What they are not telling you is that as of a few years ago ANYONE could order a copy of the entire list of licensed drivers in the state of Oregon. All it cost was sending them a 9-track tape and a small fee. ($75, if I remember correctly.)
It is not until copies of the records started to show up on CDs and on the net that things got changed. (Having someone stalked and killed did not stop them from banning the sale of the lists. Having people be able to look up politician's home addresses did. Kinda sorta.)
Now only people who have a "valid need" for the data can buy it.
The reason they did not ban the outright selling of the license lists was that the direct mail people "heavlly objected".
It became very obvious to those people in Oregon that actually paid attention that the state government cared more about financial concerns than they did about actually protecting public safety and/or privacy.
As for the oregonian... They are known to have a very skewed sense of reporting ethics. I would first determine exactly which axe they have to grind before coming to any conclusions about the "facts" of the matter.
When are we going to see Brisco Country Jr. on DVD? It was a series ahead of its time. (I especially liked the anachronistic references. Timmothy Leary as the preacher was histerical!)
Most, if not all, of the rating systems mentioned have been imposed out of fear that "if we do not do it, congress will do something worse". (What part of "Congress shall make no law" do they not understand? All of it, judging by their actions.) The implied threat of congresional action has been the driving force for every one of these censorship systems.
The MPAA's ratings were due to congresional hearings. So was the Comics Code. So was the record labels. So was the V-Chip.
Each was an attempt to supress material that some congresscritter did not like. (In violation of the constitution of the US and their oath of office.)
Taking complex material and rendering it into narror catergories of acceptability is what gave us Network television. Hopefully the web will not turn into something that bland and sanitized. Ratings will only accelerate that process.
This is yet more of the same. They seem to believe that if there are little labels on everything, then those things that they do not like can be blocked.
Previous attempts at this have failed. This one will too. They will try again with yet another plan. Loop until universe ends.
TV ratings and the V-Chip were a way to "save our children", Now the groups that pushed for them are upset that noone but them are using them to block what kids see.
What these people really want is for all content *they* find objectionable to be driven off the net. (Be it porn, descriptions of anti-social behaviour, criticism of their religious beliefs, people who are not good liberals/conservitives/communists/Americans(tm)/wh atever, and anything else that twigs them at a given moment.)
They use children as an excuse. It is not the children they wish to protect, but their own fragile sensibilities.
What they do not believe in is the right to freedom of speech, freedom of thought or freedom of action for anyone other than themselves.
Childhood is supposed to be a time to train children to be adults. What happens to these kids when they get out into the unfiltered world on their own? The answers seem to be overindulgence in the things that they were forbidden to do by their parents. This leads to a bunch of self-destructive adults.
Seems to me that filters are a panecia for parents who are afraid or unable to teach their children about the real world.
One note I saw in another review of these cases (In the November Linux Journal) was that they are about as hard as very hard cheese. The thumb screws should not replaced because the force of a normal screw driver will strip the screws.
There are times when I just want to build my own case. I wonder where I can find sheet titanium... (Actually, you used to be able to get scraps from Boeing. Probably not big enough to build a case and too damn hard to work. Have to talk to my father-in-law. He has a metal shop.)
I have worked with Microsoft software for years. Every time there is a bug, I hear the same chant that it will be fixed "next version". Sometimes it is, but most times it is not. (And a bunch of new ones creep in in the mean time.)
A subscription model does not address one of the bigger problems that Microsoft (and many other companies) have.
These companies take orders from the Marketing department.
Instead of making stable products that work, you have programs that contain stacks and stacks of bullet items and features demanded by the Marketing department. (No matter how nasty it makes things for the programmers or the users.)
And these features rarely get removed.
The advantage with Open Source is that they are not stuck to "getting it out before Comdex or Christmas". The bugs get fixed. (For the most part. The reason Mozilla has so many problems is that it has a HUGE codebase. I am amazed that they can get a grasp on the project itself.) The drive for why a program gets written is different. Open Source programs are written to fill a use. (It may not be your use, but the programmer most likely needed it.) It is functionality driven, not buzzword driven.
