So in a hundred million years when all that's left of humans are fossil records and arsenic and silicon based life forms are all that is left, will those silicon beings argue that there was no intelligent design and laugh about how HAL rode around earth on humans?
Not only would I like to thank you for what sounds like honest work with some integrity, you sir, also sound like a HAM operator.:D Yet another great public service.
73,
I'd reckon some of the lag is due to corporate policy. FF3 still hasn't been pushed to my work PC and I doubt they are in any hurry to push the update either. Lots of other corps are no doubt waiting for something big to justify the man hours for the update.
I'm using a Linux solution myself. I originally went with an adaptec hardware raid controller and ran three drives in raid 5. In the several years of use I never had a drive fail.
Instead I ran into the capacity issues that you too see to be concerned about. After much thought and consideration I decided to take what I believe to be the least expensive and most manageable solution I could come up with. I tossed the raid card and stuffed two reasonably priced drives in that were roughly double what my raid 5 held.
However, instead of mirroring the drives I am doing a nightly rsync. Why? What if I accidentally delete a set of photos by accident, you know, the favorite porn? In a mirror or striped array you may have redundancy but it's just that, redundant with no backup. Unless you have the funds to put together a nice array and have a backup that is sufficient to archive the entire contents of the server then you are better off just saving your money and doing the rsync method. If you are uber-paranoid you could even get an older machine and rsync to it so that a catastrophic event (mice eating cables and frying the drives, etc) on one box doesn't affect the other.
My bet would be this; Budget for either a software or hardware raid method, then, go buy two big hard drives that each match the same capacity as the previous solution and put the rest of the money "under your mattress." If you think a hardware solution is in line, budget for two cards so that you have a failover card. From the management standpoint remember that you'll need to keep the firmware up to date on both cards (or neither, but I found with my adaptec it wouldn't support 400GB drives without a firmware update) A year or two later when your media center fills up, get the money out from under the mattress, buy two drives that double your current capacity and install them. You'll probably have enough leftover money for pizza, beer, and a hooker and you'll be a lot less stressed with the simple upgrade path and less worry about whether you should have bought that hot spare. Now, to be reasonable, you can't expect that scenario to work if you are tying to have terabytes of storage. Three 500GB drives and a raid card right now are cheaper than two 1TB drives, but TB drives are teh new hotness and come at that premium.
Also be prepared for the idea that with media, you may NEVER have enough storage. Between anime, digital photos, Linux ISOs, and ripping my cd collection to my "media center" (just a samba share) I've first filled 157GB (3x80GB raid 5), and now 300GB (2x300 rsync) of hard disk space. Eventually you will have to decide between keeping the last six seasons of Stargate and all of Battlestar Gallactica on your server, or would you be better off using your box sets that you legally own and just use the server for recent stuff. I finally had to draw the line and say I'd be better off to make backup copies of my DVDs and store them somewhere else rather than depend on my server as the backup and the convenient method watching stuff. As far as fair use goes you're probably better off to just have backup copies of media anyway, since you never know when you'll get accused of file sharing and have to prove you are innocent.
For reference and to validate most of my point lets make a real example since you are obviously here asking and not researching too much on your own. I'll use drives that have come down to reasonable market prices rather than the newer overpriced drives.
Semi-Paranoid config 4x250 GB HDD (3xraid 5 + 1 hot spare) ($50.00 each/pricewatch) $200.00 2 x 3Ware SATA II Hardware RAID 9550SX-4LPKIT ($329 each pricewatch) $660.00 Total Cost minus shipping/taxes for 1/2 TB raid5+spare storage =~ $860.00
Poor-man's "I hope it doesn't die" config 3x250 GB HDD (no hot spare) $150 1 x Sata Raid $329 Total Cost** $480
Simple Mirror with backup. 3x 500GB WD WD5000AAKS 500GB 3.5 HDD 7200RPM ($120 Each)(one live, one mirror, one for nightly backups) $360
You might consider using sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org instead. That covers cbl.abuseat.org as well as several other rbls all in one check. I've been running the settings below in my postfix for roughly the last year and the only "false positives" I've had to deal with are with sites that are open relays and had to get their site fixed. In each case they apparently requested to get removed, got removed within a few hours, and then within a few weeks got relisted again because they didn't atually fix the problm.
