Although expensive, I had an idea for a fireproof system that I might implement if my data ever becomes so important that the backup of my documents on my Jornada is insufficent:
Basically, a large moisture safe box in the backyard, with a laptop inside it.
First dig a hole ~6 ft deep in the backyard and a small trench leading to it.
Then lay a pipe with network and power cables in the trench.
Cut a waterproof air vent in the top of the safe: A tube with one of those mushroom hats would be sufficent
In the safe have a laptop with a 3 HD RAID-1 (complete mirroring) and a DVD-RW drive.
The laptop constantly updates your data on the hard disk, and write your misison critical files to the DVD
This would be sufficent in my mind barring major EMP Shock/Flooding. (Hopefully the DVD would survive flooding and the safe would be a Faraday cage.
Just my $0.02
Stop complaining about how this is unfair and buy one!! If you don't like M$, buy one, but Linux on it and they lose money. If you like M$, buy one and games, and give them money. Either way you win!.
There is/was an estes rocket that did this. Two of my friends had them... One never recovered the rocket(typical of our launches) and the other pictures came out great! It's not as controlled as a kite, but you get great landscape pictures.
I don't find stability a problem(or lack thereof) in either windows 2000 or linux. The only crashes I ever get are a full system lockup, where music plays and so on, but I can't enter input. It's the same on windows and linux. I think that linux will slowly gain on microsoft in the workstation department as desktop managers get more and more friendly. While many critics see this as a bad thing, the "de-geeking" of linux, I think it will be better for everyone. Microsoft loses its monopoly and "average joe" might develop a taste for kernel hacking!
I'm saying that they are trying to cover a "broad range of systems" and that by basing their "low-end" on a 1.2 which isn't the norm (definitely not in a buisness I've worked with anyways).
Did anyone realize there low-end system was an Athalon 1.2 ghz. Maybe I'm a bit behind, but I have a perfectly speedy 700 and a slightly slower 300 that I use everyday.
When I want to play a game or listen to music I don't like having the CD in my drive. The new slim-tops don't even have CD drives(fancy cupholders). I don't bother trying to copy protected games so i can play my brother, I just get a no-cd crack. Its easier on me and my CD drive. The same will and does happen with CDs. Most geeks(like me) listen to varieties of music for long stretches at a time. I would hate to change the CD every hour and interrupt my coding. I much prefer to listen to my ripped Dave or B-52s. This also mean I can find my music. My room is very messy, and finding my cd bag takes time. With MP3s, I can point, click, and play. simple.
Im just saying that cds are annoying to use, and people like the music not the CD itself. We don't pay for the cd's, we pay for the music. It shouldn't be tied to the medium.
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slashdotted already? or is this caused by all potheads not in Nevada wanting to see if they should move there...
My school has local security policies. in effect you can only run their applications like word etc. Its a registry thing, setup by a login script. Of course, since it is win98, Word VBA lets you run programs and modify the registry, even though regedit is disabled. The end result is that one can edit the registry to their wishes, crash Explorer with alt-ctrl-del, which reloads the registry settings into explorer and removes any policies. I have done this many times at my school because they limit what i can run, and the lab admins like me and dont care, but can't allow me access.
My point is that client side security is basically null, there are hunders of other ways to "unsecure" a system EVEN with 2000/XP.
They keep combining things for now apparent purpose. Is there a particular reason that they are doing this? They just make everything generic. The bluecurve/gnome 2 menus are cluttered, with things like emacs repeated, and system settings in 5 different menus. I can't imagine how they would do this to a shell, but I guess small things like variables and file selection can be "tweaked."
Couldn't you use an SSH tunnel to circumvent the blocks? Thats how I do samba and VNC (but thats for security purposes so I can keep my router zipped up tight). I don't know how tunnelling would work with a centralized server, but you could certainly tunnel ports directly to another comp. For windows user, PUTTY works great. Putty
ssh -L5903:localhost:5903 24.46.xxx.xxx
I haven't read the exact specs yet, but is the designed to be an all purpose computer, i.e. replaces laptop, pda, paper+pen, or is it a niche device. The article said that MS's design idea was to make it easy and natural to use so that anyone can use it. How does this factor with handwriting recognition. Who writes in book? Graffiti takes a long time to learn, and I still make mistakes with it.
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition also enables users to interact with their PC in more natural ways by writing directly on the screen using a digital pen, in addition to using a traditional keyboard and mouse.
I think the idea is really good, but I don't think everyone should throw out their laptops just yet.
One I got quite often was
Too many errors!!! Bailing out.
Another which I need to find screenshots of is just about 50 - 100 characters(it varied) or something in a different language / characterset. At 3:00 AM it very distressing to see both errors at once!!
