On December 20, 2007, President Bush signed routine postal legislation. In a "Signing Statement", the President claims Executive Power to search the mail of U.S. citizens inside the United States without a warrant, in direct contradiction of the bill he had just signed.
If you read the comments, I think you might just begin to understand the movement that is starting to happen. I think all the Democrats you lead in the House should read this. It's of things to come. We have had it. Democrats, and even a lot of Republicans are starting to wake up to the major damage done by this President, to our Constitution and our Freedom, and of the empty promises you, Nancy, made to those of us that put you there to represent us. This Congress, lead by you, will be held responsible for idly standing by, and of recent, participating in the dismantling of our laws and accepted practices and replacing them with "mere precedent" and outright disregard for the rules of law, the ones we go to prison for, the same ones others are exempt from. You and the Democratic Party will hear from us, we have, as a group, a starting list of 12 in the Democratic Party that will not be returning, as they are to be voted out. The Republicans, double.
You have woken the sleeping giant that is the American people, and you all will be hearing from us and a growing number of voters across this country, that oddly enough depends on a manipulated election system we've all grown wise to.
A few weeks ago, we had thought you all had come to your senses by standing up to Mr. Bush and his group, but evidently, it was fake. We had, at one time thought that maybe you were waiting for the proper time to act. But you've decided which side you're on. You all have failed to uphold your oaths. We/I, have lost faith, so we shall act, and we will organize, and we will win. Last chance has already past, and you all blew it to a lame duck President, no less.
In room 641A at 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco, California is a SPLITTER that duplicates ALL traffic and diverts it by the way of a proprietary black box to an unnamed acronymed agency. Mark Klein called it a "Big Brother Machine". It can't be more clear than that.
For all the folks that still don't get IT, good God!, go back to sleep, and or, quit posting drivel.
"Is it possible to overload a power supply to the point of fire from a remote location? I've heard of black hats getting into the climate control systems of certain areas and loading up the heat and frying certain parts of computers, but a power supply?"
Answer:
"The trojan has controllers on the universal power supply."
Read article and comments: Several people had the same hack as ours later in the thread - as difficult as it is to read the "crazy" ones, they are pretty accurate as well. Once you've been "there" everything else become somewhat trivial by comparison.
All kidding aside (printf), we had a break in a few years ago by some very organized Blokes one (of many) thing they hit was an HP 120nr printer (w/ RIP [fonts]) to which they tried (and failed) to chip crowd or replace the firmware. They jumped routers/switches to the local LAN to accomplish this, the network card was damaged in this attempt - we just got it back from the repair shop and the Tech asked me "what did you do, pull the NIC card while it was running?" Of course I didn't, nor did anyone here do such a thing, what you have to understand is only a portion of the printers' motherboard was damaged. I'll leave it as an exercise to you to figure which area. All was not lost as the USB still functions as well as the parallel port, The printer was not configured. The computers/LAN were Macintosh (OS8.x.x, 9.2.2 clients) - OS X 10.2.8 clients/servers. Init's were utilized on the legacy OSs to attack. OS X (Shockwave, QT, Flash etc.) was used for "the show". The routers had to be re-flashed.
Once you understand that corporations are (as legal persons) immortal - you can just begin to understand the dilemma. A powerful immortal with bloodlust and lack of empathy has become - er, how'd you say?, business as usual. Our Country (USA) is now, only representing a constituency of Corporations, which by proxy of consumerism "looking out" for "our" interests.
The willful disobedience of enforcement of the rule of law by the Congress allows for the further degradation of "the people" as the represented body of the law of the land (Constitution), further perverting the intent of the basic purpose of this country - escaping a dominance of those who'd exploit us for power, (also religious) and monetary gain.
Ethics are a quaint idea relegated for underlings for dealings with each other within these bastions of ivory.
Corporations got the upper hand once before, quite a while back and were quelled to some extent - they're BACK and they are running the show, once again.
Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1970 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2008 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1970 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.
2008 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.
