And I'll point out that in the case you linked to, again, it's PEBKAC. The result also would have been the same if he was doing backup tapes, so your point is moot.
Rebuilding the array incorrectly is PEBKAC. Unless you're using Promise cards to do your RAID, at which point your array will figure out a way to confuse array members anyways.
It's called swap, but at the prices for SSDs(and limited write cycles) you'd be better of getting *real* RAM. If you're at the limit for your board, UPGRADE!
Raid *is* a backup if you're doing raid 1, and you intentionally remove the "B" mirror to replace it with new disks. Rebuild the array. You've now got fresh drives as the B mirror, old drives as the A mirror, and a third set of drives to haul offsite. Yank the A mirror next time around, and you keep fresh drives in production with snapshots stored somewhere safe. It's all in how you use the technology.
Store copies of the Duke Nukem series on various forms of media and store it with it. Someone will throw it up on the then-ebay and a geek will buy it, the geek being compelled to play the prequels to Duke Nukem Forever the way they were meant to be played.
Limiting autorun to CDs or DVDs doesn't help, because U3 flashdrives come with a rewritable partition that appears as a CD drive, which is also read only. Google "usb switchblade"
Dude you're just like a little kid. Grow the fuck up, take your fingers out of your ear, and stop going "nahnahnahnahnah can't hear youuuuuuu". There's no need to shit up/. with repeated posts. That's why people mod you troll.
However, their current generation laptop selection sucks. No DDR3 yet, and they won't let me get a laptop with a 7900gs in it from their previous generation, they're pushing the inferior 8600. SO, I went to craigslist and picked up an Inspiron e1705/9400 for $500. 17", overclocked 7900gs(7900gs vs 8600gt), 500gb SATA, 2ghz core2duo, 3gb of DDR2. This model had issues with thermal death, but only because they use the worst thermal compound ever, which was simply fixed with AS5. It made A 20c difference at idle.
Dell: Shape up. I love your products, when you take the time to make decent ones. I've owned a CPX latitude, two c610s, a c640, a d610, an inspiron 1200, and now my e1705. They're all solid machines and they all still work.
If you don't like them, don't buy from then, and don't pirate.
And I don't. I wasn't arguing for piracy, I was pointing out how sad it is that by your logic the sequel to monkey island isn't being made because people will download it, which means that the publisher cares more about the pirates than they do you - the customer. The pirates will never be customers, so why give a flying fuck about them? They'll just download the inevitably cracked version of what ever's released.
When DDoS, I get a refund for the lapsed.
Don't count on it.
Yes, I would prefer a world without DRM, piracy and so forth, but I do not see a way to get there.
Why? DRM doesn't work anyways. And again, Stardock does quite well on it's games that don't have DRM.
apparently due to piracy (yes, linux is just as much hit by this as windows).
Can you name some examples? Cedega does quite well financially...
I'd bet that the reason we don't see another monkey island or similar is due to piracy.
And how does that make you feel knowing that the publisher spends more time thinking about people that aren't their customers, than you? Shouldn't they just be worried about making their customer happy? I mean, they still turn a profit when they publish, and Stardock managed to get quite a bit of a following with Sins of a Solar Empire without resulting to DRM.
The only up is that online games are having a ball, since cracking those are harder. My hope is that someday it will be feasible to simply host the game on some server and deliver all the content over the net, so that we can get rid of the arrrrggghh pirates.
And when some jackass decides to DDoS your content/directory servers to grief a couple hundred thousand people, I'll laugh because you rent your games and have no control by design. I'll do the same when your content provider decides the ROI on supporting an old game isn't enough to justify the hosting expenses.
A firewall doesn't stop an attack that's going after the stack, and it doesn't stop IPv6 from assigning retarded default addresses and doing automatic neighbor discovery, along with tons of other stuff. The protocol itself is immature, so it's not getting used on my systems. There's no reason it *should* be loaded, since I'm not using anything over IPv6 *anyways*. It's just another attack vector.
None of my machines run IPv6, to me it's a security risk. None of the "big" operating systems have had a secure IPv6 stack. BSD, Darwin, Windows, VxWorks, and Linux have all had DoS conditions, and one of those bugs had a code execution PoC floating around.
Current IP filters on DOCSIS(cable) networks are actually outbound filters done at the modem which can be turned off if you've got an uncapped modem. I haven't seen any inbound filters on any DOCSIS networks(I've looked at Cox, Comcast, RR, and Charter) on 135/139.
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Because you're both paying for the same service. You are no more entitled than any other customer.
And I'll point out that in the case you linked to, again, it's PEBKAC. The result also would have been the same if he was doing backup tapes, so your point is moot.
