physical security vs electronic security
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The Root of All E-Mail
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I know with code, protocols, and other "virtual" items, security through obscurity is a poor solution. But with a physical campus, is obscurity a bad idea? Granted, it shouldnt be the only defence. Its not like you can open source the building and have a million developers check for flaws in the security method ?:)
ok i've found two things (not sure if they qualify as bugs) about.99 i dont like.
A: i prefer larger text size on my browser because of a huge monitor and high resolution i run at. On IE, i can set the text size from smaller to larger and IE remembers that preference forever. Mozilla forgets my text size (i prefer 120%) as soon as i close the program. Any way to make that 120% permanent ?
B: I have a HUGE hosts file that i block crap like doubleclick.net, known spyware sites, porn sites, etc.....anything i dont like:) On some sites i visit a LOT, such as slashdot and cnn.com, i block the ad servers. Mozilla gives me an error of "connection refused when attempting to contact foobar.spyware.site.com". I know the connection was refused (grin), how do i keep mozilla from bitching about my blocked sites in my hosts file?
if i could solve those two issues, i'd almost never use IE again (dont get me wrong, i like IE6 a lot, but i dont like the idea of being trapped on one platform because of a browser, I want to be able to use win 32, linux, mac os X, etc, and have the same browser no matter what).
While the above post sounds like flamebait to me, i feel a factual correction is called for. As a custom system designer for 7 years now, i've worked with, built, and personally owned all the major amd and intel systems during this time. Such as P5-mmx, k6, k6-2, PII, PIII, K7, Thunderbird, Athlon XP, duron, etc.
For a long time, the majority of the intel motherboards were MUCH more stable then the majority of the amd motherboards, though intel boards had their share of turkeys as well (820 anyone?). The trick had been to find the rare stable amd motherboard, learn every aspect of it, make sure the bios was up to date, etc. The tyan trinty 100 AT was a great k6-2 board, and my email server to this day runs on it without any problems. Most of the k6-2 boards werent very good though:( When the kt133 and kt133a chipsets started coming out, I noticed that there was a LOT more in the way of stable amd boards. In fact, very few were "unstable" after a few bios revisions. Also, the VIA 4-in-1 drivers improved radically as well.
At the current state of processors and motherboards, i feel that the AMD/VIA platform is as reliable as the Intel/Intel platform. The majority of current market VIA boards are quite mature and reliable and when problems are encountered, often a simple bios upgrade resolves it quickly. The intel 850 and 845 boards are also equally reliable. So the decision comes down to the 3 P's, preference, price, and performance. Some people refuse to use Intel for political reasons, and thats ok. Some people refuse to use AMD because of bad experiences with previous generation motherboards, and thats understandable too. Most of the expericened hardware consultants that i know of are currently pushing AMD solutions due to the better price / performance of AMD solutions now, as well as the fact that the P-4 on the vast majority of benchmarks is no faster then a competing Athlon XP, and often slower on high performance benchmarks such as 3d rendering.
The point of my whole rant.......With 90% of modern motherboards and processors, your going to have a stable platform as long as you configure it correctly (yes, even Intel stuff will crash on you right and left if you have a poorly configured bios, and a lot of default bios options are cruddy). It all comes down to the 3 P's.
break into comp usa or best buy, or better yet, a distribution warehouse (or should we call it a warezhouse), grab all the cd-r's and rw's, fill em full of music tracks and mp3's from riaa artists, and then distribute them for free to any canadian citizen who desired it. It would be a powerful bitchslap to the RIAA pigs, and the dumbass who came with the this tax idea for media. After our canadian friends are done hosting the "party" they can come down to the US and lay low for a few years:) Call it returning the favor for the Canadians letting Americans hide up north during Vietnam:) Oh well, i guess my blood level of caffiene is dangerously low, time for a refill.
honestly, isnt a P4 in a notebook a complete and total waste? The main performance bottleneck in a notebook anymore is the harddrive, not the CPU. The whole idea of a laptop is to be able take it to various places and be able to run it for a few hours on the battery. With the kind of power the P4 sucks down, you can kiss that goodbye. Add in fans to cool down the processor and/or water, and more of your battery goes bye bye. You'd need DDR to get the most out of the P4 as well, sdram + P4 is horribly slow and Rambus generates huge amounts of heat, which we all know is a no no in a notebook. I'm sorry Intel, but not everyone wants or needs a Marketing Processor (which is what the P4 really is, marketing over engineering) in a notebook. Give me a cool running low power Mobile P3 any day of the week.
