I'm for some reason left to believe that cracking is a business of opportunists mainly? Why, well, their target is not set. Or it is set, but the scope is rather, uhm, large, like in the IPv4 network we are talking about a network with the netmask of 0 bits. IPv6 will make it harder for these guys or girls to live in the ecosystem, incase people start making their machines addresses resemble more random numbers than anything else. Sure thing, the given subnet mask for a IPv6 network is 64 bits, and that means that there is in theory, and this is probably important, 2^64 different addresses to do something about. That's a pretty large number. If the hosts that are on the network have randomly choosen addresses, then the attacker can no longer attack every host on the network that is known. He needs something to lean against. This is not a security thing, it's just a funny coincidence. But hum, waiting for that, crackers all around the world are attacking every goddamned host there is on the internet. And this is a lot said, because it takes maybe 5 minutes for some exploit for windows comes crashing in from a fresh start. That is just great. The time might be even less than that, I haven't actually figured that part out yet, but what I'm left to believe, is that there are some things that are supposed to be, and some that are not. Let's take a big corporation, something really big, like Bosch, a company in Europe that is, well, fucking big. They have a small problem at their hands essentially. They must have a great infrastructure. Securing it must be a pain in the ass. A real pain. Crackers world wide unite to celebrate the fact that big corporations have trouble with security. I hate crackers, I mean, I like the cracker-cracker types, those that you eat, and those that Polly wants, but I dislike the assholes who break into places. I have a hard time understanding how breaking into a computer somewhere is anything less than the moral equivalent of breaking into a house. These people are just thieves, there is nothing mystical about them.
While I have the wallmount thingie, the SGI screens, and if I'm running Windows on it, it would be neat to try out somekind of clever video chatting system. Or then not, I'm not sure how I like that stuff. Is there anything like video conferencing available on UNIX, I'm not prepared to run UNIX and some crappy proprietary bullshit. Oh well, looks like there is room for innovation. Or is there? I mean they must have deviced something like video conferencing a long time ago already, but we just haven't caught up with the thing yet. I don't know why? Is there not enough bandwidth for the applications? Can't they decide what they want, that is, which protocol to use, and so forward?
Hum, there is a time domain thing that I should try out. That is, the DCF77, or rather, just reviving the damned thing. There is ofcourse Loran C too, but I'm more interested in DCF77. The thing happens to be that I have atomic frequency standards at my lab, and they should be coupled with the time base of the ADC taking in the signal. Ofcourse, there is gain and a lowpass filter in between the aerial and the ADC, for reasons which are left as an exercise to the reader, and there we should have the whole thing essentially. The period is one minute. Sync against that. I would be rather surprised if ntpd wouldn't support DCF77 in a simple format. Oh well.
Quite nothing amuses me as much as the stupid asshole, I can't ever remember what his name was, must have been something insignificant, but the point was, somebody detected a hole in phpBS (I believe that is a very popular and fundamentally fucked up program), and this asshole I'm talking about managed to extract the hashes (most likely crypt(), or something similar) of passwords and corresponding user names, and feeling hubris because of this. He put out the list of the hashes with the user names, and talked trash about he "hacking" "scene" in Finland. I was left a little bit amused by this. The asshole, I think it's fair to call him an asshole, because of the facts that he lacked all skill, was anything but subtle, had no fucking idea about well, anything, ok, maybe asshole is the wrong name for that, I must come up with something better, how about I just call him an idiot. Yeah, I think that should mostly define his character in the most significant way, but anyways, he gloated after it about how great an hacker he is and how the finnish scene is this and that and how there are white-hat hackers who don't have any skill, and so on. Ok, he is my personal hero, I mean, he found a very recent exploit about something on the net, had the brains to exploit the thing, get this, from the same fucking line he did everything else on too. And what did he get? Money? Glory? Secret documents? Nah, he got something better, that is, a list of usernames and hashes of their passwords. Yeah I'd be the one gloating about this kind of stuff basically should I ever be a stupid fuck enough to do something like that. This being a web portal or whatever the hell they want to call it, I'm registered in some web based systems, and while they do whine and gloat about selecting a strong and long password, I usually go with something like "foo". Yeah, that's terribly hard to crack, it's probably the second password John the Ripper tries. I mean, this kindof materializes the whole state of the Finnish "hacking" "scene". It has kindof always been like this, and I'm ashamed to acknowledge the fact that I'm part of this country. It's a fucking miracle that something like Linux stems from this country. I have yet to see anything clever come out from this country. There are exactly three things we should feel somekind of pathetic patriotic proud for, and that would be Linux, SSH and Fiskars scissors. I'm fairly sure there is nothing else worth mentioning in this asshole of a country. I'm not even bothering ever to excuse anything for the shit that goes down around here. Ok, this is a small country, but still. This may sound a little strange, but, are there actually people like me around here? People who do open source software, know about security, no scratch that, master the subject of security, handles the whole software and hardware stack from start to end and so forward? I mean if there are, then I'm feeling somewhat positive about this place. I would like to get to know these people. One thing I would also like to get to know is people who are more hardcore than I am. Hard to find that kind of people around here. Well, it doesn't get any better essentially. The asshole, no, the idiot is probably without a computer right now, hopefully he has a hard time when he can't go online with some new super cool and rad cheats and bang some headshots in Counter-Strike, yo'. This country depresses me.
