Also note, that in countries where the telecommunications system is in a stranglehold by a company dedicated to obsolete standards (NextG anyone?), the few providers of 3G are the only usable cellular data method, there is not EDGE so...
Or as you said, if a flip flop saves a flop, well, meh.
I stick to my nokia (edge, 3g, gsm, 802.11g) I think:)
Wouldn't it look good on the quarterly if the stock price spiked toward the end?:)
And yes, likely Seagate and WD have a lot of IP that they have inter licensed or at least have an informal non-aggression pact about suing each other over (kinda like amd and intel), whether any of it is current in these days of industry wide standards like SATA, SAS, SMART etc is another thing entirely.
When it gets to the courts, THATS when it will be worth reporting on.
Yes, I believe it was around the gforce 5 series or so that someone figured the resistor settings to tell a high end game card to "be a quadro", some very nice very cheap workstations were produced that year by 3rd parties.
Grandparent link is an interesting one, I can see where they would want to start implementing some of those features in standard game cards though, the "interface plane" would be a nice addition for instance to help the performance in modern games with their HUDs.
Hrmm, last time I installed XP (uh, did it 6 times today... its my job) raw there was 88 windows updates, not "100s".
For the record, using a CMD file you can script them all to run at once or...
Search MS site for sbbypass.exe (or find it elsewhere) start up sysprep (required to run sbbypass.exe) run the bypass, then close sysprep, reboot once and you are fully patched, takes around 10 min on dsl:)
The big question is, why don't they use any form of encryption for possibly sensitive information? Even establishing a password with the client when you first start doing business with them and just encrypting all correspondence in PDFs with that key...
I was looking for the right analogy, and that one's good enough.
Nah, it needed to use pipes or cars:)
The biggest problem I see for these things, bandwidth. I will have no problems at all as long as my phone doesn't leave my 802.11g AP range, but outside that...
Heres a good story, I live in Australia, I have a nice shiny 3g nokia phone with all the trimmings, I have all data service providers except for my home AP removed from the settings. A friend gets a problem with his sim card, I test it in my phone (yeah it was dead) and then put my sim back in, this of course told the phone to re-load all the service settings back from my sim to the phone. I notice this after about 3 pages of surfing/. (added up to around 1M of data, or a little more) the cost for this failure to recheck my settings? $35 in data fees (roaming GSM data that is, slower than a normal 56k modem).
And you want me to stream data from my phone to my computer via its data service? My typical aussie reply to that of course, get knotted:)
How about a working phone network with reasonable data fees for everyone? Yeah, I would like to see that.
Trend Micro have been in the business a long time, how long? Long enough to OWN "antivirus.com". How many 386 and earlier motherboards had "trend chip away boot sector protection"?
They invented a few of the modern ways to scan for and stop virus, spyware and spam email from getting into a windows box, pretty much every one else in the industry will accede to that, why do these guys think, they can get a free lunch for something someone else invented a fair while back.
Symantec wouldn't be paying up unless they knew it was an un-winnable case.
Notice the reason they are chasing this company is because they are making money out of it? Seems they couldn't be fucked chasing an open source project.
As for some of the comments...
"They might establish a royalty basis for damage calculation," Lemley says. "But the fact that it's open source might mean that we treat [the Barracuda case] differently. It' s not clear that we should be paying the same damages, or even how one should calculate damages, because we normally calculate it as a percentage of the revenue" -- and, of course, FOSS projects have only limited funds at the best of times."
Wait? its very easy to establish damages, this company MAKES MONEY, they use an open source project, they are NOT an open source project themselves.
"That would tend to confirm my belief that what we have here is a software company prepared to do harm to the free [software] world solely for its own profit."
No it doesn't, they said they don't intend to attack clam AV at all, only this competitor who is using something they came up with and not paying dues for it.
Fake a few radiation sightings, gauge response times, then start staging them and set a few quasi-claymores timed to go off just as authorities would arrive.
How much extra terror can you inflict on people, when the specialists, trained to deal with terror problems, start getting killed in grisly and interesting new ways? I am sure these guys, seemingly creative enough to be the first to use civilian passenger craft as guided missiles, will come up with something:)/insert comment about america digging this hole for itself and that it will just have to deal with the shit that seeps down it, here/
Most ISPs over here have bandwidth caps, they have to in order to maintain their business (aus-us bandwidth ain't cheap), they usually do this thusly:
Set download limit per month
Choice 1: if you go over your account gets shaped to 65kb/s (harsh, but hey, you still have broadband and you can still play mmog and other online games over it)
Choice 2: $$$ per GB, pricey, but if you have the money, who cares right?
