Here here. We have 9 servers running on 4 physical machines running VMWare's ESX server on HS20 blades with a SAN..vmotion..etc.
Runs like a champ and we're actually, on average, using between 10 and 20% of the host machine. How they arrive at this aggregate percent load is a mystery to me. They run faster than their predecessors which in some cases isn't saying a lot. They do tend to do very well. Of course memory hogs or database servers don't belong here. Even file servers and especially exchange don't belong in a VM unless you're mid disaster recovery or something.
This is all common sense I thought. Hell even VMWare salespeople don't recommend running a high activity database on a VM.
The one lie I was told by a VMWare training guy from IBM was that emulating multiple processors, or more accurately the contention issues thereof, weren't an issue in a VMWare system. First a single processor has limitations in windows. One runaway process nearly kills the whole system. With 2 processors you can at least interact with the OS in a reasonable fashion while process X eats itself alive. However they haven't sufficiently dealt with the contention on virtualized processors which explains the resistance to recommending it.
Whatever VMs are freaking awesome and have saved my butt many times. Plus installing win2k3 from an ISO on SAN is unbelievably fast.
Moral of the story: Cluster your file, mail, and DB servers. VM the rest of it(unless I've forgot something). I guess very high volume web servers would need "bare metal." Also anything you seriously want to segregate from the network needs an air-gap and a VM really isn't good enough despite the VLAN handling for virtual NICs.
Surely Verizon wasn't the first company to do VoIP. They've patented hooking voip upto a PSTN. Which is the only way that VoIP can work in a mostly PSTN phone system.
Is Cisco's PSTN gateway next? Are they going to sue AT&T/SBC, SuddenLink, RoadRunner, Northland, COX, or the countless others doing the *exact* same thing?
Can someone please slap these trolls with prior art to nullify the patent and take the ammo out of these bastards patent gun. Can you hear me now? Good.
"More importantly, do you think it will ever gain traction among corporate users, or is its glitzy Aero interface destined to make it mainly a consumer OS?"
What traction? You order a new PC, you get Vista. You can use that vista license to install XP, but really it's inevitable.
If you're an MS shop, I challenge you to keep Vista from gaining traction.
You shouldn't have the DCE/RPC preprocessor running, you shouldn't be exposing RPC to the internet anyway. FC6 default install of 2.1.1.2 has it disabled in snort.conf.
There are some instances where this should be running such as internal traffic monitoring, but I don't see how this can hit people from the internet with fragmented RPC traffic unless they're allowing it at the firewall.
Also, don't run any network service as root. FC6 install of snort does run as root by default, kinda lame.
-u username -g groupname arguments in the init script when starting the daemon will make it run as username:groupname credentials. nobody:nogroup maybe. Consider also chroot jail.
Reminds me of Pandora's Star. He went into some interesting descriptions of DoS and brute force attacks as part of the action. In many cases though, the people with money, or the Sentient Intelligence machine, far outclassed government or citizen systems.
What was kind-of creepy is the speed and agility that a machine would have in dismantling cyber security constructed by apes. Also people with implanted circuitry could be messed with if their hardware was downlevel.
Smart guys adept at programming need a good challenge.
It would be sweet to develop realtime OS apps for lunar rovers, or missle guidance software, satellite software, etc. All really cool and really rare. Like a high school football player wanting to play in the super bowl...and ends up 2nd string cornerback in some arena football crap.
Yeah, just got through watching superbowl, my analogies are jacked.
Once it's right, you don't need to advocate it. The big problem seems to be that there are 3 or 4 good distros, 20 other reasonable distros, infinity+1 live CDs/usb disks.
There is no real "linux" people can wrap their mind around. An expert at SUSE 10.2 probably isn't totally adept with FC6, Kubuntu, or even SUSE 9.x for that matter. File structures aren't the same, package managers are different... though that is getting better. Hell, you use KDE or gnome? x.org? xgl? compiz? beryl? I wish it was just different software stacks making different distros, but there are real differences and most people don't have time to give a rats ass.
