I would love to jam a monster like this into my shuttle. It's the fastest coolest little machine I've ever owned. Some problems dual booting into debian on it, but I think I've got those mostly ironed out at this point.
So, is it a matter of it not working AT ALL unless there's two PCI-x slots? And for that matter unless there are TWO of them? Of course that would leave the SFF crowd out.
But seeing as AGP is merely a modified PCI slot, I wonder if we'll see an AGP version of this card. And for that matter if this new card sort of works like the old (mindblowing at the time) voodoo2 cards where if you had one, it was great and if you had TWO it was brain-shattering. Or is it an absolute MUST that there be two?
And lastly, what about heat on these suckers? Doesn't look too good for an SFF machine, but I would love it if it did work. The portability to gaming sessions alone is of immeasurable value to my SFF enthusiasm. I would however, depending on how much expendible income I could free up build another big-box around this system. Not just for gaming, but I think these cards would give the old Oxygen cards a run for their money for Maya. And oh yeah, not that I'm holding my breath on this one, (I'm sure this has been asked elsewhere) but what about linux drivers?
Note that the article only covers installing and configuring win4lin. Win4lin doesn't support XP or NT. EMC's VMware, a powerful virtual machine capable of running Windows NT, 2000, and XP; Linux; and Novell NetWare. The Samba team uses it to run multiple different Windows versions to test their SMB file server. Its only disadvantages are its preference for NT over Windows 9x, its cost ($299), and the need for a powerful PC..
If I were to run an emulator I'd have to have XP/NT capabilities. But $299 is kinda steep. And WINE doesn't suport the example app from the article MS project. Why would WINE not support an app like that? I thought it offered direct support for (in theory) just about any windows app?
It's a neat device, but like almost all sony products you pay a premium to have the letters S-O-N-Y emblazoned on the case. It's annoying, but I put up with it, because they do offer innovations and impressive industrial design they usually offer. Almost always aesthetically pleasing and nice technology. A rare combination from a manufacturer I find.
I also think that while I truly enjoy having a "multicultural computing environment at home" (Debian/Apache/Php/Perl/MySQL/Sendmail, WinXP/Server2003/Exchange, Mac OS-X -server and client, Novell, and yes even Amiga and NeXT for nostalgic purposes) having a "unified industrial design philosphy" in the components in my entertainment center is just a plain old good idea. All of the components integrate seemlessly, no muss, no fuss. They just talk to each other on equal terms and that's great.
But, as I mentioned the look of their equipment is usually beautiful and melds nicely with my apartment's metropolitan look. Always assume with Sony equipment, you'll run into a premium price tag. One real problem with that is that they both ACHIEVE spectacularly and FAIL just as spectacularly. And their Wega TV's are just a jaw dropper to behold.
But, for the Sonyphilic, it may be useful to see my earlier rant on how bad their DVD carousel changers are. They're still cool to have (like having a personal TV station, I tell people), but mine broke on the stroke of midnight on the day its warranty expired. I called their support and they said "Oh yeah! We know about the mechanisms in those machines. They're faulty. But wer're going to have to pop you for $150 for repair since you're out of warranty". One thing I heartily recommend if you are buying sony entertainment products for your home is to GET THE STORE WARRANTY that BestBuy and places like it usually try to pressure sell you into.
I normally avoid those ripoff store warranties like the PLAGUE and on a couple of occasions stormed out of the store angry when the sales guy (and then his MANAGER) just wouldn't SHUT THE FUCK UP about it. These were times when I walked into the story feeling excited about the equipment I'd be buying (car stereos and what not, that stuff I go higher end than Sony). But Sony's support staffs are so universally abysmal, that when the sales guy utters the first syllable about their ripoff warranties I just say: SOLD! So, please say no more before I have to belt you in the mouth! I figure I'm already getting ripped to enhance the 'metroplitan look' of my home, why not go the extra mile so I can save myself the temptation of crawling through the phone lines to strangle a Sony support rep!
...how many *think* they can't live without web access? Offline working can be surprisingly productive, and as it often forces more thinking and planning (e.g. in preparation for being back online, and just thinking through what would happen of you could be online) the results end up being better.
F'real. To think, theydidallthat even before the Altair was a twinkle in Ed Roberts' jockey shorts!
Very cool story. Be even cooler if I hadn't seen it before. Right here. And it's a
'merican whose applied for the patent.
The idea of an "invisibility cloak" has made the leap from science
fiction books to an international patent application. Ray Alden of
North Carolina is attempting to patent a "three dimensional cloaking
process and apparatus" for concealing objects and people (WO
02/067196).
