The best explanation I've seen of the movie so far is that the older guy is crazy and trying to convince the younger guy that what he is seeing is real.
It's good to know that other people have had good experiences with MOTU.
Mine has been pretty lackluster. All I can remember is being really pissed off that I had to log-in to their website to download updated drivers. (See for yourself: http://www.motu.com/download/)
If that wasn't bad enough, it took HOURS for the aproval email to arrive in my inbox. Meh.
I have yet to learn what the EFI equivalent is for
sudo nvram boot-device='enet:192.168.1.1,yaboot'
...I'd still like to see an Open Source bootpd that supports Apple's extensions, Then you could just hold down the "N" key on a PPC/x86 Mac and It Would Just Work [tm].
No PXE boot, but you can do a "diskless NetBoot". The official way to do NetBoot is to use a Mac OS X Server machine with Apple's imaging tools. The basics are:
The client uses an extended version of bootp to get a kernel.
Kernel uses HTTP or NFS to mount a read-only DMG on a remote host.
Writes back to the DMG are "redirected" to a "shadow file". This shadow file can lives on a local hard drive, or (as of OS X 10.4) on AFP mounted share.
I've heard rumor that people have been able to get this to work using Open Source. But I've never seen any evidence of anybody actually doing Mac OS X NetBoot using Open Source.
I would guess that without modifying the Mac mini's firmware, you could NetBoot Linux on a Mac mini by using the extended version of bootp that Apple uses.
Well, a quick scan of his article titles, and it becomes apparent that he has very little regard for unbiased reporting. Considering the article in question, a "Daniel Lyons Watch" blog would be very ironic. heh.
I think that you should call the Seattle PD and thank them for ignoring Jack. Say that you appreciate that level heads are prevailing and that you are proud to have them looking out for you. Police deal with far more negative than positive and I'm sure they would like to hear a "thank you" from you.
"Copy a CD (with live material, for example) to a single AAC file w/ embedded Track info for duplication with iTunes or listening truely gapless on a modern iPod."
Here is what my senators had to say about this bill
May 10, 2005
[snip]
Thank you for contacting me regarding S.786, the National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005. I appreciate the opportunity to respond to your views, and I share your concerns about this bill.
S.786 seeks to severely restrict the functions of the National Weather Service (NWS), which is run by the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The NWS currently offers a wide range of free weather services for all Americans, including invaluable information for airplane pilots, farmers, and those seeking details about severe weather in their areas. This bill would prevent the NWS from offering these free weather services to the public. Instead, private weather companies, which rely primarily on the same data used by the NWS, would charge Americans for their services.
The NWS provides a reliable and effective public service that is utilized by over six million Americans each day. S.786 eliminates this valuable service and unfairly penalizes people by requiring them to pay for information that should be available free of charge. This bill is currently in the Senate Commerce Committee, of which I am a member. Rest assured that I am not in favor of this bill and that I will work with my colleagues to prevent this bill from reaching the full Senate floor.
Again, thank you for writing to me. Please do not hesitate to contact me again about this or any other issue of concern to you.
Sincerely, Barbara Boxer United States Senator
(also)
May 20, 2005
[snip]
Thank you for contacting me to share your opposition to the National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005 (S. 786). Please know that I appreciate hearing from you and welcome the opportunity to respond.
As you may know, the National Weather Service Duties Act would clarify the duties and responsibilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its National Weather Service (NWS). In addition, this bill prohibits the NWS from dispersing information that is also provided by private services. NOAA's current policy states that "the nation benefits from government information disseminated both by Federal agencies and by diverse nonfederal parties, including commercial and not-for-profit entities." Further, "NOAA will give due consideration to these abilities, and consider the effects of its decisions on the activities of these entities."
Please know that I understand your concerns about how this legislation could impair the quality and breadth of information available to the public. The National Weather Service Duties Act has been referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Although I am not a member of this committee, I will be sure to keep your comments in mind should the National Weather Service Duties Act come to the Senate floor.
Again, thank you for your letter. If I can be of further assistance, please do not hesitate to call my Washington, D.C. staff at (202) 224-3841.
Sincerely yours, Dianne Feinstein United States Senator
The requirements vary from state to state, so far I have done the research for California and Texas:
Texas Penal Code 38.02 - Required: Name, Birthdate, Address California Penal Code 647(e) - Required: Identification of self and account of presence (who you are and why you are there)
lawcollective.org has good information on how to deal with Police encounters.
