There are a few places in Austin Tx that do this...
One was... COllege park, or something. It was sort of south of downtown, and everyone was on a DHCP scheme. Not sure about static/QOS/etc.. A friend lived there, and she frequently downloaded at around 120K per second.
I lived in teh Hunters run complex. They obtained their High speed thru www.bbnow.com a company that wires up a crapload of complexes around Tx. I paid around $800 a month (back in 1998) for a 2bedroom place that was right next door to IBM... (off of MOPAC). We had a shared T1, and outages were rare. I averaged around 100K per second downloads in Netscape. Sometimes the bandwidth went down when some bastard ran a Half Life server.
I think it was $80 per month extra for access, that included 2 static IP's.
Owell, none of it matters now. I now live in the ghetto in Zion, Ill, trying to barely survive off of minimum wage, and ramen noodles. At least I can afford my ATTBI cable modem. All this, after 5 solid years od Solaris admin experience. Fucking new economy my ass.
Yes, The ability to gorw the LVM on the fly is one of the most amazing features of AIX (To me..) Previously, I contracted with IBM, and Came in there loathing the OS. I was a dyed in the wool Solaris geek, and I was going to be responsible fore more AIX servers, than Sol or Lin boxen.
By the time I left IBM, I had a healthy respect for AIX for LVM, and yes, even SMIT(ty). Especially the smit.script output.
Solaris may be my relegion, but I still place a few sheckles in the donation box, at the AIX church.
Anyone having to deal wit this (turning up networks) at Univ of Wisc/Milwaukee? I'm starting there this Spring of 2002, and wondered what the fuck is what going to be like. (Campus-network setup, etc..)
It was 10 years ago when I was 15. I ran a Renegade BBS. Worked about 25 hours a week to cover the costs of 3 additional phone lines to my parents house. 2 for the BBS, and one for my own BBS'ing habit.
Same thing then, as it was today. On my BBS I had the power, I owned it, I censored annoying posters, lavished attention and praise on those who agreed with me, and attended little coffee gatherings with the other BBS folk. Truely it was a wonderful time.
And 15 progressed into 16. I got a car, less money was spent on the BBS, more of an attempt was spent on trying to obtain a social life. But now, all of my friends were the people that I met on the BBS. Got my first real tech industry job (working at an ISP in 1995) thanks a my co-sysop being well connected with the ISP's owner.
Yea, being 15 was great but it had tradeoffs. And so is being 25 now. IRA's, health insurance, payinng rent, and car payments, etc. No wait, maybe it was a wonderful age, in a blissful time, when your greatest joy was finding a warezed copy of Doom, one a board that supported 28.8!:-)
Aside from paying for the gateway shipping cost $25 bucks to ship it to me. They never charged me for service during that whole time. And the service worked fine.
I moved, I cancelled, got the shipping box to send it back 3 weeks later, and sent their damn gateway back. And I still never got charged. Even now, I'll killed that old credit card that it was on, so they could never charge me. So yeah, I guess I lucked out.;-)
And thankfully they don't take any info like Socials ecurity numbers, so they can't tack anything on my credit report.
I remember having to do this at an old company that I did security consulting for.. It was easy.. I used a script similar to the above, made the appropriate changes for Bash, and Korn, and put it out there.
Except yes, there was one idiot using tcsh, who wanted it. One damn person.. hounded me for weeks about it. Problem being, I never used tcsh, and I had not a farkin clue on how to do it. I think the (l)user eventually got the message if he wanted it so bad, he could make it his self.
Anyways, what type of raging psycho changes his root shell from sh to tcsh? Thats just sick.
;-)
(Note to C-shell lovers, I'm not bashing you, I like csh/tcsh, its just not my bag baby..)
Happened to myself.. Lost my job as a security analyst at a Large communications company. It's been 6 weeks now, of me pounding on every recruiters door for contract or perm work, and no dice.