Only if you restrict your definition of 'nonzero' to that in game theory, not that which is in wide use in engineering, physics and mathematics. And I wasn't discussing game theory at all. The more general meaning of the word 'nonzero' is "that which is not zero". Which is indeed what the etymology of the word would apply
I was using the term in a sociological context, bub. BTW, since you're so well versed in engineering and it's terminology I'm sure you know that all computers built since the dawn of time (computing) to this day are said to use a "Von Neumann architecture"? Von Neumann was a mathematical genius, the father of the modern computational model and the original pioneer of game theory.
I think it's probably just fair to say that the number of Linux-scriptkiddie wannabies is as nonzero as the number of Windows-scriptkiddie wannabies,
I think you're misusing the term nonzero in this context. As far as I understand a Von Neumann stated that zerosum game theory indicates an "I win, you lose!" mentality.
That would be (since I don't know squat about sports): let's say that football "team a" plays football "team b". Team A wins the game. All of the members of "team a" were playing to a common goal...winning the game! Therefore, all of the members of "team a" were playing a "nonzero sum game" whose goal was to "win". So were "team b", but "team b" as a whole lost the zerosum game.
Exactly... there are a lot of old computers out there and a 53rd birthday is nothing special (nor, really, is a 50th birthday, but we do attach meaning to that) I'm totally with you man. However, I will be looking forward to it's 0x37 bday on 0xE067D6.
...They were removed almost immediately, but not before dozens of people had already posted about the mistake on the official Star Wars Galaxies forum."
C'mon man! The Star Wars universe has ALWAYS been about Soviet style revisionism with Lucas playing the part of Ulianov! Hey, it's HIS toy universe so if you don't like his choices well, he's already got his billions. so nyah!
Need I go into specifics? Greedo...blah...George going all schizo on "Yes there is/No There won't be" a third trilogy (he claims both at various points in his career)...blah....Natalie Portman to be "photoshopped" into DVD release of SW SE...blah....
Long and the short, let's cut to the chase, shall we? When it comes to something that either will/will not happen with the Star Wars universe, whatever my degree of fanboy nerdniness on the matter at any given point in my life I just "go all zen" about the topic. Either it happens, or it don't. I just don't get my panties in a wad over ANY SW crap anymore. Or maybe, hopefully, I'm just getting too old to care!:)
I do like SWG, but unfortunately life prevents me from getting too much into it. Plus, I was turned off by the lousy physics. Can you still walk through walls on this game, or have they fixed that?
I think it is fairly safe to assume that it being a vacation rental, presumably not in a resort community for programmers,
NEWSFLASH: programmers are as likely to take a vacation as much as anyone. You don't need to be a programmer to get admin access to a box you have physical access to. Any dumbass teenager with a book and an interest in computers can compromise your system. The point is, you can't assume who's going to be there. Security through obscurity ain't the answer, genius!
that choices #1-5 will be windows 9x+, #6 might be mac OS X, with linux battling it out at #7 with windows 3.1. I am not trying to be all anti-linux here, but this is a vacation setting, you want to keep people as happy and comfortable as possible, not completely shatter some average guy's self perception of computer literacy.
Good point. You don't want anyone to feel down on themselves cause they can't use linux. But, again, the point is you don't know whose going to be using the box. And linux is fine for cruising the web and using email (which is what any average user does anyway. GNOME, AQUA, XP...pheh! Whatever. If there's physical access+knowledge it doesn't take a genius to crack it.
As for protecting what damage the computer can do to the rest of the world, there are also easy OS agnostic solutions you did not realize- mainly a firewall. blocking all outgoing/ingoing ports except port 80 should keep anyone protected.
. If it's a linksys, just make sure paperclips are safely locked away and buy up all the local office supply stores of their stash.
And you never mentioned your ISP. If they don't block port 25, and you're tennents are visiting from.ru I'd lay dollars to donuts they could get get a mad spam relay station going for their russian bride business!
Unless someone needs VPN access to their job, it is reasonable to only restrict them to the web.
Yup. VPN would break your security measures too. So first you assume that the people using the vacation box are know-nothing ninnehammers and all of sudden they know how to use VPN? Make up y'r mind!
Yeah if someone knowledgable really wants to get around the system, they can... but who really rents a vacation house when they can go to a library.
Another newsflash: geeks like the beach as much as anyone. I used to live 500 feet from a gorgeous NJ beach. Loved it. hacking, videogames, getting blasted, cruising the boards and bodysurfing. Twas the life.
There is a threat of an axe murderer renting it and burying bodies in the basement, does that mean you recommend putting video surveilence down there?
