This is like saying tourism on Kilimanjaro, or even Everest will never take off. I Climbed Killi a few years ago, it is only for the fit but there are plenty of fit around who want to do it. I just hope orbit does not fill up with mars bar wrappers and empty water bottles, or even O2 bottles like Everest.
Win without IE is better but if you are going to do that much work I would suggest you drop windows and try Mandrake Linux instead.
I spent the w/e fixing my father-in-laws virus motel^H^H^H^H^H Windoze PC. He thought the virus had killed the BIOS. 0.25 hour Mandrake install, default options, everything worked fine +0.25 hours, latest patches downloaded, everything fine and fairly secure.
Then I started a Windows install for him. Install win 98+ (Three reboots), download critical 'service pack', reboot, download screen drivers that work, reboot, download sound driver, reboot, install anti virus, reboot, download more service packs, reboot, install ieee1394 drivers, reboot, download large HD support, reboot. I forget the rest (or at least I am trying to forget the rest:) but to get Windows up, on the net, all hardware working took around 8 hours. The mandrake install had done the same in about 1/2 hour.
When you are doing that much work to fix windows there must be something you really need or you should invest some time in the alternatives.
A couple of years ago during some time staying on a farm in Australia I got to go up for a ride with the crop duster. He was using DGPS to fly as close to the edges of the field as possible without too much overspray.
You may not think it is hard to know when you are over the edge of a field but this guy was flying low and fast with seriously sharp turns at each end. Down was not often down. I think we trimmed the tree tops with the wingtip into the bargian.
OF course this was not varying the dose over area by GPS but with big fields the advantages in cost saving make these cool toys well worth it to the farmer, and there is some environmetal advantage for free (As much as can be when tending a monoculture)
Accept payment by E-Gold and help to start a real digital economy. Your money is secured against real gold. You can transfer ownership of some gold to anyone in the world. This is what digital payment should be. The more people accept this the sooner the network effect starts.
I am looking at installing a vary cheap water cooling system, the trick is to use a vary large heat sink, in my case this will be the Mediterranian. I am installing a PC in my boat for Navigation and Entertainment. The almost limitless supply of cool water is too good to resist (Plus no fan noise if I can work out how to get +/- 5v and -12v from my boats 12v DC system). Maybee I will have the first salt water cooled PC:-)
My father was building his new house and wanted it "wired for the future". My brother and I were to develop his idea and install it (after the electrician and before the drywall).
I considered installing an electrician once as well. Did you put him behind the dry wall and how did you overcome the stink issue ? Are you in a dry mumification friendly climate perhaps;-)
One of my drinking buddies worked on a project similar to this. He told me that the heat problems mentioned in the article were the single biggest obstacle to making a successful mini-turban.
Heat always was a problem with any sort of turban. I think you will find the looser teatowel style of head covering more common than the classic Punjab type tight wrap turban in the very hot desert climates...
Holes in firewalls aren't intrinsically bad things. It's what they lead to that's the problem.
The sad fact is that all firewalls are intrinsically holes.
Back in the mists of time.........
First we had the simple trusting internet
.rhosts files , IP based authentication. We trusted people would use their real IP address.
The some stinking cracker came and spoofed it
Then we had passwords on our services
The some stinking cracker came and sniffed it
Then we thought we would limit services, well it's easy, lets uses those nice allocated port numbers....
Guess what, some stinking M$ + plenty others came and spoofed it
The problem is when you can not authenticate and trust the parties communicating through your firewall a sophisticated adversery can get anything he likes tunnelled through anthing you allow.
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we have 2 way 8 bit traffic. Tunneling any proto is left as an excercise for the reader
You can assume that the BigBad.Net will be evil so you have to trust you internal users not to download latest CoolApp and not to be sophisticated hackers. Or put them all on locked down OS (No boot from removable media, case alarm) Or have separate net-connected network from real work network AND the same difficulty to move data to/from this net as to move it in/out of your office.
I have worked in Military secure systems and been involved in testing and deployment of secure bank remote access (remote managment for THE big iron) . In either of these you would not dream of allowing either side of the dialog to be unauthenticated (/What you have/What you are/What you know - choose 2 minimum) Without this level of authetication security is an illusion.
Once you allow dialog with a non-trusted end it is really a case of damage limitation, SOAP just moves the barier down IQ a few points.
Info on the hardware involved at http://www1.airbus.com/products/A300.asp if you can get the site to respond. you can try www2 instead, is equaly bad for me, it will get worse with some/.ing
I don't know that the reg would thank you for this. They are a very high traffic site, a little/. effect will do them no noticeable harm. Reposting their stories verbatim however steals the page impressions that make them cash. Nice try but wrong site to help:( IMHO.
I suggest you go to Their Merchandising and buy a BOFH T-shirt to atone for your sin.
Cheers,
R. (Not connected to the reg, just a long time reader)
I have used a GPS in an Airliner before just holding it up to my small window. If you are in the cockpit with all that glass around you I bet a reasonable handheld GPS would get you a fix and bearing to your pre-programed waypoint.
