Update it prior to write protecting it, and assuming you can boot those machines from USB as well, boot them and go to town. It has saved many a friend/family machine I have been forced to support for free.
Thank you. I read that and did a double take. I thought we were moving towards sandboxing the heck out of these things to keep them from accessing *stuff*.
I suppose it depends on how it's implemented, and I will admit I have read precisely _nothing_ on it.
But we all know how these things have historically played out... bleh.
there is no way of telling if an AP is open due to unintended negligence
I would actually argue that the negligence is explicitly implied.
What if the unintended negligence is both coming and going? A less technical user has an open Linksys at home, and brings their laptop somewhere and automagically joins this other open Linksys? Now you can blame both, or neither- or maybe the user with the laptop twice over since they are to blame both and home and on the road...;-)
Well to be fair... it's camouflaged as a current generation iPhone to fit in during normal activities- not under scrutiny. Once you remove the faux case all bets are off.
I was wondering about this too. Palm has basically said in the past that they aren't worried given their extensive patent portfolio. I'm wondering how many of their touch screen patents, etc. overlap- or could be interpreted to overlap- Apple's patents in this arena. They've been at this game for a long time so maybe something from a decade or more ago could be interpreted differently to cover them now... or maybe it can't- I am DEFINITELY not a patent lawyer (but my college roommate became one so that means like absolutely nothing).
You need to ground the vehicle for it to have a chance to dissipate anything. Something like a chain wrapped around the frame, and touching "wet earth". Not a guarantee but better than nothing.
Masters is the highest route for payment in a professional environment. Just think of this as a 1-2 year pay increase for the investment.
I agree with this based upon my experience. I got my undergrad in Computer Engineering and my Masters in Computer Science. The variety was good, and I was not happy with my school's Computer Engineering grad program.
Masters gives you the extra foot in the door type advantage, sometimes a salary advantage. I also had the fortune to have my Masters mostly paid for by working in the lab and as an intern, so that helped with the "investment" part. I also got experience at the same time. So experience such as this, and the Masters, made it all the more worth my while- twice so far actually.
I took the advice of both my father and my father-in-law: if you have the chance to get your Masters right after your undergrad, stay and do it! My father went back to get his Masters at 30-something when I was a kid and he said it was so much harder to get back into the school routine, plus having to deal with real life (and a challenging kid on top of all that;-). I went straight through and I'm glad I did. It didn't hurt that when I graduated in 2002 I couldn't find a job, so it made the decision much easier!! It seems the economic climate could be very similar (or perhaps worse) than when I went through it so the time may be right for the original poster as well.
Hope that helps somebody out there (and not just the original poster). I'm very glad to have listened to my father for once.;-)
FTP still has its place. If you are already going over VPN, FTP can be way better than SMB if say, the link dies at 699MB of a 700MB file. FTP resume performs miracles with an appropriate client (read ncftp). scp/sftp don't regularly support resume (I think there are some hacks out there), and sometimes rsync isn't universal (Win32, permissions, and rsync can do some evil things).
Obviously it all depends on the platforms in use, the links' reliabilities, the links' speeds, the criticality of time, one's patience, one's pain threshold, etc. YMMV.
Well, HD Moore didn't win for doing that. While he did use the Framework to break into the machine in a way we didn't expect, he wasn't available to participate in the finals so he was disqualified.
He did ask permission to use the Framework before doing so, which he "happened" to have on a USB stick. The point of the exercise was application testing, not rooting the Windows 2000 server that we forgot to install a firewall on. Whoops, our bad!
Having never seen him before, we didn't know he really was HD Moore until we used images.google.com to find out.:-)
Congrats again Jordan, hope to see you next year since you won a free pass!
Oops... That's not an attachment to the iBook... it's a headphone line coming off the side, that _to me_ looked like it separated the front part of the iBook and appeared as "an attachment".
Wow! That's pretty neat. Some sweet effects going on there, and fast too.
Having been subjected to many different types of video cards (mostly on laptops) that I can't get to work completely in Linux, I think these are some great ideas.
Further OT: Does anyone know what the device attached to the Apple notebook in the background of the video is? A battery extender?
I had a hell of a time cancelling back in like 1994, after I discovered REAL internet access and learned about IP addresses and networking. Before that it was easy and all my friends had it.
But to make a long story short, I was on the phone for hours, and after the entire process the effeminate guy on the other end says "ok, so how can I help you today?"
I flipped- "what were we just doing for the past few hours? I'm CANCELLING MY SERVICE!!!"
