"It's truly a wm worthy of standing side-by-side with Aqua in rootless mode."
Just try throwing that line into your next after-dinner party.
Extra points if you can keep a straight face , and saying it at LAN parties doesn't count:-)
Hmm... how about One Point Five Gigahertz processors?
Seventy Gigabyte drives?
Christ , I saw a ONE GIGABYTE SDRAM MODULE the other day! I just about peed my pants!
Beats the hell outta my p-90 with 8MB ram and 1GB drive I bought in early '95. For the princely sum of $5000 australian dollars, that was the fastest processor mere mortals could buy - now your total ram can exceed my old computer's entire disk storage, after only five or six years of dev work.
Just don't be so impatient - we've come a long way so far.
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50 Microsoft Exchange CALs
35 Microsoft SQL CALs
50 Microsoft Office Professional licenses
15 PC Anywhere licenses
Trouble getting hardware? That I can understand.
Trouble getting licenses?? That I cannot even comprehend under the present circumstance.
Screw the licenses. Get a CD burner - sort it out later.
Or :
Call Microsoft. Find Bill if you have to. Say "We're from the RED CROSS. We NEED X many licenses. NOW." Any company with any sort of humanity will do so, without argument.
Even if they had an accurate 20MT nuke to fire off at NORAD. For the simple reason that doing so pinpoints their exact location, which would then be passed to USAF and/or USN.
*cough* international waters *cough*
*cough* uninhabited islands *cough*
*cough* cheap diesel subs bought from china *cough*
Whole lotta ocean to fire that nuke from , you know.
Or perhaps just a Learjet with nuke attached.
You don't need to be to *close* to your target.
Christ , you don't need to be accurate with a 20MT warhead. An airburst at say 15 thousand feet just about *anywhere* in the U.S. does a lotta damage when you're talking about nuke-sized yields.
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And that's just Space Shuttle software... that doesn't help you email Granny.
How about:
1. Design shuttle software.
2. Launch said shuttle.
3. Deploy comms satellite.
4. Send email to granny via said comms sat.
Mind you, there could be a comparison to Microsoft there - Why build a shuttle to launch a sat when you could use a (relatively) cheap and (relatively) simple booster rocket launch?
(yes, I know the shuttle does more, but is it worth it to launch a sat? really?)
Nothing like publishing the names, email addresses and phone numbers of the winners.
Now every whacko who thought *they* should have won will be able to easily track their victim down and do unspeakable things to them. Or , at the very least ring and abuse them.
Or maybe they'll just get their details submitted to a few Consumer Marketing Databases and get phone calls and pr0n emailed to them for all eternity.
The lawyers, representing adobe, want to bill the uni for their services?
I'd tell em to get fucked and go and bill their corporate master, who presumably authorised their work.
Otherwise it'd be like...
"Ring" "Ring"
Me : "Hello?"
Them:"Hi we're from biglawyerfirm, and we're going to sue you for infringing trademark, but it'll cost you $2500 for us to draw up the paperwork to do so."
Me: "What!?! $2500! For you to harass me!? No!"
Them: "Er, ok, don't worry about it then, sorry to have bothered you"
Or am I missing something here, and this is just normal (albeit pretty fucked up) legal practice?
I try at least a few times a week to go through my firewall logs and fish out the port 139 probes.
Using the conclusion that if their computer is scanning me on these ports without their knowlegde (hey, not *everybody's* a script kiddie knowingly) I then fire windows explorer up and attempt to connect to the IP with SMB.
If I connect, I check out their shares and if there is a printer available, I install it on my system then print them a message. If I can't find a printer, I drop them a text file in their startup folder.
Normally something like :
HEY YOU!
YES YOU!
Your computer is insecure!
Shame on you for exposing this computer to the perils of the internet!
Boooh! Booooooooooooooh!:-)
It tried to access my computer(s) , but got blocked by our server firewall.
So , In the spirit of goodness etc, I have accessed your computer (as identified in my server logs) and have placed this file in your startup folder to alert you of this problem.
If you have not been trying to actively access my computer, I'd suggest you get a *good* virus scanner and *SCAN* you computer, as there are all sorts of deviant virii that spread in three easy steps, as outlined below :
1) Scanning networks for insecure computers
2) Copying themselves to said insecure computers
3) Repeating the process ad nauseum.
