forgot to mention - assuming you're bent on using/dev/random you should know that device may stall while waiting for more entropy to get stirred in from the keyboard. You really want/dev/urandom which is non-blocking. Getting random data is a rather expensive operation.../dev/zero or/dev/null are almost always better choices...
Atleast one couple was married online on the Userfriendly list (majordomo@lists.paralynx.com / subscribe userfriendly in the body). It works. There's plenty of HNGs (horney net geeks) out there to make it possible. I wouldn't however, recommend taking anything very seriously until you meet them IRL (duh).
Hrmph. It's not as if congress would actually pass a law outlawing the collection of personal info. It'll be a cold day in hell when that happens. What I'm saying here is - that's okay, but I want to know about it first.
That's it. I say we pass a law requiring the program to document all features. They can violate our privacy, but atleast we'll know what they're up to!
Competition is great for linux. My only question is - what features are they going to have that ipchains doesn't? I mean, we already have solid firewall support under linux - they're going to have a hard time selling a commercial product over a free one to the community without some serious features backing it up.
It's called a palm pilot. It has a programmable IR port. All you need to do is make an interface that records the on-off sequence and delay (short or long) and can then repeat it. This is trivial to do even without a CPU.
I did some experiments a long time ago back with electronics (back when I knew what a 555 IC was... heh), and I took a remote and a IR phototransistor and hooked it to an LED so I could see what it was transmitting. Almost all remotes use a system similar to morse code - that is short and long pulses seperated by a specific interval of dark.
In principal any device which can record and play back IR signals could be used as a remote. Infact, the industry has a fairly standard set of signals to send to/from your TV - just get a all-in-one remote and look at the guide. Manufacturers document all of this. The problem is with non-standard features like "still frame" in VCRs. Play, record, stop, ff, rewind, those are all standard. Things like accessing the TV's internal "menu" system isn't.
Thanks. That site was incredibly slow. Hopefully we can piece together a full mirror tonight. I only grabbed the pdf because the html one was spewing major server errors. I started about 20 simul downloads. 1 completed (and just barely).
Sorry. I don't buy it. If I go out and shoot you, it may be illegal.. but you're still dead.
Address the issue - not pass laws to try to make it disappear. I just had a lengthy discussion with somebody this afternoon about what "legal" means. Legal doesn't mean anything. You need to address the issue - ie: why did I kill you? instead of passing a law saying it's wrong. The latter will not stop me. Education will. Which one is the cheap solution, and which one is the best solution? I'll let you be the judge
Besides... the movie industry knew how important it was to make this format secure, and they blew it. If I entrusted billions of dollars into something on the premise that somebody wouldn't do it because it's illegal... that ought to be a shooting offense.
The emperor has no clothes. Sound familiar? Like the story, nobody wanted to acknowledge that the DVD encryption sucked - it was trivial to crack! I'm sure the people that initially released this knew it was weak. I mean... 4 bytes for encryption?
Now somebody comes out and says "Sir, you have no clothes"... and boy is the emperor pissed! MS did the same thing with hotmail (bad hackers, bad!) - blame somebody else. Security is not about ignoring issues.. it's about confronting them. Make it public.. let people try to crack it. If it stands the test of time... THEN it's secure, and not before then. The movie industry just spent several billions on security training.
Any stock analysts out there? You've gotta think this is just absolutely nuts. The company usually opens the shares at what/they/ think they'll sell them at. How come the tech stocks always exceed what the company thought they'd sell at? How long until the market deflates back to a more sane level?
These are important questions for anyone following this stuff...
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Yeah... welcome to the real world people. Silicon Valley ain't so glamorous. You're gonna work 60+ hours a week in a server closet with inadequate ventilation where the temperature is about 90o in the winter. Was this your idea of a dream job?
Computer geeks may be the latest thing to be... but there's a huge gaping chasm between what you see on TV and what your job really is. System admins are the janitors of e-business.. they clean up the messes from the PHBs, work long, late hours. It's a thankless job.. and it isn't the only one. Programmers are put under incredible stress to meet that next deadline... I'm suprised most of them aren't more neurotic from sleep deprivation. These poor souls literally live or die by whether or not somebody brought in the folgers this morning. Then you have the helpdesk. Need I say more? Technical support feels more like psychological support. Having been there myself, I can personally attest to this - I've had callers in the middle of domestics (you know - husband goes whacko) and had to step them through configuring their DUN because they were getting "Error -691... the computer you are dialling.."
