I just sent (way late) email to the address provided. Although I can't go to NYC, I may be able to help making cables, give tech support, etc. But I can't help but think this is NOT the "average slashdot reader" that can help. Note the link below, Amazon's link to donate to the ARC:
The link above is associated with CoffeeCup Software (don't go there today - the second next-mentioned email was sent to 1,300,000 addresses and the effect shows) in that I was directed to it by way of an email subscription I have from trying some of their products on behalf of clients. Their CEO gave me a boost on the day of disaster with an email urging us to stay productive in order to not give the terrorists their intended results. Today, an offer for free software was given in return for including a link and banner on one's website.
The average/. reader is a non-m$, non-Citrix, Linux (I'll exchange "zealot" for) enthusiast, which by the content of the link from this article, would only be able to make cables and provide "spare" 3com and IBM stuff, as well as cellphones and other gear.
As stated above, I am offering free tech support on Windoze NT and 2000, as well as offering to make cables as long as the remnants of my CAT5 cable and ends hold out...but I need to know: why do I not see more MCSEs or Citrix Engineers participate in/. conversations? If they are there (lurking), maybe they are as sheepish as me to admit that they have to be main$tream.
If I'm wrong, flame me; at least reply with your thoughts. Next, I feel compelled to present:
Brigadier General John A. Brooks, USAF Retired passed away at 84 last Friday at 7:30 AM from a massive heart attack. He was standing up as he waited for the ambulance. A great man has passed - not important to most, but it is to me. Please check it out - tomorrow is his funeral. His family and I agree that it's good he wasn't watching CNN Tuesday. Yes, I know the site is amateurish and somewhat lame...but the USAF *was* going to do a fly-over tomorrow and send a color guard to the local VFW. Nix on both - they are not allowed to take rifles off-base, and the jets are needed elsewhere. At least a hundred of his friends and family cannot attend because of restictions on commercial aviation. =(
Geez - yer spelling. Maybe I'm not an accepted/. person, but at least you could learn to edit! I AM ANAL.(retentive) and expect web publishers to at least get the basic shit right.
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I agree - the coverage was on the ball - althought I think that the usual/. banter could have been delayed for a day or two. I TRULY appreciated the consolidation (yes, even from Taco) of news websites I would not have had a prayer of gettin updates from. Kudos to all involved. I only wish they had stuck to it.
My continuing thoughts are that we are way far from being out of this yet, and the good reporting that/. was able to supply us is the equivalent of "radio free europe" in the 40's. Regular programing was indeed suspended in order to bring current events into perspective. I think that the editor(s) should keep up the reporting, because we are the ones that will survice any catastrophe that will fall on our nation.
In my continuing efforts to contribute, I've been modded down to "basically a troll" (-1) because of it but guess what? I don't f***ing care! My oldest son is in the US Navy - my working life is in the tech world, and so is my other son's working life. If/. is to continue to be our news site, they should stay in the "groove" (sorry - old musician speak).
Anything that happens to our beloved USA should be covered (with a vengeance) by slashdot. Only my $2.00 (inflation)
This is now not a rant. I'm done. (no fancy html)
I can't help but think that if the guns had such a "key", the terrorist would merely whack the necessary digit(s) off the pilot's hand...
Except that I heard on NPR today - new FAA regs will disallow any knives, including steak knives in First Class. Previously, one could have knive(s) with blade(s) up to 4 inches checked in carryon bags.
I can't seem to get the real impact on what has happened today, or even a realistic glimpse of it.
As for Shashdot, I too give kudos in their reporting efforts as all this shit unfolded. Yes, maybe inaccuracies. Yes, maybe unretractable mis-truths. But then again, they were there (for us), weren't they?
As I typed that, I realized the potential for such a response (both to my post and the action described). Still, if our technology cannot be exploited to help expose the perps, then what good is it, anyway? BTW, watching W's appearance most recently hasn't restored any confidence I might have had to think that this can be resolved easily...
My Point was: If the "authorities" don't know what they're doing, shouldn't someone step in? I know I'm shorting the NSA in this comment, but I can't help but think they should have some hired "guns".
As I typed that, I realized the potention for such a response (both to my post and the action described). Still, if our technology cannot be exploited to help expose the perps, then what good is it, anyway? BTW, watching W's appearance most recently hasn't restored any confidence I might have had to think that this can be resolved easily...
My Point was: If the "authorities" don't know what they're doing, shouldn't someone step in? I know I'm shorting the NSA in this comment, but I can't help but think they should have some hired "guns".
