I did some work with a local organization that was part of a public housing community. They have a computer learning center for children and adults. The children have to behave and sign in, and so do the adults. I set up a NAT server with linux in the adult room so that all the computers in there could use the internet through a single modem. It's not fun to do with a modem, but dsl should be great. Especially if you get a cisco 675 thingy, it's pretty easy to set up for doing that. If you just log your hours as volunteer time, you shouldn't have to worry about liability. The people who run it know a lot more about liability issues, and it usually comes down to supervision anyways. Ask if you can set up filtering software, or if even setting guidelines would be enough. It's great that you want to do this, if you have any questions or want any refernces about such places, please email me. travis@pulley.org
Pfaelzer has indicated that she will order Mitnick to make some restitution, which she is scheduled to decide Monday as well.
I belive this proves the judge's bias and lack of concern for both the spirit and letter of the law. The companies demanding restitution did not even report losses, and the claims were so ridiculous... "lesee, the source for solaris is worth oh... 8 Million dollars" and they sell an educational copy of the source for like, $200! Those numbers might be off, but why should he have to pay restitution to companies that pull numbers out of their ass and send to the FBI in an email when they won't even put it in a press release.
I've worked in enough small shops where windows screws itself up, and I can get away with blaming windows for a little while. They use windows on their desktop, they've seen it before. But when it happens all the time, they look to me for a solution. If I'm still running windows and it screws up, I can blame microsoft all I want, but it won't make them any happier. If I run linux and it screws up by my own fault, I can just fix it in a short manner of time, apologize, and be on my merry way. Little/no blame on yourself is better than having to blame MS all the time. Nice point of view, btw.
I went to see the blair witch project yesterday, and I got carded! I mean, it wasn't even scary, and I've seen potty mouths worse than the people in the movie who wouldn't be able to go see it alone. I'm tempted to walk away from any ticket counter that asks for my id and wait for the dvd. I got more pissed and violent at the ticket counter than I did at the movie. It was boring enough to sedate me into a waking sleep:) I love your work, jonkatz. keep it up!
Check out this lame blair witch page. It's actually pretty cool. Links to stuff, pictures, quotes. You can even guy the book and the soundtrack from it.
It's been a while, but I remember going through that. I tried to register a domain, but couldn't specify any of my hosts because they weren't registered. I didn't have a domain to register them under, so got a couple ml.org names to them and tried to specify them as those. That didn't work, as I am not an administrative contact for ml.org. So then I sent in something that confused the automated system; I specified nameservers under the domain that I was registering, and it responded that it was submitted for manual processing and it would be done in five days. 7 days later, I still had nothing back from them, so I mailed them with all my invoice numbers and demanded some response. I also registered another name through register.com so I could at least get SOMETHING working. That domain went through just fine and so I set up a couple nameserver addresses through there and registered them with NSI. Still no response on the other domain. Finally, 10 days after I sent NSI a registration request that it didn't immediately reject, I got a humanoid response saying that my specified nameservers were invalid and that she changed them to the ones I had recently specified. The documentation on the entire process of getting a domain was crap. It didn't mention registering NS hosts or anything. I must say that it's a lot better now, but it still sucks.
I've used sequent boxes too. I've only used the symmetry 2000's and I thought they were pretty nice. I agree that they're horribly expensive. I have a s2000 cab I like to play with. It makes an impressive microwave holder. The scsi they used was differential scsi, which isn't common, but it's not proprietary. I've always been interested in seeing linux run on one. I know sequent was big on running NT after they made smp suck less with nt4. I'm pretty sure their web page still runs IIS.
A few months ago (I really should have waited) I bought a tyan tiger MB, the cheapest dual bx I could find. I got some modified msi converter boards, and a couple 300a's. The total price was about $80 more than it would be now with that dual 370 board. They both overclock to 450 just fine. I keep a big fan next to it, so they only get up to about 34 degrees on a really hot day. It's crashed a few times in a virtual terminal, but it even does that in cold weather and not overclocked. never crashes in X though... odd.