No, but if your ISP is dumb enough to have smtp relay turned off, you may want to bring an axe the next time you visit these tennants. Depending on whether of course, they are in fact using your station for spam relay.
Your idea of screening tenants to see what computer background they have is silly. hes renting a vacation house with a computer, not a computer with a vacation house.
Missed the point entirely. That wasn't where I was coming from, sparky. Point I was making is that you simply don't know. You read way too much Ionesco.
It is posts like this that really make me want a (-1, stick up ass) moderation.
I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was addressing a 12 year old. If I did, I would've coddled you more and thrown a few more "power rangers" references in to make you feel more at home. The entire point of what I wrote is that, without providing ANY specifics, how can anyone give you serious help? By the way, I know your sarcasm detector is way off...I was kidding about the paperclips. Just keep the linksys under lock and key. Even that won't stop Joe Uberh4xor on vaycay...
As to the first 'W'...What OS? As to the second 'w' WHO???? Since it's likely you won't know who the hell your renting to, security of the type you seek is nearly impossible to determine. If the name on the rental agreement. is "Bea, Aunt", you might be a-okay. If the name is "Kevin, Mitnick", you might some larger issues. Also, you don't mention what, if any screening process you may want to enact. Even there, screening might not be enough. If it's the name on the renter's agreement is "Average, Joe", but joe doesn't list that he was the BOFH of a large University you are hosed. NT or Linux. If it's NOT some BOFH, but just some dude who knows how to download ebcd froma.ru site or how to throw vmlinuz onto a floppy...hosed again.
Sorry, but you simply don't list enough specifics for any of us to help you with 'w' #1 and 'w' #2. 'w' # 3 matters not in any case. How the heck did this one get by the editors???
One word: Perl. Compared to C/C++ it is poetry. Introduce her to a friendly llama. If she gets stuck, introduce her to some monks who have shown willingness to help out a beginnger. What you'll find is that they are especially kind if you explain who you are, what you're up against and why you want to do what you want to do.
Hey guys, sorry for the repost! I know this is
bad, no TERRIBLE netiquette. But it was attached to a story that only garnered 9 comments,
but I really think that more people should know and think about this stuff. I hope the same thing doesn't happen to this story, or my name'll really be mud!:D
A couple of years ago at the last "HOPE" conference was the first time I heard of this idea of the "deep web". This year's shindig is happening July 9th
through the 11th. I wonder if chosing those those dates was merely a coincidence this...
The topic was something called
"Hacking National Security" in wchich the speaker, Robert Steele, first brought up this concept and mentioned what he
described as a "deep web search engine" called Copernic.
However, I've found that product (there is a free variant) basically queries a list of different search engines. This is not what I
would consider a "deep web search" now that I have learned a little more about the term. But that was the first I'd
heard of it.
Robert Steele can be forgiven for being a bit technically naive. Because his specialty is
National Security and not technology. But he had a lot to say that was of salient interest to technology minded
folks. Why else would he have had a panel discussion at a hacker conference?
What I learned from him is that
search engines like google and others only are able to skim roughly 5% of the total content of the web. Everything
underneath that 5% is the "Deep Web". This is what he claimed the global terror networks are using to communicate
with each other. And, most alarmingly, that the NSA - Amerca's
Information Processing branch of the government was COMPLETELY ill equiped, even ignorant of terror groups freely
trafficking their plans on the web. Talk about our most "advanced" information processing governmental body! Note the
lack of a CNAME entry in their DNS record! Don't forget the "www" now! yeesh! At any rate I read an interesting book
about them way back in the 80s called The Puzzle Palace. But I'm sure it's way dated by now. I read it way back in 87. Did
you know that they are roughly 3 times the size and girth of the CIA...and yet hardly any of the lay populace seems
to have heard of them! I once dated a "know it all" (how do you ever learn anything if you already "know it all"?) bad-poetry, arty farty
girlfriend who claimed that I was "making the whole thing up" when I tried explaining to her about the NSA! May I say
again, "yeesh"? Literally COULD NOT convince her otherwise...I digress...
Now hold on a minute here! Just how dated would you suppose that book to have been? One of Robert Steele's pet
peeves was the extreme datedness of NSA tecnology. Being a government agency (FLAGSHIP of intelligence agencies!) a
good hunk of their computer technology dated back to the 70s. This was still the case as of 2002, mind you, and if I
understood him correctly.
Now, another of his compaints was the lack of native speakers hired by the agency.
That is, instead of hiring a native Pashto speaker, they will instead almost unerringly hire the "blond haired, blue
eyed, cocky midwestern jock" (his words not mine)
A couple of years ago at the last "HOPE" conference (this year's is happening July 9-11, this summer) was the first time I heard of this idea of the "deep web".
