Cygwin is awsome for my laptop. Linux runs on the laptop but is missing several features that are only supported under windows (3com modem, video capture, suspend/hibernate). I tried linux on VMware on w2K, but the speed really sucked. Cygwin is a great middle ground. There is some software that works better under a pure *nix, but in general all the tools that I like under *nix now work under w2k.
Use tircproxy in transperant mode. I have found it to work better then either the linux or OpenBSD irc modules. As an added advantage you can tie it in with auth/identd to work with IRC servers that require it. I run OpenBSD identd with the -h option to hide users which works quite well.
I would leave the FreeBSD docs alone. There are enough little differences to be really annoying for the new guy (such as yourself). It is similar to all the little differences between the different versions of windows. All the docs for OpenBSD are electronic. The FAQ will probably answer your cvs question. And don't forget the manpages. The problem with the manpages is that you don't know what you are looking for until you find it. Use 'man -k keywork' or the web interface to do searchs. Also check out OpenBSD Journal. For installation there are lots of files of interest on the CD or ftp site such as the INSTALL.* files. It may be worth your while to print some of those off.
You are kinda screwed if you dont want online docs. At the same time *BSD is a moving target so dead tree versions tend to get out of date quickly.
Yes please try that. And while you are in prison you can tell us what it is like.
Unless the case is lead the Xrays will go right through.
on a funny note: when I was much younger the xray operator had a troubled look on his face as my backpack went through the xray machine. He pulled me aside and asked what was in my backpack pointing at the xray screen. It was a box of well packed lego with the old big red, blue, and yellow gears. I guess it looked like a big machenical bomb.:)
I believe there was a story on./ many moons ago about someone who wanted to ship an HD to Russian. His conclusion was the same. After all the hassle of shipping, insurance, duty fees and such, an old used HD ended up costing quite a bit more then a new and much larger HD.
Hmm, why not two mail hosts? user@isp.net and user@ns.isp.net or some such. Might be a bit of an admin nightmare though. I can see how to do it, but would it work for 10000 users?
No disrespect to your boss, but he is wrong. If you want high speed with a high transistor count you are going to pay for it in heat. It is a valid tradeoff. A designer made the decision to disipate heat with a heat sink and fan so that the chip could run faster. Now there is room for improvement. The Intel chips produce less heat then Athlons. The PowerPC chips are, last I checked, much better still. But look at the very power hungry, liquid cooled, and very fast old CRAY machines. Those machines were fast for many reasons, but a big one is the crazy research Cray did in liquid cooling. The Cray engineers knew that if they wanted fast they were going to pay for it in heat. If one of your design criteria is low power/low heat they yes the chip is poorly designed. But in this case the criteria is high speed and the tradeoff is 30-80+ watts of heat.
Just to add to Leto2's comments: "don't upgrade a stable production system" is not limited to open source. A decent sysadmin will test any patch commercial or otherwise before rolling it out to production systems. Patching blindly is just asking for trouble.
And to all the linux bashers: this is nothing new. Most big software packages that I am aware of has had a bad patch or "fix."
X chews up ram quickly. Add Mozilla or Netscape and it is worst. I switched from 64 to 128 MB ram a while back and noticed a world of difference. Mainly my machine stopped swapping often.
That said I have no idea what you need 512 RAM and 640 swap for, but I am assumming it is a database or webserver with lots of dynamic content. With X and related stuff I rarely (never) use swap with 512MB ram.
Don't confuse NT's need for swap with linux. NT aggressively swaps everything to disk to insure that there is always lots of free ram. I believe win95/98 is worst. Linux (and BSD) on the other had only swaps when more ram is needed.
My main machine with 512MB ram rarely swaps. So rare infact that I can't remember the last time I checked and saw swap in use.
watch the photo industry and you'll see that these guys are busy reconverting to digital and embracing the future
I was surprised when Kodak came out with its first digital cameras. Kodak has to be one of the few companies that took technology that was going to destroy their bussiness and run with it. Kodak even beat out the camera makers (Cannon, Pentax, etc.) to produceing a digital camera. Kodak knows that film and developing paper is about to be replaced by digital cameras and picture quality printers. As such Kodak has moved its bussiness over to making cameras and printers.
His statements are not a contradiction. He is saying that QOS is more then just redundant hardware, but that redundant hardware is an important part of QOS. I think that in the first statment Matt also means that using redudant hardware is the wrong way to fix poor (crashing) software.
