An additional reason to use female voices is that larger speakers are needed to clearly reproduce lower-frequency sounds. Having a voice that dominates a higher frequency spectrum allows smaller speakers and smaller devices that produce sounds at sufficient volume.
Attributing this to David Kaiser is incorrect. "As far as we know, this piece began as a comment posted to Pat Dollard's blog in November 2008 by an author identified only as 'TPS'."
Create five-way ZFS mirror. Remove the front two drives of the mirror. When backup time comes around: * zpool scrub * perform system snapshot * insert pair of drives from bank deposit box into disk array * zpool replace the two disks, wait for resilver to complete - you now have a five-disk mirror in your machine
now, you can offline / store your data elsewhere.
* remove the front two disks. system operates in "degraded" state with three-way mirror.
When backup time occurs again
* zpool replace the offline volumes * remove the next two disks
This allows you to rotate out disks, ensuring that they are spun up from time to time. zfs checks for checksum errors, helping you identify a bad drive before anything serious happens (also check SMART data).
I think this is best done with drives of the same size from different manufacturers to help reduce the chances of multiple drive failure.
I really wouldn't trust any other filesystem in a RAID. There are too many really good reasons to go with ZFS, and I've had some awful crashes with Linux software RAID.
According to extensive research done by my nose, smoking cannabis is both more odious AND disgusting than either tobacco or alcohol.
If Prop 19 passes, I won't be able to walk *anywhere* on 4th street in San Rafael without having to change my clothing afterward!
use the init=/bin/bash kernel parameter to bypass init and therefore disable the root password prompt. This should be possible unless, of course, the bootloader is password-protected.
Yeah, or if it still prompts you to enter root passwd in order to drop into single-user mode (like Debian does), just use the kernel param init=/bin/bash and do whatever you want.
Sometimes, an outsider will walk onto my wireless network, and do so on a regular basis. My SSID is "PUBLIC", after all. So what I do is once I see a regular user, I either send them a winpopup message or an e-mail message asking them to donate money on a monthly basis to help offset the cost of the wireless network.
Most people who connect to my wireless network leave some documents shared, so you can find contact information easily. Another score for lax security. Indeed, in the hands of malicious, this could be dangerous.
Really, the best thing is to secure individual machines rather than entire networks.
If you were more aggressive, you could use your open AP as a free AP as advertisement media: occasionally, the gateway could redirect the user of the free network to an ad. Or, use the image-replacement tool that was unveiled at DEFCON earlier this year.
Oh, and it looks like wap54G_fw.zip probably contains GPL'd code, too. Get ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network/wap54G_fw.zip, unzip the zipfile, cat LinksysWAP54G_1.27.trx | strings | less, and search for ROMFS.
That should take you to the beginning of the compressed ROM filesystem in this binary.
it appears that the atmel chip drivers are not so interesting... for 802.11b devices.
Apparently, boot.bin contains the PMON bootloader:
http://pmon.groupbsd.org/index.html
PMON specifies: # 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the # documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
(see ftp://pmon.groupbsd.org/pub/PMON/src/Makefile)
I happen to have a little-endian MIPS system right here. I mounted the uncramfs'd filesystem on my MIPS system. Here are some details from the binaries on the machine:
It uses BusyBox v0.60.0 (2003.03.05-00:35+0000) Built-in shell (msh)
If you look around on their ftp site, you'll notice the AbsoluteValue Systems Inc. MPL license file, ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network/linux_release.tx t,
and some VERY interesting:
ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network/ATMEL_linux_driv ers.tar.gz
These appear to be binary drivers for the ATMEL chips!
I actually am working on an embedded project that uses the Alchemy AU1500 chip, as used in the AirPort. I can tell you that getting Linux running on this AirPort would be trivial. All you need to do is break out the EJTAG pins on the AU1500, and connect it to a Raven EJTAG adapter (works under Linux + GDB).
The next thing you'd need to figure out are the SDRAM and flash timings.
What I would really like to see: someone should get Linux running out of the connected RAM, and then extract the contents of the Flash chip. I'm really curious what OS the AirPort uses. If it's something we're familiar with, then it might be easy to reverse engineer the driver for the BroadCom peripheral. I would *LOVE* to see drivers for these BroadCom devices.
The AU1500 has excellent support and is a superb microcontroller; take at www.linux-mips.org . Integrated USB, Ethernet, serial, very fun! If someone wants to send me an AirPort, I'll put Linux on it !:)
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An additional reason to use female voices is that larger speakers are needed to clearly reproduce lower-frequency sounds. Having a voice that dominates a higher frequency spectrum allows smaller speakers and smaller devices that produce sounds at sufficient volume.
Set up a ZFS 3-way mirror. Scrub weekly. Sync with offsite for "just in case."
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Using+OpenIndiana+as+a+storage+server
Cheap, easy, fast.
