I have tried to do side work as a geek for money on many occasions and have found that in the end the amount of work that I end up doing far exceeds the amount gained over time. What I have found that actually works very well is just letting small businesses in your community at places you frequent know that you are in computers and willing to work a trade in services. I did this with my vet several years ago and I have not paid a single cent for my dog in over 4 years. This includes food and boarding of my pet and anything to do with the health of my dog which. I get roughly 2-3 calls a month from them and probably spend 4-8 hours every quarter there keeping printers working and just fixing things that someone has screwed up. I have crunched it out and this deal easily saves me 3-4k a year depending on teeth cleanings and annual travel. The health of my pet is amazing as the vet is very invested in keeping my dog alive.
I have recently cut another deal with a large salon that provides office space to hairdressers and pedicures. In essence they are giving me office space (since I mostly work from home when I am not not he road) and hair cuts for my wife and two daughters. This deal will save me an additional fortune over time and gives me a place to hide from the previous mentioned family members. The benefit to the salon owners is that the office space means they will have a friendly tech in house when I am home. Not to bad a deal to keep up a small wireless network and one server.
Now if I could only figure out a way to get free toilet paper. With three women in one house you can imagine the implications!!!
This really isn't true at all. Not every situation with a police officer starts off with a common footing that engenders respect. In my younger years I worked as basically an after getting out of high school for the day as a janitor at a large warehouse. I would go and collect all the trash and what not. One particular evening I spotted a police car parked outside and peeked out to see if something was going on. Apparently and without my knowledge a silent alarm had falsed and I was quickly standing with an emtpy trash bag held over my head staring down the barrel of a glock 9mm. Understanding the situation was not a good one I quickly mentioned to the police officer that I had a big clunky cell phone in my back pocket and that I would enjoy it if he would not shoot me if it rang. I figured I would be able to quickly explain my situation and be back to work but I was pretty silly apparently. After about 35 minutes of being verbally abused by this cop using ever foul word he could think of to call me the guy that owned the warehouse showed up and got me off the hook. I showed him nothing but respect and called him sir at every opportunity but he was blatantly abuseive in every way but physically. Apparently he just assumed I was a criminal.
The happy ending to this story is my to-be future father in law at the time as well as my boss happened to know the Sargent for the night shift. I think someone got a real talking to (or at least I like to think he did).
In oklahoma there are laws preventing the sale of X-rated material to adults. In order to see porn w/ penetration in Oklahoma you have to go to Texas or Arkansa. There is quite the porn shop presence on the border of oklahoma and states that touch.
Wait. Let me get this straight. They are going to charge me to fix a problem that I don't know that I have, with a tool that I can't see working, on a reoccuring basis. Wow, this sounds a lot like the total screw I get every several months getting my oil changed at the local Jiffy Screw uhh.. wait I mean Lube
The Google desktop program includes an update feature that permits the company to automatically install new versions of the program on users' computers without user intervention or knowledge.
Promptly got the Google Desktop uninstalled off my machine this past weekend when the checksum on the bianry changed for no apparent reason. I consider activity like this to border on sneaky and I see no way to force the program to prompt for my approval to run an update. I would highly reccoment to the Google folk that this be added as a feature or I will consider another desktop search program that treats me like I know whats going on.
You can CTl+tab in firefox between tabs and ctl+shift+tab to go backwards through the tabs.
Same functionality. There is also an extension that will allow you to ctl+tab to the last tab you used in a historical order. These are very handy features and save you the overhead of having multiple IE windows open with the same at the keyboard functionality to jump around.
This harkens back to the good ole Haystack doo-ma-jiggy that came out of MIT sometime ago (slashdot Here and MIT HERE)
The concept is a simple one. Don't keep things in order in your folders in email or on your machine anymore. Just dump it all in one big place and have a meta engine of some sort index it all for you and then build queries for what you need. Realistically this is a great idea for those folks that had problems using the analog file cabinet for so many years (ala Jimmy James and the file of banana under "bright curved yellow things" for instance). The potential for abuse is really no greater than if M$ were to upload all of your "explorer find" searches back to Redmond. Those of you that us XP when you have to will notice that there is even an option to save a search query now for quick use within the XP shell. All this new company has done is just made it a little easier for the typical end user to create their search meta engine. The MIT one was brutal for a learning curve and more importantly it didnt have a decent place to put advertisements!
zeroconf enabled DHCP server can point you in the right direction.
