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The new scheme, to break the RIAA monopoly.
Simply adjust your radio to unusual frequencies and modulations, and record it onto a tape^H^H^H^Hmp3! Free music forever!
I was worried about leakage of my wireless network, however I have since refurbished my house with a lead lining. I am now confident that my wireless network will stay within my house.
Sad, isn't it, that so many managers only hire people they know, and still end up whining (even in this economy) that finding good people is hard to do. Maybe they should start looking for people on the basis of qualifications for a change.
Ironically, given the state of the economy, it's gotten harder to find 'good' people. Mostly because when a lot of people got laid off, in general, the real gurus kept their jobs. So you now have a much higher noise to signal ratio:-)
To drive people insane at the film, go to the first night, and 'count' the cue dots.
For those who don't know, they're the little black dots in the top right hand side, that tell the projectionist when to change reels.
The first cuedot is to 'start the other projector' the second is when to actually change scenes. They're 6 seconds apart and so you can count 7 seconds down from the first one (7..6..5..4..3..2..1..cuedot..scenechange) and it'll drive anyone sitting next to you absolutely insane.
Great!
Well, not a lot of people know this, but there are a whole bunch of optimisations that have crept into the linux Kernel but are note enabled by default because they've been thought 'unstable'.
One of these is 'exec mode'. When enabled, the linux kernel uses a smart caching algorithm to speed up application load/start times.
It's actually quite easy to install too. Simply add the line 'exec true' to your system profile (/etc/profile generally). It's possible to enable on a per user basis by inserting this into a.bashrc or.profile (depending on shell) but obviously then the system operations don't gain the benefit.
The sad bit is when you read this, and have trouble working out if it _is_ a joke:)
I'm sorry, but I can actually visualise IE with two back buttons...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the _reason_ that Windows gets rebooted, is because of something going wrong? IE a memory location getting corrupted, or just a program with a memory leak?
If you'r machine has just GPFed and hung, reloading the memory state is going to do nothing useful...
Reboots may be irritating, but the advantage is they 'reset' the state of the machine to a know situation. Getting rid of all the entropy that's crept in due to bad memory handling and just general system untidyness...
So persistent memory would lose this advantage, taking you back to the 'reboot and reload everything'. If it's faster, then your machine will start a bit faster, but it's not going to be much...
More fundamentally is even if they work _exactly_ as intended, you are forgetting that their major role is to _allow_ traffic. Having uber wonderful firewall which is unhackable is utterly pointless when it's running in front of a webserver running a default install of IIS4.0. Because it's a web server, the firewall isn't blocking the traffic. Functioning exactly as intended....
I made the mistake of getting an XP1800 and a 'quiet' fan. (Zalman flower FWIW). It is very quiet indeed, unfortunately my operating temperature sits around 50degrees idle and up as high as 56 under load....
Statistically, the vast majority of crime is proven to have been comitted by living people. Therefore, as a long term crime prevention measure, please proceed to your death camp now. You will find the state of un-livingness to be much more relaxing, in addition to lowering insurance premiums for the entire world due to an overall reduction in crime.
And similarly if you know how, say, TCP fingerprinting works, then it becomes trivial to change a system just so it 'appears' to be a completely different OS.
And the sad part is, when this comment makes more sense to you than and spurious reference to films, popular culture, or any stories of men in suits saying hello.
It has come to our attention that 100% of crime is committed by living people. Therefore, it has become our policy to execute any living people on the basis that they are statistically more likely to commit crimes than not living people.
The computers the CIA plays with are expensive, (and congress loves it because it brings jobs to some community that builds the stuff), but once technology is bought you can use it for years at the cost of only electrisity.
Please tell me where I can find computers that 'only' run on the cost of electricity. I'm finding far too many that need replacement hardware, support contracts, backups, admin staff etc.
What else would you eat during a stakeout?
Popcorn!
What else would one have in the cinema, which is about the closest I'll ever get to a stakeout.
Now a steak-out on the other hand...
Yep - you are Microsoft Hater #95197!
Not fair! Such a low UID. To get Microsoft Hater tickets now rumours are that the numbers are in the low billions.
You are just as corrupt. Just more expensive whores on your parliament.
And in other news, rumours are that bears actually do shit in the woods. And the day you can give me a real difference between Dems & Reps, maybe I'll care enough and go vote...
A career politician is exactly that. Someone who's doing politics as a career move. They're not there for the betterment of the state/county/country/city/world they're there because they make a living that way. And that means getting paid, and getting re-elected.
It seems that some of the smartest hacks (and viruses too) have played on the shortcomings of people rather than breaking security systems.
Social engineering has _always_ been a cornerstone of hacking. If you're really serious about getting into someone's system, then ring up the sysadmin, and ask for root. It doesn't always work, but it does more often than you might think.
