I have two Ericsson Bluetooth headsets - an old HBH-10 and the curvy HBH-30. They both support the bluetooth "audio" profile, and I have some bluetooth cards for my PC's. Does anyone know (yes, I've tried google!) if anyone has produced (or is working on) drivers so that these headsets can be used as an audio device in windows? It just seems so obvious to make something like that.
The alternative solution is to make something similar to that guy who made his own headset and make a headset that connects to something that connects to your soundcard - in this case one would be emulating the functionality of a traditional cabled headset.
I was talking about practical applications of this idea. If "security" is your concern, "forget" BT. The security it provides is worse than that of Wi-Fi.
I'd be very interested to hear you justify that. My BT headset is paired to my phone - it won't listen to anyone elses phone, and my phone will not listen to anyone elses headset. The phone and headset are not even discoverable unless I manually do something to them. Comms are encrypted and sent over spread spectrum. I doubt that the average phonecall lasts long enough to capture the gigabyte or so of network traffic that it would take to even begin to attempt to break the crypto, plus attackers would have to be within a 10m radius of my call which could prove to be a little difficult.
It's simple really - dig out an old machine, install Win98 on it and let them do their stuff to your decoy. Once they have gone, connect your real machine (either putting the network card in your real system or setting up the allowed MAC address thingy on the cable companies web page) and format the decoy. Everybody's happy. If you want a good laugh however watch them try their procedures on a linux box.
Hear hear. Has anyone else noticed that the slightest critisism of apple on/. is met with the most intolerant attitudes? For example, at time of writing, the parent of this post is modded as "flamebait" when I think it's an interesting opinion.
Did you know that in the early days of Rolls Royce, if one of their cars broke down they would send some guys out to cover it up with cloth so that noone would know that a RR had broken down?
The thing with Asperger's is that not everyone suffers with the *all* the symptoms, people typically have their own set out of the bunch, and also there are varying degrees of severity.
To be honest, it sounds to me like you might have Asperger's from what you say in your post - have you ever considered it?
I am convinced that I have it as it explains an awful lot in my life like how I just didnt "get it" when with a group of people and the difficulties I had with essay writing in English class - I consider my command of the english language strong, and it has always been so relatively speaking, however when told to write an essay at school I experienced what can only be experienced as "brain freeze". This used to drive my teachers nuts as I'd be scoring top in most other subjects, yet English was a non starter, and drama was an absolutely terrifying nightmare. I also was not very good at sport. I remember being taken to one side by an english teacher and the conversation was like "now, I know that you arnt doing this deliberately..." etc. Social skills were very awkward for me always until I learned a few things. I still consider myself to be inadvertantly rude sometimes.
As it was eloquently put in a description on Asperger's somewhere "People with Asperger's can learn social skills in much the same way as others learn to play the piano." which I would agree with strongly as I'd say my social skills are now rather good, but it's been hard work.
Funny this has come up now, as I've been thinking about autism, in particular the high functioning versions for a while now, as it appears I have something called Asperger's Syndrome.
Basically it's a mild form of autism - check this out:
Many individuals with Asperger's lead highly productive lives, in highly specialised fields such as academia.
Nevertheless, their behaviour is often slightly abnormal - perhaps lacking social skills even if they are more socially aware and willing to interact than people with other kinds of autism.
Often someone with Asperger's may be obsessed with complex topics such as music, history, or the weather, and have above average verbal skills.
But in some cases, the voice appears to be flat and lacking in emotion, speech can be stilted and repetitive, and conversations tend to revolve around self rather than others.
Many have dyslexia or writing problems - and can appear to lack common sense.
...Now is it just me or does that sound like the average geek??
Now.. dotcom boom, THOUSANDS of geeks emigrate to California and in particular the Silicon Valley area. Many of these people were part of failed dotcom startups and relocated to other areas; some were part of successful startups and relocated to other areas. These people have children, and as autism disorders are typically hereditary, I find it as no surprise that their children have a high probability of having autistic disorders.
