Daily reboot? On Windows 2000? I take it that you don't use Windows 2000. I've only ever seen it STOP once. And that was when I was screwing around with the disk drivers. IMHO, it is actually a good operating system. I've been stuck using NT4 at my last workplace and that was a nightmare.
If I ever get into any trouble, fire up Compaq Remote Management and away you go. Reboot from there. Easy.
Dell and the others offer similar things - Some remote support and management features do not have to be supplied by the O/S.
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He doesn't want one until it is "..smart enough to home in on its base station and recharge itself when its batteries are running low..."
OK then mate. Take a trip down to the local electronics store to pick up some optical range sensors (or even a mini-GPS unit for those long distance walks!), maybe a couple of minor burns while soldering and several K's of asm and you're there!
how many clueless people are running corporate networks. It's the same with mail server worms etc etc. Patches never get applied and security features are not even switched on. Not that WEP is secure, but if the corp nets are advanced enough to be running wireless kit, they should be using an O/S that supports proper encryption and IPSec. And ALL wireless, remote and dial-up access should be regulated by an independant firewall, possibly with one-time authentication tokens such as RSA SecurID etc etc (insert favourite auth here...).
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If you are interested in the components of your PC, then why not build your own rather than paying for a pre-built? Home-brew is the best way to learn hardware skills if you are just starting out. Try to get hold of some cheap (old) hardware and play with that.
"...true hacking..." is not just investigating. It is also experimentation and modification, and then sharing that knowledge with the community. Merely opening the case to get the chip model numbers (or HDD make/model etc etc) is not what I would call a hack.
OK it looks quite nice. But a motherboard, processor, heatsink, 128Mb memory, video card, CDRW, 40gb HD, sound card and case will set you back about £400 (US$575). Plus, you get the fun of coding the front end yourself. You could even go to Bull Electrical and pick up some IR gear and attach it to the serial port for about ten quid too, and hey presto, IR control. The HP's case is lovely, but if it's the actual functionality you're after, you can build it cheaper yourself.
$1000 dollars seems a lot for something which can be achieved with any bog standard PC. You could even spray paint a GCT-Allwell set top box silver and then replace the DiskOnChip with a cable and 40Gb IDE hard drive and then install Linux or Win98Lite. Plus you get 10/100 NIC and TV-out.
Alternatively, how about an Acer NT-150 STB, you can normally get these off of ebay etc. for about £20 (US$35)
Several years ago, a couple of people from SGI created a 3D "File System Navigator" for the IRIX O/S. It was used in the movie "Jurassic Park". Slightly dated appearance, but cool nonetheless.
You can find it at http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html
You've just gone and alienated a substantial number of future Aibo purchasers.
When we pay out $1500 for a robot dog, it is ours to do with as we please. Sure, enforce copyright, but it's not as if the software will run if someone hasn't bought the AIBO to run it on in the first place!! Either way, Sony still get their money for the unit, and anyone who downloads "hacked" software will still have to buy an AIBO to make any use of it. This was mentioned in the letter, but this is illogical under the circumstances as I can see aibohack.com only generating further interest in the AIBO product for people interested in robotics programming projects etc etc
OTOH, copyright law is quite specific, so there are arguments against everything I've just written. Still, an opinion nonetheless.
You have called upon me to find that "The information is all out there for anybody who truly wants to know what's actually going on."
I would like to take this opportunity to refer you to your comment http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=22885&cid=2463 878 where you make reference to the Echelon system. I would like to invite you to go and discover the truth about this system, not what has been fed to you by slashdotters and paranoid anarchy sites. Then please take what you have found out and superimpose that on other comments you have made. You can then judge your own accuracy. You say "I don't know what passes for a mind in that head of yours..." but you should check your own facts before criticising others.
And with regards to having "grounds to argue from", if the death of 6,500 innocent US citizens and foreign nationals is not grounds for argument, then nothing is.
Rhetoric about, "Not a Single Life!" is bullshit. People die all the damned time.
Well then, you won't mind if a member of YOUR family gets killed in the next attack.
And in case you happen to have your eyes blinded by little American flags, you might want to consider the growing body of evidence which strongly suggests that the terrorist killings were actually allowed to happen by the very secret services which claim to not have had enough power to stop them.
This is exactly the sort of paranoid crap I'm talking about. You REALLY believe that the CIA/NSA/FBI etc would allow 6,500 people to die and cause US$x billion of damage? If you do, then you've already surrended your freedom anyway. If you can wind yourself up enough to think like this, then how do you even step outside your home?
If you seriously dis-approve of the way things are in the USA - why not move?
Have any of you people ever stopped to reason exactly what you're saying here?
When the tragic events of 11th September occurred, the finger was squarely pointed at the US intelligence services for failing to prevent the horror. It is now five weeks since that horrible day, and the stereotypical slashdot paranoia/anarchy has raised its ugly head once more.
