There is an interesting entry in Robert Hensing's Incident Response blog about using passphrases to avoid using the NTLM hash. He is a microsoftie but what he says makes sense. I've since switched to using passphrases over 14 characters and so far have not be able to crack them with rainbow tables.
if your interested in a rainbow table demo one can be found here
I use TTS to read this post, it was VERY annoying, however the post was insightful to me. I'm going to start blogging my findings at work. There is a feature in Outlook 2003 for this... Its called "remove unnecessary line breaks", wish slashdot had something like that. and yeah, xhtml my ass too but seriously you sound like a bitter old sysop hanging on to your series M IBM keyboard with an elitist chip on your shoulder. might explain how insightful your post was... got blamed for some security mishap because you didnt document the system and now you regret it maybe? not sure where I'm going with this but trust me, its annoying. oh yeah, and back in my day the F keys only went to 10 and were on the left side of the keyboard, does that make me special? pfft
Having the system loaded with a version of Windows CE may actually be a good thing. Not better than having a version of embedded linux, but better then XP. So far the only worm/virus/trojan I know of is a proof of concept trojan that was emailed to an AntiVirus vendor for Pocket PC, and it didn't actually do anything.
With the amount of spyware and other nasties out there preying on naive internet users it would be in everyone's best interest to keep these machines on an embedded platform. First a trojan/virus/worm would need to be created to take advantage of this platform which is new territory to the evil doers. Second, the user base is small and the machines are not very powerful so the advantage to writing a nasty for this platform are small. And third, even if the PC were to be infected it could be cleaned by a simple hard reset. If I ever were to totally hose my Pocket PC (and I'm not sure how I could do that) I could always hard reset the device and copy my data back from CF backup. Sure, you could do the same with linux setup with partition that contains an image that would overwrite the OS upon each boot but this is still a step in the right direction.
I'm not saying I would want one of these things, unless they scaled them down and sold them cheaper in which case they could make nice low cost cam/file/web/router/vpn/etc/servers, but I think I'll stick with VIA on that for now.
This would be great for my grandparents, especially if you could remotely administer them.
FAT is great, until you get NTBackup 8019 errors because the FS cant handle files over 2 or 4 GB. Just preformed NTFS convert on 2 drives today due to that problem. But yes, MP3, always, because to Joe Sixpack, WMA and AAC are just another "MP3 format":)
Kevin Rose was cool as the D-Tip, but not as the HOST. Its time for technology television reform. We need Solodad Obrian and Leo Laport to pair up again and give us insight with Dev Null.
Cnet-Central, ZDTV, The Sight, TechTV, and now G4TechTV. One of these does not belong.
Your words are inspiration. I dont have any kids yet, I'm in my early 20's, and I believe what you just said is exactly how my parents, may they rest in peace, felt about these subjects. More parents need to learn to actually play an active role in their kids lives and at the same time give them the freedom to learn, make mistakes, and learn from those mistakes while they have parents there with them. and your right about the parents who rely on censorware, thats like using the v-chip in your tv, or security through obscurity, its just not going to work. from a kid thats grown up and thanks his lucky stars for having the parents that cared, take this to heart.
I had to show ID to buy Half Life 1 4 years ago. This is nothing new. I think its anything with a rating above T but I might be wrong. This has happened with a few other games too at walmart (i know), staples, and target. Each time the cashier scans the game and the computer doesnt let them finish the transaction until they punch in the DOB on my drivers license.
I for one would like to welcome our full page slashback overlords.
I think I speak for all of us when I say thank you for bringing back slashback.
Feel much safer since I installed paypalbuddy.exe
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Thats funny, I never had problems with my paypal account. I get emails all the time from them asking me to verify my account at secure websites like paypal.reallysecure.tk. Sometimes they even send me a utility, paypalbuddy.exe, to keep my computer secure. I feel a lot safer since I've installed paypalbuddy.exe, in fact I know that I'm safe because if I check my task manager I can see that paypalbuddy.exe is using 90% of my CPU to constantly encrypt my paypal traffic, even when I'm not at the computer! I forwarded this handy utility to my mother-in-law and she loves it too.
