So there I was on 9/11, a British guy on business in Boston, wondering (amongst many other things) how badly my parents would worry when they heard the news. I was pretty sure the international phone circuits would be clogged, so didn't even try; I jumped into IRC and eventually reached a friend who knew my parents in real life and gave them a call.
I followed the HeadWize project, but couldn't quite get the phase cancellation right; it was good to burn my fingers on the soldering iron again:-)
I tried Brookstone's NC headphones, found them to be OK but not very comfortable; I eventually splashed the $300 on the Bose QuietComfort and haven't looked back. They are fantastic, thoroughly recommended.
It's Plantronics.
You can get them for desk phones as well as cordless/mobile. I can vouch for the desk models being excellent (bought one from Ebay myself); next move is to get hold of either a cordless I can connect one to, or a second-hand cordless I can hack;-)
Are you proposing to use a smartcard alone to authenticate a login? Make sure you understand the security properties of what you're trying to achieve.
A card is something you have, not hugely secure (easy to lend/steal, though easy lendability might be an advantage in some situations) unless combined with something you know (eg. passphrase) or something you are (insert the usual biometrics worries here.)
If you want to build such a system yourself, GemPlus cards are very popular, also check out the smart cards division of Schlumberger. You can get RS232-connected card readers (sorry, the make escapes me); I'm not in touch in this field, but I'd be surprised if there weren't USB-connected and keyboard-embedded readers too.
That (apparently) isn't the case. Check out the Sealand history page:
"The previous day, Prince Roy declared the extension of Sealand's territorial waters to be a like 12 nautical miles, so that right of way from the open sea to Sealand would not be blocked by British claimed waters."
The Steganographic File System will do precisely that. (This link is to the homepage of an in-development implementation for Linux, with links to two papers describing the SFS.)
.cc is the TLD for the Cocos and Keeling islands. You can register a domain within.cc just like any other; check out nic.cc for details. It's currently $100 for two years, though.
The.cc TLD doesn't appear to be anything to do with Clear Channel, though (funnily enough) the clearchannel.cc domain exists...
> You can split the CAT5 cable to do data and phone - although I don't think it's 'right'.
10-base-T needs four wires of the eight in a piece of Cat5 UTP. Normally, these are pins 1,2,3,6. (NB. I forget which orientation these are numbered from, and I don't have my notes to hand.) It is possible to use the other four to carry another 10-base-T connection, or a phone or two, or whatever else. (The phone wiring will depend on where you are though -- here in.uk, domestic phone extensions need three wires. Also beware of local regulations regarding phone extensions.) Theoretically, I see no reason why you couldn't put (say) 2x100-base-T down a single piece of Cat5 UTP, but beware; at those speeds, factors like balancing the pairs may come into it. (Somebody with more experience of UTP, please help me out here!)
I don't think it's been done per se (disclaimer: I'm only an amateur cryptohead), but surely you could "assemble" one in a similar fashion to PGP?
Take a block cypher, use it in a mode which gives stream cypher behaviour (OFB or CFB?) and encrypt the session key under the recipient's public key. Pass the encrypted session key as part of the stream setup protocol, and there you have it...
(Suggested reference for those who don't understand but want to: "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier.)
Agreed. My DJ 890C works well with the cdj550 driver. (OK, so I cheat; I use Red Hat's rhs-printfilters and printtool package to set up printcap so I can just lpr file. I normally have the filter set at "normal"; if I'm printing anything "high-quality" (which is rare) I reconfigure it for Floyd-Steinberg.)
I could be wrong to make this generalisation, but it looks like the entire 700 series use this new page definition language (or whatever it's called) -- the term "WinPrinter" starts to spring to mind...
> Makes me wonder what a real community effort can > do. Instead of having a few moves voted on, > everyone could contribute a move.
The BBC tried this once, some (perhaps 10?) years ago, with a TV programme entitled "Your Move" and a system called "BBC Telechess".
It worked like this:
After the chess "professional" moved, viewers (this was late at night, 11pm-2am IIRC) had three minutes to call the BBC's system and suggest their moves.
An on-screen board was annotated with digits which were used to encode all possible moves. It was something along the lines of e2-e4 becoming 5254, to pick a random example. (I forget what criteria they used to decide the "people's move".)
I don't remember much else about the show, but it didn't last long. Anybody wanna set up "Open Move Chess" on the net?:-)
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Red Hat can't package ssh, because they ship worldwide and ssh is defined as "strong cryptography" -- it is illegal to export strong crypto from the U.S. (And similar laws in other countries.) There's nothing (apart from local laws!) to stop you obtaining ssh yourself, from its home site or elsewhere, and some people do package it for the various distributions. Debian get round the problem by not including the export-controlled stuff in the standard distribution and telling people to go visit ftp.non-us.debian.org (or whatever it is, I don't remember for sure). Perhaps RedHat could include a user-friendly installer for ssh which would visit somewhere like ftp.export.redhat.com, download a (signed by RedHat) RPM and install it? >But really, does a home user even need telnet? Not most home users... I do, though. (well, I use ssh internally out of paranoia...)
