Yes but users tend to freak when they see something new. The training envolved in the adjusting to the new feel of the application or "THE UNKNOWN" was what I was refering to.
I am the author of that piece, sorry I didn't mean to post as AC.
Do you believe people still find what you have to say to be credible?
With such examples as the disproved accusation you made against the employees of attrition.org and the role you played in the shutting down of the security web site www.packetstorm.com.
How would you respond to a comment that was made about your lack of credibility and/or the distrust that seems to surround your persona?
Either this guy really sucks as an admin or he some how managed to shove 20 different SCSI adapters into this thing.
NT has to be the worst system in the world when it comes to the speed of intializing SCSI adapters at boot. But I really think this guy just "super sux" as an admin. Or maybe he is sysadmin for ECHELON and they ported it to the super computer OS, the unstoppable Windows NT!
HEHE. "Unstopable Windows NT" I loved that commercial, it's funny, you don't see it on any more though.
This is a rather silly contest. Wait let me replace all my memory with a 16 MB strip of RAM and then severly underclock my CPU. What is the point of this contest again?
I did this once to see exactly how far down I could clock the CPU and still have Windows NT work. I only tested to 60 MHz but it took approximatly an hour maybe less. Login took aprox. 25 minutes to authenticate.
Actually, this has the advantage of teaching a whole new generation of computer children. Most of us grew up in either a APPLE, COMMODORE, IBM Comp. world during the eighties and early nineties. We pretty much know whats going on from the ground up. But for others they need some kind of help in understanding computers.
The biggest complaint people have about UNIX based OSs is the commands and the layout. ITS JUST TO CONFUSING FOR THEM TO GRASP. Why should we teach this to our students if it confuses us the teachers say. Well this can be an educational tool for those wanting to understand UNIX and who learn best through visual association.
Wow, I beleive this to be a great concept. It helps to further develop the primary unserstanding of the world of UNIX. I can see it now, kids K-5 don't know how to battle complex mathmatical equations but they know the steps to take in putting down potential proccess riot led by the dreaded and notorious rouge procces known as XWINDOWS.
This opens up a whole newl world of fun for kids of all ages.
"Just think about where most LANs exist, in the workplace. How many workplaces do you think would allow Sega machines to be plugged into the LAN at the office?"
GRRR... you are obviously an admin. As Director of Information Technology for a rather decent sized company I will tell you that it has been my experience that LAN games relieve stress in the work place. They also tend to form a friendly and competitive bond between the people in your department. I allow scheduled LAN games during the week as long as work is completed and projects are on schedule. Running an IT department is like teaching elementary students with extremely high IQs. If we finish this assignment I will give you an extra five minutes at recess, ooh... ah. No not really, running an IT department is actually about taking a bunch anti-social computer nerds and give them a place to work were they feel comfortable and if LAN games keeps them productive and happy then so be it.
"I'm a LAN admin myself, and I'd rather shoot any one of my users in the head rather than allow them to play games on my LAN. "
By the way it is rather hard to imagine that you are only an admin with social skills such as these. Learn to lighten up and you'll go farther in your courier and in life.
Performance issues: Let me tell you a little something, if you are running on 100BT Ethernet or better on your network it shouldn't matter that they are playing games. No one is going to be able to tell the difference except you and whoever is monitoring LAN traffic if anyone does that on your network.
GAMES PLAYED ON OUR LAN:
Quake II, Batlezone, Commanche 3, Longbow II, Dark Reign, CNC, and much more. The ones I listed were my favorites back when I had a chance to regularly join in.
"Stupidity is a virus not a virtue, if infected please kill it."
"Maybe this was in the minds of the folks at Jane's, the British publisher of defense information, who this week threw their cyber terrorism research at the nerds who read Slashdot, hoping for some inexpensive proofreading to keep Jane's from making their own big mistakes. This is an interesting idea but ultimately flawed, I think. The only way to write the news is to write the news. You have to do it the best that you can then take the heat, because the censorship of the nerderati is still censorship. That's why newspapers make corrections."
--Robert X. Cringely--
GRRR.... If you actually read this whole article you will see that this paragraph about Jane's doesn't even fit. The article refers to news agencies and the way the print or release the news and then puts in this part about Jane's. Well he's flawd by including Jane's in this article because it doesn't publish news, it publishes an informational reference guide. There is a difference in news articles and information reference guides. Jane's did exactly what anyone reading its articles would have wanted them to do. They got factual information and not distorted media BS.
