> I can't exactly say why, but taking an imprint > of my finger doesn't seem like a big deal where > taking my blood and analyzing my DNA seems a bit invasive.
I think it is a big deal giving my fingerprints. Which is one of the reasons I won't visit the US (I'm Norwegian, btw). I have a dream about driving across the US once, but getting my picture taken, fingerprints taken and registered is really a turnoff. Giving my DNA is an absolute no. Right now I trust my doctors not to abuse my blood samples, but I fear that one day I will not.
If you care about your privacy at all it's kinda hard to live today. I have pretty much given up flying as I'm subjected to security checks beyond my dignity.
Last time I flew they confiscated a paper clip I had in my pocket. I tried asking the security-guy if not my bare hands would pose a far bigger threat than a paper clip, but od course he just yelled at me for obstructing his work.
Call me paranoid, but to me freedom is also privacy. I value privacy over anything.
The EU is here to stay. The three largest nations control it, without much democracy and the markets are closed. To gain access to the markets you either have to be a member or pay an insane fee.
Norway is not a member, so we pay a fee that is larger than Germany to the EU just to get access to their markets. Norway has 4 640 200 citizens, Germany got 83 251 851. In return we must also make all these directives a part of Norwegian law to ensure Norwegian corporations compete on equal terms and do not gain any advantage.
Norway can afford it, but most nations in Europe can not. They just bend over and hope to get accepted.
Not sure we have it any better outside and we have to follow all the madness they decide yet we have no way to influence the decisions of the EU.
I've stayed pro-US all my life, but the developments the past 5 years has made me even more skeptical to the US than the EU. I see both as a big threat to privacy.
The world is pretty much screwed the way I see it. I fear that there is no return.
Yeah. The outlook is bleak and there is no information from Comodo (who now owns the distro after they bought Trustix a few years ago). Noticed on the homepages of the former core developers that they are in fact using Ubuntu today. That really says a lot to me.
Unless Comodo issues some statment I would consider Trustix dead. It's sad, as I've used the distro for over 6 years and come to love it quite pationately. Even invested a lot of free time providing/taking free support on their mailing list. Starting migration to Ubuntu very soon. Better safe than sorry.
The major strength of Trustix was it's simplicity and security. Also the fact that it was a small distro made me able to get closely in contact with the developers and be able to make them streamline packages for my use.
And the security once offered by Trustix is now also offered by almost any distro.
And we, the Trustix users, had it coming all along. A small company owned the distro, it was not communitybased or backed by a major company with clear visions on the field. Comodo seemed very hostile from the minute they aquired Trustix.
I'm not familiar with LANDesk, but I assume it's similar to VNC. I do use DameWare at work, which is VNC on steroids. It can install itself on the client, and you can do a lot remotely without bringing up the screen of the luser. I respect their privacy and often try and fix stuff in the background while they do their job. If I need to have their screen I phone them up and ask for permission. Then I go in and they see a big warning that I remotely took control.
In the beginning I was worried that the lusers would question privacy, but none have done so since I installed DameWare a year ago. When asked, they feel confident in that popup warning.
As a single admin responsible for 10 servers and 260 lusers spread across 6 locations (two of which require boat for access, one require a 2 hour drive...) this is absolutely godsent. Those long travels are replaced with radio links and remote management and everyone is happy. Before this the luser had to wait up to weeks for me to find time to dedicate an entire day to traveling and fixing their small problem.
Cheap too!
For patches I use WSUS and for software deployment I use Group Policy (AD is the directory service around here, Windows on desktops, but mostly Linux servers).
You really ought to try stuff like SopCast and TVKoo. I live in a place where there is no cable companies, the airwaves dosn't bring any TV signals and sattelite TV is just too damned expencive. BitTorrent based streaming is here today, all you need is legal content to put on it.
And they are also working on a new app called DIMP which is basicly IMP (the email app of the suite) with AJAX.
Hoping it will be the new groupware solution for my org within a year.
I think you mean RIS, not RIP. Anyways, Ghost and RIS have their strong sides and weaknesses:
- Ghost can do multicast, but is bad a lot of work when your hardware isn't 100%
- RIS can't do multicast, but is a breeze when you have mixed hardware Without multicast RIS is hopeless if you need to retank a whole computer lab, but for the odd install it's perfect and cheap.
I need the multicast function, but also need more flexibility on the images. My next step is to investigate Altiris.
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The way I do it: - Configure a temp mailserver that forwards your companies email to the current MX - Change the MX records to point to this server - As the TTL expires and changed propogate you start seeing hits on your server. It still just forwards it to the old MX.. - Verify the headers of the email you receive, you can see if it's delivered via your MX or not - When it seems all mail comes through your temp MX you either reconfigure it the way you want it or drop in a new one with the desired config
Then you have double-buffered the whole process.