I'm a young guy.. (26) but I do have about 6 solid years of Solaris Administration.. and It's still a massive pain in the ass to get in the door. I had a bit of savings saved up.. ($2000) and thankfully my rent is only $700 a month.. but do the math... Sooner or later, the money will run out. Thank god for Unemployment.
There's just not enough of the skilled jobs out there right now.. There's a need for them, but little money to pay those high salaries.. I've had more than one recruiter tell me to just take a help desk position.. (and easy job to get, concerning my experience..) and then wait out the slump for the next 6-12 months.
Thankfully I live in the far northern chicago burbs, rents cheaper here, my parents are close, and yea... If I was smart I'd move back in with my parents.. but then again, they don't have DSL... (Ok, thats not a valid reason.. I'm just being funny..)
I'm not at all suprised. All I ever heard on the news was "Napster and MP3.com's MyMP3.com". I don't doubt that the music industry will win out if they propose solutions that will make it not worth the time. (Downloadable music for $3 a month, say).
I don't think we'll luck out with $3 a month prices. Seriously, If I can download unlimited Mp3's from most/all major artists/bands, I'll happily pay $14.95 a month.
Although, I'd expect to be downloading regular MP3 files, no copy protection, no weird SDMI-esque shit, no WMA files, etc. If I download music, I want to be able to propagate it to all of my many devices for playing on. (computer, MD player, MP3 player, etc..)
The greatest author of all time passed away this past friday.
Douglas Adams wrote many great books in his time, and from his books, I
drew my online handle, "Starvo" A bastardization of a charector in the
book called "Stavro Mueller Beta." Aside from keeping me up late many a
night reading his wonderful books, He also inspired a fear of Vogon poetry
in myself, and a slight curiosity towards anyone named "Ford.." My
friend Jason also used a Douglas Adam's charector name, "Zaphod" as his
online moniker for many years, and even had a old Renegade BBS system
named "The Resteraunt at the end of the Universe."
Rest in peace Mr. Adams, and thank you for your contributations, and the
magic that they brought into my young mind.
-=Starvo=-
I used to Work in the Video Game industry. But I was the token Support Sysadmin guy. I basically took the job, sicne I thought "Hey, It's a video game company! That would be nifty to work for!"
And it was. Nerf gun fights, free lunches on Fridays, paid trips to the movies every so oftern, and decent hardware. Very much fun, but without taking it to an excess. Plus people worked hard there, and really enjoyed their jobs.
I had orignally wanted to move into a position of Doing QA on games, or helping to write tools, But eventually my Unix Yearnings got the best of me, and I left the mostly WinTel shop, to pursue a full time Unix admin Gig (But I left on good terms, and also after attending enough coffee sessions, BBQ's in Austin to garner some great friends, and industry contacts!)
So, try for a backdoor job in, Webmaster, tech support, documentation writer, maybe even Coffee boy for the office, have your portfolio built up, and eventually, spring it on them, you might find a receptive audience. I know that I saw more than a few cases of Tech Support people moving into more developer orientated roles.
Oh yeah, being in the right location helps... In my case, it was Chicago initially, and then Austin Tx. (Great town for gaming companies!) Seattle, SiliValley, and the SiliAlley are other potential game company hotspots.
The most accurate 'hacker' movie I've ever seen was 'Sneakers', and it's at least 10 years old. 'Sneakers' got me interested in computer security, systems, etc.
Same here. At the time that it came out, I had my first gig working in the industry.. (Right out of High School). I think that movie, (esp Dan Akroyds paranoid conpsiracy theorist) propelled me to get into Unix Security Analysis more than anything else.
Were parts fo it unrealistic, and full of eye candy? Oh hell yes.:-) But it had a certain charm to it, that survives with me to this day.
A nice package that I could install... A firewall/802.11b combination. I plug in the cable modem ethernet in one port, and in the other 2 ports, my local protected network, and then a place to put in the 802.11b base device. That way those around me can have internet access through my connection.
