If people can write these things to be destructive, why can't anyone write a virus patch, it infects a machine patches and then trys to patch other infected machines..
Either that or something that just drops the infected machine to it's knees once infected..:)
I find it rather ironic that all these congressmen (women) are on this tyraid and bandwagon of protecting Freedom and Democracy by removing it.
That sounds like a good idea! At what point is the american population going to stand up for their rights? Soon you will live in a country where you think you are free but having all your communications and interaction montiored. 1984 will become true in 2001. This will be even worse then living in a communist state, atleast there, they have no illusions of being free.
There should be some way to filter out access based on OS. That would be good, cause it always seems to be NT/2000 boxes screwing up the network, speaking of which, I seem to have an 2000 box with Active directory trying to send updates to my domain cause some idiot admin deceided to put my domain name in their machine. Prob. some 15yr old kid who doesn't have the first clue about routing and DNS.
Great.. do we really need all these Idiot boxes on the Net?? I say we all upgrade to IPV6 and leave the MS boxes on their own IPv4 network wallowing in massive packet spray.
You should have posted that you needed a Live feed of CNN so you could watch it in the office. I was streaming it live in 80k/s Real media. I had a friend in Germany (American) who called me up and said "Turn on CNN right now!!". This was shortly after 9am (I was still sleeping).
I streamed it for him so he could watch the coverage live in Germany.. I would have posted the link so others who were stuck in an office could watch too.
Ikea has a desk called (of all things) the Jerker, which runs about $229 CDN (that's how much i paid). I should hold 2 19" monitors quite nicely at eye level.. it has some great pull out leaves to store stuff on, and you can buy swing out extensions to put things like cpu's (i have two mid-towers on one) and printers. Also they have some smaller ones that are great for phones or dsl routers/hubs..:)
No.. that is what PDF is for. So everyone can read the document in the formatting that it was intended.
Anyways how often do you want to send another company your *.doc files so they can use and modify them?? And if your company is standardized on one platform then you can all share the same files.. no big deal.. It's only when some idiot too dumb to learn a new program complains and will only use Word cause "that's what they know", then you have a problem.
Computers suck in general, the more people hype all this stuff the worse they get. Java was going to revolutionize the PC. The only thing it manages to do secessfully is crash my browser or make annoying porn web pop-ups constantly happen.
Jini was going to connect every device, ya.. right, and now jxta, what's that going to do make my toaster talk to my fridge. Do i really need that?
As for P2P, the only sort of half usable system was Napster (thanks RIAA for messing that up) as you could connect to people about 50% of the time, and the server based indices made searching for something so much faster. Using Gnutella sucks ass.. no one ever seems to connect properly, searching is painfully slow, data rates even though they say are fast come in at insanely slow speeds. Getting 1k/s is a good rate, Got to love getting 14.4 modems speeds on my 1mb dsl connection. Are we going backwards or forwards with this stuff ??
Try hooking up some simple pc's on a network with MS's SMB, and that just sucks too. What's that waiting 15mins if you take the server down without logging off clients, how come you can sometimes see computers and domains, and not other times. How easy is it to hack the network.
The only thing that really seems to preform is TCP/IP, your packet will get routed.. anythning build on top of that well.. we know how well stuff works now days. Any app or protocal for networking created before 1986 is pretty much garbabe.
Funny thing, we still have some working XT's with those 8088 chips and no harddrive. I think one of those units has a 20mb drive (damn, my video has more memory than that!).
You know what, the stuff still works, and it connects to the net via an ISA network card, 10baseT and some old tcp/ip dos based software. Even have the orginal green and amber screens. Mind you they have some burnin, and the units weigh like 30lbs.
In Canada there is the MLS, which lists all the housings in a database by the Realitors.. I'm not an agent but as I recall, the agent must list a housing they get in the MLS, they have it online at MLS
Ya.. this poor guy lives like that for a year and the Producers get rich. Bet he didn't even have rights to his own diary! Wouldn't the tv company publishing his personal diary be a copyright infringement?
I would love to see that contract that he signed that they could do all that stuff to him and get away with just flying him to Korea for some BBQ as his reward.
I noticed everyone is blaming the kid or schoolboard/school but no one has commented on what the parents have done. Where were these people?? Were they at work ignoring the kid all together. I think that society has lost the fact that parents should be educating their children on the basic life facts, like right and wrong and acceptable social functioning. This is not the schools job. They are to teach kids how to read and write, do math, and other subjects but are not responsible for 'parenting' them.
