llama? It has a 0% chance of hitting one. Dont you know that natural disasters always target trailer parks? Though I suppose if the llama was in the trailer park...
This week d-vhs and its companion d-theater will be released.
Approximately.003 seconds after that, someone will figure out that all the copy control in the world does no good at all when they simply wire their 2,000$ (!) d-vhs deck into their computer using a few cables they picked up at the local computer shop... oops, thats a thoughtcrime to think about the fact that your d-vhs deck has to send its output into a television, which, like your PC's gfx card, has no idea of what copy protection is. [1]
Wait a sec, I hear jackbooted thugs from Hollywood knocking at door. Oopsy.
[1] - Im not sure that any standard format (eg; avi, mpeg*, etc) will be able to handle all the features d-vhs supports very well. Im not a video format guru, so forgive me if Im wrong. You will have to wait another.003 seconds for someone to figure out how to handle the increased resolution and audio.
.sig of the day: sysadmin for hire: gdd(at)siliconinc.net
Over the last few years of contracts and ISP migrations, Ive built somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 fbsd machines. I still have maintenance retainers on a lot of them, and spend less time working on them than I do the handful of windows and redhat machines I have to deal with now. Its quite possibly the most stable OS (with the possible exception of IRIX) Ive ever dealt with. Big thanks for jkh for making it all possible, and saving me from a few late night support calls.
Anyone know how we could send jkh a nice case of beer and a pizza in return for the great work?
Interesting idea. Its already been done in some manner Im afraid, but it would be quite interesting to see if carnivore could detect steg built from tabs, whitespaces, or formatting in an email... Now all I have to do is steal that black 2U box in the next cabinet over that is labeled "federal property - do not touch". Wait, why does it have an ethernet cable running into MY switch, wtf, why ^@^$!%^!!#
Whats not mentioned in the register article (but recently had an article on slashdot) is TLS with SMTP - most people have no clue what this is, and how much of a potential headache it can be for carnivore operators to monitor smtp traffic.
Carnivores purpose is twofold - to sniff your mail obviously, but dont forget it also builds tables of who emails who, and makes it easy for the carnivore operator to track who is associated with who. PGP doesnt help here since it just encrypts the message. However TLS combined with PGP does since it does its mailfrom and rcptto _after_ starttls is issued. Next time you set up a MTA make sure it has TLS support! Shameless plug: TLS for Dummies.
On a side note, dont forget you can tunnel your web proxy via stunnel, assuming you can talk the proxy operator into installing it for you:)
I prefered the trailer park variant of Bob myself:)
As far as the jurassic park navigation screen (its actually a file manager) - its a real piece of software called FSN. I dont know where the source code to it is, but if you have IRIX <= 5.3, then go here: here.
Wow. Slackware was what got me started with linux. Ive been using it since, umm, 94 or so i guess. It seems like just a short while ago that I got into the linux thing. Guess not. Its what got me away from windows, and started me off learning about unix and unix variants. I still use slack too. its the only linux distro I can stand. But it isnt going away. Just because one package management setup developer goes byebye doesnt mean the whole thing will die. Thats whats great about open source. Just like The Church, and Dobbs himself, its immortal.:)
Never mind the CIA, just look who the FBI was founded by... now THATS scary. Thanks but I prefer not to have cross dressing government officials. My grandparents tax dollars probably bought that guy some new lingerie or something... oh damn im going to be sick if I keep thinking about Hoover wearing lingerie...
Seriously though, wtf is this, a race to see who can be the next McCarthy?
Wow, is that old bastard even capable of getting a boner? Hes fucking ancient. Perhaps this is the root of his quest for power... He cant get it up and feels ashamed of it, so he decides to punish the rest of the world for his lil "inadequacies"...
On a side note, he reminds me sooo much of Cancer Man (smoking man) from X-Files. Not a pleasant thought...
You do realize a bunch of linux zealots are never going to moderate this above -1 right?:)
We all know its true. But you just couldnt beat it into some peoples skulls even if it was affixed to the end of your cluebat with a wad of gum (which incidentally appears to be what is holding linux together).
Clock speed really doesnt count. Its an X86 thing. Sure, you can hit 1.6ghz on your P3 machine, but can you do 1.3 gigabytes (not bits) across the bus? A 8 year old SGI Challenge L can. Can your P3 outrun a MIPS 195mhz R10K on distnet? No, it cant. Clock speed is a marketing thing. Not a performance thing. If you really believe your lil P3 clock speed can compare... then why is that 300mhz Cray SV1 called a supercomputer and your P3 isnt? X86 is not the answer, its the question. Check into alternative architectures. You may be very pleasantly surprised.
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llama? It has a 0% chance of hitting one. Dont you know that natural disasters always target trailer parks? Though I suppose if the llama was in the trailer park...
