While we're waiting for the site to become available again, I have a serious question that I hope someone can answer..
has anyone seen a device that will convert a single PC to wireless that absolutely cannot otherwise be converted? I have a small mainframe at home that's really an S/390 chip on a Microchannel card (IBM all the way, baby:) and its in my downstairs office. It will soon have a microchannel ethernet card, but obviously there's no way in hell I could convert that puppy to wireless.
I'm looking for an access point-sized device that will just be a client side relay for one or more PCs connected to it. Has anyone heard of such a thing? Thanks..
I have the same *exact* AP as you. If you had bought the version that has just the single internal port and the parallel printer support, you would have gotten the "MAC accept list" instead of the "MAC reject list" we got stuck with. I use Orinoco Silver cards with it under Linux and Win2k.
Here's something important to look out for. Because I've been getting my network "broadband ready", I run my Linksys behind an autodialing Linux firewall with a 56k modem. I run extremely tight rules on the firewall, too, and just the other day I logged some packets from my network behind my Linksys hitting my oustide firewall with the **protected network** IP network address!
My setup is 56k ppp -> Linux (192.168.2) --xover--> Linksys WAN port --> hub port (192.168.1 w/DHCP) --> 24 port hub
I should *NEVER* see 192.168.1 packets going OUT of the Linksys and hitting the eth0 on my outside firewall, but sure enough.. I logged a few the other day.. they were destined for junkbuster and squid. I'm glad I have the firewall logging anomalies like that or I would never have known.
Luckily the outside firewall stopped the malformed packets from getting out to the net. And no I don't care that much about it on a ppp link, but the cable modem is coming and I don't want my internal network structure revealed on the Internet side.
I have the same AP as this guy. There's only like one 802.11b NIC on the planet that supports MAC spoofing, or more like custom MAC addresses. Any MAC starting over "4" is not a "spoof" per se, just taking advantage of a normal feature.
I'm recovering at home from summertime surgery and asked last week to be allowed to return to work on Monday the 10th. They haven't processed my paperwork yet, so I was still at home on Tuesday when this hit. All day Tuesday my condo was like the Circuit City "soccer fan" ad, I had the living room tv, the downstairs office tv, the bedroom tv, and the upstairs office tv (tv card) all tuned to CNN so as I backed out of one room, I could snap turn my head and look at another tv in the next room!
That lasted until Tuesday night, when I finally setup my station in front of the big living room tv. I never tuned off of CNN from Tuesday morning until Wednesday afternoon just to watch the local news for a local spin on it. Sure enough there were about four or five victims from my tiny little town (Lower Makefield, PA).. including the captain of flight 93 that crashed near Pittsburgh.
I've always been such a news junkie though, that for a couple of years many members of my family would call me for little known facts about stories, local or otherwise. But with this, I truly became frustrated with my dialup access. It was bad enough that the news sites were slashdotted, but to not know if the slowness would have been at least a little more bearable with broadband really killed it for me. I've really been here more than any other site./. is so freaking awesome, its beyond words. There are some real kooks here, but the functionality is just stunning.
Does anyone here still browse the VBI data from CNN? Are they still sending any? Did they send cool stuff like photo galleries? My tv card is running on NT server at this time, so there are no VBI drivers for NT from Hauppauge AFAIK.
Just heard on CNN.. AOL users have donated $6 **million** via the service. That's amazing no matter how you look at it.
As an IBM consultant, I can bill my project (with non-passthru accounting) for my time and expenses when commuting beyond the distance I would travel to my assigned location. I don't get paid for the travel hours, but I get credit as hours worked towards my annual goal.
A little over 10 years ago when I was 19, I used to daydream about working at home. I read a book who's title I can't recall, but it's subtitle was "everything you need to know about working and living under the same roof". That was a great book. It had all kinds of tips, including how to approach management, how to discipline yourself, and how to setup your work environment. The author (authors? husband and wife I think..) even gave anecdotes like the one about the guy who would walk out to his backyard every morning, open and shut his car door to start his day, and repeat the process at night to end his day.
The first time I worked at home I needed to write some perl code to make a Linux box telnet to an OS/2 console and manage the network from a command line. I had a good junior admin whom I trusted, and I explained to the director that I would get the my work done much better if I took an old OS/2 server home and worked there instead.
Also right from the book, I promised that if I did leave the house during the day, I would always have my pager, and I would never be more than 60 minutes from the office. That either kept me at or very close to home.. no wandering around all day. I also promised that I would come right in to the office on a "home day" without any argument should I be asked.