But that is exactly my point. If you are going to build a zero-conf DHCP server then why not build a a normal DHCP server and just do things like they have always been done in the first place. I mean it seems cool for the home user to not have to call tech support to not have to learn how to config their machines, but for the typical network admin it seems that the amount of control that is needed necessitates something with much more scale than rendezvous.
Correct multicast switching is not a problem. Do you personally mess with something that intentionally messes up the broadcast address in TCP/IP?
As for multicast. Different gear handles multicast in different manners. Most of the time the real problem exists with when you have WAN runs of different speeds and you are "broadcasting" a multicast that would kill a link. In cases like this you have to prune the multicasts in such a manner as to not drown the smaller endowed areas on your network. Since an avaya might use a different formula than a cisco switch or router than often times your milage may vary.
This is a wonderful concept for small to medium sized networks but I can forsee that it will not scale well. If you read into the RFCs a bit it seems that the services location action and the ability to find things without a DNS server rely heavily on the use of DNS via multicast. This is a great idea in principle but the design of a large scale network with correct multicast switching is tough to do from scratch... let alone reverse engineer your network with multiple flavors of switching gear (cisco, avaya, etc) to handle all the multicast traffic correctly. Sadly, I have to admit that centralized IP based active directory controlled "dynamic DNS" is about the only thing that I have seen that will scale well at the REALLY BIG network level. In addition, I see no mention of the protocol being able to traverse a router. WTF good is a/16 address space if it can't get across a router? Can someone say "DNS helper acl"?
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We don't need human kind to kill us all off. Mother Nature will do fine on its own given enough time. The fish fiction is just a small sample of natures own reality. Stateside we are trying our hardest to control an ever spreading population of Snake head fish. I love this quote in which we just close our eyes and pray it all goes away...
"Experts fear the snakehead, with its voracious appetite, could destroy the river's ecosystem if left to breed unchecked. One fear is that the river's smallmouth bass population could be decimated.
"They're a top predator, the top of the food chain," Kauffman said. "We hope they disappear. We don't want to have to manage them." " Article Here
I wonder if you can make bread from fish?
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I've tried it with Redhat9 Fedora-Core1 and Fedora-Core2. The funny thing is I had an older version of this same card that worked great in RH7.2 as both a sniffer and network card. I expect its something flakey in the 2.4.* - 2.6 kernel. I get an email from BugTrack every couple of months from some poor soul that is signing up to bemoan the same fate and hope that someone comes up with a solution that will magically appear in our collective inboxes.
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I am an avid unix/linux user and I pretty much prefer to run my boxen in non-Windows mode. I also am an information security professional and use many tools such as Kismet to do wireless discovery. After much reading and research I decided on a Cisco/Aeronet card as my card of choice for both sniffing and wireless use in Linux. Well low and behold once I got the Cisco card, which was stated as being supported in the OS, I managed to get it installed and compiled to be used as a sniffer but to date and after a solid year of trying I have not been able to get the damn thing to work as just a network card. After months of frustration I finally gave up and went and bought an Orinoco card that I thought I would use for both sniffing and network access. Again, I managed to get things compiled and working this time with network support for the Orinoco card and no ability to sniff. Although both vendors claim full functionality within Linux I am to date still carrying around two wireless cards to get the job done. Sadly, when I boot Windows and plug in either card in XP they both seem to just work. Ah, the bitter irony.
"...unless the sending method is sent by a secured source to a trusted source, the email is free and wild."
The funny part about all this is that the most prevelant abuse you will see with one of these happy disclaimers at the bottom is an email that an employee has sent to themselves at their AO-hel-L address to work on at home and then forward back to work once it is complete. You can pretty much guaruntee it will be an HR person and it is going to have HIPAA or SarbanesOxley information in it and that no number of disclaimers is going to stop the impending lawsuit if it ends up posted to the web or in some Phishers hands.
Is it possible this could also be the solution to identifying the problem of auditing user groups on a system where the groups are nested? Select a file or directory and then have the magic cube display in 3 dimensions the access of a user based on amount of potential privilege with each associated group. The more privilege you have the closer to the center. This has always been such a pain as a security auditor to have to pick through spreadsheet after spreadsheet on poorly managed systems to see if a nested user has group access to something. Would be nice to do a quick find of everything and feed the cube the results. Put on your magic glass and poof... you can now see who can touch your goodies!
