I recieved 3 mail messages during the 6 months I had an @home account. One welcome message, one promotional message from comcast, and one about the @home Chapter 11 thing.
I never once used it for anything, and never got any spam.
My username was noweb4u1@home.com. (for some reason, their servers prohibited noweb4u@ - I still to this day don't know why)
Ah well, can't get cablemodem here where I moved anyway.
Here's one of the main differences though - GPL software is given away by the author with a simple condition that you not use the source in a closed source app.
Microsoft is the largest, and richest software company in the world. They could probably run forever without creating a single new product, because its damn near impossible to get a new computer that doesn't have their product paid for and installed on it. Microsoft (under the cover of the BSA) is doing this purely for greed reasons. The company has one of the largest cash reserves in the world, IIRC, and they really are not suffering without this income by any means. I'm not trying to justify copying software (that's another bag of worms) but these companies all make millions of dollars, and have no problems paying their employees, they are doing this purely for greed.
They may have been able to spoof a datagram packet (UDP), but you can't spoof TCP connnections in a switched/routed network environment such as Microsoft's the same way you can with UDP, because the three way handshake for TCP cannot complete if the reply to the initial SYN packet can't make it back to be ACKed.
Not saying it's not possible using arp spoofing and flooding the CAM table of switches, but it's certainly difficult and can disturb legitimate operations on the switches in question.
AT&T is cutting customers over to this network you claim doesn't exist as we speak... I have confirmed reports that at minimum several places in Oregon are now on AT&T's network, and their cablemodem's IP is in the 12.0.0.0/8 owned by AT&T.
The idea is they say they're worth more, and try to extort more money out of companies to stay running. AT&T said hell no, and took their ball and went home.
Most of my friends have AT&T, and they're happy that they didn't cave in to the demands of @Home's bondholders.
AT&T actually knows how to run a network, unlike @home. I am curious to see how much clue they have about ways to increase revenue, such as selling tiered bandwidth service (Don't like 1.5/128, pay $10 more and you can get 2/256 or something, for example).
Anyway, I wish I lived in an AT&T area right now, maybe later that would change, but for now it sounds like they have something good going for them.
Besides, do you think a company that just lost 500,000 customers that already has a burn rate of 6 million a week is going to be in business much longer? Doubt it - the day of reckoning is coming for the other MSOs.
Yep, I loved to play that game on my laptop when I was bored. It was great until I shot my login shell with a rocket launcher, then it was game over;-)
And if like me you couldn't apply this patch, you can do a search and replace for IEEE1284_PH_DIR_UNKNOWN in linux/drivers/parport/ieee1284_ops.c and replace all instances with IEEE1284_PH_ECP_DIR_UNKNOWN
They forgot to mention under mysql transaction support that you can use InnoDB for transactions. I just got it all running about 5 minutes ago, and I'm kinda impressed:-) I have heard good things but have never actually tried it until right now. That page also however looks like it's cut and pasted out of MySQL's comparison page and some other reference. In fact I see verbatim copy and pastes... Not too bad of a reference, if you ignore some inaccuracies.
Here here! We have a huge oracle cluster in our datacenter to handle millions of transactions a day and we still use mySQL as a session server - it's just fast, and simple. I like your tank analogy - it fits well here.
It's fast, it's stupid, and it works great when you don't need to do advanced queries or transactions, or anything like that.
Mine with Ameritech (EEEWW) was just like 2 phone lines. I had call plan 400, which gave me 400 local calls per ISDN channel per month before any additional charges came into play.
It was provisioned for Voice and Data, and I have a comp ISDN account with a local ISP. I never got any unexpected bills. My only problem was not paying any of them for 6 months. Then they get pissed and turn off your phones. Whoops!:-(
Why? Because I give a shit about businesses who rely on DSL service to continue to exist. Trust me, they do exist. These small businesses that depend on these lines get royally screwed when their provider goes out of business with little or no warning (my previous employer used redconnect, until they went under in november, so I know this from experience)
Just think of the impact of all these businesses which are struggling to survive in this market being driven down by a loss of connectivity, and tell me that is better than some day trader losing a bit of money.
Those who put their money in the stock market are gambling, and they know it. If they have to lose a little money so that people aren't left high and dry, then waaaahhhh waaaahhh.
Better than several people losing their jobs. Fortunately I was able to secure another one as I was privvy to the state of the company and knew it was going down rather quickly, but my coworkers weren't so lucky.
I believe you have no idea what you are talking about. I have a tunnel to the IPv6 backbone, and there is no crypto involved in the protocol.
As far as I have seen, there is nothing in the protocol that would lead me to believe that IPv6 cannot be spoofed as well. In fact, a little bit ago, I heard someone was spoofing v6 over v4 tunnel traffic and injecting spoofed traffic into the 6bone.
