Another possibility is tapping into other magnetic fields. I remember hearing of a device that appeared to produce free energy. The creator new this was impossible, but there it was. He took the device to a friend to demonstrate it and it didn't work. They finally figured out that it was his house's proximity to high voltage lines that made the device work. It was tapping energy from the changing magnetic field from the lines. By no means free, and often illegal if used to steal energy from the system.
There is a myriad of guides on how to do this. The setup doesn't come from within your VNC apps, but from ssh.
Set up your ssh server and clients. Use public key cryptography instead of a password. Run your VNC server and make sure it is accessable from the machine that is running your ssh server. It can be the same machine, but it doesn't have to be. Don't forward your VNC server port over the internet at the firewall. Just forward your ssh server port.
Now from your client, simply activate the port forwarding. You will be forwarding ports on the local (client) machine that are accessable by your VNC client. I start with 5902:
ssh sshserverurl -L 5902:vncserver:5900
note that vncserver only needs to be resolved by the ssh server, it could easily be an internal ipaddress, or even localhost if your ssh server and vnc server are on the same machine.
Once the connection is established, open your VNC client and connect like this:
localhost:2
That tells it to connect to a vncserver running on the client machine at port 5902 (VNC ports start at 5900 as default and go up from there, the:# identifies the port)
The local port 5902 is encrypted and forwarded by ssh over the secure tunnel to your ssh server, and there it is unencrypted and forwarded to your vnc server.
It takes a bit to figure it all out for the first time, but after that it is pretty simple. You can forward multiple ports to multiple remote machines, even forward ports from remote machines TO your client machine. You can use dynamic forwarding to utlize a remote socks proxy for your browser to sidestep your local firewall. The possibilites are endless. Now you can only open one well secured port to the public, and still access all of your services.
How about recommending a different OS that makes it all irrelevant instead?
It doesn't make all of this irrelevant. The issue is still very relavent, and if linux or OSX marketshare continues to grow, we will be facing it again someday. Yes on linux you are currently safe, but there are rootkits for linux too. Lets solve the problem while we are here.
And then move everyone to linux.
I think a good solution would be for some of our opensource brethren to start a OEM Linux site that has easy to install images for OEM branded computers. Once you had one set up for a particular machine and all of the dependancies ironed out, all that someone would have to do would be download an install cd image, and boot with it. It could wipe the drive and install a fully working version of linux, or install it as a dual boot.
Not nearly as easy as pre-installed linux, but it would fix all of the install and configuration difficulties on branded machines. With a little community effort it should be fairly easy to maintain with some company backing funds.
I am surprised that no one has done this already. It seems like a good way to distribute linux to desktop users.
Try asking Google. They came around and were better than any alternatives. The people who look for the best service changed. Slowly it caught on, and eventually the people who just follow the crowd were changing. Now everyone uses it because it is THE search service to use.
It may take time, but all other things being equal, people will find the better solution. And with OSS being free, and CSS being expensive, all other things are not equal, but help push in the direction of OSS.
The problem is that if the RIAA ever found your mp3s, even though they were obtained legally, and not via P2P file sharing, or even CD ripping, or anything like that, you would be hard pressed to prove your case in court. And you would have to spend a fortune on court fees to do it. You would probably be advised to settle out of court and pay the RIAA. If you were ripping CD's, you could get by with it by proving that you had the originals. But there is no way to prove that you taped the mp3s off of the radio. Even though they are radio quality.
I know this isn't likely to happen, especially if you aren't using P2P. There is little to no chance the RIAA would know about you or target you if they did, but the problem still exists. They have way too much free reign with regards to our fair use rights.
If you are a casaual linux user, and don't bother knowing kernel versions and the like, then you should use a distro that allows you to look to them for help. I wouldn't expect a software vendor to list which version of each distro the software would work on. With most applications, you have to download, make, and install applications manually when it comes from the developer. If you use package management systems for your distro, look to them for packaged versions of the software that you want. It really works out quite well regardless of your experience with the underlying linux technology. I use slackeware packages when I can, and when they work for my purposes. The packages can easily be found for each Slackware release. I know that the dependancies are going to be met by the distro that I have. If I choose to download and install myself, I make sure I have the dependancies covered. And Slackware is in the stone ages when it comes to package management (well, swaret may be pretty good, haven't tried it yet.) Debian and the like have no problems with dependancies. So I don't see this as a problem at all, merely an attribute of a computing solution designed to give its users the maximum of both freedom and flexibility.