One night, a server in another building crashed and my jr admin was on it. We spoke by phone for a few hours and I finally decided to go in. When I told the director I was coming in, she said, "oh thank God. I was hoping you would." I said to her very sternly, "we have an arrangement here, and I promised to come in as soon as you asked. I thought [he] could handle it with my instruction, but if you wanted me here, all you had to do was say, 'please come in' and I would have jumped in the car right away." She appreciated that, and we went out for drinks. My work-at-home project was very successful, and when the jr admin quit, we replaced him with my perl scripts, which they appreciated very much:)
Fast forward 2 years to Dec '00. As an IBM consultant, I am 'hired' to work on projects, either internal or external. I was about to be let go for the 1st quarter, but I felt we were leaving the customer with inferior procedures. I told my project manager what they needed (an automated NT server build process) and what I needed in order to put it together (a server and 3 months at home). They accepted my proposal, and I spent the wicked Philadelphia winter warm at home.
As far as distractions go, I absolutely had to tell my wife the first time I worked at home, "honey, when I go in this room and close the door, it's just like I'm in New York City. You can't keep walking in here and sitting down to chat with me." At first she argued saying "but I don't know when you're not going to be here everyday anymore." I replied, "if you don't let me work, it'll be sooner than later."
If you don't have scheduled times to meet with or speak to people, its absolute bliss. They basically told me, "see you in 3 months". I worked whenever I felt productive, even 1am on Sunday nights. I worked with my brain's clock, not my wall clock. I could take my wife (or myself) to the doctor, go shopping if I needed people contact, and most importantly work whenever I was productive. I know I had it extremely lucky, but I've had extremely good luck working at home.
I'm glad I had hints about how to go about "being the first one" in the office to try it out, and I'm glad I've known how to work at home before joining IBM where they practically force you to get used to not having any handholding! God damn I love my job.
I asked my shell account sysadmins to upgrade the system level gnupg from 1.0.1 to 1.0.6 a couple of weeks ago.. they've been moving slowly, and when this happened I gave my shell account my own upgrade. If you have a non-root shell account and the sysadmins are not offering or updating GnuPG you can build your own.
Download and unpack the code in your home directory. It will create a new directory gnupg-1.0.6. CD into that directory and run
./configure --prefix=/your/home/directory
and then run 'make' and 'make install'. The install will create a gnupg directory off your home directory. Update your ~/.bash_profile and add ~/gnupg/bin to your PATH.
Next you can google for incorporating GnuPG with pine. It basically involves symlinking gpg to "gpgsign" and "gpgencrypt". Then configure pine to detect incoming gpg-handled email and to offer processing your outbound email just prior to delivery.
Can they use a stego system correctly on a wide scale? Unlikely at present,
It's been widely known that OBL has been the world's authority on stego for at least a year or two now. From stego'd mp3's to photos, he's been using it for quite some time.
I'm with you on carnivore, though. I think using stego will set off flags because it *will* be detected instantly. Stego is a nice idea, but the popular stuff is not ready for primetime. As I've said before, at best it'll let you widen your distribution channel to include virtually every usenet newsgroup. You can stego binaries in binaries, but you can also stego text in text. By uuencoding parts of binaries or ascii armoring gpg'd parts you can literally stego anything into anything. Doesn't mean the spooks won't be able to detect your efforts. It just means you can spread your stuff out over a *much* wider area.
I honestly feel those who seek privacy will move to freenet and perform non-web tcp activities using tcp/ip stego building on apps like covert_tcp. I don't know if carnivore reconstructs all frames, especially those with malformed headers.
It is however, absurd to argue that more guns would act as a deterrent to crime. Violence only begets more violence.
Why do you continue to assume that owning a gun makes you violent? Why do you feel that guns, even unused ones, perpetrate violence? It sounds like you are too young to remember that the cold war wasn't won by any one side. Peace prevailed. Peace won that war. When the US and soviet Union finally had enough weaponry so as to assure the planet would not be left for anyone in th event of war, peace arrived as the only solution. Tremendous amounts of fear led us towards peace.
Think back to that theoretical 7 eleven outside Phoenix. The criminal would never think he could pull off a robbery of a store full of gun carrying customers. I never suggested a huge shootout in the shop with half the customers dead. I only suggested the would-be criminal turning around and walking out when he saw all the guns on the other patrons' hips. This has already been proven in the biggest way.
Guns are not violent. People are until they realize there are alternatives.
I never hear speculation as to why it was done and what the official US response will be.
