exactly.. so common in fact, that I think it's well known that all of the default gateways for Comcast cablemodem users are actually running transparent proxy servers. Do a reverse lookup on your default gateway's IP address. Is it "proxy"-something? Either they're trying to be responsible netizens in conserving the world's greatest man-made resource, or they're collecting data for the TLA's in D.C. Don't like it? Do an SSH port forward to a box you trust that's running Squid.
Microsoft gets $5 billion in "preferred securities as part of the deal?"
that's okay, part of the reason that AT&T is in the shitter is because they agreed to buy some 1 million shares of @Home for $20 each and @Home has been taking the steps to complete the transaction, now that they're at 43c a share. Stock deals always screw somebody.
Of course, Microsoft can spend $20 million on lunch.
Umm, I've never seen a computer that was missing a CD drive, yet had a USB controller
This is close. We sold thousands of these to a customer giving them away to parents of schoolkids, but it didn't sit in the bulky adapter. Pure USB front and back, no CD-ROM, no floppy. Just USB, modem, and ethernet. They support Wake-on-LAN and we burned fifty of these things at a clip using automated burning tools.
Also, for putting distros on these things, do you know of a BIOS that lets you boot off a USB storage device?
See above. You can actually specify USB storage device as the bootable device.
I, too, have the IBM 8MB model. First of all, its AWESOME for storing my GnuPG keyring, and my Whisper32 password file. I finally feel like I'm doing GnuPG the right way.. like the extremists keeping the floppy in their pocket, inserting it only at the moments you need it for encrypting/decrypting. Now to move my critical private files to my pure USB PC and gpg 'em. Should make for a secure, console-access file server.
For the remaining 7.8MB, I keep a bunch of small files that I would need most when I don't have my Thinkpad around -- my Notes ID file, some presentations that I've been working on for clients, and all the things I forget to save when I blow away the laptop.. the ethernet and modem drivers for one! (That's a mean catch-22) I also keep small installers that often give me trouble when downloading.. putty, AdAware spyware removal tool, Netscape 6 installer, LeetSpeak for genning passwords, Whisper32, and AIM95N.
Please people, stop comparing it to a PDA. They don't serve the same purpose at all.
Seriously! And who the hell compares the functionality of a batteryless keychain hard drive with no moving parts to a freaking PDA! The only way to get a gig on a PDA is to find one that takes CompactFlash and use the IBM 1GB CompactFlash microdrive... complete with moving parts!
If anyone remembers the Radio Shack device that "turned your household wiring into an antenna", that's what I imagine for this technology. A smallish box with a pass-thru 3 prong AC plug, and an RJ45 on the bottom.
Plug the coverter into the wall outlet, and plug your laptop, PC, or TiVO into the RJ45 on the media converter. Really not a bad idea, with the right security. I'd certainly get it.
Okay, can someone PLEASE tell me how to hook up the antenna wire to the Orinoco Silver cards? I had always heard that Orinoco Gold cards came with an antenna plug, but my Orinoco Silver cards have nothing. If there's a way and a reason to pop off the little circle in the center of the outer edge, please enlighten me.
These articles all say, "then just connect the antenna wire to your card." HOW? Thanks!:)
isn't it rated R? As in restricted under 17? So their target audience is 17 year olds, or people under 17 whos parents would actually go to see this with them...
I was wondering about that myself. Can you imagine taking your parents to see this thing? It sounds like they'd faint! The rating reads "R for strong sexual content" and then/. backs it up with "it is RAUNCHY". Was 20-something so long ago for me that I don't remember what constituted "funny"??
but how can you even be connected to the internet (inter meaning "between") unless you serve some traffic?
first let me say, I'm with you. I just want a pipe that I can do with as I please. i also refuse to pay comcast for upgraded service when their current qos sucks shit. I'm glad its free til Jan, and I'll start fighting with them after the new year if it keeps up.
I know you know this but, transmitting and serving are two different things. transmitting is just sending data - a normal function of a two-way conversation. serving indicates that you are listening for requests for information, and are supplying it in response to requests.
what kind of server is *required* for web and email, the two activities they want you to perform on the residential line? none, really. sure, some IRC servers require you to IDENT in order to allow a connection. That's not web surfing, and I've never once heard of a plug being pulled for an AUP violation b/c the guy was running an identd server.
you are allowed to transmit requests for data, and hold a normal two-way conversation supporting the reciept of the requested data. you can transmit email because you are initiating the requested transfer.
no one can come inbound to your box to request data, plain and simple.
