We've already finished the loads we are using for our labs this fall. We won't be implimenting Service Pack 2 until the Spring semester at the earliest. That gives plenty of time for our vendors to patch their software.
The biggest problems will be students and stray faculty who decide to upgrade laptops and home machines and encounter the problems before they can be fixed.
We've tried it out on a machine and it really messes with XP's settings and features.
There used to be a certain Nokia cell phones that can be hacked to eavesdrop. You set it to automatically answer incoming calls and turn off the ring; then short two of the pins on the bottom (1 and 4 I think) so the display goes blank.
The phone looks like its off, but you dial the number and can hear what's going on in a room. Drop it in a plant or tape it beneath a desk; you'll have about 5 days until the battery dies.
When I'm forced to build an XP box on an unsecured network, I leave it offline until the install is done, enable the integrated windows firewall, plug the CAT 5 in, and fetch the updates. The built in firewall is typically good enough to fend off blaster, nachi, etc. After that, I install antivirus then Zone Alarm and disable the integrated firewall. Whenever possible, run behind a hardware firewall and you won't have this problem.
If you have another windows XP box, you can use the corporate windows update to download all the patches and service packs to CD and update the system offline.
FYI, if you do get infected, running "shutdown -a" from the command dialog (windows+R) will abort the 1-minute shutdown timer.
I've tried this before and I always get background noise and sound degredation. I also get better distance with my AP and digital cordless phones than I do with any short range analog radio transmitters (wireless headphones and radio transmitter)
Digital devices compensate for any noise. The only downside is you may get packet-loss in a crowded, radio hostile enviroment.
I'm going to try StereoAP->Internet radio as a cheap alternative
My sister works for a movie theater in California. She gets sneak peaks to certain movies. I was reading over one of the forms necessary to get in. It pretty much said that by attending the preview, you consent to a full search of your person and belongings.
I don't want to be searched just to see a movie. Why should I concede my privacy with metal detectors and cavity searches to see a horrible film?
They thought bad movies hurt sales, wait until people start texting that theaters are searching people on friday nights.
a better example would be freenet. Its a distributed web where pages are ranked by popularity. A slashdot, in theory, would cause more clients to replicate the site... an automirroring tool. I don't think it works quite the same way as bitTorrent.
it only seems to support Rendezvous discovery. I can see my other system online, but I cannot chat with it. This is very buggy software. I can't remove persons on my contact list either, even if i create them. I can however, see their status. IOW, Eimp has a ways to go.
I searched the web for about an hour and I wasn't able to find much. The UPNP vulnerabilities in Windows XP seemed to have scared many people away.
I was able to find this http://eimp.sourceforge.net/, but rendezvous support isn't fully integrated. The feature status is at 50% now and the developer hasn't posted anything in 4 months. There are rendezvous libraries in the latest release.
I'm in the process of trying out Eimp. Its not a very robust program, but it does seem to offer rendezvous support. I'm testing it now, I'll reply with results.
There is also JXTA - a jabber/rendezvous/zeroconf chat protocal being developed by sun.
IANAL
Music and literature are art. Code is not art, despite what many think. Its not subject to the same rules. Its more than just copyrights; its patents, trade secrets, et al. Look into Source code and free speech. Wikipeida provides an interesting read about source code and free speech.
Amen. No better way to compile gentoo than to stay awake all night in a computer lab. Virtually endless resources: machines, network, space (physical and data storage), printers, and peace.
Just make sure you know when the building is locked.
Try using directional antennas on your AP. I don't know how your appartment is oriented, but you could try putting it into a corner and using something like a parabolic or yagi antenna directing it into the rest of the appartment.
If interference is still a problem, try a 802.11a AP. It opperates on the 5.8ghz spectrume and is less likely to have consumer products interefere. The downside to 802.11a is that you will lose distance; so hope your walls are like paper or buy a repeater for each room.
