I hope this one is a freebie (doubtful), but at least it's not usability-mandatory like the move to Jaguar was. Mac OS X pre-Jaguar was not good enough to be productive, so then Apple releases Jaguar, and everyone shells out $79 (in my case, student discount) for the upgrade to a usable OS.
Wow...some programmer has his balls in the vice for that one.
Re:My story from just last week...
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I KNOW I'm going to be called upon for tech support on any technology item in their house (TV, DVD player, computer, programable thermostat, etc.).
Last Christmas my mother decided to buy my father a complete home theater system with DVD player, surround sound, the whole bit. Of course my father, being a complete technophobe, let it sit in the boxes for days. Finally, my mother asked me to set it up because I "am good at computers", which of course, as the Slashdot crowd knows, makes you an instant expert at anything powered by electricity.
I am a student pursuing a bachelor's degree in Computational Mathematics.
What is the best way to go about finding a career in cryptography/cryptology? How did you start in the field? Is there a "job market" per se, or is it more of a position that one falls into?
To: All students in RIT housing
From: Resnet
There are many ways that students can lose their network connection
in the RIT Residence Halls and Apartments.
Here are the most common:
1. Do you use DirectConnect, KaZaA, or other file-sharing programs to
share copyright protected material (MP3, movies, games)?
then you may lose your network connection because you have been
turned in for copyright violations. ITS regularly receives reports
of copyright violations from the Business Software Alliance,
MediaForce, and even from your fellow students. Follow this link to
learn how to disable your applications sharing feature:
http://resnet.rit.edu/modules.php?name=News&file=a rticle&sid=99>
2. Do you have a computer or other device on the network that is not
registered for network access?
then you may lose your network connection for "stealing" an IP
address and preventing a
student who did register their computer from getting on the network.
All devices connected
to the Residential Network MUST BE REGISTERED.
3. Do you have a computer without a password or accounts on your
computer that do not have a password?
then you may lose your network connection because a "hacker" has
taken control of your system and is serving illegal material,
attacking other computers on campus, or consuming massive amounts
of RIT's bandwidth. Follow this link for tips
on securing your Windows computer:
http://resnet.rit.edu/modules.php?name=News&file=a rticle&sid=107>
and
http://resnet.rit.edu/modules.php?name=News&file=a rticle&sid=106>
4. Did you install the FREE Virus software available to all RIT
Students? No?
then you may lose your network connection because you are sending
viruses
to everyone in your address book.
Follow this link for FREE SOFTWARE:
http://www.rit.edu/~wwwits/services/security/>
5. Are you running a server on your computer that facilitates the
theft of copyright protected material or
Commercial Use of the RIT network?
Such as exams, solution guides, serial numbers, MP3's, Movies, Warez,
SPAM MailServer, etc.
then you may lose your network connection for violations of the
RIT Code of Conduct:
http://www.rit.edu/computerconduct/>
Residential Computing
1034 Nathaniel Rochester Hall
Rochester Institute of Technology
716.475.2600 voice
716.475.4927 tty
resnet@rit.edu
http://resnet.rit.edu/
http://www.rit.edu/~resnet/
What I was asking for, more or less, was a sales pitch of sorts comparing the AMI TCPA BIOS to a TCPA BIOS of a competitor, with respect to Linux users. The goal of my question was, if we're going to be stuck with this TCPA mess regardless, what is the bottom line as to what product to buy for us Linux users.
During our research, we auditted and developed our hydra for the following
media tools:
mplayer (www.mplayerhq.org)
WinAMP (www.winamp.com)
Windows Media Player (www.microsoft.com)
xine (xine.sourceforge.net)
mpg123 (www.mpg123.de)
xmms (www.xmms.org)
SIS is a hack of shit. Want to register for your classes? Forget it, system is full. Better off going to someone in the department with STARS access and getting them to register for you. That's what I did. Stupid ITS, they have their heads up their asses.
Parent is right, TCO is very dependent on your current infrastructure. I was in the same situation as the poster two years ago, and I did pretty well, saving the organization ~$10K by dodging both the NT4->2k server upgrade and Exchange 5.5->2k upgrade bullets.
In short, Samba suffices for NT Domain Controlling services, print services (except that nasty bug with NT4 SMB printing, but all of our workstations are 2k). Postfix with SquirrelMail suffices for Exchange, at least for the functionality my users needed, and needless to say, Apache suffices for IIS.
My environment was a private high school with ~300 students and ~100 faculty/administration.
Yeah, I heard that when they caught these guys, they were screaming "OMGWTFHAX!!!" at the arresting officers. The cops, in response, yelled "I owz0r your face n00b!!".
I've run into this many times before with admins who come out of the MCSE mill. Unfortunately, there's no way to get your money back for Exchange/W2K once you've been ass reamed for it.
A good option that I've reccomended and implemented is phpGroupWare, which works really well for a small to medium size office that needs basic collaboration sofware.
Slashdot Mirror
Shuttle Data Recorder May be Key to Accident
Really. Did they figure that out themselves, or do they have a team of monkeys working around the clock on this?
My College
We love to play our Counter-Strike here at RIT.
I hope this one is a freebie (doubtful), but at least it's not usability-mandatory like the move to Jaguar was. Mac OS X pre-Jaguar was not good enough to be productive, so then Apple releases Jaguar, and everyone shells out $79 (in my case, student discount) for the upgrade to a usable OS.
I wonder how much they'll suck us for this time.
A Hotter Sun May Be Contributing To Global Warming
Really. Did they figure this out themselves, or do they have a team of monkeys working on it?
