I too started out my internet connection life with an AOL dial-up account in the Windows 3.11 days, for about two minutes. Then I switched the config data to Suse 6.1 and I've been using Suse or Slackware ever since. It was hard to cancel and I paid at least a month more for service because of some billing cutoff crap. When I had to cancel an AOL account at work I tried a different approach. I started bad mouthing AOL and generalling making a big stink about everything that the TOS said I should not do. Now that account got cut off real quick and it was fun to bad mouth AOL for a while. Try it, you might like it.
Mine also came from the Dept. of Veterans Affairs. The strange thing is that it had my correct current address, something that the DVA should not have had because I moved since the last time I had any dealing with them. VA benefits to finish my degree back in the early '80s. The letter said that the IRS provide assistance with the address. This cross-government agency assistance concerned me just as much as the loss of my personal data.
From what I remember I think you are right on, Doc. My BS in Math required a course in Logic from the Philosophy department as well as several programing classes from the CS department. I have Minors in Physics and Philosophy and 12 hours towards a Minor in CS. I've never felt that anything in Philosophy - except Ethics - had any revelance in my IT work. Any questions in the Ethics of Science area of Philosophy applies to Computer Science as well.
We have found that a lot of programs that want to run as administrator really just want to have write access someware that a normal user can't write to. Once you figure this you just give that user write access. Easy to say - hard to do. Some programs required a registery edit to make it work in just userland. These took a lot of research on the internet to find someone's answer. One could claim that it is not Microsoft's fault but blame the software applications; BUT, Microsoft is just as guilty as everybody else in not programming for normal users running their applications and it is Microsoft's OS that is being abused.
I'm waiting for part 2. I assume that will be the recommedations to "fix" the security mess we are in. We should see some good anti-MicroSoft bashing then.
When we went to sysrep we first had to document which ACPI each system has and we found that there are only two different types, AACPI and ACPI, so we have two basic images. Another problem we had was the different drivers from our different Dell models. There is a way to 'stuff' all the different drivers into the images (after they are made) properly to be found when needed. The PXE boot will select the correct ACPI type image. The wole project was a big PITA, but after a lot of detail work it does work. Sorry I can't remember the links on how to set all this up but its out there. It helped that we had enough 'spare' systems to do all the installs and get driver details to work with.
http://www.rpi-polymath.com/ducttape/RFIDWallet.ph p
I've tested it with a new proximity door access system we now have at work and it does block the signal. Note that you should modify the wallet to create a passport or PASS holder as needed.
It's been some time since I've read the book but as I recall it was to get revenge on the men who took his wife from him - so 'I'll take your wife from you'. Since he did not know exactly who did this to him he decided to 'get everybody'. Radical isolation to keep the infection from spreading was tried. How the book ended I can't remember.
Check out remote desktop to the system that has the sound. There is an optrion to redirect sound. You need to be logged on to it and then remote desktop into is as the same user. We use this for one guy in HR. His normal location is at another plant and his system is just so-so but that's where his telephone is. When he is on-site here he uses a really good system and he can play voice mail on his usuall systemn he is remote desktoped into.
The requirement for changeing your password is that it must be changed before a brut force attack can 'guess' the password. That was before password hash tables that makes the brut force attack a matter of minutes. You are correct - passwords are not enough in these times. But that's another thread entirely...
It depends on your point of view and intent. When I do it its art - when you do it its hacking. Or, when I do it its hacking and when you do it its art. That yin/yang thing. Take your pick.
As a matter of fact since I have SBC phone service anyway I just, two days ago, upgraded my dial-up to SBC/Yahoo DSL service for only $14.95. So far I just have an old and very temporary Windows system up but the DSL modem takes care of the PPPoE connection. I'll soon have a SmoothWall firewall up and my Slackware Linux systems back on the internet. My biggest problem right now is with Yahoo. There is some kind of self helper that is trying to install an updates already. I think the type of web space with this account is just what Yahoo allows me to 'custom design' on my site. I could not find any datails on where to ftp my existing web pages. I might loose my web presence on the internet - no great loss to the internet I'm sure.
->"Nowadays, very few people are totally ignorant about computers. They may not know as much as you (and many of them probably don't know as much as they think they do), but they know something." As an end user support type I have first hand knowlwdge just how 'ignorant' my users are and it might supprise you just how bad it is. A Director of HR with a Masters degree is either playing dumb or really is dumb when she asks for my help in several small tasks that should be no problem for even the moderately computer literate. I have several users that are totaly lost if their desktop shortcut is not right in front of them - they don't have the first clue that they can get to their applications by 'start - programs -...'
