I think what you want is Flonix. It is EXACTLY what you describe.
http://www.flonix.com/
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Younger kids??? I'm 30 (thirty one next Saturday) and I remember long before "Hacker" had any negative connotation at all. In Steven Levy's "Hackers: Heros blah blah blah" which was published in the mid-eighties if memory serves me correctly (it's one of the few books I actually read back then for a book report), the term was introduced to the masses. It wansn't until much later as I recall that the term became a buzz-word and took on a stigma. Even when Morris released his (the first) worm, the term wasn't bantied about that I can recall. "Why in my day" I recall the hacking as the pure term would describe. Bloodstock Research Institute. CBI. PAD. The local pulic library and their VMS terminals for the national card catalog (okay, that was late 80's). My God, they left the field/service accoutns active and with unchanged passwords...it was too good for a youngster to pass up. I learned a good deal about VMS at an age when most kids had just heard about the Apple//e. It was simply tinkering on steroids with no ill intent and no theft of services (I guess), monies, etc. I think everyone that uses the term "hacker" should first be required to read Levy's book, and Cliff Stole's "The Cuckoo's Egg". Shoot, maybe I've just become a grumpy old man since I hit 30. Yeah, come to think of it, that is it exactly.
Interesting. I quit caffeine completely about 2.5 years ago, but I am now back to my "normal" consumption (about 4 - 5 liters of Diet Dr. Pepper/Diet Coke and a few cups of really strong coffee per day). I am quiting again (don't recall why I started drinking it again to be honest) out of necessity (I have a month long Reserve duty committment during which time I will not have access to anything but water and want to get past the aches now). My experience is that cold turkey is the ONLY way to quit and the instant you think about it has to be the instant that you do it (don't "plan" to quit, just quit). My two biggest problems are the headache and TERRIBLE muscle aches that rival the flu. I have talked with several docs about it and as best I can understand (in a nutshell) the sudden lack of caffeine has a pretty dramatic effect on your muscle endurance and the quantity of free fatty acids in your system (short term) and your entire body, having gotten used to the stimulative effects of mass quantities of caffeine, gets a severe shock when you quit. It's sort of like Richard Simmons vs. Michael Savage in your inner being. I have found my threshold at about 4 days at which point the headaches subside (and Richard is expelled through the appropriate port). I have also found that if I work out more vigorously than normal (which is understandably difficult given the splitting headache) that the muscle aches are controllable. Take some Motrin or something, drink lots of water, etc. Actually, I think the water is pretty important as not only does you body get used to lots of caffeine, but it also gets used to having an abundance of water. I have a tendancy to drink lots of whatever it is that I'm drinking, but I have several friends that have kicked caffeine and forgotten to replace the fluid intake and I believe this makes it even harder on your body. Just my two cents based on my experience. Maybe this time I'll stay off caffeine for good.
$50 is cheap for some cards. Depending on the type of card you have there are a lot more things than simply a contact chip involved (multiple frequency radio power/emitters, blah blah blah etc.). $50 is probably a good average figure when one considers the range of cards on the market.
On a different but related subject, I think that three factor authentication will become the universal norm...a good thing me thinks. If anyone has seen the new military ID's, they are also CACs for login, med, etc. Very cool once they (EDS) gets things to speed up a bit.
I am a very happy user of Vonage. The savings is a lot more than just the charge for long-distance. My real expense came in the form of my local dial-tone service. I live in a suburb of St. Louis. My fees before ever dialing a long-distance call were about $60/mo. That got me:
*Local Dial-Tone *Metro Area Calling (in other words if I didn't want to be charged long-distance for calling outside of my immediate township such as neighboring suburbs or St. Louis city {keeping in mind I am only about 15 miles outside the city} I had to have this). *Caller ID *Call waiting (no call waiting ID)
I could get cheap long-distance anywhere I wanted, but that wasn't an issue to me. I already had broadband so the move to Vonage (and the disconnect of my local service) saves me a bloody fortune and I get unlimited long-distance as an added bonus.
