I unplugged the modem for a minute or so, and when I turned it back on, it definately took longer to start up then if I just turned it off. The sequence of the lights took longer between each step.
I tried this idea while in the phone queue for ATT@HOME's support....
1) There are ordinary folks who want an easy-to-use encryption solution out of the box, and don't want to read a manual to get that level of security. While NAI's software has been getting better and easier-to-use over the years, it's still not 'easy'. Concepts like 'ring of trust' & 'key signing' might still too academic for ordinary folks, and NAI has not made much of an effort to explain why these ideas are important.
2) There are encryption-geeks, who don't really trust the security of a closed-source product, or who are happy enough with ssh, pgpi, gpg, etc.
OK, I guess there is a third type of encryption user, the user who wants an easy to use encryption product for her business, and isn't concerned about fears like 'FBI backdoors' in their product, but they're probably a small segment of the market.
The US Government says that they can't crack certain types of encryption, and that this is hampering their ability to deal with the Terrorist Threat.
NAI, who has been selling virtually uncrackable encryption technology for years, suddently drops their top-of-the-line encryption product.
Coincidence? I wonder.
I'm not implying a conspiracy between NAI and the US Government, but I wonder if NAI stopped shipping their product because it "wasn't worth the trouble".
My ATT@Home service died mysteriously yesterday. Haven't had a chance to call support yet...
No changes to the setup by me, the 'Cable' light was still blinking, so the physicial connection between my computer and the central hub was operational, but neither Windows (via the shit @HOME software) nor Linux (via dhcpcd) will connect. Both worked fine less then 13 hours earlier.
It's all speculation at this point, but what a coincicence...
Here's a link to the original SF Gate / SF Chronicle article. It's an interesting article...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ ch ronicle/archive/2000/12/07/MN154990.DTL
Hrm, interesting. After hearing that theme song, the first image in my head was a dated 80s glam rock band. I already thought it was 10 years outdated.
I'm a geek, I use Linux, but I'm too damn busy to spend the hours needed to maintain some of the less-userfriendly distros. My system has a SBLive, Nvidia MX 2 and Cable Modem. Configuring those devices was like pulling teeth.
Luckily, with these distros like Mandrake, you get a system that has good config system, and if you want, you can still edit the/etc/ files.
Sun, and other people today announced the Liberty Alliance Project
In related news:
Sun has renamed their project 'Enduring Tracking Project'.
The change was made after the initial name -- ``Liberty Alliance Project'' -- last week ran into objections from some Linux scholars on grounds that only Open Source, or GNU, could mete out Liberty in their view.
(this is a joke. And it shows no respect to those of the FreeBSD or other open source licenses;)
Because we're the type of people who belive you can have your cake and eat it too. I agree that Open Source won't die if companies like Ximian do die, but I also hope that Companies like Ximian are able to make a couple of bucks, and will be able grow and prosper from Open Source projects, and that WE will be able to benfit from that prosperity.
They fix bugs, add features, and make great, useful products.Ximian is a great asset to the Gnome community.
Do your part and be a GNU/Linux user, and let the suits take care of themselves.
Suits? Sure, I'm sure Ximian has it's 'suits', but it has regular people too. I've met several Ximian developers in person and online, and I consider them peers, not suits. I wish my peers Ximian good luck and good fortune... both the Tee-shirt wearing peers and the suit wearing almost-peers.
The county plans on holding mock elections in high schools and at senior citizen communities.
They are actually asking the students to try and hack into the system during the mock elections to learn of possible security
Grownup: "Hey you! You're a teenager, you must know something about these copmuter-ma-thingies. You listen to MP3's, that means you're a computer-hacka... whatchamacallit... hacker. Right?"
Kid: "Uh yeah, sure. I guess so"
Grownup: "Great! Great! Try to hack into this computer and ruin the election".
Kid (Avid reader of Pointy Haired Weekly for Teens) logs into computer, discovers that there is no C:\ prompt, and give up.
Kid: "Well sir, this computer is unhackable."
Grownup: "Yes! Yes! We are secure! SECURE! We'll see if those half-blind, senile senior citizens can screw up the *next* election!"...
