Even machines with a writer, you can disable the internal Windows XP cd writing features, prevent running unauthorised applications. Its all part of policy.
Granted once you have root access, then you got it, its the same with any system.
From everything I have read, this guy is on a real streak.
Your right, people don't normally watch to root for an individual, but this guy as you rightly say is "sticking it to the man", and that makes it special.
Finding out he's out of it takes something away from the anticipation of watching.
I didn't think it was a true inteference problem, these devices are designed to adapt, and share wavelengths with other APs.
The university network, and any other wireless lans operating all share the same frequencies, and the university would be powerless to stop anyone from outside the university from setting one up.
A more sensible, though less of a quick fix would be to educate users on access configuration and possibly security. Mind you, its not like the university is a place of learning;)
Heaven forbid they might have to send out a squad of pimply faced youth's to gain experience and training in onsite installation and configuration (Change the setting from "Use strongest signal" to "Use this specified LAN only" I assume?) for simple users of the computers.
Instead, they are sending out a trained squadron of attack nerds with notepads and detention slips ready for those illicit people who have the balls to use a wireless LAN.
Hang on a minute, these will become the next generation of KGB ooooops police officers.
This really does seem like a stupid kneejerk rule and I wish you the best of luck in fighting it.
The problem is in the software. In the article, it states the following:
The problem this creates is interference or an actual denial of service to other students not wishing to utilize these "unknown" access points, as the wireless network cards attempt to connect to the nearest and strongest signal available - which is often the "unknown" access points.
Now, the software driver in the network card is just trying to do its best, and goes for the highest signal strength, but apparantly without being able to differentiate between preferencial services?
let me use a similar analogy:
Mobile phones.
They operate on the same frequency bands, and different providers supply different transmitter towers, not all of them are shared, so the strongest physical signal my phone recieves is not always from a compatible provider.
I can choose which are my favoured providers, and completely ignore these other rouge towers.
Since I don't have much experience with wifi, is this how it works? If so, why is this a problem for the University?
This TV show isn't even aired in my country, its an American gameshow aimed at an American audience. From what I read, a great percentage of Americans are hooked.
On the other hand, we have shows in this country that Americans have never even heard of, let alone give a rats arse about the outcome.
Of course, there are shows which have international appeal, and had this been one of those shows or movies, then I wouldn't have even mentioned the country. Matrix spoilers or Friends season finale at the time for instance.
(All this is irrelivent really, the number of hours of TV I actually watch is countable on one hand)
Now we complain that we didn't want to see the news!
(I'm actually 100% behind you on this, im not even American, and have never seen the show, but giving out spoilers on the main page is just bad m'kay!)
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Well, they say (again in the article) that the most recent aired show was his 41st win, and that he had $1,380,661.
Now, if this news is right that his final curtain closes on show 75, its roughly on course.
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from the article: walking away after his 75th straight game with about $2.5 million overall in cash and prizes.
If I remember rightly, the new system does not change the TTL, it is still down to the domain administrator to pre plan domain moves.
On the day before you move, your TTL can be dropped to this 5 minutes so your address can be changes with minimal disruption. After the move, once your stable, your TTL can be increased once again, and network congestion is minimalised.
Of course, I could be talking out of my arse, one of you lot will put me right if this is the case.
Could you do something like free the algorythm, but sell a derived photoshop or psp addin which uses it? Or you could produce a free addin for the Gimp, and sell the others? (I havent used Gimp, so don't know if its modular)
That would appeal to your Open Source ethos, and also help feed you.
I doubt it could ever pay all the bills, but like most things, its not the amount of money, its the fact people are willing to pay.:)
Good luck with it, your results looks neat so far!
Why not just leave it switched off until your actually in space, or until such a time that they are needed? Spacecraft can be controlled for all other kinds of actions, why not this one?
Dave: "This is Mission control, we are go for parachute enable process, on my mark"
ship: "beep"
Dave: "This is Mission control, enable automated parachute deployment."
ship: "I'm sorry dave, I can't do that!"
