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Stories · 5

  1. Is it a Good Time to Get an Athlon64?

    Ask · Amd · · posted by Cliff · from the short-and-sweet dept. · 124 comments
    City_Idiot asks: "I'm looking to upgrade my current P4 2.4Ghz and i'm giving serious thought to a Athlon64 3200+. The tests look good, and it gives a 3Ghz P4 a good run for its money but is the technology ready for end users?"

  2. OpenGL Coming to your Cellphone

    Hardware · Handheld · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the why-the-hell-not dept. · 107 comments
    Little Hamster writes "SGI and Nokia have signed an agreement to co-operate on the development of a 3D standard suitable for all embedded mobile terminals, based on OpenGL. This could be used for bringing real 3D Games to mobile devices, 3D global positioning systems, 3D representations of buildings or even creating entire interfaces in 3D. You can also find the press release press release here."

  3. Is the Internet Shutting Out Independent Players?

    Ask · Internet · · posted by Cliff · from the routing-table-roulette dept. · 357 comments
    ikekrull asks: "After looking to see how I could set up my company's LAN to be multi-homed ? , I found that it would be next-to-impossible for me to do this. 'Providerless' IP addresses are no longer allocated to anybody in this part of the world (New Zealand) by APNIC ? , unless you meet requirements (financial and political) that are pretty much unmeetable by anyone but a large ISP. Does this put control of the entire internet further and further into the hands of large corporate players, and and is anyone particularly interested in changing this situation?"

    "ISPs aren't advertizing routes for competing ISPs, and since IP blocks are heavily filtered upstream, this won't do much good anyway. The reasons for this are clear (Routing table growth was getting way out of hand), hence the introduction of CIDR ? , and the allocation of IPs to ISPs, with a resulting lockout on availability of routable IP space to individuals or smaller groups.

    With the availabilty of IPv6, and the cost of RAM, I find it somewhat hard to believe that either IP address blocks are scarce, or that the size of routing tables are unmanageable any more. This might have been true with an 8MB Cisco 10 years ago, but surely it would be a negligible cost to put 1-2GB of RAM on even a reasonably budget router at todays prices.

    Obviously, IPV6 isn't really here yet, but i would like to think that when (if) it arrives, we will see a more open routing system.

    Is anybody working on returning some kind of equal standing to 'the little guys' when it comes to internet routing infrastructure, and how a more 'open' system could work in practice on tomorrow's (or today's) internet?"

  4. Non-Windows Clients Working Behind MS Proxy?

    Ask · Internet · · posted by Cliff · from the when-will-they-ever-learn-to-play-fair dept. · 17 comments
    ikekrull asks: "I am, like many, stuck behind an MS Proxy Server 2 'firewall'. MS Proxy Server 2, refuses to route anything that doesn't go through a Windows-only MS Proxy Client. Supposedly it supports SOCKS5, but I have heard from various people that this support is also broken except for Windows clients. Is there a way, short of replacing the MS Proxy server with something a little more sane, to make non-Windows Operating Systems work behind this 'firewall'? Can I run another piece of proxying software alongside Proxy Server 2 just to service my Linux machines?"

    "Has anyone reverse-engineered the MS Proxy client and made a version that works with Linux? Would it be possible to run the windows proxy client under WINE (very doubtful i know). I would ideally like seamless access, the kind i get with my ipchains-based Linux box at home, but something that let me surf the Web, ftp, and telnet and SSH around would be ok.

    I am real pissed off with the way that MS Proxy Server 2 has been deliberately engineered to work only with Windows clients, I didn't notice this mentioned in the anti-trust case, but it sure as hell should be.

    Any help would be appreciated."

    If Microsoft expects their server OS to be used as servers in heterogeneous environments, they really should start look at supporting clients that aren't Microsoft. Would it really be all that difficult?

  5. Cookie Security Flaw Affecting All Major Browsers

    It · Bug · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the sploits-for-sport dept. · 0 comments
    Oliver Lineham writes "My friend and I have found a security flaw in the implementation of cookies in Navigator, Internet Explorer, and Opera. The full details of this bug are on the Cookie Monster advisory, including a working demonstration. The problem is to do with the way the browsers restrict the "domain" setting on domains outside the US. There are several implications arising from this bug. "