Re: Sccts guy contradicts RIAA document

2008-01-07 Thread Chris Gehlker
On Jan 6, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Craig White wrote: It no longer matters what was in the Washington Post story. What is absurd is your contention that happened on January 3 can somehow render a falsehood printed on December 30th true. or to use Rudy who articulates these things with a

Re: an example of an aggressive defense against RIAA claims

2008-01-07 Thread Chris Gehlker
On Jan 6, 2008, at 11:00 PM, Craig White wrote: It's possible given that this case was dropped and then refiled by RIAA that RIAA will drop it and possibly have to cover the legal costs of Weed...that has happened several times so far and my reading of this is that is entirely possible

OT: open source/ hardware video recorder in NY Times

2008-01-07 Thread Shawn Badger
Here is an open source and open hardware (they publish the hardware specs) box that records what ever and then converts it to mpeg 4. I thought some people on the list may be interested. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/business/06novel.html?_r=3ref=businessoref=sloginoref=sloginoref=slogin

Re: Strange Redirect - Omaha Airport

2008-01-07 Thread Tony E - Jaraeth
It appears to be redirecting to a URL via a HTTP GET statement (?dlurl=) and then passing the referral URL along (the original link with Boingo in the name) then again redirecting back, and forward again, etc. Yes, it looks odd. Chances are the URL was programmed to receive a particular

Worst cell provider I have seen

2008-01-07 Thread Charles Jones
I've heard lots of people over the years complain about Sprint, Verizon, ATT/Cingular/MCI. Some I have agreed with and witnessed personally, some I have not. I recently stumbled upon the worst I have seen so far. Quick background story, I was helping a friend who lives in Canada setup a

Re: OT: open source/ hardware video recorder in NY Times

2008-01-07 Thread Josef Lowder
. On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 07:02, Shawn Badger wrote Here is an open source and open hardware (they publish the hardware specs) box that records what ever and then converts it to mpeg 4. I thought some people on the list may be interested.

Re: an example of an aggressive defense against RIAA claims

2008-01-07 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 06:22 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote: On Jan 6, 2008, at 11:00 PM, Craig White wrote: It's possible given that this case was dropped and then refiled by RIAA that RIAA will drop it and possibly have to cover the legal costs of Weed...that has happened several times

Re: Sccts guy contradicts RIAA document

2008-01-07 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 05:48 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote: On Jan 6, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Craig White wrote: It no longer matters what was in the Washington Post story. What is absurd is your contention that happened on January 3 can somehow render a falsehood printed on December 30th

IPTables Intermittent Stopping

2008-01-07 Thread Jay
I have dozens of servers, all of them running the most recent Debian stable branch and pretty basic iptables instances. All are working well except for two of them... On these two problem servers, iptables seems to be intermittently stopping and starting. There is nothing in the system logs

Re: IPTables Intermittent Stopping

2008-01-07 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 10:12 -0700, Jay wrote: I have dozens of servers, all of them running the most recent Debian stable branch and pretty basic iptables instances. All are working well except for two of them... On these two problem servers, iptables seems to be intermittently stopping

Re: an example of an aggressive defense against RIAA claims

2008-01-07 Thread Chris Gehlker
On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Craig White wrote: The public relations aspect is clearly of lesser concern...look at Thomas, a single mother. On a scale of public relations nightmares, picking on old ladies, young children, young mothers with children are the next least desirable from a public

Re: an example of an aggressive defense against RIAA claims

2008-01-07 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 10:31 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote: On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Craig White wrote: The public relations aspect is clearly of lesser concern...look at Thomas, a single mother. On a scale of public relations nightmares, picking on old ladies, young children, young

Re: OT: open source/ hardware video recorder in NY Times

2008-01-07 Thread Shawn Badger
It doesn't do HD yet!! I use my HDTV card for that currently. On Jan 7, 2008 9:39 AM, Josef Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 07:02, Shawn Badger wrote Here is an open source and open hardware (they publish the hardware specs) box that records what ever and then converts

