On my university, back in '88-'90, they had a classroom full of 4.7 MHz PCs running DOS along with something called Watchdog. It did full on-the-fly harddisk encryption, making the PCs even slower. It contained a rather obnoxious menu system for running e.g. a text editor or a Modula-2 compiler, and nothing else. Also ^C was disabled, so we could not even interrupt autoexec.bat.
But with no PC back home in my room... what better to do than hack it anyway!
After some experimenting I discovered that the password box was vulnerable to a "pipe attack": a login would result in something like "c:\watchdog/login {whatever you typed}". So this guy brought his own floppy disk with good old faithful Norton Utilities on it, and then I typed "coffee|a:\nu.exe" as my password... Before I knew it, NU was up and running, and I used it to rename the original autoexec.bat and config.sys. Only to discover then, that the PC would not boot without the Watchdog Encrypted Disk driver, which was loaded from config.sys! Apparantly even the system directories were encrypted.
This led to my hasty retreat of the premises, hoping no one saw me... and the next day... said PC was labelled "broken", before it was taken away, and I never got caught...
Forgive me if any of the details are slightly off, it's been a few years and a few beers!
Tell that to the nocturnal animals who can't feed or breed properly due to light pollution.
Tell that to the people who enjoy gazing at the wonderful milky way during the night.
Tell that to the astronomers who no longer can do their jobs from the ground.
You're not the first to think of that, e.g. here. (free reg required, as of recently)
They have gathered a bunch of geographic-vs-IP data, and although it's not a world map as you mentioned, they provide a visual traceroute, i.e. an approximate geographic route from their server to a host you specify, e.g. your own PC/internet gateway. Click left/right to zoom in/out.
Their ultimate goal is to sell it to you, for you to map things from your own point of view. Using it on their site is free and of course more limited.
Please read more carefully, the intro from which you are quoting discusses an event from our own sun, which happens to be only a good 8 lightminutes away.
Try cross-browser.com for two cross-browser DHTML Javascript libraries.
One is complete and big, the other is more of a featherweight and a bit less powerful of course.
Slashdot Mirror
This, my friend, is probably the best description ever, and I fully agree.
A fellow atheist
Apparantly the "~" got translated by the mirror. Replace it by its %(hex) equivalent to see the mirror page.
;-)
Until it gets slashdotted, that is
FYI, the problem is bad Flash RAM (like a memory stick), and not bad Flash ROM (like a PC BIOS).
On my university, back in '88-'90, they had a classroom full of 4.7 MHz PCs running DOS along with something called Watchdog. It did full on-the-fly harddisk encryption, making the PCs even slower. It contained a rather obnoxious menu system for running e.g. a text editor or a Modula-2 compiler, and nothing else. Also ^C was disabled, so we could not even interrupt autoexec.bat.
/login {whatever you typed}". So this guy brought his own floppy disk with good old faithful Norton Utilities on it, and then I typed "coffee|a:\nu.exe" as my password... Before I knew it, NU was up and running, and I used it to rename the original autoexec.bat and config.sys. Only to discover then, that the PC would not boot without the Watchdog Encrypted Disk driver, which was loaded from config.sys! Apparantly even the system directories were encrypted.
But with no PC back home in my room... what better to do than hack it anyway!
After some experimenting I discovered that the password box was vulnerable to a "pipe attack": a login would result in something like "c:\watchdog
This led to my hasty retreat of the premises, hoping no one saw me... and the next day... said PC was labelled "broken", before it was taken away, and I never got caught...
Forgive me if any of the details are slightly off, it's been a few years and a few beers!
no, y2.004k!
Don't let the Wachowski brothers hear of that!
Before you know it, we'd all have to go see the Catrix, featuring Meo and Kittnity...
if you don't like it, close your damn eyes!
Tell that to the nocturnal animals who can't feed or breed properly due to light pollution.
Tell that to the people who enjoy gazing at the wonderful milky way during the night.
Tell that to the astronomers who no longer can do their jobs from the ground.
sheesh indeed...
better if he could overlay a map of the world
You're not the first to think of that, e.g. here. (free reg required, as of recently)
They have gathered a bunch of geographic-vs-IP data, and although it's not a world map as you mentioned, they provide a visual traceroute, i.e. an approximate geographic route from their server to a host you specify, e.g. your own PC/internet gateway. Click left/right to zoom in/out.
Their ultimate goal is to sell it to you, for you to map things from your own point of view. Using it on their site is free and of course more limited.
(Not affiliated in any way, etc. etc. etc.)
Please read more carefully, the intro from which you are quoting discusses an event from our own sun, which happens to be only a good 8 lightminutes away.
Try cross-browser.com for two cross-browser DHTML Javascript libraries.
One is complete and big, the other is more of a featherweight and a bit less powerful of course.
300mbit/s out
;-)
It seems that geekhosting.nl isn't nearly as capable.
Have them move their stuff to your old ISP
will produce 4 mols (72 grams) of water. Where does the water go?
1. Give away water producing laptop for free
2. Notice water is hot
3. Sell instant coffee in large quantities
4. $$$ Profit!!!
Wasn't step 3 always missing in all plans? Well here it is!