If you spend 2 hours to learn how to read the onboard nav system, know which way up to hold a map and how to measure an angle you would not be too far off either, Once you are within 20 nm of the twin towers pointing something like at them I think the mk1 seat of pants would do.
There was a note of sarcasm in my first post, sorry I did not tag it.
I would think encryption _would_ be involved to co-ordinate something of this magnitude. Of course encryption is not the cause, look to US foriegn policy for that.
Aside from that I believe we should have the right to privacy (& that means encryption in the wired world) but I think this will be used by the big brother faction to denigrate encryption/privacy and those who support it.
It is my wife's birthday today also, we were just sitting down for a drink on an Amsterdam terace when we heard the news. Do you also know the coup (Sweet little pinochet) in Chilli was on 11.9.73
is this really primary Slashdot story material? Like much of what is hacked out there, it strikes me as a minor (albiet clever), nearly useless end product with an extremely limited audience that might use it.
That sounds just like Linux so of course it's a slashdot story;-)
Last week my Firewall/router threw the PSU fan and started to smell rather warm. So in a state altered by drugs and alchohol and having no other fan around I remembered how the British houses of parliment was cooled in daze gone by.
A fire and a rather tall chimney drew air through the entire building.
The higher the chimeny the greater the volume of warm (low density) air in it. Thus > pressure diff and more draw (or was that the joint ?)
So I made a 90 degree elbow in a piece or 10cm dia drain pipe and stuck it over the back of PSU. Epoxy resin is second only to duct tape.
some may call me a wimp with no faith in my inventions but I stopped short of lighting a fire in the back of the PC.
Sure enough as the psu warms to its task the chimney draws nicely and silently, plus I love the backwoods look of a 1.5m pipe stuck up out the back of the pc !
Mark me Funny or mark me Informative but please mark me I need the points;-)
I don't know about Napster but certainly if you use Gnapster (GNOME napster client) and set maximum uploads to zero you have a client which will not let people upload from you.
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This is like saying tourism on Kilimanjaro, or even Everest will never take off. I Climbed Killi a few years ago, it is only for the fit but there are plenty of fit around who want to do it. I just hope orbit does not fill up with mars bar wrappers and empty water bottles, or even O2 bottles like Everest.
Win without IE is better but if you are going to do that much work I would suggest you drop windows and try Mandrake Linux instead.
:) but to get Windows up, on the net, all hardware working took around 8 hours. The mandrake install had done the same in about 1/2 hour.
I spent the w/e fixing my father-in-laws virus motel^H^H^H^H^H Windoze PC. He thought the virus had killed the BIOS. 0.25 hour Mandrake install, default options, everything worked fine +0.25 hours, latest patches downloaded, everything fine and fairly secure.
Then I started a Windows install for him. Install win 98+ (Three reboots), download critical 'service pack', reboot, download screen drivers that work, reboot, download sound driver, reboot, install anti virus, reboot, download more service packs, reboot, install ieee1394 drivers, reboot, download large HD support, reboot. I forget the rest (or at least I am trying to forget the rest
When you are doing that much work to fix windows there must be something you really need or you should invest some time in the alternatives.
Cheers,
Me.
A couple of years ago during some time staying on a farm in Australia I got to go up for a ride with the crop duster. He was using DGPS to fly as close to the edges of the field as possible without too much overspray.
You may not think it is hard to know when you are over the edge of a field but this guy was flying low and fast with seriously sharp turns at each end. Down was not often down. I think we trimmed the tree tops with the wingtip into the bargian.
OF course this was not varying the dose over area by GPS but with big fields the advantages in cost saving make these cool toys well worth it to the farmer, and there is some environmetal advantage for free (As much as can be when tending a monoculture)
Accept payment by E-Gold and help to start a real digital economy. Your money is secured against real gold. You can transfer ownership of some gold to anyone in the world. This is what digital payment should be. The more people accept this the sooner the network effect starts.
I am looking at installing a vary cheap water cooling system, the trick is to use a vary large heat sink, in my case this will be the Mediterranian. I am installing a PC in my boat for Navigation and Entertainment. The almost limitless supply of cool water is too good to resist (Plus no fan noise if I can work out how to get +/- 5v and -12v from my boats 12v DC system). Maybee I will have the first salt water cooled PC :-)
I considered installing an electrician once as well. Did you put him behind the dry wall and how did you overcome the stink issue ? Are you in a dry mumification friendly climate perhaps
Heat always was a problem with any sort of turban. I think you will find the looser teatowel style of head covering more common than the classic Punjab type tight wrap turban in the very hot desert climates...
Holes in firewalls aren't intrinsically bad things. It's what they lead to that's the problem.
The sad fact is that all firewalls are intrinsically holes.
Back in the mists of time.........
First we had the simple trusting internet
.rhosts files , IP based authentication. We trusted people would use their real IP address.
