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Gary Wise
With PTLA approaching, I'm receiving more and more requests via IRC and e-mail for draft advice. This is the first of a series of articles analyzing the cards in the set. Keep in mind that I'm still developing my approach to the format and that all comments apply specifically to Mercadian Masques booster draft. The following are my observations on the Green commons in the set.
Time and again, as limited formats have formed, Green has been the least drafted color in these formats. First in MVW, then in Rath and finally in Urza's, the majority of American pro players vouched for the inefficiency of green from the rooftops, considering those environments to be four-color in nature. Most Europeans ignored these attitudes, and a number of them had success drafting Green, a good example being Tommi Hovi, who won PTLA2.
Now, with a new stand alone upon us, a number of players are again preaching the woes of Green, but as usual, I disagree. Green, used best in an aggressive deck, may well be the second strongest base color in the environment, as its depth makes up for it's lack of true breakers.
The one major deficiency in MM green, which didn't exist in past incarnations, is the lack of mana production. While Land Grant and Vine Trellis are both playable, they only produce Green mana. In the past, Green loaned itself well to 3 color drafting as cards like Skyshroud Elf, Rampant Growth and Yavamaya Elder allowed for increased access to three colors of mana. Now, only the uncommon Silverglade Pathfinder can accomplish that, and one can not count on drafting one.
The following, in a rough order, are Green's commons from best to worst. While one can spend all the time they want trying to rank the commons, each deck has different needs, and therefore these rankings will change with each pick. These then, are a general guideline to work from.
Spidersilk Armor - Amongst those PT players who are willing to draft Green, the debate as to the color's best common has been a well-contested one. While the Armor may not be the best, it is likely the most essential, strengthening one's creatures in combat as well as solving two major problems: protection from ping abilities and red kill, and stopping evasion. There is a limit to how many a deck needs, with 2 being the optimal number, but if I were starting a draft with the intent to draft Green, this would be the common I'd want first pick. It's value goes down a little if you have a lot of white or black creature elimination, but it should always be in your main deck.
Silverglade Elemental - the biggest common creature in the format, sometimes you can't argue with a fat 4/4 beating down. While not as effective on the attack as Snorting Gahr, the fetching of a forest (usually allowing for Troll regeneration or Herbalist/Drummer use on the turn you cast the big guy) as well as the extra +1/+1 gives him a slight edge, though in ultra-aggressive decks, the Gahr is better.
Snorting Gahr - Hardest common creature to stop in the set. Coupled with Rushwood Herbalist, one'd better have some form of black or white kill, because nothing else will stop this fatty. Unlike the armor, you can NEVER have enough of these guys.
Invigorate - The third best of the alternate casting cost commons, Invigorate has strengths that make it rival the top two. The reason it comes fourth are twofold: a lack of staying power and the fact that it often goes extraordinarily late for a card of its power level, more so than the Gahr or Elemental, though Armor does often go later than it should. Invigorate would be pretty good if it only had one CC, but the alternate makes it impossible to account for and screws up your opponent's mathematics.
Giant Caterpillar - More giant than the original, this guy is better for two reasons: MM is a smaller environment where 3/3 creatures are rare, and its ability can now be activated after damage is on the stack. The caterpillar's ability to make itself a 1/1 flyer is often underrated, as in an environment where creature lock is a norm, that little guy can do the last 1 or 2 points (or with Invigorate, a lot more) needed to win the game.
Horned Troll - In past environments, 2/2 regenerators have barely passed as mediocre, but in MM booster, this guy is strong. Many decks have nothing that can stop it efficiently, and combine it with a Deepwood Drummer and there's very little that will stop it for more than a turn.
Rushwood Herbalist - Most pros would disagree with my putting this guy ahead of the Deepwood Drummer, but it seems like most of the time he hits the table he dominates. With Green's larger creatures, the Herbalist forces a chump block instead of a gang block, also protecting one's creatures from direct damage.
Deepwood Drummer - Really close to the Herbalist in power, the most compelling argument for taking it higher is it's CC. With Rushwood Dryad and Vine Trellis being the only other playable 2 CC Green commons, the Drummer often makes for an efficient use of mana and completion of mana curve. He improves in a quick swarm deck, or a deck with a lot of evasion.
Vine Trellis - a double threat, this card's main function is to give synergy to the Green intensive deck. 3rd turn Gahrs and 4th turn Elementals are really strong, especially if your Wall is blocking your opponent's 2/2s and 3/3s while your fatties attack.
Tiger Claws - a really strong Creature enhancement, the bigger your creatures are, the more it moves up. Best use? Gets your Gahrs/Elementals though Darting Merfolk pretty effectively.
Rushwood Dryad - a decent 2 CC attacker, this guy is huge in the mirror match.
Tranquility - A card you definitely want to have one of, although you shouldn't necessarily start it in every deck. If nothing else, this is Green's only defense against Story Circles, Kyren Negotiations and a number of other high-powered enchantments.
Venomous Dragonfly - Don't build your deck around this guy, but he's not horrible. Becomes a lot more effective when used in tandem with Rushwood Herbalist.
Ancestral Mask - There are enough enchantments in the environment that having one in your deck is never atrocious, but it's much better when you have some of your own. Can dominate when placed on an evasion creature.
Deadly Insect - Generally, if this guy is in your deck, you're in trouble, but it can be effective with cards like War Cadence or Cowardice.
Land Grant - a little bit better than a Forest, when building your deck, make sure you count this as a land.
Deepwood Wolverine - Generally not a good card, but it fills the seldom filled 1-slot in your mana curve and combines very well with tricks like Flaming sword.
Howling Wolf - If you have two, they aren't worth playing. Three starts becoming viable.
Squall - Almost never good for card advantage and totally devoid of versatility, you have to be desperate to sideboard this in.
Sacred Prey - I'd rater play a nineteenth Forest, assuming I have at lease 1 Spellshaper).
Ferocity - I'd rather play Sacred Prey
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World IPv6 Launch: Impact on the Web
These days, I'm often being asked "how much content is going to be on IPv6 out there, June 6th onward", or "what is the true impact of World IPv6 Launch?" So I scratched my head, and tried to come up with a meaningful way to answer. Consider this my best estimate so far:
Close to 30% of pages viewed on the Internet globally, will be reachable over IPv6 after June 6th 2012.
I based my calculation on two sources:
- The list of web sites that have publicly stated their participation in the World IPv6 Launch here
- alexa.com traffic stats here with the estimated percentage of pages viewed on these very same sites (averaged over last 3 months).
My estimate was based on analysis I did it for web sites among the Alexa's TOP 500 participating in the World IPv6 Launch globally (indeed, the vast majority of the content) and estimated the other 2500+ smaller sites to add a very small fraction (the long tail if you will) .
Let's do the math!
5.438% (Google) + 5.336% (Facebook) + 3.861% (YouTube) + 1.338% (Yahoo)…etc….etc…etc… = 27.2%
Boom! On June 6th 2012, the IPv6 pages "addressable market" went from 3% (as measured on May 20th) to 27.2%. The reality… it will most likely be a larger number fairly quickly if one consider a lot of smaller sites did not bother registering on the Internet Society list of participating web sites.
If such a thing as a "global IPv6 user" would exist, they would reach an IPv6 page roughly 30% of the time. Of course this avatar of a global average Internet user does not exist.
Internet users sit at home, in their office, at their neighborhood cafe and are geographically located by definition. Also they have different language, and a typical Russian Internet user is unlikely to look at the same pages or use the exact same sites, as an average American, Brit, Australian, Chinese or Italian.
It is important we find a reliable way of measuring the weight of each web site on a per country basis, so that each country builds their own model to assess "how much IPv6 stuff is out there".
And make no mistake, I'm NOT predicting that as all of a sudden 30% of the Internet TRAFFIC will be IPv6 overnight.
In order to measure traffic, real users need to access this content and pull up these pages. Remember! as part of World IPv6 launch, a number of network operators have committed to enabled 1% of their subscribers and to make IPv6 a per default service for every new subscriber. They key point to realize is that these IPv6 subscribers are also going to have a destination in IPv6, too.
The IPv6 subscriber growth is going to be steady and it's already started and accelerated across the globe, as can be seen here. For example we see on June 5th, 2012 that US is at .92% of IPv6 users, China .56%, France 4.7%, Romania 6.3%).