Yep - it is. To make it worse, there are two laws that literally contradict each other. There is the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000(RIPA) act, where as a sysadmin responsible for a lot of users I'm required by law to keep full text mail logs for 28 days (which you are not allowed to delete!). I can be asked by the police to supply log data at any time (admittedly it has to come from a senior officer) and if this happens, I'm not allowed to mention it to anyone that I've been asked to supply the information, including a judge(!) on pain of 2 years imprisonment. (I kid you not).
I think you will be looking at this like we all were and going "HUH??" by now, as obviously it makes thing extremely difficult! Basically you can think of it as a Big Brother type of law. Oh and if you are thinking "no problem - I'll just use crypto" that's 2 years in prison if you refuse to hand over your encryption keys.
Then we have the The Human Rights Act 1998 which strenghens the privacy of the individual. This is the one where I'm not allowed to look at personal information, however under RIP I *can* open up mailboxes if I'm investigating "an incident" however if I see anything else (non work related) while I'm there I'm not allowed to discuss it or use that information in any way. *phew*. Obviously all this stuff can be a nightmare, and so they way that we get around it is to have company policies about email, such as clearly documented allowed uses and document that all mail is potentially going to be read etc, however even that can get awkward as under the Human Rights Act 1998 we have to provide private means of communications of individuals. This includes things like staff having access to personal email (in practice a viral back door nightmare) and guaranteed un-monitored phones (i.e. payphones). All in all it's quite a complicated profession nowadays - lol.
Oh please.
With Maildirs I can just grep for the subject line and erase the file without seeing any other email. Now mbox is a different situation but I would imagine that something similar is available on win32.
I agree it can get silly, however the law is the law. Sure you can grep etc. and find a mail, however firstly, what if you make a typo and forget to pipe and output all the guys mail to the screen, and secondly, what if they are using Outlook? Try deleting a single mail from an exchange server without opening up the mailbox. I suppose it's a moot point in the US, but we UK sysadmins have to consider these things. It can get very silly indeed.
It's not ethical because for starters it might breach the Human Rights Act - not sure if this applies in the US though and its funny seeing the US replies already as in the UK we have this thing called privacy you see - I've yet to spot any discernable privacy in the US - everyone is like "yeah! just open up the guys mailbox and delete it". In the UK you could be looking at 2 years in prison for that!
Very easy to do. Get yourself a copy of Windows Media Encoder (free) from Microsoft, and set it up on your PC (or another - doesnt really matter).
Set it up to stream audio, and connect your radio to the sound card that WME is running on. Start it encoding.
Using Windows Media Player you can connect to the encoder (either on your local machine or a network machine) and listen to the streamed audio. There will naturally be a delay, which you should be able to tweak by playing with the buffer settings in WME and WMP.
I agree totally that 802.11b would be a better solution if a network was created, however the original poster specifically said he didnt want to connect them via networking, and asked for "alternatives".
Infrared is simply a high speed serial connection that requires line of sight. Bluetooth is the replacement for that technology (that can also be used for LAN access) and does not require line of sight. If he wants serial comms between two machines physically close to each other then Bluetooth is ideal. Uting Bluetooth will also smooth out the serial comms problems of the possibly incompatible IR protocol stacks between the two OS's. I stand by my original choice.
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I have two Ericsson Bluetooth headsets - an old HBH-10 and the curvy HBH-30. They both support the bluetooth "audio" profile, and I have some bluetooth cards for my PC's. Does anyone know (yes, I've tried google!) if anyone has produced (or is working on) drivers so that these headsets can be used as an audio device in windows? It just seems so obvious to make something like that.
The alternative solution is to make something similar to that guy who made his own headset and make a headset that connects to something that connects to your soundcard - in this case one would be emulating the functionality of a traditional cabled headset.
I was talking about practical applications of this idea. If "security" is your concern, "forget" BT. The security it provides is worse than that of Wi-Fi.
I'd be very interested to hear you justify that. My BT headset is paired to my phone - it won't listen to anyone elses phone, and my phone will not listen to anyone elses headset. The phone and headset are not even discoverable unless I manually do something to them. Comms are encrypted and sent over spread spectrum. I doubt that the average phonecall lasts long enough to capture the gigabyte or so of network traffic that it would take to even begin to attempt to break the crypto, plus attackers would have to be within a 10m radius of my call which could prove to be a little difficult.
