Depends on the OS and the driver for the AMD network card VMWare uses.
I just pulled up XP in a VM: Control Panel --> System --> Hardware Device Manager --> Network Adapters --> AMD PCNET --> Adapter -- Network Address.
Typed in 1234567890ab and it became the MAC address seen on the network. I'm sure anything from Win95 on up can do this. I don't know for sure, but I bet ifconfig would do this for linux, too.
Wanna really scare your local HP Openview admin? Change the MAC address to mimic a Cisco router.:)
Disk writes drag a little bit more, but I've never benchmarked it.
I've never noticed a difference in typical interactive performance on my machines. I wouldn't play Quake or run a large database server in this environment, but running normal apps works fine.
(For context, I run Linux 100% of the time on my machines.)
Continually write cruft to hard drive: Run a batch script that continually loops through: 1) dd from/dev/zero to a dummy file on partition; 2) delete when drive fills; 3) dd from dev/urandom to same file; delete file. As the drive will have many writes to it, it would make things very tough to recover. This never had much performance impact on the machine.
I wish I could find a utility that cleans out inode information, much like the dos/win utils that scrub deleted filenames from the FAT.
Edit documents and browse web from a virtual machine on an encrypted device:
I use the loopback patches (/pub/linux/kernel/people/hvr at your local kernel mirror) to run an encrypted device. I then use VMWare (though bochs, plex86, or User Mode Linux should work) to run Linux and Windows for browsing and email writing. Note that VMWare has a nice "undoable" disk feature, in which you can "commit" or "discard" changes to the virtual disk. So I have a pristine Win95 VM, which I log into to do my stuff, and then I discard the changes, thereby removing cached macterial, cookies, etc.
Note that this doesn't thwart traffic analysis or "rubber hose" tactics. In fact, once the loopback devices are mounted, you can perform standard file/data recovery techniques on them.
Use file encryption for email and sensitive files. I use GnuPG for this.
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Funny this topic should come up. After making the TNN Star Trek think a regular habit, I hunted down an old resource: http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/st-tng
This episode guide has been a great thing, at least while I'm online.
But I can't find the old Vidiot Postscript version that killed so many trees while I was in college. I mean, printing that puppy up on a nice color laser would be a great companion to this DVD set!
Just because we won't use the law, it doesn't mean they won't. I suspect that any truly effective technical solution will meet the same fate as ORBS and MAPS with lawsuits.
I would easily pay one fee to one company for all those services, but be damn sure that it is NOT going to be AOL or MS, sorry but it would have to be to a company that has at least proven it self to be semi-retuable
I'm sorry, but I can't fathom a smaller company providing this kind of buffet of services. Right now, only AT&T seems to be able to do it.
MS will have a tough time jumping into the market, unless they purchase one of the bigger media conglomerates and a data/telco company.
If the market were more fair, I'd be certain that some local players would be able to compete, but the deregulation of the indudstry, combined with all of the mega mergers, will virtually guarantee that only maybe 3-6 players will ever exist in this market.
The article doesn't say that the bill will be $230, but rather can be. They will attempt to do what AT&T Broadband is right now: data, phone, entertainment.
Right now, here's what my AT&T monthly bills (no, they haven't consolidated billing yet) are: $50 for internet access, $25 for a minimal phone line (no features, only dial tone and long distance capability), and maybe $10 for long distance.
That's only $85/month right now. Were I paying for my extended basic cable (available because I must be the only one in Salt Lake City who has the internet and phone package, but doesn't want cable -- no filters available!), I'd be paying another $25/month.
So, that's $110.
Throw in all of the telephone perks: call waiting, caller-id, anonymous call blocking, telemarketer screening, voice mail, etc. Now that's probably another $50/month
So that brings the total to $160/mo!
Now, add all of the cable perks: digital cable (I want my Tech TV!), premium movie channels, PPV pr0n, etc. That can easily be another $75.
So that brings up the total to $235/month!
So the $230/month for TW/AOL's consolidated services is no shock.
While I highly regard the wine crew and their accomplishments, I have to wonder... why bother?
I consider myself a hard-core Lilnux weenie. I don't balk at compiling and configuring software on Llinux. However, I've never had a satisfactory experience with wine in the last 8+ years.
