only it was many years ago when the web was new and shiny and the trojan room coffee pot was still really cool. The nerds down the hall had acutally gone through the trouble of wiring up their lamp, fridge, etc. to their web server.
So us geeks couldn't let ourselves be out done by them. But all that soldering, that's too much like work. So we wrote a quickie perl script that showed how many inches the window was open, how many soda cans were in the trash, how many flies were buzzing around last night's pizza, and finally it would tell if Mike was wearing his pants. All based on the values of a few pseudo-random numbers.
If you can't google far enough to ask this sort of thing on a samba mailinglist, you have to ask yourself, "Should I really be running any sort of server in any size enterprise environment?"
And on top of that, someone thought everyone would care enough to have this posted on the front page of slashdot. There's 10 minutes I'm not getting back.
I think it sad that it comes to this. That we feel have to use these tools in order to keep tabs on our children. But if our children put us in the position where we have to use these checks, so be it.
The part of this system I dislike is the authentication. Maybe SSN/Name combination could be used for initial login and a personal userid/PIN/password be created once for each student. Or maybe there is a better way to do it.
On the other hand, if you're that embarassed about your grades and attendance, maybe you should try going to school one in a while.
It's not hard. First challange is to get your happy little linux box using the cable modem on its own. The problem is that some distributions (and most sets of firewall rules) disable having a request go out one interface and the reply come back on another. There's a setting somehwhere under/proc to allow that traffic, but I don't have access to my boxen right now so I can't look it up.
What the cable company is doing is assigning you a static dialup address and then associating that address with the cable modem's MAC. This allows you to call out, but inbound traffic is routed to your cable modem. As far as the internet is concerned, your IP address is the one on your PPP interface.
Once all that is working, standard NAT implementations should work fine. The IP-Masquerade HOWTO is a fine place to start. Keeping in mind that your external interface is your PPP adapter, NOT the ethernet to the cable modem.
This sort of thing may or may not work with Windows intert connection sharing.
Obviously Dilbert is and exageration, but the point of it rings too true to many technicial workers. That is that they are being managed by people who don't understand the work their people are doing.
I wouldn't say that the boss has to be able to do 100% of the job, but there shouldn't be any blank stares when basic concepts are discussed. Too often, bad technical decisions are made by people with too little understanding without consulting the people who know better. It's then up to those people to "just make it work anyway". And it had better be on time and under budget or everyone gets fired.
The Mizzou Linux Users Group in Columbia, MO puts up a good show. It ends up a bit Linux-centric (well, they are a LUG), but tries to include lots of Open Source stuff. Last year, ESR came by and gave one of his famous talks, and it looks like they're working on another really good line up of speakers for this year.
sounds great...that is until the sun comes up, heats the roof of the building it's mounted to, and the waves in the air refract the laser beam so it misses the recieving unit.
But nobody can figure out why it never works, then when the techs come out to look at it that evening, it works just fine...
I've tried this and get no response from the "little red button" on my Marble FX. If anyone knows how to make it work, I'd be willing to be their friend.
If I'm understanding everything correctly, CSS is only 40-bit encryption. So the NSA dosen't care about CSS. The entertainment industry has many high dollar lawyars that "protect their interests" (i.e. screw the consumer).
Somebody else has probably posted this, but with my recent experiences, I feel like saying it again.
Unless there is no local network affiliate or the local station is willing to grant a wavier, you cannot recieve the networks on the satalite. This is due to a federal ruling that says (roughly) if you live in an area where 50% of the people can recieve the station 50% of the time with a 20 foot (I presume high) antenna, you are screwed because you can't have what you really want.
I finally gave it up and had basic cable installed. The difference in price and service was not enough to be worthy of the fight it would take.
As far as the hardware, I own an Optimus system. not by any means top of the line, even at time of purchase. Certainly there are much better systems out there, but this one works very nicely. No signal loss except during very bad weather and it has good quality picture and ound.
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only it was many years ago when the web was new and shiny and the trojan room coffee pot was still really cool. The nerds down the hall had acutally gone through the trouble of wiring up their lamp, fridge, etc. to their web server.