With the Psion and Iridium - I can shh while anywhere in the world, and the whole pacakge is less than 3.5 pounds.
...per minute if the last satellite phone charges I saw on a bill were correct!
Generally, something is considered a cybercrime if it motivates the use of digital forensics to collect and preserve evidence.
Dont they do that anyway now no matter what the crime?
"...on searching the defendants computer the feds found lots of nasty pictures..."
Just because something which is illegal and involves a computer, doesn't make it "cybercrime".
Good point - if someone bashes someone over the head with a keyboard is that cybercrime too? Or does the system unit have to be involved?
Looks like they cant get those silly plastic bags off monitor cables in pakistan either.
I think there are QuickTime kernal extensions. QuickTime is part of the overall Mac OS X foundation as well as being a player application.
...and iTunes? and Airport software?
Software Update only requires a reboot when stuff makes changes to the kernel.
So why does installing Quicktime 6.0.2 require a reboot? Is Quicktime support built into the Kernel??
We have a box at work serving anywhere from 20 to 40 requests per second, 24/7 .. its been up, no reboot required, for over 2 years.
I've got one of those - it's called a toaster...
It's simple really - dig out an old machine, install Win98 on it and let them do their stuff to your decoy. Once they have gone, connect your real machine (either putting the network card in your real system or setting up the allowed MAC address thingy on the cable companies web page) and format the decoy. Everybody's happy. If you want a good laugh however watch them try their procedures on a linux box.
Reboot? I almost forgot what that's like...
So you don't use software update then?
Hear hear. Has anyone else noticed that the slightest critisism of apple on /. is met with the most intolerant attitudes? For example, at time of writing, the parent of this post is modded as "flamebait" when I think it's an interesting opinion.
Did you know that in the early days of Rolls Royce, if one of their cars broke down they would send some guys out to cover it up with cloth so that noone would know that a RR had broken down?
So are we going to see /. notifications of EVERY vendor point release now??
Sounds like a job for VideoLAN and perhaps maybe also LinuxTV.
The thing with Asperger's is that not everyone suffers with the *all* the symptoms, people typically have their own set out of the bunch, and also there are varying degrees of severity.
To be honest, it sounds to me like you might have Asperger's from what you say in your post - have you ever considered it?
I am convinced that I have it as it explains an awful lot in my life like how I just didnt "get it" when with a group of people and the difficulties I had with essay writing in English class - I consider my command of the english language strong, and it has always been so relatively speaking, however when told to write an essay at school I experienced what can only be experienced as "brain freeze". This used to drive my teachers nuts as I'd be scoring top in most other subjects, yet English was a non starter, and drama was an absolutely terrifying nightmare. I also was not very good at sport. I remember being taken to one side by an english teacher and the conversation was like "now, I know that you arnt doing this deliberately..." etc. Social skills were very awkward for me always until I learned a few things. I still consider myself to be inadvertantly rude sometimes.
As it was eloquently put in a description on Asperger's somewhere "People with Asperger's can learn social skills in much the same way as others learn to play the piano." which I would agree with strongly as I'd say my social skills are now rather good, but it's been hard work.
Funny this has come up now, as I've been thinking about autism, in particular the high functioning versions for a while now, as it appears I have something called Asperger's Syndrome.
Basically it's a mild form of autism - check this out:
Many individuals with Asperger's lead highly productive lives, in highly specialised fields such as academia. Nevertheless, their behaviour is often slightly abnormal - perhaps lacking social skills even if they are more socially aware and willing to interact than people with other kinds of autism. Often someone with Asperger's may be obsessed with complex topics such as music, history, or the weather, and have above average verbal skills. But in some cases, the voice appears to be flat and lacking in emotion, speech can be stilted and repetitive, and conversations tend to revolve around self rather than others. Many have dyslexia or writing problems - and can appear to lack common sense.