People want to pay roughly $800 and get a thing that does all that crap they used to do plus some other stuff they need to do. They want that damn Quicken cash register they bought at SAMs for their small business to automagically fill out their 10-99s etc and have some sort of tie-in to their CRM/logistics and their "online business." Also, it should probably kick out pretty charts and crap for the loan officer/investors.
Forks are good and healthy but you have zealotry within linux, factions inside the userbase. Ask two linux users which distro is best and you'll get 2 answers. Narrow it down to "for desktops" or "for LAMP" you still get 2 answers each. Then some hoser says NetBSD to further the confusion. Or a debian "purist" advocates using yesterday's technology tomorrow.
Linux has a ton of things going for it, but there are far too many variations and forks to even jack with. Most people aren't retarded. They do want stability though, and they want off the shelf stuff. They want a thing they can see on the shelf at Best Buy, blow their money on, run a CD, plug it in and tear ass with it doing all the cool crap they saw in the commercial or on the box.
Long story short, make linux "just work." Funny how people keep saying that, then they create a new fork. Capitalist society, socialist OS.
If you don't do business outside the US, filtering by geographic registration for the subnet works wonders. A little hard to set up but once you use the geographically filtered email to train your Bayesian filter, you really get 99.9% or better. Currently getting approx 99.97% accuracy and very little false positives. Pleased as punch.
If it's conjestion etc control, QoS and back-offs ought to fit the bill. If it's having a "jail" network, several vendors do that too. Also, it's called a VLAN stupid.
Jury's still out, but none of the features discussed seem worth a crap. Just more icing on a mostly icing cake..err cupcake.
I think this also renders a 30fps 1024x768 MPEG 4 video stream of bells and whistles to a non-existant loopback UDP listener...to keep the processor warm, also implements the little known while(1); algorithm.
Just kidding. It's hard as hell, and after you've payed Cedega to get your Halflife2 running, you'll upgrade video cards and the framerate will drop through the floor due to some gayness or the other. Not to mention the fact that by even using Cedega you've halfway sold your soul to satan...the wine half I suppose. And don't ever say wine isn't the best app in linux, because it is, seriously it is.
You'll then backup your important files, and reboot with an XP install CD in the drive, dump your ext3 partitions, and go all NTFS. End of story.
All this was after you spent months denying yourself common abilities taken for granted in the good 'ol windows days. Before you react to that statement, think about it. Sure *almost* everything is possible in linux, but you have to add the damn WHATEVER package repositories after you google for an hour to find out you need them, then google for another hour to find a damn forum post half way down the third page in a thread that points you to the precise syntax for your distro. Then it IS easy, all you have to do is a string of COMMAND LINE entries then a simple sudo gedit/etc/CONFIGFILE and change the line where it says WORKPROPERLY=0 to 1. After that it's a hop-skip-and-jump to sudo/etc/init.d/THEDAEMON restart.
As far as Ubuntu "just working" I have to agree...mostly... I did an upgrade via gksudo (upgrademanager?) -c and it allowed me to upgrade. It downloaded a ton of crap and configured it all, then it rebooted. BLAMMO X server couldn't start, would you like to see a log file about it?
Hell no I don't want to see a log file about it, I want you to load the vesa driver and re-autodetect my ATI graphics card you supported perfectly in the previous version. That's what windows would do. It would dump you in "VGA Mode" - read VESA 16 or 8 bit color @ 800x600 or 640x480 @ 60Hz, whichever highest mode worked for your card, once in windows it would plug-n-play your card and prompt for a reboot. Why? because it lives and dies by the GUI. No GUI => No OS. You don't get a command line crutch unless you count Bart's PE.
