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I closed my Plentyoffish Acoount
I recently closed my Plentyoffish account. I notice the other day when I was on that site; my computer warm me about potential virus on that site. Has this ever happen to any of you out there?
New Milling table
I have a Sieg mini-mill. It has one major fault. A tiny X, Y & Z azis. At long last someone did something about it. Sief finally manufactured and made available a mill table both 30% larger and with 40% more travel on the X and y axis. I ordered one when I learned of it.
Yesterday a huge, but heavy (80+ pounds) cardboard was delivered. Inside was a wooden crate. Bolted to the inside of the wooden crate was a beefier milling table. I am a happy camper.
The new mill table next to the mill..
The two tables side by side....
My only wish now is that Sieg will come out with a new taller column so I can get more Z axis.
Yesterday a huge, but heavy (80+ pounds) cardboard was delivered. Inside was a wooden crate. Bolted to the inside of the wooden crate was a beefier milling table. I am a happy camper.
The new mill table next to the mill..
The two tables side by side....
My only wish now is that Sieg will come out with a new taller column so I can get more Z axis.
Come on CS. Get your act together!
Yep, they're at it again. The automatic sign out! Wasted half an hour posting a poem this afternoon (or rather trying to) and upon reaching the preview stage received the dreaded message "the page you requested requires you to be logged in"! Half an hours work right down the gurgler!
The fact is I WAS logged in, had been for over an hour Played a game of mah jong and a couple of games of sudoku as well as checking forum and blog posts. Also sent a mail so I must have been logged in or I couldn't have sent it! ...Surely I can't be the only one experiencing this phenomena? Frustrating to say the least....
The fact is I WAS logged in, had been for over an hour Played a game of mah jong and a couple of games of sudoku as well as checking forum and blog posts. Also sent a mail so I must have been logged in or I couldn't have sent it! ...Surely I can't be the only one experiencing this phenomena? Frustrating to say the least....
Whos viewed me -- profile not found
I have a burning question.
I have gotten quite a few visitors listed on my WVM page.
When I click on their photo to find out more about them,
I get the page (profilenotfound). This happens even if I click their picture within a few minutes of them seeing my page.
How can so many people have their profile gone minutes after visiting my page?
I have gotten quite a few visitors listed on my WVM page.
When I click on their photo to find out more about them,
I get the page (profilenotfound). This happens even if I click their picture within a few minutes of them seeing my page.
How can so many people have their profile gone minutes after visiting my page?
Weird pop-up message on computer
I was recently on Skype....the first time in many years. I had to download the program and make a new account. Anyway, after a few days of using it, it froze up on me. I had to restart my computer and when it was restarted, a pop-up box came up saying that another computer with the same ISP was connected.
I wrote down the exact message....but I cannot find it right now. I decided to uninstall Skype and the box has not popped up since. Is this anything to be concerned about? I am technology stupid. :(
I wrote down the exact message....but I cannot find it right now. I decided to uninstall Skype and the box has not popped up since. Is this anything to be concerned about? I am technology stupid. :(
New Technology And You
Are you skeptical/sceptical about some new inventions or technology yet to come? Don’t be but if you insist, don’t talk about it too much. Some very bright and knowledgeable people made colossal fools of themselves in the past. Don’t let the same happen to you.
I have a few examples here for you, in the reverse sequence that it happened, of how people have made giant arseholes of themselves. Many of them were proved wrong with-in their own lifetimes. Bill Gates and Ken Olsen were proved wrong within ten years, Lord Kelvin in two years and Admiral William Leahy swallowed his words within months.
"640k ought to be enough for anybody."
Bill Gates, 1981
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
Ken Olson, founder, chairman & president of DEC, 1977
"Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
Producer Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, 1946
"The atom bomb will never go off - and I speak as an expert in explosives."
U.S. Admiral William Leahy in 1945
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
IBM chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
"A rocket will never be able to leave the earth's atmosphere."
The New York Times, 1936
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom."
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Milliken, 1923
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
David Sarnoff's associates during the 1920s.
"Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value."
General Marechal Foch, Professor of Strategy. Circa 1910
"Everything that can be invented has already been invented."
Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899
"Radio has no future, x-rays are clearly a hoax and the aeroplane is scientifically impossible."
Royal Society president Lord Kelvin, 1897-99
"The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
An internal Western Union memo, 1876
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."
Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"Well-informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value."
Boston Post, 1865
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!"
Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859
My advice – Don’t comment on future technology.
A great day to ya all.