Let's face it people, life in the computer field can suck. What we do at work is hell. What we do at home is heaven. Don't go for the long hours, the promise of IPO, or the lure of money. Ignore it all - if you wish for it you may just get it. Pursue your personal interests. Work a regular workday. Tell your boss to fsck off if he wants you to put in overtime without compensation. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AS AN EMPLOYEE.. and don't be afraid to use them. We're geeks.. but we're also professionals.. and we are deserving of the respect other professions receive.
Working with the fancy hardware is no excuse for them paying you nothing to work 60 hour weeks. Stand up - take the power back. Or unplug the server if you're the introverted type. =)
Ummm... since when was the absence of a cool hack a reason to get upset at someone? Maybe ESR didn't feel like doing too much... or really wanted to get the history and stuff down correctly (scratch that itch, as he'd put it). You know, the whole point is he contributed something.. does it matter who his name is?:\
Top 10 Reasons Free Software Really Pisses Off "the other guys":
10. We have GOD on our side. 9. Money? What's that? 8. Two words: contract enforcement 7. Our culture heroes actually work instead of worrying about the next third-wave paradigm shift in "IT" and writing books about roadmaps, "the roads ahead" and e-nothings. 6. Our source can beat up your source. 5. We didn't contract with the psychic hotline for our tech support. 4. WE ARE GEEKS WITH GUNS, so you'd better not try any of that "licensing" crap with us or we'll bust a 40 on you! 3. Crash, bork, die, hang, BSOD, nuke, fizzle... 2. Due to technical difficulties, #2 was lost. 1. We have a lovable penguin that children can identify with.. rather than the souless corporate icon of a window. =) Conversely, for the naughtier children, we have daemons.
Incase you're wondering why this is posted under the Loki thread... I have no idea... but it's funny enough that you can overlook this infraction, right?
But what about the OTHER plant! Look closely at the picture - see the other plant underneath the table? That's the one actually doing all the work! You see - the one above it, on the table, with the computer, is the Plant Manager! You see? Even in the plant kingdom there's managers. Kinda a depressing thought... they haven't evolved in millions of years much. And ever since we had that industrial revolution... I guess neither have we. *rimshot*
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Maybe they're planning on using spread-spectrum techniques with a "random number" to seed which frequency it uses, or similar.
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forgot to mention - assuming you're bent on using /dev/random you should know that device may stall while waiting for more entropy to get stirred in from the keyboard. You really want /dev/urandom which is non-blocking. Getting random data is a rather expensive operation... /dev/zero or /dev/null are almost always better choices...
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dd if=/dev/random of=/vmlinuz bs=1024 count=512
Which is easier to understand as well. Anyway, assuming you're planning on whacking vmlinuz, your most efficient methods are as follows:rm -f /vmlinuz
dd if=/dev/null of=/vmlinuz
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Thanks alot... now I have this insatiable desire to bake potatoes....
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No, actually I was thinking of something along the lines of "List Provocateur".... :D
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Atleast one couple was married online on the Userfriendly list (majordomo@lists.paralynx.com / subscribe userfriendly in the body). It works. There's plenty of HNGs (horney net geeks) out there to make it possible. I wouldn't however, recommend taking anything very seriously until you meet them IRL (duh).
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Hrmph. It's not as if congress would actually pass a law outlawing the collection of personal info. It'll be a cold day in hell when that happens. What I'm saying here is - that's okay, but I want to know about it first.
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That's it. I say we pass a law requiring the program to document all features. They can violate our privacy, but atleast we'll know what they're up to!
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Competition is great for linux. My only question is - what features are they going to have that ipchains doesn't? I mean, we already have solid firewall support under linux - they're going to have a hard time selling a commercial product over a free one to the community without some serious features backing it up.
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I did some experiments a long time ago back with electronics (back when I knew what a 555 IC was... heh), and I took a remote and a IR phototransistor and hooked it to an LED so I could see what it was transmitting. Almost all remotes use a system similar to morse code - that is short and long pulses seperated by a specific interval of dark.
In principal any device which can record and play back IR signals could be used as a remote. Infact, the industry has a fairly standard set of signals to send to/from your TV - just get a all-in-one remote and look at the guide. Manufacturers document all of this. The problem is with non-standard features like "still frame" in VCRs. Play, record, stop, ff, rewind, those are all standard. Things like accessing the TV's internal "menu" system isn't.
Hope this helps..
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Thanks. That site was incredibly slow. Hopefully we can piece together a full mirror tonight. I only grabbed the pdf because the html one was spewing major server errors. I started about 20 simul downloads. 1 completed (and just barely).