Turns out they renamed the apt-get packages for the video driver, didn't include VESA as a standard, and generally borked it. So even though I knew enough to edit my/etc/X11/xorg.conf file and change the driver= line to vesa. It still couldn't load the module because they left that crap out. c'mon vesa got left out? c'mon. BTW the new ATI driver is attained by doing something like "apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati" It used to be "apt-get install xserver-xorg-driver-ati" WTF was that change about? Was it worth pissing me off and dropping countless Thinkpad users to a console after an upgrade? That was rhetorical. Answer: NO (the resounding kind)
So sure the upgrade was flawless except the part where I had to download a driver from a command prompt because there was no VGA mode type safe-modish GUI. elinks and links were notably absent in the CLI. It did have nano, at least they don't expect people to use vi for crissakes.
Don't kid yourselves, linux is by geeks, for geeks. If you know what you're doing it can kick the living crap out of Windows about 85 times in a second and continue to run for years on end... But a lot of the time it does seem like too many chefs making bad soup.
So this is too brilliant. You get to view the code after you accept the Associated Shared Source License. I don't think they could have come up with a better acronym if they had tried. ASS License.
It isn't good or bad, its somewhere in between. Sure you could join up, give yourself some supermodel physique and tear ass around the world spouting the same dumb ass crap you would in your normal body. Dur, that's a given.
What I saw in my first few minutes there was not the NOAA link I originally signed up for...which by the way, kind-of sucks. But I found an International Space Museum that offered crude, but better than I've come across inside views of the space shuttle, Virgin galactic, and even the monkey-death-trap-based cockpits. This was along with 3D models of any rocket I could and couldn't really think of with an info placard that briefly explained its service history. (shhh they even had commie rockets!) It was like 3 flight museums rolled into one. There even happened to be a guest speaker about Hubble at the time. His speech was bland and predictable. blah blah pillars of creation...blah blah (insert generic Hubble image quote). The real kicker was an animated 3D image of the approximated guts of Hubble. Now any enterprising person interested in space imagery or astrophysics would already have a Sombrero Galaxy (M104) desktop image. But people that think stars are pretty crap that shows up at night, and mostly in rural areas would really stand to learn something. Plus this guy is really a PhD, with enough interest in spreading truth that if I had a good question to ask him, I might've learned something.
I later attended a course in scripting objects that communicate with the SL world. Sounds gay to be sure, but the guy was a human teaching other students how to work in the world with a very basic tool set of comm functions. He handed out example objects with code tied to them and *we* uncommented pertinent lines of code to alter the objects behavior. It was definitely a 101 course but it had a human element. Q&A that you don't get from a wikipedia or some 3l173 guy saying RTFM. You could actually ask a pro with absolutely $0 spent and no time really wasted on finding him. It was like a class at the Y for SL scripting.
So for everyone that says WTF, I agree completely. The alternate lifestyle via this medium is completely ridiculous. Like this one "girl" that was every bit of 36x24x36 at 6'2" and wearing something lacy that where it wasn't bear skin exposed erect, I kid you not, erect nipples under lace. To top it off, model face and some kind of feathered-bleached-layered hair-do that is pretty much what anybody would attempt to lay. That said, I can guarantee it was a 40 year old guy in the Midwest that had a penchant for children..If not it was a 300 pound woman in the Midwest missing said husband. SO YEAH, THERE IS A DIRTY UNDERBELLY. If you have half a brain cell, you can discard those dorks and move on with a pretty good educational tool.
What if the republican right has planned all along to build doubt about electonic voting via the inherently flawed Diebold machines. Now with their seeds of doubt they can attempt to overturn some of the legitimate "throwing the bums out" this November.
It's easy to block port 80, use a proxy. Use group policy to spread proxy settings before the block goes up.
Proxy's are their own kind of problem but with one you can block all outbound access from a workstation without authentication... unless it's absolutely required by bad software. Even then you can restrict it.
Yeah anyone whose glanced over discrete math would see the flaw in that implication. (good with math) => (bad with people). That's definately not a tautology. I'm a firm believer that: Ex (mathmetician(x) ^ socialite(x)). That's a backwards E in case you didn't notice. Imagine a proof by contradiction here.
