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1999/8/25-26 [Computer/Networking] UID:16392 Activity:nil |
8/24 On the back of my CYBERSURFR WAVE cable modem that I got with @home there is a 9-pin serial port that says ASYNC and the documentation simply mentions: "(Optional) Install your dial modem according to the manufacturer's instructions. Connect the end of the dial modem's cable to the ASYNC connector on the rear of the cable modem." Does anyone have any info about this? \_ Try the manufacturer's website. \_ Its probably just a standard asynchronous serial port, likely for system configuration and what not. Its the same kind of serial that make up COM ports on a PC system. Might be interesting to look at with a null modem cable and terminal software on your system. Purely as an investigational hack, of course. \_ I heard you can get free phone access that way like in a lavender box!!! |
1999/8/25 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:16393 Activity:high |
8/23 idiocy about "idiocy about "nothing to do with the motd" purged" purged, since self-referentiality is a requirement for motd entries. \_ But you haven't really purged it as you've included the entire body of the purged item. \_ Have you ever heard of the "use-mention distinction"? |
1999/8/25-28 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:16394 Activity:nil |
8/25 Does the modified s-key telnet login system use ip identification to associate user name with challenge offerings? For instance, if I login with my user name mispelled, the password: prompt appears without offering an s-key challenge. so my question is how does skey know when to offer a challenge? \_ If there is no account with the name you typed, skey can't be set up for that username, so it can't challenge. \_ there is so much m, you must rtfm |
1999/8/25-26 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:16395 Activity:high |
8/24 Does anyone know of a low-level copy program like dd for Windows/DOS? I have a dying hard drive that I want a direct duplicate of. \_ I always wondered what the difference between using dd and cp-ing an image to /dev/??? was. \_ dd of=/dev/... opens /dev/... and writes to it cp foo /dev/... removes /dev/... and replaces it with foo \_ not really. \_ Yes really, on anything remotely UNIX \_ What? I cp boot.img /dev/fd0 all the time and it doesn't destroy the block file. (unless you specify -i or don't have permission) \_ Boot a Linux rescue floppy, mount any FAT partitions you might care to, and then use dd (which is on any Linux rescue system). Note that you can get rescue floppy images for free on the net, can write them under Win32, and can reap some of the benefits of Unix without even installing Linux on a fixed disk. Or try out PicoBSD. -- schoen \_ If you can't use *nix, try Symantec Ghost. -John \_ How about dd.exe? Don't have a URL, but you should be able to find it. --dim \_ How can you refer to raw devices under DOS? Or is it a version of dd that just intrinsically understands them? \_ Pretty much all of the unix2dos ports of various tools were rewritten intelligently. Sure, there are bad ports out there, but anything worth using will be ok with it. \_ There's a rawrite.exe which you can get from various linux sites which does raw disk writes in DOS. -tom |
1999/8/25 [Reference/Tax] UID:16396 Activity:very high |
8/25 Tax gurus, got a question. If I provide my expertise that is worth $10,000 to a friend, and my friend provides me expertise that is also worth $10,000 (for example, I teach her computer, and she teaches me how to play the piano), is that technically taxable? Can I just waive it somehow? How can I get into trouble if I do not report it? Thanks. \_ no bills, thus no income. And in any event, you're allowed to give someone $10,000 in cash per year without them or you having to pay a gift tax. -jor \_ you have provided services to each other. technically it is taxable. you can get in trouble since we're going to report you! \_ TECHNICALLY, you can give each other special discount and reduce the service to $1 and INS will not go after you. \_ Thinking of pimping yermom? She ain't worth that much, and my cocaine is worth more than 10K, thank you. \_ I think this is considered fraudulent, and the IRS may go after you. INS probably will not. \_ IRS, INS, U.S. Government, what's the difference. They are all slow, incompetent, and they all want to fuck with you. \_ You received no income. What goes on between you and a friend is taxable. Did you actually bill each other $10k each? That'd be silly. I fix my parent's computers. My mom makes me dinner and sometimes buys lunch. I don't declare that and you don't have to either. If anything, you'll get red flagged and audited just so they can figure out wtf you think you're doing. \_ Charge each other $9999.99 since any gift under $10K doesn't need to be reported. |
1999/8/25-31 [Uncategorized] UID:16397 Activity:nil 53%like:16505 |
08/25 NEXT MEETING: Monday August 30, 7PM, 343 Soda. |
1999/8/25-26 [Politics/Domestic/California] UID:16398 Activity:very high |
8/25 RIBE DIKE! \_ BRIBE DYKE! \_ use linux!! \_ use nulix!! \_ Vote Quimby. |