OS X and Win Vista/7 has this nice feature called "Hybrid Sleep" that will write a hibernate file to disk but then suspend to RAM. If it can later wake up it will, otherwise it will cold boot, see there's a hibernate file, and resume from that. It's called "safe sleep" on OS X.
This is most useful when you are on a laptop and the battery might die in sleep. On either OS, it's not enable by default for portable machines. Oddly enough, in Windows, It IS on by default for desktops.
Was the windows machine you replaced a desktop? If it was, remember, desktop drives take longer to spin up, and desktop motherboards have to scan the PCI bus, as well as other things like initializing USB devices, looking for HID and storage.
It is already orange and has been orange forever as far as air travel goes.
I chuckle at that every time I fly, because leaving it at one step below the actual attack state means if it ever went to red for good reason, no one will care.
Boiling frogs works both ways. if you constantly caution people when there is no real danger, they lose the ability to see genuine threats.
This system provides no real benefit to the American populace other than to instill fear.
No, it doesn't even do that, and eliminating two "low-threatening" levels that were never used changes nothing. The alert level has been at Orange for what, years now? That's crying wolf. If it ever goes to Red because of an actual attack, no one will pay any attention to it.
Make it like a traffic signal, everyone knows what that means:
Current yellow -> new green : Guarded but no specific threat Current orange -> new yellow : Genuine threat but no attack. Red stays red : Actual attack.
Apparently, if you had enabled tethering via a modified AT&T.ipcc before you upgraded to 3.1, you'll get to keep it. You can even wipe the phone and restore a backup, and you'll get tethering back.
Not so with Mobileconfig profiles. Those get wiped out. If you ever do a restore and set up "as a new iPhone", you'll lose tethering and the 3.0 methods won't work to re-enable it, unless you reinstall a backup that has tethering enabled.
So there's some other setting at work...
3.0 w/.ipcc hack, upgraded to 3.1, lost MMS (for now), tethering works. Reapplying the.ipcc re-enables MMS. 3.0 w/.mobileconfig to 3.1, lose MMS and tethering. Reinstalling the.mobileconfig gets you MMS, but no tethering 3.1 clean:.ipcc hack or.mobileconfig can enable MMS, does not enable tethering
now.ipcc files are still just.zip with plists in them... makes me think there IS a way to enable tethering, there's just some additional setting required in the.ipcc
AC has a good point. Which is why they are trying the new millimeter-wave scanners. "That might be a blurry body part" issues aside, mmw should allow keeping shoes on.
I'm torn on the whole shoe-removal issue. You really CAN hide a lot of bad things in shoes... So part of me says shoe checks should have been procedure long before Reid, but that same part of me says we should have a way to do it without the slow-down of removal already.
1) If you did try to put a bomb in your tighty whiteys, some part of it would trigger the metal detector. The TSA's reason for why you have to take off your shoes is so they can x-ray for all kinds of stuff. (I know for a fact the archway metal detectors don't reliably pick up metal near the floor, and I've noticed the personnel don't wand all the way down.)
2) Bombers have successfully concealed and detonated explosives a lot more.. ahem.. intimately than in their underwear. The problem with that is the bomber's body tends to absorb much of the blast.
3) I found ATL security to be quite nice.. however...
4) Airport security has heard that joke so many times it's gotten annoying.
Comcast in my county does it already. The only ClearQAM signals are are the HD locals, and the analog channels are gradually being sacrificed to make way for more QAM channels.
Now, EB digital is the same price as EB analog, and you get back the channels they dropped from analog (such as G4!). I get one CableCARD-equipped SD box for free, and it's connected via S-video and IR blaster to my PC. I'd do it even if I didn't have to, because capturing the s-video output of a digital box is a hell of a lot cleaner than what you get over analog RF. The non-addressable "privacy mode" DTAs that will be required to view EB channels in the future can be used the same way.
In the next county over, Comcast turned off the encryption and starting sending ALL of the basic digital channels in the clear. Complete with proper PSIP data, so channel 52 on the digital box might be QAM 82.13 but actually shows up as "52 CNN" on your ClearQAM tuner.
WTF, Comcast, why can't you do that here? Might be 'cause they have a Motorola head-end vs. the Scientific Craplanta one I'm stuck with.
You didn't just opt out of the Comcast DNS 'helper' ? Do it once, and you're good unless you have to replace your CM.
