I think though, that he was referring to the ch. 11 that Chrysler filed before Lee Iacocca took over... or was it his move? It was right around there...
What really sucks is when it won't boot when there is no network connection, even though you give it a static IP address and don't have it looking for any other machines...
Hah, if you have one of those with a computer, you don't need any box to tell you why the check engine light is on.
Simply turn the ignition key to on-off-on-off-on, within 5 seconds, then watch the check engine light or electronic dash. Count the blinks, each set is two digits. 5 blinks, then 5 blinks is 55, which means "end of codes"... anything else can be looked up in a good book or online (I suggest allpar.com)
No, car hacking is NOT a thing of the past... I recently got my grandma's '70 Mustang 351... and am hacking it to pieces.:)
Actually, first thing is, the engine came out. Installation of polygraphite bushings from PST. Install an edelbrock 4-barrel intake manifold to replace the 2-bbl setup. 650 CFM edelbrock carb. New shocks. Upgrade to electronic ignition. RV camshaft.
Next will be a full interior resto. Then maybe go back to work on the engine. I'm looking to get about 450 H.P., so will probably put a supercharger on it.
See, the trick is to get cars from before all these computer-controlled thingies started being put on them.
Some things just don't benefit from computers after a certain point. With this Mustang, there are a whole range of things to work on and tinker... not so with newer cars... you are much more limited with what you can do with them.
So, I'll keep the Mustang for hacking, new car for daily driving.
I don't know about you, but it bothers the crap outta me that I can't ping a web server. It's really damn nice to know if a connection has problems on my end, their end, or somewhere in the middle. Ping is the first choice for troubleshooting... within keystrokes, one can find out: A. Whether packets are traveling at all, B. How fast, and C. How many get lost.
Yes, I realize that one can ping -f -s 65528 hostname and do some simple DoS attacks and such, but I'd argue that MOST pings out there are harmless attempts to check communication.
Furthermore, DoS attacks can be directed at a web server anyway, whether they allow pings or not.
Maybe a solution would be to go ahead and respond to small pings, but ones using a large packet size could be dropped at the router...
Poster says: Goner is apparently non-destructive other than the normal DoS issues with the load from it forwarding itself everywhere.
According to Symantec: Deletes files: Attemps to delete several files, including NAV
Poster says: Two is its small size -- it has a packed form that is only 159 bytes.
According to Symantec: The size of the worm unpacked is approximately 159 KB and Size of attachment: 38,912 bytes.
So, when are we going to do some checking first? Deleting files is pretty damn harsh for a "non destructive" virus, and a "packed form that is approximately 159 bytes" is NOT the same as an unpacked form of "159 KB", packed to 38,192 bytes.
I used it to modify a disassembled version of the Apple DOS 3.3 RWTS (read/write track/sector) routine. I had delusions of grandeur when I was 10 of writing an OS for the Apple, so I started by disassembling DOS 3.3 with help from a book called "Beneath Apple DOS."
Take them home? That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard. Have you SEEN what happens to things when you let kids borrow them overnight? That's why libraries have fines, and if you trash a textbook, you are expected to pay for it.
Let's say a school district does check the laptops out to students... What happens when the kid drops it and smashes the display and trashes the HDD? Since the families you mention can't afford a computer, how do you cover the cost of replacement?
Your first thought had better not be my tax money. I'm okay with supplying computers to schools, but not paying for replacements of said laptops when students destroy them.
Every machine I ever saw in grade school was an Apple II or a Mac. I remember playing Oregon Trail, and Odell Lake, and using a program that I think was called "FreeType" (or was it "Fred"?) for word processing, though I'm not sure.
And, of course, there was Terrapin Logo and the UCSD P-System.
Alas, though, while I grew up on Apples, I have moved to the Intel world where machines are cheaper, don't come in flavors, and I standard C compiles without hassle or quirks. (Thought this is true of MacOS X now.)
I DO still own a couple Macs... one '040, one PowerPC, but they are less used (The 040 will get Linux someday, the PPC is for games.)
Finally, I have to be honest... I know someone who's got an iBook, and it's the UGLIEST laptop I've ever seen, and he had two of them prior that had their backlights burn out. I know they won't fix the ugly-factor, but I hope the backlights are more reliabled now.
Of all the people in the world, you are the first to call me "dimwit."