It's ironic that you cann't drive a car, build a pool on you own property, get a cat or dog with out a proper license but you can inflict pain on another human by creating them at any time even if you aren't adiquate to care for it.
I don't recall what the episode was named but there was one where they came across a life form living on a planet alone with his wife that was devistated by war. Long story short, the wife wasn't real, just a creation by the sole survivor who turned out to be a "Q" like being who inflicted genocide on an entire race.
The 'being' in the story was truely sorry for what he had done but could not bring back any of the population, as I recall his dialogue was something like "I didn't kill a hundred, thousands or even millions of their people, I obliterated the entire population across the galaxy, we are talking billions of people".
Is someone on Crack, as far as I remember max cable lenght for 10BaseT is 100m or 300ft, with out repeators or hubs. This goes for 100baseT as well.. and I can only think of getting cable in 1000ft runs.. so what are splicing them together?
As for the confusion.. when the are quoting speeds, either in Canada or the US it's always in bits, you are not getting 128kilobytes a sec..you are getting 128kilobits a second or the equiv. of a dual bonded ISDN channel.
It would come in handy right about now to print me out a boot blocker so I could watch DTV. The plans for building one is on the net, but i can't fab a PCB so i'm going to have to buy one off some company that did fab them. The thing that kills me is there are about $20 worth of components on these things that sell for $100.
I could be printing up a whole bunch for everyone i know.. sweeeeeeeeet.
Ok.. I did run an ISP and can see where the company is coming from.. if 5 people in a building share one connection as oppose to getting 5 seperate ones then it cuts down on revenue. However as a consumer with more then one computer, i need my dsl router to hook up my machines at the same time with out installing extra software (on in some cases software that doesn't work, like on unix)
It would make more sense for the ISP to cap the transfer rates (up and down) and also limit the the amount per month (like 30gig) they can do this for co-loc. hosts machines why can't they do it for dsl/cable lines? Then charge a rate per month for the data over and above?. People pay for the basic service, they should have a right to do what they want with it.
On a side note, i had a friend who's cable was shutdown cause he was running an insecure port number on his computer. Turned out it was 25, by all means we can't let the user run a sendmail server!!! sometimes ISP's are clueless.
Anyone else sick of hearing (l)users touting Linux as being the great saviour to Open Source? These people are going to turn Linux into the same thing as MS, it becomes a holy war of OS's.
Truth is that Open Source existed long before Linux, it just happens that there is media attention on the subject and M$ market share is being threatened. All these linux users are waving there torches around saying 'kill the monster'. I'm not defending M$ but mob mentality is good for nothing, makes people bias. Open Source contributes alot, there are even companies that make money from using it, look at anything with linux (or variant) embeded in it, like tivo. Anyone with half a brain knows Open Source is good for the industry, now you just have to realize what the best product for a task is.. sometimes it isn't Open Source stuff.
If you want to start touting Open source open your eyes and look how much the GNU has contributed.
Sniffing does happen. I have a bsd box co-located at our isp here and when i'm in the mood i kick that thing into promiscious mode and check to see what's going across the network. I also do bandwidth checks on my subnet to see who's hogging it (usually me). In theory, the boxes should be on a switch (which would totally cut down on this) but it's a small ISP and i don't think they are too interested in upgrading that piece of hardware. It's cheap so i don't care..
There were two bulls standing on the top of the hill one day looking over the herd of cows. The Young bull says to the the older one, "Hey, Lets run down there and fuck one of those cows". The Old Bull just looks at the Young bull and says, "No... lets walk down and fuck them all".
That basically sums up your problem. Youth are full of energy that can be expended easily, but age provides wisdom to see the grand scale of things.
Darn.. now people are going to find out how much cooler FreeBSD (or any *BSD) is over Linux. I switched over years ago from Linux.
Here are the key points why FreeBSD is better :
1. The mascot is way cooler, a little devil vs a lame ass penguin??
2. It has the word "Free" right in the name.. what's better then Free?
3. It emulates Linux, run those native Linux binaries..get 2 os's for the price of one, see point #2
4. Most lamers that run linux are script kiddies who don't know any better, the true 3l33t run BSD.
5. No lame names like Redhat and Caldera, which also cuts down on the holy wars about distros.
6. Corel hasn't tryed to get in the act with their own version, sure sign of a dead technology.
7. We don't worship one person (Linus) which parrallel's another software company (Bill).
Everything else it does.. well that's incidental...these are the things that matter..:)
Has everyone seen the new adds that MS is running.. trying to give people the impresssion that it works well with other system. That's a joke!!
