Chill out people , relax a bit, take it easy. You need to look at the wider picture.
All Wifi people on my network can do is port 80 for web and 110 for pop (25 bit me so I closed it).
Now I park my car on the road, it takes 2 seconds to take a rock and smash my windshield. But that doesn't mean people do it all the time, or that I only park in closed parking lots with guards.
I had my phpNuke nuked and in the course of 3 all hours my Linux box spit out millions of email Spam, I got an angry letter from my ISP, So I apologized deeply, removed phpNuke, and endured 4 days of "failed delivery mail". My point is that Hackers can get in easy. They don't need my bandwidth, they have 2 million Zumby windows machines here in Israel, when you connect through cable with a fresh installed windows and set up connection, you get infected before you even established a web presence. This is because the web is through a VPN to your ISP on the Internal cable network. And you get infected on the Internal network. If anyone would do bad thing through my connection, I will catch it fast enough. And have the logs to show what happened.
So I give people my network, they are all very polite and use it modestly, the same way that I use theirs. If any one makes noise and acts violently, I can always band him out. But it did not happen yet. Nor have I heard any one that it happened to him. And yes I let people use Skype if they need. If they would be so desperate as to knock on my door and ask to call on the phone I would be glad to help, and some times it can be a nice girl too:) .
People can be violent and rude, but 99% they are not. If the hacker is smart he would not use my Wifi because this gives a proximity he does not want to reveal. Better hack on a nuke machine across the Ocean. But this way I have Internet comfort all over town (All over the world) and this is much more valuable than the little risk of encountering thugs. Which we will deal with when encountered. Lucking every thing up because of few Network Terrorists is exactly what I am not willing to sacrifice. Too big a cost.
And yes It is a grate Idea for a project. Setup a Wifi manager at home, like on Starbuck, but free. People sign in. Use the network but reveal their Identity and leave a trace. They click-sign that they must behave and are responsible for their own actions. If you know of such a project please tell me. Until than I stay open. Closing up like you do, is giving in to (Theoretical) terrorists and I will not have it. (Theoretical because I am sure on the money that it never happened to you, and never will, and I don't know where you live. But I do know crackers and they don't need your network. When I'll come to your town I'll need it though)
One of the nicest things about Wifi is that it can be open/free. Lots of city people boast about how in their city you have all neighborhoods that have complete Wifi coverage, for every garden or bench you would like to sit on. Give and take. I keep my Wifi open Just for that. From logs I can see some regular neighbors using my net (MAC addresses). Probably people siting in the Garden near my apartment. And I do the same, all the time. So please, as usual, Do not listen to Police, and any "stick up their ass" personnel and...
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To IBM:
What ever you cannot release Just leave closed, or absent. Have the Interface well defined, the community will work around these quickly with alternatives. Open what you can, even if first version doesn't even boot, Release it. We'll fix it fast
About 2 years ago I found in one of the closets at work an old VAIO PIII 600Mgz. I ask around and the boss said it is broken and Sony labs ask for more then a new VAIO to fix it. So I took it home. I work on it at nights before going to sleep. The case was all broken and the keyboard popped out. When plugged into the power the light goes on but nothing happens. So I opened it up. I saw the CPU fan was dismantled, probably when it was dropped and the case broke. I changed the fun and connected it. Now the fan turns but still nothing happens. I played around with it for days (nights) by chance I changed the alternate-BIOS dipswitch and the screen comes to life. What? The BIOS was over-written how did that happen? I scraped up from the net some source code for a little program that I ran on a friend VAIO, to copy his BIOS, then to write the one on my machine. OK now I'm at the boot prompt. I see the HD is dead. I order 40g one from compgeeks.com. Mean while I take it all apart, glue up the case real nice. 80% of the screws where missing, so I go downtown to find some. The battery mechanism is broken. Ha, I fix it in place with Masking tape. The HD arrives. Now the VAIO has neither floppy nor CD. Easy, put the HD (with that 2.5 HD kit) in a desktop machine. Hatch a windows XP installation. (Hatch is when you do> winnt32/syspart:D/tempdrive:D to install a disk that is than removed and put in another machine. Just do winnt32/? to read all about it).
That's it the VAIO is working. And it is so nice it is half the weight from my wife's 700Mg Celeron Thinkpad. Feels faster and lasts x3 on a full battery.
Well not so good, my boss comes one day and ask where is that old laptop. I tell him I have it. He says he wants it back. Now, there is no way I'm going to give it back after all the work I put into it. We have a big fight about it. Finally he admits that he needs the power-supply so he can have one at home and one at work so he doesn't have to carry the power supply three meters to the elevator and back. I Juice up the VAIO for the last time. And bring him the PWSP.