Unfortunatly, most CIOs that I have met do not understand what it takes to implement their "solutions". They are not able to figure out that if you are locked in to a single vendor, with no options or abilities to "fix it yourself", if needs be, that the costs to productivity can be enormous.
It bothers me when a decision is made to go with a vendor and then you wind-up figuring out the true cost of what it will take to make it work. (Having to buy an extra license for this, and a license for that, and the extra BDC and PDC licenses, and the extra Exchange box so we can restore the mail spools that get corrupted every so often, and so on and so forth.) You start feeling like you have to keep forking out money just to keep your head above water.
And subscriptions will not make it any better. Instead, if you refuse to pay, then they can just shut you off. (Extortion-ware?) There is no incentive to fix anything. They have you locked in. The only advantage is for the company selling the software. They have a constant revenue stream. They no longer have to worry about "the next big version" to make their revenue for the year. They have a constant stream. There is no incentive to build a better product because you get the money whether or not there is anything new or useful.
And the beauty of the whole thing is that the customer does not own anything. With the current licenses, the company is absolved from any liablility whatsoever.
The customer is just there to pay and pay and pay.
This is the most lop-sided deal I have seen yet. (If UCITA ever gets enacted, you will have even less rights.) And there will be next to nothing you will be able to do about it. (Except for Open Source.)
"When you have them by the software, they're hearts and minds will follow." - B. Gates
Having run about 18+ mailing lists (all at the same time), I know just how much work it is. (One of those lists was very heavy traffic.)
Not only do you have to deal with keeping things on traq, but you have to deal with all the other problems that people never see.
* Bounced mail when people drop their e-mail accounts. (And it is even more fun when it turns out to be forwarded from some other account.)
* Dealing with clueless users who accuse your domain of being a spam service when some piece of spam gets past your filters. (And informs your ISP and his ISP and you get to spend a few days digging out the mess.)
* People who are too clueless to figure out how to unsubscribe.
* Admins who are too clueless to figure out how to unsubscribe a user, but are clued enough to find your home phone number and call you demanding that you unsubscribe them.
* People who were subscribed by someone else and have no clue what a mailing list even is...
* Running Linux out of file handles. (It was an old kernel.)
* Dealing with all the complaints when the system melts, the system gets moved, things get weird with the system clock and/or plain demonic possession.
And all sorts of other things that ate at my insides.
The secret keyring in practically every implementation of PGP leaks information off the secret key ring.
Not the messages, but something that can comprimise the existance of the user.
The identities on the keyring can be listed without a passphrase.
This means that if you have a standard keyring with your personal ID and you are also "Chairman X" of the local committee for doing things the State does not like, if they obtain your keyring, they can show that you and "Chairman X" are most likely the same person.
All it takes is "pgp -kvv secring.pgp" and I can tell you all of the aliases and alternate identities that you use.
Currently, using multiple secret key rings is a pain. Most implemenations of PGP do not have the ability to add a master passphrase on the keyring.
BTW, people have been linked to their nyms by just this method. (Ask Carl Johnson. He was a canadian who spent time in an American jail because he said something through a nym that the government found threatening.)
When I got my DSL line, I recieved a big hurkin box full of stuff. (Including a very nice Intel NIC.)
If they are concerned about how infected servers, they should work a deal with Linksys or some other manufacturer and ship a firewall box with each install.
They are very simple to set up and keep out the probes to all the ports that Windows leaves open. If people want to run web servers, they have to specifically enable specific ports.
It won't stop the e-mail viruses, but it is a start...
If you can get a look at the boot messages when it initially installs, you can sometimes determine the i/o port being used. It is not easy to figure out. (I had three people try to get it working, all three of them major open source developers and they could not do it. I was able to do it, but it took a lot of research and voodoo.)
The 505VE ships with a 6.5 gig drive. The only larger drive in the 8.45mm form factor seems to be the 8.1mm drive. That may change now that the Toshiba Libreto is now back in production. The 8.45mm drives were originally developed for those tiny little boxes. (In fact Keith Packard (of XFree86 fame) used to use one as his test server. Weird seeing an X server that could be crushed by the monitor displaying it.)
But now that I know the 9.5mm drive will work, I will need to get one of those. (There is never enough space...)
