manuel

You should so do a few sketches about these products. With your hyperactive, I can just hear it all now. Have all of teh products endoresed by a real n00b.

28 is ok, but a little dark. 53 is perhaps the best of them because it makes you look more professional. 81 for some reason just seems to fit your personality -Manuel

For instance MS Office Pro (they call it educational version) you can get for $199.00 US just for being a student or staff of a school (public/private/primary/secondary/higher ed) Many companies do this type of pricing including adobe.

As someone else would say, winners don't do #warez ... or #serials2000. you really should right out purchase the products rather than trying to get obtain a "not so legal" version.

Some say at birth. Others claim kindergarten. Osama Bin Laden says it was when the infidels corrupted her mind. George Bush prefers the theory that God for some reason intervened to get her this way, but that doesn't make it right of course. Jeb Bush doesn't care as long as she ends up on his electric chair. David Letterman thinks she's still got some ways to go. Charles Manson mumbled somethiing about a butterfly (like he ever made sense). Condolleeza Rice felt she was just _perfect_ for active duty in Iraq (something about "cannon fodder"?) Colin Powell never wanted to have her in the army in the first place. Bill Clinton vigorously addressed the nation, pointing out that he did NOT have sexual relations with that woman, and that those who claimed he did are as nuts as she is. Oprah Winfrey publicly came out in support for her, and hoped she'd find her marbles soon. K.D. Lang said she never lost them in the first place, and something about her being a 'hottie'. TomB never imagined anybody without nuts could go nuts. Melodic likes 'em that way, and hopes she goes even nutter. Maybe a little more Emo too so she won't cramp his style. Duelus wanted to comment, but his mac and cheese turned out to be not so good and he was too busy puking his guts out. This post had me litterlay lol'ing for some time...

That's exactly what I meant -- the only difference is it doesn't always take an admin to enable the option.

You can, if the switch allows for port mirroring.

I have an A+ cert and will be getting my Cisco CCNA cert soon (only becasue I went through the the courses at my local junior college). I also have my AAS. HOWEVER none of that really helps me in my everyday job. The reality is that certs really don't help much except help the learner learn some basic stuff. I earned my certs and degree after having 7 years of hands-on experience in the field of tech and only did it so that I can ensure my job stays secure enough for me in my field. I am an IT Specialist for a small School District. -- I take care of computers, server, phone systems, vpns, Mac/Windows/Linux, web design, and a whole lot more.

last time i checked, they included a help file that was good enough to learn the basics of cracking local passwords.

lol

its means the RIAA and MPAA are after you! Quick reformat your computer and burn it before they can get the data from your computer! Do it now! -Manuel :!:

I second this comment. almost all filtering companies have their own set of lists with their technology. But there are free resources available too. for a while we were using squidguard, which has an open source solution free of charge with lists and and categories, and that community works on theses lists just as hard. in fact for a good while before there was a law that said we had to filter, we were using it. The only problem was it didn't give us the room to grow like we needed, but it worked for us for a while and works for some schools and business just fine. I am also one of the towns few "techies" that works on other people's computers as well includnig some local businesses. I always suggest these free tools and personnaly keep in close contact with many people this way. Plus if you can't tell already, I love to talk -- a great way to learn other's concerns and issues. This helps me keep my knowledge up-to-date and allows me to think not only for schools, but also for other situations. So while I don't always talk about filtering lists with most people, if this issue comes up, i share as much as I can where I can. For me its a matter of educating more and more people on what options are out there. imasoldier: Thanks for the list but over the course of time every single one of those sites is in my deny list. So for me its out of date. Actually Digg and sites like this have helped me find a few of these before our students were able to. A lot of kids eventually would complain about this site or that site or whatever being blocked already. When I hear that it just confirms to me that I am doing my job by trying to keep 1 step ahead of the game. This is not always true, but because I am very active with many sites I see the issues well before someone like my supervisor ever would. A lot of it helps that I am not really that far from most of these kids in age and at least for a few more years I still like most of what is out there. The other thing that our filter does is allows us to block by keyword, so the word proxy gets flagged and gets sent to a special list that then determines if its an article about proxies or an actual site -- basically it looks for the words. But many words, like the urls, are added already by the vendors and organized into lists which are encrypted and made not readable to annyone but them. Some companies use products like byteshifter before and after encryption (one vendor mentioned something of this nature to me and this is what I made sense of their process). This effectively makes it hard for anyone to easily read the lists without going through their procedures which really is probably more complicated than that. -Manuel

