From: Greg
To: Jussi
Subject: need to ssh into rootkitim in europe and need to ssh into the server. can you drop open upfirewall and allow ssh through port 59022 or something vague?and is our root password still 88j4bb3rw0cky88 or did we change to88Scr3am3r88 ?thanks
From: Jussi
To: Greg
Subject: Re: need to ssh into…
Are you receiving a message on startup, asking to allow krb5kdc and/or mDNSResponder to connect through your firewall? Well, never fear. Krb5kdc is the Kerberos version 5 Authentication Service and Key Distribution Center (AS/KDC). In other words, an operating level component involved in Security framework…
Leopard and Snow Leopard use the Kerberos framework to support an authenticated network connections between two computers, so you only have to log in once and can then repeatedly reconnect to the computer for different tasks without having to log in again. Your system, when a Kerberos-enabled client connects successful, is granted a “ticket”. By default, these tickets are good for 10 hours. This ticket allows the system to use your systems resources, without having to re-login. Your credentials were given during the first login, and the ticket proves this.
There is a documented situation, where if your clock is reset, or set incorrectly, you may see a firewall message, asking to allow krb5kdc and/or mDNSResponder to connect through your firewall. The reason for this is due to clock. If your time/date is set before your keychain entries time and date, then the OS will ignore that keychain entry since it is “too early” for those keychain entries to be valid.
That is one of the reasons why the Mac OS will state “some applications may behave erratically” if your clock is set before 2001.
More Information on this:
According to Cliffski, the author of Gratuitous Space Battles, the GSB server has served over half a million battles for network games… (Over 501,934 battles at the time of posting)
See here:
Here’s a chirpy statistic. At the time of writing, the total number of online ‘challenge’ games of Gratuitous Space Battles that have been played is…
501,934
Or in other words…
HALF A MILLION GAMES OF GRATUITOUS SPACE BATTLES.
That’s just online challenges, meaning player A trying to beat player B’s fleet, whether it’s on Mac or PC, direct or through steam. It’s all handled by my server. The number of offline, single player games against the pre-shipping AI fleets is likely to be a lot higher. That’s pretty scary. Also, lets not dismiss over 40,000 uploaded player challenges (actually many more, older unplayed ones get deleted) and over 100,000 campaign battles already.
I actually own two copies, and it’s a great game… If you haven’t taken a look, then you should…
And his work-in-progress “Game 4″, his aptly code named new game, has the potential to be nice follow up… Whatever the game ends up being, if we listen to his blog… |-)
Yes, my cable bill is rising again, but I should be glad… At least that’s Time Warner’s belief, why?
Well, for example:
New! ABC TV Show Episodes for 99 Cents
Rent your favorite episodes of hit ABC shows like Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, and Lost for just 99 cents! Road Runner Video Store lets you download shows to own or rent – and watch in minutes.
But of course, like many of their products, I can’t use it. Why? It’s Windows-centric. I have to download and install a Roadrunner Media Player, before I can even consider using their service…
Why? For the same reason that I can’t use the Antivirus software that Time Warner advertises. Because they simply don’t care. Time Warner just bundles Computer Associates (McAfee) antivirus package, so instead they could of decided on bundling the McAfee software (or AVAST, etc).
Time Warner doesn’t care about actually providing a service to anyone other than their majority users, nor about giving good service. They complain about iTunes being an monopoly / titan in the Video arena, yet here we go with yet another video store that is ignoring an underserved segment.
Why? Because they have decided to use some off the shelf Microsoft supplied toolkit that will never properly support the Macintosh. I thank our Net Overlords when Netflix demanded that Silverlight support the Macintosh when they devised their streaming solution… (Of course, Microsoft has officially killed Silverlight, and now Netflix has to re-engineering, but that has nothing about supporting the Macintosh…)
Congratulations to Perceptive Automation on the Indigo Touch 1.7 release.
From the Release Notes:
We are excited to announce that Indigo Touch 1.7 has been approved by Apple and is now available in the App Store. New features include:
- Support for iOS 4 multitasking — commands will finish executing and images will continue to load even if the Home button is pressed. Load times should be quite a bit faster as well.
- iPhone 4 Retina-compatible UI images — built-in images should look much sharper. Note Control Pages still use lower resolution images. We hope to have that addressed in a future major release.
- Improved device and variable popup UI appearance.
- And a workaround for the iOS Bluetooth bug which causes Wi-Fi connections to drop out upon launching Indigo.
Just like the previous version of Indigo Touch, version 1.7 is also free. All you need is Indigo 4.1 Lite or Pro, then download Indigo Touch from Apple’s App Store. Also note it is a universal binary application — the same app runs as a native app on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
TUAW’s Erica Sadun has put together an alpha version of a Mac OS X application known as “AirPlayer” that does exactly that.
What AirPlayer does is create and advertise a custom Bonjour AirPlay service that pretends to be an Apple TV. Bonjour is Apple’s zero configuration networking solution for allowing devices and applications to communicate with each other over local area networks. When Apple created AirPlay, it basically set up a new way for Apple TV to interact with iOS using Bonjour communications.
The functionality could in theory also be supported on Windows PCs as Apple offers Bonjour for Windows, although Sadun notes that she is not likely to attempt to build a Windows version anytime soon.
Interested users can download the ad-supported alpha version for Mac OS X from Sadun’s website to test out the functionality. Users’ iOS devices do not need to be jailbroken for the functionality to work, although some tools such as AirVideoEnabler that can extend AirPlay functionality to more iOS apps do require jailbreaking.
via AirPlay Reverse Engineered to Send Video From iOS Devices to Macs – Mac Rumors.
As you know iOS 4.2 is a free update for every iPhone, iPod or iPad device available now. Apple has not yet updated the developers documentation reflecting this, but Maximilano Firtman has discovered some of these changes. This new release provides some major changes on HTML5 and W3C future standards support, like WebSocketsand Accelerometer support, print support, new JavaScript data-types and better SVG support.
Specifically, he has discovered support for:
For more details, check out his detailed blog entry on this, which also includes web based samples…
After a new technology is introduced to the market, there is usually a predictable decrease in price as it becomes more common. Laptops experienced precipitous price drops during the past decade. Digital cameras, personal computers, and computer chips all followed similar steep declines in price. Has the price of broadband Internet followed the same model? Shane Greenstein decided to look into it.
Since there are no public data on what has happened to broadband prices over the last decade, Shane Greenstein, a professor of management and strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, and his co-author Ryan McDevitt, an assistant professor of economics and management at the University of Rochester and a graduate of Northwestern University, analyzed the contracts of 1,500 DSL and cable service providers from 2004 to 2009. They found evidence of only a very small price drop, between 3 and 10 percent, nothing like the rates of price decrease that characterize the rest of the electronic world.
Read more at Why Broadband Prices Haven’t Decreased – Creating the first broadband consumer price index.