This is the obvious evolution in organized crime via hacking. If you could infect the marketing dept of several companies directly by doing a little old fashion PI work (or looking at the company directory), you will have access to both typically non-technical people and people that have access to what is about to be spun from a company. So do some "insider" trading on that.
Ask a legitimate question and get a response. You're now whitelisted. Send them a document related to your question that happens to carry your trojan. You can now, at least, impersonate them on the network/read their mail/send mail on their behalf.
It's a crappy way to develop a bot net but it's a good way to get very specific espionage capabilites.
Why hasn't this been exposed in the past, I'm sure it's been going on for quite some time.
Longhorn will introduce double whammy IKE/kerberos/samba. You thought your samba client dropped a turd when you got 2003 running, just wait for Longhorn. Each XP(minimum) client system will have a unique copyrighted certificate that requires the server to call home to validate it before temporarily adding it to the cert store. This will be used to create a tunnel that must be used on all further transactions until it expires in 2 hours and the mothership must be contacted again.
Each copyrighted cert on the XP machines cannot be duplicated legally and requires activation and replacement from Redmond every 48 hours.
Thus it is somewhat more secure.. but mostly secure from non windows interlopers due to copyright and need for almost constant contact with the internet.
I made all this up but honestly wouldn't put it past them. Good news is there are plenty of linux based NAS solutions out there...which will be locked out of AD/LDAP by some proprietary garbage or the other.
I just hope I'm there when MS drives the final nail into their own coffin. There has to be a tipping point somewhere.
I know this is "enumerating badness" but why not just filter the URLs of known offenders of this nature. The real fix of course is to not allow documents to load even "innocous" content but in the meantime this seems reasonable.
Sony used to be synonymous with high quality cutting edge products. Now errr... they have a nice game console. The high-end audio is totally out of thier reach. They push overpriced middle market products which are often inferior. Depending on where you buy "Sony" you may or may not be getting products from the same manufacturer. Subtle differences in model # for quite a while have been the difference between quality hardware and crap. The model #s differ by a small degree. Basically there's a Wal-Mart Sony and a high end Sony. Not dissing Wal-Mart intentionally, but they sell the cheap Sony.
Either way McIntosh, among countless others have stomped them into the ground repeatedly on fidelity and features. Pick up ANY home audio mag and try to find Sony in a positive light, or if you can, find them at the top of the heap... you can't. But the pricing is still geared that way. Sony Entertainment has so many black eyes they look like a bruised potato and I refuse to do business with them. I really hate it for good filmmakers roped into the Sony production line, it's everyones loss there.
You have a thoughtfull scientist + a crazy man. The only reason that Adam is there is to introduce chaos and to be the "x factor" that attracts viewers. Jamie is there to lend credibility to their dubious experimentation.
A lot of the time though the experiments Jamie creates are very crude and not optimal solutions. For instance the cat burglar thing. He used gigantic permanent magnets to climb the ventilation that made a ear shattering thud each time they connected to metal. Much less the fact that his design relied on metallic ventilation systems. The design constraints for ventilation do not include magnetism. However Adam's solution involved vacuum pressure. A ventilation system is designed around good airflow which usually involves smooth surfaces aside from odd instances where a precisely textured surface reduces friction, not likely in ventilation systems.
Adam, the idiot protagonist, had a better design because his exploit involved an unavoidable property of ventilation. Jamie just tried to do something different or was brain-dead and used a coincidental, though widespread, property of the medium.
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Here here. We have 9 servers running on 4 physical machines running VMWare's ESX server on HS20 blades with a SAN..vmotion..etc.
Runs like a champ and we're actually, on average, using between 10 and 20% of the host machine. How they arrive at this aggregate percent load is a mystery to me. They run faster than their predecessors which in some cases isn't saying a lot. They do tend to do very well. Of course memory hogs or database servers don't belong here. Even file servers and especially exchange don't belong in a VM unless you're mid disaster recovery or something.
