Forget this piddily workstation and home PCs crap. Real men (& women) destroy servers!
Here's my tail:
One of my clients had a beautiful setup with 5 racks of server and 4 KVM stations setup. One afternoon whilst I was cleaning up a production SQL Server I needed to delete a file in the c:\winnt\system32 directory (for those non-windows people this is Microsofts' dumping ground for all of the important files). As is my habit I hold down the SHIFT key prior to pressing delete. This causes all the files to be really deleted and not just dumped to the recycle bin. I quickly answer 'yes' to confirm and sit back to watch as Windows begans to delete the entire System32 directory... AHHH!!!
I managed to stop it midway and, after a 15 second panic attack, leapt into action. I quickly connected to another running SQL server (we had 15) and copied over the sys32 directory. Phew... Close one...
Years later I mentioned this incident to the CTO (a friend) of the company. He was not amused...
Ah, and just to show you my humble beggings.
In the bad old days of pc repair I was running a virus check with FProt on a user's system. Actually a Bank VP's system to be exact. Being bored with the scan I started to play with her stress ball. I was squeezing it and having a grand old time (yea, I need a hobby) when three things happened simultaneously. The scan finished (no viruses), The VP returned to her office and, of course, the stress ball exploded spewing sand all over the keyboard (I think this might have been a dilbert cartoon years later). I looked down, looked up, looked down again and tried to disappear. Thank God I didn't keep my money in that bank...
Ok, I'm stuck. I followed the online walkthru and got to the yard with the grunt and the dog. I kill the grunt but by the time I do the dog is on me and has started to eat my testicles. Am I doing something wrong? Can somebody help? Is there a 900 support number I can call?
Reading the post and some of the comments reminds me of similiar discussions redundantly repeated on websites all over the net. Other people have already mentioned many excellent sources of information for DVD authoring/burning for windows AND linux(my favorite is doom9.org).
But my comment is, what happened to doing some research? A five minute google would find thousands of useful hits. It seems lately, and not just at slashdot, more and more people cannot be bothered to do even the most basic of searches. are we becoming that lazy? So lazy I can't spend a few minutes actually reading a website's content before asking a question? I read a 97 page white paper on quantization just so I would know what was going on. The internet is a great reference library if you use it!
I don't really need a firewall just because I am on the Internet, do I?
Simple knocking would most certainly become brute forced soon after it was widely deployed. However a MUCH better way of "knocking" is to require a oneway authentication scheme.
I set my server to "not listen" on udp port 2000. When someone connects they recieve no reply (UDP is connectionLESS) but I accept their datastream. If the data they sent is correct (matches my password) then I open the port.
This is serious security by obscurity and starts to border on the threshold of stego type stuff. If you don't know it's there even after a thorough search you ain't gonna find it.
Thiw would allow you to add OOBA (out of band authentication) to any protocol and be close to 100% immune from anonymous attack if setup correctly
Wow! I mean this is just amazing news! The ENTIRE armed forces of the most powerful nation on earth was able to track down and apprehend a man after less than a year of destroying what remained of his homeland. Boy am I proud to be an American! Phew!
Our boys kicked ass on this one! When our fearful (oops, fearless) leader says we will get our man, by golly, we get our man! 1000s of lives, billions of dollars, these are piddly details in the quest of Saddam.
Here's the real question: What, exactly, are the differences between Bush and Hussein?
One is a failed, alocholic, AWOL, carpet bagging Yankee murderer and the other is just a ruthless dictator...
Sorry, I won't bother with the karma here, all you "patriotic" citizens go ahead and rip me apart for excerising my freedom of speech.
Thanks
"these colors never run" except from: Sharks, Snipers, The Flu, and any other thing the 24hour News Channels tell us to be afraid of.
This certainly sounds like it was alot of fun and I would love to have been with ya. But, how is this news worthy? It's kinda like the same story being rehashed but using a celebrity to add a new angle to it. In this case the celebrity was the novelity of the airplane but we all know there are unsecure APs out there and that they are more popular.
I suppose what could have made it interesting is if you had managed some major hack while flying. That would be unbeliveably cool!;)
Isn't this discussion similiar to one you would NOT have when calling up Microsoft asking them how to image a *nix workstation?/. is a *NIX site not a Microsoft site (MS Bashing perhaps). I would advise the poster to go hang around some of the MS boards, of which there are plenty.
This issue, has been discussed and resolved many times over by many different people.
Ghost, PQ Magic, SYSPrep, etc. I have seen 1000s of corporations roll out imaged systems just fine.
What I find most disturbing is this article. It reminds of a CNN news story. Totally designed to scare.