Eventually I agreed to whitelist the IP address of one site but have had to play chase the address 5 times each time they call and ask why we're blocking their mail. They complain it's our problem that they get blocked despite the fact that CBL has a copy of the messages sent via their open relay. When asked why they keep changing IP addresses, they said they didn't want to bore us with their security precautions.
As far as hard lists to get removed from, sorbs appears to get the most complaints, especially with some of their ideals about $50 fees for removal and entire subnet blocking. None the less if you stay active with your mail system you should be able to determine quickly if you have any false positives and need to remove any rbls. FWIW we're doing Postfix+Amavisd-new(with Spamassassin)+Vexira(clamAV as a failover)+Greylisting+Bayes learning as well as smptd auth for users outside or local network. We're not running and ISP here, but we see about 175-200K e-mails a month with about half of them getting rejected at SMTP for one reason or another.
Anyway, here is a glimpse at our postfix rules. smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, check_client_access hash:/etc/postfix/white-blacklist, reject_invalid_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_sender, reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_unknown_sender_domain, reject_unknown_recipient_domain, reject_unauth_destination, reject_rbl_client relays.ordb.org, reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org, reject_rbl_client sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, reject_rbl_client dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net, check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:10030, permit
Though slightly off topic from image inversion I'll put in my 2 us cents.
As a HAM radio operator I use an "embedded" PC running Xastir in my vehicle to track my location, the location of other HAM operators, send brief text messages and for the reception of weather alerts. I find it VERY useful if I can locate an open access point which further allows me to download live weather radar images, check on forecasts, etc. While I realize the "theft" of their service is considered illegal by most I hope it would make some aware that if they own a wap, and the weather is severe but you're brave enough to leave your equipment on you might consider removing security from it, especially if you see a vehicle with lots of antennas roaming the neighborhood.
Now, please don't confuse the black excursion with loads of antennas for a HAM radio operator. That is likely the NSA or RIAA/MPAA looking for goodies. The HAM guy will be in a beat up 80's model vehicle and likely be short, fat, and pale, much like your typical WoW player, except older and more intelligent. (Just Kidding!!)
Anyhow, there are both positive and negative aspects to open WAPs, the best anyone can do is educate people about the consequences and once that happens, I guess us HAMs will have to go knocking on doors.
During the Clinton Administration I had a good job, a good family, a good life. Since President Bush took office, it's gone to hell. And he's to blame!
I lost my job.
I lost my health insurance.
I lost my house.
Then, he stole my two sons in that terrible War in Iraq. My own two sons, my life!!! I have nothing else!
We should do anything that Senators Kennedy, Clinton, and Kerry want to insure that a Democrat is back in the White House with the next election.
We've been using HelpCore for a few weeks now. It's not bug free and in just a few places there's hints of the "nederlands" in the language but it's all php and sql so it's easy to patch. We're using 1.3.1 and it's made us realize how far behind we are on stuff:)
If you are, I was in much th same situation as you were. 12 months over there and getting updates was hard. If you get over there around balad AFB, PM me and I can get you some inside info on where to get updates, if the layout hasn't changed that much since April.
With that said, like everyone else said, get behind a firewall. Let autoupdates run, update AV and spyware defs, and then just to be safe, get off the network and scan away.
If it weren't for that genuine advantage stuff you could probably go to the corporate deployment section of windows updates and get the patches saved to a jump drive. Of course if you're hopping around those segovia sat connections your time will probably run out before you could get one update saved.
One last option, go to the education center and hang out there alot. Eventually the teacher will give you the go-ahead to do some upadtes, if they are pretty cool. Of course if you are really near getting home, don't worry about it, stay safe, and get back over here in one piece!
As a soldier here in Iraq I'll put in my 28 dinars...
