My wife and were on the way into the city for a mini-vacation. I said to my wife,"I know you hate AM radio, but I have to turn on 88 CBS to see if there's anything going on that we need to know about." As my one friend says, "WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!?!":) We were still passing the Princeton area so we were quite a distance from the city. By the time we got close to the Lincoln Tunnel the media was reporting general pandemonium throughout Manhattan.
So instead, we bailed and went to the office I've been working at. It's the North American and Asia/Pacific data center for my customer, so they have incredible backup power systems. They had already switched over to the building-wide battery backup and were in the process of firing up the three two-story tall diesel engines to keep the power. Any true/.er would have just had to sit back and say, "wow". It was pretty intense.
Seriously. It took me a few iterations of installs to figure out that there are only stable installs, and you can convert apt-sources to start using testing or unstable. Also, I found that the installs were only installing about 50% of the stuff I needed on the box (come on, who *really* runs a box without make). I used dselect to bring the box up to a minimum configuration that would support compiling tarballs and then used apt to trim out the extra crap that dselect brought in. I would probably still be on it if the Gnome2 packages didn't completely ruin the box over the course of a month via cron-apt.
Hmmm... foe of a friend? I wonder who you pissed off..:)
why don't you set up a unique machine for that purpose and put it outside the firewall where it belongs?
Servers never belong outside the firewall. Perhaps in a DMZ, but never completely unprotected. If you don't have a choice, at least improve the security on the box with something like Bastille.
Oh this really chaps my ass. I *always* call the restaurant manager over and show them exactly why I won't be coming back for a while. That is totally unacceptable in this day and age. Also, I usually have the manager take the paper copy in the back with him to close it out and file it. I know he may very well hand it off to someone else, but he needs to know what's affecting his business.
I can't believe how long this goes on here. You're stealing a copy of something, and each copy has an associated monetary value. If you steal a poster copy of a painting from a museum gift shop, do you just say, "they can print more copies"? Now what if you could steal a *perfect* copy of that painting that could even fool Antiques Roadshow? Still no monetary value because it's just a copy?
I've have 302 hits from 17:30 to 21:30 with the top 5 heavy hitters coming from my Comcast neighbors in Bensalem - 77, Wallingsford - 62, Lower Merion - 55, Jamieson(?) - 25, and Levittown, PA with 18 infected hosts.
Come on Besalem, call your neighbors and tell 'em to patch!!:)
I was *just* surfing D-Shield and was reading a notice about a captured worm. Sure enough, as soon as this article appeared.. the site is DOWN.. that really is something to see, even I get shocked every now and again.
I have a feeling that you're right.. that's why I gave it a shot in the first place. You're absolutely right in that it is good to keep up with changes going on in the box, but I do prefer to have it happen automatically in response to security patches. The nature of cron has daily emails delivered to you whenever updated packages needed to be downloaded and installed, which was nice. I was also interested in seeing the changes that the Gnome people were building in without having to spend the few precious hours a week I get to spend at home patching the box. I'd rather hit ctrl-alt-bksp whenever I sit down at the box and see what the newest environment has waiting for me.
I occasionally search for the ultimate self-updating box, so I installed Debian stable and cron-apt to automatically track the updates. I also added Debian Security, Gnome2, and mplayer as additional apt-sources. At the beginning it was great. By the time I read about new vulnerabilities in apps, my box was already updated.
But after a while, the apt just degraded into a steaming pile. As everyone who has tried to run apt has seen, apt kept saying that a particular version of an application was needed but another one was already installed. "So upgrade it! WTF?!?" Dependency management started out better, but in the end it was a total loss. For GUI desktops, I haven't found a dependency manager better than Ximian Gnome, but I have yet to find a suitable self-updating system for non-GUI servers. I want something that I can hang out there without a firewall and not have to worry about. Ximian's dependency mgmt is much better than Debian's apt, but you can't cron it.
Please, someone show me a box that supports true auto-updating that doesn't require weekly hand-holding.
I tried this and need a more reliable USB key. Mine kept falling apart spewing the guts out. Looked strikingly similar to a CueCat. Anyone have better luck with theirs?
