Thanks for the insight; I wasn't aware that it was possible to "0WN" boxes on a switched network.
I was referring to my house, where the only people who would even know what a packet sniffer is have my root password in the first place; I wouldn't consider using something insecure on a large network.
Thanks again for pointing this out, I think I'll work on getting ssh installed a little more quickly...:) ________________________________________________
What are the chances that the exploding surge protector will save your computer - but start a fire? I'd prefer a fried computer over a fried house. ________________________________________________
I've got a semi-related question that's been bugging me for the longest time. Don't think I'd ever try this, but...
I've got a cable modem. If some anarchist down the street 'accidentally' manages to jam his cable connection into a 240 VAC socket at his house, what's going to happen? Do ISPs have gear to protect against anarchists and such? Or would every computer on the street suddenly go up in flames? I'd like to think that people thought of this way before me, but I can't help but wonder. (Perhaps this is reason enough to get an optical Internet connection?;) ) ________________________________________________
Yes, I've had teh experience of handling a blown-up surge protecter; it was very interesting. I like their guarantee also, although I'd be curious to see their history of making payments -- if my ancient box gets fried, how much would I get payed? I'd guess they pay what it's worth (not much), not what it'd cost to replace it.
By the way, I believe I may have found your lost packet. I do not have an OC3, but I have a packet similar to the one you described. If you can have an OC3 run to my house for a month, I'll try to coax it onto the line and return it to you. However; it may be more affordable for me to print its contents out and mail them to you? ________________________________________________
It's real slow. I doubt that a major site like Google - which probably has more traffic than/. - would be slashdotted.
I'm hoping that they're having temporary server problems or something; I've really come to love the "Found 123,456,789 results in 0.11 seconds" speed; a server (okay, a massive cluster of them) can find thousands and thousands of links, put them in dynamically generated webpages, and send them to me, on teh opposite side of teh US - in less time than it takes me to read my hard drive!
Hehe, searching for things like "bob" produces interesting results; it's pictures of a ton of people named Bob. And a hand coming out of an apple... ________________________________________________
I intially thought you were just trolling / griping about a small typo, but then I realized something. This is the exact same word that I read earlier, and thought it said "taught". And the sentence made no sense with the word "taught" in it.
Just make sure you don't implement the MS Office spell checker; it's done wonders as far as finding a word with the completely opposite meaning... This could really be a problem, though; I don't know that we want something completely automatic, 'cuz even the best Linux software is bound to make mistakes occasionally... ________________________________________________
He he, this would actually be easy to implement remotely -- have something search for something without the filter, then with the filter. And if the image is only found in the unfiltered gallery, you can see it...:-D
There've got to be less geeky ways, though.:) ________________________________________________
Lemme share some of my observations... First, let me say that I have a *real* nice 100 Mbps switched (full-duplex) network.
I would occasionally vnc between boxes on my LAN, it was reasonably fast. However, the colors were terrible. (I think I can change this.) However, it entailed keeping the VNC window open, and having an actual desktop.
Then I realized that I can "export" my display; so I can run applications on a faster computer, but display them from the convenience of my desktop. I get a nice, full-color display, and it's reasonably fast. Although it is still more bandwidth-intensive than I would have liked.
Now, if you want a real bandwidth story... My school has a T1. My friend managed to convince the network admin to let him put his Linux box in the "server room" as a streaming web server. He and I went out to the Windows 'boxen' and VNCed into it. But we soon realized that we were eating up *all* of the school's bandwidth... Even thought we were on the same LAN as the Linux box, the router would take our VNC connection, route it out through the school's T1, back in through the school's T1, to the box. The Linux box would reply back onto the T1, and then it would come back through the T1, onto the LAN, to my computer. Add the fact that it's *two* people doing this, and the fact that the computer's main purpose was a streaming MP3 server, and you can see why we weren't that popular...:-D ________________________________________________
You can tunnel X traffic over SSH; although I got the impression that his network is no longer setup in this manner.
I personally don't think it's a huge deal on an internal network if you can trust the people; I use telnet on some of my internal 'boxen' - we've got a switch, and if someone's smart enough to get through my firewall and run a packet sniffer, then they can probably see that I've done nothing to secure any of the computers. Granted, now that I'm looking at reconfiguring everythign to allow outside access to my box, I'm having second thoughts.... ________________________________________________
You know what? You're absolutely right. I was about to shoot back "No, rebooting fixes lots of problems." But the more I thought about it, the more I realized you were right.
