That's not completely true. You could always get TOSLINK audio digitally (yes, it actually supports digital audio, I have one plugged up to a receiver over a fiber) and unencrypted out of the Airport Express. You could also always burn a CD from iTunes and get the red book audio. Practically speaking, this enables you to do things like to stream from an iPhone to something other than the Airport express.
Actually, all of HP's servers are based upon pre-merger Compaq hardware. Same with most of the PC business and PDA business. Printers and Cameras were about the only product line kept intact from pre-merger HP.
There should always be a router between any personal system and the Internet. Not a kludgy firewall/filter, mind you, but a simple NAT-translation router that puts your machine in a private address space. Hackers can't hack what they can't get to.
Actually, that's not quite correct; take a peek at rfc2663: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2663.html. In a somewhat roundabout way in the security section (Section 9), it says not to use it as a "Firewall", but rather in conjunction with a firewall.
The reason for this is that if someone spoofs an address in your nat range, it pass through unfiltered. Bottom line is to not rely on NAT alone for a firewall; always use it in conjunction with real filtering. Thankfully most consumer boxes will do this already, so it's practically a moot point.
Yeah, this was at the high school I went to nearly four years ago. This doesn't terribly surprise me, since they have them do all of the grades, etc. using the network, so using a keystroke logger to capture passwords would be pretty obvious to someone wanting to steal tests/change grades, and so on. They also weren't very savvy on IT--I remember one person threatening to get me suspended for using a dos prompt in NT to unzip a file.
I posted how to do this with a Motorola v66 on T-Mobile using Debian/Xbox Linux on my blog, but since that host is currently offline, here's the article for how I did it:
Add usbserial
#/etc/modules.xbox: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a "#", and everything on the line after them are ignored.
loop input keybdev mousedev joydev sunrpc lockd nfs scsi_mod sd_mod lirc_dev
lirc_xir usbserial # Need this to work with the phone (v66)
The next step is to set up pppd for the T-Mobile GPRS service. I have the "VPN" service, but most users with unlimited access will have the regular one. The main difference is that the "VPN" service gets you a public IP address and must be specifically requested. In places where internet3.voicestream.com is used, internet2.voicestream.com should be replaced if this is the case.
The/etc/ppp/peers/tmobile file:
# File:/etc/ppp/peers/tmobile # connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f/etc/chatscripts/tmobile" /dev/usb/acm/0 # Motorola Phone Cable 115200 # speed nodetach # don't fork debug # show debugging info defaultroute # set the default route replacedefaultroute # yes, override the default route usepeerdns # get the dns servers from the tunnel crtscts # do flow control noauth # no authentication required deflate 0 # don't compress asyncmap 0 mtu 1500 mru 1500 noipdefault idle 600
The/etc/ppp/chatscripts/tmobile file:
ABORT ERROR '' AT&F OK AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet3.voicestream.com" OK ATDT*99# CONNECT ''
The/etc/ppp/pap-secrets file:
(none) * password '' tmobile
With that configured, pon tmobile activates the GPRS connection and poff tmobile.
I would imagine there's a LOT of people that will hit this via a web cache so that could be messing the results up. For example, my download went at 16MB/sec but it was through our web proxy. I'm sure someone had downloaded it earlier today. At home I know the cable company has a transparent web cache that would also increase speed.
To my knowledge, we don't have a transparent proxy. However, this is consistent with the fact that Microsoft has an Internet2 site and that this machine has 100mbit ethernet. Are you running gigabit or something over there?
It's 5:12PM here, and I just downloaded it at 8 MB/s, so I think I'll just not use the torrent:-). (I'm at a.edu, so it's almost certainly over the Internet 2 link)
Someone who saw the leaked source code a while back happened to mention to me that Internet Explorer uses libpng for rendering PNG files--it's just broken because it uses such a friggin' old version of it. So there's a good chance that IE is affected too.
If you have ogg support setup in quicktime, iTunes will conveniently offer to convert it all to aac for you, letting you load it onto the iPod. It's a tradeoff, but the quality hasn't been too bad so far. (coming from someone else with a significantly sized collection of oggs)
Microsoft already announced that they were releasing Services for Unix (SFU) (Actually a misnomer, if you notice) for free a while back. All this means is that they'll be distributing it with Windows. Additionally, we've been able to use cygwin to do the same sort of thing for a long time, though SFU is supposed to be better because it uses Windows' built in POSIX layer (no, that's not a joke, they actually have one).