...RedHat is losing in the desktop market so they have to discredit it. They see the handwriting on the wall with Novell owning Ximian and buying SuSE. Not to say that Linux will conqure MS on the desktop this year, but any headway is going to be gained by RedHat's competition. Just my two cents, but having used SuSE professionala and RedHat's "desktop" offering, there's no comparison.
Perhaps they develope military technologies BECAUSE they aren't popular and perhaps they aren't popular BECAUSE they're the only democracy in the middle-east AND they've been at odds with the Arabs for the past several thousand years.
...that I picked up late '88 or early '89 as I recall that still works perfectly and gets a fair amount of use. I have a//e as well but I can't say I really use it, just turn it on occasionally.
Hey, wait a minute. I always knew there was something strange about those Microsoft Certified Professionals and they ugly biege MCP polo shirts that were tucked frumpilly into their 38" Husky "big boy" denims. Little did I know how deep their dasterdliness ran./shutter/
I think the single most common point of "failure" is usually overlooked in IT security as it is in many security practices (asset, facilities, etc.). Security professionals tend to focus on the target and neglect the threat. With that in mind, it is important to realize that not only is the black-hat outside your network a threat, but so is the happless user who makes a poor judgement call and unintentionally opens up a window of opportunity for threat and vulnerability to come together into that lovely crescendo of "incident". Not to overstate it, but the "Human Factor" has to be the second place we look (do you trust the people in your house after you've gone in and locked the doors?). Over the years I have found the vast majority of "incidents" to be unintentional either in whole or at least in creation (but not exploitation). The ONLY way to overcome this is:
1. Have a written security policy that EVERYONE is required to read, understand and sign.
2. Enforce the aforementioned. Make specific people accountable for specific actions. Make bringing in your own Linksys WAP11 and dropping it on the LAN a terminable offense.
3. Educate the end-users for God's sake. They have the power to make a mess of things. They don't have to be experts but they have to undertand that which they bear responsibility for.
You are responsible for the hard core security (perimter, IDS, etc.) but the end-users are responsible for their part as well. If either party fails, everyone suffers.
After all, every machine I've seen my peers purchase from WalMart.com or Tiger gets reformatted and Windows 98 installed on it from the old CD they have lying around. For $199 it's tough to bit...and Lindows blows.
I have purchased a few of them, installed SuSE 8.2 and made Hylafax servers out of them. Blah.
Really. What was his pseudonym? Any references...guys that are still "in the black" that can vouch for his history? It's amazing how many guys I have run into over the past 10 years that "used to be hackers"...and for God's sake, IT'S CRACKER when used in this context.
Also, as for this intimdating quote of his which reads: "There is no lock that can't be picked and our technology ensures that there is not a rock in the world you can hide under if you are sharing files." What is this guy smoking? Words escape me to describe the blatent arrogance and idiocy of such a statement. In other words, he is saying that if I encrypt a copyrighted song using 448 bit Blowfish, he can "pick that lock". Ummmm...okay, show me. I know this (crypto) may not specifically be what he was referring to (or maybe it was), but it's just such a stupid comment that I can't NOT fire back. Sheesh...just read that quote to yourself a couple of times and see if it doesn't make your head spin.
I use a GPRS PCMCIA card in my laptop (T-Mobile, 56K, $29/mo flat rate) and love it. I use VNC and ICA over it all the time. While there is a little latency (or lag as you called it), it is quite easy to get used to. Wouldn't be without it now that I've had it.
I agree wholeheartedly. I hope I didn't imply that they would get away with it. I do think that they are stupid enough to think that they will, but alas, stupidity has landed more than one person behind bars (no offense to any bar-tending slashdotters out there).
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I am confident (though possibly wrong of course) that SCO is doing ALL of this for one reason and one reason only. Stock price manipulation. Look at the following issues and contrast them with the timing on this whole fiasco.