The topic was something called "Hacking National Security" in wchich the speaker, Robert Steele, first brought up this concept and mentioned what he described as a "deep web search engine" called Copernic. However, I've found that product (there is a free variant) is basically queries a list of different search engines. This is not what I would consider a "deep web search" now that I have learned a little more about the term. But that was the first I'd heard of it.
Robert Steele can be forgiven for being a bit technically naive. Because his specialty is National Security and not technology. But he had a lot to say that was of salient interest to technology minded folks. Why else would he have had a panel discussion at a hacker conference?
What I learned from him is that search engines like google and others only are able to skim roughly 5% of the total content of the web. Everything underneath that 5% is the "Deep Web". This is what he claimed the global terror networks are using to communicate with each other. And, most alarmingly, that the NSA - Amerca's Information Processing branch of the government was COMPLETELY ill equiped, even ignorant of terror groups freely trafficking their plans on the web. Talk about our most "advanced" information processing governmental body! Note the lack of a CNAME entry in their DNS record! Don't forget the "www" now! yeesh! At any rate I read an interesting book about them way back in the 80s called The Puzzle Palace. But I'm sure it's way dated by now. I read it way back in 87. Did you know that they are roughly 3 times the size and girth of the CIA...and yet hardly any of the lay populace seems to have heard of them! I once dated a "know it all" (how do you ever learn anything if you already "know it all"?) bad-poetry, arty farty girlfriend who claimed that I was "making the whole thing up" when I tried explaining to her about the NSA! May I say again, "yeesh"? Literally COULD NOT convince her otherwise...I digress...
Now hold on a minute here! Just how dated would you suppose that book to have been? One of Robert Steele's pet peeves was the extreme datedness of NSA tecnology. Being a government agency (FLAGSHIP of intelligence agencies!) a good hunk of their computer technology dated back to the 70s. This was still the case as of 2002, mind you, and if I understood him correctly.
Now, another of his compaints was the lack of native speakers hired by the agency. That is, instead of hiring a native Pashto speaker, they will instead almost unerringly hire the "blond haired, blue eyed, cocky midwestern jock" (his words not mine) with a degree from an Ivy League school in linguistics who has a generalists knowledge. What's wrong with a young PHD in linguistics tending to these matters? According to Mr Steele that even the best generalists knowledge will not catch the flavor or nuance of language spoken on the terror sites. What's lost in the translation? Not much...if you don't count our National Security.
Also according to him, the "terrorist community" (I know that's an over-used term in this day and age...please try to bear with me, here) knows this and thrives doing so.
Amazing how easy it is to feell like a gray haired grumpy old man at 35 when it comes to the web! eeehhh...when I was a kid, we had 4 KAAAAY of CORE MEMORY...1 MHz and NO SHOES! and we LIKED IT!!!
In 1974, Ted Nelson had some thoughts to share on this very topic in his revolutionary book Computer Lib. As the "crackpot, visionary, gadfly" he calls himself he stated that "Universities require higher math (usually calculus and at minimum linear algebra) before allowing students to program a computer. This is preposterous! This is akin to requiring a PHD in mechanics in order to drive a car down the road! Grade school kids can - and do - learn how to program computers with no math background at all!"
This is a paraphrase, because unfortunately I don't have my copy in front of me at the moment. But I believe I got it pretty close. While I agree with Ted on the whole, I also concede that it entirely depends on what you want to do with your programming projects.
If it's got anything at all to do with breaking apart, twiddling or mangling things like sound and video and many applications of graphics then yes higher math will be a requirement. It will also be useful in helping one think logically enough to handle programmatic tasks more easily.
That being said, there are still many many programmatic tasks you can accomplish...to make your life easier because someone else hasn't in the area you're programming in, or just to learn the internals - the process! - of programming: Ted was dead on (as he was about a lot of things!). No math will be required for a great many tasks!
Sprint's DS-3 network cards were stolen from a Verizon colocation center at 38th St in Manhattan.
38th and what??? My dry cleaners...where I get my assortment of workmen's - varying professions - overalls...done is on 36th and 3rd...wanna play "name that contractor"?
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4 grand? Dont you mean 40 grand for an M3?
4G is probably the down payment one would need to get the monthly down to between $3-400 a month.
SFF = Small Form Factor.
I would love to jam a monster like this into my shuttle. It's the fastest coolest little machine I've ever owned. Some problems dual booting into debian on it, but I think I've got those mostly ironed out at this point.
So, is it a matter of it not working AT ALL unless there's two PCI-x slots? And for that matter unless there are TWO of them? Of course that would leave the SFF crowd out.
