I ran into the newfangled copy protection on Casino Royale while trying to rip it to my DVD server. Luckily the folks at Ars Technica were able to point me in the right direction. A quick download and install of Ripit4Me and I was able to rip the DVD. Pain in the butt, though, since I bought the freaking disc.
Read the article; The virus that he back-tracked was sent via email. You can have all the firewalls in the world and your mail servers can be locked down tighter than my mom, but all it takes is one user with IE and a Hotmail account.
Stallone wrote and starred in an Oscar-winning movie. I think you have to have a few brain cells to pull something like that off - What have you done that's so smart?
I'm disappointed nobody has mentioned BackTrack yet. Live, bootable Linux CD loaded with wireless scanning and hacking tools. To be honest, I haven't tried it yet, but Free sure is cheaper than $3600!
* The Internet. I remember in 97 or so when Internet Underground magazine ran an article predicting the great website graveyard that the internet would become, as more and more companies stopped updating their websites. I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Well, it's all a matter of what you want. Like most OSS vs closed software, the question comes down to: How much is your time worth, and how much flexibility do you want?
You could run Tivo and have a quick setup, nice interface, and good support. But you gotta pay for the subscription, and you can't (legally) remove the DRM from the recordings or push anything from your PC to your tivo other than.tivo files.
You could run MCE with a little more tweaking. You could view movies stored on your server from your MCE box, and view, record, and archive TV shows at your whim. But, MCE has a very narrow list of supported hardware, you have the bloat of XP, and as with Tivo, the recordings are huge files, with no built in way to transcode (convert to a different format) files on the fly.
Or, you could use MythTV. You have a wide array of hardware to choose from. Setup is a pain in the ass, even following the Holy Grail of MythTV installs. After you install Myth, you still have to get the whole frontend / backend thing working, as well as a million other tweaks here and there (remote control, zap2it configuration, transcoding settings, etc., etc.). But, if you're succesful, you have a box that does everything you'd want it to... Records tv shows and transcodes them to smaller files, keeps them on a dedicated server if you want, plays all your music and other video files no matter where on the network they're stored, and as of this new release (which I haven't tried out yet; I'm still battling 0.19-fixes), the ability to burn straight to DVD.
I've used XP MCE, Tivo, Xbox Media Center, and I'm just finalizing my MythTV install. I can't tell you which is best yet, as they all have their hits and misses, just like most software packages.
There's nothing wrong with using a Windows box for the task. I'd be willing to bet it's MUCH easier than the hell I've been going through over the past few days, but I chose MythTV because I want to do more than just record shows. I like MythTV's auto-transcode option, as well as the idea of having multiple frontend boxes talk to one backend server - makes for a neat way to wire the whole apartment building with one server.
I was able to get Myth to install on FC5, but I ran into lots of whacky problems with my capture card, audio setup, etc. Getting MythTv on the box wasn't the problem; getting it to work was.
I've been battling my MythTV install for the past couple days, and am working on it as we speak, so this article is perfect timing.
This device appears to be little more than a barebones PC and a lot of marketing induced FUD. Others have already touched on the lack of HDD, CPU and RAM, so I won't bring those back up. What I will bring up is my suspicion of the true reason why it doesn't have MythTV - Because MythTV under FC5 is a serious pain in the arse. To quote Axel Thimm from this posting on the Atrpms-users mailing list:
"Anyway, all in all currently mythtv on FC5 isn't an easy ride. If you don't want to get in adventures, don't upgrade yet. Wait at least until the fixed kernel makes it into updates proper."
I had originally loaded FC5 on my MythTV candidate, only to run into whacky issue after whacky issue. I formatted and reloaded to FC4, following the holy grail of MythTV install guides, and the install has been much smoother. (I'm just trying to nail down the audio / video sync issues - I gotta get my line out to stop playing 'live' audio, dammit!)
I think you'd be better off speccing out a PC from NewEgg or something, rather than purchasing one of these boxes.
As much as a pain in the arse as forced passwords are, they're a necessity. You never know who might have snarfed a user's password when they had their machine at a net cafe or something, and if the hacker is good at keeping quiet, they'll never do anything to set off any alarms until it's too late.
Every 90 days isn't that big a deal. That's only four changes per year.
Netscape was a competitor to a product Microsoft sold. Anti-spyware software is little more than a fix for Microsoft's crappy security model that's included in its OS and default browser. There's a big difference here.
