And... I believe the first network aware self propogating worm was the Morris worm (1998/11/02) meant to gague the size of the internet.
I believe the third worm and the first on-purpose malicious network worm was Wank from October 1989. It attacked VAX machines running on DECNet, changing passwords and lol phoning all the people who had accounts to annoy them;). Cert Wank Advisory CA-1989-04;)
Earlier in 1988 there was the hi.com worm, but that was just a zombie. It was meant to send a Merry Christmas message to all infected users on 25 December 1988;)
W O R M A G A I N S T N U C L E A R K I L L E R S
Your System Has Been Officially WANKed
You talk of times of peace for all, and then prepare for war.
Someone might know of an earlier malicious network aware worm, but this is the first one I know of.
From the summary: "...targeted to prevent access to pornography by children....and is the only viable way to combat child porn...protecting children from porn."
So which is it? Children Accessing Porn or Porn Containing Children?
This is quite scary, but TFA is vague on details. For example;
Does the American Government only plan to mine the search data from it's citizens - or will it also mine data from countries that are more liberal in their outlook?
Will the data mined contain personal information like linked gmail accounts and IP's or will it be aggregated?
How long will the mined data be retained for?What restrictions will be placed on the mined data's privacy? Will it be shared with corporations? Will it be published in gazette or handed to the press?
What happens if they find a really bad search? Will they prosecute? Do your laws prevent prosecution on evidence found through opportunistic searches?
What happens if the US government add a financial sweetner to the deal in some form? Will they reconsider?
Will the other US based search engines be asked too? Will Microsoft stand up to the US government like Google seem to be or will they sell out?
As I said pretty scary and I hope Google fight it through the courts.
Thinking back to an article a few days ago... maybe it *is* a good idea to have an alternate search engine!
Did you know that some EventSystem errors in the Event Viewer can be caused by a faulty disk controller?
Absolutely and Technet has a list of each event code and enough probable causes for an experienced tech to draw between the dots. When Technet doesn't have decent information then putting the error into plain old google will also return enough results for a valid solution. Being denied groups doesn't mean there is no other viable solution. If it did then there would be so many companies up the creek without a paddle it wouldn't be funny.
90% is a hell of a lot of problems to go running to groups to solve. It really indicates a serious problem in the posters knowledge.
What happens when his network has failed? If he relies on groups for 90% of his answers then he hasn't a clue.
no amount of Microsoft or Cisco certifications will teach me how to debug (note that I didn't say "administer" nor "manage") a UNIX system.
Yes, this is the case sometimes. But honestly... How many times does it happen to anyone but the most radical coal-face level three network technician? And if you are one of those then I would imagine you know some of the dangers of providing this access to everyone!
Is one person's needs really so important that groups access should be turned on for all in the company to abuse?
As I said in another post in this thread If a analyst/tech/programmer can provide a good valid business reason to get access above what Joe in Marketing can then he should be allowed to create a tunnel. He should also be required to sign paper saying he won't abuse the tunnel as well.
Lowering defenses for the entire company so one person can get say one answer a week is just madness.
Closing your argument with an insult does not make your point valid. In fact it reduces it's worth.
You do know there are no binaries on Google groups, right?
Yes, and I know two people at work were fired for reading inappropriate stories too.
And you do know that there are groups beginning with letters other than "alt", right? Like "sci" and "comp" and so forth
As I said in another post in this very thread if Google released a censored text only groups service containing just sci, comp and other select areas then this would not be an issue. As it stands at the moment the very fact that Joe in Marketing can read the alt. groups on work time ruins it for Mike in IT who really needs it for his job.
In another post in this thread I mention that if Mike in IT can provide a good and valid business case for tunnelled access and is willing to sign a form listing the responsibility then by all means.... But unfettered use for everyone so one person in the company can fix maybe one problem a week!
If I found one of my admins getting undocumented solutions from a source such as that they would find themselves doing inventories for the next 6 months.
I see your humour, but I honestly ask how many sysadmins does an average company have? One?
How many other employees does an average company have? One Hundred?