Back in the day, I mean like a really long time ago, I had the opportunity to take a rather large (in size) mainframe from a place that was moving to a more modern system. The place was really cool, not that I liked being there to begin with, this was a summer job that I just had to do when I was something like 13 or so, but still, the mainframe, I would have gotten it, should I have wanted to have it. It was a mighty cool system. The company ran their stuff on, all the business things. It was a, uhm, my mind's playing tricks on me, DEC I think, they had serial cable drawn across the whole house to honest to god DEC vt220 devices, and they ran somekind of funky operating system, that I never quite got a hold off. One thing I however knew, that the thing was programmed in COBOL, but who cares. The mainframe was rather big, and I'm very sorry that I couldn't have it, I wouldn't have had any place to put it, not that I would today either have a place for it. And the utility bill would probably be, well, huge. There are not much cool computers left in this world, they are all collector items essentially. But a good old mainframe is all that a person needs for well, some things. The system did it's job, and it did it well, I think it had been doing it for the last 20 years or so, no problems with that.
The tidbits of mail and so forward, it's just not sensible to run that shit on your own, for obvious reasons. I mean, why should you. Let someone else who has the essential experience do it, and do it properly. I'm not sure about the facts here, but I guess my ISP provides me with a mail account, and I could use that, maybe, I'm not fully sure yet. This probably requires some tweaks to getmail, a better alternative to fetchmail, if you've tried fetchmail, you'll know how fucked up it is, and getmail is a neat small and nice system essentially. I just need to hook it up to a language that parses the mail and forms a Maildir hierarchy of the stuff. This would mean that I get everything I need and want, delivered home without any problems. No hassles. I hate mail servers either way. I'm not a guru in the handling of mail, though I've written my share of SMTP and extended stuff on the protocol level, but appart from that, there are a number, a rather big number of mailers that do these things. In some cases they are too big, too heavy, particularly if we're looking in the embedded world, and there we are really short of space and power in every sense of the word. So, we send out email with some code that does it very neatly. But what I would like, is to get the essential stuff from my ISP, and handle mail that way from here to infinity, or until I die, whichever comes first. I don't like domain names, I hate them, there is a significant reason for this too. The whois database is a good example, it's proof of how things should not be done, that is, I don't want any contact information on the net about me, because I'm paranoid. There are good reasons to believe this is the case essentially. We work with a small subset of things, and maintain them at a pace that is highly amicable. Running something like Postfix or Exim or qmail, or whatever there is really, it's a pain in the back of me. I'll just use getmail, and get things handled correctly. I don't really care what my email address looks like, as long as the thing delivers the stuff home to me. There's another address I've had for the better part of 8 years now, but I don't think I'm going to trust it anymore, infact, I think I'm going to distrust it a whole lot because of the reason that hardware breaks, and if that machine that hosts the things breaks, then I'm royally fucked. I mean, really badly fucked. This is why I keep backups, but I would like to get rid of external computers, and dependencies on them, for obvious reasons. A shell account is probably something I can have, or a virtual Xen server or something like that, not with overly large amounts of resources, and so forth, but what I'm left to believe is the fact behind it all, don't just run your own shit around here, it's not healthy. A computer more or less protected on the internet is bound the get owned, at some point, and I want to avoid that. That's why swift is taking it's route back home, and we are going to do something about the whole concept of shell servers, I don't know yet what it will be, but I don't need an external host for anything, I should work with things local instead. This is an important thing to remember, and to take care of, because as it stands, it's hard to maintain the security of some box that is remote. A big uptime is an almost direct indicator of poor security on the system. Some disagree, but I think that deep down in their mind they know that that can be taken as gospel. Nothing