The Jargon File does not necessarily represent ESR's personal opinions on life, the universe, or indeed anything. He's just listing hacker jargon. That is the whole point of the JF, after all.
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Totally agree.
So there I was on 9/11, a British guy on business in Boston, wondering (amongst many other things) how badly my parents would worry when they heard the news. I was pretty sure the international phone circuits would be clogged, so didn't even try; I jumped into IRC and eventually reached a friend who knew my parents in real life and gave them a call.
I followed the HeadWize project, but couldn't quite get the phase cancellation right; it was good to burn my fingers on the soldering iron again :-)
I tried Brookstone's NC headphones, found them to be OK but not very comfortable; I eventually splashed the $300 on the Bose QuietComfort and haven't looked back. They are fantastic, thoroughly recommended.
It's Plantronics. ;-)
You can get them for desk phones as well as cordless/mobile. I can vouch for the desk models being excellent (bought one from Ebay myself); next move is to get hold of either a cordless I can connect one to, or a second-hand cordless I can hack
Are you proposing to use a smartcard alone to authenticate a login? Make sure you understand the security properties of what you're trying to achieve.
A card is something you have, not hugely secure (easy to lend/steal, though easy lendability might be an advantage in some situations) unless combined with something you know (eg. passphrase) or something you are (insert the usual biometrics worries here.)
If you want to build such a system yourself, GemPlus cards are very popular, also check out the smart cards division of Schlumberger. You can get RS232-connected card readers (sorry, the make escapes me); I'm not in touch in this field, but I'd be surprised if there weren't USB-connected and keyboard-embedded readers too.
... or from the probes we've sent there.
That (apparently) isn't the case. Check out the Sealand history page:
"The previous day, Prince Roy declared the extension of Sealand's territorial waters to be a like 12 nautical miles, so that right of way from the open sea to Sealand would not be blocked by British claimed waters."
The Steganographic File System will do precisely that. (This link is to the homepage of an in-development implementation for Linux, with links to two papers describing the SFS.)
The .cc TLD doesn't appear to be anything to do with Clear Channel, though (funnily enough) the clearchannel.cc domain exists...
10-base-T needs four wires of the eight in a piece of Cat5 UTP. Normally, these are pins 1,2,3,6. (NB. I forget which orientation these are numbered from, and I don't have my notes to hand.) It is possible to use the other four to carry another 10-base-T connection, or a phone or two, or whatever else. (The phone wiring will depend on where you are though -- here in .uk, domestic phone extensions need three wires. Also beware of local regulations regarding phone extensions.) Theoretically, I see no reason why you couldn't put (say) 2x100-base-T down a single piece of Cat5 UTP, but beware; at those speeds, factors like balancing the pairs may come into it. (Somebody with more experience of UTP, please help me out here!)
The .cx NIC appears to be run by Planet Three Internet in the UK. I found this by visiting www.nic.cx and looking up nic.cx itself!
I don't think it's been done per se (disclaimer: I'm only an amateur cryptohead), but surely you could "assemble" one in a similar fashion to PGP?
Take a block cypher, use it in a mode which gives stream cypher behaviour (OFB or CFB?) and encrypt the session key under the recipient's public key. Pass the encrypted session key as part of the stream setup protocol, and there you have it...
(Suggested reference for those who don't understand but want to: "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier.)
I could be wrong to make this generalisation, but it looks like the entire 700 series use this new page definition language (or whatever it's called) -- the term "WinPrinter" starts to spring to mind...
The BBC tried this once, some (perhaps 10?) years ago, with a TV programme entitled "Your Move" and a system called "BBC Telechess".
It worked like this:
I don't remember much else about the show, but it didn't last long. Anybody wanna set up "Open Move Chess" on the net? :-)
Works fine on Netscape 4.5 on WinNT for me... (don't tell me to upgrade, this isn't my system)
As long as they keep it sensible, I'll be happy.
Red Hat can't package ssh, because they ship worldwide and ssh is defined as "strong cryptography" -- it is illegal to export strong crypto from the U.S. (And similar laws in other countries.) There's nothing (apart from local laws!) to stop you obtaining ssh yourself, from its home site or elsewhere, and some people do package it for the various distributions. Debian get round the problem by not including the export-controlled stuff in the standard distribution and telling people to go visit ftp.non-us.debian.org (or whatever it is, I don't remember for sure). Perhaps RedHat could include a user-friendly installer for ssh which would visit somewhere like ftp.export.redhat.com, download a (signed by RedHat) RPM and install it? >But really, does a home user even need telnet? Not most home users... I do, though. (well, I use ssh internally out of paranoia...)
The Jargon File does not necessarily represent ESR's personal opinions on life, the universe, or indeed anything. He's just listing hacker jargon. That is the whole point of the JF, after all.