I reciently upgraded my Vaio 505VE laptop. It was not the most easy thing in the world, but possible.
Here are the things you need to know about:
If you have fried the laptop power supply cord and need a replacement, Targus makes a laptop power supply replacement. The web page at http://www.targus.com/ does *not* list the plug end you will need for the 505VE. (It is weird and non-standard.) The plug number you will need to order is number 62. It costs as much as Sony's charger, but has much more use since you can use it with all sorts of other devices.
Memory replacement:
Kingston makes a memory module for the 505VE that is much less than what Sony charges. They also have a lifetime waranty. Buy the 64 meg module. Two 32 meg modules do not equal one 64 meg module. Each is actually two weird chip-like things. If you get the 32 meg set hoping to just get another 32 meg later, you will find that does not work and you will have wasted your money. You can only expand the 505VE to 128 megs.
To open the 505VE, turn the laptop over and remove the screws with an arrow AND a dot next to them. Make sure you do not lose the screws. (A saki cup or other small cup is helpful.) Turn over the lattop and carefully remove the keyboard. It should slide up and out. Remove the screws under the metal plate on the left. The modules plug in under that plate. Carefully put everything back together and it should work.
Replacing the hard drive:
You can upgrade the hard drive. (Sony's web page says you cannot.) Good luck finding one that is bigger though. the 505VE uses a Toshiba 8.45mm laptop drive. It is the thinnest laptop drive made, other than the IBM microdrive. (Which is REALLY tiny.) I have heard that you can use a 9.5mm, but I have never tried it. Toshiba has an 8.1 gig drive that size. The specs are only listed on their Japanese web pages, not on the American. The only company I could find that had one was Atlantic ComputerTech in Brooklyn NY. (I am not certain of the model number. it is in my laptop.)
Getyting the drive in your laptop requires a great deal of care and patience. You will need to remove all of the screws out of the back of the laptop. You then need to remove the keyboard and remove more screws. You then can pry the laptop housing apart at the bottom by about one inch. You need to remove a couple of screws holing the drive into place and carefully unplug it. be careful as there is a fragile cable that connects to the power switch. Once the drive is removed, you can unscrew it from the metal mounting plate and put in the new drive. Put everything back together.
Installing Linux on the 505VE:
You can only boot off the CD-ROM if you are using a Sony CD-ROM drive. (And it is more expensive than the normal drive.) After you boot off the disk, when you get a boot prompt (under Redhat it will ask if you want expert, text or graphical install), type "linux ide=0x180". This give it the non-standard i/o port location of the cd-rom drive. If you do not do this, the drive will stop working when it tries to figure out what ide devices you have.
Hopefully that will help. The 505VE is a nice laptop. Battery life sucks. Sony reams you on every part you have to buy seperatly. Other than that it has been a good laptop.
Of course, it still amazes me that so few had even the most basic levels of security installed.
Then again, most of the managers I have worked for seem to think that if you take steps to protect yourself, you become liable if you get hacked. (Yes, I know that makes no sense. Never stopped them...)
I have read some of Turing's papers. The man was *far* ahead of his time. He was a major factor in breaking Enigma. His work was the basis for computing as we know it today.
If it was not for Turning, many of us would be speaking German. (And I have a bad enough time spelling as it is...)
And as payback he was hounded to the point where he commited suicide because the narrow-minded twits who were/are in charge of Britian thought that being a homosexual was a "security risk". (The only people who were overly concerned about it were the ones in the Government. You can't be blackmailed if no one cares.)
As Frank Zappa said "Drool Britiania".
And even more shameful is that NO ONE in the computer industry is willing to honor the man in a way where their name will be seen. Are they that concerned about the blue-noses and busy bodies? Must be. Not like they don't owe him for Computer Science as we know it today...
But they are not alone in the blame game. The ACM and IEEE should have been involved as well.
Too damn much attention is given to preasure groups now-a-days.
When I bought my first x86 computer (a 10mhz 8088) MANY years ago, I could not afford a monitor. I bought the guts to an old monochrome monitor for $5 at a local electronics store and tried to use that. In a fit of insanity I built the case out of Lego.
