I have a Netscreen 5GT-Wireless which lets me setup more than one SSID, plus rate limit and control services.
I have our home ESSID which is WPA2 protected and has no limits on it.
I have another SSID called "Free Web And Email" which is limited to 256kb/s and only allows DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, POP3, SMTP, Secure SMTP, IMAP and IMAPs.
Lots of people connect to it and use it for exactly it's name. It's rate limited so that they can't take all our BW and it's port limited so they don't ruin it for the others connected to the Free AP by running Bittorrent etc. Though its limitations obviously wouldn't stop clever people.
I'm amazed at how many people connect to it on a regular basis. There's a few people that obviously use it for all their Internet requirements, while I get a lot of random connects to it as well.
It's also handy for my PSP, which doesn't understand WPA2.
I think handing our Free Wifi is a great idea, though I'd be loath to do it without being able to have good control over it as I do. I wouldn't do it with a simple AP that gave me no control.
When I break up, I tell my friends privately on the phone. I don't take an ad out in the public notices for my friends to check on when they want to...
When you break up, you tell your friends, eventually. You might ring them and let them know, they might ring you and ask how things are and you tell them.
However, you don't get all your friends on a Telephone conference call and say "My girlfriend and I broke up, thanks!", or take out an ad in the local paper saying "Attn to all my friends: I broke up!"
That's the situation here. Yes, it's public info. People want it to be public (so I don't think your arguement stands up) They would just rather people find things out because they want to find out, not because it's flashed in front of them.
Seriously, this is not that hard of a concept. (Said only because you said it. See how much of it a dick it makes you sound?)
I live in New Zealand too (Auckland - what a hell hole though I'm in Napier at the moment)
My post was mostly joking, VF's cell handoff is a lot better than it used to be a couple of years ago. Most problems also were nothing to do with the GSM protocol and more to do with coverage (at least according to what people have told me, I don't claim to be authoritive on this!)
As for your FTP, it's interesting. I work with IP/switched networks for my job, I'm not 100% sure how that should work. I'd think your mac address would appear in two places (the old AP and the new) which probably confuses the ethernet switch.
If the network is something like cafenet, you probably have to wait for the AP to check your MAC address is authorised, that might cause previous sessions to be dropped.
Interesting though, I'll have to look up on how a network should handle what you've mentioned. As long as there's nothing too tricky going on at layer2 (and the old AP doesn't keep the mac address around for ages) I can't see why it wouldn't work.
First of all, there's libsafe which is just a simple compile and install. Seeing as we don't know much about your specific problem, I'm not sure if it'll help.
Second to try is compiling your own custom kernel with the GrSecurity kernel patch. It has as part of it the PaX kernel patch which is very effective at protecting against overflows. You could even just install the PaX kernel patch itself, but I believe the version in GrSecurity is kept more up-to-date. You can compile it with protection turned off by default, but using the PaX tools turn on protection for just the binaries you wish to check.
Installing either (or both) of these could well help you, without the need to blow away your current install and start fresh.
It came with Ridge Racer as part of the bundle, so I actually own 2 (in words: two) games and I am happy with my purchase!
I would not say I am stinking rich by any measure, but the PSP wasn't a terrible tax on the wallet because I shopped around for ages and eventually got one duty free.
I don't play it that much, I would say probably 2 or 3 hours a week tops. Mostly I use it while waiting for stuff (in the care while waiting for GF to come out of work, while sitting in the laundrymat waiting for clothes to dry) so two games keeps me entertained. While at home I have my PS2 so I play that and keep the PSP for when I'm out of the house.
If you played Lumines I'm sure you'd see why it's so easy to just keep returning to it. It's like Tetris, but better!
Why do you need more than 1 (very good) game to be happy with a system? I'll get bored with it sooner or later and will then go out and buy another game.
Lumines. It's the only game I've bought so far and both myself and my girlfriend are terribly addicted.
I must be the only person on Slashdot who bought a PSP and is happy with it as is. I don't care for modding it, hell I don't even care for watching movies on it. I got it only to play games and that's something it does very well.
Given the price difference between the PSP and the DS, I can see why the DS is doing a much better job. Plus I do think that the DS has more games that are good. The PSP certainly has some cracker games though, GTA being another.
You upgraded to 7-zip 4.30 and it goes werid Go into 7-zip and reassociate all the file extensions. You might just have to untick and retick a box, then click apply.
To me the biggest way to put the brakes on a new system is to install Anti-Virus software. Also programs that install new associations or things in the right-click context menu don't help much either.
