Me personally? I carry the laptop around with me. Yep, in the supermarket. $3k is a lot of money for some crack-head to ignore. What's a smash and grab to them anyway?
I had $4000 in computer equipment stolen out of it.
The fact that you had $4000 on computer equipment in there in the first place and you left it alone surprises me. Hell, in some parts of cities, that's more than enough to warrant getting stabbed for.
I watched Equilibrium recently, and it's a film about soulless people, who are conditioned to take a drug to prevent themselves from feeling any emotions. People who are found guilty of Sense crimes, are removed, and executed.
Maybe the Swedish people should watch this film, and see if this is how they want to be regarded.
It seems that the Swedish government doesn't want people to enjoy themselves, at all.
Finally, I can upgrade, and remove "/some/shit/file" from/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to prevent the ptrace local root from working.
As soon as there are XFS patches for it....
Something better than that is a distributed C compiler.
distcc.samba.org. It's another fine piece of coding from the Samba team. It uses your standard gcc, and does parallel builds on other machines. Really speeds things up.
Free speech scares governments. That's why you need a licence to broadcast on the radio. (Sure, they say it's due to interference, etc.) If there were no ISPs, it would be a lot harder for the governments of this world to censor or block undesirable "mass communication".
With the current system, if Slashdot turned into a militant revolutionary site, inciting the citizens of the US to overthrow their government, the government could go to the ISP that Slashdot uses, and force it to pull the plug. That's why things like Freenet worry it too.
Agreed. Reiser is nice and fast, unlike the elephantine ext3 that RedHat try and inflict on us. They still try and claim that Reiser is unstable. Fools.
And XFS is good too. Got Samba compiled with ACL support, running on an XFS filesystem. The users don't know that it's not a Windows box.
REDHAT - START SUPPORTING XFS AND REISER DURING THE INSTALL. </rant>
Only works if you can establish a TCP connection to one or the other of the parties direct.
Also, how do you know there isn't a MITM attack going on. GPG plugin for Licq, I say. (And to all the others - don't go on about Trillian. Some of us only use Linux here.)
I would like to see a GPG plugin for Licq. Some kind of ICQ user ID to GPG key id mapping file, so that I could say 12098242 = 0xe66d4af, and all communication from then on to that user would automatically be encrypted to that key. I know it has SSL encryption built in, but that doesn't work if you're both behind firewalls.
I started to try and work on it, but it was too tricky. Anyone interested in helping out?
Unemployed c/c++ software engineer and general computer geek.
However, I have been plotting the number of Linux jobs since this time last year, and apart from the drop around Xmas, it only seems to have risen back to the level it was last year. Well, at least it's not dropping off, anyway.
Oh yeah, that's going to help. So, I configure my box up, and then what? How do I find someone with the file I want? How do I establish keying parameters? How do I know they are who they say they are? It's not the getting files securely from A to B that's the problem - it's the "you-don't-know-who-you're-dealing-with" problem.
That's why (shameless plug to generate interest) using UDP with spoofed source addresses might be the only way to be truely anonymous. Of course that brings up other issues, such as scalibility, and flow control, but we're trying to work those out.
This will effectively destroy any data on the drive,
Not an an electron level. If you think about it, if you have a 5 volt signal on your hard disk, and you try and write a 0 onto it (0 volts), you might not wipe that 5 volts totally. Sure, you might get it down to 0.2 volts, which is well below the (for example) 1 volt you need for it to change from a 0 to a 1, but someone with enough time and money can tell that it was a 1 before you wrote your 0 over the top of it.
shred -uvz/path/to/file is fairly good though, I would think. 25 separate wipes, with differing patterns and random data. Shred comes with gpg.
There should be a patch for Linux for this.
Maybe at kernel compile time you generate your key pair, and the kernel will only run/bin/ls if/bin/ls.asc exists, and has been signed correctly.
Of course, that's probably slightly easier to write about that to do but...
I'm sure I'm not the first one to say this, or think this, but we already have a perfectly good global hierarchical naming convention. DNS.
So what's wrong with my address being calum@35.crescent.clifton.bs.uk for example?
No, ZZ = , Shift, z, z, (release shift), enter. 5 keystrokes. :wq = <esc>, Shift,;, (release shift), w, q, enter. 6 keystrokes. And that's not counting the ! you'd need if you were editting a file and needed to override the permissions on it.
Having made that point, I'd like to point out that I am a:wq man myself. Nothing funnier than a newb who forgets to press i, or a, and ends up doing some magic search and replace on their text with some magic vi key sequence.