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Attributing this to David Kaiser is incorrect. "As far as we know, this piece began as a comment posted to Pat Dollard's blog in November 2008 by an author identified only as 'TPS'."
Frightening, but not unexpected. Do you have any references to support your claims?
Here's a spiffy way to do backups.
Create five-way ZFS mirror. Remove the front two drives of the mirror. When backup time comes around:
* zpool scrub
* perform system snapshot
* insert pair of drives from bank deposit box into disk array
* zpool replace the two disks, wait for resilver to complete - you now have a five-disk mirror in your machine
now, you can offline / store your data elsewhere.
* remove the front two disks. system operates in "degraded" state with three-way mirror.
When backup time occurs again
* zpool replace the offline volumes
* remove the next two disks
This allows you to rotate out disks, ensuring that they are spun up from time to time. zfs checks for checksum errors, helping you identify a bad drive before anything serious happens (also check SMART data).
I think this is best done with drives of the same size from different manufacturers to help reduce the chances of multiple drive failure.
I really wouldn't trust any other filesystem in a RAID. There are too many really good reasons to go with ZFS, and I've had some awful crashes with Linux software RAID.
According to extensive research done by my nose, smoking cannabis is both more odious AND disgusting than either tobacco or alcohol. If Prop 19 passes, I won't be able to walk *anywhere* on 4th street in San Rafael without having to change my clothing afterward!
If you're lazy, just use software raid5, it's easier :P
use the init=/bin/bash kernel parameter to bypass init and therefore disable the root password prompt. This should be possible unless, of course, the bootloader is password-protected.
Yeah, or if it still prompts you to enter root passwd in order to drop into single-user mode (like Debian does), just use the kernel param init=/bin/bash and do whatever you want.
Using KNX to solve this problem is way overkill
CD's are red,
Blu-rays are blue.
UV DVD's store your data,
But WHEN? I have no clue.
*:)P*
Yes, since browsing windows file shares is equivalent to rooting machines. I like the way you think.
Sometimes, an outsider will walk onto my wireless network, and do so on a regular basis. My SSID is "PUBLIC", after all. So what I do is once I see a regular user, I either send them a winpopup message or an e-mail message asking them to donate money on a monthly basis to help offset the cost of the wireless network.
Most people who connect to my wireless network leave some documents shared, so you can find contact information easily. Another score for lax security. Indeed, in the hands of malicious, this could be dangerous.
Really, the best thing is to secure individual machines rather than entire networks.
If you were more aggressive, you could use your open AP as a free AP as advertisement media: occasionally, the gateway could redirect the user of the free network to an ad. Or, use the image-replacement tool that was unveiled at DEFCON earlier this year.
Drat, that website is down. Can we get another link to it? I would love to see this...
I wonder if the ink they use in this device has some... interesting properties? RMPT!
Oh, and it looks like wap54G_fw.zip probably contains GPL'd code, too. Get ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network/wap54G_fw.zip, unzip the zipfile, cat LinksysWAP54G_1.27.trx | strings | less, and search for ROMFS.
That should take you to the beginning of the compressed ROM filesystem in this binary.
it appears that the atmel chip drivers are not so interesting... for 802.11b devices.
Apparently, boot.bin contains the PMON bootloader:
http://pmon.groupbsd.org/index.html
PMON specifies:
# 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
# notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
# documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
(see ftp://pmon.groupbsd.org/pub/PMON/src/Makefile)
I happen to have a little-endian MIPS system right here. I mounted the uncramfs'd filesystem on my MIPS system. Here are some details from the binaries on the machine: It uses BusyBox v0.60.0 (2003.03.05-00:35+0000) Built-in shell (msh) If you look around on their ftp site, you'll notice the AbsoluteValue Systems Inc. MPL license file, ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network/linux_release.tx t,
and some VERY interesting:
ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network/ATMEL_linux_driv ers.tar.gz
These appear to be binary drivers for the ATMEL chips!
Sorry, no Linux drivers exist for the mini-PCI card. You might try Windows, though...
I actually am working on an embedded project that uses the Alchemy AU1500 chip, as used in the AirPort. I can tell you that getting Linux running on this AirPort would be trivial. All you need to do is break out the EJTAG pins on the AU1500, and connect it to a Raven EJTAG adapter (works under Linux + GDB).
The next thing you'd need to figure out are the SDRAM and flash timings.
What I would really like to see: someone should get Linux running out of the connected RAM, and then extract the contents of the Flash chip. I'm really curious what OS the AirPort uses. If it's something we're familiar with, then it might be easy to reverse engineer the driver for the BroadCom peripheral. I would *LOVE* to see drivers for these BroadCom devices.
The AU1500 has excellent support and is a superb microcontroller; take at www.linux-mips.org . Integrated USB, Ethernet, serial, very fun! If someone wants to send me an AirPort, I'll put Linux on it ! :)