The cable companies allow access to their networks based on MAC. What you are doing is possible, but you would need to call comcast and tell them that you got a new modem every time, which would look extremely suspicious. MAC addresses are also not random. So you cannot spoof it to a "random" MAC. Your post also lacks continuity. You say that they start dropping "30-80%" of your packets every "5-10 minutes". But you also say that you only need to reset your MAC every 2 days?
I've got a windows 2k3 machine that has been up for the last year and a half (I have owned it for a year and a half).
I have never really understood the "omg windows is t3h evil!" bullshit. Use whatever tool is most appropriate for the job. I use windows on my laptops because i need it to just work....I have putty and openvpn when i need to get back in and work.
In Phoenix we have a power company called APS. In some of the gas stations there are kiosks that allow you to pay your bill using Cash. I was walking through a circle K the other day, and to my horror i saw this:
Has anybody ever considered that possibility that we will reach an over-saturation of information?
Sometimes its good NOT to know if a restaurant is good or not without visiting. People ARE individuals. We need to ability to make our own decisions about things.
Think about even the difference between my generation (i'm 21) and my parents. My parents had to go out and experience things first hand to get any sort of idea about them. I carry around a nokia 770 with wikipedia on it, and a net connection to wikihow. I can get on google local and read the comments to determine wether I want to go to a club or not. If something doesn't exist to me on google maps, it doesn't exist.
I know, i'm the guilty party here, but this wasn't a conscious decision. I did not come to the realization at some young[er] age that I could either embrace a technologically rich existence, or not.
Imagine what my children will experience, or their children, or their children all the way down. I rapidly see people losing their ability to think independently of their peers. Even the people who consider themselves intellectuals are virtually inable to come up with an original thought. I completely blame this trend on the availability of information. Believe it or not, there IS such a thing as knowledge being TOO easy to get.
I know of plenty of businesses still using black & white VGA displays from the early '90s with upgraded systems behind them.
yes, i'm sure that this is the majority out there. I'm sure that these people keep the shitty old VGAs around because they like them so much, not because their business doesn't have the money to upgrade.
I prefer to go out to places that are less-known but more interesting.
Thus is the futile quest of the hipster.
The really cool places generally ARE well known. The people that find them (who value finding obscure/cool places as much as it sounds you do) also love the recognition that they get by talking about going to those places.
Its tough for the cool places to keep up with those f*cking hipsters and their livejournals.
I don't like it because you have to take your finger off of it so much to use it (the track-ball). The scroll wheel could be operated without having to really move your finger off of the surface.
To use the track-ball you have to scroll, then lift your finger and move it to another button, then lift it and move it again. It seems small, but its annoying.
its like i tell my users all the time: the old 5250 interface to our iseries kicks ASS (once you get past the steep learning curve) because you NEVER take your hands off of the keyboard.
As someone who has been watching Sprint for years I can tell you your assertion is patently false. Sprint is not trying to kill Nextel.
it sure seems that way. Every time i would call our rep for more phones i would have to sit through them trying to get me to switch to sprint. they have also done almost nothing as far as bettering their service in my market (phoenix), which is why we finally dropped them.
this is how you can save yourselves, palm.
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Make a phone that is aimed at business users.
remember blackberry? the old one? the one that ONLY did email?
That little device with its tiny niche' market rocketed RIM to the company that they currently are. Unfortunately RIM has completely lost sight of what used to make them so incredible. The market needs a new paradigm for business phones. there used to be nextel, and the blackberry 7520 (which i said they could have when they pried it from my cold, dead fingers) but sprint is basically flusing nextel down the toilets. they're hoping to phase out the network and poach the users onto sprint.
This is all another story...
The point is that there is definetely a group of consumers out there who don't WANT a phone with an MP3 player, a camera, lots and lots of bright, shiny surfaces, tiny buttons, etc. etc. we don't want phones that we designed for the 15-20 female market. We don't.
Lets look at something like the blackberry 7520 (the phone that i had up until yesterday) to the blackberry curve (which i have now had for about 24 hours).