Don't forget 3000 Miles to Vegas.
Saw that on sat night.
Not a good date movie.
Not a really good movie at all.
But something that you can enjoy if you can put your brain in neutral for a few hours. I don't feel ripped off for seeing it, maybe just slightly annoyed.
I have to agree.. After I managed to smash up my old 32meg Diamond RIO MP3 player.. I switched to a Sony Mz-R90 Mp3 Player... The ONLY drawback to it it, is having to record the data/song to it in real time.. Meaning.. If I have 80 minutes of music to record to it, then I have to wait 80 minutes until the MD is loaded up.
Now since I've got many machines, and a large mp3 Server/filesystem, thats not really a drawback.. However.. I anticipate that if these DataPlay things take off, and if they're easy to use/I can store data (zip files, etc, ) on them, Then I'll probably get one..
And Am I the only one who thinks this is the direction that MD's shoulda taken years ago? (Not the copy protection..) but storing the data format, on a small disk.. etc.. If they would have enabled MD recorders to accept raw data storage on them, I think they would have taken off quite nicely.
I just hope I can get one as small as my Sony MD player.
Of course... thats how the/. universe came together.. Thru the Days of yore in BBS Land.
Now I'm getting all misty-eyed thinking about the rampant local flamewars, the Cheating in L.O.R.D, and waiting to get online @midnight.. Just so I could get the first turns of the day in BRE.
I still have my old 486, with a 500meg HD in it.. With the 3 14.4 modems, and my old Renegade BBS software. Almost makes ya want to hook it up again. Except for that whole "14.4" speed.
:-)
Really, I'd like to see some background/bio page on slashdot folks. Who they are, where they came from, why they write for Slashdot.. their favorite online games. Cover everyone, from Taco to Katz...
Actually... As of the 24th of january (last night) Most of the Hu cards were "Looped." This includes the "dealer" cards, and the one or two semi public scripts that were floating around.
Allot of popular speculation in the DSS hack community is that when Northsat of canada was busted.. (They reportedly had the most advanced HU hack at the time of their bust..) They cut a deal with the guys at northsat, to get all of their HU hacking info, in exchange for lesser prosecution. Mind you, this is complete speculation.
As of right now, its really not worth it to "hack" Dss.. You now need to have a valid emu setup (PC with 2 serial ports running dos, card programmer with a Hcard with a valid Subscription on it , Emu card/wedge to slip in the receiver, and the approproate serial cables.) Plus, theres a nice artifact that causes the loss of 1-2 seconds of video every 30 minutes or so.
I went the paying route a long time ago with my DSS setup, less headaches for me. Many of of Hacking friends lost all of their Hcards in this past sundays ECM. I'm paying the same price for DSS that I would pay for digital cable, and I get more channels.
As a side note, the way the specifically did it. (Way over simplified explanation follows) Was changing the Boot Proms.. They're kind of like a fuse.. they expect X (forgot the #) fuses total, and 3 of the "fuses" to be broken, thus rendering a value of 33 for boot. The ECM broke all of the fuses on the prom and it now has a value of 00, thus rendering the card unbootable, and now totally unfixable.. (It really it, unless you have an electron microscope, and can manipulate gates at an atomic level). These cards cannot be "unlooped" in any capacity.. short of ripping the card apart, and replacing the circuitry.. (a very expensive task, at best..)
No matter how you chalk it up.. (pro DSS, or anti-DSS) you have to admit that Directv exhibited some pure genius with the anti-hacker-measure. And if you're still hardup to get free satellite.. there's always Dish Network.. You need an older receiver, and you have to send it off to a 3rd party for them to extract keys, if I recall correctly. But I think it still works.
Have to agree with ya on this. I've got the same trackball (well 4 of them at this point..) and my Half Life scores went up, after about a week of adapting to it.
I'm getting a bit worried, that since this worm is out there.. some script kiddie is going to get a copy of it, and "evolve" the damn thing.