I noticed a file called 'network.vbs' in your 'C:\' folder. *network.vbs is a virus*
The fun thing about network.vbs is that no user intervention is required. If you are on the internet and sharing your 'C' drive to the rest of the world, it'll just hop on over to your system and copy itself about all over the place, sending out little probes to other computers... and so on. This virii is reletively harmless, but the next one.. well, who knows?
Anyways, you most definitely should figure out a way to restrict access to your computer from the internet. I'd suggest unplugging it at present, or at *least* make your shared drives read - only. Preferably *BEFORE* the next person comes along and downloads your data and erases your computer.
So, to reiterate :
DISCONNECT YOUR COMPUTER FROM THE INTERNET
SCAN YOUR COMPUTER FOR VIRII
GET SOMEONE TO SECURE YOUR COMPUTER FROM THE INTERNET
Sorry if all this freaks you out - you (or your lawyers:-) can drop me a note at (my email address) for more info.
Anyway, my job here is done. Toodle-oo!
I find this passes the time nicely on those slow afternoons.
I had a user of a computer I dropped this note onto get in touch, and he said I shoulda seen the look on his face when this note came out his laser printer.
He has secured his system now:-)
Just doing my little bit to help:-) ** Windows has detected a mouse movement.
For god's sake, won't *somebody* think of the children!
Poor little helpless souls, just think of the extra money a family could spend on their children , if only online gambling was banned FOREVER!
Oh wait.
There's poker machines and keno in just about every pub in.au , lottery draws on the TV 3 days a week, the TAB has a phone betting service, you can buy scratch and win (lose?) tickets at every newsagent in town, and they've *gasp* banned internet gambling.
Hypocritical bastard politicians - more concerned about the tax drain and Big Business than people's quality of life.
Most aussies would prefer to head off down to the track, or the pub, or the TAB and socialise whilst blowing the family life savings.
Just another thing that makes me wish that shock collars could be fitted to all politicians.
Hey, maybe we could activate them via the internet? It'd be great!
Politician on TV - "I think the internet is evil and we should censor..*bZzZzZzT*,er monitor.. *BzZzZzZzT*, ah, review... *BZZZZZZZZZT* The internet is good! The internet is good!"
Two points :
Point 1
I used to have an ericsson analog (AMPS) phone, and used to call home from a contractors camp once a day, for about 30 minutes. I found that after 30 minutes of chitchat, I'd get a bit of a headache - nothing spectacular, just a dull throb, but the fact was - no call home, no headache. Then one day I was sitting in the metal door frame of my room, talking on the phone - I rested my hand against the doorframe , and got a tingle. I expermiented a bit :
Talk - tingle
Talk, talk - tingle, tingle
I decided not to use the phone after that.
I now use a cdma phone, and only with a car kit with a big-ass antenna way out on the back of the car.
Point 2
With all the talk about non-ionising radiation from cellphones being just that and being harmless (except for heating effects), I'd like to put forward the point that a few chemical reactions in the body work very well using non-ionising radiation as a catylst. How your eyes work is one good example. Eyes work by light striking rods and cones at the back of your eye and causing chemical chain reactions which send a message to your brain saying "Hey! a few photons just hit me!"
These photons are non-ionising (being just normal visible light), but still do the job just fine thanks. How many more chemical reactions in your body could be susceptible to such things?
So, I don't know about you, but if something gives me a headache after use, and "they":-) say it's completely "safe", I'll think I'll stick with my judgement and avoid the headaches.
Oh, I don't know - you could also present the argument that if ther *was* an accident with another space group, that NASA would get a fair bit of extra work out of it ("Those NASA fellows know their safety" etc etc)
Anyway, most people have a fair idea that space is hazardous. Anyone who tells me that accelerating to orbital velocity on the top of a gigantic chemical reaction is safe will get the "keep smiling, don't make eye contact, back away slowly" treatment from me.
Assuming that you do modify the base Linux operating system, you will have a maintenance cost to synchronize your changes when the new Linux kernel is released. As new releases of the base operating system come out, you have to spend the time, money, and effort to incorporate any custom changes that you made to the prior operating system into the new release if you want to upgrade. You then have to go through the effort of testing your custom code changes to the operating system all over again to make sure that it will work with the latest release the same way it did before.