One point can't locate the source of the sound. It might tell you from which direction it came from and under some conditions that might be good enough. The LA cops have some areas of high crime mapped out and have three microphones in the area linked to a processor and via a triangulation process come up with a source location of gunshot sounds good to about 10 feet.
Years ago when I dumped AOL what worked for me was after sending them their form requesting cancelation was to go to several chat rooms and start some very strong antiAOL talk. Got me off AOL real fast.
>Boot to safe mode Not good enough. Remenber the old rule for virus cleanup - first boot from known clean media. There exists thing that run in memory that will not reviel themselves to any tool - they are very well hidden. A total format and install is the only sure way to clean a very FUBARed system. Not even then if the BIOS has been hacked. I have also physically moved a FUBAR drive to an known clean system as the slave or ide1 master. Let nothing execute from this drive. Now do a cleanup job on it. File dates from the past are not a reliable check. They can be reset to anything a hacker wants.
I was trolling through the DOS - I mean CLI - commands on a Windows 2003 server just this morning and noticed the Qgrep.exe file with the mention of it being like the UNIX grep command. Is GNU/Linux a source for Microsoft's resurrection of the good, useful CLI utilities?
"Bush has tapped Chris Israel, currently deputy chief of staff for Gutierrez, to head up the administration's anti-piracy efforts." This Chris Israel should fight ant-piracy by advocating the use of GPL software and push for the end of all proprietary software. No proprietary software to pirate sure sounds like a good solution to me.
We have some Crystal reports and Microsoft Access conflicts. When certain reports are run with dao360.dll the report stops and requests administrator password. Remove all traces of dao360.dll and put back a specific version of dao350.dll and everything works. For some time we had various software packages fighting to be installed last - or other packages to be reinstalled because of.dll (or.ocx) version conflicts. ie: APD steps on Pervasive SQL that needs to be reinstalled.
Don't even get me started on the major PITA it is to get just users to have the proper access rights without these brain-dead apps requireing administrtator rights.
Try http://www.minislack.org/ . I've just installed it on an old Sony Vaio laptop and it works great! netpkg to updata apps worked. The only problem is that you must like the selection of the software made for you. My other systems run Slackware and I have no problems with them.
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I've been stoping updates to Acrobat Reader from installing Google's search bar for for months now.
I too started out my internet connection life with an AOL dial-up account in the Windows 3.11 days, for about two minutes. Then I switched the config data to Suse 6.1 and I've been using Suse or Slackware ever since. It was hard to cancel and I paid at least a month more for service because of some billing cutoff crap. When I had to cancel an AOL account at work I tried a different approach. I started bad mouthing AOL and generalling making a big stink about everything that the TOS said I should not do. Now that account got cut off real quick and it was fun to bad mouth AOL for a while. Try it, you might like it.
Mine also came from the Dept. of Veterans Affairs. The strange thing is that it had my correct current address, something that the DVA should not have had because I moved since the last time I had any dealing with them. VA benefits to finish my degree back in the early '80s. The letter said that the IRS provide assistance with the address. This cross-government agency assistance concerned me just as much as the loss of my personal data.
From what I remember I think you are right on, Doc. My BS in Math required a course in Logic from the Philosophy department as well as several programing classes from the CS department. I have Minors in Physics and Philosophy and 12 hours towards a Minor in CS. I've never felt that anything in Philosophy - except Ethics - had any revelance in my IT work. Any questions in the Ethics of Science area of Philosophy applies to Computer Science as well.
We have found that a lot of programs that want to run as administrator really just want to have write access someware that a normal user can't write to. Once you figure this you just give that user write access. Easy to say - hard to do. Some programs required a registery edit to make it work in just userland. These took a lot of research on the internet to find someone's answer. One could claim that it is not Microsoft's fault but blame the software applications; BUT, Microsoft is just as guilty as everybody else in not programming for normal users running their applications and it is Microsoft's OS that is being abused.
I'm waiting for part 2. I assume that will be the recommedations to "fix" the security mess we are in. We should see some good anti-MicroSoft bashing then.
When we went to sysrep we first had to document which ACPI each system has and we found that there are only two different types, AACPI and ACPI, so we have two basic images. Another problem we had was the different drivers from our different Dell models. There is a way to 'stuff' all the different drivers into the images (after they are made) properly to be found when needed. The PXE boot will select the correct ACPI type image. The wole project was a big PITA, but after a lot of detail work it does work. Sorry I can't remember the links on how to set all this up but its out there. It helped that we had enough 'spare' systems to do all the installs and get driver details to work with.
http://www.rpi-polymath.com/ducttape/RFIDWallet.ph p
I've tested it with a new proximity door access system we now have at work and it does block the signal. Note that you should modify the wallet to create a passport or PASS holder as needed.