But seeing as AGP is merely a modified PCI slot, I wonder if we'll see an AGP version of this card. And for that matter if this new card sort of works like the old (mindblowing at the time) voodoo2 cards where if you had one, it was great and if you had TWO it was brain-shattering. Or is it an absolute MUST that there be two?
And lastly, what about heat on these suckers? Doesn't look too good for an SFF machine, but I would love it if it did work. The portability to gaming sessions alone is of immeasurable value to my SFF enthusiasm. I would however, depending on how much expendible income I could free up build another big-box around this system. Not just for gaming, but I think these cards would give the old Oxygen cards a run for their money for Maya. And oh yeah, not that I'm holding my breath on this one, (I'm sure this has been asked elsewhere) but what about linux drivers?
Note that the article only covers installing and configuring win4lin. Win4lin doesn't support XP or NT. EMC's VMware, a powerful virtual machine capable of running Windows NT, 2000, and XP; Linux; and Novell NetWare. The Samba team uses it to run multiple different Windows versions to test their SMB file server. Its only disadvantages are its preference for NT over Windows 9x, its cost ($299), and the need for a powerful PC..
If I were to run an emulator I'd have to have XP/NT capabilities. But $299 is kinda steep. And WINE doesn't suport the example app from the article MS project. Why would WINE not support an app like that? I thought it offered direct support for (in theory) just about any windows app?
It's a neat device, but like almost all sony products you pay a premium to have the letters S-O-N-Y emblazoned on the case. It's annoying, but I put up with it, because they do offer innovations and impressive industrial design they usually offer. Almost always aesthetically pleasing and nice technology. A rare combination from a manufacturer I find.
I also think that while I truly enjoy having a "multicultural computing environment at home" (Debian/Apache/Php/Perl/MySQL/Sendmail, WinXP/Server2003/Exchange, Mac OS-X -server and client, Novell, and yes even Amiga and NeXT for nostalgic purposes) having a "unified industrial design philosphy" in the components in my entertainment center is just a plain old good idea. All of the components integrate seemlessly, no muss, no fuss. They just talk to each other on equal terms and that's great.
But, as I mentioned the look of their equipment is usually beautiful and melds nicely with my apartment's metropolitan look. Always assume with Sony equipment, you'll run into a premium price tag. One real problem with that is that they both ACHIEVE spectacularly and FAIL just as spectacularly. And their Wega TV's are just a jaw dropper to behold.
But, for the Sonyphilic, it may be useful to see my earlier rant on how bad their DVD carousel changers are. They're still cool to have (like having a personal TV station, I tell people), but mine broke on the stroke of midnight on the day its warranty expired. I called their support and they said "Oh yeah! We know about the mechanisms in those machines. They're faulty. But wer're going to have to pop you for $150 for repair since you're out of warranty". One thing I heartily recommend if you are buying sony entertainment products for your home is to GET THE STORE WARRANTY that BestBuy and places like it usually try to pressure sell you into.
I normally avoid those ripoff store warranties like the PLAGUE and on a couple of occasions stormed out of the store angry when the sales guy (and then his MANAGER) just wouldn't SHUT THE FUCK UP about it. These were times when I walked into the story feeling excited about the equipment I'd be buying (car stereos and what not, that stuff I go higher end than Sony). But Sony's support staffs are so universally abysmal, that when the sales guy utters the first syllable about their ripoff warranties I just say: SOLD! So, please say no more before I have to belt you in the mouth! I figure I'm already getting ripped to enhance the 'metroplitan look' of my home, why not go the extra mile so I can save myself the temptation of crawling through the phone lines to strangle a Sony support rep!
...how many *think* they can't live without web access? Offline working can be surprisingly productive, and as it often forces more thinking and planning (e.g. in preparation for being back online, and just thinking through what would happen of you could be online) the results end up being better.
F'real. To think, they did all that even before the Altair was a twinkle in Ed Roberts' jockey shorts!
okay, he's in a meeting so I can say this openly. I know that _I_ can't go a day, an hour even a minute without a touch of my favorite fix! shhhhh!!!
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On Yahoo Groups.Very cool story. Be even cooler if I hadn't seen it before. Right here. And it's a 'merican whose applied for the patent.
The idea of an "invisibility cloak" has made the leap from science fiction books to an international patent application. Ray Alden of North Carolina is attempting to patent a "three dimensional cloaking process and apparatus" for concealing objects and people (WO 02/067196).