Maybe make it more damaging... maybe ahve it report the hacked IP #'s via IRC, or some other medium... And also have it open up a few other holes on each system, before it goes along its merry way...
I shudder each time I think about this happening to all of the unsecured RH 6.2/7 boxes setup on all of those cable modems/DSl lines out there.
(High bandwidth availability+unsercure box=Nasty Mess)
A few friends of mine run default RH setups on their DSL lines.. I might be over reacting, but I sent a few panic stricken emails out to them with links to the worms analysis, and links to download the patched RPM's.. (plus a personal rant about setting up IPCHAINS, and such..)
Call me a worrywart, but I really don't want to see this thing get out of hand...
As the market for stolen Credit card numbers.. (and Calling card #'s amongst others..) becomes increasingly more lucrative, we're going to see more and more of these attacks.
Maybe organized crime groups will soon be "sponsoring" crackers to break into websites, and to pilfer CC# databases... Or other groups.
CC# Fraud is a very proftiable endeavour for the criminals.. Even if they pass the #'s off for only $50 each.. Imagine the kind of haul they bring in, with 10,000 #'s, let alone 3.7 million.
I'd imagine that all of this might get worse beofre it gets better... I've been a Unix Security Analyst for a short time now, and the problems just seem to be increasing everyday.
Hopefully this is the beginning of a wake up call that will turn most companies on their ear, and get them to start auditing their systems much better.
Actually, I think I read on sharlyextreme.com or anandtech.com that Matrox was going to kind of pull out of the high end gaming card market, adn target thier cards more towards OEM's low end consumr, and business applications.
Personally, the last 3dFX Card i bought was a voodoo2 12 meg board... (The PCI one that you had to use in conjunction with your existing grafx card...) As of Right now, I'm all NVidia on my boxes... Geforce2, Geforce2mx, and a Geforce DDR.. all the cards do fine for me on XF86, and in windows..
So ATi might the the only real competition left to stand up against NVidia. However, I would not doubt it that somewhere there is some "dark horse" company preparing something that is gonna try to blow NVidia out of the water...
.. But I might be wrong.
Hacking that Billy bass (Singing fish..)
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Hrm.
This makes me wonder... Has anyone sucessfully Hacked one of the Singing Bigmouth Billy Bass fishes?
Some person in my family.. (she who will remain nameless..) Got me one for a birthday.. after 10 minutes it lost its appeal.. Now.. If I could somehow pipe alternate music into it.. that might make it more interesting..
(/me has this wonderful mental image of the Bass singing "Heroin is so Passe" by the Dandy Warhols.)
OK I might just be a bit twisted, but has anyone heard of any successul projects to hack this thing? Google turned up crap when I searched.
Nifty.
Now, unfortunatly I work in an all lotus-shop.. (notes 5.03, Smart Suite millenium, etc..)
Once Wine can run notes 5.03 without vomiting horridly.. (I've tried.. although feel free to prove me wrong..) I'll make Linux my primary desktop.
Oh yea, and ESM console... (axent's Enterprise security manager console.. Don't tell me to use the text client on the scan host, I do.. I just cron it, and kick off scheduled scans with it.. It's hell of allot easier to do onetime/suppresions/scans via the console.. )
SprintPCS did the same thing to me also.
Except, I got a call.. and not a letter.
I was sorta irked, because when i signed up for my PCS Portable phone thing, I specifically had to state to the phone operator about 3 times, "No I don't want sprint LD service on my home phone line"
Yet they still called up, asking when they should make the switch.
Which leads me to.. If their PCS rate are soo good.. (they are to me, vs Nextel.. Whom I had previous).. why in the heck are their landline LD rate still hovering at.08cents a minute?
Bah.. Gimme Qwest.. I think they are.05 a minute, with only a 5 buck fee.
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There are a few places in Austin Tx that do this...
