I teach a variety of networking and security courses in similar situations. I have found that people are most happy with a reference (usually O'Reilly) for use after the class. The participants expect something, and it helps give a framework to follow. In the end it's not critical what you pick, as they came to the class for your presentation and knowledge - just keep it somewhat affordable.
So will my regular use of encrypted protocols cause the system to "Bark", thereby providing probable cause to further investigate my suspicious activities?
I had heard the saying about doing business with family and friends being a bad idea, didn't think much of it. I have definately learned (luckily from others mistakes). I have seen brothers, or aunts & children wind up with animosity that can be rather intense and last for extended periods of time. Avoid making money off your family - it can go so badly, and even the possibility of that isn't worth it.
I will happily help out fam & friends, but the deal is "I work for food". They can call, I'll show up and take care of the spyware, virii, service packs and driver problems. They are usually quite grateful and will fix quite a meal. I usually get steaks, ribs, etc. - plus a 6 pack of a decent micro-brew. Now on top of that they usually feel a little guilty (they shouldn't) and won't call me unless it's rather urgent or severe.
Now if you choose to charge money, be aware of the implied warranty. As soon as you have sold them something, you are now in a business relationship and those are never quite as close. I would expect phone calls on a regular basis, probably before you get home from their place; and if you start to dodge them, well the family relationship is severely damaged already.
My co-workers are regularly making complaints and jokes about their home tech-support problems. I don't have 'em, my "Work for Food" system has worked extremely well over the years.
I have often discussed with my students in classes (mostly Gov. network admins) that while getting away from Microsoft software in many cases is going to greatly decrease your security risks, it won't actually eliminate it. What the Mozilla group can do now to show corporate folks the strength of opensource, is to quickly produce a patch for the problem. That will be telling to those who have been waiting for extended periods of time with unpatchable holes in IE / Windows.
Makes perfect sense from a security aspect. And looking at spec's, why wouldn't I want 108 rather than 54?
I think that the companies that produce the products are not thinking ahead (and are perhaps irresponsible). They'd be fine if I was the only WiFi user in the area, starts to be a problem when there are many AP's, but what happens when they have sold these to everyone in a neighborhood - and now their product doesn't work better, it just doesn't work.
I think perhaps the frustration I am feeling at my place is showing through. I've got approx. 20 AP's that show up, spread across the spectrum. Several of my neighbors have upgraded to the multichannel stuff, adding to the congestion. My connection just cuts out periodically - I've done everything I can, just have to wait until I can replace all of the gear with.11a all at once.
The "Turbo 108Mbps" products are only adding to the problem. The reason it is only available on chan. 6 is that it spreads itself across TWICE the bandwidth of "normal" 802.11g products (normal being IEEE/WiFi compliant hardware). There are limited channels defined for 802.11@2.4GHz, using these socalled "enhanced" products just further pollutes the spectrum and further exacerbates the problem of airspace congestion. Your neighbors (and ultimately yourself also) will suffer more than anyone benefits.
I liken it to laying down across a couple of seats on a crowded bus, or getting a huge SUV and parking it diagonal across two spaces at the supermarket - it's just rude.
VMware has worked quite well for me. I keep VM's for a number of OS's around for various purposes, including using tools that only work on a certain OS or ones that don't play well with other software, different kernel versions, etc.
It's great, don't actually have to reboot, just fire up what's needed in a window. No worries about MBR, product activation being tied to hardware, etc.
Like my shop teach used to say: "The right tool, for the right job."
While I think ideas like DomainKeys are a step in the right direction, I don't think that the proposition that the "Big Boys" are the key to cutting back spam is on target. I get very little spam with hotmail, essentially none with gmail. I think the "Big Boys" can take care of themselves (and their users) alright, it's the myriad of small business domains, fansites, home based websites, misc. forums, etc. It's the little guys that are profitable (because they are easy) - simply due to their lack of involvement and in-depth technical savvy.
Any solution needs to be EXTREMELY widely adopted and easy to implement. In order to achieve this it has to be simple to understand, definately of friendly license and easy (and free) to implement on *ANY* MTA. Finally it must hold the promise to the small guy that it will reduce spam.