First of all wireless is not all that uncommon here. Though I will admit of the two marine bases I've been on one of them didn't have squat. I didn't take my laptop to the other. As far as it being restricted, nobody is reading over our shoulders to see what we say. They must be using some kind of proxy as we know some soldiers got caught looking at porn. However, when I was in Kuwait the cybercafe there actually charged for the time but provided computers with games installed. Several soldiers there got together and played everquest late at night.
The article very accurately describes our problem with the Morale systems. To top it off most of the soldiers here are computer illiterate. I've managed to "war Drive" a little bit and have found a third party willing to let us hitchike on their wireless. Someone asked me if I'm stealing it. No, they are completely aware we are on their system. They think I'm a friggen genious cause I got the viruses off their computers and helped them with several other computer problems. It's a win-win situation and one of the only true luxuries we have here.
What these people are doing for the marines is great. I can tell you they've got the worst living conditions I've seen in theatre and they certianly deserve better than what the MWR facilites have to offer. I'd be tickled s***less if we could find someone to do the same for us here on our post. Our families are trying to raise money to help us be self sufficient with our internet but it is a slow process when we are from such a rural area back home. Until then we'll do what we do best and improvise.
As far as the comment about Abu Ghraib. As any soldier will tell you there are several things you should know. First, what was done there is WRONG and a disgrace. Second, if found guilty they will receive quite the punishment. The UCMJ is fair but cross it and you are in for a world of hurt. Third, photos and videos are encouraged for reasons just like this. Many times it may help with intelligence. Videos may help later to review tactics and create new plans. We have to think on our feet and keep looking to see what we are doing wrong and right. If it weren't for those photos Abu Ghraib might have been worse. Finally, put on your tinfoil hats, there was probably someone directing them do to what they did. I wouldn't look so happy about if I was ignorant enough to follow those orders but the same people that are brainwashing the prisoners are likely as influential on the soldiers there trying to do their duties.
Last but not least I did get my gmail account.:) The reason invitations are going unused is simply because most soldiers aren't geeks and aren't even aware this exists. Most of em probably don't even know what google is. If internet explorer came up on MSN then that's what they search with. I've had to write a friggen internet policy here for our troops to help guide them away from all the spam and spyware and viruses. Hopefully I'll get alot of them converted over to something like firefox before we leave and hopefully they'll be more responsible internet uses when I'm through with them...
Anyway... If anyone has any questions about anything over here feel free to contact me. I'll only say what I can that doesn't endanger anyone else but I'm pretty open to comments. If anyone cares to help us over here feel free to contact us. In the mean time I'll thank the slashdot community for pointing out this article and I'll see if they can't work up some kind of deal for us.
For the contractor in Fallujah, keep your head down man! I'm also glad to hear I'm not the only nerd in Iraq!!
Some of the KBR folks here appreciate the job we're doing over here and let us borrow their high speed internet hookup. Then again they also appreciate how I come over and fix their PCs when they break;)
Most of the military crap here runs though websense and blocks all the good stuff during the peak times of the day. Not to mention the chain of command is making NO effort to get us our own internet.
As Mack said though there are an abundance of satellite connections as well as an abundance of morons who don't understand that their wireless router is running wide open AND without an administrator password.
specifically, for all the gentoo users, there will be a list of missing files from the source posted to the forums shortly. Somewhat of a howto for building this, should be fairly accurate for everyone else as well. No guarantee it will work for everyone though... just thought I'd mention it. Look for mos19k in there as "nastygnat" is deprecated almost everywhere else.
A) Homeland Security E-mail is NOT encrypted and it is regularly sent to hotmail and other "webmail" based accounts. What IDIOT would allow that? (note: They are taking step to get rid of the webmail accounts)
B) The bunch of folks I've been working with in regards to other homeland security stuff don't know the difference between a passive and active FTP session.
I'm not saying they are all idiots... but toss a few idiots in with the PHBs and don't expect anything graceful to come out of it.
I thought about Dean but then I heard his views expressed on NPR and I was really turned off. I'm not going to troll my beliefs in his forum but I'd really like to see a good "right leaning" independent candidate emerge. I'm tired of all the Democratic and Republic finger pointing, bickering, and so forth..