I'm maxed out on pci slots. I want to get a tnt2 or some other video card with dvd support on it, and get drivers for that. I wouldn't mind paying for a linux-supported solution, but it's not really a solution at all if I have to put another card in.
I was at comdex '96 in Las Vegas, near when USR was touting X2. I walked up to a guy in the booth (more like a small theatre) and asked if it was another standard like the cool 28.8 modems that everyone had. He said, "yep". I wasn't convinced, so I stayed for the show, which pretty much told me that X2 modems were just like normal modems, only twice as fast. "That's twice the email, twice the web pages, twice the porn, etc" In other words, it wasn't especially (well, at all) technical. But I did get two t-shirts for agreeing with usr propaganda.
By reporting something in such a horribly lame way that the average local news watcher can realize they screwed up is exactly the kind of thing we need. Many people like the "source" of this story aren't exactly sure what to think. For them, it seems as though common sense might not hold up in the realm of computers. Things like this are a very assuring way of telling people "it's okay, now click dammit!" People just need to get their feet wetted so they can teach these things to their kids, and not restrict them so much because they can't keep up with reality.
1. You must be some kind of an official organization So, I should have to agree to someone else's definition of organized?
2. There should be a certain number of individual computers uniquely connected to it (no virtual hosting crap) Hmm, how many addresses can you map to ONE name? And wouldn't that be fun if you had to have NSI manage your subdomains.
3. ONLY ONE domain per organization Lessee, there's my right foot, my left one... Is my head the same organization as my book collection? How many names do you go by personally? There's usually your first name, your last name, a nick name, insults, email aliases, handles...
4. That name must say who you are And who you are must say what you do, what you sell, your interests, your history, your address, your income, your SSN, your license plate.
Domain names were never intended to be used by everly little clown that wants a web site. They were meant to be used by suits to communicate to other suits, or by scientists to communicate with their peers. Clowns need web sites to look at, too.
They were intended to identify networks and to give organizations their own namespace. I believe they were intended to identify addresses belonging to interfaces belonging to computers belonging to networks belonging to organizations. Well then, there are mail handlers too.
You agree that you will not reproduce, sell, transfer, or modify any of the data presented in response to your search request, or use of any such data for commercial purpose, without the prior express written permission of Network Solutions.
I first noticed it 3 days ago. That's evil... I guess I can't email the technical contact, since I would be reproducing the information in my mail header.
Last time I installed ssh2, I think it came with a client/server package called sftp. Or maybe someone dropped crack in my mountain dew. You should be able to tunnel it through ssh if not.
Everything I get through netscape that's secured is encrypted with a 128-bit RC4 key, I assume. I tried to find some information on how secure normal web browsing really is, but I didn't come up with much. Does anyone have any good resources for how to get insanely high encryption over ssl if 128-bit rc4 isn't especially secure?
My dad called last night and left a message on my voice mail to watch keep a special eye out for the people I hang around. The guys in colorado do fit in closely with anything that would resemble my subculture. But I figure the bottom line is that these kids are forced to deal with a substandard system. They have to go to school and waste their time learning things they already know. It's frustrating, and it's not right. But for myself and my close freinds, our way of dealing with it is to fight it by getting inside and changing it, not by destroying its participants. When I need to kill a group of people, I'll go play quake. I seek refuge in being able to blow people up over the internet, and knowing that it's just a game. The realities of the school system are more horrid than anything I could ever hope to achieve, but I do my part to change it. I feel that the incident in colorado was a great loss for us. It sends the wrong message about where the problems really lie. But on the otherhand, hopefully it will wake america to the real problems.