Unsubscribe? give me a break PLEASE. Count yourself lucky that you dont get DOS'ed frequently, a spamcop warning is a nothing compared to a seriously pissed admin or hacker who wants a piece of your company's spamming ass. One of the nice things about running your own email server is the ability to blacklist any block of ip's that gets on my nerves. Is that what your company wants? For me to exile you off forever to/dev/null for one lousy piece of spam ? Kinda kills your chance to ever get me as a customer through legit marketing methods. But then, companies that use spam usually only sell ponzi schemes, penis enlargers, porn, and fake diet solutions. Oh well, no great loss then. In fact, can you tell me your ip block now, so i can pre-emptively blacklist you?:)
considering that they own a legal license to the OS, i dont think giving them a backup copy of said OS is illegal. And in any case, even if it is, there are times you are morally justified to break the law, and i think this is one of those times. As a side note, i hardly fear uncle billy's storm troopers er BSA. I am too small to gather attention.
oh wait, i forgot i have blacklisted every banner ad server from here to south korea in my hosts file...my bad;) Lets see, only have 10734 entries in it.......:)
On a serious note, I think not providing a standard windows Xp cd with a machine is criminal. No one should be forced to use "recovery" cd's that just reload an image full of crap on the box. I often provide a standard windows xp cd to my clients if their oem fails to provide them with one. And before you go off on the piracy rant, i dont consider it piracy when someone buys a dell, gateway, hp, etc vomit box and the cheap ass oem wont include a true OS cd for whatever reason. Thats BS, you paid for a legal copy (buried in the system price of course), and you deserve a legit standarized OS cd. And as long as these companies continue to shaft my clients, i will continue to correct their mistake by firing up my liteon 24x, and cooking Window's xp (or 98 depending on what the customer got) on nice shiny 20 cent cd-r blank.
take a.5mm mechanical pencil, and draw a trace over the L1 bridges on top of the processor. This unlocks the chip, and you can then go into the motherboard bios, and set it for 1000/266. Free upgrade, and your not even really overclocking anything either.
Does this mean i have free license to pour boiling hot grits down Nsync's pants? Somehow the idea of watching them sing with scalded testicle seems amusing in some odd way.
the rio volt has flashable firmware, and it does support wma as well as mp3....so if it can do two codecs, maybe with a firmware upgrade it can do 3? or am i talking out of my ass? any EE's want to comment ?
ogg and portable devices, a badly need marriage
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Ogg Vorbis RC3 Released
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i'd so love to use ogg, but the problem for me is that i use a rio volt, which is a portable mp3 cd player. A lot of the existing hardware out there only works with mp3 or wma. I hope that the different vendors (HELLO RIO!) will get a clue and release firmware updates that give ogg support to their devices. Once this happens, i'll never touch mp3 again. Btw, do the different vendors of mp3 hardware devices have to pay a royality to fraunhofer? If so, wouldnt ogg support make sense financially ?
what about someone like me who usually doesnt pass much traffic other then web surfing, but on the rare occasion DOES download a few gigs with of linux iso's from linuxberg.com ? should i be punished for doing something completely legitiment? What about my brother who converts dv from his cam corder into divx files so my parents can see birthday/xmas video files of their grand kids 1100 miles away ? Should he be punished for uploaded a few hundred megs to me for something thats not a "business" use? And its not "warez" either.....yet under those rules you mentioned, we get punished. I think the cable/dsl co's need to find a fair balance between allowing users enough network traffic and keeping the full time warez bandits from abusing the system. (fyi: i have nothing against warez in general, but as a network admin, i do see the problem with every 18 year old running a ftp/irc leech service that just sucks the system dry)
think about it, if the government gets owned and rooted on a regular basis, we wont have to worry about what the government is up to. We can just go to our favorite script kiddie/warez/black hat web site and read all those top secret CIA documents we've so dearly wanted to see. Heck in 6 months, we can just go to something like astalavista.box.sk and search for anything we want:)
Or if we're really lucky, the feds will be too busy fixing exploits in their systems to foist laws like the DMCA on us.
yes, thats a real dns server:) and a wonderfully easy address to remember as well. I use it as my secondary dns on the rare occasions when my isp's dns (san.rr.com) is choking.
lol i know you can buy various distro's of linux and what not:) As you said, i was just making a bad joke at MS. Some of the best open source software isnt for sale though, such as Freebsd and Openbsd, and Apace. You cant buy it, only use it and save a bundle compared to Nt and IIS.
Cost of finding a Corporate Win XP
serial # on astalavista.box.sk
$0
The pleasure of telling Uncle Bill
to shove product activation up his ass as you distribute copies of XP pro to all your friends and family?
$ Priceless
There are some things that money just cant buy (like quality GPL software), for everything else, there's Warez.
Warez....accepted everywhere you go, even in Redmond, Wa.
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anyways, just food for thought.
A: i prefer larger text size on my browser because of a huge monitor and high resolution i run at. On IE, i can set the text size from smaller to larger and IE remembers that preference forever. Mozilla forgets my text size (i prefer 120%) as soon as i close the program. Any way to make that 120% permanent ?
