that pastebin link is a FAKE, the lulzsec donation address has been changed to the one involved in the heist, the perpetrators are trying to cover their tracks and you fell for it.
equipment designed for 220V still works on 230V because of built-in voltage tolerances but new equipment should really be designed for 230V not 220V i still see brand new chinese crap being labeled with 220V though and in those devices the circuits inside REALLY expect 220v with very little tolerance for overvoltage.
the direct link is also useful because the download is only shown after you provide them with an email address.
When you do that they subscribe you to their mandatory mailing list BUT YOU ONLY FIND ABOUT THIS after you "confirm the download" by clicking the download link in your email at which point you are told you have been subscribed automatically. They do not tell you about this AT ANY POINT before you download. fortunately I used a mailinator address to get the link without the mail spam in my real inbox.
proof: when you fill in the download form the message they display is: ==== Thank you! Please check your e-mail for a message from us. It contains the download link for HeatMapper. If you don't find it, check your spam / trash folder also. ====
and the email i received only says: ======== Hi, tester from test,
Without further ado, here's your download link for Ekahau HeatMapper:
Cheers, The HeatMapper Team ============ (changed http to hxxp so the link is not made active by/. )
there's NOTHING there about agreeing to be subscribed to their mailing list. After clicking the link the page shown says ======== Download Ekahau HeatMapper You have been added to Ekahau Mailing List
Read the license agreement, and click on "Accept and Download" at the bottom of the page to download. [...snip...] =========
so.. at this point basically you have not even agreed to their license agreement yet (which doesn't say anything about agreeing to receive mail anyway) but they have already went ahead and added your mail address to the marketing/spam database
i only want a single thing from sony (all of them): see them file for a chapter 7 bankruptcy
i've had enough of them. they were a name for quality products up until about 15 years ago but since then it all went downhill: quality plummeted, rootkits, lies and deceptions, lawsuits against fans, and so on. I haven't bought a single product made by them during these last few years and i even refuse to support products made by them. If i get calls for service to a sony product i let the poor guy have an earful about why i refuse to support any sony product AT ALL.
and if you work for NASA, you occasionally just change the unit name without doing any conversions in the process... who cares that the odd space probe might crash, it has error recovery logic built-in and it's insured anyway.... right ?
In december 2008 i got a WRT-160n as a christmas present... oh boy. I had the misfortune to get the WRT-160n with V2 hardware. Since then, i always installed the latest firmware on it (currently it is at 11/15/2010 - Ver.2.0.03 Build 9) and i still have to power-cycle it every day, sometimes even twice a day. The darn thing is VERY unstable and freezes&locks up when you need it most.
I keep looking for dd-wrt support for it but the dd-wrt team has officially given up on creating a firmware for the v2 hardware because it is just THAT crappy:(
there's even a poem circulating around about the crappiness of this router: =========== My days with Linksys
Early morning, wake-up ring Router ping.
Waiting, waiting, no reply, Want the same? Go Linksys buy!
Boring job? Can't sleep at night? We all meet at firmware site. Last updated years ago, Still for views, top of the show!
Lunch time break, again go ping, How to break this vicious ring!?
Wireless, wired, all screwed up, Tech support does never stop Working on the magic fix Germans say "bis hierher nix".
Before bed just one more try, Did the shitty box really die? Lights are blinking, network slow, WRT one six oh!
Hitler had his own V2 [fau zwei], Linksys now want also try. Who of them will score more dead? With an L begins my bet.
gizmag quote from TFA: The General Administration of Press and Publication web site announced last week that the mixing of foreign words in Chinese language publications without an accompanying Chinese language translation has been banned. The ban is all encompassing and includes the names of people and places, acronyms, abbreviations and common phrases, all of which have become increasingly common over recent years./endquote
by now, i have been waiting for 10 minutes for that chinese page to load and it still hasn't finished loading the title of the page. If they expect to become the dominant language on the internet they better stop that damn Great Firewall and get some wide internet tubes over there.
P.S.
about the patent thing... this smells to me like patent system abuse... ronja was already using LEDs for network communications in 1998, using an AUI interface. the only addition these guys made is mounting a ronja system into a light frame and using spectrum filters to filter out normal light
this is better than current IRDA used by laptops because that one is slow and a pain in the rear to use. Also, light is less vulnerable to interference / interception than wifi
From what i see in the summary description from the article they are using a modified RONJA design but instead of the long-range with narrow beam they adapted it for a wide angle with a way smaller distance, fit for office ceiling usage.
