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Loony Guitarist

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  1. Why do you have to discern the user? Why not modify it to just send you an e-mail that says "pwned" and then compare the amount of e-mails to the amount of thumb drives handed out. If you need to get demographic information as well Have it e-mail you a predetermined ID number and associate it with the survey the user filled out. As far as the legality of it all, definitely discuss the project with your professor. Even if you are not taking any information from the users you are essentially “Stealing” their bandwidth to send the message back to yourself. (I know big deal a whole k, if that, of bandwidth) Perhaps you could include a clause at the bottom of the survey (i.e. Fine print) that states that the user upon filling out the survey and accepting the USB drive allows you to use any and all information collected from the survey for your project. That should give you a paper document signed by the user saying that they basically gave you permission to have the U3 e-mail you as the Thumb drive is part of the survey. (Any lawyers understand this? Want to elaborate on it? Is it even an option?) Just a thought.
  2. I just took on PHP, HTML/XHTML, CSS, and a little bit of JavaScript to update my Church's website. An interesting task since I hadn’t touched any programming languages in almost 6 years. I knew what I wanted to change and what I wanted to add so I just started playing with the languages until I figured it out. I have a couple of reference books but mostly I used the web and looked at allot of other peoples code to see how they did it. But yeah, to restate what has been said... Books, Books, Books. And when the books are too expensive or just don't cover what you are trying to figure out then there are many good reference guides for just about any language on the internet. Google is my buddy.
  3. Why would you post to this thread if it's over a month old? Do you just enjoy flaming people? Or are you trying to get your post count up? ... And you have the nerve to tell other people to "be intelligent"?
  4. Information Technology is still kinda broad. IT can include degrees in programming, security, networking, ect. Sorry If I came off angry... not my intention. just trying to keep the world from eventually speaking in text message speak. did you watch the last episode of hak5? hackers are people too. and with equipment getting cheaper and software like vmware out there it is all to easy to practice hacking efficiently without breaking the law. illegal drugs are illegal to posses use or sell, hacking on the other hand is only illegal if you don't have permission to access the network/computer you are hacking. so I fail to see the comparison between drug dealers and ethical hackers. Umm... well... I have a BA in information systems security which required an Associates in networking. throughout both degrees I never once used or had any references to JAVA which is a programing language. so I guess I am still a little confused about what your degree is in when you are asking for topics on network security and keep referring to JAVA. (Unless there is some kind of general IT degree at your school) Basically Network security is going to deal with securing physical equipment and hardening your configuration files for your routers and firewalls as well as hardening your servers. all of which has little, if nothing, to do with JAVA.
  5. First just to get this off my chest: 1. As jjhappypants would say, "what's with all the double posting?" 2. I understand you are from India and English is probably not your primary language, and for that I can deal with the misspellings here and there but this is a forum not a text message you are not limited to 300 characters so there is no need to abbreviate words like, "ppl", "plz" and "u" don't be lazy spell it out. With that said... It might be easier to suggest a project if we knew what your specific program of study was. ("Writing pattern recognition software" seems more like programming than information security and "RFID stuff "could be anything from programming to electrical engineering.) You don't have to give us your whole academic history but the more details about what degree you are trying to obtain will allow us to make good suggestions for your project.
  6. redhat 6.X we used it mostly to telnet into and write our assembly and C+ code. Now I am running Fedora core 7 as a web server and I use backtrak 3 alot. my laptop died but when I get a new one I am dual booting it with ubuntu
  7. Funny I thought it was the terrorists that started it all. no one seemed to voice that many problems with bush until we got attacked and he had to make a huge decision. I'm not saying that decision was right or wrong but he was the presidant at the time. if somthing like that happenes a year into Obama's term who's to say he's not going to have to make a decision that could lead to an even greater war... perhaps one on our own turf. The problem with americans is that we don't support our leaders no mater who they are. if they screw up or make decisions that we think are stupid we sit and complain until somone comes along promising all this change ( only time will tell if he makes good on all those promises ) I did not vote for Obama. not because of race or any other factor other than his polotics and what he stands for. but now that the american people have voted him presidant I will support Him 100% because I am an american and our leaders need all the support they can get. So to have an opinion based on reading and understanding the facts automatically makes you racist? or is he racist because he disagrees with some of Obama's polotics. Honistlly do we still have to try and make arguments about race? havent we grown passed that yet? the only racist people I still see are the ones who abuse their ethnicity to try to manipulate others. honistly can't we get past the stupid race thing already? I don't recall him saying "black" he said "minority" where I live Whites are the minority. it's funny how everyone assumes that when we say minority we automatically mean "black"
  8. "Somebody's gonna get a hurt real bad!!" Ha ha, I'm American and that was hilarious.
