Working as a DNS Admin for a webhosting company often brings forth problems with client domain names. I've had to deal with everything that you can imagine through them. The best way is to call them. If it's something simple, they'll often accept it instantly right there. If it's something more complex they'll often give you a tracking number and you just fax them proof of yourself and that you own the domain name, and within 24 hours most changes go through. At the first sign of trouble through web/email call them.
Does anyone know of a good doc on upgrading a kde 2.1.1 install (mandrake 8 standard) to a 2.2.1 without seriously breaking it. When I logged into the ftp server there were like 100 files that I was told to download. Yes, I'm going to Debian soon..just humor me here:)
This scares the CRAP out of me. Not because I do something illegal, it's just that I may do something that some corperation doesnt like and soon I'll have the FBI knocking on my door a la Dmitry. I just hope to god that enough people will figure this out before microshit passes it off on the public so we can protest the HELL out of it.
I'm really starting to get sick of microsoft taking open protocols and adding 1 little thing to break functionality, completely shattering the whole reason for them; interoperability. Maybe they'll be declared a monopoly before that. If they try charging to use the "tcp/ms" stack under linux you're sure as hell going to see lawsuits pop up left and right.
The one that hijacked my IE browser was http://searchnow.ws. Whatever set that to my homepage also added porn sites to my bookmarks. These people should be shot.
borland c++, botched upgrade on the novell server left all of the machines missing 1 critical file...i made a disk that you'd just reboot the computer with the disk in the drive..it would copy the needed files, reboot the system and it would be all set..really quite an easy fix:)
Except
1) our teacher was gone due to his wife having a baby, projects were due and this affected our ENTIRE class of 30 students, the admin didnt care at all about our network (he's such an ass that one time, he didn't change the toner in the printer in the lab till it printed only white sheets and the principal yelled at him..we submitted our printed out programs to the teacher and couldnt do it for several weeks)
2) the paper was due, i couldnt find it, it was either 1) take a 0 2) print it out..what would you choose?
I'm a highschool student, and because of that law I'd probably be sitting in jail..
More than one have I had to break school district policy to make our computers even WORK. One time in AP Computer Science none of the compilers would work. So I generated a fix for them and even gave it to the admin who was SUPER pissed at me. Ended up that they used it at our other highschool because it wasnt working there. He talked to the principal about me "disrupting network operations". Luckly the principal knows me and didn't pursue it further. That would be a Level 4 violation, 5 days suspension..no questions asked.
Another time I used putty to login to my web server during homeroom (we werent doing anything) to both a) restart apache b) download a report for my next hour class. My advisor (total bitch) didn't understand anything I was doing and when she saw the black box popup she thought i was "hacking the grade server" and basically told me to get off before she reports me. I ignored her and again, I was reported. Luckly 5 minutes worth of explination to the principal got me out of it. This law would suck in the hands of people who dont know what they are doing. If my principal didnt trust me I'd probably be expelled by now, and that's breaking policy to HELP the school..damn lawmakers.
I'd look into the GeekCorps if you're really interested. They send teams on 4 month journeys to countries to help develop their network and computer infastructure.
I'm sure that these guys probably do know how the key is done. If they were able to figure out some of the obscure techniques that was used here i'm sure that they took it 1 step further and using known wpa codes and keys provided by microsoft developed an algorithm.
WOW. I just finished reading it and was amazed that they figured that out. I also like to see that they did it before xp shipped. Security through obscurity isn't a good idea. Just publish the damn protocal microsoft:)
How long before they have programs where you enter your xp code and it gives you what the ms people would? This'll be interesting.
Those are the small ones. They dumped like 1.3 or so MILLION gallons into lake michigan. We're so smart..lets build a 2 billion dollar holding tunnel and then just let rainwater AND sewage flow in the same system. Every time it rains the same thing happens. It failed, they won't accept it.
Fade To Black: How long can a person wearing your "Eternal Life Device" expect to live?