A RONJA optical network has been capable of working at 10 mbps full duplex at 1,4 KILOMETERS (about 0.9 miles) since 2008
oww crap... NotionInk has announced that their Adam tablet will have a back-side touchpad MORE than 13 months ago if i remember correctly, and now sony goes on to PATENT NotionInk's idea?
Talk about a new low for sony... patent troll & ip thief in adition to their activities with rootkits & mafiaa:(
How the patent office could have granted such a patent on a publically-announced feature from NotionInk is unbelievable. With this i cannot see how NotionInk can launch the Adam tablet in US without being sued by sony:(
great news for encrypted bittorrent, all you have to do is set your client to only use encrypted udp+tcp transfers on a 'standard' game port, for example 27015 that's used by most steam-based games.:p
no password at all? try "impossible to even set a password"
on December 19th 2008 i bought a Sweex LW300 wireless router ( http://sweex.nl/lw300 ) only to discover that the damn telnet service would not require a password AT ALL if you connected from the inside network.
Even if i set a password for the web admin interface, cycled power two or three times, it was all for nothing. The telnet service was left wide open for anyone on the internal network (including wireless). Not even the passwd command was working.
When i saw this i promptly returned the damn box and got a linksys instead (this was on December 22nd).
Unfortunately the replacement linksys router i got is another piece of crap and i was stuck with that. I found i was given the V2 of WRT160N only when i unwrapped the box at home. WRT160N V2 is a piece of crap (ralink chipset => random router crashes, no ddwrt/openwrt on it) that made me avoid ever buying another Cisco/Linksys. All the routers i bought since then for our customers were other brands, in total about 10 thousand euros of lost sales for Cisco/Linksys because of that one crap router they saddled me with for Christmas 2008. You can imagine how that Christmas felt like:(
some system info for the Sweex LW300 with the telnet open root shell: Linux (none) 2.6.17 #832 Tue Dec 4 15:39:35 CST 2007 armv5tejl unknown
Processor : ARM926EJ-Sid(wb) rev 5 (v5l) BogoMIPS : 285.90 Features : swp half fastmult edsp java CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 5TEJ CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0x926 CPU revision : 5 Cache type : write-back Cache clean : cp15 c7 ops Cache lockdown : format C Cache format : Harvard I size : 16384 I assoc : 4 I line length : 32 I sets : 128 D size : 16384 D assoc : 4 D line length : 32 D sets : 128
If I was a big electronics geek I could theoretically set up a pair of toy laser pointers + some light sensors to allow me to relay internet traffic by line of sight (with crappy bandwidth) but that wouldn't be that much more complex than what they seem to be talking about.
this book is already obsolete, joomla 1.6 is almost ready to be released as stable, currently it's in a state of public beta testing (beta 2).
there are enormous differences between 1.5 and 1.6, menus are in different places, API has changed a lot (templates for 1.5 won't work for 1.6 without major changes) and so on.
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that pastebin link is a FAKE, the lulzsec donation address has been changed to the one involved in the heist, the perpetrators are trying to cover their tracks and you fell for it.
The real lulzsec donation address is another one, according to https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6467131/Bethesda_internal_data
the torrent description makes it clear: 176LRX4WRWD5LWDMbhr94ptb2MW9varCZP
most of europe uses 230V since quite a few years now and 220V is a thing of the past:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity#Standardization
equipment designed for 220V still works on 230V because of built-in voltage tolerances but new equipment should really be designed for 230V not 220V
i still see brand new chinese crap being labeled with 220V though and in those devices the circuits inside REALLY expect 220v with very little tolerance for overvoltage.
the direct link is also useful because the download is only shown after you provide them with an email address.
When you do that they subscribe you to their mandatory mailing list BUT YOU ONLY FIND ABOUT THIS after you "confirm the download" by clicking the download link in your email at which point you are told you have been subscribed automatically. They do not tell you about this AT ANY POINT before you download.
fortunately I used a mailinator address to get the link without the mail spam in my real inbox.
proof:
when you fill in the download form the message they display is:
====
Thank you!
Please check your e-mail for a message from us. It contains the download link for HeatMapper.
If you don't find it, check your spam / trash folder also.
