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Slashback: Moon Footage, KillerNic, ZFS Leopard
Direct answers to Slashdot KillerNIC questions. Emptynest writes "A bit over a week ago, Slashdot linked a story on GDHardware.com and it was filled with a bunch of 'hard questions from the Slashdot Community" regarding Bigfoot Network's pending 'killer' Network card that promises to reduce in-game lag. It looks as if Bigfoot isn't backing down and has hand-picked several of the questions from the Slashdot Community and answered them in a new article."
Recap of stolen laptop identity theft. Kn10 writes to tell us Technibble has a brief recap of some of the major laptop thefts resulting in personal information being leaked from major organizations. From the article: "According to the FBI, laptop theft is the second most common computer crime and less than 2 percent of those stolen laptops are ever recovered. Four in five (81%) of US firms have had at least one laptop stolen containing sensitive information according to a recent study."
A victory for on PayPal user. Not-So-Anonymous Coward writes "According to his site, 'silic0nsilence', who was featured in the Summer 2006 issue of 2600, has won his long battle with PayPal Fraud. On August 15th, 2006 in Small Claims court, he was awarded $671.12 after almost a year-long war with PayPal and a user. He also successfully won a small claims suit against PayPal to commence in his case with the user."
Missing moon footage surfaces. denis-The-menace writes "Film producer and rock video director Peter Clifton was sitting watching television when he saw NASA was searching for original Apollo 11 footage. He had forgotten that in 1979 he ordered footage from The Smithsonian for use in The Dark Side of The Moon demo film. He had all but forgotten a pristine 16-millimeter film of the moon landing was part of his vast personal film catalogue"
Dell laptops unwelcome on Quatas flights. Thomas Henden writes "The Australian airline company Quantas, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, banned the in-flight use of Dell laptops on battery power. The security personnel even went so far as taping over the contacts in the batteries according to an agreement between Dell and Qantas. However the security is now somewhat relaxed — all you need to do now, is to get in touch with the personal aboard, and tell you want to use your Dell laptop, and then you will be 'advised individually.'"
More ZFS new from the Leopard front. nezmar writes "From the AppleInsider forum comes an interesting discovery about Sun's ZFS and Apple. A user who has the Leopard developer preview searched the system with Spotlight and found a mention of ZFS. He says: 'There is no file system bundle for it, nor is there a mount utility or any other one (no fsck, now newfs, etc.). There is, however, a changed vnode.h.' Looks like the story back in May might have some truth after all."
You have to go to here and click on the link. Otherwise you get a WMD parody.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
It's QANTAS fellas....stands for Queansland And Northern Territory Air Service.
I took a Qantas flight yesterday and can confirm they are not allowing Dell computers to be used on their planes. They didn't actually ask people indidivually if they had a Dell, but part of the pre-takeoff announcement was "Dell laptop computers must not be used at any time on this aircraft".
It is an acronym . . . not a word.
Laser, radar, scuba. . .
KFG
That'd be Queensland, mate.
From what I remember, wasn't an entire COLLECTION of apollo footage missing? I'm glad they found at least one reel, but what about the others?
The start of a port to FreeBSD has been started, and after ten days there has been demonstratable progress:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss
Of course you're generally correct: ZFS goes into 'layers' that have been treated as separate parts, but given the resources Apple has, it's very possible it won't be too difficult, as it's a port and not actually creating it from scratch.
They also managed to get another link posted from slashdot in the process. *Cough*.
From the "answers": The ping time to my firewall, (a Pentium classic, underclocked to 75 MHz), is ~0.45 ms. Pretty hard to make a multi-millisecond improvement on that.
I don't know about *high quality*, but you can access a WEALTH of moon landing information, including radio transmission transcripts, astronaut commentary, mission logs, photos, and tons of video from the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal.
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
It has Extended Attributes EAs instead,
NASA imagery is normally copyright-free, as government documents produced at government expense.
Some matierials produced by NASA may have copyrights. (For instance: movies with copyrighted music in the background which was licensed for NASA's use and needs an additional license if it gets cloned elsewhere).
More a NASA web site.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
You don't avoid PCI latency- you STILL have to cross the bus.
You don't avoid hardware interrupts- HOW do you let the OS know that you've sent the data or got it?
Optimizing the stack- optimizing WHAT? It's allegedly speeding up UDP traffic; there's little to "optimize" there.
I'd buy TCP Offload maybe needing to be done- for 10 Gigabit Ethernet hardware. I should know;
I work with that sort of hardware for a client. UDP's not needing diddly at any lower speeds than that-
the offloads that make sense and work are scatter-gather DMA of the packet instead of needing an assembly
buffer and checksum calculation. Most modern cards worth their salt do this already.
They might be offering something- I won't call it as totally bogus until I see proof either way. But the
problem REALLY is that the thing bypasses ALL of the system security. In this case, they're
allegedly using Linux to provide the core of the network stack, so it's less problematic than it could be
but what kinds of exploits are present in the interface between the Killer and the Windows OS.
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the State of Texas
*cough*
Describing the benefits of a TCP offload engine as the answer to a question about how they can claim reduced UDP latency is fluff. It's like the magician getting you to look at his assistant's chest while he moves a hidden card to the top of the deck.
Besides, TCP offload is a technology to increase throughput, not to reduce latency.
We are agreed that TCP is not UDP, right?
It isn't too surprising that there aren't zfs-specific commands for mount, newfs, fsck, etc., given that all that work is done by the zfs, zpool, and other commands under Solaris.
"all but", as in "all but forgotten", is not a mathematical expression. The domain is implicitly limited by the subject-object agreement. So in the case of "this guy all but drown", the guy didn't fully drown but he was clearly under watter and unable to extracate himself etc. There is no implication that the guy was beaten nor given the Nobel. So it doesn't mean "*anything* except" by any reasonable expectation, in the same way that if someone says they love icecream, we don't expect "well why don't you marry it" as a reasonable response.
In short, "all" is universally inclusive, but only within the included domain of its use.
Further, it _wasn't_ forgotten, it is rememberd, and disparaged, and ignored and god knows what else, but again, no Nobel etc... 8-)
The phrasing is fine. There is a difference between being pedantic and deliberatly ignoring the obvious. Try looking up "pedant" and "obtuse" and "deliberatly contradictory"... 8-)
Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
--"Code Complete" Microsoft Press
Hmm, but you could achieve all of that using a second machine anyway. Doesn't matter if that second machine is a hideously overpriced network card, or just a cheapo Linux box made out of obsolete parts. So even for cheats, KillerNIC doesn't do anything new..