Yea, but it's usually pretty obvious when a machine's been rebooted, or had all it's binaries deleted/replaced etc.
I'm talking about stealth takeover of a running system, not blind ownership of one.
Using the ACL system of GrSec you make it so that root has no access to do any of the things you mentioned.
Regardless, you missed my main point - That it's also possible to hide in a stealthy manner on a standard linux distribution. GrSec helps prevent that, but I'm by no means saying once it's installed you're totally protected from everything.
If you have something like it installed though (and it's not the only solution, there's similar ones, SE Linux, LIDS etc) then it makes it that much harder for the kiddie that got root via a simple ssh exploit to install a hidden backdoor into your system. If someone's really determined it's probably not going to stop them, but it's certainly another layer of protection. How can that be a lost cause?
Last question - What the hell's DRM got to do with my post? I never mentioned it.
You realise that because most distributions use modules, that a clever hacker (who's already got root) can easily install a root kit on your machine that cloaks itself, via good ol' insmod.
I'm a big supporter of Windows alternatives, but most are open to this type of attack too you know, it's not just Windows specific.
This is one reason I build all of my kernel images with the grsecurity patch and not using modules. I compile a static kernel only (no module support) and grsec patches the kernel to make it that much harder to insert running code into it (via/dev/mem,/dev/kmem,/dev/port)
I agree with your main point, my trust in the AV vendors has gone down a great deal. It's hard to detect, but that's what we're paying them for!
Why don't you install yourself a nice Kernel with grsecurity.
Using it's permissions system, you can allow root to login and do whatever you'd like, you but can set grsec so that only certain other groups/systems are able to view/run etc your perl code.
The permissions system is very configurable and it's a steep learning curve with not a real lot of documentation. But playing with it for a few days should get you all figured out.
Using grsec it's possible to allow root to login and really do zero damage, it's a great system. I don't think any Linux box should be allowed on the 'net without this patch! There are other systems (SeLinux) that offer the same sort of thing, so if GrSec isn't quite what you need be sure to look at the others.
Using a system like this means all those "they have root forget about it" isn't true anymore, you can configure it so root can do very little damage to the working system, but still have access to edit all those files the normal pleb user accounts can't.
Probably because there's little content (at least in the wider public) in that format? I'd never heard of it until you mentioned it. I'm not sure what the entry criteria is for a codec to make it in though, because there's quite a few in it already I've not really heard or ever needed.
I don't know about windows reinstalls just for a codec pack? I'd used some terrible codec packs before K-Lite and some of them did mess up pretty bad and that's why I praise this one so highly, it's never given me any grief. The few times I have uninstalled it, it's removed everything cleanly.
You're right in that installing all those codecs is really overkill, but don't forget that installing this codec pack also allows you to *encode* as well as decode, something neither MPC or ffdshow will do. As I understand it you also get the visual quality benefit of each seperate decoder, as opposed to ffdshow that just decodes them all as mpeg4. Fro Joe average that's probably not a concern either.
You're right that the DVD Decoder in K-Lite isn't legal, something I probably should have pointed out in my original post.
I use and recommend to everyone the K-Lite Codec Pack for all your Windows Media needs.
Along with everything else, the Mega Codec Pack includes "Windows Media Player Classic" which despite the name isn't anything to do with Microsoft, though it does clone the interface of Media Player version 6.
I carry the Mega Codec pack around with me on a USB Stick, you can install just one thing or you can install everything. Media Player Classic has built in support for a lot of things (I think including DVD Playback) so I'm sure it'll fit your needs exactly. If it doesn't by itself, the Mega Codec Pack includes plugins for just about any codec you'd ever need, including a DVD Decoder.
I really can't recommend the family of K-Lite codec packs enough, especially the Mega becasue you don't need to install Real Player or Quicktime anymore! It'll install cut down versions of them that have just the bare bones dll's, enough for MPC to play Quicktime/Real clips without needing all the bloat those programs bring on their own.
Give the site a look over, I'm sure it's probably what you're looking for. The Mega pack might be overkill for you, but Media Player Classic I think suits the bill perfectly.
Tim
[Sorry for the double post, I accidently posted this without being logged in. Duh]
Do they think that com.com is cool? Personally I think it makes them look very stupid, I'm curious what others think? I wrote them an email me asking them why they do it, I doubt I'll get a response though.