Just yesterday I was officially informed of this. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1302977/000 110465906006216/a06-4351_1ex99d1.htm I guess I should ask what script to use to keep my posted resumes "up-to-the-minute" and to edit them on the fly to include the buzzwords they want.
It's been some time since I've read the book but as I recall it was to get revenge on the men who took his wife from him - so 'I'll take your wife from you'. Since he did not know exactly who did this to him he decided to 'get everybody'. Radical isolation to keep the infection from spreading was tried. How the book ended I can't remember.
Check out remote desktop to the system that has the sound. There is an optrion to redirect sound. You need to be logged on to it and then remote desktop into is as the same user. We use this for one guy in HR. His normal location is at another plant and his system is just so-so but that's where his telephone is. When he is on-site here he uses a really good system and he can play voice mail on his usuall systemn he is remote desktoped into.
The gange at Myth Busters has material for a few years now. I'm looking forward to seeing how many they can bust.
The requirement for changeing your password is that it must be changed before a brut force attack can 'guess' the password. That was before password hash tables that makes the brut force attack a matter of minutes.
You are correct - passwords are not enough in these times. But that's another thread entirely...
It depends on your point of view and intent. When I do it its art - when you do it its hacking. Or, when I do it its hacking and when you do it its art. That yin/yang thing. Take your pick.
As a matter of fact since I have SBC phone service anyway I just, two days ago, upgraded my dial-up to SBC/Yahoo DSL service for only $14.95. So far I just have an old and very temporary Windows system up but the DSL modem takes care of the PPPoE connection. I'll soon have a SmoothWall firewall up and my Slackware Linux systems back on the internet. My biggest problem right now is with Yahoo. There is some kind of self helper that is trying to install an updates already. I think the type of web space with this account is just what Yahoo allows me to 'custom design' on my site. I could not find any datails on where to ftp my existing web pages. I might loose my web presence on the internet - no great loss to the internet I'm sure.
I activatly use my spare drive spaces as place holders for future expansion points.
->"Nowadays, very few people are totally ignorant about computers. They may not know as much as you (and many of them probably don't know as much as they think they do), but they know something." ...'
As an end user support type I have first hand knowlwdge just how 'ignorant' my users are and it might supprise you just how bad it is. A Director of HR with a Masters degree is either playing dumb or really is dumb when she asks for my help in several small tasks that should be no problem for even the moderately computer literate. I have several users that are totaly lost if their desktop shortcut is not right in front of them - they don't have the first clue that they can get to their applications by 'start - programs -
One point can't locate the source of the sound. It might tell you from which direction it came from and under some conditions that might be good enough. The LA cops have some areas of high crime mapped out and have three microphones in the area linked to a processor and via a triangulation process come up with a source location of gunshot sounds good to about 10 feet.
Years ago when I dumped AOL what worked for me was after sending them their form requesting cancelation was to go to several chat rooms and start some very strong antiAOL talk. Got me off AOL real fast.
>Boot to safe mode
Not good enough. Remenber the old rule for virus cleanup - first boot from known clean media. There exists thing that run in memory that will not reviel themselves to any tool - they are very well hidden. A total format and install is the only sure way to clean a very FUBARed system. Not even then if the BIOS has been hacked. I have also physically moved a FUBAR drive to an known clean system as the slave or ide1 master. Let nothing execute from this drive. Now do a cleanup job on it. File dates from the past are not a reliable check. They can be reset to anything a hacker wants.
I was trolling through the DOS - I mean CLI - commands on a Windows 2003 server just this morning and noticed the Qgrep.exe file with the mention of it being like the UNIX grep command. Is GNU/Linux a source for Microsoft's resurrection of the good, useful CLI utilities?
"Bush has tapped Chris Israel, currently deputy chief of staff for Gutierrez, to head up the administration's anti-piracy efforts."
This Chris Israel should fight ant-piracy by advocating the use of GPL software and push for the end of all proprietary software. No proprietary software to pirate sure sounds like a good solution to me.
We have some Crystal reports and Microsoft Access conflicts. When certain reports are run with dao360.dll the report stops and requests administrator password. Remove all traces of dao360.dll and put back a specific version of dao350.dll and everything works. For some time we had various software packages fighting to be installed last - or other packages to be reinstalled because of .dll (or .ocx) version conflicts. ie: APD steps on Pervasive SQL that needs to be reinstalled.
Don't even get me started on the major PITA it is to get just users to have the proper access rights without these brain-dead apps requireing administrtator rights.
Try http://www.minislack.org/ . I've just installed it on an old Sony Vaio laptop and it works great! netpkg to updata apps worked. The only problem is that you must like the selection of the software made for you. My other systems run Slackware and I have no problems with them.
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A. dBASEment