wrong with it I mean, if you like to have 500 days worth of uptime and a bunch on local exploits and a few remote, then by all means do that. I think we are going to go back to the system behind the whole thing, that is, the setup that we had before, a virtual server. Nothing big, nothing fancy, just dedicated resources for some things. IRC, nah, I don't use it anymore these days really. I used to IRC, infact, I'm dyslexic, but IRC has pretty much taken care of that. My language may not be perfect, but it's pretty damned good considering I'm not a wizard of linguistics, and english is my third language I speak. Some people, those coming from such places that have somekind of prominence, they speak english, and nothing else, I'm just left wondering about the concept behind it. Are they in general really good at it? Does their word database correspond to the size of my word database in the brain. That is, I have a vocabulary of three different languages, which I know fairly well, so I'm left wondering that are for example americans bound to have three or two times more words in their vocabulary, the word database in the system, uhm, the brain. I don't think so. But as it stands, the whole concept is pretty interesting to begin with. I'm left to believe that we think in terms of objects of some kind, call it mentalese, diverges from the Whorf-Sapphir theory about language and understanding. If the mind handles things in abstract object forms, then probably there is a lot of "space" saved in the context, that you need to communicate somehow. It may be a subject like a flower. Make it an orchidea, the concept of the flower is defined in the brain, and it merely has attributes to it, that is, what the corresponding word might be for the object in question. Nothing stranger than that. But I was talking about IRC, and some other stuff and got sidetracked a bit. IRC took care of dyslexic functions in my brain, so basically it's a good thing to have IRC around. The point behind the email thing is that I hate email. I really do. There are few things as atavistic as email. If people just learned howto use the damned medium, I'd be thrilled at the prospect. Linus Torvalds has said that he prefers email over face to face conversations. Ok, that works for him. Knuth has said that after using email for 30 years, he decided it was enough and moved to writing letters instead. Sounds nice.
Well, blame it on the society. The society is a real problem to begin with. This can be seen discretely in some places around town, the values of people are hard, and some people have it really bad. I wonder if there is like something we could do to help them, maybe change the attitudes of this country, and the values that we embrace? Looking back at it, there is work to be done, a lot of it infact. Should I ever get into a hard spot, I would start to drive the cab, there is a shortage of drivers, not perhaps the best job there is, but I'm left to believe that it's work, hell there are all kinds of work to be done. I'm not the kind of person who really cares for the thing that I do. Sometimes I may have thought so, but in essence, my work doesn't define me. Not that I wouldn't appreciate the current place I work at. It's a good place in that regard.
There are some things that I should be implementing all over the board, that is, some integration into the system that we have. Looking back at the thing, I'm left to believe certain things about the whole concept. Ok, this is starting to sound like work things so I'm just going to shut the fuck up.
I'm left to believe that there is a group of assholes in the security business, really. I'm completely disillusioned by their work, and what they do. You could take a security consultant or specialist or whatever, and he could state that "where you fail I make a living". This is the sorry truth. If people just knew howto write programs, things would change considerably. At the moment there is a whole lot of crap going on around the world. Security specialist is nothing but an glorified name for an quality assurance person essentially, except, they take a whole lot more money for their work, and their work is sporadic. This annoys me to no extent. I mean. Shit. I hate security specialists. We need more programmers who know their shit, instead of assholes who write crap, and maintain a market for the security specialists to go around the problem essentially. Yes, around the problem. For example, take a look at a majorly crappy software, ok, granted, I don't know much about the software, but as it stands Exchange is used in pretty many places. Guess what the fucking cure for the software is? Well, a security specialist installing postfix in front of the Exchange server. I hate security specialists....