How can you expect your intelligence agencies to do their jobs if you limit their powers over the tools of the terrorists? Sure, you may argue that any good terrorist would use crypto, but what about the one that doesn't (or forgets to)? Could that single interception save a life? Plus, they already intercept landlines, cellular, fax, telex and pager messages. Radio and satellite TV is picked apart for subliminal propaganda. Mail is opened and then re-sealed perfectly. For all of you who harp on about Echelon and how it invades your privacy - Apply for a job with ??? agency and go and see the truth. You'll be surprised at just how wrong you are!
If the installation of a few "privacy invaders" such as carnivore (etc etc) can save even ONE life, surely it is worth it? Would you stop someone listen to some random phone call to your gas board or would you rather see your next door neighbour's kids climb into a black limosine to trail behind a hearse because their mum/dad was killed in the latest bombing/crash/bio-attack?
This message will be modded as a troll or flamebait, but then again, isn't everything that doesn't subscribe to the "I use Linux and I'm a victim of persecution by the government" school of thought. I'm prepared to accept that there are valid issues in the protection of privacy, but none that can justify the loss of even one single life.
This is fantastic news for those of us who just must get inside something and have a play. There are some toys that simply must be poked around with (Mindstorms, Sony AIBO, etc).
As with previous posters, I'm very much of the opinion that when you buy something, it is yours to do with as you please. I commend Lego for their supportive and encouraging attitude!
Surely the moron is the one who considers him/herself *so* important that the NSA would be listening to their telephone conversations.
Back to the subject (and the whole point) - What anyone fails to mention is that, at the end of day, the NSA (like any similar organisation), are providing a serice to protect *YOU*, the public. Even if the whole story was a cover up, and you believe they are full of it, what difference does it make? That is what national security is all about - observation, obscurity, misinformation and denile. As for the Echelon system, I think you'd find all of GCHQ and the NSA wetting themselves with laughter if they looked at some of the paranoid and completely inaccurate posts that go on here.
Oh, BTW - Plagiarism of assignments and smoking pot are things that any normal person would like to keep to themselves, instead of boasting about it on/. like you do (see your previous posts). Hard to see why you're so paranoid about your privacy if you are prepared to share these things with the rest of the world.
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Daily reboot? On Windows 2000? I take it that you don't use Windows 2000. I've only ever seen it STOP once. And that was when I was screwing around with the disk drivers. IMHO, it is actually a good operating system. I've been stuck using NT4 at my last workplace and that was a nightmare. If I ever get into any trouble, fire up Compaq Remote Management and away you go. Reboot from there. Easy. Dell and the others offer similar things - Some remote support and management features do not have to be supplied by the O/S.
He doesn't want one until it is "..smart enough to home in on its base station and recharge itself when its batteries are running low..."
:) heheh
OK then mate. Take a trip down to the local electronics store to pick up some optical range sensors (or even a mini-GPS unit for those long distance walks!), maybe a couple of minor burns while soldering and several K's of asm and you're there!
--RupertJ
how many clueless people are running corporate networks. It's the same with mail server worms etc etc. Patches never get applied and security features are not even switched on. Not that WEP is secure, but if the corp nets are advanced enough to be running wireless kit, they should be using an O/S that supports proper encryption and IPSec. And ALL wireless, remote and dial-up access should be regulated by an independant firewall, possibly with one-time authentication tokens such as RSA SecurID etc etc (insert favourite auth here...).
If you are interested in the components of your PC, then why not build your own rather than paying for a pre-built? Home-brew is the best way to learn hardware skills if you are just starting out. Try to get hold of some cheap (old) hardware and play with that. "...true hacking..." is not just investigating. It is also experimentation and modification, and then sharing that knowledge with the community. Merely opening the case to get the chip model numbers (or HDD make/model etc etc) is not what I would call a hack.
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Have a look at The Jargon Lexicon
Don't mod down the reply to my original message - I thought it was quite funny!
heheh!
-Rupert
OK it looks quite nice. But a motherboard, processor, heatsink, 128Mb memory, video card, CDRW, 40gb HD, sound card and case will set you back about £400 (US$575). Plus, you get the fun of coding the front end yourself. You could even go to Bull Electrical and pick up some IR gear and attach it to the serial port for about ten quid too, and hey presto, IR control. The HP's case is lovely, but if it's the actual functionality you're after, you can build it cheaper yourself.
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$1000 dollars seems a lot for something which can be achieved with any bog standard PC. You could even spray paint a GCT-Allwell set top box silver and then replace the DiskOnChip with a cable and 40Gb IDE hard drive and then install Linux or Win98Lite. Plus you get 10/100 NIC and TV-out.
Alternatively, how about an Acer NT-150 STB, you can normally get these off of ebay etc. for about £20 (US$35)
Or, you could buy a really nice cd player...