Start from knowing server names, and ideally identify what software is running, and you've got reasonable odds...
I've seriously had a phone call from a company who does maintenance on our backup system, asking what the root password was. Zero identification over the phone, apart from the fact that they new a couple of names, and what software and platform the backup server was running.
I think it's somewhat unlikely to work at intelligence agencies however.
Nice thought.
Have you considered though, that 'reacting' to a portscan with a counter attack can get you up to your armpits in trouble.
Since only an idiot scans from their machine, you're then attacking a machine belonging to a third party. This is going to be a recipe for disaster.
For a while, I used to send out nicely crafted emails whenever I picked up a portcan, but I've long since stopped bothering, because it's far to frequent an occurance, and responses are... well I'm sure I must have had _some_ positive ones but...
Oh well. Anarchy Online here we come.
I can assure you that this is NOT the case for us outside the US. I've been known to use www.af.mil as a test of connectivity / UDP / ICMP, and I've not seen a letter, an email or indeed any MIB.
So now they're sending you SNMP info? Wow, that's handy.
Hmm, caffine deficiency.
Well, there's a lot of comments, and I'm past the 700 mark, so I suspect this may be redundant, or just never going to get read. Oh well, I've Karma to spare;p
But: Servers should have multiple names.
A primary name - this should follow whatever convention you feel happy with. Lord of the Rings if you feel the need, although my personal favourite (at the moment at least) is AD&D monsters. That way I get to put pictures of them on the side:)
The key point is that this name must be distinctive, so if someone shouts is across the room, there are no misunderstandings.
Finding 4000 isn't going to be easy, but if there's some clear cut division on machines for naming convention purposes, then use multiple conventions.
A 'service' name. Probably doesn't matter hugely in a 4000 server farm (I'm guessing they're going to be web servers), but in general terms, if it's a DNS server, have a 'DNS' or 'DNS0' alias for it. ALWAYS access the DNS using 'DNS0' rather than the primary hostname. That way service migrations are simple. Add multiple aliases for other services.
A name by location. Eg SR1R10U4 for server room 1 rack 10, unit 4. Makes finding the particular box which needs a cable plugging in to it really easy.
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The new scheme, to break the RIAA monopoly.
Simply adjust your radio to unusual frequencies and modulations, and record it onto a tape^H^H^H^Hmp3! Free music forever!
I dare you to mention one country that hasn't killed innocents. He who is without sin, etc etc
Vatican City.
Can I have some smartarse points now?
Bounce lots.
Or, assuming perfect elasticity, first start from orbit...
I was worried about leakage of my wireless network, however I have since refurbished my house with a lead lining. I am now confident that my wireless network will stay within my house.
Or you could just do it in perl instead :)
Sad, isn't it, that so many managers only hire people they know, and still end up whining (even in this economy) that finding good people is hard to do. Maybe they should start looking for people on the basis of qualifications for a change. :-)
Ironically, given the state of the economy, it's gotten harder to find 'good' people. Mostly because when a lot of people got laid off, in general, the real gurus kept their jobs. So you now have a much higher noise to signal ratio
To drive people insane at the film, go to the first night, and 'count' the cue dots.
For those who don't know, they're the little black dots in the top right hand side, that tell the projectionist when to change reels.
The first cuedot is to 'start the other projector' the second is when to actually change scenes. They're 6 seconds apart and so you can count 7 seconds down from the first one (7..6..5..4..3..2..1..cuedot..scenechange) and it'll drive anyone sitting next to you absolutely insane.
Great!
Well, not a lot of people know this, but there are a whole bunch of optimisations that have crept into the linux Kernel but are note enabled by default because they've been thought 'unstable'. .bashrc or .profile (depending on shell) but obviously then the system operations don't gain the benefit.
One of these is 'exec mode'. When enabled, the linux kernel uses a smart caching algorithm to speed up application load/start times.
It's actually quite easy to install too. Simply add the line 'exec true' to your system profile (/etc/profile generally). It's possible to enable on a per user basis by inserting this into a
The sad bit is when you read this, and have trouble working out if it _is_ a joke :)
I'm sorry, but I can actually visualise IE with two back buttons...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the _reason_ that Windows gets rebooted, is because of something going wrong? IE a memory location getting corrupted, or just a program with a memory leak?
If you'r machine has just GPFed and hung, reloading the memory state is going to do nothing useful...
Reboots may be irritating, but the advantage is they 'reset' the state of the machine to a know situation. Getting rid of all the entropy that's crept in due to bad memory handling and just general system untidyness...
So persistent memory would lose this advantage, taking you back to the 'reboot and reload everything'. If it's faster, then your machine will start a bit faster, but it's not going to be much...
