For me, there's one disk. It's a beast. It's also of questionable legality. That being said, when shit hits the fan i don't mind if 'legal' and i are on opposite sides of the fence at zero hour. Nobody cares when their servers aren't working. Note, this isn't a link, just a good description (so you can find it yourself... hint: newsgroups)
Hiren's Boot CD
With the number of high school kids i've seen over the years who become damn near amazing with little training and a pirated copy of photoshop. it shouldn't be hard for someone in the community to be given the source graphics. check out the sizes, redesign them around a new theme, then republish. give it 1 or 2 months, they'll be set.
This also makes me wonder if they will filter google images, art sites, etc. Who will determine the "vulgarity level"? The line across which art nudes become porno. Looks like it'll be time to fire up squid to help some aussies get their jerk on.... or off i guess i should say.
How are they to know that you won't set up some random cron job or begin scp-ing data off site. I mean, not that *i've* done this or anything, you know. I'm just saying.
Honestly though. It's largely going to depend on the size of the company you work for. If they can afford to go with one less sysadmin for 2 weeks, then you might as well assume that your ass is on the way out.
I agree with this completely. Far too often I am working with customers who can't even understand the basics of their own DNS. It's a large enough challenge to get people to realize that their MX records have to be in place if they want to recieve mail or getting them to understand what a zone transfer is let alone the importance of limiting who can do zone transfers and the like. Moving over to secure dns, while nice, would be a party trick at the moment.
Look at the abundance of well built DNS daemons in place.... PowerDNS, Daniel Bernsteins djbDNS, MaraDNS. Hell djbDNS has an ongoing cash prize to people who can find security vulnerabilities in the latest production version. Still though, people stick with microsoft dns and bind.
The reason that often companies can afford high bandwidth rates is that they run both a hosting and an networking (read: upstream) division.
Most Tier 1/Tier 2 providers bill their bandwidth in 95th percentile billing which means put (over simply) that they only pay the highest direction of traffic. Hence, if i'm pushing 90Mb out of my datacenter for hosting, then i pay for 90Mb. If i'm pushing 90Mb out of my datacenter and 89Mb coming inbound for T1/DSL/Dialup clients and the like, i still pay the same amount. In effect, half of that bandwidth is free.
Pandora's cube most definately sold the units without the physical games and were not discreet about it at all. It's common knowlegde at their College Park store (1 block from University of Maryland's campus) that they juice them. Exhoribtant prices though, thats why **cough cough** random people i've heard of ended up just doing the units themselves and for their friends.
A friend of mine had that book when I was visiting him but I haven't had a chance to pick up a copy of it.
Per chance... who did the artwork for it? I really liked the childish type of artwork.
--Brian
It's far easier/convenient to work with a TCP/IP stack. So you simply hardwire the IP into the OS. Now, every single machine has the same private IP and can't be put on a network. Everything must be admined from a laptop with a crossover cable. This helps with it being easily administered and useable with some jockey with a windows laptop.
The cobalt raq3 and 3i used AMD K6-2 350mhz i586 chips and the raq 4 used a K6-2 450.
It would seem that sun is just re-kindling old business partnerships held between cobalt corp and AMD (before sun bought cobalt).
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I don't know what point you're trying to make about MS software. MS DOS, Win 3.x, Win 95, and NT Workstation 3.x stopped being supported by Microsoft 11 days shy of 2 years ago. NT Workstation 4.x stopped being supported in June of this year, and Windows 98 enters it's non supported phase in approximately three weeks.
Don't play this holier than thou, " there is no excuse for dropping support for it. Ever." game. Software (especially operating systems) get EOS'd and EOL'd for good reasons. They're depreciated. The staff familiar with them has long since learned that they hate doing support and that even picking up trash is better than that (as I'm on the brink of discovering). Eventually people in a position of support (either by their own or their team lead's volition, possibly even by company policy) need to put their foot down and let people know that certain technologies can't be dealt with anymore.
To address your comparision to a car, let me put it this way...
If i were to buy a brand new Kia Rio and in 5 years it breaks down, chances are I WOULD look at a new car. Same idea, if your copy of Windows 95 you got as a bargain deal is causing problem that newer software is documented to solve (or at least still supported) then you're getting a steal.
The Plain View displays (by Raytheon) in the early '70s had an anticipated lifetime of 1015 years; those in the centers today are now at least 10 years past this estimate.
I believe he meant 10-15 years. In that case 10 years past that would be 25 and thus correct.
I realize that most of you caught that, but i'm sure others didn't.
(Pardon My referencing of the US code, i'm not a lawyer and thus don't know the proper way to cite things)
Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, Part I, Section 227, Article b, Item 1, Subitem B, Instance iii
It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States to make any call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party) using any automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice to any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call;
Thus anyone using an auto-dialer (i.e. 99% of telemarketers) are inviolation of the law and subject to a $500 fine in small claims court.
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For me, there's one disk. It's a beast. It's also of questionable legality. That being said, when shit hits the fan i don't mind if 'legal' and i are on opposite sides of the fence at zero hour. Nobody cares when their servers aren't working. Note, this isn't a link, just a good description (so you can find it yourself... hint: newsgroups)
Hiren's Boot CD
pwned
With the number of high school kids i've seen over the years who become damn near amazing with little training and a pirated copy of photoshop. it shouldn't be hard for someone in the community to be given the source graphics. check out the sizes, redesign them around a new theme, then republish. give it 1 or 2 months, they'll be set.