It was incredibly expensive. (I spent more for Lego than i would have if I had just saved up for a new monitor.)
Now-a-days you can't even find the large buckets. It is all kits and gadgets. Everything is pretty much pre-designed.
I guess this is what happens when you let marketing run things...
The hardest part to change will be all of these new embeded devices that use IPv4 at some level. Not to mention all the cable modem and DSL routers and other misc equiptment that does not update easily.
Try explaining to the average AOL user why his new net radio gizmo no longer works. Or why he has to replace his cable modem firewall when it works just fine.
And I am not going to even try and think about what IPv6 will look like once Microsoft gets their hands on it...
In the First Disassembly of God church we seek to reverse engineer the nature of the cosmos and supply weekly diffs and patches at our worship services. (As well as debugging of the faithful, documenting the numberous ways of violating syntax, and distribution of the Wine libraries and/etc/hosts file.)
The Frys in Wilsonville Oregon has also been out of stock of any and all Linux games for a long time. The Electronics Boutique in the area moved the Linux games down to a lower, less visable shelf and filled the space with games made by Microsoft.
Removable hard drive trays are much better. (I use them for the few times I use Windows to isolate it from non-Windows data. MS does not play well with others.)
One big warning on removable hard drive trays...
When you buy them, buy twice as many as you think you will need. Make sure they are all the same brand and model. There are many places that make them and NO standard wiring for them. One brand may not work with the other or even fit in the tray slot. And worst of all, you may never find that brand again!
Not fun when you have three (or more) boot drives and only two drive trays that work on the primary slot.
Slashdot Mirror
Linux Today's web site was defaced just a bit ago. may be coincidence or it may be the same hole.
What annoid me is that I read the warning on this and I could not make heads or tails what the actual cause of the hole was. And I am a programmer!
Security warning by obscurity?
What they are not telling you is that as of a few years ago ANYONE could order a copy of the entire list of licensed drivers in the state of Oregon. All it cost was sending them a 9-track tape and a small fee. ($75, if I remember correctly.)
It is not until copies of the records started to show up on CDs and on the net that things got changed. (Having someone stalked and killed did not stop them from banning the sale of the lists. Having people be able to look up politician's home addresses did. Kinda sorta.)
Now only people who have a "valid need" for the data can buy it.
The reason they did not ban the outright selling of the license lists was that the direct mail people "heavlly objected".
It became very obvious to those people in Oregon that actually paid attention that the state government cared more about financial concerns than they did about actually protecting public safety and/or privacy.
As for the oregonian... They are known to have a very skewed sense of reporting ethics. I would first determine exactly which axe they have to grind before coming to any conclusions about the "facts" of the matter.
When are we going to see Brisco Country Jr. on DVD? It was a series ahead of its time. (I especially liked the anachronistic references. Timmothy Leary as the preacher was histerical!)
You are channeling Dr. Bronner?
Encrypt! Encrypt! OK!
Another fan page.
*rimshot*
And not psychotic or messed up in weird psychological ways.
But them again, I wanted the usenet group "alt.sex.fetish.iq".
OpenChannel Software is SELLING copies of these programs. Don't expect any of them to be free or even cheap.
One projects i was looking at (a compression algorithm comparision program) was about $154 for source.
Sounds like another backroom deal where things get put in the public domain, but one company get control of it.
Blech. And people wonder why no one trusts the government...
Volentary at the point of a gun.
Most, if not all, of the rating systems mentioned have been imposed out of fear that "if we do not do it, congress will do something worse". (What part of "Congress shall make no law" do they not understand? All of it, judging by their actions.) The implied threat of congresional action has been the driving force for every one of these censorship systems.
The MPAA's ratings were due to congresional hearings. So was the Comics Code. So was the record labels. So was the V-Chip.
Each was an attempt to supress material that some congresscritter did not like. (In violation of the constitution of the US and their oath of office.)
Taking complex material and rendering it into narror catergories of acceptability is what gave us Network television. Hopefully the web will not turn into something that bland and sanitized. Ratings will only accelerate that process.
This is yet more of the same. They seem to believe that if there are little labels on everything, then those things that they do not like can be blocked.
h atever, and anything else that twigs them at a given moment.)