So, I'm watching dateline because I want to be somewhat informed on that shooting yesterday... This guy they interviewed mentioned that they did nazi stuff like speaking GERMAN. So then, they show a clip of hitler and say that they listened to GERMAN music called "industrial noise" like KMFDM (like MTV isn't to blame for society's problems), which is a GERMAN acronym for no pity for the majority (which is one of many things that can mean). And then they showed some guy playing doom and then faded into clips of bleeding people. They did some other stuff that was pretty bad, like implying that blame was to be placed on anything other than a crappy school society. lame, lame, lame
I've had an uneven share of odd misfortunes with redhat products. But the one thing in common with them is that it supresses useful error messages and falsely reports success. I get plenty of that from the microsoft world, and vast fields of useful error messages are one of my favorite features in linux. And they're tech support is very unhelpful. And the --force option in rpm is useless.
If you didn't have some outlet for your aggressions, you would truly go insane. I love the quake series, it lets me get all my frustrations out on my friends, and then they turn around and kick my ass and we laugh about it. They should sue me for encouraging this game while they're at it. sheesh! And how is that provable? Did the kid leave behind a long trail of hoofed monster thingies? I want to know where he got the chaingun, too. The biggest sucky thing about this country is that everyone has to pay for one dumbass's stupidity.
I would recommend an o'reilly book call linux network administrator's guide. Or maybe the crab book (tcp/ip). Or dig around the linux howto's. Then put together your knowledge of setting up a ppp server and routing traffic through your various net devices.
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I did some work with a local organization that was part of a public housing community. They have a computer learning center for children and adults. The children have to behave and sign in, and so do the adults. I set up a NAT server with linux in the adult room so that all the computers in there could use the internet through a single modem. It's not fun to do with a modem, but dsl should be great. Especially if you get a cisco 675 thingy, it's pretty easy to set up for doing that. If you just log your hours as volunteer time, you shouldn't have to worry about liability. The people who run it know a lot more about liability issues, and it usually comes down to supervision anyways. Ask if you can set up filtering software, or if even setting guidelines would be enough. It's great that you want to do this, if you have any questions or want any refernces about such places, please email me. travis@pulley.org
Shameless plug! http://blairewitch.com
The best way to secure an NT box is to leave it off. I haven't been to it for a few days, and even with their new feature, it's still not up!
Back orifice and netcat work fine for me
Pfaelzer has indicated that she will order Mitnick to make some restitution, which she is scheduled to decide Monday as well.
I belive this proves the judge's bias and lack of concern for both the spirit and letter of the law. The companies demanding restitution did not even report losses, and the claims were so ridiculous... "lesee, the source for solaris is worth oh... 8 Million dollars" and they sell an educational copy of the source for like, $200! Those numbers might be off, but why should he have to pay restitution to companies that pull numbers out of their ass and send to the FBI in an email when they won't even put it in a press release.
I've worked in enough small shops where windows screws itself up, and I can get away with blaming windows for a little while. They use windows on their desktop, they've seen it before. But when it happens all the time, they look to me for a solution. If I'm still running windows and it screws up, I can blame microsoft all I want, but it won't make them any happier. If I run linux and it screws up by my own fault, I can just fix it in a short manner of time, apologize, and be on my merry way. Little/no blame on yourself is better than having to blame MS all the time. Nice point of view, btw.
I went to see the blair witch project yesterday, and I got carded! I mean, it wasn't even scary, and I've seen potty mouths worse than the people in the movie who wouldn't be able to go see it alone. I'm tempted to walk away from any ticket counter that asks for my id and wait for the dvd. I got more pissed and violent at the ticket counter than I did at the movie. It was boring enough to sedate me into a waking sleep :) I love your work, jonkatz. keep it up!
Shameless plug! -- http://blairewitch.com
Check out this lame blair witch page. It's actually pretty cool. Links to stuff, pictures, quotes. You can even guy the book and the soundtrack from it.
