As a previous commenter pointed out (and I replied with details), Costco is selling Minolta-QMS color laser printers with PostScript support *and* 10/100 Ethernet for $599.
I saw this the other day when I was shopping at Costco (or was it Sams? heh, I don't remember, either). It was, IIRC, a Minolta. The printer was kind of cheesy--it had only one or two buttons and the LCD screen was really, really lame. But for $500, come on!
I don't see it on their products page so I'm thinking that it was a close-out. Amazingly, it had a 10/100Mbit ethernet connection on it. I've never seen anything like this in a $500 printer. Looking at the tech specs for one of their higher-end printers, I see PostScript level 3 mentioned. I have no idea if their ethernet device supports LPR, JetDirect, or IPP. It could, for all I know, use a proprietary protocol, but I kind of doubt it.
One very important thing to look into is the cost of the toner and the number of pages that can be printed on a set of toner carts.
UPDATE: I found the printer in question on Costco's page. Their page does not mention ethernet but I assure you, the printer I saw advertised it (and had the port).
Of course, I'll never forget when he showed us how to mesure the heights of trees by walking 100 meters (he was Canadian, wasn't he?) away and mesuring the angle between the ground and treetop and using the Pythagorian theorem
Oh, shit, I meant "cosine", not "Pythagorian Theorem". What a dumbass. Sorry, the bars just let out.
Man, that guy was great! I used to watch him every day after school on Nickelodeon. My favorite episode is the one when he blew up the balloon filled with hyrdrogen, teaching us that hydrogen, when combined with oxygen, makes heat and water! Of course, I'll never forget when he showed us how to mesure the heights of trees by walking 100 meters (he was Canadian, wasn't he?) away and mesuring the angle between the ground and treetop and using the Pythagorian theorem. Wow, that stuff rocked!
Actually, that's not true. I run all my Exim mail servers as a non-root user on a high port (like 51025) and use FreeBSD's IPFilter (ipnat, actually) to forward port 25 to this high port. It works like a champ.
To boot, none of my mail accounts are real unix accounts. They exist only in a PostgreSQL database (also running as non-root). To provide client access, we use Courier IMAP, also running as (you guessed it) a non-root user.
Nothing is setuid, nothing uses uid 0 for even a moment.
Hint #1: Don't waste your money on a laptop. Spend your money on a good desktop and a high-quality monitor.
Hint #2: Resist the (strong) temptation to install computer games. During my freshman year at Vanderbilt, something like 1/5th of the guys on my dorm did not return for their sophomore year due to bad grades. Nearly every one of these guys (and I was one of them) spent hours a day screwing off on pointless games like SimFarm and Quake and this was back before dorm rooms were networked.
Hint #3: If it's crap, don't bring it to college with you. You'll find that certain dorm rooms tend to be centers of social life. If you want your friends to hang out in yours, make it sophisticated and tasteful. If you can fit it in your room, buy a couch and some cool lighting. My RA built a really cool elevated bunkbed thing above his couch and it held a 40 gallon freshwater aquarium at one end. It was sweet. Invest in a good stereo and TV if you can afford it.
Hint #4: Drink with your friends but not to extreme excess. Stay away from drugs. You'll probably regret your choice someday if you choose to use them.
Here's the thing, though: Nullsoft (from what I saw when I used to work for AOLTW) is not independent of the AOL chain-of-command. If you look at the AOL org. chart, you can work your way up from Justin Frankel through a Nullsoft manager and a Nullsoft Director to an AOL Vice President. I have no idea if Nullsoft is a seperate legal entity but I'm pretty damned sure that (when I was there) the head honcho at Nullsoft directly reports to an upper-level manager at AOL.
This kind of thing happens all the time at huge corporations. Managers (and sometimes Directors) sign off on open sourcing a software project and the developers release it without ever putting it through the Legal department. I wrote the beginnings of my Bronc performance monitoring software when I worked at Ticketmaster Online - CitySearch. My manager ok'ed me open sourcing it but honestly, I don't think Legal ever got a look at it.
Finally, someone hits on the (only) reason I love and still use FVWM. The pager is the best. FVWM's pager is the only one that I've been able to set up so that I could scroll around the 2-D grid of desktops using Ctrl+Arrow_Key. I love my 3x3 array of desktops. I put an xterm in three of them and a browser in some and, with autofocus, switch between them without taking my hands off the keyboard.
