbent, to get onto the highway. (I suppose it would have been a convenient shortcut, if only he had been in a Hummer and had a chainsaw for those pesky trees.)
I wouldn't see why a floppy wouldn't work sideways. In fact, an old computer (486 I think) I used to use had it mounted sideways; there was never a problem. CD drives can be mounted sideways and have tabs to hold them in place, but I'd still tend to want to mount it normally, although it probably doesn't really matter any.
One of my (former) teachers was showing me one of these not too long ago. While I scrawl illegible notes on my pad of paper, he can do the same on his tablet, and then convert it to text. But for times when I just want to type (when X dies? ;)), he still has the keyboard he can use. If I recall correctly, though, it has neither a CD drive nor a floppy drive; I guess you're expected to carry external ones and use them over USB. Integrated wireless would make up for it here, but not 'in the field' when I can't count on having whatever I need on a network share.
I haven't seen this done, but it might be really nice for graphics work, too. In Photoshop, it's a pain to try to use a mouse to do exact selections of images, etc. With Photoshop on one of these, it's even better than a graphics tablet.
I actually oppose any anti-spam legislation, not because I enjoy spam, or even think people ought to be able to blast out spam, but because of the potential loopholes in the law.
What I mean by that is this: the Do Not Call movement provided several exemptions; namely, politicians, charities, and anyone you've done business with in the past 9 months (?) is allowed to call you. What I fear is that similar loopholes in spam laws will actually make it harder to block certain spam. As it is today, I can forward spam to whoever owns the netblock it's on and request that they take action; network owners who don't often end up blacklisted, or at least shunned. Suddenly, however, it's harder to get people shut down. A _lot_ of spam comes from places that I've "done business" with in the past 9 months, even if doing business simply means giving my address to them.
All of a sudden, this bill is giving spammers loopholes to hide under; spammers could actually use the legislation in their defense.
From the top of the page:
There are 21 registered and 9773 anonymous users currently online. Current bandwidth usage: 2263.41 kbit/s
I don't think we've linked to a site that shows cool stats like these for a while. I somehow think that, on an average day, they don't have 9,773 unregistered users visit at a time. But they seem to handle that, and the 3+ Mbps bandwidth peaks, without a hitch. Do you know how many jokes could have been made had we Slashdotted it and left their server a smoldering wreck?
I currently have a 'brick' phone -- an older (though not ancient) block-shaped phone. I've been thinking of ditching it and buying something smaller, perhaps a clamshell phone with a color screen. Kyocera's 7135 seemed extremely appealing; it's got PalmOS and an MP3 player.
As weird of a question as this may sound... Where would you put the Treo 600 when you're not using it? As I typically don't wear a suitcoat with an inside pocket, I usually find myself shoving the phone into a pants pocket, but this can be uncomfortable, and I sometimes fear what people might think of the enormous bulge in my pocket. Wearing the type of phone I have on your belt isn't really an option either, as it looks incredibly tacky. A nice clamshell flip-phone would fit nicely into my pocket, or I could wear it on a belt easily. But where on Earth do people carry their Treo 600s?
You hear people saying "RTFA" (Read The Fscking Article) all the time. In this case, it seems more like "RTFS" -- at least read the story on Slashdot first? This has nothing to do with SiteFinder at all.
Agreed. It really depends on how you define the Internet. (As weird as that sounds.) I can walk out tomorrow and (with adequate money, which I unfortunately dont' have...) buy some fiber and run 10 Gbps Ethernet over it. The technology exists today.
It really depends on where you draw the distinction between LAN and the Internet, but the trend seems to be running everything over Ethernet nowadays. I'm waiting for someone to bring a new 10GigE backbone online and run something like this.
5 Gbps really isn't a lot. Companies like RackShack chew through several Gbps on a daily basis, but over more than a dozen connections and with thousands (if not millions) of different TCP connections.
There's nothing stopping you from using 10 Gbps tomorrow. Might cost a lot to implement, and you might have a devil of a time trying to generate 10 Gbps of intelligent data, but the technology's there to pump out 10 Gbps. 5 Gbps really isn't all that earth shattering.
I don't think the IT people realized that by "bring my Mac to work," he actually meant "Host a website that's going to be Slashdotted on it."