Now, some ISPs found their users getting multiple of the first case scenario with the SMALLEST download cap, and then just leaving multiple modems running, ganging them and still downloading 2-3 times their download cap each month per account.
My ISP has what I think is the fairest method:
Fixed cap, once you reach it you shape to 64kb/s (128kb/s for business plans, not a lot more expensive), note content on their "free" list is NOT limited ever by the shaper
If you go 3GB over your limit, read; ride the shaping hard, you get shaped to 0kb/s
You can buy data blocks (for not too bad a price) to fully re-enable your account, they just add on top of your limit (multiples can be purchased) and they take effect immediately
This "reasonably fair" or "you get what you pay for" is a pretty good setup, add to that their extensive "free content", consisting of (but not limited to) an extensive and maintained mirror for most of the major linux, BSD and windows drivers, a majorgeeks mirror, their own game site, with a massive array of game patches, demos and videos, streaming radio stations for pretty much every major fm radio station, did I mention free Steam... you could literally spend a few months just downloading stuff from their own un-metered stuff.
Add in a news server (not on free list, dear gods I *wish*), hosted game servers with the best ping in the country and... about the highest cost of any of the reputable ISPs, but as I said, you get what you pay for.
That ain't an arc welder (electric), its an oxy-acetylene torch (sometimes known as a "gas axe" because it cuts through anything), and it seems they are indeed very effective at "fixing" problem HP printers.
More to the point, cause them to detour over and over till they are on a remote, unpopulated road, then hit them with the DoS, once their GPS is dead, they are miles from any recognizable road with no GPS to get them home.
Bonus points for making a cheap cell phone dampener, putting some magnets on it, and tossing it onto the side of their car.
To be honest, those C7s lack in the horsepower department, but are still quite a good (for their price and power) chip.
Admittedly I prefer to throw a gig of ram at them, but combined with m0n0wall and a USB stick these make one of the most powerful and versatile routers for under $200AU (the C7 boards that is), thing doesn't even break a sweat when I throw 5000+ open ports at it, even with the shaper running:)
Well, that's why its still beta, but that's besides the point, ALL server systems, no matter how stable, will have issues every now and again, its a lot easier re-loading freeNAS from a cd and dumping your pre-saved xml config onto it than recovering your linux box from a failure.
Yeah, now that world + dog uses a NAT router for their broadband and the lack of kazaa, virus' and worms are a dieing breed. We swapped them for intrusive spyware and identity theft-ware that is much harder to get rid of and, thanks to the wonders of social engineering, much harder to stop joe-sixpack from getting:/
Been getting this one a lot, the fix is usually fine for older varients but new versions and revisions spring up that it just seems to miss. The system seems clean at first, but usually about a month later it is all back.
I usually tell customers this, and tell them they have two choices: 1 we can try smittfraud fix and who knows, it might be lucky, but if they have to bring it back in a month we will charge them again. 2 we can backup all their data, format, reinstall and remove any executable files from their backup.
The second always works, have never had a re-infection (well, have, but that is usually thanks to someone surfing porn regularly, proven to the customer by showing them the browse history) with it.
Best protection for it, firefox + no-script, which I tell the customer and offer to install for no extra cost of course:)
Only problem is, my boss kinda hates me, we don't get the same people bringing their machines in every 2 months anymore needing a software clean done:P
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Also note, that in countries where the telecommunications system is in a stranglehold by a company dedicated to obsolete standards (NextG anyone?), the few providers of 3G are the only usable cellular data method, there is not EDGE so...
:)
Or as you said, if a flip flop saves a flop, well, meh.
I stick to my nokia (edge, 3g, gsm, 802.11g) I think
Not to mention Custers Revenge..
/me points at the date
:)
Wouldn't it look good on the quarterly if the stock price spiked toward the end?
And yes, likely Seagate and WD have a lot of IP that they have inter licensed or at least have an informal non-aggression pact about suing each other over (kinda like amd and intel), whether any of it is current in these days of industry wide standards like SATA, SAS, SMART etc is another thing entirely.
When it gets to the courts, THATS when it will be worth reporting on.
