"We're gonna cave to the AG's request so he doesn't start poking around and seeing what our users are doing that we could get sued or blamed for if people felt like it."
For starters, go buy Win2K licenses. Only get the bare minimum; your college _SHOULD_ have an academic license program that gets you copies on the cheap. If not, go the fun way; go on eBay and get them there.
Since you're streaming, I assume you're streaming to the entire campus (and possibly the web, via the WAN link). Grab yourself a cheap Linksys 8-port gigabit switch. Don't cheap out and get a hub; get a switch. That'll take care of LAN bandwidth; don't worry about the WAN bandwidth (that's the university's problem).
Here's a link to that on Newegg (I don't know if you can claim tax-exempt, since you're a college organization):
Since these are Win98-era machines, I'm assuming they don't have anything other than regular PCI, so no PCI-E gigabit cards. You can get gigabit PCI NICs from Newegg pretty cheap - I see them for $12 and shipping here.
Next, we come to the real doozy, QoS implementation on the streaming machines. If your college supports it, grab a Win2K/Win2K3 Server license from them on the cheap and install Windows Media Components on it. That'll allow you to stream audio and video over the LAN/WAN. If not, try to dig up an OEM license.
2K/2K3 support QoS out of the box, so that issue is solved.
Depending on the amount of listeners you have, you may want to upgrade to another gigabit LAN drop sometime.
- Lock my machine and the server room doors when I leave for ANY reason - Only use Firefox - Mac OS X machine for work, fully-patched locked-down XP machine for admin stuff - Realtime antivirus on the Windows machine, plus HijackThis and Ad-Aware - Total and complete control of EVERYTHING on the LAN - if I don't personally approve it, it doesn't go on - VNC is on all my user machines (I told them it was for remote repairs. Let them believe it - I like watching J. Random Luser downloading things with lots of flesh tones) - If a user misbehaves, I lock their accounts until they've come to me and apologized in some suitable manner
Just know your LAN, know your role, and beat the shit out of the users who don't cooperate.
-Two laptops (Dell Latitude D600 running Mac OS X x86 and a D610 running XP Pro) - A 200GB LaCie external Firewire hard drive - One of each kind of USB and Firewire cable - Multitools - Network testers - Cheap wireless access point - Watch - Pens - Paper - Handi-Snacks (pilfered a PTA closet for those) - Coinage - 256MB USB key
What if someone uses something like Ghost to dupe the USB key to a key of their own? Unless this is a chip-based key, it won't be secure at all - and I don't know about you, but I don't want someone going to Best Buy and buying a $20 USB key to dupe my car key onto.
"The problem is schools throw $300 per computer at MS Office..."
Um. no. We get XP Pro (corporate license), Office XP/2000, SAV Corporate, and a bunch of other programs for about $125 a machine. Do NOT say that excessive licensing costs are dragging down schools.
This is from the teacher side of me - I teach after-school classes, and I'm working on a degree in education.
The teachers treat lab periods as if they were days off. They sit the kids down, turn on the software, and let the kids zone out. There' no interaction from the teacher; the "Compass" software just does the work.
And what's worse is that the software doesn't teach concepts or methods. It teaches for the TAKS (Texas Assesment of Knowledge and Skills standardized test). The kids go from grade to grade, knowing nothing, learning nothing except how to click the X.
What happened to true educational software, like Number Munchers, Oregon Trail, and Carmen Sandiego? These actually made the kids think, do quick maths in their head (I've not met a kid outside of middle school who can pull this now), and they sure didn't teach for any standardized tests.
Now to the IT side - I manage the school LAN, which is about 250 Windows machines (ranging from Pentiums at 200MHz running Windows 98SE to quad-Xeon boxes running XP for my gaming - gotta be a BOfH) and 100 or so Macs (PPC 603e and up).
School districts, as you know, are massive organizations, easily on par with major corporations, and the different divisions require different outfits - for example, while every machine in the district I work at is loaded with Windows and Office as a base, the different levels get different software. Elementary gets Compass and a bunch of programs funded by grants (Orchard, Type to Learn, Lexia - basically total crap that's a pain both client and server side); middle and high get Plato (a version of Compass for the older kids) and development tools and editors in the labs (Dreamweaver/Fireworks/Photoshop, Codewarrior, a bunch of compilers and apps), and the admins get specialized database software to do attendance, check grades, create "student profile databases," and whatnot.
At my campus, we've got 60 laptops for the kids, in addition to four computer labs (60 Macs, 60 Dells), plus the requisite two student machines per classroom (which are never used). On top of that, we have campuswide wireless-G coverage (and that's impressive, since we're a brick-and-mortar school built in the mid-50s), quad-Xeon machines for me and the resident DBA/lunchroom and bus monitor, and bloody flat panel monitors left and right on dual-head cards. Finally, we're getting 30 more laptops on the Beaumont Grant soon, and we don't know how we're going to fit those in, since the laptops are rarely used as is.
