Assuming, of course, that you don't use the password in something easily crackable...like Office documents or zipfiles. You gonna type 45 characters for each and every login you do in a day?
How bout Password Safe? Remember one password and it does the rest! Well, only if it's version 3 or newer. Versions 1 and 2 are 'trivially' crackable. Crack that first password and EVERYTHING else is available.
Having just completed a Forensics bootcamp, I was frankly amazed at what the current state of the art practices are in password cracking. Even the smallest commonly used keys would take a Computer for Every Person On the Planet 300,000 years to brute force crack.
Face it, you ain't gonna get there with more horsepower.
But, the guy's a Bronco fan? Index broncos.com and add it to the dictionary. Enter his wife, daughter, marriage date, favorite car, and pets. The dictionary generation software has taken great strides in Making lists of MuffySpot1996 type entries.
Not enough to crack your password? Hmm. Better hope you didn't use it with another program that happened to write it's ram to swap. The forensics tools index EVERY number and word on the drives you enter into evidence. Evidence can be data from your iPod, cellphone, and PDA. It can be from the exchange server and it can be from hotmail.com
Is he Russian? Add the russian dictionary to the search.
So, here's what we have: a Custom dictionary, Russian and English dictionaries, an index of every unique character string captured on all removable and non-removable storage.
That's a lotta chinks in the armor. And Crooks usually aren't that smart.
It was a very enlightening class. During the lab it _easily_ guessed my tier two and three passwords...it didn't get my tier one Passwords, but I didn't enter all my evidence for submission either.
Apple's DRM sucks _the_least_. IS it there? yeah. Does it impact 99% of the people that use the iTunes store? Not really.
Okay, you're stuck with Apple's iPodlike devices. So what? They're really good. I realize the people I'm talking to in this form: The Apple Haters and the DRM freedom fighters, but as a well educated IT person, my impression is:
Apple has managed to negotiate with folks that can't be negotiated with. Further, they were able to do so in a way that greatly benifits the customer. In doing so, they managed to jumpstart the current, DEVELOPING, download industry.
Do the permit renting the music? No. and I can see why: Rentals rely on the end user getting complacent and 'forgetting' that $15 a month fee. Once it gets past their notice, and they fall into complacency, the bult of that $15 is free money to the vendor. (Assuming they don't get bought or go out of business, or whatever)
DRM may be an unnecessary evil, but Apples done a lot to make it hurt as little as possible. I can't say that alternative has _ever_ acted with the consumer's interests in mind.
I've got absolutely NO qualms with sticking with Apple. Their products mesh extremely well with my needs.
I switched from Redhat because they were the 'defacto' Linux for business. As such, they behave like the 800 lb. gorilla of the group.
"Our product only works with redhat, and only if you patch and recompile the kernel. " = no thanks, that's a support nightmare where you end up 8 versions behind when you can't compile a new kernel.
"We have a wonderful GUI for administration" = It works great...except when it doesn't. Then I get to muddle about the conf files. If I've gotta do that, I'll just start there.
"We're marvellously responsive with security fixes...but only if you subscribe. And the Licensing is just about the same price as Microsoft. (This was a good 6-8 years ago.
So I switched to SUSE. SUSE had GREAT QA. Yast worked as it should AND worked identically so in a text only environment. That let my IDS boxes spend more time looking at packets, rather than drawing X11. They had a free package management and patching system.
Then Novell bought them and had to 'monetize' the purchase. Good bye security updates.
I flirted with Gentoo a bit, but never felt completely confortable there.
I played with BSD, but it became obvious that low level stuff is DIFFERENT than Linux. I could learn it, but I'd be starting from scratch for the stuff I was doing.
Debian was _stable_. It wasn't on a constant upgrade cycle, has a great package management system, and security updates will always be free.
Debian is a forking point for a BUNCH of distros...ever wonder why that is?
Are you happy with my bigger assessment?
I tend to avoid Redhat as they gave me the impression that they were the Microsoft of Linux.
I loved Suse, then they got bought by Novell.
I moved to Debian as they allowed me to install a bare system in 300 mb with text only and install JUST the parts I needed.
Now I get to look for something else? (actually, it doesn't look like it as I haven't needed paid support for MySQL yet.)
The 383 wouldn't allow for the stock oil cooler, and the transmission needed additional cooling for the duty cycle. All the 'kits' available don't consider the packaging requirements of a Corvette. There WERE no kits to do this.
Dad ran a hydraulics supplier for years and when he found out the budget for AN grade fittings and hoses, he convinced me that industrial hydraulic pieces and parts would be superior at 1/3rd the price.