1970 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2008 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin; Becomes a zombie; Tested for ADD; School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1970 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2008 - Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.
Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1970 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2008 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1970 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, and goes to college.
2008 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway, but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, and blows up a red ant bed.
1970 - Ants die.
2008 - BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list; not allowed to fly again.
Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1970 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2008 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of psycho-therapy.
Scenario: Jack Buys the last Beatles album and records it to cassette, loans it to Trish to listen to.
1970 - Trish likes the music, returns the cassette then later that week buys the album.
2008 - Trish likes the MP3, adds it to her 128GB collection of music she has downloaded from Jacks site, Trish then puts a GB of music on a flash drive and takes it to Sally's house where they download it to Sally's Dell, where then Sally puts the music in her LimeWire share folder to share with her 750,000 closest friends. Sally knows all the Beatles are rich and don't mind it if she gives away their music, it's OLD music anyway.
Someone online calls Sally a thief, Sally is outraged. 750,000 of Sally's closest friends come to her defense.
The FBI, CIA, NSA are now subcontractors for an unknown (to us, at least) asset managing entity. It's like a shell game, Area 51 is now too well known, but they keep up appearances - wave your hand over here - palm the coin in another. What we keep doing is concentrating on what we think is possible (tech-wise) while you have absofuckinglutly amazing things happening right under our noses. (i.e. what ARE those networking protocol hardlinks DOING in your bootblock under "bad boot sectors". Chip crowding/code obfuscation is another.
AAD (Analog Analog Digital), ADD (Analog Digital Digital), DDD (Digital Digital Digital), DDA (Digital Digital Analog)
The sad thing is you can't find Infrared film anymore (other than 35mm, and that may be in danger also) , because "everyone" is going digital. It's a double edged sword for me, as I'm snapping up all these Hasselblads:
- that everyone is discarding, $22,000. systems, tossed like yesterday's salad. (But, please don't listen to me - they ARE worthless, those lenses too, TRASH, I tell you! You need the latest:
The RAW equivalent for audio would nice, but lossless would be what it would take for me (and everyone I know) to buy online.
If any of you remember cassettes, low end MP3s are about equal (IMHO). I haven't bought / downloaded any music because of this factor - it's just not good enough when I can purchase the CD and deal with it from there.
AAC is pretty damn good, but no, I can tell the difference for the most part and well, really, come on, get real - they already SELL it lossless, it's not like you're twisting knobs to transfer it to the hard drive. If anyone can get the majority of the Corporate Music above the line brain dead to listen, it'll be Jobs, and Team Apple, both of them.
"And the pièce de résistance: rounded corners on menu bars! Awesome. I have so been waiting for those!"
"Yeah, I know the OS went to full-on 64-bits, but that's no reason to mess with the networking stack. Especially since Tiger's networking just plain worked. Plug into an Apple network--you're good to go. Plug into a Windows network--you're good to go. Plug into any IP-based mixed-client network--you're good to go. Bring up a new Windows share in a mixed network, and Tiger usually sees it before the Windows client does. Did someone actually sit down and say, we've just got to improve on that?"
Oliver Rist nails it. Laughed my ass off. Yeah, we're due for a major fuck up, let's see how they pull this one out.
"It's interesting: the "trusting trust" attack has actually gotten easier over time, because compilers have gotten increasingly complex, giving attackers more places to hide their attacks." January 23, 2006
Why does MS insist on exhibiting NO CLASS? Duck Amuck? Ignore them and hopefully they'll go away. (blush - is MY BIAS showing - blush, bats eyelashes to looney tunes soundtrack)
I'm not so "up" on this particular subject, but I did see this fellow speak to some committee a while back [CSPAN] on The Spectrum Sale, or something related. In this administation of incompetence, this guy is a real relief to hear speak - about what is the people's, he is the real deal.
Bill Moyers talks with FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps:
MICHAEL J COPPS: Now we're back at square one. It's all up for grabs. And if we are going to do better this time around, it's going to be because of input from folks like you.