I don't have much experiance with a crowded spectrum, but I do know 5.8 has horrible range (which will lead to less interference from distant neighbors)
photoshop's currency detection relies on characteristics of the bill to recognize it as a bill. I believe its the small diamonds in the background that give it away. Either way, there is some constant in each bill that it recognizes.
Finding a universal constant in, umm, heads would be a disgustingly daunting task.
My ISP uses Motorola Canopy equipment. It operates in the 5.8ghz range and is LOS. It is fast and fairly reliable. Because of the frequency, there is little interference. Its fast - up to 3 megs/sec. It works well in hilly communities where high peaks can have antennas put on them. but still, its Line of sight.
I bought the M5305, your laptop's little brother. Awesome machine. Anyways, I wanted to run linux on it. So I booted it in XP home, which it came with default and saw that everything was working. I booted knoppix and most things didn't work. Video resolution was awkward with the beautiful 1280x800 screen, again, it was stretched for me too. the Radeon IGP card wasn't fully supported unless I upgraded to some bleeding edge version of X, where 3d accelleration MIGHT work. The special keys (volume, instant access buttons, etc.) didn't work function unless I specially scripted them. Power control was horrible. I had to recompile my kernel with cpufreq support and the latest ACPI. This ment running the latest versions of the kernel (2.4.22 and 2.5-test9 I believe). Unfortunatly, these versions introduced a bug where the Broadcom NIC bcm4401 wouldn't transfer an entire packet (b44 module). It was rendered useless. The only version that worked was the bcm4400 module, which wasn't compatable with 2.6. So I can have either power managment and a decent battery life, or network access.
I tried Gentoo, Mandrake, and Debian via Knoppix. They all encountered the same problems.
Because I needed to start using the machine, I installed XP pro. The video was also awkward and the touchpad didn't fully work, plus a few other things, but a quick visit to eMachines' website and several megs later, I had easy to install drivers that made everything work; and it still does. This machine runs beautifully.
Last weekend I installed mandrake 10.0 cooker release 2 (I had to do something productive over break). Everything onboard but the winmodem was detected and works after my second install. The first install produced an error where ksmserver would segfault when loading KDE/Gnome/et all. Because this is a cooker, the package selection isn't great, but everything works. I need to get my external USB wireless to work (atmel FASTNET - drivers do exist). I haven't tried out my NIC yet, but it looks like its using bcm4400, not the troublesom b44 (the only fix i noticed in subsequent 2.6 change logs was an IRQ error; that may have fixed it. The patches I tried applying from various obscure mailing lists didn't.). Also, my radeon IGP doesn't have 3d accelleration. I thought it was version XFree 4.3.99 that had it implimented, so I'll have to play around. Anyways, there was no playing around on XP. I knew where I could get drivers (all on one site). I didn't end up with a "dead" or disabled component in my box. I have a decent battery life.
Linus is right. Popular distros like MDK 10, Fedora, Knoppix, and SuSe are coming along nicelly, but its not there yet. MDK is more advanced than anything I've tried yet. This year had some definate promise for linux on the desktop. The biggest obsticle is hardware support and some finishing touches on software. Hardware support should be first.
PS. I'm in XP now. I had to compromise with my defaulting back to it, so I use openoffice Writer instead of MS Word. Why it can't do a decent word count I don't know. It still has a bit to go with features and bug fixes before it becomes a viable option for most people.
knoppix is going to be slow on that unless you repartion a drive to use swap space. Knoppix is cool enough to find an existing linux swap space, and use it (This may be a problem for some people doing recovery, because it is reading/writing to the hard drive). Try loading knoppix in text mode first: that's much easier on the memory requirements. Once you do get X working, don't use KDE; try a lighter window manager & desktop.
as for your wireless, you'll need to load some special drivers, which won't play nice with a live-cd unless you customize it yourself. It won't be perfect, but its a start.
I've never played with your sort of watch, but I imagine knoppix will treat it just like any other USB thumbdrive. The newer versions will automatically detect attached storage devices and mount them (/mnt/sda# I think).