In this case, I agree that listing the version of Firefox would most likely be all that was needed.
That is true, and of course some people here get their panties in a wad just because someone has some sort of business interest in it, and the motives aren't 100% philanthropic. But I don't care about any of that. Douglass Adams has added something immeasurable to my life, and to the lives of many others. It is very fitting, in my opinion, to read the comments of those that knew him today before going to see the movie. I enjoyed reading the article, the stories were great. Adams would have been a great person to know.
Well actually I quite liked it.
I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was really particularly effective.
and er... interesting rhythmic devices too, which seemed to counterpoint the... er... the surrealism of the underlying metaphor of the... er... humanity of the... I mean the Vogonity (sorry)
of the individual's compassionate soul, which contrives through the medium of the verse structure to sublimate this, transcend that, and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other, and one is left with a profound and vivid insight into... into... er... into whatever it was the article was about!
I see your point but think that you are off base in regards to tHHGTTG. This story has spanned several media, including radion, TV, literature, and a text adventure game. The story has changed and morphed over time, and contradicted itself many times over. This is part of what makes THHGTTG what it is. You need to realize that before you watch the movie. Give it a chance before you feed it to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. I am really looking forward to seeing it. This is one of the few books that I love that will actually be difficult to ruin in movie form. Unless the director has no clue about the spirit of the story. I hope it doesn't suck. But I will at least wait to see it before I make my decisions.
I use it with https. It works great. I have an apache server with DAV enabled. (I also use DAV for a subversion server). I use the same technology with Sunbird for a central ical calendar server via WebDAV.
I realize that everyone doesn't have a DAV enabled web server at home, so this isn't an answer for everyone, and I can't attest to the usability of the FTP protocol, but the extension works flawlessly for me. Maybe DAV is the main technology that the developer uses.
Always trust Think Geek to come up with clever 4/1 items. I always peruse that site before I come here. Why can't we have clever people on slashdot? There both part of OSTG. I just ordered my USB fondue pot. I can't wait!
What bothers me is not the acronyms. It is the degradation of spelling and grammer that seems to be rampant on the net. It makes me cringe to see the way that some people communicate. Of course, the problem could have existed in pre-webforum times, and it is just more apparant now.
P.S. I am intentionally not spell checking this post, because if I mispelled something, it will help to proev my point.
I have to wonder though. How good could this be, taking flat 2D film and trying to turn it 3d. To have effective 3D, wouldn't it have to be filmed with 3D cameras to begin with? Seems like he has a lot of work ahead of him.
Quality, not Quantity (something in north american food culture we seem to be missing =(.
We aren't missing it, it is just against the American way of life. Take everything good and wholesome and come up with a cheap, mechanized, pasterized, homoginized, and preservativized way to mass produce something that looks exactly like the original product, and is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike it in every other way.
Exactly, not to mention that any real hacker would view this as nothing more than a trap, and stay away from it at all costs. They don't want their identity or their methods revealed.
that is what will happen here as well. Screensavers hosted a hackers challenge a while back too. Before they were corrupted by G4. I can't remember for sure, but I think they had a windows default install, and a mac default install. or maybe linux. Anyway, the challenge was crap because the script kiddies started DDoSsing it as soon as they released the IP. You can't get a good public challenge like this just because of that.
Oh come on. Use common sense. Whatever he put there was only protected under free speach if he didn't infringe the companies rights to keep certain information confidental. But nothing protects any of us from the reprocussions of exercising our right to free speach. Grow up. If you talk bad about your company, you get a pink slip. Who would want someone like that on the payroll, and why would you want to stay anyway.
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Another possibility is tapping into other magnetic fields. I remember hearing of a device that appeared to produce free energy. The creator new this was impossible, but there it was. He took the device to a friend to demonstrate it and it didn't work. They finally figured out that it was his house's proximity to high voltage lines that made the device work. It was tapping energy from the changing magnetic field from the lines. By no means free, and often illegal if used to steal energy from the system.
