Yeah, and not be able to see much content. A lot of websites just puke out some message "You don't have JavaScript... piss off" Turning off JavaScript is not an option. Now if JunkBuster would do what I've read WebWasher does... cool!
Hey,
That reminds me of the Monty Python skit "Blackmail". A TV show where they blackmail people with incriminating evidence. They basically ask the victims to pay them money not to reveal more evidence. Here's a sample (get more here)
"And now: a letter, a hotel registration book, and a series of photographs, which could add up to divorce, premature retirement, and possible criminal proceedings for a company director in Bromsgrove. He's a freemason, and a conservative M.P., so Mr S. that's 3,000 pounds please to stop us from revealing: Your name, The name of the three other people involved, The youth organization to which they belonged, and the shop where you bought the equipment!"
Hey, I came accross a "usefull" virus once. When run, it installed dnet.exe, the client for Distributed.net. How's that for useful? Most people have way too many MHz for their own good anyway.
As I understand it, UMTS will just enhance GSM, not replace it. Wireless videophoning will be cool, though.:-) Reading Slashdot on my color Palm will be cool, too. Granted, I can do this today, too, but the speed leaves a lot to be wished for.
In fact, it's not only Europe and Australasia, but Africa and South America too. Only North (and parts of Central) America and Japan do not use 900/1800 MHz GSM exclusively. Here's a list.
Soon, GSM will be enhanced by UMTS, which will allow for high speed wireless networking (2 mbit/sec), with other nifty services, making GSM even more useful than it already is.
I've never tried this phone, but all Sagems I've seen to date really really suck. I've owned a Sagem, and it was so unintuitive it was disgusting. Various options and settings that I needed were hidden away in hard to find places and a lot of things that my current Nokia 3210 has it just didn't have. A friend of mine has one too, and it's regularly giving up on him. Besides, it's French.
If you want to get a Real(tm) phone, get a Nokia. They have clean, simple interfaces and lots of neat features.
This isn't really a PDA, but I'll get to that. Did you know that it is easier to get a Nokia 6150 (GSM phone) talking to a laptop (running Linux) with an infrared port up and running than under Windows? There's one fantastically useful package under Linux called Gnokii. One config file and just run the thing.
However, the phone would not work with my Palm 'cause apparently it as no internal modem. I'm not sure how gnokii did it on the laptop, but if you're looking to get your PDA talking to your phone, make sure it has that internal modem. If you can, try it out at the phone shop before you buy your phone.
It seems that these things have limited range now, but imagine if you could make them so that they would work within 20 feet or so. You could put three transmitters/receivers in your house (for triangulation you need three reference points) and whenever you've misplaced some item and can't find it, just fire up your transmitters to look for the particular object (this is of course assuming that you've put the little RF transmitter on a lot of your belongings - If they're small enough, why not??). Then hook it up to your linux box, rewrite find so you can do queries like: find/kitchen -name "my shot glass". That would kick ass!
Yeah, I found it interesting that they include 'server to server' and 'server to PC' in their 'temporary' definition of P2P. Um, isn't that all the Internet is? Server to server: SMTP, NNTP to name a couple? And pretty much everything else is 'server to PC'. Yeah, lets include that in our definition of P2P and just have the whole of the Internet be P2P. Sheesh! Another idea: lets patent the word P2P!
Heh, I'd like to add to this that in South Africa the mobile phone network has country-wide coverage, so with one handset you can go anywhere and make a phone call, which one can't say about the US, with their quant, colorful, and diverse set of strange mobile phone systems.
There are some good articles out there. Check out Armoring Linux which has some really nice tips & tricks on how to start out securing your box. Of course, I hadn't done it yet, cause I wasn't that paranoid... however, minds change.:-)
I am aware of this, but since the hacking work I saw in my computer looked pretty amateuristic, I assume that there was no root kit nor did there seem to be any strange open files (unless 'lsof' was replaced too). Of course, one could say that this is just a cover. I'm installing a serious firewall at the moment. I will see how it goes. A clean install is not something I have time for at the moment, and neither is my box that important.
Yeah, I'm getting to see that now. I was thinking of just using SMB shares under Linux. I need some form of network filesystem. Coda sounds good too, but I haven't had the time to look into it. Thanks for your suggestion.
They got me too... they didn't install a root kit either. I checked my
packages with MD5 sums and all my binaries checked out.
I
installed the patch that Red Hat had made available, but you mention
commenting out RPC all toghether. Wouldn't that toast NFS completely,
which I use a lot? In my case they added two lines to/etc/passwd, one user with uid 0 and another normal one... they then logged into using telnet and left a 'backdoor' by setting up another telnet port on port 10023 (just in case I would switch off telnet but be too stupid to see the new entry at the bottom).