B: I have a HUGE hosts file that i block crap like doubleclick.net, known spyware sites, porn sites, etc.....anything i dont like :) On some sites i visit a LOT, such as slashdot and cnn.com, i block the ad servers. Mozilla gives me an error of "connection refused when attempting to contact foobar.spyware.site.com". I know the connection was refused (grin), how do i keep mozilla from bitching about my blocked sites in my hosts file?
if i could solve those two issues, i'd almost never use IE again (dont get me wrong, i like IE6 a lot, but i dont like the idea of being trapped on one platform because of a browser, I want to be able to use win 32, linux, mac os X, etc, and have the same browser no matter what).
For a long time, the majority of the intel motherboards were MUCH more stable then the majority of the amd motherboards, though intel boards had their share of turkeys as well (820 anyone?). The trick had been to find the rare stable amd motherboard, learn every aspect of it, make sure the bios was up to date, etc. The tyan trinty 100 AT was a great k6-2 board, and my email server to this day runs on it without any problems. Most of the k6-2 boards werent very good though :( When the kt133 and kt133a chipsets started coming out, I noticed that there was a LOT more in the way of stable amd boards. In fact, very few were "unstable" after a few bios revisions. Also, the VIA 4-in-1 drivers improved radically as well.
At the current state of processors and motherboards, i feel that the AMD/VIA platform is as reliable as the Intel/Intel platform. The majority of current market VIA boards are quite mature and reliable and when problems are encountered, often a simple bios upgrade resolves it quickly. The intel 850 and 845 boards are also equally reliable. So the decision comes down to the 3 P's, preference, price, and performance. Some people refuse to use Intel for political reasons, and thats ok. Some people refuse to use AMD because of bad experiences with previous generation motherboards, and thats understandable too. Most of the expericened hardware consultants that i know of are currently pushing AMD solutions due to the better price / performance of AMD solutions now, as well as the fact that the P-4 on the vast majority of benchmarks is no faster then a competing Athlon XP, and often slower on high performance benchmarks such as 3d rendering.
The point of my whole rant.......With 90% of modern motherboards and processors, your going to have a stable platform as long as you configure it correctly (yes, even Intel stuff will crash on you right and left if you have a poorly configured bios, and a lot of default bios options are cruddy). It all comes down to the 3 P's.
the 8100 is basically the same as the 8139, its simply a motherboard version of the 8139. So i think you can just use the 8139 driver in linux.
i nu x24x-8139cp(101).zip
If the kernel driver doesnt work, try the driver posted below, its a direct link to realtek's linux driver
ftp://ftp.realtek.com.tw/lancard/drivers/8139/l
i dont think a laptop wireless nic can go that far, i think the 26 mile range is only to another base station with a directional antenna.
break into comp usa or best buy, or better yet, a distribution warehouse (or should we call it a warezhouse), grab all the cd-r's and rw's, fill em full of music tracks and mp3's from riaa artists, and then distribute them for free to any canadian citizen who desired it. It would be a powerful bitchslap to the RIAA pigs, and the dumbass who came with the this tax idea for media. After our canadian friends are done hosting the "party" they can come down to the US and lay low for a few years :) Call it returning the favor for the Canadians letting Americans hide up north during Vietnam :) Oh well, i guess my blood level of caffiene is dangerously low, time for a refill.
honestly, isnt a P4 in a notebook a complete and total waste? The main performance bottleneck in a notebook anymore is the harddrive, not the CPU. The whole idea of a laptop is to be able take it to various places and be able to run it for a few hours on the battery. With the kind of power the P4 sucks down, you can kiss that goodbye. Add in fans to cool down the processor and/or water, and more of your battery goes bye bye. You'd need DDR to get the most out of the P4 as well, sdram + P4 is horribly slow and Rambus generates huge amounts of heat, which we all know is a no no in a notebook. I'm sorry Intel, but not everyone wants or needs a Marketing Processor (which is what the P4 really is, marketing over engineering) in a notebook. Give me a cool running low power Mobile P3 any day of the week.
Unsubscribe? give me a break PLEASE. Count yourself lucky that you dont get DOS'ed frequently, a spamcop warning is a nothing compared to a seriously pissed admin or hacker who wants a piece of your company's spamming ass. One of the nice things about running your own email server is the ability to blacklist any block of ip's that gets on my nerves. Is that what your company wants? For me to exile you off forever to /dev/null for one lousy piece of spam ? Kinda kills your chance to ever get me as a customer through legit marketing methods. But then, companies that use spam usually only sell ponzi schemes, penis enlargers, porn, and fake diet solutions. Oh well, no great loss then. In fact, can you tell me your ip block now, so i can pre-emptively blacklist you? :)
email me at my address above and i will send it to you
considering that they own a legal license to the OS, i dont think giving them a backup copy of said OS is illegal. And in any case, even if it is, there are times you are morally justified to break the law, and i think this is one of those times. As a side note, i hardly fear uncle billy's storm troopers er BSA. I am too small to gather attention.