The only thing Paypal should really focus on now is training their likely outsourced software engineers in proper grammar. Samir is constantly sending me emails about my paypal account though for some reason he can never get some english phrases right. I guess its ok though, I cant expect the entire world to speak english, and I give him an E for effort, especially on those unique poems he attaches to the end of the emails...
Shall I share...
Capture the magic of the season,
Sit down, relax, and have trust in us.
The price of portability
upon Real Girls Business?
Thou must medicate thyself.
Credit where credit is due, this spam poetry site rocks
I love this country too, its such a shame that its falling apart like this, but for some reason we're the only ones that seem to notice... Have things always been this way and I'm just now realizing it? And better yet, is Canada really as great as everyone makes it sounds.
I'm a rackspace customer that cant figure out why the whole fucking business isnt just in Herndon. Why so split up? Why does it take talking to 4 people to hard boot a server? And WTF cant I just admin the firewall and backup? Noooooooo, you've gotta go through support every time you want to open a port, or add a directory to the tape backups. No wonder the support people are going nuts, they get bugged for EVERYTHING.
I think the best was this: I asked for a port open on the firewall, then 2 hours later I get a response from a support monkey saying "are you sure you want to open that port, did you make a typo and mean this port, becuase it looks similar to this port...". WTF?! Had the techie even looked at the firewall config he would have noticed that the port he thought i meant was already open. Please, RS, get a fucking management console for your services and train your support people not to talk back.
Who modded this funny? Maybe it was the tin foil keyword filter. I'm a Virginian thats seriously thinking about moving way up north if things get much worse.
I'm in VA. After a hurricane power was out for about a week. I had dialtone for all but the last 2 days. I wonder how long these batteries can keep the PSTN up. And a better question, where is that phreak box plan from the 90's on how to capture 12v from any POTS line for my CD player:)
Rebellious computer geeks consider wardriving a hobby, using wireless laptops connected to high-powered mobile antennas and Global Positioning System tracking devices to detect vulnerable networks from their driver's seats. The term wardriving originates from "wardialing," a term introduced by Matthew Broderick's character in the 1983 movie WarGames. Wardriving and wardialing employ the same concept, although the former is updated to wireless networks.
Oh the humanity!! Those War loving geeks, the same ones that made my computer almost EXPLODE on Jan. 1, 2000, they must be stopped! Someone call Ashcroft!
Dont you just love ignorant sensationalist journalism. I propose that all future stories with a funny rating this high be posted Monday - Friday between 9am and 5pm. I could have used the laugh today... Then again some of the co-workers might not have got the joke.
How about RSS synching for iPod
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How about RSS synching for iPod, or even better, RSS with text-to-speech generation synching.
/me invisions listening to slashdot while jogging.
But I argue, you would only need to regenerate the index once every time you change the music on it, in which case its plugged into a computer and charged off USB or Firewire, this nulling your arguement.
iTunes Schmietunes. I cant for the life of my get used to using that software, and no, the plugin for Winamp 5 isnt much better. I guess I'm just a file tree / Winamp 2.8x kinda guy.
Lastly, the folks at Archos saw it fit to just let the AV420 be recognized as a hard drive. As in all other functions, files can be moved, renamed or deleted right on the device. Just plug it in via USB 2.0 and just drag and drop any files to your heart's content.
If you prefer to synchronize your tunes, you can always use the included Musicmatch software.
This is where they got it right, whether a PVR is in the stars for you or not everyone should adopt this practice (that means you apple!). There is nothing more upsetting than getting a device that only wants to talk to its software for importing files. My old iPaq PocketPC would annoy the hell out of me because I couldn't just plug it in to any USB port on any computer and get files to/from it. At least the iPod lets you get at the "other" files stored on the HDD without iTunes or other synch software.
Or am I just crazy? Should we all just install Music Match and Real One so we can get files off our USB flashpenthumb drives with stickers on them?
FTFA: And unlike most laptops, it boots up in a few seconds making it easy to use at any time.
But didnt I just read a story on Slashdot a while back about a laptop with an embedded linux distro which would boot the laptop in seconds for multimedia use? Imagine one of these in the 12" slim form factor with a tablet display and you've got an only slightly larger PVR which doubles as a laptop and looks oh so nifty you just know they'll all be using them in the 24th century.