I have no clue what to do about your pcmcia cdrom drive. Try doing a PXE boot from a network drive to do a hard drive install if you can't boot of your cd-rom. That'll get you going, but I have no experiance with a pcmcia drive. Linux is pretty good about supporting older technology, its the newer stuff it is slow with. Recompiling a custom kernel is extremely easy with 2.6, so you may want to wait for knoppix to release a 2.6 kernel version to tweak your hardware.
The biggest problem I've had is with ACPI - the spec varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. I wouldn't even bother with it on a 2.4 box; you'd be asking for trouble. ACPI and powermanagment (cpufreq is awesome) are much better in 2.6.
Linux on Laptops will give you a great start on fine tuning or getting a distro installed.
Even easier, use the already hooked up GPS to tell if you're in motion, then display accordingly. Mine GPS gives me speeds more accurate than my speedometer. However, I leave the lid closed while in motion anyways because if I stop suddenly, it'll fly forward and hit the dash breaking the hinge at the very least.
Maybe a bluetooth device on the car to broadcast the speed. Ohhh the prospects... A cop could sniff everyone passing and not have to rely on a radar.
Safeway has a sale until the 14th of this month. 24 cans of Mountain Breeze (Mountain Dew knockoff that tastes much beter, IMO) for 3.88. You will need a club card/membership.
That's how I'm taking care of my addiction. No, but really, wean yourself off it. If you usually drink three sodas a day, do only two one day for a few days, then cut it down to one soda a day, then finally cut yourself off. Keep a bottle of ibuprofen nearby
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We've already finished the loads we are using for our labs this fall. We won't be implimenting Service Pack 2 until the Spring semester at the earliest. That gives plenty of time for our vendors to patch their software.
The biggest problems will be students and stray faculty who decide to upgrade laptops and home machines and encounter the problems before they can be fixed.
We've tried it out on a machine and it really messes with XP's settings and features.
Opera 7.5 already has an RSS reader built in. Available in Mac, Linux, Windows, Solaris, and FreeBSD.
There used to be a certain Nokia cell phones that can be hacked to eavesdrop. You set it to automatically answer incoming calls and turn off the ring; then short two of the pins on the bottom (1 and 4 I think) so the display goes blank.
The phone looks like its off, but you dial the number and can hear what's going on in a room. Drop it in a plant or tape it beneath a desk; you'll have about 5 days until the battery dies.
In latin: libre (free as in speech) and gratis (free as in beer).
When I'm forced to build an XP box on an unsecured network, I leave it offline until the install is done, enable the integrated windows firewall, plug the CAT 5 in, and fetch the updates. The built in firewall is typically good enough to fend off blaster, nachi, etc. After that, I install antivirus then Zone Alarm and disable the integrated firewall. Whenever possible, run behind a hardware firewall and you won't have this problem.
If you have another windows XP box, you can use the corporate windows update to download all the patches and service packs to CD and update the system offline.
FYI, if you do get infected, running "shutdown -a" from the command dialog (windows+R) will abort the 1-minute shutdown timer.
Knoppix will use linux swap space if there is any on the hard drive. You'd use the noswap tag when booting for forensics or more paranoid computing.
Thanks for the ideas!
I've tried this before and I always get background noise and sound degredation. I also get better distance with my AP and digital cordless phones than I do with any short range analog radio transmitters (wireless headphones and radio transmitter)
Digital devices compensate for any noise. The only downside is you may get packet-loss in a crowded, radio hostile enviroment.I'm going to try StereoAP->Internet radio as a cheap alternative
Reminds me of a time when someone sent me spam trying to sell me a warp core.
I wish I still had it in my archives.
My sister works for a movie theater in California. She gets sneak peaks to certain movies. I was reading over one of the forms necessary to get in. It pretty much said that by attending the preview, you consent to a full search of your person and belongings.
I don't want to be searched just to see a movie. Why should I concede my privacy with metal detectors and cavity searches to see a horrible film?
