"I'm still curious as to how they got past the guards"
What guards? Why does everyone assume there were guards? No one mentioned there were guards onsite except some slashdotards.
Many switches have no security onsite--no one is guarding the place.
Costs too much money.
Alarm system w/ 24x7 A/V monitoring much cheaper. Some use live A/V to control access from another site, perhaps from the RCC itself.
Make it a stealth passport...
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There are some rather nice materials on the market that can keep any rfid device from being detected.
The materials vary, from resistive carbon and film laminates (super-cheap, short-lived) to to ferrite-embedded epoxies (very cheap, very hard, brittle, very long-lived) to amorphous magnetic alloys (cheap, stiff, useless-if-bent, very long-lived) to nanocrystalline magnetic metals (expensive, hard, stiff, bendable, very long-lived) to magnetic nanocystalline-embedded plastics (pricey, soft, flexible, not too long-lived).
Similar to materials used to skin the Northrop B-2 bomber, these will prevent most any rf-powered rfid device from operating and being detected and are a bit more discreet than wrapping a passport in foil like a burrito--and more durable.
They can be made to be like wallets, purses, pouches, hard cases, et cetera.
They do work on library books, SAW devices, Wiegand devices, and those Motorola RFID badges.
They also work on a wireless memory device under development--sort of a RFID device with a super-huge (4Mb++++), alterable "serial number" similar to the DalSem 1-wire stuff except that there's zero wires, read/writeable from 3.2+meters.
I've got a lot of free stuff from AOL over the years.
I got a big box of floppies from them, 5.25 and 3.5 inch.
I got a whole bunch of CD's that I found useful as a substitute for diffraction gratings, as coasters, trivets, clay pigeons, table levellers, bird toys, et cetera.
I got lots and lots of DVD cases, CD cases and fancy tins. I also got some cool pseudowood fliptop boxes from them recently.
It's so nice to receive such cool and useful stuff for free, without a subscription and all. And just when I think they've stopped I get more cool stuff in the mail!
"This company (enlux) claims to have the first LED flood lights that you simply screw in as a replacement for your old bulb. "
This claim is false.
Commercial white LED floods and other replacements for high-voltage incandescent bulbs are available for any standard base in the world, including the funky euro and russian bases. They are available at three colour temperatures and in any other LED colour, including IR and UV.
They have been available for more than two years.
Enlux had no such products available a year ago.
Seems they define "flood" a bit broadly: According to their own data, it illumines a narrow region like a spot would.
50K hours seems a little short-lived.
And white LEDS dim quite noticeably over a very short time. They will most likely be too dim long before 50K hours. Most likely in a bit less than half that time, around 20K hours.
If they are willing to lie about being the first, and deceive about the useful life of their lights, what else will they lie or cheat on?
Wonder if enlux will do for LEDs what Lights of America did for fluoros...
It seems as if the subject has changed suddenly and there is still no answer to your question...
Let's see if I can give it a go:
There is not really enough information to make a good suggestion.
Typical UPS's won't help keep the heat on. A good UPS that can handle the motor load and last for more than an hour would be very expensive.
Solar does not seem to be good for the UK, unless you happen to be in a very sunny place.
A standby generator may be good, provided the local council doesn't get their fingers in it.
Wind power may be cost effective if there is enough wind but again, it may really annoy the council and neighbours may also take offence.
If you can hide a quiet generator, it may be the better way to go. It can be wired into the house with a cutover switch. It can run for days and you can keep it filled with diesel, petrol or LPG or whatever gas you wish to use.
Research and study is needed on your part, or you can hire a consultant to do the work.
After setting up a MacOSX box with everything being used on the windoze box, and making things as similar as possible to what they were using, an offering free help they still refused.
I have an out of the box linux router/firewall. It has not seen an update because no one makes updates for it.
No one has cracked it.
It's not for lack of trying. I see a lot of attacks daily. Sometimes they hit the machine several thousand times in an hour, trying different exploits. It's been up and running continuously for over a year, excepting power failures and cleanings.
Most attempts are probes for compromised windoze boxes. The massive flurries are linux exploit attacks.There are still a lot of ssh exploit attempts despite that hole being fixed a long time ago.
