I am sure this site will be linked elsewhere but here's one place to get blue lasers.
Expect to pay a pretty penny for one though.
http://wickedlasers.com/
In a related story, ex Iraqi Minister of Information Muhammen Saeed al-Sahaf has signed a three year deal with the RIAA to join their team as lead PR and spin technician.
What about qTopia or one of the other graphical systems designed for small devices like Open Zaurus? This small device seems to have a lot in common with, say, a Zaurus. Flash storage, small footprint etc...
It seems that that would be the ideal solution for something like this.
According to this link: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp , three of the patents (U.S. Patent #5,579,517, U.S. Patent #5,758,352 and U.S. Patent #6,286,013) all cover the "Common Name Space for short and long filenames."
What other parts of the FAT filesystem are protected by patents? This aspect of the FAT filesystem is just darn near obsolete as there aren't many systems that absolutely have to have the 8.3 format anymore are there?
Now, I have to admit, this is something that seems fairly specific to Microsoft's needs and is not a feature I've seen in any other filesystem. However, it also seems that this might be fairly easily just...excluded...without causing any really serious issues.
We had just put a new electro mag lock on the computer room door to go with the card swipe system we had been using elsewhere for quite some time.
There was a button marked "door release" on the inside of the computer room that you would use to disengage the lock.
However, it seemed that the somewhat impatient cleaning crew didn't read english so well. So, instead of pressing the button marked "release", she pushed the big red button underneath the clear lexan box.
This button happened to be the UPS kill switch. It instantly shut off all power to and from the 150,000 Va three phase, wall-sized UPS. And, of course, every computer in the computer room.
THAT was an interesting day.
Well, I am afraid the company I bought this from went under (Premier Advance Products) but a year or two ago, I purchased a slick little machine that's just a bit bigger than an external modem (about 5" x 3" x 2") and it's got a Pentium class CPU, 128MB, a 6GB 2.5" HD, ethernet, PCMCIA etc.
It fits in the accessory area of my laptop case so it's with me all the time.
I installed RedHat on this using a PXE server (comes with the RH distro) and I use this constantly for sniffing and network baselining.
On this box, I have ntop, tcpdump, ethereal (and tethereal), sniffit, etherape an any other open sniffer I could find. I simply put it out in an area I want to sniff and leave it for as long as it takes to find the issue. Then, I can come back to my desk and SSH into the machine whenever I need to look at traffic on that segment.
I've used this machine for diagnosing email issues in the DMZ, for analyzing traffic stats on segments that were running slow and even for impressing the bosses with the pretty graphs from ntop.
It's worked great for me. I would highly recommend something like this for people looking for a highly portable sniffer.
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I am sure this site will be linked elsewhere but here's one place to get blue lasers. Expect to pay a pretty penny for one though. http://wickedlasers.com/
In a related story, ex Iraqi Minister of Information Muhammen Saeed al-Sahaf has signed a three year deal with the RIAA to join their team as lead PR and spin technician.
What about qTopia or one of the other graphical systems designed for small devices like Open Zaurus? This small device seems to have a lot in common with, say, a Zaurus. Flash storage, small footprint etc... It seems that that would be the ideal solution for something like this.
According to this link: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp , three of the patents (U.S. Patent #5,579,517, U.S. Patent #5,758,352 and U.S. Patent #6,286,013) all cover the "Common Name Space for short and long filenames."
What other parts of the FAT filesystem are protected by patents? This aspect of the FAT filesystem is just darn near obsolete as there aren't many systems that absolutely have to have the 8.3 format anymore are there?
Now, I have to admit, this is something that seems fairly specific to Microsoft's needs and is not a feature I've seen in any other filesystem. However, it also seems that this might be fairly easily just...excluded...without causing any really serious issues.
I am probably oversimplifying things.
We had just put a new electro mag lock on the computer room door to go with the card swipe system we had been using elsewhere for quite some time.
There was a button marked "door release" on the inside of the computer room that you would use to disengage the lock.
However, it seemed that the somewhat impatient cleaning crew didn't read english so well. So, instead of pressing the button marked "release", she pushed the big red button underneath the clear lexan box. This button happened to be the UPS kill switch. It instantly shut off all power to and from the 150,000 Va three phase, wall-sized UPS. And, of course, every computer in the computer room. THAT was an interesting day.
Well, I am afraid the company I bought this from went under (Premier Advance Products) but a year or two ago, I purchased a slick little machine that's just a bit bigger than an external modem (about 5" x 3" x 2") and it's got a Pentium class CPU, 128MB, a 6GB 2.5" HD, ethernet, PCMCIA etc. It fits in the accessory area of my laptop case so it's with me all the time. I installed RedHat on this using a PXE server (comes with the RH distro) and I use this constantly for sniffing and network baselining. On this box, I have ntop, tcpdump, ethereal (and tethereal), sniffit, etherape an any other open sniffer I could find. I simply put it out in an area I want to sniff and leave it for as long as it takes to find the issue. Then, I can come back to my desk and SSH into the machine whenever I need to look at traffic on that segment. I've used this machine for diagnosing email issues in the DMZ, for analyzing traffic stats on segments that were running slow and even for impressing the bosses with the pretty graphs from ntop. It's worked great for me. I would highly recommend something like this for people looking for a highly portable sniffer.