Its also something that can be smashed with a hammer or other blunt object, tossed into a river, or broken into small pieces, each being discarded in several random trashcans between NYC and DC. You don't have to destroy the drive, just the chip. If the feds are that close, I think you'll voluntarily give up the data in the name of personal freedom.
Besides, your friends still have the GPG-encrypted DVD-R backups you gave them, right?
I was recently giving thought on how to control my TiVo while I'm out. Problem is that I hide my TiVoWeb behind the firewall, so I have to port forward the TiVo's port 80 through my SSH sessions to another Linux box at home. I can hang the TiVoWeb right out on the web, but I would want to at least limit the inbound IPs to those coming from Nextel's webphone subnet. Remember, you never have total security, just varying levels of comfort, and I would think the number of port scans/attacks coming specifically from (or being spoofed from) Nextel's webphone subnet(s) would be minimal. I'd be okay with that.
I'd much rather have a WAP interface for TiVoWeb, but in the meantime, I may resort to using the true HTML browser Motorola sells for the i95cl.
Back when I frequented Mickey D's, I would often listen in on their headset freq. On a couple of occasions, I would turn the radio way up and cause feedback. "Owww! What the HELL is that?!?!" On one other occasion, the order-taker was being a smart ass. She would ask each and every customer..
OT: "is that everything?" C: "yes" OT: "are you sure?" C: "uh, yes" OT: "100%" C: "YES"
so when she asked me if I was sure, I replied, "100%". The next few seconds of silence was among the funniest in memory.
and we just recently covered mounting filesystems over ssh. this opens the door for selling follow-on services, like tightly integrated remote drivespace hosted by the fine people at Lindows. Surely someone will hack together a way to use your Yahoo! briefcase as local drivespace and I'm sure MSN WebDAV won't work for Linux clients much longer.
Lets your machine become a zombie in the next massive DDOS attack. Remember the attacks on E-Bay, CNN and Yahoo! in April '01? Remember the stories of the people in middle America getting their doors kicked in at 3am by Federal Agents looking for "the hackers"? Yeah.. all that was *before* 9/11. I have a bunch of 8-10GB drives sitting around that would be perfect for an OS load. I would want to be notified by email when I need to download an updated.iso before I would consider running a system full-time off a live cd.
I'm sorry to hear you had such a crappy visit. I took a bus tour last Christmas and literally spent 5 **hours** there touring. We walked under the Saturn V hanging in the Saturn building. I cried a little during the simulation of the firing room during a Saturn launch. My Mom cried out "there it is!" when the scaled-down mockup of the moon lander "Eagle" dropped down from the ceiling and touched on the simulated lunar surface. We toured the ISS assembly building and looked down on new projects being built for the ISS. I remember watching the news for updates on the Leonardo module we saw being assembled and chuckling when I found out it was going to haul trash back to earth.
I remember feeling chills when our bus crossed the tracks that the mover follows when moving the shuttles from the VAB to its respective pad. We watched the shuttle movie in that UltraMax theater or whatever the hell its called. That place is very moving and very intense. You only see the gift shops if you look for them. You only see the science if that's what you're looking for.
The following February I saw a shuttle launch from my Mom's backyard 37 miles away. That was just as amazing.
Get IIP, so you can realtime chat with people that run some sites on freenet. #freenet is dedicated to freenet chat and issues.
I had an interesting event using IIP. When I signed on to IIP's IRC network, I used a nick that I have *never* used before, anywhere. Within a few hours, I received a freakish email from someone who configured their sender's name to exactly match the nick I used, complete with the same mixed capitalization. And stranger still, the body of the message contained just one word:
Hi.
Coincidence? Dunno. Did it freak me out? HELL YES.
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My wife and were on the way into the city for a mini-vacation. I said to my wife,"I know you hate AM radio, but I have to turn on 88 CBS to see if there's anything going on that we need to know about." As my one friend says, "WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!?!" :) We were still passing the Princeton area so we were quite a distance from the city. By the time we got close to the Lincoln Tunnel the media was reporting general pandemonium throughout Manhattan.
/.er would have just had to sit back and say, "wow". It was pretty intense.