A few years back (well, seven or so, heh), I tried to hack the FvwmPager module so that it could be run in any WM but was unsucsessful.
Actually, one other WM that I know of had a pager like this. OpenView (I think thats what it was called) came with my first Linux install back in late 93, IIRC, and I used it for a while on my 486/66 + 16M (!!!).
I read this review and looked through the Snort site and I've come to the conclusion that you must implement one of the following to use Snort to monitor incoming traffic between your router and a switch:
An ethernet tap
A spanning port on your switch
A hub in between the router and switch
I have no spanning capabilities on my switch and I'm not about to put some $40 CompUSA hub on my production network so the only real choice for me is an ethernet tap. However, I'm having a very difficult time finding schematics for building a 100Mbit ethernet tap. The best I could find is this brief PDF that discusses a bi-directional tap. Unfortunately, this method also requires a spanning port on a switch.
I've found commercial ethernet taps for sale but they all cost upwards of $400. Surely there is a way to build one of these in a home workshop. Does anyone have schematics?
Road Fever by Tim Cahill. Two guys set the world's record for the fastest drive from the southern tip of South America to the northernmost road-accessible point in Alaska. Very entertaining.
Well, obviously, you can triangulate 802.11 clients but I don't think that is what the poster was asking. Rather, I think he/she was asking: What software exists to do triangulation?
The major problem I see with triangulation is walls and other interfering objects. In an open field, triangulation should be relatively simple because the signal-to-distance curve should be fairly smooth as you move around. Throw some walls in, however, and you either need many more access points or some way of accounting for the interference.
But, you see, OSS for Windows is catching on! Some of the most popular programs on Sourceforge are win32. Everything that you need for spyware-free commercial-free RIAA-free music and video sharing is available there, on sf.net. Here's a sampling:
CDEX - a great MP3 ripper. Use with LAME for great, free rips.
Beware, these scripts appear to be vulnerable to to un-escaped shell command characters (ie ', ", &, etc) in the filename. The script does not do any validation of the file that is sent to it. Since LPD doesn't do any authentication by default, be very careful about running this stuff on a public-accessible machine.
Interesting idea. Personally, I would like to see a Win32 client for sending (via explorer, not IE, but explorer) audio files to the remote server. I suspect that this could be done via the Windows printing system but it could get dirty--you'd probably need a custom printer driver.
IMHO, there's a reason for the good NVidia Linux drivers and that is the demand for 3-D capabale graphics workstations running Linux--the kind that movie studios and engineering firms use. I think the geek/Slashdot community's adoration of NVidia is a side effect of their market-driven choice, not the reason for their choice.
The only way that tech specs for wlan cards will be released is if there the financial benefits of their release justify the release.
You can't? They already have. If you are a Mac or Windows user, you can download MSN Messenger and MSN Explorer and get free usage with advertisements.
Slashdot Mirror
As a previous commenter pointed out (and I replied with details), Costco is selling Minolta-QMS color laser printers with PostScript support *and* 10/100 Ethernet for $599.
Check it out.
Their website doesn't mention ethernet but I know that these have it--I saw one over the weekend.
I saw this the other day when I was shopping at Costco (or was it Sams? heh, I don't remember, either). It was, IIRC, a Minolta. The printer was kind of cheesy--it had only one or two buttons and the LCD screen was really, really lame. But for $500, come on!
I don't see it on their products page so I'm thinking that it was a close-out. Amazingly, it had a 10/100Mbit ethernet connection on it. I've never seen anything like this in a $500 printer. Looking at the tech specs for one of their higher-end printers, I see PostScript level 3 mentioned. I have no idea if their ethernet device supports LPR, JetDirect, or IPP. It could, for all I know, use a proprietary protocol, but I kind of doubt it.
One very important thing to look into is the cost of the toner and the number of pages that can be printed on a set of toner carts.
UPDATE: I found the printer in question on Costco's page. Their page does not mention ethernet but I assure you, the printer I saw advertised it (and had the port).