Ok, the pftop machine needs some hardware, I better take some random machine I have here and run it as the pftop machine in essence. This is nothing too dramatic. The only thing that worries me somewhat is the existence of the LCD panels that I'm using, and how they are built up from the ground. They don't have a DVI output, so I have these fancy converter cards that do the magic they are supposed to be doing. Ofcourse, it would be neat to have a machine with some dual DVI setup, and run the screens on top of each other, just like that, no hassles. I might end up doing it, because the whole concept is pretty important. But hum, there are things that need to be pondered about, in a fashion that is strict and to the point really.
Seems to me that there really are few things that require some special attention. The OpenBSD machine that is going to run the graphics left to the 3jane computer, I infact haven't thought yet up a name for it. Maybe I'll do that today. Because invariably, how you look at the thing, the name of the machine is what matters the most. That's what I'm left to believe.
Hmm, maybe the both SGI LCD panels could be attached to the side of the 3jane board, somehow. And then I could use it as a jumping point towards the essential things that do converge in these parts of the town. For example, I could get one of those USB tv modules, or something, and view TV on one of the screens while I'm at it. Not sure how clever that is however, nothing worth my time is really ever on on the telly. It's mostly bullshit and other bad programming. I'm left feeling a bit strange about the concept essentially. There are some things that I should be doing, probably. Starting an company of my own is one heck of an idea. I have some ideas for the whole concept as it stands, but I don't want to give them away just yet. There are things that could be done, and then things that should be done, mostly these bring in a lot of money while we are at it. Looking forward to the whole concept of things, there is nothing really tracking back the whole system that we do have, and keep clear and mindless. There is ofcourse some data that could be shown on one of the screen, no doubt about that.
Yes, I should go next weekend to IKEA to get the essentials from there, nothing more, nothing less. Hell, I believe we could even get the fucking board to fit in the car of my brothers. Atleast I hope so.
I'm not exactly sure I'm up to par with the uhm, elite hackers in the movie, so eloquently called, Hackers, but it must be something pretty cool to begin with. The hacking is visual enough to cause severe epileptic seizures in me, but I guess they needed to do just that, for the audience. Still, I'm left touched by the hacking scenes. I have a strange feeling about things in general, and they do touch to some extent some other things to uhm, nobody would watch a movie where they'd do real hacking, or cracking or whatever the hell it was those guys in the movie were doing. They were doing something, I'm not sure what, but something. Uhm, I'm not elite enough to understand these things, but there are a few pieces that I do happen to like a lot at the point where the one dude called on a public phone with a voice recorder. Otherwise I'm not up to par to judge that elite hackers.
Blah.
While I have the wallmount thingie, the SGI screens, and if I'm running Windows on it, it would be neat to try out somekind of clever video chatting system. Or then not, I'm not sure how I like that stuff. Is there anything like video conferencing available on UNIX, I'm not prepared to run UNIX and some crappy proprietary bullshit. Oh well, looks like there is room for innovation. Or is there? I mean they must have deviced something like video conferencing a long time ago already, but we just haven't caught up with the thing yet. I don't know why? Is there not enough bandwidth for the applications? Can't they decide what they want, that is, which protocol to use, and so forward?
Hum, there is a time domain thing that I should try out. That is, the DCF77, or rather, just reviving the damned thing. There is ofcourse Loran C too, but I'm more interested in DCF77. The thing happens to be that I have atomic frequency standards at my lab, and they should be coupled with the time base of the ADC taking in the signal. Ofcourse, there is gain and a lowpass filter in between the aerial and the ADC, for reasons which are left as an exercise to the reader, and there we should have the whole thing essentially. The period is one minute. Sync against that. I would be rather surprised if ntpd wouldn't support DCF77 in a simple format. Oh well.
