Last year at AstriCon a Skype to Asterisk channel driver was unveiled so I don't think it's a jaw dropping announcement that Skype is implementing SIP in a more general fashion. Based on that pricing however their going to be competing with Vitelity, Gafachi, and a few other wholesale VoIP termination/origination providers. Could get interesting.
No, that's actually newer. Off the top of my head I can remember the Series 90-30 PLCs having this issue.
They aren't connected maliciously. Remember, these are electricians and plant workers. They hook up some Linksys routers and everything 'just works'. Later on one of them hooks the SCADA network to another network to make his job easier, and that network was setup by another electrician to let them surf the net, etc.
The old adage 'the road to Hell is paved with good intentions' comes to mind.
A lot of older serial only SCADA devices now have transceivers that allow you to connect them to an Ethernet network. I bet you can guess how much security they have built in...
I've done SCADA security audits and managed a variety of environments with SCADA devices (PLCs, HMIs, etc).
It's a mixed bag. Some (older GE Fanuc PLCs for example) have zero security features, and only have a telnet daemon wide open to the world. The obvious answer is to bitch at the vendor and mitigate it with ACLs or some such, but really you'd have to know something about what you're hacking at to force it to do anything more than lock up, which might be bad, but generally is more of an inconvenience to a worker on the floor since all mission critical environments should have people standing by in such a case with the ability to manually override.
To my knowledge there's only been one real targeted SCADA hack that caused damage, and he had inside information. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for increasing security in SCADA environments, but the biggest hurdle isn't technical; it's political. Most SCADA environments that I've seen have been set up by electricians that programmed the SCADA devices but know pretty much nothing about IT (FYI, there's a lot of Linksys gear out there). They're usually paid overtime to work on the SCADA network and they see IT personnel as a threat to their livelihood. Someone I know was threatened with a screwdriver for just trying to replace a router.
The concept of SETI is to look for radio signals that have been intentionally directed toward us (ie, not stray signals).
The SETI line of thought is if another civilization is intelligent enough to understand the Hydrogen Line and the Microwave Window and that another civilization - us - would understand that as well and use it for radio astronomy, the frequency of Hydrogen (1420.40575 MHz) would be the most likely place we would be listening since the universe is mostly made up of it from what we can tell so far.
Doesn't zypper use mono? That was one of my main problems with it aside from the fact that it almost never worked correctly. I'm not a fan of.NET and cloning it to Linux wasn't a good idea.
smart for me just plain works. It has never failed me, and that's more than I can say for apt-get or yum. (ipkg has actually been pretty good to me on embedded distros, however).
I know you were only going for a laugh, but the subject is a very serious one. I'll let someone who was far more elegant than I could hope to be make the point:
"There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that an unjust law is no law at all... One who breaks an unjust law must do it openly, lovingly...I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law." - Martin Luther King
Through a friend I was able to get my grubby mitts on a Diamond Rio 300, which I still have (and it still works). I paid close to $300 for it for one singular reason: lawsuits. At the time Sony and a few other of the RIAA mafia were trying their hand at court proceedings to stop the manufacture of MP3 players (while, all the while developing their own behind closed doors).
Of course they lost, but if they had won, it would have been an 'illegal' item, which would have brought me no end of satisfaction.
What's that old adage, when guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns? It wouldn't have been much different.
There are tons of programs already in existence for households like you mention. Is it elitist that the band in my high school got to go on field trips for days to listen to certain orchestras while those of us in the Geology club were barely allowed to go outside during lunch one day and look at strata that was less than 50 yards from the school? I was born tone deaf, so in your words, that's elitist.
Think about it. Elitist programs already exist and have for years. We are not all created equal, which is both wondrous and sad at the same time.
... but aren't there already plenty of programs for people from that type of household? Or are you saying you aren't aware of a single social program that provides financial help or special needs education?
Give parents a tax break based on how well their children do in school.
The hard part would be implementing it. Standardized testing that can be agreed upon is probably a pipe dream for something like this, but if it could be done you'd never see parents take more of an interest in their child's education.
Dell has been embedding Absolute's Computrace in many of their laptops (I'm typing this on a SuSE 10.2 install on a Dell Latitude D820 that has it enabled). Once you enable it in the BIOS, there is no way to disable it without physically removing and replacing the chip.
As for more than 4GB, I'd just build a portable desktop. Even with this laptops 4GB of RAM, it can only release just over 3GB due to PCI needs, etc. You might just be better off running a persistent desktop on a server and VNCing/RDPing to it.