It is sitting there with power for one go. It took me 14 month and I'm at a dead end. A new PWSP is $200 and it has to be specially ordered since they don't carry them any more. Well 2 month ago, I go to NY (a sad occasion I'm afraid) and I find on 14th st an Original VAIO PWSP for $40 . I now have Mandrake on my VAIO and I'm excited every time I use it. We have a special bond we're war-bodies. The only thing short of perfect is three keys missing on the keyboard: VBN. I can still press that little nipple below the key. One day I will carve these keys from wood.
Just jump on the bang wagon - SCO showed us how to make money out of thin air - HP is short of cash and loosing popularity - Me too want: I here by declare: Any one send in $49.95 and you will receive your Linux permanent "Indemnification" certificate. This is good for any HW or Linux past present & future version. Order now while they are still available.
Send money order/checks to: Boaz Harrosh Bezalel 26 Tel-Aviv 64683 Israel. Let 1 week for postal delivery.
The more you whine the more you are successful in business. SCO whines about Linux - must be successful. RIAA wines about P2P - big. Your boss: "why is it not ready on time? why is it buggy? why is it not as good as theirs? - well that tactics got him his job. The more you want and the more you make/request other people to fulfill your desire. The more successful you are. call it Boaz's Law. Whine to fame. And all that why? because we the doers are too busy in doing. we leave the wanting (and whining) to others. So the next time your boss comes whining about why the dead-line was no meat. Just ask him what can he do about it? (but whine).
The way I do it is: buy one license of CrossOver Install one machine the way I like it, and than take the "fake_windows" directory as a template for other machines. In windows all the big fuss installation boils down to: "what is your registry like" well that one is prepared by CrossOver. Also a regspy On native windows can do the trick for many applications. That and the files from Program\ files (and system32) so you see CrossOver is good for learning and then Original wine is good for the rest of the house
Don't forget while you are at it to keep a frozen sample. In few years time when that species is extinct you can clone yourself millions. Also the value for genetic engineering raw material is enormous.
I've been collecting these drives for years. I managed pretty much the controller. Did not decide on Linux supporting chip yet. I thought of building little-to-medium smart racing cars with them, 4-drives per car. I want to Organize an after school group of kinds together with my son. Any one with Mechanical engineering skills that is willing to post suggestions? Boaz@ElectroZaur.Com
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Chill out people , relax a bit, take it easy. You need to look at the wider picture.
:) .
All Wifi people on my network can do is port 80 for web and 110 for pop (25 bit me so I closed it).
Now I park my car on the road, it takes 2 seconds to take a rock and smash my windshield. But that doesn't mean people do it all the time, or that I only park in closed parking lots with guards.
I had my phpNuke nuked and in the course of 3 all hours my Linux box spit out millions of email Spam, I got an angry letter from my ISP, So I apologized deeply, removed phpNuke, and endured 4 days of "failed delivery mail". My point is that Hackers can get in easy. They don't need my bandwidth, they have 2 million Zumby windows machines here in Israel, when you connect through cable with a fresh installed windows and set up connection, you get infected before you even established a web presence. This is because the web is through a VPN to your ISP on the Internal cable network. And you get infected on the Internal network. If anyone would do bad thing through my connection, I will catch it fast enough. And have the logs to show what happened.
So I give people my network, they are all very polite and use it modestly, the same way that I use theirs. If any one makes noise and acts violently, I can always band him out. But it did not happen yet. Nor have I heard any one that it happened to him. And yes I let people use Skype if they need. If they would be so desperate as to knock on my door and ask to call on the phone I would be glad to help, and some times it can be a nice girl too
People can be violent and rude, but 99% they are not. If the hacker is smart he would not use my Wifi because this gives a proximity he does not want to reveal. Better hack on a nuke machine across the Ocean. But this way I have Internet comfort all over town (All over the world) and this is much more valuable than the little risk of encountering thugs. Which we will deal with when encountered. Lucking every thing up because of few Network Terrorists is exactly what I am not willing to sacrifice. Too big a cost.
And yes It is a grate Idea for a project. Setup a Wifi manager at home, like on Starbuck, but free. People sign in. Use the network but reveal their Identity and leave a trace. They click-sign that they must behave and are responsible for their own actions. If you know of such a project please tell me. Until than I stay open. Closing up like you do, is giving in to (Theoretical) terrorists and I will not have it. (Theoretical because I am sure on the money that it never happened to you, and never will, and I don't know where you live. But I do know crackers and they don't need your network. When I'll come to your town I'll need it though)
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Boaz
One of the nicest things about Wifi is that it can be open/free. Lots of city people boast about how in their city you have all neighborhoods that have complete Wifi coverage, for every garden or bench you would like to sit on. Give and take. I keep my Wifi open Just for that. From logs I can see some regular neighbors using my net (MAC addresses). Probably people siting in the Garden near my apartment. And I do the same, all the time. ...