Re: OT: open source/ hardware video recorder in NY Times

2008-01-07 Thread Shawn Badger
I have played with one and have been happy with it so far, but the one big catch that I found is it only odes ATSC (digital tv). That kind of killed for what I purchased it for originally. On Jan 7, 2008 9:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Josef Lowder wrote: . On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 07:02,

Re: Strange Redirect - Omaha Airport

2008-01-07 Thread Erich Newell
What Tony describes is correct, the cause of which is of course suspect. I don't mean to be alarmist or to even say what was going on was definitively nefarious, but I can say with certainty that airports are rife with hackers or wanna-be hackers testing their mettle and tools. Please beware. For

Re: OT: open source/ hardware video recorder in NY Times

2008-01-07 Thread Joshua Zeidner
btw- someone has been trying to sell a Hauppauge TV Tuner Card on Tucson Craigslist. Currently the price is at $30. Hauppauge hardware has excellent linux support and can be used with the MythTV platform. http://tucson.craigslist.org/sys/525126977.html -jmz On 1/7/08, Shawn Badger

Re: IPTables Intermittent Stopping

2008-01-07 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On 1/7/08, Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have dozens of servers, all of them running the most recent Debian stable branch and pretty basic iptables instances. All are working well except for two of them... On these two problem servers, iptables seems to be intermittently stopping and

Re: IPTables Intermittent Stopping

2008-01-07 Thread Erich Newell
A few quesitons: 1) Why do you have a service listening on this port if you intend to block all traffic to it? 2) Are there any other services that might be exposed if iptables are reset? or is sunrpc the only one? 3) What logs do you have with normal operation? I would recommend removing all

Re: OT: open source/ hardware video recorder in NY Times

2008-01-07 Thread Shawn Badger
sorry, it means that it can only receive the digital tv signals. This really isn't a problem if you are using hooked up to an antenna because everything is simulcasted on both analog and digital channels. If you however want to watch it tied to cox cable, you will only see the channels that are in

Re: an example of an aggressive defense against RIAA claims

2008-01-07 Thread Chris Gehlker
On Jan 7, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Craig White wrote: OK, accepting that, why on earth did you say that you expected them to drop the Howell case? You seem to flip your opinions around from one post to the next. What I said was that unless they could prove he actually erased files from his disk

Re: Sccts guy contradicts RIAA document

2008-01-07 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On 1/7/08, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 05:48 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote: On Jan 6, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Craig White wrote: It no longer matters what was in the Washington Post story. What is absurd is your contention that happened on January 3 can

Re: IPTables Intermittent Stopping

2008-01-07 Thread Shawn Badger
I would check netstat during the scan to see if nmap is in fact connecting and I would also just watch the iptables service and see if you see it go away during the scan. These are just a couple places that I would start with. On Jan 7, 2008 12:12 PM, Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan

Re: IPTables Intermittent Stopping

2008-01-07 Thread Jay
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Shawn Badger wrote: I would check netstat during the scan to see if nmap is in fact connecting and I would also just watch the iptables service and see if you see it go away during the scan. These are just a couple places that I would start with. Unfortunately, already

Re: IPTables Intermittent Stopping

2008-01-07 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On 1/7/08, Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Joshua Zeidner wrote: That is not really a safe assumption. Nmap is not really that accurate of an instrument. If you are concerned for some other I have tried two port scanners (one being nmap, and two versions of nmap at

Re: an example of an aggressive defense against RIAA claims

2008-01-07 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 12:10 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote: On Jan 7, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Craig White wrote: OK, accepting that, why on earth did you say that you expected them to drop the Howell case? You seem to flip your opinions around from one post to the next. What I said was that

