Question 5: Which one of these will let you quickly look at the open ports on a machine?
Correct Answer: What's wrong with lsof, it's so much more funky!
I think you mean nmap, do you not?
lsof = LiSt Open Files; nmap is _the_ tool for anyone who wants to seriously check a network for anything.
can I can a 'connect phone, run program, press button and you're done' solution for rooting my HTC Wildfire?
I just got an Android phone (Orange San Francisco/ZTE Blade) and rooting it was as easy as downloading a program called "universal androot", installing it with a couple of clicks and then running it to provide root.
The PITA is that I have to re-root it after every reboot because it isn't permanent.
On the other hand, I got an iPod Touch (2nd Gen) a couple of months ago and had awful trouble jailbreaking it because as soon as I plugged it into iTunes it gave me the chance to upgrade the OS, which I took.
Jailbreaking it by downgrading the OS was much more odious and time consuming, although visiting jailbreakme.com and swiping was about as easy as anything I've ever done on a computer.
After playing with both Android and iOS I can safely say that I'll be sticking with rooted Android/Linux in the hopes that we can drop the Android part and replace it with GNU somewhere down the line.
Cydia made the iOS device worth using, but still massively overpriced. I just couldn't drink the Kool Aid and buy an iPhone when my Blade was £400 cheaper.
Linux is Linux, and I'm using it on my phone, laptop, desktop and server because I can.
I was going to mod you up because you said something I agree with.
But. Here I am replying. Crap.
You know that car that you bought on hire-purchase that takes twenty four months to pay off?
If you lose your job halfway through the contract and they repossess, they would be pretty annoyed if you had taken the back seats out, installed a roll cage and race-specced the engine in a family saloon.
Similarly, if you break contract with $PHONESELLER they can (and do) demand return of equipment that was under contract to you, if you refuse to return it they IMEI lock it and make sure that you can't use it. This stops people getting "free" phones by defaulting on their contracts a day after signing them.
Once you're out of contract (or you buy the phone outright) your point about it being yours to do what the hell you want with stands and stands firm.
nobody should be able to tell you that you can't smash your own bought and paid for phone/PS3/Car/house with a hammer, should you choose. This includes software, firmware, glass, metal, bricks and mortar.
On a somewhat related note, this is why I went out and bought the Orange San Francisco (ZTE Blade) this week. £99, own it outright, similar specs to my EEE 4G. I have root on both, and I will be replacing 2.1-1 with 2.2 (like I replaced Xandros with Arch) as soon as I get bloody fastboot working =/
Thing is, there has always been reselling of previously purchased tunes.
My first record is long gone... House moves, lending to people, scratches, upgrade to CD, tapes that stretch and HDD partitions that were meant to be/dev/sdb3, not/dev/sda3 for the format.
Does anyone still use 8 tracks to listen to their old music?
A good backup system and high bitrate, non DRM'd music will still not kill the market. New music will always come out on a new media and the bleeding edge guys will pay for it.
LaserDisc, MiniDisc, DAT, iTunes, BluRay and more. Someone will always pay even when we are telling them to use dataCD*, Napster, MP3.com, Amazon, DVD, HDDs etc.
Same applies to video. Cine, Phillips2000, Beta, VHS, LaserDisc, DVD and MJPEG/WMV are all carrying old stuff that has been ported from old formats so that it can be played on current equipment.
* In the UK musicCD had an extra tax on for the artists who had their work copied. Excellent scam by the BPI.
Should have had the BBC Master (512) with the 8086 daughter board.
*CONFIGURE TUBE
That got me into DR-DOS (I forget what version and can't be bothered to try and reason it out due to alcoholic indifference).
Oh, and a couple of months after I was playing with that crap my IT teacher at school turned up with a Schneider 8086 machine with an orange monochrome monitor and admitted that he had no idea how to use it but that it was the latest generation of computer that businesses were using. I actually got up in front of the class and showed the teacher what it could do.