Alex Chiu: As long as the user doesn't get killed in accidents or be murdered by someone or die from a severe disease, the person would continue living.
Actually Guillemont is the parent company name for a few companies. Their flagship products are; Thrustmaster (controllers), Hercules (graphics), and Guillemont (Hardware [sound products included])
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Speaking of the internet:
Based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's expedited subpoena provision, RIAA sends out information subpoenas as part of an effort to crack and shut down repeat offenders and deter those hiding behind the perceived anonymity of the Internet. Information subpoenas require the Internet Service Provider (ISP) providing access to, or hosting, a particular site to provide contact information for the site operator. Once the site operator is identified, the RIAA will take steps to prevent repeat infringement; such steps range from a warning e-mail to litigation against the site operator.
(found on the riaa site)
IANAL but where the hell does the RIAA think that they have a fucking god given right to subpoena people? last time I checked that was the job of the united states legal system.
when I worked abuse for a now defunct free unlimited hosting service I actually got one of these and ignored it. C&D letters via email, fine...but not subpoena's. I wish I still had that message
10 days is a little extreme for that type of violation. It's a max of 5 days in our school district and you have to do something seriously bad to come close to that. IE. threaten other students, offer "plans" of the school (like where good places to plant bombs would be). A kid was writing virii in compsci class and I think all he got was a 3 day.
"The nature of open source is that you can get a copy of the source code and look at it, make changes to it, etc. Whatever distribution you choose, you can get a copy of that exact source code. Because of this open nature, developers can much more easily identify security weaknesses and prey upon them with viruses and by hacking into systems."
I don't know about you but I don't know of too many "developers" who "identify security weaknesses and prey upon them". Also lets compare the number of virus's in Linux to the number in Windows. Now how many of those Linux virii wouldn't have spread if idiot admins didn't run unknown binaries as root? I'm thinking a ratio of linux virii to windows virii is about 1:100,000.
"Recent examples of the security problems with Linux were discussed in the media. According to a January 17, 2001 CNET News.com article entitled "Internet Worm Squirms into Linux Servers", the Ramen worm has been squirming into Linux servers worldwide. The article discusses how lax security is to blame for the problem and how the worm exploits many of the well-known flaws of the Linux operating system based on a default installation of Red Hat's 6.2 and 7.0 distributions of the software."
Nice definition of "recent". How about Microsoft security in the news..any IIS security problems recently? We had a bug in our software, big fricken deal. Again, ratio of linux security problems to microsoft is about 1:100,000.
I really wish Microsoft would suck it up and stop trying to make their products look better by putting down Linux.
You have got to love these anal school districts. No really, you have to or they'll kick you out.:)
We had a case here where a kid brought a gun to school, along with $1500 worth of fake heroin, this was a middle school. He was given a 5-day suspension and that was it. Another kid wrote a list of names out like: "people I don't like" and they interpreted it as "people who I wish to kill in a blood bath". People over react with the smallest things but then when big things happen they want to keep them out of the news. It makes them look like they're doing their jobs, "protecting our kids".
He's only got 1 more year to go then he's off to college where it will be different for him. High school is hell, everyone knows it (well, most geeks) where social popularity rules instead of academic achievement. But I figure, once I'm out the chance that the football star, fake 4.0 (no honors classes, easiest load known to man, parents are "teachers") will become anything useful are slim to none. We'll see what these people become in the future. I know at my 10-year reunion I'm going to have a nice little laugh.
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I have basically the same system, with a ti200 instead of the 500, and it does infact, rock.
Working as a DNS Admin for a webhosting company often brings forth problems with client domain names. I've had to deal with everything that you can imagine through them. The best way is to call them. If it's something simple, they'll often accept it instantly right there. If it's something more complex they'll often give you a tracking number and you just fax them proof of yourself and that you own the domain name, and within 24 hours most changes go through. At the first sign of trouble through web/email call them.