Back to the viewer though, it looks very fancy and all but how much practical application does it have? How many people care a story has a thin link to another story because they both were sniffed at by Yahoo last week?
Not to knock it though, it seems to work well. I think it's got more of a "wow" factor than a real use. Looks nice though!
I agree, 128kbps MP3s are rather pointless these days, but can you honestly tell me you can hear a difference between a pure.wav rip and a.wav converted to an MP3 using lame's "--preset standard" BR encoding?
That's how I rip all my MP3s and I've done some (very unscientific) tests with a few people to see if they can tell the difference. No one can.
Now, lets not even get started on the better formats that are available (of course there is) because like it or not, MP3 is the defacto compressed audio standard.
I'd rather have my music compressed on my iPod, that way I can use the extra space for storing backups of my personal files.
Spyware is like all the crap that clogs up your oil filter and your fuel filter.
You usually don't care about that though (even though it's slowing you car down and costing you more money) and when finally your car won't go anymore, you take it to the mechanic who looks at you and goes "What the hell is wrong with you, did you ever change the oil?"
Any maybe you, personally, do change your own oil and brakepads etc, but most geeks I would wager don't. How is it different?
Spyware is a problem, but I can see why people don't care. Their computer "works" mostly for them, sure it's a bit slow but they don't understand the technical stuff and they don't want to.
You look down your nose at the stupid mechanic that has 20 bits of spyware on his PC, but he thinks you're equally stupid for driving a car with a dodgy CV joint, clogged fuel filter and rusting radiator.
We're all good at something, but please don't look down on others because they don't understand what you do.
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Until someone comes along who's running Redhat.
When did you last use it? I haven't seen any problems such as this while I've been using it.
Do you have a lot of other addons installed, maybe there's a conflict going on.
It's just above the zoom in and out slider, a little round circle in a square (with cut off corners). Or just below the hand with the four arrows.
Click that and a bar will appear at the top of firefox and ask if it's ok to share your location.
Hope this helps.
I have a Netscreen 5GT-Wireless which lets me setup more than one SSID, plus rate limit and control services.
I have our home ESSID which is WPA2 protected and has no limits on it.
I have another SSID called "Free Web And Email" which is limited to 256kb/s and only allows DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, POP3, SMTP, Secure SMTP, IMAP and IMAPs.
Lots of people connect to it and use it for exactly it's name. It's rate limited so that they can't take all our BW and it's port limited so they don't ruin it for the others connected to the Free AP by running Bittorrent etc. Though its limitations obviously wouldn't stop clever people.
I'm amazed at how many people connect to it on a regular basis. There's a few people that obviously use it for all their Internet requirements, while I get a lot of random connects to it as well.
It's also handy for my PSP, which doesn't understand WPA2.
I think handing our Free Wifi is a great idea, though I'd be loath to do it without being able to have good control over it as I do. I wouldn't do it with a simple AP that gave me no control.
heh. Don't get me wrong, I hate these social networking sites myself. I'm not sticking up for them at all.
Anyway, I realise I was wrong, as already pointed out quite cleary by a couple of people.
Damnit. I have to admit, I see your point.
When I break up, I tell my friends privately on the phone. I don't take an ad out in the public notices for my friends to check on when they want to...
I was wrong!
Tim
I don't agree with you I'm sorry.
When you break up, you tell your friends, eventually. You might ring them and let them know, they might ring you and ask how things are and you tell them.
However, you don't get all your friends on a Telephone conference call and say "My girlfriend and I broke up, thanks!", or take out an ad in the local paper saying "Attn to all my friends: I broke up!"
That's the situation here. Yes, it's public info. People want it to be public (so I don't think your arguement stands up) They would just rather people find things out because they want to find out, not because it's flashed in front of them.
Seriously, this is not that hard of a concept. (Said only because you said it. See how much of it a dick it makes you sound?)
I live in New Zealand too (Auckland - what a hell hole though I'm in Napier at the moment)
My post was mostly joking, VF's cell handoff is a lot better than it used to be a couple of years ago. Most problems also were nothing to do with the GSM protocol and more to do with coverage (at least according to what people have told me, I don't claim to be authoritive on this!)
As for your FTP, it's interesting. I work with IP/switched networks for my job, I'm not 100% sure how that should work. I'd think your mac address would appear in two places (the old AP and the new) which probably confuses the ethernet switch.
If the network is something like cafenet, you probably have to wait for the AP to check your MAC address is authorised, that might cause previous sessions to be dropped.