Is the ability for a tech/sysadmin to grab say one solution a week and use the companies general access infrastructure (the stuff Joe in Marketing also uses) to do it worth the abuse that the other hundred people cause?
If the sysadmin can put forward a valid and good business case to have access above and beyond what Joe in marketing can then OK let them create a tunnel after signing a special access request that outlined the responsibility such a tunnel entailed. But to turn it on for everyone? Sheesh.
Before groups was banned in my workplace it was scary what sales and marketing looked at. I could mention the groups I saw people reading so you could understand my point but this is a site that many people use at work! (I'm not just talking alt.binaries.erotica.granny.sex by the way)
If google created a parallel censored version for business use - say text-only for the comp, sci, etc groups then it would be worth looking at again until then... Not on my network. Too easy to abuse!
Nope, I'm not a PHB and I'm certainly not like you suggest you are - a PFY.
I've been an IT professional since '78 and recently (last 10 years) I've seen way too many bad things happen with all the crud out there. As I said SNORT your network's ingress point to really see what's hapening out there. Then take a quick glance at your network's proxy logs to see some of the sicko sites some people visit during work hours.
In your case, if 90% of your solutions come from groups then you really should invest in some Cisco and Microsoft certification to teach you how to administer properly.
Relying on groups to keep your network operational indicates you should not be in that position.
The issue is draconian policies like arbitrary blocking of sites like Google Groups.
How can blocking Google Groups be seen as draconian. They have no place in a responsible workplace. They are only filled with warez requests, AOL Me Toos, kiddie porn and hentai anyway. For example as part of my job monitoring proxy logs I have reported a few people for browsing incest stories on groups before we just blocked it outright.
Windows workstations are designed to be insecure and as a result they need "draconian" protection put in place to ensure things don't get out of hand. Windows is prone to viruses, spyware and hijacking into zombie networks, not only through email infestation but through people browsing to undesirable sites.
To protect your company it is very important to block these questionable sites to stop even one person inside the firewall catching something then spreading it to the rest of the net.
Why is SMTP blocked outgoing on most machines (or why *should* it be blocked? Because it's only use is to automatically spread viruses.
To the OP, put SNORT onto your network and look at what crappy traffic is actually flowing. For example at home I get close to 900 sober worm attempts per day on my ADSL connection from people at the same ISP.
From wikipedia "Whereas VMs attempt to virtualize "a complete set of hardware," VPSs represent a "lighter" abstraction, virtualing instead "an operating system instance." All VPSs run atop a single operating system kernel. The VPS mechanism multiplexes this one OS kernel to look like multiple OS (and server) instances, especially from the perspective of running applications, users, and network services.
You don't want a VPS, what you want is something to create a VM like VMWare. It creates seperate virtual machines allowing you to run (like I do) Gentoo and XP at the same time.
Sedition laws are extremely narrowly defined and were written for the case where an organization is urging people to use violence against any person(s).
It is not just restricted to an organisation. It is a global law that restricts everyone who incites opposition to the government or crown - even if they are an individual.
It is now illegal to support those fighting to defend their land against foreign military occupations and that includes Australian forces. For example opposing the occupation of Iraq by Australian and American forces and speaking in favour of the right of Iraqi citizens to resist this occupation fall within the definition of the new offence.
The last time these laws were used was in 1960 when Brian Cooper urged the natives of Papua New Guinea to oppose Australian occupation. He suicided after being arrested.
Just think if these laws had been in use in 1970 in the Vietnam protests. Thousands of people would have been arrested. Likewise the clause about inciting the overthrow of a legal government. Can I say 1975, the Liberals and Sir John Kerr? Yes, Sir John was being seditious in seeking the overthrow of a lawfull government.
You mention the Sydney race riots and how they should be seen as seditious. You are aware that they occurred almost two months after the laws passed aren't you? Was anyone prosecuted under these particular laws? NO! Why? Because they were Anglo spreading hate against Arabs.
When it becomes illegal to criticize the government...
That's exactly what Australian citizens now face as part of the sedition laws brought in because of the "war on Terror".