I don't pass any decision on incidental evidence. This is story telling. Imgaine what a boring article it would have been if he talked about the tens of thousands of flights that were NOT affected. And of course you can see the VooDoo'ish tint to the article.
This may be a real issue and it is truely a shame that it is necessary to use fear to justify a position.
I would much rather see some hard numbers and real research done. But it today's age of CNN journalism is gone. Reporting is gone. Horror show is in.
Ooof. My mind is firmly in the gutter. If I have to take it out to look for pictures of a male model... Well. You enjoy. I'm going back to my dirty pictures of farm anima.... I mean farm girls!
Why is it ok to lie about motives, money and politics (see Reagan & the Contras, or W. & Nuclear (prounouced NukeClear) weapons) but NOT ok to lie about sex? (see Clinton and Monica).
I hate Clinton but I could honestly care less who he had sex with. I put him in the same category as Bush Jr. except maybe he was a little smarter.
Just a thought.
- If you wanna see what happens when the dumbest amonst us aspires to lead look no further than the Grand US of A
Similiar horror stories here but on a much grander scale. My part of the world (Rural Massachusetts) had limited high speed options for businesses. T1 from Verizon started at $750.00 for the line (ISP was extra). Then the city fathers, etc. got together and convinced Global Crossing to come in (before they went belly up). Now T1 with internet from GC at most $500.00. Long Distance was cheap, etc. However, the last mile was still Verizon lines. Right before GC came in a customer order and had installed a verizon T1 in less than 8 business days. For the same service under Verizon (A subcontractor) that service can take MONTHS).
Dear __(name)__; On __(Date)__ at __(Time)__ your personal information was illegally acessed by "31337 Hackers", The FBI, Microsoft (circle all that apply).
There is nothing you can do but the new law requires that we tell you. Neaner Neaner Neaner!
Let's just ignore the security implications of using this PoS for a minute and consider the fact that I would imagine most companies NOT allowing incoming access to the users' desktops. gotomypc.com gets around this by establishing the connection via an intermediate. If I worked on the IT staff and saw this it would definitely me a trip to the woodhouse to the idiot who setup it up. Course we block this crap at my place.
Careful what you say about the "new generation". I live with three teenagers (I'm 33) and not a one of them could do anything more than double-click. In fact the ONLY virus ever to come into my network before I installed AV on their system was through Kazaa and because they can't be bothered to know the difference between *.mp3 and *.mp3.vbs...
They and their friends are representatives of the new generation of people that will have careers in marketing and sales. Only their geek friends which are few and far between have any hope.
Yes. But he then continues to offer no solution. Why is that most people feel just complaining about an issue is enough?
I am a network security consultant and could throw out bunches of letters to impress people with how qualified I am. My peers and I know the truth about these certifications. They are meaningless. They proved that I sat down and passed yet some tests.
I spend a large amount of time teaching these days. I don't teach to the tests but I encourage all my students to take them. Are they fair, revelant or meaningful? Of course not but until we stop complaining and come up with a better system to seperate those who qualified and educated from those who are not.
I have just started reading the article and immediately noticed the defensive tone of the article. Do I really care that this guy has a masters degree? What is the revelancy behind a masters degree and purposely failing a test? Are the two facts related? Is the day going to arrive where it is necessary to have a masters degree just to FAIL?
Hmmm. Or maybe he is just a little bit insecure. Kinda like the "professional" doing something insanely stupid but justifying it by telling everyone he knows better.
I kinda feel sorry for the guy. I'll be 33 in June and the urge to retake the SATs never even entered my mind. I guess I am too busy concentrating on more important things...
-Please mark this flame bait because I am obviously trolling for negative points. Wonder if I can become the worse/.ter in the world!
Thank you. I don't mind being modded down for expressing an unpopular opinion but a 0?? Why because everyone somehow thought I was suggesting a train router over/under/through the Atlantic? When did I ever say that?
Of course you couldn't use a train accross the atlantic. Hell I tried to drive it once and didn't make more than 20 feet. Naw. For crossing the atlantic we should use dirigibles!
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Forget this piddily workstation and home PCs crap. Real men (& women) destroy servers!
Here's my tail:
One of my clients had a beautiful setup with 5 racks of server and 4 KVM stations setup. One afternoon whilst I was cleaning up a production SQL Server I needed to delete a file in the c:\winnt\system32 directory (for those non-windows people this is Microsofts' dumping ground for all of the important files). As is my habit I hold down the SHIFT key prior to pressing delete. This causes all the files to be really deleted and not just dumped to the recycle bin. I quickly answer 'yes' to confirm and sit back to watch as Windows begans to delete the entire System32 directory... AHHH!!!
I managed to stop it midway and, after a 15 second panic attack, leapt into action. I quickly connected to another running SQL server (we had 15) and copied over the sys32 directory. Phew... Close one...