I happen to be one of those "right wing" military folks and as far as I'm concerned you can have your revolution.
My job ISN'T to stop citizens from revolting, it's to protect the constituition. I'd hope many of my follow soldiers would recall stuff like Kent State and do what is right rather than what they're told. As far as I'm concerend our government is going WAY to far with the crap it's coming up with. That's why first of all, I'm going to VOTE. It's not going to be for a democrat, but I wish there was a viable candidate other than the Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft bunch.
On the other hand most of what I see in here in left wing propaganda. I don't guess you'll need the second amendment when your peacful revolt fails. Even though honestly I'll admit a million angry left wingers on capitol hill stalling government OUGHT to be enough to overwhelm police and military as well as incite SOME kind of change.
The Zaurus will let you SSH into your Server. I suspect a flashed IPaq would do the same but it's much easier to use the internet supplied openssh-X.XX.ipk package to install it and forget about it.
Better yet, the disgruntled employee renames his debbie does dallas VCD to "poohs new adventures" and gives all the little kiddies a little more "pooh" than they bargained for...
This release of PHP also fixes a wordwrap overflow that was found on 10 December.
This is one of the great things about opensource. The BugTraq announcement that just landed in my inbox shows the hole was found on the 10th, fixed on the 12th, and all of this released on the 27th. MS would have been lucky to have just the patch out by the 27th...
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So in a hundred million years when all that's left of humans are fossil records and arsenic and silicon based life forms are all that is left, will those silicon beings argue that there was no intelligent design and laugh about how HAL rode around earth on humans?
Here at the SIA (Slashdot Intelligence Agency), we patiently await 1679091c5a880faf6fb5e6087eb1b2dc.
Unless your job is designing large shapeless soft foam objects, you're always going to risk someone using your creation to hurt someone else
Yeah, try telling that to Eric Rachner and the Seattle Police..
I'll stick with my SODAS (Some Other Data Archival System). It run's on Linux and doesn't like COFFEE or DECAF.
Not only would I like to thank you for what sounds like honest work with some integrity, you sir, also sound like a HAM operator. :D Yet another great public service.
73,
TinyUrl works. I just posted a link to an Ubuntu Torrent hosted by TPB. At least I think "Etchi Tentacle pron" translates to ubuntu, right?
I'd reckon some of the lag is due to corporate policy. FF3 still hasn't been pushed to my work PC and I doubt they are in any hurry to push the update either. Lots of other corps are no doubt waiting for something big to justify the man hours for the update.
I'm using a Linux solution myself. I originally went with an adaptec hardware raid controller and ran three drives in raid 5. In the several years of use I never had a drive fail.
Instead I ran into the capacity issues that you too see to be concerned about. After much thought and consideration I decided to take what I believe to be the least expensive and most manageable solution I could come up with. I tossed the raid card and stuffed two reasonably priced drives in that were roughly double what my raid 5 held.
However, instead of mirroring the drives I am doing a nightly rsync. Why? What if I accidentally delete a set of photos by accident, you know, the favorite porn? In a mirror or striped array you may have redundancy but it's just that, redundant with no backup. Unless you have the funds to put together a nice array and have a backup that is sufficient to archive the entire contents of the server then you are better off just saving your money and doing the rsync method. If you are uber-paranoid you could even get an older machine and rsync to it so that a catastrophic event (mice eating cables and frying the drives, etc) on one box doesn't affect the other.
My bet would be this; Budget for either a software or hardware raid method, then, go buy two big hard drives that each match the same capacity as the previous solution and put the rest of the money "under your mattress." If you think a hardware solution is in line, budget for two cards so that you have a failover card. From the management standpoint remember that you'll need to keep the firmware up to date on both cards (or neither, but I found with my adaptec it wouldn't support 400GB drives without a firmware update) A year or two later when your media center fills up, get the money out from under the mattress, buy two drives that double your current capacity and install them. You'll probably have enough leftover money for pizza, beer, and a hooker and you'll be a lot less stressed with the simple upgrade path and less worry about whether you should have bought that hot spare. Now, to be reasonable, you can't expect that scenario to work if you are tying to have terabytes of storage. Three 500GB drives and a raid card right now are cheaper than two 1TB drives, but TB drives are teh new hotness and come at that premium.
