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Don't use Flash as a presentation layout tool. Flash makes perfect sense for throwing in a little interactive graphic or diagram, or for inserting a video clip, but the website should be text and images, preferably well-described images (ALT and TITLE are your friends!)
I used to see way too many websites that used a static image (or sliced image) as a page to avoid layout issues with HTML. Now they fade that stupid image in with Flash instead.
Back in the day when I was first using DOS 3.x, I was shown how to edit CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT by 'type'ing the contents (cat equivalent) and then retyping it with "COPY CON AUTOEXEC.BAT"
I've seen a program that does almost exactly this, but its more like RAID-4, storing a disc with just parity information instead of including it in the data disc. Unfortunately, the name escapes me.
Using PAR files will help you accomplish this though.
I'm annoyed at how many long-term Windows users don't know the Windows keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, never mind screen capture or quick-launching.
What's also fun is using vncserver as a GUI version of 'screen'.
Connect to a headless server, run vncserver, then vnc to that machine to get your little desktop in a window, launch some GUI process, then close the window and check back later from anywhere.
That should connect to the machine at that IP address with X forwarding turned on, and launch a new 'xterm' window, which should appear on your desktop (even though its running on the other computer).
Feel free at this point to launch any other GUI apps from that xterm and they'll all appear on your desktop, running from the remote machine.
If I'm at another desktop in my office with less RAM and I want to run GIMP for example off my desktop, I can SSH to my desktop from a co-workers, launch GIMP and work with it running off my computer but do all the work with theirs as the terminal.
I'm sorry, but I have no latency issues with my remote X sessions. I'm not sure what you're running, or if you're trying to do this over the Internet (not recommended) but on LAN speeds it works great.
The public is not particularly useful at identifying suspicious behaviour. Call your local PD sometime and ask how many tips they get that are useless.
Besides, the enemy happens to know everything the public knows, plus has the benefit of planning the op in the first place. There's a reason national defence plans aren't public, even if they "might" help the public help back.
There's a very common practise in intelligence circles to not share ANYTHING in detail for a few reasons:
The details may turn out to be important in a way you hadn't predicted.
Leaving out only the classified details makes isolating the black box of classified details easier; leaving out additional details makes it harder to isolate what was and wasn't interesting.
A lack of knowledge of why the opponent would want to know the information (see #1 above).
Another reason I can't tell you. lol.
You don't, I repeat don't share details about events like this unless you're very stupid or unpatriotic or want to be arrested for national security reasons, and the original poster probably shared more details than he thought prudent already.
Riiigght, because the Tier-1's never receive traffic from those multi-homed ISPs via other routes. BGP is pretty cool, and traffic often flows the way you describe, but sometimes it doesn't, and you get packets from just over here *waves to his left* when you expected them from over here *waves to his right*.
Placing filters that are guaranteed to be correct on all the right ports all the time would be a maintenance nightmare.
So long as America doesn't need German engineering or Asian production or European money for their goods, so long as America doesn't care if its citizens randomly get arrested in foreign countries, so long as America finds it acceptable that some of its political elite from previous administrations may be arrested on sight for war crimes while on vacation, America doesn't need to care what anyone thinks.
On the other hand, you could get your head out of the sand and realize the USA is not in fact an island in the world.
You might want to do a historical study on how many of their own presidents Americans have assassinated, and how many foreign governments have been replaced or empowered by the CIA and buddies.
I'm pretty sure those who do not understand this are the conspiracy theorists, many of these ops are no longer classified and really very embarrassing to read.
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Don't use Flash as a presentation layout tool. Flash makes perfect sense for throwing in a little interactive graphic or diagram, or for inserting a video clip, but the website should be text and images, preferably well-described images (ALT and TITLE are your friends!)
I used to see way too many websites that used a static image (or sliced image) as a page to avoid layout issues with HTML. Now they fade that stupid image in with Flash instead.