1) If any kde stuff is installed, remove it before upgrading. If you don't do this, you'll run into problems.
2) sendmail will be installed twice. Remove the older one with rpm -q.
3) You'll have to update a couple of things such as fedora-version manually.
Other than that, all of our servers were updated like that and work fine.
Yeah, I agree. It's the silly mentality that if it isn't Windows, then it isn't an Operating System.
I attended a talk on this today at Texas A&M
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So I just happened to be lucky enough to get front row seats (I work as a sysadmin in the physics department here) to a talk by one of the people on the JPL team that works on the lander, and he mentioned this earlier. It's a bit more than a little hack to the software because it involves changing out the operating system and turning the rover completely off during the night to avoid power drain. What the fellow talking about it mentioned was that there is the possibility that the rover wont actually turn back on after the update, leaving a $400 million piece of junk on the surface of mars.
The reason for the update is needed because there is a heater on the rover that defrosts the probe that allows them to take samples from the rocks and such--which wont turn off anymore. This might not be a problem except that it puts an excess power strain on the rover, meaning that its useful life is greatly diminished. So essentially this hack means turning everything off at night because they can't switch off just the heater.
Also, if you decide to buy an iBook, be aware that it CAN'T run with an external monitor in any higher resolution than it's internal LCD, something my old Dell latitude from 1997 does with no problems at all:-(
Actually, it can. I plugged in a Compaq P110 monitor into the iBook and ran it off an external monitor at 1920x1440! However, it does have some caveats (yes, it's a hack):
http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html
Don't forget that you will need a more or less recent iBook for this to work. However, I haven't had really any problems with it. It's just a shame that 16MB VRAM isn't really enough for this.
Yeah, this is completely true. I remember that Dell replaced a broken 1600x1200 LCD (we're really not sure why it broke--the guy thought it might have been humidity or something) the very next day after I called. Even better was that it was fixed the next day becauase they had to overnight the LCD to college station.
Well, not really. I installed Windows 3.11 for the heck of it in Virtual PC the other day and it prompted me to sign up for "The Microsoft Network" (MSN). I recall using hotmail on windows 98 machines before microsoft bought it, so I'm pretty sure that it wasn't around when they started MSN. Windows 3.11 was around before internet access was as ubiquitous as it has become nowadays.
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That's not completely true. You could always get TOSLINK audio digitally (yes, it actually supports digital audio, I have one plugged up to a receiver over a fiber) and unencrypted out of the Airport Express. You could also always burn a CD from iTunes and get the red book audio. Practically speaking, this enables you to do things like to stream from an iPhone to something other than the Airport express.
The limit has been raised to about a million for a few versions now: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/excel-specifications-and-limits-HP010073849.aspx
This is an April Fool's Joke, and an old one too: http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/dev eloping-quicktime-apps-for-ipod/
There should always be a router between any personal system and the Internet. Not a kludgy firewall/filter, mind you, but a simple NAT-translation router that puts your machine in a private address space. Hackers can't hack what they can't get to.
Actually, that's not quite correct; take a peek at rfc2663: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2663.html. In a somewhat roundabout way in the security section (Section 9), it says not to use it as a "Firewall", but rather in conjunction with a firewall.
The reason for this is that if someone spoofs an address in your nat range, it pass through unfiltered. Bottom line is to not rely on NAT alone for a firewall; always use it in conjunction with real filtering. Thankfully most consumer boxes will do this already, so it's practically a moot point.
Yeah, this was at the high school I went to nearly four years ago. This doesn't terribly surprise me, since they have them do all of the grades, etc. using the network, so using a keystroke logger to capture passwords would be pretty obvious to someone wanting to steal tests/change grades, and so on. They also weren't very savvy on IT--I remember one person threatening to get me suspended for using a dos prompt in NT to unzip a file.
I currently use a Motorola V66 with a $5 cable I got off of eBay with the T-Mobile services via Mac OS X. Works great.
Add usbserialThe next step is to set up pppd for the T-Mobile GPRS service. I have the "VPN" service, but most users with unlimited access will have the regular one. The main difference is that the "VPN" service gets you a public IP address and must be specifically requested. In places where internet3.voicestream.com is used, internet2.voicestream.com should be replaced if this is the case.The
Hmm. Not sure why it'd be going slow, the load average isn't even 1 and I'm only pumping out about 3-400kb/s.