I have to respectfully disagree with you here. I've been watching CNN for about 16 hours a day since it happened. First I don't think there's any need to speculate as to why it happened. It's the next move in the war on Americans. Hijack planes full of Americans and plow them into buildings chock full of more Americans. And finally, I have heard plenty of discussions about the possible retaliations.
I think at this point those discussions are few and far between because Breaking News events keep peppering the regular shows. Things like the House and Senate being evacuated.. the Empire State Building being evacuated, the eight arrests at LaGuardia and JFK, the arrests on the Carnival Cruise, the FBI raids in Boston, Florida, and now Seaside Heights, NJ. Remember the first night when the bombings started in Afghanistan which were later attributed to the civil war? You can believe they were talking about US retaliation that night.
I was just struck with a strange feeling. I was thinking about how I voiced my opinion here about supporting the face recognition cameras in Tampa and Borders, and then offering strong support of strong encryption.
In the Tampa comment, I indicated that I haven't commited a crime that would warrant the face cameras to start setting off alarms at the police HQ. And I certainly don't have a history of shoplifting and have nothing to worry about in Borders.
But when it comes to securing email and transactions, I want all the privacy I can get my grubby little hands on. 90% of my email never leaves the box my close circle of friends use, and we are required to ssh in. No, my Mom doesn't encrypt her email to me, but I would love to see AOL incorporate GnuPG into their product. Imagine their addressbook having a field for the public key, and a checkbox for "always encrypt for this recipient". Even if they water it down by reusing the login password as the gpg password, at least it'll be encrypted in transit.
I'm closing this without deciding whether or not I would support AOL including strong encryption with key escrow to the feds. If you want true, escrow-free encryption, get a real ISP. Do we really want to make it easy for 20 million people to immediately start encrypting email in such a way that the feds can't get to it? Is it *really* that bad that instead of just two people being able to read an email, we add a third reader whom we need right now more than ever? I don't know. With all the abuses of power, I don't know.
I'm telling you, in this era of keyboard loggers and key escrow, if I'm presented with the opportunity to obtain one of the Linux wireless webpads at work, I will get one. A fully self-contained Linux client with touch screen and an optional on-screen keyboard. Strong encryption will make that about the securest thing I could find right about now. I know 802.11 is vulnerable, but if all they get is SSH and gpg traffic, they can have it.
If you go to the southwest like arizona there are towns were people walk into the 7 eleven with guns in hip holsters. And yes, in those places, crimes commited with guns is extremely low. Who's going to try to hold up a 7 eleven when eight of the ten customers in the store are also armed?
Your statement collects up all the legal guns from the southwest and distributes them across the country to places like NJ, where its *extremely* difficult to legally get a handgun, and gun violence is extremely high (and law abiding citizens can't defend themselves).
I am very strongly in support of strong encryption, free of back doors. The problem here was a breakdown of the US "human" intelligence capabilities, aka spies. After 4 years of a Republican leader focused on foreign issues and the Gulf War, we had 8 years of a domestic-oriented leader who woke up the economy but let our defenses fall apart. No matter how much I hate G.W., I liked his father and I'm glad this happened under his watch. I always prefer the Republican way of handling foreign issues.
I think the poster meant that if the article was going to say that you could expand the mainframe functionality for zero cost the same applies to the Intel platform in that the NT support personnel may also be able to look after the Exchange servers. He didn't say piggyback the apps, just reuse the support personnel.
Having said that, I can tell you that application support personnel usually make shitty OS platform people. Although one friend has 8 years of Domino experience, 6 of NT, and 5 of Linux. He's about the only tech I would trust to build excellent servers from a pile of boards and screws. Along those lines, I seriously doubt a VM guy could build awesome virtual Linux servers.
Does anyone have the microchannel version of the P/390? I have one and need the OS load CD kit..
This club, near Princeton, NJ, manned the statewide Red Cross radio hq from shortly after the blast until about 8:30pm last night (Wednesday). They coordinate communications statewide among the other chapters, and use HF to coordinate with the national hq in Washington. Excellent group of people.
I actually used the term "Slashdotted" with a geek friend regarding CNN at 10:30am on the day of the bombing and there was no doubt in his mind what I meant. I really think its the best way to describe the situation. I described to my wife that the April '00 DDOS against CNN, MSNBC, EBay and others simulated with 52 machines what 10 million people had just acheived that morning.
My former manager was from London and he used the term "fell over" for servers that died under extreme loads. I always envisioned someone scaring sheep to make them faint whenever I heard that phrase.
