I'm glad that broadband got you the connection that you needed to communicate. And in this case, it provided the exact medium you needed to communicate with someone, I.E. an IM client. In an emergency situation, whatever works, works.
And I'm glad to to see that we both agree with the BPL issue. As it stands right now, it's badly designed and isn't that well implimented. Although, if they were to shield the power lines better, and subsequently had to replace between 90% and 100% of them, BPL wouldn't seem such a great "value" for the companies implementing it.
I realize you are trolling.... But I'll bite. Recently here in NE Ohio, we were hit by some pretty bad storms that caused some pretty destructive flash flooding. Hams reporting weather conditions and flood reports over the SKYWARN system were able to get realtime info to both the national weather service and to the local Red Cross branch so that they could get shelters set up in trouble areas before they were needed. In particular, an apartment complex had two of their buildings cut off when the little 12" stream that ran in front of their building rose to 12 feet. This also knocked out power to that area, so we had roughly 100+ people isolated (the only way out was a good 40 min hike though some rough terrain even if it hadn't been pouring down rain for 8 hours already) on the other side of a now major river. Two ham's (sorry guys, forget your calls) hopped in a 4WD vehicle and went there and did an onsite assesment even before the already overtaxed police showed up on site. That is what ham radio is really set up for. The band allocation that we get to play with is meant for emergency communications. Sure, we use it for rag chews mostly, but when the crap hits the fan, I'm glad I have a 2M HT that can get me communications when I need it. The major trouble with the BPL thing is that it already creates interference on the bands, and they lobbiests want to increase the wattage they push, which will worsen the situation exponentially. And besides, what good will a cell phone do if your towers go down like they did when the WTC fell? Ham radio had comms flowing in and out of ground zero in under 3 hours then. Ham radio still fills a very vital role in todays world when a disaster strikes.
I recently went back to school via an online university (The one that's named after a mythical bird...) and one of the first classes was identifying your personal learning habits. Take a look at yourself and your personal habits. Are you a morning person or a night owl? Like to have background music/noise, or do you like the quiet? Identify these things, then build your study enviroment around them. You'll do yourself more harm than good if you try to work/study in an enviroment that isn't what your mind likes to have around it. The book we used was Peak Learning by Ronald Gross, ISBN # 0-87477-957-X. I'd suggest picking one up and spending a few days going through the excercises in it, it helped me both in my study and work habits.
That is funny, but I was actually a little miffed that they showed Gandalf in the trailers.There are people that haven't read the books, my wife for example,and to me that is a major spoiler for the film.
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I'm sure you didn't mean to call the author of "Frankenstein: A modern Prometheus" a hack.
Nice point there about some of the community wanting to move Linux onto the desktop. Whether or not Linux is able to gain a foothold onto the desktop market is probably one of the great three Jihad's (the other two being which distro is better, and gnome vs. KDE) that end up hurting linux more than any FUD that Microsoft puts out.
"Can telecommunications giants realistically keep up with the public's need for ever-growing bandwidth without going bankrupt?"
Wow, didn't realize my desire for a faster internet connection threw Woldcom in the crapper! Damn my need for lower pings! Here and I thought it was a socially irresponsible management and a poor decision to use "Creative Accounting" choices to make the immediate stockholders happy.
Yes and no..... I sometimes love nothing more than getting hip deep in a new piece of software or technology and learning to grok it on my own terms. But, at the same time, having management offer to send me to some decent training somewhere is a nice reward. It gets me out of the office for a week or so, and allows the monotony of the cube farm to be broken for a while.
Ewww..
You took your kids to what looks to be a narrow, gum plastered alley for vacation?
What's next the world's largest abattoir?
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My biggest issue with IDS's is "So, what now?"
For example, Yesterday I get hit with about 90 attempts to get cmd.exe on my webserver from one specific IP addy. So, a quick nslookup / whois later and I get the server name and contact info for the suspected malicious box.
Since it's from a major site, I decide to contact them to let them know they may have a potentially compromised box on thier network.
Three v-mails and two emails later, no word back from them.