My home and work machines both run Linux 100% of the time. For the 0.001% of things I just can't accomplish, I run an old copy of Win95 under VMWare. The only things I can't find OSS equivalents are TurboTax (too lazy to do by hand, too cheap to hire a CPA, and too complex to do over the web), and M$ Streets 2001.
No, I don't play games I can't find on Linux. I don't game much wanyway, so I don't suffer. I've taken to chess lately, so I get by with xboard/crafty.:)
I'd much rather see money/resources go into plex86 so I can ditch VMWare (which has far more cool uses than running Windows, anyway), than wine,
I ditched PGP once GnuPG came out. Ever since McAfee bought PGP (or Zimmerman sold out, take your pick), I've been weary of the product.
Most hardcore cypherpunks seems to still use PGP 2.6.x! (If USENET sigs/keys are any indication)
In any case, check out pgpi.com for different versions of PGP, many of which are actively developed. Also, search for "Cyber-KnightsTemplar PGP". I only used this version when I was a dedicated Windows user.
Now, I use GnuPG for mail/file crypto, and loopback crypto for filesystems (/pub/linux/kernel/people/hvr at your favorite mirror). I run Windows and Linux under VMWare, using the "undoable" drive type, hosted on a blowfish-encrypted loopback volume, which leaves no physical evidence on my machine of activities in the VM). I also dabble in Ouguess for my stego "needs".
While my practices in paranoia are fun, I don't take them too seriously. However, I like the idea of being able to Ascroft-Proof(tm) my machine if I wish.:-)
I don't care how great a product this is, I hope this Robertson company goes down in flames and he moves on to something else.
I was around on mp3.com when the first RIAA attacks came. I actually beleived his rhetoric of fighting for the movement.
Then he sold out.
He settled. This was bad.
To make it worse, I just visited mp3.com after about a year of not caring. I was spurned by a thread on/. to get back into listening to indie music. Now, half of the fsck'ing songs on the top 40 are RIAA crap! WTF?!?
Yeah, he can pursue money in any way he chooses. But please, Robertson, drop the pretense of actually caring about the causes yo trumpet to the media.
This entire Lindows thing smells of getting VC, giving yourself a huge bonus, then bailing once the courts order you into compliance.
"Reader, in case you didn't know, every color Xerox machine and color
laser printer prints the serial number of the machine on every page
they produce, covertly hidden in the output, under a long-standing
private "arrangement" with the US Treasury Department. I have been
unable to confirm whether this is also true of black-and-white xerox
machines."
I'm as paranoid as the next PGP-using, hard-drive encrypting, tin-foil-hat-wearing guy. BUT... I have a really hard time buying this, and I cold not locate any creditble documentation on Google.
So now I can bitch to my ISP for filtering napster ports, right?
This is great in that so long as one P2P service is "legit", ports just can't be filtered anymore without pissing off a lot of people.
Sure, I won't pay for napster, but you can bet your ass that other P2P programs will use the same ports to get around filtering!
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The real way of doing this is putting the hardware drivers into the kernel (frame buffer devices).
Isn't this what M$ did between NT 3.x and 4.0? And didn't this cause some stability problems, in that a required video driver for a server could crash the system? And didn't the UN*X crowd curse and swear when they did this?;-)
I heard on public radio that with current technology, we can power the entire planet's electrical needs with a 200x200 mile area. Sorry, I can't locate a source to back me up.
The big problem with solar power is its real-time-ness and storage/transmission. For small apps (like home power -- which I plan to impliment myself some day) it's easy with batteries. Howwver, I can't fathom a multi-megawatt-hour battery array!
If I could watch my choice of TV shows -- while not paying a monthly fee (like cable) -- and pay only for those, I'd be in heaven. Why should I need to shell out $45/month if I only watch The Screensavers and the X-Files? I'd even accept a commercial or two mixed in there.
But there's so much crap on TV, that it ain't worth paying for (so I don't).
Let's say that I was conceived in a lab -- a test tube baby, if you will -- and carried to term by my mother. In the creation of the viable egg that would become me, genetic alterations were made so that I would have abnormally hardy kidneys (assume my parents had a family history of kidney failure, and they wanted to assure their offspring wouldn't suffer the same proglem). They paid a bundle for the privilege -- gotta make sure XYZ Genetic Corp. gets their licencing fees.
