(Car Analogy) - It's like leasing a car with a repair warranty and wanting to do your own repairs. You diagnose the cause of the problem and take the car to the mechanic. You ask the mechanic to fix your car under warranty and he asks you for your keys. You refuse to give him the keys.
In this case, its like calling the "traffic hotline" to ask about a possible traffic jam and then having someone come over and hotwire your car and drive it around the interstate looking for the traffic jam.
Well, that's just fracking stupid. No, wait...that's FUCKING stupid.
Power hiccup? oops, your BFR-12000 just became a toaster. IOS glitch/cosmic ray SEU? oops, your BFR-12000 just became a toaster. Someone just pushed the BRB (big red button) in your data center? oops, toaster.
Reset the router, change the configuration register to ignore boot up config, go to enable mode, load the config from NVRAM, set a new enable password, "wr mem", change configuration register, reload. 10 minutes, tops. There's no "reloading" of IOS needed.
Why was the network designed so that one single account (or password) held the keys the kingdom? That's just stupid.
"Administrator" groups for Windows machines Multiple root SSH keys and/or Kerberos logins for Unix boxen TACACS user-based authentication for routers.
If the dude just left and said "I'm done with you folks, no I'm not handing over my passwords", then fine...go into the user admin system, nuke his passwords and get on with your life.
If the dude deliberately went in and reset passwords and changed network access before walking and then tried to blackmail the city, then that's sabotage/blackmail/downright illegal and should be punished.
If the dude walked out without giving passwords to anyone and the system was poorly designed so that admin passwords had to be forcefully recovered via single user mode or the like, then the city should just eat crow, lick their wounds, and install a real network AAA system.
What would have happened if the dude had been run over by a beer truck on the way to work? Would the city have been screwed as well?
I used to get only 9600 baud on the lines at my place in Texas. It wasn't noise on the line, it was the fact the remote terminal that served my neighborhood compressed each line down to 32kbps ADPCM so Ma Bell only had to run half as many trunks back to the CO. I ended up having to get an ISDN line at $310/mo for 128Kbps internet.
Don't forget that lovely midnight raid on Meigs Field that ended up costing the city $1,000,000 & change in FAA fines and repaid grants. All in the name "ZOMG TEH TERRISTS!!!!!"
At the telemarketing company I worked at in 1995, the Tandem mainframe interfaced with the rest of the world through interface computers called MLADs (Multilan Attachment Devices). The MLAD required a 3c503 coax interface card configured to a particular IO address & IRQ for the Tandem side interface an a 3c509 TPE interface card on another particular IO address & IRQ. It wouldn't work with any other card.
There were 4 racks of those machines. All transporting NetBIOS over IPX between the Tandem and the rest of the workstations.
By LAW, it can always call 911 from any phone jack in any house.
That's assuming your line hasn't been disconnected physically (either through a line cut or the telco cutting your pair due to non-payment/disconnect request). I can take the cell phone I had "disconnected" because I no longer needed it and still dial 911 on it, even though it is currently roaming onto Verizon (it is a Sprint-native phone).
No, there's no fiber down there. And even geosynchronous satellite coverage is spotty. McMurdo is the only place far enough from the pole so the regular geosync birds are actually above the horizon. Satellite communication to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is via the TDRSS birds in their inclined geosync orbit, meaning they're only reachable for a certain amount of time during the day.
Bull. There's one simple way to avoid phishing scams. Open up the browser yourself and type in the address yourself.
Anytime I access financial information, I enter the address manually. If you can't remember something simply like "paypal.com" or "chasebank.com", you don't need a computer.
A former coworker of mine accessed his bank this way:
1) Open IE 2) Go up to the file menu, select "Open Location" 3) Enter "http://www.google.com/" (The full URL, not just google.com) 4) search for "Bank Of America" 5) Click on the first result, which thankfully was the right BoA site.
K-5, the gifted & talented program rocked. Beyond 6th grade, it went from being GT to a place for the college bound honour students to sit around and bicker about 2 points on a test or who was going to get what scholarships.
I'm still trying to figure out how I didn't fail any of the grades from 6-10. It wasn't until 11-12 grades when I found extracurricular activities that were worth a crap that I stopped screwing off and put the 1.5% extra effort it took to pull off A's and B's.