The good news: these users have (on average across the global Internet) 30% of the content available natively across IPv6. This is what the industry in an unprecedented collaboration effort has achieved through World IPv6 Launch. And it's huge!
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Alain Fiocco
No more excuses ! The mexican stand-off is over.
Content is here, users are ramping up.
all we need is ACCELERATION !

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An excerpt from Exploding the PhoneExploding the Phone
by Phil Lapsley
Locke spent the next twenty-four hours in what felt like a scene from a 1940s detective movie: a barren room with nothing more than a wooden table, a chair for him, two chairs for his interrogators, and a bare lightbulb dangling from the ceiling. Sitting across from him, the FBI agent and the telephone security man worked hard to get him to confess to using the blue box.
Before smartphones and iPads, before the internet or the personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone system. The following is an excerpt from the new book Exploding the Phone written by Phil Lapsley and published by Grove/Atlantic, which tells the story of the "phone phreaks."
There it was again.
Jake Locke set down his cup and looked more closely at the classified ad. It was early afternoon on a clear spring day in Cambridge in 1967. Locke, an undergrad at Harvard University, had just gotten out of bed. A transplant from southern California, he didn't quite fit in with Harvard's button-down culture – another student had told him he looked like a "nerdy California surfer," what with his black-framed eyeglasses, blond hair, blue eyes, and tall, slim build. Now in the midst of his sophomore slump, Locke found himself spending a lot of time sleeping late, cutting classes, and reading the newspaper to find interesting things to do. Pretty much anything seemed better than going to classes, in fact. ("Jake Locke" is a pseudonym).
It was a slow news day. The Crimson, Harvard's student newspaper, didn't have much in the way of interesting articles, so Locke once again found himself reading the classified ads over breakfast. He had become something of a connoisseur of these little bits of poetry – people selling cars, looking for roommates, even the occasional kooky personal ad probably intended as a joke between lovers—all expressed in a dozen or so words.
But this ad was different. It had been running for a while and it had started to bug him.
WANTED HARVARD MIT Fine Arts no. 13 notebook. (121 pages) & 40 page reply K.K. & C.R. plus 2,800; battery; m.f. El presidente no esta aqui asora, que lastima. B. David Box 11595 St. Louis, MO 63105.
Locke had seen similar classified ads from students who had lost their notes for one class or another and were panicking as exams rolled around. They often were placed in the Crimson in the hopes that some kind soul had found their notes and would return them. Fine Arts 13 was the introductory art appreciation class at Harvard, so that fit.
But nothing else about the ad made any sense. Fine Arts 13 wasn't offered at MIT. And what was all the gibberish afterward? 2,800? Battery? M.f., K.K., C.R.? What was with the Spanish? And why was somebody in St. Louis, Missouri, running an ad in Cambridge, Massachusetts, looking for a notebook for a class at Harvard? Locke had watched the ad run every day for the past few weeks. Whoever they were, and whatever it was, they clearly wanted this notebook. Why were they so persistent?
One way to find out.
Locke looked around for a piece of paper and a pen. He wrote: "Dear B. David: I have your notebook. Let's talk. Sincerely, Jake."
He dropped the letter in the mail on his way into Harvard Square to find something interesting to do.
An envelope with a St. Louis, Missouri, postmark showed up in Locke's mailbox a week later. Locke opened the envelope and read the single sheet of paper. Or rather, he tried to read it. It wasn't in English. It seemed to be written in some sort of alien hieroglyphics. It was brief, only a paragraph or so long. The characters looked familiar somehow but not enough that he could decipher them.
Locke showed the letter to everyone he saw that day but nobody could read it. Later that evening, as Locke sat at the kitchen table in his dorm room and stared at the letter, trying to puzzle it out, one of his roommates came home. Shocked that Locke might actually be doing something that looked like homework, his roommate asked what he was working on. Locke passed the letter across the table and told him about it.
His roommate took one look and said, "It looks like Russian."
Locke said, "That's what I thought. But the characters don't seem right."
"Yeah. They're not. In fact ..." His roommate's voice trailed off for a moment. "In fact, they're mirror writing."
"You know, mirror writing. The letters are written backwards. See?"
Locke looked. Sure enough: backwards.
Locke and his roommate went to the mirror and transcribed the reversed lettering. It was Cyrillic – Russian letters. Fortunately, Locke's roommate was taking a Russian class. They sat back down at the table and translated the letter.
"Dear Jake," the letter read. "Thank you very much for your reply. However, I seriously doubt that you have what I need. I would strongly advise you to keep to yourself and not interfere. This is serious business and you could get into trouble." Signed, B. David.
Locke sat back. Someone had put a cryptic ad in the newspaper. He'd responded. They sent him a letter. In mirror writing. In Russian. In 1967. During the cold war.
Spy ring.
It just didn't get much cooler than this, Locke figured. Intriguing. Terrifying, even. And far, far better than going to class.
Locke mailed his reply that day – in English, and not in mirror writing. "Dear B. David: Actually, I do have your notebook and I would like to talk to you. Sincerely, Jake."
Four days went by before the mailman brought Locke an odd letter, a piece of card stock folded in half and taped at the top. The fold line was perforated so that it could be torn in half. The writing was in English this time.
"Dear Jake, if you have the information I need, you should be able to complete the other half of this card and mail it back to me. Then we can continue our discussions. Sincerely, B. David."
Locke looked at the other half of the postcard. It had a handful of questions on it:
Complete the following sequence: 604, 234, 121, ___
What does M.F. stand for?
What equipment were the students at Harvard and MIT using?
Locke spent every waking hour over the next several days working on the postcard questions. The numbers repeated over and over in his mind: 604, 234, 121 ... 604, 234, 121 ... 604, 234, 121 ...
A phone number? It wasn't directory assistance – Locke knew that would have been 555-1212 – but it sort of sounded right. Worth a shot, anyway. He picked up the phone and dialed. A woman's businesslike voice answered on the first ring.
"Cleaner clean," she said.
"Excuse me?" said Locke.
"Cleaner clean inward," the woman repeated, more distinctly this time.
Locke hung up. He stared at the phone. Cleaner clean? Inward?
Where was area code 604, anyway? The phone book said British Columbia. And where was that? Western Canada. Locke looked around his dorm room, found an atlas, and flipped to the page on British Columbia. He scanned the map. The big cities had names he recognized, names like Vancouver and Prince George. The smaller towns had less familiar names. Names like Kamloops. Squamish. Quesnel. Chilanko.
Kleena Kleene.
At dinner that nightLocke mentioned his phone call to Steve, another of his roommates. Steve said, "Huh. That's interesting. My girlfriend Suzy is an inward."
"What? What's an inward?" asked Locke.
"It's some kind of special telephone operator. You should talk to her, she might be able to help you figure some of this stuff out. She lives over in Revere. Give her a call."
Locke did. Suzy explained that an inward is an "operator's operator." When an operator needs assistance in making a call, she calls the inward operator for the destination city. The inward operator then completes the call to a local number.
"So how do I call an inward?" Locke asked her.
"You can't. Inwards have special phone numbers that only operators can dial. If you wanted to call the New York inward, you'd have to dial something like 212-049-121. So 121 is what gets you the inward, and 049 is a routing code inside of New York, and New York is the 212 area code. But you can't dial numbers like 049 or 121 from a regular phone."
Locke explained that he seemed to have found a way to call an inward operator from his regular phone by dialing 604-234-1212.
"Well," Suzy said, "I'm mystified. You shouldn't be able to. I don't know, maybe you found a glitch. But here's how you can tell. Call them up and ask them to complete a call to somebody. If they're really an inward, they'll be able to do it no problem."
"I don't know anybody in Canada," Locke said.
"That's okay. An inward can call anywhere. And we sometimes get calls from the test board within the phone company asking us to complete calls to places for testing purposes. Just tell them you're with the test board. Be confident and self-assured and act like you know what you're doing and they won't give you any trouble."
"Okay. I'll try that. Hey, any idea what 'M.F.' might stand for?"
"Well," Suzy replied, "it could be multifrequency."
"Multifrequency. What's that?" Locke asked.
"It's the system that operators use to make calls. It's kind of like those touch tones used for push-button dialing, but it sounds different." Locke's dorm phone was rotary dial, but he knew what touch tones were – they had been introduced just a few years earlier.
"Okay. Hey, thanks, Suzy." They said good-bye. He hung up.