They got my elderly great-Aunt's money by bascially not letting her cancel either. I don't think she ever really used it. But they confused the hell out of her and wouldn't let her cancel. Bastards.
On the other side, I knew an amoral girl who took advantage and got free internet for God knows how long- hell she could STILL be doing it- by calling to cancel and getting free access (like the guy did a few posts up).
So if you know how to work the bastards, go for it!;-)
Somewhat funny, I'm actually preparing to do the opposite this weekend because our Win2k3 server (I didn't set it up) just stopped routing for our VPN. Inexplicably. No one can get it running.
In a pinch, I set my desktop linux box up to run OpenVPN and changed the office router to point to the linux box, and it works fine.
So we're preparing to raze 2k3 and put linux on it (so I can mess around with my linux box and not worry about kicking everyone in the office off the VPN). Samba and OpenVPN are pretty much all we will need.
That is exactly what I asked on the day they came out when I bought mine. The Apple person on the phone said Tiger would be free or $20.
Awesome! I have been following the Tiger news recently, and placed my order for a PowerBook on March 30th. Since at that time the speculation was for the end of April... Maybe later.
So if you must know, I'm responsible for the timely release. I finally saved up enough, dropped the cash, and now that my PowerBook is in the air on its was from China, Tiger goes gold...
"Later tests showed that the human - dubbed Oetzi - became trapped and died around 5,200 years ago"
Are they implying that he was quickly frozen in place? Somehow they're trying to relate his death the this phenonmenon that occurred 5,200 years ago...
I thought he was
murdered?
While it may not be a great spot to sit and relax, I think it will be great when I'm on a roadtrip and instead of dialing in from a motel room like usual, I can grab a quick byte to eat (fast food is all that is open that late near the highway anyway) and check my email at the same time. Combine two steps in one. Of course it could lead to longer stop times which is not desirable while trying to make good time. I can see it now... "I'll just check/. real quick..."
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I haven't seen anyone post this yet: http://trinityhome.org/
Update it prior to write protecting it, and assuming you can boot those machines from USB as well, boot them and go to town. It has saved many a friend/family machine I have been forced to support for free.
Thank you. I read that and did a double take. I thought we were moving towards sandboxing the heck out of these things to keep them from accessing *stuff*.
I suppose it depends on how it's implemented, and I will admit I have read precisely _nothing_ on it.
But we all know how these things have historically played out... bleh.
So you're the one who created that dip in the stock market, eh?
there is no way of telling if an AP is open due to unintended negligence
I would actually argue that the negligence is explicitly implied.
What if the unintended negligence is both coming and going? A less technical user has an open Linksys at home, and brings their laptop somewhere and automagically joins this other open Linksys? Now you can blame both, or neither- or maybe the user with the laptop twice over since they are to blame both and home and on the road... ;-)
Well to be fair... it's camouflaged as a current generation iPhone to fit in during normal activities- not under scrutiny. Once you remove the faux case all bets are off.
Thanks- I almost snorted stir fry out my nose. Hard to do, to be sure, but I laughed that hard. :-)
So I agree with most of what you say- but dude, how old do you think he is? "200 years back"? "Including your grandparents"? :-)
I was wondering about this too. Palm has basically said in the past that they aren't worried given their extensive patent portfolio. I'm wondering how many of their touch screen patents, etc. overlap- or could be interpreted to overlap- Apple's patents in this arena. They've been at this game for a long time so maybe something from a decade or more ago could be interpreted differently to cover them now... or maybe it can't- I am DEFINITELY not a patent lawyer (but my college roommate became one so that means like absolutely nothing).
You need to ground the vehicle for it to have a chance to dissipate anything. Something like a chain wrapped around the frame, and touching "wet earth". Not a guarantee but better than nothing.
That reminds me of a couple definitions based upon driving style:
Anyone going slower than you is an idiot. Anyone going faster than you is an asshole.
It's all relative.
I agree with this based upon my experience. I got my undergrad in Computer Engineering and my Masters in Computer Science. The variety was good, and I was not happy with my school's Computer Engineering grad program.
Masters gives you the extra foot in the door type advantage, sometimes a salary advantage. I also had the fortune to have my Masters mostly paid for by working in the lab and as an intern, so that helped with the "investment" part. I also got experience at the same time. So experience such as this, and the Masters, made it all the more worth my while- twice so far actually.