Only if you restrict your definition of 'nonzero' to that in game theory, not that which is in wide use in engineering, physics and mathematics. And I wasn't discussing game theory at all. The more general meaning of the word 'nonzero' is "that which is not zero". Which is indeed what the etymology of the word would apply
I was using the term in a sociological context, bub. BTW, since you're so well versed in engineering and it's terminology I'm sure you know that all computers built since the dawn of time (computing) to this day are said to use a "Von Neumann architecture"? Von Neumann was a mathematical genius, the father of the modern computational model and the original pioneer of game theory.
I think it's probably just fair to say that the number of Linux-scriptkiddie wannabies is as nonzero as the number of Windows-scriptkiddie wannabies,
I think you're misusing the term nonzero in this context. As far as I understand a Von Neumann stated that zerosum game theory indicates an "I win, you lose!" mentality.
That would be (since I don't know squat about sports): let's say that football "team a" plays football "team b". Team A wins the game. All of the members of "team a" were playing to a common goal...winning the game! Therefore, all of the members of "team a" were playing a "nonzero sum game" whose goal was to "win". So were "team b", but "team b" as a whole lost the zerosum game.
Exactly... there are a lot of old computers out there and a 53rd birthday is nothing special (nor, really, is a 50th birthday, but we do attach meaning to that)
I'm totally with you man. However, I will be looking forward to it's 0x37 bday on 0xE067D6.
...They were removed almost immediately, but not before dozens of people had already posted about the mistake on the official Star Wars Galaxies forum."
...blah....
:)
C'mon man! The Star Wars universe has ALWAYS been about Soviet style revisionism with Lucas playing the part of Ulianov! Hey, it's HIS toy universe so if you don't like his choices well, he's already got his billions. so nyah!
Need I go into specifics? Greedo...blah...George going all schizo on "Yes there is/No There won't be" a third trilogy (he claims both at various points in his career)...blah....Natalie Portman to be "photoshopped" into DVD release of SW SE
Long and the short, let's cut to the chase, shall we? When it comes to something that either will/will not happen with the Star Wars universe, whatever my degree of fanboy nerdniness on the matter at any given point in my life I just "go all zen" about the topic. Either it happens, or it don't. I just don't get my panties in a wad over ANY SW crap anymore. Or maybe, hopefully, I'm just getting too old to care!
I do like SWG, but unfortunately life prevents me from getting too much into it. Plus, I was turned off by the lousy physics. Can you still walk through walls on this game, or have they fixed that?
"proven the Riemann hypothesis, considered to be the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics.
Cool! Now that this one's been done, I guess all of the other hypothoses'll be proven||disproven in a snap!
Non-profit as in reaally non profit? Or non-profit as in United Wayyyyy non-profit?
who are about to use a slow connection...we salute you!...
Ist hier die Verbindung auf englisch....or..."here is the link in English". Well, according to babelfish anyway...
I think it is fairly safe to assume that it being a vacation rental, presumably not in a resort community for programmers,
.ru I'd lay dollars to donuts they could get get a mad spam relay station going for their russian bride business!
NEWSFLASH: programmers are as likely to take a vacation as much as anyone. You don't need to be a programmer to get admin access to a box you have physical access to. Any dumbass teenager with a book and an interest in computers can compromise your system. The point is, you can't assume who's going to be there. Security through obscurity ain't the answer, genius!
that choices #1-5 will be windows 9x+, #6 might be mac OS X, with linux battling it out at #7 with windows 3.1. I am not trying to be all anti-linux here, but this is a vacation setting, you want to keep people as happy and comfortable as possible, not completely shatter some average guy's self perception of computer literacy.
Good point. You don't want anyone to feel down on themselves cause they can't use linux. But, again, the point is you don't know whose going to be using the box. And linux is fine for cruising the web and using email (which is what any average user does anyway. GNOME, AQUA, XP...pheh! Whatever. If there's physical access+knowledge it doesn't take a genius to crack it.
As for protecting what damage the computer can do to the rest of the world, there are also easy OS agnostic solutions you did not realize- mainly a firewall. blocking all outgoing/ingoing ports except port 80 should keep anyone protected.
. If it's a linksys, just make sure paperclips are safely locked away and buy up all the local office supply stores of their stash.
And you never mentioned your ISP. If they don't block port 25, and you're tennents are visiting from
Unless someone needs VPN access to their job, it is reasonable to only restrict them to the web.
Yup. VPN would break your security measures too. So first you assume that the people using the vacation box are know-nothing ninnehammers and all of sudden they know how to use VPN? Make up y'r mind!
Yeah if someone knowledgable really wants to get around the system, they can... but who really rents a vacation house when they can go to a library.
Another newsflash: geeks like the beach as much as anyone. I used to live 500 feet from a gorgeous NJ beach. Loved it. hacking, videogames, getting blasted, cruising the boards and bodysurfing. Twas the life.