No I guess I'm not any good in the 737. I'm definitely a lot more nimble with the LearJet. I've been able to put it in between the support strings of the Golden Gate Bridge while pitched precisly on its side in a wingover. The dad-gummed 737 keeps doggin me tho..
as the other replyer already said, the petronas towers have already been the tallest towers in the world for quite some time.
what you probably heard, as I have a number of times was the just-as-creepy report, "the Empire State Building is once again the tallest building in New York City".
or, you heard what you say you heard, and the reporter simply didn't know they already were..
You really get a feel for the power of the collisions when you watch the tape at full speed. In particular the amateur video shots from "behind" the towers that caught the 2nd impact. The one that follows the plane downtown and keeps it center-frame all the way up to impact is the one that moves me the most. I have 18hrs of CNN taped and I still say "oh my God" each time an impact is shown. There's the one that accidentally caught the first impact.. and the camera-on-the-ground shot up the guy's nose as the plane passes over his head for an eighth of a second before impact is also very dramatic.
Unless you've been there, it's hard to grasp the size of that place. I grew up in NJ with the towers way off on the horizon, occasionally being lucky enough to catch a glimpse while riding with my parents. I said to my wife yesterday that I'm so happy I've been able to share with her a day on the observation deck. That was truly an incredible place.
Now I'm on standby, ready to go up there, possibly to build hundreds or thousands of servers as our customers start to rebuild and get back online.
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I heard around 5pm ET on CNN that they were trained at Piper in Daytona Beach, where JFK, Jr. took lessons. A close friend of mine graduated from Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach, so that was the first place that came to my mind.
This got me too. When it first happened, I said to a friend that it's hard to hit those buildings.. at least when flying the 737 in flight simulator. You have to be lined up solid to hit them. I have tried many many times either successfully or unsuccessfully to plow into the towers over the years. Most of the time, I ended up missing one of the towers by about fifty feet and plowing into the smaller buildings nearby or the Hudson River. They only had one shot and they hit dead on. I was amazed at their accuracy.
The flight paths were so complex that I was truly amazed they were able to find the buildings. The 2nd WTC-bound flight turned very sharply northeastbound almost directly over my house. About the only way to line up the WTC from the Trenton area is to depart the Robbinsville VOR on 040 which feeds directly into the Newark VOR also on 040, having runways 4R and 4L.
Perhaps they rode the Newark VOR to get to the general area and knew when to make that right turn away from the Newark runways towards Lower Manhattan. I would be surprised if they were that skilled. I guess its more likely that since it was such a clear day they really could see the towers all the way from Trenton. It was definitely a VFR day yesterday.
I have to go with the parent on this one. I really do think they are saying that even though they use the standard warranty disclaimer, they are very much afraid that if a big time project fails the standard disclaimer might not stand up in court.
Who knows, perhaps a lawsuit against the standard disclaimer could open up a deluge of "warranty of merchantability" lawsuits against Microsoft. How many of us know plenty of businesses who continue to suffer with insecure, inflexible, unusable microsoft software after spending tens (or hundreds - I know one) of thousands of dollars in licensing fees?
I'm gearing up to help an educational customer cut over from MS to Linux servers and desktops. They run public schools, injecting tons of technology the first year and every five years thereafter. Next September's new schools (and five year refreshes) should be opening with wireless Linux webpads in each student's hands instead of 3 Win2k PC's in each classroom. They expect to have 250,000 students "under management" in five years. They absolutely hate MS. That's a pretty big Linux win.
I run a 56k Linux firewall with a crossover cable into a Linksys wireless cablemodem/dsl router, the BEWS4. Then I hang a 24-port hub off the hub port, with 3 Linux boxes, an NT server for work and my wife's 98 box. My Linksys doesn't support limiting wireless clients to a list of MAC addresses.
I really only have one wireless client at this point, so perhaps I can limit the DHCP to one client and then use ipchains to restrict server access to the wired static range and the wireless dhcp "range of one". I can't go with static on the laptop b/c I use the wireless at 4 locations, all DHCP. Like hell I'm gonna change the IP address each place I attach to.
Does anyone run kerberos at home? Seems like a real bitch to setup. Well, amanda just got around to my laptop so I'd better go...
Oh awesome! I'm in Yardley, PA in Lower Bucks Cablevision (then Time Warner then AT&T but now Comcast) country and modems are coming November 1st. I hope this means we'll start off with a lean, mean smokin' network.
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While we're waiting for the site to become available again, I have a serious question that I hope someone can answer..