MICHAEL COPPS: Well, we're going at it without a policy. We're going at it without a vision. We're going at it without realizing what these things mean to the future of our country. Whether it's broadcast or broadband.The public airwaves are to be used for serving the public interest. Expanding our cultural horizon, covering community news, enabling the democratic dialogue. Increasingly, we have moved away from that vision and they're being used for corporate profitability.
MICHAEL COPPS: Yeah. It appears 112 times in the Telecommunications Act. The term public interest convenience and necessity. So I know darn well Congress was serious about it.
BILL MOYERS: You're talking about the 1934 Act.
MICHAEL COPPS: Right.
You know it's BAD when you get excited about someone speaking "common sense" on CSPAN. The link is worth the time to view.
Where DO they hide these quality people - and who do we have to blow to get them in government? [don't answer that]
Here's the setup, Installing a Win 2k Server on our intranet for our Windows clients and Freelancers [inwards looking only]. I briefly jumped on the WWW for updates [yes, I know it's not actively supported] having already updated to SP4 manually along with the latest rollup - yada, yada.
OK, now I've been schooled by some of the best on this particular server - in Seattle, mind you, so I got a pretty good handle on this, but hey, I'm no Mark Russinovich.
So, on this "other OS" I was able to quite easily find all things "Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server", home page, oodles of info. Jump on the 2000 Server and off to the download section of MS, [Windows Update and Microsoft Update don't work without IE 6] 20 mins of clicky-clicky and I'm getting nowhere. Weirdly, the word "server" is absent where I'd done the same search earlier on that "other OS".
Next, IE 6.1 SP1. The stub doesn't work, [as usual] so I try the Run trick for the full update, ("C\Download\iesetup.exe/"c: ie6wzrd.exe - something like that). Broke. [not to mention the frequent STOP errors, disk controller errors, etc. on known good hardware]
4 hours on just this. FOR A FUCKING BROWSER UPDATE.
OH LOOK: Great, some help!
AutoPatcher 2000 August 2007 Core Release & Update:
AutoPatcher description AutoPatcher 2000 requires Windows 2000 SP4 to be installed (works with Windows 2000 Pro, Server, & Adv. Server)
"August 29, 2007: The development of the Autopatcher project was officially ceased today, when the Microsoft Legal department contacted the Autopatcher team demanding them to put an immediate stop to any further releases. For more details, please read this article."
Classsssy. Along the way, I got great offers for Windows 2003 Server, lots of links - rich content... Web 2.0 goodness!!!!
Here's the punch line Guys and Gals:
Like Sony - I'm banning Microsoft, Windows and all things Redmond from our office. I've wasted my time before [and we formally quite supporting Windows here], but this is the last time I do this - it's ALL going, lock, stock and barrel, down to the books and the media it resides on, OUT.
I don't have these problems on the "other" servers - period {.}.
I'm ripping this install out and installing Linux or Solaris, fuck it, at least if I have trouble I haven't got people trying to hide the software I need to get the GOD DAMNED thing running.
Thank you for your attention. I feel MUCH better.:-)
Neglected, pure and simple. They had the platform, the had the forum, they had an audience. When it came to subscribe once again, I had to think - has this magazine answered, delivered, proposed anything of consequence? [not counting Amy's column] It was supposed to be about UNIX (?), not just Solaris.
System Administrators want answers about the OS. [and the sum thereof] I wanted Sys Admin to give me configuration tips, tuning tricks... insight. I WANT magazines, not PDFs, I want something to refer back to, in these last few years I just skimmed it, read Amy Rich, then it went straight to the shelf. It's too bad. I liked the idea of the magazine, but they suffered neglect, from staff and ultimately reader interest alike.
Slashdot Mirror
After they're done gutting FISA, they'll "reward" the media giants with tiered WWW pricing and the banning of "evil" protocols - just watch.
Signing Statements:
http://www.coherentbabble.com/signingstatements/TOCindex.htm
On December 20, 2007, President Bush signed routine postal legislation. In a "Signing Statement", the President claims Executive Power to search the mail of U.S. citizens inside the United States without a warrant, in direct contradiction of the bill he had just signed.