Yes. They aren't very popular though. Apple (maybe others) had a monitor that would physicaly rotate from portrait to landscape mode. Awfully expsensive though.
This by the way ties into stagnation of UI design. Many years ago someone decided that a monitor should conform to the "golden rectangle" ratio (approximately 4:3) as rectangles of this shape are pleasing to the eye. We haven't moved passed that despite the fact that most people work with documents that are taller then wide.
If you were doing pen-testing you should have been following these practices all along. The terrorism act has nothing to do with it. All it takes in one bad job and you are screwed. This is nothing new. Just ask Sil at
Antioffline. Sil didn't even take the job and got screwed.
Remember kids gaining unauthorized access to a computer system is a crime (as it should be). If that is what you do for a living, you better have a lawyer on hand to make sure that you are authorized to gain "unauthorized access." Do you think it would be the any different if a bank hired you to break in?
The sattelites aren't set up for it. Iridium is setup for many two streams with really tiny bit rates. I guess 2400bits/s based on the sound quality I heard. It is isen't a matter of making the bit rate higher as the hardware is optimized for the many small streams. Also a constalation of 66 LEO (low earth orbit) sats is harder to manage then one geosycronous satelite.
I recently attended a conference session that discussed some of these issues. Here is a summary:
Use the law to protect yourself. Hire a decent lawyer to check the contracts. Insure that all target machines and ips are listed in the contract or a document referenced in the contract. Consider having the contracts notorized. Have a minimum of 2 people present at all times: One to perform the action, one to witness the action and result. Consider having a company rep present at ALL times durring activities. However do not let the company reps outnumber the penetration team.
The above is an important lesson. Work is work. Life is fun.
My job isen't very exciting. I don't get very many obvious perks (I even have to pay for parking!). I have work to "core hours" (9 to 3) not "flex time." T-shirts and jeans aren't acceptable attire. I don't sit in a space age super cubicle with 24" monitors. Judgeing from the job offers I was sent (out of the blue) I could be making a lot more elsewhere. However, there is interesting work to do, the pay is a little above average, the work is steady and stable. Most importantly I rarely work more then my 40 hours a week. (Not that I am adverse to putting in more hours when needed.)
The other 128 hours are mine. I have put over 10000 km (6200 mi) on my motorcycle this summer. I have been down most of the backroads within 2 hours ride. I have visited forgotten lakes, and explored old twisty roads. I have read several good books. I've been hiking and kayaking. I have even sat in my backyard with the BBQ and a beer. It has been a lot of fun.
My friend's motorcylce sits in his driveway. I almost went to work with him. He is well paid. His work environment is really relaxed. He gets little "fun" perks. He also works atleast 40 hrs a week. It is expected of him. Now that the bubble has burst it is worst. He is often in atleast for a little bit on the weekends. He works for a large company that will survive. He will still have a job there in a years time. But to insure that he does he has to work like crazy. He has to show that he is "commited to the company" during this "economic slowdown." (I get to read some of the foolish internal troop rallying memos sent out by the big bosses.) Not only does he have to work long hours, but he has to show he is a team player and participate in sports and other events. Although there isen't as much emphasis on those activities these days.
He may not think much of my work. His company may very well be "architechs of the future." But I like my weekends.
There are laser diodes. It is what drives fiber optics (although some simple fiber optics use regular leds). I have no idea if the mice use laser leds, boring "regular" leds, or something else.
I believe the answer is that WEP as implement in 802.11b is insecure. 802.11x (I believe x is correct) will add a new key exchange that is supposed to be secure.
The real problem is that marketing wants 802.11 to be secure *and* easy to setup. Security is not easy. Sure the cryptography part is dead simple. It is all the parts around it that have to be equally secure that make it hard.
Most of the cradles are a straight through connection. The little copper pads are connected directly to the serial port. Open one up you will find zero bits of logic, maybe a resistor or two. So yes the Palms are "hot" plugged and unplugged contrary to the serial port spec.
PKI does peer to peer trust relationships of independent registrars. The independent registrars don't even need to use the same software. PKI will work as well if not better then DNS.