Interesting though, I'll have to look up on how a network should handle what you've mentioned. As long as there's nothing too tricky going on at layer2 (and the old AP doesn't keep the mac address around for ages) I can't see why it wouldn't work.
The cell phone conversation is not dropped when the switch between cellular network and WiFi hotspot takes place.
:)
Don't make me laugh. Mobile carriers still can't even get this right with GSM!
"That's good," he said. "This is seamless handover. The voice didn't drop. Nothing bad happened."
Anyone else get the impression Nokia Man sounded just as shocked as I am?
[I'm just having a bit of fun - Don't take this post seriously!]
First of all, there's libsafe which is just a simple compile and install. Seeing as we don't know much about your specific problem, I'm not sure if it'll help.
Second to try is compiling your own custom kernel with the GrSecurity kernel patch. It has as part of it the PaX kernel patch which is very effective at protecting against overflows. You could even just install the PaX kernel patch itself, but I believe the version in GrSecurity is kept more up-to-date. You can compile it with protection turned off by default, but using the PaX tools turn on protection for just the binaries you wish to check.
Installing either (or both) of these could well help you, without the need to blow away your current install and start fresh.
It came with Ridge Racer as part of the bundle, so I actually own 2 (in words: two) games and I am happy with my purchase!
I would not say I am stinking rich by any measure, but the PSP wasn't a terrible tax on the wallet because I shopped around for ages and eventually got one duty free.
I don't play it that much, I would say probably 2 or 3 hours a week tops. Mostly I use it while waiting for stuff (in the care while waiting for GF to come out of work, while sitting in the laundrymat waiting for clothes to dry) so two games keeps me entertained. While at home I have my PS2 so I play that and keep the PSP for when I'm out of the house.
If you played Lumines I'm sure you'd see why it's so easy to just keep returning to it. It's like Tetris, but better!
Why do you need more than 1 (very good) game to be happy with a system? I'll get bored with it sooner or later and will then go out and buy another game.
Tim
Lumines. It's the only game I've bought so far and both myself and my girlfriend are terribly addicted.
I must be the only person on Slashdot who bought a PSP and is happy with it as is. I don't care for modding it, hell I don't even care for watching movies on it. I got it only to play games and that's something it does very well.
Given the price difference between the PSP and the DS, I can see why the DS is doing a much better job. Plus I do think that the DS has more games that are good. The PSP certainly has some cracker games though, GTA being another.
You upgraded to 7-zip 4.30 and it goes werid
:)
Go into 7-zip and reassociate all the file extensions. You might just have to untick and retick a box, then click apply.
This error will go away then.
Not a FF problem
I agree.
To me the biggest way to put the brakes on a new system is to install Anti-Virus software. Also programs that install new associations or things in the right-click context menu don't help much either.
Tim
Using the ACL system of GrSec you make it so that root has no access to do any of the things you mentioned.
Regardless, you missed my main point - That it's also possible to hide in a stealthy manner on a standard linux distribution. GrSec helps prevent that, but I'm by no means saying once it's installed you're totally protected from everything.
If you have something like it installed though (and it's not the only solution, there's similar ones, SE Linux, LIDS etc) then it makes it that much harder for the kiddie that got root via a simple ssh exploit to install a hidden backdoor into your system. If someone's really determined it's probably not going to stop them, but it's certainly another layer of protection. How can that be a lost cause?
Last question - What the hell's DRM got to do with my post? I never mentioned it.
You realise that because most distributions use modules, that a clever hacker (who's already got root) can easily install a root kit on your machine that cloaks itself, via good ol' insmod.
/dev/mem, /dev/kmem, /dev/port)
I'm a big supporter of Windows alternatives, but most are open to this type of attack too you know, it's not just Windows specific.
This is one reason I build all of my kernel images with the grsecurity patch and not using modules. I compile a static kernel only (no module support) and grsec patches the kernel to make it that much harder to insert running code into it (via
I agree with your main point, my trust in the AV vendors has gone down a great deal. It's hard to detect, but that's what we're paying them for!
Tim
Why don't you install yourself a nice Kernel with grsecurity.
Using it's permissions system, you can allow root to login and do whatever you'd like, you but can set grsec so that only certain other groups/systems are able to view/run etc your perl code.
The permissions system is very configurable and it's a steep learning curve with not a real lot of documentation. But playing with it for a few days should get you all figured out.
Using grsec it's possible to allow root to login and really do zero damage, it's a great system. I don't think any Linux box should be allowed on the 'net without this patch! There are other systems (SeLinux) that offer the same sort of thing, so if GrSec isn't quite what you need be sure to look at the others.