January 4, 08 Story:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003508676_mail04.html
House Dems Near Surrender on Bush Spying:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-melber/house-dems-near-surrender_b_89726.html#postComment
Washington Politicians Are Gutting America Like A Fish:
http://whitehouser.com/politics/bush-fascism-failed-democracy/
Bush Legacy Already Established - Helen Thomas:
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/helenthomas/15358518/detail.html
Nancy Pelosi:
http://www.house.gov/pelosi/
email:
americanvoices@mail.house.gov
(415) 556-4862
District Office - 450 Golden Gate Ave. - 14th Floor - San Francisco, CA 94102
Greetings:
I left you a voice message earlier.
There is an article at The Huffington Post:
House Dems Near Surrender on Bush Spying:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-melber/house-dems-near-surrender_b_89726.html#postComment
If you read the comments, I think you might just begin to understand the movement that is starting to happen. I think all the Democrats you lead in the House should read this.
It's of things to come.
We have had it.
Democrats, and even a lot of Republicans are starting to wake up to the major damage done by this President, to our Constitution and our Freedom, and of the empty promises you, Nancy, made to those of us that put you there to represent us.
This Congress, lead by you, will be held responsible for idly standing by, and of recent, participating in the dismantling of our laws and accepted practices and replacing them with "mere precedent" and outright disregard for the rules of law, the ones we go to prison for, the same ones others are exempt from.
You and the Democratic Party will hear from us, we have, as a group, a starting list of 12 in the Democratic Party that will not be returning, as they are to be voted out.
The Republicans, double.
You have woken the sleeping giant that is the American people, and you all will be hearing from us and a growing number of voters across this country, that oddly enough depends on a manipulated election system we've all grown wise to.
A few weeks ago, we had thought you all had come to your senses by standing up to Mr. Bush and his group, but evidently, it was fake. We had, at one time thought that maybe you were waiting for the proper time to act. But you've decided which side you're on.
You all have failed to uphold your oaths.
We/I, have lost faith, so we shall act, and we will organize, and we will win.
Last chance has already past, and you all blew it to a lame duck President, no less.
SURRENDER DOROTHY
http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/surrenderdot.jpg
LAST TIME - pay attention.
It's wholesale data-mining.
Spying in the Death Star: The AT&T Whistle-Blower Tells His Story
Mark Klein = Patriot
Former AT&T technician
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/05/kleininterview
In room 641A at 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco, California is a SPLITTER that duplicates ALL traffic and diverts it by the way of a proprietary black box to an unnamed acronymed agency.
Mark Klein called it a "Big Brother Machine".
It can't be more clear than that.
For all the folks that still don't get IT, good God!, go back to sleep, and or, quit posting drivel.
"Suddenly, we have late breaking news that the lunar eclipse was shot down by executive order".
(Shamelessly stolen from friend, J. Boyd)
Best panning-tracking by Armed Service Member - Ever.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23272304#23272304
How:
http://www.livescience.com/space/news/080219-satellite-shootdown.html
CHESTER COPPERPOT:
Question:
"Is it possible to overload a power supply to the point of fire from a remote location? I've heard of black hats getting into the climate control systems of certain areas and loading up the heat and frying certain parts of computers, but a power supply?"
Answer:
"The trojan has controllers on the universal power supply."
http://www.securityfocus.com/comments/articles/11372/33500/threaded#33500
http://www.securityfocus.com/comments/articles/11372/34207/threaded#34207
Read article and comments:
Several people had the same hack as ours later in the thread - as difficult as it is to read the "crazy" ones, they are pretty accurate as well. Once you've been "there" everything else become somewhat trivial by comparison.
http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?c=articlecomments&op=display_comments&ArticleID=11372&expand_all=true&mode=threaded
All kidding aside (printf), we had a break in a few years ago by some very organized Blokes one (of many) thing they hit was an HP 120nr printer (w/ RIP [fonts]) to which they tried (and failed) to chip crowd or replace the firmware. They jumped routers/switches to the local LAN to accomplish this, the network card was damaged in this attempt - we just got it back from the repair shop and the Tech asked me "what did you do, pull the NIC card while it was running?"