...Now is it just me or does that sound like the average geek??
Now.. dotcom boom, THOUSANDS of geeks emigrate to California and in particular the Silicon Valley area. Many of these people were part of failed dotcom startups and relocated to other areas; some were part of successful startups and relocated to other areas. These people have children, and as autism disorders are typically hereditary, I find it as no surprise that their children have a high probability of having autistic disorders.
Probably an old one but it would appear relevant.
Yep - it is. To make it worse, there are two laws that literally contradict each other. There is the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000(RIPA) act, where as a sysadmin responsible for a lot of users I'm required by law to keep full text mail logs for 28 days (which you are not allowed to delete!). I can be asked by the police to supply log data at any time (admittedly it has to come from a senior officer) and if this happens, I'm not allowed to mention it to anyone that I've been asked to supply the information, including a judge(!) on pain of 2 years imprisonment. (I kid you not).
I think you will be looking at this like we all were and going "HUH??" by now, as obviously it makes thing extremely difficult! Basically you can think of it as a Big Brother type of law. Oh and if you are thinking "no problem - I'll just use crypto" that's 2 years in prison if you refuse to hand over your encryption keys.
Then we have the The Human Rights Act 1998 which strenghens the privacy of the individual. This is the one where I'm not allowed to look at personal information, however under RIP I *can* open up mailboxes if I'm investigating "an incident" however if I see anything else (non work related) while I'm there I'm not allowed to discuss it or use that information in any way. *phew*. Obviously all this stuff can be a nightmare, and so they way that we get around it is to have company policies about email, such as clearly documented allowed uses and document that all mail is potentially going to be read etc, however even that can get awkward as under the Human Rights Act 1998 we have to provide private means of communications of individuals. This includes things like staff having access to personal email (in practice a viral back door nightmare) and guaranteed un-monitored phones (i.e. payphones). All in all it's quite a complicated profession nowadays - lol.
Oh please. With Maildirs I can just grep for the subject line and erase the file without seeing any other email. Now mbox is a different situation but I would imagine that something similar is available on win32.
I agree it can get silly, however the law is the law. Sure you can grep etc. and find a mail, however firstly, what if you make a typo and forget to pipe and output all the guys mail to the screen, and secondly, what if they are using Outlook? Try deleting a single mail from an exchange server without opening up the mailbox. I suppose it's a moot point in the US, but we UK sysadmins have to consider these things. It can get very silly indeed.
I LOVE it! I hope they film it - I'd love to see their faces!
It's not ethical because for starters it might breach the Human Rights Act - not sure if this applies in the US though and its funny seeing the US replies already as in the UK we have this thing called privacy you see - I've yet to spot any discernable privacy in the US - everyone is like "yeah! just open up the guys mailbox and delete it". In the UK you could be looking at 2 years in prison for that!
Very easy to do. Get yourself a copy of Windows Media Encoder (free) from Microsoft, and set it up on your PC (or another - doesnt really matter).
Set it up to stream audio, and connect your radio to the sound card that WME is running on. Start it encoding.
Using Windows Media Player you can connect to the encoder (either on your local machine or a network machine) and listen to the streamed audio. There will naturally be a delay, which you should be able to tweak by playing with the buffer settings in WME and WMP.
I reckon you could get this to about 6 seconds.
How can I possibly be "wrong" for making a suggestion of alternative connectivity???
Name a colour.
Black
Wrong.
I agree totally that 802.11b would be a better solution if a network was created, however the original poster specifically said he didnt want to connect them via networking, and asked for "alternatives".
Infrared is simply a high speed serial connection that requires line of sight. Bluetooth is the replacement for that technology (that can also be used for LAN access) and does not require line of sight. If he wants serial comms between two machines physically close to each other then Bluetooth is ideal. Uting Bluetooth will also smooth out the serial comms problems of the possibly incompatible IR protocol stacks between the two OS's. I stand by my original choice.
From the original question: If anyone knows of a workaround for this (other than cables)
Seems to me like he's asking for a wireless solution, which is what I proposed.
So lets talk about this idiot thing...