My first argument was going to be the BSoD. It occurs all the time, you just have to reboot. But then I realized something -- it's not a random error (or so we're led to believe...), it's caused by actual flaws in the code. The best solution would be to fix these, although you can't.:) ________________________________________________
Yeah, I've really gotta agree with you. This is illegal; there's no question about it. Morally it might not be that bad, but technically it's "theft of services". This isn't like DeCSS which is a perfectly okay thing with some messed laws; this is "real" crime.
The moral: Don't get caught.;) ________________________________________________
Does having a computer between artist and object somehow detract from the results?
Does having a paintbrush between a painter and the paper somehow detract from the results?
No, of course not! I've seen some really good computer art; I don't see why no one appreciates it.
Also, I just finished an "Art" class at my school; I hated it. Several of my friends agreed with me - and we all decided that we would have eagerly taken a computer art class. Oh well... ________________________________________________
IMHO, AOL is shooting themselves in the foot. They're gaining more users, yet they're trying to block them.
I personally think that the GAIM crew should stop work. Temporarilly. And we all boycott AIM. They clearly have something to gain, otherwise they wouldnt' continue operating.
Also, if the name "gaim" is confusing, why not change it? Really; the name "gaim" isn't all that cool. Seriously, wouldn't you download an AIM client called "FsckAmericaOnline"?:-D ________________________________________________
I've got a couple mod points left, and I was looking through the comments, and I suddenly looked up and saw an ad for Intel's Xeon. I at first only found this to be a small coincidence. However, I soon realized something - I block images.slashdot.org. This filters out the banner ads, and, sadly, all the other images. (The page looks like crap with broken images everywhere; but it loads more quickly...)
So for this to be something other than a coincidence seems rather unlikely. ________________________________________________
The public seems to perceive hams as being a bunch of old fat guys who use 50-year old radios.
While there are certainly some people who fit this criteria, many are not. There are people of all different ages, and weight categories, who are hams. The public should really try to visit something like Field Day sometime; people seemed to find it quite interesting that the back parking lot of a high school suddenly had four 70 foot towers and dozens of tents scattered around.
Also, as far as the equipment, the equipment is surprisingly modern, and we don't all make it out of scrap metal... Yaesu, Icom, Kenwood, and Alinco are all popular amateur radio manufacturers.
Also, hams have launched a ton of satellites; the newly-launched AO-40 satellite has a footprint that covers practically half the Earth at a time. Now I know, with your super-duper cell phone, you can contact anyone with a phone, even if you're in the middle of nowhere.
But suppose you're somewhere like California, with the power crisis. The cell towers suddenly lose power. Or worse yet, there's a major disaster. Experience has shown that cell towers quickly become extremely jammed; transmissions on trunking radio systems get queued; and the hams help out.
Also, even in normal conditions, there's a big difference between a cell phone and a ham radio. To paraphrase someone else (dont' remember who) - would you call complete strangers on complete cell phones? Would you ask them what type of cell phone they had? No, they'd think you're a nut and would hang up.
Of course, there's more to ham radio than contacting random people and asking what type of radio they have... There are actually a lot of neat things to do with ham radio, check out something like ARRL, which has a bunch of info about ham radio. ________________________________________________
Yes, the man who invented cordless phones was a ham (his name/call escapes me); and I believe "autopatches" predated cell phones by many, many years. ________________________________________________
I was with the Nashua Area Radio Club, which is well-known for putting on a huge performance. We were "24 Alpha" (24 stations, in a "portable" configuration); most stations have a few stations, five at most. We, however, consider Field Day to be the major "social event" of the year for the club. But when I'm frantically tweaking the notch filters, trying to tune someone in properly, and trying to figure out why my noise floor suddenly shoots up to S7; it's a real pain to try to get the other guy to understand that it's 24A. Not 2A, not 4A, but 24A.
Really, though, everyone should visit Field Day sometime, it's an indescribable experience. I'm currently kinda out of it, though... Don't try talking to me unless you want me to get frustrated and tell you to just give me your exchange.:) ________________________________________________
IIRC, the only reason a domain could be taken back is if it was confusingly similar with another domain. You can't challenge a domain because it contains your trademark; this happened with the amateur radio operator, N7QVC, who registered N7QVC.com. QVC, the annoying company that sells garbage on TV, began sending him cease and desist letters about how his name was "confusing similar" to theirs. After a long process, they finally 'agreed' to let him use it -- provided that he doesn't use it for any commercial purposes. How kind of them...
It really says something about your company if people expect to find your company site by tacking "sucks" onto the end of your name. ________________________________________________
I "invented" this a while ago; I guess I wasn't the first. I never thought it was practical, however, as many major Internet backbones are slower than this.