Please actually read something other than a hyped magazine article or editorial claiming IPv6 is the solution to everything, or it will make your food taste better, it won't. It is just another protocol with oodles more address space. In fact, to get technical, iirc, once IPv6 is fully deployed you will need at least twice the RAM in your router to carry the full routing table, if it gets to be the same mess the current v4 table is.
-Paul Timmins
3ffe:2900:1100::/48
All your base are belong to us, your honor. Let us bring forth exhibit B. Everyone open their browser and go to http://mainframe.timmins.net/~noweb4u/ayb2.jpg
:-) For the benefit of those who haven't seen it.
I got a piece of hardware I can't find any information on anywhere. I have a Contel Minicomputer. It looks like this weird 4 way 386 setup with about a 200MB SCSI HD.
It has a front panel LCD, and a key switch in the front you have to insert a key and turn to boot the machine. If anyone has any information please email me. I will be willing to buy manuals, etc if the price is reasonable. I will post their content on the web, or provide space on a webserver to do so. It functions somewhat, but it is beginning to show signs of failure, and I want to diagnose some problems and get it to its full glory.
I would like to post the startup output, but slashdot's "Lameness Filter" says I can't. Apparently it is a junk character post, whatever the hell that means.
Are you proposing IPv6, which is actually beginning a slow implementation? IIRC that won't help against a DDOS.
What network protocol do you propose that would protect against Denial of service attacks? I would like to hear one that would actually stop DoS or DDOS. Anyone? Hello?
JIC someone thinks I am talking out my ass about IPv6, I administer the 3ffe:2900:1100::/48 block on the 6BONE:-) See Here
This is using the RBL at the router using my favorite protocol eBGP4.... It completely drops routes, making that portion of the internet as good as someone cutting the fiber with a pair of scissors when someone tries to access that site using any protocol.
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It's my understanding they made peer to peer via poletops a pay service for things like industrial monitoring, etc.
Bah, not true. I have a GS and a GT, both of which can talk to each other just fine, even where poletops are not visible.
I'm doing some work in my living room right now or i'd get out the modems and do an ats300? for ya. Still can if you don't believe me.
I've noticed it before, but not on every song they've done it on.
I recieved 3 mail messages during the 6 months I had an @home account. One welcome message, one promotional message from comcast, and one about the @home Chapter 11 thing.
I never once used it for anything, and never got any spam.
My username was noweb4u1@home.com. (for some reason, their servers prohibited noweb4u@ - I still to this day don't know why)
Ah well, can't get cablemodem here where I moved anyway.
Here's one of the main differences though - GPL software is given away by the author with a simple condition that you not use the source in a closed source app.
Microsoft is the largest, and richest software company in the world. They could probably run forever without creating a single new product, because its damn near impossible to get a new computer that doesn't have their product paid for and installed on it. Microsoft (under the cover of the BSA) is doing this purely for greed reasons. The company has one of the largest cash reserves in the world, IIRC, and they really are not suffering without this income by any means. I'm not trying to justify copying software (that's another bag of worms) but these companies all make millions of dollars, and have no problems paying their employees, they are doing this purely for greed.
hahah that's great. I wish I had mod points right now :-)
They may have been able to spoof a datagram packet (UDP), but you can't spoof TCP connnections in a switched/routed network environment such as Microsoft's the same way you can with UDP, because the three way handshake for TCP cannot complete if the reply to the initial SYN packet can't make it back to be ACKed.
Not saying it's not possible using arp spoofing and flooding the CAM table of switches, but it's certainly difficult and can disturb legitimate operations on the switches in question.
AT&T is cutting customers over to this network you claim doesn't exist as we speak... I have confirmed reports that at minimum several places in Oregon are now on AT&T's network, and their cablemodem's IP is in the 12.0.0.0/8 owned by AT&T.
The idea is they say they're worth more, and try to extort more money out of companies to stay running. AT&T said hell no, and took their ball and went home.
Most of my friends have AT&T, and they're happy that they didn't cave in to the demands of @Home's bondholders.
AT&T actually knows how to run a network, unlike @home. I am curious to see how much clue they have about ways to increase revenue, such as selling tiered bandwidth service (Don't like 1.5/128, pay $10 more and you can get 2/256 or something, for example).
Anyway, I wish I lived in an AT&T area right now, maybe later that would change, but for now it sounds like they have something good going for them.
Besides, do you think a company that just lost 500,000 customers that already has a burn rate of 6 million a week is going to be in business much longer? Doubt it - the day of reckoning is coming for the other MSOs.
Yep, I loved to play that game on my laptop when I was bored. It was great until I shot my login shell with a rocket launcher, then it was game over ;-)
So what does B8 00 4C CD 21 mean anyway?
It's i386 assembly in hex -
mov ax,4c00
int 21h
It's a dos function call to exit the current application with an error code of 0.
ah is the function call, 4c
al contains the desired exit code - 0 in this case.