So us geeks couldn't let ourselves be out done by them. But all that soldering, that's too much like work. So we wrote a quickie perl script that showed how many inches the window was open, how many soda cans were in the trash, how many flies were buzzing around last night's pizza, and finally it would tell if Mike was wearing his pants. All based on the values of a few pseudo-random numbers.
I'm still waiting for the punchline.
If you can't google far enough to ask this sort of thing on a samba mailinglist, you have to ask yourself, "Should I really be running any sort of server in any size enterprise environment?"
And on top of that, someone thought everyone would care enough to have this posted on the front page of slashdot. There's 10 minutes I'm not getting back.
And here I thought the biggest threat to the shuttle program was the shuttle program.
What about the Big Red Button that doesn't do anything?
Truly a timeless classic.
When do we think Mapquest will have this available.
I think it sad that it comes to this. That we feel have to use these tools in order to keep tabs on our children. But if our children put us in the position where we have to use these checks, so be it.
The part of this system I dislike is the authentication. Maybe SSN/Name combination could be used for initial login and a personal userid/PIN/password be created once for each student. Or maybe there is a better way to do it.
On the other hand, if you're that embarassed about your grades and attendance, maybe you should try going to school one in a while.
It's not hard. First challange is to get your happy little linux box using the cable modem on its own. The problem is that some distributions (and most sets of firewall rules) disable having a request go out one interface and the reply come back on another. There's a setting somehwhere under /proc to allow that traffic, but I don't have access to my boxen right now so I can't look it up.
What the cable company is doing is assigning you a static dialup address and then associating that address with the cable modem's MAC. This allows you to call out, but inbound traffic is routed to your cable modem. As far as the internet is concerned, your IP address is the one on your PPP interface.
Once all that is working, standard NAT implementations should work fine. The IP-Masquerade HOWTO is a fine place to start. Keeping in mind that your external interface is your PPP adapter, NOT the ethernet to the cable modem.
This sort of thing may or may not work with Windows intert connection sharing.
Obviously Dilbert is and exageration, but the point of it rings too true to many technicial workers. That is that they are being managed by people who don't understand the work their people are doing.
I wouldn't say that the boss has to be able to do 100% of the job, but there shouldn't be any blank stares when basic concepts are discussed. Too often, bad technical decisions are made by people with too little understanding without consulting the people who know better. It's then up to those people to "just make it work anyway". And it had better be on time and under budget or everyone gets fired.
my $0.02
The Mizzou Linux Users Group in Columbia, MO puts up a good show. It ends up a bit Linux-centric (well, they are a LUG), but tries to include lots of Open Source stuff. Last year, ESR came by and gave one of his famous talks, and it looks like they're working on another really good line up of speakers for this year.
Here's the page
sounds great...that is until the sun comes up, heats the roof of the building it's mounted to, and the waves in the air refract the laser beam so it misses the recieving unit.
But nobody can figure out why it never works, then when the techs come out to look at it that evening, it works just fine...
I've tried this and get no response from the "little red button" on my Marble FX. If anyone knows how to make it work, I'd be willing to be their friend.
If I'm understanding everything correctly, CSS is only 40-bit encryption. So the NSA dosen't care about CSS. The entertainment industry has many high dollar lawyars that "protect their interests" (i.e. screw the consumer).
Somebody else has probably posted this, but with my recent experiences, I feel like saying it again.
Unless there is no local network affiliate or the local station is willing to grant a wavier, you cannot recieve the networks on the satalite. This is due to a federal ruling that says (roughly) if you live in an area where 50% of the people can recieve the station 50% of the time with a 20 foot (I presume high) antenna, you are screwed because you can't have what you really want.
I finally gave it up and had basic cable installed. The difference in price and service was not enough to be worthy of the fight it would take.
As far as the hardware, I own an Optimus system. not by any means top of the line, even at time of purchase. Certainly there are much better systems out there, but this one works very nicely. No signal loss except during very bad weather and it has good quality picture and ound.
Is it just me, or does this
"I paid $80 for Red Hat 6.0, a two-CD distribution that includes -- since you're paying -- a copy of Gnome and a lot of extras"
seem to (falsly) imply that GNOME costs money?