Also be prepared for the idea that with media, you may NEVER have enough storage. Between anime, digital photos, Linux ISOs, and ripping my cd collection to my "media center" (just a samba share) I've first filled 157GB (3x80GB raid 5), and now 300GB (2x300 rsync) of hard disk space. Eventually you will have to decide between keeping the last six seasons of Stargate and all of Battlestar Gallactica on your server, or would you be better off using your box sets that you legally own and just use the server for recent stuff. I finally had to draw the line and say I'd be better off to make backup copies of my DVDs and store them somewhere else rather than depend on my server as the backup and the convenient method watching stuff. As far as fair use goes you're probably better off to just have backup copies of media anyway, since you never know when you'll get accused of file sharing and have to prove you are innocent.
For reference and to validate most of my point lets make a real example since you are obviously here asking and not researching too much on your own. I'll use drives that have come down to reasonable market prices rather than the newer overpriced drives.
Semi-Paranoid config
4x250 GB HDD (3xraid 5 + 1 hot spare) ($50.00 each/pricewatch) $200.00
2 x 3Ware SATA II Hardware RAID 9550SX-4LPKIT ($329 each pricewatch) $660.00
Total Cost minus shipping/taxes for 1/2 TB raid5+spare storage =~ $860.00
Poor-man's "I hope it doesn't die" config
3x250 GB HDD (no hot spare) $150
1 x Sata Raid $329
Total Cost** $480
Simple Mirror with backup.
3x 500GB WD WD5000AAKS 500GB 3.5 HDD 7200RPM ($120 Each)(one live, one mirror, one for nightly backups) $360
You might consider using sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org instead. That covers cbl.abuseat.org as well as several other rbls all in one check. I've been running the settings below in my postfix for roughly the last year and the only "false positives" I've had to deal with are with sites that are open relays and had to get their site fixed. In each case they apparently requested to get removed, got removed within a few hours, and then within a few weeks got relisted again because they didn't atually fix the problm.
Eventually I agreed to whitelist the IP address of one site but have had to play chase the address 5 times each time they call and ask why we're blocking their mail. They complain it's our problem that they get blocked despite the fact that CBL has a copy of the messages sent via their open relay. When asked why they keep changing IP addresses, they said they didn't want to bore us with their security precautions.
As far as hard lists to get removed from, sorbs appears to get the most complaints, especially with some of their ideals about $50 fees for removal and entire subnet blocking. None the less if you stay active with your mail system you should be able to determine quickly if you have any false positives and need to remove any rbls. FWIW we're doing
Postfix+Amavisd-new(with Spamassassin)+Vexira(clamAV as a failover)+Greylisting+Bayes learning as well as smptd auth for users outside or local network. We're not running and ISP here, but we see about 175-200K e-mails a month with about half of them getting rejected at SMTP for one reason or another.
Anyway, here is a glimpse at our postfix rules.
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, check_client_access hash:/etc/postfix/white-blacklist, reject_invalid_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_sender, reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_unknown_sender_domain, reject_unknown_recipient_domain, reject_unauth_destination, reject_rbl_client relays.ordb.org, reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org, reject_rbl_client sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, reject_rbl_client dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net, check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:10030, permit
or someone on the inside (USPO).
I've always suspected the Patent Office was terrorising us
I know, it's the uspto, but patents were the first thing that came to mind with the acronym
Though slightly off topic from image inversion I'll put in my 2 us cents.
As a HAM radio operator I use an "embedded" PC running Xastir in my vehicle to track my location, the location of other HAM operators, send brief text messages and for the reception of weather alerts. I find it VERY useful if I can locate an open access point which further allows me to download live weather radar images, check on forecasts, etc. While I realize the "theft" of their service is considered illegal by most I hope it would make some aware that if they own a wap, and the weather is severe but you're brave enough to leave your equipment on you might consider removing security from it, especially if you see a vehicle with lots of antennas roaming the neighborhood.