One was... COllege park, or something. It was sort of south of downtown, and everyone was on a DHCP scheme. Not sure about static/QOS/etc.. A friend lived there, and she frequently downloaded at around 120K per second.
I lived in teh Hunters run complex. They obtained their High speed thru www.bbnow.com a company that wires up a crapload of complexes around Tx. I paid around $800 a month (back in 1998) for a 2bedroom place that was right next door to IBM... (off of MOPAC). We had a shared T1, and outages were rare. I averaged around 100K per second downloads in Netscape. Sometimes the bandwidth went down when some bastard ran a Half Life server.
I think it was $80 per month extra for access, that included 2 static IP's.
Owell, none of it matters now. I now live in the ghetto in Zion, Ill, trying to barely survive off of minimum wage, and ramen noodles. At least I can afford my ATTBI cable modem. All this, after 5 solid years od Solaris admin experience. Fucking new economy my ass.
Yes, The ability to gorw the LVM on the fly is one of the most amazing features of AIX (To me..) Previously, I contracted with IBM, and Came in there loathing the OS. I was a dyed in the wool Solaris geek, and I was going to be responsible fore more AIX servers, than Sol or Lin boxen.
By the time I left IBM, I had a healthy respect for AIX for LVM, and yes, even SMIT(ty). Especially the smit.script output.
Solaris may be my relegion, but I still place a few sheckles in the donation box, at the AIX church.
Anyone having to deal wit this (turning up networks) at Univ of Wisc/Milwaukee? I'm starting there this Spring of 2002, and wondered what the fuck is what going to be like. (Campus-network setup, etc..)
It was 10 years ago when I was 15. I ran a Renegade BBS. Worked about 25 hours a week to cover the costs of 3 additional phone lines to my parents house. 2 for the BBS, and one for my own BBS'ing habit.
:-)
Same thing then, as it was today. On my BBS I had the power, I owned it, I censored annoying posters, lavished attention and praise on those who agreed with me, and attended little coffee gatherings with the other BBS folk. Truely it was a wonderful time.
And 15 progressed into 16. I got a car, less money was spent on the BBS, more of an attempt was spent on trying to obtain a social life. But now, all of my friends were the people that I met on the BBS. Got my first real tech industry job (working at an ISP in 1995) thanks a my co-sysop being well connected with the ISP's owner.
Yea, being 15 was great but it had tradeoffs. And so is being 25 now. IRA's, health insurance, payinng rent, and car payments, etc. No wait, maybe it was a wonderful age, in a blissful time, when your greatest joy was finding a warezed copy of Doom, one a board that supported 28.8!
I had telocity for 6 months in 2000.
;-)
Aside from paying for the gateway shipping cost $25 bucks to ship it to me. They never charged me for service during that whole time. And the service worked fine.
I moved, I cancelled, got the shipping box to send it back 3 weeks later, and sent their damn gateway back. And I still never got charged. Even now, I'll killed that old credit card that it was on, so they could never charge me. So yeah, I guess I lucked out.
And thankfully they don't take any info like Socials ecurity numbers, so they can't tack anything on my credit report.
I remember having to do this at an old company that I did security consulting for.. It was easy.. I used a script similar to the above, made the appropriate changes for Bash, and Korn, and put it out there.
Except yes, there was one idiot using tcsh, who wanted it. One damn person.. hounded me for weeks about it. Problem being, I never used tcsh, and I had not a farkin clue on how to do it. I think the (l)user eventually got the message if he wanted it so bad, he could make it his self.
Anyways, what type of raging psycho changes his root shell from sh to tcsh? Thats just sick.
;-)
(Note to C-shell lovers, I'm not bashing you, I like csh/tcsh, its just not my bag baby..)
Happened to myself.. Lost my job as a security analyst at a Large communications company. It's been 6 weeks now, of me pounding on every recruiters door for contract or perm work, and no dice.