I lost all my street cred that day =/
Then you will have the latest.torrent being the schematics and workarounds for rolling the clock back on the latest Prius or whatever car is de jour at the time.
Reading the clock on a car is so unreliable that the MOT (roadworthiness test in the UK) certificate has the mileage on it, the V5 (log book or "pink slip") has a section where you can fill in the mileage at sale/transfer of ownership on it.
Trusting tax collection to a device owned and operated, maintained and presented by the person paying tax is just another recipe for tax evasion.
I know they probably spent a lot of money on that cut-scene but if I don't want to watch it there's little advantage in forcing me to, I won't thank the developers for it
Hideo Kojima, I'm looking at you!
I bought a PS3 because I fell in love with MGS4 and HAD to have it. I don't regret the purchase although I detest the company that makes the PS3 on principle.
I have played the game through from start to finish, attained all the emblems and still like to chuck it in and have a rattle round the maps and sneak or spray bullets depending on how I feel.
What is it with all those bloody calls from Otacon, those lovely looking scenes that take up to about 12 skips to get through so that you can get back to the actual game?
The first time through the game is amazing, you're playing a movie with interaction. After 5 times you're just sick to death of Drebbin shouting "Don't fall off!" and Otacon reassuring you that "You can do it!" while you're on the top of the weapons shop vehicle.
No, GP should NEVER check out Mirror's Edge and neither should anyone else who values their sanity.
Impossibly hard! Finger-breaking button combos and the madness that comes from running at walls all day long should have a government health warning on them!*
This is the great thing about the majority of religious people. They won't declare a war on you for making that (kind of) joke.
If we could stop winding the Muslims up, do you think they could stop taking it all so seriously?
Or does it have to be the other way round? Once they stop taking it so seriously there won't be any point to winding them up.
Thing is, I'm pretty sure that it's not just the racist whites/blacks/browns/Jews/Catholics that are keeping this situation so inflamed. Someone has an agenda here and it ain't the guy on the street.
I work with the public and there are a lot of ignorant racists out there, but if they stopped putting it all over the news, they (with their tiny brainz) would soon find something else to... Oooh! Paris Shitface licked Amy Whinewhore's girly bits on film! Shiny!!!11!!
Stupid media. Who says we're not under strict control by the Bilderberg group and their minions? Destabilise the currency, keep the war economy going, have riots to destroy the infrastructure and get it rebuilt by your companies, paid for by the very governments you're replacing.
I'll just put my tinfoil hat back on, there's someone at the door.
I bet cops wonder why they're not as highly respected as they once were
Because they can't slap kids upside the head and take them home to their parents (where they would probably have received another slap just for being brought home by the police) for disrespecting them these days?
Now get off my lawn before I give you a reason to sue me!
The cost of a replacement passport An adult passport costs £77.50 for standard service and £112.50 for the one-week Fast Track service. A child passport costs £49 for standard service and £96.50 for the one-week Fast Track service. The Premium one-day service is not available for replacement passports.
And for Driving Licence:
Apply by phone
You can apply by phone if one or both parts of your photocard licence have been lost or stolen and none of your details have changed. DVLA accepts the following credit or debit cards - MasterCard, Visa, Eurocard or Maestro and the fee is £20.00.
The problem with prison as a solution to crime is shrink wrapped in your post.
Men/women without dependants can live a life of crime without fear of repercussion if they accept that half their life will be rich and full of risk, the other half will be relaxed and paid for by the state.
No mortgage worries, no bills, PS3 and Xbox on tap, books by the cart full and as much dope as you could wish for (without ever having to worry about being arrested for it).
Extrapolate this theory to include certain rights that could be removed for violating the rights of another person and stand for election. You may acquire friends where you never thought to find them.
One of the first things I would do on a Windows install was to put a rule in the firewall that C:\Program Files\ICQ\ICQ.exe couldn't access icq.com. Even before the program was installed.
If it couldn't get to the ad server it couldn't even get the first set of ads. Just an awful looking white box at the bottom of every message window.