Locke picked up the phone again and dialed 604-234-1212. Once again the businesslike female voice answered.
"Kleena Kleene inward."
"Hi, uh, yes," Locke said. "This is the test board. Could you connect me to 619-374-8491, please?"
"One moment." There was a pause. The long-distance hiss got louder. A click. Another pause. More hiss. Another click. Then a ringing signal.
"Hello?" It was his friend Dave in San Diego.
Locke chatted with his friend for a few minutes and then hung up. He felt as if he were floating. It seemed magical. "Act like you know what you're doing and they won't give you any trouble." It worked!
Two postcard questions down. One left: "What equipment were the students at MIT using?"
Once again, another roommate came to Locke's rescue – fortunately, Locke lived in a suite and had lots of roommates. "We're talking about phones and MIT students, right? I remember an article in the Crimson about a year ago about some MIT students who got in trouble for playing with the telephone. Could that be it?"
"Maybe," said Locke. "But how am I gonna find an old copy of the Crimson?"
"The library?" his friend suggested.
This was a challenge. Locke had never been to the university's library before.
Locke was surprised to find it was close to his dorm and that other students seemed able to direct him there. Soon Locke was flipping through page after page of old Crimsons. An hour later, in an issue from almost a year earlier in 1966, he found what he was looking for.
Five local students, four from Harvard and one from M.I.T., spent eight months making long distance and international phone calls as guests of the Bell System before they were finally discovered.
The telephone company accepted the news without bitterness, however, merely impounding the 121-page Fine Arts 13 notebook that contained the records of their "researches" and requiring them to submit a full report, which ran to 40 double-spaced pages, of what they had done.
Mesmerized, Locke read on, the words from the classified ad running through his head. The article described how, starting in 1962, the students had used inward operators – including one in Kleena Kleene – to complete calls all over the world. It tantalized with an infuriatingly brief description of how it was possible to build an electronic device to control the telephone system for "$50 of common electronic components." The article concluded abruptly, stating that the students were caught in April 1963 when a telephone company employee turned them in.
Locke was elated. Pieces were falling into place, and now he had enough to respond to B. David. But the article was short on details. He needed to find out more. He needed to talk to the original Harvard and MIT students. Locke jotted down the name of the article's author, another student at Harvard.
The next day he filled out the reply postcard and dropped it in the mail to B. David. Then he called the Crimson reporter to pump him for details. The reporter wasn't very helpful. He didn't know the names of the Harvard or MIT students, he said, and it turned out that he had gotten most of his information from an article in the Boston Herald. He had then talked to the Herald reporter to get some additional context.
"Didn't the Herald reporter know the names of the students?" Locke asked.
"Oh, sure, but he wouldn't give them to me. And I doubt he'll give them to you either," the Crimson reporter replied.
Back to the library. Locke dug up the Herald article. It described the Harvard and MIT students making calls to the president of Mexico and gave a name – "blue box" – to the electronic device that had allowed them to control the telephone network. It spoke of their staying up all night, of spending eighty hours a week on their research, of dialing ten thousand numbers over two to three days to find the information they needed. It even said the students were questioned by FBI agents who thought they were stealing defense secrets.
Locke looked up the telephone number for the newspaper. Be confident and self-assured and act like you know what you're doing. He drew a deep breath, picked up the phone, dialed the Herald, and asked to be connected to the reporter who wrote the article. When the reporter answered, Locke politely explained who he was and what he was looking for.
"This is Special Agent Stevenson with the FBI Boston Field Office. We've had a report that there has been some new activity related to an incident that occurred a few years ago with some Harvard and MIT students misusing the telephone system. We're trying to reach them to talk to them about this but we don't have current contact information for them. I saw your article about them from a year ago or so. Do you have telephone numbers for any of them?"
Not a problem, the reporter replied. He'd be happy to help.
Before Locke had achance to call any of the students his phone rang. It was B. David and he wanted to know about the Fine Arts 13 notebook. Oh, yes, that notebook: the one that Locke didn't actually have. Locke did his best to keep up the charade. Well, he admitted, he wasn't actually one of the Harvard or MIT students but he knew them. He was a friend of theirs. He had participated in some of their "research."
B. David grilled him. It quickly became apparent that Locke didn't know as much as he was claiming. As Locke would later recall, "You can only fake things so far before they begin to crumble." Locke admitted the truth.
Surprisingly, B. David wasn't mad, and now that the cat was out of the bag the two had a pleasant conversation. B. David explained that there was an informal network of telephone enthusiasts like himself, and that he had been trying to reach the Harvard and MIT students to talk to them about their exploits. "Welcome to our world," he said. Locke asked for pointers. B. David demurred on details: "I don't want to give you too much information. I will tell you one thing, though: look for missing exchanges. Look for patterns. I'll give you a call back in a few weeks to see how you're doing."
This all seemed fascinating to Locke. He called the former MIT student – now living in Berkeley, California – whose number he had gotten from the Herald reporter. The student was friendly enough but, like B. David, was also reluctant to provide much information. The MIT student explained that he and his friends had been caught and interrogated by the FBI, although not actually prosecuted. He stressed that Locke could get in trouble playing with this stuff and that Locke should stay away from the whole thing. Locke pressed him for more information. Finally the MIT student told him, "If you really want to find out more, everything you need to know is in the library."
Great, thought Locke, a third trip to the library.
But what library would have the sort of information he was looking for? Some research led him to the physics library and something called the Bell System Technical Journal. The one term Locke knew to look up was "multifrequency." From the journal's index he quickly located an article from the November 1960 issue titled "Signaling Systems for Control of Telephone Switching." It was technical but not so technical that Locke couldn't understand a good chunk of it. It laid out in detail exactly how certain aspects of the telephone system worked, including the multifrequency signaling system. This article plus the Crimson and Herald stories, as well as his conversations with B. David and the former MIT student, gave him everything he needed to get serious about this stuff.
Locke started to spend a lot of time on the telephone. "Look for missing exchanges, look for patterns," B. David had told him. Locke knew that an exchange was the first three digits of a local telephone number. By making a careful study of the telephone book and doing a lot of dialing, Locke discovered that there were indeed missing exchanges in the downtown Boston area. When Locke found a missing exchange, he would start dialing all the telephone numbers in it. All ten thousand of them.
Weeks later Locke had three things to show for his efforts. The first was an indelible black circle around his index finger from his repeated dialing. Second was four livid roommates: because Locke was constantly on the phone, none of them could make or receive phone calls. But third was a collection of some very interesting telephone numbers. Some of these were odd test numbers, numbers that made weird beeps, boops, clicks, and tones. More interesting were so-called party lines. These were typically vacant number recordings ("We're sorry, you have reached a nonworking number ...") whose audio levels were very low. All the callers to one of these numbers would be connected, and because the volume of the recordings was so low people could talk over the recordings. As a result, they served as primitive conference calls at a time when such things were unheard of.
Most interesting, though, was that several numbers went to inward operators in various places.
Locke's obsession grew. He decided he wanted to build one of these mystical "blue boxes" so that he, too, could directly control the telephone network. That meant he'd need to build electronic oscillators, circuits that would make musical tones. But Locke didn't know anything about electronics. Looking for patterns and missing exchange numbers was one thing; electronic circuit design was something else. Locke got a friend of his to introduce him to a graduate student in the physics department in order to persuade him to help build the oscillator circuits he needed for his blue box.
"What do you need them for?" the grad student asked.
Be confident and self-assured and act like you know what you're doing. "I'm a biology major and I'm studying the effects of high-frequency audio oscillations on fruitfly germination."
The grad student raised an eyebrow but helped Locke anyway.
Locke started haunting the electronics stores in Cambridge, looking for parts and guidance on assembling his blue box. Before long he linked up with students at MIT in the Tech Model Railroad Club, or TMRC, near the Kendall Square T Station. The TMRC was home to one of the most technically sophisticated model railroad setups in the country, possibly the world. MIT students had laid out some six hundred feet of track simulating ten scale miles of railroad amid painstakingly detailed scenery. The trains were controlled by a fantastically complex switching system based on many of the same principles as the telephone network. Indeed, the telephone company had donated equipment to the club for just this purpose, and the club's faculty adviser was in charge of MIT's telephone system, so it was not surprising that model train operators at TMRC used a telephone dial to select the train to be controlled. It was a veritable breeding ground for telephone enthusiasts.