I don't have a CS degree. I know far more about DOS and windows than I do about Linux or any other OS.
That's why I use linux.
"And if you think that no one has tried to exploit your linux box..." I think that no one has not tried to exploit my linux box. Reading Is Fundamental!
Something I have noticed: windoze users get all kinds of upset and extremely hostile when windoze is criticised for it's poor security. It is very consistent.
Remember when microsoft effectively gave away dos and windows? (yes, yes I _know_ that they exacted a per-cpu tax from resellers but this is about the user.)
Everyone got used to the free stuff and using it became a comfortable habit. No one wanted to buy DR-DOS, IBM PC-DOS, Novell DOS, OS2, et cetera when they could get microsoft for "free".
(Has anyone else noticed a parallel to drugs dealers and users here?)
Users are hooked on microsoft and naturally resist change, even though all the problems make using microsoft painful and frustrating. After being hooked by the freebies, they will pay to "get their fix", as it were.
Isn't that a clever business model?
Microsoft gave me a lot of free stuff between 1984 and 1996, including their "office" products and lots of developer stuff. I was "addicted". Even with all the serious problems with windows it was still difficult to dump it. It turned out that dumping microsoft was not as painful as sticking with it.
Bill Gates is still in business because of users' addiction to microsoft.
If you ever got the chance to ask Mr Gates about one of his products and complain about some problem, he would have become quite annoyed and told you to fix it yourself "--but let me know how you fixed it". Unless you were Big Money. Nowadays he hires people to tell you that it's your fault that the products are buggered even before they leave the shelf.
The only reason that bugs and vulns are now being addressed is because of competition from those Evil Opensourcerers and their demonic creations Gnu, Linux and BSD. Safe bet that once competition is crushed the vulns will be again ignored.
Microsoft and especially Mr. Gates have both blamed the user for DOS and windows bugs, et cetera, ad nauseum, since the beginning.
It's one of the things that really encouraged me to dump windows. Being told personally, to one's face, by Microsoft and Mr. Gates that the problems with DOS and windows is my fault made it very easy to walk away from the huge investment in microsoft stuff.
Since the user is at fault, the user can fix it--like I did: dump microsoft.
It is surprising that a major media outlet would mention soil as a natural source for CO2.
Perhaps that was accidental.
It is well known that the planet outgasses CO2 and not only from the oceans.
But the concerns about CO2 have long been politically driven to focus soley on human activity and ignore the natural sources which produce the largest quantities by far.
It has been theorized that CO2 levels related to geologic activity in the past. Perhaps it is still an indicator of geologic activity?
Increased CO2 should be of at least a little concern. Especially if vegetation is disappearing.
Perhaps there should be much more concern about disappearing vegetation and much less about human CO2?
There is a push to have government automatically prosecute perceived and presumed copyright violations without the copyrights holder's request and perhaps even without his knowledge.
This seems to take away control of a copyrighted work from it's holder.
Industrial machines that do not move, including all that don't do anything harmful if they go nuts are required to have emergency power shutoffs called "EMO", "EPO", "Emergency Stop", etc.
Why are non-industrial devices, even those that can go nuts and destroy property and kill people not required to have them?
Exactly what micro$soft is working to stop
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This is exactly what microsoft wants to stop. In the software business, at least.
That is why it is focusing on becoming a monopoly by gaining antitrust immunity and patenting everything that crosses it's path.
This is why it is collaborating with other companies and forming a cartel of sorts with others "damaged" by competition from Linux and other such upstarts.
History has shown that the vast majority of innovation comes from the work of "amateurs".
When it is left to corporations to innovate, innovation usually becomes mired in corporate bureaucracy or is killed off as "unprofitable".
They are very serious and determined in this. And they hope no one will notice.
Every time I saw the film in the theater over the roughly two years it was being shown here it was different.
The first showing had THX-1138 as one of the landing bay guards. The subsequent ones and the video and TV versions did not. The guard, or at least his name or ID, changed frequently in the theater releases.
As I recall there were other small changes in scenes from time to time, less frequently than the dialog.
Would these differences will be in the DVD? SHould they be?
Illegal in California. Misdemeanor+. Means you can go to jail. Most major PD's policy is to make an extra special effort to go after users of such devices.