This is all common sense I thought. Hell even VMWare salespeople don't recommend running a high activity database on a VM.
The one lie I was told by a VMWare training guy from IBM was that emulating multiple processors, or more accurately the contention issues thereof, weren't an issue in a VMWare system. First a single processor has limitations in windows. One runaway process nearly kills the whole system. With 2 processors you can at least interact with the OS in a reasonable fashion while process X eats itself alive. However they haven't sufficiently dealt with the contention on virtualized processors which explains the resistance to recommending it.
Whatever VMs are freaking awesome and have saved my butt many times. Plus installing win2k3 from an ISO on SAN is unbelievably fast.
Moral of the story: Cluster your file, mail, and DB servers. VM the rest of it(unless I've forgot something). I guess very high volume web servers would need "bare metal." Also anything you seriously want to segregate from the network needs an air-gap and a VM really isn't good enough despite the VLAN handling for virtual NICs.
Surely Verizon wasn't the first company to do VoIP. They've patented hooking voip upto a PSTN. Which is the only way that VoIP can work in a mostly PSTN phone system.
Is Cisco's PSTN gateway next? Are they going to sue AT&T/SBC, SuddenLink, RoadRunner, Northland, COX, or the countless others doing the *exact* same thing?
Can someone please slap these trolls with prior art to nullify the patent and take the ammo out of these bastards patent gun. Can you hear me now? Good.
I call shenanigans, get your brooms.
"More importantly, do you think it will ever gain traction among corporate users, or is its glitzy Aero interface destined to make it mainly a consumer OS?"
What traction? You order a new PC, you get Vista. You can use that vista license to install XP, but really it's inevitable.
If you're an MS shop, I challenge you to keep Vista from gaining traction.
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Context sensitive menus. (Sep 2 '97)
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5664133&id
Tons of other crap
http://www.google.com/patents?zoom=4&q=microsoft&
Damn and the scientists thought autism was on the rise! Looks like it's been going strong and the "more reported" advocates are right.
The wireless mouse
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT7102616&id
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http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT7107428&id
Animation?
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPATD528550&id
IBM's Turn
THE SPACEBAR! (some mechanical merit)
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPATD528550&id
Just wierd - Not IBM, but contained in a search for IBM: Depth charge!
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT1459793&id
You shouldn't have the DCE/RPC preprocessor running, you shouldn't be exposing RPC to the internet anyway. FC6 default install of 2.1.1.2 has it disabled in snort.conf.
There are some instances where this should be running such as internal traffic monitoring, but I don't see how this can hit people from the internet with fragmented RPC traffic unless they're allowing it at the firewall.
Also, don't run any network service as root. FC6 install of snort does run as root by default, kinda lame.
-u username -g groupname arguments in the init script when starting the daemon will make it run as username:groupname credentials. nobody:nogroup maybe. Consider also chroot jail.
Old tips http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?date=2005-10-18
Reminds me of Pandora's Star. He went into some interesting descriptions of DoS and brute force attacks as part of the action. In many cases though, the people with money, or the Sentient Intelligence machine, far outclassed government or citizen systems.
What was kind-of creepy is the speed and agility that a machine would have in dismantling cyber security constructed by apes. Also people with implanted circuitry could be messed with if their hardware was downlevel.
Pretty unrelated, but still totally awesome.
Should it be patented or copyrighted?
Smart guys adept at programming need a good challenge.
It would be sweet to develop realtime OS apps for lunar rovers, or missle guidance software, satellite software, etc. All really cool and really rare. Like a high school football player wanting to play in the super bowl...and ends up 2nd string cornerback in some arena football crap.
Yeah, just got through watching superbowl, my analogies are jacked.
Once it's right, you don't need to advocate it. The big problem seems to be that there are 3 or 4 good distros, 20 other reasonable distros, infinity+1 live CDs/usb disks.
