I just thought about this a bit more and...
Say someone is running a certain email program
and a 12 year old writes a script to exploit this mail program
his exploit does nothing more than pad the kernel with garbage
The original hapless individual shuts his computer down
When he powers it up the next day, it refuses to boot as the kernel has been modified
since his hard disk is encrypted he can't retrieve any of his data from the system, nor can the tech he brought it to...
So he smiles, reinstalls and rebuilds all the work he just lost, as a backup isn't anything he ever thought of making.
Give this a year or two and we'll see IBM make a push to bring reliable, centrally maintained machines into workplaces.
Yes, TiVo is trying to play this game with their series 2 and DirectTiVo, it works against most people, except those who have no fear of dead hardware:-)
These products need to be labeled as "Non User Serviceable Supplies" when they are displayed for sale. This would inform the potential customer that they must purchase all replacement and support goods for this item through the manufacturer.
I'm not saying I agree with them, just that if they wish to conduct business in an underhanded fashion, consumers should know about it upfront.
I think I may go back to a dot matrix printer for most of my junk printing, yeah they can be slow with graphics (I don't print graphics too often), but you don't need to worry about paper for sometime if you buy the big box. A reinker for the cartages is fairly cheap as well.
Eh, I haven't verified myself, but three people seem to have corrected me on the PA-RISC thing, my initial understanding back in the day was that the main processor on the next gen amiga was to be PA-RISC. I also remember the AGA Amigas had that ATT dsp on the prototypes, that went vapor in production. I wouldn't think the 'business' side would ever let Haynie drive the cost of the machine up that far by having a PA-RISC chip as a coprocessor is laughable. Commodore cut anything that would be cutting edge, or even anything that would cost a few more cents period, the quality of the AGA amigas sucked balls.
I am aware of the phase5 thing, and it's stupid and was expensive, a power-pc co-processor?? I read about it before I abandoned my Amiga and it seemed like a big hack. If the entire OS could have been ported to the PowerPC and divorced from the custom chips, I would have stayed with it, but the custom chips were showing their age a year after they were released, granted you had to spend more money on the PC and Mac side, but it was no longer as big of a deal as it was in the '80s.
In any case, the new Amiga has something to do with Java, I have no clue why you would run it, it doesn't seem to offer anything my PC doesn't do now, it solves a problem no one has. Yes I know the classic one is still around, but where are you going to get the hardware to run it on and for what price, and who's left willing to pay?
As far as Gateway goes, I thought the Amiga had a chance with them, but then I realized I've never recommended a Gateway, or liked any I have worked on.
It takes more money than Amiga, Inc. has to make their plan work, the original Amiga nearly went bankrupt before making it, if it wasn't for some clever dealing it would've been an Atari.
I just wish they would bury the F@#$%$# company so all of us ex users could have a proper funeral for the machine that rocked in the 80's.
Well you could email the man who has interviewed more wackos than anyone else, ever. If there's an expert on the experts of tinfoil hats it has to be him.
artbell@aol.com
Now that is cool, I think a little programming on a cheap palm pilot to do this would be the trick, and there would be no keys to eat. Make a plexiglass frame for the palm and get one of those serial sync cables and some parts from rat shack, a bit of ttl logic and it could be done.
With all the dot coms that have folded someone is bound to have a cheap hand scanner.
But on second thought, a better solution would be to keep it simple.
A certain amount of supervision will be required no matter your solution, so this is what I suggest.
I'd use a burgular alarm with the doors always armed and a keypad with a shroud around it (to prevent looking) and a big siren, this way if the door is opened, you'd know, there would be no incentive to play with the keypad if he could get out. My guess is that he can learn over time if he can watch numbers entered in a keypad and repeat the action, with a loud siren and big commotion I'd think it would eventually provide a deterrant, which is what I'd want, volentary cooperation would be a good thing.
The other thing would be a dog collar thing as another reader suggested, but your child would carry the transmitter around and when he left the perimeter it would set a siren off since the dog collar that normally would shock the dog would be on the kitchen counter with a siren or something else rigged up that would alert you, this would be a failsafe, in the event he did get outside.