So instead, we bailed and went to the office I've been working at. It's the North American and Asia/Pacific data center for my customer, so they have incredible backup power systems. They had already switched over to the building-wide battery backup and were in the process of firing up the three two-story tall diesel engines to keep the power. Any true
Seriously. It took me a few iterations of installs to figure out that there are only stable installs, and you can convert apt-sources to start using testing or unstable. Also, I found that the installs were only installing about 50% of the stuff I needed on the box (come on, who *really* runs a box without make). I used dselect to bring the box up to a minimum configuration that would support compiling tarballs and then used apt to trim out the extra crap that dselect brought in. I would probably still be on it if the Gnome2 packages didn't completely ruin the box over the course of a month via cron-apt.
:)
Hmmm... foe of a friend? I wonder who you pissed off..
why don't you set up a unique machine for that purpose and put it outside the firewall where it belongs?
Servers never belong outside the firewall. Perhaps in a DMZ, but never completely unprotected. If you don't have a choice, at least improve the security on the box with something like Bastille.
bash-2.02# uname -a
/.ed, so I can't see what you were linking to.
Linux (none) 2.1.24-TiVo-2.5 #8 Wed May 8 15:38:27 PDT 2002 ppc unknown
Not my Series 1 sa. You managed to get bileduct
Oh this really chaps my ass. I *always* call the restaurant manager over and show them exactly why I won't be coming back for a while. That is totally unacceptable in this day and age. Also, I usually have the manager take the paper copy in the back with him to close it out and file it. I know he may very well hand it off to someone else, but he needs to know what's affecting his business.
On vacation since July 16th when the fix first appeared?!?! You must be European. .nl? Yup. Well, close enough.
I can't believe how long this goes on here. You're stealing a copy of something, and each copy has an associated monetary value. If you steal a poster copy of a painting from a museum gift shop, do you just say, "they can print more copies"? Now what if you could steal a *perfect* copy of that painting that could even fool Antiques Roadshow? Still no monetary value because it's just a copy?
Let's hang some stats in a thread..
:)
I've have 302 hits from 17:30 to 21:30 with the top 5 heavy hitters coming from my Comcast neighbors in Bensalem - 77, Wallingsford - 62, Lower Merion - 55, Jamieson(?) - 25, and Levittown, PA with 18 infected hosts.
Come on Besalem, call your neighbors and tell 'em to patch!!
I was *just* surfing D-Shield and was reading a notice about a captured worm. Sure enough, as soon as this article appeared.. the site is DOWN.. that really is something to see, even I get shocked every now and again.
I have a feeling that you're right.. that's why I gave it a shot in the first place. You're absolutely right in that it is good to keep up with changes going on in the box, but I do prefer to have it happen automatically in response to security patches. The nature of cron has daily emails delivered to you whenever updated packages needed to be downloaded and installed, which was nice. I was also interested in seeing the changes that the Gnome people were building in without having to spend the few precious hours a week I get to spend at home patching the box. I'd rather hit ctrl-alt-bksp whenever I sit down at the box and see what the newest environment has waiting for me.
For such a low UID, I'd think that you would have remembered this.
I occasionally search for the ultimate self-updating box, so I installed Debian stable and cron-apt to automatically track the updates. I also added Debian Security, Gnome2, and mplayer as additional apt-sources. At the beginning it was great. By the time I read about new vulnerabilities in apps, my box was already updated.
But after a while, the apt just degraded into a steaming pile. As everyone who has tried to run apt has seen, apt kept saying that a particular version of an application was needed but another one was already installed. "So upgrade it! WTF?!?" Dependency management started out better, but in the end it was a total loss. For GUI desktops, I haven't found a dependency manager better than Ximian Gnome, but I have yet to find a suitable self-updating system for non-GUI servers. I want something that I can hang out there without a firewall and not have to worry about. Ximian's dependency mgmt is much better than Debian's apt, but you can't cron it.
Please, someone show me a box that supports true auto-updating that doesn't require weekly hand-holding.
he has a verified paypal account!
I too liked the Morse code one, but didn't think too many people would realize what it was.
