Many people don't give enough thought to the power requirements of a sizeable Lan party. You must estimate how many people are going to be there and then figure the requirments of everybody powering up at the same time. Most venues are only setup to accommidate the room lighting and in a best case scenario a large PA system. Figure maybe a maximum of 3 30amp circuits which can supply 3450 watts at 115 volts. Now if you figure (very optimistically) that everybody brings a computer that draws 300w and a 17" CRT monitor that draws 75w then add your networking equipment at 200w and your file server at another 300w. your 3 30amp circuits can support a maximum of 7 systems with a comfortable overhead to prevent accidental breaker trippage.
I only bring this up because a friend of mine organizes very large (200+ user) lan parties in europe and has had to have the local utility company come and wire auxillary power hookups, which in turn requires additional fire prevention measures. Which in the end drives the total cost of the event up quite considerably.
YMMV & many of my numbers are just estimates, but better to plan in advance and have it go off properly than to get to zero hour and pop all the breakers or start a fire in the electrical closet.
This eems not at all like tivo functionality. It is more similar to a VCR or as many people on slashdot have already discovered some newer home stereos already allow scheduled recording to a tape deck. For this to be at all useful (to me at least) it would need guide info and at a bare minimum a pause live recording option. I mean really this thing is quite feature bare.
7) Force all outbound port 25 (SMTP) through your mail server.
8) Run a virus scanner on your mail server. Scan all incoming AND outgoing mail.
This totally ridiculous. If you are going to provide internet and charge users for it and then you restrict their ability to use by not allowing them to use whatever mailserver they wish and to also filter their mail content based on what YOU think qualifies as a virus is totally and absolutely ridiculous. If you were giving away free internet access then these people should expect nothing more than what you want to give, but if they are paying you then you should just give them the pipe and leave their data alone. Big brother tactics are not the right way to run things. You can't police the stream. Some of the things which you suggest are the same restrictions on peoples freedoms that we routinely see posts on slashdot about when ISPs commit them. When you buy the pipe and resell the bandwidth you are becoming an ISP, you should run it with sane policies that allow users the latitude to use their service as they see fit.
Just buy Adhesive Asphalt Paper for roofing. it works just as good as dynamat and costs about $5 for enough to line the whole inside of your apartment.
It is important to note that the freedom of speech as guranteed in the constitution has been interpretted by the supreme court to not protect seditious speech. Now, any call to subvert control of federal mandate is seditious by definition and as such the speech can be regulated by the fedral government. This seems to be a major stumbling block to any plan to form an independant government on what is currently US soil, I.E. Waco, Ruby Ridge, and other similar sepratist movements.
it's unfortunate too, because the major problems with the US could be solved by simply dissolving the US into several smaller cooperating countries similar to the EU, and then have a small coalition government to help negotiate trade and "international" matter between the countries. D.C. politicians cannot fairly represent my SF East Bay lifestyle and opinions. Fair and accurate governmental representation is key to having a satisfied populous.
*note* I'm not very good at spelling, please ignore spelling and gramatical errors and read the actual message.
Just to Clarify, your point about DSS hacking. The Cryptographic "Secret" has never (at least not publicly) been hacked out of the reciever. And all the current hacks still rely on the secret in combination with the F,H,HU card asic to decrypt the signal. There have been no steps taken toward hacking the secret out past the theoretical.
OTH: the cryptography built into these devices is based on the FFS (Fage, Fiat, Shamir (SP?)) algorythm which is only a stone's throw away from DES, which has been shown to be crackable by determined groups(EFF).
P.S. Now that I'm thoroughly off the original subject, I'd be interested to here any chypherpunks take on the best way to attack the cryptography on DSS reciever in such a way to reveal both the primary and redundant backup secrets and allow the the ASIC in the smart card to be removed from the equation. That'd be a real prize, anybody could make a satelite reciever that'd work for 100% of the DSS stream all the time and could be invunerable to ECMs(electronic counter measures) because there is no feasable way for DSS to change the encryption keys(the secrets are not in writeable space in the reciever) without exchanging EVERY DSS BOX EVER SOLD for a new "IMPROVED" reciever.