You have a really tough problem, and a handicap of anyone in the family will always affect everyone else. Your other kids may not understand at the moment, but when they do they will be proactive about keeping him safe.
Hmmmmmm.....
So in order to beat the DMCA you need to give up your right to ownership of the code. Hehe, extract stream sucks as do all the other free tools anyhow, recreating them in a haiku would be fun. The other thing is the difficulty involved, it keeps those not inclined to extract from extracting, unlike napster, which my mom used, I stopped by with it and installed it, she figured it out!
One more thing, military grade encryption on the tivo??? The stream is encrypted and decrypted on the same box, everything you need to decrypt the stream is on the box, not to mention disabling the encryption on the series 1 tivo involves the command dd (on the DirecTiVo). Tough encryption!
Laws like the DMCA protect everyone, not just the mega-corporations with the cash to enforce it!
Your willing to put your cc number on it, as well as your boss's, your mother's, a wealthy relative, all of your friends including the stock broker guy who survived the market.
Then post the URL on slashdot for security testing.
If you are confident your skills will prevent the compromise of the site, you're too inexperienced, but hey post that url anyhow.
I hate getting involved in this sort of work, there's just too much to go wrong and to secure it the way I prefer to costs more money than anyone is willing to spend.
STOP buying their products, take that money and give it to OUR lobbying group, the EFF, money is the only thing that gets Congress's attention as they do need to get reelected. Lobbying Congress is one of our rights just like going to vote is, USE IT!
This is a very real problem, but not in the sense one desires more space on their mp3 player.
All of our hardware will soon be legislated out of existance, crippled or taxed to death.
It's time to advance the state of hardware, in a Linux and BSD sense. I'm not a hardware engineer, but then again I knew nothing of kernels, daemons, and networks in when I started using Linux.
Here is where I'm starting, from this page you can get an idea of what is involved in FPGAs and get an appreciation of how much work is involved in hardware.
I believe we need open hardware to prevent abuses to our freedoms. What good is Linux if we have nothing to run it on?
It's 9 years since they've been promising to move away from the 680x0 series, and even before then it was to be PA-RISC not PowerPC. It's the userbase and developers that are vapourware now!
It's not in the picture, but to the right of the keyboard is an old mechanical calculator, you know they type you need to pull the handle on after inputting your numbers.
I take it the power supply was OK then. I haven't bought the Dual Athlon yet, that was to be my next system. I'm going to look for similar problems on google before buying now.
As an aside most warrenties for computer stuff suck, I was unfortunate to own one of those nifty Kenwood 72X drives, sent it back and the replacement died oh and it seemed to kill the ide controller as well.
My personal fav is Tyan, I've never had a problem with a Tyan and their server boards can be had without the extras.
I have built a few with ASUS motherboards, the last one did have on-board audio, I disabled it and it disappeared. The systems have been really stable and no problems.
I have also had an incident with GigaByte. The issue with this board was ram related, the board would fail to see the ram all together, or only see a single dimm. The RAM tested fine with every other machine and I had the reseller test it too. I swapped the RAM out with junk generic and it started working. No Clue, it is however still running, so that's good right?
I have always consistantly run the higest possible refresh rate on my monitors for years, yes I find it is much easier on my eyes, but now I have another problem.
When I watch tv, movies anything with a slow refresh I see nasty stuff like jumpy movement and bad interlace artifacts(in tvs). Is this just me or does it affect everyone as well.
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I just thought about this a bit more and...
Say someone is running a certain email program
and a 12 year old writes a script to exploit this mail program
his exploit does nothing more than pad the kernel with garbage
The original hapless individual shuts his computer down
When he powers it up the next day, it refuses to boot as the kernel has been modified
since his hard disk is encrypted he can't retrieve any of his data from the system, nor can the tech he brought it to...
So he smiles, reinstalls and rebuilds all the work he just lost, as a backup isn't anything he ever thought of making.