But nonetheless, I want access!!;) ________________________________________________
Okay, so this is slightly off-topic, but a lot of posts here are about Microsoft using *NIX code.
My friend has started a collection of Windows error messages; I thought I had found a typical error message for him a couple weeks ago.
It was some strange disk-write error, some poor soul seems to have saved something to a floppy, but it didn't actually write. Well, the error message referred to "\device\floppy0". I suppose it's possible that Microsoft refers to its hardware in this way, but, umm.... Does this seem a little too similar to/dev/floppy or/dev/fd0?:) ________________________________________________
Doh! I always do that... Netscape has nothing to do with this, but Netcraft does... The link's right, I just put in the wrong text... ________________________________________________
Actually, I believe they've 'upgraded' to Windows 2000. They at least claim to have done so, and Netscape supports this.
I myself believe that this may be true, as I used to use Hotmail. (I'm proud to say that I broke the habit, although mail.com is going through an 'upgrade' and has been unusuable for weeks...) When Hotmail 'upgraded', everything seemed to slow way down and I got a ton of errors...
While it's entirely possible that this was a transition problem, I personally think the decision was a corporate-pride thing, not a technical decision. ________________________________________________
This isn't the first time they've posted things critical of Microsoft; in fact, I could've sworn that I found a "Windows Bug of the Day" section, although I can't find it now...
However, perhaps this is ultimately what Microsoft wants. Because, let's face it, if they published a 'review' with the bottom line being "Linux sucks", would it have any credibility at all? No, of course not, it's a Microsoft company, of course they'll say that. But by occasionally posting stories critical of Microsoft, they help to build their credibility. ________________________________________________
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Also, I have used PuTTY before; I agree, it's a great program.
Thanks again for the help!
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I was referring to my house, where the only people who would even know what a packet sniffer is have my root password in the first place; I wouldn't consider using something insecure on a large network.
Thanks again for pointing this out, I think I'll work on getting ssh installed a little more quickly... :)
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What are the chances that the exploding surge protector will save your computer - but start a fire? I'd prefer a fried computer over a fried house.
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I've got a cable modem. If some anarchist down the street 'accidentally' manages to jam his cable connection into a 240 VAC socket at his house, what's going to happen? Do ISPs have gear to protect against anarchists and such? Or would every computer on the street suddenly go up in flames? I'd like to think that people thought of this way before me, but I can't help but wonder. (Perhaps this is reason enough to get an optical Internet connection? ;) )
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By the way, I believe I may have found your lost packet. I do not have an OC3, but I have a packet similar to the one you described. If you can have an OC3 run to my house for a month, I'll try to coax it onto the line and return it to you. However; it may be more affordable for me to print its contents out and mail them to you?
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I'm hoping that they're having temporary server problems or something; I've really come to love the "Found 123,456,789 results in 0.11 seconds" speed; a server (okay, a massive cluster of them) can find thousands and thousands of links, put them in dynamically generated webpages, and send them to me, on teh opposite side of teh US - in less time than it takes me to read my hard drive!
Hehe, searching for things like "bob" produces interesting results; it's pictures of a ton of people named Bob. And a hand coming out of an apple...
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Just make sure you don't implement the MS Office spell checker; it's done wonders as far as finding a word with the completely opposite meaning... This could really be a problem, though; I don't know that we want something completely automatic, 'cuz even the best Linux software is bound to make mistakes occasionally...
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There've got to be less geeky ways, though. :)
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I would occasionally vnc between boxes on my LAN, it was reasonably fast. However, the colors were terrible. (I think I can change this.) However, it entailed keeping the VNC window open, and having an actual desktop.
Then I realized that I can "export" my display; so I can run applications on a faster computer, but display them from the convenience of my desktop. I get a nice, full-color display, and it's reasonably fast. Although it is still more bandwidth-intensive than I would have liked.
Now, if you want a real bandwidth story... My school has a T1. My friend managed to convince the network admin to let him put his Linux box in the "server room" as a streaming web server. He and I went out to the Windows 'boxen' and VNCed into it. But we soon realized that we were eating up *all* of the school's bandwidth... Even thought we were on the same LAN as the Linux box, the router would take our VNC connection, route it out through the school's T1, back in through the school's T1, to the box. The Linux box would reply back onto the T1, and then it would come back through the T1, onto the LAN, to my computer. Add the fact that it's *two* people doing this, and the fact that the computer's main purpose was a streaming MP3 server, and you can see why we weren't that popular... :-D
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I personally don't think it's a huge deal on an internal network if you can trust the people; I use telnet on some of my internal 'boxen' - we've got a switch, and if someone's smart enough to get through my firewall and run a packet sniffer, then they can probably see that I've done nothing to secure any of the computers. Granted, now that I'm looking at reconfiguring everythign to allow outside access to my box, I'm having second thoughts....
