GRUB has a boot-loader level password, and seems to be taking over as the gold standard Linux boot-loader anyway. AFAIR LILO has that functionality too.
But then windows boxes in a lab are even easier to own with a floppy disk . ..
I think the bottom line in a lab that is "public" to any degree is image early, image often.
Snort could help here too by identifying funny network traffic coming from any of the boxes in the lab.
DeVry and Phoenix have very little in common. Phoenix is a fully accredited institution and DeVry is not. Phoenix focuses on students with significant life experience, usually including some traditional university work. Phoenix has pretty normal, well-rounded curricula, whereas DeVry, AFAIK, is a "tech school," meaning that there is little, if any, emphasis on non-major topics such as English and Humanities.
Also, the efficency of a generator powering a small load is TERRIBLE! If you are running loads totaling a couple of KW gens are bad, but for a 200 watt computer the generator will not run well at all.
I've only ever worked with gens in the Army, but you should always run a gen loaded. If you don't have a sufficent load you add what we just called a load, which is nothing but a heating coil AKA a big ass resistor.
Then it comes down to what you mean by efficiency. Pound-for-pound and dollar-for-dollar gens and gas are pretty hard to beat, and you can piss a lot of gas away in heat before batteries start looking good.
I asked myself the same question. I couldn't find any such thing, so I whipped up a little website and started working on the first book. I have some basic ideas for a full-blown curriculum that I intend to clean up and use to seed a wiki.
The main thing that I hope to do is comb public domain works to create a complete set of copyleft (FDL) course materials that support a full (written) k-12 curriculum.
I haven't really built enough of a . . . kernel to make very good use of outside help, but if someone wants to talk more email me at the address on the site (not the/. address above).
Not to mention the effort required to start each track.
I don't think Microsoft has a solution for this, but you could grab cygwin and write a pretty simple shell script that launches WMP or whatever with each song in a directory as an arguement. You could probably traverse directories or even use find to just play (or try to play) each and every file with a given extenstion.
Anyone have any idea how this little bitty (and pretty cheap) thing does real time MP3 encoding? From the article:
Another feature allows the Duo to act as a recording device. Just insert the Duo into a cassette recorder and press the record button and it will convert an analog source into MP3 audio.
I'm I just out of it, or is that pretty impressive?
You might want to take a look at the recent/. story on flywheels. The big advace is that they are using very light carbon-fiber flywheels that are on a magnetic axle in a near vaccuum. They spin really fast. They store just as much energy as more typical heavy flywheels that spin at reasonable speeds on mechanical axles.
How about human powered flight + ultra-light carbon fiber flywheels?
Peddle at a leisurely pace for 30 minutes, press the "takeoff" button, then continue peddling enough to keep the "fuel gauge" (energy in the flywheel) up to a reasonable level. Have a computer control prop output to maintain a minimal airspeed to conserve energy.
I'm no engineer, but I think this could really work.
You can run Linux on PC hardware which is way cheaper than Apple hardware, and it will run better than Linux on PPC.
While this is the conventional wisdom, and I have always been an anti-mac guy, I priced a dual gigy PowerMac with a 17in FP and found that perfomance-for-perfomance (as opposed to MHz for MHz) the price is about the same as an Intel box. I think you may actually do a bit better with the Apple when you consider (hardware) support. For me the sexyness factor of the Mac puts it over the top. I mean, the MB is mounted to the side panel. It has handles. It isn't beige (or black, which was cool 'till it was over-done).
I'd love to run a dual flat panel PowerMac, but it requires the whooptie Ge-whiz-force4 Unubtanium or whatever. I can't find any Linux info except "not supported" for any currently shipping video other than the Radeon. Is support for this setup on the horizon?
First, be aware that there is a difference between justice and defense
Vigilante justice is not the solution. When I discover someone has burgled my house, and I have reason to believe I KNOW who did it, that does not entitle me to go break into their house to take my stuff back and avenge myself upon them.
Well, you have really twisted my example around. Someone actively attacking your computer (network) or actively breaking into your house is not related to your vigilante revenge scenario in any way, so I'll dismiss it out of hand.
I can only think of one set of circumstances in which our culture and law condone vigilante justice: self defense of a human being against bodily harm.
It is important to remember that computer crime is almost universally property crime. With rare exceptions there is absolutely no danger to the person of a human being posed by computer cracking, and thus no reasonable basis for authorizing vigilante justice.
Not sure what "our" culture is here.
In general you have just as much authority to use force to defend another person from violence as you do to defend yourself. Even if you don't know the person.
I live in Colorado where I may shoot a person dead if he is both 1. on my property and 2. I have reasonable cause to beleive he is or is about to commit another crime (against a person or property.)
I think your opinion is based more on your pacifistic world-view than on any actual facts.