Probably a question for "ask/.", but why can't a quick log analysis reveal who made reservations on those hijacked flights via the web? My thinking is that the only way to coordinate this dastardly plan would have involved that - the departure times, time needed to "secure" the cockpit, having a "pilot and crew" ready in the boarding line. With access to this, a team of profiling and/or background checkers would soon come up with *educated* guesses...
Let's not forget another less-than-obvious way to get to the bottom of this: irc and newsgroups, the latter being a more feasible clue-getter, but the former more possible a way that these assholes communicate with each other (rather than directly).
And, at the risk of being flamebait, it's easy to see this is a perfect application for Carnivore (as long as the suspected language(s) {including English})are understood and the proper keywords used, even though I personally was dead against any such "sniffing" sofware. Until now.
an exerpt from a message from my stepbrother: The sophistication of the operation can be seen in the choice of flights, each of which headed West under control of separate flight regions. Each region therefore saw aberrant flight of one aircraft; no one had an overview of four large California bound aircraft vectored back toward NY and DC at the same time.
And finally: Can't we as geeks help in the effort? Fsck the DMCA - get into the computers that have the info and expose it - to allow intelligent prosecution of the real perps!?
All but three - that would make sense. We obviously cannot stray too far with the entire fleet, or we leave ourselves open to futher attack. Thanks for the correction.
This means that the next Outlook-borne virus will be really tiny! That way it can spread even faster than its ancestors...
I think I'll call it - Mini-Me!
Thanks for the link - a good read, although I didn't have time to check out all the rants. Yes, Steve is an opportunist. Yes, he is a sensationalist, and tends to inflate both near-truth and consequences for his own gain.
I've always taken the information provided on grc.com with a shaker of salt. But for whatever it's worth, spinrite saved my ass as well as my clients' asses enough times to be a worthwhile product (in its time).
It was also great to transplant a ST-225 or 251 into a box as it was being upgraded from 8088 to 80286 or 386 and change the interleave without backing up to dozens of floppies. And then to watch WordPerfect 4.2 load in 2 seconds instead of 20.....
Maybe I'm just in awe of assembler programmers, since all I ever accomplished was a little ditty on an Atari 130xe (6502) that dumped 64k of samples into its high memory via midi and displayed a graph. Took me days.
What about the (IMHO) famous programmer Steve Gibson, author of Spinrite (sorry/.ers, may be before your time) who writes all his stuff in assembler? His utilities and more would easily be fit onto a floppy disk - even though some use the Windows API (AFAIK). This dude is a guru to anyone using and appreciating the x86 platform! When MFM hard drives were all we had, he provided us a way to keep them working well beyond the MTBF the manufacturers had planned (or promised). A purist beyond belief - and a blowhard in rhetoric, (if you check out his website), yet, a genius in assembler (we're not worthy!)(sorry; tried for a link and was overwhelmed)
Can you say "change my interleave without FDISK first?"
This guy rules! Don't forget him! He's at least as important as Peter Norton. Maybe more...
In my experience, I can change IP addresses without rebooting in NT or above. The only time a reboot has been necessary is on changing domains, computer names, and certain services, drivers and protocols being added or removed.
In short, Windows NT or above is all us folks in the backwoods have to make a buck off of supporting. Linux is far from the mind of those that never heard of it, and probably coudn't spell it if they had.
You get what you pay for. Hell, if any microsoft product actually did what it was supposed to do, it would certainly be worth at least what they charge for it, if not even more. Look at what still is a premium price paid for ANY SCO product, for example.
I just put a Mandrake box in as a qmail server/firewall and it initially cost the client $200 in setup fees. As time progresses, and it needs to do more (Apache for administrative front ends, as well as Samba for the obvious) the cost of administration will grow. On the other hand, the Win2k server behind the Linux box cost them at least $1500 (SBS 10 user - alotta shit...)in setup, once tweaked, but the administration cost will be almost nil.
Oh Yeah...they haven't blocked them here (my cable connection comes from Muskegon, MI) but that may be just a matter of time. No matter - I changed my http port a long time back.
I'd love to see those screen shots, but they're being pulled off a Cable Modem box in San Diego, and @home must be having problems. Maybe the first sign of the end... (sigh)
BTW - this is taking way too long to post - I've received two 500 errors from/. checking the link and previewing...
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Ol' dubya's all we got. God Help US!
Yes, I've been watching that. Please check out my /. post in this same thread regarding that. Makes me proud also.