Previous attempts at this have failed. This one will too. They will try again with yet another plan. Loop until universe ends.
TV ratings and the V-Chip were a way to "save our children", Now the groups that pushed for them are upset that noone but them are using them to block what kids see.
What these people really want is for all content *they* find objectionable to be driven off the net. (Be it porn, descriptions of anti-social behaviour, criticism of their religious beliefs, people who are not good liberals/conservitives/communists/Americans(tm)/w
They use children as an excuse. It is not the children they wish to protect, but their own fragile sensibilities.
What they do not believe in is the right to freedom of speech, freedom of thought or freedom of action for anyone other than themselves.
Childhood is supposed to be a time to train children to be adults. What happens to these kids when they get out into the unfiltered world on their own? The answers seem to be overindulgence in the things that they were forbidden to do by their parents. This leads to a bunch of self-destructive adults.
Seems to me that filters are a panecia for parents who are afraid or unable to teach their children about the real world.
One note I saw in another review of these cases (In the November Linux Journal) was that they are about as hard as very hard cheese. The thumb screws should not replaced because the force of a normal screw driver will strip the screws.
There are times when I just want to build my own case. I wonder where I can find sheet titanium... (Actually, you used to be able to get scraps from Boeing. Probably not big enough to build a case and too damn hard to work. Have to talk to my father-in-law. He has a metal shop.)
Disney Kills Consumer Electronics?
Wait a minute. That is the next story...
I have worked with Microsoft software for years. Every time there is a bug, I hear the same chant that it will be fixed "next version". Sometimes it is, but most times it is not. (And a bunch of new ones creep in in the mean time.)
A subscription model does not address one of the bigger problems that Microsoft (and many other companies) have.
These companies take orders from the Marketing department.
Instead of making stable products that work, you have programs that contain stacks and stacks of bullet items and features demanded by the Marketing department. (No matter how nasty it makes things for the programmers or the users.)
And these features rarely get removed.
The advantage with Open Source is that they are not stuck to "getting it out before Comdex or Christmas". The bugs get fixed. (For the most part. The reason Mozilla has so many problems is that it has a HUGE codebase. I am amazed that they can get a grasp on the project itself.) The drive for why a program gets written is different. Open Source programs are written to fill a use. (It may not be your use, but the programmer most likely needed it.) It is functionality driven, not buzzword driven.
Unfortunatly, most CIOs that I have met do not understand what it takes to implement their "solutions". They are not able to figure out that if you are locked in to a single vendor, with no options or abilities to "fix it yourself", if needs be, that the costs to productivity can be enormous.
It bothers me when a decision is made to go with a vendor and then you wind-up figuring out the true cost of what it will take to make it work. (Having to buy an extra license for this, and a license for that, and the extra BDC and PDC licenses, and the extra Exchange box so we can restore the mail spools that get corrupted every so often, and so on and so forth.) You start feeling like you have to keep forking out money just to keep your head above water.
And subscriptions will not make it any better. Instead, if you refuse to pay, then they can just shut you off. (Extortion-ware?) There is no incentive to fix anything. They have you locked in. The only advantage is for the company selling the software. They have a constant revenue stream. They no longer have to worry about "the next big version" to make their revenue for the year. They have a constant stream. There is no incentive to build a better product because you get the money whether or not there is anything new or useful.
And the beauty of the whole thing is that the customer does not own anything. With the current licenses, the company is absolved from any liablility whatsoever.
The customer is just there to pay and pay and pay.
This is the most lop-sided deal I have seen yet. (If UCITA ever gets enacted, you will have even less rights.) And there will be next to nothing you will be able to do about it. (Except for Open Source.)
"When you have them by the software, they're hearts and minds will follow." - B. Gates
Having run about 18+ mailing lists (all at the same time), I know just how much work it is. (One of those lists was very heavy traffic.)
Not only do you have to deal with keeping things on traq, but you have to deal with all the other problems that people never see.
* Bounced mail when people drop their e-mail accounts. (And it is even more fun when it turns out to be forwarded from some other account.)
* Dealing with clueless users who accuse your domain of being a spam service when some piece of spam gets past your filters. (And informs your ISP and his ISP and you get to spend a few days digging out the mess.)
