Did you read the part about farmers, and chemical weapons depot(s)? Neither of those things like hippies!...and this being *rural* Oregon. All the "dirty hippies" I know live within walking distance of railroad tracks, in towns that sell organic foods at multiple markets, and have a wide variety of assistance programs, drum circles, etc... 'nuff profiling, anywhoo think Eugene or Portland for yer dirty hippies, ya dirty hippy!
From what I've seen, normal Wifi (802.11b and 802.11g) can suffer denial of service fairly easily, even with simply misconfigured clients. I'm not sure if WiMax addresses this, I hope so, but TFA says that the wireless network will cover surveillance presumedly for the chemical depot(s) as well as the shipping yard, and also that various emergency signs can be controlled by WiFi. Assuming they've got these devices and monitoring/control [sub]nets setup securely, it seems that they're still quite vulnerable to a simple denial of service attack. Taking out traffic lights and/or jamming radios is not a new idea to Bad Guys (and Bad Girls), it seems this makes it fairly easy to accomplish criminally-intented DoS with OTS components. I hope there's more to it, possibly a followup article from Wired, which has gotten so damned fufu in recent years.
More likely self-management in terms of employment regulations -- IIRC, if you're a contractor then your employer is not allowed to define the hours of when you work or don't work; they can only define milestones for your progress and set times for meetings they need you to attend.
You should get paid more, and have more freedom in this sense... and you'd need to be self-managing in terms of making yourself get the work done:)
If you're lucky, you might've found a job where you can pretty much set your own hours anyway -- i.e., if your employer trusts you and believes that you're more efficient and happy when working when you *want* to, then whee! Benefits of regular employment are nice, I do contract work on the side... and thus I've lost all freedom!;)
or for that matter, video. Cameraphone blogging is big, even if you could just create a soundtracked slideshow I think people would love it. Doesn't necessarily have to be AJAX, but as I said... fad. The server hardware wouldn't have to be so hefty or high-bandwidth if we started with PDA/cellphone mdeia.
The combination of AJAX with dynamic flash (plus current cultural toyboxes' evolution) seem ripe for a fairly high-end audio re-mixing app. Tie it into gmail where you can store and tag your samples, tie it into google maps to blog your geotagged mixes:) By golly...
Get it? There would be a somewhat limited set of functionality, but in the same way we're seeing the AJAX fad "eat" our existing application space, I'm suggesting that we regurgiate that (along with open source API's for server-built flash content) to reproduce Audacity or gnusound, and/or do a DJ-mix bit, instead of OpenOffice, duh. Office apps are boring, hello! Most folks want a rich media experience, we know that much.
One particular beauty here is that most remixers *want* high-end hardware, but don't really need that much bandwidth between their interface and the machine (just need high throughput internally for machine processing and storage). Interface latency would obviously be an issue, but with flash you can at least leave some of that to the client. Then the problem becomes: how do you hook up 2 USB turntables through your PDA and map them to in-browser controls?;)
So: build it. Hire me to help, whatever.
Ben
Across linux sources I've seen, binaries are less that source, uncompressed. So while it is obviously not a fixed ratio, the ratio of [uncompressed] source to binary is usually greater than 1, yah?;)
Ah yes, I had just come to that too. I my late-night confusion, it seems somehow unfortunate.
The binaries are compressed too, and shouldn't the overall information in the binaries, accounting for the density-differential and compression, still be less? It just isn't...
Can anyone speak to using "Amateur Radio" equipment to do this? I think the only ongoing costs would be power -- up-front costs include equipment and licensing, but I think you could get there (modem speed always-on) for under $100 on a budget, and possibly closer to megabit for 1k USD. I also hear that a) you can get into big trouble if your unlicnsed, and b) can lose your license and/or get into bigger trouble if you abuse your licensed privileges. IIRC there are no-code packet license now, which means you don't *have* to learn morse code to pass. This also uses some already-established [public?] radio infrastructure, namely repeaters, if I've made any sense of the subject at all... IANAH (hammer).
Am I way off here, folks?
Firstly, if you intend to keep the DVD's data intact, as in not re-encoded, there'll be a more difficult issue with CSS-encrypted DVDs. Even the libre software that decrypts is bound to the hardware device, AFAIK... please correct me on this!!
I think you might want to consider using Samba to share the drive images, in any case. I think it was the Linux Journal, which had an article about using it as a CD jukebox, using.iso images. The directory or directories of disk images are browsable, and can be made to appear such that each is its own disc in a platform-independent manner. I bet you could do the same for DVD's... and with a little work on existing projects, it'd become very popular. ( =
Nice idea -- it'd be cool if such an interface could help you point your antenna better, too! So when you have it in this mode, your picture would visibly get fuzzy when the bandwidth throttles back for instance. What'd be amazing, is if the antenna had multiple elements, and you could actually slide/pan the picture across the screen as you move the antenna ( = Crazy, huh?
Don't forget PLAC, the Portable Linux Auditing CD, which is very cool:
Project Homepage... be sure to check out the design, they use a compressed system image on the CD, to fit a 200+ meg image into ~50megs! Tight.
And the tools it comes with are designed for recovery and forensics, not demonstrating your sound and video cards.... so beware and enjoy!! The partitions are mounted read-only by default, for instance, and there are tools for undeleting files as well as for copying all data to a network-mounted filesystem, includes nfs samba ssh etc;^]
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Disclaimer: I am a farm boy... arguably a hippy but not dirty... anymore.