The 7520 (which was an astounding success, btw) was big. really big. But we LIKED that about it. It was rugged, I would routinely chuck it across the office to demonstrate to the non-believers why it was so amazing. Its size also allowed it to have BIG keys...ones that you could type on. The screen was recessed, it NEVER got scratched, ever. This is the type of thing that business users want....functionality.
Now lets look at the curve: the buttons are f*cking tiny. You can't type with your thumbs, you have to use your fingernails. I can only assume that this is because the phone was designed for 8 year old girls. The dropped the scroll wheel on the side that made the old blackberries have such a (in my mind) LEGENDARY interface. Honestly that was one of the best interfaces i have EVER used. They dropped it for a stupid trackball that, while pretty, is all but useless unless you use two hands to operate the phone.
Okay...rant rant rant rant...i hate the new blackberry, but this is my point:
A market (that used to be dominated by RIM) has been abandoned. there is a sizable gap that needs to be filled, and this is Palm's opportunity to start turning a profit again.
If you dont' belive me about the 7520, ask anybody that owned one. Most of the people that did still keep it (with the service turned off if they have to) as an organizer. It was just THAT good, and there currently is nothing on the market that offers the same level of functionality.
OpenBSD ships with support for round-robin queuing.
This is an interesting idea for a fun hack.
A similar idea that me and a buddy [if you are law enforcement, read: didn't] put into action one afternoon was a BSD box that latched onto as many wireless networks as cards we could find, then queued out to all of them.
I have always written programs because it is fun and rewarding. That was true in middle school, true in high school, true in college, and true now (I'm close to 40). When it's not fun I'll stop doing it. How is paying someone else to write your programs fun? How is it rewarding? It's not; it is just pathetic.
Yes. You are a programmer.
The unfortunate thing, is that the majority of CS majors are not. They're people who saw how many zeros can precede the comma in a programmers paycheck. Because of this, programming classes in University are teaching to the middle of the class (idiots who are trying to control their restless leg syndrome and "peace-out" as soon as possible so they can hit the big game with their brahs).
Its really sad, and its the reason I dropped out of school (I now have a job that I love doing what I love [programming]).
If you have Verizon FIOS you've got a pretty big pipe to the home server, pretty much like multiple T-1 lines. I'm not sure you completely understand just how much 1.5TB a day is...
So plan on installing a rack full of storage arrays in your closet, with all of the cooling that that entails just to keep hold of a couple of weeks worth.
got to throw it out there for easynews, too. They are a mirror for sourceforge (which is really cool of them) and I always peg my cable modem on the limiter 100% of the time using them.
That was a goal of mine when I was a kid. I wanted to fly. I've flown small aircraft. I went to college at one of the best universities studying aeronautical science. When I wasn't in class, I was talking to people around town. I'd mention that I was going to school there, and they'd say "Oh, I got my bachelors in aeronautical science two/three/four years ago". They'd be working in restaurants, or small shops. Nothing like what they had just spent 4 years and a fortune trying to reach. Hey Sioux Sioux!!
If you don't know what that means, then you did NOT go to the best aeronautical science school.
However, the computers that hook into the SCADA systems are.
Although, I would love to see the manual for operating a power plant start like ths:
"Open a web browser (internet explorer is recommended(read:required due to some fucking activex crap on the page)) and navigate to http://10.8.0.15441/ you will be promted to log in. The default password is "Admin" with no username. Please change this as soon as possible".
If you have a brain, and an IQ of at least, say 115 or so, you have no excuse. Thank you for completely trivializing a skill that some of us spend our entire lives perfecting.
Seriously, it is this sort of mentality that is killing tech. You DO have to be extremely smart/dedicated to do really low level CS work. You DO have to have a pretty heavy mathematics background to do any really serious code work and it is NOT something that you can "Learn in 7 days" no matter what the books you bought at borders are telling you.
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I call bullshit on this.