Microsoft bundled IE and bullied PC makers into not putting Netscape on the desktop because it wanted to put Netscape out of business. That's a bad thing. On the other hand, Microsoft is bundling anti-spyware software into its new OS to protect its users from a) their own ineptidude, and b)the afore-mentioned crappy software that Microsoft themselves put in place.
Where Microsoft wanted to get into a new market (the browser application) by crushing Netscape, in this case they're just trying to band-aid their operating system's vulnerabilities to (hopefully) lower the amount of user frustration in the future.
I've been an IT guy for nine years, and I've always thanked Microsoft for releasing bad, buggy code. The anti-spyware folks should do the same, instead of being angry that Microsoft is finally trying to fix the problem.
* I don't know Cisco at all * I've never used this particular router * I'm more of a Sonicwall guy than anything
That being said, I set up a Linksys VPN router / 8-port switch at a client site. Overall it was a pretty good unit, but the issue was with the Linksys VPN software. Not only is it very crippled compared to Sonicwall's client software - I assume they do this on purpose to get you to go with a full featured Cisco - But the software appears to just be a wrapper for Win XP's default IPSEC implementation. If you have ANYTHING else on a PC that uses IPSEC you'll run into lots of problems. My machine has no problem with Sonicwall & Netscreen IPSEC clients installed (but not running) at the same time, but trying to have these on the same machine with a Linksys VPN client causes nothing but problems.
Second, Linksys tech support is absolutely horrible. Netscreen has exceptional tech support, but they aren't cheap. Sonicwall's support is middle of the road - It takes a day for them to get back to you, but they're usually pretty good when they do.
This may not apply to your specific needs, but it's been enough of an issue for me that I felt I should point it out.
Want the ringer to change based on the time of day? Callfilter.
Change the brightness of the screen depending on the surrounding light? BrightCam.
Not to mention the nice hardware switch right at the top that lets you choose between silent and ringer modes.
You can do a lot more with a Treo than your standard phone, but it is nice to see manufacturers building these features right into off-the-shelf products.
I have several friends at Oracle. I heard yesterday that they laid off over 20 people from just one floor at my friend's building. Some of them had been there for over seven years.
Don't forget all the work Tridge did in hacking the early Tivos so we could install Ethernet ports in them! The guy has had quite an impact on several projects, hardware and software.
"Instead of the PC horror of one fan that has to suck out a large volume the whole time and runs at full blast no matter what."
You haven't used one of the new Dell Dimensions. They're so quiet that you can barely tell they're powered on, unless you're doing any major hard drive access that causes the disks to thrash.
I'm working at a conference in Vegas this week. I just set up 40 wireless networks for 1400 laptops. (Win XP SP1 and SP2) You're only partially incorrect.
Windows will keep broadcasting its last SSID, looking for the network of that name. When it finds the network it's looking for, it will jump on the network automatically, without asking you.
If it doesn't find that network, it will not give itself a 169.254 (APIPA) address, at least not on the surface. The interface will show up as "Media link disconnected" or whatever the term is. However, if it finds the SSID, but cannot get an IP, it will give itself an APIPA address.
I'm guessing that you can sniff the name of the SSID that's being broadcast by the laptop, and then set up your own AP or whatever. At that point, the attacked laptop will give itself an APIPA address if it can't get an IP from your AP. I'm not really sure what the significance of the APIPA stuff is, since the SSID is the important part. I'd just set up a DHCP server on my attacking AP.
Yup. Most people think that Man of the Year is necessarily a compliment, It's not, nor has it ever been. It's meant to show the man (or woman) who has had the greatest impact. One of the nominees for person of the century was Hitler, which I think should have won. What other single person had a greater impact than Hitler in the twentieth century?
Of course, Time decided to instead bestow the "honor" on Albert Einstein, most likely due to fear of public outcry.
And don't think for a second I'm saying Hitler brought any good to this world. I'm just saying that he had the greatest impact on the 20th century.
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I ran into the newfangled copy protection on Casino Royale while trying to rip it to my DVD server. Luckily the folks at Ars Technica were able to point me in the right direction. A quick download and install of Ripit4Me and I was able to rip the DVD. Pain in the butt, though, since I bought the freaking disc.