Why not do a whois lookup, and you'll get the name, address, and email address of the guy who has registered it? If you don't have a whois command (most likely because you're running Windows), try www.samspade.org, who have a nice online set of utils.
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Amazing how paranoid some people are :) Go on, what's your take on the JFK thing, or Roswell? :)
happypenguin.org is struggling to come to terms with Slashdots own form of Cease and Desist :)
No HTML = no read.
Me personally? I carry the laptop around with me. Yep, in the supermarket. $3k is a lot of money for some crack-head to ignore. What's a smash and grab to them anyway?
That's quite a large ego you've got there - what are you feeding it? :)
The fact that you had $4000 on computer equipment in there in the first place and you left it alone surprises me. Hell, in some parts of cities, that's more than enough to warrant getting stabbed for.
I watched Equilibrium recently, and it's a film about soulless people, who are conditioned to take a drug to prevent themselves from feeling any emotions. People who are found guilty of Sense crimes, are removed, and executed.
Maybe the Swedish people should watch this film, and see if this is how they want to be regarded.
It seems that the Swedish government doesn't want people to enjoy themselves, at all.
I think I've heard of that. Isn't that where the stupid people talk loudly, and make a fool of themselves, much like Slashdot? :)
Finally, I can upgrade, and remove "/some/shit/file" from /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to prevent the ptrace local root from working.
As soon as there are XFS patches for it....
distcc.samba.org. It's another fine piece of coding from the Samba team. It uses your standard gcc, and does parallel builds on other machines. Really speeds things up.
Maybe (just maybe) there'll be more than one link across. I.e. X * 11Mbits might be OK if X is a big enough number.
Free speech scares governments. That's why you need a licence to broadcast on the radio. (Sure, they say it's due to interference, etc.) If there were no ISPs, it would be a lot harder for the governments of this world to censor or block undesirable "mass communication".
With the current system, if Slashdot turned into a militant revolutionary site, inciting the citizens of the US to overthrow their government, the government could go to the ISP that Slashdot uses, and force it to pull the plug. That's why things like Freenet worry it too.
No mod points though :(
And XFS is good too. Got Samba compiled with ACL support, running on an XFS filesystem. The users don't know that it's not a Windows box.
REDHAT - START SUPPORTING XFS AND REISER DURING THE INSTALL. </rant>
Also, how do you know there isn't a MITM attack going on. GPG plugin for Licq, I say. (And to all the others - don't go on about Trillian. Some of us only use Linux here.)
I would like to see a GPG plugin for Licq. Some kind of ICQ user ID to GPG key id mapping file, so that I could say 12098242 = 0xe66d4af, and all communication from then on to that user would automatically be encrypted to that key. I know it has SSL encryption built in, but that doesn't work if you're both behind firewalls.
I started to try and work on it, but it was too tricky. Anyone interested in helping out?
gilesjuk
Unemployed c/c++ software engineer and general computer geek.
However, I have been plotting the number of Linux jobs since this time last year, and apart from the drop around Xmas, it only seems to have risen back to the level it was last year. Well, at least it's not dropping off, anyway.
It's not the getting files securely from A to B that's the problem - it's the "you-don't-know-who-you're-dealing-with" problem.
That's why (shameless plug to generate interest) using UDP with spoofed source addresses might be the only way to be truely anonymous. Of course that brings up other issues, such as scalibility, and flow control, but we're trying to work those out.
Not an an electron level. If you think about it, if you have a 5 volt signal on your hard disk, and you try and write a 0 onto it (0 volts), you might not wipe that 5 volts totally. Sure, you might get it down to 0.2 volts, which is well below the (for example) 1 volt you need for it to change from a 0 to a 1, but someone with enough time and money can tell that it was a 1 before you wrote your 0 over the top of it.
shred -uvz /path/to/file is fairly good though, I would think. 25 separate wipes, with differing patterns and random data. Shred comes with gpg.
Maybe at kernel compile time you generate your key pair, and the kernel will only run
Of course, that's probably slightly easier to write about that to do but...
I'm sure I'm not the first one to say this, or think this, but we already have a perfectly good global hierarchical naming convention. DNS.
So what's wrong with my address being calum@35.crescent.clifton.bs.uk for example?
Having made that point, I'd like to point out that I am a :wq man myself. Nothing funnier than a newb who forgets to press i, or a, and ends up doing some magic search and replace on their text with some magic vi key sequence.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Sounds like a worthy cause to me.
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Why not do a whois lookup, and you'll get the name, address, and email address of the guy who has registered it? If you don't have a whois command (most likely because you're running Windows), try www.samspade.org, who have a nice online set of utils.