Not to mention "the ravages" speech is for the press and legislators, the "zomg we did well this year" is for shareholders and equity firms :)
Yes, I believe it was around the gforce 5 series or so that someone figured the resistor settings to tell a high end game card to "be a quadro", some very nice very cheap workstations were produced that year by 3rd parties.
Grandparent link is an interesting one, I can see where they would want to start implementing some of those features in standard game cards though, the "interface plane" would be a nice addition for instance to help the performance in modern games with their HUDs.
Its due some time after Duke Nukem: Forever...
Yeah, the joke had to be made, never let it be said I wouldn't sacrifice karma to ensure every bad pun is explored.
Did you have a look at the purchase methods?
:)
$5 Download all 36 tracks in either 320kb/s MP3, FLAC or some apple format (not familiar with apple stuff, so meh)
$10 Get the download option plus get 2 CDs and cover art and stuff mailed to you
$75 Get the download, 2 CDs, Data DVD with all the mix data, and a blu-ray disc with all the tracks in INSANE quality
$300 *sold out*
Free Download the teaser first few tracks
All your paying for is distribution really, since as his site states...
Ghosts I-IV is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license.
And no, I will not give you all the tracks, its only $5, just give the man some dosh and even if you don't like it... its only $5
Hrmm, last time I installed XP (uh, did it 6 times today... its my job) raw there was 88 windows updates, not "100s".
:)
For the record, using a CMD file you can script them all to run at once or...
Search MS site for sbbypass.exe (or find it elsewhere) start up sysprep (required to run sbbypass.exe) run the bypass, then close sysprep, reboot once and you are fully patched, takes around 10 min on dsl
The big question is, why don't they use any form of encryption for possibly sensitive information? Even establishing a password with the client when you first start doing business with them and just encrypting all correspondence in PDFs with that key...
Nah, it needed to use pipes or cars
The biggest problem I see for these things, bandwidth. I will have no problems at all as long as my phone doesn't leave my 802.11g AP range, but outside that...
Heres a good story, I live in Australia, I have a nice shiny 3g nokia phone with all the trimmings, I have all data service providers except for my home AP removed from the settings. A friend gets a problem with his sim card, I test it in my phone (yeah it was dead) and then put my sim back in, this of course told the phone to re-load all the service settings back from my sim to the phone. I notice this after about 3 pages of surfing
And you want me to stream data from my phone to my computer via its data service? My typical aussie reply to that of course, get knotted
How about a working phone network with reasonable data fees for everyone? Yeah, I would like to see that.
Yeah, funny that, they have been doing it for a damn long time, putting AV on servers/network appliances.
Damnit, mod points ran out yesterday :/
Get the parent to 5 - Insightful asap please.
Trend Micro have been in the business a long time, how long? Long enough to OWN "antivirus.com". How many 386 and earlier motherboards had "trend chip away boot sector protection"?
They invented a few of the modern ways to scan for and stop virus, spyware and spam email from getting into a windows box, pretty much every one else in the industry will accede to that, why do these guys think, they can get a free lunch for something someone else invented a fair while back.
Symantec wouldn't be paying up unless they knew it was an un-winnable case.
Notice the reason they are chasing this company is because they are making money out of it? Seems they couldn't be fucked chasing an open source project.
As for some of the comments...
"They might establish a royalty basis for damage calculation," Lemley says. "But the fact that it's open source might mean that we treat [the Barracuda case] differently. It' s not clear that we should be paying the same damages, or even how one should calculate damages, because we normally calculate it as a percentage of the revenue" -- and, of course, FOSS projects have only limited funds at the best of times."
Wait? its very easy to establish damages, this company MAKES MONEY, they use an open source project, they are NOT an open source project themselves.
"That would tend to confirm my belief that what we have here is a software company prepared to do harm to the free [software] world solely for its own profit."
No it doesn't, they said they don't intend to attack clam AV at all, only this competitor who is using something they came up with and not paying dues for it.
Think outside the box :)
:) /insert comment about america digging this hole for itself and that it will just have to deal with the shit that seeps down it, here/
Fake a few radiation sightings, gauge response times, then start staging them and set a few quasi-claymores timed to go off just as authorities would arrive.