If you control the original MX you can do it the other way around and make it relay directy to your new MX.
Which is funny, because the record companies insists on claiming that this is to hurt the 'big guys' and that the problems the average user has is just collateral damage. Seeing how easy it is to circumvent that argument fails miserable.
If it's not dog slow could you please help Cisco? Their admin tool is built on Java and brings a 3GHz machine with 512MB RAM to a standstill. Also, the developers of Azureus needs your help, their app is also dog slow and eats whatever memory it can find.
I could find more apps for you, but whenever I try a Java application I shudder because it is unresponsive and hogging resources. It *could* of course be clueless developers, but the problem seems too widespread to me.
Fingers will always point at the sysadmin. And if you are running a MS product I challenge you to point any fingers in their direction in case of failure. In my experience you are fare more likely to get your problems fixed with OSS software than with proprietary software. The OSS dev usually takes personal pride in fixing the issue while the vendor takes pride in pushing blame and costs onto you.
The only thing I can threaten with is going to a competitor or switch to an OSS alternative. Legal battles doesn't get you anywhere and certainly won't bring the systems back up.
Works really bad. Applications disappear or shift screens. A minimized app that pops up one of those 'ok'-boxes can't be reopened... Gonna give this alternative a try.
You are somewhat right. If you look agnostic on the issue and define Windows as only the OS and not the platform you are right. To have a functional Windows server you need to rely on third party software aswell, as there is no complete solution from MS (like the Linux kernel guys doesn't provide a complete solution). My main headache with our Windows servers is that third party applications break all the time after Microsoft has released a patch or two.
I use Trustix on my Linux servers and have had *no* such issues the 5 years I've been running Trustix Secure Linux.
Where I work the TCO of the Windows server is a lot higher than of Linux because of this (and simply the fact that Linux uses text-based configs; upgrades/reinstallations/restore from HW failure is quick and painless. No wondering under *which* menu the different settings are hidden or if I remembered to check all checkboxes!)
2.3MB/s?
I got a Linux box with 233MHz as router/firewall for 4 networks and get about 90mbit (11MB/s) through it, even with NAT taking place.
If I had the guts I'd make it boot from a CF-card, but I chickened out and put a RAID in it instead. Should be about as stable as any black box out there.
I would certainly go for a Linux-based firewall in front of it (or *BSD if that's you flavour). I see little use in a software based firewall on the server itself.
A bridge is totally transparent and will give you full filtering capabilities.
Being willing to adapt and learn is the key that brought me where I am today.
Coming straight from school there is a limit to what I know, but my willingness to accept a challenge and my ability to stick with it until it's solved is what landed me with a IT management job 4 months after graduating.
(and if there was no Google I would have been unemployed. There is rarely a challenge I solve without you... Please accept my old trusted keyboard as a sacrifice.)
> iTunes survives on a thin number of subscribers compared to the number of people who still warez their music, simply because iTunes costs money.
Let's not forget that iTunesMS isn't avalible everywhere and that it has a nasty DRM and not playable on anything but iTunes and the iPod.
They need to take a long hard look at what the consumers want and then adjust. If they do not provide what the consumer wants, the consumer will turn to whatever provides it.
I don't think the need for everything to be free is the major force. Of course, I don't shit money either.
Like said a thousand times already: this is useless. You can access the iPod like any other firewire harddrive. You cna copy the files to and from it. No need for a special program to copy them off. To copy files TO the iPod you need to alter a database on the iPod aswell, which means you need some app.
The format of the DB has been reverse engineered for years and is widely documented. The DB is there because you save time and power reading from the DB instead of scanning vast directories for files and ID3 tags.
Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...
Damn kids. They're all alike.
But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a hacker, enter my world...
Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
Damn underachiever. They're all alike.
I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.
I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks I'm a smart ass.. Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.
And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...
You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.
This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.
I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.
>You don't get that kind of experience from a computer.
True. But you won't get it at most theaters either.
I get a far superior experience at home with a cheap projector, a dropdown from IKEA and a DVD-player with surrounds speakers that cost me $300.
Perhaps a great, modern theatre in the US (mesa lives in Norway) is worth it's money, but I refuse to pay $15 to watch a movie where I do not even get the real feel of surround sound.
Sadly there is like a year to the DVD-version hits the shelves here so if I don't want to have the movie ruined by spoilers I have to watch this shabby release.
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> I can't exactly say why, but taking an imprint
> of my finger doesn't seem like a big deal where
> taking my blood and analyzing my DNA seems a bit invasive.
I think it is a big deal giving my fingerprints. Which is one of the reasons I won't visit the US (I'm Norwegian, btw). I have a dream about driving across the US once, but getting my picture taken, fingerprints taken and registered is really a turnoff. Giving my DNA is an absolute no. Right now I trust my doctors not to abuse my blood samples, but I fear that one day I will not.