Frightening part is I knew this off the top of my head...
It is. Replace all instances of IEEE1284_PH_DIR_UNKNOWN with IEEE1284_PH_ECP_DIR_UNKNOWN in ieee1284_ops.c
And if like me you couldn't apply this patch, you can do a search and replace for IEEE1284_PH_DIR_UNKNOWN in linux/drivers/parport/ieee1284_ops.c and replace all instances with IEEE1284_PH_ECP_DIR_UNKNOWN
They forgot to mention under mysql transaction support that you can use InnoDB for transactions. I just got it all running about 5 minutes ago, and I'm kinda impressed :-) I have heard good things but have never actually tried it until right now. That page also however looks like it's cut and pasted out of MySQL's comparison page and some other reference. In fact I see verbatim copy and pastes... Not too bad of a reference, if you ignore some inaccuracies.
Here here! We have a huge oracle cluster in our datacenter to handle millions of transactions a day and we still use mySQL as a session server - it's just fast, and simple. I like your tank analogy - it fits well here.
It's fast, it's stupid, and it works great when you don't need to do advanced queries or transactions, or anything like that.
Dude, Wendy's is awesome.
Of course, being the G that he is, he could always arrange a driveby ;-)
j/k
Mine with Ameritech (EEEWW) was just like 2 phone lines. I had call plan 400, which gave me 400 local calls per ISDN channel per month before any additional charges came into play. :-(
It was provisioned for Voice and Data, and I have a comp ISDN account with a local ISP. I never got any unexpected bills. My only problem was not paying any of them for 6 months. Then they get pissed and turn off your phones. Whoops!
Yes, and they may have suceeded. Check your system for rpc.statd (it looks like it was running) and then search for rpc.statd exploit information.
Why?
Because I give a shit about businesses who rely on DSL service to continue to exist. Trust me, they do exist. These small businesses that depend on these lines get royally screwed when their provider goes out of business with little or no warning (my previous employer used redconnect, until they went under in november, so I know this from experience)
Just think of the impact of all these businesses which are struggling to survive in this market being driven down by a loss of connectivity, and tell me that is better than some day trader losing a bit of money.
Those who put their money in the stock market are gambling, and they know it. If they have to lose a little money so that people aren't left high and dry, then waaaahhhh waaaahhh.
Better than several people losing their jobs. Fortunately I was able to secure another one as I was privvy to the state of the company and knew it was going down rather quickly, but my coworkers weren't so lucky.
I believe you have no idea what you are talking about. I have a tunnel to the IPv6 backbone, and there is no crypto involved in the protocol.
As far as I have seen, there is nothing in the protocol that would lead me to believe that IPv6 cannot be spoofed as well. In fact, a little bit ago, I heard someone was spoofing v6 over v4 tunnel traffic and injecting spoofed traffic into the 6bone.
Please actually read something other than a hyped magazine article or editorial claiming IPv6 is the solution to everything, or it will make your food taste better, it won't. It is just another protocol with oodles more address space. In fact, to get technical, iirc, once IPv6 is fully deployed you will need at least twice the RAM in your router to carry the full routing table, if it gets to be the same mess the current v4 table is.
-Paul Timmins
3ffe:2900:1100::/48
All your base are belong to us, your honor. Let us bring forth exhibit B. Everyone open their browser and go to http://mainframe.timmins.net/~noweb4u/ayb2.jpg
:-) For the benefit of those who haven't seen it.
I got a piece of hardware I can't find any information on anywhere. I have a Contel Minicomputer. It looks like this weird 4 way 386 setup with about a 200MB SCSI HD.
It has a front panel LCD, and a key switch in the front you have to insert a key and turn to boot the machine. If anyone has any information please email me. I will be willing to buy manuals, etc if the price is reasonable. I will post their content on the web, or provide space on a webserver to do so. It functions somewhat, but it is beginning to show signs of failure, and I want to diagnose some problems and get it to its full glory.
I would like to post the startup output, but slashdot's "Lameness Filter" says I can't. Apparently it is a junk character post, whatever the hell that means.
I have 2 DL360's and 2 DS10L's from Compaq on my desk right now. They are a bit loud, but they work just fine ;-)
Are you proposing IPv6, which is actually beginning a slow implementation? IIRC that won't help against a DDOS.
:-) See Here
What network protocol do you propose that would protect against Denial of service attacks? I would like to hear one that would actually stop DoS or DDOS. Anyone? Hello?
JIC someone thinks I am talking out my ass about IPv6, I administer the 3ffe:2900:1100::/48 block on the 6BONE
This is using the RBL at the router using my favorite protocol eBGP4.... It completely drops routes, making that portion of the internet as good as someone cutting the fiber with a pair of scissors when someone tries to access that site using any protocol.