For every release that comes out, this cycle repeats.
That is of course only true if you want to upgrade. Somewhere I remember reading Linus' comment on this which ran something like "No-one's forcing you to upgrade. If your happy with a 1.x kernel, fine!" New kernels generally have new features, but the older series are still in use. Personally , if I was building a POS system, and 2.0.38(39?) suited my needs, then that's what I'd use.
It seems people have such a different mindset when it comes to software. If it works well, then use it. The first thing you should be saying when you think about upgrading your software is "Do I really need to upgrade?" If you need to, then fine! If not, just take it easy and save yourself the hassle (and the money. and the time.)
"Virtually every vital service- water supply, transportation, energy, banking and finance, telecommunications, public health -- all of these rely upon computers and fiber optic lines, switches and the routers that connect them. Corrupt those networks and you distrupt this nation."
What crap. This type of statement really pisses me off. "Oh God! The computers have failed! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!"
Your water utility or sewage treament plant on the net? I doubt it. Power plant controls accessable to a "malicious hacker"? I don't frickin think so. You'd have to rip out a lotta network before you trash every vital service in the country.
Come off it. Yes, they (might) have private networks. It would also be a damn sight easier to interrupt any one of them with plain a ol' "spanner in the works" (ie bomb,vandalism) than to try and and disrupt them via their computer net. One seems to forget that such places have something called "Manual Control". No doubt a pain-in-the-ass, have-to-have-persons-watching-all-the-time manual control, but still one none the less.
I doubt very much that any critical systems (that is , power/water/telcomms/banking) would be getting their updates from Microsoft Update either.
Did anyone else note the fact that the linked article was pretty much aimed at two-year olds?
I hearby submit a replacement sales pitch :
Hi!
We're a company that sells widgets that can send data over the ionised trails that meteors leave as they enter the atmosphere! Please, read the following questions before contacting us:
"What the heck does I-yon-ised mean?"
"What's a meet-e-yor shower?"
"What does a footprint have to do with comms?"
"What does line-of-sight mean?"
If you don't know the answer to the above questions, what the hell are you doing?
If you're thinking of buying a comms system and you need to look up the meaning of words like those above, Stop Now.
For the love of all the technical people out there, go find someone smarter than you (if you need to ask questions like those above, it won't be hard). Trust their advice. Give them money. Let them think about it. Let them do the job. Relax in the knowledge that someone smarter is in control of the situation.
Just keep the hell away from it, and above all don't bug the smart people about it.
Probably need a lot less technical support in the world if all companies used sales pitches like that.
Joy. Just what I need. Let's see now.. "many consumers simply give up, leaving a full shopping cart." "Ok, I'll have that, and that and ok now to purchase... what? I have to fill out my name address and CC number? nah, forget it." People who give up when confronted with a request for 3 pieces of information must lazy in the extreme. Besides, I like to do things like misspell my address (a little bit!) and then see how much junk mail arrives with that address:) "The sites must also post a link to their policy from their front page, so that consumers have an easy time finding the policy if they want to review it. " And how many people who can't be bothered filling in thos pesky online forms are going to follow some (no doubt tiny) link and read through 15 pages of a vendors privacy statement? Not too many. Oh well.. same ol' "yadda-yadda-yadda-embrace-extend-assimilate-yadda -yadda-yadda" from microsoft.
I'll keep my demographics and CC details with me,thanks.
Heh,all we need now is a quick hack to put all that processing power and memory to use when your not a-quaking. Lessee now , a quick rc5 algorithm made out of graphics transforms , how hard can that be? Slip a couple of these cards in , and you're up there with the best of em!
Is it really a good idea cracking keys and looking for et's on an overclocked box? I remember reading an article(a how-to? I don't recall) where the author did a couple of fractals and could find a few tiny miscalcs. I can just see it now...
*number crunching noises from happy o/c'd cpu's*
setiathome scans: Greetingd earkhoslkings ! takiwe me to ykhour leahjhgyder! Nah, just static:-) . Keep looking...
rc5 decrypts : The secret massage us : Nope, that aint the key *sigh* keep searching..