52 week stock price of SCO (SCOX)
Price of stock after each insane press release (while SCO has yet to show anything of substance, press releases feed the hungry speculative buyers out there).
Issuance of stock options at very low ($.6x) prices.
Exercising of options.
Sale of stock from exercised options.
I mean come on, most of these guys got options when the stock was at $.66 just before all of this craziness started. Then they crank up the stock price (fueled by nothing more than baseless accusations in the form of press releases) to $10-$12/share, exercise and dump. Where the heck is the SEC on this!!!
I believe that basically the execs at SCO new the ship was going down. They are doing what they're doing to squeeze what blood they can out of the turnip that is SCO. Once they have gotten what they can from stock games, they'll pull an "Oops, I guess we were wrong about that whole Linux intellectual property thing.", turn out the lights and call it quits...money in the bank.
Well...yes. I just did so last Friday. I have an old PCG-C1VN (the original Picturebook) with the Transmeta 600MHz. It came with ME preinstalled (worthless). I have run several different Linux distros on it. On Friday I reformatted it and installed W2K as I just got a T-Mobile wireless Internet card (only works on Windows...out of the box) and wanted to use it on my smallest laptop. Went to Sony's sight and clicked on the link for Installing W2K on the PCG-C1VN. Had all the drivers, and all "special instructions" for such things as installing the drivers in the right order (dependancies in effect) and getting W2K to allow the odd (1024x480) resolution. Lots of drivers to download, but no real problems. Works great with my T-Mobile card. All that said, it isn't the most useful notebook PC in the world...I much prefer my Thinkpad with SuSE 8.2.
Ummmm...bzzzzt. I just bought a Power4+ "base system" with AIX 5L. Lowest price pSeries Power4+ they sell. $5,7xx.xx.
"Base System" 615-6E3 includes: Desk-side tower 1.2GHz Power4+ w/8MB Cache 36GB Hot Swap SCSI 1GB ECC Chipkill RAM Dual Ethernet (1x10/100 1x10/100/1000) Dual channel Ultra 320 SCSI 6 Hot Plug 64bit PCI-X slots Total of 5 hot swap SCSI drive bays 1 year on-site warranty AIX 5L installed w/1year update & support
Seems a whole lot nicer than the crap I could get from Dell for that money (in fact I'd love to put it head to head with whatever Dell/Compaq has for that money). Just my two cents though, as you are obviously an IBM expert with the authority to belittle us IBM ignoramuses.
How would duplexing make any difference at all? It is still using the same method, and in reality if you are aware of duplex printing (which would be obvious) it could reduce the number of combinations that would have to be tried (if piece X goes here, then it already knows that the other side of piece X goes here too).
for our OpenOffice.org training classes and it is quite good. The customers/students have really given posotive feedback about it not only as a classroom textbook, but also as a reference for ongoing use. For what it's worth.
Ummmm...it's VERY small and light. And runs cool. And while I like the new VIA systems (I have a 10000 board in a car based system and love it), the Cel 1.2GHz is certainly not a bad chip.
For the record it's Dimensions: 10.6" x 9.6" x 1.3" & 4 pounds.
I can buy a Mobile Celeron 1.2GHz laptop with USB2, CD-RW/DVD-ROM, 12.x" screen, 256MB, 25GB, with WindowsXP Home pre-installed for $799 at my local Sam's Club. Whatever VIA does better cost about half what's out there now (and it easily could). A unit equipped similar to the one above with everything VIA puts on a mobo with no OS installed for about $500 would be reasonable me thinks.
No no...didn't you see? Kofi Annan is on the job, so nothing to fear. Soon, he and Bill G. will be teaming up to better humanity and all our problems will be solved. (Insert Star Trek Borg reference in relation to U.N. and M.S. here).
Karma: Was great until I cast aspersions at Kofi Annan by likening him to Bill Gates on/.