The Antarctic gate was in storage after being retreived from McMurdo. The original Giza gate was in use at SGC until it was beamed up into Thor's ship before it crashed into the pacific.
Then the A-Gate became the primary because the G-Gate was thought lost in the Pacific, but it was infact retrieved by the Russians and they ran their own gate program.
It was the A-Gate that was destroyed by Anubis. The G-gate was then purchased back from the Russians after they figured out that Anubis's gate-blower-upper-thingy was destroyed.
A node consists of a radio, TNC, and a node controller. If you drop a linux box in there, the node controller can be the TNC using "soundmodem". So, $250 for a decent Linux box, $100-250 for a decent radio.
Range depends on what frequency you're running on and your terrain.
Feel free to email me directly if you want to discuss.
It wasn't just the forecasts that Santorum and crew wanted to lock down. It was *all* of the weather data that is available for free. WSR-88D Radar images, atmospheric modelling outputs, watches & warnings, high resolution satellite images, and quite a bit more. Accuweather wanted everything that is available on both the EMWIN and the NOAAPORT networks to be encrypted and unavailable to anyone who didn't want to pay a bunch of money to Accuweather.
You don't. The best you can do is get a femtocell that will plug into your IP pipe and let you transport your phone calls across the internet to your carrier's switch.
Funny, Inmarsat just pumped a metric assload of money into GSM technology. Their entire BGAN satellite terminal network is based on GSM, just tweaked a bit for the extra latency and a few other satellite specific things, and then transported over geosynchronous satellite instead of terrestrial cellular sites.
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(Car Analogy) - It's like leasing a car with a repair warranty and wanting to do your own repairs. You diagnose the cause of the problem and take the car to the mechanic. You ask the mechanic to fix your car under warranty and he asks you for your keys. You refuse to give him the keys.
In this case, its like calling the "traffic hotline" to ask about a possible traffic jam and then having someone come over and hotwire your car and drive it around the interstate looking for the traffic jam.
Well, that's just fracking stupid. No, wait...that's FUCKING stupid.
Power hiccup? oops, your BFR-12000 just became a toaster.
IOS glitch/cosmic ray SEU? oops, your BFR-12000 just became a toaster.
Someone just pushed the BRB (big red button) in your data center? oops, toaster.
Reset the router, change the configuration register to ignore boot up config, go to enable mode, load the config from NVRAM, set a new enable password, "wr mem", change configuration register, reload. 10 minutes, tops. There's no "reloading" of IOS needed.
Why was the network designed so that one single account (or password) held the keys the kingdom? That's just stupid.
"Administrator" groups for Windows machines
Multiple root SSH keys and/or Kerberos logins for Unix boxen
TACACS user-based authentication for routers.
If the dude just left and said "I'm done with you folks, no I'm not handing over my passwords", then fine...go into the user admin system, nuke his passwords and get on with your life.
If the dude deliberately went in and reset passwords and changed network access before walking and then tried to blackmail the city, then that's sabotage/blackmail/downright illegal and should be punished.
If the dude walked out without giving passwords to anyone and the system was poorly designed so that admin passwords had to be forcefully recovered via single user mode or the like, then the city should just eat crow, lick their wounds, and install a real network AAA system.
What would have happened if the dude had been run over by a beer truck on the way to work? Would the city have been screwed as well?
Dude.
So I shouldn't have left my job by sending the CEO and VP an email with the lyrics of "Take This Job and Shove It"?
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I used to get only 9600 baud on the lines at my place in Texas. It wasn't noise on the line, it was the fact the remote terminal that served my neighborhood compressed each line down to 32kbps ADPCM so Ma Bell only had to run half as many trunks back to the CO. I ended up having to get an ISDN line at $310/mo for 128Kbps internet.
Don't forget that lovely midnight raid on Meigs Field that ended up costing the city $1,000,000 & change in FAA fines and repaid grants. All in the name "ZOMG TEH TERRISTS!!!!!"
Right click? What is this right click you speak of?
At the telemarketing company I worked at in 1995, the Tandem mainframe interfaced with the rest of the world through interface computers called MLADs (Multilan Attachment Devices). The MLAD required a 3c503 coax interface card configured to a particular IO address & IRQ for the Tandem side interface an a 3c509 TPE interface card on another particular IO address & IRQ. It wouldn't work with any other card.