If you care about your privacy at all it's kinda hard to live today. I have pretty much given up flying as I'm subjected to security checks beyond my dignity.
Last time I flew they confiscated a paper clip I had in my pocket. I tried asking the security-guy if not my bare hands would pose a far bigger threat than a paper clip, but od course he just yelled at me for obstructing his work.
Call me paranoid, but to me freedom is also privacy. I value privacy over anything.
The EU is here to stay. The three largest nations control it, without much democracy and the markets are closed. To gain access to the markets you either have to be a member or pay an insane fee.
Norway is not a member, so we pay a fee that is larger than Germany to the EU just to get access to their markets. Norway has 4 640 200 citizens, Germany got 83 251 851. In return we must also make all these directives a part of Norwegian law to ensure Norwegian corporations compete on equal terms and do not gain any advantage.
Norway can afford it, but most nations in Europe can not. They just bend over and hope to get accepted.
Not sure we have it any better outside and we have to follow all the madness they decide yet we have no way to influence the decisions of the EU.
I've stayed pro-US all my life, but the developments the past 5 years has made me even more skeptical to the US than the EU. I see both as a big threat to privacy.
The world is pretty much screwed the way I see it. I fear that there is no return.
Yeah. The outlook is bleak and there is no information from Comodo (who now owns the distro after they bought Trustix a few years ago).
Noticed on the homepages of the former core developers that they are in fact using Ubuntu today. That really says a lot to me.
Unless Comodo issues some statment I would consider Trustix dead. It's sad, as I've used the distro for over 6 years and come to love it quite pationately. Even invested a lot of free time providing/taking free support on their mailing list. Starting migration to Ubuntu very soon. Better safe than sorry.
The major strength of Trustix was it's simplicity and security. Also the fact that it was a small distro made me able to get closely in contact with the developers and be able to make them streamline packages for my use.
And the security once offered by Trustix is now also offered by almost any distro.
And we, the Trustix users, had it coming all along. A small company owned the distro, it was not communitybased or backed by a major company with clear visions on the field. Comodo seemed very hostile from the minute they aquired Trustix.
RIP.
To make the attack more effective you create a domain with a huge TXT record, and use it for those queries...
I'm not familiar with LANDesk, but I assume it's similar to VNC. I do use DameWare at work, which is VNC on steroids.
It can install itself on the client, and you can do a lot remotely without bringing up the screen of the luser. I respect their privacy and often try and fix stuff in the background while they do their job. If I need to have their screen I phone them up and ask for permission. Then I go in and they see a big warning that I remotely took control.
In the beginning I was worried that the lusers would question privacy, but none have done so since I installed DameWare a year ago. When asked, they feel confident in that popup warning.
As a single admin responsible for 10 servers and 260 lusers spread across 6 locations (two of which require boat for access, one require a 2 hour drive...) this is absolutely godsent. Those long travels are replaced with radio links and remote management and everyone is happy.
Before this the luser had to wait up to weeks for me to find time to dedicate an entire day to traveling and fixing their small problem.
Cheap too!
For patches I use WSUS and for software deployment I use Group Policy (AD is the directory service around here, Windows on desktops, but mostly Linux servers).
You really ought to try stuff like SopCast and TVKoo.
I live in a place where there is no cable companies, the airwaves dosn't bring any TV signals and sattelite TV is just too damned expencive. BitTorrent based streaming is here today, all you need is legal content to put on it.
Exactly. And don't you think IBM revealed their plans to Apple, if they were interested in keeping Apple as a customer?
And they are also working on a new app called DIMP which is basicly IMP (the email app of the suite) with AJAX. Hoping it will be the new groupware solution for my org within a year.
I think you mean RIS, not RIP.
Anyways, Ghost and RIS have their strong sides and weaknesses:
- Ghost can do multicast, but is bad a lot of work when your hardware isn't 100%
- RIS can't do multicast, but is a breeze when you have mixed hardware
Without multicast RIS is hopeless if you need to retank a whole computer lab, but for the odd install it's perfect and cheap.
I need the multicast function, but also need more flexibility on the images. My next step is to investigate Altiris.
The way I do it:
- Configure a temp mailserver that forwards your companies email to the current MX
- Change the MX records to point to this server
- As the TTL expires and changed propogate you start seeing hits on your server. It still just forwards it to the old MX..
- Verify the headers of the email you receive, you can see if it's delivered via your MX or not
- When it seems all mail comes through your temp MX you either reconfigure it the way you want it or drop in a new one with the desired config
Then you have double-buffered the whole process.
If you control the original MX you can do it the other way around and make it relay directy to your new MX.
