> Would you like to be able to run two Linuxes simultaneously on the same box?
VMWARE has been doing this for years, on Intel architeture. Plus, you can run multiple operating systems, not only Linux. It creates a virtual machine, so it runs in protected mode, has a completely independent BIOS, uses the memory you assign... Works like a breeze.
I frequently run Win 2000 AND Debian Linux AND Win 98 (this one for some testing purposes), at the very same time. So you can have the best of all worlds.
Ten firemen of the Oklahoma city were arrested early this morning for trespassing.
The squad alleged they broke into a house because it was burning, and they received an emergency call that said there were people trapped inside it.
Instead of innocent trapped civilians, they unknowingly tried to rescue undecovered FBI agents.
The firemen broke the main door and entered into the burning house, when they were immediatelly charged for vandalism, trespassing and attempted burglary.
They alleged they were trying to save lifes, but this is no excuse to FBI agent Smith, that said:
"What we are facing here is a very serious crime. The entered the house without written permission from its owner. They work doesn't matter. Or do you think a teller can enter a bank's safe and get money without permission ?"
If the firemen don't get convicted, then the prosecutor woult try for arson.
> I played around for a few hours with this, trying to make a ghetto script that would fix the servers. There's no way for me to be sure my other stuff works, but the thing I did get working was a script to download files to the infected server from an ftp site.
The idea is nice, the intention is louvable, but I believe it would be considered illegal in most countries. After all, you are actually using their machine without permission.
The argument that you're doing this for their own good is the same one that crackers use. -"Oh, we're doing them a favour, showing their vulnerabilities."
Of course, that's the obvious comment (no offense). But consider: What if you're wrong?
If he's wrong, and "hearers of the new noise are virtually unable to resist turning to face the direction from which it is coming" and they intend to use this sound in cellular phones, then I can imagine what would happen if somebody drove with a cellular on the side seat. Fortunatelly (or not), from what I heard from the video here (this link was posted by another/. user) the sound is more annoying than anything else.
It's just a different sound. Any strange sound calls your attention. If you're in a glass shop, and hear tires squealing, would you resist to face the direction from which it is coming? Me thinks not.
Hey, sure it's cool, but I don't think it's too practical. All this robot do is to search for intruders, right ? Security cameras, or motion detectors could do this, couldn't they ? At a fraction of the price.
Robots are fine when you have something repetitive that requires physical presence. Such as cleaning. There are cleaning robots, wich I think is much more useful than a walking-camera.
Unless, of course, you give ED-209 some real ammo. Now you're talking a different ball game.:) But, then again, who would be crazy to make a killer bot ? There is no robot designer who would do this in a real life situation for the defense of a building. Yes, there are some belical bots at the army, designed to destroy the enemy. But it's a war zone, not a building.
>LOL... The leakage of 802.11... Hey, if you call yourself "Nerd" you can't blame 802.11 for the idiotism of BOFHs neither knowing about the built-in encryption features of 802.11 nor about the possibility to setup IPSec (in eNTe it requires nothing but a mouse-click, on Kinderunix you have to apply some patches...).
Dear Sir/Madam.
It comes to my attention that apparently you're insinuating that some BOFHs are idiots, and/or is the possibility that they somehow don't know about encryption. Is this correct ?
You'll be larted for this. With a very big, heavy and painful lart.
You don't seem to grasp the concept of being a BOFH. Maybe this can enlighten you. And don't you DARE to do it again.
- It's this damn drive you sold me. It's broken. I bought it, installed in my computer and it won't boot.
- Uh, did you partition and format it before using ?
- No, but I don't need to do it to know it's not working.
- Why ?
- Listen, kid, I know what I'm doing. I have experience with computers. I built mine myself. And this drive is dead. It makes no noise. And I just installed it, and, yes, the power cable's on.
"Let's burn into our brains that this civilization is not condemned to live on only one planet... Let's burn it into our brains that in our lifetimes, we will extend the reach of this human species onto other planets and to other bodies in our solar system and build the robots that will leave our solar system to go to other stars, then ultimately to be followed by people."
It sounds like NASA understands what so many don't: Earth is our birthplace, not our prison. The purpose of humanity, if we can be said to have a purpose, is to disperse life throughout the galaxy
Agent Smith, from Matrix, said once:
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to
classify your species. I've realized that you are not actually mammals.
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area.There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is?
A virus.
Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague. And we are... the cure."
Even Brazil had a few BBS's in the late 80's and early 90's too... That's how I developed this fascination about computers:) In about 1989, 1990 there were like 4 or 5 important BBS's in Sao Paulo, and some others minors. Some had as much as 600 users. Oh, those good ol'days... X-Modem transfers at the astonishing speed of 300bps... Now, do you remember when Zmodem Appeared? Wow...