The cable companies allow access to their networks based on MAC. What you are doing is possible, but you would need to call comcast and tell them that you got a new modem every time, which would look extremely suspicious. MAC addresses are also not random. So you cannot spoof it to a "random" MAC.
Your post also lacks continuity. You say that they start dropping "30-80%" of your packets every "5-10 minutes". But you also say that you only need to reset your MAC every 2 days?
please go Home
Hey, how'd you hit the Submit button? Is that some sort of "mobile" dial-up you're using?
I bet you're really fun at parties.
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This is the closup that i took of the text.
What motivation would I have for lying?
do not ever put anything other than water in a camelback. It WILL get nasty.
The error messages says that it has detected:
TrojanDownloader.WS
The error reporting that there wasn't any AV installed came up before that.
Came here to say this...
I've got a windows 2k3 machine that has been up for the last year and a half (I have owned it for a year and a half).
I have never really understood the "omg windows is t3h evil!" bullshit. Use whatever tool is most appropriate for the job. I use windows on my laptops because i need it to just work....I have putty and openvpn when i need to get back in and work.
In Phoenix we have a power company called APS. In some of the gas stations there are kiosks that allow you to pay your bill using Cash. I was walking through a circle K the other day, and to my horror i saw this:
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Sorry about the shitty image quality...I took it using my crackberry.
Yes, that is a dialog box politely informing you that you have been Trojaned.
Has anybody ever considered that possibility that we will reach an over-saturation of information?
Sometimes its good NOT to know if a restaurant is good or not without visiting. People ARE individuals. We need to ability to make our own decisions about things.
Think about even the difference between my generation (i'm 21) and my parents. My parents had to go out and experience things first hand to get any sort of idea about them. I carry around a nokia 770 with wikipedia on it, and a net connection to wikihow. I can get on google local and read the comments to determine wether I want to go to a club or not. If something doesn't exist to me on google maps, it doesn't exist.
I know, i'm the guilty party here, but this wasn't a conscious decision. I did not come to the realization at some young[er] age that I could either embrace a technologically rich existence, or not.
Imagine what my children will experience, or their children, or their children all the way down. I rapidly see people losing their ability to think independently of their peers. Even the people who consider themselves intellectuals are virtually inable to come up with an original thought.
I completely blame this trend on the availability of information. Believe it or not, there IS such a thing as knowledge being TOO easy to get.
I know of plenty of businesses still using black & white VGA displays from the early '90s with upgraded systems behind them.
yes, i'm sure that this is the majority out there. I'm sure that these people keep the shitty old VGAs around because they like them so much, not because their business doesn't have the money to upgrade.
I ran my Hp Pavilion over with a car and taco'd the case. Somehow the monitor survived.
It still works like a charm (except for the monitor, which has a crack in it from when I stepped on it a couple of months later).
I paid $500 bucks for it at sam's club and never EVER had a single component fail (that is until i stepped on it).
How much was your macbook pro?
Maybe this is why Apple moved away from IBM components, and IBM did as well
Apple moved away from IBM because Steve Jobs asked for exclusivity on cell, and they wouldn't give it to them.
I prefer to go out to places that are less-known but more interesting.
Thus is the futile quest of the hipster.
The really cool places generally ARE well known. The people that find them (who value finding obscure/cool places as much as it sounds you do) also love the recognition that they get by talking about going to those places.
Its tough for the cool places to keep up with those f*cking hipsters and their livejournals.
I don't like it because you have to take your finger off of it so much to use it (the track-ball). The scroll wheel could be operated without having to really move your finger off of the surface.
To use the track-ball you have to scroll, then lift your finger and move it to another button, then lift it and move it again. It seems small, but its annoying.
its like i tell my users all the time: the old 5250 interface to our iseries kicks ASS (once you get past the steep learning curve) because you NEVER take your hands off of the keyboard.
As someone who has been watching Sprint for years I can tell you your assertion is patently false. Sprint is not trying to kill Nextel.
it sure seems that way. Every time i would call our rep for more phones i would have to sit through them trying to get me to switch to sprint. they have also done almost nothing as far as bettering their service in my market (phoenix), which is why we finally dropped them.