If we decide that the Australian government is doing the wrong thing in Iraq or Afganistan and we mention this publicly we can be arrested and held without trial or warrant for 14 days. Once the case gets to court it's 7 years jail if proven.
Be afraid, it *can* happen in America too. One day they could tack the same bill on an appropriation request.
The scary thing is if you are arrested for sedition in Australia it is illegal for the press to report that fact, reporting someone is being held for sedition is also a seven year jail term.
I now use TOR so I can email my MP and the Prime Minister without the threat of jail being held over me. Australia *is* now a police state and we need TOR to attempt to balance the evil.
You can have the best sig in the world on paper but when you try and wite it on that wee strip of writable plastic on the card it never comes out right, so your signature is always a bit different on card versus paper.
Yes, your signature is a little different the strip is not as tall as some signatures and it's quite slippery. But when I was a kid working in a store I was trained how to verify a signature. A quick glance at the style is all that is needed the real trick to verification is in the length.
Ever seen an experienced clerk verify your signature? They put the card above the paper and see the lengths match almost exactly.
I was actually quite serious in my original comment.
I fail to see what makes the ad funny! To me it looks like the TARDIS materialises in front of the whitehouse while the Star Spangled Banner is being sung. Am I missing something?
What's funny about it? Not being an American I really want to know!
Floppies died and needed "recovery" quite often, and I dread the thought of trying to recover a 1G flash disk full of important photos or something.
The reason floppies died all the time was not due to the disk layout it was due to faulty media (major problem) or people popping the disk out before the write had finished (minor problem). The FAT layout was quite stable. (well nothing a periodical scandisk/chkdisk couldn't fix).
Sure, FAT doesn't have journalling, but it is very simple as well as being stable, tried and tested and most importantly legacy compatible with almost every O/S out there. It would be sad to see NTFS taken up for flash media. For one it's also patented but for another Linux support isn't quite there yet.
You really should have written the Anglicised Tout suite or to be fully accurate the French Tout de suite unless you were deliberately trying to make a usa redneck joke.
And if you had of read the article it was in Austria not Britain (with a capital B)!
As a DVD is an encrypted broadcast, and as a Region 1 or 2 disks are not authorised for use in Australia... simply being in possesion of the disks means you should go to goal.
The funny thing about that statement is that Bar is Aussie Slang for an erection.;)
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And even sillier is that the error documents to display that error are also illegal.
It looks like his little home brew server melted under the SlashHoardes and he decided to take the easy way out and just chown the whole web directory to another user instead of serving a thank-you come back later or implementing a throttle.
But then again he is running Apache 1 so he obviously doesn't really know very much at all.
Meh, back in the heady days of $5,000 5MB hard disks (Circa 1982) when I was a lowly PC technician we had a doctor come in with his drive that had crashed and that he hadn't backed up.
He just had to have his data back. Being the game sort of guy I was I opened the drive case, cracked the drive and powered up to see what was happening. When the power was applied the heads would stutter and not load properly. The obvious fix was to use a little bit of bluetack to hold the counterbalance mechanism a little more firmly. The drive span up, the heads loaded and I was able to copy all his data off. Not one lost bit. Got me a nice little bonus for that. As the drive was useless to him he let me have it. I kept it running on my desk (because the business only allocated me a floppy drive computer) storing all my WordStar files and StarTrek hand copied from a magazine in GWBasic. It ran for about a year after opening - still with the bluetack inside, still with the cover just sitting on top (Not screwed down) so I could get to the mechanism easily.
A few years later the Seagate ST225 came out. (The drive with the 120% failure rate) After working out the perfect solution for sticktion (A large hammer) we got a couple where the guard band had been overwritten. The solution for these was pretty much the same. Take off the lid. Power up. Manually load the heads. Put the lid back on. Grab all the data.
I really can't see how this teenage n00b who has the "guts" to disassemble his drive is newsworthy when any tech worth his salt has been doing it since the HDD was invented, AND with live and valuable data!
After all, Mainframe disk packs from the 70's and before (Which I used to load & unload on the nightshift) are open to the air devices and they ran for years.
Maybe it's because we have bigger e-dicks than you pre-packaged guys;-).