Years later I mentioned this incident to the CTO (a friend) of the company. He was not amused...
Ah, and just to show you my humble beggings.
In the bad old days of pc repair I was running a virus check with FProt on a user's system. Actually a Bank VP's system to be exact. Being bored with the scan I started to play with her stress ball. I was squeezing it and having a grand old time (yea, I need a hobby) when three things happened simultaneously. The scan finished (no viruses), The VP returned to her office and, of course, the stress ball exploded spewing sand all over the keyboard (I think this might have been a dilbert cartoon years later). I looked down, looked up, looked down again and tried to disappear. Thank God I didn't keep my money in that bank...
Ok, I'm stuck. I followed the online walkthru and got to the yard with the grunt and the dog. I kill the grunt but by the time I do the dog is on me and has started to eat my testicles. Am I doing something wrong? Can somebody help? Is there a 900 support number I can call?
Reading the post and some of the comments reminds me of similiar discussions redundantly repeated on websites all over the net. Other people have already mentioned many excellent sources of information for DVD authoring/burning for windows AND linux(my favorite is doom9.org).
But my comment is, what happened to doing some research? A five minute google would find thousands of useful hits. It seems lately, and not just at slashdot, more and more people cannot be bothered to do even the most basic of searches. are we becoming that lazy? So lazy I can't spend a few minutes actually reading a website's content before asking a question? I read a 97 page white paper on quantization just so I would know what was going on. The internet is a great reference library if you use it!
I don't really need a firewall just because I am on the Internet, do I?
Good idea. But remember. UDP never returns a response unless an higher layer protocol such as tftp tell's it to do so.
So if you were to port scan a UDP port with nmap the way it tries to determine if the port is open is whether or not it get an icmp message.
When data is sent to an unused UDP port icmp will return a "port unreachable" error. If data is sent to a used udp port it will return no information.
So I scan udp ports by looking for the unused ones and then "guessing" that the others are in use.
Hmm. I wouldn't dismiss this out of hand.
Simple knocking would most certainly become brute forced soon after it was widely deployed. However a MUCH better way of "knocking" is to require a oneway authentication scheme.
I set my server to "not listen" on udp port 2000. When someone connects they recieve no reply (UDP is connectionLESS) but I accept their datastream. If the data they sent is correct (matches my password) then I open the port.
This is serious security by obscurity and starts to border on the threshold of stego type stuff. If you don't know it's there even after a thorough search you ain't gonna find it.
Thiw would allow you to add OOBA (out of band authentication) to any protocol and be close to 100% immune from anonymous attack if setup correctly
Wow! I mean this is just amazing news! The ENTIRE armed forces of the most powerful nation on earth was able to track down and apprehend a man after less than a year of destroying what remained of his homeland. Boy am I proud to be an American! Phew!
Our boys kicked ass on this one! When our fearful (oops, fearless) leader says we will get our man, by golly, we get our man! 1000s of lives, billions of dollars, these are piddly details in the quest of Saddam.
Here's the real question: What, exactly, are the differences between Bush and Hussein?
One is a failed, alocholic, AWOL, carpet bagging Yankee murderer and the other is just a ruthless dictator...
Sorry, I won't bother with the karma here, all you "patriotic" citizens go ahead and rip me apart for excerising my freedom of speech.
Thanks
"these colors never run"
except from: Sharks, Snipers, The Flu, and any other thing the 24hour News Channels tell us to be afraid of.
This certainly sounds like it was alot of fun and I would love to have been with ya. But, how is this news worthy? It's kinda like the same story being rehashed but using a celebrity to add a new angle to it. In this case the celebrity was the novelity of the airplane but we all know there are unsecure APs out there and that they are more popular.
;)
I suppose what could have made it interesting is if you had managed some major hack while flying. That would be unbeliveably cool!
These guyscan help ya:
They got a 10' foot thermal for only $275,000. I'd snap it up.
Isn't this discussion similiar to one you would NOT have when calling up Microsoft asking them how to image a *nix workstation? /. is a *NIX site not a Microsoft site (MS Bashing perhaps). I would advise the poster to go hang around some of the MS boards, of which there are plenty.
This issue, has been discussed and resolved many times over by many different people.
Ghost, PQ Magic, SYSPrep, etc. I have seen 1000s of corporations roll out imaged systems just fine.
Wow. Such anger.
Funny thing was until I read your post I didn't even give the headline more than a 2second glance.
Why don't youtake your political correctness, non-biased opinion and go sit in the corner for a time out.
What I find most disturbing is this article. It reminds of a CNN news story. Totally designed to scare.