More fundamentally is even if they work _exactly_ as intended, you are forgetting that their major role is to _allow_ traffic. Having uber wonderful firewall which is unhackable is utterly pointless when it's running in front of a webserver running a default install of IIS4.0. Because it's a web server, the firewall isn't blocking the traffic. Functioning exactly as intended....
I made the mistake of getting an XP1800 and a 'quiet' fan. (Zalman flower FWIW). It is very quiet indeed, unfortunately my operating temperature sits around 50degrees idle and up as high as 56 under load....
Statistically, the vast majority of crime is proven to have been comitted by living people. Therefore, as a long term crime prevention measure, please proceed to your death camp now. You will find the state of un-livingness to be much more relaxing, in addition to lowering insurance premiums for the entire world due to an overall reduction in crime.
Since heat is just a low level vibration of atoms, doesn't that just make it music at an unusual frequency?
And similarly if you know how, say, TCP fingerprinting works, then it becomes trivial to change a system just so it 'appears' to be a completely different OS.
And the sad part is, when this comment makes more sense to you than and spurious reference to films, popular culture, or any stories of men in suits saying hello.
It has come to our attention that 100% of crime is committed by living people. Therefore, it has become our policy to execute any living people on the basis that they are statistically more likely to commit crimes than not living people.
The computers the CIA plays with are expensive, (and congress loves it because it brings jobs to some community that builds the stuff), but once technology is bought you can use it for years at the cost of only electrisity.
Please tell me where I can find computers that 'only' run on the cost of electricity. I'm finding far too many that need replacement hardware, support contracts, backups, admin staff etc.
What else would you eat during a stakeout?
Popcorn!
What else would one have in the cinema, which is about the closest I'll ever get to a stakeout.
Now a steak-out on the other hand...
Yep - you are Microsoft Hater #95197!
Not fair! Such a low UID. To get Microsoft Hater tickets now rumours are that the numbers are in the low billions.
You are just as corrupt. Just more expensive whores on your parliament.
And in other news, rumours are that bears actually do shit in the woods.
And the day you can give me a real difference between Dems & Reps, maybe I'll care enough and go vote...
A career politician is exactly that. Someone who's doing politics as a career move. They're not there for the betterment of the state/county/country/city/world they're there because they make a living that way. And that means getting paid, and getting re-elected.
It seems that some of the smartest hacks (and viruses too) have played on the shortcomings of people rather than breaking security systems.
Social engineering has _always_ been a cornerstone of hacking. If you're really serious about getting into someone's system, then ring up the sysadmin, and ask for root. It doesn't always work, but it does more often than you might think.
Start from knowing server names, and ideally identify what software is running, and you've got reasonable odds...
I've seriously had a phone call from a company who does maintenance on our backup system, asking what the root password was. Zero identification over the phone, apart from the fact that they new a couple of names, and what software and platform the backup server was running.
I think it's somewhat unlikely to work at intelligence agencies however.
Nice thought.
Have you considered though, that 'reacting' to a portscan with a counter attack can get you up to your armpits in trouble.
Since only an idiot scans from their machine, you're then attacking a machine belonging to a third party. This is going to be a recipe for disaster.
For a while, I used to send out nicely crafted emails whenever I picked up a portcan, but I've long since stopped bothering, because it's far to frequent an occurance, and responses are... well I'm sure I must have had _some_ positive ones but...
Oh well. Anarchy Online here we come.
I can assure you that this is NOT the case for us outside the US. I've been known to use www.af.mil as a test of connectivity / UDP / ICMP, and I've not seen a letter, an email or indeed any MIB.
So now they're sending you SNMP info? Wow, that's handy.
Hmm, caffine deficiency.
Well, there's a lot of comments, and I'm past the 700 mark, so I suspect this may be redundant, or just never going to get read. Oh well, I've Karma to spare ;p :)
But: Servers should have multiple names.
A primary name - this should follow whatever convention you feel happy with. Lord of the Rings if you feel the need, although my personal favourite (at the moment at least) is AD&D monsters. That way I get to put pictures of them on the side
The key point is that this name must be distinctive, so if someone shouts is across the room, there are no misunderstandings.
Finding 4000 isn't going to be easy, but if there's some clear cut division on machines for naming convention purposes, then use multiple conventions. A 'service' name. Probably doesn't matter hugely in a 4000 server farm (I'm guessing they're going to be web servers), but in general terms, if it's a DNS server, have a 'DNS' or 'DNS0' alias for it. ALWAYS access the DNS using 'DNS0' rather than the primary hostname. That way service migrations are simple. Add multiple aliases for other services.
A name by location. Eg SR1R10U4 for server room 1 rack 10, unit 4. Makes finding the particular box which needs a cable plugging in to it really easy.