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Last year at AstriCon a Skype to Asterisk channel driver was unveiled so I don't think it's a jaw dropping announcement that Skype is implementing SIP in a more general fashion. Based on that pricing however their going to be competing with Vitelity, Gafachi, and a few other wholesale VoIP termination/origination providers. Could get interesting.
He's been unapologetic. Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.
They aren't connected maliciously. Remember, these are electricians and plant workers. They hook up some Linksys routers and everything 'just works'. Later on one of them hooks the SCADA network to another network to make his job easier, and that network was setup by another electrician to let them surf the net, etc.
The old adage 'the road to Hell is paved with good intentions' comes to mind.
A lot of older serial only SCADA devices now have transceivers that allow you to connect them to an Ethernet network. I bet you can guess how much security they have built in...
It's a mixed bag. Some (older GE Fanuc PLCs for example) have zero security features, and only have a telnet daemon wide open to the world. The obvious answer is to bitch at the vendor and mitigate it with ACLs or some such, but really you'd have to know something about what you're hacking at to force it to do anything more than lock up, which might be bad, but generally is more of an inconvenience to a worker on the floor since all mission critical environments should have people standing by in such a case with the ability to manually override.
To my knowledge there's only been one real targeted SCADA hack that caused damage, and he had inside information. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for increasing security in SCADA environments, but the biggest hurdle isn't technical; it's political. Most SCADA environments that I've seen have been set up by electricians that programmed the SCADA devices but know pretty much nothing about IT (FYI, there's a lot of Linksys gear out there). They're usually paid overtime to work on the SCADA network and they see IT personnel as a threat to their livelihood. Someone I know was threatened with a screwdriver for just trying to replace a router.
The SETI line of thought is if another civilization is intelligent enough to understand the Hydrogen Line and the Microwave Window and that another civilization - us - would understand that as well and use it for radio astronomy, the frequency of Hydrogen (1420.40575 MHz) would be the most likely place we would be listening since the universe is mostly made up of it from what we can tell so far.
smart for me just plain works. It has never failed me, and that's more than I can say for apt-get or yum. (ipkg has actually been pretty good to me on embedded distros, however).
smart is a fantastic package manager that's available for SuSE and works with just about any type of package repository imaginable.
Guess he's still a loon, just one that can navigate the interwebs to some extent.
[citation needed]
As Kevin Smith once revealed:
t's 3 in the morning in Minnesota. I really need a camel . Go get it. - Prince
(Yes, I know it was partly farcical, but the basic premise is sound - he's a loon.)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo
"There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that an unjust law is no law at all... One who breaks an unjust law must do it openly, lovingly...I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law." - Martin Luther King
Of course they lost, but if they had won, it would have been an 'illegal' item, which would have brought me no end of satisfaction.
What's that old adage, when guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns? It wouldn't have been much different.
Think about it. Elitist programs already exist and have for years. We are not all created equal, which is both wondrous and sad at the same time.
... but aren't there already plenty of programs for people from that type of household? Or are you saying you aren't aware of a single social program that provides financial help or special needs education?
You're 100% right. This might actually fly at a state level but never a national one.
The hard part would be implementing it. Standardized testing that can be agreed upon is probably a pipe dream for something like this, but if it could be done you'd never see parents take more of an interest in their child's education.
Dell has been embedding Absolute's Computrace in many of their laptops (I'm typing this on a SuSE 10.2 install on a Dell Latitude D820 that has it enabled). Once you enable it in the BIOS, there is no way to disable it without physically removing and replacing the chip.
... the artist is "YO! MS Raps".
I've already blocked 198.70.x.x (their website IP) at the router, but I doubt they're running this scanner from there.
I'm typing this post on a Dell D820 with SuSE 10.2 and 4GB of RAM.
As for more than 4GB, I'd just build a portable desktop. Even with this laptops 4GB of RAM, it can only release just over 3GB due to PCI needs, etc. You might just be better off running a persistent desktop on a server and VNCing/RDPing to it.
Totally agree. Look at what happened to OS/2 Warp 3 vs. Windows 3.x ;)
Bzzt. Windows isn't, even in a Microsoft perfect world, able to push into every corner.
TRON has way, way outpaced Windows to the point that it would be many a year if TRON dissapeared, which won't happen any time soon.
If we were only talking about PCs, that's a different story, but you did mention some embedded devices like ATMs and pocket PCs.
I've heard the native OS is a custom Linux kernel, but that's not exactly reliable information.