I'd double check those Comcast speeds too. 6Mbps seems to be the _minimum_ speed you'll get, funny as it is to say that. For me, large downloads ramp up to 10-20MBps every time.
You want a virtual filesystem in windows? I can give you a few:
The registry is a great big one. There's the \\.\ root behind the scenes, the \DEVICE tree off that. Kinda familiar?
You can mount a volume in an empty folder vs. using a drive letter, if you really want to.. Oh, yeah, and check out the Pismo File Mount tool. You can access an (ISO,zip,etc..) file as a folder, WITHOUT unpacking it or using a device driver like Daemon Tools.
Heh. Wherever you see one of the blue domes in Baltimore, you don't go down that side street. The hoods moved literally around the corner to get out of the camera's field.
If the place has been robbed twice, I'd venture to say none of 'em.
However, if you are going to have some real CCTV cameras, putting a lot of fake cameras up is actually a good idea. Would-be crooks don't know where the blind spots are. I've seen stores, banks, and casinos where every other tile has a bubble on it. Banks and casinos tend to make a few cameras very large and obvious. There's always a few more you don't see.
Doesn't explain the Riviera Las Vegas. There's apparently no camera right outside the door to the SECURITY OFFICE... and sure enough, someone plopped a fake ATM right there.
You must be kidding. I gladly gave up most television when Comcast's "free premium channels, free HD, free DVR" offers were expiring and there was no way to record it thru my own gear.
but...
I do not give up music. I'll steal it if that is the only way I can listen to it where and how I want to listen to it.
And apparently the jury of peers agrees with you... more than once.
Jammie Thomas did not have a sympathetic jury. She and her council did just about everything they could to ensure they didn't. Lying to the jury and destroying evidence (a hard drive) the first time, get hit with $220,000 for it, then appeal and do it again? Of course she's going to get swatted for it.
I don't think it is so much a matter of violating the officers' privacy, as endangering them and their undercover operations.
Yes, the personal info of police officers and other civil servants is public record. Yes, she has every right to know it. Yes, she has every right to put it on her blog.
But no, she does not have the right to also publish pictures and information about JADE operations right next to the personal information and home address of the undercover officers. She's blowing their cover. If that leads to a situation where an officer gets killed, she's now contributing to their death. Either way, she is compromising undercover operations, same as if she were to walk up to an officer undercover and tell everyone "He's a cop."
This is a case of endangering the police. We're talking about undercover officers here, not uniformed cops and desk jockeys. Go work a job where you might end up dead if the wrong people know what you do for a living, then tell me how you'd feel about a blogger following your every move on and off the job.
Miller mentions using AT commands to the GSM modem to send all the bogus SMS messages. That's nice. Did you know you could do that with any Motorola phone and a serial cable long before the iPhone was a clever idea in someone's head? You can even buy bare GSM modem modules for control and security systems, telemetry, etc... insert your SIM and go.
Could you cause cell network mayhem and/or go to jail for what you're able to do with AT commands? Probably. Look at all the phreaky fun you could (can still?) have with the POTS network and a modem. But it has nothing to do with the iPhone or jailbreaking in particular. Jailbreaking is just opening up the iPhone's OS to user code. Once you've done that, you could get into the other parts of the phone, such as the baseband processor. That's where you unlock the phone or... well, I suppose if you were clever enough to load custom firmware into the baseband, you could do really nasty stuff at the RF packet level to the towers. But again, every model of phone has a baseband, and they're all reprogrammable (that's how carriers lock phones in the first place)
In all likelihood, there are some power-management features of the hardware that are better controlled in OS X than in Windows. The ACPI and CPU-based power management should be pretty standard, but how good are the Windows drivers for the 9400M? There might be updated ones on Windows Update or nVidia's site.
The MBP has a big battery (60 Wh), but still, I see similar things in Linux vs. Windows. Even my cheapo Dell Inspiron with a 48Wh battery will last 4 hrs in Windows 7, but only about 2.5 in Ubuntu.
Windows 7 rocks, as much as any version of Windows can.
But great spaghetti gods, Ubuntu Jaunty boots in 30 seconds on my laptop, and if I can just get the frickin' sound to work... the modules are THERE, but ALSA is broken in Jaunty. It worked in Intrepid, and it works in Karmic alpha 3, but so much else is borked in Karmic... way to go, guys.
I need to stay on Windows for one reason on my big box: DVRing ClearQAM+analog from a STB.