The site seems to be a bit under the weather, so I've mirrored the content and put it here:. com/goodies/cubism/
http://mirror.reading.is-a-geek.com/www.mekentosj
I would imagine there's a LOT of people that will hit this via a web cache so that could be messing the results up. For example, my download went at 16MB/sec but it was through our web proxy. I'm sure someone had downloaded it earlier today. At home I know the cable company has a transparent web cache that would also increase speed. To my knowledge, we don't have a transparent proxy. However, this is consistent with the fact that Microsoft has an Internet2 site and that this machine has 100mbit ethernet. Are you running gigabit or something over there?
It's 5:12PM here, and I just downloaded it at 8 MB/s, so I think I'll just not use the torrent :-). (I'm at a .edu, so it's almost certainly over the Internet 2 link)
Someone who saw the leaked source code a while back happened to mention to me that Internet Explorer uses libpng for rendering PNG files--it's just broken because it uses such a friggin' old version of it. So there's a good chance that IE is affected too.
I went ahead and mirrored it here.
If you have ogg support setup in quicktime, iTunes will conveniently offer to convert it all to aac for you, letting you load it onto the iPod. It's a tradeoff, but the quality hasn't been too bad so far. (coming from someone else with a significantly sized collection of oggs)
Microsoft already announced that they were releasing Services for Unix (SFU) (Actually a misnomer, if you notice) for free a while back. All this means is that they'll be distributing it with Windows. Additionally, we've been able to use cygwin to do the same sort of thing for a long time, though SFU is supposed to be better because it uses Windows' built in POSIX layer (no, that's not a joke, they actually have one).
I've done it, but there are a couple of caveats:
1) If any kde stuff is installed, remove it before upgrading. If you don't do this, you'll run into problems.
2) sendmail will be installed twice. Remove the older one with rpm -q.
3) You'll have to update a couple of things such as fedora-version manually.
Other than that, all of our servers were updated like that and work fine.
Yeah, I agree. It's the silly mentality that if it isn't Windows, then it isn't an Operating System.
So I just happened to be lucky enough to get front row seats (I work as a sysadmin in the physics department here) to a talk by one of the people on the JPL team that works on the lander, and he mentioned this earlier. It's a bit more than a little hack to the software because it involves changing out the operating system and turning the rover completely off during the night to avoid power drain. What the fellow talking about it mentioned was that there is the possibility that the rover wont actually turn back on after the update, leaving a $400 million piece of junk on the surface of mars.
The reason for the update is needed because there is a heater on the rover that defrosts the probe that allows them to take samples from the rocks and such--which wont turn off anymore. This might not be a problem except that it puts an excess power strain on the rover, meaning that its useful life is greatly diminished. So essentially this hack means turning everything off at night because they can't switch off just the heater.
I agree too. However, because it's not "panther compatible", we get to use PPTP which is nicely supported by internet connect.
Also, if you decide to buy an iBook, be aware that it CAN'T run with an external monitor in any higher resolution than it's internal LCD, something my old Dell latitude from 1997 does with no problems at all :-(
Actually, it can. I plugged in a Compaq P110 monitor into the iBook and ran it off an external monitor at 1920x1440! However, it does have some caveats (yes, it's a hack):
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http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.htm
Don't forget that you will need a more or less recent iBook for this to work. However, I haven't had really any problems with it. It's just a shame that 16MB VRAM isn't really enough for this.
Indeed. Gentoo comes with md5 hashes on the portage tree.
Here's a mirror. Get it while they'res still bandwidth: e3low.mov
Yeah, this is completely true. I remember that Dell replaced a broken 1600x1200 LCD (we're really not sure why it broke--the guy thought it might have been humidity or something) the very next day after I called. Even better was that it was fixed the next day becauase they had to overnight the LCD to college station.
Well, not really. I installed Windows 3.11 for the heck of it in Virtual PC the other day and it prompted me to sign up for "The Microsoft Network" (MSN). I recall using hotmail on windows 98 machines before microsoft bought it, so I'm pretty sure that it wasn't around when they started MSN. Windows 3.11 was around before internet access was as ubiquitous as it has become nowadays.