If we shared files more [..], it would be nice if we could [..] just drag and drop to various locations, rather than emailing
sounds like WebDAV is perfect for you. someone hosts an apache web server, sets up some file space, and creates a DAV virtualhost. you can even run it over SSL and manage user ACL's just like any other virtualhost. Then all your family members (assuming they run windows) create web folders pointing to the URL. There are no private home directories, though. Everyone has full access to all files and directories.
the only time one should be required to buy a business connection is if they're running that business on that connection, such as ftp, email, http, and other servers
EXACTLY. I ssh out to read my personal mail, and the wife uses Yahoo! Mail. I also use a VPN client for Notes and some Intranet surfing. The problem is, Comcast's service has been so shitty, that I literally had to put my cablemodem on X10 and cron it to bounce every 30 mins from 8am to 8pm and every hour 8pm to 8am just to keep the connection up. Otherwise, the connection would stall after anywhere from a half hour to a few hours.
Until they improve their qos, there's no way in hell I'm going to pay for an upgraded account. Especially now that they're trying to learn how to run their own network. I'll wait, thanks. Oh, and I haven't met a network yet that successfully blocks my VPN client. It looks just like SSL traffic, but trips the hell out of snort with Large Packet warnings.
Yeah, when I'm working at home, I harass her to get off the sofa, but if I'm at work, it doesn't bother me. I guess that's what I get for wanting to let my wife never have to work a day in her life. Now she doesn't work a day in her life!:)
As for me, when I'm home, I'll leave CNN on in the background for 8 to 10 hours a day, but I would be perfectly content with just 30 minutes of non-news programming every day: The Drew Carey Show. If I could just find someone, somewhere, posting TiVO mpegs of that show, I wouldn't be considering getting one for myself for Christmas!
Please, someone call me when the day finally arrives that you can hang your TiVO right out there in DALNet's #tvepisodesonline! How hard can THAT be? How about #tivosonline? An IRC client and an fserve bot is all you need. I've seen a TiVO streaming video over a LAN and playing back on a local tv simultaneously before.
I'd suspect they'd use a 'timeout' of a couple of hours, which would be the simplest solution (I think) to filter out the sleeping watchers from the interested watchers.
They'd miss my wife. Our cable box is programmed to change channels at specific times in order to support programmed recording with the VCR. If she's home, she will literally watch ABC from 11am (The View) through 6:30pm (end of the local news). Even worse, when the box changes the channel, it turns off after changing but the channel is still fed to the tv. You can't change the channel until you turn the cable box back on.
I *always* have to turn on the cable box when I get home from work, because she simply does not want or need to change the channel ALL DAY.
refurbished models, meaning they were broken at one point
They're not necessarily refurbished. They're recertified. You must've missed this comment posted just above yours describing IBM's definition of recertified vs. refurbished.
So where it takes but a few minutes to rip to MP3 on your computer using you internal drive, using the Juke it would take up to 80 minutes.
But the juke solution will rip 200 cd's in one sitting, whereas you will rip but just one. I unfortunately ripped my whole collection -- about 120 cds -- at 128k before realizing how much better 192k sounded (and before getting about 100 more gigs of space). I would love to have a 200-cd juke slowly-but-surely rip my collection in one pass. The old tortoise and the hare story.
I want to hear from people who use a beowulf-optimized encoder. That would certainly help minimize temp disk space. Wow, setup a juke like that and you could charge to rip people's cd collections to a 100-gig HDD with next-day service. Sounds like a great way to make beer money for the frat house.
You're too naive. Plenty of people drive without a license. Then it becomes a $500 ticket instead of a $200 one. I drove 2 1/2 years without a license ten years ago because I refused to allow the state to make me homeless. If you need to get from Central Jersey to NYC, mass transit is great, so long as you live near a train station. But if you live and/or work in suburbia forget it. You absolutely must drive. When a cop once asked why I was driving without a license I told him, "I won't allow the government to make me lose my job." He gave me a ticket, but let me keep my car, which was a bonus. You'd be surprised at how often you'll hear suspended licenses on a scanner. Its so common, its not even funny. Sometimes I think half of Philadelphia drives without a license.