Several years ago, a couple of people from SGI created a 3D "File System Navigator" for the IRIX O/S. It was used in the movie "Jurassic Park". Slightly dated appearance, but cool nonetheless.
You can find it at http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html
--Rupert.
You've just gone and alienated a substantial number of future Aibo purchasers.
When we pay out $1500 for a robot dog, it is ours to do with as we please. Sure, enforce copyright, but it's not as if the software will run if someone hasn't bought the AIBO to run it on in the first place!! Either way, Sony still get their money for the unit, and anyone who downloads "hacked" software will still have to buy an AIBO to make any use of it. This was mentioned in the letter, but this is illogical under the circumstances as I can see aibohack.com only generating further interest in the AIBO product for people interested in robotics programming projects etc etc
OTOH, copyright law is quite specific, so there are arguments against everything I've just written. Still, an opinion nonetheless.
You have called upon me to find that "The information is all out there for anybody who truly wants to know what's actually going on."
3 878 where you make reference to the Echelon system. I would like to invite you to go and discover the truth about this system, not what has been fed to you by slashdotters and paranoid anarchy sites. Then please take what you have found out and superimpose that on other comments you have made. You can then judge your own accuracy. You say "I don't know what passes for a mind in that head of yours..." but you should check your own facts before criticising others.
I would like to take this opportunity to refer you to your comment http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=22885&cid=246
And with regards to having "grounds to argue from", if the death of 6,500 innocent US citizens and foreign nationals is not grounds for argument, then nothing is.
Rhetoric about, "Not a Single Life!" is bullshit. People die all the damned time.
Well then, you won't mind if a member of YOUR family gets killed in the next attack.
And in case you happen to have your eyes blinded by little American flags, you might want to consider the growing body of evidence which strongly suggests that the terrorist killings were actually allowed to happen by the very secret services which claim to not have had enough power to stop them.
This is exactly the sort of paranoid crap I'm talking about. You REALLY believe that the CIA/NSA/FBI etc would allow 6,500 people to die and cause US$x billion of damage? If you do, then you've already surrended your freedom anyway. If you can wind yourself up enough to think like this, then how do you even step outside your home?
If you seriously dis-approve of the way things are in the USA - why not move?
Have any of you people ever stopped to reason exactly what you're saying here?
When the tragic events of 11th September occurred, the finger was squarely pointed at the US intelligence services for failing to prevent the horror. It is now five weeks since that horrible day, and the stereotypical slashdot paranoia/anarchy has raised its ugly head once more.
How can you expect your intelligence agencies to do their jobs if you limit their powers over the tools of the terrorists? Sure, you may argue that any good terrorist would use crypto, but what about the one that doesn't (or forgets to)? Could that single interception save a life? Plus, they already intercept landlines, cellular, fax, telex and pager messages. Radio and satellite TV is picked apart for subliminal propaganda. Mail is opened and then re-sealed perfectly. For all of you who harp on about Echelon and how it invades your privacy - Apply for a job with ??? agency and go and see the truth. You'll be surprised at just how wrong you are!
If the installation of a few "privacy invaders" such as carnivore (etc etc) can save even ONE life, surely it is worth it? Would you stop someone listen to some random phone call to your gas board or would you rather see your next door neighbour's kids climb into a black limosine to trail behind a hearse because their mum/dad was killed in the latest bombing/crash/bio-attack?
This message will be modded as a troll or flamebait, but then again, isn't everything that doesn't subscribe to the "I use Linux and I'm a victim of persecution by the government" school of thought. I'm prepared to accept that there are valid issues in the protection of privacy, but none that can justify the loss of even one single life.
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This is fantastic news for those of us who just must get inside something and have a play. There are some toys that simply must be poked around with (Mindstorms, Sony AIBO, etc). As with previous posters, I'm very much of the opinion that when you buy something, it is yours to do with as you please. I commend Lego for their supportive and encouraging attitude!
Surely the moron is the one who considers him/herself *so* important that the NSA would be listening to their telephone conversations.
/. like you do (see your previous posts). Hard to see why you're so paranoid about your privacy if you are prepared to share these things with the rest of the world.
Back to the subject (and the whole point) - What anyone fails to mention is that, at the end of day, the NSA (like any similar organisation), are providing a serice to protect *YOU*, the public. Even if the whole story was a cover up, and you believe they are full of it, what difference does it make? That is what national security is all about - observation, obscurity, misinformation and denile. As for the Echelon system, I think you'd find all of GCHQ and the NSA wetting themselves with laughter if they looked at some of the paranoid and completely inaccurate posts that go on here.
Oh, BTW - Plagiarism of assignments and smoking pot are things that any normal person would like to keep to themselves, instead of boasting about it on
-- Rupert Jabelman