Give this a year or two and we'll see IBM make a push to bring reliable, centrally maintained machines into workplaces.
Yes, TiVo is trying to play this game with their series 2 and DirectTiVo, it works against most people, except those who have no fear of dead hardware :-)
These products need to be labeled as "Non User Serviceable Supplies" when they are displayed for sale. This would inform the potential customer that they must purchase all replacement and support goods for this item through the manufacturer.
I'm not saying I agree with them, just that if they wish to conduct business in an underhanded fashion, consumers should know about it upfront.
I think I may go back to a dot matrix printer for most of my junk printing, yeah they can be slow with graphics (I don't print graphics too often), but you don't need to worry about paper for sometime if you buy the big box. A reinker for the cartages is fairly cheap as well.
Eh, I haven't verified myself, but three people seem to have corrected me on the PA-RISC thing, my initial understanding back in the day was that the main processor on the next gen amiga was to be PA-RISC.
I also remember the AGA Amigas had that ATT dsp on the prototypes, that went vapor in production.
I wouldn't think the 'business' side would ever let Haynie drive the cost of the machine up that far by having a PA-RISC chip as a coprocessor is laughable. Commodore cut anything that would be cutting edge, or even anything that would cost a few more cents period, the quality of the AGA amigas sucked balls.
I am aware of the phase5 thing, and it's stupid and was expensive, a power-pc co-processor?? I read about it before I abandoned my Amiga and it seemed like a big hack. If the entire OS could have been ported to the PowerPC and divorced from the custom chips, I would have stayed with it, but the custom chips were showing their age a year after they were released, granted you had to spend more money on the PC and Mac side, but it was no longer as big of a deal as it was in the '80s.
In any case, the new Amiga has something to do with Java, I have no clue why you would run it, it doesn't seem to offer anything my PC doesn't do now, it solves a problem no one has. Yes I know the classic one is still around, but where are you going to get the hardware to run it on and for what price, and who's left willing to pay?
As far as Gateway goes, I thought the Amiga had a chance with them, but then I realized I've never recommended a Gateway, or liked any I have worked on.
It takes more money than Amiga, Inc. has to make their plan work, the original Amiga nearly went bankrupt before making it, if it wasn't for some clever dealing it would've been an Atari.
I just wish they would bury the F@#$%$# company so all of us ex users could have a proper funeral for the machine that rocked in the 80's.
Well you could email the man who has interviewed more wackos than anyone else, ever. If there's an expert on the experts of tinfoil hats it has to be him. artbell@aol.com
Now that is cool, I think a little programming on a cheap palm pilot to do this would be the trick, and there would be no keys to eat. Make a plexiglass frame for the palm and get one of those serial sync cables and some parts from rat shack, a bit of ttl logic and it could be done.
God, this sounds like a candidate for a Darwin award, isn't magma pressurized, isn't this why it shoots out of volcanos with force??
With all the dot coms that have folded someone is bound to have a cheap hand scanner.
But on second thought, a better solution would be to keep it simple.
A certain amount of supervision will be required no matter your solution, so this is what I suggest.
I'd use a burgular alarm with the doors always armed and a keypad with a shroud around it (to prevent looking) and a big siren, this way if the door is opened, you'd know, there would be no incentive to play with the keypad if he could get out. My guess is that he can learn over time if he can watch numbers entered in a keypad and repeat the action, with a loud siren and big commotion I'd think it would eventually provide a deterrant, which is what I'd want, volentary cooperation would be a good thing.
The other thing would be a dog collar thing as another reader suggested, but your child would carry the transmitter around and when he left the perimeter it would set a siren off since the dog collar that normally would shock the dog would be on the kitchen counter with a siren or something else rigged up that would alert you, this would be a failsafe, in the event he did get outside.
You have a really tough problem, and a handicap of anyone in the family will always affect everyone else. Your other kids may not understand at the moment, but when they do they will be proactive about keeping him safe.
Hmmmmmm.....