Someone has watched "Runaway" one too many times:)
Seriously, though I think the best answer is an EMP gun mounted on the front of police cars, designed to fry a fleeing vehicle's car computer, from about 15 feet which causes the engine to stall and the car to coast to a stop. Much safer than a carpet-o-nails which can cause dramatic loss of steering with either or both front tires being blown out.
How about a Matrix-esque bluetooth-type proprietary no-hop wireless network that would allow a cop to kill all compatible engines within a small radius. The circuitry would be the size of a small pager's motherboard and could be built right into the computer, not as a hackable add-on. Ooooh, he can use the MDT to select the vehicle to kill from a list that pops up, showing the year, make, model, color and vin. But that would lend itself to automated license checks whereby the MDT would pop up on the screen any nearby cars that are stolen (a la LoJack) or who's owner's license is suspended. I got caught once by a cop in Princeton, NJ who was pulling up behind each and every car on the highway at 2:30am and running their tags to check their owner status.
Nah, I like the EMP gun better. No one's stealing 74 Nova's anymore;)
if you don't mind all the crap that they toss into your inbox. and if you get back into pop3 and outlook, you get back into virus city as I posted earlier.
There's a simple solution to keep from ever losing another email address: get your own domain!
How about just getting a free shell account? We all know the best way to stay virus-free is to ssh to a remote host and run pine/mutt. I'm very lucky in that I've had the same email address for over six years, and its on a personal Linux server. The box started out in someone's dorm at college, and now its on a 7Mbit SDSL connection.
Since they only create accounts for friends of friends, there's probably about 50 users at most on it. It's only been down about 3 weeks in six years, and that's when it moved from VA to NJ and subsequently on to San Fran.
Nyx.net (used to?) give out free shell accounts. Maybe some slashdotters can setup small, heavily protected (i.e. LIDS) boxes for free shell accounts with 10MB quotas and qmail configured to dump inbound email into the quota'd space.
It only achieved C2 when the disk drive was removed and the machine was not attached to any network
can't speak to the network, but it was the floppy disk that needed to be removed. How did you plan to run the system with no hard disk and no network? Bootable CD? People do it with Linux every day, but I've never heard of a fully functioning NT system running off a CD.
so it's silly of them to insinuate that we're "stealing" by using name servers which have been deliberately left open
The servers haven't necessarily been *deliberately* left open. Bringing up www.gtei.net shows this to be some kind of unwanted stepchild between genuity and bbn. Wouldn't surprise me that whoever runs the network is doing a shoddy job at that dank little corner of their network.
Why are you being so dramatic, dude? Can't download kernels anymore? Cripes, just download the patches! Put a full kernel tar.gz to start with in/usr/src/linux, like linux-2.4.14.tar.gz. Check it:
cd/usr/src
tar zxvf linux-2.4.14.tar.gz
(if it untars to "linux-2.4" then, mv linux-2.4 linux-2.4.14)
ln -s linux-2.4.14 linux
ncftp ftp.us.kernel.org
cd/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4
bin
get patch-2.4.15.gz
get patch-2.4.16.gz
quit
zcat patch-2.4.15.gz | patch -p0 -f
zcat patch-2.4.16.gz | patch -p0 -f
head linux/Makefile
(check to make sure the version, patchlevel, and sublevel are 2, 4, and 16 respectively)
rm -f linux
mv linux-2.4.14 linux-2.4.16
ln -s linux-2.4.16 linux
tar cf linux-2.4.16.tar linux-2.4.16
gzip linux-2.4.16.tar &
voila, you have just updated your 2.4.14 kernel tarball into a 2.4.16 for the incredibly long download of about 2 megs. If you download the.bz2 patch files, replace the zcat commands with bzcat. bz2's are smaller, but when I got 2.4.16, there were no bz2's at the time.
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many ISPs run transparent http accelerators
exactly.. so common in fact, that I think it's well known that all of the default gateways for Comcast cablemodem users are actually running transparent proxy servers. Do a reverse lookup on your default gateway's IP address. Is it "proxy"-something? Either they're trying to be responsible netizens in conserving the world's greatest man-made resource, or they're collecting data for the TLA's in D.C. Don't like it? Do an SSH port forward to a box you trust that's running Squid.