====
and the email i received only says:
========
Hi, tester from test,
Without further ado, here's your download link for Ekahau HeatMapper:
hxxp://www.ekahau.com/download/hmdlreq/accept.php?email=M8R-gouv9e%40mailinator.com&sessionid=FA0B695315482
Thank you for choosing HeatMapper!
Cheers, /. )
The HeatMapper Team
============
(changed http to hxxp so the link is not made active by
there's NOTHING there about agreeing to be subscribed to their mailing list. After clicking the link the page shown says
========
Download Ekahau HeatMapper
You have been added to Ekahau Mailing List
Read the license agreement, and click on "Accept and Download" at the bottom of the page to download.
[...snip...]
=========
so.. at this point basically you have not even agreed to their license agreement yet (which doesn't say anything about agreeing to receive mail anyway) but they have already went ahead and added your mail address to the marketing/spam database
i only want a single thing from sony (all of them): see them file for a chapter 7 bankruptcy
i've had enough of them.
they were a name for quality products up until about 15 years ago but since then it all went downhill: quality plummeted, rootkits, lies and deceptions, lawsuits against fans, and so on. I haven't bought a single product made by them during these last few years and i even refuse to support products made by them.
If i get calls for service to a sony product i let the poor guy have an earful about why i refuse to support any sony product AT ALL.
it's not a bug, it's a feature!
and if you work for NASA, you occasionally just change the unit name without doing any conversions in the process... who cares that the odd space probe might crash, it has error recovery logic built-in and it's insured anyway.... right ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Communications_loss
. /sarcasm
same thing happened to me, in 30 seconds firefox had recorded a crap load of junk, had to manually delete the site from the history file.
let's just tag the article with "historybomb" as a warning
In december 2008 i got a WRT-160n as a christmas present... oh boy.
I had the misfortune to get the WRT-160n with V2 hardware. Since then, i always installed the latest firmware on it (currently it is at 11/15/2010 - Ver.2.0.03 Build 9) and i still have to power-cycle it every day, sometimes even twice a day. The darn thing is VERY unstable and freezes&locks up when you need it most.
I keep looking for dd-wrt support for it but the dd-wrt team has officially given up on creating a firmware for the v2 hardware because it is just THAT crappy :(
there's even a poem circulating around about the crappiness of this router:
===========
My days with Linksys
Early morning, wake-up ring
Router ping.
Waiting, waiting, no reply,
Want the same? Go Linksys buy!
Boring job? Can't sleep at night?
We all meet at firmware site.
Last updated years ago,
Still for views, top of the show!
Lunch time break, again go ping,
How to break this vicious ring!?
Wireless, wired, all screwed up,
Tech support does never stop
Working on the magic fix
Germans say "bis hierher nix".
Before bed just one more try,
Did the shitty box really die?
Lights are blinking, network slow,
WRT one six oh!
Hitler had his own V2 [fau zwei],
Linksys now want also try.
Who of them will score more dead?
With an L begins my bet.
i tested both the EU and the US firmware files, they are identical
File: PS3UPDAT_US.PUP
MD5: 2a52196399a4b96ea568aafa65d1a27e
SHA-1: c372ce26267590dc851eec66b73a162a8cac76ea
File: PS3UPDAT_EU.PUP
MD5: 2a52196399a4b96ea568aafa65d1a27e
SHA-1: c372ce26267590dc851eec66b73a162a8cac76ea
the _US file is the file downloaded (and renamed) from the US url, the _EU file is from the EU url
direct download link, always contains url of the latest sony firmware:
http://fus01.ps3.update.playstation.net/update/ps3/list/us/ps3-updatelist.txt
currently it points to v3.56
http://dus01.ps3.update.playstation.net/update/ps3/image/us/2011_0127_6e070c96e0464e993aaf9deac3660863/PS3UPDAT.PUP
this firmware update can be installed without having to have a PlayStation network account or having to agree with the PS Network ToS & User Agreement
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110202220600258
original article in chinese:
http://www.gapp.gov.cn/cms/html/21/508/201012/708310.html
gizmag quote from TFA: The General Administration of Press and Publication web site announced last week that the mixing of foreign words in Chinese language publications without an accompanying Chinese language translation has been banned. The ban is all encompassing and includes the names of people and places, acronyms, abbreviations and common phrases, all of which have become increasingly common over recent years. /endquote
by now, i have been waiting for 10 minutes for that chinese page to load and it still hasn't finished loading the title of the page. If they expect to become the dominant language on the internet they better stop that damn Great Firewall and get some wide internet tubes over there.