Re: Worst cell provider I have seen

2008-01-07 Thread der.hans
Am 07. Jan, 2008 schwätzte Charles Jones so: Attached is a link to a screenshot http://www.the-ownage.com/gallery/albums/Miscellaneous/rogersucks.png of what I received. I couldn't believe it. For anyone who doesn't want to click the link, here is a summary: * No matter what subject he

Re: OT: open source/ hardware video recorder in NY Times

2008-01-07 Thread Erich Newell
Local channels in HD? Others? Facinating. I'd be really interested to know which others you were able to see. As I mentioned, I have a pcHDTV lying around that I wouldn't mind putting to good use...depending of course what those channels are. :) - Erich -- A man is defined by the questions

Re: IPTables Intermittent Stopping

2008-01-07 Thread Jay
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Erich Newell wrote: How often does this cycle back and forth? Can you make any kind of prediction whether or not it will be up? I have not been able to accurately predict it, but the cycles seem to be anywhere from a few seconds to a minute or two. I just did 10 scans,

Re: IPTables Intermittent Stopping

2008-01-07 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 12:52 -0700, Jay wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Erich Newell wrote: How often does this cycle back and forth? Can you make any kind of prediction whether or not it will be up? I have not been able to accurately predict it, but the cycles seem to be anywhere from a

Re: IPTables Intermittent Stopping

2008-01-07 Thread Jay
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Joshua Zeidner wrote: Is this a custom kernel? Nope - standard kernel from Debian stable: # uname -a Linux server 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Sat Dec 1 22:58:58 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux -- ~Jay --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: IPTables Intermittent Stopping

2008-01-07 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On 1/7/08, Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Joshua Zeidner wrote: using arent just some UI for Nmap. Is this machine running IP tables some kind of gateway/firewall? I just repeated with good ole' telnet. you're verifying *what* with telnet exactly? That the ports are

Re: Worst cell provider I have seen

2008-01-07 Thread Jon M. Hanson
Bluetooth has nothing to do with the phone network. It's a wireless standard between two devices. Carriers (Verizon comes to mind) that have been known to cripple or disable Bluetooth file transfer on their phones so you have to use their network (and be charged by them). Is this what you

Re: Worst cell provider I have seen

2008-01-07 Thread Jon M. Hanson
Bluetooth has nothing to do with the phone network. It's a wireless standard between two devices. Carriers (Verizon comes to mind) that have been known to cripple or disable Bluetooth file transfer on their phones so you have to use their network (and be charged by them). Is this what you

Re: OT: open source/ hardware video recorder in NY Times

2008-01-07 Thread Charles Jones
I recently pre-ordered the newer model of this http://www.tvix.co.kr/Eng/products/4100sh.aspx I'll post a review once I get it (week or two). My minimum requirements were: * 1080P playback * Video playback of h.264 .mkv files w/subtitles * Video playback of DIVX and h.264 .avi files * Audio

Re: Worst cell provider I have seen

2008-01-07 Thread der.hans
Am 07. Jan, 2008 schwätzte Jon M. Hanson so: Bluetooth has nothing to do with the phone network. It's a wireless standard between two devices. Carriers (Verizon comes to mind) that have been known to cripple or disable Bluetooth file transfer on their phones so you have to use their network

Re: OT: open source/ hardware video recorder in NY Times

2008-01-07 Thread Donn
The HDHomeRun is QAM compatible. All 'local' channels are mandated by the FCC to be carried unencrypted over basic cable and are generally available using a QAM (Quadrature amplitude modulation) compatible tuner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAM_tuner On Jan 7, 2008 1:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: open source/ hardware video recorder in NY Times

2008-01-07 Thread Shawn Badger
I will try and get some time to hook it back up again tonight and let you know what channels I find. If I remember correctly they are in the 700 range and you can see them with the cable plugged directly into your HD TV as well. On Jan 7, 2008 12:42 PM, Erich Newell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

some more interesting discoveries...