Beat a flashing/changing ad by a mile though.
NX might be the answer to your problems.
Compressed X over SSH, cached screens that only update the altered parts, desktop or application can be the command started.
PK logins, DB logins, ports, host keys, compression ratio, Windows client, Linux client/server, Mac has something that my mate (who uses overpriced gear) couldn't get working. You might.
Take a look, it's free! (and there is a Free version too). If you can't get your overpriced stuff to work, you might find a great reason to put YDL on it.
Then I think the phrase you're looking for is:
"Sorry, I don't do Windows"
If you can SSH in and fix problems from your house then obviously you've set your friends/family up to be immune to the usual CRAP that we get called out to deal with.
Most people don't mind helping people they care about when the problems aren't caused by their own gross ignorance and/or total ignorance of advice from us.
Do you not understand data mining?
The people you phone crossed against the people on your social networking and email lists that you access through your cellular connection/home PC, crossed against the people in your local pub/bar or restaurant and your wifi connection against your unique browser signature against your proxy IP against your username and passwords and against the exact profile of your typing habits. Then against your friends' unique browser signatures and their home/proxy IPs. Then their aliases and their contacts and the IPs that they connect with regularly, including Skype, Jabber, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo.
Do you really think what you just posted holds water; vis a vis paranoia?
There is no such thing as anonymity. Live with it.
Anything you type into the internet (yes, I did make it sound like "the internet" is a "thing") can be traced back to a profile. Yours. With enough identifying information to pinpoint you exactly by location and/or identity.
If you think that we (us, all of us) are paranoid, then you aren't in possession of enough information. Read more, learn more, assess information you do not yet have. Work it out for yourself and then wonder how we (the paranoid ones) manage to be so restrained in what we say.
It isn't that the gubment is tracking you, or I specifically. They probably don't even care about me... and I've killed ten men. They track all of us by default. It only takes one query to find out everything about me and everyone I've talked to since I got a computer if I walk into a coffee shop with my cellular phone in my pocket.
Good luck with that whole "grid" thing if you choose to stay off it. Can you erase the first internet conversation you had (69% probability that this typing style is the Anonymous Coward that replied to you 5 years ago from an IP in the Sudan from a Lenovo Thinkpad with MAC 00:03:47:11:22:33 and Windows serial FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8, 1024x768 resolution, accepted HTTP headers and character sets you can use, languages you will read... etc. Panopticlick is probably something you could have a laugh at, unless you stop laughing and see this whole "paranoia" thing as something that some of us (that may have something to hide... or not) take a little more seriously.
Did you fill in your tax return honestly? Did you provide your full employment history to your current employer completely, without any alterations in dates to cover up "looking for a job" time? Did you never have a little crunch in your car that you never told you insurance about?
Is all this just bullshit to make you live your life in a state of fear?
Yeah, that's what it is. Fear is the little death and all that. But we all live with it and live around it.
I have nothing against you, but paranoia shouldn't be treated so lightly. IMO. HAND.
I tried self hosting years ago. At just about the time that AOL (yes, they don't really matter, but others followed their lead) started flagging everything from residential IP blocks as high probability of spam.
I gave up on it and went back to webmail. Paying someone to read my email seemed silly to me when I could have someone else do it for free.
Once the data leak from your.mailcompany.com has occurred you're no better off than if you'd used Hotmail or Gmail to start with, are you?
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Question 5: Which one of these will let you quickly look at the open ports on a machine?
Correct Answer: What's wrong with lsof, it's so much more funky!
I think you mean nmap, do you not?
lsof = LiSt Open Files; nmap is _the_ tool for anyone who wants to seriously check a network for anything.
can I can a 'connect phone, run program, press button and you're done' solution for rooting my HTC Wildfire?
I just got an Android phone (Orange San Francisco/ZTE Blade) and rooting it was as easy as downloading a program called "universal androot", installing it with a couple of clicks and then running it to provide root.