I'm a young guy.. (26) but I do have about 6 solid years of Solaris Administration.. and It's still a massive pain in the ass to get in the door. I had a bit of savings saved up.. ($2000) and thankfully my rent is only $700 a month.. but do the math... Sooner or later, the money will run out. Thank god for Unemployment.
There's just not enough of the skilled jobs out there right now.. There's a need for them, but little money to pay those high salaries.. I've had more than one recruiter tell me to just take a help desk position.. (and easy job to get, concerning my experience..) and then wait out the slump for the next 6-12 months.
Thankfully I live in the far northern chicago burbs, rents cheaper here, my parents are close, and yea... If I was smart I'd move back in with my parents.. but then again, they don't have DSL... (Ok, thats not a valid reason.. I'm just being funny..)
I'm not at all suprised. All I ever heard on the news was "Napster and MP3.com's MyMP3.com". I don't doubt that the music industry will win out if they propose solutions that will make it not worth the time. (Downloadable music for $3 a month, say).
I don't think we'll luck out with $3 a month prices. Seriously, If I can download unlimited Mp3's from most/all major artists/bands, I'll happily pay $14.95 a month.
Although, I'd expect to be downloading regular MP3 files, no copy protection, no weird SDMI-esque shit, no WMA files, etc. If I download music, I want to be able to propagate it to all of my many devices for playing on. (computer, MD player, MP3 player, etc..)
The greatest author of all time passed away this past friday.
Douglas Adams wrote many great books in his time, and from his books, I
drew my online handle, "Starvo" A bastardization of a charector in the
book called "Stavro Mueller Beta." Aside from keeping me up late many a
night reading his wonderful books, He also inspired a fear of Vogon poetry
in myself, and a slight curiosity towards anyone named "Ford.." My
friend Jason also used a Douglas Adam's charector name, "Zaphod" as his
online moniker for many years, and even had a old Renegade BBS system
named "The Resteraunt at the end of the Universe."
Rest in peace Mr. Adams, and thank you for your contributations, and the
magic that they brought into my young mind.
-=Starvo=-
I used to Work in the Video Game industry. But I was the token Support Sysadmin guy. I basically took the job, sicne I thought "Hey, It's a video game company! That would be nifty to work for!"
And it was. Nerf gun fights, free lunches on Fridays, paid trips to the movies every so oftern, and decent hardware. Very much fun, but without taking it to an excess. Plus people worked hard there, and really enjoyed their jobs.
I had orignally wanted to move into a position of Doing QA on games, or helping to write tools, But eventually my Unix Yearnings got the best of me, and I left the mostly WinTel shop, to pursue a full time Unix admin Gig (But I left on good terms, and also after attending enough coffee sessions, BBQ's in Austin to garner some great friends, and industry contacts!)
So, try for a backdoor job in, Webmaster, tech support, documentation writer, maybe even Coffee boy for the office, have your portfolio built up, and eventually, spring it on them, you might find a receptive audience. I know that I saw more than a few cases of Tech Support people moving into more developer orientated roles.
Oh yeah, being in the right location helps... In my case, it was Chicago initially, and then Austin Tx. (Great town for gaming companies!) Seattle, SiliValley, and the SiliAlley are other potential game company hotspots.
The most accurate 'hacker' movie I've ever seen was 'Sneakers', and it's at least 10 years old. 'Sneakers' got me interested in computer security, systems, etc.
Same here. At the time that it came out, I had my first gig working in the industry.. (Right out of High School). I think that movie, (esp Dan Akroyds paranoid conpsiracy theorist) propelled me to get into Unix Security Analysis more than anything else.
Were parts fo it unrealistic, and full of eye candy? Oh hell yes.
A nice package that I could install... A firewall/802.11b combination. I plug in the cable modem ethernet in one port, and in the other 2 ports, my local protected network, and then a place to put in the 802.11b base device. That way those around me can have internet access through my connection.
Your wish is granted:
http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?pri
and the review at:
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/reviews/lin
You're welcome
Don't forget 3000 Miles to Vegas.