So please, as usual, Do not listen to Police, and any "stick up their ass" personnel and
Keep Wifi Free !!!!
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To IBM:
What ever you cannot release Just leave closed, or absent. Have the Interface well defined, the community will work around these quickly with alternatives. Open what you can, even if first version doesn't even boot, Release it. We'll fix it fast
Free life
Boaz
About 2 years ago I found in one of the closets at work an old VAIO PIII 600Mgz. /syspart:D /tempdrive:D to install a disk that is than removed and put in another machine. Just do winnt32 /? to read all about it).
I ask around and the boss said it is broken and Sony labs ask for more then a new VAIO to fix it. So I took it home. I work on it at nights before going to sleep.
The case was all broken and the keyboard popped out. When plugged into the power the light goes on but nothing happens. So I opened it up. I saw the CPU fan was dismantled, probably when it was dropped and the case broke. I changed the fun and connected it. Now the fan turns but still nothing happens. I played around with it for days (nights) by chance I changed the alternate-BIOS dipswitch and the screen comes to life. What? The BIOS was over-written how did that happen? I scraped up from the net some source code for a little program that I ran on a friend VAIO, to copy his BIOS, then to write the one on my machine. OK now I'm at the boot prompt. I see the HD is dead. I order 40g one from compgeeks.com. Mean while I take it all apart, glue up the case real nice. 80% of the screws where missing, so I go downtown to find some. The battery mechanism is broken. Ha, I fix it in place with Masking tape. The HD arrives. Now the VAIO has neither floppy nor CD. Easy, put the HD (with that 2.5 HD kit) in a desktop machine. Hatch a windows XP installation. (Hatch is when you do> winnt32
That's it the VAIO is working. And it is so nice it is half the weight from my wife's 700Mg Celeron Thinkpad. Feels faster and lasts x3 on a full battery.
Well not so good, my boss comes one day and ask where is that old laptop. I tell him I have it. He says he wants it back. Now, there is no way I'm going to give it back after all the work I put into it. We have a big fight about it. Finally he admits that he needs the power-supply so he can have one at home and one at work so he doesn't have to carry the power supply three meters to the elevator and back. I Juice up the VAIO for the last time. And bring him the PWSP.
It is sitting there with power for one go. It took me 14 month and I'm at a dead end. A new PWSP is $200 and it has to be specially ordered since they don't carry them any more. Well 2 month ago, I go to NY (a sad occasion I'm afraid) and I find on 14th st an Original VAIO PWSP for $40 . I now have Mandrake on my VAIO and I'm excited every time I use it. We have a special bond we're war-bodies. The only thing short of perfect is three keys missing on the keyboard: VBN. I can still press that little nipple below the key. One day I will carve these keys from wood.
Free life Boaz
What about CVS back end?
or ARCH for that matter?
Just jump on the bang wagon
/checks to: Boaz Harrosh Bezalel 26 Tel-Aviv 64683 Israel. Let 1 week for postal delivery.
- SCO showed us how to make money out of thin air
- HP is short of cash and loosing popularity
- Me too want:
I here by declare:
Any one send in $49.95 and you will receive your Linux permanent "Indemnification" certificate. This is good for any HW or Linux past present & future version. Order now while they are still available.
Send money order
who knows maybe I can finaly quit my day job...
Whine to success
The more you whine the more you are successful in business. SCO whines about Linux - must be successful. RIAA wines about P2P - big. Your boss: "why is it not ready on time? why is it buggy? why is it not as good as theirs? - well that tactics got him his job. The more you want and the more you make/request other people to fulfill your desire. The more successful you are. call it Boaz's Law. Whine to fame.
And all that why? because we the doers are too busy in doing. we leave the wanting (and whining) to others.
So the next time your boss comes whining about why the dead-line was no meat. Just ask him what can he do about it? (but whine).
The way I do it is: buy one license of CrossOver Install one machine the way I like it, and than take the "fake_windows" directory as a template for other machines. In windows all the big fuss installation boils down to: "what is your registry like" well that one is prepared by CrossOver.
Also a regspy On native windows can do the trick for many applications. That and the files from Program\ files (and system32) so you see CrossOver is good for learning and then Original wine is good for the rest of the house
Don't forget while you are at it to keep a frozen sample. In few years time when that species is extinct you can clone yourself millions. Also the value for genetic engineering raw material is enormous.
I've been collecting these drives for years. I managed pretty much the controller. Did not decide on Linux supporting chip yet. I thought of building little-to-medium smart racing cars with them, 4-drives per car. I want to Organize an after school group of kinds together with my son. Any one with Mechanical engineering skills that is willing to post suggestions? Boaz@ElectroZaur.Com