The PITA is that I have to re-root it after every reboot because it isn't permanent.
On the other hand, I got an iPod Touch (2nd Gen) a couple of months ago and had awful trouble jailbreaking it because as soon as I plugged it into iTunes it gave me the chance to upgrade the OS, which I took.
Jailbreaking it by downgrading the OS was much more odious and time consuming, although visiting jailbreakme.com and swiping was about as easy as anything I've ever done on a computer.
After playing with both Android and iOS I can safely say that I'll be sticking with rooted Android/Linux in the hopes that we can drop the Android part and replace it with GNU somewhere down the line. Cydia made the iOS device worth using, but still massively overpriced. I just couldn't drink the Kool Aid and buy an iPhone when my Blade was £400 cheaper.
Linux is Linux, and I'm using it on my phone, laptop, desktop and server because I can.
I was going to mod you up because you said something I agree with.
But. Here I am replying. Crap.
You know that car that you bought on hire-purchase that takes twenty four months to pay off?
If you lose your job halfway through the contract and they repossess, they would be pretty annoyed if you had taken the back seats out, installed a roll cage and race-specced the engine in a family saloon.
Similarly, if you break contract with $PHONESELLER they can (and do) demand return of equipment that was under contract to you, if you refuse to return it they IMEI lock it and make sure that you can't use it. This stops people getting "free" phones by defaulting on their contracts a day after signing them.
Once you're out of contract (or you buy the phone outright) your point about it being yours to do what the hell you want with stands and stands firm.
nobody should be able to tell you that you can't smash your own bought and paid for phone/PS3/Car/house with a hammer, should you choose. This includes software, firmware, glass, metal, bricks and mortar.
On a somewhat related note, this is why I went out and bought the Orange San Francisco (ZTE Blade) this week. £99, own it outright, similar specs to my EEE 4G. I have root on both, and I will be replacing 2.1-1 with 2.2 (like I replaced Xandros with Arch) as soon as I get bloody fastboot working =/
You're not the only one doing this.
I have several browsers and several accounts on my machine.
Love Linux, hate malware.
Redndancy shouldn't be in comments, although it is good.
http://apps.facebook.com/sororitylife/?ref_id=100000786219945&send_timestamp=1284219957&track=invite-giftReturn-5003-20100713-0&action=claimGift&from=100000786219945&target=5003&gift_hash=fa3ea8ea2361db9eafe7246117d522fc&gift_timestamp=1284219957000
Whoring!
I don't know what the prize is, but I'm not clicking!
Thing is, there has always been reselling of previously purchased tunes.
... House moves, lending to people, scratches, upgrade to CD, tapes that stretch and HDD partitions that were meant to be /dev/sdb3, not /dev/sda3 for the format.
My first record is long gone
Does anyone still use 8 tracks to listen to their old music?
A good backup system and high bitrate, non DRM'd music will still not kill the market. New music will always come out on a new media and the bleeding edge guys will pay for it.
LaserDisc, MiniDisc, DAT, iTunes, BluRay and more. Someone will always pay even when we are telling them to use dataCD*, Napster, MP3.com, Amazon, DVD, HDDs etc.
Same applies to video. Cine, Phillips2000, Beta, VHS, LaserDisc, DVD and MJPEG/WMV are all carrying old stuff that has been ported from old formats so that it can be played on current equipment.
* In the UK musicCD had an extra tax on for the artists who had their work copied. Excellent scam by the BPI.
Should have had the BBC Master (512) with the 8086 daughter board.
*CONFIGURE TUBE
That got me into DR-DOS (I forget what version and can't be bothered to try and reason it out due to alcoholic indifference).
Oh, and a couple of months after I was playing with that crap my IT teacher at school turned up with a Schneider 8086 machine with an orange monochrome monitor and admitted that he had no idea how to use it but that it was the latest generation of computer that businesses were using. I actually got up in front of the class and showed the teacher what it could do.