Of course I didn't, nor did anyone here do such a thing, what you have to understand is only a portion of the printers' motherboard was damaged. I'll leave it as an exercise to you to figure which area.
All was not lost as the USB still functions as well as the parallel port,
The printer was not configured.
The computers/LAN were Macintosh (OS8.x.x, 9.2.2 clients) - OS X 10.2.8 clients/servers.
Init's were utilized on the legacy OSs to attack.
OS X (Shockwave, QT, Flash etc.) was used for "the show".
The routers had to be re-flashed.
Yeah, and Bob's your Uncle.
Once you understand that corporations are (as legal persons) immortal - you can just begin to understand the dilemma.
A powerful immortal with bloodlust and lack of empathy has become - er, how'd you say?, business as usual.
Our Country (USA) is now, only representing a constituency of Corporations, which by proxy of consumerism "looking out" for "our" interests.
The willful disobedience of enforcement of the rule of law by the Congress allows for the further degradation of "the people" as the represented body of the law of the land (Constitution), further perverting the intent of the basic purpose of this country - escaping a dominance of those who'd exploit us for power, (also religious) and monetary gain.
Ethics are a quaint idea relegated for underlings for dealings with each other within these bastions of ivory.
Corporations got the upper hand once before, quite a while back and were quelled to some extent - they're BACK and they are running the show, once again.
See Part 2 and further for relevance:
ZEITGEIST
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5547481422995115331&q=zeitgeist&total=3730&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
You think about it, I'll wait:
http://www.securityfocus.com/comments/articles/11372/33500#33500
If you think you have a chance or a clue as to how mature this stuff is, reconsider. Also if they're asking "permission", it's too late.
Hi Mom !
Oh no, no, no! the Macintosh contingency begs to differ, kind Sir - it is US, and OUR turn. Do step aside.
1970 vs. 2008
Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1970 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2008 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1970 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.
2008 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.
1970 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2008 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin; Becomes a zombie; Tested for ADD; School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1970 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2008 - Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.
Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1970 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2008 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1970 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, and goes to college.
2008 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway, but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, and blows up a red ant bed.
1970 - Ants die.
2008 - BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list; not allowed to fly again.
Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1970 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2008 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of psycho-therapy.
Scenario: Jack Buys the last Beatles album and records it to cassette, loans it to Trish to listen to.
1970 - Trish likes the music, returns the cassette then later that week buys the album.
2008 - Trish likes the MP3, adds it to her 128GB collection of music she has downloaded from Jacks site, Trish then puts a GB of music on a flash drive and takes it to Sally's house where they download it to Sally's Dell, where then Sally puts the music in her LimeWire share folder to share with her 750,000 closest friends.
Sally knows all the Beatles are rich and don't mind it if she gives away their music, it's OLD music anyway.
Someone online calls Sally a thief, Sally is outraged.
750,000 of Sally's closest friends come to her defense.
The FBI, CIA, NSA are now subcontractors for an unknown (to us, at least) asset managing entity.
It's like a shell game, Area 51 is now too well known, but they keep up appearances - wave your hand over here - palm the coin in another.
What we keep doing is concentrating on what we think is possible (tech-wise) while you have absofuckinglutly amazing things happening right under our noses. (i.e. what ARE those networking protocol hardlinks DOING in your bootblock under "bad boot sectors".
Chip crowding/code obfuscation is another.
Get the picture?
The real power doesn't want the exposure.
Dear Alberto,
It doesn't matter which OS you use as your controller, you ALWAYS have a fail-safe machine, or two.
I bet you'll remember that in the future.
ALWAYS.
Yes, I WAS a show tech.
Kodak will have the last laugh.