Microsoft gets $5 billion in "preferred securities as part of the deal?"
that's okay, part of the reason that AT&T is in the shitter is because they agreed to buy some 1 million shares of @Home for $20 each and @Home has been taking the steps to complete the transaction, now that they're at 43c a share. Stock deals always screw somebody.
Of course, Microsoft can spend $20 million on lunch.
Umm, I've never seen a computer that was missing a CD drive, yet had a USB controller
This is close. We sold thousands of these to a customer giving them away to parents of schoolkids, but it didn't sit in the bulky adapter. Pure USB front and back, no CD-ROM, no floppy. Just USB, modem, and ethernet. They support Wake-on-LAN and we burned fifty of these things at a clip using automated burning tools.
Also, for putting distros on these things, do you know of a BIOS that lets you boot off a USB storage device?
See above. You can actually specify USB storage device as the bootable device.
I, too, have the IBM 8MB model. First of all, its AWESOME for storing my GnuPG keyring, and my Whisper32 password file. I finally feel like I'm doing GnuPG the right way.. like the extremists keeping the floppy in their pocket, inserting it only at the moments you need it for encrypting/decrypting. Now to move my critical private files to my pure USB PC and gpg 'em. Should make for a secure, console-access file server.
For the remaining 7.8MB, I keep a bunch of small files that I would need most when I don't have my Thinkpad around -- my Notes ID file, some presentations that I've been working on for clients, and all the things I forget to save when I blow away the laptop.. the ethernet and modem drivers for one! (That's a mean catch-22) I also keep small installers that often give me trouble when downloading.. putty, AdAware spyware removal tool, Netscape 6 installer, LeetSpeak for genning passwords, Whisper32, and AIM95N.
Please people, stop comparing it to a PDA. They don't serve the same purpose at all.
How many PDAs do you know with 1 GIG of storage?
Seriously! And who the hell compares the functionality of a batteryless keychain hard drive with no moving parts to a freaking PDA! The only way to get a gig on a PDA is to find one that takes CompactFlash and use the IBM 1GB CompactFlash microdrive... complete with moving parts!
If anyone remembers the Radio Shack device that "turned your household wiring into an antenna", that's what I imagine for this technology. A smallish box with a pass-thru 3 prong AC plug, and an RJ45 on the bottom.
Plug the coverter into the wall outlet, and plug your laptop, PC, or TiVO into the RJ45 on the media converter. Really not a bad idea, with the right security. I'd certainly get it.
Okay, can someone PLEASE tell me how to hook up the antenna wire to the Orinoco Silver cards? I had always heard that Orinoco Gold cards came with an antenna plug, but my Orinoco Silver cards have nothing. If there's a way and a reason to pop off the little circle in the center of the outer edge, please enlighten me.
:)
These articles all say, "then just connect the antenna wire to your card." HOW? Thanks!
isn't it rated R? As in restricted under 17? So their target audience is 17 year olds, or people under 17 whos parents would actually go to see this with them...
/. backs it up with "it is RAUNCHY". Was 20-something so long ago for me that I don't remember what constituted "funny"??
I was wondering about that myself. Can you imagine taking your parents to see this thing? It sounds like they'd faint! The rating reads "R for strong sexual content" and then
but how can you even be connected to the internet (inter meaning "between") unless you serve some traffic?
first let me say, I'm with you. I just want a pipe that I can do with as I please. i also refuse to pay comcast for upgraded service when their current qos sucks shit. I'm glad its free til Jan, and I'll start fighting with them after the new year if it keeps up.
I know you know this but, transmitting and serving are two different things. transmitting is just sending data - a normal function of a two-way conversation. serving indicates that you are listening for requests for information, and are supplying it in response to requests.
what kind of server is *required* for web and email, the two activities they want you to perform on the residential line? none, really. sure, some IRC servers require you to IDENT in order to allow a connection. That's not web surfing, and I've never once heard of a plug being pulled for an AUP violation b/c the guy was running an identd server.
you are allowed to transmit requests for data, and hold a normal two-way conversation supporting the reciept of the requested data. you can transmit email because you are initiating the requested transfer.
no one can come inbound to your box to request data, plain and simple.