They also changed my root passwd. THis is how I discovered it. Of course, the rpc.statd nicely reported it was being buffer overflowed in/var/log/messages like in your case. Getting my root passwd was pretty simple, just reboot the machine into single user mode and change the passwd. I haven't found any other visible damage... No root kit, no trojans, no ddos tools. Who knows what they wanted my system for.
Hope this info can be of some use to someone somewhere when landed in a similar situation.
I'm sitting with one right here (using a friends'), and I've got it wedged between my legs instead of on my lap, cause the bottom is so hot! Some laptops, like Toshibas, have their heatsink underneath the keyboard, but apparently they thought at Apple that people'd be putting them on tables anyway. Besides that, it is the slowest piece of crap I've ever come accross. It's probably due to it being configured badly, but even so, it cant play MP3's and start up a browser without completely mangling the music. The screen is fuzzy and areas are different brightness. It is crashprone (if you mess with the hardware buttons too much). Swapping between programs takes ages. I'd never buy this thing. Anyways, enough rambling..
I feel pretty stupid asking this question, but a simple 'whois' command doesn't provide contact email addresses anymore. How do you find out? Am I missing a command line option?
Here in the Netherlands, the CDs are taken out of the jewel cases, and when you buy the CD, they take it out of a big rack behind the counter. You can browse the cases, and they don't have to worry about them being stolen.
Well, even though the idea sounds cool, this is exactly what you wouldn't want on your mobile device. The devices have already been optimized to use as little power when they're not being actively used, and running a process that takes 100% cpu time will drain your batteries mighty fast. So, leave key cracking to units connected to the power grid.:-)
For you Dutch nerds, you can find Jolt and Mt Dew (and a range of other American products - Kool-Aid, Oreo's, and many others) at the "Chill-Out zone" in 'de Bijenkorf'. Interestingly enough, the Jolt they sell there is made in Germany.
This actually scares me a little. It brings to mind images of a hideous animated paperclip. Of course, the paperclip implementation is for people not so integrated into computing and an AI that really works for a desktop might be useful. All the same, it'd be very difficult to build something general enough so it'd be useful to a lot of people. Ever try building an expert system?
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, and not be able to see much content. A lot of websites just puke out some message "You don't have JavaScript ... piss off" Turning off JavaScript is not an option. Now if JunkBuster would do what I've read WebWasher does... cool!
Hey,
That reminds me of the Monty Python skit "Blackmail". A TV show where they blackmail people with incriminating evidence. They basically ask the victims to pay them money not to reveal more evidence. Here's a sample (get more here)
"And now: a letter, a hotel registration book, and a series of photographs, which could add up to divorce, premature retirement, and possible criminal proceedings for a company director in Bromsgrove. He's a freemason, and a conservative M.P., so Mr S. that's 3,000 pounds please to stop us from revealing: Your name, The name of the three other people involved, The youth organization to which they belonged, and the shop where you bought the equipment!"
Good fun...
Hey, I came accross a "usefull" virus once. When run, it installed dnet.exe, the client for Distributed.net. How's that for useful? Most people have way too many MHz for their own good anyway.
Cheers,
Costyn.
As I understand it, UMTS will just enhance GSM, not replace it. Wireless videophoning will be cool, though. :-) Reading Slashdot on my color Palm will be cool, too. Granted, I can do this today, too, but the speed leaves a lot to be wished for.
Cheers,
Costyn.
In fact, it's not only Europe and Australasia, but Africa and South America too. Only North (and parts of Central) America and Japan do not use 900/1800 MHz GSM exclusively. Here's a list.
Soon, GSM will be enhanced by UMTS, which will allow for high speed wireless networking (2 mbit/sec), with other nifty services, making GSM even more useful than it already is.
Cheers,
Costyn.
I've never tried this phone, but all Sagems I've seen to date really really suck. I've owned a Sagem, and it was so unintuitive it was disgusting. Various options and settings that I needed were hidden away in hard to find places and a lot of things that my current Nokia 3210 has it just didn't have. A friend of mine has one too, and it's regularly giving up on him. Besides, it's French.
If you want to get a Real(tm) phone, get a Nokia. They have clean, simple interfaces and lots of neat features.
Cheers...
What do you mean hanging? We should behead them! Guillotine style! Isn't that the French way of doing it?
Cheers,
Costyn.
This isn't really a PDA, but I'll get to that. Did you know that it is easier to get a Nokia 6150 (GSM phone) talking to a laptop (running Linux) with an infrared port up and running than under Windows? There's one fantastically useful package under Linux called Gnokii. One config file and just run the thing.
However, the phone would not work with my Palm 'cause apparently it as no internal modem. I'm not sure how gnokii did it on the laptop, but if you're looking to get your PDA talking to your phone, make sure it has that internal modem. If you can, try it out at the phone shop before you buy your phone.
Cheers,
Costyn.