The teachers don't know jack about their software, they surf the Web and get infected left and right since we're not allowed to install Firefox, and we're bogged down with crap software that we have to install. On top of that, the admins took the dedicated LANtech away from the building (I'm a contractor, brought in to work on a grant's machines, and the building principal - my old childhood principal, to boot - extended my contract to cover the rest of the campus, with no extra pay) and they're trying to centralize things at a helpdesk _with no remote management software_, all in the name of saving money.
You can't pull stuff like that when you have over 50 schools to deal with, a shrinking tech services department (they laid off five techs at the end of the last school year - my boss was one of them), and a staff that knows next to nothing about the systems there except how to check their mail.
Schools are losing their direction with technology, and they need to seriously reexamine what they're doing with it - both for the IT staff's sake and the kids.
Google can toss a set of statistics towards the cops showing the sheer amount of accesses from everywhere _ELSE_ compared to Australia. That overrides the majority requirement, I'd think.
I've got BeOS release 5 running on a Pentium II at 300MHz with 192MB of RAM, and it's running unbelievably quickly. Windows XP boasts of it's "fast boot time," but this boots on _that_ machine in 15 seconds. XP would take five minutes on a machine like that. All BeOS needs is better hardware support, and it'd be a viable desktop OS.
Merijn's the original developer of CWShredder, and while his recording of CWS stops at the original about:blank strain, that's enough to tell you what kind of scum pull this.
Disclaimer: I use CWShredder in my work on SpywareInfo's antispyware boards.
Maintain MAC address tables for the internal side, and if a machine's infected, cut it off until whoever owns it cleans it.
For the external, use a proxy - Squid or something, I'm not sure (I don't handle that at my office - we contract it out, and we use AIX boxes for that).
And it overturns the ruling from the early 90s involving Donald Trump trying to seize a woman's house to turn her land into a parking garage for a casino, I don't see how in the world this is classified as YRO.
Perhaps the ruling applies to online property as well - though the major companies generally try to invoke the DMCA for that (Microsoft vs. Mike Rowe, et cetera). That would make it relevant.
Just when your fingers are getting sore and your friends keep asking 'Why do you have to switch memory sticks?' Killer-X and the PSP-Dev team have answered our prayers with KXploit, a way to run homebrew on 1.5's... Minus the memory stick swap!
The predecessor of Swaploit, users will now enjoy no more jammed fingers or broken nails with the introduction of "Direct Loader", and 1.5 users can now pretend they own a 1.0.
One of our users, Gavin King (Thanks), posted a comment on how to do this in its simplest form:
"If any of this confused you.... just do the same thing you did with swaploit, but put both folders on the same memory.
Let's use your NES folder as an example.
Your MS1 folder name "NES%" and your MS2 folder leave it the same, naming it "NES".
And that's all you need to do... a simple rename and move."
Even so, the issue is that it was still improperly retained - and that corporate America isn't giving a damn about security for the average joe's accounts and such.
Actually, that could be an interesting concept; they could be using this as a way to "lease" software to people. Think about it; you lease a copy of MS Office instead of buying it, and when you run the.lnk file in the Start menu, it torrents parts of the app as needed, or just license files, to get itself running.
Any versions of Windows that show up on there will either have adware bundled with them or, when installed, will cause blue screens endlessly with the error "AVALANCHED_J00_F00" on them.
And then there's the whole concept of distributing porn via Avalanche; it gives the term snowball a whole new meaning.
There are good blogs, but those are few and far between - most of them are just "OMG I WUNDER IF HE LIKEZ ME HEART HEART" and such. It's nauseating.
I honestly don't see the point of an online diary. A diary's something you write in a lock up, not post online for the world to see - and if these kids can funnel this kind of energy into writing shitty blog entries, why the HELL can't they at least learn to write with proper grammar and spelling?
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"We're gonna cave to the AG's request so he doesn't start poking around and seeing what our users are doing that we could get sued or blamed for if people felt like it."
For starters, go buy Win2K licenses. Only get the bare minimum; your college _SHOULD_ have an academic license program that gets you copies on the cheap. If not, go the fun way; go on eBay and get them there.
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Since you're streaming, I assume you're streaming to the entire campus (and possibly the web, via the WAN link). Grab yourself a cheap Linksys 8-port gigabit switch. Don't cheap out and get a hub; get a switch. That'll take care of LAN bandwidth; don't worry about the WAN bandwidth (that's the university's problem).
