Crombiez

At Lindsies house spending the week here, having fun with my boo and tryin to get lenny up-and-about…

taking some time…Lenny comes with an older stable kernel with the net-iso so with my computer being relatively newer and a laptop, i fell into a hole and was stuck without any ethernet or wireless let alone internet/NT capabilities, today i found some luck i was able to mount over to windows and dpkg the new .26 kernel and it found eth0 wlan and a few others soo that made my day unfortunately i have not been able to get the wireless going, it seems that it can see the drivers yet its still not able to push it, it’s stuck in sleep mode.

update coming soon

Special thanks to Chris Howie

PS:  Gary and Gail rock my world, you guys are great…im finally making a post for you all

The surveillance system, called DCSNet, for Digital Collection System Network, connects FBI wiretapping rooms to switches controlled by traditional land-line operators, internet-telephony providers and cellular companies.

DCSNet is a suite of software that collects, sifts and stores phone numbers, phone calls and text messages. The system directly connects FBI wiretapping outposts around the country to a far-reaching private communications network.

Many of the details of the system and its full capabilities were redacted from the documentss acquired by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, but they show that DCSNet includes at least three collection components, each running on Windows-based computers.

The $10 million DCS-3000 client, also known as Red Hook, handles pen-registers and trap-and-traces, a type of surveillance that collects signaling information — primarily the numbers dialed from a telephone — but no communications content. (Pen registers record outgoing calls; trap-and-traces record incoming calls.)

DCS-6000, known as Digital Storm, captures and collects the content of phone calls and text messages for full wiretap orders.

A third, classified system, called DCS-5000, is used for wiretaps targeting spies or terrorists.

for the full detailed story please go to: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3535528

not much new going on, i quit my job…getting ready to go back to school. i had some time on my hands and finally got my Linux back up and running and im loving it

(let me know what you think of it)

Aside from the internet, i sometimes have a life ;).  i recently saw the new batman which features the joker, as well as Harvey Dent later known as two-face.  Overall i was pretty happy to see the movie and go back to my childhood days to watch the BatMan kick some ass.  This movie is alittle different than any other BatMan movies for the simple fact that it is more realistic, and darker.  You get to see the true struggles within the character and learn more about them than in any other movie released…The only thing that still has me puzzled is:  How did the joker get the cuts on his face?  The only logical thing i could come up with is that he is just crazy and it’s a self-inflicted wound.  Who knows, if you have any other idea feel free to comment me and let me know.

well, i tested it out got it installed and then went to hell and back had to mess with all my jumpers set everything up to master (don’t ask me)…then i finally was able to get into the BIOS idk, it doesn’t make sense to me either…

2 HD’s

XP/osx86 partition

Debian HD

neither would boot, and it wouldnt recognize the dvd drive to boot @ start up.

switched everything to slave and it found dvd, popped in Hiren’s Utilities formatted/reallocated the osx86 tot he XP partition, and then completely restored XP….

so, if this happens to anyone, give it some time and patients play around with your drivers, and you should get it after about 10-20 minutes…

OS programs of the day

Miro player on Debian, it’s relatively new from what i can tell, open-source (which is a plus) and looks pretty promising…

if anyone would like to try it, i would highly suggest it, especially if you can’t play certain codecs because microsoft likes boys and stuff…

Get it at: http://www.getmiro.com/

If you are a linux fan that enjoys a smooth cup of encryption, or want to play around with a nice cross-platform encryption program try out: http://www.truecrypt.org/ …i use this, and well what can i say it’s smooth, and to the point.

Didnt feel a thing during the whole procedure, just my balls itching from the steroid they give to help control blood loss and the next thing i knew i woke up on my couch with guase in my mouth and four third moulars missing…now im just taking it easy drinking protein shakes, ice cream, yogurt and chocolate pudding.  Im really trying to avoid a dry socket, lol.

hopefully i will

Imagine the internet being YOUR computer…this is a pretty cool development, but i believe that their are too many cons to go with this for it to actually be commonly used anytime soon.

PROS:

Cloud computing consist of data, computer applications, computer processing power, and you.  Cloud is virtually a revamped network that we have all been a part of, and is happening as we are constantly using the internet, buying a new PDA or other device that can access the internet.  Anyone can virtually access the internet from any device at any given time, now imagine being able to access YOUR internet at any given time.  By YOUR internet i mean virtually YOUR content, along the lines of YOUR computer.

The main points of Cloud:

SaaS:

Software as a Service-Gives a vendor the ability to provide software to a customer virtually eliminating the need to install and run the application on the customer’s own computer, SaaS alleviates the customer’s burden of software maintenance, ongoing operation, and support.  This could potentially hurt a software company like Microsoft because they make sells off of LOCAL hardware software.

HaaS:

Hardware as a Service-  With this development you can have basically
“however much of whatever you want”  instead of buying a new local hard drive YOU have the ability to buy it online, however much space you want at an inexpensive price.  HaaS eliminates the use of a crowded room, or for that matter even having the room if you’re an organization.

CONS:

Ease of use allowing all your files in one place could also allow for all of those files to be deleted with ease, so MAKE BACKUPS! and don’t keep extremely sensitive personal information on file…I was talking earlier in this post about the idea mainly revolving and being about YOU, but YOU have to understand that although this gives the ability and ease for many computing tasks, this also puts many of YOUR things in the hands of a 3rd party provider hypothetically (this would be a crazy situation) say Google decided to lock down on their hosting, then all of your projects would be gone for good (thank God for OpenSource).

Conclusion:

For many tasks and usability i think this could prove to be very useful, and powerful.  However i do not believe that this will necessarily catch on, and replace the common desktop OS with something web based.  Speed is a big factor in today’s world, virtual computing, cluster computing, cloud computing, etc. are not right there at the tip of your finger that you can just hold when you’re lonely meaning that their will be lagging and latency, which most people would like….if you’re a person who is a fan of this, then maybe vista may be for you ;).  The HaaS does seem to be pretty interesting…if you would like to know more about HaaS or try it, Amazon S3 is pretty promising along with EC2.

Palm Centro

Got a new cell phone the other week…was hoping for the blackberry curve, ended up with the Palm Centro. It’s not really that bad of a phone, after a week or so it has grown on me, the OS is solid and stable, tons of 3party apps, simplistic and powerful….sometimes Opera Mini does freeze up and cause for a reboot but overall it’s a very nice phone, and i would recommend it to anyone who is thinking about getting a smart device

Take a look at this phone:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=p6UWDitPqeU

Some specs on the phone:

Display: 320×320 pixel Transflective colour touchscreen

Radio: GSM/GPRS/EDGE class 10 radio, quad band world phone (850/900/1800/1900MHz)

Platform: Palm OS by ACCESS 5.4.9

Bluetooth: Version: 1.2

Memory: 64MB available user storage

Camera: 1.3 megapixels with 2x digital zoom and video capture

Battery: Removable 1150mAh, li-ion Up to 4 hours talk, or up to 300 hours standby

Expansion: microSD card (up to 4GB supported)

Connector: Multi-connector

Dimensions: 107.2 mm (L) x 53.5 mm (W) x 18.6 mm (D)124 grams

**Along with an amazing 3party-app community