Quite nothing amuses me as much as the stupid asshole, I can't ever remember what his name was, must have been something insignificant, but the point was, somebody detected a hole in phpBS (I believe that is a very popular and fundamentally fucked up program), and this asshole I'm talking about managed to extract the hashes (most likely crypt(), or something similar) of passwords and corresponding user names, and feeling hubris because of this. He put out the list of the hashes with the user names, and talked trash about he "hacking" "scene" in Finland. I was left a little bit amused by this. The asshole, I think it's fair to call him an asshole, because of the facts that he lacked all skill, was anything but subtle, had no fucking idea about well, anything, ok, maybe asshole is the wrong name for that, I must come up with something better, how about I just call him an idiot. Yeah, I think that should mostly define his character in the most significant way, but anyways, he gloated after it about how great an hacker he is and how the finnish scene is this and that and how there are white-hat hackers who don't have any skill, and so on. Ok, he is my personal hero, I mean, he found a very recent exploit about something on the net, had the brains to exploit the thing, get this, from the same fucking line he did everything else on too. And what did he get? Money? Glory? Secret documents? Nah, he got something better, that is, a list of usernames and hashes of their passwords. Yeah I'd be the one gloating about this kind of stuff basically should I ever be a stupid fuck enough to do something like that. This being a web portal or whatever the hell they want to call it, I'm registered in some web based systems, and while they do whine and gloat about selecting a strong and long password, I usually go with something like "foo". Yeah, that's terribly hard to crack, it's probably the second password John the Ripper tries. I mean, this kindof materializes the whole state of the Finnish "hacking" "scene". It has kindof always been like this, and I'm ashamed to acknowledge the fact that I'm part of this country. It's a fucking miracle that something like Linux stems from this country. I have yet to see anything clever come out from this country. There are exactly three things we should feel somekind of pathetic patriotic proud for, and that would be Linux, SSH and Fiskars scissors. I'm fairly sure there is nothing else worth mentioning in this asshole of a country. I'm not even bothering ever to excuse anything for the shit that goes down around here. Ok, this is a small country, but still. This may sound a little strange, but, are there actually people like me around here? People who do open source software, know about security, no scratch that, master the subject of security, handles the whole software and hardware stack from start to end and so forward? I mean if there are, then I'm feeling somewhat positive about this place. I would like to get to know these people. One thing I would also like to get to know is people who are more hardcore than I am. Hard to find that kind of people around here. Well, it doesn't get any better essentially. The asshole, no, the idiot is probably without a computer right now, hopefully he has a hard time when he can't go online with some new super cool and rad cheats and bang some headshots in Counter-Strike, yo'. This country depresses me.
Back in the day, I mean like a really long time ago, I had the opportunity to take a rather large (in size) mainframe from a place that was moving to a more modern system. The place was really cool, not that I liked being there to begin with, this was a summer job that I just had to do when I was something like 13 or so, but still, the mainframe, I would have gotten it, should I have wanted to have it. It was a mighty cool system. The company ran their stuff on, all the business things. It was a, uhm, my mind's playing tricks on me, DEC I think, they had serial cable drawn across the whole house to honest to god DEC vt220 devices, and they ran somekind of funky operating system, that I never quite got a hold off. One thing I however knew, that the thing was programmed in COBOL, but who cares. The mainframe was rather big, and I'm very sorry that I couldn't have it, I wouldn't have had any place to put it, not that I would today either have a place for it. And the utility bill would probably be, well, huge. There are not much cool computers left in this world, they are all collector items essentially. But a good old mainframe is all that a person needs for well, some things. The system did it's job, and it did it well, I think it had been doing it for the last 20 years or so, no problems with that.