Now, please don't confuse the black excursion with loads of antennas for a HAM radio operator. That is likely the NSA or RIAA/MPAA looking for goodies. The HAM guy will be in a beat up 80's model vehicle and likely be short, fat, and pale, much like your typical WoW player, except older and more intelligent. (Just Kidding!!)
Anyhow, there are both positive and negative aspects to open WAPs, the best anyone can do is educate people about the consequences and once that happens, I guess us HAMs will have to go knocking on doors.
73s
but I think I finally translated one...
Dear Friend,
I am a senior citizen.
During the Clinton Administration I had a good job, a good family, a good life. Since President Bush took office, it's gone to hell. And he's to blame!
I lost my job.
I lost my health insurance.
I lost my house.
Then, he stole my two sons in that terrible War in Iraq. My own two sons, my life!!! I have nothing else!
We should do anything that Senators Kennedy, Clinton, and Kerry want to insure that a Democrat is back in the White House with the next election.
Sincerely,
Saddam Hussein
We've been using HelpCore for a few weeks now. It's not bug free and in just a few places there's hints of the "nederlands" in the language but it's all php and sql so it's easy to patch. We're using 1.3.1 and it's made us realize how far behind we are on stuff :)
If you are, I was in much th same situation as you were. 12 months over there and getting updates was hard. If you get over there around balad AFB, PM me and I can get you some inside info on where to get updates, if the layout hasn't changed that much since April.
With that said, like everyone else said, get behind a firewall. Let autoupdates run, update AV and spyware defs, and then just to be safe, get off the network and scan away.
If it weren't for that genuine advantage stuff you could probably go to the corporate deployment section of windows updates and get the patches saved to a jump drive. Of course if you're hopping around those segovia sat connections your time will probably run out before you could get one update saved.
One last option, go to the education center and hang out there alot. Eventually the teacher will give you the go-ahead to do some upadtes, if they are pretty cool. Of course if you are really near getting home, don't worry about it, stay safe, and get back over here in one piece!
take care!
Funny, I live in a rural area and all I see of broadband is how it's 6 or 10 mbits for you city folk.
Seems like instead of upping the speed for everyone in the city they should be trying to expand the coverage area, ne?
WiMax, take me away....
As a soldier here in Iraq I'll put in my 28 dinars ...
:) The reason invitations are going unused is simply because most soldiers aren't geeks and aren't even aware this exists. Most of em probably don't even know what google is. If internet explorer came up on MSN then that's what they search with. I've had to write a friggen internet policy here for our troops to help guide them away from all the spam and spyware and viruses. Hopefully I'll get alot of them converted over to something like firefox before we leave and hopefully they'll be more responsible internet uses when I'm through with them...
First of all wireless is not all that uncommon here. Though I will admit of the two marine bases I've been on one of them didn't have squat. I didn't take my laptop to the other. As far as it being restricted, nobody is reading over our shoulders to see what we say. They must be using some kind of proxy as we know some soldiers got caught looking at porn. However, when I was in Kuwait the cybercafe there actually charged for the time but provided computers with games installed. Several soldiers there got together and played everquest late at night.
The article very accurately describes our problem with the Morale systems. To top it off most of the soldiers here are computer illiterate. I've managed to "war Drive" a little bit and have found a third party willing to let us hitchike on their wireless. Someone asked me if I'm stealing it. No, they are completely aware we are on their system. They think I'm a friggen genious cause I got the viruses off their computers and helped them with several other computer problems. It's a win-win situation and one of the only true luxuries we have here.
What these people are doing for the marines is great. I can tell you they've got the worst living conditions I've seen in theatre and they certianly deserve better than what the MWR facilites have to offer. I'd be tickled s***less if we could find someone to do the same for us here on our post. Our families are trying to raise money to help us be self sufficient with our internet but it is a slow process when we are from such a rural area back home. Until then we'll do what we do best and improvise.
As far as the comment about Abu Ghraib. As any soldier will tell you there are several things you should know.