I don't see where Mullen defends the "DOS for the sake of copyright."
What he says on the issue is:
Mullen said his hack-back idea is different because it is designed to improve the security of cyberspace and would not harm any computer systems.
What he seems to be advocating is decriminalization of defending your computer against an active attack. I tend to agree. It's like saying it isn't theft to take a crowbar away from someone who is using it to jimmy your front door.
The author has blurred all sorts of lines, viruses and worms, copyright and attack, defense of ones computer and defense of ones IP.
I'd be interested to hear Mullen's comments on the story.
First, the article sort of glosses over the process of finding a live, but unused, ethernet drop. Many companies don't just leave these lying around, they patch jacks in as needed. (IOW, the jacks are there, but generally only the used ones are "live.")
The other is that a "foreign" MAC might be noticed more quickly.
Two more advantages for the CDR method!
-Peter
Wouldn't it be cheaper and just as effective
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to just burn a CDR that boots Linux and does all the same stuff on a PC with any of the top X ethernet cards? Set it up to stubbornly ignore all keyboard input and never display anything on the screen. Write "coaster" on it with a black magic marker, drop it in some currently unused PC and hit power/reset and haul ass. Do it at 4:50 PM on a Friday and you'll probably have to 9:00 AM on monday to own some other box on a more permanent basis.
Hell, you might be able to modify a tomsrtbt to do this and wipe (or dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0; dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/fd0) the diskette once the ramdisk is loaded.
IOW, this whole thing strikes me as more of a "stunt" than a "hack."
Many have mentioned pair programming, which will definitely help. But beyond that the prioitize, estimate, produce, analyze, repeat cycle will surely help as well.
When you miss your deadline you will have a. done all you can do and b. something that has 100% functionality on the top x% of features instead of something that has 100% of the features x% of the way to working.
First, you forgot your trailing slash. I've been spending too much time with computers . . . I actually had trouble parsing your statement at the end!
Beyond that, that simple replacement does not fix your logical problem. If you can xmit at a data rate of 1 gagillion bits/second, you only need 1 gagillionth of the "atoms" in the universe. While this is certainly a practial limitation it is not the physical limitation you make it out to be.
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GRUB has a boot-loader level password, and seems to be taking over as the gold standard Linux boot-loader anyway. AFAIR LILO has that functionality too.
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But then windows boxes in a lab are even easier to own with a floppy disk . .
I think the bottom line in a lab that is "public" to any degree is image early, image often.
Snort could help here too by identifying funny network traffic coming from any of the boxes in the lab.
-Peter
except for .bashrc and a script that puts everything back in order on login? (Hint: put the "guest" ~ on a ramdisk so this doesn't cause slow login.)
Might be nice to have a policy "You can't 'check out' until you log out." so no one gets stuck with someone elses freakish preferences.
Or you could just give away (restricted) accounts with ~ on NFS, a small quota, and automate removal after 30 days of inactivity or something.
-Peter
Holy shit. You didn't even have to click a link and read an article to get that.
-Peter
DeVry and Phoenix have very little in common. Phoenix is a fully accredited institution and DeVry is not. Phoenix focuses on students with significant life experience, usually including some traditional university work. Phoenix has pretty normal, well-rounded curricula, whereas DeVry, AFAIK, is a "tech school," meaning that there is little, if any, emphasis on non-major topics such as English and Humanities.
I've only ever worked with gens in the Army, but you should always run a gen loaded. If you don't have a sufficent load you add what we just called a load, which is nothing but a heating coil AKA a big ass resistor.
Then it comes down to what you mean by efficiency. Pound-for-pound and dollar-for-dollar gens and gas are pretty hard to beat, and you can piss a lot of gas away in heat before batteries start looking good.
-Peter
I asked myself the same question. I couldn't find any such thing, so I whipped up a little website and started working on the first book. I have some basic ideas for a full-blown curriculum that I intend to clean up and use to seed a wiki.
/. address above).
The main thing that I hope to do is comb public domain works to create a complete set of copyleft (FDL) course materials that support a full (written) k-12 curriculum.
I haven't really built enough of a . . . kernel to make very good use of outside help, but if someone wants to talk more email me at the address on the site (not the
-Peter
SquirrelMail is a web-based IMAP client. Among its many features are . . . LDAP address book (RW).
You could use this for adding addresses and using your IMAP server remotely, and use any other IMAP client(s) for all other purposes.
-Peter
Clearly, and I don't. I was trying to address the problem given the existing situation.
I use flac and ogg on Linux, so I don't have to worry about it.
-Peter
Not to mention the effort required to start each track.
I don't think Microsoft has a solution for this, but you could grab cygwin and write a pretty simple shell script that launches WMP or whatever with each song in a directory as an arguement. You could probably traverse directories or even use find to just play (or try to play) each and every file with a given extenstion.