Easy to detect and spot. And the State and some cities have cameras on highways and at intersections and on PD cars that just happen to be able to see them.
Yes, the artwork is great but their stories about the artwork are not necessarily accurate to any degree. And they apparently ignore any comments and corrections sent them about their stories.
Sure, look at the pretty pictures but don't believe the stories with them are all true.
Slashdot Mirror
How is the difference not obvious? Is this a troll?
"I'm still curious as to how they got past the guards"
What guards? Why does everyone assume there were guards? No one mentioned there were guards onsite except some slashdotards.
Many switches have no security onsite--no one is guarding the place.
Costs too much money.
Alarm system w/ 24x7 A/V monitoring much cheaper. Some use live A/V to control access from another site, perhaps from the RCC itself.
There are some rather nice materials on the market that can keep any rfid device from being detected.
The materials vary, from resistive carbon and film laminates (super-cheap, short-lived) to to ferrite-embedded epoxies (very cheap, very hard, brittle, very long-lived) to amorphous magnetic alloys (cheap, stiff, useless-if-bent, very long-lived) to nanocrystalline magnetic metals (expensive, hard, stiff, bendable, very long-lived) to magnetic nanocystalline-embedded plastics (pricey, soft, flexible, not too long-lived).
Similar to materials used to skin the Northrop B-2 bomber, these will prevent most any rf-powered rfid device from operating and being detected and are a bit more discreet than wrapping a passport in foil like a burrito--and more durable.
They can be made to be like wallets, purses, pouches, hard cases, et cetera.
They do work on library books, SAW devices, Wiegand devices, and those Motorola RFID badges.
They also work on a wireless memory device under development--sort of a RFID device with a super-huge (4Mb++++), alterable "serial number" similar to the DalSem 1-wire stuff except that there's zero wires, read/writeable from 3.2+meters.
I've got a lot of free stuff from AOL over the years.
I got a big box of floppies from them, 5.25 and 3.5 inch.
I got a whole bunch of CD's that I found useful as a substitute for diffraction gratings, as coasters, trivets, clay pigeons, table levellers, bird toys, et cetera.
I got lots and lots of DVD cases, CD cases and fancy tins. I also got some cool pseudowood fliptop boxes from them recently.
It's so nice to receive such cool and useful stuff for free, without a subscription and all. And just when I think they've stopped I get more cool stuff in the mail!
Thanks, AOL!
"This company (enlux) claims to have the first LED flood lights that you simply screw in as a replacement for your old bulb. "
This claim is false.
Commercial white LED floods and other replacements for high-voltage incandescent bulbs are available for any standard base in the world, including the funky euro and russian bases. They are available at three colour temperatures and in any other LED colour, including IR and UV.
They have been available for more than two years.
Enlux had no such products available a year ago.
Seems they define "flood" a bit broadly: According to their own data, it illumines a narrow region like a spot would.
50K hours seems a little short-lived.
And white LEDS dim quite noticeably over a very short time. They will most likely be too dim long before 50K hours. Most likely in a bit less than half that time, around 20K hours.
If they are willing to lie about being the first, and deceive about the useful life of their lights, what else will they lie or cheat on?
Wonder if enlux will do for LEDs what Lights of America did for fluoros...
It seems as if the subject has changed suddenly and there is still no answer to your question...
Let's see if I can give it a go:
There is not really enough information to make a good suggestion.
Typical UPS's won't help keep the heat on. A good UPS that can handle the motor load and last for more than an hour would be very expensive.
Solar does not seem to be good for the UK, unless you happen to be in a very sunny place.
A standby generator may be good, provided the local council doesn't get their fingers in it.
Wind power may be cost effective if there is enough wind but again, it may really annoy the council and neighbours may also take offence.
If you can hide a quiet generator, it may be the better way to go. It can be wired into the house with a cutover switch. It can run for days and you can keep it filled with diesel, petrol or LPG or whatever gas you wish to use.
Research and study is needed on your part, or you can hire a consultant to do the work.
Here are some places to start checking:
Home Power Magazine
Re-Focus Magazine
Renewable Energy World Magazine
Might help to get hard copies of such magazines.