A $20.00 tri-fold I picked up to replace it, has actually creased all my cards
For the longest time I had a wonderful leather bi-fold that I picked up from levis. It held up ok but then one Christmas my girlfriend got me one of those surfer tri-folds with the velcro. I felt like I was 10 years old again with that thing. It was so small, and I realized after using it for a bit why I hated trifold so much. My bills were twisted into funktactular oragami on either side after a few days and they is nothing more annoying than trying to find a 5 when they're all grabbing onto eachother from the ends.
Thankfully the velcro eventually stopped sticking so I could actually open it without 2 hands.
Then I realized what I really hated about trifolds. My credit cards had been cracked down the sides where the wallet bends.
Needless to say, I'm sporting my old bi-fold to this day. Its only when I really feel the urge to go skateboarding or go to a concert and wear my chain that I ever use the damn trifold.
I love my Barton XP 2500. I wanted a rig that would run fast and not break the bank, this was around the time that the XP3200 was just hitting the market, so I ended up getting the 2500 for $100, an nForce2 MSI board for $100, 2x256 of CAS2 DDR3200 for $100, and a Radeon 9500 Pro for $200. My $500 upgrade was worth every penny
and though its less than a year old I'm starting to feel the upgrade itch, but I cant. It used to be I could satisfy the upgrade itch by getting a new video card, or new cpu, or some ram, but my system is so balanced that getting a CPU wouldnt help my FPS without a new Vid, and vice versa.
Now I'm just waiting until I can get an AMD64 3000 for $100, motherboard for $100, Radeon X700 XT for $200, and 2x512 CAS2 DDR for $100ish. Yeah, I know, I'll be waiting a while, but already the XP2500 is $40 less than I originally got it for.
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There is an interesting entry in Robert Hensing's Incident Response blog about using passphrases to avoid using the NTLM hash. He is a microsoftie but what he says makes sense. I've since switched to using passphrases over 14 characters and so far have not be able to crack them with rainbow tables.
if your interested in a rainbow table demo one can be found here
I use TTS to read this post, it was VERY annoying, however the post was insightful to me. I'm going to start blogging my findings at work. There is a feature in Outlook 2003 for this... Its called "remove unnecessary line breaks", wish slashdot had something like that. and yeah, xhtml my ass too but seriously you sound like a bitter old sysop hanging on to your series M IBM keyboard with an elitist chip on your shoulder. might explain how insightful your post was... got blamed for some security mishap because you didnt document the system and now you regret it maybe? not sure where I'm going with this but trust me, its annoying. oh yeah, and back in my day the F keys only went to 10 and were on the left side of the keyboard, does that make me special? pfft
PS: Thanks again for the great advice
Yes, but does it run linux?
Having the system loaded with a version of Windows CE may actually be a good thing. Not better than having a version of embedded linux, but better then XP. So far the only worm/virus/trojan I know of is a proof of concept trojan that was emailed to an AntiVirus vendor for Pocket PC, and it didn't actually do anything.
With the amount of spyware and other nasties out there preying on naive internet users it would be in everyone's best interest to keep these machines on an embedded platform. First a trojan/virus/worm would need to be created to take advantage of this platform which is new territory to the evil doers. Second, the user base is small and the machines are not very powerful so the advantage to writing a nasty for this platform are small. And third, even if the PC were to be infected it could be cleaned by a simple hard reset. If I ever were to totally hose my Pocket PC (and I'm not sure how I could do that) I could always hard reset the device and copy my data back from CF backup. Sure, you could do the same with linux setup with partition that contains an image that would overwrite the OS upon each boot but this is still a step in the right direction.
I'm not saying I would want one of these things, unless they scaled them down and sold them cheaper in which case they could make nice low cost cam/file/web/router/vpn/etc/servers, but I think I'll stick with VIA on that for now.
This would be great for my grandparents, especially if you could remotely administer them.
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FAT is great, until you get NTBackup 8019 errors because the FS cant handle files over 2 or 4 GB. Just preformed NTFS convert on 2 drives today due to that problem. But yes, MP3, always, because to Joe Sixpack, WMA and AAC are just another "MP3 format" :)
Mine is scheduled to arrive on New Years Day...