A nice demonstration of this is microwaving CDs. I have already zapped a dozen. If you wanna know how a microwaved CD looks like, check here and here for more info.
Re:Mir Fungus comic, ...thanks Nitrozac!
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For those who speak Portuguese, there is this shockwave animation that shows the president of Petrobras on top of P-36, the largest offshore oil rig, that recently sank, singing a parody of the infamous Titanic music. When he says that nothing worse can happen, then the Mir falls upon his head. It's very interesting for those who understand Portuguese.
>All major OSI protocals use the mac address in their protocals for athentication. I believe its controlled in the nic's firmware and can't be overidden. A cracker can't make a fake mac wihout his or her own mac address bing automatically sent out.
This is just plain wrong. Most NICs can have their MAC address changed by software. In Linux, for example, to change the MAC address of an Ethernet NIC, for instance, just:
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:00:00:31:33:70
Most NICs support this opperation, and I had already used it.
It's a napster-compatible client on steroids, and without those dumb limitations of the napster client. The good thing is that it can connect simultaneously to other networks that use Napster protocolo, such as the infamous OpenNap, MusicCity, and tons of others, that, added, can have more users than Napster itself. So, instead of querying one server, it queries tens of servers, that are not being sued:). Sometimes it returns thousands of music in one query, unlike Napster's 100-music limit. It's worth a try.
This association gives medicine against this disease for free to people who cannot afford it, to keep them from dying. Its money comes from donations.
Well, we imported some boxes of this medicine, from US to Brazil. Unfortunatelly we chose UPS. When the medicine was sent to UPS, it was sent as "prescription drugs" in the UPS bill,so it was very clear it was medicine.
Medicine, in Brazil, has no customs taxes. UPS knows it, for sure, as this can't be the first time they deliver medicine.
Guess what? BEFORE the product even arrived to Brazil, UPS had already paid customs a total of US$ 1660. This even before customs asked for this money. When the medicine arrived, customs noticed it was medicine and didn't charge anything. But, oops, UPS had already paid for that. They probably do this to expedite things.
What happened next is that UPS wanted to be reimbursed for this money, so they were not allowing us to get that medicine box.
Lots of phone calls to the Brazilian UPS branch, to no avail. They simply said they'd keep the box till we refunded them.
As people could die without this medicine, and negotiations with UPS were resulting in nothing, the association had no choice but to borrow money to pay UPS, as it was urgent, and we intended to negotiate later.
Now we're asking UPS to refund us, from this money they charged us because of their mistake.If they don't refund us, we're going to the press, both here in Brazil and US, and show everybody what happened, what probably will cause far more damage for them than $1600.
I even registered this site (that URL translates to something like "beware of UPS"), that has no content yet, but will be dedicated to showing this and other UPS errors, in case they refuse to give the money back.
It'd be nice if you post here on Slashdot your problems with UPS, so I can put the messages on this site. You can also e-mail me the problems you had, if you wish. If the site goes up, I'll use them.
I can't believe that this was enough to warrant a story submission.
Sure it is.
It has the key features for a story:
Something failing to support linux
Some hardware using Linux
Tech specs of this hardware
This hardware is new
Mentions Microsoft Windows
Windows has something that Linux doesn't (support from HP)
What else did you want ? This article has almost all the requirements for an approved story. The only missing item would be to mention somewhere the word "geek".
It doesn't forward packets to other machines, like other firewalls. It's to be used on the computer meant to be protected.
As I said, it uses another concept:
When a program on the local machine tries to open the TCP/IP stack, Zone Alarm asks you if you wish to grant access to it or not. It can remember your decision.
If the program tryes to listen to a port, ZA also asks if the program can act as a server.
The good thing is that all trojans that listen to a socket (such as the infamou Back Orifice, Deepthroat, and all others) will be immediately detected, as you were not expecting a program to act as a server.
It drops incoming packets that don't match your criteria, thus preventing port scan, and others.
It is not supposed to work on a machine acting as a router. Got the concept ? It's very good IMO.
I use a firewall, wich, by pure coincidencre, registered today. It's Zone Alarm Pro and they have a [less featured, but functional] free for personal use. It's a very good one, IMO, as it detects when a program opens the winsock, and asks you if you should let that program access the net. It can remember your choice. I recommend it.
So I got curious to see how it'd react to this. Downloaded the demo document from the article and, after opening the document, it told me Word was trying to access it.
I simply didn't allow word to access the net (word was trying to contact 127.0.0.1, probably to IE).