Read the article; The virus that he back-tracked was sent via email. You can have all the firewalls in the world and your mail servers can be locked down tighter than my mom, but all it takes is one user with IE and a Hotmail account.
Stallone wrote and starred in an Oscar-winning movie. I think you have to have a few brain cells to pull something like that off - What have you done that's so smart?
I'm disappointed nobody has mentioned BackTrack yet. Live, bootable Linux CD loaded with wireless scanning and hacking tools. To be honest, I haven't tried it yet, but Free sure is cheaper than $3600!
Just ask YouTube.
Always? Tell that to WorldCom's ex CEO and CFO.
Hmm, they said the same about:
* Google
* Microsoft
* The iPod
* The Internet. I remember in 97 or so when Internet Underground magazine ran an article predicting the great website graveyard that the internet would become, as more and more companies stopped updating their websites. I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Well, it's all a matter of what you want. Like most OSS vs closed software, the question comes down to: How much is your time worth, and how much flexibility do you want?
.tivo files.
You could run Tivo and have a quick setup, nice interface, and good support. But you gotta pay for the subscription, and you can't (legally) remove the DRM from the recordings or push anything from your PC to your tivo other than
You could run MCE with a little more tweaking. You could view movies stored on your server from your MCE box, and view, record, and archive TV shows at your whim. But, MCE has a very narrow list of supported hardware, you have the bloat of XP, and as with Tivo, the recordings are huge files, with no built in way to transcode (convert to a different format) files on the fly.
Or, you could use MythTV. You have a wide array of hardware to choose from. Setup is a pain in the ass, even following the Holy Grail of MythTV installs. After you install Myth, you still have to get the whole frontend / backend thing working, as well as a million other tweaks here and there (remote control, zap2it configuration, transcoding settings, etc., etc.). But, if you're succesful, you have a box that does everything you'd want it to... Records tv shows and transcodes them to smaller files, keeps them on a dedicated server if you want, plays all your music and other video files no matter where on the network they're stored, and as of this new release (which I haven't tried out yet; I'm still battling 0.19-fixes), the ability to burn straight to DVD.
I've used XP MCE, Tivo, Xbox Media Center, and I'm just finalizing my MythTV install. I can't tell you which is best yet, as they all have their hits and misses, just like most software packages.
There's nothing wrong with using a Windows box for the task. I'd be willing to bet it's MUCH easier than the hell I've been going through over the past few days, but I chose MythTV because I want to do more than just record shows. I like MythTV's auto-transcode option, as well as the idea of having multiple frontend boxes talk to one backend server - makes for a neat way to wire the whole apartment building with one server.
I was able to get Myth to install on FC5, but I ran into lots of whacky problems with my capture card, audio setup, etc. Getting MythTv on the box wasn't the problem; getting it to work was.
I've been battling my MythTV install for the past couple days, and am working on it as we speak, so this article is perfect timing.
This device appears to be little more than a barebones PC and a lot of marketing induced FUD. Others have already touched on the lack of HDD, CPU and RAM, so I won't bring those back up. What I will bring up is my suspicion of the true reason why it doesn't have MythTV - Because MythTV under FC5 is a serious pain in the arse. To quote Axel Thimm from this posting on the Atrpms-users mailing list:
"Anyway, all in all currently mythtv on FC5 isn't an easy ride. If you
don't want to get in adventures, don't upgrade yet. Wait at least
until the fixed kernel makes it into updates proper."
I had originally loaded FC5 on my MythTV candidate, only to run into whacky issue after whacky issue. I formatted and reloaded to FC4, following the holy grail of MythTV install guides, and the install has been much smoother. (I'm just trying to nail down the audio / video sync issues - I gotta get my line out to stop playing 'live' audio, dammit!)
I think you'd be better off speccing out a PC from NewEgg or something, rather than purchasing one of these boxes.
Wish I had moderator points handy for you, cuz this is the first link I've found that worked.
Honestly, who still relies on meta tags these days?
As much as a pain in the arse as forced passwords are, they're a necessity. You never know who might have snarfed a user's password when they had their machine at a net cafe or something, and if the hacker is good at keeping quiet, they'll never do anything to set off any alarms until it's too late.
Every 90 days isn't that big a deal. That's only four changes per year.
Dammit, now they're up to three! We've got a veritable pandemic on our hands!
I believe it's the processor that's under that spot, not the hard drive. Dell re-arranged the layout for their D610s, so they no longer get as hot.