And then, oh iPod of mine, I'll be with you be with you night and day!
Kevin Rose was cool as the D-Tip, but not as the HOST. Its time for technology television reform. We need Solodad Obrian and Leo Laport to pair up again and give us insight with Dev Null.
Cnet-Central, ZDTV, The Sight, TechTV, and now G4TechTV. One of these does not belong.
Your words are inspiration. I dont have any kids yet, I'm in my early 20's, and I believe what you just said is exactly how my parents, may they rest in peace, felt about these subjects. More parents need to learn to actually play an active role in their kids lives and at the same time give them the freedom to learn, make mistakes, and learn from those mistakes while they have parents there with them. and your right about the parents who rely on censorware, thats like using the v-chip in your tv, or security through obscurity, its just not going to work. from a kid thats grown up and thanks his lucky stars for having the parents that cared, take this to heart.
in Boca Raton back in 1995 (just before they turned Boca the "Grave of OS/2")
Not to sound stupid but wasnt that facility closed in the 80's?
I had to show ID to buy Half Life 1 4 years ago. This is nothing new. I think its anything with a rating above T but I might be wrong. This has happened with a few other games too at walmart (i know), staples, and target. Each time the cashier scans the game and the computer doesnt let them finish the transaction until they punch in the DOB on my drivers license.
I for one would like to welcome our full page slashback overlords.
I think I speak for all of us when I say thank you for bringing back slashback.
Thats funny, I never had problems with my paypal account. I get emails all the time from them asking me to verify my account at secure websites like paypal.reallysecure.tk. Sometimes they even send me a utility, paypalbuddy.exe, to keep my computer secure. I feel a lot safer since I've installed paypalbuddy.exe, in fact I know that I'm safe because if I check my task manager I can see that paypalbuddy.exe is using 90% of my CPU to constantly encrypt my paypal traffic, even when I'm not at the computer! I forwarded this handy utility to my mother-in-law and she loves it too.
The only thing Paypal should really focus on now is training their likely outsourced software engineers in proper grammar. Samir is constantly sending me emails about my paypal account though for some reason he can never get some english phrases right. I guess its ok though, I cant expect the entire world to speak english, and I give him an E for effort, especially on those unique poems he attaches to the end of the emails...
Shall I share...
Capture the magic of the season,
Sit down, relax, and have trust in us.
The price of portability
upon Real Girls Business?
Thou must medicate thyself.
Credit where credit is due, this spam poetry site rocks
I love this country too, its such a shame that its falling apart like this, but for some reason we're the only ones that seem to notice... Have things always been this way and I'm just now realizing it? And better yet, is Canada really as great as everyone makes it sounds.
I'm a rackspace customer that cant figure out why the whole fucking business isnt just in Herndon. Why so split up? Why does it take talking to 4 people to hard boot a server? And WTF cant I just admin the firewall and backup? Noooooooo, you've gotta go through support every time you want to open a port, or add a directory to the tape backups. No wonder the support people are going nuts, they get bugged for EVERYTHING.
I think the best was this: I asked for a port open on the firewall, then 2 hours later I get a response from a support monkey saying "are you sure you want to open that port, did you make a typo and mean this port, becuase it looks similar to this port...". WTF?! Had the techie even looked at the firewall config he would have noticed that the port he thought i meant was already open. Please, RS, get a fucking management console for your services and train your support people not to talk back.
everyone just nod.
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Who modded this funny? Maybe it was the tin foil keyword filter. I'm a Virginian thats seriously thinking about moving way up north if things get much worse.
I'm in VA. After a hurricane power was out for about a week. I had dialtone for all but the last 2 days. I wonder how long these batteries can keep the PSTN up. And a better question, where is that phreak box plan from the 90's on how to capture 12v from any POTS line for my CD player :)
Rebellious computer geeks consider wardriving a hobby, using wireless laptops connected to high-powered mobile antennas and Global Positioning System tracking devices to detect vulnerable networks from their driver's seats. The term wardriving originates from "wardialing," a term introduced by Matthew Broderick's character in the 1983 movie WarGames. Wardriving and wardialing employ the same concept, although the former is updated to wireless networks.