With help from the more electronically knowledgeable students at MIT, and only a few soldering iron burns, Locke was able to piece together a blue box. By now Locke had been told by enough people that he could get in trouble for using his blue box and that he should be careful. So Locke was careful – when it was convenient, anyway. He used his blue box from the pay phone in his dorm quite a bit, as well as from friends' houses. As Locke figured it, the only thing he was doing with it was using it to learn about how the phone system worked. He didn't even really know anybody far away he wanted to call, so it wasn't like he was racking up thousands of dollars in free long-distance calls. He just couldn't imagine that anyone cared about his activities that much.
Incredibly enough, some people did care, as Locke learned upon returning to his dorm room in June 1967, just three months after seeing the Fine Arts 13 ad in the Crimson. He knew he was in trouble from the moment he walked in the door: waiting for him in his living room were three men. One of them was the crestfallen house master, the Harvard professor who was the head of Locke's dorm. Locke didn't know the other two, but he did notice that one of them was wearing a trench coat – strange, given that it was a warm summer day.
"The jig's up, Locke," the house master said.
Trying to stall for time, Locke asked, "Which jig?"
Based on the reactions of his three visitors, Locke surmised this was the wrong thing to have said.
"You know which jig we're talking about, Locke," said one of the men. "The telephone jig. We've been through your things." He held up Locke's blue box. "We need to talk."
One of his visitors turned out to be from the telephone company, AT&T security. The other introduced himself as a special agent from the FBI's Boston Field Office. They asked Locke to come downtown with them. The FBI agent told him that this was a very serious matter, that they had some questions they wanted straight answers to, and that they would arrest him if he didn't cooperate.
Locke spent the next twenty-four hours in what felt like a scene from a 1940s detective movie: a barren room with nothing more than a wooden table, a chair for him, two chairs for his interrogators, and a bare lightbulb dangling from the ceiling. Sitting across from him, the FBI agent and the telephone security man worked hard to get him to confess to using the blue box to make free telephone calls. Despite being scared to death Locke denied everything. He didn't know what they were talking about, he said.
After several hours of questioning, he finally admitted that yes, the blue box was his, but that he had used it only to learn about the telephone network. Locke expected them to start grilling him about how many free calls he had made, but his interrogators shifted focus. They wanted to know who had given him the technical information necessary for him to build a blue box. He explained that he had seen an article in the Boston Herald and then found the Bell System Technical Journal article and gone on from there. In other words, there wasn't anyone else; he had been all on his own. It took a long time, but he managed to convince them of his version of events.
Again the questioning shifted course. Okay, they said, you figured out this stuff on your own. Fine. Now tell us who you've been selling the boxes to.
Locke was flummoxed. Selling the boxes? What boxes? He had built only the one, and he hadn't sold it to anyone. The FBI agent grilled him. They were sure he had been selling them – or at least supplying them – to others. To whom, they wouldn't say. After hours of back and forth, Locke was able to get across that it was just him, there was just the one box he had built, and he hadn't been selling them. (In retrospect, Locke says he is glad he never thought of this. "The idea of selling blue boxes had never occurred to me ... fortunately! It's not a bad idea.")
Locke spent the evening in the care of the FBI. In the morning he was told he could leave, but only after he prepared a written report describing what he had done and the techniques he had used. He spent the morning writing this report.
As he was leaving, Locke turned to the man from the phone company. His face slipped into a grin. "By the way," he said, "I'm not doing anything for the summer. You guys wouldn't happen to have any job openings, would you?"


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With Broncos offensive coordinator Adam Gase still mired in Denver's postseason run, the Cleveland Browns mine elsewhere for their next head coach.
NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport confirmed that the team Monday will interview Mike Munchak, according to a source informed of their search. FOXSports.com's Alex Marvez first reported that the Browns plan to sit down with the recently fired coach of the Tennessee Titans.
Add Munchak's name to a long list of candidates, ranging from Chargers offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt, to Packers quarterbacks coach Ben McAdoo, to Gase, who Rapoport was told the team still "would really like to talk to."
Munchak's experience at the position might be attractive to owner Jimmy Haslam, who has deep ties to the state of Tennessee. Either way, Cleveland's list of candidates suggests that the team is married to landing an offensive-minded leader, possibly one willing to work with Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel.
The Browns reportedly are displaying strong interest in drafting Johnny Football in May. After TheMMQB.com's Peter King wrote last month that "Cleveland really likes Johnny Manziel," CBSSports.com noted Saturday that team brass has not given up on landing Auburn's Gus Malzahn and pairing him with Manziel next season.
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Coupons.com gives you the ability to clip some coupons directly to grocery store loyalty cards. This technology makes saving even more money quite simply simple. No more forgetting your coupons at home. No more organizing coupons into a binder. You don't even have to plan your shopping trip in advance. Just one swipe and you're done.
First you need to connect your loyalty card to a coupons.com account. Before you begin, either sign in or create one.
1. Go to the "Loyalty Coupons" tab at coupons.com.
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Foresight's Standards Work for Molecular Nanosystems
Since July 2005, the Foresight Nanotech Institute has participated as a member of ANSI's Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to ISO Technical Committee 229, "Nanotechnologies" [1,2]. TC229 was established in 2005 to develop ISO standards, specifications, and technical reports on Nanotechnology. ANSI is the United States' representative body on the ISO council. Currently there are four Working Groups, both within the ANSI TAG and at the ISO level:
Initially, Dr. Forrest participated in WG2 as well as the general meetings. More recently there has been enough progress in the Terminology and Nomenclature front (WG1) to warrant more attention there and best represent Foresight's focus on nanosystems. Specifically:
The efforts of ANSI's WG1 were recently highlighted in the August 2008 issue of Nanotechnology Law Report [5].
It is important to note that ISO's efforts to bring definitions into ISO documents is a complex process involving as much cooperation, political savvy, tenacity, and international diplomacy as it does technical acumen. It is complicated by the fact that many of the terms have been in use for decades and have never had a consensus definition. The process is glacial: ISO has been at this for three years now and there is still no ratified definition of "Nanotechnology" let alone the myriad of other related terms. Foresight's continued presence and participation in the ISO process helps to maintain a focus on nanosystems, maintains our stature in the international Nanotechnology community as a leader in education and policy issues, and underscores our commitment to consensus standards as a cornerstone of responsible development of molecular nanotechnology.
[1] http://www.iso.org/iso/standards_development/technical_committees/list_o f_iso_technical_committees/iso_technical_committee.htm?commid=381983
[2] http://www.ansi.org/standards_activities/standards_boards_panels/tc229.aspx?menuid=3
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_down
[4] http://davidrforrest.com/documents/top_down_bottom_up.html
[5] See the link to the August 2008 issue on this ANSI page, as well as related articles:
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A DECISION to switch off 17,000 street lights across Worcestershire has been given the green light by politicians today.
The county council's Conservative cabinet has agreed that two out of every three lights should be switched off - despite calls to go further.
As your Worcester News revealed on Tuesday, from April workers will start taking out 1,000 lights a month and replace them with special 'timed' dimmers that go out from midnight to 6am.
The council operates 52,000 lights but wants to save £500,000 a year on carbon emissions.
During a meeting of the cabinet today, Worcestershire's Liberal Democrats said more should go off.
The total bill for lighting across Worcestershire costs taxpayers £2.6 million a year.
Councillor Liz Tucker, Lib Dem group leader, said: "I think you need to do more and do it faster - why go so slow?
"One third of them is pretty modest, while we'd all like the street lights to be on if you look at the other decisions that are being taken, I think it would be less painful to switch off more street lights than cut other services."
The Conservative leadership said they saw no reason to rush the project, insisting they wanted to ease any concerns from the community.
Councillor John Campion, the cabinet member for transformation and commissioning, said: "We can't do it in a 'chop off' fashion, we need to take our communities with us.
"This is about doing it in a measured and sensible way."
Lights on all main roads, bends and junctions to housing estates will be kept on, as well as areas with higher crime rates.
It will be reviewed on a regular basis with West Mercia Police, and the council say it will take around 18 months to two years to finish the project.
Councillor John Smith, cabinet member for highways and transportation, said: "It will take a period of time but we'll get there as soon as we can."