As I didn't grant access to word, it logged: ACCESS,2000/08/30,16:50:12 -3:00 GMT,WINWORD.EXE was temporarily not allowed to connect to the Internet (127.0.0.1).,N/A,N/A
and the bug didn't work.
Can a flock of birds take down a network by
flying through the lasers?
Maybe they could adapt RFC 1149 - A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers and, instead of seeing the birds as a potential problem, use them as carriers. Sure, a device would have to print the scrolls of paper, and attach it to the birds. It would probably decrease bandwidth, as the mentioned RFC mentions: "Avian carriers can provide high delay, low throughput, and low altitude service.". It's worth a good read.
In fact, last time I checked, there was significantly more material available via Gnutella.
Napster had LOTS of servers (more then 50 I guess). The problem is that they didn't link these servers. One person that was in a server wouldn't find the people on other servers. It was not a real network. Think of it as lots of irc servers not linked.
Some GNU advocates may not like what I'll say now, but IMO, Gnutella sucks. The idea is fine. But the implementation has a looong way to go. At least the last time I checked, the only info you could get from a MP3 (for example) was the file size. You couldn't search for bitrate (I prefer 160+ kbps). You couldn't see the time also.
I tryed the windows client for scour and really liked it. Soon they'll release an open-source unix client. At the very moment I'm writing this message, there are 14.12 terabytes in the scour community (they love to call this way, don't they ?:) )and 3,827,414 files shared. This is much more than I've ever seen in a single Napster server. And the client is MUCH more well-implemented then Napster's.
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Not so cool as this one
> Would you like to be able to run two Linuxes simultaneously on the same box?
VMWARE has been doing this for years, on Intel architeture. Plus, you can run multiple operating systems, not only Linux. It creates a virtual machine, so it runs in protected mode, has a completely independent BIOS, uses the memory you assign... Works like a breeze.
I frequently run Win 2000 AND Debian Linux AND Win 98 (this one for some testing purposes), at the very same time. So you can have the best of all worlds.
Ten firemen of the Oklahoma city were arrested early this morning for trespassing.
The squad alleged they broke into a house because it was burning, and they received an emergency call that said there were people trapped inside it.
Instead of innocent trapped civilians, they unknowingly tried to rescue undecovered FBI agents.
The firemen broke the main door and entered into the burning house, when they were immediatelly charged for vandalism, trespassing and attempted burglary.
They alleged they were trying to save lifes, but this is no excuse to FBI agent Smith, that said:
"What we are facing here is a very serious crime. The entered the house without written permission from its owner. They work doesn't matter. Or do you think a teller can enter a bank's safe and get money without permission ?"
If the firemen don't get convicted, then the prosecutor woult try for arson.
Here you can find nice comics on-line, including my all-time favourite, Foxtrot.
> I played around for a few hours with this, trying to make a ghetto script that would fix the servers. There's no way for me to be sure my other stuff works, but the thing I did get working was a script to download files to the infected server from an ftp site.
The idea is nice, the intention is louvable, but I believe it would be considered illegal in most countries. After all, you are actually using their machine without permission.
The argument that you're doing this for their own good is the same one that crackers use.
-"Oh, we're doing them a favour, showing their vulnerabilities."
Of course, that's the obvious comment (no offense). But consider: What if you're wrong?
/. user) the sound is more annoying than anything else.
If he's wrong, and "hearers of the new noise are virtually unable to resist turning to face the direction from which it is coming" and they intend to use this sound in cellular phones, then I can imagine what would happen if somebody drove with a cellular on the side seat. Fortunatelly (or not), from what I heard from the video here (this link was posted by another
It's just a different sound. Any strange sound calls your attention. If you're in a glass shop, and hear tires squealing, would you resist to face the direction from which it is coming? Me thinks not.
Hey, sure it's cool, but I don't think it's too practical. All this robot do is to search for intruders, right ? Security cameras, or motion detectors could do this, couldn't they ? At a fraction of the price.
:) But, then again, who would be crazy to make a killer bot ? There is no robot designer who would do this in a real life situation for the defense of a building. Yes, there are some belical bots at the army, designed to destroy the enemy. But it's a war zone, not a building.
Robots are fine when you have something repetitive that requires physical presence. Such as cleaning. There are cleaning robots, wich I think is much more useful than a walking-camera.
Unless, of course, you give ED-209 some real ammo. Now you're talking a different ball game.
>LOL... The leakage of 802.11... Hey, if you call yourself "Nerd" you can't blame 802.11 for the idiotism of BOFHs neither knowing about the built-in encryption features of 802.11 nor about the possibility to setup IPSec (in eNTe it requires nothing but a mouse-click, on Kinderunix you have to apply some patches...).