There is a threat of an axe murderer renting it and burying bodies in the basement, does that mean you recommend putting video surveilence down there?
No, but if your ISP is dumb enough to have smtp relay turned off, you may want to bring an axe the next time you visit these tennants. Depending on whether of course, they are in fact using your station for spam relay.
Your idea of screening tenants to see what computer background they have is silly. hes renting a vacation house with a computer, not a computer with a vacation house.
Missed the point entirely. That wasn't where I was coming from, sparky. Point I was making is that you simply don't know. You read way too much Ionesco.
It is posts like this that really make me want a (-1, stick up ass) moderation.
I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was addressing a 12 year old. If I did, I would've coddled you more and thrown a few more "power rangers" references in to make you feel more at home. The entire point of what I wrote is that, without providing ANY specifics, how can anyone give you serious help? By the way, I know your sarcasm detector is way off...I was kidding about the paperclips. Just keep the linksys under lock and key. Even that won't stop Joe Uberh4xor on vaycay...
As to the first 'W'...What OS? As to the second 'w' WHO???? Since it's likely you won't know who the hell your renting to, security of the type you seek is nearly impossible to determine. If the name on the rental agreement. is "Bea, Aunt", you might be a-okay. If the name is "Kevin, Mitnick", you might some larger issues. Also, you don't mention what, if any screening process you may want to enact. Even there, screening might not be enough. If it's the name on the renter's agreement is "Average, Joe", but joe doesn't list that he was the BOFH of a large University you are hosed. NT or Linux. If it's NOT some BOFH, but just some dude who knows how to download ebcd froma .ru site or how to throw vmlinuz onto a floppy...hosed again.
Sorry, but you simply don't list enough specifics for any of us to help you with 'w' #1 and 'w' #2. 'w' # 3 matters not in any case. How the heck did this one get by the editors???
One word: Perl. Compared to C/C++ it is poetry. Introduce her to a friendly llama. If she gets stuck, introduce her to some monks who have shown willingness to help out a beginnger. What you'll find is that they are especially kind if you explain who you are, what you're up against and why you want to do what you want to do.
Hey guys, sorry for the repost! I know this is bad, no TERRIBLE netiquette. But it was attached to a story that only garnered 9 comments, but I really think that more people should know and think about this stuff. I hope the same thing doesn't happen to this story, or my name'll really be mud! :D
A couple of years ago at the last "HOPE" conference was the first time I heard of this idea of the "deep web". This year's shindig is happening July 9th through the 11th. I wonder if chosing those those dates was merely a coincidence this...
The topic was something called "Hacking National Security" in wchich the speaker, Robert Steele, first brought up this concept and mentioned what he described as a "deep web search engine" called Copernic. However, I've found that product (there is a free variant) basically queries a list of different search engines. This is not what I would consider a "deep web search" now that I have learned a little more about the term. But that was the first I'd heard of it.
Robert Steele can be forgiven for being a bit technically naive. Because his specialty is National Security and not technology. But he had a lot to say that was of salient interest to technology minded folks. Why else would he have had a panel discussion at a hacker conference?
What I learned from him is that search engines like google and others only are able to skim roughly 5% of the total content of the web. Everything underneath that 5% is the "Deep Web". This is what he claimed the global terror networks are using to communicate with each other. And, most alarmingly, that the NSA - Amerca's Information Processing branch of the government was COMPLETELY ill equiped, even ignorant of terror groups freely trafficking their plans on the web. Talk about our most "advanced" information processing governmental body! Note the lack of a CNAME entry in their DNS record! Don't forget the "www" now! yeesh! At any rate I read an interesting book about them way back in the 80s called The Puzzle Palace. But I'm sure it's way dated by now. I read it way back in 87. Did you know that they are roughly 3 times the size and girth of the CIA...and yet hardly any of the lay populace seems to have heard of them! I once dated a "know it all" (how do you ever learn anything if you already "know it all"?) bad-poetry, arty farty girlfriend who claimed that I was "making the whole thing up" when I tried explaining to her about the NSA! May I say again, "yeesh"? Literally COULD NOT convince her otherwise...I digress...
Now hold on a minute here! Just how dated would you suppose that book to have been? One of Robert Steele's pet peeves was the extreme datedness of NSA tecnology. Being a government agency (FLAGSHIP of intelligence agencies!) a good hunk of their computer technology dated back to the 70s. This was still the case as of 2002, mind you, and if I understood him correctly.