If we shared files more [..], it would be nice if we could [..] just drag and drop to various locations, rather than emailing
sounds like WebDAV is perfect for you. someone hosts an apache web server, sets up some file space, and creates a DAV virtualhost. you can even run it over SSL and manage user ACL's just like any other virtualhost. Then all your family members (assuming they run windows) create web folders pointing to the URL. There are no private home directories, though. Everyone has full access to all files and directories.
the only time one should be required to buy a business connection is if they're running that business on that connection, such as ftp, email, http, and other servers
EXACTLY. I ssh out to read my personal mail, and the wife uses Yahoo! Mail. I also use a VPN client for Notes and some Intranet surfing. The problem is, Comcast's service has been so shitty, that I literally had to put my cablemodem on X10 and cron it to bounce every 30 mins from 8am to 8pm and every hour 8pm to 8am just to keep the connection up. Otherwise, the connection would stall after anywhere from a half hour to a few hours.
Until they improve their qos, there's no way in hell I'm going to pay for an upgraded account. Especially now that they're trying to learn how to run their own network. I'll wait, thanks. Oh, and I haven't met a network yet that successfully blocks my VPN client. It looks just like SSL traffic, but trips the hell out of snort with Large Packet warnings.
Yeah, when I'm working at home, I harass her to get off the sofa, but if I'm at work, it doesn't bother me. I guess that's what I get for wanting to let my wife never have to work a day in her life. Now she doesn't work a day in her life! :)
As for me, when I'm home, I'll leave CNN on in the background for 8 to 10 hours a day, but I would be perfectly content with just 30 minutes of non-news programming every day: The Drew Carey Show. If I could just find someone, somewhere, posting TiVO mpegs of that show, I wouldn't be considering getting one for myself for Christmas!
Please, someone call me when the day finally arrives that you can hang your TiVO right out there in DALNet's #tvepisodesonline! How hard can THAT be? How about #tivosonline? An IRC client and an fserve bot is all you need. I've seen a TiVO streaming video over a LAN and playing back on a local tv simultaneously before.
I'd suspect they'd use a 'timeout' of a couple of hours, which would be the simplest solution (I think) to filter out the sleeping watchers from the interested watchers.
They'd miss my wife. Our cable box is programmed to change channels at specific times in order to support programmed recording with the VCR. If she's home, she will literally watch ABC from 11am (The View) through 6:30pm (end of the local news). Even worse, when the box changes the channel, it turns off after changing but the channel is still fed to the tv. You can't change the channel until you turn the cable box back on.
I *always* have to turn on the cable box when I get home from work, because she simply does not want or need to change the channel ALL DAY.
I found about 900 of mine archived
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(smacks forehead) what the hell was I *talking about* back then?? Luckily, with my name, no one is likely to find my particular sensless ramlings..
refurbished models, meaning they were broken at one point
They're not necessarily refurbished. They're recertified. You must've missed this comment posted just above yours describing IBM's definition of recertified vs. refurbished.
So where it takes but a few minutes to rip to MP3 on your computer using you internal drive, using the Juke it would take up to 80 minutes.
But the juke solution will rip 200 cd's in one sitting, whereas you will rip but just one. I unfortunately ripped my whole collection -- about 120 cds -- at 128k before realizing how much better 192k sounded (and before getting about 100 more gigs of space). I would love to have a 200-cd juke slowly-but-surely rip my collection in one pass. The old tortoise and the hare story.
I want to hear from people who use a beowulf-optimized encoder. That would certainly help minimize temp disk space. Wow, setup a juke like that and you could charge to rip people's cd collections to a 100-gig HDD with next-day service. Sounds like a great way to make beer money for the frat house.
3rd strike and you lose your license permanently
You're too naive. Plenty of people drive without a license. Then it becomes a $500 ticket instead of a $200 one. I drove 2 1/2 years without a license ten years ago because I refused to allow the state to make me homeless. If you need to get from Central Jersey to NYC, mass transit is great, so long as you live near a train station. But if you live and/or work in suburbia forget it. You absolutely must drive. When a cop once asked why I was driving without a license I told him, "I won't allow the government to make me lose my job." He gave me a ticket, but let me keep my car, which was a bonus. You'd be surprised at how often you'll hear suspended licenses on a scanner. Its so common, its not even funny. Sometimes I think half of Philadelphia drives without a license.