So in order to beat the DMCA you need to give up your right to ownership of the code. Hehe, extract stream sucks as do all the other free tools anyhow, recreating them in a haiku would be fun. The other thing is the difficulty involved, it keeps those not inclined to extract from extracting, unlike napster, which my mom used, I stopped by with it and installed it, she figured it out!
One more thing, military grade encryption on the tivo??? The stream is encrypted and decrypted on the same box, everything you need to decrypt the stream is on the box, not to mention disabling the encryption on the series 1 tivo involves the command dd (on the DirecTiVo). Tough encryption!
Laws like the DMCA protect everyone, not just the mega-corporations with the cash to enforce it!
Support the EFF!!
You're ready for this if....
Your willing to put your cc number on it, as well as your boss's, your mother's, a wealthy relative, all of your friends including the stock broker guy who survived the market.
Then post the URL on slashdot for security testing.
If you are confident your skills will prevent the compromise of the site, you're too inexperienced, but hey post that url anyhow.
I hate getting involved in this sort of work, there's just too much to go wrong and to secure it the way I prefer to costs more money than anyone is willing to spend.
STOP buying their products, take that money and give it to OUR lobbying group, the EFF, money is the only thing that gets Congress's attention as they do need to get reelected. Lobbying Congress is one of our rights just like going to vote is, USE IT!
What Linux user is going to turn down free as in beer, beer?
This is a very real problem, but not in the sense one desires more space on their mp3 player.
All of our hardware will soon be legislated out of existance, crippled or taxed to death.
It's time to advance the state of hardware, in a Linux and BSD sense. I'm not a hardware engineer, but then again I knew nothing of kernels, daemons, and networks in when I started using Linux.
Here is where I'm starting, from this page you can get an idea of what is involved in FPGAs and get an appreciation of how much work is involved in hardware.
I believe we need open hardware to prevent abuses to our freedoms. What good is Linux if we have nothing to run it on?
I'm sorry, but Amiga has DNF beat.
It's 9 years since they've been promising to move away from the 680x0 series, and even before then it was to be PA-RISC not PowerPC. It's the userbase and developers that are vapourware now!
It would depend on who does the study, and we all know how honest a certain OS vendor's studies are.
OR.....you could sell it on tv and be the next Billy Mays(sp)
It's not in the picture, but to the right of the keyboard is an old mechanical calculator, you know they type you need to pull the handle on after inputting your numbers.
You'd be a po boy using a C-64 and Geos.
I did that for about a week before buying the 1351 mouse for the C-64, oh and the 1764 REU too.
I'd bet he would have some good stock tips too!
I would yell, SKEET!!
As the machine gun fire hit them they would relize James Bond is not at all realistic.
Mod parent up!
I take it the power supply was OK then. I haven't bought the Dual Athlon yet, that was to be my next system. I'm going to look for similar problems on google before buying now.
As an aside most warrenties for computer stuff suck, I was unfortunate to own one of those nifty Kenwood 72X drives, sent it back and the replacement died oh and it seemed to kill the ide controller as well.
Thanks for the info tho.
My personal fav is Tyan, I've never had a problem with a Tyan and their server boards can be had without the extras.
I have built a few with ASUS motherboards, the last one did have on-board audio, I disabled it and it disappeared. The systems have been really stable and no problems.
I have also had an incident with GigaByte. The issue with this board was ram related, the board would fail to see the ram all together, or only see a single dimm. The RAM tested fine with every other machine and I had the reseller test it too. I swapped the RAM out with junk generic and it started working. No Clue, it is however still running, so that's good right?
Ok, on this one I will bite.
College is for learning why not how, if you are going to school for how there are many fine vocational schools.
If you manage to graduate from College and are unable to apply your skills on a new software package used in real life your education is useless.
Isn't this why people Intern????
I have always consistantly run the higest possible refresh rate on my monitors for years, yes I find it is much easier on my eyes, but now I have another problem. When I watch tv, movies anything with a slow refresh I see nasty stuff like jumpy movement and bad interlace artifacts(in tvs). Is this just me or does it affect everyone as well.