Real Linux Operators roll their own, Wanna-be's use the Microsoft model and just download a binary (plus 1,000 dependancies that invariably break each other).
Besides, with ccache installed the actual compile time on my Gentoo Boxen was actually only about 30 minutes, which I spent reading my email.
Over the next few months I will easily make that time back as my version of KDE 3.5 is now fully optimised to use all my processors features.
1. Children of such an age should not be unaccompanied by adults.
Adult supervision can take a few forms. Generally I would imagine that parents would be with their children in a public library anyway. How many 9 year olds do you actually see alone? Additionally the AUP states that photo ID must be provided. How many 9 year olds have a drivers license?
2. Most children of that age cannot read and lack other skills necessary for the utilization of a computer.
THIS IS CRAP It also shows you obviously don't have children! Children can read at 6 and they are generally using computers for Literacy and Numeracy at 5 (sometimes earlier). In most schools the internet is provided for self-learning from 8 upwards and for guided learning from 7.
3. To the extent that some of the children are school age, they are required by law to be in school for a specified time several times out of the year, during which they cannot use the library computers set aside for them.
Why are you angry that children have reserved work spaces? Do they not have rights as well? Should they be expected to fight for access on an equal footing with adults? What about a different, more child friendly setup - different icons and programs etc. Have you considered that those particular stations might have heavier filtering (like N2H2) than an adult station?
4. While adults generally have to have jobs, their job options are flexible enough that a good number of them can be into the library during the time that children of school age have to be in school.
Maybe housewives and the unemployed. The vast majority of people are still nine to five. Children (in my country) are nine to three-thirty.
5. People are children of the ages that they have computers set aside for, for a relatively short time of their lives, so the number of patrons that are not in that category vastly outnumber those that are.
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And... I believe the first network aware self propogating worm was the Morris worm (1998/11/02) meant to gague the size of the internet.
;). Cert Wank Advisory CA-1989-04 ;)
;)
I believe the third worm and the first on-purpose malicious network worm was Wank from October 1989. It attacked VAX machines running on DECNet, changing passwords and lol phoning all the people who had accounts to annoy them
Earlier in 1988 there was the hi.com worm, but that was just a zombie. It was meant to send a Merry Christmas message to all infected users on 25 December 1988
W O R M A G A I N S T N U C L E A R K I L L E R S
Your System Has Been Officially WANKed
You talk of times of peace for all, and then prepare for war.
Someone might know of an earlier malicious network aware worm, but this is the first one I know of.
So which is it? Children Accessing Porn or Porn Containing Children?
This is quite scary, but TFA is vague on details. For example;
As I said pretty scary and I hope Google fight it through the courts.
Thinking back to an article a few days ago... maybe it *is* a good idea to have an alternate search engine!
Did you know that some EventSystem errors in the Event Viewer can be caused by a faulty disk controller?
Absolutely and Technet has a list of each event code and enough probable causes for an experienced tech to draw between the dots. When Technet doesn't have decent information then putting the error into plain old google will also return enough results for a valid solution. Being denied groups doesn't mean there is no other viable solution. If it did then there would be so many companies up the creek without a paddle it wouldn't be funny.
90% is a hell of a lot of problems to go running to groups to solve. It really indicates a serious problem in the posters knowledge.
What happens when his network has failed? If he relies on groups for 90% of his answers then he hasn't a clue.
no amount of Microsoft or Cisco certifications will teach me how to debug (note that I didn't say "administer" nor "manage") a UNIX system.
Yes, this is the case sometimes. But honestly... How many times does it happen to anyone but the most radical coal-face level three network technician? And if you are one of those then I would imagine you know some of the dangers of providing this access to everyone!
Is one person's needs really so important that groups access should be turned on for all in the company to abuse?
As I said in another post in this thread If a analyst/tech/programmer can provide a good valid business reason to get access above what Joe in Marketing can then he should be allowed to create a tunnel. He should also be required to sign paper saying he won't abuse the tunnel as well.
Lowering defenses for the entire company so one person can get say one answer a week is just madness.
Or are you really that big a flaming turd?
