It is easy enough to acquire the password when you hold it's owner captive. I am a US citizen and I gave my government my password to my laptop at the Canadian border just so they would let me go to the bathroom. Giving up your facebook credentials would be trivial unless you were very dedicated.
Using the 'Spectrum Analyzer' features built in to most APs and wireless clients will only show you other WiFi traffic not noise (almost always true). Also, they are not very portable. The earlier post about asking you local Ham Radio club is a good idea if there is anyone available and many Hams don't have equipment to listen to 2.4 or 5 GHz. You can search on google and other places for a 'usb wifi spectrum analyzer' for less than $50 that plugs in to your laptop. Be careful and read the specs though as some required that you use them in DOS mode. This will let you look at the actual received power level across the whole spectrum. You can walk around with a laptop until you find the noise source. It is still a steep price to pay for a one time fix.
If you are the crafty type you can get a ez430-RF2500 target board for $22 from Texas Instruments. You will need to search for a software load that make it a SA but the are many instructions online.
If you don't want to roll your own and get a prebuilt solution you can use the Ubiquiti AirView2 for ~$40. This is a very nice tool. You could even split the cost with your neighbors or pool money or request the person with the noisy device foot the bill for finding it.
The timestamps have been around for a while. At least six months ago I was browsing through the XML data for my character on the armory and noticed a 'Last_On' and 'Last_Update' (not exact names of fields but something similar). From this you could find out when a person was playing. None of this information was displayed anywhere in the armory though.
Most out-of-band/backup management used by the likes of AT&T and Sprint use and serial multiplexer with a phone line. You would hook this to the console port of the computer and/or the 'lights out' card. There would also be a APC MasterPower PDU (power distribution unit) that allows turning outlets on or off including sequencing and timer events. These PDU have a serial port that would connect to the same serial multiplexer. This gets you a command line, BIOS level access and hard booting ability. Of course, you can script or command almost anything on windows using the WSH (Windows service host) or on *nix using your favorite shell. For those trickier 3rd party apps you can use software like AutoIt to command the GUI from the command line. For easy access to services, registry, tasks, etc you would use PSTools by SysInternals now maintained by Microsoft.
All of the above works very well over intermittent connections as it was designed for dial-on-demand connections. For complete control over the GUI (in windows) you can use the highspeed connection with the built in RDP or terminal services. RDP will give you the 'monitor' view like you were sitting there and TS will give you a separate login with your own session. I prefer RAdmin for an RDP replacement as it has better security (logins can be completly seperate from the OS users or you can use the same windows user accounts, but providing more fine grain control over rights), it can be configured for slow links (I have used it on 42k connections by setting screen updates to 5/sec all though this is somewhat painful), it is cheap (about $10 for each client/server pair), and it has very useful file management tools (bypassing the need for telnet/ftp and even the GUI) as well as chat tools for when multiple people are working on the computer at the same time.
When I first read the Engadget post about the magazine being available I knew I would be driving around all day to find a copy that I could hack. I finally got a few copies and ripped one to shreds as soon as I got home.
Firstly, they did not use the active matrix version of the E-Ink display. It is a segmented version. This means that you can not make it do kindle like things. You must use the existing segments. The magazine contains two of these 2x5" displays. The cover display has 11 segments while the inside display has 3. They are both black and 'white' (aka grey) displays although several shades seem possible by varying the switch voltage timing. The color areas are created with a transparent overlay that, of course, is always present.
(Note: These probably do not match the CN1 and CN2 pin outs) COVER DISPLAY SEGMENTS
1. "THE 21ST CENTURY"
2. "BEGINS"
3. 1st box after "BEGINS"
4. 2nd box after "BEGINS"
5. 3rd box after "BEGINS"
6. Both boxes (left and right) of "NOW"
7. "NOW"
8. The circle arrow
9. Bottom box 1
10. Bottom box 2
12. Bottom box 3
INNER DISPLAY SEGMENTS
1. Left side + 2 of 6 'wheel' segments on both 'wheels'
2. Middle + 2 of 6 'wheel' segments on both 'wheels'
3. Right side + 2 of 6 'wheel' segments on both 'wheels'
The cover display uses a 12 line ribbon connector while the inner display uses a 6 line ribbon with only 4 lines that are completed. One line on each display is a common connection while the others are simple on/off lines.
THE ELECTRONICS
The circuit board is very simple with only a few components. There are six CR2016 3V batteries, 2 connectors, 2 HEF4094BT 8 stage shift-and-store bus register chips, 1 12F629 Flash based 8bit CMOS microcontroller, 26 resistors, 2 capacitors and 3 transistors. The 12F629 controls 3 transistors that drive the STROBE, DATA and CLOCK pins, at 15v, of the HEF4094BTs. The HEF4094BTs are connected in a cascade fashion to provide 16 latching registers that directly drive the EInk displays.