The some stinking cracker came and spoofed it
Then we had passwords on our services
The some stinking cracker came and sniffed it
Then we thought we would limit services, well it's easy, lets uses those nice allocated port numbers....
Guess what, some stinking M$ + plenty others came and spoofed it
The problem is when you can not authenticate and trust the parties communicating through your firewall a sophisticated adversery can get anything he likes tunnelled through anthing you allow.
I send HTML chosen from an agreed set of 256
-
You reply HTML from similar pool
we have 2 way 8 bit traffic. Tunneling any proto is left as an excercise for the reader
You can assume that the BigBad.Net will be evil so you have to trust you internal users not to download latest CoolApp and not to be sophisticated hackers. Or put them all on locked down OS (No boot from removable media, case alarm) Or have separate net-connected network from real work network AND the same difficulty to move data to/from this net as to move it in/out of your office.
I have worked in Military secure systems and been involved in testing and deployment of secure bank remote access (remote managment for THE big iron) . In either of these you would not dream of allowing either side of the dialog to be unauthenticated (/What you have/What you are/What you know - choose 2 minimum) Without this level of authetication security is an illusion.
Once you allow dialog with a non-trusted end it is really a case of damage limitation, SOAP just moves the barier down IQ a few points.
Info on the hardware involved at http://www1.airbus.com/products/A300.asp if you can get the site to respond. you can try www2 instead, is equaly bad for me, it will get worse with some /.ing
I don't know that the reg would thank you for this. They are a very high traffic site, a little /. effect will do them no noticeable harm. Reposting their stories verbatim however steals the page impressions that make them cash. Nice try but wrong site to help :( IMHO.
I suggest you go to Their Merchandising and buy a BOFH T-shirt to atone for your sin.
Cheers,
R. (Not connected to the reg, just a long time reader)
Yeh,
I thought it was Philips that owned the COMPACT-DISC trademark.
But I may be wrong, to late to google, need sleep..
I have used a GPS in an Airliner before just holding it up to my small window. If you are in the cockpit with all that glass around you I bet a reasonable handheld GPS would get you a fix and bearing to your pre-programed waypoint.
If you spend 2 hours to learn how to read the onboard nav system, know which way up to hold a map and how to measure an angle you would not be too far off either, Once you are within 20 nm of the twin towers pointing something like at them I think the mk1 seat of pants would do.
There was a note of sarcasm in my first post, sorry I did not tag it.
I would think encryption _would_ be involved to co-ordinate something of this magnitude. Of course encryption is not the cause, look to US foriegn policy for that.
Aside from that I believe we should have the right to privacy (& that means encryption in the wired world) but I think this will be used by the big brother faction to denigrate encryption/privacy and those who support it.
If only the NSA had been able to read all comms this would never have happened...
This will be used as an excuse to futher limit privact/freedom.............
If only Encryption was banned this second perl harbour would never have happened......
.net
This will be used as an excuse to clamp down even harder on encryption and 'privacy' on the
Hi,
It is my wife's birthday today also, we were just sitting down for a drink on an Amsterdam terace when we heard the news. Do you also know the coup (Sweet little pinochet) in Chilli was on 11.9.73
Have a good Birthday anyway !
an exciled Brit.
With those programs, can someone check if this site is right about the "cross in the sky"?
http://members.aol.com/humblemagi/
WOM = /dev/nul
/dev/nul /
:)
I use it for ultra fast backups
tar -cvf
It runs faster without the v but the v gives you the comfort of seeing all your files backed up
.........and a serious mp3 collection is allready compressed. Any compressed fs is not going to get much more out of it.
PPPPPPPPpppppfffffffffffzz.............
So Bush invented the Internet not Gore !
That sounds just like Linux so of course it's a slashdot story
How can I FTP a 'u' into Flavor ?
Last week my Firewall/router threw the PSU fan and started to smell rather warm. So in a state altered by drugs and alchohol and having no other fan around I remembered how the British houses of parliment was cooled in daze gone by.
;-)
A fire and a rather tall chimney drew air through the entire building.
The higher the chimeny the greater the volume of warm (low density) air in it. Thus > pressure diff and more draw (or was that the joint ?)
So I made a 90 degree elbow in a piece or 10cm dia drain pipe and stuck it over the back of PSU. Epoxy resin is second only to duct tape.
some may call me a wimp with no faith in my inventions but I stopped short of lighting a fire in the back of the PC.
Sure enough as the psu warms to its task the chimney draws nicely and silently, plus I love the backwoods look of a 1.5m pipe stuck up out the back of the pc !
Mark me Funny or mark me Informative but please mark me I need the points
I don't know about Napster but certainly if you use Gnapster (GNOME napster client) and set maximum uploads to zero you have a client which will not let people upload from you.
An e-helpdesk that is good for keeping a paper trail, not suprising the paperless office is doomed huh ?
Or was that meant to be audit trail
Sorry to be a such a pedant