I would ask how many of you (or someone you know) has wound up on one of the RBL lists? Was it through a simple configuration error, from simply not understanding the implications of all of the configuration options or from just trying to solve a problem (such as the boss not being able to send mail)? At the same time, how many actually just check the RBL's on incoming mail? It's the simplest, cheapest way to reduce spam, yet....?
If most don't implement what we have already, we should anyone expect widespread implementation (key to success) of a new system?
I am pro technology and pro advancement, and all tech has a potentional dark side to it that I believe that we can all ultimately deal with. GMO's scare me though. What happens to our environment when things like "Terminator" from Monsanto get out and the gene's transfer to other species.
When I am trying to explain my view to others on this issue, I liken this genetic modification to software engineering. No matter how careful and methodical you are in a software project - there will be bugs, they are discovered and quashed later. Now think of the potential consequences of a 'bug' when dealing with GMO's - we could have serious agricultural decimation.
Furthermore I don't trust these companies, they repeatedly try to rush products to market, fudge their testing and say "we didn't know" later on when the problems arise, or simply pay the settlement (it's cheaper than good science).
I don't believe that these companies necessarily have the foresight, integrity or regard to be playing with these products. It's still a new frontier of science and what will happen when someone forgets that extra set of braces in the code....
I hope that I feel different in the future, I don't believe that any technology is inherently bad, there are some though we might not be ready to deploy as of yet.
Having had conversations with Adam Jansen (the WA digital archivist quoted in several of the news stories), many consequences have been thought of and addressed (as well as could be expected). I also don't believe that this is intended to replace all physical documentation - I wouldn't expect them to shred the various pieces of legislation after the documents been scanned. This is just to provide another, easier method of access to the public and researchers. On top of all of this, tell me how you "back-up" the Royal Library - just in case a fire were to take out centuries of data. One of the beautiful things about digital records is that we can have many copies of the data (in addition to the originals).
As for some ways to deal with these problems: they have collected a decent array of legacy/antique hardware, software and emulators in an effort to assist other government offices with migrating data to newer storage systems - before it's too late. Additionally they have future growth and migration plans (i.e. budget) accounted for - keep moving the data to newer storage.
Strikes me as not a whole lot different that what has already been an issue dealt with in the past. Think about how records were kept in the frontier days, how those were collected in some cases into the county records office, later transferred to microfiche - and now to purely digital medium.
It IS certainly important that we don't forget about these issues in the future. Perhaps this is why we have someone with the title "Digital Archivist" in the State of Washington.
I'm starting to get confused; If you can sue McDonalds for coffee, or just about anyone for not protecting me from myself - why hasn't someone taken Diebold on in court?
Pocketec Has Worked Extremely Well
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I live in downtown Seattle, in a fairly dense apt/condo area. Just sitting on my couch NetStumbler comes up with about 20 AP's. I can't even imagine how many 2.4 cordless phones are out there.
I'm not that concerned with how MY phone and AP are going to get along - it's my hundreds of neighbors that I'm worried about!
My plan: 900MHz for the phone and 5GHz for the WiFi, I'll just stay the hell out of their way.
I've thought for a long time that typing classes are an utter waste of time for students. I took 2 days of typing - I learned the basic method, the speed came out of usefuleness and necessity. A student's time is much better spent gaining actual knowledge as opposed to repetitive & pointless tasks.
I have worked with Active Directory since it's early Beta's, arranged and performed at least a 100 production installs and upgrades over the past few years. And I would say (strongly recommended) that most of my people move over to 2003. I have yet to have a 2003 install fail, while at the same time it works faster and more stable than 2000 - and not that 2000 Server was bad to begin with. As far as service packs, I would agree with other posts that 2003 is pretty much Windows2000 SP6 or so. Keep in mind the MS version numbers:
Windows2000 = NT 5.0 Windows XP = NT 5.1 Windows2003 = NT 5.2.2 is a minor version upgrade.
I make it through 6 hour flights while watching movies constantly and still have enough left over to check my email when I get off the plane.
I use a Dell C600 (PIII-1000-Speedstep) First I pack the ROM drive away and replace it with the second battery. I also carry a 3rd batt just in case. Second I also RIP my DVD's (DVDDecrypter) to the hard drive - spinning the harddrive takes far less juice than spinning a DVD. Lastly I use a hardware & user profile that has any extraneous devices, apps, utilities disabled.
One must dig deep and seek out knowledge, because the general media is dangerously out of date and misrepresented.