A little bit out there, but likely a possible scenario in my lifetime.
Now... do you think XYZ Genetic Corp. has any right to prevent me from either having children or selling one of my super kidneys to the highest bidder?
There's fundamentally no difference between me and a plant.
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I just pulled up XP in a VM: Control Panel --> System --> Hardware Device Manager --> Network Adapters --> AMD PCNET --> Adapter -- Network Address.
Typed in 1234567890ab and it became the MAC address seen on the network. I'm sure anything from Win95 on up can do this. I don't know for sure, but I bet ifconfig would do this for linux, too.
Wanna really scare your local HP Openview admin? Change the MAC address to mimic a Cisco router. :)
I've never noticed a difference in typical interactive performance on my machines. I wouldn't play Quake or run a large database server in this environment, but running normal apps works fine.
Continually write cruft to hard drive: Run a batch script that continually loops through: 1) dd from /dev/zero to a dummy file on partition; 2) delete when drive fills; 3) dd from dev/urandom to same file; delete file. As the drive will have many writes to it, it would make things very tough to recover. This never had much performance impact on the machine.
I wish I could find a utility that cleans out inode information, much like the dos/win utils that scrub deleted filenames from the FAT.
Edit documents and browse web from a virtual machine on an encrypted device:
I use the loopback patches (/pub/linux/kernel/people/hvr at your local kernel mirror) to run an encrypted device. I then use VMWare (though bochs, plex86, or User Mode Linux should work) to run Linux and Windows for browsing and email writing. Note that VMWare has a nice "undoable" disk feature, in which you can "commit" or "discard" changes to the virtual disk. So I have a pristine Win95 VM, which I log into to do my stuff, and then I discard the changes, thereby removing cached macterial, cookies, etc.
Note that this doesn't thwart traffic analysis or "rubber hose" tactics. In fact, once the loopback devices are mounted, you can perform standard file/data recovery techniques on them.
Use file encryption for email and sensitive files. I use GnuPG for this.
This episode guide has been a great thing, at least while I'm online.
But I can't find the old Vidiot Postscript version that killed so many trees while I was in college. I mean, printing that puppy up on a nice color laser would be a great companion to this DVD set!
Just because we won't use the law, it doesn't mean they won't. I suspect that any truly effective technical solution will meet the same fate as ORBS and MAPS with lawsuits.
I'm sorry, but I can't fathom a smaller company providing this kind of buffet of services. Right now, only AT&T seems to be able to do it.
MS will have a tough time jumping into the market, unless they purchase one of the bigger media conglomerates and a data/telco company.
If the market were more fair, I'd be certain that some local players would be able to compete, but the deregulation of the indudstry, combined with all of the mega mergers, will virtually guarantee that only maybe 3-6 players will ever exist in this market.
Right now, here's what my AT&T monthly bills (no, they haven't consolidated billing yet) are: $50 for internet access, $25 for a minimal phone line (no features, only dial tone and long distance capability), and maybe $10 for long distance.
That's only $85/month right now. Were I paying for my extended basic cable (available because I must be the only one in Salt Lake City who has the internet and phone package, but doesn't want cable -- no filters available!), I'd be paying another $25/month.
So, that's $110.
Throw in all of the telephone perks: call waiting, caller-id, anonymous call blocking, telemarketer screening, voice mail, etc. Now that's probably another $50/month
So that brings the total to $160/mo!
Now, add all of the cable perks: digital cable (I want my Tech TV!), premium movie channels, PPV pr0n, etc. That can easily be another $75.
So that brings up the total to $235/month!
So the $230/month for TW/AOL's consolidated services is no shock.
I consider myself a hard-core Lilnux weenie. I don't balk at compiling and configuring software on Llinux. However, I've never had a satisfactory experience with wine in the last 8+ years.
My home and work machines both run Linux 100% of the time. For the 0.001% of things I just can't accomplish, I run an old copy of Win95 under VMWare. The only things I can't find OSS equivalents are TurboTax (too lazy to do by hand, too cheap to hire a CPA, and too complex to do over the web), and M$ Streets 2001.
No, I don't play games I can't find on Linux. I don't game much wanyway, so I don't suffer. I've taken to chess lately, so I get by with xboard/crafty. :)
I'd much rather see money/resources go into plex86 so I can ditch VMWare (which has far more cool uses than running Windows, anyway), than wine,
Um... that should be Ashcroft-Proof(tm).