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I have tried to do side work as a geek for money on many occasions and have found that in the end the amount of work that I end up doing far exceeds the amount gained over time. What I have found that actually works very well is just letting small businesses in your community at places you frequent know that you are in computers and willing to work a trade in services. I did this with my vet several years ago and I have not paid a single cent for my dog in over 4 years. This includes food and boarding of my pet and anything to do with the health of my dog which. I get roughly 2-3 calls a month from them and probably spend 4-8 hours every quarter there keeping printers working and just fixing things that someone has screwed up. I have crunched it out and this deal easily saves me 3-4k a year depending on teeth cleanings and annual travel. The health of my pet is amazing as the vet is very invested in keeping my dog alive. I have recently cut another deal with a large salon that provides office space to hairdressers and pedicures. In essence they are giving me office space (since I mostly work from home when I am not not he road) and hair cuts for my wife and two daughters. This deal will save me an additional fortune over time and gives me a place to hide from the previous mentioned family members. The benefit to the salon owners is that the office space means they will have a friendly tech in house when I am home. Not to bad a deal to keep up a small wireless network and one server. Now if I could only figure out a way to get free toilet paper. With three women in one house you can imagine the implications!!!
This really isn't true at all. Not every situation with a police officer starts off with a common footing that engenders respect. In my younger years I worked as basically an after getting out of high school for the day as a janitor at a large warehouse. I would go and collect all the trash and what not. One particular evening I spotted a police car parked outside and peeked out to see if something was going on. Apparently and without my knowledge a silent alarm had falsed and I was quickly standing with an emtpy trash bag held over my head staring down the barrel of a glock 9mm. Understanding the situation was not a good one I quickly mentioned to the police officer that I had a big clunky cell phone in my back pocket and that I would enjoy it if he would not shoot me if it rang. I figured I would be able to quickly explain my situation and be back to work but I was pretty silly apparently. After about 35 minutes of being verbally abused by this cop using ever foul word he could think of to call me the guy that owned the warehouse showed up and got me off the hook. I showed him nothing but respect and called him sir at every opportunity but he was blatantly abuseive in every way but physically. Apparently he just assumed I was a criminal. The happy ending to this story is my to-be future father in law at the time as well as my boss happened to know the Sargent for the night shift. I think someone got a real talking to (or at least I like to think he did).
In oklahoma there are laws preventing the sale of X-rated material to adults. In order to see porn w/ penetration in Oklahoma you have to go to Texas or Arkansa. There is quite the porn shop presence on the border of oklahoma and states that touch.
Wait. Let me get this straight. They are going to charge me to fix a problem that I don't know that I have, with a tool that I can't see working, on a reoccuring basis. Wow, this sounds a lot like the total screw I get every several months getting my oil changed at the local Jiffy Screw uhh .. wait I mean Lube
This nifty little feature
The Google desktop program includes an update feature that permits the company to automatically install new versions of the program on users' computers without user intervention or knowledge.
Promptly got the Google Desktop uninstalled off my machine this past weekend when the checksum on the bianry changed for no apparent reason. I consider activity like this to border on sneaky and I see no way to force the program to prompt for my approval to run an update. I would highly reccoment to the Google folk that this be added as a feature or I will consider another desktop search program that treats me like I know whats going on.
You can CTl+tab in firefox between tabs and ctl+shift+tab to go backwards through the tabs. Same functionality. There is also an extension that will allow you to ctl+tab to the last tab you used in a historical order. These are very handy features and save you the overhead of having multiple IE windows open with the same at the keyboard functionality to jump around.
still got somethin left then hit me up .. want to retire this one
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This harkens back to the good ole Haystack doo-ma-jiggy that came out of MIT sometime ago (slashdot Here and MIT HERE)
The concept is a simple one. Don't keep things in order in your folders in email or on your machine anymore. Just dump it all in one big place and have a meta engine of some sort index it all for you and then build queries for what you need. Realistically this is a great idea for those folks that had problems using the analog file cabinet for so many years (ala Jimmy James and the file of banana under "bright curved yellow things" for instance). The potential for abuse is really no greater than if M$ were to upload all of your "explorer find" searches back to Redmond. Those of you that us XP when you have to will notice that there is even an option to save a search query now for quick use within the XP shell. All this new company has done is just made it a little easier for the typical end user to create their search meta engine. The MIT one was brutal for a learning curve and more importantly it didnt have a decent place to put advertisements!
zeroconf enabled DHCP server can point you in the right direction.