Dear Sir/Madam.
It comes to my attention that apparently you're insinuating that some BOFHs are idiots, and/or is the possibility that they somehow don't know about encryption. Is this correct ?
You'll be larted for this. With a very big, heavy and painful lart.
You don't seem to grasp the concept of being a BOFH. Maybe this can enlighten you. And don't you DARE to do it again.
- Costumer service, how can I help you ?
- It's this damn drive you sold me. It's broken. I bought it, installed in my computer and it won't boot.
- Uh, did you partition and format it before using ?
- No, but I don't need to do it to know it's not working.
- Why ?
- Listen, kid, I know what I'm doing. I have experience with computers. I built mine myself. And this drive is dead. It makes no noise. And I just installed it, and, yes, the power cable's on.
- (thinking) It's going to be a long day.
Agent Smith, from Matrix, said once:
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I've realized that you are not actually mammals.
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area.There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is?
A virus.
Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague. And we are... the cure."
Seems like we're trying to spread our infection.
Even Brazil had a few BBS's in the late 80's and early 90's too... That's how I developed this fascination about computers :) In about 1989, 1990 there were like 4 or 5 important BBS's in Sao Paulo, and some others minors. Some had as much as 600 users.
Oh, those good ol'days... X-Modem transfers at the astonishing speed of 300bps... Now, do you remember when Zmodem Appeared? Wow...
A nice demonstration of this is microwaving CDs. I have already zapped a dozen. If you wanna know how a microwaved CD looks like, check here and here for more info.
For those who speak Portuguese, there is this shockwave animation that shows the president of Petrobras on top of P-36, the largest offshore oil rig, that recently sank, singing a parody of the infamous Titanic music. When he says that nothing worse can happen, then the Mir falls upon his head. It's very interesting for those who understand Portuguese.
This is just plain wrong. Most NICs can have their MAC address changed by software. In Linux, for example, to change the MAC address of an Ethernet NIC, for instance, just:
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:00:00:31:33:70
Most NICs support this opperation, and I had already used it.
The problem is that you exhale carbon dioxide when you breath. There are 4 billion people. Guess how many tons of carbon dioxide are caused by humans?
:)
The solution ? Breathing taxes. The IRS will love this one
I use another one. Audiognome. http://www.audiognome.com/
:). Sometimes it returns thousands of music in one query, unlike Napster's 100-music limit. It's worth a try.
It's a napster-compatible client on steroids, and without those dumb limitations of the napster client. The good thing is that it can connect simultaneously to other networks that use Napster protocolo, such as the infamous OpenNap, MusicCity, and tons of others, that, added, can have more users than Napster itself. So, instead of querying one server, it queries tens of servers, that are not being sued
>Computer "sex" is lust, and therefore is adultrey, which goes aginst the LORD thy God
According to this logic, computers go against the LORD thy God, and are evil things projected by pagans.
Hmmmmm... That makes sense. This explains that little red devil on my BSD box.
Indeed, Windows source code leaked. Here's a fragment.
/*printf("WelcometoWindows3.11");&nb sp;*/
/*printf("WelcometoWindows95");  ;*/
voidmain()
{
while(!CRASHED)
{
display_windows_logo();
display_copyright_message();
display_bill_rules_message();
do_nothing_loop();
look_for_new_hardware();
sleep(10);
look_again_for_new_hardware();
scandisk();
if(detect_cache())
disable_cache(); if(first_time_installation)
{
make_50_megabyte_swapfile();
do_nothing_loop();
totally_screw_up_HPFS_file_system();
search_and_destroy_the_rest_of_OS/2();
hang_system();
}
write_something(anything);
display_copyright_message();
do_nothing_loop();
do_some_stuff();
if(still_not_crashed)
{
display_copyright_message();
do_nothing_loop();
basically_run_windows_3.1();
do_nothing_loop();
do_nothing_loop();
}
}
if(detect_cache())
disable_cache_again();/*just to be sure*/
if(fast_cpu())
{
set_wait_states(lots);
set_mouse(speed,very_slow);
set_mouse(action,jumpy);
set_mouse(reaction,sometimes);
}
printf("WelcometoWindows98");
if(system_ok())
crash(to_dos_prompt);
else
system_memory=open("a:\swp0001.swp",O_CR EATE);
while(something)
{
sleep(5);
get_user_input();
sleep(5);
act_on_user_input();
sleep(5);
}
create_general_protection_fault();
}
I live in Brazil and we had a recent problem with UPS. My mother is the president of a non-profit organization for fighting a rare genetic disease, called Wilson's Disease.