Oh the humanity!! Those War loving geeks, the same ones that made my computer almost EXPLODE on Jan. 1, 2000, they must be stopped! Someone call Ashcroft!
Dont you just love ignorant sensationalist journalism. I propose that all future stories with a funny rating this high be posted Monday - Friday between 9am and 5pm. I could have used the laugh today... Then again some of the co-workers might not have got the joke.
How about RSS synching for iPod, or even better, RSS with text-to-speech generation synching.
/me invisions listening to slashdot while jogging.
PS: Do we like or hate engadget? I forget.
But I argue, you would only need to regenerate the index once every time you change the music on it, in which case its plugged into a computer and charged off USB or Firewire, this nulling your arguement.
iTunes Schmietunes. I cant for the life of my get used to using that software, and no, the plugin for Winamp 5 isnt much better. I guess I'm just a file tree / Winamp 2.8x kinda guy.
Lastly, the folks at Archos saw it fit to just let the AV420 be recognized as a hard drive. As in all other functions, files can be moved, renamed or deleted right on the device. Just plug it in via USB 2.0 and just drag and drop any files to your heart's content. If you prefer to synchronize your tunes, you can always use the included Musicmatch software.
This is where they got it right, whether a PVR is in the stars for you or not everyone should adopt this practice (that means you apple!). There is nothing more upsetting than getting a device that only wants to talk to its software for importing files. My old iPaq PocketPC would annoy the hell out of me because I couldn't just plug it in to any USB port on any computer and get files to/from it. At least the iPod lets you get at the "other" files stored on the HDD without iTunes or other synch software.
Or am I just crazy? Should we all just install Music Match and Real One so we can get files off our USB flashpenthumb drives with stickers on them?
FTFA: And unlike most laptops, it boots up in a few seconds making it easy to use at any time.
But didnt I just read a story on Slashdot a while back about a laptop with an embedded linux distro which would boot the laptop in seconds for multimedia use? Imagine one of these in the 12" slim form factor with a tablet display and you've got an only slightly larger PVR which doubles as a laptop and looks oh so nifty you just know they'll all be using them in the 24th century.
Just imagine a beowulf cluster of these 12-way Operton super computers. That would almost be enough computing power to run spell check!
Sorry, had to say it
A $20.00 tri-fold I picked up to replace it, has actually creased all my cards
For the longest time I had a wonderful leather bi-fold that I picked up from levis. It held up ok but then one Christmas my girlfriend got me one of those surfer tri-folds with the velcro. I felt like I was 10 years old again with that thing. It was so small, and I realized after using it for a bit why I hated trifold so much. My bills were twisted into funktactular oragami on either side after a few days and they is nothing more annoying than trying to find a 5 when they're all grabbing onto eachother from the ends.
Thankfully the velcro eventually stopped sticking so I could actually open it without 2 hands.
Then I realized what I really hated about trifolds. My credit cards had been cracked down the sides where the wallet bends.
Needless to say, I'm sporting my old bi-fold to this day. Its only when I really feel the urge to go skateboarding or go to a concert and wear my chain that I ever use the damn trifold.
Dear Windows,
Service pack 2 makes you look fat.
Love,
Your Ex
I love my Barton XP 2500. I wanted a rig that would run fast and not break the bank, this was around the time that the XP3200 was just hitting the market, so I ended up getting the 2500 for $100, an nForce2 MSI board for $100, 2x256 of CAS2 DDR3200 for $100, and a Radeon 9500 Pro for $200. My $500 upgrade was worth every penny
and though its less than a year old I'm starting to feel the upgrade itch, but I cant. It used to be I could satisfy the upgrade itch by getting a new video card, or new cpu, or some ram, but my system is so balanced that getting a CPU wouldnt help my FPS without a new Vid, and vice versa.
Now I'm just waiting until I can get an AMD64 3000 for $100, motherboard for $100, Radeon X700 XT for $200, and 2x512 CAS2 DDR for $100ish. Yeah, I know, I'll be waiting a while, but already the XP2500 is $40 less than I originally got it for.