Of course, I mostly deal with intelligent people, and intelligent people tend not to resort to name-calling.
But, back on topic... I have NEVER heard of a teacher living an "exceedingly difficult life" of being poor... such as not being able to afford a place to live and food to eat, and a car to drive.
The fact of my experience is, of all the public school districts I attended, both in Southern California and Oregon, NONE of the teachers were "poor," either by a government statistical line, or in reality.
What I have seen of teachers though is enough liberal rhetoric to make me sick. I've watched teachers go to jail for having sex with their (underage) students. I've seen them give passing (even good) grades to the sons and daughters of rich community members... the sons and daughters that skip class all the time. I see them give inflated grades to the football and basketball players to keep them on the team, even though those same players don't turn in a single page of homework.
I watched all the scholarship money the school had to offer go to kids who's families already could afford to send them to college without the aid of a scholarship.
Except the air conditioning cooling system in a car runs directly off the drive system, and not on electricity. The heater runs directly off of heat in the car's cooling system. Consequently, this development really has no impact on vehicle air conditioning or internal environment, with the exception of running a couple relays and a control circuit.
Let me adjust the placement of your head real quick, by asking, by your same logic, what ANY trojan horse program is doing with a virus signature... like netbus, back orifice, and the like? All of those have virus signatures in the popular virus scanners.
You say "Magic Lantern does not replicate"... well, neither do netbus and back orifice. You also say that "Magic Lantern is not designed to break the law[,] but to enforce it"... well, ANY tool that has legitimate uses (like remote administration tools) also has illegitimate uses. Are you saying that the FBI will NEVER abuse its power?
Don't be such a naive idiot. There is even question about whether or not Magic Lanter is even constitutional. Since when has intrusion without a warrant or wiretapping without a warrant EVER been legal in the U.S. before?
I guarantee you that if the major virus scanners don't look for it, you'll find someone else puts out a program that does.
The US should take a peak out to other countries in the world.
You're right, and I suggest we start with Mt. Hood, since it's in the state in question.
Where should we deliver it? Communist China? Or perhaps back in time to Nazi Germany?
After that, we take the peaks of Mt. Jefferson, Mt. Scott, Mt. McLaughlin, Mt. Washington, the Three Sisters, Mt. Bachelor, and Broken Top to various countries. (If these names sound familiar to you non-Oregonian/non northwesters, remember "volcano" easter egg in the M$ OpenGL text screensaver.)
But, I bet Tom McCall is stirring in his grave right now... with the potential of all those Californians becoming Oregonians via identity theft... who woulda thought they didn't even need to move here.
All this in the state that has Intel... hmmm.
Anyway, anyone remember the guy who tried to put the Oregon DMV driver record database online?
I don't even need to look this one up... I still remember it. It's because CP/M BIOS call #9 which writes a string to a device, requires '$' terminated strings. In C, by contrast, the standard library wants '\0' terminated strings.
The answer lies in that MS-DOS has a set of INT 20h (or is it 21h?) function calls, the first several are damn near identical to CP/M, including #9, which, for some reason, wants '$' as the end-of-string terminator.
I thought you were talking about the Fimbulwinter that precedes Ragnarok.
Anyway, wait until someone ports some GNU utils to CP/M, makes a distro like "Green Beret CP/M" and RMS gets up and says... "Damnit, that's supposed to be 'GNU/CP/M.'"
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I think though, that he was referring to the ch. 11 that Chrysler filed before Lee Iacocca took over... or was it his move? It was right around there...
What really sucks is when it won't boot when there is no network connection, even though you give it a static IP address and don't have it looking for any other machines...
At least linux boots and says "Cable problem?"
Hah, if you have one of those with a computer, you don't need any box to tell you why the check engine light is on.
:)
Simply turn the ignition key to on-off-on-off-on, within 5 seconds, then watch the check engine light or electronic dash. Count the blinks, each set is two digits. 5 blinks, then 5 blinks is 55, which means "end of codes"... anything else can be looked up in a good book or online (I suggest allpar.com)
Sucks to have a Ford, GM, or foreign car
No, car hacking is NOT a thing of the past... I recently got my grandma's '70 Mustang 351... and am hacking it to pieces. :)
Actually, first thing is, the engine came out. Installation of polygraphite bushings from PST. Install an edelbrock 4-barrel intake manifold to replace the 2-bbl setup. 650 CFM edelbrock carb. New shocks. Upgrade to electronic ignition. RV camshaft.