While realizing he's paying the new contractor out of the lawsuit settlement he got from you.
whooosh.
v, highlight some lines, then ':fold -s -w72' for E-mail formatting, for example.
Back in the day when I was first using DOS 3.x, I was shown how to edit CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT by 'type'ing the contents (cat equivalent) and then retyping it with "COPY CON AUTOEXEC.BAT"
When I figured out edlin, I was in heaven lol.
You can always buy a decent network switch with 802.1x authentication and make your wired network significantly less open.
You mean like point-to-point IPSec? That already exists, and is quite usable on modern computers.
The DS doesn't support anything above WEP ...
What do you do about hanging chad though? :-)
I've seen a program that does almost exactly this, but its more like RAID-4, storing a disc with just parity information instead of including it in the data disc. Unfortunately, the name escapes me.
Using PAR files will help you accomplish this though.
I'm annoyed at how many long-term Windows users don't know the Windows keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, never mind screen capture or quick-launching.
What's also fun is using vncserver as a GUI version of 'screen'.
Connect to a headless server, run vncserver, then vnc to that machine to get your little desktop in a window, launch some GUI process, then close the window and check back later from anywhere.
On a Linux desktop:
Open terminal, run:
ssh -X 192.168.1.100 xterm
That should connect to the machine at that IP address with X forwarding turned on, and launch a new 'xterm' window, which should appear on your desktop (even though its running on the other computer).
Feel free at this point to launch any other GUI apps from that xterm and they'll all appear on your desktop, running from the remote machine.
If I'm at another desktop in my office with less RAM and I want to run GIMP for example off my desktop, I can SSH to my desktop from a co-workers, launch GIMP and work with it running off my computer but do all the work with theirs as the terminal.
I'm sorry, but I have no latency issues with my remote X sessions. I'm not sure what you're running, or if you're trying to do this over the Internet (not recommended) but on LAN speeds it works great.
du -ms * | sort -g is even better.
Also, "sort -g" sorts numerically.
For example, I sometimes do:
rpm -qa --queryformat "%{size} %{name}\n" | sort -g | less
Backticks are a lot of fun. Explaining how they work in the context of double-quotes is more fun. I often do simple things like:
something interesting | tee "/var/log/interesting_`date +%s`_$$.log"
Feel free to dd if=/dev/zero over its blocks.
Of course, you'd probably want something else there instead.
rm -rf .. is entertaining too.
The public is not particularly useful at identifying suspicious behaviour. Call your local PD sometime and ask how many tips they get that are useless.
Besides, the enemy happens to know everything the public knows, plus has the benefit of planning the op in the first place. There's a reason national defence plans aren't public, even if they "might" help the public help back.
There's a very common practise in intelligence circles to not share ANYTHING in detail for a few reasons:
You don't, I repeat don't share details about events like this unless you're very stupid or unpatriotic or want to be arrested for national security reasons, and the original poster probably shared more details than he thought prudent already.
Riiigght, because the Tier-1's never receive traffic from those multi-homed ISPs via other routes. BGP is pretty cool, and traffic often flows the way you describe, but sometimes it doesn't, and you get packets from just over here *waves to his left* when you expected them from over here *waves to his right*.
Placing filters that are guaranteed to be correct on all the right ports all the time would be a maintenance nightmare.
I'm sorry, which part of "people only act in rational ways based on logic and good research" suddenly became true?
So long as America doesn't need German engineering or Asian production or European money for their goods, so long as America doesn't care if its citizens randomly get arrested in foreign countries, so long as America finds it acceptable that some of its political elite from previous administrations may be arrested on sight for war crimes while on vacation, America doesn't need to care what anyone thinks.
On the other hand, you could get your head out of the sand and realize the USA is not in fact an island in the world.
You might want to do a historical study on how many of their own presidents Americans have assassinated, and how many foreign governments have been replaced or empowered by the CIA and buddies.
I'm pretty sure those who do not understand this are the conspiracy theorists, many of these ops are no longer classified and really very embarrassing to read.