* People who are too clueless to figure out how to unsubscribe.
* Admins who are too clueless to figure out how to unsubscribe a user, but are clued enough to find your home phone number and call you demanding that you unsubscribe them.
* People who were subscribed by someone else and have no clue what a mailing list even is...
* Running Linux out of file handles. (It was an old kernel.)
* Dealing with all the complaints when the system melts, the system gets moved, things get weird with the system clock and/or plain demonic possession.
And all sorts of other things that ate at my insides.
And you get little or no thanks for any of it.
The secret keyring in practically every implementation of PGP leaks information off the secret key ring.
Not the messages, but something that can comprimise the existance of the user.
The identities on the keyring can be listed without a passphrase.
This means that if you have a standard keyring with your personal ID and you are also "Chairman X" of the local committee for doing things the State does not like, if they obtain your keyring, they can show that you and "Chairman X" are most likely the same person.
All it takes is "pgp -kvv secring.pgp" and I can tell you all of the aliases and alternate identities that you use.
Currently, using multiple secret key rings is a pain. Most implemenations of PGP do not have the ability to add a master passphrase on the keyring.
BTW, people have been linked to their nyms by just this method. (Ask Carl Johnson. He was a canadian who spent time in an American jail because he said something through a nym that the government found threatening.)
When I got my DSL line, I recieved a big hurkin box full of stuff. (Including a very nice Intel NIC.)
If they are concerned about how infected servers, they should work a deal with Linksys or some other manufacturer and ship a firewall box with each install.
They are very simple to set up and keep out the probes to all the ports that Windows leaves open. If people want to run web servers, they have to specifically enable specific ports.
It won't stop the e-mail viruses, but it is a start...
If you can get a look at the boot messages when it initially installs, you can sometimes determine the i/o port being used. It is not easy to figure out. (I had three people try to get it working, all three of them major open source developers and they could not do it. I was able to do it, but it took a lot of research and voodoo.)
The 505VE ships with a 6.5 gig drive. The only larger drive in the 8.45mm form factor seems to be the 8.1mm drive. That may change now that the Toshiba Libreto is now back in production. The 8.45mm drives were originally developed for those tiny little boxes. (In fact Keith Packard (of XFree86 fame) used to use one as his test server. Weird seeing an X server that could be crushed by the monitor displaying it.)
But now that I know the 9.5mm drive will work, I will need to get one of those. (There is never enough space...)
I reciently upgraded my Vaio 505VE laptop. It was not the most easy thing in the world, but possible.
Here are the things you need to know about:
If you have fried the laptop power supply cord and need a replacement, Targus makes a laptop power supply replacement. The web page at http://www.targus.com/ does *not* list the plug end you will need for the 505VE. (It is weird and non-standard.) The plug number you will need to order is number 62. It costs as much as Sony's charger, but has much more use since you can use it with all sorts of other devices.
Memory replacement:
Kingston makes a memory module for the 505VE that is much less than what Sony charges. They also have a lifetime waranty. Buy the 64 meg module. Two 32 meg modules do not equal one 64 meg module. Each is actually two weird chip-like things. If you get the 32 meg set hoping to just get another 32 meg later, you will find that does not work and you will have wasted your money. You can only expand the 505VE to 128 megs.
To open the 505VE, turn the laptop over and remove the screws with an arrow AND a dot next to them. Make sure you do not lose the screws. (A saki cup or other small cup is helpful.) Turn over the lattop and carefully remove the keyboard. It should slide up and out. Remove the screws under the metal plate on the left. The modules plug in under that plate. Carefully put everything back together and it should work.
Replacing the hard drive:
You can upgrade the hard drive. (Sony's web page says you cannot.) Good luck finding one that is bigger though. the 505VE uses a Toshiba 8.45mm laptop drive. It is the thinnest laptop drive made, other than the IBM microdrive. (Which is REALLY tiny.) I have heard that you can use a 9.5mm, but I have never tried it. Toshiba has an 8.1 gig drive that size. The specs are only listed on their Japanese web pages, not on the American. The only company I could find that had one was Atlantic ComputerTech in Brooklyn NY. (I am not certain of the model number. it is in my laptop.)