My friend runs MythTV, and it's just not as solid as Media Center. Especially with the trouble-free Xbox 360 extender functionality.
Believe me, I would love to sell my 360 (and cancel the $50 a year XBL Gold I never use for anything but Netflix), ditch Windows for good, setup MythTV, get a PS3 for games, media, and Blu-Ray, and use a Roku box for Netflix and MythFrontend... but it's just not there, dammit. There's no reason it shouldn't be, but it's not.
Disclaimer: I'm drunk, so I'm probably going to be extremely amused by this in the morning. Time to go install FreeBSD.
It's not the only free one, but the other free ones aren't much better.
Watch out for Microsoft Security Essentials (Morro).
It's a drop-in replacement for Windows Defender on Vista and Win 7, and it's basically Windows Defender with realtime antivirus. Lightweight too, it's using 56 MB on my system right now. That sounds like a lot, but come on, we're in the days of 2GB RAM as a minimum.
Where I live, if you get nailed by a red-light or speed camera, the violation is on the vehicle. No points are assessed on your driving record (because they cannot prove it was a certain person) but that vehicle's registration can't be renewed (and may be suspended) unless you either pay the fine or go to court as the owner of the vehicle.
When your ISP can produce the logs showing a particular IP was assigned to your CPE MAC, which is in turn tied to your account, there is a connection between you and the IP address. It doesn't necessarily identify you or your computers, but you bear some responsibility for it.
To continue the car analogy, if you leave your network open, that's like leaving your car unlocked with the keys in the ignition. If someone "borrows" it and starts running down pedestrians, the police are going to trace the car back to you by the tags and if they can show you took no precautions (or even encouraged) open use of that vehicle... you might get in trouble!
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OS X and Win Vista/7 has this nice feature called "Hybrid Sleep" that will write a hibernate file to disk but then suspend to RAM. If it can later wake up it will, otherwise it will cold boot, see there's a hibernate file, and resume from that. It's called "safe sleep" on OS X.
This is most useful when you are on a laptop and the battery might die in sleep. On either OS, it's not enable by default for portable machines. Oddly enough, in Windows, It IS on by default for desktops.
Was the windows machine you replaced a desktop? If it was, remember, desktop drives take longer to spin up, and desktop motherboards have to scan the PCI bus, as well as other things like initializing USB devices, looking for HID and storage.
It is already orange and has been orange forever as far as air travel goes.
I chuckle at that every time I fly, because leaving it at one step below the actual attack state means if it ever went to red for good reason, no one will care.
Boiling frogs works both ways. if you constantly caution people when there is no real danger, they lose the ability to see genuine threats.
No, it doesn't even do that, and eliminating two "low-threatening" levels that were never used changes nothing. The alert level has been at Orange for what, years now? That's crying wolf. If it ever goes to Red because of an actual attack, no one will pay any attention to it.
Make it like a traffic signal, everyone knows what that means:
Current yellow -> new green : Guarded but no specific threat
Current orange -> new yellow : Genuine threat but no attack.
Red stays red : Actual attack.
Now that makes sense, doesn't it?
Apparently, if you had enabled tethering via a modified AT&T .ipcc before you upgraded to 3.1, you'll get to keep it. You can even wipe the phone and restore a backup, and you'll get tethering back.
Not so with Mobileconfig profiles. Those get wiped out. If you ever do a restore and set up "as a new iPhone", you'll lose tethering and the 3.0 methods won't work to re-enable it, unless you reinstall a backup that has tethering enabled.
So there's some other setting at work...
3.0 w/ .ipcc hack, upgraded to 3.1, lost MMS (for now), tethering works. Reapplying the .ipcc re-enables MMS. .mobileconfig to 3.1, lose MMS and tethering. Reinstalling the .mobileconfig gets you MMS, but no tethering .ipcc hack or .mobileconfig can enable MMS, does not enable tethering
3.0 w/
3.1 clean:
now .ipcc files are still just .zip with plists in them... makes me think there IS a way to enable tethering, there's just some additional setting required in the .ipcc
AC has a good point. Which is why they are trying the new millimeter-wave scanners. "That might be a blurry body part" issues aside, mmw should allow keeping shoes on.
I'm torn on the whole shoe-removal issue. You really CAN hide a lot of bad things in shoes... So part of me says shoe checks should have been procedure long before Reid, but that same part of me says we should have a way to do it without the slow-down of removal already.
