I say go for it wrt cracking his passwords and such. I see no moral issues as your intentions are noble and you were asked by his family. As for myspace et. al. giving you his password, definitely not going to happen. You need to be a Chinese government official to pull that off:)
I really, really enjoyed playing Mario 3 as a youngster on an original Nintendo, but I never finished it -- until about 4 months ago, when I started playing it in an emulator on my PC. Totally beat it then:)
Every Saturday I go out to Palomar Flyers's Johnson Field and fly my Kalt 30 Baron r/c helicopter. I'm still a newbie, but there are always plenty of people doing things there beyond even what this MIT bird is capable of, and I put a wireless video camera on mine, and it was pretty easy, so... whats so special about this mit thing?:)
Yeah, their picture shrinking technology really sucks, they don't even maintain the aspect ratio, they just smoosh their message in at the bottom, and they do it on almost all of their shows. It really blows.
The original Rio PMP300 will let you take files out of it, as long as you don't use the software that came with it. If you use the *nix rio tool by the Snowblind Alliance, you can put any file in the rio, and take any file out of the rio, and use it as a generic storage device, albeit not a very good one because SmartMedia is expensive. The limitation on pulling stuff out of it is only in the rio desktop software.
I used to own a Vaio too, which I replaced with an Inspiron, because the DVD drive kept dying. Sony made me *mail* them my laptop EVERY TIME, they replaced it THREE TIMES, refused to replace the entire laptop, so I sold it to some guy in Russia and bought an Inspiron. Been happy since.
I'm on my second Inspiron right now, a 5000e, actually. First one was a 7500. I haven't had problems with any of them, except for the time I drove about 20 miles when I realized that I left my 5000e on top of my car. Thank god it was found the next day, and the only thing that broke on it was the "LCD flex cable", a ribbon cable that goes from the computer to the LCD. The LCD itself wasn't even cracked. Dell replaced the whole laptop for me, free of charge. I didn't, of course, tell them it fell off my car, but they replaced it anyway. I think for a laptop to survive a hit about 6' in the air, at 35MPH sort of says something... they really *don't* break all the time, only when you abuse them:)
I'd just like to say that on the behalf of nyip.net (images.palmstation.com's host) I am quite proud that we survived the slashdot effect. The main server is named achilles.nyip.net, and I think we should all play Led Zeppelin's Achilles' Last Stand as tribute:)
I know a homeschooling mother who lives in San Diego. Living in such a large city, she has the ability to partake, with her son, in homeschooler events, like field trips, etc, with other homeschoolers. Usually the parents and the kids go together. Through these kinds of activities, a child can definitely learn how to interact with others.
As far as learning about the public education system, while your comment may have been made out of sarcasm, I have to say that I would be a much nicer, less bitter person if I wasn't forced through it. I escaped early - into college at 12th grade - but those first 12 years (including K) were horrible. I will always remember my highschool with disdain. If it werent for the handful (more like 3) legendary, competent teachers I dealt with, I don't know what I would have done. It was a terrible place, and still is.
Cisco makes small, set-top box routers. They own the market, for god sakes, they're worth more than Microsoft. Is some little Japanese company going to try and take market share from them? I think not.
The bofh might run deep within my blood, but... sometimes I think that maybe the Linux community would not benefit from more newbies. Every day, at least once, I see someone come on #debian and ask some really horrible question, in full ansi color glory, and flood it, or something else like that. Linux is dangerously approaching (if it isn't there allready) the sad state of things when it reaches Critical Popularity Mass, like that whole pokemon thing... when something becomes so popular it starts to suck. sigh.
As admin of adams.openprojects.net, one of the servers that was DoS'd, I felt that I should give my own attempt at trying to find out exactly what was fueling his rage... he wouldn't tell me, or state any reason at all as to why he was doing this; he told me to ask someone else, who also didn't know.
This comment is mainly in response to one of the previous comments that basically scolded the slashdot crowd for not "understanding" the "pressure" this person was under, from VA Linux, apparently. How can we know what pressure he was under if he wont even tell us what happened? He's doing this practically as a "punishment", but we don't even know what we're being "punished" for.
I hope this ends with him being prosecuted, and I fully plan on submitting the 22MB log of eth0 traffic during the attack to the FBI and whoever else will be investigating it. I eventually plan on publishing the entire thing so everyone can see exactly how he formed these attacks. They were mostly the standard UDP floods, but the originating IPs are the interesting part.
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I say go for it wrt cracking his passwords and such. I see no moral issues as your intentions are noble and you were asked by his family. As for myspace et. al. giving you his password, definitely not going to happen. You need to be a Chinese government official to pull that off :)
lilo, hi, remember me?