I think that I have been looking for those very words. Well said.
It's not just these "reality" or "newtainment" shows. I have had unfortunate experiences twice with local newsmedia stations. The most egregious was on a weekly topical debate program that took an issue and supposedly explored all sides. I even watched this show semi-regularly. I was asked on the show and had several "producers" talk about how they appreciated me being there to help people understand.
I was waiting in a room off-stage for my appearance a little bit into the show, when the host instructed the staff to cut the feed to the room as the show started (Should've realized then). When it came time for me to come on, the host had prepped the scene for me to be immediately attacked by all involved. He supervised this extremely well, making sure to interrupt me, discount me or flat-out cut me off whenever I had a reasonable and logical statement or tried to defend myself (since his show was about expousing his view and not exploring anything). Watching the show at home later I see that he set this up from the beginning (when my view was cut).
After seeing the tactics first hand, I could see how this show was a sham all along. Every episode had the same strategy, that now was transparent to me.
Be very suspicious of the media when they come looking for you, they quite simply will lie to get what they want out of you - and make no mistake they will set you up, sell you out or edit the whole thing into something unrecognizable without any qualms or remorse.
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I teach a variety of networking and security courses in similar situations. I have found that people are most happy with a reference (usually O'Reilly) for use after the class. The participants expect something, and it helps give a framework to follow. In the end it's not critical what you pick, as they came to the class for your presentation and knowledge - just keep it somewhat affordable.
So will my regular use of encrypted protocols cause the system to "Bark", thereby providing probable cause to further investigate my suspicious activities?
I had heard the saying about doing business with family and friends being a bad idea, didn't think much of it. I have definately learned (luckily from others mistakes). I have seen brothers, or aunts & children wind up with animosity that can be rather intense and last for extended periods of time. Avoid making money off your family - it can go so badly, and even the possibility of that isn't worth it.
I will happily help out fam & friends, but the deal is "I work for food". They can call, I'll show up and take care of the spyware, virii, service packs and driver problems. They are usually quite grateful and will fix quite a meal. I usually get steaks, ribs, etc. - plus a 6 pack of a decent micro-brew. Now on top of that they usually feel a little guilty (they shouldn't) and won't call me unless it's rather urgent or severe.
Now if you choose to charge money, be aware of the implied warranty. As soon as you have sold them something, you are now in a business relationship and those are never quite as close. I would expect phone calls on a regular basis, probably before you get home from their place; and if you start to dodge them, well the family relationship is severely damaged already.
My co-workers are regularly making complaints and jokes about their home tech-support problems. I don't have 'em, my "Work for Food" system has worked extremely well over the years.
I have often discussed with my students in classes (mostly Gov. network admins) that while getting away from Microsoft software in many cases is going to greatly decrease your security risks, it won't actually eliminate it. What the Mozilla group can do now to show corporate folks the strength of opensource, is to quickly produce a patch for the problem. That will be telling to those who have been waiting for extended periods of time with unpatchable holes in IE / Windows.
I would recommend that you purchase a BOOK.
Wireless LAN's End to End
and
Wireless Networks The Definitive Guide
are both excellent books that clearly explain the issues involved with DESIGNING a wireless network.
A +24dbi parabolic dish is more than innappropriate for what you are doing, so is running firmware hacks to "Pump Up Your Power".
It's not about how much signal you can irradiate the land with, it's about placement and antennae with the correct signal pattern.
Makes perfect sense from a security aspect. And looking at spec's, why wouldn't I want 108 rather than 54?
.11a all at once.
I think that the companies that produce the products are not thinking ahead (and are perhaps irresponsible). They'd be fine if I was the only WiFi user in the area, starts to be a problem when there are many AP's, but what happens when they have sold these to everyone in a neighborhood - and now their product doesn't work better, it just doesn't work.
I think perhaps the frustration I am feeling at my place is showing through. I've got approx. 20 AP's that show up, spread across the spectrum. Several of my neighbors have upgraded to the multichannel stuff, adding to the congestion. My connection just cuts out periodically - I've done everything I can, just have to wait until I can replace all of the gear with
The "Turbo 108Mbps" products are only adding to the problem. The reason it is only available on chan. 6 is that it spreads itself across TWICE the bandwidth of "normal" 802.11g products (normal being IEEE/WiFi compliant hardware). There are limited channels defined for 802.11@2.4GHz, using these socalled "enhanced" products just further pollutes the spectrum and further exacerbates the problem of airspace congestion. Your neighbors (and ultimately yourself also) will suffer more than anyone benefits.