I'm all for IDS's, but aside from possibly dishing out some Louisville Slugger style 'cease and desist' requests, what good is the info?
We use Lotus as well. Still had a few people to open it. One of those bright individual's uses outlook express on the same machine to check his home email.
The virus hopped straight to it and went to work.
Then he has the balls to send me an email asking if this was a terrorist attack.
Yeah Sparky, The WTC, the Pentagon, and your effin' Outlook address book. That's the main targets, alright.
Funny....
Last year at LWE in NYC I spoke with a few of the IBM people at the show and the official word is that there will never be a Linux port of Notes.
Plus, seeing how the company I work for is an IBM / Lotus buisness partner, I have yet to see any such animal.
Care to come out from under your anonymity and prove me wrong?
I was on Telocity for about 9 months. Then my local provider, Rythm's decided to quit providing DSL to residential users. So Telocity informed me that in 2 weeks, my service would be terminated, and they were sorry. So I quickly signed back up to my local cable provider, and unhooked my dsl modem.
That was in Feb.
I just found out that I've been still getting billed since then. Thank god it wasn't still automatically getting charged to my CC.
Dipshits.
K, here's the article I was referencing in my above post (GASP! Fact checking on/.!!!).
Towards the bottom of the first page it talks about "Gary Gordon, vice president of cyber-forensics technology at WetStone Technologies, based in Freeville, New York, said that his firm has made progress in creating a tool to detect steganography." and how they've run this on a web spider pulling random images from the 'net and found steg'd images.
Pretty good read, perhaps I should send this onto Mr. Katz as well??
Hadn't looked at OutGuess yet, I'll have to head over there.
My statements were made based on an article I read a while back about Steg encapsulation. Don't remember who had wrote it, but I think it was on wired somewhere.
Haven't looked at your images yet. What type of data did you steg into them? Standard text, or some other type of data. I'd be interested to see how well OutGuess shrinks say a.c,.o, or.exe file.
Steganography is by no means "foolproof", "new", or "relatively unknown".
And, AFAIK steganography has a problem with being easily detected. Besides the size increase of the steg'd images filesize, it is possible to scan a suspected image to see if it's been steg'd without discovering the info inside the image, or being stopped by password protecting the file inside the image.
While I was at LWE back in Feb. I asked several of the IBM'ers at the show what the chances of getting a native linux notes client would be.
He, (I forget his name, sorry) told me that IBM didn't feel that linux had enough of a in-road onto the desktop to warrant a port to linux.
Notes will run under wine just fine, a little slow, but fine enough to do the job. And there are instructions on the Lotus website on how to get it running under wine, so I think that we can forget getting a native client.
The coolest thing about the Kerbango was that it was an internet radio, and FM radio, and was able to map out a drive containing MP3's on the network (the kerbango had a NIC built in) and play them as well.
I agree, it was pricy at $400, but it was more of a PC than most web appliances I've seen. And I think it ran off a linux kernel, and was able to recieve upgrades when it talked to the Kerbango website.
I was actually thinking of picking one up.
That's not a bad thought, actually.
I was trying to link the isp payment to the accessing of the web content, since without web content, there's really no need for an ISP. (again, I'm ruling out IRC, email, etc. remember broad strokes)
I mean, I pay a monthly fee to access the internet. I pay my ISP a monthly fee to access the internet on their network, So aren't I already paying a subscription fee for the 'net?
Maybe the ISP's need to start kicking into a slush fund for web sites to dip into, like PBS for the internet.
(the above commentary was painted with very large brush strokes to provide a wide sweeping opinion to generate discussion. No animals were harmed or used for testing.)
Uhhh....
I thought that that was shot (bad pun) down and they weren't allowed to get them.
And I agree, there is no way that the campus police force needs modded m16s.
And slightly off topic, The room they raided was my old room.
Sigh...
I don't know if the server side runs on Linux, but there is no Linux client for it. But then again, right now, there is no Linux client for any Lotus app.
Other than that, Sametime is a very nice app. Got to play around with it a bit a few weeks ago with our Notes dev guys.