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still IDkrysez tho
Did you read the part about farmers, and chemical weapons depot(s)? Neither of those things like hippies! ...and this being *rural* Oregon. All the "dirty hippies" I know live within walking distance of railroad tracks, in towns that sell organic foods at multiple markets, and have a wide variety of assistance programs, drum circles, etc... 'nuff profiling, anywhoo think Eugene or Portland for yer dirty hippies, ya dirty hippy!
gah
From what I've seen, normal Wifi (802.11b and 802.11g) can suffer denial of service fairly easily, even with simply misconfigured clients. I'm not sure if WiMax addresses this, I hope so, but TFA says that the wireless network will cover surveillance presumedly for the chemical depot(s) as well as the shipping yard, and also that various emergency signs can be controlled by WiFi. Assuming they've got these devices and monitoring/control [sub]nets setup securely, it seems that they're still quite vulnerable to a simple denial of service attack. Taking out traffic lights and/or jamming radios is not a new idea to Bad Guys (and Bad Girls), it seems this makes it fairly easy to accomplish criminally-intented DoS with OTS components. I hope there's more to it, possibly a followup article from Wired, which has gotten so damned fufu in recent years.
Yay Oregon!
-IDkrysez
More likely self-management in terms of employment regulations -- IIRC, if you're a contractor then your employer is not allowed to define the hours of when you work or don't work; they can only define milestones for your progress and set times for meetings they need you to attend.
:)
;)
You should get paid more, and have more freedom in this sense... and you'd need to be self-managing in terms of making yourself get the work done
If you're lucky, you might've found a job where you can pretty much set your own hours anyway -- i.e., if your employer trusts you and believes that you're more efficient and happy when working when you *want* to, then whee! Benefits of regular employment are nice, I do contract work on the side... and thus I've lost all freedom!
-borg
or for that matter, video. Cameraphone blogging is big, even if you could just create a soundtracked slideshow I think people would love it. Doesn't necessarily have to be AJAX, but as I said... fad. The server hardware wouldn't have to be so hefty or high-bandwidth if we started with PDA/cellphone mdeia.
The combination of AJAX with dynamic flash (plus current cultural toyboxes' evolution) seem ripe for a fairly high-end audio re-mixing app. Tie it into gmail where you can store and tag your samples, tie it into google maps to blog your geotagged mixes :) By golly...
Get it? There would be a somewhat limited set of functionality, but in the same way we're seeing the AJAX fad "eat" our existing application space, I'm suggesting that we regurgiate that (along with open source API's for server-built flash content) to reproduce Audacity or gnusound, and/or do a DJ-mix bit, instead of OpenOffice, duh. Office apps are boring, hello! Most folks want a rich media experience, we know that much.
One particular beauty here is that most remixers *want* high-end hardware, but don't really need that much bandwidth between their interface and the machine (just need high throughput internally for machine processing and storage). Interface latency would obviously be an issue, but with flash you can at least leave some of that to the client. Then the problem becomes: how do you hook up 2 USB turntables through your PDA and map them to in-browser controls? ;)
So: build it. Hire me to help, whatever.
Ben
If it really isn't relevant, please elucidate...
The binaries are compressed too, and shouldn't the overall information in the binaries, accounting for the density-differential and compression, still be less? It just isn't...
Why are the binary torrent images listed as being bigger than the sources?? Er, am I being thick, huh?
Can anyone speak to using "Amateur Radio" equipment to do this? I think the only ongoing costs would be power -- up-front costs include equipment and licensing, but I think you could get there (modem speed always-on) for under $100 on a budget, and possibly closer to megabit for 1k USD. I also hear that a) you can get into big trouble if your unlicnsed, and b) can lose your license and/or get into bigger trouble if you abuse your licensed privileges. IIRC there are no-code packet license now, which means you don't *have* to learn morse code to pass. This also uses some already-established [public?] radio infrastructure, namely repeaters, if I've made any sense of the subject at all... IANAH (hammer). Am I way off here, folks?
What, are you talking about running a modem over VoIP?
Yes they will make for less privacy! When you pass through any RFID scanner that is DB-connected...
In reference to your "munge together" bit, check these out:
The LJ article I mentioned
A similar article
Firstly, if you intend to keep the DVD's data intact, as in not re-encoded, there'll be a more difficult issue with CSS-encrypted DVDs. Even the libre software that decrypts is bound to the hardware device, AFAIK... please correct me on this!!
.iso images. The directory or directories of disk images are browsable, and can be made to appear such that each is its own disc in a platform-independent manner. I bet you could do the same for DVD's... and with a little work on existing projects, it'd become very popular. ( =
I think you might want to consider using Samba to share the drive images, in any case. I think it was the Linux Journal, which had an article about using it as a CD jukebox, using
(oh, you can do nfs simultaneously if'n you like)
Nice idea -- it'd be cool if such an interface could help you point your antenna better, too! So when you have it in this mode, your picture would visibly get fuzzy when the bandwidth throttles back for instance. What'd be amazing, is if the antenna had multiple elements, and you could actually slide/pan the picture across the screen as you move the antenna ( = Crazy, huh?
regards!
And the tools it comes with are designed for recovery and forensics, not demonstrating your sound and video cards.... so beware and enjoy!! The partitions are mounted read-only by default, for instance, and there are tools for undeleting files as well as for copying all data to a network-mounted filesystem, includes nfs samba ssh etc ;^]