How nice of them to post his home address and social security there.. I can already imagine the identity thieves registering several credit cards and mortages with his name.
Now the real question is, is that person actually who they thought it is?
Or did they just victimize some innocent man for something he didn't do at all..
find model that comes with serial or even usb datacable or has one available at stores, then hook it up to old pc
there are readymade software for your own sms-gateway
if the phone has gprs, another use is to remote control the pc over gprs
perhaps hook few motion detecting web cams and ups to the pc and you have your own wireless security system that can send images of the intruder to online storage
They're trying to achieve too much with simple idea.
It's obvious that you cannot power entire laptop with that magnet-coil setup, and it just adds extra weight which isn't nice. But how about using the idea on wireless keyboards?
The extended weight wouldn't really be problem since the keyboard just sits on your table.
I don't have one nearby so I could check how much it consumes, but this ps/2 keyboard seems to draw 200mA.
The old article discussed that you could generate 0.1W at typing 10 keypresses at 1sec, which sounds quite much, unless you're writing something long that takes alot of keyboard pushes.
But imagine some of that power being stored in capacitors and later when capacitors are full, they're used to charge the batteries in the keyboard.
It could extend the battery life for days.
I'm not creative fanboy, audigy was just first card that I found with optical out with fast google.
I just vouch for creative products because I still use my creative sb64 gold and have no plans on upgrading until this motherboard with isa bus dies.
There are plenty of other sound card options such as MOTU(high end) and hercules at low end, but the open source support varies, though it exists.
Just use optical output at the soundcard such as sb audigy.
The signal will be in totally digital form, until your amplifier D/A converts it back to audio.
That way your computer/soundcard won't affect the sound quality at all.
You really really really don't want emergency service calls routed over packet switched network.
The network described is best effort service with no built-in QoS features. Yes, you can set the qos bit, but can't users do that same with custom voip software aswell? I'd perfer my emergency calls routed through circuit switched network, since there's actually chance for them to get through in it.
And what's with this reinventing the wheel again?
TETRA is already existing standard for public safety communications, it still works at speeds of 200km/h, circuit switched, encrypted secure transfer medium by default, nationwide user groups, integraded ptt in devices etc etc.
If your mobile phone is new enough, and your operator supports it, you could use GPRS for surfing/email.
I'm not sure what the data transfer fees are for GPRS data in usa, but here plain random surfing/email gives me ~$5/month extra in my bill.
That would be near your budget if the pricing is same. Though I'm guessing you could even get it cheaper there if the operator just supports it.
this is a bit expensive solution, but you could buy two active usb hubs and extend your usb ports near the display then attach external usb cd/dvd drive and you're all set
Symantec does real security products as well as norton, which is software geared for home users.
They have real hardware firewalls aswell, see Gateway security 400 or 5400.
Cisco hardware isn't secure by default.
They have minimal configuration which will make it run(this is good thing from a view of network engineer, since the device will be configured when placed in its place), but it'll be open to the world with default password until changed.
Same thing with linksys, but atleast they include ip filter which allows access only from certain private host/range.
I never claimed that systems where norton is on, should be well configured. If you have system with norton, you're most likely home user.
My point was that corporate networks don't use software firewalls, and home users won't use cisco hardware, unless they found something on ebay for bargain. And if the user knew to look for cisco from ebay, there are good chances that he/she knows how to configure that device to be secure. Home users and linksys is another story.
Cisco/linksys stuff out of the box is insecure by default, which is not good.
Have you ever tried any cisco software(not ios), but their vpn clients etc?
From my experiences, those are worst crap I've seen since mobile data suites.
It's easy to compare hardware firewall to some software like norton av. The software runs on your workstation instead on separate box and cpu. It's clear it'll eat resources when processing incoming/outgoing traffic.
But why compare them in first place? Nobody in corporate networks should run any software like that on their machines in first place.
The it administration should have limited certain set of programs that user can run, and they shouldn't have permissions to install any own software on machines.
If you notice the AV part in Norton, it pretty clearly hints that it's anti-virus, not firewall. And can you really compare anti-virus to firewall/router?
Sure, there are some L7 firewalls, which slow the traffic equally(depending on connection and traffic load of course), but they are pretty much outside budget and overkill solution for most users anyway.
sure, book is nice to handle and to read, but most of the contents handle stuff that requires you to operate computer while reading if you want to get most out of it
now wait 5 years and all second hand bookstores are filled with these books and nobody wants them, because firefox 2.0 or 3.0 or some other better browser already made it obsolete technology
I guess my point here being, save a tree, save some shelf space, save as pdf instead
> due to a very poorly designed reactor, a shutdown of the insufficient safety systems, and a government that didn't care about its people.