There is no real "linux" people can wrap their mind around. An expert at SUSE 10.2 probably isn't totally adept with FC6, Kubuntu, or even SUSE 9.x for that matter. File structures aren't the same, package managers are different... though that is getting better. Hell, you use KDE or gnome? x.org? xgl? compiz? beryl? I wish it was just different software stacks making different distros, but there are real differences and most people don't have time to give a rats ass.
People want to pay roughly $800 and get a thing that does all that crap they used to do plus some other stuff they need to do. They want that damn Quicken cash register they bought at SAMs for their small business to automagically fill out their 10-99s etc and have some sort of tie-in to their CRM/logistics and their "online business." Also, it should probably kick out pretty charts and crap for the loan officer/investors.
Forks are good and healthy but you have zealotry within linux, factions inside the userbase. Ask two linux users which distro is best and you'll get 2 answers. Narrow it down to "for desktops" or "for LAMP" you still get 2 answers each. Then some hoser says NetBSD to further the confusion. Or a debian "purist" advocates using yesterday's technology tomorrow.
Linux has a ton of things going for it, but there are far too many variations and forks to even jack with. Most people aren't retarded. They do want stability though, and they want off the shelf stuff. They want a thing they can see on the shelf at Best Buy, blow their money on, run a CD, plug it in and tear ass with it doing all the cool crap they saw in the commercial or on the box.
Long story short, make linux "just work." Funny how people keep saying that, then they create a new fork. Capitalist society, socialist OS.
If you don't do business outside the US, filtering by geographic registration for the subnet works wonders. A little hard to set up but once you use the geographically filtered email to train your Bayesian filter, you really get 99.9% or better. Currently getting approx 99.97% accuracy and very little false positives. Pleased as punch.
If it's conjestion etc control, QoS and back-offs ought to fit the bill. If it's having a "jail" network, several vendors do that too. Also, it's called a VLAN stupid.
Jury's still out, but none of the features discussed seem worth a crap. Just more icing on a mostly icing cake..err cupcake.
I think this also renders a 30fps 1024x768 MPEG 4 video stream of bells and whistles to a non-existant loopback UDP listener...to keep the processor warm, also implements the little known while(1); algorithm.
Just kidding. It's hard as hell, and after you've payed Cedega to get your Halflife2 running, you'll upgrade video cards and the framerate will drop through the floor due to some gayness or the other. Not to mention the fact that by even using Cedega you've halfway sold your soul to satan...the wine half I suppose. And don't ever say wine isn't the best app in linux, because it is, seriously it is.
/etc/CONFIGFILE and change the line where it says WORKPROPERLY=0 to 1. After that it's a hop-skip-and-jump to sudo /etc/init.d/THEDAEMON restart.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file and change the driver= line to vesa. It still couldn't load the module because they left that crap out. c'mon vesa got left out? c'mon. BTW the new ATI driver is attained by doing something like "apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati" It used to be "apt-get install xserver-xorg-driver-ati" WTF was that change about? Was it worth pissing me off and dropping countless Thinkpad users to a console after an upgrade? That was rhetorical. Answer: NO (the resounding kind)
You'll then backup your important files, and reboot with an XP install CD in the drive, dump your ext3 partitions, and go all NTFS. End of story.
All this was after you spent months denying yourself common abilities taken for granted in the good 'ol windows days. Before you react to that statement, think about it. Sure *almost* everything is possible in linux, but you have to add the damn WHATEVER package repositories after you google for an hour to find out you need them, then google for another hour to find a damn forum post half way down the third page in a thread that points you to the precise syntax for your distro. Then it IS easy, all you have to do is a string of COMMAND LINE entries then a simple sudo gedit
As far as Ubuntu "just working" I have to agree...mostly... I did an upgrade via gksudo (upgrademanager?) -c and it allowed me to upgrade. It downloaded a ton of crap and configured it all, then it rebooted. BLAMMO X server couldn't start, would you like to see a log file about it?