They thought bad movies hurt sales, wait until people start texting that theaters are searching people on friday nights.
They have the same thing at Chuck E. Cheese.
a better example would be freenet. Its a distributed web where pages are ranked by popularity. A slashdot, in theory, would cause more clients to replicate the site... an automirroring tool. I don't think it works quite the same way as bitTorrent.
it only seems to support Rendezvous discovery. I can see my other system online, but I cannot chat with it. This is very buggy software. I can't remove persons on my contact list either, even if i create them. I can however, see their status. IOW, Eimp has a ways to go.
I searched the web for about an hour and I wasn't able to find much. The UPNP vulnerabilities in Windows XP seemed to have scared many people away.
I was able to find this http://eimp.sourceforge.net/, but rendezvous support isn't fully integrated. The feature status is at 50% now and the developer hasn't posted anything in 4 months. There are rendezvous libraries in the latest release.
I'm in the process of trying out Eimp. Its not a very robust program, but it does seem to offer rendezvous support. I'm testing it now, I'll reply with results.
There is also JXTA - a jabber/rendezvous/zeroconf chat protocal being developed by sun.
Ok, I was wrong. The 6 and 9th circuit court ruled in 2000 that source code is free speech.
Ars Technica has a great article about how code could be classified as speech (it was written before the ruling was passed).
Either way, patents, trade secrets, and copyrights encoumber the MS source code.
More food for thought
IANAL
Music and literature are art. Code is not art, despite what many think. Its not subject to the same rules. Its more than just copyrights; its patents, trade secrets, et al. Look into Source code and free speech. Wikipeida provides an interesting read about source code and free speech.
Amen. No better way to compile gentoo than to stay awake all night in a computer lab. Virtually endless resources: machines, network, space (physical and data storage), printers, and peace.
Just make sure you know when the building is locked.
Try using directional antennas on your AP. I don't know how your appartment is oriented, but you could try putting it into a corner and using something like a parabolic or yagi antenna directing it into the rest of the appartment.
If interference is still a problem, try a 802.11a AP. It opperates on the 5.8ghz spectrume and is less likely to have consumer products interefere. The downside to 802.11a is that you will lose distance; so hope your walls are like paper or buy a repeater for each room.
I don't have much experiance with a crowded spectrum, but I do know 5.8 has horrible range (which will lead to less interference from distant neighbors)
photoshop's currency detection relies on characteristics of the bill to recognize it as a bill. I believe its the small diamonds in the background that give it away. Either way, there is some constant in each bill that it recognizes.
Finding a universal constant in, umm, heads would be a disgustingly daunting task.
My ISP uses Motorola Canopy equipment. It operates in the 5.8ghz range and is LOS. It is fast and fairly reliable. Because of the frequency, there is little interference. Its fast - up to 3 megs/sec. It works well in hilly communities where high peaks can have antennas put on them. but still, its Line of sight.
They have a directory of all the sites that will be using their technology.
/. via OSDN personals.
Note that match.com is amongst them, who are affiliated with
Can we trust no one?
I bought the M5305, your laptop's little brother. Awesome machine. Anyways, I wanted to run linux on it. So I booted it in XP home, which it came with default and saw that everything was working. I booted knoppix and most things didn't work. Video resolution was awkward with the beautiful 1280x800 screen, again, it was stretched for me too. the Radeon IGP card wasn't fully supported unless I upgraded to some bleeding edge version of X, where 3d accelleration MIGHT work. The special keys (volume, instant access buttons, etc.) didn't work function unless I specially scripted them. Power control was horrible. I had to recompile my kernel with cpufreq support and the latest ACPI. This ment running the latest versions of the kernel (2.4.22 and 2.5-test9 I believe). Unfortunatly, these versions introduced a bug where the Broadcom NIC bcm4401 wouldn't transfer an entire packet (b44 module). It was rendered useless. The only version that worked was the bcm4400 module, which wasn't compatable with 2.6. So I can have either power managment and a decent battery life, or network access.
