Note: WinXP sp2 adds the option "Disable automatic restart on system failure" on the F8 menu. So press F8 as the computer is booting, and you should see it listed on the menu along with Safe Mode.
On Windows 2000 and XP SP1 the following works:
0) Boot with a BartPE CD
1) Run RegeditPE from a floppy disk or CD....
2) If prompted to load remote user profiles for editing, you can choose "No."
3) Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol\CrashControl]
4) Change the value of the DWORD AutoReboot from 1 to 0.
5) Close RegeditPE, and restart the computer.
The policy at my alma mater was to shut off your (wired) network connection if your computer was infected with a worm and spewing garbage. The monitored network traffic to make sure you weren't doing port scans or hogging bandwith with Gigabytes of P2P downloads, but that's it.
Now there was also a wireless network, but you had to use a special client program to logon/authenticate.
Yeah, my IBM 75GXP drive is quite loud with the clicking noise an all. I'd buy a new one, but it would be too much hassel to transfer my mission-critical data to some other drive;)
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Blatantly copied from the site:
The Network Operations Center or NOC is the cornerstone of all computer networks. I've worked at AT&T's NOC, been around Government NOCs and seen small scaled versions. Most look like something out of the movie, "WarGames" and surprisingly, whether you're a Linux or Windows fan you can build one for cheap and be your own armchair NOC General.
What does a NOC do? It monitors connections, network activity, spots problems, conducts threat assessments, and calculates scalability requirements with customer demands... it also puts on a pretty good "dog-n-pony" show for potential investors and customers.
What's required? Again, surprisingly not too much! Depending on the size of your company, this can be achieved with as little as an 8' X 10' room, and 4 computers. Trust me, you more than likely do not need a $15,000 Cisco PIX or Nokia firewall (which runs Linux derivatives).
You'll need at least three big monitors (the bigger the better), two smaller ones (17"), a KVM switch, and OOB dialup. Here's the loadout:
1. Firewall: Get a copy of IPCOP... its Smoothwall on steroids and very easy to configure. It has a built in Intrusion Detection System, Proxy logging, and you can use Coyote Linux as a failover if you think you are being attacked. This package uses a web interface, so there's no need for a monitor, keyboard, or mouse. These software elements are also free. Minimum requirements are a 333Mhz system with 64MB of RAM and a 2.1GB Hard-Drive.
2. Network Monitoring: Download a copy of F.I.R.E. and run it on a barebones 600 Mhz system. Configure and open Etherape on a monitor for an Air Traffic Controller's view of your network activity... bean counters love this. If you're being attacked or infected, you will quickly see where it's coming from. You should also use a receive only sniffer cable on this box to protect integrity... a receive only box has a zero chance of infection as it's physically impossible.
3. Got wireless? Download and run Airsnare with a semi hyped up Wireless antenna, and you'll quickly spot any war-drivers or unauthorized network connections. If you have an old directional motorized TV antenna system lying around you can go uber-elite and connect a cheap phased array panel antenna or cantenna to locate your wireless intruder with NetStumbler. This can all equally run on a 333Mhz Windows based system.
4. Workstation: Here's the beef... a 1.2Ghz, 512MB, 20GB computer, with dual head Matrox card, with dual booting OS (Linux & Windows), Preferably Linux with a Windows VMWARE guest OS. Trust me, once you go Dual-Head, you won't go back. The best Linux Dual-Head OS is SuSE 8.3. Tie this into the KVM to modify any of your servers.
5. Red Phone... afterall, who doesn't want one? You're batman right?
Your first Monitor should be watching CNN or the weather channel (depending on location), the second should be running Etherape, and the third should be running Airsnare or Windows Services Monitors (CPU, Netload, etc.) All of the software here except Windows is free, and easy to configure... except maybe your General's chair. In the end, aside from having your own WOPR, you have a NOC for just under $2,000.00
You can spoof the MAC address on Windows 2k/XP/2003address with the program SMAC:
SMAC does not change the hardware burned-in MAC addresses. It is not necessary. SMAC changes the "software based" MAC addresses on the Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 Server systems, and the new MAC addresses you change will sustain from reboots.