Hell no I don't want to see a log file about it, I want you to load the vesa driver and re-autodetect my ATI graphics card you supported perfectly in the previous version. That's what windows would do. It would dump you in "VGA Mode" - read VESA 16 or 8 bit color @ 800x600 or 640x480 @ 60Hz, whichever highest mode worked for your card, once in windows it would plug-n-play your card and prompt for a reboot. Why? because it lives and dies by the GUI. No GUI => No OS. You don't get a command line crutch unless you count Bart's PE.
Turns out they renamed the apt-get packages for the video driver, didn't include VESA as a standard, and generally borked it. So even though I knew enough to edit my
So sure the upgrade was flawless except the part where I had to download a driver from a command prompt because there was no VGA mode type safe-modish GUI. elinks and links were notably absent in the CLI. It did have nano, at least they don't expect people to use vi for crissakes.
Don't kid yourselves, linux is by geeks, for geeks. If you know what you're doing it can kick the living crap out of Windows about 85 times in a second and continue to run for years on end... But a lot of the time it does seem like too many chefs making bad soup.
So this is too brilliant. You get to view the code after you accept the Associated Shared Source License. I don't think they could have come up with a better acronym if they had tried. ASS License.
It isn't good or bad, its somewhere in between. Sure you could join up, give yourself some supermodel physique and tear ass around the world spouting the same dumb ass crap you would in your normal body. Dur, that's a given.
What I saw in my first few minutes there was not the NOAA link I originally signed up for...which by the way, kind-of sucks. But I found an International Space Museum that offered crude, but better than I've come across inside views of the space shuttle, Virgin galactic, and even the monkey-death-trap-based cockpits. This was along with 3D models of any rocket I could and couldn't really think of with an info placard that briefly explained its service history. (shhh they even had commie rockets!) It was like 3 flight museums rolled into one. There even happened to be a guest speaker about Hubble at the time. His speech was bland and predictable. blah blah pillars of creation...blah blah (insert generic Hubble image quote). The real kicker was an animated 3D image of the approximated guts of Hubble. Now any enterprising person interested in space imagery or astrophysics would already have a Sombrero Galaxy (M104) desktop image. But people that think stars are pretty crap that shows up at night, and mostly in rural areas would really stand to learn something. Plus this guy is really a PhD, with enough interest in spreading truth that if I had a good question to ask him, I might've learned something.
I later attended a course in scripting objects that communicate with the SL world. Sounds gay to be sure, but the guy was a human teaching other students how to work in the world with a very basic tool set of comm functions. He handed out example objects with code tied to them and *we* uncommented pertinent lines of code to alter the objects behavior. It was definitely a 101 course but it had a human element. Q&A that you don't get from a wikipedia or some 3l173 guy saying RTFM. You could actually ask a pro with absolutely $0 spent and no time really wasted on finding him. It was like a class at the Y for SL scripting.
So for everyone that says WTF, I agree completely. The alternate lifestyle via this medium is completely ridiculous. Like this one "girl" that was every bit of 36x24x36 at 6'2" and wearing something lacy that where it wasn't bear skin exposed erect, I kid you not, erect nipples under lace. To top it off, model face and some kind of feathered-bleached-layered hair-do that is pretty much what anybody would attempt to lay. That said, I can guarantee it was a 40 year old guy in the Midwest that had a penchant for children..If not it was a 300 pound woman in the Midwest missing said husband. SO YEAH, THERE IS A DIRTY UNDERBELLY. If you have half a brain cell, you can discard those dorks and move on with a pretty good educational tool.
What if the republican right has planned all along to build doubt about electonic voting via the inherently flawed Diebold machines. Now with their seeds of doubt they can attempt to overturn some of the legitimate "throwing the bums out" this November.
It's easy to block port 80, use a proxy. Use group policy to spread proxy settings before the block goes up.
Proxy's are their own kind of problem but with one you can block all outbound access from a workstation without authentication... unless it's absolutely required by bad software. Even then you can restrict it.
