It's a typical case of a clueless reporter trying to write an article on a technological issue they have no clue about.
For example:
US law enforcement officials said the raids targeted the "Warez" network, which breaks copy-protection schemes on everything from movies like Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to computer operating systems like Microsoft Windows XP.
and
The US Customs Service said the ring was responsible for 95 per cent of all pirated software available online, causing at least $US1 billion ($2.38 billion) in lost sales annually.
I guess now that there's no more warez, we'll have to rely on juarez for our pirated software?
Erm, I wanted to stick with the dist that was heading towards becoming stable.
Sid, on the other hand, is never going to become stable, so the overall stability of the distibution is never going to change. Sure, individual packages will be fixed, but there'll always be problems.
I would be happy about having a problematic distribution for a while, that was going to improve over time. I didn't realise that they were going to make the change. I personally think they would have been better leaving unstable as it was, and giving the new branch a new name.
When sid was released, I was using woody, and had 'unstable' in my sources.list line. I ran my regular apt-get upgrade, and lo and behold, I suddenly had sid, without asking for it.
This was a concern at first, but sid hasn't given me any major problems.
In response to your question, when potato moved out of unstable, it went to frozen, then to stable. Woody was released as the new unstable dist very shortly afterwards, iirc.
I think this is perfectly acceptable: Quake 3 is the biggest game out there on Windows, and if ATI has invested a little extra time into pumping a few extra (meaningless) frames out of your Radeon 8500, is this really an act of treachery?
This isn't what they've done, though. They haven't optimised it for Quake3; they've crippled the card for every single other game out there. If they have made improvements to their drivers to make the Quake 3 engine run faster, surely this wouldn't depend on text strings inside the executable, or the name of the filename?
I'm still on my old Palm III. I don't really care about the colour, or the PalmOS version. Bluetooth, afaik, is pointless in.nz, as is wireless. The only issue I have with my Palm III is the amount of ram.
However, were I looking at buying a new PDA, I'd go with an Ipaq or a Journada. For roughly the same price, the storage is far bigger, the applications are far, far better (Hmm.. Useless notes program, or pocket word?), and the processor is much faster (I don't see any palm devices playing mpeg video any time soon)
Hmm. It doesn't happen on any other network card I've tried it on.
In any case, someone else decided we were going to use Sundance cards in our servers here.
I downed all the servers, and put them in. The netware machines came up fine, but all of a sudden we had no internet connection and no incoming/outgoing email. I put the old cards back in, and everything went fine.
The part that annoys me is that I had specifically asked for tulip chipset cards, because I know they work fine. =)
The kernel module for Alta Sundance 100 meg cards drops any packets it receives that are > ~1500 bytes.
I'm pretty sure it isn't user error; and it's happened on several different machines I've tried it on.
I can do a ping -s 1465 (The number is something like that, but that's not exact), and it'll work fine... increase it to ping -s 1466, and no replies come back.
The case looks nice, but are there any crusoe notebooks out there with larger screens?
If I were looking for a notebook right now, that's the main thing I'd be looking for. A 20 gig hard disk on a notebook would be wasted on me - I'm barely using 5gig out of the 10 on my compaq armada e500, and there's 1.5 gig or so of mp3s on there =)
But, it's got a nice 13.3" screen.
On the other hand, a silver case would be nice.... *drool*
I already have more hits for codered II than I did for the original.
Does it spread differently / attack more often?
Or is the random number generator better than in the original?
I have a PCjx sitting in my room... small black desktop case, tiny cga screen, etc... looks really cute.
2x 3.5" 360k(not a typo) floppy drives, infrared keyboard, 2x rom cartridge drives
I'm amazed at the infrared keyboard though.. they're really rare even on new PCs. On the other hand, the keyboard had to be pointing straight at the screen, and you occasionally got garbage if the connection was cut.
but it was still a cool toy, until my cousins borrowed it and broke the screen somehow. I keep meaning to open it up and fix it, but haven't gotten around to it yet. It'd probably be hard to replace, too... it's a 15 pin joystick-sized plug, rather than the ordinary 9pin cga type.