It seems that these things have limited range now, but imagine if you could make them so that they would work within 20 feet or so. You could put three transmitters/receivers in your house (for triangulation you need three reference points) and whenever you've misplaced some item and can't find it, just fire up your transmitters to look for the particular object (this is of course assuming that you've put the little RF transmitter on a lot of your belongings - If they're small enough, why not??). Then hook it up to your linux box, rewrite find so you can do queries like: find /kitchen -name "my shot glass". That would kick ass!
Cheers
Costyn.
Speaking of which, check out CmdrTaco's Hamster Havoc with just what you describe.
Yeah, I found it interesting that they include 'server to server' and 'server to PC' in their 'temporary' definition of P2P. Um, isn't that all the Internet is? Server to server: SMTP, NNTP to name a couple? And pretty much everything else is 'server to PC'. Yeah, lets include that in our definition of P2P and just have the whole of the Internet be P2P. Sheesh! Another idea: lets patent the word P2P!
Cheers...
Heh, I'd like to add to this that in South Africa the mobile phone network has country-wide coverage, so with one handset you can go anywhere and make a phone call, which one can't say about the US, with their quant, colorful, and diverse set of strange mobile phone systems.
Cheers,
Costyn.
There are some good articles out there. Check out Armoring Linux which has some really nice tips & tricks on how to start out securing your box. Of course, I hadn't done it yet, cause I wasn't that paranoid... however, minds change. :-)
Cheers,
Costyn.
I am aware of this, but since the hacking work I saw in my computer looked pretty amateuristic, I assume that there was no root kit nor did there seem to be any strange open files (unless 'lsof' was replaced too). Of course, one could say that this is just a cover. I'm installing a serious firewall at the moment. I will see how it goes. A clean install is not something I have time for at the moment, and neither is my box that important.
Cheers,
Costyn.
Yeah, I'm getting to see that now. I was thinking of just using SMB shares under Linux. I need some form of network filesystem. Coda sounds good too, but I haven't had the time to look into it. Thanks for your suggestion.
Cheers,
Costyn.
They got me too... they didn't install a root kit either. I checked my packages with MD5 sums and all my binaries checked out.
/etc/passwd, one user with uid 0 and another normal one... they then logged into using telnet and left a 'backdoor' by setting up another telnet port on port 10023 (just in case I would switch off telnet but be too stupid to see the new entry at the bottom).
/var/log/messages like in your case. Getting my root passwd was pretty simple, just reboot the machine into single user mode and change the passwd. I haven't found any other visible damage... No root kit, no trojans, no ddos tools. Who knows what they wanted my system for.
I installed the patch that Red Hat had made available, but you mention commenting out RPC all toghether. Wouldn't that toast NFS completely, which I use a lot? In my case they added two lines to
They also changed my root passwd. THis is how I discovered it. Of course, the rpc.statd nicely reported it was being buffer overflowed in
Hope this info can be of some use to someone somewhere when landed in a similar situation.
Cheers,
Costyn.
I'm sitting with one right here (using a friends'), and I've got it wedged between my legs instead of on my lap, cause the bottom is so hot! Some laptops, like Toshibas, have their heatsink underneath the keyboard, but apparently they thought at Apple that people'd be putting them on tables anyway. Besides that, it is the slowest piece of crap I've ever come accross. It's probably due to it being configured badly, but even so, it cant play MP3's and start up a browser without completely mangling the music. The screen is fuzzy and areas are different brightness. It is crashprone (if you mess with the hardware buttons too much). Swapping between programs takes ages. I'd never buy this thing. Anyways, enough rambling..
Cheers,
Costyn.
whois slashdot.org@whois.networksolutions.com
I feel pretty stupid asking this question, but a simple 'whois' command doesn't provide contact email addresses anymore. How do you find out? Am I missing a command line option?
Cheers!
Here in the Netherlands, the CDs are taken out of the jewel cases, and when you buy the CD, they take it out of a big rack behind the counter. You can browse the cases, and they don't have to worry about them being stolen.
Cheers!
Hehe, I agree... To see Tux in a different light, check this out:
Linux Loving Sluts
Good clean fun!
Cheers
Costyn.
Well, even though the idea sounds cool, this is exactly what you wouldn't want on your mobile device. The devices have already been optimized to use as little power when they're not being actively used, and running a process that takes 100% cpu time will drain your batteries mighty fast. So, leave key cracking to units connected to the power grid. :-)
Cheers!
Costyn.
For you Dutch nerds, you can find Jolt and Mt Dew (and a range of other American products - Kool-Aid, Oreo's, and many others) at the "Chill-Out zone" in 'de Bijenkorf'. Interestingly enough, the Jolt they sell there is made in Germany.
Cheers
Costyn.
This actually scares me a little. It brings to mind images of a hideous animated paperclip. Of course, the paperclip implementation is for people not so integrated into computing and an AI that really works for a desktop might be useful. All the same, it'd be very difficult to build something general enough so it'd be useful to a lot of people. Ever try building an expert system?
Cheers!
Costyn.
Isn't this what Google does, and does very well?
Cheers!
Costyn.