Councillor Simon Geraghty, deputy leader and the cabinet member for economy, skills and infrastructure said: "We've taken a number of years to move to a sensible, proportional plan.
"People in a lot of urban estates do understand that after 12 'o'clock there are very few people moving about - this is one of those areas where I think people understand reductions need to be made."


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Buildings surrounding the square in downtown Macomb tell architectural and historical stories of the region, but a century of rugged living has weakened their voice.
Buildings surrounding the square in downtown Macomb tell architectural and historical stories of the region, but a century of rugged living has weakened their voice.
One of these historic buildings long past its prime was admired by insurance agent Gerry Wise. He walked by the two-story brick building at 19 East Side Square daily on the way to his office at Purdum Gray Ingledue insurance agency.
Wise was intrigued by a plaque on the building: "William H. Ball Barber Shop, First African-American Business in Macomb, 1872."
At the time, Wise was living in an 800-square-foot starter home in East Peoria and commuting to Macomb. When he noticed a for-sale sign on the building, he jumped at the opportunity. He had worked his way through college doing construction and felt up to the challenge of restoring the structure.
That was 2004. Today, Wise, 37, lives in the second-floor loft with his Brittany spaniel, Bailey, and rents the lower level to H&R Block. Renting the retail space pays the mortgage on the building.
The renovation took about two years.
Wise said he now often feels claustrophobic visiting friends in traditional homes. Even though his living space is not inordinately expansive at under 2,000 square feet, the high ceilings and large, 7-foot windows create a feeling of spaciousness.
The loft is about 100 feet long and 20 feet wide. Wise and his father worked on the rehab together, removing an 8-foot drop ceiling and restoring 11 1/2-foot ceilings. They found original piping in the ceiling for gas lights.
All the old windows were replaced with thermal paned windows, which reduce heating and cooling costs and muffle noise from traffic around the square.
"When I first got these windows installed, I didn't have blinds. I had to watch TV with sunglasses on," Wise said.
Floors in the two front rooms had been carpeted over unfinished planks. Rather than install new wooden floors, Wise put down laminate flooring except in the rear bedroom, where he sanded and sealed the wooden planks.
He and his father installed a granite counter top on an island in the kitchen. Still left to renovate are a half bathroom and the ceiling in the kitchen-dining room.
Wise estimates he and his father did about half the renovation work, but they hired someone to do the electric, plumbing and laminate flooring.
The front windows face west toward the courthouse, a Second Empire Revival building constructed in 1872 of brick and limestone. The courthouse was renovated in 1978 and 1979.
"I can sit up here and people watch and still be very private," Wise said. "Sunsets are beautiful."
The building was listed for $110,000. Following the renovation, it is valued for insurance purposes at $550,000.
Wise said a loan from the city helped with renovation costs.
He favors a plan currently being discussed to establish a historic district around the courthouse.
Ed Basch, community development coordinator in Macomb, said the City Council passed a historic preservation ordinance and is now surveying property owners regarding establishment of a historic district.
A historic district would mean property owners could become eligible for tax credits, but it also means alterations to the outside and possibly some inside work are subject to approval by a historic preservation commission.
Basch said the district would help preserve the heritage of downtown Macomb and could be an economic incentive for the community.
Establishment of the district would require approval of 51 percent of the 96 different property owners.
"Studies show establishment of a historic district is a marketing tool. It preserves the character of a community, draws more visitors and stimulates the economy, but it's not just economics," Basch said.
"This preserves our sense of place, our heritage and the feel of Macomb's downtown square."
He would like to see more second-floor living space developed in the proposed district.
"The one thing that makes a downtown vibrant is people living there," Basch said. "Residents mean there are more people at all times of day and night. When a downtown is only work, at 5 p.m. everyone leaves."
Wise said he can walk to the grocery store, restaurants, banks, post office and coffee shops.
"I can walk my dog and socialize with people," he said. "It's nice to be able to connect with the community that way."
Basch said there are a number of additional buildings on the square that can be renovated for commercial space on the street level and residential space on the second floor.
"There is some talk that the state might create complementary tax credits. That would be wonderful," he said. "We have been told downtown Macomb has a lot of unique, architecturally distinctive buildings."
Keel Clemmens works in the archives and special collections at Western Illinois University and is a member of the new historic preservation commission.
He said the region was in a military tract of land given in return for service in the War of 1812.
"We have these historically significant buildings on the square that are walking distance from the Amtrak station. These are mostly 100-year-old buildings that are still affordable," Clemmens said. "These are wonderful buildings, and we want to preserve as much of the square as possible."
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Turning a Sharp Zaurus into a penetration tool
This tutorial will show you how to get various poular security tools running on the Sharp Zaurus PDS. I have a strong interest in the topic of computer security and love futzing around with technology. Most of the best network security and penetration testing tools are made for *nix environments, so when I heard about the Sharp Zaurus PDA that ran Linux out of the box it tweaked my interest. The Zaurus makes for a great hacking tool, the price on the older 5500 keeps dropping (I got mine with a WiFi card and a modem for about $200 off Ebay). The following are some of the security tools I have running on my Zaurus 5500, the hoops I had to jump through to install them, and some information on how to use them. While my testing environment is a Zaurus 5500 running OpenZaurus a lot of this information should also apply to other Zaurus models and to Ipaqs and Axims running some kind of ARM Linux. I had a devil of a time installing some of these apps so I hope this website of my notes helps. If you just want a PDA I would urge you to buy a Pocket PC or a Palm, but if you like Linux and Networking definitely go for A Zaurus. If any of the information on this page becomes out of date please email me at email@example.com or leave a message in my tech forum and let me know so I can update it.
Apps I will be covering:
General OS Info
Change your MAC Address
Wardriving Apps
Wellenreiter II
Scanners and Packet Tools
Irongeek's Test Enviroment:
Sharp Zaurus 5500
Ambicom WL1100C-CF 802.11b Wi-Fi card
TRENDnet/TRENDware TE-CF100 10/100 Ethernet card
OpenZaurus 3.3.6 Pre-1
Website: http://www.openzaurus.org
Packages: http://www.openzaurus.org/official/e...1-2.4.18-gcc3/ (for 5500)
My Mirror: http://tux.ius.edu/zaurus/oz/3.3.6-pre1-gcc3/ (for 5500)
The OpenZaurus ROM gives you more options than the Sharp ROM, and it's said that they have better hardware support. It's fairly easy to install, just copy the root file system (initrd.bin) and kernel (zImage) you want to a CF card and hit the hard reset button while holding down C and D on the keyboard (if you have big paws it can me tuff). See the install GUIde here http://www.openzaurus.org/oz_website...t/installGUIde . I went with OZ 3.3.6 because it was easier to get Wellenreiter II working out of the box then with some of OpenZaurus' more tested ROMS. You can add packages by put them on an SD/CF card and using the packages app or the ipkg command line tool. The packages tool also has a way to install IPKs from the website. Many of the following apps will need LibPcap to function. Before you install any of the Packages I have mirrored please check in the directories ( http://www.openzaurus.org/official/ ) at the OpenZarus site to see if there are any newer versions available. One downside to OZ 3.3.6-pre1-gcc3 is that it was built with gcc 3.3.2 which means you will need the compatibility libraries from http://www.mithis.com/zaurus/ipkgs/ (my mirror is here). You will know when you have a compatibility problem when you get an error like "undefined symbol: _7QString.shared_null". The GUI tool that comes with the compatibility libraries does not always seem to work so what I do is edit the .desktop files and add "runcompat" in front of whatever the exec= line points to (see my example in the Zethereal section). Update 3/15/2004: Tim Ansell (aka Mithro) of the OZ-compat project sent me the following notes that might help you with GCC compatibility problems:
Some general tips:Hi!
I was reading your oz-compat pages (as I like to look at how people are using my packages) and found the following information:
"The GUI tool that comes with the compatibility libraries does not always seem to work so what I do is edit the .desktop files and add "runcompat"
in front of whatever the exec= line points to (see my example in the Zethereal section). "
There is actually a better way to do this, if you go to the console and do a "makecompat <binary>" it will link up that binary to the compat libs.
I would also like to know more information on where that script fails so I can fix it
I really need to do a quick C++ application instead of being horrible dependent on the old and unmaintained opie-sh. (I plan to eventually rework and replace opie-sh with a better opie-sh
Anyway I thought i would just inform you of this
Tim aka Mithro
1. Make sure you have a good text editor like Nano installed so you can edit system files, the text editor from the GUI is flaky as hell.