:) and its in my downstairs office. It will soon have a microchannel ethernet card, but obviously there's no way in hell I could convert that puppy to wireless.
has anyone seen a device that will convert a single PC to wireless that absolutely cannot otherwise be converted? I have a small mainframe at home that's really an S/390 chip on a Microchannel card (IBM all the way, baby
I'm looking for an access point-sized device that will just be a client side relay for one or more PCs connected to it. Has anyone heard of such a thing? Thanks..
I have the same *exact* AP as you. If you had bought the version that has just the single internal port and the parallel printer support, you would have gotten the "MAC accept list" instead of the "MAC reject list" we got stuck with. I use Orinoco Silver cards with it under Linux and Win2k.
Here's something important to look out for. Because I've been getting my network "broadband ready", I run my Linksys behind an autodialing Linux firewall with a 56k modem. I run extremely tight rules on the firewall, too, and just the other day I logged some packets from my network behind my Linksys hitting my oustide firewall with the **protected network** IP network address!
My setup is 56k ppp -> Linux (192.168.2) --xover--> Linksys WAN port --> hub port (192.168.1 w/DHCP) --> 24 port hub
I should *NEVER* see 192.168.1 packets going OUT of the Linksys and hitting the eth0 on my outside firewall, but sure enough.. I logged a few the other day.. they were destined for junkbuster and squid. I'm glad I have the firewall logging anomalies like that or I would never have known.
Luckily the outside firewall stopped the malformed packets from getting out to the net. And no I don't care that much about it on a ppp link, but the cable modem is coming and I don't want my internal network structure revealed on the Internet side.
I have the same AP as this guy. There's only like one 802.11b NIC on the planet that supports MAC spoofing, or more like custom MAC addresses. Any MAC starting over "4" is not a "spoof" per se, just taking advantage of a normal feature.
I'm recovering at home from summertime surgery and asked last week to be allowed to return to work on Monday the 10th. They haven't processed my paperwork yet, so I was still at home on Tuesday when this hit. All day Tuesday my condo was like the Circuit City "soccer fan" ad, I had the living room tv, the downstairs office tv, the bedroom tv, and the upstairs office tv (tv card) all tuned to CNN so as I backed out of one room, I could snap turn my head and look at another tv in the next room!
/. is so freaking awesome, its beyond words. There are some real kooks here, but the functionality is just stunning.
That lasted until Tuesday night, when I finally setup my station in front of the big living room tv. I never tuned off of CNN from Tuesday morning until Wednesday afternoon just to watch the local news for a local spin on it. Sure enough there were about four or five victims from my tiny little town (Lower Makefield, PA).. including the captain of flight 93 that crashed near Pittsburgh.
I've always been such a news junkie though, that for a couple of years many members of my family would call me for little known facts about stories, local or otherwise. But with this, I truly became frustrated with my dialup access. It was bad enough that the news sites were slashdotted, but to not know if the slowness would have been at least a little more bearable with broadband really killed it for me. I've really been here more than any other site.
Does anyone here still browse the VBI data from CNN? Are they still sending any? Did they send cool stuff like photo galleries? My tv card is running on NT server at this time, so there are no VBI drivers for NT from Hauppauge AFAIK.
Just heard on CNN.. AOL users have donated $6 **million** via the service. That's amazing no matter how you look at it.
As an IBM consultant, I can bill my project (with non-passthru accounting) for my time and expenses when commuting beyond the distance I would travel to my assigned location. I don't get paid for the travel hours, but I get credit as hours worked towards my annual goal.
A little over 10 years ago when I was 19, I used to daydream about working at home. I read a book who's title I can't recall, but it's subtitle was "everything you need to know about working and living under the same roof". That was a great book. It had all kinds of tips, including how to approach management, how to discipline yourself, and how to setup your work environment. The author (authors? husband and wife I think..) even gave anecdotes like the one about the guy who would walk out to his backyard every morning, open and shut his car door to start his day, and repeat the process at night to end his day.
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The first time I worked at home I needed to write some perl code to make a Linux box telnet to an OS/2 console and manage the network from a command line. I had a good junior admin whom I trusted, and I explained to the director that I would get the my work done much better if I took an old OS/2 server home and worked there instead.
Also right from the book, I promised that if I did leave the house during the day, I would always have my pager, and I would never be more than 60 minutes from the office. That either kept me at or very close to home.. no wandering around all day. I also promised that I would come right in to the office on a "home day" without any argument should I be asked.
