On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Tom Buskeyt...@buskey.name wrote:
Boot from a CD or USB key?
typical cafe has no accessible CD slot or boot button., and booting
will break their time keeping (billing ) system, so you should expect
to be evicted -- or arrested for 'hacking'
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Bill
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 22:43 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
On 08/25/2009 06:43 PM, Tom Buskey wrote:
Boot from a CD or USB key?
Does anybody really do this? I would have guessed drivers would be
hit-or-miss, and BIOS fiddling would often be required (I'd keep BIOS
setup locked if I ran such
You could do like that character in Cryptonomicon (a good read, BTW) who
was imprisoned in what he assumed was a TEMPEST-instrumented jail with
his laptop, so he rigged it surreptitiously to do I/O via Morse code... ;-
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Ben Scott wrote:
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Dan Jenkinsd...@rastech.com wrote:
Does the URL show properly in Thunderbird but then get messed up
when Firefox gets it?
Yes. If I recollect, it looked right in Thunderbird, but opening it
caused a failure in Firefox.
Curiouser and
On 08/25/2009 07:28 PM, Chris wrote:
I just checked mine, and according to my router, the lease time is 4
days. maybe it's only certain areas.
I checked mine last night (Comcast in Billerica MA) and it had a
remaining lease time of 2 days, 22 hours.
-Mark
I wonder if the CentOS (Community ENTerprise Operating System)
founders knew about this or if it's just, like, ya know - kosmic:
e521:~/codeGen 601--- dict cento
1 definition found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Cento \Cento\, n.;
If you ran such a cafe, you'd also have the user accounts locked
down so malware couldn't run in the first place.
yeah, but it's still Windows and hardware keyloggers are cheap
There ya go. Start by emailing a password to your server from your
phone. (I'd suggest a different password
Hi folks,
I just noticed that my system clock doesn't seem to be working correctly
all of a sudden. I wasn't running ntpd, but now I am. And when I run
it, it keeps things up to date for a bit, but watching the seconds
tick by seems very slow, I can actually count 5 mississippis between
gnhlug-discuss-boun...@mail.gnhlug.org wrote on 08/26/2009 04:08:38 PM:
Hi folks,
I just noticed that my system clock doesn't seem to be working correctly
all of a sudden. I wasn't running ntpd, but now I am. And when I run
it, it keeps things up to date for a bit, but watching the
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Paul Lussierp.luss...@comcast.net wrote:
After the clock gets about an hour (maybe it's 2) out of sync, ntpd
fails to sync and gives up. Is this a system clock battery problem ?
It shouldn't be the battery. In a standard IBM pee cee, the battery
clock is
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 15:49, Marc Nozell (m...@nozell.com) wrote:
The Nashua Public Library has free wifi, but I've not been able to
connect, but other Windows users nearby have. It is an unsecured
network so it isn't a key or passphrase problem.
I see in the logs that dhclient isn't
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 16:08, Paul Lussier wrote:
Hi folks,
I just noticed that my system clock doesn't seem to be working
correctly all of a sudden. I wasn't running ntpd, but now I am. And
when I run it, it keeps things up to date for a bit, but watching the
seconds tick by seems
On 08/26/2009 08:43 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
The RTC certainly doesn't advance the system clock. That's done by
IRQ0, which fires 18 times per second...
$ grep -e rtc -e timer /proc/interrupts
0: 2321478409 local-APIC-edge timer
8: 3IO-APIC-edge rtc
$ uptime
I was at the library tonight and had no problem connecting. Even
rebooted just to make sure it wasn't a fluke.
The only thing different was last time my hp2133 was restored from
hibernating and tonight it was from a cold boot. Not that it has
problems restoring from hibernation and connecting
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