What exactly was wrong with the reactor design with Chernobyl? ~70 percent of worlds nuclear reactors are almost identical to the Chernobyl reactor, only difference being that no-one is running unauthorized experiments with all safety precautions manually overridden on those still active.
> None of those conditions exists in US nuclear power plants.
Are you willing to bet your life on that?
Remember the blackouts few months ago, which were caused by virus infection in power supply services?
In other words, how close to a nuclear facility are you living?
This won't be best solution noise-wise, but this would extend the drive lifetime.
Cut extra holes to the case and build air-flow tunnel to help cooling the drives. I measured drop from 46C to 25C with 12cm nexus low speed fan.
My setup looks roughly like this from above:
|A_A____AAA|
|/A|AAAA|AA:
A==|AHDA|AA:
A|A|AAAA|AA: holes to allow flow through
A==|____|AA:
|\_AAAAAAAA|
=========== -front panel
(replace the A's with space, my ascii art won't scale right)
So basically there's two 12cm fans, one for each 3 drives, there's enough airflow to fit 9 or even 12 drives, but my current setup uses only 6 drives. Height might become problem in midi atx for more drives.
The air flower is made from two empty pringles cans, can base removed and can cut in half, then taped together so that the height is equal to the case height.
Attach the fans to the air flower, so that they suck air into the case.
The case itself is standard midi-atx case from where I removed all drive slots, no need for 5"1/4
slots since this is for network storage. You can use air ventilation strip (or what ever it's called) to build attachment place for the hd.
It has perfect readymade hole size for hard drive screws.
It looks roughly like this:
_____________
oo/-\oo/-\oo/-\oo
oo\_/oo\_/oo\_/oo
-----------------
There's few holes on the other side of the case allowing air flow through the case passing the hard drive. The design is pretty much 1:1 copy from compaq proliant tower model.
For performance, if you can shell out few more $$, consider using serial-ata drives instead.
Wiring 9 hard drives in normal case makes quite cable mess and it won't help the air flow inside the case.
Faster memory/cpu fsb might increase performance, but since you're probably the only user of that machine, network/cpu load won't probably be problem.
it's included in mobile phone standards that you must always be able to call emergency numbers 911 and 112 even without sim card in phone
it even bypasses keypad lock if you dial in 911 or 112
> OGO provides free SMS, and one IM service for 17.99
get stuff free, pay only 17.99
<offtopic rant> that sentence pretty much describes why I hate internet today<br> 3-4 years ago you could actually find stuff that you need easily, like datasheets for components etc. now you get 100 hits for sites selling the datasheets and you have to dig hours to find what you need</offtopic rant>
sms costs 5 cents to send, so 17.99 gets you 360 sms from your phone and sore thumbs
in average month, that's about 12 messages per day, which is alot from my point of view, then again, I might not be the most active sms sender
apparently it's too hard for these kids to use the IM clients in phones which work over GPRS
much cheaper than sms if you have to send more than one message
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> Long 10-12 hour car trips
um, take the train instead?
or fly?
if you must drive, just take one of those trains which have wagons for cars, which run overnight you sleep in the train overnight and wake up at morning near the place where you were going
now here's what might happen:
when the loki donations hit $29,000, the account suddenly gets suspended and owners get letter from paypal saying their account has been suspended because they're doing something against paypal AUP
not quite same thing, but this has happended before
the main reason for Finnish police acting was donate button on their page, which made under finnish law, the copyright infrigment into copyright crime, since they were making money with piracy.
True that the money was spent on paying their expenses running the dedicated server abroad, but it was still income from distributing copyrighted material. Point being you're not allowed to receive any income or donations from illegal material or byproducts of such, no matter what your expenses are while getting the material.
You're allowed to download such material under current fair use laws for personal use, as long there's no intention for profit. The line of intention was crossed on this occasion because of the donate button.
and despite of MPAA claims, it had absolutely nothing to do with the raid National Bureau of Investigation(KRP) made announcement that they(MPAA) were trying to fish off free publicity from their investigations, and had nothing to do with the shutdown
If I recall correctly, during cold war USA used cherokee language as encryption and soviets never managed to broke that.
You can still do the same thing with different languages and dialects:
Männähän huomen ottahan päiviltä se puskalan yrjänä.
That's plan written in finnish dialect, two or more people discussing about killing george bush tomorrow.
Even native finn would have to read that twice to understand what it says.
If you only studied the language, the true meaning wouldn't open by reading the sentence alone, you'd have to have lot of knowledge about the culture too to understand that sentence.
Some say that rauma-dialect sounds more like french than finnish if you hear it spoken, but that doesn't really apply for written language I guess.
With obscure language and obscure enough place, you don't need encryption to transfer confidential messages.
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How nice of them to post his home address and social security there.. I can already imagine the identity thieves registering several credit cards and mortages with his name.
Now the real question is, is that person actually who they thought it is?