I just sent (way late) email to the address provided. Although I can't go to NYC, I may be able to help making cables, give tech support, etc. But I can't help but think this is NOT the "average slashdot reader" that can help. Note the link below, Amazon's link to donate to the ARC:
We Support the victims of the World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks. God Bless America.">
The link above is associated with CoffeeCup Software (don't go there today - the second next-mentioned email was sent to 1,300,000 addresses and the effect shows) in that I was directed to it by way of an email subscription I have from trying some of their products on behalf of clients. Their CEO gave me a boost on the day of disaster with an email urging us to stay productive in order to not give the terrorists their intended results. Today, an offer for free software was given in return for including a link and banner on one's website.
The average /. reader is a non-m$, non-Citrix, Linux (I'll exchange "zealot" for) enthusiast, which by the content of the link from this article, would only be able to make cables and provide "spare" 3com and IBM stuff, as well as cellphones and other gear.
As stated above, I am offering free tech support on Windoze NT and 2000, as well as offering to make cables as long as the remnants of my CAT5 cable and ends hold out...but I need to know: why do I not see more MCSEs or Citrix Engineers participate in /. conversations? If they are there (lurking), maybe they are as sheepish as me to admit that they have to be main$tream.
If I'm wrong, flame me; at least reply with your thoughts. Next, I feel compelled to present:
Brigadier General John A. Brooks, USAF Retired passed away at 84 last Friday at 7:30 AM from a massive heart attack. He was standing up as he waited for the ambulance. A great man has passed - not important to most, but it is to me. Please check it out - tomorrow is his funeral. His family and I agree that it's good he wasn't watching CNN Tuesday. Yes, I know the site is amateurish and somewhat lame...but the USAF *was* going to do a fly-over tomorrow and send a color guard to the local VFW. Nix on both - they are not allowed to take rifles off-base, and the jets are needed elsewhere. At least a hundred of his friends and family cannot attend because of restictions on commercial aviation. =(
There is another reply to the parent comment which points out the obvious size difference of the two aircraft.
Geez - yer spelling. Maybe I'm not an accepted /. person, but at least you could learn to edit! I AM ANAL.(retentive) and expect web publishers to at least get the basic shit right.
I agree - the coverage was on the ball - althought I think that the usual /. banter could have been delayed for a day or two. I TRULY appreciated the consolidation (yes, even from Taco) of news websites I would not have had a prayer of gettin updates from. Kudos to all involved. I only wish they had stuck to it.
/. was able to supply us is the equivalent of "radio free europe" in the 40's. Regular programing was indeed suspended in order to bring current events into perspective. I think that the editor(s) should keep up the reporting, because we are the ones that will survice any catastrophe that will fall on our nation.
/. is to continue to be our news site, they should stay in the "groove" (sorry - old musician speak).
My continuing thoughts are that we are way far from being out of this yet, and the good reporting that
In my continuing efforts to contribute, I've been modded down to "basically a troll" (-1) because of it but guess what? I don't f***ing care! My oldest son is in the US Navy - my working life is in the tech world, and so is my other son's working life. If
Anything that happens to our beloved USA should be covered (with a vengeance) by slashdot. Only my $2.00 (inflation)
This is now not a rant. I'm done. (no fancy html)
I can't help but think that if the guns had such a "key", the terrorist would merely whack the necessary digit(s) off the pilot's hand...
Except that I heard on NPR today - new FAA regs will disallow any knives, including steak knives in First Class. Previously, one could have knive(s) with blade(s) up to 4 inches checked in carryon bags.
Probably won't stop 'em, though.
ya dweeb - ever hear of the "refresh" F5 key?
I can't seem to get the real impact on what has happened today, or even a realistic glimpse of it. As for Shashdot, I too give kudos in their reporting efforts as all this shit unfolded. Yes, maybe inaccuracies. Yes, maybe unretractable mis-truths. But then again, they were there (for us), weren't they?
AND BY THE WAY - our nation is PISSED!
Of course the ships will scramble - where have you been? This happens with much less serious incidents. No imperilment applicable.
Is that it? I wanted to copy and paste something and it was disallowed. Damn. NOT "Radio Free Europe" at all.
As I typed that, I realized the potential for such a response (both to my post and the action described). Still, if our technology cannot be exploited to help expose the perps, then what good is it, anyway? BTW, watching W's appearance most recently hasn't restored any confidence I might have had to think that this can be resolved easily...
My Point was: If the "authorities" don't know what they're doing, shouldn't someone step in? I know I'm shorting the NSA in this comment, but I can't help but think they should have some hired "guns".
As I typed that, I realized the potention for such a response (both to my post and the action described). Still, if our technology cannot be exploited to help expose the perps, then what good is it, anyway? BTW, watching W's appearance most recently hasn't restored any confidence I might have had to think that this can be resolved easily...
