but more of an upswing in new exploits/overflows/etc as more people begin to scrutinize the code - think microsoft has anyone looking for "problems" to announce in a FUD campaign? New ways of distributing them will also be found - but even then there will be those who proclaim their immunity. "It was in an PassiveZ attachment, but since I just use an old line printer as my mail spool, it didn't get me".
Why not have all of these parents (I'm one) who are concerned about their kids seeing "inappropriate stuff" on the computer, in games, the movies, on TV, etc. take an active and responisble role in raising their kids? As an adult, I should be able to decide what I want to buy/view/etc - and as a parent, it is my responsibility (not the governments or anyone elses) to turn off the TV, computer, etc. when it starts showing something I don't want my kid watching.
Ok, persons who I entrust my child to (schools, etc.) should also be responsible, but only while they have my kid. You should hear some of the lectures I give my mother about what the kid is allowed to have/do at her house (that strongly affects her behavior here at home).
I'd kill for that connection speed. Not having RTA's yet (yes, my connection is that slow), it quickly seems a great solution for the Last Mile problem.
Actually, it is. The hard part for me was finding the special connector I needed to attach to a Cisco/Aironet card, and fighting the traffic to get there (2 construction zones and one school zone). I used a coffee can instead of a Pringles can, but it is the same processs. And it works great - At triple the range of the standard antenna, I ran out of LOS to test with.
Right, until you decide to play games. While I hate waiting for pages to load or downloads to finish (and can't really do both at the same time connecting at sub-28.8 speeds) my real desire for bandwidth is driven by the need to frag my friends senseless in various online FPS games. Three or 4 times a year at LAN parties is just not enough.
I can remember quite a few different pr0n-themed Quake maps and mods, and that was back when Quake/QuakeWorld was it. Of course, those weren't in a toystore on the shelf with "XXX" in the name.
I don't think it is hard-core gamers that they are aiming at with these. However, for business use, or general family/AOL use, with the possibility of some games either after hours or when cousin Jimmy comes up for the holidays and brings his laptop.
Integrated video is not always bad, and is in some cases quite good. What makes it bad is using shared system memory, and not being able to be disabled. What makes it really good is when it can be over riden in the bios to use a add-in PCI card. For example, my Dell Optiplex at work a few years ago (p2-350,128mb ram, 8mb ATI video) was quite a "average" machine for gaming - it ran Quake2 in GL mode and could maintain a decent 35fps average. Just fine for those "lunch time LAN parties" and after work frag sessions, but not what I'd plan on using to build that monster box that makes everyone at the LAN party ph34r your hardware advantage (remember the days of dual Voodoo2 cards?)
'cause it would be really easy to add something to change pictures every N amount of time. Of course, given more cpu/graphics power, you could do something like just run ssytem, or repeating time demo loops of your best moments in your online FPS of choice. "Yah, that one there is me when I caught that 10lb bass, and there's the wife and sister-in-law when they were kids, and that's where I sent a rocket flying up l33t_/\/\0r0|\|'s ass to cap the flag..."
Definately keep it aircooled... and the VW came from Dr. Porsche. Don't forget the good doctor - celebrate his birthday this year on Drive your 356 Day - Sept. 22. http://www.356registry.org
400+ms and 30% packet loss? Heck, I get better than that with my slow as [expletive of choice here] sub-28.8 connection that seems like it is being run over carrier pigeon instead of phone line.
I would never rely on just a single system for security anyway. And something like this that is relatively inexspensive, and can get rid of a good amount of the undesireables is worth doing. Good example is leaving a radio on and lights on when you aren't at home - anyone that watches the house for more than a few hours will realize you aren't home anyway, but for a good percentage of (would-be) thieves, that is something that is just too close to work so they move on and hit your neighbor.
Actually, the 6 year old *is* the Uber Universal Remote. Heck, mine's only 2, but she's still good for on/off and doors. I figure by 6 or 7, not only will beer fetching and dishes be done via remote control, and by 10 or 11 I should have her mowing the lawn, etc.
I agree. Make the cost resonable and relative to the price of a CD (cost/track), give fair use (yes I can burn to a cd to enjoy in my car, etc.), and put 'em out in a Open format.
And one pill makes you small. And the one your BOFH gives you won't do anything at all.... Go ask Luser...
Actually, why bother with the floppy stuff if you have a CD that you can boot from? Even a business card CD could hold plenty for whatever kind of Linux tool you'd need for rescue work.