Oh! of course....
www.vlaamscommissariaatmedia.be
what a convenient domain to remember.
Is this to imply that you'd have no problems paying a $2 mil. fine?
for reference (and those too lazy to google):
http://www.squid-cache.org/
This also makes me wonder if they will filter google images, art sites, etc. Who will determine the "vulgarity level"? The line across which art nudes become porno. Looks like it'll be time to fire up squid to help some aussies get their jerk on. ... or off i guess i should say.
Honestly though. It's largely going to depend on the size of the company you work for. If they can afford to go with one less sysadmin for 2 weeks, then you might as well assume that your ass is on the way out.
Look at the abundance of well built DNS daemons in place.... PowerDNS, Daniel Bernsteins djbDNS, MaraDNS. Hell djbDNS has an ongoing cash prize to people who can find security vulnerabilities in the latest production version. Still though, people stick with microsoft dns and bind.
What was the pitch process like for the show and what myths did you propose to sell the TV execs on it?
The illuminati and masons have been working together/against each other for years to establish this "one world document."
The reason that often companies can afford high bandwidth rates is that they run both a hosting and an networking (read: upstream) division.
Most Tier 1/Tier 2 providers bill their bandwidth in 95th percentile billing which means put (over simply) that they only pay the highest direction of traffic. Hence, if i'm pushing 90Mb out of my datacenter for hosting, then i pay for 90Mb. If i'm pushing 90Mb out of my datacenter and 89Mb coming inbound for T1/DSL/Dialup clients and the like, i still pay the same amount. In effect, half of that bandwidth is free.
No, they generally do not have explicit permission. They have implicit permission due to their community based goals and not-for-profit nature.
Pandora's cube most definately sold the units without the physical games and were not discreet about it at all. It's common knowlegde at their College Park store (1 block from University of Maryland's campus) that they juice them. Exhoribtant prices though, thats why **cough cough** random people i've heard of ended up just doing the units themselves and for their friends.
A friend of mine had that book when I was visiting him but I haven't had a chance to pick up a copy of it. Per chance... who did the artwork for it? I really liked the childish type of artwork. --Brian
No, lets be fair.
It's far easier/convenient to work with a TCP/IP stack. So you simply hardwire the IP into the OS. Now, every single machine has the same private IP and can't be put on a network. Everything must be admined from a laptop with a crossover cable. This helps with it being easily administered and useable with some jockey with a windows laptop.
do you have a nortel phone system? if so, hit "FEATURE" then enter "86" let the music begin.
it is, read more here: How To Make A Telemarketer Cry (or, Suing Bozos for Fun & Profit) - http://www.panix.com/~eck/telemarket.html
And Mitnick did $300 million worth of damage. "damage"
The cobalt raq3 and 3i used AMD K6-2 350mhz i586 chips and the raq 4 used a K6-2 450. It would seem that sun is just re-kindling old business partnerships held between cobalt corp and AMD (before sun bought cobalt).
I don't know what point you're trying to make about MS software. MS DOS, Win 3.x, Win 95, and NT Workstation 3.x stopped being supported by Microsoft 11 days shy of 2 years ago. NT Workstation 4.x stopped being supported in June of this year, and Windows 98 enters it's non supported phase in approximately three weeks.
Don't play this holier than thou, " there is no excuse for dropping support for it. Ever." game. Software (especially operating systems) get EOS'd and EOL'd for good reasons. They're depreciated. The staff familiar with them has long since learned that they hate doing support and that even picking up trash is better than that (as I'm on the brink of discovering). Eventually people in a position of support (either by their own or their team lead's volition, possibly even by company policy) need to put their foot down and let people know that certain technologies can't be dealt with anymore.
To address your comparision to a car, let me put it this way...
If i were to buy a brand new Kia Rio and in 5 years it breaks down, chances are I WOULD look at a new car. Same idea, if your copy of Windows 95 you got as a bargain deal is causing problem that newer software is documented to solve (or at least still supported) then you're getting a steal.
The Plain View displays (by Raytheon) in the early '70s had an anticipated lifetime of 1015 years; those in the centers today are now at least 10 years past this estimate.
I believe he meant 10-15 years. In that case 10 years past that would be 25 and thus correct.
I realize that most of you caught that, but i'm sure others didn't.
That will be amazing... A state full of lawyers, politicians, and similar reptiles and amphibian pond scum!
(Pardon My referencing of the US code, i'm not a lawyer and thus don't know the proper way to cite things)
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Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, Part I, Section 227, Article b, Item 1, Subitem B, Instance iii
It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States to make any call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party) using any automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice to any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call;
Thus anyone using an auto-dialer (i.e. 99% of telemarketers) are inviolation of the law and subject to a $500 fine in small claims court.
See these for more info:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/05/11623
http://www.panix.com/~eck/telemarket.html
My first thought to that reply...
;)
Why in the hell would you want such a terrible web development language used on a quantum computer?