When I moved into one of my university's older dorms for my sophomore year (2001), the room only had 2-prong outlets!
We were expected (but not told in advance) to bring 3-prong to 2-prong adapters. There was no way I was going to use those--my UPS unit in particular said it had to be plugged into a properly grounded outlet.
Fortunately, I was able to get one of the maintenance men to update one of my outlets!
Agreed--especially with Mozilla's keyword features.
I have three bookmarks with keywords go, di, and af, respectively: http://www.google.com/search?q=%s http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s http: //www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=e xact&Acronym=%s&Find=Find (fix the links as needed)
I just type "di SomeWordHere" into the address bar whenever I need to look up a word.
(However, nothing [yet] beats my $1 dictionary/thesaurus if writing rhyming poetry.)
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"One of them leads to the castle, and the other one leads to -- " "Ba ba ba bum!" "Certain death!"
Cool, a Labyrinth reference.
Note: WinXP sp2 adds the option "Disable automatic restart on system failure" on the F8 menu. So press F8 as the computer is booting, and you should see it listed on the menu along with Safe Mode.
On Windows 2000 and XP SP1 the following works:
0) Boot with a BartPE CD
1) Run RegeditPE from a floppy disk or CD....
2) If prompted to load remote user profiles for editing, you can choose "No."
3) Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Cont
4) Change the value of the DWORD AutoReboot from 1 to 0.
5) Close RegeditPE, and restart the computer.
Some models of Micron laptops have had this feature for a while.
No entity (person, company, or organization) has faced a more damaging enemy than their own mistakes, laziness, and incompetence. [aka. themselves]
For a moment, I though you were talking about the Dept. of Motor Veichles!
Or just take off the seat when you leave your bike somewhere. A bike without a seat is not as desirable to ride off with :)
Anyone know of major differences between this gold version and Release Candidate 2 of SP2 ?
The policy at my alma mater was to shut off your (wired) network connection if your computer was infected with a worm and spewing garbage. The monitored network traffic to make sure you weren't doing port scans or hogging bandwith with Gigabytes of P2P downloads, but that's it. Now there was also a wireless network, but you had to use a special client program to logon/authenticate.
1) 7-zip. Like WinZip but Open source!
2) Mozilla. 'nuff said
3) SciTe. Excellent text editor. Open Source
4) AutoIt. Scripting/automation language for Windows, also open source.
5) FinePrint. Best shareware Ever. N-up printing, universal print preview, extract to image, text, metafile
6) rjhExtensions Add "Copy Path to Clipboard" and "Command Prompt" to right-click menu.
7) IrfanView good freeware image viewer
8) Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.1--because I hate 6.0 and GSView is not quite good enough yet
9) Microsoft Office.... yeah I know, I know
10) TweakUI
Can it run 'Woody' Linux?
Yeah, my IBM 75GXP drive is quite loud with the clicking noise an all. I'd buy a new one, but it would be too much hassel to transfer my mission-critical data to some other drive ;)
Windows CEMeNT
Blatantly copied from the site:
l inux.comc hux/fire-0 .4a.iso?download/ images/v0.5.5.png An etherape screenshotm e.comcast.net/~jay.deboer/airsnare/downl oad.htm
The Network Operations Center or NOC is the cornerstone of all computer networks. I've worked at AT&T's NOC, been around Government NOCs and seen small scaled versions. Most look like something out of the movie, "WarGames" and surprisingly, whether you're a Linux or Windows fan you can build one for cheap and be your own armchair NOC General.
What does a NOC do? It monitors connections, network activity, spots problems, conducts threat assessments, and calculates scalability requirements with customer demands... it also puts on a pretty good "dog-n-pony" show for potential investors and customers.
What's required? Again, surprisingly not too much! Depending on the size of your company, this can be achieved with as little as an 8' X 10' room, and 4 computers. Trust me, you more than likely do not need a $15,000 Cisco PIX or Nokia firewall (which runs Linux derivatives).