Except the holodeck. That is just around the corner, right?
Nothing l337 about it. check out port forwarding with ssh:s h/adminguide/32/Port_Forwarding.html
:# identifies the port)
http://www.ssh.com/support/documentation/online/s
There is a myriad of guides on how to do this. The setup doesn't come from within your VNC apps, but from ssh.
Set up your ssh server and clients. Use public key cryptography instead of a password. Run your VNC server and make sure it is accessable from the machine that is running your ssh server. It can be the same machine, but it doesn't have to be. Don't forward your VNC server port over the internet at the firewall. Just forward your ssh server port.
Now from your client, simply activate the port forwarding. You will be forwarding ports on the local (client) machine that are accessable by your VNC client. I start with 5902:
ssh sshserverurl -L 5902:vncserver:5900
note that vncserver only needs to be resolved by the ssh server, it could easily be an internal ipaddress, or even localhost if your ssh server and vnc server are on the same machine.
Once the connection is established, open your VNC client and connect like this:
localhost:2
That tells it to connect to a vncserver running on the client machine at port 5902 (VNC ports start at 5900 as default and go up from there, the
The local port 5902 is encrypted and forwarded by ssh over the secure tunnel to your ssh server, and there it is unencrypted and forwarded to your vnc server.
It takes a bit to figure it all out for the first time, but after that it is pretty simple. You can forward multiple ports to multiple remote machines, even forward ports from remote machines TO your client machine. You can use dynamic forwarding to utlize a remote socks proxy for your browser to sidestep your local firewall. The possibilites are endless. Now you can only open one well secured port to the public, and still access all of your services.
How about recommending a different OS that makes it all irrelevant instead?
It doesn't make all of this irrelevant. The issue is still very relavent, and if linux or OSX marketshare continues to grow, we will be facing it again someday. Yes on linux you are currently safe, but there are rootkits for linux too. Lets solve the problem while we are here. And then move everyone to linux.
I think a good solution would be for some of our opensource brethren to start a OEM Linux site that has easy to install images for OEM branded computers. Once you had one set up for a particular machine and all of the dependancies ironed out, all that someone would have to do would be download an install cd image, and boot with it. It could wipe the drive and install a fully working version of linux, or install it as a dual boot. Not nearly as easy as pre-installed linux, but it would fix all of the install and configuration difficulties on branded machines. With a little community effort it should be fairly easy to maintain with some company backing funds. I am surprised that no one has done this already. It seems like a good way to distribute linux to desktop users.
Try asking Google. They came around and were better than any alternatives. The people who look for the best service changed. Slowly it caught on, and eventually the people who just follow the crowd were changing. Now everyone uses it because it is THE search service to use. It may take time, but all other things being equal, people will find the better solution. And with OSS being free, and CSS being expensive, all other things are not equal, but help push in the direction of OSS.
hmm, Didn't I see your troll on FARK just a few minutes ago?
The problem is that if the RIAA ever found your mp3s, even though they were obtained legally, and not via P2P file sharing, or even CD ripping, or anything like that, you would be hard pressed to prove your case in court. And you would have to spend a fortune on court fees to do it. You would probably be advised to settle out of court and pay the RIAA. If you were ripping CD's, you could get by with it by proving that you had the originals. But there is no way to prove that you taped the mp3s off of the radio. Even though they are radio quality. I know this isn't likely to happen, especially if you aren't using P2P. There is little to no chance the RIAA would know about you or target you if they did, but the problem still exists. They have way too much free reign with regards to our fair use rights.
If you are a casaual linux user, and don't bother knowing kernel versions and the like, then you should use a distro that allows you to look to them for help. I wouldn't expect a software vendor to list which version of each distro the software would work on. With most applications, you have to download, make, and install applications manually when it comes from the developer. If you use package management systems for your distro, look to them for packaged versions of the software that you want. It really works out quite well regardless of your experience with the underlying linux technology. I use slackeware packages when I can, and when they work for my purposes. The packages can easily be found for each Slackware release. I know that the dependancies are going to be met by the distro that I have. If I choose to download and install myself, I make sure I have the dependancies covered. And Slackware is in the stone ages when it comes to package management (well, swaret may be pretty good, haven't tried it yet.) Debian and the like have no problems with dependancies. So I don't see this as a problem at all, merely an attribute of a computing solution designed to give its users the maximum of both freedom and flexibility. In this case, I agree that listing the version of Firefox would most likely be all that was needed.