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I'm glad that broadband got you the connection that you needed to communicate. And in this case, it provided the exact medium you needed to communicate with someone, I.E. an IM client. In an emergency situation, whatever works, works.
And I'm glad to to see that we both agree with the BPL issue. As it stands right now, it's badly designed and isn't that well implimented. Although, if they were to shield the power lines better, and subsequently had to replace between 90% and 100% of them, BPL wouldn't seem such a great "value" for the companies implementing it.
I realize you are trolling....
But I'll bite. Recently here in NE Ohio, we were hit by some pretty bad storms that caused some pretty destructive flash flooding. Hams reporting weather conditions and flood reports over the SKYWARN system were able to get realtime info to both the national weather service and to the local Red Cross branch so that they could get shelters set up in trouble areas before they were needed. In particular, an apartment complex had two of their buildings cut off when the little 12" stream that ran in front of their building rose to 12 feet. This also knocked out power to that area, so we had roughly 100+ people isolated (the only way out was a good 40 min hike though some rough terrain even if it hadn't been pouring down rain for 8 hours already) on the other side of a now major river. Two ham's (sorry guys, forget your calls) hopped in a 4WD vehicle and went there and did an onsite assesment even before the already overtaxed police showed up on site. That is what ham radio is really set up for. The band allocation that we get to play with is meant for emergency communications. Sure, we use it for rag chews mostly, but when the crap hits the fan, I'm glad I have a 2M HT that can get me communications when I need it. The major trouble with the BPL thing is that it already creates interference on the bands, and they lobbiests want to increase the wattage they push, which will worsen the situation exponentially.
And besides, what good will a cell phone do if your towers go down like they did when the WTC fell? Ham radio had comms flowing in and out of ground zero in under 3 hours then.
Ham radio still fills a very vital role in todays world when a disaster strikes.
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I recently went back to school via an online university (The one that's named after a mythical bird...) and one of the first classes was identifying your personal learning habits. Take a look at yourself and your personal habits. Are you a morning person or a night owl? Like to have background music/noise, or do you like the quiet? Identify these things, then build your study enviroment around them. You'll do yourself more harm than good if you try to work/study in an enviroment that isn't what your mind likes to have around it. The book we used was Peak Learning by Ronald Gross, ISBN # 0-87477-957-X. I'd suggest picking one up and spending a few days going through the excercises in it, it helped me both in my study and work habits.
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That is funny, but I was actually a little miffed that they showed Gandalf in the trailers.There are people that haven't read the books, my wife for example,and to me that is a major spoiler for the film.
argent
I'm sure you didn't mean to call the author of "Frankenstein: A modern Prometheus" a hack.
Nice point there about some of the community wanting to move Linux onto the desktop. Whether or not Linux is able to gain a foothold onto the desktop market is probably one of the great three Jihad's (the other two being which distro is better, and gnome vs. KDE) that end up hurting linux more than any FUD that Microsoft puts out.
argent
"Can telecommunications giants realistically keep up with the public's need for ever-growing bandwidth without going bankrupt?"
Wow, didn't realize my desire for a faster internet connection threw Woldcom in the crapper! Damn my need for lower pings! Here and I thought it was a socially irresponsible management and a poor decision to use "Creative Accounting" choices to make the immediate stockholders happy.
Yes and no.....
I sometimes love nothing more than getting hip deep in a new piece of software or technology and learning to grok it on my own terms. But, at the same time, having management offer to send me to some decent training somewhere is a nice reward. It gets me out of the office for a week or so, and allows the monotony of the cube farm to be broken for a while.
Are you saying these pants make me look fat?
Ewww..
You took your kids to what looks to be a narrow, gum plastered alley for vacation?
What's next the world's largest abattoir?
argent
My biggest issue with IDS's is "So, what now?"
For example, Yesterday I get hit with about 90 attempts to get cmd.exe on my webserver from one specific IP addy. So, a quick nslookup / whois later and I get the server name and contact info for the suspected malicious box.
Since it's from a major site, I decide to contact them to let them know they may have a potentially compromised box on thier network.
Three v-mails and two emails later, no word back from them.