Closing your argument with an insult does not make your point valid. In fact it reduces it's worth.
You do know there are no binaries on Google groups, right?
Yes, and I know two people at work were fired for reading inappropriate stories too.
And you do know that there are groups beginning with letters other than "alt", right? Like "sci" and "comp" and so forth
As I said in another post in this very thread if Google released a censored text only groups service containing just sci, comp and other select areas then this would not be an issue. As it stands at the moment the very fact that Joe in Marketing can read the alt. groups on work time ruins it for Mike in IT who really needs it for his job.
In another post in this thread I mention that if Mike in IT can provide a good and valid business case for tunnelled access and is willing to sign a form listing the responsibility then by all means.... But unfettered use for everyone so one person in the company can fix maybe one problem a week!
If I found one of my admins getting undocumented solutions from a source such as that they would find themselves doing inventories for the next 6 months.
I see your humour, but I honestly ask how many sysadmins does an average company have? One?
How many other employees does an average company have? One Hundred?
Is the ability for a tech/sysadmin to grab say one solution a week and use the companies general access infrastructure (the stuff Joe in Marketing also uses) to do it worth the abuse that the other hundred people cause?
If the sysadmin can put forward a valid and good business case to have access above and beyond what Joe in marketing can then OK let them create a tunnel after signing a special access request that outlined the responsibility such a tunnel entailed. But to turn it on for everyone? Sheesh.
Before groups was banned in my workplace it was scary what sales and marketing looked at. I could mention the groups I saw people reading so you could understand my point but this is a site that many people use at work! (I'm not just talking alt.binaries.erotica.granny.sex by the way)
Between 85 and 94 I did - quite a bit
If google created a parallel censored version for business use - say text-only for the comp, sci, etc groups then it would be worth looking at again until then... Not on my network. Too easy to abuse!
Nope, I'm not a PHB and I'm certainly not like you suggest you are - a PFY.
I've been an IT professional since '78 and recently (last 10 years) I've seen way too many bad things happen with all the crud out there. As I said SNORT your network's ingress point to really see what's hapening out there. Then take a quick glance at your network's proxy logs to see some of the sicko sites some people visit during work hours.
In your case, if 90% of your solutions come from groups then you really should invest in some Cisco and Microsoft certification to teach you how to administer properly.
Relying on groups to keep your network operational indicates you should not be in that position.
The issue is draconian policies like arbitrary blocking of sites like Google Groups.
How can blocking Google Groups be seen as draconian. They have no place in a responsible workplace. They are only filled with warez requests, AOL Me Toos, kiddie porn and hentai anyway. For example as part of my job monitoring proxy logs I have reported a few people for browsing incest stories on groups before we just blocked it outright.
Windows workstations are designed to be insecure and as a result they need "draconian" protection put in place to ensure things don't get out of hand. Windows is prone to viruses, spyware and hijacking into zombie networks, not only through email infestation but through people browsing to undesirable sites.
To protect your company it is very important to block these questionable sites to stop even one person inside the firewall catching something then spreading it to the rest of the net.
Why is SMTP blocked outgoing on most machines (or why *should* it be blocked? Because it's only use is to automatically spread viruses.
To the OP, put SNORT onto your network and look at what crappy traffic is actually flowing. For example at home I get close to 900 sober worm attempts per day on my ADSL connection from people at the same ISP.
From wikipedia "Whereas VMs attempt to virtualize "a complete set of hardware," VPSs represent a "lighter" abstraction, virtualing instead "an operating system instance." All VPSs run atop a single operating system kernel. The VPS mechanism multiplexes this one OS kernel to look like multiple OS (and server) instances, especially from the perspective of running applications, users, and network services.
You don't want a VPS, what you want is something to create a VM like VMWare. It creates seperate virtual machines allowing you to run (like I do) Gentoo and XP at the same time.
Sedition laws are extremely narrowly defined and were written for the case where an organization is urging people to use violence against any person(s).
It is not just restricted to an organisation. It is a global law that restricts everyone who incites opposition to the government or crown - even if they are an individual.