I have a few examples here for you, in the reverse sequence that it happened, of how people have made giant arseholes of themselves. Many of them were proved wrong with-in their own lifetimes. Bill Gates and Ken Olsen were proved wrong within ten years, Lord Kelvin in two years and Admiral William Leahy swallowed his words within months.
"640k ought to be enough for anybody."
Bill Gates, 1981
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
Ken Olson, founder, chairman & president of DEC, 1977
"Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
Producer Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, 1946
"The atom bomb will never go off - and I speak as an expert in explosives."
U.S. Admiral William Leahy in 1945
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
IBM chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
"A rocket will never be able to leave the earth's atmosphere."
The New York Times, 1936
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom."
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Milliken, 1923
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
David Sarnoff's associates during the 1920s.
"Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value."
General Marechal Foch, Professor of Strategy. Circa 1910
"Everything that can be invented has already been invented."
Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899
"Radio has no future, x-rays are clearly a hoax and the aeroplane is scientifically impossible."
Royal Society president Lord Kelvin, 1897-99
"The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
An internal Western Union memo, 1876
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."
Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"Well-informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value."
Boston Post, 1865
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!"
Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859
My advice – Don’t comment on future technology.
A great day to ya all.
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Mankind's greatest inventions...
On April 10, 1790 the federal government of the United States enacted the fist patent statute. It was a concise law defining the subject matter of a U.S. patent as "any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device, or any improvement there on not known or used. It granted the applicant 'sole and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing and vending to others to be used' of his inventions.
Simply put... if you invented something unique and had it patented, no one could legally copy, sell or infringe on your patent rights.
History records inventor Thomas A. Edison had a few thousand patents to his credit. You can also find that many claim some of his patents were stolen from his workers and colleagues. That's the case with many scientists and engineers who work for large corporations and are required to sign contracts, especially ones with non-compete agreements.
I met a man who claimed to have been working for General Electric and invented the rheostat... it's common name was a light dimmer. They got the patent, he got a paycheck.
Someone told me a story of the the guy who invented the intermittent windshield wiper control. He went around to a few car manufacturers looking for someone to buy his idea. He couldn't afford the patent. None of them showed any interest and a few months later, one manufacturer had a similar yet improved device was added to their newest model.
Jonas Salk was a medical researcher who discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines in 1953. He never patented his discovery believing, like the sun, a vaccine for polio belonged to the people.
Some 200 years of patents and long ago it was recorded by one of the clerks in the patent office, that everything that could be patented already was!
I could see he was a man of vision... less than two feet from his nose.
I've always been impressed with some of the more simple inventions...
Amazed how the 2 liter bottle that Coke-a-Cola is made and more impressed who designed the slots on the threads so a pressurized cap doesn't harm someone when when unscrew it!
Simply put... if you invented something unique and had it patented, no one could legally copy, sell or infringe on your patent rights.
History records inventor Thomas A. Edison had a few thousand patents to his credit. You can also find that many claim some of his patents were stolen from his workers and colleagues. That's the case with many scientists and engineers who work for large corporations and are required to sign contracts, especially ones with non-compete agreements.
I met a man who claimed to have been working for General Electric and invented the rheostat... it's common name was a light dimmer. They got the patent, he got a paycheck.
Someone told me a story of the the guy who invented the intermittent windshield wiper control. He went around to a few car manufacturers looking for someone to buy his idea. He couldn't afford the patent. None of them showed any interest and a few months later, one manufacturer had a similar yet improved device was added to their newest model.
Jonas Salk was a medical researcher who discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines in 1953. He never patented his discovery believing, like the sun, a vaccine for polio belonged to the people.
Some 200 years of patents and long ago it was recorded by one of the clerks in the patent office, that everything that could be patented already was!
I could see he was a man of vision... less than two feet from his nose.
I've always been impressed with some of the more simple inventions...
Amazed how the 2 liter bottle that Coke-a-Cola is made and more impressed who designed the slots on the threads so a pressurized cap doesn't harm someone when when unscrew it!
Western Digital's hard drive encryption is useless
Totally useless
Rookie errors make it child's play to decrypt data
The encryption systems used in Western Digital's portable hard drives are pretty pointless, according to new research. It appears anyone getting hold of the vulnerable devices can easily decrypt them.
WD's My Passport boxes automatically encrypt data as it is written to disk and decrypt the data as it is read back to the computer. The devices use 256-bit AES encryption, and can be password-protected: giving the correct password enables the data to be successfully accessed.
Now, a trio of infosec folks – Gunnar Alendal, Christian Kison and "modg" – have tried out six models in the WD My Passport family, and found blunders in the software designs.