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Cygwin is awsome for my laptop. Linux runs on the laptop but is missing several features that are only supported under windows (3com modem, video capture, suspend/hibernate). I tried linux on VMware on w2K, but the speed really sucked. Cygwin is a great middle ground. There is some software that works better under a pure *nix, but in general all the tools that I like under *nix now work under w2k.
Use tircproxy in transperant mode. I have found it to work better then either the linux or OpenBSD irc modules. As an added advantage you can tie it in with auth/identd to work with IRC servers that require it. I run OpenBSD identd with the -h option to hide users which works quite well.
I would leave the FreeBSD docs alone. There are enough little differences to be really annoying for the new guy (such as yourself). It is similar to all the little differences between the different versions of windows. All the docs for OpenBSD are electronic. The FAQ will probably answer your cvs question. And don't forget the manpages. The problem with the manpages is that you don't know what you are looking for until you find it. Use 'man -k keywork' or the web interface to do searchs. Also check out OpenBSD Journal. For installation there are lots of files of interest on the CD or ftp site such as the INSTALL.* files. It may be worth your while to print some of those off.
You are kinda screwed if you dont want online docs. At the same time *BSD is a moving target so dead tree versions tend to get out of date quickly.
Grab the sshd server, run a simple httpd server, and use mindterm in java applet mode. Works for me.
There is also the older mindterm under the GPL if you aren't "non-comercial."
busybox rocks! thank you.
Yes please try that. And while you are in prison you can tell us what it is like.
Unless the case is lead the Xrays will go right through.
on a funny note: when I was much younger the xray operator had a troubled look on his face as my backpack went through the xray machine. He pulled me aside and asked what was in my backpack pointing at the xray screen. It was a box of well packed lego with the old big red, blue, and yellow gears. I guess it looked like a big machenical bomb. :)
I believe there was a story on ./ many moons ago about someone who wanted to ship an HD to Russian. His conclusion was the same. After all the hassle of shipping, insurance, duty fees and such, an old used HD ended up costing quite a bit more then a new and much larger HD.
Hmm, why not two mail hosts? user@isp.net and user@ns.isp.net or some such. Might be a bit of an admin nightmare though. I can see how to do it, but would it work for 10000 users?
No disrespect to your boss, but he is wrong. If you want high speed with a high transistor count you are going to pay for it in heat. It is a valid tradeoff. A designer made the decision to disipate heat with a heat sink and fan so that the chip could run faster. Now there is room for improvement. The Intel chips produce less heat then Athlons. The PowerPC chips are, last I checked, much better still. But look at the very power hungry, liquid cooled, and very fast old CRAY machines. Those machines were fast for many reasons, but a big one is the crazy research Cray did in liquid cooling. The Cray engineers knew that if they wanted fast they were going to pay for it in heat. If one of your design criteria is low power/low heat they yes the chip is poorly designed. But in this case the criteria is high speed and the tradeoff is 30-80+ watts of heat.
Just to add to Leto2's comments: "don't upgrade a stable production system" is not limited to open source. A decent sysadmin will test any patch commercial or otherwise before rolling it out to production systems. Patching blindly is just asking for trouble.
And to all the linux bashers: this is nothing new. Most big software packages that I am aware of has had a bad patch or "fix."
X chews up ram quickly. Add Mozilla or Netscape and it is worst. I switched from 64 to 128 MB ram a while back and noticed a world of difference. Mainly my machine stopped swapping often.
That said I have no idea what you need 512 RAM and 640 swap for, but I am assumming it is a database or webserver with lots of dynamic content. With X and related stuff I rarely (never) use swap with 512MB ram.
Don't confuse NT's need for swap with linux. NT aggressively swaps everything to disk to insure that there is always lots of free ram. I believe win95/98 is worst. Linux (and BSD) on the other had only swaps when more ram is needed.
My main machine with 512MB ram rarely swaps. So rare infact that I can't remember the last time I checked and saw swap in use.
watch the photo industry and you'll see that these guys are busy reconverting to digital and embracing the future
I was surprised when Kodak came out with its first digital cameras. Kodak has to be one of the few companies that took technology that was going to destroy their bussiness and run with it. Kodak even beat out the camera makers (Cannon, Pentax, etc.) to produceing a digital camera. Kodak knows that film and developing paper is about to be replaced by digital cameras and picture quality printers. As such Kodak has moved its bussiness over to making cameras and printers.