WHAT DOES IT ALL DO? The Batteries:
5 of the 6 batteries (B1-B5) are connected in series to provide the 15v driver voltage that is used to change the segments from black to white and back. The other battery (B6) supplies the 3 volts needed to run the microcontroller. The B1-B5 series and B6 both share a common ground.
The PIC
U1 is the Microcontroller. This device controls the sequence of the changes.
Pin 1 is Vdd (+3vdc).
C1 is used as a noise filter for the power.
Pin 2 is not used.
Pin 3 is not used.
Pin 4 is used for initial programming only.
Pin 5 drives Q3 through R5.
This drives the U3 and U3 STROBE (STR) lines causing the shift register data to be stored in the storage register.
Pin 6 drives Q2 through R3.
This drives the U2 and U3 CLOCK (CP) lines which allows serial programming of each register bit prior to storage.
Pin 7 drives Q1 through R1.
This drives the U2 DATA (S) line. U3 Data is connected to the O's (PIN 10) of U2 which is a serial output.
pin 8 is Vss(GND).
The Transistors
Q1 drives the DATA (D) line of U2 and is driven by U1 Pin 7.
Q2 drives the CLOCK (CP) lines of U2 and U3 and is driven by U1 Pin 6.
Q3 drives the STROBE (STR) lines of U2 and U3 and is driven by U1 pin 5.
Q1-Q3 base pins are connected to common ground.
R1,3,5 are used for current limiting to protect U1 outputs.
R2,4,6 are pull-up resistors for Q1-3 causing the output to be 15V when off and ground when on.
C3 is a noise filter for the pull-up power rail.
The Shift Registers
U1 and U2 drive the displays. They are programmed by U1 via a serial bus. The parallel outputs we'll look at from the perspective of the CN1 and CN2 connectors. These work as a marching train of bits. When the clock goes HI all bits are shifted right and the first one is set the whatever DA
Limit their account to read only. Give it access to specific tables and, if possible, specific columns. Using quotas (or the proc resource equivelent), limit the amount of CPU time their queries are given. Also, add a max query time to the account so they can tie up the DB with a lot of slow queries. Then, track resource usage by the user account so you can decide as things progress how efficient your rules are or are not.
if you google the results of the function test...
Ford's, success, has, the, country, almost, financially, industrially, mechanically, exhibits, in, higher, than, persons, have, thought, possible, contradictory, requirements, of, efficiency, increase, great, workers, cost, consumer, And, cost, cost, consumer, And, cost, cost, consumer, And, workers, workers, workers, workers, to, repeated, great, increase, quality, increase, great, great, increase, quality, efficiency, efficiency, which, are, of, contradictory, contradictory, requirements, of, possible, have, have, thought, possible, have, have, persons, than, than, most, persons, persons, than, most, exhibits, exhibits, exhibits, exhibits, financially, financially, financially, financially, almost, the, the, country, almost, Ford's, Ford's, success, has
you find a wikipedia article on "Lean Manufacturing" which the article tells you was mostly derived from the Toyota Production System.
Googling the date "1/18/2008" and Toyota leads you to the obvious conclusion that Van Halens 1/18/2008 concert in Huston, TX at the Toyota Center needs more smart roadies. Email neohenryford@hotmail.com to get free tickets!:-)
Well, the interesting thing here is that some people on the Free Software Business mailing list claim that the economic model for open source has a flaw. You get paid for selling support, right?
Soupport does not primarily me to help people when the software is broken, but mainly to help them learn how to use the software effectivly.
Have you ever wondered why so many "Third World Countries" of a few decades ago seem to have better tech than us now? They didn't have any old-tech in the way that corporate execs still wanted to make more money on. Maybe the time has come for the smaller cities that are just starting to develop their metro fiber rings. I know that my little town of a few thousand people is coming along nicely:-) Tough luck New Yorkers! Ha ha! If you can't wait try one of the new wireless ISPs in your area. If you near Queens check out DiDiWireless.com ran by a nice guy named Sevak Avakians
Delivering TV over IP is not as hard as you might think and not as expensive either. At least not the consumer part. Laying the fiber is the expensive and time consuming part but that can be handled. The most annoying part of the whole sh-bang is the content providers. None of them want to see their content comming anywhere close to the internet. I have worked with many people who wanted to develop such a plan and everyone was stopped by the content providers. Then again, who has every lasted long against microsoft?