But that is exactly my point. If you are going to build a zero-conf DHCP server then why not build a a normal DHCP server and just do things like they have always been done in the first place. I mean it seems cool for the home user to not have to call tech support to not have to learn how to config their machines, but for the typical network admin it seems that the amount of control that is needed necessitates something with much more scale than rendezvous.
Correct multicast switching is not a problem. Do you personally mess with something that intentionally messes up the broadcast address in TCP/IP?
As for multicast. Different gear handles multicast in different manners. Most of the time the real problem exists with when you have WAN runs of different speeds and you are "broadcasting" a multicast that would kill a link. In cases like this you have to prune the multicasts in such a manner as to not drown the smaller endowed areas on your network. Since an avaya might use a different formula than a cisco switch or router than often times your milage may vary.
This is a wonderful concept for small to medium sized networks but I can forsee that it will not scale well. If you read into the RFCs a bit it seems that the services location action and the ability to find things without a DNS server rely heavily on the use of DNS via multicast. This is a great idea in principle but the design of a large scale network with correct multicast switching is tough to do from scratch ... let alone reverse engineer your network with multiple flavors of switching gear (cisco, avaya, etc) to handle all the multicast traffic correctly. Sadly, I have to admit that centralized IP based active directory controlled "dynamic DNS" is about the only thing that I have seen that will scale well at the REALLY BIG network level. In addition, I see no mention of the protocol being able to traverse a router. WTF good is a /16 address space if it can't get across a router? Can someone say "DNS helper acl"?
We don't need human kind to kill us all off. Mother Nature will do fine on its own given enough time. The fish fiction is just a small sample of natures own reality. Stateside we are trying our hardest to control an ever spreading population of Snake head fish. I love this quote in which we just close our eyes and pray it all goes away ...
"Experts fear the snakehead, with its voracious appetite, could destroy the river's ecosystem if left to breed unchecked. One fear is that the river's smallmouth bass population could be decimated.
"They're a top predator, the top of the food chain," Kauffman said. "We hope they disappear. We don't want to have to manage them." " Article Here
I wonder if you can make bread from fish?
I've tried it with Redhat9 Fedora-Core1 and Fedora-Core2. The funny thing is I had an older version of this same card that worked great in RH7.2 as both a sniffer and network card. I expect its something flakey in the 2.4.* - 2.6 kernel. I get an email from BugTrack every couple of months from some poor soul that is signing up to bemoan the same fate and hope that someone comes up with a solution that will magically appear in our collective inboxes.
I am an avid unix/linux user and I pretty much prefer to run my boxen in non-Windows mode. I also am an information security professional and use many tools such as Kismet to do wireless discovery. After much reading and research I decided on a Cisco/Aeronet card as my card of choice for both sniffing and wireless use in Linux. Well low and behold once I got the Cisco card, which was stated as being supported in the OS, I managed to get it installed and compiled to be used as a sniffer but to date and after a solid year of trying I have not been able to get the damn thing to work as just a network card. After months of frustration I finally gave up and went and bought an Orinoco card that I thought I would use for both sniffing and network access. Again, I managed to get things compiled and working this time with network support for the Orinoco card and no ability to sniff. Although both vendors claim full functionality within Linux I am to date still carrying around two wireless cards to get the job done. Sadly, when I boot Windows and plug in either card in XP they both seem to just work. Ah, the bitter irony.
"...unless the sending method is sent by a secured source to a trusted source, the email is free and wild."
The funny part about all this is that the most prevelant abuse you will see with one of these happy disclaimers at the bottom is an email that an employee has sent to themselves at their AO-hel-L address to work on at home and then forward back to work once it is complete. You can pretty much guaruntee it will be an HR person and it is going to have HIPAA or SarbanesOxley information in it and that no number of disclaimers is going to stop the impending lawsuit if it ends up posted to the web or in some Phishers hands.
Is it possible this could also be the solution to identifying the problem of auditing user groups on a system where the groups are nested? Select a file or directory and then have the magic cube display in 3 dimensions the access of a user based on amount of potential privilege with each associated group. The more privilege you have the closer to the center. This has always been such a pain as a security auditor to have to pick through spreadsheet after spreadsheet on poorly managed systems to see if a nested user has group access to something. Would be nice to do a quick find of everything and feed the cube the results. Put on your magic glass and poof ... you can now see who can touch your goodies!