One night, a server in another building crashed and my jr admin was on it. We spoke by phone for a few hours and I finally decided to go in. When I told the director I was coming in, she said, "oh thank God. I was hoping you would." I said to her very sternly, "we have an arrangement here, and I promised to come in as soon as you asked. I thought [he] could handle it with my instruction, but if you wanted me here, all you had to do was say, 'please come in' and I would have jumped in the car right away." She appreciated that, and we went out for drinks. My work-at-home project was very successful, and when the jr admin quit, we replaced him with my perl scripts, which they appreciated very much
Fast forward 2 years to Dec '00. As an IBM consultant, I am 'hired' to work on projects, either internal or external. I was about to be let go for the 1st quarter, but I felt we were leaving the customer with inferior procedures. I told my project manager what they needed (an automated NT server build process) and what I needed in order to put it together (a server and 3 months at home). They accepted my proposal, and I spent the wicked Philadelphia winter warm at home.
As far as distractions go, I absolutely had to tell my wife the first time I worked at home, "honey, when I go in this room and close the door, it's just like I'm in New York City. You can't keep walking in here and sitting down to chat with me." At first she argued saying "but I don't know when you're not going to be here everyday anymore." I replied, "if you don't let me work, it'll be sooner than later."
If you don't have scheduled times to meet with or speak to people, its absolute bliss. They basically told me, "see you in 3 months". I worked whenever I felt productive, even 1am on Sunday nights. I worked with my brain's clock, not my wall clock. I could take my wife (or myself) to the doctor, go shopping if I needed people contact, and most importantly work whenever I was productive. I know I had it extremely lucky, but I've had extremely good luck working at home.
I'm glad I had hints about how to go about "being the first one" in the office to try it out, and I'm glad I've known how to work at home before joining IBM where they practically force you to get used to not having any handholding! God damn I love my job.
I asked my shell account sysadmins to upgrade the system level gnupg from 1.0.1 to 1.0.6 a couple of weeks ago.. they've been moving slowly, and when this happened I gave my shell account my own upgrade. If you have a non-root shell account and the sysadmins are not offering or updating GnuPG you can build your own.
Download and unpack the code in your home directory. It will create a new directory gnupg-1.0.6. CD into that directory and run
./configure --prefix=/your/home/directory
and then run 'make' and 'make install'. The install will create a gnupg directory off your home directory. Update your ~/.bash_profile and add ~/gnupg/bin to your PATH.
Next you can google for incorporating GnuPG with pine. It basically involves symlinking gpg to "gpgsign" and "gpgencrypt". Then configure pine to detect incoming gpg-handled email and to offer processing your outbound email just prior to delivery.
Can they use a stego system correctly on a wide scale? Unlikely at present,
It's been widely known that OBL has been the world's authority on stego for at least a year or two now. From stego'd mp3's to photos, he's been using it for quite some time.
I'm with you on carnivore, though. I think using stego will set off flags because it *will* be detected instantly. Stego is a nice idea, but the popular stuff is not ready for primetime. As I've said before, at best it'll let you widen your distribution channel to include virtually every usenet newsgroup. You can stego binaries in binaries, but you can also stego text in text. By uuencoding parts of binaries or ascii armoring gpg'd parts you can literally stego anything into anything. Doesn't mean the spooks won't be able to detect your efforts. It just means you can spread your stuff out over a *much* wider area.
I honestly feel those who seek privacy will move to freenet and perform non-web tcp activities using tcp/ip stego building on apps like covert_tcp. I don't know if carnivore reconstructs all frames, especially those with malformed headers.
the fact that they're passing legislation means that congress doesnt know, not that the NSA cant do it. there's a HUGE difference.
Adding less than quoting, but I don't care. That's an excellent point.
It is however, absurd to argue that more guns would act as a deterrent to crime. Violence only begets more violence.
Why do you continue to assume that owning a gun makes you violent? Why do you feel that guns, even unused ones, perpetrate violence? It sounds like you are too young to remember that the cold war wasn't won by any one side. Peace prevailed. Peace won that war. When the US and soviet Union finally had enough weaponry so as to assure the planet would not be left for anyone in th event of war, peace arrived as the only solution. Tremendous amounts of fear led us towards peace.
Think back to that theoretical 7 eleven outside Phoenix. The criminal would never think he could pull off a robbery of a store full of gun carrying customers. I never suggested a huge shootout in the shop with half the customers dead. I only suggested the would-be criminal turning around and walking out when he saw all the guns on the other patrons' hips. This has already been proven in the biggest way.
Guns are not violent. People are until they realize there are alternatives.