Wow...some programmer has his balls in the vice for that one.
I KNOW I'm going to be called upon for tech support on any technology item in their house (TV, DVD player, computer, programable thermostat, etc.).
Last Christmas my mother decided to buy my father a complete home theater system with DVD player, surround sound, the whole bit. Of course my father, being a complete technophobe, let it sit in the boxes for days. Finally, my mother asked me to set it up because I "am good at computers", which of course, as the Slashdot crowd knows, makes you an instant expert at anything powered by electricity.
I am a student pursuing a bachelor's degree in Computational Mathematics.
What is the best way to go about finding a career in cryptography/cryptology?
How did you start in the field?
Is there a "job market" per se, or is it more of a position that one falls into?
What is your e-mail address? I promise I will not sell it to third parties.
To: All students in RIT housing From: Resnet There are many ways that students can lose their network connection in the RIT Residence Halls and Apartments. Here are the most common: 1. Do you use DirectConnect, KaZaA, or other file-sharing programs to share copyright protected material (MP3, movies, games)? then you may lose your network connection because you have been turned in for copyright violations. ITS regularly receives reports of copyright violations from the Business Software Alliance, MediaForce, and even from your fellow students. Follow this link to learn how to disable your applications sharing feature: http://resnet.rit.edu/modules.php?name=News&file=a rticle&sid=99>
2. Do you have a computer or other device on the network that is not
registered for network access?
then you may lose your network connection for "stealing" an IP
address and preventing a
student who did register their computer from getting on the network.
All devices connected
to the Residential Network MUST BE REGISTERED.
3. Do you have a computer without a password or accounts on your
computer that do not have a password?
then you may lose your network connection because a "hacker" has
taken control of your system and is serving illegal material,
attacking other computers on campus, or consuming massive amounts
of RIT's bandwidth. Follow this link for tips
on securing your Windows computer:
http://resnet.rit.edu/modules.php?name=News&file=a rticle&sid=107>
and
http://resnet.rit.edu/modules.php?name=News&file=a rticle&sid=106>
4. Did you install the FREE Virus software available to all RIT
Students? No?
then you may lose your network connection because you are sending
viruses
to everyone in your address book.
Follow this link for FREE SOFTWARE:
http://www.rit.edu/~wwwits/services/security/>
5. Are you running a server on your computer that facilitates the
theft of copyright protected material or
Commercial Use of the RIT network?
Such as exams, solution guides, serial numbers, MP3's, Movies, Warez,
SPAM MailServer, etc.
then you may lose your network connection for violations of the
RIT Code of Conduct:
http://www.rit.edu/computerconduct/>
Residential Computing
1034 Nathaniel Rochester Hall
Rochester Institute of Technology
716.475.2600 voice
716.475.4927 tty
resnet@rit.edu
http://resnet.rit.edu/
http://www.rit.edu/~resnet/
Cast a .co.uk domain to an idiot, and you get Colombia...
It's not that big of a deal.
haha! hacked by chinese!
oh, wait...
What I was asking for, more or less, was a sales pitch of sorts comparing the AMI TCPA BIOS to a TCPA BIOS of a competitor, with respect to Linux users. The goal of my question was, if we're going to be stuck with this TCPA mess regardless, what is the bottom line as to what product to buy for us Linux users.
In soviet russia...
copyright extends YOU!
During our research, we auditted and developed our hydra for the following media tools:
mplayer (www.mplayerhq.org)
WinAMP (www.winamp.com)
Windows Media Player (www.microsoft.com)
xine (xine.sourceforge.net)
mpg123 (www.mpg123.de)
xmms (www.xmms.org)
Wow...kicks ass to be using iTunes...
What is the advantage to me, a Linux using consumer, to buying your product over those of your competitors?
Careful now, this might make Stallman's head explode.
Yeah and their root password is god, and all of the "security professionals" have lame as 1337 n4m3z.
SIS is a hack of shit. Want to register for your classes? Forget it, system is full. Better off going to someone in the department with STARS access and getting them to register for you. That's what I did. Stupid ITS, they have their heads up their asses.
Parent is right, TCO is very dependent on your current infrastructure. I was in the same situation as the poster two years ago, and I did pretty well, saving the organization ~$10K by dodging both the NT4->2k server upgrade and Exchange 5.5->2k upgrade bullets.
In short, Samba suffices for NT Domain Controlling services, print services (except that nasty bug with NT4 SMB printing, but all of our workstations are 2k). Postfix with SquirrelMail suffices for Exchange, at least for the functionality my users needed, and needless to say, Apache suffices for IIS.
My environment was a private high school with ~300 students and ~100 faculty/administration.
Yeah, I heard that when they caught these guys, they were screaming "OMGWTFHAX!!!" at the arresting officers. The cops, in response, yelled "I owz0r your face n00b!!".
All your joke are old to us.
I've run into this many times before with admins who come out of the MCSE mill. Unfortunately, there's no way to get your money back for Exchange/W2K once you've been ass reamed for it.
A good option that I've reccomended and implemented is phpGroupWare, which works really well for a small to medium size office that needs basic collaboration sofware.
Not only is everything illegal under HIPAA, any technology you want to use in healthcare is antiquated.
Suicide is looking better and better every day.
Yes, but at ActiveWin, you read through the articles and see things like,
"Does anyone know how to set a password on the background so my sister doesn't keep setting it as the Backstreet Boys?"
Honeypots attract leet script kiddies, not crackers. Experienced crackers do not give a shit about a soon-to-be-owned box sitting on a T-1 line.
-my $.02