Rebuilding the array incorrectly is PEBKAC. Unless you're using Promise cards to do your RAID, at which point your array will figure out a way to confuse array members anyways.
It's called swap, but at the prices for SSDs(and limited write cycles) you'd be better of getting *real* RAM. If you're at the limit for your board, UPGRADE!
Raid *is* a backup if you're doing raid 1, and you intentionally remove the "B" mirror to replace it with new disks. Rebuild the array. You've now got fresh drives as the B mirror, old drives as the A mirror, and a third set of drives to haul offsite. Yank the A mirror next time around, and you keep fresh drives in production with snapshots stored somewhere safe. It's all in how you use the technology.
Who's ethics, your's or mine?
Store copies of the Duke Nukem series on various forms of media and store it with it. Someone will throw it up on the then-ebay and a geek will buy it, the geek being compelled to play the prequels to Duke Nukem Forever the way they were meant to be played.
Try using links2. It'll give you graphical w/o requiring X.
Limiting autorun to CDs or DVDs doesn't help, because U3 flashdrives come with a rewritable partition that appears as a CD drive, which is also read only. Google "usb switchblade"
Dude you're just like a little kid. Grow the fuck up, take your fingers out of your ear, and stop going "nahnahnahnahnah can't hear youuuuuuu". There's no need to shit up /. with repeated posts. That's why people mod you troll.
However, their current generation laptop selection sucks. No DDR3 yet, and they won't let me get a laptop with a 7900gs in it from their previous generation, they're pushing the inferior 8600. SO, I went to craigslist and picked up an Inspiron e1705/9400 for $500. 17", overclocked 7900gs(7900gs vs 8600gt), 500gb SATA, 2ghz core2duo, 3gb of DDR2. This model had issues with thermal death, but only because they use the worst thermal compound ever, which was simply fixed with AS5. It made A 20c difference at idle.
Dell: Shape up. I love your products, when you take the time to make decent ones. I've owned a CPX latitude, two c610s, a c640, a d610, an inspiron 1200, and now my e1705. They're all solid machines and they all still work.
Guess who else uses white phosphorus? That's right, the good old US of A.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4417024.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4442988.stm
PS: I'm an American.
Just use shred -v /dev/xxx. It doesn't work on modern filing systems, but it sure as hell works on a block device.
And I don't. I wasn't arguing for piracy, I was pointing out how sad it is that by your logic the sequel to monkey island isn't being made because people will download it, which means that the publisher cares more about the pirates than they do you - the customer. The pirates will never be customers, so why give a flying fuck about them? They'll just download the inevitably cracked version of what ever's released.
Don't count on it.
Why? DRM doesn't work anyways. And again, Stardock does quite well on it's games that don't have DRM.
Can you name some examples? Cedega does quite well financially...
And how does that make you feel knowing that the publisher spends more time thinking about people that aren't their customers, than you? Shouldn't they just be worried about making their customer happy? I mean, they still turn a profit when they publish, and Stardock managed to get quite a bit of a following with Sins of a Solar Empire without resulting to DRM.
And when some jackass decides to DDoS your content/directory servers to grief a couple hundred thousand people, I'll laugh because you rent your games and have no control by design. I'll do the same when your content provider decides the ROI on supporting an old game isn't enough to justify the hosting expenses.
You can still sell your account credentials.
A firewall doesn't stop an attack that's going after the stack, and it doesn't stop IPv6 from assigning retarded default addresses and doing automatic neighbor discovery, along with tons of other stuff. The protocol itself is immature, so it's not getting used on my systems. There's no reason it *should* be loaded, since I'm not using anything over IPv6 *anyways*. It's just another attack vector.
None of my machines run IPv6, to me it's a security risk. None of the "big" operating systems have had a secure IPv6 stack. BSD, Darwin, Windows, VxWorks, and Linux have all had DoS conditions, and one of those bugs had a code execution PoC floating around.
hdm does a pretty good job of pointing out some problems in IPv6 in http://metasploit.com/data/confs/sector2008/exploiting_ipv6.pdf, too
Which is paid for out of taxes that come out of every paycheck.
Current IP filters on DOCSIS(cable) networks are actually outbound filters done at the modem which can be turned off if you've got an uncapped modem. I haven't seen any inbound filters on any DOCSIS networks(I've looked at Cox, Comcast, RR, and Charter) on 135/139.
Uh, it's in court. Thus, the government(who runs the court) is involved. It doesn't matter if it's even civil court, it's still friggin government.
And? How long do you think it's been up there exactly?
What about eCos?
http://ecos.sourceware.org/
I secured the First Post for /.