Using a system like this means all those "they have root forget about it" isn't true anymore, you can configure it so root can do very little damage to the working system, but still have access to edit all those files the normal pleb user accounts can't.
Tim
Well I stand corrected, thanks for pointing that out.
I'll hae to investigate ffdshow a bit more, see if it will replace my current use of K-Lite.
I doubt it, but we'll see!
Tim
Probably because there's little content (at least in the wider public) in that format?
I'd never heard of it until you mentioned it.
I'm not sure what the entry criteria is for a codec to make it in though, because there's quite a few in it already I've not really heard or ever needed.
I don't know about windows reinstalls just for a codec pack?
I'd used some terrible codec packs before K-Lite and some of them did mess up pretty bad and that's why I praise this one so highly, it's never given me any grief. The few times I have uninstalled it, it's removed everything cleanly.
You're right in that installing all those codecs is really overkill, but don't forget that installing this codec pack also allows you to *encode* as well as decode, something neither MPC or ffdshow will do. As I understand it you also get the visual quality benefit of each seperate decoder, as opposed to ffdshow that just decodes them all as mpeg4. Fro Joe average that's probably not a concern either.
You're right that the DVD Decoder in K-Lite isn't legal, something I probably should have pointed out in my original post.
Tim
I use and recommend to everyone the K-Lite Codec Pack for all your Windows Media needs.
Along with everything else, the Mega Codec Pack includes "Windows Media Player Classic" which despite the name isn't anything to do with Microsoft, though it does clone the interface of Media Player version 6.
I carry the Mega Codec pack around with me on a USB Stick, you can install just one thing or you can install everything. Media Player Classic has built in support for a lot of things (I think including DVD Playback) so I'm sure it'll fit your needs exactly. If it doesn't by itself, the Mega Codec Pack includes plugins for just about any codec you'd ever need, including a DVD Decoder.
I really can't recommend the family of K-Lite codec packs enough, especially the Mega becasue you don't need to install Real Player or Quicktime anymore! It'll install cut down versions of them that have just the bare bones dll's, enough for MPC to play Quicktime/Real clips without needing all the bloat those programs bring on their own.
Give the site a look over, I'm sure it's probably what you're looking for. The Mega pack might be overkill for you, but Media Player Classic I think suits the bill perfectly.
Tim
[Sorry for the double post, I accidently posted this without being logged in. Duh]
Yes, of course, I should have thought of that.
:)
The perfect way to own a bunch of different domains but tie them all in together.
Thanks for pointing out what should have been obvious to me
Why do they insist on using news.com.com
Do they think that com.com is cool? Personally I think it makes them look very stupid, I'm curious what others think?
I wrote them an email me asking them why they do it, I doubt I'll get a response though.
Back to the viewer though, it looks very fancy and all but how much practical application does it have? How many people care a story has a thin link to another story because they both were sniffed at by Yahoo last week?
Not to knock it though, it seems to work well. I think it's got more of a "wow" factor than a real use. Looks nice though!
Why not maximise the use of that storeage space?
.wav rip and a .wav converted to an MP3 using lame's "--preset standard" BR encoding?
I agree, 128kbps MP3s are rather pointless these days, but can you honestly tell me you can hear a difference between a pure
That's how I rip all my MP3s and I've done some (very unscientific) tests with a few people to see if they can tell the difference. No one can.
Now, lets not even get started on the better formats that are available (of course there is) because like it or not, MP3 is the defacto compressed audio standard.
I'd rather have my music compressed on my iPod, that way I can use the extra space for storing backups of my personal files.
Spyware is like all the crap that clogs up your oil filter and your fuel filter.
You usually don't care about that though (even though it's slowing you car down and costing you more money) and when finally your car won't go anymore, you take it to the mechanic who looks at you and goes "What the hell is wrong with you, did you ever change the oil?"
Any maybe you, personally, do change your own oil and brakepads etc, but most geeks I would wager don't. How is it different?
Spyware is a problem, but I can see why people don't care. Their computer "works" mostly for them, sure it's a bit slow but they don't understand the technical stuff and they don't want to.
You look down your nose at the stupid mechanic that has 20 bits of spyware on his PC, but he thinks you're equally stupid for driving a car with a dodgy CV joint, clogged fuel filter and rusting radiator.
We're all good at something, but please don't look down on others because they don't understand what you do.