I think everyone is missing the extent of the implied threat. Under the Patriot Act, if they detain you for "national security" reasons, you might never be heard from again.
It came and went for me. I assume I was bouncing between load balanced servers, and one was doing it. Fortunatly I have a couple of SMTP relays available to me. I've also not switched to Speakeasy, which I'm happy with.
I really wanted one of those Corvus drives about that time. You could hook your Apple ][ up to them, several simultaneously, in fact. They functioned like a rudimentary network. If I coulda had a whole 10 *MB*... that would have been like having 70(!) simultaneous 143K floppy disks worth. The warez board I would have run....
That remind me, I should pick up a few more drives, and finish off my home Terabyte...
Disclosure Note: I wrote part of the book, and the deal the publisher has with Bookpool sometimes results in slightly higher royalties for me. They do often have the best price, though.
Sound (and USB) support on Linux can be a pain. He doesn't give any specifics as to what sound hardware, kernel versions, etc... so there's no hope in trying to second guess what he did wrong. I'm inclined to guess that after he got ALSA working the first time, after reboot he probably just needed to crank the volume back up, or forgot some insmod lines (both easy to do.)
I've fought the software to get sound working on linux, and got there without too much trouble most of the time.
It goes both ways. I spent a fair amount of time trying to fight Windows ME on a relative's machine to trying to get sound working reliably. I had to give up and take him to XP, where they seem to finally have interrupts sorted out properly.
Canvas and CORE Impact. I don't have a lot of info about Impact, but Canvas is regularly maintained, and Dave is known to release some new exploits there before you'll read about them elsewhere. If you have any kind of income from doing penetration testing, Canvas is pretty reasonably priced.
Be extraordinarily careful when trying to take a MD5 sum of a text file. Most operating systems will give you different file contents for a text file, depending on how you ask to open and read the file. If you have MD5 utils that aren't explicity requesting all files in binary mode, then they are being sloppy.
You also have to be careful with text files that they aren't being modified on the fly when being transferred between machines.
According to Bram, McAfee is currently flagging anything that uses the NSIS installer, which BT uses for recent builds. It's a false alarm, as noted.
Further, make sure you download the Official client from the Official site. Suprnova has been purposely running a banner ad for a couple of months now for a BT 3.3 client that IS laden with spyware.
True, but you'll be able to modify and/or upgrade it any way you want, whenever you want, without worrying about the warranty (since there is none)......riiight... which is the point I was making in the post you replied to.
Right. I did a chapter on HTPCs recently for "Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty". IMHO, the two reasons for building your own HTPC are aesthetics and control. The latter meaning that you don't anyone else deciding how your commercial skip will work, or what you will and won't be allowed to network.
Generally speaking, you won't be able to build a custom HTPC for less money than a commercial HTPC(-like) device with the exact same functions.
I had occasion to build both a Windows and a Linux HTPC for a recent book. The Linux one took longer for some of the steps, and I had to do some hairy troubleshooting, but it is perfectly possible. MythTV is pretty impressive, actually. The DVD ripping on the Linux side was much nicer.
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And maybe IBM will buy them. But IBM has no reason to hurry, since SCO keeps negotiating their price down...
I think everyone is missing the extent of the implied threat. Under the Patriot Act, if they detain you for "national security" reasons, you might never be heard from again.
You too, eh?
It came and went for me. I assume I was bouncing between load balanced servers, and one was doing it. Fortunatly I have a couple of SMTP relays available to me. I've also not switched to Speakeasy, which I'm happy with.
Couldn't Google just wipe out all of the beta accounts when the service starts up?"
Um... yeah.... that's why they are selling it NOW, hello.
Really? I didn't do any Novell until about 2.0A, I didn't realize that's what happened to Corvus. Cool.
I really wanted one of those Corvus drives about that time. You could hook your Apple ][ up to them, several simultaneously, in fact. They functioned like a rudimentary network. If I coulda had a whole 10 *MB*... that would have been like having 70(!) simultaneous 143K floppy disks worth. The warez board I would have run....