I tried this and need a more reliable USB key. Mine kept falling apart spewing the guts out. Looked strikingly similar to a CueCat. Anyone have better luck with theirs?
WTF? Stop watching Donnie Darko so much.
Not if you destroy the dongle first.
Its also something that can be smashed with a hammer or other blunt object, tossed into a river, or broken into small pieces, each being discarded in several random trashcans between NYC and DC. You don't have to destroy the drive, just the chip. If the feds are that close, I think you'll voluntarily give up the data in the name of personal freedom.
Besides, your friends still have the GPG-encrypted DVD-R backups you gave them, right?
I was recently giving thought on how to control my TiVo while I'm out. Problem is that I hide my TiVoWeb behind the firewall, so I have to port forward the TiVo's port 80 through my SSH sessions to another Linux box at home. I can hang the TiVoWeb right out on the web, but I would want to at least limit the inbound IPs to those coming from Nextel's webphone subnet. Remember, you never have total security, just varying levels of comfort, and I would think the number of port scans/attacks coming specifically from (or being spoofed from) Nextel's webphone subnet(s) would be minimal. I'd be okay with that.
I'd much rather have a WAP interface for TiVoWeb, but in the meantime, I may resort to using the true HTML browser Motorola sells for the i95cl.
Back when I frequented Mickey D's, I would often listen in on their headset freq. On a couple of occasions, I would turn the radio way up and cause feedback. "Owww! What the HELL is that?!?!" On one other occasion, the order-taker was being a smart ass. She would ask each and every customer..
OT: "is that everything?"
C: "yes"
OT: "are you sure?"
C: "uh, yes"
OT: "100%"
C: "YES"
so when she asked me if I was sure, I replied, "100%". The next few seconds of silence was among the funniest in memory.
and we just recently covered mounting filesystems over ssh. this opens the door for selling follow-on services, like tightly integrated remote drivespace hosted by the fine people at Lindows. Surely someone will hack together a way to use your Yahoo! briefcase as local drivespace and I'm sure MSN WebDAV won't work for Linux clients much longer.
And that critical security flaw does what?
.iso before I would consider running a system full-time off a live cd.
Lets your machine become a zombie in the next massive DDOS attack. Remember the attacks on E-Bay, CNN and Yahoo! in April '01? Remember the stories of the people in middle America getting their doors kicked in at 3am by Federal Agents looking for "the hackers"? Yeah.. all that was *before* 9/11. I have a bunch of 8-10GB drives sitting around that would be perfect for an OS load. I would want to be notified by email when I need to download an updated
I'm sorry to hear you had such a crappy visit. I took a bus tour last Christmas and literally spent 5 **hours** there touring. We walked under the Saturn V hanging in the Saturn building. I cried a little during the simulation of the firing room during a Saturn launch. My Mom cried out "there it is!" when the scaled-down mockup of the moon lander "Eagle" dropped down from the ceiling and touched on the simulated lunar surface. We toured the ISS assembly building and looked down on new projects being built for the ISS. I remember watching the news for updates on the Leonardo module we saw being assembled and chuckling when I found out it was going to haul trash back to earth.
I remember feeling chills when our bus crossed the tracks that the mover follows when moving the shuttles from the VAB to its respective pad. We watched the shuttle movie in that UltraMax theater or whatever the hell its called. That place is very moving and very intense. You only see the gift shops if you look for them. You only see the science if that's what you're looking for.
The following February I saw a shuttle launch from my Mom's backyard 37 miles away. That was just as amazing.
Get IIP, so you can realtime chat with people that run some sites on freenet. #freenet is dedicated to freenet chat and issues.
I had an interesting event using IIP. When I signed on to IIP's IRC network, I used a nick that I have *never* used before, anywhere. Within a few hours, I received a freakish email from someone who configured their sender's name to exactly match the nick I used, complete with the same mixed capitalization. And stranger still, the body of the message contained just one word:
Hi.
Coincidence? Dunno. Did it freak me out? HELL YES.
If there is a cost savings, it will certainly trickle down to you as the consumer of said service.
You're obviously not a Comcast customer. Hell, you may not even be a consumer in the real world making a statement like that.