You'll need at least three big monitors (the bigger the better), two smaller ones (17"), a KVM switch, and OOB dialup. Here's the loadout:
1. Firewall: Get a copy of IPCOP... its Smoothwall on steroids and very easy to configure. It has a built in Intrusion Detection System, Proxy logging, and you can use Coyote Linux as a failover if you think you are being attacked. This package uses a web interface, so there's no need for a
monitor, keyboard, or mouse. These software elements are also free. Minimum requirements are a 333Mhz system with 64MB of RAM and a 2.1GB Hard-Drive.
2. Network Monitoring: Download a copy of F.I.R.E. and run it on a barebones 600 Mhz system. Configure and open Etherape on a monitor for an Air Traffic Controller's view of your network activity... bean counters love this. If you're being attacked or infected, you will quickly see where it's coming from. You should also use a receive only sniffer cable on this box to protect integrity... a receive only box has a zero chance of infection as it's physically impossible.
3. Got wireless? Download and run Airsnare with a semi hyped up Wireless antenna, and you'll quickly spot any war-drivers or unauthorized network connections. If you have an old directional motorized TV antenna system lying around you can go uber-elite and connect a cheap phased array panel antenna or cantenna to locate your wireless intruder with NetStumbler. This can all equally run on a 333Mhz Windows based system.
4. Workstation: Here's the beef... a 1.2Ghz, 512MB, 20GB computer, with dual head Matrox card, with dual booting OS (Linux & Windows), Preferably Linux with a Windows VMWARE guest OS. Trust me, once you go Dual-Head, you won't go back. The best Linux Dual-Head OS is SuSE 8.3. Tie this into the KVM to modify any of your servers.
5. Red Phone... afterall, who doesn't want one? You're batman right?
Your first Monitor should be watching CNN or the weather channel (depending on location), the second should be running Etherape, and the third should be running Airsnare or Windows Services Monitors (CPU, Netload, etc.) All of the software here except Windows is free, and easy to configure... except maybe your General's chair. In the end, aside from having your own
WOPR, you have a NOC for just under $2,000.00
William M. Nett
Links:
http://www.ipcop.org
http://www.coyote
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/biat
http://etherape.sourceforge.net
http://www.netstumbler.com
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It must have been a *really* cheap NOC!
...
A Keyboard is a keyboard
A mouse is a mouse
A UPS is a UPS
Maybe someone can find a better link, but it seems the "prior art" is the current mechanism for "anti-patents"
Why did its inventor, an English chemist named John Walker, never patent the match?
I guess Linux is resistant to those dreaded "spell checkers," too.
Who will be first to post the paraphrased article so I don't have to RTFA?
You can spoof the MAC address on Windows 2k/XP/2003address with the program SMAC:
SMAC does not change the hardware burned-in MAC addresses. It is not necessary. SMAC changes the "software based" MAC addresses on the Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 Server systems, and the new MAC addresses you change will sustain from reboots.
http://www.klcconsulting.net/smac/
I've also seen a way to do it for Windows 98. I imagine it's even easier on Linux.
When I moved into one of my university's older dorms for my sophomore year (2001), the room only had 2-prong outlets!
We were expected (but not told in advance) to bring 3-prong to 2-prong adapters. There was no way I was going to use those--my UPS unit in particular said it had to be plugged into a properly grounded outlet.
Fortunately, I was able to get one of the maintenance men to update one of my outlets!
Let's slashdot Netcraft to destroy any evidence!
Hours? Wow--the things people will do to earn slashdot Karma ;-)
Ever seen ads for "The Law Offices of ____"?
I've seen the same ad in different regions in the US where the only difference is the announcer who fills in the blank.
1) They must use Internet Explorer
:-D
2) You will bill them for your having to clean up viruses/spware/trojans that they pick up from web browsing and other internet activities.
Yes, I'm joking
Agreed--especially with Mozilla's keyword features.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s: //www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=e xact&Acronym=%s&Find=Find
I have three bookmarks with keywords go, di, and af, respectively:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
http
(fix the links as needed)
I just type "di SomeWordHere" into the address bar whenever I need to look up a word.
(However, nothing [yet] beats my $1 dictionary/thesaurus if writing rhyming poetry.)
People need an Internet Service Provider or University/Business to supply their connection.
The ISP should require people to sign a policy that prohibts sending spam, etc. and allows the provider to disable access if the rules are violated.
In other words, leave things as they are....