P.S.
about the patent thing... this smells to me like patent system abuse... ronja was already using LEDs for network communications in 1998, using an AUI interface.
the only addition these guys made is mounting a ronja system into a light frame and using spectrum filters to filter out normal light
how can you patent such an obvious usage?
this is better than current IRDA used by laptops because that one is slow and a pain in the rear to use. Also, light is less vulnerable to interference / interception than wifi
From what i see in the summary description from the article they are using a modified RONJA design but instead of the long-range with narrow beam they adapted it for a wide angle with a way smaller distance, fit for office ceiling usage.
A RONJA optical network has been capable of working at 10 mbps full duplex at 1,4 KILOMETERS (about 0.9 miles) since 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RONJA
http://ronja.twibright.com/tetrapolis/
42
because 42 is a valid answer for everything, even the ultimate question :)
oww crap...
NotionInk has announced that their Adam tablet will have a back-side touchpad MORE than 13 months ago if i remember correctly, and now sony goes on to PATENT NotionInk's idea?
Talk about a new low for sony... patent troll & ip thief in adition to their activities with rootkits & mafiaa :(
How the patent office could have granted such a patent on a publically-announced feature from NotionInk is unbelievable. With this i cannot see how NotionInk can launch the Adam tablet in US without being sued by sony :(
title of this slashdot article should be:
Le Kilogramme is to walk the Planck. :)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/28/official_french_kilogramme_marked_for_the_bin/
great news for encrypted bittorrent, all you have to do is set your client to only use encrypted udp+tcp transfers on a 'standard' game port, for example 27015 that's used by most steam-based games. :p
no password at all? try "impossible to even set a password"
on December 19th 2008 i bought a Sweex LW300 wireless router ( http://sweex.nl/lw300 ) only to discover that the damn telnet service would not require a password AT ALL if you connected from the inside network.
Even if i set a password for the web admin interface, cycled power two or three times, it was all for nothing. The telnet service was left wide open for anyone on the internal network (including wireless). Not even the passwd command was working.
When i saw this i promptly returned the damn box and got a linksys instead (this was on December 22nd).
Unfortunately the replacement linksys router i got is another piece of crap and i was stuck with that. I found i was given the V2 of WRT160N only when i unwrapped the box at home. :(
WRT160N V2 is a piece of crap (ralink chipset => random router crashes, no ddwrt/openwrt on it) that made me avoid ever buying another Cisco/Linksys. All the routers i bought since then for our customers were other brands, in total about 10 thousand euros of lost sales for Cisco/Linksys because of that one crap router they saddled me with for Christmas 2008. You can imagine how that Christmas felt like
some system info for the Sweex LW300 with the telnet open root shell:
Linux (none) 2.6.17 #832 Tue Dec 4 15:39:35 CST 2007 armv5tejl unknown
Processor : ARM926EJ-Sid(wb) rev 5 (v5l)
BogoMIPS : 285.90
Features : swp half fastmult edsp java
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 5TEJ
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0x926
CPU revision : 5
Cache type : write-back
Cache clean : cp15 c7 ops
Cache lockdown : format C
Cache format : Harvard
I size : 16384
I assoc : 4
I line length : 32
I sets : 128
D size : 16384
D assoc : 4
D line length : 32
D sets : 128
not exactly toy laser pointers, but it has already been done and it works reasonably well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RONJA
this book is already obsolete, joomla 1.6 is almost ready to be released as stable, currently it's in a state of public beta testing (beta 2).
there are enormous differences between 1.5 and 1.6, menus are in different places, API has changed a lot (templates for 1.5 won't work for 1.6 without major changes) and so on.
obligatory lolcat reference:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/wireless-cat.jpg
hopefully, soon, Europe will also have class-action lawsuits.
The legislation is already under discussion for some time now, except it's called Consumer Collective Redress over here:
http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/redress_cons/collective_redress_en.htm
again, it's 80 UK POUNDS (84 actually), that's about $130 not $80
http://www.google.com/search?q=84+uk+pounds+in+usd
the refund was actually 80+ UK POUNDS (84 actually), that's about $130 not 80
http://www.google.com/search?q=84+uk+pounds+in+usd
280W power drain, 550mm^2 chip size => no thanks, i'll pass.
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/01/17/nvidia-gf100-takes-280w-and-unmanufacturable