The above examples are just that;), I humbly admit to greatly simplifying the above two programs' operations... but you get the point.
I can't speak from any overclocking experience myself, frickin' MII's are a little unstable at their rated speed anyway... and whose to say intel aren't that good with their overclocking? Remember the fdiv bug? Intel : "Ohyeh,well, its very rare etc." Now that everyone's into number-crunching, who's to say it's not happening now?
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Such short memories people have ...
DataPlay - Flash Killer or Copy-Control Nightmare?
Posted 21 Feb 2001.
Just try throwing that line into your next after-dinner party.
Extra points if you can keep a straight face , and saying it at LAN parties doesn't count
From the article:
:-p
"They hit on something really, really, really, really big."
Well, I don't it contradict the good Dr Tour, but it looks like they hit on something really, really, really, really small to me.
But of course, I Am Not A Quantum Physicist, so perhaps I'm missing some detail
Hmm... how about One Point Five Gigahertz processors?
Seventy Gigabyte drives?
Christ , I saw a ONE GIGABYTE SDRAM MODULE the other day! I just about peed my pants!
Beats the hell outta my p-90 with 8MB ram and 1GB drive I bought in early '95. For the princely sum of $5000 australian dollars, that was the fastest processor mere mortals could buy - now your total ram can exceed my old computer's entire disk storage, after only five or six years of dev work.
Just don't be so impatient - we've come a long way so far.
This does the trick for me - you will have to change where the counter files goes, but that's about it.
/home/apache/logs/access_log | wc -l > /home/apache/htdocs/coderedcount
/home/apache/logs/access_log | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -l > /home/apache/htdocs/nimbdacount
:-)
#!/bin/sh
grep default.ida
grep "winnt"
Enjoy the show
50 Microsoft Exchange CALs
35 Microsoft SQL CALs
50 Microsoft Office Professional licenses
15 PC Anywhere licenses
Trouble getting hardware? That I can understand.
Trouble getting licenses?? That I cannot even comprehend under the present circumstance.
Screw the licenses. Get a CD burner - sort it out later.
Or :
Call Microsoft. Find Bill if you have to. Say "We're from the RED CROSS. We NEED X many licenses. NOW." Any company with any sort of humanity will do so, without argument.
*cough* international waters *cough*
*cough* uninhabited islands *cough*
*cough* cheap diesel subs bought from china *cough*
Whole lotta ocean to fire that nuke from , you know.
Or perhaps just a Learjet with nuke attached.
You don't need to be to *close* to your target.
Christ , you don't need to be accurate with a 20MT warhead. An airburst at say 15 thousand feet just about *anywhere* in the U.S. does a lotta damage when you're talking about nuke-sized yields.
And that's just Space Shuttle software... that doesn't help you email Granny.
:
How about
1. Design shuttle software.
2. Launch said shuttle.
3. Deploy comms satellite.
4. Send email to granny via said comms sat.
Mind you, there could be a comparison to Microsoft there - Why build a shuttle to launch a sat when you could use a (relatively) cheap and (relatively) simple booster rocket launch?
(yes, I know the shuttle does more, but is it worth it to launch a sat? really?)
Who needs LILO?
Check out the linuxbios home page
Cold Boot to single-user in under 3 seconds.
Yeah Baby!
"Hi, how are you today?"
"Poop!"
"Poop? I don't quite understand what you are trying to say."
"Pee-pee!"
"Indeed."
So, which one's the computer?
Sounds just like a normal slashdot discussion to me.
Nothing like publishing the names, email addresses and phone numbers of the winners.
Now every whacko who thought *they* should have won will be able to easily track their victim down and do unspeakable things to them. Or , at the very least ring and abuse them.
Or maybe they'll just get their details submitted to a few Consumer Marketing Databases and get phone calls and pr0n emailed to them for all eternity.
** Windows has detected a mouse movement.
WTF?
:"Hi we're from biglawyerfirm, and we're going to sue you for infringing trademark, but it'll cost you $2500 for us to draw up the paperwork to do so."
The lawyers, representing adobe, want to bill the uni for their services?
