Oh, and to make it even more fun, my cisco router has one light per AUI port. Some times I'm not even sure why it is blinking:) (not to mention the serial ports which have NO stats lights...)
Ok, First off LED's as a status indicator just blink when there is activity. For example, a packet has been sent or received. Now how many variations can one packet have? I'm not even going to try to figure it out.
I can only think of one way this can happen. If someone wires up the LED's so that they are hooked directly to the transmit and receive wires so they do actually blink out the bits. Then one would need to send data slow enough so the LED (and receiver) can make out the individual pulses. In this respect, stupid=yes, impossible=no.
Or like usual, I could be just blowing smoke out my ass...
How is this different from the same hacker sitting in his basement wearing nothing but stained underwear and doing it from his home box?
The only argument is that he is more anonymous at the airport but I think he has less of a chance getting caught/in trouble from home. Have you ever tried to go after a person who port scanned you? You can spam abuse@hisisp all you want, they don't do crap. I know because I manage a lab at a college and I've tried to get peoples accounts pulled for trying to break into my systems. If you want the law involved its even worse because you need to prove >$5000 of damage was caused and all that crap.
With the paranoia around airports now a days I don't even want to bring my laptop with me. The less crap I have on me the less I have to worrry about.
Or I could just be blowing steam out of my ass... oh well.
Well, first off I don't believe this is FUD at all. It is more a "WTF?" kinda thing. I am squarely in the "WTF" category myself.
It's not that this is a freebee that makes me cock my head in confusion. It is the fact that they are doing it at a government office. I would be equally confused if Linux ended up in the USPS too. It just dosen't seem.... I dunno, kosher?
Lets all get our burners going and set up our own dump boxes next to the XP ones. Hehe, I would love to see people picking through trying to find their favorite "flavor" of linux.
With my luck with moderators I will prob end up with -500 notfunnygoburninhell for this, but what the hell, I think it is a great mental picture
This should be very easy to throw a larger drive into. Unless of course they did some of the whacky stuff TiVO did.. but even then it wouldn't be too bad.
Take this device and throw a 120gig WD drive in there. Or why not even take the existing HD out and put one of those little ram-disk things in there (you know what I mean, like the kind in the i-opener). Then you can have it be totally silent and just play movies off the file server hiding in the basement with 500gig of space. (What? You don't have one yet?:) Of course that may require a little more hacking because the little info we have says that it will play all those formats from the HD.
Having ethernet on it sure opens lots of neato doors.
The only down side that I can see is that it dosen't support the TiVO like recording functionality. You need to record your stuff somewhere else, then this just plays it. I see that as my only reason not to buy one.
Time for me to pimp my employer, Rochester Institute of Technology. If memory serves we have the only fab in the US that is owned by the college and used for teaching first, industry second.
Granted I work for Computer Engineering, not Micro-e so my brain is prob quite fuzzy on this. Of course the fab being right across the hall from my office is pretty damn cool.
you would only need a fab plant, and those are aval. at the cornor drugstore!
Oddly enough, I have a fab right across the hall from my office. Sure came in handy when I unlocked the bridges on my tbird. (good chemicals and tools, no I didnt open it up or anything stupid)
How much horsepower did the old Chrysler 300 have?
How much does it have now?
I personally do not have a problem with the PR rating _AS LONG AS_ the numbers are as close to truthful as can be. Now when Cyrix made those damn awful p rating chips and overrated them... that was just wrong.
Also the dept's you use, always the same tired "gee-that's-nice", "well-isn't-that-special" claptrap.
With, at the time of this post, 5995 articles I bet the little part of his brain that does the "dept" tag line is quite fried. I forgive him on that part. As for his stunning description of the factory that isn't, well... uh, yeah.
I have two dual boxes with 1g each in them and they seem to take whatever I throw at them. I have yet to have any panics or what-not. (So you know what kind of loads I'm talking about, one box runs 3 CS servers with 3 HLTV proxies and the other runs mysql, apache (slash), hlstats for the servers and is my desktop box. Both run DNS and RC5 and have 2.4.10 or greater). Nothing too bad, but not idle either). I have no complaints about the kernels yet.
Now getting ext3 in the tree is something I would like:)
Its production in the sense that it is my desktop box and I do my work on it. _I_ am the only user that relies on it. Infact, it is my personal box because the one that work was going to let me use SUCKED.
I do realize you are trolling around looking for replies, and it sort of worked (well, I am replying). Why don't you grow a set and log in next time trollboy?
I'm in almost the same boat... I can provide everything BUT the user accounts. That would get me not-employed very quickly.
If this can be figured out, I have a nice dual PIII 933 that would do quite a dandy job. (if I get really creative, I can put the sparc 10 (dual 50mhz) back up, then I'm not even touching a production machine)
I think it only really matters depending on who you get hooked up to when you call. I was having some issues with my RR account and at the time it was being NAT/Masq thru a FreeBSD box. Now RR had NO obligation to help me, but the guy I was talking to wanted to and actually had a clue about FreeBSD.