There should be lots of stuff on Yahoo.
There are books on solar and wind power at amazon, ranging from 10 to 60 quid or so.
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=125740&cid=10
After setting up a MacOSX box with everything being used on the windoze box, and making things as similar as possible to what they were using, an offering free help they still refused.
I have an out of the box linux router/firewall. It has not seen an update because no one makes updates for it.
No one has cracked it.
It's not for lack of trying. I see a lot of attacks daily. Sometimes they hit the machine several thousand times in an hour, trying different exploits. It's been up and running continuously for over a year, excepting power failures and cleanings.
Most attempts are probes for compromised windoze boxes. The massive flurries are linux exploit attacks.There are still a lot of ssh exploit attempts despite that hole being fixed a long time ago.
I don't have a CS degree. I know far more about DOS and windows than I do about Linux or any other OS.
That's why I use linux.
"And if you think that no one has tried to exploit your linux box..."
I think that no one has not tried to exploit my linux box. Reading Is Fundamental!
Something I have noticed: windoze users get all kinds of upset and extremely hostile when windoze is criticised for it's poor security. It is very consistent.
Too bad.
And microsoft is fair and balanced?
Your statement applies equally (at least) to microsoft.
I have to wonder why, despite NAV, etc., adn., the win98 and xp boxes are exploited continuously while none of the linux boxes are.
Despite their machines being owned all the time, the owners are addicted and refuse to get rid of windows.
I have not had an exploit succeed at all on a linux box.
Not that anyone has not tried.
I would tend to believe Mr. Petreley before I would believe microsoft.
Remember when microsoft effectively gave away dos and windows? (yes, yes I _know_ that they exacted a per-cpu tax from resellers but this is about the user.)
Everyone got used to the free stuff and using it became a comfortable habit. No one wanted to buy DR-DOS, IBM PC-DOS, Novell DOS, OS2, et cetera when they could get microsoft for "free".
(Has anyone else noticed a parallel to drugs dealers and users here?)
Users are hooked on microsoft and naturally resist change, even though all the problems make using microsoft painful and frustrating. After being hooked by the freebies, they will pay to "get their fix", as it were.
Isn't that a clever business model?
Microsoft gave me a lot of free stuff between 1984 and 1996, including their "office" products and lots of developer stuff. I was "addicted". Even with all the serious problems with windows it was still difficult to dump it. It turned out that dumping microsoft was not as painful as sticking with it.
Bill Gates is still in business because of users' addiction to microsoft.
If you ever got the chance to ask Mr Gates about one of his products and complain about some problem, he would have become quite annoyed and told you to fix it yourself "--but let me know how you fixed it". Unless you were Big Money. Nowadays he hires people to tell you that it's your fault that the products are buggered even before they leave the shelf.
The only reason that bugs and vulns are now being addressed is because of competition from those Evil Opensourcerers and their demonic creations Gnu, Linux and BSD. Safe bet that once competition is crushed the vulns will be again ignored.
Blame it on the user.
Again.
As usual.
As always.
Microsoft and especially Mr. Gates have both blamed the user for DOS and windows bugs, et cetera, ad nauseum, since the beginning.
It's one of the things that really encouraged me to dump windows. Being told personally, to one's face, by Microsoft and Mr. Gates that the problems with DOS and windows is my fault made it very easy to walk away from the huge investment in microsoft stuff.
Since the user is at fault, the user can fix it--like I did: dump microsoft.
It is surprising that a major media outlet would mention soil as a natural source for CO2.
Perhaps that was accidental.
It is well known that the planet outgasses CO2 and not only from the oceans.
But the concerns about CO2 have long been politically driven to focus soley on human activity and ignore the natural sources which produce the largest quantities by far.
It has been theorized that CO2 levels related to geologic activity in the past. Perhaps it is still an indicator of geologic activity?
Increased CO2 should be of at least a little concern. Especially if vegetation is disappearing.
Perhaps there should be much more concern about disappearing vegetation and much less about human CO2?