2. The first thing you you should do after installing OZ is give the root account a password using the passwd command.
3. Fn-C acts as Ctrl-C would on the desktop.
4. Make sure you have a good SSH and SFTP program on you box. In Windows I use Putty for SSH and FileZilla for SFTPing files. I use EditPad Lite for editing system files on my Windows box, it does not screw up Unix style line feeds.
5. Keep the backlight low to extend battery life and have suspend mode only turn of the LCD when you are wardriving.
6. Space is limited, get yourself an SD card to log information to.
7. Install LibPcap, almost all of these apps will need it.
Change your MAC Address
Here is how to change you MAC address in OpenZaurus. Iuse these two commands:
This would set you wlan0 interface to use the MAC 0:0a:0a:a0:a0:a0. This could be useful for sniffing other connections or for bypassing MAC address restrictions on an Access Point (find valid MAC addresses by sniffing them). It also makes it less traceable to your hardware.Code:ifconfig wlan0 down hw ether 0:0a:0a:a0:a0:a0 ifconfig wlan0 up
Wellenreiter II
Website: http://www.vanille.de/projects/wellenreiter.html
Packages: http://opie.net.wox.org/wellenreiter...rmv4l-gcc3.32/
My Mirror: http://tux.ius.edu/zaurus/wellenreiter/
This is an ass kicking application that is still in active development by Michael Lauer. I would recommend checking at his site regularly to see if there are any updated packages. Wellenreiter II is a great tool for wardiving, and it not only shows you the APs but also what other devices are attaching to those APs. You can also get a dump of some of the traffic that is being passed. Before you try to install this app makes sure you install:
When you first run it give it about 5 seconds so it will pop up the message about killing the DHCP client, once DHCP is killed it works a lot better.
Update 3/05/2004:
Thanks for the help Mark.Mark Lachniet wrote me with the following advices, apparently if you run Wellenreiter II from an SD card it can cause problems with the GUI. Here's his advice:
I un-installed from my SD card and re-installed on RAM. It looks like this fixed the problem - its very responsive and doesnt crash OPIE any more. Apparently the SD card was too slow to handle some kind of program data caching, etc. That might be worth a FYI on your web page.
Thanks again for the help,
Mark Lachniet
Website: http://www.kismetwireless.net/
Packages: www.kismetwireless.net/code/
My Mirror: http://tux.ius.edu/zaurus/
Updated: 3/19/2004
Kismet, you know it, you love it. Kismet is one of the most popular wardiving tools for Linux. It's great because it can do RF monitoring and pick up APs that are not broadcasting their SSID.
Ver 2.8
If you install version 2.8 it's pretty easy. To run it go into Konsole and type:
Hit the "h" key while it is running to bring up help. A dump of information is kept in /root/ for you to look at later if you want.Code:kismet_monitor kismet
Ver 3.1
To run the newer version it gets a little more complicated. First you must install version 3.1. Once you have installed Kismet overwrite the old kismet.conf (/mnt/ram/usr/local/etc/kismet.conf , it could be in a different path depending on where you installed it) with mine kismet.conf. Basically all I did was tell it to use hostap and turn off the GPS functionality, you may have to make some changes if you don't use a Prism based card (look for the "source=" setting).
Next edit the kismet script:
and add the following line right after "#!/bin/sh"Code:nano /mnt/ram/usr/local/bin/kismet
Now all you should have to do is drop out to Konsole and type:Code:export TERMINFO=/etc/terminfo
You should now see the Kismet interface we all know and love.Code:Kismet
FPCat has made his own package that can be downloaded from http://members.rogers.com/fpcat/kism...v4l-xscale.ipk , he says you will still need to tweak the kismet.conf file.
I like to use the ncurses interface, but If you want to use Kismet-qt you will have to set it up so that it uses the compatibility libraries (see my entry on Zethereal). It's easy enough to do, just install the compatibility libraries and Kismet-qt then edit the desktop file:
and change the exec line to read:Code:nano /opt/Qtopia/apps/Applications/kismet_qt.desktop
once that is done restart Opie and the Kismet-qt icon should workCode:Exec=runcompat kismet_qt
Website: http://www.cartel-securite.fr/pbiond...zethereal.html
My Mirror: http://tux.ius.edu/zaurus/zethereal/
Major Update:1-27-2004
Zethereal is Ethereal for the Zaurus. It's a good little sniffer/protocol analyzer. All the binaries I've found for it are compiled with the old gcc so you will have to use the compatibility libraries. Make sure you have installed LibPcap then install the ipk in my mirror (provided by Dan L). You will also need to install libglib (my mirror of libglib, boosted from Debian) and do some symlinking to get it toy work, I installed it from the SD card as follows:
Since this was created with the old gcc you will have to edit the .desktop file:Code:ipkg -force-depends -d ram install /mnt/card/libglib1.2_1.2.10-9_arm.ipk cd /usr/lib/ ln -s /mnt/ram/usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 ln -s /mnt/ram/usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10 ln -s /mnt/ram/usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 ln -s /mnt/ram/usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0.0.10 ln -s /mnt/ram/usr/lib/libgthread-1.2.so.0 ln -s /mnt/ram/usr/lib/libgthread-1.2.so.0.0.10
and change the exec line to read:Code:nano /opt/Qtopia/apps/Applications/zethereal.desktop
Restart Opie and it should all work. By the way, if for some reason installing the IPK does not put icons in the GUI do the following:Code:Exec=runcompat zethereal-1.0-arm
then restart Opie.Code:ln -s /mnt/ram/usr/bin/zethereal-1.0-arm /usr/bin/ ln -s /mnt/ram/opt/QtPalmtop/pics/zethereal.png /opt/QtPalmtop/pics/ ln -s /mnt/ram/opt/QtPalmtop/apps/Applications/zethereal.desktop /opt/QtPalmtop/apps/Applications/
Website: http://ettercap.sourceforge.net/
My Mirror: http://tux.ius.edu/zaurus/ettercap/
I found that you can get the Debian ARM packages to work on the Zaurus if you just rename them with a .ipk on the end. Make sure you have installed LibPcap. To install you will have to force dependences and symlink as follows (your paths may vary, I installed Ettercap off of an SD card):
(Pics on website listed at the bottom of the tutorial) The first pic shows the use of the flags needed to do a password capture with the IP base sniffing method in command line mode. To see it in its non command line mode (2nd pic) make sure you turn off wrapping under the Options menu of Konsole and that the onscreen keyboard is not up, otherwise you get an error like "Screen must be at least 25x80 !!". If you get an error about not being able to find etter.ssl.crt make sure you ran the symlink command above. I'm still having problem getting it to do IP forwarding, even if I do a:Code:ipkg -force-depends -d ram install /mnt/card/ettercap_0.6.b-2_arm.ipk ipkg -force-depends -d ram install /mnt/card/ettercap-common_0.6.b-2_arm.ipk ln -s /mnt/ram/etc/ettercap/ /etc/ettercap ln -s /mnt/ram/usr/sbin/ettercap /usr/sbin/ettercap
I'll try to let you know more when I get more time for testing, it may just be that it does not work with WI-Fi (I have a 10/100 Ethernet card on the way for testing). For the time being when it arpspoofs the two host it kills all communications between them. If Ettercap trys to sniff the USB connection (which is most likely not what you want) make sure you specify what interface to use with the "-i" option:Code:echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
If Ettercap loads too slowly because of host name resolution just turn it of using the "-d" option.Code:ettercap -i wlan0
Update 2/6/04: Ok, after testing it with a 10/100 Ethernet card Ettercap still does not work for catching passwords, must be something Zaurus specific because I got the package from Debian and I'm sure they tested it on other ARM platforms. For right now Ettercap on the Zaurus is only good for fingerprinting computers and for killing their net access (packet forwarding does not seem to work). I'll have to try the Dsniff package to see if I can get it to work better.