Non-Official support is mainly a way so that if they can't help you, it's not their fault. It dosen't mean they _wont_ help. (save for the time you get the ass-much tech support guy on the other side who keeps insisting that you need to reinstall your TCP/IP stack because thats what his computer tells him you need to do, but thats another rant)
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LOL, One would hope or else these stats lights would be very pretty yet quite useless. :)
Oh, and to make it even more fun, my cisco router has one light per AUI port. Some times I'm not even sure why it is blinking :)
(not to mention the serial ports which have NO stats lights...)
I can only think of one way this can happen. If someone wires up the LED's so that they are hooked directly to the transmit and receive wires so they do actually blink out the bits. Then one would need to send data slow enough so the LED (and receiver) can make out the individual pulses. In this respect, stupid=yes, impossible=no.
Or like usual, I could be just blowing smoke out my ass...
The MS solution was "don't install SP2, just wait for SP3 to come out." That was many months down the road.
The only argument is that he is more anonymous at the airport but I think he has less of a chance getting caught/in trouble from home. Have you ever tried to go after a person who port scanned you? You can spam abuse@hisisp all you want, they don't do crap. I know because I manage a lab at a college and I've tried to get peoples accounts pulled for trying to break into my systems. If you want the law involved its even worse because you need to prove >$5000 of damage was caused and all that crap.
With the paranoia around airports now a days I don't even want to bring my laptop with me. The less crap I have on me the less I have to worrry about.
Or I could just be blowing steam out of my ass... oh well.
What is so flame-tastic about a joke? Oh yeah I forgot this is slashdot. No sense of humor at all...
It's not that this is a freebee that makes me cock my head in confusion. It is the fact that they are doing it at a government office. I would be equally confused if Linux ended up in the USPS too. It just dosen't seem.... I dunno, kosher?
With my luck with moderators I will prob end up with -500 notfunnygoburninhell for this, but what the hell, I think it is a great mental picture
SS1: http://draco.meatbarn.com/OpenAP/screenshot_boot_1 .jpg 1 .jpg 1 .jpg
SS2: http://draco.meatbarn.com/OpenAP/screenshot_boot_
SS3: http://draco.meatbarn.com/OpenAP/screenshot_boot_
Take this device and throw a 120gig WD drive in there. Or why not even take the existing HD out and put one of those little ram-disk things in there (you know what I mean, like the kind in the i-opener). Then you can have it be totally silent and just play movies off the file server hiding in the basement with 500gig of space. (What? You don't have one yet? :) Of course that may require a little more hacking because the little info we have says that it will play all those formats from the HD.
Having ethernet on it sure opens lots of neato doors.
The only down side that I can see is that it dosen't support the TiVO like recording functionality. You need to record your stuff somewhere else, then this just plays it. I see that as my only reason not to buy one.
(yes, this is a joke)
I'm not sure where its going (vs where I was).
I'm about to try and apply that patch and see what happens.
I hope /. dosent mangle this up too bad, but if it does:
0 658174003122&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=10
List: linux-kernel
Subject: Re: 2.4.15-pre9 breakage (inode.c)
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: 2001-11-24 5:55:42
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On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> --- 2.4.15pre9aa1/fs/inode.c.~1~ Thu Nov 22 20:48:23 2001
> +++ 2.4.15pre9aa1/fs/inode.c Sat Nov 24 06:30:20 2001
> @@ -1071,7 +1071,7 @@
> if (inode->i_state != I_CLEAR)
> BUG();
> } else {
> - if (!list_empty(&inode->i_hash) && sb && sb->s_root) {
> + if (!list_empty(&inode->i_hash)) {
> if (!(inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY|I_LOCK))) {
> list_del(&inode->i_list);
> list_add(&inode->i_list, &inode_unused);
I have to say that I like this patch better myself - the added tests are
not sensible, and just removing them seems to be the right thing.
Linus
If one gets too spammy, I just kill it and make a new one. Actually its not even that complex, they are just aliases :)
But then the heating bill would be outragous :)
ARgh
Granted I work for Computer Engineering, not Micro-e so my brain is prob quite fuzzy on this. Of course the fab being right across the hall from my office is pretty damn cool.
What.. no bad "Attack of the Clones" jokes yet? I'm surprised /. :)
Oddly enough, I have a fab right across the hall from my office. Sure came in handy when I unlocked the bridges on my tbird. (good chemicals and tools, no I didnt open it up or anything stupid)
How much does it have now?
I personally do not have a problem with the PR rating _AS LONG AS_ the numbers are as close to truthful as can be. Now when Cyrix made those damn awful p rating chips and overrated them... that was just wrong.
bah, whatever
With, at the time of this post, 5995 articles I bet the little part of his brain that does the "dept" tag line is quite fried. I forgive him on that part. As for his stunning description of the factory that isn't, well... uh, yeah.
Now getting ext3 in the tree is something I would like :)
I do realize you are trolling around looking for replies, and it sort of worked (well, I am replying). Why don't you grow a set and log in next time trollboy?
If this can be figured out, I have a nice dual PIII 933 that would do quite a dandy job. (if I get really creative, I can put the sparc 10 (dual 50mhz) back up, then I'm not even touching a production machine)
-paul
Non-Official support is mainly a way so that if they can't help you, it's not their fault. It dosen't mean they _wont_ help. (save for the time you get the ass-much tech support guy on the other side who keeps insisting that you need to reinstall your TCP/IP stack because thats what his computer tells him you need to do, but thats another rant)
-paul