"Nerderati" - for understanding of my feeling on this new addition to my vocabulary please see the above GRRR
Oops, your right I must appologize for my momentary lapse into the domain of stupidity. I realized what a truely dumbass post it was right after I hit submit. I don't know what I was thinking.
Hello, I don't want you to think that I am some paranoid phreak. But whom in this country (US) likes to attempt unauthorized and unsanctioned cracks on other country's boxen. Anyone remember the little TLA referred to as the NSA.
Why?Well why not it, was a challenge to their skills and it can give them an insight to depth of security other countries implement.
Why make it appear to originate from a US military installation?Because then it would be easily dismissed as a spoof attack. Because we all believe the US Military is neither intelligent enough to attempt to crack the system, nor do we believe they are stupid enough to try. Also with all of the compromised US military boxen it gives the military a perfect out. This way no one gets blamed except for the Airman acting as sysop over that box who just got demoted for failure to secure it and almost causing an international incident.
Remember US intelligence agencies do some pretty harry stuff afterward they can then classify it without fear of reprisal. Because remember, it is for the sake of national security. Well, that and there is no one in this country with balls enough to keep them in check.
"All the lawmakers have to do is pass a law saying that if you run a website with x% naked people you have to get a.xxx (or whatever) domain name. "
My god, please tell me he is not actually suggesting an MPAA type of rating system for the Internet. Oh yes, I can see it now. You can have all the violence you want in a .com site. But as soon as you use the "F" word three times or you start showing to much sexual content you get and Internet equivilent of an NC-17 or XXX rating roled into a .xxx suffix? Laddies and Gentleman of the jury I would like you to say it with me now... PLEASE!!!!
Actually, my corporate office is in Texas and this is directly effecting our national WAN traffic. My Texas based IT department is catching shit because the people upsatirs seem to think this is our fault. Can someone with some insite remind me how a gopher can bring down legs of national WAN by chewing on the backbone cable and it can still be my fault. Oh yes, you can also add the list a fiber line in southern Florida that got hit by a construction crew this morning. Those Damn construction crews need to be more careful with my data. Days like today are not worth getting out of bed for.
"This kind of information should only be traded among LICENSED security consultants "
Hey guy, I don't mean to burst your bubble but the crackers/hackers that you really should be worried about are security consultants and such. The dangerous ones are those good guys who got stepped on or just got plain bored one day. Don't worry about the script kiddies they are for the most part a harmless pain the butt.
"(yes, we need licensing) because... this is dangerous stuff."
Remember what crackers/hackers are really all about, knowledge and the demand for free access to information. You close that door in their face and you might as well be throwing out propoganda for a cyberspace riot.
The idea that states you should get your ISP envolved is a good one. But you can also set your server up to reroute packets when your server is flooded with ip requests. Most people will reroute the traffic to a fake address in the 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x address ranges alotted for NAT. But I guess if your ISP refuses to help like mine did, you could reroute the traffic to their main webserver and see how long it takes them to respond to your request for help. Exactly 6 hrs and 3 DoS attacks later I was conntacted by the one of their senior network engineers. He informed that they would gladly look into the DoS matter if I would stop rerouting traffic to their site. HEHE... Diplomacy is way overrated!
Rerouting the traffic will only do so much, even with a well designed plan for rerouting flood traffic your servers are still vulnerable to DoS. But if you reroute the traffic you will more than likely discourage those plebes who don't understand why their DoS attack wasn't effective in the first place.
"they allow the government to strong-arm companies into building backdoors into encryption products"
Lets just call it what really is. It is not a back door, it might as well be called a second front door. They have basically looked us in the eye and said; hey, I know we work for you in theory but we dont trust you. Give us free access to your data or we'll take it. You know its funny how gaining unauthorized access to computer system is considered illeagal unless you work for the DEA, FBI, CIA, NSA, or any other group of three leters that are still classified.
These people make me sick. The bend, twist, and mold our rights like play-dough. Anyone have a baggy I think I gonna hurl.
"they allow the government to strong-arm companies into building backdoors into encryption products" Lets just call it what really is. It is not a back door, it might as well be called a second front door. They have basically looked us in the eye and said; hey, I know we work for you in theory but we dont trust you. Give us free access to your data or we'll take it. You know its funny how gaining unauthorized access to computer system is considered illeagal unless you work for the DEA, FBI, CIA, NSA, or any other group of three leters that are still classified. These people make me sick. The bend, twist, and mold our rights like play-dough. Anyone have a baggy I think I gonna hurl.