Next will be a full interior resto. Then maybe go back to work on the engine. I'm looking to get about 450 H.P., so will probably put a supercharger on it.
See, the trick is to get cars from before all these computer-controlled thingies started being put on them.
Some things just don't benefit from computers after a certain point. With this Mustang, there are a whole range of things to work on and tinker... not so with newer cars... you are much more limited with what you can do with them.
So, I'll keep the Mustang for hacking, new car for daily driving.
That's because the Euro was Helmut Kohl's brainchild attempt to take over Europe.
With Germany controlling the strength of the money...
But that's all conspiracy theory anyway.
I don't know about you, but it bothers the crap outta me that I can't ping a web server. It's really damn nice to know if a connection has problems on my end, their end, or somewhere in the middle. Ping is the first choice for troubleshooting... within keystrokes, one can find out: A. Whether packets are traveling at all, B. How fast, and C. How many get lost.
Yes, I realize that one can ping -f -s 65528 hostname and do some simple DoS attacks and such, but I'd argue that MOST pings out there are harmless attempts to check communication.
Furthermore, DoS attacks can be directed at a web server anyway, whether they allow pings or not.
Maybe a solution would be to go ahead and respond to small pings, but ones using a large packet size could be dropped at the router...
Poster says: Goner is apparently non-destructive other than the normal DoS issues with the load from it forwarding itself everywhere.
According to Symantec: Deletes files: Attemps to delete several files, including NAV
Poster says: Two is its small size -- it has a packed form that is only 159 bytes.
According to Symantec: The size of the worm unpacked is approximately 159 KB and Size of attachment: 38,912 bytes.
So, when are we going to do some checking first? Deleting files is pretty damn harsh for a "non destructive" virus, and a "packed form that is approximately 159 bytes" is NOT the same as an unpacked form of "159 KB", packed to 38,192 bytes.
Yeah, that's it! FrEdWriter. Wasn't terrible.
:)
I used it to modify a disassembled version of the Apple DOS 3.3 RWTS (read/write track/sector) routine. I had delusions of grandeur when I was 10 of writing an OS for the Apple, so I started by disassembling DOS 3.3 with help from a book called "Beneath Apple DOS."
Good thing I got a PC.
Coal happens to be efficient and cheap. At least, it is in some areas and implementations.
(Text typed while waiting for stupid 2-minute timeout to expire.)
Just because little Johnny didn't have 802.11(n) when he was a kid doesn't mean he's going to be working in the mill for the rest of his life.
To expand on your point... just because he did, doesn't mean he won't. Furthermore, someone has to work at the mill.
I totally agree that the money would better be spent on better teachers and better classrooms. A better classroom computers do not necessarily make.
I really doubt the intelligence of the average student will be increased by the use of computers in school.
Take them home? That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard. Have you SEEN what happens to things when you let kids borrow them overnight? That's why libraries have fines, and if you trash a textbook, you are expected to pay for it.
Let's say a school district does check the laptops out to students... What happens when the kid drops it and smashes the display and trashes the HDD? Since the families you mention can't afford a computer, how do you cover the cost of replacement?
Your first thought had better not be my tax money. I'm okay with supplying computers to schools, but not paying for replacements of said laptops when students destroy them.
Goes to show how much I keep up with Apple anymore... yeah, the new iBooks look damn nice!
Every machine I ever saw in grade school was an Apple II or a Mac. I remember playing Oregon Trail, and Odell Lake, and using a program that I think was called "FreeType" (or was it "Fred"?) for word processing, though I'm not sure.
And, of course, there was Terrapin Logo and the UCSD P-System.
Alas, though, while I grew up on Apples, I have moved to the Intel world where machines are cheaper, don't come in flavors, and I standard C compiles without hassle or quirks. (Thought this is true of MacOS X now.)
I DO still own a couple Macs... one '040, one PowerPC, but they are less used (The 040 will get Linux someday, the PPC is for games.)
Finally, I have to be honest... I know someone who's got an iBook, and it's the UGLIEST laptop I've ever seen, and he had two of them prior that had their backlights burn out. I know they won't fix the ugly-factor, but I hope the backlights are more reliabled now.