Saw that on sat night.
Not a good date movie.
Not a really good movie at all.
But something that you can enjoy if you can put your brain in neutral for a few hours. I don't feel ripped off for seeing it, maybe just slightly annoyed.
I have to agree.. After I managed to smash up my old 32meg Diamond RIO MP3 player.. I switched to a Sony Mz-R90 Mp3 Player... The ONLY drawback to it it, is having to record the data/song to it in real time.. Meaning.. If I have 80 minutes of music to record to it, then I have to wait 80 minutes until the MD is loaded up.
Now since I've got many machines, and a large mp3 Server/filesystem, thats not really a drawback.. However.. I anticipate that if these DataPlay things take off, and if they're easy to use/I can store data (zip files, etc, ) on them, Then I'll probably get one..
And Am I the only one who thinks this is the direction that MD's shoulda taken years ago? (Not the copy protection..) but storing the data format, on a small disk.. etc.. If they would have enabled MD recorders to accept raw data storage on them, I think they would have taken off quite nicely.
I just hope I can get one as small as my Sony MD player.
Of course... thats how the /. universe came together.. Thru the Days of yore in BBS Land.
Now I'm getting all misty-eyed thinking about the rampant local flamewars, the Cheating in L.O.R.D, and waiting to get online @midnight.. Just so I could get the first turns of the day in BRE.
I still have my old 486, with a 500meg HD in it.. With the 3 14.4 modems, and my old Renegade BBS software. Almost makes ya want to hook it up again. Except for that whole "14.4" speed.
:-)
Really, I'd like to see some background/bio page on slashdot folks. Who they are, where they came from, why they write for Slashdot.. their favorite online games. Cover everyone, from Taco to Katz...
Actually... As of the 24th of january (last night) Most of the Hu cards were "Looped." This includes the "dealer" cards, and the one or two semi public scripts that were floating around.
Allot of popular speculation in the DSS hack community is that when Northsat of canada was busted.. (They reportedly had the most advanced HU hack at the time of their bust..) They cut a deal with the guys at northsat, to get all of their HU hacking info, in exchange for lesser prosecution. Mind you, this is complete speculation.
As of right now, its really not worth it to "hack" Dss.. You now need to have a valid emu setup (PC with 2 serial ports running dos, card programmer with a Hcard with a valid Subscription on it , Emu card/wedge to slip in the receiver, and the approproate serial cables.) Plus, theres a nice artifact that causes the loss of 1-2 seconds of video every 30 minutes or so.
I went the paying route a long time ago with my DSS setup, less headaches for me. Many of of Hacking friends lost all of their Hcards in this past sundays ECM. I'm paying the same price for DSS that I would pay for digital cable, and I get more channels.
As a side note, the way the specifically did it. (Way over simplified explanation follows) Was changing the Boot Proms.. They're kind of like a fuse.. they expect X (forgot the #) fuses total, and 3 of the "fuses" to be broken, thus rendering a value of 33 for boot. The ECM broke all of the fuses on the prom and it now has a value of 00, thus rendering the card unbootable, and now totally unfixable.. (It really it, unless you have an electron microscope, and can manipulate gates at an atomic level). These cards cannot be "unlooped" in any capacity.. short of ripping the card apart, and replacing the circuitry.. (a very expensive task, at best..)
No matter how you chalk it up.. (pro DSS, or anti-DSS) you have to admit that Directv exhibited some pure genius with the anti-hacker-measure. And if you're still hardup to get free satellite.. there's always Dish Network.. You need an older receiver, and you have to send it off to a 3rd party for them to extract keys, if I recall correctly. But I think it still works.
Have to agree with ya on this. I've got the same trackball (well 4 of them at this point..) and my Half Life scores went up, after about a week of adapting to it.
Maybe make it more damaging... maybe ahve it report the hacked IP #'s via IRC, or some other medium... And also have it open up a few other holes on each system, before it goes along its merry way...