That is true, and of course some people here get their panties in a wad just because someone has some sort of business interest in it, and the motives aren't 100% philanthropic. But I don't care about any of that. Douglass Adams has added something immeasurable to my life, and to the lives of many others. It is very fitting, in my opinion, to read the comments of those that knew him today before going to see the movie. I enjoyed reading the article, the stories were great. Adams would have been a great person to know.
Well actually I quite liked it. ... interesting rhythmic devices too, which seemed to counterpoint the ... er ... the surrealism of the underlying metaphor of the ... er ... humanity of the ... I mean the Vogonity (sorry)
of the individual's compassionate soul, which contrives through the medium of the verse structure to sublimate this, transcend that, and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other, and one is left with a profound and vivid insight into ... into ... er ... into whatever it was the article was about!
I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was really particularly effective.
and er
Just remember to wear your helmet.
Here is another company working on a flying car called SkyRider.
I see your point but think that you are off base in regards to tHHGTTG. This story has spanned several media, including radion, TV, literature, and a text adventure game. The story has changed and morphed over time, and contradicted itself many times over. This is part of what makes THHGTTG what it is. You need to realize that before you watch the movie. Give it a chance before you feed it to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. I am really looking forward to seeing it. This is one of the few books that I love that will actually be difficult to ruin in movie form. Unless the director has no clue about the spirit of the story. I hope it doesn't suck. But I will at least wait to see it before I make my decisions.
I use it with https. It works great. I have an apache server with DAV enabled. (I also use DAV for a subversion server). I use the same technology with Sunbird for a central ical calendar server via WebDAV.
I realize that everyone doesn't have a DAV enabled web server at home, so this isn't an answer for everyone, and I can't attest to the usability of the FTP protocol, but the extension works flawlessly for me. Maybe DAV is the main technology that the developer uses.
Always trust Think Geek to come up with clever 4/1 items. I always peruse that site before I come here. Why can't we have clever people on slashdot? There both part of OSTG. I just ordered my USB fondue pot. I can't wait!
oops. (prove)
What bothers me is not the acronyms. It is the degradation of spelling and grammer that seems to be rampant on the net. It makes me cringe to see the way that some people communicate. Of course, the problem could have existed in pre-webforum times, and it is just more apparant now.
P.S. I am intentionally not spell checking this post, because if I mispelled something, it will help to proev my point.
I have to wonder though. How good could this be, taking flat 2D film and trying to turn it 3d. To have effective 3D, wouldn't it have to be filmed with 3D cameras to begin with? Seems like he has a lot of work ahead of him.
Quality, not Quantity (something in north american food culture we seem to be missing =(.
We aren't missing it, it is just against the American way of life. Take everything good and wholesome and come up with a cheap, mechanized, pasterized, homoginized, and preservativized way to mass produce something that looks exactly like the original product, and is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike it in every other way.
I love this country. (Just don't drink the water)
Exactly, not to mention that any real hacker would view this as nothing more than a trap, and stay away from it at all costs. They don't want their identity or their methods revealed.
that is what will happen here as well. Screensavers hosted a hackers challenge a while back too. Before they were corrupted by G4. I can't remember for sure, but I think they had a windows default install, and a mac default install. or maybe linux. Anyway, the challenge was crap because the script kiddies started DDoSsing it as soon as they released the IP. You can't get a good public challenge like this just because of that.
Oh come on. Use common sense. Whatever he put there was only protected under free speach if he didn't infringe the companies rights to keep certain information confidental. But nothing protects any of us from the reprocussions of exercising our right to free speach. Grow up. If you talk bad about your company, you get a pink slip. Who would want someone like that on the payroll, and why would you want to stay anyway.
Problem is that the OEM installs will only work on that manufacturer's machines. Maybe only that particular machine.
TechTV is dead. Long live TechTV.
hmm. Isn't that an oxymoron?