I lost all my street cred that day =/
What on earth would you need a KVM for on a Linux server?
SSH on a non-standard iptables limited port should be the only way into a Linux server, shouldn't it?
Then you will have the latest .torrent being the schematics and workarounds for rolling the clock back on the latest Prius or whatever car is de jour at the time.
Reading the clock on a car is so unreliable that the MOT (roadworthiness test in the UK) certificate has the mileage on it, the V5 (log book or "pink slip") has a section where you can fill in the mileage at sale/transfer of ownership on it.
Trusting tax collection to a device owned and operated, maintained and presented by the person paying tax is just another recipe for tax evasion.
I know they probably spent a lot of money on that cut-scene but if I don't want to watch it there's little advantage in forcing me to, I won't thank the developers for it
Hideo Kojima, I'm looking at you!
I bought a PS3 because I fell in love with MGS4 and HAD to have it. I don't regret the purchase although I detest the company that makes the PS3 on principle.
I have played the game through from start to finish, attained all the emblems and still like to chuck it in and have a rattle round the maps and sneak or spray bullets depending on how I feel.
What is it with all those bloody calls from Otacon, those lovely looking scenes that take up to about 12 skips to get through so that you can get back to the actual game?
The first time through the game is amazing, you're playing a movie with interaction. After 5 times you're just sick to death of Drebbin shouting "Don't fall off!" and Otacon reassuring you that "You can do it!" while you're on the top of the weapons shop vehicle.
you should check out Mirror's Edge
No, GP should NEVER check out Mirror's Edge and neither should anyone else who values their sanity.
Impossibly hard! Finger-breaking button combos and the madness that comes from running at walls all day long should have a government health warning on them!*
* No, they shouldn't. Ever.
This is the great thing about the majority of religious people. They won't declare a war on you for making that (kind of) joke.
... Oooh! Paris Shitface licked Amy Whinewhore's girly bits on film! Shiny!!!11!!
If we could stop winding the Muslims up, do you think they could stop taking it all so seriously?
Or does it have to be the other way round? Once they stop taking it so seriously there won't be any point to winding them up.
Thing is, I'm pretty sure that it's not just the racist whites/blacks/browns/Jews/Catholics that are keeping this situation so inflamed. Someone has an agenda here and it ain't the guy on the street.
I work with the public and there are a lot of ignorant racists out there, but if they stopped putting it all over the news, they (with their tiny brainz) would soon find something else to
Stupid media. Who says we're not under strict control by the Bilderberg group and their minions? Destabilise the currency, keep the war economy going, have riots to destroy the infrastructure and get it rebuilt by your companies, paid for by the very governments you're replacing.
I'll just put my tinfoil hat back on, there's someone at the door.
all these thousands of years
<Nelson>Ha Ha!</Nelson> You think that the USA is older than it really is!
I bet cops wonder why they're not as highly respected as they once were
Because they can't slap kids upside the head and take them home to their parents (where they would probably have received another slap just for being brought home by the police) for disrespecting them these days?
Now get off my lawn before I give you a reason to sue me!
No kidding.
The cost of a replacement passport
An adult passport costs £77.50 for standard service and £112.50 for the one-week Fast Track service. A child passport costs £49 for standard service and £96.50 for the one-week Fast Track service. The Premium one-day service is not available for replacement passports.
And for Driving Licence:
Apply by phone
You can apply by phone if one or both parts of your photocard licence have been lost or stolen and none of your details have changed. DVLA accepts the following credit or debit cards - MasterCard, Visa, Eurocard or Maestro and the fee is £20.00.
The problem with prison as a solution to crime is shrink wrapped in your post.
Men/women without dependants can live a life of crime without fear of repercussion if they accept that half their life will be rich and full of risk, the other half will be relaxed and paid for by the state.
No mortgage worries, no bills, PS3 and Xbox on tap, books by the cart full and as much dope as you could wish for (without ever having to worry about being arrested for it).
