One of my friends and I got bored one night, so we went driving...
I think the funniest SSID I saw was "bigfloppydonkeydick"...and that was BEFORE I found out it had default settings.
Other notables include: linkgoatse [mine; I should configure it to reroute all queries to the obvious, as a poster above did...] Linksys [note the case change!] dont_touch Sniff My Dump
Of course, I personally love "insecure"...you'd be surprised how many of the APs around me have that as the default.
My favorite was my friend daring me to connect, claiming he had a "secure" access point...and then, a day later, discovering the lack of encryption and default password.
I'll have a better list to post later; my ipw2200 outputs to dmesg every time an AP is detected.
All it takes is one player with an unsecured output line, and the protection is screwed.
Better yet, if they do it badly, you just need a 2:1 output:input cable [one input cable that splits the signal to two outputs], and if one goes to a legitimate output device, and the other goes to an unsecured device...you have a nice, convenient copy.
Finally, depending on how it's designed, how hard would it be to remove the known-to-be-decryptable ROM from a poorly designed player and swap in the chip from another player?
I'm just arguing for high quality encodes, because there is absolutely no way of preventing low quality encodes. The cat is, as has been said, out of the bag; we all have VCRs, and camcorders.
And just like DVDs today, all it takes is a decent amount of time and effort, and suddenly the keys you thought were secure are now being used to playback content under Linux.
I don't care how secure the encryption is, as everyone has already said, all it takes is a "legal" DVD player outputting a high quality signal into a capture card, and you have a decrypted copy.
I doubt that the industry is foolish enough to force consumers to upgrade their televisions to support some form of signal encryption, therefore this must fail.
If you have an old profile [I know I had 1.4, and it did], Portage will warn you to update your profile by changing a single symlink, which it will explain how to do if necessary.
You may notice a large number of Gentoo-related packages had version updates in the latest tree. emerge sync && emerge -auD world.
That'll re-emerge EVERYTHING...essentially, it pretends that you have no packages installed, and then does an emerge -uD world, if I understand correctly.
OpenOffice.org took inordinately long to start up, and perhaps it was the lack of an accelerated Radeon driver, but I could see the GUI being drawn line-by-line rather than instant rectfills.
OO.org takes an inordinately long amount of time to start on my 1.5 GHz Athlon XP I have running Linux from the hard drive at home, that's not the CD. And the lack of accelerated driver was probably it, since I've not had speed problems on machines in the 200-300 MHz range.
Does mdbtools have graphical schema, form, and report construction tools like M$ Access does? (looks at screenshot) No, a glorified terminal emulator that allows typing in SQL commands doesn't count as a GUI.
No, no. I meant mdbtools as a means to convert a database to a format readable by various Linux tools.
Now we can violate M$ EULAs that prohibit running covered products in any operating system but M$ Windows brand operating systems.
Last I checked, the MSVB runtimes don't have an EULA; you extract them, and use them. But that could just be my memory; I've not had the need to install them in a long time.
You appear lucky.
Win some, lose some. I admit, hardware support under Linux can fail at times. Given that they implement it themselves, most of the time, I'd think a lot is supported, wouldn't you?
I've thrown Knoppix in many machines, as experiments, and found the users more than willing to use it, and even able, usually.
You claim there is no Microsoft Word for Linux. Go look at Abiword or KWord, in KOffice; they work perfectly for me.
You claim there is no Access for Linux. Google for mdbtools, you'll find all the tools you need for moving from MDB to a reasonable database format.
You claim Visual Basic does not work under Linux. First, why the hell are you using Visual Basic on production systems? Second, WINE does Visual Basic rather well, last I checked, given the various VB controls.
You claim the cost of changing hardware is too high. I have never had to replace any of my hardware because it was not supported under Linux. Never. Whenever a machine did not have a driver, it was always because the hardware was new, and within a month or two, drivers appeared.
I've never seen any users go ballistic about how the text or "start" buttons look under Linux.
I don't know what environment you're in, but in my world, all Linux needs is to be given a chance.
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No. That's the point.
This browser, in theory, allows one to use the IE core or Mozilla core to browse a site.
Good idea...except that it's about as easy to use as MS Bob.
This was under Windows 2000 and Windows ME.
And it takes under 5 seconds on my 1.5 GHz Linux box.
Objection.
I manage a school which runs on old [200-350 MHz] machines, and they all use Firefox.
It takes about 5 seconds to open, but hell, IE takes more, and that's before anything's installed.
Set half of your neighbors to the lowest supported frequency, and the other half to the highest...
Put yours in the middle.
Voila. You have a working connection.
Also, I wandered around my neighborhood one day, on bike, because I was bored...
I live in a suburban neighborhood in the middle of the woods.
I found in excess of twelve access points.
Only two had non-default settings.
Needless to say, I don't need to worry about my broadband bill...
One of my friends and I got bored one night, so we went driving...
I think the funniest SSID I saw was "bigfloppydonkeydick"...and that was BEFORE I found out it had default settings.
Other notables include:
linkgoatse [mine; I should configure it to reroute all queries to the obvious, as a poster above did...]
Linksys [note the case change!]
dont_touch
Sniff My Dump
Of course, I personally love "insecure"...you'd be surprised how many of the APs around me have that as the default.