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My first argument was going to be the BSoD. It occurs all the time, you just have to reboot. But then I realized something -- it's not a random error (or so we're led to believe...), it's caused by actual flaws in the code. The best solution would be to fix these, although you can't. :)
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The moral: Don't get caught. ;)
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Does having a paintbrush between a painter and the paper somehow detract from the results?
No, of course not! I've seen some really good computer art; I don't see why no one appreciates it.
Also, I just finished an "Art" class at my school; I hated it. Several of my friends agreed with me - and we all decided that we would have eagerly taken a computer art class. Oh well...
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I personally think that the GAIM crew should stop work. Temporarilly. And we all boycott AIM. They clearly have something to gain, otherwise they wouldnt' continue operating.
Also, if the name "gaim" is confusing, why not change it? Really; the name "gaim" isn't all that cool. Seriously, wouldn't you download an AIM client called "FsckAmericaOnline"? :-D
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So for this to be something other than a coincidence seems rather unlikely.
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While there are certainly some people who fit this criteria, many are not. There are people of all different ages, and weight categories, who are hams. The public should really try to visit something like Field Day sometime; people seemed to find it quite interesting that the back parking lot of a high school suddenly had four 70 foot towers and dozens of tents scattered around.
Also, as far as the equipment, the equipment is surprisingly modern, and we don't all make it out of scrap metal... Yaesu, Icom, Kenwood, and Alinco are all popular amateur radio manufacturers.
Also, hams have launched a ton of satellites; the newly-launched AO-40 satellite has a footprint that covers practically half the Earth at a time. Now I know, with your super-duper cell phone, you can contact anyone with a phone, even if you're in the middle of nowhere.
But suppose you're somewhere like California, with the power crisis. The cell towers suddenly lose power. Or worse yet, there's a major disaster. Experience has shown that cell towers quickly become extremely jammed; transmissions on trunking radio systems get queued; and the hams help out.
Also, even in normal conditions, there's a big difference between a cell phone and a ham radio. To paraphrase someone else (dont' remember who) - would you call complete strangers on complete cell phones? Would you ask them what type of cell phone they had? No, they'd think you're a nut and would hang up.
Of course, there's more to ham radio than contacting random people and asking what type of radio they have... There are actually a lot of neat things to do with ham radio, check out something like ARRL, which has a bunch of info about ham radio.
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Yes, the man who invented cordless phones was a ham (his name/call escapes me); and I believe "autopatches" predated cell phones by many, many years.
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Really, though, everyone should visit Field Day sometime, it's an indescribable experience. I'm currently kinda out of it, though... Don't try talking to me unless you want me to get frustrated and tell you to just give me your exchange. :)
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It really says something about your company if people expect to find your company site by tacking "sucks" onto the end of your name.
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Yep, it is. Thanks for finding it.
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But nonetheless, I want access!! ;)
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My friend has started a collection of Windows error messages; I thought I had found a typical error message for him a couple weeks ago.
It was some strange disk-write error, some poor soul seems to have saved something to a floppy, but it didn't actually write. Well, the error message referred to "\device\floppy0". I suppose it's possible that Microsoft refers to its hardware in this way, but, umm.... Does this seem a little too similar to /dev/floppy or /dev/fd0? :)
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Doh! I always do that... Netscape has nothing to do with this, but Netcraft does... The link's right, I just put in the wrong text...
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I myself believe that this may be true, as I used to use Hotmail. (I'm proud to say that I broke the habit, although mail.com is going through an 'upgrade' and has been unusuable for weeks...) When Hotmail 'upgraded', everything seemed to slow way down and I got a ton of errors...
While it's entirely possible that this was a transition problem, I personally think the decision was a corporate-pride thing, not a technical decision.
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This isn't the first time they've posted things critical of Microsoft; in fact, I could've sworn that I found a "Windows Bug of the Day" section, although I can't find it now...
However, perhaps this is ultimately what Microsoft wants. Because, let's face it, if they published a 'review' with the bottom line being "Linux sucks", would it have any credibility at all? No, of course not, it's a Microsoft company, of course they'll say that. But by occasionally posting stories critical of Microsoft, they help to build their credibility.
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