Post an opinion and be called a troll?
sorry if everyone is so in love with kde that they cannot tolerate contrary opinion.
what is this place?
who's the real troll?
i find kde even less functional than gnome. and less flexible.
it does seem to me that more art is in it than function, therefore it's more cute (kawai) than function.
there are so many options to change it's appearance, and not a whole lot to change it's function. and it does too much.
why does a window manager need to manage ssl certs and pgp keys?
why does a window manager need to manage network connections?
why does a window manager need to do all this non-window manager stuff?
why does a window manager have to do all this and limit how it can be changed, if it permits changes at all?
i have better things to do than to try to coax a window manager into sticking to managing windows.
the thing is so bloated now it no longer fits into 256Mb of memory.
i have better uses for memory than committing it all to some window manager.
i would use gnome before kde any time. and i do.
i still prefer fvwm.
I don't hate it but it really sucks.
OK maybe I do hate it...
KDE is grossly overbloated. It consumes most of the resources available and slows the system down.
It is real noticeable on even a 2GHz Athlon & 1.6Gb RAM.
KDE looks terrible compared to gnome. Seems to be going more for cute than useful.
What's "KDE" mean? "Kawai Desktop Environment"?
How about less kawai and more function?
If Hello Kitty ever goes "open source" it would surely fit perfectly in KDE.
Gnome aint as bad yet. But it's getting there.
I still prefer fvwm to both. I do like useful much more than I like cute.
There is a push to have government automatically prosecute perceived and presumed
copyright violations without the copyrights holder's request and perhaps even without his knowledge.
This seems to take away control of a copyrighted work from it's holder.
How bad is this going to get?
Kinda makes you go hmmm...
Industrial machines that do not move, including all that don't do anything harmful if they go nuts are required to have emergency power shutoffs called "EMO", "EPO", "Emergency Stop", etc.
Why are non-industrial devices, even those that can go nuts and destroy property and kill people not required to have them?
This is exactly what microsoft wants to stop. In the software business, at least.
That is why it is focusing on becoming a monopoly by gaining antitrust immunity and patenting everything that crosses it's path.
This is why it is collaborating with other companies and forming a cartel of sorts with others "damaged" by competition from Linux and other such upstarts.
History has shown that the vast majority of innovation comes from the work of "amateurs".
When it is left to corporations to innovate, innovation usually becomes mired in corporate bureaucracy or is killed off as "unprofitable".
They are very serious and determined in this. And they hope no one will notice.
Wish there was a chaingun cursor to deal with that buttinsky paperclip and it's friends.
Every time I saw the film in the theater over the roughly two years it was being shown here it was different.
The first showing had THX-1138 as one of the landing bay guards. The subsequent ones and the video and TV versions did not. The guard, or at least his name or ID, changed frequently in the theater releases.
As I recall there were other small changes in scenes from time to time, less frequently than the dialog.
Would these differences will be in the DVD? SHould they be?
SCO a puppet state--i mean, puppet corp of MS.
wow.
Whodathunk.
How long will SCO harass Linux?
I suspect it will be for many decades.
Or until MS loses interest.
There is indeed a way to kill spammers.
It is a simple and fairly obvious method very costly for spammers.
But suggesting the method has been arbitrarily decreed to be flamebait by some power-that-(wanna?)be so it will not be revealed here.
I think I may patent it instead.
Hello?
Illegal in California. Misdemeanor+. Means you can go to jail. Most major PD's policy is to make an extra special effort to go after users of such devices.
Easy to detect and spot. And the State and some cities have cameras on highways and at intersections and on PD cars that just happen to be able to see them.
Flamebait?
Someone needs to buy a clue or three.
What if everyone who received a spam clicked on the url for the product's page to check out the product, maybe checking it out twice or so?
Wouldn't that get expensive for the spam hosting site and their mark--I mean, "customer"?
Especially if everyone just looked without buying?
Might cost someone so much money that the business would be bankrupt rather quickly.
Or it might make an upstream provider so annoyed at the traffic to the spam site that they might pull the plug on the scammer--I mean, "spammer".
Well, perhaps we should just buy their stuff, instead of going to just look... After all, it is the right thing to do, no?
Yes, the artwork is great but their stories about the artwork are not necessarily accurate to any degree. And they apparently ignore any comments and corrections sent them about their stories.
Sure, look at the pretty pictures but don't believe the stories with them are all true.