For example, on some models, the drive's encryption key can be trivially brute-forced, which is bad news if someone steals the drive: decrypting it is child's play. And the firmware on some devices can be easily altered, allowing an attacker to silently compromise the drive and its file systems.
"We developed several different attacks to recover user data from these password-protected and fully encrypted external hard disks," the trio's paper [slides PDF] states.
"In addition to this, other security threats are discovered, such as easy modification of firmware and on-board software that is executed on the user's PC, facilitating evil maid and badUSB attack scenarios, logging user credentials, and spreading of malicious code."
My Passport models using a JMicron JMS538S micro-controller have a pseudorandom number generator that is not cryptographically secure, and merely cycles through a sequence of 255 32-bit values. This generator is used to create the data encryption key, and the drive firmware leaks enough information about the state of the random number generator for this key to be recreated, we're told.
"An attacker can regenerate any DEK [data encryption key] generated from this vulnerable setup with a worst-case complexity of close to 240," the paper states.
"Once the DEK [data encryption key] is recovered, an attacker can read and decrypt any raw disk sector, revealing decrypted user data. Note that this attack does not need, nor reveals, the user password."
Drive models using a JMicron JMS569 controller – which is present in newer My Passport products – can be forcibly unlocked using commercial forensic tools that access the unencrypted system area of the drive, we're told.
Drives using a Symwave 6316 controller store their encryption keys on the disk, encrypted with a known hardcoded AES-256 key stored in the firmware, so recovery of the data is trivial.
It must be stressed that the flaws are in WD's software running on these microcontrollers, rather than the chips themselves.
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Rookie errors make it child's play to decrypt data
The encryption systems used in Western Digital's portable hard drives are pretty pointless, according to new research. It appears anyone getting hold of the vulnerable devices can easily decrypt them.
WD's My Passport boxes automatically encrypt data as it is written to disk and decrypt the data as it is read back to the computer. The devices use 256-bit AES encryption, and can be password-protected: giving the correct password enables the data to be successfully accessed.
Now, a trio of infosec folks – Gunnar Alendal, Christian Kison and "modg" – have tried out six models in the WD My Passport family, and found blunders in the software designs.
For example, on some models, the drive's encryption key can be trivially brute-forced, which is bad news if someone steals the drive: decrypting it is child's play. And the firmware on some devices can be easily altered, allowing an attacker to silently compromise the drive and its file systems.
"We developed several different attacks to recover user data from these password-protected and fully encrypted external hard disks," the trio's paper [slides PDF] states.
"In addition to this, other security threats are discovered, such as easy modification of firmware and on-board software that is executed on the user's PC, facilitating evil maid and badUSB attack scenarios, logging user credentials, and spreading of malicious code."
My Passport models using a JMicron JMS538S micro-controller have a pseudorandom number generator that is not cryptographically secure, and merely cycles through a sequence of 255 32-bit values. This generator is used to create the data encryption key, and the drive firmware leaks enough information about the state of the random number generator for this key to be recreated, we're told.
"An attacker can regenerate any DEK [data encryption key] generated from this vulnerable setup with a worst-case complexity of close to 240," the paper states.
"Once the DEK [data encryption key] is recovered, an attacker can read and decrypt any raw disk sector, revealing decrypted user data. Note that this attack does not need, nor reveals, the user password."
Drive models using a JMicron JMS569 controller – which is present in newer My Passport products – can be forcibly unlocked using commercial forensic tools that access the unencrypted system area of the drive, we're told.
Drives using a Symwave 6316 controller store their encryption keys on the disk, encrypted with a known hardcoded AES-256 key stored in the firmware, so recovery of the data is trivial.
It must be stressed that the flaws are in WD's software running on these microcontrollers, rather than the chips themselves.
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Technical Difficulties...
Last night CS went offline, probably an hour or so. Trying to reach the site returned a page explaining Technical Difficulties with a Contact Link.
I haven't seen any comments about it and curious if anyone used the link to fill out a trouble ticket. It was late night East coast USA time zone, so most of Europe was asleep.
This is a repeat of an offline issue a few days ago and may be the reason so many blogs, comments and forum threads are disappearing.
Technical Difficulties... sounds viable.
Awww snap!
I haven't seen any comments about it and curious if anyone used the link to fill out a trouble ticket. It was late night East coast USA time zone, so most of Europe was asleep.
This is a repeat of an offline issue a few days ago and may be the reason so many blogs, comments and forum threads are disappearing.
Technical Difficulties... sounds viable.
Awww snap!
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