I'd tell em to get fucked and go and bill their corporate master, who presumably authorised their work.
Otherwise it'd be like...
"Ring" "Ring"
Me : "Hello?"
Them
Me: "What!?! $2500! For you to harass me!? No!"
Them: "Er, ok, don't worry about it then, sorry to have bothered you"
Or am I missing something here, and this is just normal (albeit pretty fucked up) legal practice?
** Windows has detected a mouse movement.
Using the conclusion that if their computer is scanning me on these ports without their knowlegde (hey, not *everybody's* a script kiddie knowingly) I then fire windows explorer up and attempt to connect to the IP with SMB.
If I connect, I check out their shares and if there is a printer available, I install it on my system then print them a message. If I can't find a printer, I drop them a text file in their startup folder.
Normally something like :
I find this passes the time nicely on those slow afternoons.
I had a user of a computer I dropped this note onto get in touch, and he said I shoulda seen the look on his face when this note came out his laser printer.
He has secured his system now
Just doing my little bit to help
** Windows has detected a mouse movement.
For god's sake, won't *somebody* think of the children!
.au , lottery draws on the TV 3 days a week, the TAB has a phone betting service, you can buy scratch and win (lose?) tickets at every newsagent in town, and they've *gasp* banned internet gambling.
..*bZzZzZzT* ,er monitor.. *BzZzZzZzT*, ah, review ... *BZZZZZZZZZT* The internet is good! The internet is good!"
Poor little helpless souls, just think of the extra money a family could spend on their children , if only online gambling was banned FOREVER!
Oh wait.
There's poker machines and keno in just about every pub in
Hypocritical bastard politicians - more concerned about the tax drain and Big Business than people's quality of life.
Most aussies would prefer to head off down to the track, or the pub, or the TAB and socialise whilst blowing the family life savings.
Just another thing that makes me wish that shock collars could be fitted to all politicians.
Hey, maybe we could activate them via the internet? It'd be great!
Politician on TV - "I think the internet is evil and we should censor
A man can dream, can't he?
** Windows has detected a mouse movement.
Two points :
:-) say it's completely "safe", I'll think I'll stick with my judgement and avoid the headaches.
Point 1
I used to have an ericsson analog (AMPS) phone, and used to call home from a contractors camp once a day, for about 30 minutes. I found that after 30 minutes of chitchat, I'd get a bit of a headache - nothing spectacular, just a dull throb, but the fact was - no call home, no headache. Then one day I was sitting in the metal door frame of my room, talking on the phone - I rested my hand against the doorframe , and got a tingle. I expermiented a bit :
Talk - tingle
Talk, talk - tingle, tingle
I decided not to use the phone after that.
I now use a cdma phone, and only with a car kit with a big-ass antenna way out on the back of the car.
Point 2
With all the talk about non-ionising radiation from cellphones being just that and being harmless (except for heating effects), I'd like to put forward the point that a few chemical reactions in the body work very well using non-ionising radiation as a catylst. How your eyes work is one good example. Eyes work by light striking rods and cones at the back of your eye and causing chemical chain reactions which send a message to your brain saying "Hey! a few photons just hit me!"
These photons are non-ionising (being just normal visible light), but still do the job just fine thanks. How many more chemical reactions in your body could be susceptible to such things?
So, I don't know about you, but if something gives me a headache after use, and "they"
** Windows has detected a mouse movement.
You'd get a cluster that emulates slashdot :
75% 'frist p0sts'
23% 'goatse.cx'links
1.5% reposts
0.5% uninformed speculation
0% work done.
** Windows has detected a mouse movement.
Oh, I don't know - you could also present the argument that if ther *was* an accident with another space group, that NASA would get a fair bit of extra work out of it ("Those NASA fellows know their safety" etc etc)
Anyway, most people have a fair idea that space is hazardous. Anyone who tells me that accelerating to orbital velocity on the top of a gigantic chemical reaction is safe will get the "keep smiling, don't make eye contact, back away slowly" treatment from me.
** Windows has detected a mouse movement.
An "an elite few?" How about we replace that with "Some Poor Bastards?"
I can just see it...
(Two NASA engineers are watching another shuttle landing from the observation deck, doing good impersonations of slack-jawed yokels)
Bob: "Looks like the shuttle made it back again in one piece, Joe."