Or did they just victimize some innocent man for something he didn't do at all..
*whistles tom dooley..*
if you snooped my slashdot login just now, I know you're within 30 meters
you'll recognize me from my baseball bat and my tinfoil hat
find model that comes with serial or even usb datacable or has one available at stores, then hook it up to old pc
there are readymade software for your own sms-gateway
if the phone has gprs, another use is to remote control the pc over gprs
perhaps hook few motion detecting web cams and ups to the pc and you have your own wireless security system that can send images of the intruder to online storage
possibilities are endless
see source code of the page to read the "hidden" (tho looks like old obsolete information) elements
present atleast on faq page
They're trying to achieve too much with simple idea. It's obvious that you cannot power entire laptop with that magnet-coil setup, and it just adds extra weight which isn't nice.
But how about using the idea on wireless keyboards? The extended weight wouldn't really be problem since the keyboard just sits on your table. I don't have one nearby so I could check how much it consumes, but this ps/2 keyboard seems to draw 200mA.
The old article discussed that you could generate 0.1W at typing 10 keypresses at 1sec, which sounds quite much, unless you're writing something long that takes alot of keyboard pushes.
But imagine some of that power being stored in capacitors and later when capacitors are full, they're used to charge the batteries in the keyboard. It could extend the battery life for days.
I'm not creative fanboy, audigy was just first card that I found with optical out with fast google.
I just vouch for creative products because I still use my creative sb64 gold and have no plans on upgrading until this motherboard with isa bus dies.
There are plenty of other sound card options such as MOTU(high end) and hercules at low end, but the open source support varies, though it exists.
Just use optical output at the soundcard such as sb audigy.
The signal will be in totally digital form, until your amplifier D/A converts it back to audio.
That way your computer/soundcard won't affect the sound quality at all.
cell phones have gps, just press 'show map' and tell him to come at the club at corner of this and that
You really really really don't want emergency service calls routed over packet switched network.
The network described is best effort service with no built-in QoS features. Yes, you can set the qos bit, but can't users do that same with custom voip software aswell?
I'd perfer my emergency calls routed through circuit switched network, since there's actually chance for them to get through in it.
And what's with this reinventing the wheel again?
TETRA is already existing standard for public safety communications, it still works at speeds of 200km/h, circuit switched, encrypted secure transfer medium by default, nationwide user groups, integraded ptt in devices etc etc.
If your mobile phone is new enough, and your operator supports it, you could use GPRS for surfing/email.
I'm not sure what the data transfer fees are for GPRS data in usa, but here plain random surfing/email gives me ~$5/month extra in my bill.
That would be near your budget if the pricing is same. Though I'm guessing you could even get it cheaper there if the operator just supports it.
this is a bit expensive solution, but you could buy two active usb hubs and extend your usb ports near the display
then attach external usb cd/dvd drive and you're all set
Symantec does real security products as well as norton, which is software geared for home users.
They have real hardware firewalls aswell, see Gateway security 400 or 5400.
Cisco hardware isn't secure by default.
They have minimal configuration which will make it run(this is good thing from a view of network engineer, since the device will be configured when placed in its place), but it'll be open to the world with default password until changed.
Same thing with linksys, but atleast they include ip filter which allows access only from certain private host/range.
I never claimed that systems where norton is on, should be well configured.
If you have system with norton, you're most likely home user.
My point was that corporate networks don't use software firewalls, and home users won't use cisco hardware, unless they found something on ebay for bargain.
And if the user knew to look for cisco from ebay, there are good chances that he/she knows how to configure that device to be secure. Home users and linksys is another story.
good hardware != security
Cisco/linksys stuff out of the box is insecure by default, which is not good.
Have you ever tried any cisco software(not ios), but their vpn clients etc?
From my experiences, those are worst crap I've seen since mobile data suites.
It's easy to compare hardware firewall to some software like norton av. The software runs on your workstation instead on separate box and cpu. It's clear it'll eat resources when processing incoming/outgoing traffic.
But why compare them in first place? Nobody in corporate networks should run any software like that on their machines in first place.
The it administration should have limited certain set of programs that user can run, and they shouldn't have permissions to install any own software on machines.
If you notice the AV part in Norton, it pretty clearly hints that it's anti-virus, not firewall. And can you really compare anti-virus to firewall/router?
Sure, there are some L7 firewalls, which slow the traffic equally(depending on connection and traffic load of course), but they are pretty much outside budget and overkill solution for most users anyway.
why print stuff like this in the first place?
sure, book is nice to handle and to read, but most of the contents handle stuff that requires you to operate computer while reading if you want to get most out of it
now wait 5 years and all second hand bookstores are filled with these books and nobody wants them, because firefox 2.0 or 3.0 or some other better browser already made it obsolete technology
I guess my point here being, save a tree, save some shelf space, save as pdf instead
> due to a very poorly designed reactor, a shutdown of the insufficient safety systems, and a government that didn't care about its people.