-Peter
Anyone have any idea how this little bitty (and pretty cheap) thing does real time MP3 encoding? From the article:
I'm I just out of it, or is that pretty impressive?
-Peter
When did carbon-fiber become massless?
/. story on flywheels. The big advace is that they are using very light carbon-fiber flywheels that are on a magnetic axle in a near vaccuum. They spin really fast. They store just as much energy as more typical heavy flywheels that spin at reasonable speeds on mechanical axles.
You might want to take a look at the recent
-Peter
How about human powered flight + ultra-light carbon fiber flywheels?
Peddle at a leisurely pace for 30 minutes, press the "takeoff" button, then continue peddling enough to keep the "fuel gauge" (energy in the flywheel) up to a reasonable level. Have a computer control prop output to maintain a minimal airspeed to conserve energy.
I'm no engineer, but I think this could really work.
-Peter
While this is the conventional wisdom, and I have always been an anti-mac guy, I priced a dual gigy PowerMac with a 17in FP and found that perfomance-for-perfomance (as opposed to MHz for MHz) the price is about the same as an Intel box. I think you may actually do a bit better with the Apple when you consider (hardware) support. For me the sexyness factor of the Mac puts it over the top. I mean, the MB is mounted to the side panel. It has handles. It isn't beige (or black, which was cool 'till it was over-done).
-Peter
I'd love to run a dual flat panel PowerMac, but it requires the whooptie Ge-whiz-force4 Unubtanium or whatever. I can't find any Linux info except "not supported" for any currently shipping video other than the Radeon. Is support for this setup on the horizon?
Anyone know where I can get any info?
-Peter
Yes, in much the same way that a .50BMG, which is capable of vaporizing a gopher, vaporizes when fired at one.
. . . wait, that's not right . .
-Peter
In general you have just as much authority to use force to defend another person from violence as you do to defend yourself. Even if you don't know the person.
I live in Colorado where I may shoot a person dead if he is both 1. on my property and 2. I have reasonable cause to beleive he is or is about to commit another crime (against a person or property.)
I think your opinion is based more on your pacifistic world-view than on any actual facts.
-Peter
What he says on the issue is: What he seems to be advocating is decriminalization of defending your computer against an active attack. I tend to agree. It's like saying it isn't theft to take a crowbar away from someone who is using it to jimmy your front door.
The author has blurred all sorts of lines, viruses and worms, copyright and attack, defense of ones computer and defense of ones IP.
I'd be interested to hear Mullen's comments on the story.
-Peter
A couple more things.
First, the article sort of glosses over the process of finding a live, but unused, ethernet drop. Many companies don't just leave these lying around, they patch jacks in as needed. (IOW, the jacks are there, but generally only the used ones are "live.")
The other is that a "foreign" MAC might be noticed more quickly.
Two more advantages for the CDR method!
-Peter
to just burn a CDR that boots Linux and does all the same stuff on a PC with any of the top X ethernet cards? Set it up to stubbornly ignore all keyboard input and never display anything on the screen. Write "coaster" on it with a black magic marker, drop it in some currently unused PC and hit power/reset and haul ass. Do it at 4:50 PM on a Friday and you'll probably have to 9:00 AM on monday to own some other box on a more permanent basis.
Hell, you might be able to modify a tomsrtbt to do this and wipe (or dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0; dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/fd0) the diskette once the ramdisk is loaded.
IOW, this whole thing strikes me as more of a "stunt" than a "hack."
-Peter
This was my biggest gripe for a long time.
Try a recent version of X and KDE. Fonts look great.
Next step, finding a way to replace X all together.
-Peter
I can't believe that no one has brought up Extreme Programming yet!
Many have mentioned pair programming, which will definitely help. But beyond that the prioitize, estimate, produce, analyze, repeat cycle will surely help as well.
When you miss your deadline you will have a. done all you can do and b. something that has 100% functionality on the top x% of features instead of something that has 100% of the features x% of the way to working.
Good luck.
ALICE would have told you if you asked her.
-Peter
I don't have moderator points, so I'll just post at 2 below this ;-)
You could roll your own based on VNC by creating your own VNC client that generates it's own scriptable mouse and keyboard events.
Then just run the standard server on the tested system.
-Peter
I hope Gene Roddenberry is getting a credit on the paper.
-Peter
First, you forgot your trailing slash. I've been spending too much time with computers . . . I actually had trouble parsing your statement at the end!
Beyond that, that simple replacement does not fix your logical problem. If you can xmit at a data rate of 1 gagillion bits/second, you only need 1 gagillionth of the "atoms" in the universe. While this is certainly a practial limitation it is not the physical limitation you make it out to be.
-Peter