It is now illegal to support those fighting to defend their land against foreign military occupations and that includes Australian forces. For example opposing the occupation of Iraq by Australian and American forces and speaking in favour of the right of Iraqi citizens to resist this occupation fall within the definition of the new offence.
The last time these laws were used was in 1960 when Brian Cooper urged the natives of Papua New Guinea to oppose Australian occupation. He suicided after being arrested.
Just think if these laws had been in use in 1970 in the Vietnam protests. Thousands of people would have been arrested. Likewise the clause about inciting the overthrow of a legal government. Can I say 1975, the Liberals and Sir John Kerr? Yes, Sir John was being seditious in seeking the overthrow of a lawfull government.
You mention the Sydney race riots and how they should be seen as seditious. You are aware that they occurred almost two months after the laws passed aren't you? Was anyone prosecuted under these particular laws? NO! Why? Because they were Anglo spreading hate against Arabs.
When it becomes illegal to criticize the government...
That's exactly what Australian citizens now face as part of the sedition laws brought in because of the "war on Terror".
If we decide that the Australian government is doing the wrong thing in Iraq or Afganistan and we mention this publicly we can be arrested and held without trial or warrant for 14 days. Once the case gets to court it's 7 years jail if proven.
Be afraid, it *can* happen in America too. One day they could tack the same bill on an appropriation request.
The scary thing is if you are arrested for sedition in Australia it is illegal for the press to report that fact, reporting someone is being held for sedition is also a seven year jail term.
I now use TOR so I can email my MP and the Prime Minister without the threat of jail being held over me. Australia *is* now a police state and we need TOR to attempt to balance the evil.
You can have the best sig in the world on paper but when you try and wite it on that wee strip of writable plastic on the card it never comes out right, so your signature is always a bit different on card versus paper.
Yes, your signature is a little different the strip is not as tall as some signatures and it's quite slippery. But when I was a kid working in a store I was trained how to verify a signature. A quick glance at the style is all that is needed the real trick to verification is in the length.
Ever seen an experienced clerk verify your signature? They put the card above the paper and see the lengths match almost exactly.
I was actually quite serious in my original comment.
I fail to see what makes the ad funny! To me it looks like the TARDIS materialises in front of the whitehouse while the Star Spangled Banner is being sung. Am I missing something?
What's funny about it? Not being an American I really want to know!
Maybe it looses something in the translation?
I really couldn't see how the ad on the BBC webpage was that hilarious but the answer to the season end cliff-hanger is
....
Badwolf is
Floppies died and needed "recovery" quite often, and I dread the thought of trying to recover a 1G flash disk full of important photos or something.
The reason floppies died all the time was not due to the disk layout it was due to faulty media (major problem) or people popping the disk out before the write had finished (minor problem). The FAT layout was quite stable. (well nothing a periodical scandisk/chkdisk couldn't fix).
Sure, FAT doesn't have journalling, but it is very simple as well as being stable, tried and tested and most importantly legacy compatible with almost every O/S out there.
It would be sad to see NTFS taken up for flash media. For one it's also patented but for another Linux support isn't quite there yet.
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You really should have written the Anglicised Tout suite or to be fully accurate the French Tout de suite unless you were deliberately trying to make a usa redneck joke.
And if you had of read the article it was in Austria not Britain (with a capital B)!
Isn't regional code locked devices illegal in Australia?
Absolutely not. Australia is region 4
To make it worse; under the terms of the copyright modifications we traded away as part of the free trade deal with America "trading or being in reciept of an unauthorised encrypted broadcast" is against the law.
As a DVD is an encrypted broadcast, and as a Region 1 or 2 disks are not authorised for use in Australia... simply being in possesion of the disks means you should go to goal.
but come on, the bar is pretty low these days.
;)
The funny thing about that statement is that Bar is Aussie Slang for an erection.
And even sillier is that the error documents to display that error are also illegal.
It looks like his little home brew server melted under the SlashHoardes and he decided to take the easy way out and just chown the whole web directory to another user instead of serving a thank-you come back later or implementing a throttle.
But then again he is running Apache 1 so he obviously doesn't really know very much at all.