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I think what you want is Flonix. It is EXACTLY what you describe.
http://www.flonix.com/
Younger kids??? I'm 30 (thirty one next Saturday) and I remember long before "Hacker" had any negative connotation at all. In Steven Levy's "Hackers: Heros blah blah blah" which was published in the mid-eighties if memory serves me correctly (it's one of the few books I actually read back then for a book report), the term was introduced to the masses. It wansn't until much later as I recall that the term became a buzz-word and took on a stigma. Even when Morris released his (the first) worm, the term wasn't bantied about that I can recall. "Why in my day" I recall the hacking as the pure term would describe. Bloodstock Research Institute. CBI. PAD. The local pulic library and their VMS terminals for the national card catalog (okay, that was late 80's). My God, they left the field/service accoutns active and with unchanged passwords...it was too good for a youngster to pass up. I learned a good deal about VMS at an age when most kids had just heard about the Apple //e. It was simply tinkering on steroids with no ill intent and no theft of services (I guess), monies, etc. I think everyone that uses the term "hacker" should first be required to read Levy's book, and Cliff Stole's "The Cuckoo's Egg". Shoot, maybe I've just become a grumpy old man since I hit 30. Yeah, come to think of it, that is it exactly.
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Interesting. I quit caffeine completely about 2.5 years ago, but I am now back to my "normal" consumption (about 4 - 5 liters of Diet Dr. Pepper/Diet Coke and a few cups of really strong coffee per day). I am quiting again (don't recall why I started drinking it again to be honest) out of necessity (I have a month long Reserve duty committment during which time I will not have access to anything but water and want to get past the aches now). My experience is that cold turkey is the ONLY way to quit and the instant you think about it has to be the instant that you do it (don't "plan" to quit, just quit). My two biggest problems are the headache and TERRIBLE muscle aches that rival the flu. I have talked with several docs about it and as best I can understand (in a nutshell) the sudden lack of caffeine has a pretty dramatic effect on your muscle endurance and the quantity of free fatty acids in your system (short term) and your entire body, having gotten used to the stimulative effects of mass quantities of caffeine, gets a severe shock when you quit. It's sort of like Richard Simmons vs. Michael Savage in your inner being. I have found my threshold at about 4 days at which point the headaches subside (and Richard is expelled through the appropriate port). I have also found that if I work out more vigorously than normal (which is understandably difficult given the splitting headache) that the muscle aches are controllable. Take some Motrin or something, drink lots of water, etc. Actually, I think the water is pretty important as not only does you body get used to lots of caffeine, but it also gets used to having an abundance of water. I have a tendancy to drink lots of whatever it is that I'm drinking, but I have several friends that have kicked caffeine and forgotten to replace the fluid intake and I believe this makes it even harder on your body. Just my two cents based on my experience. Maybe this time I'll stay off caffeine for good.
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$50 is cheap for some cards. Depending on the type of card you have there are a lot more things than simply a contact chip involved (multiple frequency radio power/emitters, blah blah blah etc.). $50 is probably a good average figure when one considers the range of cards on the market.
On a different but related subject, I think that three factor authentication will become the universal norm...a good thing me thinks. If anyone has seen the new military ID's, they are also CACs for login, med, etc. Very cool once they (EDS) gets things to speed up a bit.
My thought exactly. We built and used these back in the late 80's in my small mid-western home town. Hardley news.
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I am a very happy user of Vonage. The savings is a lot more than just the charge for long-distance. My real expense came in the form of my local dial-tone service. I live in a suburb of St. Louis. My fees before ever dialing a long-distance call were about $60/mo. That got me:
*Local Dial-Tone
*Metro Area Calling (in other words if I didn't want to be charged long-distance for calling outside of my immediate township such as neighboring suburbs or St. Louis city {keeping in mind I am only about 15 miles outside the city} I had to have this).
*Caller ID
*Call waiting (no call waiting ID)
I could get cheap long-distance anywhere I wanted, but that wasn't an issue to me. I already had broadband so the move to Vonage (and the disconnect of my local service) saves me a bloody fortune and I get unlimited long-distance as an added bonus.