I liken it to laying down across a couple of seats on a crowded bus, or getting a huge SUV and parking it diagonal across two spaces at the supermarket - it's just rude.
VMware has worked quite well for me. I keep VM's for a number of OS's around for various purposes, including using tools that only work on a certain OS or ones that don't play well with other software, different kernel versions, etc.
It's great, don't actually have to reboot, just fire up what's needed in a window. No worries about MBR, product activation being tied to hardware, etc.
Like my shop teach used to say: "The right tool, for the right job."
Quote:Channels 12 - 14 are almost guaranteed to be empty.
And illegal in the United States. You would be infringing on HAM radio space, and they are not a group to mess with.
While I think ideas like DomainKeys are a step in the right direction, I don't think that the proposition that the "Big Boys" are the key to cutting back spam is on target. I get very little spam with hotmail, essentially none with gmail. I think the "Big Boys" can take care of themselves (and their users) alright, it's the myriad of small business domains, fansites, home based websites, misc. forums, etc. It's the little guys that are profitable (because they are easy) - simply due to their lack of involvement and in-depth technical savvy.
Any solution needs to be EXTREMELY widely adopted and easy to implement. In order to achieve this it has to be simple to understand, definately of friendly license and easy (and free) to implement on *ANY* MTA. Finally it must hold the promise to the small guy that it will reduce spam.
I would ask how many of you (or someone you know) has wound up on one of the RBL lists? Was it through a simple configuration error, from simply not understanding the implications of all of the configuration options or from just trying to solve a problem (such as the boss not being able to send mail)? At the same time, how many actually just check the RBL's on incoming mail? It's the simplest, cheapest way to reduce spam, yet....?
If most don't implement what we have already, we should anyone expect widespread implementation (key to success) of a new system?
I am pro technology and pro advancement, and all tech has a potentional dark side to it that I believe that we can all ultimately deal with. GMO's scare me though. What happens to our environment when things like "Terminator" from Monsanto get out and the gene's transfer to other species.
When I am trying to explain my view to others on this issue, I liken this genetic modification to software engineering. No matter how careful and methodical you are in a software project - there will be bugs, they are discovered and quashed later. Now think of the potential consequences of a 'bug' when dealing with GMO's - we could have serious agricultural decimation.
Furthermore I don't trust these companies, they repeatedly try to rush products to market, fudge their testing and say "we didn't know" later on when the problems arise, or simply pay the settlement (it's cheaper than good science).
I don't believe that these companies necessarily have the foresight, integrity or regard to be playing with these products. It's still a new frontier of science and what will happen when someone forgets that extra set of braces in the code....
I hope that I feel different in the future, I don't believe that any technology is inherently bad, there are some though we might not be ready to deploy as of yet.
Check out their many different options for finding feeds.
I usually use:
http://www.feedster.com/feedfinder.php/
You can also put in any domain and see what feeds they offer (since not everyone puts and obvious links on their main page).
They are new and not all-inclusive, but a valuable resource that keeps improving.
Having had conversations with Adam Jansen (the WA digital archivist quoted in several of the news stories), many consequences have been thought of and addressed (as well as could be expected). I also don't believe that this is intended to replace all physical documentation - I wouldn't expect them to shred the various pieces of legislation after the documents been scanned. This is just to provide another, easier method of access to the public and researchers. On top of all of this, tell me how you "back-up" the Royal Library - just in case a fire were to take out centuries of data. One of the beautiful things about digital records is that we can have many copies of the data (in addition to the originals).
As for some ways to deal with these problems: they have collected a decent array of legacy/antique hardware, software and emulators in an effort to assist other government offices with migrating data to newer storage systems - before it's too late. Additionally they have future growth and migration plans (i.e. budget) accounted for - keep moving the data to newer storage.
Strikes me as not a whole lot different that what has already been an issue dealt with in the past. Think about how records were kept in the frontier days, how those were collected in some cases into the county records office, later transferred to microfiche - and now to purely digital medium.