You don't give any detail. I wouldn't patent something unless I would be sure its worth the money. As a cryptologist myself, I know the thrill of developing a new crypto system only to see my mentor shoot it down. My advice: copyright for $10 or howevermuch it is, release it under GPL or a modified version. IF it works, sell it as a server/liscence to companies.
I was reading in a science fair book that you can make methanol from household garbage using a pressure cooker. Free battery power!!! Good for the environment too.
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- First dig a hole ~6 ft deep in the backyard and a small trench leading to it.
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Then lay a pipe with network and power cables in the trench.
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Cut a waterproof air vent in the top of the safe: A tube with one of those mushroom hats would be sufficent
- In the safe have a laptop with a 3 HD RAID-1 (complete mirroring) and a DVD-RW drive.
- The laptop constantly updates your data on the hard disk, and write your misison critical files to the DVD
This would be sufficent in my mind barring major EMP Shock/Flooding. (Hopefully the DVD would survive flooding and the safe would be a Faraday cage.Just my $0.02
Stop complaining about how this is unfair and buy one!! If you don't like M$, buy one, but Linux on it and they lose money. If you like M$, buy one and games, and give them money. Either way you win!.
There is/was an estes rocket that did this. Two of my friends had them... One never recovered the rocket(typical of our launches) and the other pictures came out great!
It's not as controlled as a kite, but you get great landscape pictures.
I don't find stability a problem(or lack thereof) in either windows 2000 or linux. The only crashes I ever get are a full system lockup, where music plays and so on, but I can't enter input. It's the same on windows and linux.
I think that linux will slowly gain on microsoft in the workstation department as desktop managers get more and more friendly. While many critics see this as a bad thing, the "de-geeking" of linux, I think it will be better for everyone. Microsoft loses its monopoly and "average joe" might develop a taste for kernel hacking!
I'm saying that they are trying to cover a "broad range of systems" and that by basing their "low-end" on a 1.2 which isn't the norm (definitely not in a buisness I've worked with anyways).
Did anyone realize there low-end system was an Athalon 1.2 ghz. Maybe I'm a bit behind, but I have a perfectly speedy 700 and a slightly slower 300 that I use everyday.
Yea, adding a single bit doubles the power required to crack it. I.e. an additional bit, in theory should take 8 years. Remeber your binary.
When I want to play a game or listen to music I don't like having the CD in my drive. The new slim-tops don't even have CD drives(fancy cupholders). I don't bother trying to copy protected games so i can play my brother, I just get a no-cd crack. Its easier on me and my CD drive. The same will and does happen with CDs. Most geeks(like me) listen to varieties of music for long stretches at a time. I would hate to change the CD every hour and interrupt my coding. I much prefer to listen to my ripped Dave or B-52s.
Im just saying that cds are annoying to use, and people like the music not the CD itself. We don't pay for the cd's, we pay for the music. It shouldn't be tied to the medium.This also mean I can find my music. My room is very messy, and finding my cd bag takes time. With MP3s, I can point, click, and play. simple.
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slashdotted already? or is this caused by all potheads not in Nevada wanting to see if they should move there...
My school has local security policies. in effect you can only run their applications like word etc. Its a registry thing, setup by a login script. Of course, since it is win98, Word VBA lets you run programs and modify the registry, even though regedit is disabled. The end result is that one can edit the registry to their wishes, crash Explorer with alt-ctrl-del, which reloads the registry settings into explorer and removes any policies. I have done this many times at my school because they limit what i can run, and the lab admins like me and dont care, but can't allow me access.
My point is that client side security is basically null, there are hunders of other ways to "unsecure" a system EVEN with 2000/XP.
They keep combining things for now apparent purpose. Is there a particular reason that they are doing this? They just make everything generic. The bluecurve/gnome 2 menus are cluttered, with things like emacs repeated, and system settings in 5 different menus. I can't imagine how they would do this to a shell, but I guess small things like variables and file selection can be "tweaked."
--Jason
oh i didn't realize it was only tcp.
Couldn't you use an SSH tunnel to circumvent the blocks? Thats how I do samba and VNC (but thats for security purposes so I can keep my router zipped up tight). I don't know how tunnelling would work with a centralized server, but you could certainly tunnel ports directly to another comp. For windows user, PUTTY works great. Putty
ssh -L5903:localhost:5903 24.46.xxx.xxx
As far as i can tell, OptOnline doesn't cap. Not in my area at least.
New Rochelle, NY (westchester county)
Isn't that Eastern Daylight Time. As in Daylight savings time?
--Jason
One I got quite often was
Too many errors!!! Bailing out.
Another which I need to find screenshots of is just about 50 - 100 characters(it varied) or something in a different language / characterset. At 3:00 AM it very distressing to see both errors at once!!
Jason
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I was reading in a science fair book that you can make methanol from household garbage using a pressure cooker. Free battery power!!! Good for the environment too.