The tidbits of mail and so forward, it's just not sensible to run that shit on your own, for obvious reasons. I mean, why should you. Let someone else who has the essential experience do it, and do it properly. I'm not sure about the facts here, but I guess my ISP provides me with a mail account, and I could use that, maybe, I'm not fully sure yet. This probably requires some tweaks to getmail, a better alternative to fetchmail, if you've tried fetchmail, you'll know how fucked up it is, and getmail is a neat small and nice system essentially. I just need to hook it up to a language that parses the mail and forms a Maildir hierarchy of the stuff. This would mean that I get everything I need and want, delivered home without any problems. No hassles. I hate mail servers either way. I'm not a guru in the handling of mail, though I've written my share of SMTP and extended stuff on the protocol level, but appart from that, there are a number, a rather big number of mailers that do these things. In some cases they are too big, too heavy, particularly if we're looking in the embedded world, and there we are really short of space and power in every sense of the word. So, we send out email with some code that does it very neatly. But what I would like, is to get the essential stuff from my ISP, and handle mail that way from here to infinity, or until I die, whichever comes first. I don't like domain names, I hate them, there is a significant reason for this too. The whois database is a good example, it's proof of how things should not be done, that is, I don't want any contact information on the net about me, because I'm paranoid. There are good reasons to believe this is the case essentially. We work with a small subset of things, and maintain them at a pace that is highly amicable. Running something like Postfix or Exim or qmail, or whatever there is really, it's a pain in the back of me. I'll just use getmail, and get things handled correctly. I don't really care what my email address looks like, as long as the thing delivers the stuff home to me. There's another address I've had for the better part of 8 years now, but I don't think I'm going to trust it anymore, infact, I think I'm going to distrust it a whole lot because of the reason that hardware breaks, and if that machine that hosts the things breaks, then I'm royally fucked. I mean, really badly fucked. This is why I keep backups, but I would like to get rid of external computers, and dependencies on them, for obvious reasons. A shell account is probably something I can have, or a virtual Xen server or something like that, not with overly large amounts of resources, and so forth, but what I'm left to believe is the fact behind it all, don't just run your own shit around here, it's not healthy. A computer more or less protected on the internet is bound the get owned, at some point, and I want to avoid that. That's why swift is taking it's route back home, and we are going to do something about the whole concept of shell servers, I don't know yet what it will be, but I don't need an external host for anything, I should work with things local instead. This is an important thing to remember, and to take care of, because as it stands, it's hard to maintain the security of some box that is remote. A big uptime is an almost direct indicator of poor security on the system. Some disagree, but I think that deep down in their mind they know that that can be taken as gospel. Nothing wrong with it I mean, if you like to have 500 days worth of uptime and a bunch on local exploits and a few remote, then by all means do that. I think we are going to go back to the system behind the whole thing, that is, the setup that we had before, a virtual server. Nothing big, nothing fancy, just dedicated resources for some things. IRC, nah, I don't use it anymore these days really. I used to IRC, infact, I'm dyslexic, but IRC has pretty much taken care of that. My language may not be perfect, but it's pretty damned good considering I'm not a wizard of linguistics, and english is my third language I speak. Some people, those coming from such places that have somekind of prominence, they speak english, and nothing else, I'm just left wondering about the concept behind it. Are they in general really good at it? Does their word database correspond to the size of my word database in the brain. That is, I have a vocabulary of three different languages, which I know fairly well, so I'm left wondering that are for example americans bound to have three or two times more words in their vocabulary, the word database in the system, uhm, the brain. I don't think so. But as it stands, the whole concept is pretty interesting to begin with. I'm left to believe that we think in terms of objects of some kind, call it mentalese, diverges from the Whorf-Sapphir theory about language and understanding. If the mind handles things in abstract object forms, then probably there is a lot of "space" saved in the context, that you need to communicate somehow. It may be a subject like a flower. Make it an orchidea, the concept of the flower is defined in the brain, and it merely has attributes to it, that is, what the corresponding word might be for the object in question. Nothing stranger than that. But I was talking about IRC, and some other stuff and got sidetracked a bit. IRC took care of dyslexic functions in my brain, so basically it's a good thing to have IRC around. The point behind the email thing is that I hate email. I really do. There are few things as atavistic as email. If people just learned howto use the damned medium, I'd be thrilled at the prospect. Linus Torvalds has said that he prefers email over face to face conversations. Ok, that works for him. Knuth has said that after using email for 30 years, he decided it was enough and moved to writing letters instead. Sounds nice.