Does anyone know of a good doc on upgrading a kde 2.1.1 install (mandrake 8 standard) to a 2.2.1 without seriously breaking it. When I logged into the ftp server there were like 100 files that I was told to download. Yes, I'm going to Debian soon..just humor me here :)
Just link to the damn archives url :)
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http://archives.nytimes.com/2001/08/25/technology
might I suggest doing root.exe last? you dont wanna close yout hole for fixing the stuff :)
This scares the CRAP out of me. Not because I do something illegal, it's just that I may do something that some corperation doesnt like and soon I'll have the FBI knocking on my door a la Dmitry. I just hope to god that enough people will figure this out before microshit passes it off on the public so we can protest the HELL out of it.
I'm really starting to get sick of microsoft taking open protocols and adding 1 little thing to break functionality, completely shattering the whole reason for them; interoperability. Maybe they'll be declared a monopoly before that. If they try charging to use the "tcp/ms" stack under linux you're sure as hell going to see lawsuits pop up left and right.
The one that hijacked my IE browser was http://searchnow.ws. Whatever set that to my homepage also added porn sites to my bookmarks. These people should be shot.
borland c++, botched upgrade on the novell server left all of the machines missing 1 critical file...i made a disk that you'd just reboot the computer with the disk in the drive..it would copy the needed files, reboot the system and it would be all set..really quite an easy fix :)
Except
1) our teacher was gone due to his wife having a baby, projects were due and this affected our ENTIRE class of 30 students, the admin didnt care at all about our network (he's such an ass that one time, he didn't change the toner in the printer in the lab till it printed only white sheets and the principal yelled at him..we submitted our printed out programs to the teacher and couldnt do it for several weeks)
2) the paper was due, i couldnt find it, it was either 1) take a 0 2) print it out..what would you choose?
I'm a highschool student, and because of that law I'd probably be sitting in jail..
More than one have I had to break school district policy to make our computers even WORK. One time in AP Computer Science none of the compilers would work. So I generated a fix for them and even gave it to the admin who was SUPER pissed at me. Ended up that they used it at our other highschool because it wasnt working there. He talked to the principal about me "disrupting network operations". Luckly the principal knows me and didn't pursue it further. That would be a Level 4 violation, 5 days suspension..no questions asked.
Another time I used putty to login to my web server during homeroom (we werent doing anything) to both a) restart apache b) download a report for my next hour class. My advisor (total bitch) didn't understand anything I was doing and when she saw the black box popup she thought i was "hacking the grade server" and basically told me to get off before she reports me. I ignored her and again, I was reported. Luckly 5 minutes worth of explination to the principal got me out of it. This law would suck in the hands of people who dont know what they are doing. If my principal didnt trust me I'd probably be expelled by now, and that's breaking policy to HELP the school..damn lawmakers.
heheh..hehehe..hehehe...anyone else see their usernames in there? :)
long live porn!
I'd look into the GeekCorps if you're really interested. They send teams on 4 month journeys to countries to help develop their network and computer infastructure.
totalnic is great and their support is amazing
http://www.totalnic.net
email me a copy, funny@(nospam)mbrez.com
Does this guy look 15?
I'm sure that these guys probably do know how the key is done. If they were able to figure out some of the obscure techniques that was used here i'm sure that they took it 1 step further and using known wpa codes and keys provided by microsoft developed an algorithm.
:)
Well then...maybe not
WOW. I just finished reading it and was amazed that they figured that out. I also like to see that they did it before xp shipped. Security through obscurity isn't a good idea. Just publish the damn protocal microsoft :)
How long before they have programs where you enter your xp code and it gives you what the ms people would? This'll be interesting.
HAH. Been to Milwaukee Wisconsin recently?
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http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/jun01/phantom
http://www.jsonline.com/news/OzWash/jun01/dump2
Those are the small ones. They dumped like 1.3 or so MILLION gallons into lake michigan. We're so smart..lets build a 2 billion dollar holding tunnel and then just let rainwater AND sewage flow in the same system. Every time it rains the same thing happens. It failed, they won't accept it.