Personal experience in Texas: Some bored cops pulled my friend over. I didn't have an ID on me, I gave the cop my name, birthdate and address as required, when he asked for my social security number, I told him that I was going to remain silent (thus invoking the protection given by the 5th amendment).
He got really pissed, tried to make it look like he was letting me off "just this once", then we left.
When I was tooling around Africa and France, I came up with the following idea:
Set up a trusted system that has scripts which are able to change the passwords on the accounts that matter to you.
Generate a list of random paswords/PIN pairs for each account the trusted system can change.
Print out the list of password/PIN pairs to keep on your person. Store a copy on your trusted server.
Make a webpage that will let you change a password to one of your accounts by entering the PIN for the passwords you just used.
After using an untrusted system to check an account, visit your trusted system's webpage and have the trusted system change the password to the next one on your list.
The reason why I am able to work in the computer field that I do is because of that mentality. The hours, days, and weeks that I spent reading HOWTO's and man pages were all well spent. I didn't have to pay to learn how to configure, maintain and program a computer.
While there are allegorical sources of knowledge for Apple and Microsoft products, I have not been able to learn new technologies from these companies as I have with Open Source.
What I love so much about Linux is that I can dig as deep down into the system as I want and find exactly what I was looking for. With Linux, you never hear "this is a known issue, we are working on it", "this will be fixed in the next release", or "use this workaround". With Linux, you hear "RTFM n00b" because the documentation is already there.
Not only that, he did a very good job at it. Lately, I've been using LaTeX to typeset everything I write. From my letters to my documentation at work. I'm always amazed at the power that LaTeX has.
This code will only work if the puzzle pieces are printed using DataGlyphs
A Glyphsaw Puzzle starts out as a computer graphics file generated by the PARC DataGlyph Toolkit. The image is sent to a professional jigsaw puzzle manufacturing company, which creates cardboard puzzle pieces. From a distance, the pieces look similar to those from any other jigsaw puzzle. Up close, one can see individual glyphmarks.
This sounds like he was using the +++ATH0 exploit to dial the numbers, if the text "+++ATH0" appears in a single IP datagram sent to a modem user, then the modem will hang up. He probabably just followed the "+++ATH0" with "ATDT911". If I remember correctly, due to the size of a datagram, he would not have been able to use a full 7 digit number.
From: Pete Gonzalez gonz@JEFFERSON.ML.ORG To: BUGTRAQ@netspace.org Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 02:36:40 -0400 Subject: Re: 1+2=3, +++ATH0=Old school DoS
I have a Diamond SupraExpress 56k modem (purchased a month ago) which dials an Erol's account. I tried the exploit posted by Max Schau, and it worked first try.
Also, it occurs to me that this vulnerability could possibly be used to make the person's modem hang up and dial 911.:-)
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The best explanation I've seen of the movie so far is that the older guy is crazy and trying to convince the younger guy that what he is seeing is real.
It's good to know that other people have had good experiences with MOTU.
Mine has been pretty lackluster. All I can remember is being really pissed off that I had to log-in to their website to download updated drivers. (See for yourself: http://www.motu.com/download/)
If that wasn't bad enough, it took HOURS for the aproval email to arrive in my inbox. Meh.
Extra points for using the public database to get information on the police officer referenced in those articles.
- emacs
- grep
- perl
- sed
- svn
- xml (manipulate XML from the command line)
- tar
- ssh (this one is fun: "ssh server tar -cf - directory | tar -xv")
- for (built-in bash command, one-line scripts from the command line are very useful)
- lsof (what processes have open network ports? why can't I unmount that disk?)
- wget
- ping
- telnet (test SMTP, HTTP, etc servers by hand)
- nmap
See also: Commonly used commandsI'm interested in this. Can you put more details online?
I have yet to learn what the EFI equivalent is for ...I'd still like to see an Open Source bootpd that supports Apple's extensions, Then you could just hold down the "N" key on a PPC/x86 Mac and It Would Just Work [tm].
I've heard rumor that people have been able to get this to work using Open Source. But I've never seen any evidence of anybody actually doing Mac OS X NetBoot using Open Source.
I would guess that without modifying the Mac mini's firmware, you could NetBoot Linux on a Mac mini by using the extended version of bootp that Apple uses.
Well, a quick scan of his article titles, and it becomes apparent that he has very little regard for unbiased reporting. Considering the article in question, a "Daniel Lyons Watch" blog would be very ironic. heh.
You have a point, a quick google search found a link to a site that lists all articles by Daniel Lyons. Very interesting. Thanks.