This is the United States Government we are talking about. I will tell you what, if they are releasing restriction on the export of 128-bit encryption then it is time to get something stronger. This means that they have probably found a reliable why of hacking through the technology. I mean really, when was the last time the United States Government gave something away for nothing.
Be very cautious my friends! Remember encryption technology is always considered unbreakable right up until the moment it is broken.
I thought they were supposed to be "THE DOT COM PEOPLE." I mean my God I have just tested this and let me just say that this has to be one of the most stupid policy based security screw-ups I have ever seen.
MORONIC!!!! My 2 year old cousin has a better understanding of security concepts than these people.
Someone definitely needs a good ass chewing after implementing a policy like this one. If I were to ever write such an idiotic policy like this I would blame it on Old-timers syndrome and retire from the world of Network Security. Damn... I don't know whether to cry or laugh about this incident.
I beleive that a little competition between the Palm Pilot and Visor is a good thing for the Palm OS customer base. Competition however friendly leads to new inovations in the attempts win over customers and market share. This continueing we may see a very strong Palm OS having a chance to someday in the near future topple Microsoft out of this market.
Hm... Well that is possible. I for one am an american and I do agree that some of us lack common sense. Example, those three retards in Texas who decided to drag that guy (James Byrd Jr.) behind a pickup truck just because he was black.
But I think it is a major mistake for one to assume that we all lack common sense. Question. If the people of the US lack common sense then how did we become the greatest super power in the world? It takes a lot more than genius, good looks, and a Hiroshima&/Nagasaki to win that title of respect. What it takes is a great deal of common sense.
I would think the greatest display for a lack of common sense might lie in a place that was the focal point of two world wars. Wars that in which caused the loss of millions of Allied, Russian, and German lives. Huh... now there's something to think about.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes but users tend to freak when they see something new. The training envolved in the adjusting to the new feel of the application or "THE UNKNOWN" was what I was refering to.
I am the author of that piece, sorry I didn't mean to post as AC.
Snyper
Do you believe people still find what you have to say to be credible?
With such examples as the disproved accusation you made against the employees of attrition.org and the role you played in the shutting down of the security web site www.packetstorm.com.
How would you respond to a comment that was made about your lack of credibility and/or the distrust that seems to surround your persona?
IF I REMEMBER RIGHT THE GUYS WHO DESIGNED THIS ULTRA COOL BIT OF CODE LIVE OUTSIDE OF THE U.S.
DOESN'T THIS MEAN THAT THE COPYRIGHT LAWS DO NOT APPLY?
ARE U.S. LAWS UPHELD IN OTHER COUNTRIES AS WELL?
Either this guy really sucks as an admin or he some how managed to shove 20 different SCSI adapters into this thing.
NT has to be the worst system in the world when it comes to the speed of intializing SCSI adapters at boot. But I really think this guy just "super sux" as an admin. Or maybe he is sysadmin for ECHELON and they ported it to the super computer OS, the unstoppable Windows NT!
HEHE. "Unstopable Windows NT" I loved that commercial, it's funny, you don't see it on any more though.
This is a rather silly contest. Wait let me replace all my memory with a 16 MB strip of RAM and then severly underclock my CPU. What is the point of this contest again?
I did this once to see exactly how far down I could clock the CPU and still have Windows NT work. I only tested to 60 MHz but it took approximatly an hour maybe less. Login took aprox. 25 minutes to authenticate.
Actually, this has the advantage of teaching a whole new generation of computer children. Most of us grew up in either a APPLE, COMMODORE, IBM Comp. world during the eighties and early nineties. We pretty much know whats going on from the ground up. But for others they need some kind of help in understanding computers.
The biggest complaint people have about UNIX based OSs is the commands and the layout. ITS JUST TO CONFUSING FOR THEM TO GRASP. Why should we teach this to our students if it confuses us the teachers say. Well this can be an educational tool for those wanting to understand UNIX and who learn best through visual association.
Wow, I beleive this to be a great concept. It helps to further develop the primary unserstanding of the world of UNIX. I can see it now, kids K-5 don't know how to battle complex mathmatical equations but they know the steps to take in putting down potential proccess riot led by the dreaded and notorious rouge procces known as XWINDOWS.
This opens up a whole newl world of fun for kids of all ages.
"Just think about where most LANs exist, in the workplace. How many workplaces do you think would allow Sega machines to be plugged into the LAN at the office?"