Here's a link to that on Newegg (I don't know if you can claim tax-exempt, since you're a college organization):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Man
Since these are Win98-era machines, I'm assuming they don't have anything other than regular PCI, so no PCI-E gigabit cards. You can get gigabit PCI NICs from Newegg pretty cheap - I see them for $12 and shipping here.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Man
Next, we come to the real doozy, QoS implementation on the streaming machines. If your college supports it, grab a Win2K/Win2K3 Server license from them on the cheap and install Windows Media Components on it. That'll allow you to stream audio and video over the LAN/WAN. If not, try to dig up an OEM license.
2K/2K3 support QoS out of the box, so that issue is solved.
Depending on the amount of listeners you have, you may want to upgrade to another gigabit LAN drop sometime.
Anyone see anything I missed?
If you don't like it, don't use them. You do have a choice, you know.
I run my LAN like Simon Travaglia's BOfH does.
- Lock my machine and the server room doors when I leave for ANY reason
- Only use Firefox
- Mac OS X machine for work, fully-patched locked-down XP machine for admin stuff
- Realtime antivirus on the Windows machine, plus HijackThis and Ad-Aware
- Total and complete control of EVERYTHING on the LAN - if I don't personally approve it, it doesn't go on
- VNC is on all my user machines (I told them it was for remote repairs. Let them believe it - I like watching J. Random Luser downloading things with lots of flesh tones)
- If a user misbehaves, I lock their accounts until they've come to me and apologized in some suitable manner
Just know your LAN, know your role, and beat the shit out of the users who don't cooperate.
-Two laptops (Dell Latitude D600 running Mac OS X x86 and a D610 running XP Pro)
- A 200GB LaCie external Firewire hard drive
- One of each kind of USB and Firewire cable
- Multitools
- Network testers
- Cheap wireless access point
- Watch
- Pens
- Paper
- Handi-Snacks (pilfered a PTA closet for those)
- Coinage
- 256MB USB key
And that's about it.
What if someone uses something like Ghost to dupe the USB key to a key of their own? Unless this is a chip-based key, it won't be secure at all - and I don't know about you, but I don't want someone going to Best Buy and buying a $20 USB key to dupe my car key onto.
"The problem is schools throw $300 per computer at MS Office..."
Um. no. We get XP Pro (corporate license), Office XP/2000, SAV Corporate, and a bunch of other programs for about $125 a machine. Do NOT say that excessive licensing costs are dragging down schools.
This is from the teacher side of me - I teach after-school classes, and I'm working on a degree in education.
The teachers treat lab periods as if they were days off. They sit the kids down, turn on the software, and let the kids zone out. There' no interaction from the teacher; the "Compass" software just does the work.
And what's worse is that the software doesn't teach concepts or methods. It teaches for the TAKS (Texas Assesment of Knowledge and Skills standardized test). The kids go from grade to grade, knowing nothing, learning nothing except how to click the X.
What happened to true educational software, like Number Munchers, Oregon Trail, and Carmen Sandiego? These actually made the kids think, do quick maths in their head (I've not met a kid outside of middle school who can pull this now), and they sure didn't teach for any standardized tests.
Now to the IT side - I manage the school LAN, which is about 250 Windows machines (ranging from Pentiums at 200MHz running Windows 98SE to quad-Xeon boxes running XP for my gaming - gotta be a BOfH) and 100 or so Macs (PPC 603e and up).
School districts, as you know, are massive organizations, easily on par with major corporations, and the different divisions require different outfits - for example, while every machine in the district I work at is loaded with Windows and Office as a base, the different levels get different software. Elementary gets Compass and a bunch of programs funded by grants (Orchard, Type to Learn, Lexia - basically total crap that's a pain both client and server side); middle and high get Plato (a version of Compass for the older kids) and development tools and editors in the labs (Dreamweaver/Fireworks/Photoshop, Codewarrior, a bunch of compilers and apps), and the admins get specialized database software to do attendance, check grades, create "student profile databases," and whatnot.
At my campus, we've got 60 laptops for the kids, in addition to four computer labs (60 Macs, 60 Dells), plus the requisite two student machines per classroom (which are never used). On top of that, we have campuswide wireless-G coverage (and that's impressive, since we're a brick-and-mortar school built in the mid-50s), quad-Xeon machines for me and the resident DBA/lunchroom and bus monitor, and bloody flat panel monitors left and right on dual-head cards. Finally, we're getting 30 more laptops on the Beaumont Grant soon, and we don't know how we're going to fit those in, since the laptops are rarely used as is.