Of all the people in the world, you are the first to call me "dimwit."
Of course, I mostly deal with intelligent people, and intelligent people tend not to resort to name-calling.
But, back on topic... I have NEVER heard of a teacher living an "exceedingly difficult life" of being poor... such as not being able to afford a place to live and food to eat, and a car to drive.
The fact of my experience is, of all the public school districts I attended, both in Southern California and Oregon, NONE of the teachers were "poor," either by a government statistical line, or in reality.
What I have seen of teachers though is enough liberal rhetoric to make me sick. I've watched teachers go to jail for having sex with their (underage) students. I've seen them give passing (even good) grades to the sons and daughters of rich community members... the sons and daughters that skip class all the time. I see them give inflated grades to the football and basketball players to keep them on the team, even though those same players don't turn in a single page of homework.
I watched all the scholarship money the school had to offer go to kids who's families already could afford to send them to college without the aid of a scholarship.
It's all bullshit.
Except the air conditioning cooling system in a car runs directly off the drive system, and not on electricity. The heater runs directly off of heat in the car's cooling system. Consequently, this development really has no impact on vehicle air conditioning or internal environment, with the exception of running a couple relays and a control circuit.
Let me adjust the placement of your head real quick, by asking, by your same logic, what ANY trojan horse program is doing with a virus signature... like netbus, back orifice, and the like? All of those have virus signatures in the popular virus scanners.
You say "Magic Lantern does not replicate"... well, neither do netbus and back orifice. You also say that "Magic Lantern is not designed to break the law[,] but to enforce it"... well, ANY tool that has legitimate uses (like remote administration tools) also has illegitimate uses. Are you saying that the FBI will NEVER abuse its power?
Don't be such a naive idiot. There is even question about whether or not Magic Lanter is even constitutional. Since when has intrusion without a warrant or wiretapping without a warrant EVER been legal in the U.S. before?
I guarantee you that if the major virus scanners don't look for it, you'll find someone else puts out a program that does.
Yeah, and there aren't many copies of netbus or back orifice in the wild, either.
Seriously, wait until someone gets a copy, disassembles it, and modifies it to suit them, instead.
but I am not allowed to sell you a lock pick.
Oh yeah? I bet you I can mail-order a lock-pick set tomorrow. Or find one at harbor freight tools.
Well, actually, I have spent days and days and days writing machine language. You should try it sometime.
The US should take a peak out to other countries in the world.
You're right, and I suggest we start with Mt. Hood, since it's in the state in question.
Where should we deliver it? Communist China? Or perhaps back in time to Nazi Germany?
After that, we take the peaks of Mt. Jefferson, Mt. Scott, Mt. McLaughlin, Mt. Washington, the Three Sisters, Mt. Bachelor, and Broken Top to various countries. (If these names sound familiar to you non-Oregonian/non northwesters, remember "volcano" easter egg in the M$ OpenGL text screensaver.)
In Oregon, things are different here...
But, I bet Tom McCall is stirring in his grave right now... with the potential of all those Californians becoming Oregonians via identity theft... who woulda thought they didn't even need to move here.
All this in the state that has Intel... hmmm.
Anyway, anyone remember the guy who tried to put the Oregon DMV driver record database online?
I was attempting to be sarcastic with the "for some reason"
You can bet Gary had a valid claim, and EVERYONE who ever programmed in both CP/M and MS-DOS (as I did) knew it.
But, the main point of my answer was to the "why does the $ mean anything" implication of the original poster.
The Z-80 softcard was one of THE coolest products for an Apple II. I have one, even the original documentation and diskettes.
I don't even need to look this one up... I still remember it. It's because CP/M BIOS call #9 which writes a string to a device, requires '$' terminated strings. In C, by contrast, the standard library wants '\0' terminated strings.
The answer lies in that MS-DOS has a set of INT 20h (or is it 21h?) function calls, the first several are damn near identical to CP/M, including #9, which, for some reason, wants '$' as the end-of-string terminator.
That is why.
I thought you were talking about the Fimbulwinter that precedes Ragnarok.
Anyway, wait until someone ports some GNU utils to CP/M, makes a distro like "Green Beret CP/M" and RMS gets up and says... "Damnit, that's supposed to be 'GNU/CP/M.'"