That remind me, I should pick up a few more drives, and finish off my home Terabyte...
Before expenses.
Good list, thanks!
Well, thanks for assuming that the points I made were old, dry and overused. :)
It came up because I did a chapter on HTPCs, and built a Windows HTPC and a Linux HTPC, and discussed the relative merits of each platform.
And Bookpool cheaper still:d ware+hacking
http://www.bookpool.com/.x/ierdixxv34/ss/1?qs=har
Disclosure Note: I wrote part of the book, and the deal the publisher has with Bookpool sometimes results in slightly higher royalties for me. They do often have the best price, though.
You can do your own comparison shopping, of course:
http://isbn.nu/1932266836/shipover/
Your best deal usually depends on shipping.
No, that was the O'Reilly book with a very similar name: http://books.slashdot.org/books/04/02/23/2036241.s html
Sample chapter here if you're interested (.pdf). That's Joe's intro chapter. I did the HTPC chapter (the Linux vs. Windows Chapter 6 mentioned.) :)
Sound (and USB) support on Linux can be a pain. He doesn't give any specifics as to what sound hardware, kernel versions, etc... so there's no hope in trying to second guess what he did wrong. I'm inclined to guess that after he got ALSA working the first time, after reboot he probably just needed to crank the volume back up, or forgot some insmod lines (both easy to do.)
I've fought the software to get sound working on linux, and got there without too much trouble most of the time.
It goes both ways. I spent a fair amount of time trying to fight Windows ME on a relative's machine to trying to get sound working reliably. I had to give up and take him to XP, where they seem to finally have interrupts sorted out properly.
I would be using it to find out what that killer "track 3.mp3" I have is.
I would have made the number to call #ID3.
Sounds like pretty slick technology.
how is this post any better than The original story posted a couple of days back?
It's the newest version.
Sorry, I didn't see the original. My bad.
Canvas and CORE Impact. I don't have a lot of info about Impact, but Canvas is regularly maintained, and Dave is known to release some new exploits there before you'll read about them elsewhere. If you have any kind of income from doing penetration testing, Canvas is pretty reasonably priced.
Problem is, the train set is electric, and it's difficult to generate electricity with just the plain plastic bricks.
I mean.. it just takes a *ton* of rubbing, and the cat gets annoyed pretty quickly.
Be extraordinarily careful when trying to take a MD5 sum of a text file. Most operating systems will give you different file contents for a text file, depending on how you ask to open and read the file. If you have MD5 utils that aren't explicity requesting all files in binary mode, then they are being sloppy.
You also have to be careful with text files that they aren't being modified on the fly when being transferred between machines.
According to Bram, McAfee is currently flagging anything that uses the NSIS installer, which BT uses for recent builds. It's a false alarm, as noted.
Further, make sure you download the Official client from the Official site. Suprnova has been purposely running a banner ad for a couple of months now for a BT 3.3 client that IS laden with spyware.
Or... maybe they could take NetBSD and spend 100% of their time making that secure!
He wasn't in the car when the officer arrived. He wasn't driving the car, his daughter was.
It's evil!
Heh, I thought your comment was going to be a TIme Bandits reference.
True, but you'll be able to modify and/or upgrade it any way you want, whenever you want, without worrying about the warranty (since there is none)... ...riiight... which is the point I was making in the post you replied to.
Right. I did a chapter on HTPCs recently for "Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty". IMHO, the two reasons for building your own HTPC are aesthetics and control. The latter meaning that you don't anyone else deciding how your commercial skip will work, or what you will and won't be allowed to network.
Generally speaking, you won't be able to build a custom HTPC for less money than a commercial HTPC(-like) device with the exact same functions.
I had occasion to build both a Windows and a Linux HTPC for a recent book. The Linux one took longer for some of the steps, and I had to do some hairy troubleshooting, but it is perfectly possible. MythTV is pretty impressive, actually. The DVD ripping on the Linux side was much nicer.