I have installed a win2k server with Services for Unix on it so it could 'co-exist' in our environment, mostly Sun equipment. That server does not want to play nice.. it's ME ME ME.. i have to be the Master DNS server, MASTER NIS server, Master DHCP server.. ME ME ME.. Active Directory!
Fsck MS.. they suck ass.. shitty software that costs way too much and doesn't do what they claim.
Where do you find this?? From what I have read and heard that the PROM had been over written to 00000000, if that's what you mean by game over then ya.. sure.. but i haven't seen or read anyone discussing this..
this ofcourse kills the card because in the ROM there is a beginning look that looks to the address of the PROM and if it's not equal to 33 then then goes into an infinate loop. I'm sure someone will come of with a way to cloak the Ram section over the PROM so the card will be read as valid.. it will just take some time.
Also for those who think that any sort of satellite hacking is done by kids in basements while mommy and daddy are asleep, well, that's just ridiculous.. this isn't some ddos hack, little bit of code and your linux pc and you are elite haxor. No, to do this you need both money and some brainpower.. there are only a few key people that understand this and supply the community with the software tools and scripts to crack the signal...oh..and you need to drop cash on either a ISO7816 programmer or unlooper just to get started.. after that you can get your hands on a whole array of equipment to work with the data stream.. and it's not cheap.
hacking satellite was a fun game.. looks like i'm going to have to get a new hobby..
-b
ps... no i don't really know how any of the stuff works. i'm the equiv of a script kiddie in the satellite world.
At the University where I work, one of the research groups ordered one of these things. It seemed to me that they spent way too much money on something they could have put together, but it does look nice. Oh.. and someone didn't noticed that you have to order the OS for these, so the whole cabinet full of equipment sits idle with a "system is down" message on the led panels.
Seems silly for Sun to buy out Cobolt when they are just going to slam them with a cheaper unit. These things look great, get about 40 or so in a rack, $1000 a piece, rent them out as 'vitural' servers this would more then power most internet sites or multiple sites, hell we had about 6 different sites on one P133 for the longest time, it's usually a bandwidth problem rather then cpu/hardware unless you are slashdot, or some big site. Look at the stats for 99% of the sites out there and they get less then 300 hits (really hits) a day... exceptions are large media, freeware, porn and warez sites.
The average place won't see anywhere near that sort of traffic.
wonder if there is any clustering software for these things, or run linux on it.. you could build a pretty sweet cluster for $40 grand.
lastly.. these are worth the price.. hell, a 1U case alone goes for like $400.. what's up with that??
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If people can write these things to be destructive, why can't anyone write a virus patch, it infects a machine patches and then trys to patch other infected machines..
:)
Either that or something that just drops the infected machine to it's knees once infected..
I believe we have seen this in Star Trek... it's the borg.
Resistance is futile, you will be assimalated.
I find it rather ironic that all these congressmen (women) are on this tyraid and bandwagon of protecting Freedom and Democracy by removing it.
That sounds like a good idea! At what point is the american population going to stand up for their rights? Soon you will live in a country where you think you are free but having all your communications and interaction montiored. 1984 will become true in 2001. This will be even worse then living in a communist state, atleast there, they have no illusions of being free.
There should be some way to filter out access based on OS. That would be good, cause it always seems to be NT/2000 boxes screwing up the network, speaking of which, I seem to have an 2000 box with Active directory trying to send updates to my domain cause some idiot admin deceided to put my domain name in their machine. Prob. some 15yr old kid who doesn't have the first clue about routing and DNS.
.. do we really need all these Idiot boxes on the Net?? I say we all upgrade to IPV6 and leave the MS boxes on their own IPv4 network wallowing in massive packet spray.
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You should have posted that you needed a Live feed of CNN so you could watch it in the office. I was streaming it live in 80k/s Real media. I had a friend in Germany (American) who called me up and said "Turn on CNN right now!!". This was shortly after 9am (I was still sleeping).
I streamed it for him so he could watch the coverage live in Germany.. I would have posted the link so others who were stuck in an office could watch too.
Ikea has a desk called (of all things) the Jerker, which runs about $229 CDN (that's how much i paid). I should hold 2 19" monitors quite nicely at eye level.. it has some great pull out leaves to store stuff on, and you can buy swing out extensions to put things like cpu's (i have two mid-towers on one) and printers. Also they have some smaller ones that are great for phones or dsl routers/hubs.. :)
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No.. that is what PDF is for. So everyone can read the document in the formatting that it was intended.