I'm all for IDS's, but aside from possibly dishing out some Louisville Slugger style 'cease and desist' requests, what good is the info?
argent out
We use Lotus as well. Still had a few people to open it. One of those bright individual's uses outlook express on the same machine to check his home email.
The virus hopped straight to it and went to work.
Then he has the balls to send me an email asking if this was a terrorist attack.
Yeah Sparky, The WTC, the Pentagon, and your effin' Outlook address book. That's the main targets, alright.
argent
Funny....
Last year at LWE in NYC I spoke with a few of the IBM people at the show and the official word is that there will never be a Linux port of Notes.
Plus, seeing how the company I work for is an IBM / Lotus buisness partner, I have yet to see any such animal.
Care to come out from under your anonymity and prove me wrong?
argent
Actually, I thought megatokyo's was better...
http://www.megatoyko.com
argent
I was on Telocity for about 9 months. Then my local provider, Rythm's decided to quit providing DSL to residential users. So Telocity informed me that in 2 weeks, my service would be terminated, and they were sorry. So I quickly signed back up to my local cable provider, and unhooked my dsl modem.
That was in Feb.
I just found out that I've been still getting billed since then. Thank god it wasn't still automatically getting charged to my CC.
Dipshits.
K, here's /.!!!).
the article I was referencing in my above post (GASP! Fact checking on
Towards the bottom of the first page it talks about "Gary Gordon, vice president of cyber-forensics technology at WetStone Technologies, based in Freeville, New York, said that his firm has made progress in creating a tool to detect steganography." and how they've run this on a web spider pulling random images from the 'net and found steg'd images.
Pretty good read, perhaps I should send this onto Mr. Katz as well??
Hadn't looked at OutGuess yet, I'll have to head over there. .c, .o, or .exe file.
My statements were made based on an article I read a while back about Steg encapsulation. Don't remember who had wrote it, but I think it was on wired somewhere.
Haven't looked at your images yet. What type of data did you steg into them? Standard text, or some other type of data. I'd be interested to see how well OutGuess shrinks say a
Steganography is by no means "foolproof", "new", or "relatively unknown".
And, AFAIK steganography has a problem with being easily detected. Besides the size increase of the steg'd images filesize, it is possible to scan a suspected image to see if it's been steg'd without discovering the info inside the image, or being stopped by password protecting the file inside the image.
While I was at LWE back in Feb. I asked several of the IBM'ers at the show what the chances of getting a native linux notes client would be.
He, (I forget his name, sorry) told me that IBM didn't feel that linux had enough of a in-road onto the desktop to warrant a port to linux.
Notes will run under wine just fine, a little slow, but fine enough to do the job. And there are instructions on the Lotus website on how to get it running under wine, so I think that we can forget getting a native client.
The coolest thing about the Kerbango was that it was an internet radio, and FM radio, and was able to map out a drive containing MP3's on the network (the kerbango had a NIC built in) and play them as well.
I agree, it was pricy at $400, but it was more of a PC than most web appliances I've seen. And I think it ran off a linux kernel, and was able to recieve upgrades when it talked to the Kerbango website.
I was actually thinking of picking one up.
That's not a bad thought, actually.
I was trying to link the isp payment to the accessing of the web content, since without web content, there's really no need for an ISP. (again, I'm ruling out IRC, email, etc. remember broad strokes)
I mean, I pay a monthly fee to access the internet. I pay my ISP a monthly fee to access the internet on their network, So aren't I already paying a subscription fee for the 'net?
Maybe the ISP's need to start kicking into a slush fund for web sites to dip into, like PBS for the internet.
(the above commentary was painted with very large brush strokes to provide a wide sweeping opinion to generate discussion. No animals were harmed or used for testing.)
Uhhh....
I thought that that was shot (bad pun) down and they weren't allowed to get them.
And I agree, there is no way that the campus police force needs modded m16s.
And slightly off topic, The room they raided was my old room.
Sigh...
I don't know if the server side runs on Linux, but there is no Linux client for it. But then again, right now, there is no Linux client for any Lotus app.
Other than that, Sametime is a very nice app. Got to play around with it a bit a few weeks ago with our Notes dev guys.