Of course, I'll never forget when he showed us how to mesure the heights of trees by walking 100 meters (he was Canadian, wasn't he?) away and mesuring the angle between the ground and treetop and using the Pythagorian theorem
Oh, shit, I meant "cosine", not "Pythagorian Theorem". What a dumbass. Sorry, the bars just let out.
Man, that guy was great! I used to watch him every day after school on Nickelodeon. My favorite episode is the one when he blew up the balloon filled with hyrdrogen, teaching us that hydrogen, when combined with oxygen, makes heat and water! Of course, I'll never forget when he showed us how to mesure the heights of trees by walking 100 meters (he was Canadian, wasn't he?) away and mesuring the angle between the ground and treetop and using the Pythagorian theorem. Wow, that stuff rocked!
Mr. Wizard, I still remember you!!!!
Ok, so the subject is a bit misleading...thesen't aren't all killing tools but they're pretty crazy. It's worth a karma troll anyway. :)
Spinal Cord Remover
De-Horner
Bung Ring Expander (!!!!)
The Stun Box
Bung Droppers (Removes 1200 assholes an hour, no shit.)
Head Cutter
The Lung Gun (i don't want to know)
"Electrical Stimulation" (somehow, i think it does more than stimulate them...)
Don't worry, AOL has plenty of skilled coders who don't rock the boat. I don't think Nullsoft is a huge source of profit for the company.
If only the girls you'll meet with this software would look like this screenshot at Trepia.com. I subscribed to Match.com once. I know better. :)
Yes, the daemon needs to be root initially
Actually, that's not true. I run all my Exim mail servers as a non-root user on a high port (like 51025) and use FreeBSD's IPFilter (ipnat, actually) to forward port 25 to this high port. It works like a champ.
To boot, none of my mail accounts are real unix accounts. They exist only in a PostgreSQL database (also running as non-root). To provide client access, we use Courier IMAP, also running as (you guessed it) a non-root user.
Nothing is setuid, nothing uses uid 0 for even a moment.
It rocks.
Chris
Hah! I just scanned 127.0.0.1 and all your ports are open, prepare for the system halt of your li+++ATH NO CARRIER
That's so 1993. I think you meant...
Hah! I just scanned 127.0.0.1 and all your ports are open, prepare for the system halt of your liConnection closed by foreign host
bash$
Hint #1: Don't waste your money on a laptop. Spend your money on a good desktop and a high-quality monitor.
Hint #2: Resist the (strong) temptation to install computer games. During my freshman year at Vanderbilt, something like 1/5th of the guys on my dorm did not return for their sophomore year due to bad grades. Nearly every one of these guys (and I was one of them) spent hours a day screwing off on pointless games like SimFarm and Quake and this was back before dorm rooms were networked.
Hint #3: If it's crap, don't bring it to college with you. You'll find that certain dorm rooms tend to be centers of social life. If you want your friends to hang out in yours, make it sophisticated and tasteful. If you can fit it in your room, buy a couch and some cool lighting. My RA built a really cool elevated bunkbed thing above his couch and it held a 40 gallon freshwater aquarium at one end. It was sweet. Invest in a good stereo and TV if you can afford it.
Hint #4: Drink with your friends but not to extreme excess. Stay away from drugs. You'll probably regret your choice someday if you choose to use them.
have fun and work hard.
Here's the thing, though: Nullsoft (from what I saw when I used to work for AOLTW) is not independent of the AOL chain-of-command. If you look at the AOL org. chart, you can work your way up from Justin Frankel through a Nullsoft manager and a Nullsoft Director to an AOL Vice President. I have no idea if Nullsoft is a seperate legal entity but I'm pretty damned sure that (when I was there) the head honcho at Nullsoft directly reports to an upper-level manager at AOL.
This kind of thing happens all the time at huge corporations. Managers (and sometimes Directors) sign off on open sourcing a software project and the developers release it without ever putting it through the Legal department. I wrote the beginnings of my Bronc performance monitoring software when I worked at Ticketmaster Online - CitySearch. My manager ok'ed me open sourcing it but honestly, I don't think Legal ever got a look at it.
Haha, I found an old-ass screenshot of my FVWM2 setup. Please ignore the stupid comments in the irc window. I was young and ignorant.