My favorite was my friend daring me to connect, claiming he had a "secure" access point...and then, a day later, discovering the lack of encryption and default password.
I'll have a better list to post later; my ipw2200 outputs to dmesg every time an AP is detected.
Nothing can save us from the terrible secret of space.
Unless we have protection.
Agreed.
You're right, I was just hypothesizing with the second paragraph, I wasn't thinking.
;)
And you're right, in more ways than one; this is Slashdot; nobody reads posts, they just mod them.
I thought of that shortly after I made the post...
Can't you just see it now? crack@Home?
All it takes is one player with an unsecured output line, and the protection is screwed.
Better yet, if they do it badly, you just need a 2:1 output:input cable [one input cable that splits the signal to two outputs], and if one goes to a legitimate output device, and the other goes to an unsecured device...you have a nice, convenient copy.
Finally, depending on how it's designed, how hard would it be to remove the known-to-be-decryptable ROM from a poorly designed player and swap in the chip from another player?
It's doable...but technically, a lot of things are doable.
It's far easier to just take a high-res cable from a legit decoder and capture it.
Indeed.
I'm just arguing for high quality encodes, because there is absolutely no way of preventing low quality encodes. The cat is, as has been said, out of the bag; we all have VCRs, and camcorders.
And just like DVDs today, all it takes is a decent amount of time and effort, and suddenly the keys you thought were secure are now being used to playback content under Linux.
I don't care how secure the encryption is, as everyone has already said, all it takes is a "legal" DVD player outputting a high quality signal into a capture card, and you have a decrypted copy.
I doubt that the industry is foolish enough to force consumers to upgrade their televisions to support some form of signal encryption, therefore this must fail.
START YOUR CLUSTERS!
*makes sure his copies of john are all up to date*
I remember playing Bolo.
What confuses me is, I remember playing it on a DOS/Win3x machine...
Good times, in any case.
for i in `seq 1 17`; do wget http://eigenradio.media.mit.edu/xmas2004/A_Singula r_Christmas_$i.mp3;done;
It works far better than anything else I've seen, since nobody has a torrent.
Unless you have a really old profile, it doesn't.
If you have an old profile [I know I had 1.4, and it did], Portage will warn you to update your profile by changing a single symlink, which it will explain how to do if necessary.
You may notice a large number of Gentoo-related packages had version updates in the latest tree. emerge sync && emerge -auD world.
That's about it.
emerge -e world it is, then?
That'll re-emerge EVERYTHING...essentially, it pretends that you have no packages installed, and then does an emerge -uD world, if I understand correctly.
Thank you. I was half-asleep from too much Bawls.
I can run Linux on that, with no speed problems.
Gimme the system, I'll throw in one of my ISA or PCI NICs, and do it for you. =P
$26 - PCChips "M811LU" KT266A Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A
$41 - AMD Athlon 1.33 GHz, 266MHz FSB, 256K Cache Processor - OEM
$10.75 - POWMAX 320W Power Supply for Intel and AMD systems Model "VP-320ATX"
$14.50 - Artec Black 56X CDROM, Model CHM-56, Retail
= $102.25, ignoring hard drive or anything else.
So no, probably not.
OpenOffice.org took inordinately long to start up, and perhaps it was the lack of an accelerated Radeon driver, but I could see the GUI being drawn line-by-line rather than instant rectfills.
OO.org takes an inordinately long amount of time to start on my 1.5 GHz Athlon XP I have running Linux from the hard drive at home, that's not the CD. And the lack of accelerated driver was probably it, since I've not had speed problems on machines in the 200-300 MHz range.
Does mdbtools have graphical schema, form, and report construction tools like M$ Access does? (looks at screenshot) No, a glorified terminal emulator that allows typing in SQL commands doesn't count as a GUI.
No, no. I meant mdbtools as a means to convert a database to a format readable by various Linux tools.
Now we can violate M$ EULAs that prohibit running covered products in any operating system but M$ Windows brand operating systems.
Last I checked, the MSVB runtimes don't have an EULA; you extract them, and use them. But that could just be my memory; I've not had the need to install them in a long time.
You appear lucky.
Win some, lose some. I admit, hardware support under Linux can fail at times. Given that they implement it themselves, most of the time, I'd think a lot is supported, wouldn't you?
I've thrown Knoppix in many machines, as experiments, and found the users more than willing to use it, and even able, usually.
You claim there is no Microsoft Word for Linux. Go look at Abiword or KWord, in KOffice; they work perfectly for me.
You claim there is no Access for Linux. Google for mdbtools, you'll find all the tools you need for moving from MDB to a reasonable database format.
You claim Visual Basic does not work under Linux. First, why the hell are you using Visual Basic on production systems? Second, WINE does Visual Basic rather well, last I checked, given the various VB controls.
You claim the cost of changing hardware is too high. I have never had to replace any of my hardware because it was not supported under Linux. Never. Whenever a machine did not have a driver, it was always because the hardware was new, and within a month or two, drivers appeared.
I've never seen any users go ballistic about how the text or "start" buttons look under Linux.
I don't know what environment you're in, but in my world, all Linux needs is to be given a chance.