Website: http://ngrep.sourceforge.net/
My Mirror: http://tux.ius.edu/zaurus/bin/ngrep
Ngrep is basically Grep for network packets. It has a lot of filter options so check out the webpage for all of the options. The link above is to a binary, copy it to some place like /mnt/ram/usr/bin/ and symlink it to someplace in your path ( ln -s /mnt/ram/usr/bin/ngrep /bin/ngrep). If you want to save the information instead of show it on the screen use a command like:
to pipe it to a file for later viewing.Code:ngrep > /mnt/card/ngrep.log
Website: http://www.tcpdump.org/
My Mirror: http://tux.ius.edu/zaurus/tcpdump_3....-strongarm.ipk
John H.Sawyer pointed out that I did not list TCPDump, so here it is. Not a bad little command line sniffer See all of the options here: http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump_man.html
Website: http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
My Mirror: http://tux.ius.edu/zaurus/nmap/
Once again, an older version of nmap but still good pretty good. I need to see if I can compile a newer version. Nmap is a command line tool but the qpenmap front end makes it easier to use. Try entering something like 192.168.*.* to scan a whole range of IPs. The only version I have found that has be directly ported is 3.27, but you can get the newer Debian ARM packages to work by downloading them from here http://tux.ius.edu/zaurus/nmap/nmap3.50-1/ and following these instructions to install them:
1. Copy libpcre3_4.3-4_arm.ipk and nmap_3.50-1_arm.ipk to a CF or SD card. The change directories into whatever card you put them on.
2. Install libcre3 and symlink it:
ipkg -force-depends -d ram install libpcre3_4.3-4_arm.ipk
ln -s /mnt/ram/usr/lib/libpcre* /usr/lib/
3. Install nmap 3.50-1 and symlink it ands it's support files::
You can find the full man page for nmap at http://www.insecure.org/nmap/data/nmap_manpage.html but here are a few useful flags:Code:ipkg -force-depends -d ram install nmap_3.50-1_arm.ipk ln -s /mnt/ram/usr/bin/nmap /usr/bin/ ln -s /mnt/ram/usr/share/nmap /usr/share/nmap
-P0 Don't ping first, this is useful because a lot of hosts turn of ICMP echo requests anymore.
-O Do an OS detection
-e Specify and interface (eth0, wlan0, etc)
-sV Version scan, find out the version of a service that is running
Website: http://nemesis.sourceforge.net
My Mirror: http://tux.ius.edu/zaurus/nemesis/
Nemesis is packet injection utility. It allows you to spoof other hosts and generally cause confusion on the network. I just took the Debian ARM packages and renamed them with a .ipk on the end. The package comes with the following utilitys:
To install from the SD card:
then symlink everything someplace in you path:Code:ipkg -force-depends -d ram install /mnt/card/nemesis_1.32-5_arm.ipk
One cool use is to fake out an IDS system. If I used the commandCode:ln -s /mnt/ram/usr/sbin/n* /bin/
it would make it look as if Microsoft.com was attacking the target host. Here is a example of a script I wrote that can be used to make it look like another host is doing a port scan:Code:nemesis-tcp -x 1025 -y 22 -S 188.8.131.52 -D 126.96.36.199
frame.sh (just copy the content below)
copy all that into a text file, chmod +x it and use it by issuing a command likeCode:for port in 21 22 23 25 80 138 139 6776 10008 31337 do nemesis-tcp -x 1025 -y port -fS -S $1 -D $2 done
You will most likely want to change your MAC address first.Code:frame.sh Farmed_ip Target_IP
Thats about t, this tutorial was adapted from my notes page at: http://irongeek.com/i.php?submenu=za...rus/zaurusmain


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|"Oh, it's my ancestry back to Eve!"
Why? I'd like to proffer an example of a recent exchange I had with a researcher who contacted me regarding information I have on an Ancestry tree. In this instance, note carefully the use of the word "research" by the person who wrote to me:
In this case, a woman wrote to me to notify me that some of my dates and locations for a man in my family tree were wrong. I had been researching this man for a little over five years, concentrating in this time on his life in the United States after his immigration. This woman speculated that my information was inaccurate, due to what her "research" had revealed.
Her "research," as it turned out, consisted of a naturalization index card she had found on Ancestry, as well as family information she had found on various family trees online (all of which, I would note, are iterations of my own research into this hitherto un-digitized family).
My information was faulty, she said, because unlike my family tree information which said that this man had arrived in the United States from his birthplace of Milan in 1839, the naturalization index card that she had found on Ancestry showed that he had arrived in 1848 and was from Austria. My dates, she said, seemed "wrong."
Now, in this case, the extent of "research" that had led this woman to seek to clarify/correct my own research was, it seemed, a piece of indexed information that she had found on Ancestry. I was happy to send along a scan of the gentleman's entire naturalization file which I had received from the East Baton Rouge Clerk of Court's office. The file showed that the man in question had, indeed, arrived in 1839, although his declaration of intent was filed in 1848--this date was used on the naturalization card as the man's date of arrival in the United States.
I was also happy to point out to this researcher that the naturalization card was somewhat misleading in suggesting that the man was from Austria; in fact, as per the naturalization file, when he became a US citizen, he swore to revoke any and all allegiance to The Emperor of Austria, who, at the time of the man's naturalization in 1854, ruled over Milan as part of the Austrian empire.
Now, I concede that the naturalization card was somewhat misleading (and a good lesson as to how indexes can lead us to reach improper conclusions in our research). I also applaud her natural tendency to question the information she saw in my tree (I do, I'm sure, have some mistakes in there), but I also question this person's quickness to "correct" without having performed a modicum of true research on her own.
The key word here is "research." To my mind, calling this woman's work "research" is an abuse of the word, if only because what she had done was only half of the process deserving of that word. "Performing a search," "taking an overview of available information," or even "surveying previous research" is, of course, part of the research process. But locating an online family tree and preparing to undermine that research based on research that hasn't even been performed seems overeager at best, a slippery slope toward shoddy research at worst.
I'm happy (sarcastically) to report that the 15-page Genealogy Report regarding this matter that I sent this researcher has now been faithfully transcribed by her into her family tree, without attribution or documentation as to where she obtained the initial research. Of course, seeing as how I emailed her five years worth of research (along with scans) intending to bring her up to speed, and she never took the time to write and thank me for taking time to do so.... well, the move to proudly display my work as her own doesn't surprise me much.
It is, apparently, all part of her diligent "research."


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I prefer the 2 courts across the street from EA. =) or another one in Shorebird Park, RWC.
1) Dolphin Park (Across from EA campus)
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Ok let me know if it's possible for you.
1) Dolphin Park (Across from EA campus)
2) Shorebird Park
Hey Chris, I am also in the area and can make time to play during lunch. Let me know if you are still looking.
Hi Chris,
I also work in RWS very close to both courts you have mentioned. I am 3.5 USTA player (somewhere in between 3.5 and 4.0). I was looking for tennis partners to hit in lunch time for a long time but haven't found yet anybody willing to hit on a regular basis. Please let me know if you are still interested.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court, in an opinion released last Friday, issued an opinion which affirms the validity of rental restrictions included in a community association's bylaws, as opposed to the association's declaration. Several courts around the country have dealt with this issue in the past several years, with opinions coming down on both sides of the issue. And in this case, the Court was divided, with a dissenting justice arguing that the amendment to the bylaws were contrary to the declaration and the statutes, and that the restrictions needed to adopted, if at all, as an amendment to the declaration.
The case, Apple Valley Gardens Association, Inc. v. MacHutta, involved an association formed in July of 1979, by Steven MacHutta (yes, that MacHutta). The original declaration included a sentence providing that "Any lease…shall not relieve an owner from his obligation to pay common expenses or any other obligations…"
In 2002, the Association members amended the Association's bylaws to prohibit rental of units. Ms. MacHutta, the declarant's spouse was renting her unit, and challenged the amendment. Existing tenancies were "grandfathered", as the dispute did not ripen until 2004, when the board refused her petition to enter into a lease with a new tenant. Nonetheless, she rented the Unit and the Association sued.
The Court framed the first question as to whether lease restrictions must be included in the declaration; the court held that the rental restriction fell within the statutory provision providing that bylaws could include "any restriction on or requirement respecting the use and maintenance of the units…," which the Court held could include rental restrictions.
The Court next held that the provision respecting the joint liability of owners for assessments, by allowing leases, was contrary to the restriction against leases.
"Condominium ownership is a statutory creation that obligates individual owners to relinquish rights that they might otherwise enjoy in othr types of real property ownership", the Court stated. Amendments to the bylaws were foreseeable and enforceable, even if not as readily discoverable by virtue of recordation, and even if more easily achievable than declaration amendments. "The fact that lenders and purchasers rely on recorded declarations is irrelevant. If lenders and purchasers wish to know whether and under what conditions a condominium unit may be rented out, they may easily inquire as to both the declaration and the bylaws."