Finally, someone hits on the (only) reason I love and still use FVWM. The pager is the best. FVWM's pager is the only one that I've been able to set up so that I could scroll around the 2-D grid of desktops using Ctrl+Arrow_Key. I love my 3x3 array of desktops. I put an xterm in three of them and a browser in some and, with autofocus, switch between them without taking my hands off the keyboard.
A few years back (well, seven or so, heh), I tried to hack the FvwmPager module so that it could be run in any WM but was unsucsessful.
Actually, one other WM that I know of had a pager like this. OpenView (I think thats what it was called) came with my first Linux install back in late 93, IIRC, and I used it for a while on my 486/66 + 16M (!!!).
I have no spanning capabilities on my switch and I'm not about to put some $40 CompUSA hub on my production network so the only real choice for me is an ethernet tap. However, I'm having a very difficult time finding schematics for building a 100Mbit ethernet tap. The best I could find is this brief PDF that discusses a bi-directional tap. Unfortunately, this method also requires a spanning port on a switch.
I've found commercial ethernet taps for sale but they all cost upwards of $400. Surely there is a way to build one of these in a home workshop. Does anyone have schematics?
Chris
I enjoy reading non-fiction; here are some of my favorites. Links are to Amazon but w/o any affiliate tag.
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expediation by Caroline Alexander. True and amazing story of Ernest Shackleton's doomed Antarctic expedition.
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Brysson. Absolutely, without a doubt, the funniest thing I've ever read. Also by Brysson and highly recommended are Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe and A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Road Fever by Tim Cahill. Two guys set the world's record for the fastest drive from the southern tip of South America to the northernmost road-accessible point in Alaska. Very entertaining.
All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty by P. J. O'Rourke.
Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer. An incredible autobiography by a Alsatian foot soldier who fought for the Germans on the Russian front in World War 2.
Working on the Edge: Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's High Seas by Spike Walker. Like the title says.
Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of the U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam by David H. Hackworth. A very interesting Vietnam War read.
Well, obviously, you can triangulate 802.11 clients but I don't think that is what the poster was asking. Rather, I think he/she was asking: What software exists to do triangulation?
The major problem I see with triangulation is walls and other interfering objects. In an open field, triangulation should be relatively simple because the signal-to-distance curve should be fairly smooth as you move around. Throw some walls in, however, and you either need many more access points or some way of accounting for the interference.
But, you see, OSS for Windows is catching on! Some of the most popular programs on Sourceforge are win32. Everything that you need for spyware-free commercial-free RIAA-free music and video sharing is available there, on sf.net. Here's a sampling:
CDEX - a great MP3 ripper. Use with LAME for great, free rips.
eMule and DC++ - very popular P2P clients
BitTorrent - For large file sharing (movies, etc)
VirtualDub - for video format conversion (DiVX, VCD, etc)
Audacity - multi-track audio editor
I could go on and on. Look at this list and all the win32 apps there.
Well, in that case, warn this guy that his page will be slashdotted early next week, when the dupe story gets posted.
Chris
Beware, these scripts appear to be vulnerable to to un-escaped shell command characters (ie ', ", &, etc) in the filename. The script does not do any validation of the file that is sent to it. Since LPD doesn't do any authentication by default, be very careful about running this stuff on a public-accessible machine.
Chris
No offense, but did it occur to any of you karma-whoring jackasses to mirror the images?
Chris
Interesting idea. Personally, I would like to see a Win32 client for sending (via explorer, not IE, but explorer) audio files to the remote server. I suspect that this could be done via the Windows printing system but it could get dirty--you'd probably need a custom printer driver.
Chris
IMHO, there's a reason for the good NVidia Linux drivers and that is the demand for 3-D capabale graphics workstations running Linux--the kind that movie studios and engineering firms use. I think the geek/Slashdot community's adoration of NVidia is a side effect of their market-driven choice, not the reason for their choice.
The only way that tech specs for wlan cards will be released is if there the financial benefits of their release justify the release.
Chris
I somehow can't see Microsoft adopting this.
You can't? They already have. If you are a Mac or Windows user, you can download MSN Messenger and MSN Explorer and get free usage with advertisements.
Apparently, citizen ID numbers will be used to verify identity
This isn't all that strange in a country where so many people share a common last name (Kim).
To quote Office Space...
Michael: That's the worst idea I've ever heard.
Samir: Yes. That is terrible idea.