There were 4 racks of those machines. All transporting NetBIOS over IPX between the Tandem and the rest of the workstations.
By LAW, it can always call 911 from any phone jack in any house.
That's assuming your line hasn't been disconnected physically (either through a line cut or the telco cutting your pair due to non-payment/disconnect request). I can take the cell phone I had "disconnected" because I no longer needed it and still dial 911 on it, even though it is currently roaming onto Verizon (it is a Sprint-native phone).
No, there's no fiber down there. And even geosynchronous satellite coverage is spotty. McMurdo is the only place far enough from the pole so the regular geosync birds are actually above the horizon. Satellite communication to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is via the TDRSS birds in their inclined geosync orbit, meaning they're only reachable for a certain amount of time during the day.
They'd probably work in pairs, scissoring back and forth in long arcs to get his attention.
Drop a few flares or do a loud afterburner pass. That'll wake your ass up in a hurry.
Bull. There's one simple way to avoid phishing scams. Open up the browser yourself and type in the address yourself.
Anytime I access financial information, I enter the address manually. If you can't remember something simply like "paypal.com" or "chasebank.com", you don't need a computer.
A former coworker of mine accessed his bank this way:
1) Open IE
2) Go up to the file menu, select "Open Location"
3) Enter "http://www.google.com/" (The full URL, not just google.com)
4) search for "Bank Of America"
5) Click on the first result, which thankfully was the right BoA site.
I agree. BGAN gets you 400Kbps of "best effort" service at $6/mb. Or dedicated "streaming" connections that will go up to 256K @ $22/min.
Thrane & Thrane make a mobile unit that tracks the satellite as you move.
If you don't have a credit card, then it must mean that you're trying to do things with untraceable cash. And that means you're a terrorist!
I'd have killed for something like that.
K-5, the gifted & talented program rocked. Beyond 6th grade, it went from being GT to a place for the college bound honour students to sit around and bicker about 2 points on a test or who was going to get what scholarships.
I'm still trying to figure out how I didn't fail any of the grades from 6-10. It wasn't until 11-12 grades when I found extracurricular activities that were worth a crap that I stopped screwing off and put the 1.5% extra effort it took to pull off A's and B's.
The Antarctic gate was in storage after being retreived from McMurdo.
The original Giza gate was in use at SGC until it was beamed up into Thor's ship before it crashed into the pacific.
Then the A-Gate became the primary because the G-Gate was thought lost in the Pacific, but it was infact retrieved by the Russians and they ran their own gate program.
It was the A-Gate that was destroyed by Anubis. The G-gate was then purchased back from the Russians after they figured out that Anubis's gate-blower-upper-thingy was destroyed.
Yes, I'm a Gate Geek.
Lighten up, Francis. Just because the cannon doesn't run Linux doesn't mean its not cool.
But still, imagine a cluster of these things.
A node consists of a radio, TNC, and a node controller. If you drop a linux box in there, the node controller can be the TNC using "soundmodem". So, $250 for a decent Linux box, $100-250 for a decent radio.
Range depends on what frequency you're running on and your terrain.
Feel free to email me directly if you want to discuss.
It wasn't just the forecasts that Santorum and crew wanted to lock down. It was *all* of the weather data that is available for free. WSR-88D Radar images, atmospheric modelling outputs, watches & warnings, high resolution satellite images, and quite a bit more. Accuweather wanted everything that is available on both the EMWIN and the NOAAPORT networks to be encrypted and unavailable to anyone who didn't want to pay a bunch of money to Accuweather.
We have. See "IP over Packet Radio".
I was part of a group that was setting up backup IP network for the Maryland Emergency Management Agency using only packet radio.
We were building 1200, 9600, and 56Kbps links. Enough to do basic emailing and very basic web access.
We don't need to secure anything...we've got a...
(Tympanic BOOM-BOOM-BOOM)
A FIREWALL!
You don't. The best you can do is get a femtocell that will plug into your IP pipe and let you transport your phone calls across the internet to your carrier's switch.
AT&T has one, I think T-Mobile has one.
Funny, Inmarsat just pumped a metric assload of money into GSM technology. Their entire BGAN satellite terminal network is based on GSM, just tweaked a bit for the extra latency and a few other satellite specific things, and then transported over geosynchronous satellite instead of terrestrial cellular sites.