I took the advice of both my father and my father-in-law: if you have the chance to get your Masters right after your undergrad, stay and do it! My father went back to get his Masters at 30-something when I was a kid and he said it was so much harder to get back into the school routine, plus having to deal with real life (and a challenging kid on top of all that ;-). I went straight through and I'm glad I did. It didn't hurt that when I graduated in 2002 I couldn't find a job, so it made the decision much easier!! It seems the economic climate could be very similar (or perhaps worse) than when I went through it so the time may be right for the original poster as well.
Hope that helps somebody out there (and not just the original poster). I'm very glad to have listened to my father for once. ;-)
I'm super cereal you guys!
FTP still has its place. If you are already going over VPN, FTP can be way better than SMB if say, the link dies at 699MB of a 700MB file. FTP resume performs miracles with an appropriate client (read ncftp). scp/sftp don't regularly support resume (I think there are some hacks out there), and sometimes rsync isn't universal (Win32, permissions, and rsync can do some evil things).
Obviously it all depends on the platforms in use, the links' reliabilities, the links' speeds, the criticality of time, one's patience, one's pain threshold, etc. YMMV.
I second this! It's like, damn, he got me but what a good shot!
;-)
Although if it happens too many times in a row I doubt the meter would register joy as my mouse goes flying across the room...
Haha, I first read that as "Maxtor" and thought "yep, that sounds about right."
Then I read the translation.
Well, HD Moore didn't win for doing that. While he did use the Framework to break into the machine in a way we didn't expect, he wasn't available to participate in the finals so he was disqualified.
:-)
He did ask permission to use the Framework before doing so, which he "happened" to have on a USB stick. The point of the exercise was application testing, not rooting the Windows 2000 server that we forgot to install a firewall on. Whoops, our bad!
Having never seen him before, we didn't know he really was HD Moore until we used images.google.com to find out.
Congrats again Jordan, hope to see you next year since you won a free pass!
Glad I'm not the only one.
Oops... That's not an attachment to the iBook... it's a headphone line coming off the side, that _to me_ looked like it separated the front part of the iBook and appeared as "an attachment".
Next time I will full screen it BEFORE I post...
Wow! That's pretty neat. Some sweet effects going on there, and fast too.
Having been subjected to many different types of video cards (mostly on laptops) that I can't get to work completely in Linux, I think these are some great ideas.
Further OT: Does anyone know what the device attached to the Apple notebook in the background of the video is? A battery extender?
I had a hell of a time cancelling back in like 1994, after I discovered REAL internet access and learned about IP addresses and networking. Before that it was easy and all my friends had it.
;-)
But to make a long story short, I was on the phone for hours, and after the entire process the effeminate guy on the other end says "ok, so how can I help you today?"
I flipped- "what were we just doing for the past few hours? I'm CANCELLING MY SERVICE!!!"
They got my elderly great-Aunt's money by bascially not letting her cancel either. I don't think she ever really used it. But they confused the hell out of her and wouldn't let her cancel. Bastards.
On the other side, I knew an amoral girl who took advantage and got free internet for God knows how long- hell she could STILL be doing it- by calling to cancel and getting free access (like the guy did a few posts up).
So if you know how to work the bastards, go for it!
Somewhat funny, I'm actually preparing to do the opposite this weekend because our Win2k3 server (I didn't set it up) just stopped routing for our VPN. Inexplicably. No one can get it running.
In a pinch, I set my desktop linux box up to run OpenVPN and changed the office router to point to the linux box, and it works fine.
So we're preparing to raze 2k3 and put linux on it (so I can mess around with my linux box and not worry about kicking everyone in the office off the VPN). Samba and OpenVPN are pretty much all we will need.
Awesome! I have been following the Tiger news recently, and placed my order for a PowerBook on March 30th. Since at that time the speculation was for the end of April... Maybe later.
So if you must know, I'm responsible for the timely release. I finally saved up enough, dropped the cash, and now that my PowerBook is in the air on its was from China, Tiger goes gold...
Well shit, my student loans won't even be paid off until 2014!
"Later tests showed that the human - dubbed Oetzi - became trapped and died around 5,200 years ago"
Are they implying that he was quickly frozen in place? Somehow they're trying to relate his death the this phenonmenon that occurred 5,200 years ago... I thought he was murdered?
While it may not be a great spot to sit and relax, I think it will be great when I'm on a roadtrip and instead of dialing in from a motel room like usual, I can grab a quick byte to eat (fast food is all that is open that late near the highway anyway) and check my email at the same time. Combine two steps in one. Of course it could lead to longer stop times which is not desirable while trying to make good time. I can see it now... "I'll just check /. real quick..."