Design in the ability to bypass the oil cooler in cold weather and the system has outperformed my wildest expectations.
It's a bittersweet reminder of my father, who died about 8 months ago, but it's a GOOD memory too.
Now I'm learning to turn metal (restored a South Bend 1964 Lathe), I'm sure cool things will come of that.
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Holy CRAP! I just had a Galaxy Quest moment!
This is innacurate. My first MBP's fans died within two weeks. While diagnosing the problem, I intentionally ran it as hard as I could with one, and later, no fans.
With all fans dead, temp reached 92C, but the system DID NOT FAIL. It _did_ clock cycle to keep running, but I could not get it to freeze up.
Aww heck, you got me. There's a modded Xbox and a 'Virgin' Xbox, an iMac I neglected to count, one more PC running Vista, and a Wii's on my list.
FWIW, of the 14 Xbox games I have, 5 were bought new, the rest were second hand.
But I'm _not_ getting a 360. Just like I'm not getting a PS3. So what's yer point? I think BOTH companies have become unresponsive behemoths that can't make product due to their being too successful too long. Their legacy is weighing them down.
The one thing I'm _not_ is a fanboi. The Wii has the best opportunity for being a good value. The other two are barking up the wrong tree.
My house has two ubuntu systems, a linux firewall, Two OS X systems and my wife's computer. There's one copy of a Microsoft OS in my house and it wasn't my decision for it to be here.
I'm voiting with my money. Are you?
Okay. I've bought LOTS of Sony stuff. Thousands of dollars worth.
Trinitron Tube'd TV's Disk- and Walk-men Standalone home theatre speakers nifty AV receivers a Laptop A Camcorder. several pairs of headphones countless Sony branded movies and albums, I'm sure.
And I'll never buy another Sony product again. Why?
Rootkits Proprietary Media - MD, DAT, Memory Sticks, little odd writeable DVD's for their camcorders, PSP's oddball media, Beta, and now BluRay. I'm sick sick sick of the intentional fracturing of the market at the expense of the customer. A Laptop installed with XP that _couldn't_ take SP2 due to a crappy memory controller. Decisions for music players that just flat seemed STUPID (ATRAC?) The fact they're betting the company on this one, expensive, item that has a cobbled together controller at a price I don't care to spend, forcing a media format I do not want.
Coupled with my moving away from physical media for entertainment purposes (I'll probable not get either competing format. I shifted from record and 8track to cassette, then CD's, from VHS to laserdisk to DVD.) I'm tired of re-buying the White Album, catch my drift?
Are you guys really falling all over yourselves for this company? Haven't they screwed you enough? (And by you, I mean the Customer)
Sony is an example of a machine that's gotten so large, it cannot move without standing on itself. I see no reason my money should reward it for its actions.
My wife and I call this the "Mega-Tsunami" effect. They're taking a concept that can be relayed in 5 minutes and stretching it out to 60 (and sometimes longer).
What could have done such devastating things to this eco-system? Could it PROVE the existance of a Mega Tsunami?
I'm just glad you're not my Doctor. These meds, taken properly, do SIGNIFICANT things like:
-Reduce Suicide -Reduce Physical Abuse -Reduce long term depression that can physically alter your physiology -Save Marriages
If you have a headache, you can take an Advil with no real societal impact.
Break your arm, and a cast is socially acceptable.
Why on EARTH do you think this kind of suffering is normal and should be tolerated? Further, why do you think that, because you haven't experienced it firsthand, the sufferers must be faking or unable to cope.
I've had four long years full of multiple deaths, financial hardships, sickness, and marital strain. I tell ya, it's just another kind of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. You spend enough time under the grinding wheel and your brain forgets how to act without it. To the point that you're afraid to LEAVE THE HOUSE.
Tell me that's something you should just suck up and deal with.
I'll vouch for this. My firewall had exactly 1 open port. ssh. I created an unintentionally weak account when configuring samba and the system was pwned in less than 24 hours.
iTunes, et, al. are trying to find the idal price for music from the high end, and AllOfMp3 is approaching it from the bottom. I would be willing to pay $4-$6 for a lossy album, roughly twice what AOmp3 sells them for. I will NOT pay $12 for a digital only, restricted, album with certain songs only available when the full record is purchased.
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Assuming, of course, that you don't use the password in something easily crackable...like Office documents or zipfiles. You gonna type 45 characters for each and every login you do in a day?
How bout Password Safe? Remember one password and it does the rest! Well, only if it's version 3 or newer. Versions 1 and 2 are 'trivially' crackable. Crack that first password and EVERYTHING else is available.