1) If you did try to put a bomb in your tighty whiteys, some part of it would trigger the metal detector. The TSA's reason for why you have to take off your shoes is so they can x-ray for all kinds of stuff. (I know for a fact the archway metal detectors don't reliably pick up metal near the floor, and I've noticed the personnel don't wand all the way down.)
2) Bombers have successfully concealed and detonated explosives a lot more.. ahem.. intimately than in their underwear. The problem with that is the bomber's body tends to absorb much of the blast.
3) I found ATL security to be quite nice.. however...
4) Airport security has heard that joke so many times it's gotten annoying.
Comcast in my county does it already. The only ClearQAM signals are are the HD locals, and the analog channels are gradually being sacrificed to make way for more QAM channels.
Now, EB digital is the same price as EB analog, and you get back the channels they dropped from analog (such as G4!). I get one CableCARD-equipped SD box for free, and it's connected via S-video and IR blaster to my PC. I'd do it even if I didn't have to, because capturing the s-video output of a digital box is a hell of a lot cleaner than what you get over analog RF. The non-addressable "privacy mode" DTAs that will be required to view EB channels in the future can be used the same way.
In the next county over, Comcast turned off the encryption and starting sending ALL of the basic digital channels in the clear. Complete with proper PSIP data, so channel 52 on the digital box might be QAM 82.13 but actually shows up as "52 CNN" on your ClearQAM tuner.
WTF, Comcast, why can't you do that here? Might be 'cause they have a Motorola head-end vs. the Scientific Craplanta one I'm stuck with.
Ugh. Sig stupidity: Pure nitrogen, argon, or oxygen aren't pollutants either...
but try breathing them straight for 10 minutes.
Yeah, you might survive 100% O2, but it wouldn't be good for you.
You didn't just opt out of the Comcast DNS 'helper' ?
Do it once, and you're good unless you have to replace your CM.
I'd double check those Comcast speeds too. 6Mbps seems to be the _minimum_ speed you'll get, funny as it is to say that. For me, large downloads ramp up to 10-20MBps every time.
You want a virtual filesystem in windows? I can give you a few:
The registry is a great big one.
There's the \\.\ root behind the scenes, the \DEVICE tree off that. Kinda familiar?
You can mount a volume in an empty folder vs. using a drive letter, if you really want to..
Oh, yeah, and check out the Pismo File Mount tool.
You can access an (ISO,zip,etc..) file as a folder, WITHOUT unpacking it or using a device driver like Daemon Tools.
Huh?
A full "species" upgrade (ex: Tiger->Leopard) of OS X is what, $120?
Vista to Win 7 was $99/Pro and $50/home if you got in on the deal.
s/FSF/PETA/
s/FSF/MPAA/
s/FSF/RIAA/
s/FSF/EFF/
Heh. Wherever you see one of the blue domes in Baltimore, you don't go down that side street. The hoods moved literally around the corner to get out of the camera's field.
If the place has been robbed twice, I'd venture to say none of 'em.
However, if you are going to have some real CCTV cameras, putting a lot of fake cameras up is actually a good idea. Would-be crooks don't know where the blind spots are. I've seen stores, banks, and casinos where every other tile has a bubble on it. Banks and casinos tend to make a few cameras very large and obvious. There's always a few more you don't see.
Doesn't explain the Riviera Las Vegas. There's apparently no camera right outside the door to the SECURITY OFFICE... and sure enough, someone plopped a fake ATM right there.
You must be kidding. I gladly gave up most television when Comcast's "free premium channels, free HD, free DVR" offers were expiring and there was no way to record it thru my own gear.
but...
I do not give up music. I'll steal it if that is the only way I can listen to it where and how I want to listen to it.
And apparently the jury of peers agrees with you... more than once.
Jammie Thomas did not have a sympathetic jury. She and her council did just about everything they could to ensure they didn't. Lying to the jury and destroying evidence (a hard drive) the first time, get hit with $220,000 for it, then appeal and do it again? Of course she's going to get swatted for it.
I don't think it is so much a matter of violating the officers' privacy, as endangering them and their undercover operations.
Yes, the personal info of police officers and other civil servants is public record.
Yes, she has every right to know it.
Yes, she has every right to put it on her blog.