I blame the pointy haired bosses for sacking their Apache admins, and installing NT+IIS over their UNIX partition, and trying to bring their site up on this new platform.
Right now, PHB is in a panic and their site is still down, because NT+IIS really isn't easier then UN*X+Apache , despite what MS says in Pointed Haired Boss Weekly
Next month, we'll see a 1.5% gain in Apache use as the Pointy Haired Bosses are sacked and replaced by an Apache admin who is able to restore the UNIX partition from backup:)
If you haven't heard by now, Lucasfilm announced the name of Episode II. It's going to be called 'Attack of the Clones.'
Hey hey hey, quit bashing the name. I hear that Jar Jar Binks, Mark Hamel and the little kid that played Anakin Skywalker spent hours thinking this over. Let's all honor their hard work!
(joke)
Actually, I don't care too much about all the whizbang graphics and sounds features of ActiveX,
I just want the ability to manipulate files on a newbie users Linux system...
It takes alot of effort to get a newbie to execute 'rm -rf/' on their machine via email.... ActiveX can make this remote administration stuff so much easier!
(/joke)
Hey man, if I had moderator points, could I mod myself back down again?
Guess I could post anonymously, just like I could write a post without typos, but things like that don't occur to me when I'm sneaking a post at work:0
(Since so many people won't read the darn FAQ and will instead ask "What's the difference between Mono (Monkey in spanish) and JAVA", here's the answer from Ximian themselves:
Mono and Java
Question 35: What about using Java? After all there are many languages that target the Java VM. You can get very good tools for doing Java development on free systems right now. Red Hat has contributed a GCC frontend for Java that can take Java sources or Java byte codes and generate native executables; Transvirtual has implemented Kaffe a JIT engine for Java; Intel also has a Java VM called ORP.
The JVM is not designed to be a general purpose virtual machine. The Common Intermediate Language (CIL), on the other hand, is designed to be a target for a wide variety of programming languages, and has a set of rules designed to be optimal for JITers.
(Feel free to Agree or disagree with this statement, but quit asking the same question over and over. This post does not deserve Karma, since I didn't create anything myself.).
And I quickly turn around and spend this on inflated energy and gasoline prices...
If I felt that NASA work contributed more benefit to the public (The work done by pre-NASA space agencies on Photovoltaic Solar Cells and NASAs work on Fuel Cells come to mind), I think more people defend NASA's relatively tiny budget.
However, NASA seems to focus more on pretty pictures (I admit, I like Hubble images, and I'm pretty thrilled by the Mars Research; but should I pay tax money for thrislls), the ISS (I'm not totally sure what the benefit from this structure will be) and sending a old senator up into space (When will be benefit from this data? Far in the future).
Maybe this is just ignorance, and most people don't know or understand what NASA has done lately. Why should they pay?
When I terminated, they tried to charge me a $300 disconnect fee
Then, just as I got the disconnect fee taken care of, out comes a $500 modem fee
Sometimes when dealing with a Shady Company like this, where large amounts of money was involved, I cancel the associated Credit Card first, and then call Shady Company to cancel the expensive service. (Be careful though, some companies like Wells Fargo keep your CCard account active for months after you 'cancel' your Card).
This way you are protected from unnecessary fees. Shady Company can't automatically charge any CCard account, so they send you a bill, which puts you in a totally different negotiation position ("Sure, you can have the modem back, but first you need to show me the contract with my signature on it, and then you need to reverse this 'Cancelation fee'" or whatever).
I don't use my CCards very often, so cancelling one CCard isn't a big inconvenience for me.
Michio Kaku isn't just some smalltime professor at some unknown university. He's one the top theoritical and quantum physicist today, co-founder of the String Theory, and has boosted our theories about spacetime and the 4 forces more then any other physicist (except maybe Hawking) since Einstein died.
There are many more scientists out there who won't complain about nuclear threats, because their grant money comes from nuclear-associated corporations.
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Actually, I think that is what worked for me.
I unplugged the modem for a minute or so, and when I turned it back on, it definately took longer to start up then if I just turned it off. The sequence of the lights took longer between each step.