Dave: "Why not?"
ship: "Because I'm buried in SCO's backyard, you forgot to adjust your clock for daylight savings time!!!"
(Cowers now as the sound of a thousand geeks groaning in unison)
Wish you the best of luck with porting your software over. Its never easy to move to a new framework. If you need an English beta tester, send me one of the devices over.:)
I realised after I posted that you had said you didnt want too use them, but tbh, I think until you try it, you won't know if its going to work.
Of course you must test these things, but there has to be a line drawn sometime, if you spent your life testing every aspect of every product, then things would never be completed.
A serial port *is* meant to be a black box implimentation, its entire purpose is to transmit data using a protocol. Either it gets there or it doesnt.
If you plug in your device and it doesn't perform as expected then you complain.
There usually is smoke around a fire, and in this case, I cannot see any.
Do you have the same concerns when using a USB modem?
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I suppose next you will be telling me the water to wine was the result of a zero day root exploit?
Or the feeding the 5000 was a result of a W32.welchia ancestor inside a dodgy scroll?
I can just see it now
Subject: "Are you hungry?"
Bodytext: "Open this attachment now to feed yourself and your family"
Yes they are.
Its called a CD Rom.
Only those that NEED a burner get one.
Even machines with a writer, you can disable the internal Windows XP cd writing features, prevent running unauthorised applications. Its all part of policy.
Granted once you have root access, then you got it, its the same with any system.
From everything I have read, this guy is on a real streak.
Your right, people don't normally watch to root for an individual, but this guy as you rightly say is "sticking it to the man", and that makes it special.
Finding out he's out of it takes something away from the anticipation of watching.
I only remember it because the missus got all hyped up about it, and it was shown in America a few weeks before it finished over here.
The papers were full of it, and it was hard for her to keep away from seeing how it ended.
Thank you :)
;)
I didn't think it was a true inteference problem, these devices are designed to adapt, and share wavelengths with other APs.
The university network, and any other wireless lans operating all share the same frequencies, and the university would be powerless to stop anyone from outside the university from setting one up.
A more sensible, though less of a quick fix would be to educate users on access configuration and possibly security.
Mind you, its not like the university is a place of learning
Heaven forbid they might have to send out a squad of pimply faced youth's to gain experience and training in onsite installation and configuration (Change the setting from "Use strongest signal" to "Use this specified LAN only" I assume?) for simple users of the computers.
Instead, they are sending out a trained squadron of attack nerds with notepads and detention slips ready for those illicit people who have the balls to use a wireless LAN.
Hang on a minute, these will become the next generation of KGB ooooops police officers.
This really does seem like a stupid kneejerk rule and I wish you the best of luck in fighting it.
Specific cases as you have mentioned need considering, but on the whole, the assertions I make are valid. :)
They are only blocking a specific range of networks though.
Wired access, and the older 802.11 5ghz range are still acceptable.
This is why I think its odd, and seems more like a driver/interface card limitation than any of the suggestions you have come up with.
The problem isn't the signal.
The problem is in the software. In the article, it states the following:
The problem this creates is interference or an actual denial of service to other students not wishing to utilize these "unknown" access points, as the wireless network cards attempt to connect to the nearest and strongest signal available - which is often the "unknown" access points.
Now, the software driver in the network card is just trying to do its best, and goes for the highest signal strength, but apparantly without being able to differentiate between preferencial services?
let me use a similar analogy:
Mobile phones.
They operate on the same frequency bands, and different providers supply different transmitter towers, not all of them are shared, so the strongest physical signal my phone recieves is not always from a compatible provider.
I can choose which are my favoured providers, and completely ignore these other rouge towers.
Since I don't have much experience with wifi, is this how it works? If so, why is this a problem for the University?
This TV show isn't even aired in my country, its an American gameshow aimed at an American audience. From what I read, a great percentage of Americans are hooked.
On the other hand, we have shows in this country that Americans have never even heard of, let alone give a rats arse about the outcome.