oh wait, i forgot i have blacklisted every banner ad server from here to south korea in my hosts file...my bad ;) Lets see, only have 10734 entries in it.......:)
On a serious note, I think not providing a standard windows Xp cd with a machine is criminal. No one should be forced to use "recovery" cd's that just reload an image full of crap on the box. I often provide a standard windows xp cd to my clients if their oem fails to provide them with one. And before you go off on the piracy rant, i dont consider it piracy when someone buys a dell, gateway, hp, etc vomit box and the cheap ass oem wont include a true OS cd for whatever reason. Thats BS, you paid for a legal copy (buried in the system price of course), and you deserve a legit standarized OS cd. And as long as these companies continue to shaft my clients, i will continue to correct their mistake by firing up my liteon 24x, and cooking Window's xp (or 98 depending on what the customer got) on nice shiny 20 cent cd-r blank.
qouting my good friend Eric Wilson here....
"For every technology, there is an equal and opposite hacker technology"
simply put, someone will hack this and we'll see either easy copies of this, or some way to play the orginals for as long as desired
ftp.linuxberg.com in the /pub/iso folder
take a .5mm mechanical pencil, and draw a trace over the L1 bridges on top of the processor. This unlocks the chip, and you can then go into the motherboard bios, and set it for 1000/266. Free upgrade, and your not even really overclocking anything either.
Does this mean i have free license to pour boiling hot grits down Nsync's pants? Somehow the idea of watching them sing with scalded testicle seems amusing in some odd way.
the rio volt has flashable firmware, and it does support wma as well as mp3....so if it can do two codecs, maybe with a firmware upgrade it can do 3? or am i talking out of my ass? any EE's want to comment ?
i'd so love to use ogg, but the problem for me is that i use a rio volt, which is a portable mp3 cd player. A lot of the existing hardware out there only works with mp3 or wma. I hope that the different vendors (HELLO RIO!) will get a clue and release firmware updates that give ogg support to their devices. Once this happens, i'll never touch mp3 again. Btw, do the different vendors of mp3 hardware devices have to pay a royality to fraunhofer? If so, wouldnt ogg support make sense financially ?
what about someone like me who usually doesnt pass much traffic other then web surfing, but on the rare occasion DOES download a few gigs with of linux iso's from linuxberg.com ? should i be punished for doing something completely legitiment? What about my brother who converts dv from his cam corder into divx files so my parents can see birthday /xmas video files of their grand kids 1100 miles away ? Should he be punished for uploaded a few hundred megs to me for something thats not a "business" use? And its not "warez" either.....yet under those rules you mentioned, we get punished. I think the cable/dsl co's need to find a fair balance between allowing users enough network traffic and keeping the full time warez bandits from abusing the system. (fyi: i have nothing against warez in general, but as a network admin, i do see the problem with every 18 year old running a ftp/irc leech service that just sucks the system dry)
it usually takes them a few weeks to get stuff on windows update, which blows, but thats microsloth incompentence for you.
tried it on win xp pro and ie 6...didnt work :)
think about it, if the government gets owned and rooted on a regular basis, we wont have to worry about what the government is up to. We can just go to our favorite script kiddie/warez/black hat web site and read all those top secret CIA documents we've so dearly wanted to see. Heck in 6 months, we can just go to something like astalavista.box.sk and search for anything we want :)
Or if we're really lucky, the feds will be too busy fixing exploits in their systems to foist laws like the DMCA on us.
use this if your dns is not working.......
:) and a wonderfully easy address to remember as well. I use it as my secondary dns on the rare occasions when my isp's dns (san.rr.com) is choking.
4.2.2.1 (vnsc-pri.sys.gtei.net)
yes, thats a real dns server
hopefully ad-aware (www.lavasoftusa.com) will detect and remove this as just another piece of spy-ware.
lol i know you can buy various distro's of linux and what not :) As you said, i was just making a bad joke at MS. Some of the best open source software isnt for sale though, such as Freebsd and Openbsd, and Apace. You cant buy it, only use it and save a bundle compared to Nt and IIS.
Cost of a lite-on 24x burner
$90
Cost of a spinde of 80m 24X media
$20 - $10 MIR
Cost of finding a Corporate Win XP
serial # on astalavista.box.sk
$0
The pleasure of telling Uncle Bill
to shove product activation up his ass as you distribute copies of XP pro to all your friends and family?
$ Priceless
There are some things that money just cant buy (like quality GPL software), for everything else, there's Warez.
Warez....accepted everywhere you go, even in Redmond, Wa.