I tried Gentoo, Mandrake, and Debian via Knoppix. They all encountered the same problems.
Because I needed to start using the machine, I installed XP pro. The video was also awkward and the touchpad didn't fully work, plus a few other things, but a quick visit to eMachines' website and several megs later, I had easy to install drivers that made everything work; and it still does. This machine runs beautifully.
Last weekend I installed mandrake 10.0 cooker release 2 (I had to do something productive over break). Everything onboard but the winmodem was detected and works after my second install. The first install produced an error where ksmserver would segfault when loading KDE/Gnome/et all. Because this is a cooker, the package selection isn't great, but everything works. I need to get my external USB wireless to work (atmel FASTNET - drivers do exist). I haven't tried out my NIC yet, but it looks like its using bcm4400, not the troublesom b44 (the only fix i noticed in subsequent 2.6 change logs was an IRQ error; that may have fixed it. The patches I tried applying from various obscure mailing lists didn't.). Also, my radeon IGP doesn't have 3d accelleration. I thought it was version XFree 4.3.99 that had it implimented, so I'll have to play around. Anyways, there was no playing around on XP. I knew where I could get drivers (all on one site). I didn't end up with a "dead" or disabled component in my box. I have a decent battery life.
Linus is right. Popular distros like MDK 10, Fedora, Knoppix, and SuSe are coming along nicelly, but its not there yet. MDK is more advanced than anything I've tried yet. This year had some definate promise for linux on the desktop. The biggest obsticle is hardware support and some finishing touches on software. Hardware support should be first. PS. I'm in XP now. I had to compromise with my defaulting back to it, so I use openoffice Writer instead of MS Word. Why it can't do a decent word count I don't know. It still has a bit to go with features and bug fixes before it becomes a viable option for most people.
knoppix is going to be slow on that unless you repartion a drive to use swap space. Knoppix is cool enough to find an existing linux swap space, and use it (This may be a problem for some people doing recovery, because it is reading/writing to the hard drive). Try loading knoppix in text mode first: that's much easier on the memory requirements. Once you do get X working, don't use KDE; try a lighter window manager & desktop.
as for your wireless, you'll need to load some special drivers, which won't play nice with a live-cd unless you customize it yourself. It won't be perfect, but its a start.
I've never played with your sort of watch, but I imagine knoppix will treat it just like any other USB thumbdrive. The newer versions will automatically detect attached storage devices and mount them (/mnt/sda# I think).
I have no clue what to do about your pcmcia cdrom drive. Try doing a PXE boot from a network drive to do a hard drive install if you can't boot of your cd-rom. That'll get you going, but I have no experiance with a pcmcia drive. Linux is pretty good about supporting older technology, its the newer stuff it is slow with. Recompiling a custom kernel is extremely easy with 2.6, so you may want to wait for knoppix to release a 2.6 kernel version to tweak your hardware.
The biggest problem I've had is with ACPI - the spec varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. I wouldn't even bother with it on a 2.4 box; you'd be asking for trouble. ACPI and powermanagment (cpufreq is awesome) are much better in 2.6.
Linux on Laptops will give you a great start on fine tuning or getting a distro installed.
Good luck.
Even easier, use the already hooked up GPS to tell if you're in motion, then display accordingly. Mine GPS gives me speeds more accurate than my speedometer.
However, I leave the lid closed while in motion anyways because if I stop suddenly, it'll fly forward and hit the dash breaking the hinge at the very least.
Maybe a bluetooth device on the car to broadcast the speed. Ohhh the prospects... A cop could sniff everyone passing and not have to rely on a radar.
Safeway has a sale until the 14th of this month. 24 cans of Mountain Breeze (Mountain Dew knockoff that tastes much beter, IMO) for 3.88. You will need a club card/membership.
That's how I'm taking care of my addiction. No, but really, wean yourself off it. If you usually drink three sodas a day, do only two one day for a few days, then cut it down to one soda a day, then finally cut yourself off. Keep a bottle of ibuprofen nearby