Someone has watched "Runaway" one too many times :)
;)
Seriously, though I think the best answer is an EMP gun mounted on the front of police cars, designed to fry a fleeing vehicle's car computer, from about 15 feet which causes the engine to stall and the car to coast to a stop. Much safer than a carpet-o-nails which can cause dramatic loss of steering with either or both front tires being blown out.
How about a Matrix-esque bluetooth-type proprietary no-hop wireless network that would allow a cop to kill all compatible engines within a small radius. The circuitry would be the size of a small pager's motherboard and could be built right into the computer, not as a hackable add-on. Ooooh, he can use the MDT to select the vehicle to kill from a list that pops up, showing the year, make, model, color and vin. But that would lend itself to automated license checks whereby the MDT would pop up on the screen any nearby cars that are stolen (a la LoJack) or who's owner's license is suspended. I got caught once by a cop in Princeton, NJ who was pulling up behind each and every car on the highway at 2:30am and running their tags to check their owner status.
Nah, I like the EMP gun better. No one's stealing 74 Nova's anymore
And yes, you can use STMP and POP if you like
if you don't mind all the crap that they toss into your inbox. and if you get back into pop3 and outlook, you get back into virus city as I posted earlier.
There's a simple solution to keep from ever losing another email address: get your own domain!
How about just getting a free shell account? We all know the best way to stay virus-free is to ssh to a remote host and run pine/mutt. I'm very lucky in that I've had the same email address for over six years, and its on a personal Linux server. The box started out in someone's dorm at college, and now its on a 7Mbit SDSL connection.
Since they only create accounts for friends of friends, there's probably about 50 users at most on it. It's only been down about 3 weeks in six years, and that's when it moved from VA to NJ and subsequently on to San Fran.
Nyx.net (used to?) give out free shell accounts. Maybe some slashdotters can setup small, heavily protected (i.e. LIDS) boxes for free shell accounts with 10MB quotas and qmail configured to dump inbound email into the quota'd space.
It only achieved C2 when the disk drive was removed and the machine was not attached to any network
can't speak to the network, but it was the floppy disk that needed to be removed. How did you plan to run the system with no hard disk and no network? Bootable CD? People do it with Linux every day, but I've never heard of a fully functioning NT system running off a CD.
so it's silly of them to insinuate that we're "stealing" by using name servers which have been deliberately left open
The servers haven't necessarily been *deliberately* left open. Bringing up www.gtei.net shows this to be some kind of unwanted stepchild between genuity and bbn. Wouldn't surprise me that whoever runs the network is doing a shoddy job at that dank little corner of their network.
You lose your IP address for one
and what about the routers, too? if your cable co stays up and the upstream routers go down, it'll make for great neighborhood gaming parties!
That being said, I'm still up! Yay!
quick! register it! dotcom.museum and dotbomb.museum are both available..
Im going to miss downloading kernels
/usr/src/linux, like linux-2.4.14.tar.gz. Check it:
/usr/src
/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4
.bz2 patch files, replace the zcat commands with bzcat. bz2's are smaller, but when I got 2.4.16, there were no bz2's at the time.
Why are you being so dramatic, dude? Can't download kernels anymore? Cripes, just download the patches! Put a full kernel tar.gz to start with in
cd
tar zxvf linux-2.4.14.tar.gz
(if it untars to "linux-2.4" then, mv linux-2.4 linux-2.4.14)
ln -s linux-2.4.14 linux
ncftp ftp.us.kernel.org
cd
bin
get patch-2.4.15.gz
get patch-2.4.16.gz
quit
zcat patch-2.4.15.gz | patch -p0 -f
zcat patch-2.4.16.gz | patch -p0 -f
head linux/Makefile
(check to make sure the version, patchlevel, and sublevel are 2, 4, and 16 respectively)
rm -f linux
mv linux-2.4.14 linux-2.4.16
ln -s linux-2.4.16 linux
tar cf linux-2.4.16.tar linux-2.4.16
gzip linux-2.4.16.tar &
voila, you have just updated your 2.4.14 kernel tarball into a 2.4.16 for the incredibly long download of about 2 megs. If you download the