What exactly was wrong with the reactor design with Chernobyl?
~70 percent of worlds nuclear reactors are almost identical to the Chernobyl reactor, only difference being that no-one is running unauthorized experiments with all safety precautions manually overridden on those still active.
> None of those conditions exists in US nuclear power plants.
Are you willing to bet your life on that?
Remember the blackouts few months ago, which were caused by virus infection in power supply services?
In other words, how close to a nuclear facility are you living?
This won't be best solution noise-wise, but this would extend the drive lifetime.
Cut extra holes to the case and build air-flow tunnel to help cooling the drives.
I measured drop from 46C to 25C with 12cm nexus low speed fan.
My setup looks roughly like this from above: |A_A____AAA|
|/A|AAAA|AA:
A==|AHDA|AA:
A|A|AAAA|AA: holes to allow flow through
A==|____|AA:
|\_AAAAAAAA|
=========== -front panel
(replace the A's with space, my ascii art won't scale right)
So basically there's two 12cm fans, one for each 3 drives, there's enough airflow to fit 9 or even 12 drives, but my current setup uses only 6 drives.
Height might become problem in midi atx for more drives. The air flower is made from two empty pringles cans, can base removed and can cut in half, then taped together so that the height is equal to the case height.
Attach the fans to the air flower, so that they suck air into the case.
The case itself is standard midi-atx case from where I removed all drive slots, no need for 5"1/4 slots since this is for network storage.
You can use air ventilation strip (or what ever it's called) to build attachment place for the hd. It has perfect readymade hole size for hard drive screws.
It looks roughly like this: _____________
oo/-\oo/-\oo/-\oo
oo\_/oo\_/oo\_/oo
-----------------
There's few holes on the other side of the case allowing air flow through the case passing the hard drive.
The design is pretty much 1:1 copy from compaq proliant tower model. For performance, if you can shell out few more $$, consider using serial-ata drives instead.
Wiring 9 hard drives in normal case makes quite cable mess and it won't help the air flow inside the case.
Faster memory/cpu fsb might increase performance, but since you're probably the only user of that machine, network/cpu load won't probably be problem.
maybe someone decided to build dyson sphere instead
here's few links:
for MSN Messenger
for ICQ
for IRC
using GPRS isn't free either, but it's still cheaper compared to sending same amount of text over SMS
it's included in mobile phone standards that you must always be able to call emergency numbers 911 and 112 even without sim card in phone
it even bypasses keypad lock if you dial in 911 or 112
get stuff free, pay only 17.99
sms costs 5 cents to send, so 17.99 gets you 360 sms from your phone and sore thumbs
in average month, that's about 12 messages per day, which is alot from my point of view, then again, I might not be the most active sms sender
apparently it's too hard for these kids to use the IM clients in phones which work over GPRS
much cheaper than sms if you have to send more than one message
> Long 10-12 hour car trips
um, take the train instead?
or fly?
if you must drive, just take one of those trains which have wagons for cars, which run overnight
you sleep in the train overnight and wake up at morning near the place where you were going
now here's what might happen:
when the loki donations hit $29,000, the account suddenly gets suspended and owners get letter from paypal saying their account has been suspended because they're doing something against paypal AUP
not quite same thing, but this has happended before
the main reason for Finnish police acting was donate button on their page,
which made under finnish law, the copyright infrigment into copyright crime, since they were making money with piracy.
True that the money was spent on paying their expenses running the dedicated server abroad, but it was still income from distributing copyrighted material.
Point being you're not allowed to receive any income or donations from illegal material or byproducts of such, no matter what your expenses are while getting the material.
You're allowed to download such material under current fair use laws for personal use, as long there's no intention for profit.
The line of intention was crossed on this occasion because of the donate button.
and despite of MPAA claims, it had absolutely nothing to do with the raid
National Bureau of Investigation(KRP) made announcement that they(MPAA) were trying to fish off free publicity from their investigations, and had nothing to do with the shutdown
If I recall correctly, during cold war USA used cherokee language as encryption and soviets never managed to broke that.
You can still do the same thing with different languages and dialects:
Männähän huomen ottahan päiviltä se puskalan yrjänä.
That's plan written in finnish dialect, two or more people discussing about killing george bush tomorrow.
Even native finn would have to read that twice to understand what it says.
If you only studied the language, the true meaning wouldn't open by reading the sentence alone,
you'd have to have lot of knowledge about the culture too to understand that sentence.
Some say that rauma-dialect sounds more like french than finnish if you hear it spoken, but that doesn't really apply for written language I guess.
With obscure language and obscure enough place, you don't need encryption to transfer confidential messages.