AAD (Analog Analog Digital), ADD (Analog Digital Digital), DDD (Digital Digital Digital), DDA (Digital Digital Analog)
The sad thing is you can't find Infrared film anymore (other than 35mm, and that may be in danger also) , because "everyone" is going digital.
It's a double edged sword for me, as I'm snapping up all these Hasselblads:
http://www.hasselbladusa.com/products/v-system.aspx
- that everyone is discarding, $22,000. systems, tossed like yesterday's salad.
(But, please don't listen to me - they ARE worthless, those lenses too, TRASH, I tell you! You need the latest:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/522927-REG/Hasselblad_70380530_H3DII_39_SLR_Digital_Camera.html
There are experiments with holographic data storage systems:
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/443/ashley.html
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/443/ashle20.jpg
-as long term storage.
A generation of family / baby pictures will go down the tubes because no one thought about it.
We shoot products on digital (no loss) - but, that's it, the rest, 220 Velvia, 35mm slides and a cool dark place, - yeah, and I LIKE it like that.
The RAW equivalent for audio would nice, but lossless would be what it would take for me (and everyone I know) to buy online.
If any of you remember cassettes, low end MP3s are about equal (IMHO).
I haven't bought / downloaded any music because of this factor - it's just not good enough when I can purchase the CD and deal with it from there.
AAC is pretty damn good, but no, I can tell the difference for the most part and well, really, come on, get real - they already SELL it lossless, it's not like you're twisting knobs to transfer it to the hard drive.
If anyone can get the majority of the Corporate Music above the line brain dead to listen, it'll be Jobs, and Team Apple, both of them.
Naw, let's just continue to ignore it, like it was from outer space:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
More than meets the eye:
http://www.wolfware.dk/intro/welcome.asp
From TFA:
"Let's see, Tiger crashed--oh yeah, NEVER."
"And the pièce de résistance: rounded corners on menu bars! Awesome. I have so been waiting for those!"
"Yeah, I know the OS went to full-on 64-bits, but that's no reason to mess with the networking stack. Especially since Tiger's networking just plain worked. Plug into an Apple network--you're good to go. Plug into a Windows network--you're good to go. Plug into any IP-based mixed-client network--you're good to go. Bring up a new Windows share in a mixed network, and Tiger usually sees it before the Windows client does. Did someone actually sit down and say, we've just got to improve on that?"
Oliver Rist nails it. Laughed my ass off.
Yeah, we're due for a major fuck up, let's see how they pull this one out.
Great article.
(yes, I bought the new OS)
Countering "Trusting Trust":
"It's interesting: the "trusting trust" attack has actually gotten easier over time, because compilers have gotten increasingly complex, giving attackers more places to hide their attacks."
January 23, 2006
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/countering_trus.html
Ref.
Reflections on Trusting Trust:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
Truly, ALL your base is belonging, not just a little.
[firmware]
François, from Mandriva
Says it all.
http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/10/31/an-open-letter-to-steve-ballmer/
Why does MS insist on exhibiting NO CLASS?
Duck Amuck?
Ignore them and hopefully they'll go away.
(blush - is MY BIAS showing - blush, bats eyelashes to looney tunes soundtrack)
http://www.sarakadee.com/feature/2002/12/images/animate_02.jpg
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/7/7c/Looney_Tunes.png
It's a Universal Hardware OS - it's effectively invisible.
I know, you think I'm kidding - I"m not.
I'm not so "up" on this particular subject, but I did see this fellow speak to some committee a while back [CSPAN] on The Spectrum Sale, or something related.
In this administation of incompetence, this guy is a real relief to hear speak - about what is the people's, he is the real deal.
Bill Moyers talks with FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08242007/watch.html
MICHAEL J COPPS: Now we're back at square one. It's all up for grabs. And if we are going to do better this time around, it's going to be because of input from folks like you.
MICHAEL COPPS: Well, we're going at it without a policy. We're going at it without a vision. We're going at it without realizing what these things mean to the future of our country. Whether it's broadcast or broadband.The public airwaves are to be used for serving the public interest. Expanding our cultural horizon, covering community news, enabling the democratic dialogue. Increasingly, we have moved away from that vision and they're being used for corporate profitability.