First, what was done there is WRONG and a disgrace.
Second, if found guilty they will receive quite the punishment. The UCMJ is fair but cross it and you are in for a world of hurt.
Third, photos and videos are encouraged for reasons just like this. Many times it may help with intelligence. Videos may help later to review tactics and create new plans. We have to think on our feet and keep looking to see what we are doing wrong and right. If it weren't for those photos Abu Ghraib might have been worse.
Finally, put on your tinfoil hats, there was probably someone directing them do to what they did. I wouldn't look so happy about if I was ignorant enough to follow those orders but the same people that are brainwashing the prisoners are likely as influential on the soldiers there trying to do their duties.
Last but not least I did get my gmail account.
Anyway... If anyone has any questions about anything over here feel free to contact me. I'll only say what I can that doesn't endanger anyone else but I'm pretty open to comments. If anyone cares to help us over here feel free to contact us. In the mean time I'll thank the slashdot community for pointing out this article and I'll see if they can't work up some kind of deal for us.
For the contractor in Fallujah, keep your head down man! I'm also glad to hear I'm not the only nerd in Iraq!!
Now put on your tin foil hats and guess what the governments going to do with this technology...
Nevermind, I'm pretty sure they're already doing that...
Some of the KBR folks here appreciate the job we're doing over here and let us borrow their high speed internet hookup. Then again they also appreciate how I come over and fix their PCs when they break ;)
Most of the military crap here runs though websense and blocks all the good stuff during the peak times of the day. Not to mention the chain of command is making NO effort to get us our own internet.
As Mack said though there are an abundance of satellite connections as well as an abundance of morons who don't understand that their wireless router is running wide open AND without an administrator password.
specifically, for all the gentoo users, there will be a list of missing files from the source posted to the forums shortly. Somewhat of a howto for building this, should be fairly accurate for everyone else as well. No guarantee it will work for everyone though... just thought I'd mention it. Look for mos19k in there as "nastygnat" is deprecated almost everywhere else.
I'll vote on the idiots side of it.
A) Homeland Security E-mail is NOT encrypted and it is regularly sent to hotmail and other "webmail" based accounts. What IDIOT would allow that? (note: They are taking step to get rid of the webmail accounts)
B) The bunch of folks I've been working with in regards to other homeland security stuff don't know the difference between a passive and active FTP session.
I'm not saying they are all idiots... but toss a few idiots in with the PHBs and don't expect anything graceful to come out of it.
I thought about Dean but then I heard his views expressed on NPR and I was really turned off. I'm not going to troll my beliefs in his forum but I'd really like to see a good "right leaning" independent candidate emerge. I'm tired of all the Democratic and Republic finger pointing, bickering, and so forth..
Any suggestions?
I happen to be one of those "right wing" military folks and as far as I'm concerned you can have your revolution.
My job ISN'T to stop citizens from revolting, it's to protect the constituition. I'd hope many of my follow soldiers would recall stuff like Kent State and do what is right rather than what they're told. As far as I'm concerend our government is going WAY to far with the crap it's coming up with. That's why first of all, I'm going to VOTE. It's not going to be for a democrat, but I wish there was a viable candidate other than the Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft bunch.
On the other hand most of what I see in here in left wing propaganda. I don't guess you'll need the second amendment when your peacful revolt fails. Even though honestly I'll admit a million angry left wingers on capitol hill stalling government OUGHT to be enough to overwhelm police and military as well as incite SOME kind of change.
The Zaurus will let you SSH into your Server. I suspect a flashed IPaq would do the same but it's much easier to use the internet supplied openssh-X.XX.ipk package to install it and forget about it.
Better yet, the disgruntled employee renames his debbie does dallas VCD to "poohs new adventures" and gives all the little kiddies a little more "pooh" than they bargained for...
This release of PHP also fixes a wordwrap overflow that was found on 10 December.
This is one of the great things about opensource. The BugTraq announcement that just landed in my inbox shows the hole was found on the 10th, fixed on the 12th, and all of this released on the 27th.
MS would have been lucky to have just the patch out by the 27th...