His statements are not a contradiction. He is saying that QOS is more then just redundant hardware, but that redundant hardware is an important part of QOS. I think that in the first statment Matt also means that using redudant hardware is the wrong way to fix poor (crashing) software.
Great. So we are stuck with the the wrong sized screens because that is what they used in movies?
Yes. They aren't very popular though. Apple (maybe others) had a monitor that would physicaly rotate from portrait to landscape mode. Awfully expsensive though.
This by the way ties into stagnation of UI design. Many years ago someone decided that a monitor should conform to the "golden rectangle" ratio (approximately 4:3) as rectangles of this shape are pleasing to the eye. We haven't moved passed that despite the fact that most people work with documents that are taller then wide.
I believe the english word is "enamel."
If you were doing pen-testing you should have been following these practices all along. The terrorism act has nothing to do with it. All it takes in one bad job and you are screwed. This is nothing new. Just ask Sil at Antioffline. Sil didn't even take the job and got screwed.
Remember kids gaining unauthorized access to a computer system is a crime (as it should be). If that is what you do for a living, you better have a lawyer on hand to make sure that you are authorized to gain "unauthorized access." Do you think it would be the any different if a bank hired you to break in?
The sattelites aren't set up for it. Iridium is setup for many two streams with really tiny bit rates. I guess 2400bits/s based on the sound quality I heard. It is isen't a matter of making the bit rate higher as the hardware is optimized for the many small streams. Also a constalation of 66 LEO (low earth orbit) sats is harder to manage then one geosycronous satelite.
I recently attended a conference session that discussed some of these issues. Here is a summary:
Use the law to protect yourself. Hire a decent lawyer to check the contracts. Insure that all target machines and ips are listed in the contract or a document referenced in the contract. Consider having the contracts notorized. Have a minimum of 2 people present at all times: One to perform the action, one to witness the action and result. Consider having a company rep present at ALL times durring activities. However do not let the company reps outnumber the penetration team.
The above is an important lesson. Work is work. Life is fun.
My job isen't very exciting. I don't get very many obvious perks (I even have to pay for parking!). I have work to "core hours" (9 to 3) not "flex time." T-shirts and jeans aren't acceptable attire. I don't sit in a space age super cubicle with 24" monitors. Judgeing from the job offers I was sent (out of the blue) I could be making a lot more elsewhere. However, there is interesting work to do, the pay is a little above average, the work is steady and stable. Most importantly I rarely work more then my 40 hours a week. (Not that I am adverse to putting in more hours when needed.)
The other 128 hours are mine. I have put over 10000 km (6200 mi) on my motorcycle this summer. I have been down most of the backroads within 2 hours ride. I have visited forgotten lakes, and explored old twisty roads. I have read several good books. I've been hiking and kayaking. I have even sat in my backyard with the BBQ and a beer. It has been a lot of fun.
My friend's motorcylce sits in his driveway. I almost went to work with him. He is well paid. His work environment is really relaxed. He gets little "fun" perks. He also works atleast 40 hrs a week. It is expected of him. Now that the bubble has burst it is worst. He is often in atleast for a little bit on the weekends. He works for a large company that will survive. He will still have a job there in a years time. But to insure that he does he has to work like crazy. He has to show that he is "commited to the company" during this "economic slowdown." (I get to read some of the foolish internal troop rallying memos sent out by the big bosses.) Not only does he have to work long hours, but he has to show he is a team player and participate in sports and other events. Although there isen't as much emphasis on those activities these days.
He may not think much of my work. His company may very well be "architechs of the future." But I like my weekends.
There are laser diodes. It is what drives fiber optics (although some simple fiber optics use regular leds). I have no idea if the mice use laser leds, boring "regular" leds, or something else.
I believe the answer is that WEP as implement in 802.11b is insecure. 802.11x (I believe x is correct) will add a new key exchange that is supposed to be secure.
The real problem is that marketing wants 802.11 to be secure *and* easy to setup. Security is not easy. Sure the cryptography part is dead simple. It is all the parts around it that have to be equally secure that make it hard.
Most of the cradles are a straight through connection. The little copper pads are connected directly to the serial port. Open one up you will find zero bits of logic, maybe a resistor or two. So yes the Palms are "hot" plugged and unplugged contrary to the serial port spec.
PKI does peer to peer trust relationships of independent registrars. The independent registrars don't even need to use the same software. PKI will work as well if not better then DNS.