MICHAEL COPPS: Yeah. It appears 112 times in the Telecommunications Act. The term public interest convenience and necessity. So I know darn well Congress was serious about it.
BILL MOYERS: You're talking about the 1934 Act.
MICHAEL COPPS: Right.
You know it's BAD when you get excited about someone speaking "common sense" on CSPAN. The link is worth the time to view.
Where DO they hide these quality people - and who do we have to blow to get them in government?
[don't answer that]
You ask why?
Things Are a Lot Worse than We Thought!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIO-tCPSfHA
Don't shoot the messenger.
Here's the setup, Installing a Win 2k Server on our intranet for our Windows clients and Freelancers [inwards looking only]. I briefly jumped on the WWW for updates [yes, I know it's not actively supported] having already updated to SP4 manually along with the latest rollup - yada, yada.
/"c: ie6wzrd.exe - something like that).
t s/AutoPatcher.shtml
... Web 2.0 goodness!!!!
:-)
OK, now I've been schooled by some of the best on this particular server - in Seattle, mind you, so I got a pretty good handle on this, but hey, I'm no Mark Russinovich.
So, on this "other OS" I was able to quite easily find all things "Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server", home page, oodles of info.
Jump on the 2000 Server and off to the download section of MS, [Windows Update and Microsoft Update don't work without IE 6] 20 mins of clicky-clicky and I'm getting nowhere. Weirdly, the word "server" is absent where I'd done the same search earlier on that "other OS".
Three-card Monte:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-card_Monte
Next, IE 6.1 SP1.
The stub doesn't work, [as usual] so I try the Run trick for the full update, ("C\Download\iesetup.exe
Broke.
[not to mention the frequent STOP errors, disk controller errors, etc. on known good hardware]
4 hours on just this. FOR A FUCKING BROWSER UPDATE.
OH LOOK:
Great, some help!
AutoPatcher 2000 August 2007 Core Release & Update:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancemen
AutoPatcher description
AutoPatcher 2000 requires Windows 2000 SP4 to be installed (works with Windows 2000 Pro, Server, & Adv. Server)
"August 29, 2007: The development of the Autopatcher project was officially ceased today, when the Microsoft Legal department contacted the Autopatcher team demanding them to put an immediate stop to any further releases. For more details, please read this article."
Classsssy.
Along the way, I got great offers for Windows 2003 Server, lots of links - rich content
Here's the punch line Guys and Gals:
Like Sony - I'm banning Microsoft, Windows and all things Redmond from our office. I've wasted my time before [and we formally quite supporting Windows here], but this is the last time I do this - it's ALL going, lock, stock and barrel, down to the books and the media it resides on, OUT.
I don't have these problems on the "other" servers - period {.}.
I'm ripping this install out and installing Linux or Solaris, fuck it, at least if I have trouble I haven't got people trying to hide the software I need to get the GOD DAMNED thing running.
Thank you for your attention.
I feel MUCH better.
hylas
Neglected, pure and simple.
a ting_Systems/Unix/
... insight.
They had the platform, the had the forum, they had an audience.
When it came to subscribe once again, I had to think - has this magazine answered, delivered, proposed anything of consequence? [not counting Amy's column]
It was supposed to be about UNIX (?), not just Solaris.
http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Oper
System Administrators want answers about the OS. [and the sum thereof]
I wanted Sys Admin to give me configuration tips, tuning tricks
I WANT magazines, not PDFs, I want something to refer back to, in these last few years I just skimmed it, read Amy Rich, then it went straight to the shelf.
It's too bad.
I liked the idea of the magazine, but they suffered neglect, from staff and ultimately reader interest alike.
Boycotting Sony?
Complete and utter lockout - our whole company.
[it's been a real hassle too.]
Banned. No. Reprieve.
Corporate criminals.
Furthermore, any company that behaves in this fashion is a security risk.