Most hardcore cypherpunks seems to still use PGP 2.6.x! (If USENET sigs/keys are any indication)
In any case, check out pgpi.com for different versions of PGP, many of which are actively developed. Also, search for "Cyber-KnightsTemplar PGP". I only used this version when I was a dedicated Windows user.
Now, I use GnuPG for mail/file crypto, and loopback crypto for filesystems (/pub/linux/kernel/people/hvr at your favorite mirror). I run Windows and Linux under VMWare, using the "undoable" drive type, hosted on a blowfish-encrypted loopback volume, which leaves no physical evidence on my machine of activities in the VM). I also dabble in Ouguess for my stego "needs".
While my practices in paranoia are fun, I don't take them too seriously. However, I like the idea of being able to Ascroft-Proof(tm) my machine if I wish. :-)
I don't care how great a product this is, I hope this Robertson company goes down in flames and he moves on to something else.
I was around on mp3.com when the first RIAA attacks came. I actually beleived his rhetoric of fighting for the movement.
Then he sold out.
He settled. This was bad.
To make it worse, I just visited mp3.com after about a year of not caring. I was spurned by a thread on /. to get back into listening to indie music. Now, half of the fsck'ing songs on the top 40 are RIAA crap! WTF?!?
Yeah, he can pursue money in any way he chooses. But please, Robertson, drop the pretense of actually caring about the causes yo trumpet to the media.
This entire Lindows thing smells of getting VC, giving yourself a huge bonus, then bailing once the courts order you into compliance.
Piss off.
"Reader, in case you didn't know, every color Xerox machine and color laser printer prints the serial number of the machine on every page they produce, covertly hidden in the output, under a long-standing private "arrangement" with the US Treasury Department. I have been unable to confirm whether this is also true of black-and-white xerox machines."
I'm as paranoid as the next PGP-using, hard-drive encrypting, tin-foil-hat-wearing guy. BUT... I have a really hard time buying this, and I cold not locate any creditble documentation on Google.
Anyone have any good links?
Ishtar
Last Action Hero
This is great in that so long as one P2P service is "legit", ports just can't be filtered anymore without pissing off a lot of people.
Sure, I won't pay for napster, but you can bet your ass that other P2P programs will use the same ports to get around filtering!
Isn't this what M$ did between NT 3.x and 4.0? And didn't this cause some stability problems, in that a required video driver for a server could crash the system? And didn't the UN*X crowd curse and swear when they did this? ;-)
May I suggest Newspeak? :-)
Anyway, the suggestion was using nuclear testing grounds wastelands in Nevada. Can't inhabit most of it, and the solar pannels wouldn't care.
And if you read Home Power magazine and frequent simialr discussion groups, you'd find that pannels often far exceed a 20-year life span.
Not Matt, but maybe the Baldwins.
The big problem with solar power is its real-time-ness and storage/transmission. For small apps (like home power -- which I plan to impliment myself some day) it's easy with batteries. Howwver, I can't fathom a multi-megawatt-hour battery array!
Damn... he got me in the "MS Watches..." article with the same trick.
Works for IE 6.0, Navigator 4.78, & Mozilla 0.9.2.1, but not for Konqueror 2.2.2.
I really need to read the 3rd in the series.
except Europa.
If I could watch my choice of TV shows -- while not paying a monthly fee (like cable) -- and pay only for those, I'd be in heaven. Why should I need to shell out $45/month if I only watch The Screensavers and the X-Files? I'd even accept a commercial or two mixed in there.
But there's so much crap on TV, that it ain't worth paying for (so I don't).
Let's say that I was conceived in a lab -- a test tube baby, if you will -- and carried to term by my mother. In the creation of the viable egg that would become me, genetic alterations were made so that I would have abnormally hardy kidneys (assume my parents had a family history of kidney failure, and they wanted to assure their offspring wouldn't suffer the same proglem). They paid a bundle for the privilege -- gotta make sure XYZ Genetic Corp. gets their licencing fees.
A little bit out there, but likely a possible scenario in my lifetime.
Now... do you think XYZ Genetic Corp. has any right to prevent me from either having children or selling one of my super kidneys to the highest bidder?
There's fundamentally no difference between me and a plant.