I don't pass any decision on incidental evidence. This is story telling. Imgaine what a boring article it would have been if he talked about the tens of thousands of flights that were NOT affected. And of course you can see the VooDoo'ish tint to the article.
This may be a real issue and it is truely a shame that it is necessary to use fear to justify a position.
I would much rather see some hard numbers and real research done. But it today's age of CNN journalism is gone. Reporting is gone. Horror show is in.
Ooof. My mind is firmly in the gutter. If I have to take it out to look for pictures of a male model... Well. You enjoy. I'm going back to my dirty pictures of farm anima.... I mean farm girls!
Sorry bout that. Shoulda read one comment further... ;(
FYI:
;)
From the Symantec world it is NOT virii but viruses.
Here's what has been bugging me lately,
Why is it ok to lie about motives, money and politics (see Reagan & the Contras, or W. & Nuclear (prounouced NukeClear) weapons) but NOT ok to lie about sex? (see Clinton and Monica).
I hate Clinton but I could honestly care less who he had sex with. I put him in the same category as Bush Jr. except maybe he was a little smarter.
Just a thought.
- If you wanna see what happens when the dumbest amonst us aspires to lead look no further than the Grand US of A
You may want to consider ALWAYS filtering "neaners". Let's face anyone who actually know how to spell "neaner" should be avoided.
I became a child when I shot my eye out with a bb gun
I became a teenager when I followed the crowd and drank, smoke, did drugs and had sex with anything that moved.
I became an adult when I realized I was the kind of person my mother use to warn me about.
It was a busy day.
Similiar horror stories here but on a much grander scale. My part of the world (Rural Massachusetts) had limited high speed options for businesses. T1 from Verizon started at $750.00 for the line (ISP was extra). Then the city fathers, etc. got together and convinced Global Crossing to come in (before they went belly up). Now T1 with internet from GC at most $500.00. Long Distance was cheap, etc. However, the last mile was still Verizon lines. Right before GC came in a customer order and had installed a verizon T1 in less than 8 business days. For the same service under Verizon (A subcontractor) that service can take MONTHS).
Fact of life, those who have don't want to share.
So now we know when our info is violated...
Dear __(name)__; On __(Date)__ at __(Time)__ your personal information was illegally acessed by "31337 Hackers", The FBI, Microsoft (circle all that apply).
There is nothing you can do but the new law requires that we tell you. Neaner Neaner Neaner!
Let's just ignore the security implications of using this PoS for a minute and consider the fact that I would imagine most companies NOT allowing incoming access to the users' desktops. gotomypc.com gets around this by establishing the connection via an intermediate. If I worked on the IT staff and saw this it would definitely me a trip to the woodhouse to the idiot who setup it up. Course we block this crap at my place.
Careful what you say about the "new generation". I live with three teenagers (I'm 33) and not a one of them could do anything more than double-click. In fact the ONLY virus ever to come into my network before I installed AV on their system was through Kazaa and because they can't be bothered to know the difference between *.mp3 and *.mp3.vbs...
They and their friends are representatives of the new generation of people that will have careers in marketing and sales. Only their geek friends which are few and far between have any hope.
Thank you!
May allah keep and bless you all!
Yes. But he then continues to offer no solution. Why is that most people feel just complaining about an issue is enough?
I am a network security consultant and could throw out bunches of letters to impress people with how qualified I am. My peers and I know the truth about these certifications. They are meaningless. They proved that I sat down and passed yet some tests.
I spend a large amount of time teaching these days. I don't teach to the tests but I encourage all my students to take them. Are they fair, revelant or meaningful? Of course not but until we stop complaining and come up with a better system to seperate those who qualified and educated from those who are not.
I have just started reading the article and immediately noticed the defensive tone of the article. Do I really care that this guy has a masters degree? What is the revelancy behind a masters degree and purposely failing a test? Are the two facts related? Is the day going to arrive where it is necessary to have a masters degree just to FAIL?
/.ter in the world!
Hmmm. Or maybe he is just a little bit insecure. Kinda like the "professional" doing something insanely stupid but justifying it by telling everyone he knows better.
I kinda feel sorry for the guy. I'll be 33 in June and the urge to retake the SATs never even entered my mind. I guess I am too busy concentrating on more important things...
-Please mark this flame bait because I am obviously trolling for negative points. Wonder if I can become the worse
All those who used IE 2.0 on a routine basis raise your hand...
Thank you. I don't mind being modded down for expressing an unpopular opinion but a 0?? Why because everyone somehow thought I was suggesting a train router over/under/through the Atlantic? When did I ever say that?
Of course you couldn't use a train accross the atlantic. Hell I tried to drive it once and didn't make more than 20 feet. Naw. For crossing the atlantic we should use dirigibles!