Anyways how often do you want to send another company your *.doc files so they can use and modify them?? And if your company is standardized on one platform then you can all share the same files.. no big deal.. It's only when some idiot too dumb to learn a new program complains and will only use Word cause "that's what they know", then you have a problem.
Computers suck in general, the more people hype all this stuff the worse they get. Java was going to revolutionize the PC. The only thing it manages to do secessfully is crash my browser or make annoying porn web pop-ups constantly happen.
Jini was going to connect every device, ya.. right, and now jxta, what's that going to do make my toaster talk to my fridge. Do i really need that?
As for P2P, the only sort of half usable system was Napster (thanks RIAA for messing that up) as you could connect to people about 50% of the time, and the server based indices made searching for something so much faster. Using Gnutella sucks ass.. no one ever seems to connect properly, searching is painfully slow, data rates even though they say are fast come in at insanely slow speeds. Getting 1k/s is a good rate, Got to love getting 14.4 modems speeds on my 1mb dsl connection. Are we going backwards or forwards with this stuff ??
Try hooking up some simple pc's on a network with MS's SMB, and that just sucks too. What's that waiting 15mins if you take the server down without logging off clients, how come you can sometimes see computers and domains, and not other times. How easy is it to hack the network.
The only thing that really seems to preform is TCP/IP, your packet will get routed.. anythning build on top of that well.. we know how well stuff works now days. Any app or protocal for networking created before 1986 is pretty much garbabe.
Funny thing, we still have some working XT's with those 8088 chips and no harddrive. I think one of those units has a 20mb drive (damn, my video has more memory than that!).
You know what, the stuff still works, and it connects to the net via an ISA network card, 10baseT and some old tcp/ip dos based software. Even have the orginal green and amber screens. Mind you they have some burnin, and the units weigh like 30lbs.
who else still have them??
Ya.. this poor guy lives like that for a year and the Producers get rich. Bet he didn't even have rights to his own diary! Wouldn't the tv company publishing his personal diary be a copyright infringement?
I would love to see that contract that he signed that they could do all that stuff to him and get away with just flying him to Korea for some BBQ as his reward.
I noticed everyone is blaming the kid or schoolboard/school but no one has commented on what the parents have done. Where were these people?? Were they at work ignoring the kid all together. I think that society has lost the fact that parents should be educating their children on the basic life facts, like right and wrong and acceptable social functioning. This is not the schools job. They are to teach kids how to read and write, do math, and other subjects but are not responsible for 'parenting' them.
It's ironic that you cann't drive a car, build a pool on you own property, get a cat or dog with out a proper license but you can inflict pain on another human by creating them at any time even if you aren't adiquate to care for it.
I don't recall what the episode was named but there was one where they came across a life form living on a planet alone with his wife that was devistated by war. Long story short, the wife wasn't real, just a creation by the sole survivor who turned out to be a "Q" like being who inflicted genocide on an entire race.
The 'being' in the story was truely sorry for what he had done but could not bring back any of the population, as I recall his dialogue was something like "I didn't kill a hundred, thousands or even millions of their people, I obliterated the entire population across the galaxy, we are talking billions of people".
That by far has to be the highest frag count.
-b
Is someone on Crack, as far as I remember max cable lenght for 10BaseT is 100m or 300ft, with out repeators or hubs. This goes for 100baseT as well.. and I can only think of getting cable in 1000ft runs.. so what are splicing them together?
As for the confusion.. when the are quoting speeds, either in Canada or the US it's always in bits, you are not getting 128kilobytes a sec..you are getting 128kilobits a second or the equiv. of a dual bonded ISDN channel.
It would come in handy right about now to print me out a boot blocker so I could watch DTV. The plans for building one is on the net, but i can't fab a PCB so i'm going to have to buy one off some company that did fab them. The thing that kills me is there are about $20 worth of components on these things that sell for $100.
I could be printing up a whole bunch for everyone i know.. sweeeeeeeeet.
Ok.. I did run an ISP and can see where the company is coming from.. if 5 people in a building share one connection as oppose to getting 5 seperate ones then it cuts down on revenue. However as a consumer with more then one computer, i need my dsl router to hook up my machines at the same time with out installing extra software (on in some cases software that doesn't work, like on unix)
It would make more sense for the ISP to cap the transfer rates (up and down) and also limit the the amount per month (like 30gig) they can do this for co-loc. hosts machines why can't they do it for dsl/cable lines? Then charge a rate per month for the data over and above?. People pay for the basic service, they should have a right to do what they want with it.
