I know many of you readers (amazingly) aren't terribly familiar with Linux, so I'll explain this the easiest way I can.
Could someone here with an XBox with an XBox live account, and a broadband sharing device run ethereal on their LAN, begin a capture on the XBox's IP address, then turn on the XBox and log into live, then post the caputure?
With the slashdot hive-mind as it's so called, we can have an open hacking discussion. I'm not saying it would be obvious, but who knows...perhaps we can see something? I don't own one yet or I'd be doing this myself.
Installing Linux on it and using it as a VERY useful entertainment device is. It's cheap, and it can even interface with your tivo to allow you to play back your recordings from another room.
Or you could just install MythTV. or run emulators.
I want an XBox, and I'll probably NEVER buy a game for it. THAT is what Microsoft hates. People who buy the loss-leader hardware and never buy the software.
What I *CAN* comment on is that if I wanted to ban a device from accessing my network, I would block it at layer 2.
That said, spoof a different mac address. Go into your local Blockbuster, or wherever, rent an xbox for an hour. Take it home, plug it in, get it's mac address.
Then go to your router or other broadband sharing device and spoof the mac address of that machine. On ya go.
Now we just have to determine HOW the hacks are being detected....
I must enjoy abuse. I keep renewing my account with SprintPCS. I've been with them since 98, and overall they've treated me pretty well, but make the smallest change to my account and they require me to renew my contract for 2 years. It's been about six months, but that means another 18 months with my current billing plan before I can port my number to another provider and take advantage of a phone like this.
Not that I need IM. Just being able to log into my iMac and reaad e-mail would make me happy. Or a decent Java imap client that supports either subscriptions or a base mail directory. None out there seem to do this yet.:(
I mean where everything is logged in video....and, perhaps my example wasn't good. You notice how just about EVERYONE in trek keeps a personal video log?
We're actually moving toward logging our days into a computer, and then when something goes wrong, investigators come in later and go through our personal logs to see what happened in the days leading up to.
Life is becoming one large, pathetic 'Trek episode.
God, I'm a geek.:(
(You made me wonderfully and perfectly so...I think?:P)
Sorry guys but I just got a takedown notice from Lucasfilm:
Dear Webmaster, It has come to our attention that your website, http://www.numbski.net/downloads/sw3trai ler.torren t is posting unauthorized copies of content (Episode III Teaser Trailer) from the Official Star Wars website (www.starwars.com
) and in particular, content from the subscriber-only area of the site - Hyperspace (www.starwars.com/hyperspace ), as well as content from Star Wars Insider magazine, a Lucasfilm publication.
We believe this content is protected by copyright and other laws and its use elsewhere on your website is a violation of the starwars.com Terms of Service..
We trust this is an oversight or miscommunication and that any such content will be removed from your site immediately and no future re-posting will occur. This will allow us to avoid a more formal communication in the future.
Thank you for your enthusiasm for Star Wars and thank you in advance for your cooperation on this matter.
I didn't get this from the 'subscriber only' area. I downloaded from the link in the article at the AOL website.
Weirdness. Sorry guys, I have to kill the torrent.:(
Bush had failed Americans with his Middle East policies, deceiving the nation and putting it at risk from further al Qaeda strikes, bin Laden said. The speech was his clearest claim yet of responsibility for the Sept. 11 strikes of 2001.
Appearing in a video released from hiding to Al Jazeera television four days before the U.S. presidential poll and gesturing with a finger to stress points, he said the Sept. 11 attacks would not have been so severe if Bush had been alert.
"Despite entering the fourth year after Sept. 11, Bush is still deceiving you and hiding the truth from you and therefore the reasons are still there to repeat what happened," he said.
It looked like a deliberate attempt to influence the U.S. election on Tuesday.
But he made little mention of Bush's Democratic challenger John Kerry, saying only: "Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands and each state which does not harm our security will remain safe."
I know there was no official announcement, but the generalized concensus was that this guy was dead. All of that bombing out in the moutains, they won't say he's dead because they didn't find a body, but then, all they could find were body *parts*, and no DNA to compare it against.
This kinda screws up a WHOLE lotta thoughts of security in the middle east. Were not even going to talk about the good/bad/ugly that is Iraq.
There is no such thing as bad news when it comes to Linux distros being picked up, not even from a corporate point of view.
I get this a lot with wireless broadband. If a 'competitor' springs up across town and starts covering areas that I also service, if we cooperate, we'll both get more customers. If we in-fight, people will get the idea that wireless broadband is unreliable. When people work together, provide excellent service, everyone benefits. There's plenty of market terrain out there to be had, and no everyone needs to become a huge mega-comglomerate.