Netscape was a competitor to a product Microsoft sold. Anti-spyware software is little more than a fix for Microsoft's crappy security model that's included in its OS and default browser. There's a big difference here.
Microsoft bundled IE and bullied PC makers into not putting Netscape on the desktop because it wanted to put Netscape out of business. That's a bad thing. On the other hand, Microsoft is bundling anti-spyware software into its new OS to protect its users from a) their own ineptidude, and b)the afore-mentioned crappy software that Microsoft themselves put in place.
Where Microsoft wanted to get into a new market (the browser application) by crushing Netscape, in this case they're just trying to band-aid their operating system's vulnerabilities to (hopefully) lower the amount of user frustration in the future.
I've been an IT guy for nine years, and I've always thanked Microsoft for releasing bad, buggy code. The anti-spyware folks should do the same, instead of being angry that Microsoft is finally trying to fix the problem.
Some disclaimers first:
* I don't know Cisco at all
* I've never used this particular router
* I'm more of a Sonicwall guy than anything
That being said, I set up a Linksys VPN router / 8-port switch at a client site. Overall it was a pretty good unit, but the issue was with the Linksys VPN software. Not only is it very crippled compared to Sonicwall's client software - I assume they do this on purpose to get you to go with a full featured Cisco - But the software appears to just be a wrapper for Win XP's default IPSEC implementation. If you have ANYTHING else on a PC that uses IPSEC you'll run into lots of problems. My machine has no problem with Sonicwall & Netscreen IPSEC clients installed (but not running) at the same time, but trying to have these on the same machine with a Linksys VPN client causes nothing but problems.
Second, Linksys tech support is absolutely horrible. Netscreen has exceptional tech support, but they aren't cheap. Sonicwall's support is middle of the road - It takes a day for them to get back to you, but they're usually pretty good when they do.
This may not apply to your specific needs, but it's been enough of an issue for me that I felt I should point it out.
Want the ringer to change based on the time of day? Callfilter.
Change the brightness of the screen depending on the surrounding light? BrightCam.
Not to mention the nice hardware switch right at the top that lets you choose between silent and ringer modes.
You can do a lot more with a Treo than your standard phone, but it is nice to see manufacturers building these features right into off-the-shelf products.
I have several friends at Oracle. I heard yesterday that they laid off over 20 people from just one floor at my friend's building. Some of them had been there for over seven years.
The article just says that the board is an "industrial 3.5" SBC board". Does anybody know the model number, and where one could buy this board?
Don't forget all the work Tridge did in hacking the early Tivos so we could install Ethernet ports in them! The guy has had quite an impact on several projects, hardware and software.
"Instead of the PC horror of one fan that has to suck out a large volume the whole time and runs at full blast no matter what."
You haven't used one of the new Dell Dimensions. They're so quiet that you can barely tell they're powered on, unless you're doing any major hard drive access that causes the disks to thrash.
I'm working at a conference in Vegas this week. I just set up 40 wireless networks for 1400 laptops. (Win XP SP1 and SP2) You're only partially incorrect.
:-)
Windows will keep broadcasting its last SSID, looking for the network of that name. When it finds the network it's looking for, it will jump on the network automatically, without asking you.
If it doesn't find that network, it will not give itself a 169.254 (APIPA) address, at least not on the surface. The interface will show up as "Media link disconnected" or whatever the term is. However, if it finds the SSID, but cannot get an IP, it will give itself an APIPA address.
I'm guessing that you can sniff the name of the SSID that's being broadcast by the laptop, and then set up your own AP or whatever. At that point, the attacked laptop will give itself an APIPA address if it can't get an IP from your AP. I'm not really sure what the significance of the APIPA stuff is, since the SSID is the important part. I'd just set up a DHCP server on my attacking AP.
Ok, back to rolling out networks..
Yup. Most people think that Man of the Year is necessarily a compliment, It's not, nor has it ever been. It's meant to show the man (or woman) who has had the greatest impact. One of the nominees for person of the century was Hitler, which I think should have won. What other single person had a greater impact than Hitler in the twentieth century?
Of course, Time decided to instead bestow the "honor" on Albert Einstein, most likely due to fear of public outcry.
And don't think for a second I'm saying Hitler brought any good to this world. I'm just saying that he had the greatest impact on the 20th century.
- JC