The teachers don't know jack about their software, they surf the Web and get infected left and right since we're not allowed to install Firefox, and we're bogged down with crap software that we have to install. On top of that, the admins took the dedicated LANtech away from the building (I'm a contractor, brought in to work on a grant's machines, and the building principal - my old childhood principal, to boot - extended my contract to cover the rest of the campus, with no extra pay) and they're trying to centralize things at a helpdesk _with no remote management software_, all in the name of saving money.
You can't pull stuff like that when you have over 50 schools to deal with, a shrinking tech services department (they laid off five techs at the end of the last school year - my boss was one of them), and a staff that knows next to nothing about the systems there except how to check their mail.
Schools are losing their direction with technology, and they need to seriously reexamine what they're doing with it - both for the IT staff's sake and the kids.
Google can toss a set of statistics towards the cops showing the sheer amount of accesses from everywhere _ELSE_ compared to Australia. That overrides the majority requirement, I'd think.
I've got BeOS release 5 running on a Pentium II at 300MHz with 192MB of RAM, and it's running unbelievably quickly. Windows XP boasts of it's "fast boot time," but this boots on _that_ machine in 15 seconds. XP would take five minutes on a machine like that. All BeOS needs is better hardware support, and it'd be a viable desktop OS.
But they're basically commissioning it with their PPC search engine model.
Also, if you've not read up on CWS and what they do - and how they do it - read this:
http://merijn.org/cwschronicles.html
Merijn's the original developer of CWShredder, and while his recording of CWS stops at the original about:blank strain, that's enough to tell you what kind of scum pull this.
Disclaimer: I use CWShredder in my work on SpywareInfo's antispyware boards.
Namely, the Shut Down button.
Who's going to build the Bass-tille?
You can also run NetBSD on a large variety of these devices.
Supposedly, you can run Linux on some HP Jornadas, and I've gotten NetBSD running on an old NEC Mobilepro 780 that I have lying around.
Maintain MAC address tables for the internal side, and if a machine's infected, cut it off until whoever owns it cleans it.
For the external, use a proxy - Squid or something, I'm not sure (I don't handle that at my office - we contract it out, and we use AIX boxes for that).
Funny enough, the dissenting judges appear to mostly be conservative in nature from what I've read of their rulings.
And in an ironic twist, David Souter _is_ a Bush-appointed judge - Bush the elder, that is.
And it overturns the ruling from the early 90s involving Donald Trump trying to seize a woman's house to turn her land into a parking garage for a casino, I don't see how in the world this is classified as YRO.
Perhaps the ruling applies to online property as well - though the major companies generally try to invoke the DMCA for that (Microsoft vs. Mike Rowe, et cetera). That would make it relevant.
Here's the text and the link it links to.
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Just when your fingers are getting sore and your friends keep asking 'Why do you have to switch memory sticks?' Killer-X and the PSP-Dev team have answered our prayers with KXploit, a way to run homebrew on 1.5's... Minus the memory stick swap!
The predecessor of Swaploit, users will now enjoy no more jammed fingers or broken nails with the introduction of "Direct Loader", and 1.5 users can now pretend they own a 1.0.
One of our users, Gavin King (Thanks), posted a comment on how to do this in its simplest form:
"If any of this confused you.... just do the same thing you did with swaploit, but put both folders on the same memory.
Let's use your NES folder as an example.
Your MS1 folder name "NES%" and your MS2 folder leave it the same, naming it "NES".
And that's all you need to do... a simple rename and move."
(I myself tested and verified this to work.)
You can get it in our PSP Download section here.
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The file they're referring to is here:
http://files.psphacker.com/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0
Even so, the issue is that it was still improperly retained - and that corporate America isn't giving a damn about security for the average joe's accounts and such.
Actually, that could be an interesting concept; they could be using this as a way to "lease" software to people. Think about it; you lease a copy of MS Office instead of buying it, and when you run the .lnk file in the Start menu, it torrents parts of the app as needed, or just license files, to get itself running.
Any versions of Windows that show up on there will either have adware bundled with them or, when installed, will cause blue screens endlessly with the error "AVALANCHED_J00_F00" on them.
And then there's the whole concept of distributing porn via Avalanche; it gives the term snowball a whole new meaning.
"Nothing to see here, move along."
Scary in relevance to this.
VHS is dying.
No, this is a grammar nazi.
http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20040204.html
There are good blogs, but those are few and far between - most of them are just "OMG I WUNDER IF HE LIKEZ ME HEART HEART" and such. It's nauseating.
I honestly don't see the point of an online diary. A diary's something you write in a lock up, not post online for the world to see - and if these kids can funnel this kind of energy into writing shitty blog entries, why the HELL can't they at least learn to write with proper grammar and spelling?