Joe: "(Sigh) Well, you know what that means , Bob."
(Both men pull out 1.2M item checklist, and trudge towards shuttle.)
** Windows has detected a mouse movement.
That is of course only true if you want to upgrade. Somewhere I remember reading Linus' comment on this which ran something like "No-one's forcing you to upgrade. If your happy with a 1.x kernel, fine!" New kernels generally have new features, but the older series are still in use. Personally , if I was building a POS system, and 2.0.38(39?) suited my needs, then that's what I'd use.
It seems people have such a different mindset when it comes to software. If it works well, then use it. The first thing you should be saying when you think about upgrading your software is "Do I really need to upgrade?" If you need to, then fine! If not, just take it easy and save yourself the hassle (and the money. and the time.)
** Windows has detected a mouse movement.
Yawn.
"Virtually every vital service- water supply, transportation, energy, banking and finance, telecommunications, public health -- all of these rely upon computers and fiber optic lines, switches and the routers that connect them. Corrupt those networks and you distrupt this nation."
What crap. This type of statement really pisses me off. "Oh God! The computers have failed! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!"
Your water utility or sewage treament plant on the net? I doubt it. Power plant controls accessable to a "malicious hacker"? I don't frickin think so. You'd have to rip out a lotta network before you trash every vital service in the country.
Come off it. Yes, they (might) have private networks. It would also be a damn sight easier to interrupt any one of them with plain a ol' "spanner in the works" (ie bomb,vandalism) than to try and and disrupt them via their computer net. One seems to forget that such places have something called "Manual Control". No doubt a pain-in-the-ass, have-to-have-persons-watching-all-the-time manual control, but still one none the less.
I doubt very much that any critical systems (that is , power/water/telcomms/banking) would be getting their updates from Microsoft Update either.
Such scaremongering makes me sick.
I hearby submit a replacement sales pitch :
Probably need a lot less technical support in the world if all companies used sales pitches like that.
Perhaps the best song that I heard to describe corporations and industrialisation in general was with Dire Straits' Industrial Disease
:-)
I guess I just kinda struck a chord with me
Joy. Just what I need. :)a -yadda-yadda" from microsoft.
,thanks.
Let's see now..
"many consumers simply give up, leaving a full shopping cart."
"Ok, I'll have that, and that and ok now to purchase... what? I have to fill out my name address and CC number? nah, forget it."
People who give up when confronted with a request for 3 pieces of information must lazy in the extreme.
Besides, I like to do things like misspell my address (a little bit!) and then see how much junk mail arrives with that address
"The sites must also post a link to their policy from their front page, so that consumers have an easy time finding the policy if they want to review it. "
And how many people who can't be bothered filling in thos pesky online forms are going to follow some (no doubt tiny) link and read through 15 pages of a vendors privacy statement? Not too many.
Oh well.. same ol' "yadda-yadda-yadda-embrace-extend-assimilate-yadd
I'll keep my demographics and CC details with me
I just had to say it.
Heh,all we need now is a quick hack to put all that processing power and memory to use when your not a-quaking. Lessee now , a quick rc5 algorithm made out of graphics transforms , how hard can that be? Slip a couple of these cards in , and you're up there with the best of em!
Is it really a good idea cracking keys and looking for et's on an overclocked box? I remember reading an article(a how-to? I don't recall) where the author did a couple of fractals and could find a few tiny miscalcs. I can just see it now...
:-) . Keep looking...
;), I humbly admit to greatly simplifying the above two programs' operations... but you get the point.
,well, its very rare etc." Now that everyone's into number-crunching, who's to say it's not happening now?
*number crunching noises from happy o/c'd cpu's*
setiathome scans: Greetingd earkhoslkings ! takiwe me to ykhour leahjhgyder!
Nah, just static
rc5 decrypts : The secret massage us :
Nope, that aint the key *sigh* keep searching..
The above examples are just that
I can't speak from any overclocking experience myself, frickin' MII's are a little unstable at their rated speed anyway... and whose to say intel aren't that good with their overclocking? Remember the fdiv bug? Intel : "Ohyeh
Just a few stray thoughts...