I tried this idea while in the phone queue for ATT@HOME's support....
There are two kinds of encryption users...
1) There are ordinary folks who want an easy-to-use encryption solution out of the box, and don't want to read a manual to get that level of security. While NAI's software has been getting better and easier-to-use over the years, it's still not 'easy'. Concepts like 'ring of trust' & 'key signing' might still too academic for ordinary folks, and NAI has not made much of an effort to explain why these ideas are important.
2) There are encryption-geeks, who don't really trust the security of a closed-source product, or who are happy enough with ssh, pgpi, gpg, etc.
OK, I guess there is a third type of encryption user, the user who wants an easy to use encryption product for her business, and isn't concerned about fears like 'FBI backdoors' in their product, but they're probably a small segment of the market.
The US Government says that they can't crack certain types of encryption, and that this is hampering their ability to deal with the Terrorist Threat.
NAI, who has been selling virtually uncrackable encryption technology for years, suddently drops their top-of-the-line encryption product.
Coincidence? I wonder.
I'm not implying a conspiracy between NAI and the US Government, but I wonder if NAI stopped shipping their product because it "wasn't worth the trouble".
My ATT@Home service died mysteriously yesterday. Haven't had a chance to call support yet...
No changes to the setup by me, the 'Cable' light was still blinking, so the physicial connection between my computer and the central hub was operational, but neither Windows (via the shit @HOME software) nor Linux (via dhcpcd) will connect. Both worked fine less then 13 hours earlier.
It's all speculation at this point, but what a coincicence...
That article is trucated.
/ ch ronicle/archive/2000/12/07/MN154990.DTL
Here's a link to the original SF Gate / SF Chronicle article. It's an interesting article...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=
<i>I took a 700K Word document (500 pages!) and
:)
converted it to a 100K StarOffice file. Now if that isn't cool, I dunno what is!</i>
MS products, take your 10 word sentance and add an extra 50 lines with crap like this (From 1 sentance email sent to me today!):
@font-face { font-family: Tahoma; } P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent:
FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman" } DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;
(... I'm hiding the extra 47 lines hidden from your virgin eyes
Hrm, interesting. After hearing that theme song, the first image in my head was a dated 80s glam rock band. I already thought it was 10 years outdated.
You hit the nail on the head, friend!
/etc/ files.
I'm a geek, I use Linux, but I'm too damn busy to spend the hours needed to maintain some of the less-userfriendly distros. My system has a SBLive, Nvidia MX 2 and Cable Modem. Configuring those devices was like pulling teeth.
Luckily, with these distros like Mandrake, you get a system that has good config system, and if you want, you can still edit the
Sun, and other people today announced the Liberty Alliance Project
;)
In related news:
Sun has renamed their project 'Enduring Tracking Project'.
The change was made after the initial name -- ``Liberty Alliance Project'' -- last week ran into objections from some Linux scholars on grounds that only Open Source, or GNU, could mete out Liberty in their view.
(this is a joke. And it shows no respect to those of the FreeBSD or other open source licenses
but unless you are that guy, why do you care?
Because we're the type of people who belive you can have your cake and eat it too. I agree that Open Source won't die if companies like Ximian do die, but I also hope that Companies like Ximian are able to make a couple of bucks, and will be able grow and prosper from Open Source projects, and that WE will be able to benfit from that prosperity.
They fix bugs, add features, and make great, useful products.Ximian is a great asset to the Gnome community.
Do your part and be a GNU/Linux user, and let the suits take care of themselves.
Suits? Sure, I'm sure Ximian has it's 'suits', but it has regular people too. I've met several Ximian developers in person and online, and I consider them peers, not suits. I wish my peers Ximian good luck and good fortune... both the Tee-shirt wearing peers and the suit wearing almost-peers.
Grownup: "Hey you! You're a teenager, you must know something about these copmuter-ma-thingies. You listen to MP3's, that means you're a computer-hacka ... whatchamacallit ... hacker. Right?"
Kid: "Uh yeah, sure. I guess so"
Grownup: "Great! Great! Try to hack into this computer and ruin the election".
Kid (Avid reader of Pointy Haired Weekly for Teens) logs into computer, discovers that there is no C:\ prompt, and give up.
