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Sources.. Mufon Report # 23825
www.mufoncms.com/files/23825_submitter_file1__ThisisaletterfromETtoEarth.doc
The link above does not work. mufoncms.com is the MUFON case management system. The Real MUFON site does not highlight this letter. Serious ufologists give their names and sources, and many of MUFON do this. Beforeitsnews.com/paranormal has stories about ghosts, Niburu, etc. etc. (all over the map)
CHANGE THE WORLD! “DECIDE WHETHER WE SHOULD SHOW UP!” Whoever transmitted this translated message to you is irrelevant, and should remain anonymous in your mind. It is what you will do with this message which matters ! > Each one of you wishes to exercise her/his free will and experience happiness. These are attributes that… Continue reading from MUFON:
I used it to generate white noise (snow). Then, I used the camera on my laptop to record the white noise. I saw that this was good. Then I started copying the video files of white noise to CDs. This worked well for a while. Then, some strange things happened. My Linux system wouldn’t boot… Continue reading I have a cathode ray tube TV
What’s the best random number generator?
sci.math discussion thread, 1995
about libuuid needed in GNU gparted
libuuid is needed to build gparted.
FBI FOIA documents responsive to “UFO”
The free archiving site archive.org has the FBI FOIA docs. responsive to UFO. This seems identical or similar to the Google e-Book mentioned in a previous post. The text is ASCII, so not scanned documents, so is easy to read.
The linux comand is this: $ cat /dev/urandom | base64 [ENTER] See for example this web page: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1250144/how-to-base64-encode-dev-random-or-dev-urandom To get a “photo” like in my previous post, I grab a screenshot of the window that is displaying the pseudo-random base64 characters. It can be good source material to generate possible passwords. For example, fill… Continue reading how to get random printable characters
Base64 display of `cat file’
Julia Gillard address on Mayan calendar
I’ve read that it’s a publicity stunt aimed at a “young Australian” potential voters. It was delivered on a morning show. Anyway, one give-a-way is (I think) that she doesn’t look too worried …
Over at Google Books, at the link: ISBN = 16207 90114 (10 digits) xxx Now, valid ISBNs have error-detecting capability; see e.g.: 162079011 // first 9 of 10 digits in ISBN-10 code check digit = 4============================calculator at:http://www.hahnlibrary.net/libraries/isbncalc.html For: 162079011, the calculator saysCheck Digit: 4 So, “1620790114” checks as Ok. In addition, the calculator computes thisas… Continue reading Google e-Book on FBI files, UFO phenomena, 1947-1952 approximately
screen copy:
[root@localhost sbin]# lvm pvscan
lvm: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so.6: undefined symbol: UP
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I can’t read, mount, see the LVM partition on my old 250 GB hardrive that had Scientific Linux. I have now installed Fedora 17 Linux on a brand new 1 TB hard drive but this time with _no_ LVM. Am making disk image of partition of type ? from ScLinux (the LVM thing) in my home directory of Fedora 17 on 1TB hard drive. File type ends in *.img. Hare Krishna
Best practices in securing home comp. & network
The Information Assurance Directorate at NSA wrote an 8-page Best practices guide to securing a home computer and local area network. They go beyond what is commonly advised in general-purpose Web-site “tips”, for example outlining that third-party application software should also be kept patched and up-to-date. I think it’s very thorough for home networks …
declassified affidavit from NSA policy maker
A group seeking FOIA-release petitioned a court to compel release of NSA docs. responsive to UFO. The NSA produced an (at the time) Top Secret Umbra affidavit explaining why there could be no response on some documents. What comes to light is that it involved SIGINT intercepts, sometimes of comms. by foreign parties or governments. The formerly Top Secret Umbra affidavit has now been released in sanitized form, with some text blacked-out (as with a felt-tip pen marker).
Ross Anderson on “Trusted Computing” in hardware
A big note of caution on going too far with industry-sponsored hardware security modules.
Philip Coppens: 2013 a new beginning
Coppens takes the Mayan “prophecies” seriously; from what I heard, he’s a good friend of von Danniken, who wrote “Chariots of the Gods”.
So, I suppose I think the evidence for ancient cosmonauts or gods being present in Ancient Greece is weak. In the video about 2012 and the Mayans, Coppens says that he doesn’t expect end of the world come December 21. He says that going into 2013 and beyond, we’ll be at a new beginning.
So, time will tell …
NIST on securing mobile devices
This is a very technical draft paper concerned with trusted computing on mobile devices such as smart phones and notebooks. I suggest reading the Abstract first. There, the authors write and I quote: “Many mobile devices are not capable of providing strong security assurances to end users and organizations. Current mobile devices lack the hardware-based roots of trust that are increasingly built into laptops and other types of hosts.” (end_quote). As examples of mobile devices, the keywords include: smartphone and tablet.
It’s a draft document and NIST are inviting comments: “NIST requests comments on draft NIST SP 800-164 by December 14th, 2012. Please submit all comments to 800-164comments@nist.gov.” [9 days left].
The essential section for me was section 4 on roots of trust. This draft document, in my opinion, provides a counterpoint to those who say that BYOD in the company is just a fact of life …
My assessment: Doing a clean install of Linux on a desktop or laptop computer from trusted media (where digital signatures are validated) provides a higher level of assurance than the new world of smartphones and related mobile gadgets.
I must say Google search disappoints a bit by placing too much emphasis on commercial links. Say I have a billion dollars. Then I can hire people to promote my web site on their (more or less “legit” as in “independent”) web sites … Sounds like some sort of scam … Anyway, these folks at majesticseo are crawling the web and producing their own metrics for web pages and URLs. They sell subscribtions. So, they know about search engine stuff and the blog post mentions another “ranking” besides PageRank (r) and it’s called:
MozRank
MozRank
re: “How to Defend Against Botnets | FedTech Magazine”
4 cools (out of 5 cools maximum). Very good. db.
BYOD article at fedtechnology.com
Ninja employees, maybe … Things like Dropbox are appealing. fedtechmagazine has had a number of thoughtful articles on the BYOD conundrum throughout 2012. I recommend fedtechmagazine.com . It’s free.
That is the question …
Over at networkworld.com, the author of the piece linked to put out “10 hard truths IT must learn to accept” ; most I don’t take issue with. Hard truth number 1: “IT concession No. 1: The BYOD revolution is here to stay” . While searching the Web for this post, I got the impression that opinions on BYOD in the IT world are quite diverse, and if there’s a consensus, I’m not sure who’s in on it or if their wise geeks or not (too complicated). I’ll simply note that the author spoke or exchanged with about two IT people, both from the sector of enterprise mobility (smartphones, other mobile devices). A priori, vendors of software for business and enterprise mobile computing solutions/ideas will gain from wider use of personal mobile devices in an organization. That is all.
So, I am subscribed to many security-bulletin vulnerability disclosure mailing lists. I couldn’t even list them all. The general assessment that cyber-threats (from any organization or disorganization, honest) are getting more and more sophisticated seems true to me. I’ve already mentioned elsewhere the “malady” of releasing software products in time for Christmas, an Expo or… Continue reading news on cyber-security
For a heated wire of length 2pi whichis insulated against heat flow atboth ends, we can model the wireand its temperature distributionby a function on the segment[0, 2pi]. We can suppose that a point heat sourceis at some point `a’ between the twoextremities. In the example below,a = 1. In physical terms, at timet =… Continue reading numerical methods, heat flow
UFO Secret: MJ-12 – Do you believe in MAJIC
Stanton Friedman Lecture. Credit: UFO.TV production.