This association gives medicine against this disease for free to people who cannot afford it, to keep them from dying. Its money comes from donations.
Well, we imported some boxes of this medicine, from US to Brazil. Unfortunatelly we chose UPS. When the medicine was sent to UPS, it was sent as "prescription drugs" in the UPS bill,so it was very clear it was medicine.
Medicine, in Brazil, has no customs taxes. UPS knows it, for sure, as this can't be the first time they deliver medicine.
Guess what? BEFORE the product even arrived to Brazil, UPS had already paid customs a total of US$ 1660. This even before customs asked for this money. When the medicine arrived, customs noticed it was medicine and didn't charge anything. But, oops, UPS had already paid for that. They probably do this to expedite things.
What happened next is that UPS wanted to be reimbursed for this money, so they were not allowing us to get that medicine box.
Lots of phone calls to the Brazilian UPS branch, to no avail. They simply said they'd keep the box till we refunded them.
As people could die without this medicine, and negotiations with UPS were resulting in nothing, the association had no choice but to borrow money to pay UPS, as it was urgent, and we intended to negotiate later.
Now we're asking UPS to refund us, from this money they charged us because of their mistake.If they don't refund us, we're going to the press, both here in Brazil and US, and show everybody what happened, what probably will cause far more damage for them than $1600.
I even registered this site (that URL translates to something like "beware of UPS"), that has no content yet, but will be dedicated to showing this and other UPS errors, in case they refuse to give the money back.
It'd be nice if you post here on Slashdot your problems with UPS, so I can put the messages on this site. You can also e-mail me the problems you had, if you wish. If the site goes up, I'll use them.
Sure it is.
It has the key features for a story:
What else did you want ? This article has almost all the requirements for an approved story. The only missing item would be to mention somewhere the word "geek".
Zone alarm is a personal firewall.
It doesn't forward packets to other machines, like other firewalls. It's to be used on the computer meant to be protected.
As I said, it uses another concept:
When a program on the local machine tries to open the TCP/IP stack, Zone Alarm asks you if you wish to grant access to it or not. It can remember your decision.
If the program tryes to listen to a port, ZA also asks if the program can act as a server.
The good thing is that all trojans that listen to a socket (such as the infamou Back Orifice, Deepthroat, and all others) will be immediately detected, as you were not expecting a program to act as a server.
It drops incoming packets that don't match your criteria, thus preventing port scan, and others.
It is not supposed to work on a machine acting as a router. Got the concept ? It's very good IMO.
I use a firewall, wich, by pure coincidencre, registered today. It's Zone Alarm Pro and they have a [less featured, but functional] free for personal use. It's a very good one, IMO, as it detects when a program opens the winsock, and asks you if you should let that program access the net. It can remember your choice. I recommend it.
So I got curious to see how it'd react to this. Downloaded the demo document from the article and, after opening the document, it told me Word was trying to access it.
I simply didn't allow word to access the net (word was trying to contact 127.0.0.1, probably to IE).
As I didn't grant access to word, it logged:
ACCESS,2000/08/30,16:50:12 -3:00 GMT,WINWORD.EXE was temporarily not allowed to connect to the Internet (127.0.0.1).,N/A,N/A
and the bug didn't work.
Can a flock of birds take down a network by flying through the lasers?
Maybe they could adapt RFC 1149 - A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers and, instead of seeing the birds as a potential problem, use them as carriers. Sure, a device would have to print the scrolls of paper, and attach it to the birds. It would probably decrease bandwidth, as the mentioned RFC mentions: "Avian carriers can provide high delay, low throughput, and low altitude service.". It's worth a good read.
To deal with this, they could also use RFC 2549 - IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service .
I wish they used a tiny bit of this ammount to implement their site's search engine that was taken way monthes and monthes ago.
In fact, last time I checked, there was significantly more material available via Gnutella.
:) )and 3,827,414 files shared. This is much more than I've ever seen in a single Napster server. And the client is MUCH more well-implemented then Napster's.
Napster had LOTS of servers (more then 50 I guess). The problem is that they didn't link these servers. One person that was in a server wouldn't find the people on other servers. It was not a real network. Think of it as lots of irc servers not linked.
Some GNU advocates may not like what I'll say now, but IMO, Gnutella sucks. The idea is fine. But the implementation has a looong way to go. At least the last time I checked, the only info you could get from a MP3 (for example) was the file size. You couldn't search for bitrate (I prefer 160+ kbps). You couldn't see the time also.
I tryed the windows client for scour and really liked it. Soon they'll release an open-source unix client. At the very moment I'm writing this message, there are 14.12 terabytes in the scour community (they love to call this way, don't they ?