Now, another of his compaints was the lack of native speakers hired by the agency. That is, instead of hiring a native Pashto speaker, they will instead almost unerringly hire the "blond haired, blue eyed, cocky midwestern jock" (his words not mine)
A couple of years ago at the last "HOPE" conference (this year's is happening July 9-11, this summer) was the first time I heard of this idea of the "deep web".
The topic was something called "Hacking National Security" in wchich the speaker, Robert Steele, first brought up this concept and mentioned what he described as a "deep web search engine" called Copernic. However, I've found that product (there is a free variant) is basically queries a list of different search engines. This is not what I would consider a "deep web search" now that I have learned a little more about the term. But that was the first I'd heard of it.
Robert Steele can be forgiven for being a bit technically naive. Because his specialty is National Security and not technology. But he had a lot to say that was of salient interest to technology minded folks. Why else would he have had a panel discussion at a hacker conference?
What I learned from him is that search engines like google and others only are able to skim roughly 5% of the total content of the web. Everything underneath that 5% is the "Deep Web". This is what he claimed the global terror networks are using to communicate with each other. And, most alarmingly, that the NSA - Amerca's Information Processing branch of the government was COMPLETELY ill equiped, even ignorant of terror groups freely trafficking their plans on the web. Talk about our most "advanced" information processing governmental body! Note the lack of a CNAME entry in their DNS record! Don't forget the "www" now! yeesh! At any rate I read an interesting book about them way back in the 80s called The Puzzle Palace. But I'm sure it's way dated by now. I read it way back in 87. Did you know that they are roughly 3 times the size and girth of the CIA...and yet hardly any of the lay populace seems to have heard of them! I once dated a "know it all" (how do you ever learn anything if you already "know it all"?) bad-poetry, arty farty girlfriend who claimed that I was "making the whole thing up" when I tried explaining to her about the NSA! May I say again, "yeesh"? Literally COULD NOT convince her otherwise...I digress...
Now hold on a minute here! Just how dated would you suppose that book to have been? One of Robert Steele's pet peeves was the extreme datedness of NSA tecnology. Being a government agency (FLAGSHIP of intelligence agencies!) a good hunk of their computer technology dated back to the 70s. This was still the case as of 2002, mind you, and if I understood him correctly.
Now, another of his compaints was the lack of native speakers hired by the agency. That is, instead of hiring a native Pashto speaker, they will instead almost unerringly hire the "blond haired, blue eyed, cocky midwestern jock" (his words not mine) with a degree from an Ivy League school in linguistics who has a generalists knowledge. What's wrong with a young PHD in linguistics tending to these matters? According to Mr Steele that even the best generalists knowledge will not catch the flavor or nuance of language spoken on the terror sites. What's lost in the translation? Not much...if you don't count our National Security.
Also according to him, the "terrorist community" (I know that's an over-used term in this day and age...please try to bear with me, here) knows this and thrives doing so.
One major point of contention he had wa
Or should we just play it safe due to the likelyhood of potential legal wranglings with large commercial interests and start calling it The Symantec Web before the boys in charge decide to open up a keg on your hippy ass!!! I'm sure El Capitan would be none too pleased, but hey! You certainly can't please everybody! These are the times we're living in!
Amazing how easy it is to feell like a gray haired grumpy old man at 35 when it comes to the web! eeehhh...when I was a kid, we had 4 KAAAAY of CORE MEMORY...1 MHz and NO SHOES! and we LIKED IT!!!
In 1974, Ted Nelson had some thoughts to share on this very topic in his revolutionary book Computer Lib. As the "crackpot, visionary, gadfly" he calls himself he stated that "Universities require higher math (usually calculus and at minimum linear algebra) before allowing students to program a computer. This is preposterous! This is akin to requiring a PHD in mechanics in order to drive a car down the road! Grade school kids can - and do - learn how to program computers with no math background at all!"
This is a paraphrase, because unfortunately I don't have my copy in front of me at the moment. But I believe I got it pretty close. While I agree with Ted on the whole, I also concede that it entirely depends on what you want to do with your programming projects.
If it's got anything at all to do with breaking apart, twiddling or mangling things like sound and video and many applications of graphics then yes higher math will be a requirement. It will also be useful in helping one think logically enough to handle programmatic tasks more easily.
That being said, there are still many many programmatic tasks you can accomplish...to make your life easier because someone else hasn't in the area you're programming in, or just to learn the internals - the process! - of programming: Ted was dead on (as he was about a lot of things!). No math will be required for a great many tasks!
Sprint's DS-3 network cards were stolen from a Verizon colocation center at 38th St in Manhattan.
38th and what??? My dry cleaners...where I get my assortment of workmen's - varying professions - overalls...done is on 36th and 3rd...wanna play "name that contractor"?