If you dont care if some anonymous idiot steals your slashdot account go a head and click on that link. Nice try.
For those who aren't so l33t it changes your password to 01234567 and then changes your real email address to robertmalda@hotmail.com
I found this one funny:
Fade To Black: How long can a person wearing your "Eternal Life Device" expect to live?
Alex Chiu: As long as the user doesn't get killed in accidents or be murdered by someone or die from a severe disease, the person would continue living.
No shit?
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Actually Guillemont is the parent company name for a few companies. Their flagship products are; Thrustmaster (controllers), Hercules (graphics), and Guillemont (Hardware [sound products included])
Speaking of the internet:
Based on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's expedited subpoena provision, RIAA sends out information subpoenas as part of an effort to crack and shut down repeat offenders and deter those hiding behind the perceived anonymity of the Internet. Information subpoenas require the Internet Service Provider (ISP) providing access to, or hosting, a particular site to provide contact information for the site operator. Once the site operator is identified, the RIAA will take steps to prevent repeat infringement; such steps range from a warning e-mail to litigation against the site operator.
(found on the riaa site)
IANAL but where the hell does the RIAA think that they have a fucking god given right to subpoena people? last time I checked that was the job of the united states legal system.
when I worked abuse for a now defunct free unlimited hosting service I actually got one of these and ignored it. C&D letters via email, fine...but not subpoena's. I wish I still had that message
10 days is a little extreme for that type of violation. It's a max of 5 days in our school district and you have to do something seriously bad to come close to that. IE. threaten other students, offer "plans" of the school (like where good places to plant bombs would be). A kid was writing virii in compsci class and I think all he got was a 3 day.
"The nature of open source is that you can get a copy of the source code and look at it, make changes to it, etc. Whatever distribution you choose, you can get a copy of that exact source code. Because of this open nature, developers can much more easily identify security weaknesses and prey upon them with viruses and by hacking into systems."
I don't know about you but I don't know of too many "developers" who "identify security weaknesses and prey upon them". Also lets compare the number of virus's in Linux to the number in Windows. Now how many of those Linux virii wouldn't have spread if idiot admins didn't run unknown binaries as root? I'm thinking a ratio of linux virii to windows virii is about 1:100,000.
"Recent examples of the security problems with Linux were discussed in the media. According to a January 17, 2001 CNET News.com article entitled "Internet Worm Squirms into Linux Servers", the Ramen worm has been squirming into Linux servers worldwide. The article discusses how lax security is to blame for the problem and how the worm exploits many of the well-known flaws of the Linux operating system based on a default installation of Red Hat's 6.2 and 7.0 distributions of the software."
Nice definition of "recent". How about Microsoft security in the news..any IIS security problems recently? We had a bug in our software, big fricken deal. Again, ratio of linux security problems to microsoft is about 1:100,000.
I really wish Microsoft would suck it up and stop trying to make their products look better by putting down Linux.
You have got to love these anal school districts. No really, you have to or they'll kick you out. :)
We had a case here where a kid brought a gun to school, along with $1500 worth of fake heroin, this was a middle school. He was given a 5-day suspension and that was it. Another kid wrote a list of names out like: "people I don't like" and they interpreted it as "people who I wish to kill in a blood bath". People over react with the smallest things but then when big things happen they want to keep them out of the news. It makes them look like they're doing their jobs, "protecting our kids".
He's only got 1 more year to go then he's off to college where it will be different for him. High school is hell, everyone knows it (well, most geeks) where social popularity rules instead of academic achievement. But I figure, once I'm out the chance that the football star, fake 4.0 (no honors classes, easiest load known to man, parents are "teachers") will become anything useful are slim to none. We'll see what these people become in the future. I know at my 10-year reunion I'm going to have a nice little laugh.