It's been a while, but I remember going through that. I tried to register a domain, but couldn't specify any of my hosts because they weren't registered. I didn't have a domain to register them under, so got a couple ml.org names to them and tried to specify them as those. That didn't work, as I am not an administrative contact for ml.org. So then I sent in something that confused the automated system; I specified nameservers under the domain that I was registering, and it responded that it was submitted for manual processing and it would be done in five days. 7 days later, I still had nothing back from them, so I mailed them with all my invoice numbers and demanded some response. I also registered another name through register.com so I could at least get SOMETHING working. That domain went through just fine and so I set up a couple nameserver addresses through there and registered them with NSI. Still no response on the other domain. Finally, 10 days after I sent NSI a registration request that it didn't immediately reject, I got a humanoid response saying that my specified nameservers were invalid and that she changed them to the ones I had recently specified. The documentation on the entire process of getting a domain was crap. It didn't mention registering NS hosts or anything. I must say that it's a lot better now, but it still sucks.
Moral of the story: NSI is a chicken. (?)
I got a small chuckle out of this:
The zone files, which make the Internet work, are updated daily, 7 days a week.
Now when all the stefs complain about the internet "not working" I can say, "oh, it must be NSI's zone files again" hee hee
I've used sequent boxes too. I've only used the symmetry 2000's and I thought they were pretty nice. I agree that they're horribly expensive. I have a s2000 cab I like to play with. It makes an impressive microwave holder. The scsi they used was differential scsi, which isn't common, but it's not proprietary. I've always been interested in seeing linux run on one. I know sequent was big on running NT after they made smp suck less with nt4. I'm pretty sure their web page still runs IIS.
A few months ago (I really should have waited) I bought a tyan tiger MB, the cheapest dual bx I could find. I got some modified msi converter boards, and a couple 300a's. The total price was about $80 more than it would be now with that dual 370 board. They both overclock to 450 just fine. I keep a big fan next to it, so they only get up to about 34 degrees on a really hot day. It's crashed a few times in a virtual terminal, but it even does that in cold weather and not overclocked. never crashes in X though... odd.
So are satan and hussein coming soon?
I'm maxed out on pci slots. I want to get a tnt2 or some other video card with dvd support on it, and get drivers for that. I wouldn't mind paying for a linux-supported solution, but it's not really a solution at all if I have to put another card in.
I was at comdex '96 in Las Vegas, near when USR was touting X2. I walked up to a guy in the booth (more like a small theatre) and asked if it was another standard like the cool 28.8 modems that everyone had. He said, "yep". I wasn't convinced, so I stayed for the show, which pretty much told me that X2 modems were just like normal modems, only twice as fast. "That's twice the email, twice the web pages, twice the porn, etc" In other words, it wasn't especially (well, at all) technical. But I did get two t-shirts for agreeing with usr propaganda.
By reporting something in such a horribly lame way that the average local news watcher can realize they screwed up is exactly the kind of thing we need. Many people like the "source" of this story aren't exactly sure what to think. For them, it seems as though common sense might not hold up in the realm of computers. Things like this are a very assuring way of telling people "it's okay, now click dammit!" People just need to get their feet wetted so they can teach these things to their kids, and not restrict them so much because they can't keep up with reality.
1. You must be some kind of an official organization
So, I should have to agree to someone else's definition of organized?
2. There should be a certain number of individual computers uniquely connected to it (no virtual hosting crap)
Hmm, how many addresses can you map to ONE name? And wouldn't that be fun if you had to have NSI manage your subdomains.
3. ONLY ONE domain per organization
Lessee, there's my right foot, my left one... Is my head the same organization as my book collection? How many names do you go by personally? There's usually your first name, your last name, a nick name, insults, email aliases, handles...
4. That name must say who you are
And who you are must say what you do, what you sell, your interests, your history, your address, your income, your SSN, your license plate.
Domain names were never intended to be used by everly little clown that wants a web site.
They were meant to be used by suits to communicate to other suits, or by scientists to communicate with their peers. Clowns need web sites to look at, too.
They were intended to identify networks and to give organizations their own namespace.