... but unfortunately it looks as if the block is going to happen both ways, not to mention that honeypot business.
Of course, the downside to this is that as soon as you start blocking some stuff, you may have to start blocking a lot of other stuff, which becomes an administrative headache.
Also, if this is an ISP, what will stop Joe Bob, your "friendly" RIAA employee, from calling up and getting a dialup account?
... was a portable CD player that can also read MP3s burned to a CD-R. Versatile, holds tons, and CDRs are cheap. I even use it as a stereo in my car (6v electricals, a "proper" radio for my car would cost lots) with some cheap un-powered PC speakers.
... for a while in our teaching lab. It has a ball in the bottom, so you can use it as a regular remote mouse as well.
One of the really neat things about the software/driver that came with it is that if you give it just the right up-down-up-down jiggle, it will flash a subliminal (sp?) message. We have ours to flash "Great workshop!"
I've been doing computer stuff for a long time, but not with macs, other than occasionally starting Netscape. I've installed just about very version of Windows and quite a few Linux distros including Gentoo and LFS - but OSX and I just couldn't get along well enough to get past the first reboot.
Actually, until very recently, all of the public 'net access via the county library system here was done via dumb terminals and some sort of *nix. Browser was lynx, mail client (if you were registered) was pine. I'm thinking a bare system using stuff like this could easily fit into and run in 256mb or less. Wait a minute! It can! My 486sx33 latop has 12mb of ram, 40mb swap, is running a bare install of Slack 8.1 - 120mb of disk used (plus swap), and I installed a ton of extra crap I'm not going to use. And it certainly runs lynx/links, pine, etc. just fine.
So to make it very anonymous, use "diskless" kiosk machines that just boot from whatever CD is put into them. And right next to the machine, have a stack of premade business card sized CDs with just enough *nix to boot, get an address via dhcp, and run a basic wrapper program that will pass off calls to links/lynx, pine, etc. Heck, go GUI and get something like Peanut Linux to run directly off CD - KDE3, etc.
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but more of an upswing in new exploits/overflows/etc as more people begin to scrutinize the code - think microsoft has anyone looking for "problems" to announce in a FUD campaign? New ways of distributing them will also be found - but even then there will be those who proclaim their immunity. "It was in an PassiveZ attachment, but since I just use an old line printer as my mail spool, it didn't get me".
Why not have all of these parents (I'm one) who are concerned about their kids seeing "inappropriate stuff" on the computer, in games, the movies, on TV, etc. take an active and responisble role in raising their kids? As an adult, I should be able to decide what I want to buy/view/etc - and as a parent, it is my responsibility (not the governments or anyone elses) to turn off the TV, computer, etc. when it starts showing something I don't want my kid watching.
Ok, persons who I entrust my child to (schools, etc.) should also be responsible, but only while they have my kid. You should hear some of the lectures I give my mother about what the kid is allowed to have/do at her house (that strongly affects her behavior here at home).
I'd kill for that connection speed. Not having RTA's yet (yes, my connection is that slow), it quickly seems a great solution for the Last Mile problem.
I know 192K/s is hella faster than my 24k/s...
I see you shiver with antici.....* AAAH LAG!! * pation!
Hey, how about a pr0n distro? All hail Free pr0n!
Actually, it is. The hard part for me was finding the special connector I needed to attach to a Cisco/Aironet card, and fighting the traffic to get there (2 construction zones and one school zone). I used a coffee can instead of a Pringles can, but it is the same processs. And it works great - At triple the range of the standard antenna, I ran out of LOS to test with.
Right, until you decide to play games. While I hate waiting for pages to load or downloads to finish (and can't really do both at the same time connecting at sub-28.8 speeds) my real desire for bandwidth is driven by the need to frag my friends senseless in various online FPS games. Three or 4 times a year at LAN parties is just not enough.
Speaking of XML, didn't the house/senate just go to XML based on custom template files in Office?
I can remember quite a few different pr0n-themed Quake maps and mods, and that was back when Quake/QuakeWorld was it. Of course, those weren't in a toystore on the shelf with "XXX" in the name.
I don't think it is hard-core gamers that they are aiming at with these. However, for business use, or general family/AOL use, with the possibility of some games either after hours or when cousin Jimmy comes up for the holidays and brings his laptop.