Kid: "Well sir, this computer is unhackable."
Grownup: "Yes! Yes! We are secure! SECURE! We'll see if those half-blind, senile senior citizens can screw up the *next* election!" ...
Why not make this contest open to the public ?
Is to heave the Slashdot effect upon youself ...
Right now, PHB is in a panic and their site is still down, because NT+IIS really isn't easier then UN*X+Apache , despite what MS says in Pointed Haired Boss Weekly
Next month, we'll see a 1.5% gain in Apache use as the Pointy Haired Bosses are sacked and replaced by an Apache admin who is able to restore the UNIX partition from backup :)
Hey hey hey, quit bashing the name. I hear that Jar Jar Binks, Mark Hamel and the little kid that played Anakin Skywalker spent hours thinking this over. Let's all honor their hard work!
No no, it clearly says that Matt is looking for 'partners' ... hard to get bored with multiple partners...
(joke)
/' on their machine via email.... ActiveX can make this remote administration stuff so much easier!
Actually, I don't care too much about all the whizbang graphics and sounds features of ActiveX,
I just want the ability to manipulate files on a newbie users Linux system...
It takes alot of effort to get a newbie to execute 'rm -rf
(/joke)
Mirroring a site and making it available a zillion times over is the reverse of the ./ effect...
Guess I could post anonymously, just like I could write a post without typos, but things like that don't occur to me when I'm sneaking a post at work
Mono and Java
Question 35: What about using Java? After all there are many languages that target the Java VM. You can get very good tools for doing Java development on free systems right now. Red Hat has contributed a GCC frontend for Java that can take Java sources or Java byte codes and generate native executables; Transvirtual has implemented Kaffe a JIT engine for Java; Intel also has a Java VM called ORP.
The JVM is not designed to be a general purpose virtual machine. The Common Intermediate Language (CIL), on the other hand, is designed to be a target for a wide variety of programming languages, and has a set of rules designed to be optimal for JITers.
(Feel free to Agree or disagree with this statement, but quit asking the same question over and over. This post does not deserve Karma, since I didn't create anything myself.).
And likewise, if NASA sells good psychadellic drugs, people will spend more time staring at the Hubble images...
And I quickly turn around and spend this on inflated energy and gasoline prices...
If I felt that NASA work contributed more benefit to the public (The work done by pre-NASA space agencies on Photovoltaic Solar Cells and NASAs work on Fuel Cells come to mind), I think more people defend NASA's relatively tiny budget.
However, NASA seems to focus more on pretty pictures (I admit, I like Hubble images, and I'm pretty thrilled by the Mars Research; but should I pay tax money for thrislls), the ISS (I'm not totally sure what the benefit from this structure will be) and sending a old senator up into space (When will be benefit from this data? Far in the future).
Maybe this is just ignorance, and most people don't know or understand what NASA has done lately. Why should they pay?
Then, just as I got the disconnect fee taken care of, out comes a $500 modem fee
Sometimes when dealing with a Shady Company like this, where large amounts of money was involved, I cancel the associated Credit Card first, and then call Shady Company to cancel the expensive service. (Be careful though, some companies like Wells Fargo keep your CCard account active for months after you 'cancel' your Card).
This way you are protected from unnecessary fees. Shady Company can't automatically charge any CCard account, so they send you a bill, which puts you in a totally different negotiation position ("Sure, you can have the modem back, but first you need to show me the contract with my signature on it, and then you need to reverse this 'Cancelation fee'" or whatever).
I don't use my CCards very often, so cancelling one CCard isn't a big inconvenience for me.
"Rootkits don't hack... people do!"
Or, to misquote the rootkit authors(g):
"This gun is for educational purpose only"
Michio Kaku isn't just some smalltime professor at some unknown university. He's one the top theoritical and quantum physicist today, co-founder of the String Theory, and has boosted our theories about spacetime and the 4 forces more then any other physicist (except maybe Hawking) since Einstein died. There are many more scientists out there who won't complain about nuclear threats, because their grant money comes from nuclear-associated corporations.
Which is far away from just about everybody...