I shudder each time I think about this happening to all of the unsecured RH 6.2/7 boxes setup on all of those cable modems/DSl lines out there. (High bandwidth availability+unsercure box=Nasty Mess)
A few friends of mine run default RH setups on their DSL lines.. I might be over reacting, but I sent a few panic stricken emails out to them with links to the worms analysis, and links to download the patched RPM's.. (plus a personal rant about setting up IPCHAINS, and such..)
Call me a worrywart, but I really don't want to see this thing get out of hand...
As the market for stolen Credit card numbers.. (and Calling card #'s amongst others..) becomes increasingly more lucrative, we're going to see more and more of these attacks.
Maybe organized crime groups will soon be "sponsoring" crackers to break into websites, and to pilfer CC# databases... Or other groups.
CC# Fraud is a very proftiable endeavour for the criminals.. Even if they pass the #'s off for only $50 each.. Imagine the kind of haul they bring in, with 10,000 #'s, let alone 3.7 million.
I'd imagine that all of this might get worse beofre it gets better... I've been a Unix Security Analyst for a short time now, and the problems just seem to be increasing everyday.
Hopefully this is the beginning of a wake up call that will turn most companies on their ear, and get them to start auditing their systems much better.
Let's see:
Nasa and other US based companies (the one that launches of the 747)
France
Russia
China
Japan
Did I leave anyone out?
Israel?
UK?
There might be others... I have no clue, its just wild speculation on my part.
On Second thought, I'm not feeling that wild, so it's just lazy speculation.
Actually, I think I read on sharlyextreme.com or anandtech.com that Matrox was going to kind of pull out of the high end gaming card market, adn target thier cards more towards OEM's low end consumr, and business applications.
Personally, the last 3dFX Card i bought was a voodoo2 12 meg board... (The PCI one that you had to use in conjunction with your existing grafx card...) As of Right now, I'm all NVidia on my boxes... Geforce2, Geforce2mx, and a Geforce DDR.. all the cards do fine for me on XF86, and in windows..
So ATi might the the only real competition left to stand up against NVidia. However, I would not doubt it that somewhere there is some "dark horse" company preparing something that is gonna try to blow NVidia out of the water...
.. But I might be wrong.
Hrm.
This makes me wonder... Has anyone sucessfully Hacked one of the Singing Bigmouth Billy Bass fishes?
Some person in my family.. (she who will remain nameless..) Got me one for a birthday.. after 10 minutes it lost its appeal.. Now.. If I could somehow pipe alternate music into it.. that might make it more interesting..
(/me has this wonderful mental image of the Bass singing "Heroin is so Passe" by the Dandy Warhols.)
OK I might just be a bit twisted, but has anyone heard of any successul projects to hack this thing? Google turned up crap when I searched.
Nifty.
Now, unfortunatly I work in an all lotus-shop.. (notes 5.03, Smart Suite millenium, etc..)
Once Wine can run notes 5.03 without vomiting horridly.. (I've tried.. although feel free to prove me wrong..) I'll make Linux my primary desktop.
Oh yea, and ESM console... (axent's Enterprise security manager console.. Don't tell me to use the text client on the scan host, I do.. I just cron it, and kick off scheduled scans with it.. It's hell of allot easier to do onetime/suppresions/scans via the console.. )
SprintPCS did the same thing to me also.
.08cents a minute?
.05 a minute, with only a 5 buck fee.
Except, I got a call.. and not a letter.
I was sorta irked, because when i signed up for my PCS Portable phone thing, I specifically had to state to the phone operator about 3 times, "No I don't want sprint LD service on my home phone line"
Yet they still called up, asking when they should make the switch.
Which leads me to.. If their PCS rate are soo good.. (they are to me, vs Nextel.. Whom I had previous).. why in the heck are their landline LD rate still hovering at
Bah.. Gimme Qwest.. I think they are