But no, she does not have the right to also publish pictures and information about JADE operations right next to the personal information and home address of the undercover officers. She's blowing their cover. If that leads to a situation where an officer gets killed, she's now contributing to their death. Either way, she is compromising undercover operations, same as if she were to walk up to an officer undercover and tell everyone "He's a cop."
This is a case of endangering the police. We're talking about undercover officers here, not uniformed cops and desk jockeys. Go work a job where you might end up dead if the wrong people know what you do for a living, then tell me how you'd feel about a blogger following your every move on and off the job.
CAPTCHA for this was "paranoia". How appropriate.
Miller mentions using AT commands to the GSM modem to send all the bogus SMS messages. That's nice. Did you know you could do that with any Motorola phone and a serial cable long before the iPhone was a clever idea in someone's head? You can even buy bare GSM modem modules for control and security systems, telemetry, etc... insert your SIM and go.
Could you cause cell network mayhem and/or go to jail for what you're able to do with AT commands? Probably. Look at all the phreaky fun you could (can still?) have with the POTS network and a modem. But it has nothing to do with the iPhone or jailbreaking in particular. Jailbreaking is just opening up the iPhone's OS to user code. Once you've done that, you could get into the other parts of the phone, such as the baseband processor. That's where you unlock the phone or... well, I suppose if you were clever enough to load custom firmware into the baseband, you could do really nasty stuff at the RF packet level to the towers. But again, every model of phone has a baseband, and they're all reprogrammable (that's how carriers lock phones in the first place)
There was a laptop connected to a webcam and a gigantic RFID reader, all in plain sight on the table.
And they're surprised? What did they think it did?
In all likelihood, there are some power-management features of the hardware that are better controlled in OS X than in Windows. The ACPI and CPU-based power management should be pretty standard, but how good are the Windows drivers for the 9400M? There might be updated ones on Windows Update or nVidia's site.
The MBP has a big battery (60 Wh), but still, I see similar things in Linux vs. Windows. Even my cheapo Dell Inspiron with a 48Wh battery will last 4 hrs in Windows 7, but only about 2.5 in Ubuntu.
Windows 7 rocks, as much as any version of Windows can.
But great spaghetti gods, Ubuntu Jaunty boots in 30 seconds on my laptop, and if I can just get the frickin' sound to work... the modules are THERE, but ALSA is broken in Jaunty. It worked in Intrepid, and it works in Karmic alpha 3, but so much else is borked in Karmic... way to go, guys.
I need to stay on Windows for one reason on my big box: DVRing ClearQAM+analog from a STB.
My friend runs MythTV, and it's just not as solid as Media Center. Especially with the trouble-free Xbox 360 extender functionality.
Believe me, I would love to sell my 360 (and cancel the $50 a year XBL Gold I never use for anything but Netflix), ditch Windows for good, setup MythTV, get a PS3 for games, media, and Blu-Ray, and use a Roku box for Netflix and MythFrontend... but it's just not there, dammit. There's no reason it shouldn't be, but it's not.
Disclaimer: I'm drunk, so I'm probably going to be extremely amused by this in the morning. Time to go install FreeBSD.
It's not the only free one, but the other free ones aren't much better.
Watch out for Microsoft Security Essentials (Morro).
It's a drop-in replacement for Windows Defender on Vista and Win 7, and it's basically Windows Defender with realtime antivirus. Lightweight too, it's using 56 MB on my system right now. That sounds like a lot, but come on, we're in the days of 2GB RAM as a minimum.
I don't know about actual animal sacrifice, but my windows box has a healthy appetite for cat hair. Is that good enough?
Where I live, if you get nailed by a red-light or speed camera, the violation is on the vehicle. No points are assessed on your driving record (because they cannot prove it was a certain person) but that vehicle's registration can't be renewed (and may be suspended) unless you either pay the fine or go to court as the owner of the vehicle.
When your ISP can produce the logs showing a particular IP was assigned to your CPE MAC, which is in turn tied to your account, there is a connection between you and the IP address. It doesn't necessarily identify you or your computers, but you bear some responsibility for it.
To continue the car analogy, if you leave your network open, that's like leaving your car unlocked with the keys in the ignition. If someone "borrows" it and starts running down pedestrians, the police are going to trace the car back to you by the tags and if they can show you took no precautions (or even encouraged) open use of that vehicle... you might get in trouble!
You sir, are dead on.
The only thing worse than no security is the insecurity of paranoia.