Next, the Court held that the declaration's reference to the conditions under which leases must be made did not mandate that they be allowed. The Court stated: "this provision neither grants a right to rent one's unit nor prohibits it…"
Lastly, the court dismissed a statutory-based challenge to the provision, holding that a marketability statute did not prohibit the bylaw.
The dissent disagreed, arguing first that restrictions such as rental restrictions must be in the declaration to be valid. Furthermore, the dissent argued, the amendment was contrary to, and hence prohibited by, the Declaration.
Apple Valley provides support for the Association that cannot, for whatever reason, provide rental restrictions in a declaration as opposed to bylaws. Nonetheless, this author, and the majority of practitioners in the area, encourage associations to make such significant changes in the declaration, rather than the bylaws.


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Sunday, January 2, 2011
The Law and Order Method of Genealogy
"Playing detective" seems to be a large part of the attraction for those of us who love genealogy. Yet there is also that other aspect of genealogical research that may be either part of the attraction or a big turn-off: the scholarly aspect. You know, citing your sources, adhering to the genealogical proof standard. Yeah, that stuff.
This is how I described that combination in one of Randy Seaver's famous Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenges at Genea-Musings ("Why Do I Pursue Genealogy?"):
"You get to be a cross between a detective and a scholarly researcher. Sometimes you are pursuing the thinnest of clues (detective), and other times you are amassing, comparing and cross-checking, and filtering out many different pieces of information from sources of widely varying thoroughness and reliability (researcher). Depending on your mood on any given day, you can assume one role or the other, or both."
I still do think of it this way.
However, while watching TV and doing genealogy on my new laptop the other day, I realized there was perhaps a more compatible and natural combination of vocations that might describe this dual nature of genealogical research.
We were watching "Law and Order UK," the latest version of the franchise – you know, the one with crown prosecutors (wigs) instead of district attorneys (no wigs). And it struck me that much of what the prosecutors/district attorneys do (or are supposed to do) is that "second half" of the genealogical process. And in an ideal world, as they investigate crimes, the police detectives work closely with them to build the case.
Some of us prefer one role over the other, and some like both but may give preference to one or the other at different times. The most common problem is when research does not focus enough on the second, proof-oriented, role. However, while being scrupulous and thorough, we should not forget that sometimes it is necessary to get down and dirty, to try something off the wall or unconventional, or even – gasp! – to use Google or check online trees.
Sometimes it's time to call that psychic.
Like the police detective, sometimes ya gotta rely on that tip line. You have to check out some places where those genies, even unsavory ones, hang out. You know which sources tend to be unreliable, so you take what they say with a grain of salt. Yeah, sometimes you let your guard down and accept something at face value that you shouldn't have – but what mystery is not made all the more interesting by a red herring or two?
And when you think you've got a good case, one that will nail that ancestor/perpetrator, you take it to the district attorney.
And he tells you that won't fly with a judge and jury. You have to have proof – maybe not beyond a shadow of a doubt, but beyond a reasonable doubt.
You have to pound the pavement some more. Get deep down into the paperwork. Maybe you won't find anything that supports your case, but you have to be able to demonstrate at the very least that you didn't find anything disproving your case, either. And, the really tiresome part is, you have to keep records of everything you searched, everything you found, and everything you didn't find.
You hand it all over to the lawyers, who put it in the right order and dress it up with some fancy and, you hope, convincing words, hoping against hope that the perpetrator/ancestor will not get off on a technicality.
And then maybe – just maybe – the judge and jury will agree: "Yeah, that's the guy."
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I really enjoyed this post, thanks! Now I will think of even the dodgiest online tree as kind of cool, because it's obviously an unsavory genie haunt. If I find parts of my tree that aren't up to scratch, I can salvage my credibility by saying it was undercover work.ReplyDelete
I absolutely loved reading this post. As part of my New Year's Resolutions, I posted that I would try to overcome my extreme dislike of citing my sources using a specific format. I even talked my husband into buying me a copy of Evidence Explained. Here's to resolutions!ReplyDelete
Greta - I too loved this post.ReplyDelete
Personally I prefer the law part of the process--hunting down the clues, solving the mystery. I bought a copy of Evidence Explained for myself for Christmas to help with the order part of the process. One of my New Year's resolutions is to verify and cite all my sources.
Don't tell anyone, but I love online trees. Shocking I know. The key is to use them for clues not evidence. Unless a tree cites a source AND I can verify the information, it's just another red herring.
Thanks for the great post! Happy New Year!
Good points, sometimes just knowing WHERE to look (found by sneaking a peak at those online trees) is all the help you need! I do it all the time, cannot recreate each family wheel by myself with no idea of where to look, where did that wheel roll??ReplyDelete
Great post!
Great analogy, Greta!ReplyDelete
Very well stated!! I've decided to become psychic, I just have to learn how...ReplyDelete
I am definitely the law part of the equation. Now if I could only find the order part - ideally someone else willing to take my evidence and tidy it up. No one's knocking on the door so I guess that'll be me.ReplyDelete
This was a fun and interesting analogy, Greta. I can see myself on both sides - I love the sleuthing but (or and) I'm a bugger for sources. Gotta have 'em or the names and dates aren't worth much (other than clues). However, I'm probably not so great on the ways of stating sources. I need to look at Evidence Explained again.ReplyDelete
Enjoyed this post, Greta. I work both sides of the genealogy fence, sources and sleuthing...I do love the sleuthing more though!ReplyDelete
Shelley - Yeah, I like to think of us as tough undercover guys!ReplyDelete
Kathy - Oh, those citations. I try to do them for some of the articles I write up (using Evidence Explained), and then when I need to remember how I did it, I go back to the articles. So it gets easier as time goes by, but there is still a reluctance to spend time doing it.
Cynthia - There is nothing like that thrill of solving the mystery; I guess the "order" part helps us say "And here's the proof!"
Carol - This was my central thought in this post: we are so anxious to solve the mystery - yes, with proof and all - that we are not too proud to look anywhere and everywhere.
Tonia - Thanks for stopping by - hope to see you at NGS this year!
Leah - I wonder if there's any money to be had in starting a School for Genealogy Psychics? Maybe Kerry would go in on it with us?
NR - We need personal assistants or something ... or I wish we could summon up the spirit of Elizabeth Mills when we need her!
Nancy - Even the detective walking a beat has to admit, if you keep track of your sources, you can always go back to them and wring a bit more information out of them.
Arkie - I love the idea of "working both sides of the fence" - it brings in even more of the element of "derring do"!
You are so right!! Loved the post-makes my research feel so much more important after reading it : )ReplyDelete


text: LongHaul 10 Posted March 27, 2007 In another thread, as we say, a question was raised as to alternate requirements for rank advancement. I'm all for recognizing Scouts with disabilities, I was one. There has to be a line. What does First Class Scout mean? What does Eagle Scout mean? Alternate requirements IMO need to be used only when the scout could never complete a specific requirement as written. A scout in a wheel chair can't chop wood. A blind scout IMO can't become a 2nd Class Scout, almost all of the requirements would have to be altered. The alternate requirement option is under the control of the council advancement committee so my question isnt should A B or C be accepted as grounds for allowing the alternate requirement. Instead Id like to know at what point or for what types of disabilities YOU would ask for the exception. LongHaul Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Veterinary Social Workers
What is the role of the social worker in veterinary oncology?
Christina Bach, Oncology Social Worker at Penn Medicine, responds:
Veterinary social workers and bereavement counselors are available at many large academic veterinary hospitals. There are also many bereavement counselors who specialize in pet loss counseling and support. Veterinary social workers can help you and your family cope with the impact of your pet's cancer on the family, find resources for support, connect you with support groups as well as plan for end of life care and bereavement support. Veterinary social workers have specialized training and knowledge about the human animal bond as well as the impact and specialized nature of pet loss and bereavement. The social worker can also be available to be present with your before/during/after euthanasia as well as help you think of ways to memorialize and remember your pet.
Learn more about social work in veterinary medicine.
This question and answer was part of the OncoLink Brown Bag Chat Series. View the entire transcript from When a Beloved Pet has Cancer.