My Point was: If the "authorities" don't know what they're doing, shouldn't someone step in? I know I'm shorting the NSA in this comment, but I can't help but think they should have some hired "guns".
Probably a question for "ask /.", but why can't a quick log analysis reveal who made reservations on those hijacked flights via the web? My thinking is that the only way to coordinate this dastardly plan would have involved that - the departure times, time needed to "secure" the cockpit, having a "pilot and crew" ready in the boarding line. With access to this, a team of profiling and/or background checkers would soon come up with *educated* guesses...
Let's not forget another less-than-obvious way to get to the bottom of this: irc and newsgroups, the latter being a more feasible clue-getter, but the former more possible a way that these assholes communicate with each other (rather than directly).
And, at the risk of being flamebait, it's easy to see this is a perfect application for Carnivore (as long as the suspected language(s) {including English})are understood and the proper keywords used, even though I personally was dead against any such "sniffing" sofware. Until now.
an exerpt from a message from my stepbrother: The sophistication of the operation can be seen in the choice of flights, each of which headed West under control of separate flight regions. Each region therefore saw aberrant flight of one aircraft; no one had an overview of four large California bound aircraft vectored back toward NY and DC at the same time.
And finally: Can't we as geeks help in the effort? Fsck the DMCA - get into the computers that have the info and expose it - to allow intelligent prosecution of the real perps!?
All but three - that would make sense. We obviously cannot stray too far with the entire fleet, or we leave ourselves open to futher attack. Thanks for the correction.
My son is stationed in Mayport (Jacksonville) and reports that all East Coast Navy ships will be out of Port within the hour.
This means that the next Outlook-borne virus will be really tiny! That way it can spread even faster than its ancestors... I think I'll call it - Mini-Me!
Thanks for the link - a good read, although I didn't have time to check out all the rants. Yes, Steve is an opportunist. Yes, he is a sensationalist, and tends to inflate both near-truth and consequences for his own gain.
I've always taken the information provided on grc.com with a shaker of salt. But for whatever it's worth, spinrite saved my ass as well as my clients' asses enough times to be a worthwhile product (in its time).
It was also great to transplant a ST-225 or 251 into a box as it was being upgraded from 8088 to 80286 or 386 and change the interleave without backing up to dozens of floppies. And then to watch WordPerfect 4.2 load in 2 seconds instead of 20.....
Maybe I'm just in awe of assembler programmers, since all I ever accomplished was a little ditty on an Atari 130xe (6502) that dumped 64k of samples into its high memory via midi and displayed a graph. Took me days.
Maybe I'm wrong about fdisk - haven't used it in awhile...or for that matter, interleave...just spinrite when it was necessary.
What about the (IMHO) famous programmer Steve Gibson, author of Spinrite (sorry /.ers, may be before your time) who writes all his stuff in assembler? His utilities and more would easily be fit onto a floppy disk - even though some use the Windows API (AFAIK). This dude is a guru to anyone using and appreciating the x86 platform! When MFM hard drives were all we had, he provided us a way to keep them working well beyond the MTBF the manufacturers had planned (or promised). A purist beyond belief - and a blowhard in rhetoric, (if you check out his website), yet, a genius in assembler (we're not worthy!)(sorry; tried for a link and was overwhelmed)
Can you say "change my interleave without FDISK first?"
This guy rules! Don't forget him! He's at least as important as Peter Norton. Maybe more...
In my experience, I can change IP addresses without rebooting in NT or above. The only time a reboot has been necessary is on changing domains, computer names, and certain services, drivers and protocols being added or removed.
In short, Windows NT or above is all us folks in the backwoods have to make a buck off of supporting. Linux is far from the mind of those that never heard of it, and probably coudn't spell it if they had.
You get what you pay for. Hell, if any microsoft product actually did what it was supposed to do, it would certainly be worth at least what they charge for it, if not even more. Look at what still is a premium price paid for ANY SCO product, for example.
I just put a Mandrake box in as a qmail server/firewall and it initially cost the client $200 in setup fees. As time progresses, and it needs to do more (Apache for administrative front ends, as well as Samba for the obvious) the cost of administration will grow. On the other hand, the Win2k server behind the Linux box cost them at least $1500 (SBS 10 user - alotta shit...)in setup, once tweaked, but the administration cost will be almost nil.
Oh Yeah...they haven't blocked them here (my cable connection comes from Muskegon, MI) but that may be just a matter of time. No matter - I changed my http port a long time back.
I'd love to see those screen shots, but they're being pulled off a Cable Modem box in San Diego, and @home must be having problems. Maybe the first sign of the end... (sigh)
/. checking the link and previewing...
BTW - this is taking way too long to post - I've received two 500 errors from