Of course, there are shows which have international appeal, and had this been one of those shows or movies, then I wouldn't have even mentioned the country. Matrix spoilers or Friends season finale at the time for instance.
(All this is irrelivent really, the number of hours of TV I actually watch is countable on one hand)
First we complain thats theres no news.
Then we complain thats the news is duped.
Now we complain that we didn't want to see the news!
(I'm actually 100% behind you on this, im not even American, and have never seen the show, but giving out spoilers on the main page is just bad m'kay!)
Well, they say (again in the article) that the most recent aired show was his 41st win, and that he had $1,380,661.
Now, if this news is right that his final curtain closes on show 75, its roughly on course.
from the article: walking away after his 75th straight game with about $2.5 million overall in cash and prizes.
Thats a whole lotta prizes.
If I remember rightly, the new system does not change the TTL, it is still down to the domain administrator to pre plan domain moves.
On the day before you move, your TTL can be dropped to this 5 minutes so your address can be changes with minimal disruption. After the move, once your stable, your TTL can be increased once again, and network congestion is minimalised.
Of course, I could be talking out of my arse, one of you lot will put me right if this is the case.
Could you do something like free the algorythm, but sell a derived photoshop or psp addin which uses it?
:)
Or you could produce a free addin for the Gimp, and sell the others? (I havent used Gimp, so don't know if its modular)
That would appeal to your Open Source ethos, and also help feed you.
I doubt it could ever pay all the bills, but like most things, its not the amount of money, its the fact people are willing to pay.
Good luck with it, your results looks neat so far!
Why not just leave it switched off until your actually in space, or until such a time that they are needed? Spacecraft can be controlled for all other kinds of actions, why not this one?
Dave: "This is Mission control, we are go for parachute enable process, on my mark"
ship: "beep"
Dave: "This is Mission control, enable automated parachute deployment."
ship: "I'm sorry dave, I can't do that!"
Dave: "Why not?"
ship: "Because I'm buried in SCO's backyard, you forgot to adjust your clock for daylight savings time!!!"
Do not underestimate the power of an inanimate carbon rod!
I wonder if this is what the martians saw when Beagle arrived?
Free Crispy finger nibbles for everyone in the office?
Bring your own bbq sauce!
I'm sorry, I have to do this.
:)
Thats all well and good, but does it run linux?
(Cowers now as the sound of a thousand geeks groaning in unison)
Wish you the best of luck with porting your software over. Its never easy to move to a new framework.
If you need an English beta tester, send me one of the devices over.
And?
There is nothing specific to usb in that problem.
Its been the same since the year dot.
Buffer adjustments are NORMAL.
I cannot see a problem with using a usb serial port over any other kind of serial port.
Oh, come off it, no asshat would design a serial system that fucked up if the bits were buffered.
a l-HOWTO.html
Every serial port uses buffering, its completely transparent.
Its a fifo system and as long as you push the data in one end and it comes out in the same order at the other end everything is ok.
Give me a concrete searchable example of a system that screws up because of your buffering problem.
fancy a read? http://www.trustedsystems.co.uk/linux_how_to/Seri
I'd say the biggest giveaway on any ID is the job title:
Occupation: Terrorist.
It appears as thought the entire conversation is stored in UID order.
It makes it look like the thread has been active for the entire 4 years.
I realised after I posted that you had said you didnt want too use them, but tbh, I think until you try it, you won't know if its going to work.
Of course you must test these things, but there has to be a line drawn sometime, if you spent your life testing every aspect of every product, then things would never be completed.
A serial port *is* meant to be a black box implimentation, its entire purpose is to transmit data using a protocol. Either it gets there or it doesnt.
If you plug in your device and it doesn't perform as expected then you complain.
There usually is smoke around a fire, and in this case, I cannot see any.
Do you have the same concerns when using a USB modem?
Serial and (as I have just discovered) parallel ports are available as usb accessories.
USB to Serial
USB to Parallel