I never hear speculation as to why it was done and what the official US response will be.
I have to respectfully disagree with you here. I've been watching CNN for about 16 hours a day since it happened. First I don't think there's any need to speculate as to why it happened. It's the next move in the war on Americans. Hijack planes full of Americans and plow them into buildings chock full of more Americans. And finally, I have heard plenty of discussions about the possible retaliations.
I think at this point those discussions are few and far between because Breaking News events keep peppering the regular shows. Things like the House and Senate being evacuated.. the Empire State Building being evacuated, the eight arrests at LaGuardia and JFK, the arrests on the Carnival Cruise, the FBI raids in Boston, Florida, and now Seaside Heights, NJ. Remember the first night when the bombings started in Afghanistan which were later attributed to the civil war? You can believe they were talking about US retaliation that night.
Rejected subject: Privacy vs Privacy
I was just struck with a strange feeling. I was thinking about how I voiced my opinion here about supporting the face recognition cameras in Tampa and Borders, and then offering strong support of strong encryption.
In the Tampa comment, I indicated that I haven't commited a crime that would warrant the face cameras to start setting off alarms at the police HQ. And I certainly don't have a history of shoplifting and have nothing to worry about in Borders.
But when it comes to securing email and transactions, I want all the privacy I can get my grubby little hands on. 90% of my email never leaves the box my close circle of friends use, and we are required to ssh in. No, my Mom doesn't encrypt her email to me, but I would love to see AOL incorporate GnuPG into their product. Imagine their addressbook having a field for the public key, and a checkbox for "always encrypt for this recipient". Even if they water it down by reusing the login password as the gpg password, at least it'll be encrypted in transit.
I'm closing this without deciding whether or not I would support AOL including strong encryption with key escrow to the feds. If you want true, escrow-free encryption, get a real ISP. Do we really want to make it easy for 20 million people to immediately start encrypting email in such a way that the feds can't get to it? Is it *really* that bad that instead of just two people being able to read an email, we add a third reader whom we need right now more than ever? I don't know. With all the abuses of power, I don't know.
I'm telling you, in this era of keyboard loggers and key escrow, if I'm presented with the opportunity to obtain one of the Linux wireless webpads at work, I will get one. A fully self-contained Linux client with touch screen and an optional on-screen keyboard. Strong encryption will make that about the securest thing I could find right about now. I know 802.11 is vulnerable, but if all they get is SSH and gpg traffic, they can have it.
If you go to the southwest like arizona there are towns were people walk into the 7 eleven with guns in hip holsters. And yes, in those places, crimes commited with guns is extremely low. Who's going to try to hold up a 7 eleven when eight of the ten customers in the store are also armed?
Your statement collects up all the legal guns from the southwest and distributes them across the country to places like NJ, where its *extremely* difficult to legally get a handgun, and gun violence is extremely high (and law abiding citizens can't defend themselves).
I am very strongly in support of strong encryption, free of back doors. The problem here was a breakdown of the US "human" intelligence capabilities, aka spies. After 4 years of a Republican leader focused on foreign issues and the Gulf War, we had 8 years of a domestic-oriented leader who woke up the economy but let our defenses fall apart. No matter how much I hate G.W., I liked his father and I'm glad this happened under his watch. I always prefer the Republican way of handling foreign issues.
I think the poster meant that if the article was going to say that you could expand the mainframe functionality for zero cost the same applies to the Intel platform in that the NT support personnel may also be able to look after the Exchange servers. He didn't say piggyback the apps, just reuse the support personnel.
Having said that, I can tell you that application support personnel usually make shitty OS platform people. Although one friend has 8 years of Domino experience, 6 of NT, and 5 of Linux. He's about the only tech I would trust to build excellent servers from a pile of boards and screws. Along those lines, I seriously doubt a VM guy could build awesome virtual Linux servers.
Does anyone have the microchannel version of the P/390? I have one and need the OS load CD kit..
This club, near Princeton, NJ, manned the statewide Red Cross radio hq from shortly after the blast until about 8:30pm last night (Wednesday). They coordinate communications statewide among the other chapters, and use HF to coordinate with the national hq in Washington. Excellent group of people.
I actually used the term "Slashdotted" with a geek friend regarding CNN at 10:30am on the day of the bombing and there was no doubt in his mind what I meant. I really think its the best way to describe the situation. I described to my wife that the April '00 DDOS against CNN, MSNBC, EBay and others simulated with 52 machines what 10 million people had just acheived that morning.