Well, blame it on the society. The society is a real problem to begin with. This can be seen discretely in some places around town, the values of people are hard, and some people have it really bad. I wonder if there is like something we could do to help them, maybe change the attitudes of this country, and the values that we embrace? Looking back at it, there is work to be done, a lot of it infact. Should I ever get into a hard spot, I would start to drive the cab, there is a shortage of drivers, not perhaps the best job there is, but I'm left to believe that it's work, hell there are all kinds of work to be done. I'm not the kind of person who really cares for the thing that I do. Sometimes I may have thought so, but in essence, my work doesn't define me. Not that I wouldn't appreciate the current place I work at. It's a good place in that regard.
There are some things that I should be implementing all over the board, that is, some integration into the system that we have. Looking back at the thing, I'm left to believe certain things about the whole concept. Ok, this is starting to sound like work things so I'm just going to shut the fuck up.
I'm left to believe that there is a group of assholes in the security business, really. I'm completely disillusioned by their work, and what they do. You could take a security consultant or specialist or whatever, and he could state that "where you fail I make a living". This is the sorry truth. If people just knew howto write programs, things would change considerably. At the moment there is a whole lot of crap going on around the world. Security specialist is nothing but an glorified name for an quality assurance person essentially, except, they take a whole lot more money for their work, and their work is sporadic. This annoys me to no extent. I mean. Shit. I hate security specialists. We need more programmers who know their shit, instead of assholes who write crap, and maintain a market for the security specialists to go around the problem essentially. Yes, around the problem. For example, take a look at a majorly crappy software, ok, granted, I don't know much about the software, but as it stands Exchange is used in pretty many places. Guess what the fucking cure for the software is? Well, a security specialist installing postfix in front of the Exchange server. I hate security specialists....
Ok, the pftop machine needs some hardware, I better take some random machine I have here and run it as the pftop machine in essence. This is nothing too dramatic. The only thing that worries me somewhat is the existence of the LCD panels that I'm using, and how they are built up from the ground. They don't have a DVI output, so I have these fancy converter cards that do the magic they are supposed to be doing. Ofcourse, it would be neat to have a machine with some dual DVI setup, and run the screens on top of each other, just like that, no hassles. I might end up doing it, because the whole concept is pretty important. But hum, there are things that need to be pondered about, in a fashion that is strict and to the point really.
Seems to me that there really are few things that require some special attention. The OpenBSD machine that is going to run the graphics left to the 3jane computer, I infact haven't thought yet up a name for it. Maybe I'll do that today. Because invariably, how you look at the thing, the name of the machine is what matters the most. That's what I'm left to believe.
Hmm, maybe the both SGI LCD panels could be attached to the side of the 3jane board, somehow. And then I could use it as a jumping point towards the essential things that do converge in these parts of the town. For example, I could get one of those USB tv modules, or something, and view TV on one of the screens while I'm at it. Not sure how clever that is however, nothing worth my time is really ever on on the telly. It's mostly bullshit and other bad programming. I'm left feeling a bit strange about the concept essentially. There are some things that I should be doing, probably. Starting an company of my own is one heck of an idea. I have some ideas for the whole concept as it stands, but I don't want to give them away just yet. There are things that could be done, and then things that should be done, mostly these bring in a lot of money while we are at it. Looking forward to the whole concept of things, there is nothing really tracking back the whole system that we do have, and keep clear and mindless. There is ofcourse some data that could be shown on one of the screen, no doubt about that.
Yes, I should go next weekend to IKEA to get the essentials from there, nothing more, nothing less. Hell, I believe we could even get the fucking board to fit in the car of my brothers. Atleast I hope so.
I'm not exactly sure I'm up to par with the uhm, elite hackers in the movie, so eloquently called, Hackers, but it must be something pretty cool to begin with. The hacking is visual enough to cause severe epileptic seizures in me, but I guess they needed to do just that, for the audience. Still, I'm left touched by the hacking scenes. I have a strange feeling about things in general, and they do touch to some extent some other things to uhm, nobody would watch a movie where they'd do real hacking, or cracking or whatever the hell it was those guys in the movie were doing. They were doing something, I'm not sure what, but something. Uhm, I'm not elite enough to understand these things, but there are a few pieces that I do happen to like a lot at the point where the one dude called on a public phone with a voice recorder. Otherwise I'm not up to par to judge that elite hackers.
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