No one linux shop needs to become the next M$ or Apple. Sure, they could, but they don't need to in order to prosper. There's still plenty of Linux territory to be had. I'd say this is as good a news to Red Hat as any, so long as both RH and SuSE are commited to excellence.
I would imagine that they use the stock kernel and have the kernel sources on hand for a custom compile.
This kind of goes along with another post I made...primarily what packages are installed by default, what other packages are included on the hard drive, and which ones are being given to you only on optical disc (if any)?
Being a FreeBSD/MacOS X user as of late, between the ports systems and fink, I've gotten more than a bit accustomed to just sync'ing against an online repository for package descriptions using cron and only pulling down what I need, but that puts a strain on someone's servers.
One of the benefits of SuSE is that (at least last time I used it, I'm a FreeBSD/MacOS X user currently) it comes with every tested package imaginable...something like 10 cd's or 3 DVDs...?
Are they just shipping with a base install, and giving you the DVDs? Putting all of the packages on there, just not installing them for convenience on a huge drive?
What's the best OEM config for something like SuSE? Presume people are going to use an online repository?
Bah. I'm a christian. Not the over-the-top poke'n'prod everyone else into believing what I believe type. I take the new testament very seriously. Everything before that I take with a large salt lick.
The fact of the matter is that the Bible, especially the old testmament simply CANNOT be read literally. Sure, there are some stories in there I'm sure happened, but when you have multiple authors claiming to be Moses in a few cases...eh....
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ with all your heart and mind.
Love thy neighbor as thyself.
I don't mean to oversimply it, but if you get those two points, I mean REALLY get them, you get more of christianity than many proclaimed christians do. You could *almost* toss out the rest. You'd be missing out on a whole lot of good stuff but if it came right down to it....
Slashdot Mirror
It requires ActiveX.
...
Firefox on a Mac here. More than half of PopCap's games don't work for me. Only the java ones (Alchemy for example).
It's all a plot to make us *nix users more productive than our Windows counterparts.
Oh wait....
badger badger badger badger bader badger badger...
I know many of you readers (amazingly) aren't terribly familiar with Linux, so I'll explain this the easiest way I can.
Could someone here with an XBox with an XBox live account, and a broadband sharing device run ethereal on their LAN, begin a capture on the XBox's IP address, then turn on the XBox and log into live, then post the caputure?
With the slashdot hive-mind as it's so called, we can have an open hacking discussion. I'm not saying it would be obvious, but who knows...perhaps we can see something? I don't own one yet or I'd be doing this myself.
Installing Linux on it and using it as a VERY useful entertainment device is. It's cheap, and it can even interface with your tivo to allow you to play back your recordings from another room.
Or you could just install MythTV.
or run emulators.
I want an XBox, and I'll probably NEVER buy a game for it. THAT is what Microsoft hates. People who buy the loss-leader hardware and never buy the software.
What I *CAN* comment on is that if I wanted to ban a device from accessing my network, I would block it at layer 2.
That said, spoof a different mac address. Go into your local Blockbuster, or wherever, rent an xbox for an hour. Take it home, plug it in, get it's mac address.
Then go to your router or other broadband sharing device and spoof the mac address of that machine. On ya go.
Now we just have to determine HOW the hacks are being detected....
Here's a Better Link
:)
Sorry about that.
Google News
It's the article with the picture of a guy holding a cd wallet.
I must enjoy abuse. I keep renewing my account with SprintPCS. I've been with them since 98, and overall they've treated me pretty well, but make the smallest change to my account and they require me to renew my contract for 2 years. It's been about six months, but that means another 18 months with my current billing plan before I can port my number to another provider and take advantage of a phone like this.
:) mobile IM's never been so good.
:(
If it has a reasonable ssh client, then I'm all over it.
Not that I need IM. Just being able to log into my iMac and reaad e-mail would make me happy. Or a decent Java imap client that supports either subscriptions or a base mail directory. None out there seem to do this yet.
I mean where everything is logged in video. ...and, perhaps my example wasn't good. You notice how just about EVERYONE in trek keeps a personal video log?
I can't believe no one else is catching this...
:(
:P)
"Captain's Log, Stardate blah blah blah blah blah..."
We're actually moving toward logging our days into a computer, and then when something goes wrong, investigators come in later and go through our personal logs to see what happened in the days leading up to.
Life is becoming one large, pathetic 'Trek episode.
God, I'm a geek.
(You made me wonderfully and perfectly so...I think?
I went looking for the classic Larry Wall obfuscation for classic's sake, but now I'm having a hard time finding it. *sigh*
:)
Double-rot-13 obfuscation!
-nt-
/. has this silly character limitation.