My former manager was from London and he used the term "fell over" for servers that died under extreme loads. I always envisioned someone scaring sheep to make them faint whenever I heard that phrase.
BOO!
No I guess I'm not any good in the 737. I'm definitely a lot more nimble with the LearJet. I've been able to put it in between the support strings of the Golden Gate Bridge while pitched precisly on its side in a wingover. The dad-gummed 737 keeps doggin me tho..
as the other replyer already said, the petronas towers have already been the tallest towers in the world for quite some time.
what you probably heard, as I have a number of times was the just-as-creepy report, "the Empire State Building is once again the tallest building in New York City".
or, you heard what you say you heard, and the reporter simply didn't know they already were..
You really get a feel for the power of the collisions when you watch the tape at full speed. In particular the amateur video shots from "behind" the towers that caught the 2nd impact. The one that follows the plane downtown and keeps it center-frame all the way up to impact is the one that moves me the most. I have 18hrs of CNN taped and I still say "oh my God" each time an impact is shown. There's the one that accidentally caught the first impact.. and the camera-on-the-ground shot up the guy's nose as the plane passes over his head for an eighth of a second before impact is also very dramatic.
Unless you've been there, it's hard to grasp the size of that place. I grew up in NJ with the towers way off on the horizon, occasionally being lucky enough to catch a glimpse while riding with my parents. I said to my wife yesterday that I'm so happy I've been able to share with her a day on the observation deck. That was truly an incredible place.
Now I'm on standby, ready to go up there, possibly to build hundreds or thousands of servers as our customers start to rebuild and get back online.
I heard around 5pm ET on CNN that they were trained at Piper in Daytona Beach, where JFK, Jr. took lessons. A close friend of mine graduated from Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach, so that was the first place that came to my mind.
This got me too. When it first happened, I said to a friend that it's hard to hit those buildings.. at least when flying the 737 in flight simulator. You have to be lined up solid to hit them. I have tried many many times either successfully or unsuccessfully to plow into the towers over the years. Most of the time, I ended up missing one of the towers by about fifty feet and plowing into the smaller buildings nearby or the Hudson River. They only had one shot and they hit dead on. I was amazed at their accuracy.
The flight paths were so complex that I was truly amazed they were able to find the buildings. The 2nd WTC-bound flight turned very sharply northeastbound almost directly over my house. About the only way to line up the WTC from the Trenton area is to depart the Robbinsville VOR on 040 which feeds directly into the Newark VOR also on 040, having runways 4R and 4L.
Perhaps they rode the Newark VOR to get to the general area and knew when to make that right turn away from the Newark runways towards Lower Manhattan. I would be surprised if they were that skilled. I guess its more likely that since it was such a clear day they really could see the towers all the way from Trenton. It was definitely a VFR day yesterday.
I have to go with the parent on this one. I really do think they are saying that even though they use the standard warranty disclaimer, they are very much afraid that if a big time project fails the standard disclaimer might not stand up in court.
Who knows, perhaps a lawsuit against the standard disclaimer could open up a deluge of "warranty of merchantability" lawsuits against Microsoft. How many of us know plenty of businesses who continue to suffer with insecure, inflexible, unusable microsoft software after spending tens (or hundreds - I know one) of thousands of dollars in licensing fees?
I'm gearing up to help an educational customer cut over from MS to Linux servers and desktops. They run public schools, injecting tons of technology the first year and every five years thereafter. Next September's new schools (and five year refreshes) should be opening with wireless Linux webpads in each student's hands instead of 3 Win2k PC's in each classroom. They expect to have 250,000 students "under management" in five years. They absolutely hate MS. That's a pretty big Linux win.
I run a 56k Linux firewall with a crossover cable into a Linksys wireless cablemodem/dsl router, the BEWS4. Then I hang a 24-port hub off the hub port, with 3 Linux boxes, an NT server for work and my wife's 98 box. My Linksys doesn't support limiting wireless clients to a list of MAC addresses.
I really only have one wireless client at this point, so perhaps I can limit the DHCP to one client and then use ipchains to restrict server access to the wired static range and the wireless dhcp "range of one". I can't go with static on the laptop b/c I use the wireless at 4 locations, all DHCP. Like hell I'm gonna change the IP address each place I attach to.
Does anyone run kerberos at home? Seems like a real bitch to setup. Well, amanda just got around to my laptop so I'd better go...
Oh awesome! I'm in Yardley, PA in Lower Bucks Cablevision (then Time Warner then AT&T but now Comcast) country and modems are coming November 1st. I hope this means we'll start off with a lean, mean smokin' network.