Make a phone that is aimed at business users.
remember blackberry? the old one? the one that ONLY did email?
That little device with its tiny niche' market rocketed RIM to the company that they currently are. Unfortunately RIM has completely lost sight of what used to make them so incredible. The market needs a new paradigm for business phones. there used to be nextel, and the blackberry 7520 (which i said they could have when they pried it from my cold, dead fingers) but sprint is basically flusing nextel down the toilets. they're hoping to phase out the network and poach the users onto sprint.
This is all another story...
The point is that there is definetely a group of consumers out there who don't WANT a phone with an MP3 player, a camera, lots and lots of bright, shiny surfaces, tiny buttons, etc. etc. we don't want phones that we designed for the 15-20 female market. We don't.
Lets look at something like the blackberry 7520 (the phone that i had up until yesterday) to the blackberry curve (which i have now had for about 24 hours).
The 7520 (which was an astounding success, btw) was big. really big. But we LIKED that about it. It was rugged, I would routinely chuck it across the office to demonstrate to the non-believers why it was so amazing. Its size also allowed it to have BIG keys...ones that you could type on. The screen was recessed, it NEVER got scratched, ever.
This is the type of thing that business users want....functionality.
Now lets look at the curve:
the buttons are f*cking tiny. You can't type with your thumbs, you have to use your fingernails. I can only assume that this is because the phone was designed for 8 year old girls. The dropped the scroll wheel on the side that made the old blackberries have such a (in my mind) LEGENDARY interface. Honestly that was one of the best interfaces i have EVER used. They dropped it for a stupid trackball that, while pretty, is all but useless unless you use two hands to operate the phone.
Okay...rant rant rant rant...i hate the new blackberry, but this is my point:
A market (that used to be dominated by RIM) has been abandoned. there is a sizable gap that needs to be filled, and this is Palm's opportunity to start turning a profit again.
If you dont' belive me about the 7520, ask anybody that owned one. Most of the people that did still keep it (with the service turned off if they have to) as an organizer. It was just THAT good, and there currently is nothing on the market that offers the same level of functionality.
OpenBSD ships with support for round-robin queuing.
This is an interesting idea for a fun hack.
A similar idea that me and a buddy [if you are law enforcement, read: didn't] put into action one afternoon was a BSD box that latched onto as many wireless networks as cards we could find, then queued out to all of them.
BWAHAHAHAHA!! /saturday afternoon hacks ftw.
Yes. You are a programmer.
The unfortunate thing, is that the majority of CS majors are not. They're people who saw how many zeros can precede the comma in a programmers paycheck. Because of this, programming classes in University are teaching to the middle of the class (idiots who are trying to control their restless leg syndrome and "peace-out" as soon as possible so they can hit the big game with their brahs).
Its really sad, and its the reason I dropped out of school (I now have a job that I love doing what I love [programming]).
So plan on installing a rack full of storage arrays in your closet, with all of the cooling that that entails just to keep hold of a couple of weeks worth.
got to throw it out there for easynews, too. They are a mirror for sourceforge (which is really cool of them) and I always peg my cable modem on the limiter 100% of the time using them.
"this is no longer an issue, n00b"
x500.
If you don't know what that means, then you did NOT go to the best aeronautical science school.
UND FTW!
They aren't.
However, the computers that hook into the SCADA systems are.
Although, I would love to see the manual for operating a power plant start like ths:
"Open a web browser (internet explorer is recommended(read:required due to some fucking activex crap on the page)) and navigate to http://10.8.0.15441/ you will be promted to log in. The default password is "Admin" with no username. Please change this as soon as possible".
Seriously, it is this sort of mentality that is killing tech. You DO have to be extremely smart/dedicated to do really low level CS work. You DO have to have a pretty heavy mathematics background to do any really serious code work and it is NOT something that you can "Learn in 7 days" no matter what the books you bought at borders are telling you.