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...RedHat is losing in the desktop market so they have to discredit it. They see the handwriting on the wall with Novell owning Ximian and buying SuSE. Not to say that Linux will conqure MS on the desktop this year, but any headway is going to be gained by RedHat's competition. Just my two cents, but having used SuSE professionala and RedHat's "desktop" offering, there's no comparison.
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Perhaps they develope military technologies BECAUSE they aren't popular and perhaps they aren't popular BECAUSE they're the only democracy in the middle-east AND they've been at odds with the Arabs for the past several thousand years.
"Nothing new here for the /. group"
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Then why in the heck are you posting it to
...that I picked up late '88 or early '89 as I recall that still works perfectly and gets a fair amount of use. I have a //e as well but I can't say I really use it, just turn it on occasionally.
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Hey, wait a minute. I always knew there was something strange about those Microsoft Certified Professionals and they ugly biege MCP polo shirts that were tucked frumpilly into their 38" Husky "big boy" denims. Little did I know how deep their dasterdliness ran. /shutter/
ER
I think the single most common point of "failure" is usually overlooked in IT security as it is in many security practices (asset, facilities, etc.). Security professionals tend to focus on the target and neglect the threat. With that in mind, it is important to realize that not only is the black-hat outside your network a threat, but so is the happless user who makes a poor judgement call and unintentionally opens up a window of opportunity for threat and vulnerability to come together into that lovely crescendo of "incident". Not to overstate it, but the "Human Factor" has to be the second place we look (do you trust the people in your house after you've gone in and locked the doors?). Over the years I have found the vast majority of "incidents" to be unintentional either in whole or at least in creation (but not exploitation). The ONLY way to overcome this is:
1. Have a written security policy that EVERYONE is required to read, understand and sign.
2. Enforce the aforementioned. Make specific people accountable for specific actions. Make bringing in your own Linksys WAP11 and dropping it on the LAN a terminable offense.
3. Educate the end-users for God's sake. They have the power to make a mess of things. They don't have to be experts but they have to undertand that which they bear responsibility for.
You are responsible for the hard core security (perimter, IDS, etc.) but the end-users are responsible for their part as well. If either party fails, everyone suffers.
Just my two cents.
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After all, every machine I've seen my peers purchase from WalMart.com or Tiger gets reformatted and Windows 98 installed on it from the old CD they have lying around. For $199 it's tough to bit...and Lindows blows.
I have purchased a few of them, installed SuSE 8.2 and made Hylafax servers out of them. Blah.
ER
Not to mention that Minister Farakahn "19" thingy.
Really. What was his pseudonym? Any references...guys that are still "in the black" that can vouch for his history? It's amazing how many guys I have run into over the past 10 years that "used to be hackers"...and for God's sake, IT'S CRACKER when used in this context.
Also, as for this intimdating quote of his which reads: "There is no lock that can't be picked and our technology ensures that there is not a rock in the world you can hide under if you are sharing files." What is this guy smoking? Words escape me to describe the blatent arrogance and idiocy of such a statement. In other words, he is saying that if I encrypt a copyrighted song using 448 bit Blowfish, he can "pick that lock". Ummmm...okay, show me. I know this (crypto) may not specifically be what he was referring to (or maybe it was), but it's just such a stupid comment that I can't NOT fire back. Sheesh...just read that quote to yourself a couple of times and see if it doesn't make your head spin.
I use a GPRS PCMCIA card in my laptop (T-Mobile, 56K, $29/mo flat rate) and love it. I use VNC and ICA over it all the time. While there is a little latency (or lag as you called it), it is quite easy to get used to. Wouldn't be without it now that I've had it.
I agree wholeheartedly. I hope I didn't imply that they would get away with it. I do think that they are stupid enough to think that they will, but alas, stupidity has landed more than one person behind bars (no offense to any bar-tending slashdotters out there). ER
...things are not always as they appear.
I am confident (though possibly wrong of course) that SCO is doing ALL of this for one reason and one reason only. Stock price manipulation. Look at the following issues and contrast them with the timing on this whole fiasco.