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Minneapolis,MN: All the techs here are singing holleyluya and throwing empty mtn. dew cans and nurf darts all over the place.
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Mirror here
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*cough* I, uhh.. have copyrighted the "..." subject line on slashdot. Please discontinue your use of it at once. =)
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I wonder how they tested their software.. considering linux crashes so rarely. *rimshot*
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Address the issue - not pass laws to try to make it disappear. I just had a lengthy discussion with somebody this afternoon about what "legal" means. Legal doesn't mean anything. You need to address the issue - ie: why did I kill you? instead of passing a law saying it's wrong. The latter will not stop me. Education will. Which one is the cheap solution, and which one is the best solution? I'll let you be the judge
Besides... the movie industry knew how important it was to make this format secure, and they blew it. If I entrusted billions of dollars into something on the premise that somebody wouldn't do it because it's illegal... that ought to be a shooting offense.
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The emperor has no clothes. Sound familiar? Like the story, nobody wanted to acknowledge that the DVD encryption sucked - it was trivial to crack! I'm sure the people that initially released this knew it was weak. I mean... 4 bytes for encryption?
Now somebody comes out and says "Sir, you have no clothes"... and boy is the emperor pissed! MS did the same thing with hotmail (bad hackers, bad!) - blame somebody else. Security is not about ignoring issues.. it's about confronting them. Make it public.. let people try to crack it. If it stands the test of time... THEN it's secure, and not before then. The movie industry just spent several billions on security training.
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These are important questions for anyone following this stuff...
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Computer geeks may be the latest thing to be... but there's a huge gaping chasm between what you see on TV and what your job really is. System admins are the janitors of e-business.. they clean up the messes from the PHBs, work long, late hours. It's a thankless job.. and it isn't the only one. Programmers are put under incredible stress to meet that next deadline... I'm suprised most of them aren't more neurotic from sleep deprivation. These poor souls literally live or die by whether or not somebody brought in the folgers this morning. Then you have the helpdesk. Need I say more? Technical support feels more like psychological support. Having been there myself, I can personally attest to this - I've had callers in the middle of domestics (you know - husband goes whacko) and had to step them through configuring their DUN because they were getting "Error -691... the computer you are dialling.."
Let's face it people, life in the computer field can suck. What we do at work is hell. What we do at home is heaven. Don't go for the long hours, the promise of IPO, or the lure of money. Ignore it all - if you wish for it you may just get it. Pursue your personal interests. Work a regular workday. Tell your boss to fsck off if he wants you to put in overtime without compensation. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AS AN EMPLOYEE.. and don't be afraid to use them. We're geeks.. but we're also professionals.. and we are deserving of the respect other professions receive.
Working with the fancy hardware is no excuse for them paying you nothing to work 60 hour weeks. Stand up - take the power back. Or unplug the server if you're the introverted type. =)
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Good question. I heard Microsoft hired Satan awhile back....
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Ummm... since when was the absence of a cool hack a reason to get upset at someone? Maybe ESR didn't feel like doing too much... or really wanted to get the history and stuff down correctly (scratch that itch, as he'd put it). You know, the whole point is he contributed something.. does it matter who his name is? :\
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You need a double latte with skim....
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10. We have GOD on our side.
9. Money? What's that?
8. Two words: contract enforcement
7. Our culture heroes actually work instead of worrying about the next third-wave paradigm shift in "IT" and writing books about roadmaps, "the roads ahead" and e-nothings.
6. Our source can beat up your source.
5. We didn't contract with the psychic hotline for our tech support.
4. WE ARE GEEKS WITH GUNS, so you'd better not try any of that "licensing" crap with us or we'll bust a 40 on you!
3. Crash, bork, die, hang, BSOD, nuke, fizzle...
2. Due to technical difficulties, #2 was lost.
1. We have a lovable penguin that children can identify with.. rather than the souless corporate icon of a window. =) Conversely, for the naughtier children, we have daemons.
Incase you're wondering why this is posted under the Loki thread... I have no idea... but it's funny enough that you can overlook this infraction, right?
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But what about the OTHER plant! Look closely at the picture - see the other plant underneath the table? That's the one actually doing all the work! You see - the one above it, on the table, with the computer, is the Plant Manager! You see? Even in the plant kingdom there's managers. Kinda a depressing thought... they haven't evolved in millions of years much. And ever since we had that industrial revolution... I guess neither have we. *rimshot*
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