  9. Why doesint your switch work well after your router? I have done this on sevral occasions and it has worked fine. does your switch handel automatic crossover switching? (any port or one spicific port is designated for connecting to another device such as a router or another switch) If not you might need a crossover cable for the connection between your router and the switch. If you really want to turn your old box into a firewall / router then the software that Deathdefyer2002 sugessted should be fine. I have played with smoothwall before and it is highly configurable and should be able to handel what you want.
  10. Actually borrowing a friends Xp disk isin't a bad Idea especally if you have your own CD key. I don't think the activation file is nessicary though. I have about 5 - 6 XP disks laying around that I use whenever I need to re-install winblows and as long as I use my own CD key at installation they work fine.
  11. My wife and I bought a wii fit when they came out. That thing can kick your butt... especally if you have been slacking off and not working out like I've been doing for the last couple of years. I'm going to try cycling more too.
  12. this coming from someone named after the tiny crusted peices of crap that hang from your butt hairs. ;) Seriously I love the pic... I used to love capt. crunch.
  13. mid season one sometime. been following the show religiously but just starting to get more involved in the forums and irc and all
  14. You mean like reverse pickpocketing? interesting idea. the things you think of when your buzzed... Ha!
  15. correct me if I am wrong but is sneakers the film with robert redford where he runs an intrusion detection company? if it is what I am thinking of that was a good one.
  16. Yeah so umm how do you make the distinction between what is personal data and what is information? care to clarify that? because personal data is a type of information and I believe the quote said "ALL information..." Or perhaps the launch codes for all the worlds nuclear weapons?
  17. I worked at wal~mart for three years in the electronics section while I was going to school (for networking and systems security) everyone else I worked with were gamers so they knew there stuff but I was pritty much the goto guy for all things computers. so yeah you never know who you might bump into. @Moonlit: Although I agree with you moonlit, (it's not your machine to be messing with so get help from an associate or move on) I have looked through a majority of your posts and you always seem to be harsh and snappy. I know this is like the 100th trillion person you have had to tell that they wont get that kind of help here but you could stand to lighten up a bit and maybe put it in a nicer tone. part of being an admin or a moderator is having to deal with this kind of thing all the time.
  18. If all information should be free why dont you post your social security number, your bank account numbers, creditcard numbers, and all of your usernames and passwords to everything from your online banking to your email accounts? there are just some things that are meant to be private and access should be limited (some times to just one or two people). my 2 cents about the kid who got in trouble. Just becuse somthing can be owned doesint mean it should be owned. He crossed the line when he decided to own a school computer through his teachers account. He deserved to be expelled for that.
  19. Maybe you should have a segment on moding the kick pedal and making it better, like the DDR dance pad from season 1 (or 2 I cant remember) I had the idea to mod it after I broke a friends pedal. havent had the chance to sit down and design anything yet though.
  20. I have this problem too. I have both a Scandisk u3 drive and a memorex u3 drive. the lploader software will only work with a scandisk u3 drive but my drive is a 1gig and I want to use my memorex 512mb drive for this. So far I cant find a loader that will let you flash a memorex drive. so it should be noted that so far this will only work on a scandisk u3 drive unless you use amish's method.
  21. Is there a program that will grab the lm hashes for this? I couldint find one on there site. The other programs work like a charm though almost scary. it even grabed my gmail account and password.
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