Having just completed a Forensics bootcamp, I was frankly amazed at what the current state of the art practices are in password cracking. Even the smallest commonly used keys would take a Computer for Every Person On the Planet 300,000 years to brute force crack.
Face it, you ain't gonna get there with more horsepower.
But, the guy's a Bronco fan? Index broncos.com and add it to the dictionary. Enter his wife, daughter, marriage date, favorite car, and pets. The dictionary generation software has taken great strides in Making lists of MuffySpot1996 type entries.
Not enough to crack your password? Hmm. Better hope you didn't use it with another program that happened to write it's ram to swap. The forensics tools index EVERY number and word on the drives you enter into evidence. Evidence can be data from your iPod, cellphone, and PDA. It can be from the exchange server and it can be from hotmail.com
Is he Russian? Add the russian dictionary to the search.
So, here's what we have: a Custom dictionary, Russian and English dictionaries, an index of every unique character string captured on all removable and non-removable storage.
That's a lotta chinks in the armor. And Crooks usually aren't that smart.
It was a very enlightening class. During the lab it _easily_ guessed my tier two and three passwords...it didn't get my tier one Passwords, but I didn't enter all my evidence for submission either.
If it moves, sue it. If it doesn't move....move it, THEN sue it.
Apple's DRM sucks _the_least_. IS it there? yeah. Does it impact 99% of the people that use the iTunes store? Not really.
Okay, you're stuck with Apple's iPodlike devices. So what? They're really good. I realize the people I'm talking to in this form: The Apple Haters and the DRM freedom fighters, but as a well educated IT person, my impression is:
Apple has managed to negotiate with folks that can't be negotiated with. Further, they were able to do so in a way that greatly benifits the customer. In doing so, they managed to jumpstart the current, DEVELOPING, download industry.
Do the permit renting the music? No. and I can see why: Rentals rely on the end user getting complacent and 'forgetting' that $15 a month fee. Once it gets past their notice, and they fall into complacency, the bult of that $15 is free money to the vendor. (Assuming they don't get bought or go out of business, or whatever)
DRM may be an unnecessary evil, but Apples done a lot to make it hurt as little as possible. I can't say that alternative has _ever_ acted with the consumer's interests in mind.
I've got absolutely NO qualms with sticking with Apple. Their products mesh extremely well with my needs.
Hey! Thanks AC! You've proven that if I don't telegraph Every Single Aspect of an Only Marginally Funny comment, you just can't get it.
Look here: http://www.nerdtests.com/mq/take.php?id=458
search for: "It has come to my attention"
tard.
Answer this: What percentage of the days of the week are Monday and Friday?
Bout 40% of the time. It's just like saying 40% of all sick days are taken on Monday or Friday.
I switched from Redhat because they were the 'defacto' Linux for business. As such, they behave like the 800 lb. gorilla of the group. "Our product only works with redhat, and only if you patch and recompile the kernel. " = no thanks, that's a support nightmare where you end up 8 versions behind when you can't compile a new kernel. "We have a wonderful GUI for administration" = It works great...except when it doesn't. Then I get to muddle about the conf files. If I've gotta do that, I'll just start there. "We're marvellously responsive with security fixes...but only if you subscribe. And the Licensing is just about the same price as Microsoft. (This was a good 6-8 years ago. So I switched to SUSE. SUSE had GREAT QA. Yast worked as it should AND worked identically so in a text only environment. That let my IDS boxes spend more time looking at packets, rather than drawing X11. They had a free package management and patching system. Then Novell bought them and had to 'monetize' the purchase. Good bye security updates. I flirted with Gentoo a bit, but never felt completely confortable there. I played with BSD, but it became obvious that low level stuff is DIFFERENT than Linux. I could learn it, but I'd be starting from scratch for the stuff I was doing. Debian was _stable_. It wasn't on a constant upgrade cycle, has a great package management system, and security updates will always be free. Debian is a forking point for a BUNCH of distros...ever wonder why that is? Are you happy with my bigger assessment?
I tend to avoid Redhat as they gave me the impression that they were the Microsoft of Linux. I loved Suse, then they got bought by Novell. I moved to Debian as they allowed me to install a bare system in 300 mb with text only and install JUST the parts I needed. Now I get to look for something else? (actually, it doesn't look like it as I haven't needed paid support for MySQL yet.)
The 383 wouldn't allow for the stock oil cooler, and the transmission needed additional cooling for the duty cycle. All the 'kits' available don't consider the packaging requirements of a Corvette. There WERE no kits to do this.
Dad ran a hydraulics supplier for years and when he found out the budget for AN grade fittings and hoses, he convinced me that industrial hydraulic pieces and parts would be superior at 1/3rd the price.