On a side note, i had a friend who's cable was shutdown cause he was running an insecure port number on his computer. Turned out it was 25, by all means we can't let the user run a sendmail server!!! sometimes ISP's are clueless.
Anyone else sick of hearing (l)users touting Linux as being the great saviour to Open Source? These people are going to turn Linux into the same thing as MS, it becomes a holy war of OS's.
Truth is that Open Source existed long before Linux, it just happens that there is media attention on the subject and M$ market share is being threatened. All these linux users are waving there torches around saying 'kill the monster'. I'm not defending M$ but mob mentality is good for nothing, makes people bias. Open Source contributes alot, there are even companies that make money from using it, look at anything with linux (or variant) embeded in it, like tivo. Anyone with half a brain knows Open Source is good for the industry, now you just have to realize what the best product for a task is.. sometimes it isn't Open Source stuff.
If you want to start touting Open source open your eyes and look how much the GNU has contributed.
Sniffing does happen. I have a bsd box co-located at our isp here and when i'm in the mood i kick that thing into promiscious mode and check to see what's going across the network. I also do bandwidth checks on my subnet to see who's hogging it (usually me). In theory, the boxes should be on a switch (which would totally cut down on this) but it's a small ISP and i don't think they are too interested in upgrading that piece of hardware. It's cheap so i don't care..
-b
There were two bulls standing on the top of the hill one day looking over the herd of cows. The Young bull says to the the older one, "Hey, Lets run down there and fuck one of those cows". The Old Bull just looks at the Young bull and says, "No... lets walk down and fuck them all".
That basically sums up your problem. Youth are full of energy that can be expended easily, but age provides wisdom to see the grand scale of things.
-b
Here are the key points why FreeBSD is better :
1. The mascot is way cooler, a little devil vs a lame ass penguin??
2. It has the word "Free" right in the name.. what's better then Free?
3. It emulates Linux, run those native Linux binaries..get 2 os's for the price of one, see point #2
4. Most lamers that run linux are script kiddies who don't know any better, the true 3l33t run BSD.
5. No lame names like Redhat and Caldera, which also cuts down on the holy wars about distros.
6. Corel hasn't tryed to get in the act with their own version, sure sign of a dead technology.
7. We don't worship one person (Linus) which parrallel's another software company (Bill).
Everything else it does.. well that's incidental...these are the things that matter.. :)
-b
I have installed a win2k server with Services for Unix on it so it could 'co-exist' in our environment, mostly Sun equipment. That server does not want to play nice.. it's ME ME ME.. i have to be the Master DNS server, MASTER NIS server, Master DHCP server.. ME ME ME .. Active Directory!
Fsck MS.. they suck ass.. shitty software that costs way too much and doesn't do what they claim.
bitter!
this ofcourse kills the card because in the ROM there is a beginning look that looks to the address of the PROM and if it's not equal to 33 then then goes into an infinate loop. I'm sure someone will come of with a way to cloak the Ram section over the PROM so the card will be read as valid.. it will just take some time.
Also for those who think that any sort of satellite hacking is done by kids in basements while mommy and daddy are asleep, well, that's just ridiculous.. this isn't some ddos hack, little bit of code and your linux pc and you are elite haxor. No, to do this you need both money and some brainpower.. there are only a few key people that understand this and supply the community with the software tools and scripts to crack the signal...oh..and you need to drop cash on either a ISO7816 programmer or unlooper just to get started.. after that you can get your hands on a whole array of equipment to work with the data stream.. and it's not cheap.
hacking satellite was a fun game.. looks like i'm going to have to get a new hobby..
-b
ps... no i don't really know how any of the stuff works. i'm the equiv of a script kiddie in the satellite world.
Have to love compaq.
The sun compiler sucks ass.. I always install gcc, it gets the apps compiled.. yep.. had to install it on an Enterprise 6500
Over a million dollar piece of hardware with a free c compiler (oh sure we have the Sun compiler, but no one uses it)... sort of sad in a way..
-b
The average place won't see anywhere near that sort of traffic.
wonder if there is any clustering software for these things, or run linux on it.. you could build a pretty sweet cluster for $40 grand.
lastly.. these are worth the price.. hell, a 1U case alone goes for like $400.. what's up with that??
-b