Sparda: We do allow wikipedia, but our current filter does not allow for us to block using wildcards -- but we are about to change that with a completely different filtering system. The new system will allow that type of setup and this was one of those wish-list items that the new filer will take care of. Iain: Excelent question! We do try to communicate with other school districts (most are relatively small in our area) so that most of us are on the same page with filtering and the laws and implimentations of other technologies, but many people interpret the law differently enough that it is not always agreeable about sites to be blocked. I have to say we use a combination of proactive and reactive methods. For instance MySpace was blocked a long time before many of our students really knew it existed, just as myyearbook.com was. Where we struggled was actively blocking the new proxies and other online methods to bypass the blocks. Its also proactive, because the vendor of the filter has many categories to choose from which have literally millions of websites already on them, which are updated frequently from the vendor. There would be no easy way for all of us to recreate the full list ourselves. So is this formal, no not really, but its out of courtesy that we communicate at least a portion of the time. Afterall why re-invent the wheel when you can just modify it for your needs? At the same time it is reactive, because some content could be considered okay for high schoolers to research on, but completely not appropriate for the younger kids to see. we have to reactively create lists and block/allow sites as needed. Our staff are supposed to monitor the Interne twith their students closely and tell us if they are doing anythng borderline so that we can watch it, but unfortunatley several of our staff members don't always have the ability to observe everything that goes on. This is where the tech dept. steps in and actively monitors the traffic for random time frames to see what is really going on. Hope that answers your question a bit, without rambling on too much. If not ask again and I'll see if I can answer better. -manuel

Actually we block port 80 as well, except for our content filter server, which effectively forces anyone and everyone to use the filter. Even if they bring in a flash drive with firefox on it or boot into a livecd (if they happen to find a computer that will allow it) or maybe even their own laptop/ or other device, they don't just magically have free internet access because all ports are blocked for all IPs except for our content filter and servers. VLANs, subnets and PTP VPN allow this setup. its a bit tricky when dealing with certain services, but it works for us once we got everything setup, although changes do need to happen so that we can increase the capacity of our server farm. -Manuel

I have to say if something is blocked and it is something that should not be, simply ask your teacher, your principal or the tech people why exactly is www.xyz.com blocked and explain exactly why you think it is legitimate. Chances are if it is truely a legit site, the filter is just playing it safe. However if you want access to sites such as myspace just because of (... fill in the blank) then that is not good enough. We expect this for everyone here (staff/students/parents). Just as you might say site zyx.com is needing to be blocked because of porn or whatever. The point is be responsible, respectful and knowledgable (some key principals to Social Engineering BTW) and you could get what you want. I know if a student asks me in a clear well thought out question as to why something is blocked (or not) I do listen and do my best to explain. For example, youtube.com had to be blocked partially due to the content, but primarily due to bandwidth considerations. After aall if one person is looking at the content it is not bad, but if there are even just 5 computers on the site, combined the traffic can hog an entire T-1 line thus will not allow necessary traffic through without being worse than dial-up. -Manuel

Several if I recall (one of which was lost with the forum relocation).

As a sysadmin for a school, I would suggest not trying. Chances are if the tech people are anything like me and the rest of our tech department, you will be caught and dealt with accordingly. We have had a lot of students try many methods and a few were successful until we blocked them and revoked their computer priveledges. It is hard to pass a computer class or many other classes that require research (online) without access to a computer in school. However that said, Google is your friend. -Manuel

What I do is take a phrase and other things around me that means something to me and mix it up with a combo of leet speak and special characters. One password that I used to use was designed like this: Lets say I drive a 98 Chevy Impala One method to enter programing mode to an older phone system I used to work on at a place I'll call MS. so my password ended up being something like 98ch3/y#0*4M$ Then I would apply a portion of this passowrd to other sites. example: ebay would be something like eb98ch3/y or yahoo would be yh#0*4M$ This is just one scheme I have used over time. I have used several password cracking tools to test the strenghth of my own passwords and every password in current use that I have doesn't crack easily without a long period of time. Afterall, if someone (or a group of someones) has enough time, almost any password is crackable. Another thing that I can add, which has already been stated once or twice is to use an alt + sequence to create a truely special character that is even harder to crack. My real passwords are also usually at least 14 characters (not including spaces) for my workstation(s) but server admin accounts are always longer if/when I can.

I did type that on purpose. I admit, it doesn't make sense, but I'm just going with the flow even if its on my own tangent.

Um I think I have to report that I saw that evil looking server just last week. I saw him in Denver heading what looked like a northerly direction. Perhaps they are on their way to Canada? I did not see Ali, but perhaps she was hiding? oh and I want to remain unanimous. -Manuel

These play extremely slowed down for me -- sounds like a bad encoding -- is this just me or are other having this issue as well? -Manuel

Abbreviation for down low Meaning to keep quite on something.

I knew that -- one of the few things in American History that I actually paid attention to, while I was in High School.

its just rather intriguing that one would choose such an avatar for one's self. Sick? No, I don't think so. I don't really know everything about this character other than he was conceived to be an evil person in most people's eyes and a "God" in other's eyes.

Interesting choice for an avatar. -Manuel :?