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It is easy enough to acquire the password when you hold it's owner captive. I am a US citizen and I gave my government my password to my laptop at the Canadian border just so they would let me go to the bathroom. Giving up your facebook credentials would be trivial unless you were very dedicated.
Using the 'Spectrum Analyzer' features built in to most APs and wireless clients will only show you other WiFi traffic not noise (almost always true). Also, they are not very portable. The earlier post about asking you local Ham Radio club is a good idea if there is anyone available and many Hams don't have equipment to listen to 2.4 or 5 GHz. You can search on google and other places for a 'usb wifi spectrum analyzer' for less than $50 that plugs in to your laptop. Be careful and read the specs though as some required that you use them in DOS mode. This will let you look at the actual received power level across the whole spectrum. You can walk around with a laptop until you find the noise source. It is still a steep price to pay for a one time fix. If you are the crafty type you can get a ez430-RF2500 target board for $22 from Texas Instruments. You will need to search for a software load that make it a SA but the are many instructions online. If you don't want to roll your own and get a prebuilt solution you can use the Ubiquiti AirView2 for ~$40. This is a very nice tool. You could even split the cost with your neighbors or pool money or request the person with the noisy device foot the bill for finding it.
The timestamps have been around for a while. At least six months ago I was browsing through the XML data for my character on the armory and noticed a 'Last_On' and 'Last_Update' (not exact names of fields but something similar). From this you could find out when a person was playing. None of this information was displayed anywhere in the armory though.
Most out-of-band/backup management used by the likes of AT&T and Sprint use and serial multiplexer with a phone line. You would hook this to the console port of the computer and/or the 'lights out' card. There would also be a APC MasterPower PDU (power distribution unit) that allows turning outlets on or off including sequencing and timer events. These PDU have a serial port that would connect to the same serial multiplexer. This gets you a command line, BIOS level access and hard booting ability. Of course, you can script or command almost anything on windows using the WSH (Windows service host) or on *nix using your favorite shell. For those trickier 3rd party apps you can use software like AutoIt to command the GUI from the command line. For easy access to services, registry, tasks, etc you would use PSTools by SysInternals now maintained by Microsoft.
All of the above works very well over intermittent connections as it was designed for dial-on-demand connections. For complete control over the GUI (in windows) you can use the highspeed connection with the built in RDP or terminal services. RDP will give you the 'monitor' view like you were sitting there and TS will give you a separate login with your own session. I prefer RAdmin for an RDP replacement as it has better security (logins can be completly seperate from the OS users or you can use the same windows user accounts, but providing more fine grain control over rights), it can be configured for slow links (I have used it on 42k connections by setting screen updates to 5/sec all though this is somewhat painful), it is cheap (about $10 for each client/server pair), and it has very useful file management tools (bypassing the need for telnet/ftp and even the GUI) as well as chat tools for when multiple people are working on the computer at the same time.
i think that about covers it.
$6. The regular Esquire price is $4 for this 200 page book of ads. They marked it up $2 for the special edition.
When I first read the Engadget post about the magazine being available I knew I would be driving around all day to find a copy that I could hack. I finally got a few copies and ripped one to shreds as soon as I got home.
Firstly, they did not use the active matrix version of the E-Ink display. It is a segmented version. This means that you can not make it do kindle like things. You must use the existing segments. The magazine contains two of these 2x5" displays. The cover display has 11 segments while the inside display has 3. They are both black and 'white' (aka grey) displays although several shades seem possible by varying the switch voltage timing. The color areas are created with a transparent overlay that, of course, is always present.
(Note: These probably do not match the CN1 and CN2 pin outs)
COVER DISPLAY SEGMENTS
1. "THE 21ST CENTURY"
2. "BEGINS"
3. 1st box after "BEGINS"
4. 2nd box after "BEGINS"
5. 3rd box after "BEGINS"
6. Both boxes (left and right) of "NOW"
7. "NOW"
8. The circle arrow
9. Bottom box 1
10. Bottom box 2
12. Bottom box 3
INNER DISPLAY SEGMENTS
1. Left side + 2 of 6 'wheel' segments on both 'wheels'
2. Middle + 2 of 6 'wheel' segments on both 'wheels'
3. Right side + 2 of 6 'wheel' segments on both 'wheels'
The cover display uses a 12 line ribbon connector while the inner display uses a 6 line ribbon with only 4 lines that are completed. One line on each display is a common connection while the others are simple on/off lines.