It IS certainly important that we don't forget about these issues in the future. Perhaps this is why we have someone with the title "Digital Archivist" in the State of Washington.
I'm starting to get confused; If you can sue McDonalds for coffee, or just about anyone for not protecting me from myself - why hasn't someone taken Diebold on in court?
http://www.pocketec.net/
or
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5ad4/
Supersmall, USB2.0, all metal body, comes with a padded case. The ONLY complaint is that the drive end of the cable does not appear to be standard.
Would highly recommend.
I live in downtown Seattle, in a fairly dense apt/condo area. Just sitting on my couch NetStumbler comes up with about 20 AP's. I can't even imagine how many 2.4 cordless phones are out there.
I'm not that concerned with how MY phone and AP are going to get along - it's my hundreds of neighbors that I'm worried about!
My plan: 900MHz for the phone and 5GHz for the WiFi, I'll just stay the hell out of their way.
I've thought for a long time that typing classes are an utter waste of time for students. I took 2 days of typing - I learned the basic method, the speed came out of usefuleness and necessity. A student's time is much better spent gaining actual knowledge as opposed to repetitive & pointless tasks.
I have worked with Active Directory since it's early Beta's, arranged and performed at least a 100 production installs and upgrades over the past few years. And I would say (strongly recommended) that most of my people move over to 2003. I have yet to have a 2003 install fail, while at the same time it works faster and more stable than 2000 - and not that 2000 Server was bad to begin with. As far as service packs, I would agree with other posts that 2003 is pretty much Windows2000 SP6 or so. Keep in mind the MS version numbers:
.2 is a minor version upgrade.
Windows2000 = NT 5.0
Windows XP = NT 5.1
Windows2003 = NT 5.2
I make it through 6 hour flights while watching movies constantly and still have enough left over to check my email when I get off the plane.
I use a Dell C600 (PIII-1000-Speedstep)
First I pack the ROM drive away and replace it with the second battery. I also carry a 3rd batt just in case. Second I also RIP my DVD's (DVDDecrypter) to the hard drive - spinning the harddrive takes far less juice than spinning a DVD. Lastly I use a hardware & user profile that has any extraneous devices, apps, utilities disabled.
dont@sendmemail.com
Never thought to check-it until today, now I feel a little guilty - it's a graphic design company. How they chose that name though, I can't be sure.
or maybe i'm an arrogant bastard...but check it anyway.
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u tifuldecay.com/
Fun, Style, etc:
http://www.yellowratbastard.com/magazine/in
http://www.wyws.com/
Standard (but good) Geek Faire:
http://www.2600.com/
http://www.samag.co
http://www.wired.com/
Nice Graff:
http://www.x2project.com/
http://www.bea
Neural - Hacktivism, Art, etc:
http://www.neural.it/english/
Internet Protocol Journal:
http://www.cisco.com/ipj
One must dig deep and seek out knowledge, because the general media is dangerously out of date and misrepresented. I think that I have been looking for those very words. Well said.
I believe, after all of these years, that he completely buys his own manufactured image - that he is actually objective, intelligent and a reporter.
Absolutely should've, just wasn't quick enough to realize at the time.
Definately won't happen again.
It's not just these "reality" or "newtainment" shows. I have had unfortunate experiences twice with local newsmedia stations. The most egregious was on a weekly topical debate program that took an issue and supposedly explored all sides. I even watched this show semi-regularly. I was asked on the show and had several "producers" talk about how they appreciated me being there to help people understand.
I was waiting in a room off-stage for my appearance a little bit into the show, when the host instructed the staff to cut the feed to the room as the show started (Should've realized then). When it came time for me to come on, the host had prepped the scene for me to be immediately attacked by all involved. He supervised this extremely well, making sure to interrupt me, discount me or flat-out cut me off whenever I had a reasonable and logical statement or tried to defend myself (since his show was about expousing his view and not exploring anything). Watching the show at home later I see that he set this up from the beginning (when my view was cut).
After seeing the tactics first hand, I could see how this show was a sham all along. Every episode had the same strategy, that now was transparent to me.
Be very suspicious of the media when they come looking for you, they quite simply will lie to get what they want out of you - and make no mistake they will set you up, sell you out or edit the whole thing into something unrecognizable without any qualms or remorse.
BTW- It was "Town Meeting" on KOMO4, Seattle, WA