How much extra terror can you inflict on people, when the specialists, trained to deal with terror problems, start getting killed in grisly and interesting new ways? I am sure these guys, seemingly creative enough to be the first to use civilian passenger craft as guided missiles, will come up with something
Well, unless you are moving files into protected OS folders, none of those operations will trigger a UAC.
:P
The biggest one that annoys people is installing, which is why its recommended to install using "run as administrator" (kinda like sudo for vista).
And of course its not overly hard to turn off.
Crap, I am going to get modded down unless...
2007 called, they want their joke back
Welcome to Australian broadband :)
Most ISPs over here have bandwidth caps, they have to in order to maintain their business (aus-us bandwidth ain't cheap), they usually do this thusly:
Set download limit per month
Choice 1: if you go over your account gets shaped to 65kb/s (harsh, but hey, you still have broadband and you can still play mmog and other online games over it)
Choice 2: $$$ per GB, pricey, but if you have the money, who cares right?
Now, some ISPs found their users getting multiple of the first case scenario with the SMALLEST download cap, and then just leaving multiple modems running, ganging them and still downloading 2-3 times their download cap each month per account.
My ISP has what I think is the fairest method:
Fixed cap, once you reach it you shape to 64kb/s (128kb/s for business plans, not a lot more expensive), note content on their "free" list is NOT limited ever by the shaper
If you go 3GB over your limit, read; ride the shaping hard, you get shaped to 0kb/s
You can buy data blocks (for not too bad a price) to fully re-enable your account, they just add on top of your limit (multiples can be purchased) and they take effect immediately
This "reasonably fair" or "you get what you pay for" is a pretty good setup, add to that their extensive "free content", consisting of (but not limited to) an extensive and maintained mirror for most of the major linux, BSD and windows drivers, a majorgeeks mirror, their own game site, with a massive array of game patches, demos and videos, streaming radio stations for pretty much every major fm radio station, did I mention free Steam... you could literally spend a few months just downloading stuff from their own un-metered stuff.
Add in a news server (not on free list, dear gods I *wish*), hosted game servers with the best ping in the country and... about the highest cost of any of the reputable ISPs, but as I said, you get what you pay for.
That ain't an arc welder (electric), its an oxy-acetylene torch (sometimes known as a "gas axe" because it cuts through anything), and it seems they are indeed very effective at "fixing" problem HP printers.
Could just fork the project, see how it pans out.
Leave one going as a baseline, and remove New Zealand in the other.
More to the point, cause them to detour over and over till they are on a remote, unpopulated road, then hit them with the DoS, once their GPS is dead, they are miles from any recognizable road with no GPS to get them home.
Bonus points for making a cheap cell phone dampener, putting some magnets on it, and tossing it onto the side of their car.
They did port the first one to PC.
Likely they will do the same again.
To be honest, those C7s lack in the horsepower department, but are still quite a good (for their price and power) chip.
:)
Admittedly I prefer to throw a gig of ram at them, but combined with m0n0wall and a USB stick these make one of the most powerful and versatile routers for under $200AU (the C7 boards that is), thing doesn't even break a sweat when I throw 5000+ open ports at it, even with the shaper running
Well, that's why its still beta, but that's besides the point, ALL server systems, no matter how stable, will have issues every now and again, its a lot easier re-loading freeNAS from a cd and dumping your pre-saved xml config onto it than recovering your linux box from a failure.
But no, for mission critical stuff it ain't.
Not in Australia :/
Yeah, now that world + dog uses a NAT router for their broadband and the lack of kazaa, virus' and worms are a dieing breed. We swapped them for intrusive spyware and identity theft-ware that is much harder to get rid of and, thanks to the wonders of social engineering, much harder to stop joe-sixpack from getting :/
Been getting this one a lot, the fix is usually fine for older varients but new versions and revisions spring up that it just seems to miss. The system seems clean at first, but usually about a month later it is all back.
:)
:P
I usually tell customers this, and tell them they have two choices:
1 we can try smittfraud fix and who knows, it might be lucky, but if they have to bring it back in a month we will charge them again.
2 we can backup all their data, format, reinstall and remove any executable files from their backup.
The second always works, have never had a re-infection (well, have, but that is usually thanks to someone surfing porn regularly, proven to the customer by showing them the browse history) with it.
Best protection for it, firefox + no-script, which I tell the customer and offer to install for no extra cost of course
Only problem is, my boss kinda hates me, we don't get the same people bringing their machines in every 2 months anymore needing a software clean done