52 week stock price of SCO (SCOX)
Price of stock after each insane press release (while SCO has yet to show anything of substance, press releases feed the hungry speculative buyers out there).
Issuance of stock options at very low ($.6x) prices.
Exercising of options.
Sale of stock from exercised options.
I mean come on, most of these guys got options when the stock was at $.66 just before all of this craziness started. Then they crank up the stock price (fueled by nothing more than baseless accusations in the form of press releases) to $10-$12/share, exercise and dump. Where the heck is the SEC on this!!!
I believe that basically the execs at SCO new the ship was going down. They are doing what they're doing to squeeze what blood they can out of the turnip that is SCO. Once they have gotten what they can from stock games, they'll pull an "Oops, I guess we were wrong about that whole Linux intellectual property thing.", turn out the lights and call it quits...money in the bank.
Anyone disagree?
ER
Well...yes. I just did so last Friday. I have an old PCG-C1VN (the original Picturebook) with the Transmeta 600MHz. It came with ME preinstalled (worthless). I have run several different Linux distros on it. On Friday I reformatted it and installed W2K as I just got a T-Mobile wireless Internet card (only works on Windows...out of the box) and wanted to use it on my smallest laptop. Went to Sony's sight and clicked on the link for Installing W2K on the PCG-C1VN. Had all the drivers, and all "special instructions" for such things as installing the drivers in the right order (dependancies in effect) and getting W2K to allow the odd (1024x480) resolution. Lots of drivers to download, but no real problems. Works great with my T-Mobile card. All that said, it isn't the most useful notebook PC in the world...I much prefer my Thinkpad with SuSE 8.2.
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Ummmm...bzzzzt. I just bought a Power4+ "base system" with AIX 5L. Lowest price pSeries Power4+ they sell. $5,7xx.xx.
"Base System" 615-6E3 includes:
Desk-side tower
1.2GHz Power4+ w/8MB Cache
36GB Hot Swap SCSI
1GB ECC Chipkill RAM
Dual Ethernet (1x10/100 1x10/100/1000)
Dual channel Ultra 320 SCSI
6 Hot Plug 64bit PCI-X slots
Total of 5 hot swap SCSI drive bays
1 year on-site warranty
AIX 5L installed w/1year update & support
Seems a whole lot nicer than the crap I could get from Dell for that money (in fact I'd love to put it head to head with whatever Dell/Compaq has for that money). Just my two cents though, as you are obviously an IBM expert with the authority to belittle us IBM ignoramuses.
How would duplexing make any difference at all? It is still using the same method, and in reality if you are aware of duplex printing (which would be obvious) it could reduce the number of combinations that would have to be tried (if piece X goes here, then it already knows that the other side of piece X goes here too).
for our OpenOffice.org training classes and it is quite good. The customers/students have really given posotive feedback about it not only as a classroom textbook, but also as a reference for ongoing use. For what it's worth.
ER
Ummmm...it's VERY small and light. And runs cool. And while I like the new VIA systems (I have a 10000 board in a car based system and love it), the Cel 1.2GHz is certainly not a bad chip.
For the record it's Dimensions: 10.6" x 9.6" x 1.3" & 4 pounds.
I can buy a Mobile Celeron 1.2GHz laptop with USB2, CD-RW/DVD-ROM, 12.x" screen, 256MB, 25GB, with WindowsXP Home pre-installed for $799 at my local Sam's Club. Whatever VIA does better cost about half what's out there now (and it easily could). A unit equipped similar to the one above with everything VIA puts on a mobo with no OS installed for about $500 would be reasonable me thinks.
No no...didn't you see? Kofi Annan is on the job, so nothing to fear. Soon, he and Bill G. will be teaming up to better humanity and all our problems will be solved. (Insert Star Trek Borg reference in relation to U.N. and M.S. here).
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Karma: Was great until I cast aspersions at Kofi Annan by likening him to Bill Gates on