Getyting the drive in your laptop requires a great deal of care and patience. You will need to remove all of the screws out of the back of the laptop. You then need to remove the keyboard and remove more screws. You then can pry the laptop housing apart at the bottom by about one inch. You need to remove a couple of screws holing the drive into place and carefully unplug it. be careful as there is a fragile cable that connects to the power switch. Once the drive is removed, you can unscrew it from the metal mounting plate and put in the new drive. Put everything back together.
Installing Linux on the 505VE:
You can only boot off the CD-ROM if you are using a Sony CD-ROM drive. (And it is more expensive than the normal drive.) After you boot off the disk, when you get a boot prompt (under Redhat it will ask if you want expert, text or graphical install), type "linux ide=0x180". This give it the non-standard i/o port location of the cd-rom drive. If you do not do this, the drive will stop working when it tries to figure out what ide devices you have.
Hopefully that will help. The 505VE is a nice laptop. Battery life sucks. Sony reams you on every part you have to buy seperatly. Other than that it has been a good laptop.
Not when you can crack all of them with AirSnort.
All it takes is time and traffic.
Of course, it still amazes me that so few had even the most basic levels of security installed.
Then again, most of the managers I have worked for seem to think that if you take steps to protect yourself, you become liable if you get hacked. (Yes, I know that makes no sense. Never stopped them...)
I have read some of Turing's papers. The man was *far* ahead of his time. He was a major factor in breaking Enigma. His work was the basis for computing as we know it today.
If it was not for Turning, many of us would be speaking German. (And I have a bad enough time spelling as it is...)
And as payback he was hounded to the point where he commited suicide because the narrow-minded twits who were/are in charge of Britian thought that being a homosexual was a "security risk". (The only people who were overly concerned about it were the ones in the Government. You can't be blackmailed if no one cares.)
As Frank Zappa said "Drool Britiania".
And even more shameful is that NO ONE in the computer industry is willing to honor the man in a way where their name will be seen. Are they that concerned about the blue-noses and busy bodies? Must be. Not like they don't owe him for Computer Science as we know it today...
But they are not alone in the blame game. The ACM and IEEE should have been involved as well.
Too damn much attention is given to preasure groups now-a-days.
When I bought my first x86 computer (a 10mhz 8088) MANY years ago, I could not afford a monitor. I bought the guts to an old monochrome monitor for $5 at a local electronics store and tried to use that. In a fit of insanity I built the case out of Lego.
It was incredibly expensive. (I spent more for Lego than i would have if I had just saved up for a new monitor.)
Now-a-days you can't even find the large buckets. It is all kits and gadgets. Everything is pretty much pre-designed.
I guess this is what happens when you let marketing run things...
The hardest part to change will be all of these new embeded devices that use IPv4 at some level. Not to mention all the cable modem and DSL routers and other misc equiptment that does not update easily.
Try explaining to the average AOL user why his new net radio gizmo no longer works. Or why he has to replace his cable modem firewall when it works just fine.
And I am not going to even try and think about what IPv6 will look like once Microsoft gets their hands on it...
the First Disassembly of God church.
/etc/hosts file.)
In the First Disassembly of God church we seek to reverse engineer the nature of the cosmos and supply weekly diffs and patches at our worship services. (As well as debugging of the faithful, documenting the numberous ways of violating syntax, and distribution of the Wine libraries and
The Frys in Wilsonville Oregon has also been out of stock of any and all Linux games for a long time. The Electronics Boutique in the area moved the Linux games down to a lower, less visable shelf and filled the space with games made by Microsoft.
It is very sad.
Wow! You get to change between *two* hard drives!
Removable hard drive trays are much better. (I use them for the few times I use Windows to isolate it from non-Windows data. MS does not play well with others.)
One big warning on removable hard drive trays...
When you buy them, buy twice as many as you think you will need. Make sure they are all the same brand and model. There are many places that make them and NO standard wiring for them. One brand may not work with the other or even fit in the tray slot. And worst of all, you may never find that brand again!
Not fun when you have three (or more) boot drives and only two drive trays that work on the primary slot.