THE ELECTRONICS
The circuit board is very simple with only a few components. There are six CR2016 3V batteries, 2 connectors, 2 HEF4094BT 8 stage shift-and-store bus register chips, 1 12F629 Flash based 8bit CMOS microcontroller, 26 resistors, 2 capacitors and 3 transistors. The 12F629 controls 3 transistors that drive the STROBE, DATA and CLOCK pins, at 15v, of the HEF4094BTs. The HEF4094BTs are connected in a cascade fashion to provide 16 latching registers that directly drive the EInk displays.
WHAT DOES IT ALL DO?
The Batteries:
5 of the 6 batteries (B1-B5) are connected in series to provide the 15v driver voltage that is used to change the segments from black to white and back. The other battery (B6) supplies the 3 volts needed to run the microcontroller. The B1-B5 series and B6 both share a common ground.
The PIC
U1 is the Microcontroller. This device controls the sequence of the changes.
Pin 1 is Vdd (+3vdc).
C1 is used as a noise filter for the power.
Pin 2 is not used.
Pin 3 is not used.
Pin 4 is used for initial programming only.
Pin 5 drives Q3 through R5.
This drives the U3 and U3 STROBE (STR) lines causing the shift register data to be stored in the storage register.
Pin 6 drives Q2 through R3.
This drives the U2 and U3 CLOCK (CP) lines which allows serial programming of each register bit prior to storage.
Pin 7 drives Q1 through R1.
This drives the U2 DATA (S) line. U3 Data is connected to the O's (PIN 10) of U2 which is a serial output.
pin 8 is Vss(GND).
The Transistors
Q1 drives the DATA (D) line of U2 and is driven by U1 Pin 7.
Q2 drives the CLOCK (CP) lines of U2 and U3 and is driven by U1 Pin 6.
Q3 drives the STROBE (STR) lines of U2 and U3 and is driven by U1 pin 5.
Q1-Q3 base pins are connected to common ground.
R1,3,5 are used for current limiting to protect U1 outputs.
R2,4,6 are pull-up resistors for Q1-3 causing
the output to be 15V when off and ground when on. C3 is a noise filter for the pull-up power rail.
The Shift Registers
U1 and U2 drive the displays. They are programmed by U1 via a serial bus. The parallel outputs we'll look at from the perspective of the CN1 and CN2 connectors. These work as a marching train of bits. When the clock goes HI all bits are shifted right and the first one is set the whatever DA
Limit their account to read only. Give it access to specific tables and, if possible, specific columns. Using quotas (or the proc resource equivelent), limit the amount of CPU time their queries are given. Also, add a max query time to the account so they can tie up the DB with a lot of slow queries. Then, track resource usage by the user account so you can decide as things progress how efficient your rules are or are not.
if you google the results of the function test... Ford's, success, has, the, country, almost, financially, industrially, mechanically, exhibits, in, higher, than, persons, have, thought, possible, contradictory, requirements, of, efficiency, increase, great, workers, cost, consumer, And, cost, cost, consumer, And, cost, cost, consumer, And, workers, workers, workers, workers, to, repeated, great, increase, quality, increase, great, great, increase, quality, efficiency, efficiency, which, are, of, contradictory, contradictory, requirements, of, possible, have, have, thought, possible, have, have, persons, than, than, most, persons, persons, than, most, exhibits, exhibits, exhibits, exhibits, financially, financially, financially, financially, almost, the, the, country, almost, Ford's, Ford's, success, has you find a wikipedia article on "Lean Manufacturing" which the article tells you was mostly derived from the Toyota Production System. Googling the date "1/18/2008" and Toyota leads you to the obvious conclusion that Van Halens 1/18/2008 concert in Huston, TX at the Toyota Center needs more smart roadies. Email neohenryford@hotmail.com to get free tickets! :-)
Well, the interesting thing here is that some people on the Free Software Business mailing list claim that the economic model for open source has a flaw. You get paid for selling support, right?
Soupport does not primarily me to help people when the software is broken, but mainly to help them learn how to use the software effectivly.
Have you ever wondered why so many "Third World Countries" of a few decades ago seem to have better tech than us now? They didn't have any old-tech in the way that corporate execs still wanted to make more money on. Maybe the time has come for the smaller cities that are just starting to develop their metro fiber rings. I know that my little town of a few thousand people is coming along nicely :-) Tough luck New Yorkers! Ha ha! If you can't wait try one of the new wireless ISPs in your area. If you near Queens check out DiDiWireless.com ran by a nice guy named Sevak Avakians
Delivering TV over IP is not as hard as you might think and not as expensive either. At least not the consumer part. Laying the fiber is the expensive and time consuming part but that can be handled. The most annoying part of the whole sh-bang is the content providers. None of them want to see their content comming anywhere close to the internet. I have worked with many people who wanted to develop such a plan and everyone was stopped by the content providers. Then again, who has every lasted long against microsoft?