Meh, back in the heady days of $5,000 5MB hard disks (Circa 1982) when I was a lowly PC technician we had a doctor come in with his drive that had crashed and that he hadn't backed up.
He just had to have his data back. Being the game sort of guy I was I opened the drive case, cracked the drive and powered up to see what was happening. When the power was applied the heads would stutter and not load properly. The obvious fix was to use a little bit of bluetack to hold the counterbalance mechanism a little more firmly. The drive span up, the heads loaded and I was able to copy all his data off. Not one lost bit. Got me a nice little bonus for that. As the drive was useless to him he let me have it. I kept it running on my desk (because the business only allocated me a floppy drive computer) storing all my WordStar files and StarTrek hand copied from a magazine in GWBasic. It ran for about a year after opening - still with the bluetack inside, still with the cover just sitting on top (Not screwed down) so I could get to the mechanism easily.
A few years later the Seagate ST225 came out. (The drive with the 120% failure rate) After working out the perfect solution for sticktion (A large hammer) we got a couple where the guard band had been overwritten. The solution for these was pretty much the same. Take off the lid. Power up. Manually load the heads. Put the lid back on. Grab all the data.
I really can't see how this teenage n00b who has the "guts" to disassemble his drive is newsworthy when any tech worth his salt has been doing it since the HDD was invented, AND with live and valuable data!
After all, Mainframe disk packs from the 70's and before (Which I used to load & unload on the nightshift) are open to the air devices and they ran for years.
Maybe it's because we have bigger e-dicks than you pre-packaged guys ;-).
Real Linux Operators roll their own, Wanna-be's use the Microsoft model and just download a binary (plus 1,000 dependancies that invariably break each other).
Besides, with ccache installed the actual compile time on my Gentoo Boxen was actually only about 30 minutes, which I spent reading my email.
Over the next few months I will easily make that time back as my version of KDE 3.5 is now fully optimised to use all my processors features.
1. Children of such an age should not be unaccompanied by adults.
Adult supervision can take a few forms. Generally I would imagine that parents would be with their children in a public library anyway. How many 9 year olds do you actually see alone? Additionally the AUP states that photo ID must be provided. How many 9 year olds have a drivers license?
2. Most children of that age cannot read and lack other skills necessary for the utilization of a computer.
THIS IS CRAP It also shows you obviously don't have children! Children can read at 6 and they are generally using computers for Literacy and Numeracy at 5 (sometimes earlier). In most schools the internet is provided for self-learning from 8 upwards and for guided learning from 7.
3. To the extent that some of the children are school age, they are required by law to be in school for a specified time several times out of the year, during which they cannot use the library computers set aside for them.
Why are you angry that children have reserved work spaces? Do they not have rights as well? Should they be expected to fight for access on an equal footing with adults? What about a different, more child friendly setup - different icons and programs etc. Have you considered that those particular stations might have heavier filtering (like N2H2) than an adult station?
4. While adults generally have to have jobs, their job options are flexible enough that a good number of them can be into the library during the time that children of school age have to be in school.
Maybe housewives and the unemployed. The vast majority of people are still nine to five. Children (in my country) are nine to three-thirty.
5. People are children of the ages that they have computers set aside for, for a relatively short time of their lives, so the number of patrons that are not in that category vastly outnumber those that are.
Please see the comment for your point three.
Hmmm,
1 Library of Congress = 10 TiB (LOC is base 10) = 10^13 or 10,000,000,000,000 bytes
1 Fortnight = 1,209,600 seconds
1 Microfortnight = 1,209,600 * 10^-6 = 1.2096 seconds
So we need: 10^13 / 1.2096 = (8.26719577 * 10^12)*8 bps
Now using the 130Gbps (130*1000*1000*1024) we get: 133,120,000,000 / ((8.26719577 * 10^12)*8)
Which is:
0.0020127744 LOC/mFtnght
Ummm lets think about that statement for a second...
You say you are using firefox on Linux and it doesn't work?!?
Great but...
Why would you want to run WGA on a linux computer?
The program is only relevent for the Win32 platform as it verifies the validity of your XP installation. Geeze Louise!