Integrated video is not always bad, and is in some cases quite good. What makes it bad is using shared system memory, and not being able to be disabled. What makes it really good is when it can be over riden in the bios to use a add-in PCI card. For example, my Dell Optiplex at work a few years ago (p2-350,128mb ram, 8mb ATI video) was quite a "average" machine for gaming - it ran Quake2 in GL mode and could maintain a decent 35fps average. Just fine for those "lunch time LAN parties" and after work frag sessions, but not what I'd plan on using to build that monster box that makes everyone at the LAN party ph34r your hardware advantage (remember the days of dual Voodoo2 cards?)
Heheh. He said "emissions" ...
'cause it would be really easy to add something to change pictures every N amount of time. Of course, given more cpu/graphics power, you could do something like just run ssytem, or repeating time demo loops of your best moments in your online FPS of choice. "Yah, that one there is me when I caught that 10lb bass, and there's the wife and sister-in-law when they were kids, and that's where I sent a rocket flying up l33t_/\/\0r0|\|'s ass to cap the flag..."
Definately keep it aircooled... and the VW came from Dr. Porsche. Don't forget the good doctor - celebrate his birthday this year on Drive your 356 Day - Sept. 22. http://www.356registry.org
400+ms and 30% packet loss? Heck, I get better than that with my slow as [expletive of choice here] sub-28.8 connection that seems like it is being run over carrier pigeon instead of phone line.
Until one of the guys on the lawn crew gets enthusiastic with the ditch-witch or gas powered post hole digger....
I would never rely on just a single system for security anyway. And something like this that is relatively inexspensive, and can get rid of a good amount of the undesireables is worth doing. Good example is leaving a radio on and lights on when you aren't at home - anyone that watches the house for more than a few hours will realize you aren't home anyway, but for a good percentage of (would-be) thieves, that is something that is just too close to work so they move on and hit your neighbor.
Actually, the 6 year old *is* the Uber Universal Remote. Heck, mine's only 2, but she's still good for on/off and doors. I figure by 6 or 7, not only will beer fetching and dishes be done via remote control, and by 10 or 11 I should have her mowing the lawn, etc.
I agree. Make the cost resonable and relative to the price of a CD (cost/track), give fair use (yes I can burn to a cd to enjoy in my car, etc.), and put 'em out in a Open format.
And one pill makes you small. And the one your BOFH gives you won't do anything at all.... Go ask Luser...
Actually, why bother with the floppy stuff if you have a CD that you can boot from? Even a business card CD could hold plenty for whatever kind of Linux tool you'd need for rescue work.
Yes, it will, but first you have to make sure you've enabled your LRF support in the kernel.
... but unfortunately it looks as if the block is going to happen both ways, not to mention that honeypot business.
Of course, the downside to this is that as soon as you start blocking some stuff, you may have to start blocking a lot of other stuff, which becomes an administrative headache.
Also, if this is an ISP, what will stop Joe Bob, your "friendly" RIAA employee, from calling up and getting a dialup account?
... was a portable CD player that can also read MP3s burned to a CD-R. Versatile, holds tons, and CDRs are cheap. I even use it as a stereo in my car (6v electricals, a "proper" radio for my car would cost lots) with some cheap un-powered PC speakers.
One of the really neat things about the software/driver that came with it is that if you give it just the right up-down-up-down jiggle, it will flash a subliminal (sp?) message. We have ours to flash "Great workshop!"
I've been doing computer stuff for a long time, but not with macs, other than occasionally starting Netscape. I've installed just about very version of Windows and quite a few Linux distros including Gentoo and LFS - but OSX and I just couldn't get along well enough to get past the first reboot.
Actually, until very recently, all of the public 'net access via the county library system here was done via dumb terminals and some sort of *nix. Browser was lynx, mail client (if you were registered) was pine. I'm thinking a bare system using stuff like this could easily fit into and run in 256mb or less. Wait a minute! It can! My 486sx33 latop has 12mb of ram, 40mb swap, is running a bare install of Slack 8.1 - 120mb of disk used (plus swap), and I installed a ton of extra crap I'm not going to use. And it certainly runs lynx/links, pine, etc. just fine. So to make it very anonymous, use "diskless" kiosk machines that just boot from whatever CD is put into them. And right next to the machine, have a stack of premade business card sized CDs with just enough *nix to boot, get an address via dhcp, and run a basic wrapper program that will pass off calls to links/lynx, pine, etc. Heck, go GUI and get something like Peanut Linux to run directly off CD - KDE3, etc.