Extrapolate this theory to include certain rights that could be removed for violating the rights of another person and stand for election. You may acquire friends where you never thought to find them.
Offtopic is the mod you're looking for =)
One of the first things I would do on a Windows install was to put a rule in the firewall that C:\Program Files\ICQ\ICQ.exe couldn't access icq.com. Even before the program was installed.
If it couldn't get to the ad server it couldn't even get the first set of ads. Just an awful looking white box at the bottom of every message window.
Beat a flashing/changing ad by a mile though.
Are you looking for something like FB Purity?
NX might be the answer to your problems.
Compressed X over SSH, cached screens that only update the altered parts, desktop or application can be the command started.
PK logins, DB logins, ports, host keys, compression ratio, Windows client, Linux client/server, Mac has something that my mate (who uses overpriced gear) couldn't get working. You might.
Take a look, it's free! (and there is a Free version too). If you can't get your overpriced stuff to work, you might find a great reason to put YDL on it.
Then I think the phrase you're looking for is:
"Sorry, I don't do Windows"
If you can SSH in and fix problems from your house then obviously you've set your friends/family up to be immune to the usual CRAP that we get called out to deal with.
Most people don't mind helping people they care about when the problems aren't caused by their own gross ignorance and/or total ignorance of advice from us.
At least they work better than Lexmarks under Linux.
The second time you laugh isn't called laughing any more, they call it hysteria now ...
Do you not understand data mining?
... and I've killed ten men. They track all of us by default. It only takes one query to find out everything about me and everyone I've talked to since I got a computer if I walk into a coffee shop with my cellular phone in my pocket.
... etc. Panopticlick is probably something you could have a laugh at, unless you stop laughing and see this whole "paranoia" thing as something that some of us (that may have something to hide ... or not) take a little more seriously.
The people you phone crossed against the people on your social networking and email lists that you access through your cellular connection/home PC, crossed against the people in your local pub/bar or restaurant and your wifi connection against your unique browser signature against your proxy IP against your username and passwords and against the exact profile of your typing habits. Then against your friends' unique browser signatures and their home/proxy IPs. Then their aliases and their contacts and the IPs that they connect with regularly, including Skype, Jabber, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo.
Do you really think what you just posted holds water; vis a vis paranoia?
There is no such thing as anonymity. Live with it.
Anything you type into the internet (yes, I did make it sound like "the internet" is a "thing") can be traced back to a profile. Yours. With enough identifying information to pinpoint you exactly by location and/or identity.
If you think that we (us, all of us) are paranoid, then you aren't in possession of enough information. Read more, learn more, assess information you do not yet have. Work it out for yourself and then wonder how we (the paranoid ones) manage to be so restrained in what we say.
It isn't that the gubment is tracking you, or I specifically. They probably don't even care about me
Good luck with that whole "grid" thing if you choose to stay off it. Can you erase the first internet conversation you had (69% probability that this typing style is the Anonymous Coward that replied to you 5 years ago from an IP in the Sudan from a Lenovo Thinkpad with MAC 00:03:47:11:22:33 and Windows serial FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8, 1024x768 resolution, accepted HTTP headers and character sets you can use, languages you will read
Did you fill in your tax return honestly? Did you provide your full employment history to your current employer completely, without any alterations in dates to cover up "looking for a job" time? Did you never have a little crunch in your car that you never told you insurance about?
Is all this just bullshit to make you live your life in a state of fear?
Yeah, that's what it is. Fear is the little death and all that. But we all live with it and live around it.
I have nothing against you, but paranoia shouldn't be treated so lightly. IMO. HAND.
I tried self hosting years ago. At just about the time that AOL (yes, they don't really matter, but others followed their lead) started flagging everything from residential IP blocks as high probability of spam.
I gave up on it and went back to webmail. Paying someone to read my email seemed silly to me when I could have someone else do it for free.
Once the data leak from your.mailcompany.com has occurred you're no better off than if you'd used Hotmail or Gmail to start with, are you?