GRRR... you are obviously an admin. As Director of Information Technology for a rather decent sized company I will tell you that it has been my experience that LAN games relieve stress in the work place. They also tend to form a friendly and competitive bond between the people in your department. I allow scheduled LAN games during the week as long as work is completed and projects are on schedule. Running an IT department is like teaching elementary students with extremely high IQs. If we finish this assignment I will give you an extra five minutes at recess, ooh... ah. No not really, running an IT department is actually about taking a bunch anti-social computer nerds and give them a place to work were they feel comfortable and if LAN games keeps them productive and happy then so be it.
"I'm a LAN admin myself, and I'd rather shoot any one of my users in the head rather than allow them to play games on my LAN. "
By the way it is rather hard to imagine that you are only an admin with social skills such as these. Learn to lighten up and you'll go farther in your courier and in life.
Performance issues:
Let me tell you a little something, if you are running on 100BT Ethernet or better on your network it shouldn't matter that they are playing games. No one is going to be able to tell the difference except you and whoever is monitoring LAN traffic if anyone does that on your network.
GAMES PLAYED ON OUR LAN:
Quake II, Batlezone, Commanche 3, Longbow II, Dark Reign, CNC, and much more. The ones I listed were my favorites back when I had a chance to regularly join in.
"Stupidity is a virus not a virtue, if infected please kill it."
"Maybe this was in the minds of the folks at Jane's, the British publisher of defense information, who this week threw their cyber terrorism research at the nerds who read Slashdot, hoping for some inexpensive proofreading to keep Jane's from making their own big mistakes. This is an interesting idea but ultimately flawed, I think. The only way to write the news is to write the news. You have to do it the best that you can then take the heat, because the censorship of the nerderati is still censorship. That's why newspapers make corrections."
--Robert X. Cringely--
GRRR.... If you actually read this whole article you will see that this paragraph about Jane's doesn't even fit. The article refers to news agencies and the way the print or release the news and then puts in this part about Jane's. Well he's flawd by including Jane's in this article because it doesn't publish news, it publishes an informational reference guide. There is a difference in news articles and information reference guides. Jane's did exactly what anyone reading its articles would have wanted them to do. They got factual information and not distorted media BS.
"Nerderati" - for understanding of my feeling on this new addition to my vocabulary please see the above GRRR
Oops, your right I must appologize for my momentary lapse into the domain of stupidity. I realized what a truely dumbass post it was right after I hit submit. I don't know what I was thinking.
Can we add CTRL+Z to the damn site.... PLEASE!
Actually five 2GB drives in a RAID5 array would give you a 10GB RAID5 drive.
Hello, I don't want you to think that I am some paranoid phreak. But whom in this country (US) likes to attempt unauthorized and unsanctioned cracks on other country's boxen. Anyone remember the little TLA referred to as the NSA.
Why? Well why not it, was a challenge to their skills and it can give them an insight to depth of security other countries implement.
Why make it appear to originate from a US military installation? Because then it would be easily dismissed as a spoof attack. Because we all believe the US Military is neither intelligent enough to attempt to crack the system, nor do we believe they are stupid enough to try. Also with all of the compromised US military boxen it gives the military a perfect out. This way no one gets blamed except for the Airman acting as sysop over that box who just got demoted for failure to secure it and almost causing an international incident.
Remember US intelligence agencies do some pretty harry stuff afterward they can then classify it without fear of reprisal. Because remember, it is for the sake of national security. Well, that and there is no one in this country with balls enough to keep them in check.
"All the lawmakers have to do is pass a law saying that if you run a website with x% naked people you have to get a .xxx (or whatever) domain name. "
.com site. But as soon as you use the "F" word three times or you start showing to much sexual content you get and Internet equivilent of an NC-17 or XXX rating roled into a .xxx suffix? Laddies and Gentleman of the jury I would like you to say it with me now... PLEASE!!!!
My god, please tell me he is not actually suggesting an MPAA type of rating system for the Internet. Oh yes, I can see it now. You can have all the violence you want in a
Actually, my corporate office is in Texas and this is directly effecting our national WAN traffic. My Texas based IT department is catching shit because the people upsatirs seem to think this is our fault. Can someone with some insite remind me how a gopher can bring down legs of national WAN by chewing on the backbone cable and it can still be my fault . Oh yes, you can also add the list a fiber line in southern Florida that got hit by a construction crew this morning. Those Damn construction crews need to be more careful with my data. Days like today are not worth getting out of bed for.
"This kind of information should only be traded among LICENSED security consultants "
Hey guy, I don't mean to burst your bubble but the crackers/hackers that you really should be worried about are security consultants and such. The dangerous ones are those good guys who got stepped on or just got plain bored one day. Don't worry about the script kiddies they are for the most part a harmless pain the butt.