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Many people don't give enough thought to the power requirements of a sizeable Lan party. You must estimate how many people are going to be there and then figure the requirments of everybody powering up at the same time. Most venues are only setup to accommidate the room lighting and in a best case scenario a large PA system. Figure maybe a maximum of 3 30amp circuits which can supply 3450 watts at 115 volts. Now if you figure (very optimistically) that everybody brings a computer that draws 300w and a 17" CRT monitor that draws 75w then add your networking equipment at 200w and your file server at another 300w. your 3 30amp circuits can support a maximum of 7 systems with a comfortable overhead to prevent accidental breaker trippage. I only bring this up because a friend of mine organizes very large (200+ user) lan parties in europe and has had to have the local utility company come and wire auxillary power hookups, which in turn requires additional fire prevention measures. Which in the end drives the total cost of the event up quite considerably. YMMV & many of my numbers are just estimates, but better to plan in advance and have it go off properly than to get to zero hour and pop all the breakers or start a fire in the electrical closet.
This eems not at all like tivo functionality. It is more similar to a VCR or as many people on slashdot have already discovered some newer home stereos already allow scheduled recording to a tape deck. For this to be at all useful (to me at least) it would need guide info and at a bare minimum a pause live recording option. I mean really this thing is quite feature bare.
7) Force all outbound port 25 (SMTP) through your mail server. 8) Run a virus scanner on your mail server. Scan all incoming AND outgoing mail. This totally ridiculous. If you are going to provide internet and charge users for it and then you restrict their ability to use by not allowing them to use whatever mailserver they wish and to also filter their mail content based on what YOU think qualifies as a virus is totally and absolutely ridiculous. If you were giving away free internet access then these people should expect nothing more than what you want to give, but if they are paying you then you should just give them the pipe and leave their data alone. Big brother tactics are not the right way to run things. You can't police the stream. Some of the things which you suggest are the same restrictions on peoples freedoms that we routinely see posts on slashdot about when ISPs commit them. When you buy the pipe and resell the bandwidth you are becoming an ISP, you should run it with sane policies that allow users the latitude to use their service as they see fit.
Just buy Adhesive Asphalt Paper for roofing. it works just as good as dynamat and costs about $5 for enough to line the whole inside of your apartment.
It is important to note that the freedom of speech as guranteed in the constitution has been interpretted by the supreme court to not protect seditious speech. Now, any call to subvert control of federal mandate is seditious by definition and as such the speech can be regulated by the fedral government. This seems to be a major stumbling block to any plan to form an independant government on what is currently US soil, I.E. Waco, Ruby Ridge, and other similar sepratist movements.
it's unfortunate too, because the major problems with the US could be solved by simply dissolving the US into several smaller cooperating countries similar to the EU, and then have a small coalition government to help negotiate trade and "international" matter between the countries. D.C. politicians cannot fairly represent my SF East Bay lifestyle and opinions. Fair and accurate governmental representation is key to having a satisfied populous.
*note* I'm not very good at spelling, please ignore spelling and gramatical errors and read the actual message.
Just to Clarify, your point about DSS hacking. The Cryptographic "Secret" has never (at least not publicly) been hacked out of the reciever. And all the current hacks still rely on the secret in combination with the F,H,HU card asic to decrypt the signal. There have been no steps taken toward hacking the secret out past the theoretical.
OTH: the cryptography built into these devices is based on the FFS (Fage, Fiat, Shamir (SP?)) algorythm which is only a stone's throw away from DES, which has been shown to be crackable by determined groups(EFF).
P.S. Now that I'm thoroughly off the original subject, I'd be interested to here any chypherpunks take on the best way to attack the cryptography on DSS reciever in such a way to reveal both the primary and redundant backup secrets and allow the the ASIC in the smart card to be removed from the equation. That'd be a real prize, anybody could make a satelite reciever that'd work for 100% of the DSS stream all the time and could be invunerable to ECMs(electronic counter measures) because there is no feasable way for DSS to change the encryption keys(the secrets are not in writeable space in the reciever) without exchanging EVERY DSS BOX EVER SOLD for a new "IMPROVED" reciever.