What goes around, comes around.
"carde blanche"?
"nip this in the butt"?
How can you screw up so many colloquiums? Can you teach me?
Does this remind anyone else of A Clockwork Orange, particularly the "Ludivico Technique"?
Dragons do *not* have 4 legs. Any McCaffrey fan should be shuddering.
I really, really enjoyed playing Mario 3 as a youngster on an original Nintendo, but I never finished it -- until about 4 months ago, when I started playing it in an emulator on my PC. Totally beat it then :)
Why can't they just rename the files?
I mean, these people make operating systems, right?
Every Saturday I go out to Palomar Flyers's Johnson Field and fly my Kalt 30 Baron r/c helicopter. I'm still a newbie, but there are always plenty of people doing things there beyond even what this MIT bird is capable of, and I put a wireless video camera on mine, and it was pretty easy, so... whats so special about this mit thing? :)
Yeah, their picture shrinking technology really sucks, they don't even maintain the aspect ratio, they just smoosh their message in at the bottom, and they do it on almost all of their shows. It really blows.
The original Rio PMP300 will let you take files out of it, as long as you don't use the software that came with it. If you use the *nix rio tool by the Snowblind Alliance, you can put any file in the rio, and take any file out of the rio, and use it as a generic storage device, albeit not a very good one because SmartMedia is expensive. The limitation on pulling stuff out of it is only in the rio desktop software.
I used to own a Vaio too, which I replaced with an Inspiron, because the DVD drive kept dying. Sony made me *mail* them my laptop EVERY TIME, they replaced it THREE TIMES, refused to replace the entire laptop, so I sold it to some guy in Russia and bought an Inspiron. Been happy since.
I'm on my second Inspiron right now, a 5000e, actually. First one was a 7500. I haven't had problems with any of them, except for the time I drove about 20 miles when I realized that I left my 5000e on top of my car. Thank god it was found the next day, and the only thing that broke on it was the "LCD flex cable", a ribbon cable that goes from the computer to the LCD. The LCD itself wasn't even cracked. Dell replaced the whole laptop for me, free of charge. I didn't, of course, tell them it fell off my car, but they replaced it anyway. I think for a laptop to survive a hit about 6' in the air, at 35MPH sort of says something... they really *don't* break all the time, only when you abuse them :)
I'd just like to say that on the behalf of nyip.net (images.palmstation.com's host) I am quite proud that we survived the slashdot effect. The main server is named achilles.nyip.net, and I think we should all play Led Zeppelin's Achilles' Last Stand as tribute :)
As far as learning about the public education system, while your comment may have been made out of sarcasm, I have to say that I would be a much nicer, less bitter person if I wasn't forced through it. I escaped early - into college at 12th grade - but those first 12 years (including K) were horrible. I will always remember my highschool with disdain. If it werent for the handful (more like 3) legendary, competent teachers I dealt with, I don't know what I would have done. It was a terrible place, and still is.
Cisco makes small, set-top box routers. They own the market, for god sakes, they're worth more than Microsoft. Is some little Japanese company going to try and take market share from them? I think not.
Qmail supports both vsm (/var/spool/mail/username) AND maildir - not just maildir. I hope someone corrects the article headline.
As one admin to another... glad you chose our network for your link and glad to see you wanting to help out even more! Wish I had more time :)
The bofh might run deep within my blood, but... sometimes I think that maybe the Linux community would not benefit from more newbies. Every day, at least once, I see someone come on #debian and ask some really horrible question, in full ansi color glory, and flood it, or something else like that. Linux is dangerously approaching (if it isn't there allready) the sad state of things when it reaches Critical Popularity Mass, like that whole pokemon thing... when something becomes so popular it starts to suck. sigh.
As admin of adams.openprojects.net, one of the servers that was DoS'd, I felt that I should give my own attempt at trying to find out exactly what was fueling his rage... he wouldn't tell me, or state any reason at all as to why he was doing this; he told me to ask someone else, who also didn't know.
This comment is mainly in response to one of the previous comments that basically scolded the slashdot crowd for not "understanding" the "pressure" this person was under, from VA Linux, apparently. How can we know what pressure he was under if he wont even tell us what happened? He's doing this practically as a "punishment", but we don't even know what we're being "punished" for.
I hope this ends with him being prosecuted, and I fully plan on submitting the 22MB log of eth0 traffic during the attack to the FBI and whoever else will be investigating it. I eventually plan on publishing the entire thing so everyone can see exactly how he formed these attacks. They were mostly the standard UDP floods, but the originating IPs are the interesting part.
Perhaps if you did your homework first you would have realized that the PalmIIIe purposley lacks flash/EEPROM memory, to lower the cost of the device.