Design in the ability to bypass the oil cooler in cold weather and the system has outperformed my wildest expectations.
It's a bittersweet reminder of my father, who died about 8 months ago, but it's a GOOD memory too.
Now I'm learning to turn metal (restored a South Bend 1964 Lathe), I'm sure cool things will come of that.
Re: Captain Power Holy CRAP! I just had a Galaxy Quest moment!
get smcFanControl. It made my mbp cucumber coooooool.
This is innacurate. My first MBP's fans died within two weeks. While diagnosing the problem, I intentionally ran it as hard as I could with one, and later, no fans.
With all fans dead, temp reached 92C, but the system DID NOT FAIL. It _did_ clock cycle to keep running, but I could not get it to freeze up.
Aww heck, you got me. There's a modded Xbox and a 'Virgin' Xbox, an iMac I neglected to count, one more PC running Vista, and a Wii's on my list.
FWIW, of the 14 Xbox games I have, 5 were bought new, the rest were second hand.
But I'm _not_ getting a 360. Just like I'm not getting a PS3. So what's yer point? I think BOTH companies have become unresponsive behemoths that can't make product due to their being too successful too long. Their legacy is weighing them down.
The one thing I'm _not_ is a fanboi. The Wii has the best opportunity for being a good value. The other two are barking up the wrong tree.
My house has two ubuntu systems, a linux firewall, Two OS X systems and my wife's computer. There's one copy of a Microsoft OS in my house and it wasn't my decision for it to be here. I'm voiting with my money. Are you?
Okay. I've bought LOTS of Sony stuff. Thousands of dollars worth.
Trinitron Tube'd TV's
Disk- and Walk-men
Standalone home theatre speakers
nifty AV receivers
a Laptop
A Camcorder.
several pairs of headphones
countless Sony branded movies and albums, I'm sure.
And I'll never buy another Sony product again. Why?
Rootkits
Proprietary Media - MD, DAT, Memory Sticks, little odd writeable DVD's for their camcorders, PSP's oddball media, Beta, and now BluRay. I'm sick sick sick of the intentional fracturing of the market at the expense of the customer.
A Laptop installed with XP that _couldn't_ take SP2 due to a crappy memory controller.
Decisions for music players that just flat seemed STUPID (ATRAC?)
The fact they're betting the company on this one, expensive, item that has a cobbled together controller at a price I don't care to spend, forcing a media format I do not want.
Coupled with my moving away from physical media for entertainment purposes (I'll probable not get either competing format. I shifted from record and 8track to cassette, then CD's, from VHS to laserdisk to DVD.) I'm tired of re-buying the White Album, catch my drift?
Are you guys really falling all over yourselves for this company? Haven't they screwed you enough? (And by you, I mean the Customer)
Sony is an example of a machine that's gotten so large, it cannot move without standing on itself. I see no reason my money should reward it for its actions.
Analysis Console for Intrusion Detection? Does it run faster on postres?
My wife and I call this the "Mega-Tsunami" effect. They're taking a concept that can be relayed in 5 minutes and stretching it out to 60 (and sometimes longer).
What could have done such devastating things to this eco-system? Could it PROVE the existance of a Mega Tsunami?
I'm just glad you're not my Doctor. These meds, taken properly, do SIGNIFICANT things like:
-Reduce Suicide
-Reduce Physical Abuse
-Reduce long term depression that can physically alter your physiology
-Save Marriages
If you have a headache, you can take an Advil with no real societal impact.
Break your arm, and a cast is socially acceptable.
Why on EARTH do you think this kind of suffering is normal and should be tolerated? Further, why do you think that, because you haven't experienced it firsthand, the sufferers must be faking or unable to cope.
I've had four long years full of multiple deaths, financial hardships, sickness, and marital strain. I tell ya, it's just another kind of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. You spend enough time under the grinding wheel and your brain forgets how to act without it. To the point that you're afraid to LEAVE THE HOUSE.
Tell me that's something you should just suck up and deal with.
I'll vouch for this. My firewall had exactly 1 open port. ssh. I created an unintentionally weak account when configuring samba and the system was pwned in less than 24 hours.
three MBP's, three batteries, all three fine.
Now, one of the laptops lost two fans within three weeks of ownership...but that's offtopic.
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iTunes, et, al. are trying to find the idal price for music from the high end, and AllOfMp3 is approaching it from the bottom. I would be willing to pay $4-$6 for a lossy album, roughly twice what AOmp3 sells them for. I will NOT pay $12 for a digital only, restricted, album with certain songs only available when the full record is purchased.