I believe they were intended to identify addresses belonging to interfaces belonging to computers belonging to networks belonging to organizations. Well then, there are mail handlers too.
I like bush
hee hee
icebox:/var/named/pz# whois CRYNWR-DOM
Registrant:
Crynwr Software (CRYNWR-DOM)
521 Pleasant Valley Rd.
Potsdam, NY 13676-3213
Domain Name: CRYNWR.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Nelson, Russell N (RNN3) nelson@CRYNWR.COM
+1-315-268-1925
Record last updated on 20-Dec-96.
Record created on 31-Jan-92.
Database last updated on 13-May-99 08:35:10 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS.CRYNWR.COM 192.203.178.14
ANGEL.HEAVEN.NET 198.69.28.2
ASYLUM.SF.CA.US 192.48.232.17
You agree that you will not reproduce, sell, transfer, or
modify any of the data presented in response to your search request, or
use of any such data for commercial purpose, without the prior
express written permission of Network Solutions.
I first noticed it 3 days ago. That's evil... I guess I can't email the technical contact, since I would be reproducing the information in my mail header.
Last time I installed ssh2, I think it came with a client/server package called sftp. Or maybe someone dropped crack in my mountain dew. You should be able to tunnel it through ssh if not.
Everything I get through netscape that's secured is encrypted with a 128-bit RC4 key, I assume. I tried to find some information on how secure normal web browsing really is, but I didn't come up with much. Does anyone have any good resources for how to get insanely high encryption over ssl if 128-bit rc4 isn't especially secure?
My dad called last night and left a message on my voice mail to watch keep a special eye out for the people I hang around. The guys in colorado do fit in closely with anything that would resemble my subculture. But I figure the bottom line is that these kids are forced to deal with a substandard system. They have to go to school and waste their time learning things they already know. It's frustrating, and it's not right. But for myself and my close freinds, our way of dealing with it is to fight it by getting inside and changing it, not by destroying its participants. When I need to kill a group of people, I'll go play quake. I seek refuge in being able to blow people up over the internet, and knowing that it's just a game. The realities of the school system are more horrid than anything I could ever hope to achieve, but I do my part to change it. I feel that the incident in colorado was a great loss for us. It sends the wrong message about where the problems really lie. But on the otherhand, hopefully it will wake america to the real problems.
"Black man, white man, rip the system!"
Something I sent to all my friends last night:
So, I'm watching dateline because I want to be somewhat informed on that shooting yesterday... This guy they interviewed mentioned that they did
nazi stuff like speaking GERMAN. So then, they show a clip of hitler and say that they listened to GERMAN music called "industrial noise" like
KMFDM (like MTV isn't to blame for society's problems), which is a GERMAN acronym for no pity for the majority (which is one of many things that can mean). And then they showed some guy playing doom and then faded into clips of bleeding
people. They did some other stuff that was pretty bad, like implying that blame was to be placed on anything other than a crappy school society.
lame, lame, lame
I've had an uneven share of odd misfortunes with redhat products. But the one thing in common with them is that it supresses useful error messages and falsely reports success. I get plenty of that from the microsoft world, and vast fields of useful error messages are one of my favorite features in linux. And they're tech support is very unhelpful. And the --force option in rpm is useless.
If you didn't have some outlet for your aggressions, you would truly go insane. I love the quake series, it lets me get all my frustrations out on my friends, and then they turn around and kick my ass and we laugh about it. They should sue me for encouraging this game while they're at it. sheesh! And how is that provable? Did the kid leave behind a long trail of hoofed monster thingies? I want to know where he got the chaingun, too. The biggest sucky thing about this country is that everyone has to pay for one dumbass's stupidity.
I would recommend an o'reilly book call linux network administrator's guide. Or maybe the crab book (tcp/ip). Or dig around the linux howto's. Then put together your knowledge of setting up a ppp server and routing traffic through your various net devices.