"(yes, we need licensing) because... this is dangerous stuff."
Remember what crackers/hackers are really all about, knowledge and the demand for free access to information. You close that door in their face and you might as well be throwing out propoganda for a cyberspace riot.
The idea that states you should get your ISP envolved is a good one. But you can also set your server up to reroute packets when your server is flooded with ip requests. Most people will reroute the traffic to a fake address in the 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x address ranges alotted for NAT. But I guess if your ISP refuses to help like mine did, you could reroute the traffic to their main webserver and see how long it takes them to respond to your request for help. Exactly 6 hrs and 3 DoS attacks later I was conntacted by the one of their senior network engineers. He informed that they would gladly look into the DoS matter if I would stop rerouting traffic to their site. HEHE... Diplomacy is way overrated!
Rerouting the traffic will only do so much, even with a well designed plan for rerouting flood traffic your servers are still vulnerable to DoS. But if you reroute the traffic you will more than likely discourage those plebes who don't understand why their DoS attack wasn't effective in the first place.
Oh... please stop my side is spliting! That has got to be one of the single most funniest things I have ever read.
"they allow the government to strong-arm companies into building backdoors into encryption products"
Lets just call it what really is. It is not a back door, it might as well be called a second front door. They have basically looked us in the eye and said; hey, I know we work for you in theory but we dont trust you. Give us free access to your data or we'll take it. You know its funny how gaining unauthorized access to computer system is considered illeagal unless you work for the DEA, FBI, CIA, NSA, or any other group of three leters that are still classified.
These people make me sick. The bend, twist, and mold our rights like play-dough. Anyone have a baggy I think I gonna hurl.
"Suits make my neck itch!"
"they allow the government to strong-arm companies into building backdoors into encryption products" Lets just call it what really is. It is not a back door, it might as well be called a second front door. They have basically looked us in the eye and said; hey, I know we work for you in theory but we dont trust you. Give us free access to your data or we'll take it. You know its funny how gaining unauthorized access to computer system is considered illeagal unless you work for the DEA, FBI, CIA, NSA, or any other group of three leters that are still classified. These people make me sick. The bend, twist, and mold our rights like play-dough. Anyone have a baggy I think I gonna hurl.
This is the United States Government we are talking about. I will tell you what, if they are releasing restriction on the export of 128-bit encryption then it is time to get something stronger. This means that they have probably found a reliable why of hacking through the technology. I mean really, when was the last time the United States Government gave something away for nothing.
Be very cautious my friends! Remember encryption technology is always considered unbreakable right up until the moment it is broken.
$nyper
I thought they were supposed to be "THE DOT COM PEOPLE." I mean my God I have just tested this and let me just say that this has to be one of the most stupid policy based security screw-ups I have ever seen.
MORONIC!!!! My 2 year old cousin has a better understanding of security concepts than these people.
Someone definitely needs a good ass chewing after implementing a policy like this one. If I were to ever write such an idiotic policy like this I would blame it on Old-timers syndrome and retire from the world of Network Security. Damn... I don't know whether to cry or laugh about this incident.
$nyper
I beleive that a little competition between the Palm Pilot and Visor is a good thing for the Palm OS customer base. Competition however friendly leads to new inovations in the attempts win over customers and market share. This continueing we may see a very strong Palm OS having a chance to someday in the near future topple Microsoft out of this market.
$nyper
Hm... Well that is possible. I for one am an american and I do agree that some of us lack common sense. Example, those three retards in Texas who decided to drag that guy (James Byrd Jr.) behind a pickup truck just because he was black.
But I think it is a major mistake for one to assume that we all lack common sense. Question. If the people of the US lack common sense then how did we become the greatest super power in the world? It takes a lot more than genius, good looks, and a Hiroshima&/Nagasaki to win that title of respect. What it takes is a great deal of common sense.
I would think the greatest display for a lack of common sense might lie in a place that was the focal point of two world wars. Wars that in which caused the loss of millions of Allied, Russian, and German lives. Huh... now there's something to think about.
$nyper
"The Patriotic Hacker"
What we know:
1> Runs Windows CE
2> Leaves open Port 21
3> Has an obvious Shared directory
Questions:
1> Is Share to gain OS access or is it an encryted password given to each box to allow them to talk?
2> Is the OS accessable at all or is the default set so that universal access to the OS is read only to prevent us from screwing it up?
3> Why would Sega need a back door into your dreamcast system in the first place.