Which is funny, because the record companies insists on claiming that this is to hurt the 'big guys' and that the problems the average user has is just collateral damage. Seeing how easy it is to circumvent that argument fails miserable.
If it's not dog slow could you please help Cisco?
Their admin tool is built on Java and brings a 3GHz machine with 512MB RAM to a standstill.
Also, the developers of Azureus needs your help, their app is also dog slow and eats whatever memory it can find.
I could find more apps for you, but whenever I try a Java application I shudder because it is unresponsive and hogging resources. It *could* of course be clueless developers, but the problem seems too widespread to me.
Oracle has sucky documentation?t abase10gr2.html
Not to get horribly off topic, but: http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/da
I think it said something like 5000 pages when I sent the printjob to my boss' printer (Hey, he refused me the 2-day DBA!).
Fingers will always point at the sysadmin. And if you are running a MS product I challenge you to point any fingers in their direction in case of failure.
In my experience you are fare more likely to get your problems fixed with OSS software than with proprietary software. The OSS dev usually takes personal pride in fixing the issue while the vendor takes pride in pushing blame and costs onto you.
The only thing I can threaten with is going to a competitor or switch to an OSS alternative. Legal battles doesn't get you anywhere and certainly won't bring the systems back up.
Works really bad. Applications disappear or shift screens. A minimized app that pops up one of those 'ok'-boxes can't be reopened...
Gonna give this alternative a try.
You are somewhat right. If you look agnostic on the issue and define Windows as only the OS and not the platform you are right. To have a functional Windows server you need to rely on third party software aswell, as there is no complete solution from MS (like the Linux kernel guys doesn't provide a complete solution). My main headache with our Windows servers is that third party applications break all the time after Microsoft has released a patch or two.
I use Trustix on my Linux servers and have had *no* such issues the 5 years I've been running Trustix Secure Linux.
Where I work the TCO of the Windows server is a lot higher than of Linux because of this (and simply the fact that Linux uses text-based configs; upgrades/reinstallations/restore from HW failure is quick and painless. No wondering under *which* menu the different settings are hidden or if I remembered to check all checkboxes!)
30 people and *3* IT workers?!
I got 150 lusers plus 200 students *alone*.
Clueless boss or not I want your job!
2.3MB/s? I got a Linux box with 233MHz as router/firewall for 4 networks and get about 90mbit (11MB/s) through it, even with NAT taking place. If I had the guts I'd make it boot from a CF-card, but I chickened out and put a RAID in it instead. Should be about as stable as any black box out there.
I would certainly go for a Linux-based firewall in front of it (or *BSD if that's you flavour). I see little use in a software based firewall on the server itself. A bridge is totally transparent and will give you full filtering capabilities.
I totally agree with you.
Being willing to adapt and learn is the key that brought me where I am today.
Coming straight from school there is a limit to what I know, but my willingness to accept a challenge and my ability to stick with it until it's solved is what landed me with a IT management job 4 months after graduating.
(and if there was no Google I would have been unemployed. There is rarely a challenge I solve without you... Please accept my old trusted keyboard as a sacrifice.)
> iTunes survives on a thin number of subscribers compared to the number of people who still warez their music, simply because iTunes costs money.
Let's not forget that iTunesMS isn't avalible everywhere and that it has a nasty DRM and not playable on anything but iTunes and the iPod.
They need to take a long hard look at what the consumers want and then adjust. If they do not provide what the consumer wants, the consumer will turn to whatever provides it.
I don't think the need for everything to be free is the major force. Of course, I don't shit money either.
Like said a thousand times already: this is useless.
You can access the iPod like any other firewire harddrive. You cna copy the files to and from it. No need for a special program to copy them off. To copy files TO the iPod you need to alter a database on the iPod aswell, which means you need some app.
The format of the DB has been reverse engineered for years and is widely documented. The DB is there because you save time and power reading from the DB instead of scanning vast directories for files and ID3 tags.
Read it again and think of how a complete generation is becoming 'criminals' as we speak. Don't get caught up in the nonsense of the text.
The Hacker Manifesto
by
+++The Mentor+++
Written January 8, 1986
Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...
Damn kids. They're all alike.
But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a hacker, enter my world...
Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
Damn underachiever. They're all alike.
I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.
I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks I'm a smart ass.. Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.
And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...
You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.
This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.
I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.
>You don't get that kind of experience from a computer.
True. But you won't get it at most theaters either.
I get a far superior experience at home with a cheap projector, a dropdown from IKEA and a DVD-player with surrounds speakers that cost me $300.
Perhaps a great, modern theatre in the US (mesa lives in Norway) is worth it's money, but I refuse to pay $15 to watch a movie where I do not even get the real feel of surround sound.
Sadly there is like a year to the DVD-version hits the shelves here so if I don't want to have the movie ruined by spoilers I have to watch this shabby release.