I think that you should call the Seattle PD and thank them for ignoring Jack. Say that you appreciate that level heads are prevailing and that you are proud to have them looking out for you. Police deal with far more negative than positive and I'm sure they would like to hear a "thank you" from you.
What are you talking about? All you need is a robe and wizard hat! (google cache)
The US Army has had technology like this for a while: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/stingray.h tm
A good article to read about blinding cameras is here:
http://www.naimark.net/projects/zap/howto.html
Create Gapless CD's and AAC Files with iTunes 4.9
"Copy a CD (with live material, for example) to a single AAC file w/ embedded Track info for duplication with iTunes or listening truely gapless on a modern iPod."
Is this something close to what you want?
Thanks for making my day!
Monday, 19-Oct-1987
Here is what my senators had to say about this bill
May 10, 2005
[snip]
Thank you for contacting me regarding S.786, the National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005. I appreciate the opportunity to respond to your views, and I share your concerns about this bill.
S.786 seeks to severely restrict the functions of the National Weather Service (NWS), which is run by the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The NWS currently offers a wide range of free weather services for all Americans, including invaluable information for airplane pilots, farmers, and those seeking details about severe weather in their areas. This bill would prevent the NWS from offering these free weather services to the public. Instead, private weather companies, which rely primarily on the same data used by the NWS, would charge Americans for their services.
The NWS provides a reliable and effective public service that is utilized by over six million Americans each day. S.786 eliminates this valuable service and unfairly penalizes people by requiring them to pay for information that should be available free of charge. This bill is currently in the Senate Commerce Committee, of which I am a member. Rest assured that I am not in favor of this bill and that I will work with my colleagues to prevent this bill from reaching the full Senate floor.
Again, thank you for writing to me. Please do not hesitate to contact me again about this or any other issue of concern to you.
Sincerely,
Barbara Boxer
United States Senator
(also)
May 20, 2005
[snip]
Thank you for contacting me to share your opposition to the National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005 (S. 786). Please know that I appreciate hearing from you and welcome the opportunity to respond.
As you may know, the National Weather Service Duties Act would clarify the duties and responsibilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its National Weather Service (NWS). In addition, this bill prohibits the NWS from dispersing information that is also provided by private services. NOAA's current policy states that "the nation benefits from government information disseminated both by Federal agencies and by diverse nonfederal parties, including commercial and not-for-profit entities." Further, "NOAA will give due consideration to these abilities, and consider the effects of its decisions on the activities of these entities."
Please know that I understand your concerns about how this legislation could impair the quality and breadth of information available to the public. The National Weather Service Duties Act has been referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Although I am not a member of this committee, I will be sure to keep your comments in mind should the National Weather Service Duties Act come to the Senate floor.
Again, thank you for your letter. If I can be of further assistance,
please do not hesitate to call my Washington, D.C. staff at (202)
224-3841.
Sincerely yours,
Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator
You forgot to mention games.
The requirements vary from state to state, so far I have done the research for California and Texas:
Texas Penal Code 38.02 - Required: Name, Birthdate, Address
California Penal Code 647(e) - Required: Identification of self and account of presence (who you are and why you are there)
lawcollective.org has good information on how to deal with Police encounters.
Personal experience in Texas:
Some bored cops pulled my friend over. I didn't have an ID on me, I gave the cop my name, birthdate and address as required, when he asked for my social security number, I told him that I was going to remain silent (thus invoking the protection given by the 5th amendment).
He got really pissed, tried to make it look like he was letting me off "just this once", then we left.
I've been collecting links which can be viewed at del.icio.us under the "realid" tag
Feel free to make your own del.icio.us account and add to the collection.
Thats why I like Linux, seriously.
The reason why I am able to work in the computer field that I do is because of that mentality. The hours, days, and weeks that I spent reading HOWTO's and man pages were all well spent. I didn't have to pay to learn how to configure, maintain and program a computer.
While there are allegorical sources of knowledge for Apple and Microsoft products, I have not been able to learn new technologies from these companies as I have with Open Source.
What I love so much about Linux is that I can dig as deep down into the system as I want and find exactly what I was looking for. With Linux, you never hear "this is a known issue, we are working on it", "this will be fixed in the next release", or "use this workaround". With Linux, you hear "RTFM n00b" because the documentation is already there.
Not even Firefox supports all of CSS2.
Google found an article that describes this in more detail
Not only that, he did a very good job at it. Lately, I've been using LaTeX to typeset everything I write. From my letters to my documentation at work. I'm always amazed at the power that LaTeX has.
See also:
http://www.attrition.org/security/denial/w/mod-at