Yeah anyone whose glanced over discrete math would see the flaw in that implication. (good with math) => (bad with people). That's definately not a tautology. I'm a firm believer that:
Ex (mathmetician(x) ^ socialite(x)). That's a backwards E in case you didn't notice. Imagine a proof by contradiction here.
Or just use WSUS and decline that mofo.
This is the obvious evolution in organized crime via hacking. If you could infect the marketing dept of several companies directly by doing a little old fashion PI work (or looking at the company directory), you will have access to both typically non-technical people and people that have access to what is about to be spun from a company. So do some "insider" trading on that.
Ask a legitimate question and get a response. You're now whitelisted. Send them a document related to your question that happens to carry your trojan. You can now, at least, impersonate them on the network/read their mail/send mail on their behalf.
It's a crappy way to develop a bot net but it's a good way to get very specific espionage capabilites.
Why hasn't this been exposed in the past, I'm sure it's been going on for quite some time.
Longhorn will introduce double whammy IKE/kerberos/samba. You thought your samba client dropped a turd when you got 2003 running, just wait for Longhorn. Each XP(minimum) client system will have a unique copyrighted certificate that requires the server to call home to validate it before temporarily adding it to the cert store. This will be used to create a tunnel that must be used on all further transactions until it expires in 2 hours and the mothership must be contacted again.
Each copyrighted cert on the XP machines cannot be duplicated legally and requires activation and replacement from Redmond every 48 hours.
Thus it is somewhat more secure.. but mostly secure from non windows interlopers due to copyright and need for almost constant contact with the internet.
I made all this up but honestly wouldn't put it past them. Good news is there are plenty of linux based NAS solutions out there...which will be locked out of AD/LDAP by some proprietary garbage or the other.
I just hope I'm there when MS drives the final nail into their own coffin. There has to be a tipping point somewhere.
I know this is "enumerating badness" but why not just filter the URLs of known offenders of this nature. The real fix of course is to not allow documents to load even "innocous" content but in the meantime this seems reasonable.
This is awesome. When will they come out with 'still suits?
Sony used to be synonymous with high quality cutting edge products. Now errr... they have a nice game console. The high-end audio is totally out of thier reach. They push overpriced middle market products which are often inferior. Depending on where you buy "Sony" you may or may not be getting products from the same manufacturer. Subtle differences in model # for quite a while have been the difference between quality hardware and crap. The model #s differ by a small degree. Basically there's a Wal-Mart Sony and a high end Sony. Not dissing Wal-Mart intentionally, but they sell the cheap Sony.
Either way McIntosh, among countless others have stomped them into the ground repeatedly on fidelity and features. Pick up ANY home audio mag and try to find Sony in a positive light, or if you can, find them at the top of the heap... you can't. But the pricing is still geared that way. Sony Entertainment has so many black eyes they look like a bruised potato and I refuse to do business with them. I really hate it for good filmmakers roped into the Sony production line, it's everyones loss there.
Why can't they spell color properly? I keed I keed.
You have a thoughtfull scientist + a crazy man. The only reason that Adam is there is to introduce chaos and to be the "x factor" that attracts viewers. Jamie is there to lend credibility to their dubious experimentation.
A lot of the time though the experiments Jamie creates are very crude and not optimal solutions. For instance the cat burglar thing. He used gigantic permanent magnets to climb the ventilation that made a ear shattering thud each time they connected to metal. Much less the fact that his design relied on metallic ventilation systems. The design constraints for ventilation do not include magnetism. However Adam's solution involved vacuum pressure. A ventilation system is designed around good airflow which usually involves smooth surfaces aside from odd instances where a precisely textured surface reduces friction, not likely in ventilation systems.
Adam, the idiot protagonist, had a better design because his exploit involved an unavoidable property of ventilation. Jamie just tried to do something different or was brain-dead and used a coincidental, though widespread, property of the medium.
Why is this on slashdot anyway?