This week d-vhs and its companion d-theater will be released.
.003 seconds after that, someone will figure out that all the copy control in the world does no good at all when they simply wire their 2,000$ (!) d-vhs deck into their computer using a few cables they picked up at the local computer shop ... oops, thats a thoughtcrime to think about the fact that your d-vhs deck has to send its output into a television, which, like your PC's gfx card, has no idea of what copy protection is. [1]
.003 seconds for someone to figure out how to handle the increased resolution and audio.
Approximately
Wait a sec, I hear jackbooted thugs from Hollywood knocking at door. Oopsy.
[1] - Im not sure that any standard format (eg; avi, mpeg*, etc) will be able to handle all the features d-vhs supports very well. Im not a video format guru, so forgive me if Im wrong. You will have to wait another
.sig of the day: sysadmin for hire: gdd(at)siliconinc.net
Over the last few years of contracts and ISP migrations, Ive built somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 fbsd machines. I still have maintenance retainers on a lot of them, and spend less time working on them than I do the handful of windows and redhat machines I have to deal with now. Its quite possibly the most stable OS (with the possible exception of IRIX) Ive ever dealt with. Big thanks for jkh for making it all possible, and saving me from a few late night support calls.
Anyone know how we could send jkh a nice case of beer and a pizza in return for the great work?
Personally I think Ill wait for the John Holmes edition exoskeleton to be released before I buy one... Gives new meaning to the word "uptime".
Interesting idea. Its already been done in some manner Im afraid, but it would be quite interesting to see if carnivore could detect steg built from tabs, whitespaces, or formatting in an email... Now all I have to do is steal that black 2U box in the next cabinet over that is labeled "federal property - do not touch". Wait, why does it have an ethernet cable running into MY switch, wtf, why ^@^$!%^!!#
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Whats not mentioned in the register article (but recently had an article on slashdot) is TLS with SMTP - most people have no clue what this is, and how much of a potential headache it can be for carnivore operators to monitor smtp traffic.
:)
Carnivores purpose is twofold - to sniff your mail obviously, but dont forget it also builds tables of who emails who, and makes it easy for the carnivore operator to track who is associated with who. PGP doesnt help here since it just encrypts the message. However TLS combined with PGP does since it does its mailfrom and rcptto _after_ starttls is issued. Next time you set up a MTA make sure it has TLS support! Shameless plug: TLS for Dummies.
On a side note, dont forget you can tunnel your web proxy via stunnel, assuming you can talk the proxy operator into installing it for you
I prefered the trailer park variant of Bob myself :)
As far as the jurassic park navigation screen (its actually a file manager) - its a real piece of software called FSN. I dont know where the source code to it is, but if you have IRIX <= 5.3, then go here: here.
Wow. Slackware was what got me started with linux. Ive been using it since, umm, 94 or so i guess. It seems like just a short while ago that I got into the linux thing. Guess not. Its what got me away from windows, and started me off learning about unix and unix variants. I still use slack too. its the only linux distro I can stand. But it isnt going away. Just because one package management setup developer goes byebye doesnt mean the whole thing will die. Thats whats great about open source. Just like The Church, and Dobbs himself, its immortal. :)
Hey, Slack is A Good Thing, right?
Never mind the CIA, just look who the FBI was founded by... now THATS scary. Thanks but I prefer not to have cross dressing government officials. My grandparents tax dollars probably bought that guy some new lingerie or something... oh damn im going to be sick if I keep thinking about Hoover wearing lingerie...
Seriously though, wtf is this, a race to see who can be the next McCarthy?
Wow, is that old bastard even capable of getting a boner? Hes fucking ancient. Perhaps this is the root of his quest for power... He cant get it up and feels ashamed of it, so he decides to punish the rest of the world for his lil "inadequacies"...
On a side note, he reminds me sooo much of Cancer Man (smoking man) from X-Files. Not a pleasant thought...
You do realize a bunch of linux zealots are never going to moderate this above -1 right? :)
We all know its true. But you just couldnt beat it into some peoples skulls even if it was affixed to the end of your cluebat with a wad of gum (which incidentally appears to be what is holding linux together).
Hey moderator: -2, i dare you!
Clock speed really doesnt count. Its an X86 thing. Sure, you can hit 1.6ghz on your P3 machine, but can you do 1.3 gigabytes (not bits) across the bus? A 8 year old SGI Challenge L can. Can your P3 outrun a MIPS 195mhz R10K on distnet? No, it cant. Clock speed is a marketing thing. Not a performance thing. If you really believe your lil P3 clock speed can compare... then why is that 300mhz Cray SV1 called a supercomputer and your P3 isnt? X86 is not the answer, its the question. Check into alternative architectures. You may be very pleasantly surprised.
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