Except that
Sorry guys but I just got a takedown notice from Lucasfilm:
i ler.torren t is posting
:(
Dear Webmaster,
It has come to our attention that your website,
http://www.numbski.net/downloads/sw3tra
unauthorized copies of content (Episode III Teaser Trailer) from the
Official Star Wars website (www.starwars.com
) and in particular, content from the
subscriber-only area of the site - Hyperspace
(www.starwars.com/hyperspace ),
as well as content from Star Wars Insider magazine, a Lucasfilm
publication.
We believe this content is protected by copyright and other laws and its
use elsewhere on your website is a violation of the starwars.com Terms
of Service..
We trust this is an oversight or miscommunication and that any such
content will be removed from your site immediately and no future
re-posting will occur. This will allow us to avoid a more formal
communication in the future.
Thank you for your enthusiasm for Star Wars and thank you in advance for
your cooperation on this matter.
I didn't get this from the 'subscriber only' area. I downloaded from the link in the article at the AOL website.
Weirdness. Sorry guys, I have to kill the torrent.
So like I have to put text here huh? :)
Here's the tracker url:
Tracker
I'm using azureus. I think I'm having firewall probs, not sure yet though.
Something's wrong. I'm trying to fix it as we speak.
Sorry!
Spread the seed my breathren!
Torrent!
Just reply to yourself and post it here. ;)
:P
I run an ISP and I've always considered doing something similar to that to our DNS servers. I'm sure the ad companies wouldn't be amused.
Bush had failed Americans with his Middle East policies, deceiving the nation and putting it at risk from further al Qaeda strikes, bin Laden said. The speech was his clearest claim yet of responsibility for the Sept. 11 strikes of 2001.
Appearing in a video released from hiding to Al Jazeera television four days before the U.S. presidential poll and gesturing with a finger to stress points, he said the Sept. 11 attacks would not have been so severe if Bush had been alert.
"Despite entering the fourth year after Sept. 11, Bush is still deceiving you and hiding the truth from you and therefore the reasons are still there to repeat what happened," he said.
It looked like a deliberate attempt to influence the U.S. election on Tuesday.
But he made little mention of Bush's Democratic challenger John Kerry, saying only: "Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands and each state which does not harm our security will remain safe."
"our" security? Whose security?
Uh....
I know there was no official announcement, but the generalized concensus was that this guy was dead. All of that bombing out in the moutains, they won't say he's dead because they didn't find a body, but then, all they could find were body *parts*, and no DNA to compare it against.
This kinda screws up a WHOLE lotta thoughts of security in the middle east. Were not even going to talk about the good/bad/ugly that is Iraq.
Except for one minor detail that PHB's might go for:
If you buy the linux distro from Dell, Dell will support it.
s/Red Hat/SuSE/g;
I really think everyone is looking at this wrong.
There is no such thing as bad news when it comes to Linux distros being picked up, not even from a corporate point of view.
I get this a lot with wireless broadband. If a 'competitor' springs up across town and starts covering areas that I also service, if we cooperate, we'll both get more customers. If we in-fight, people will get the idea that wireless broadband is unreliable. When people work together, provide excellent service, everyone benefits. There's plenty of market terrain out there to be had, and no everyone needs to become a huge mega-comglomerate.
No one linux shop needs to become the next M$ or Apple. Sure, they could, but they don't need to in order to prosper. There's still plenty of Linux territory to be had. I'd say this is as good a news to Red Hat as any, so long as both RH and SuSE are commited to excellence.
I would imagine that they use the stock kernel and have the kernel sources on hand for a custom compile.
This kind of goes along with another post I made...primarily what packages are installed by default, what other packages are included on the hard drive, and which ones are being given to you only on optical disc (if any)?
Being a FreeBSD/MacOS X user as of late, between the ports systems and fink, I've gotten more than a bit accustomed to just sync'ing against an online repository for package descriptions using cron and only pulling down what I need, but that puts a strain on someone's servers.
One of the benefits of SuSE is that (at least last time I used it, I'm a FreeBSD/MacOS X user currently) it comes with every tested package imaginable...something like 10 cd's or 3 DVDs...?
Are they just shipping with a base install, and giving you the DVDs? Putting all of the packages on there, just not installing them for convenience on a huge drive?
What's the best OEM config for something like SuSE? Presume people are going to use an online repository?
Bah. I'm a christian. Not the over-the-top poke'n'prod everyone else into believing what I believe type. I take the new testament very seriously. Everything before that I take with a large salt lick.
The fact of the matter is that the Bible, especially the old testmament simply CANNOT be read literally. Sure, there are some stories in there I'm sure happened, but when you have multiple authors claiming to be Moses in a few cases...eh....
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ with all your heart and mind.
Love thy neighbor as thyself.
I don't mean to oversimply it, but if you get those two points, I mean REALLY get them, you get more of christianity than many proclaimed christians do. You could *almost* toss out the rest. You'd be missing out on a whole lot of good stuff but if it came right down to it....