2008-01-07 Thread Craig White
Curiously enough, RIAA is well aware that software such as Kazaa, often shares files/folders without the users having knowledge of that fact... http://www.ftc.gov/reports/p2p05/050623p2prpt.pdf See page 8 (and thereabouts) This was a report issued by the FTC and RIAA was party to the hearings

Re: Microsoft Autopilot

2008-01-07 Thread Jared Anderson
On 1/6/08, Chris Gehlker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 6, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Kevin Brown wrote: http://www.crazyaviation.com/images/Windows.jpg No offense, but would you please include something more than just a link so that list users have some idea of what it is they are going to

Re: an example of an aggressive defense against RIAA claims

2008-01-07 Thread Chris Gehlker
On Jan 7, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Craig White wrote: so now they will drop the case because 'pursuing the case futher will not be cost effective from a purely financial point of view' How can I think anything other than you flip your opinions around from one message to the next. These were your

Howell's story in Mesa Tribune

2008-01-07 Thread Craig White
We must not have much EVT readership in PLUG... http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/106035 I just stumbled onto it Craig --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail

Re: OT: open source/ hardware video recorder in NY Times

2008-01-07 Thread Technomage-hawke
On Monday 07 January 2008 12:21, Erich Newell wrote: Just a quick correction: Unless Cox has started giving away their service, you will not be able to connect anything to their equipment and get HD video to a recording device. All analog channels above 23 are scrambled and all digital

Re: OT: open source/ hardware video recorder in NY Times

2008-01-07 Thread Charles Jones
There are 3 HD channels you can get on cox without using their HD box. The channels are 12-1, 12-2, and 15-1. One of them is just a weather channel but I have seen some decent HD shows on the others. Technomage-hawke wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008 12:21, Erich Newell wrote: Just a

Re: IPTables Intermittent Stopping

2008-01-07 Thread Technomage-hawke
On Monday 07 January 2008 10:12, Jay wrote: I have dozens of servers, all of them running the most recent Debian stable branch and pretty basic iptables instances. All are working well except for two of them... On these two problem servers, iptables seems to be intermittently stopping and

Re: OT: open source/ hardware video recorder in NY Times

2008-01-07 Thread Craig White
I do believe that they have different setups in different areas of the valley and I know that they sometimes blow it on customer configuration. As for HD, one would think that since the local channels are all providing an HD signal, that these channels should just be free for everyone to keep

Re: IPTables Intermittent Stopping

2008-01-07 Thread Technomage-hawke
On Monday 07 January 2008 12:09, Jay wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Erich Newell wrote: 1) Why do you have a service listening on this port if you intend to block all traffic to it? TCP/111 is listening on an internal interface (eth1) but blocked on eth0. Lame, but RPC does not seem to have a

Re: OT: A paper tux of your very own!

2008-01-07 Thread Alan Dayley
Shawn Badger wrote: I found this while aimlessly surfing around and thought the group may like it: http://www.gdruckman.com/2007/12/22/diy-paper-tux/ OK, I killed some time yesterday making one of these. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alandd/2177214382/in/pool-plug/ A bit sloppy but, now he

Really good story on Google

2008-01-07 Thread Craig White
New Yorker, with a fairly lengthy story on Google, frightening competitors and others wondering if they aren't getting too big and too powerful. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/01/14/080114fa_fact_auletta Craig --- PLUG-discuss mailing

OLPC Thu

2008-01-07 Thread der.hans
moin moin, my OLPC laptop finally came in today. I'll have it at the meeting Thu. My original plan had been something on alternative mobile platforms such as OLPC, EEE, Nokia 770/800/N810, OpenMoko and Android. Since my OLPC laptop was on backorder I held off a bit. ciao, der.hans -- #

Re: Jan topics proposal

2008-01-07 Thread der.hans
Am 07. Jan, 2008 schwätzte Dazed_75 so: It all looks like it should be of interest to someone. And much of it I hope so :). is to me though the items more suitable to a corporate environment are less so for us retired folk. I wonder how many people attend both east and west meetings