I was at the Microsoft WinME pre-release seminar here in.nz last year
It was aimed at OEMs, and they were promoting the 'legacy-free pc', which would have no parallel, rs232 or isa connectors. They had a whole lot of "case studies" in the courseware stuff we got about people whose lives had been made so much harder by having isa devices and parallel ports (oh please), and how firewire, usb and pci were the golden future.
They claimed then that they were not going to support "legacy" devices such as these in Windows XP (it was still whistler then, though)
I couldn't imagine it happening then, and sure enough, when I tried a beta of XP, my 33k6 isa modem worked fine.
It doesn't make sense... 300 / 9 = 33.333 (8 data bits + one stop bit)
it wouldn't have been higher latency, for some reason, rather than typing faster than the modem?
[ot] there used to be a bbs 'round here running on a C64, with a 300 baud modem. Apparently the modem was faster than the floppy (or maybe tape.. it was too long ago) drive that it had =)
I work at a school that gets donated quite a lot of old hardware. We've had 3 or so laptops given to us, a compaq 386 sx25, some kind of old toshiba, and an 8086 laptop, the brand and model of which I've forgotten.
The only one still working is the 8086 one. The only reason it stands out in my memory is that my father had one when he was working at mobil, and it was the first PC I actually used.. I learnt batch file programming and all that jazz on it =)
"The fastest modem connection the Tandy can support is 19,200 bps, sluggish compared with today's DSL and cable modems. (It comes with something even more pokey: a built-in 300-bps modem that sends text more slowly than the average person can type.)"
I dunno about you guys, but I sure can't type 33 characters per second;]
Just pretend to be professional for a second and use unix...
Personally, I prefer linux to any other operating system I have tried. But in my experience, it's quite hard to convince a business running more established platforms to change to an 'alternative' operating system. I've managed to convince the school I work at to replace one of the Netware servers with a linux machine running samba, but it wasn't easy.
The reason I asked the question in the first place was that I don't know the dis/advantages of using IIS or apache under win32.
I've never really used IIS.. I've never really felt the need, so I don't know what its good points are.
My question is, why not run apache on Windows NT/2000? Does IIS have any major advantages over apache and the wide range of addons which are available for it?
New Zealand's 'lovely' telco has brought out a flat-rate 128k ADSL service called JetStart. However, you must purchase your own DSL modem. I don't know whether or not the ones you have would be compatible... I don't really know how DSL works.
However, I've heard that DSL modems sold on trademe, a.nz based auction site, are quite sought after. It might be worth a try. =)
Did samba 2.0.x not do this, though? I'm sure I had my win2k professional machine at home logging into a samba-controlled domain. I'm running 2.2.0a2 now, and it works sweet =). I guess I'll have to upgrade now.;p
I've also used 2.0.7 to move a novell netware server at work over to linux, handling domain logons from 5 or so client machines, and serving cds, etc. these are only win98 machines, though.
The only problem I've had with it though, is occasionally the client machines will say the password has been rejected. If I look in the samba log, it has 'connection reset by peer' mesages. I've searched on google, and have found other people with the same problem, but no solution. Has this been fixed in 2.2?
I don't know what physical malfunction caused the click of death, but my guess is that it was some instrument scraping against the media within the disk.
this page has a good description of what you're talking about.
I got an internal scsi drive back in '98, and I'd only had it for a bit over a year when I got the problem. I didn't bother getting a replacement, because I wasn't using it much, and I threw the drive out.
I'm now wishing I hadn't, because at the university I'm at, the student computing machines all have zip drives. Being on dialup, copying big files onto zipdisk would be a lot easier than emailing them around =)
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The New Zealand Herald's article on the whole warez crackdown is nothign short of awful.
It's a typical case of a clueless reporter trying to write an article on a technological issue they have no clue about.
For example:
US law enforcement officials said the raids targeted the "Warez" network, which breaks copy-protection schemes on everything from movies like Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to computer operating systems like Microsoft Windows XP.
and
The US Customs Service said the ring was responsible for 95 per cent of all pirated software available online, causing at least $US1 billion ($2.38 billion) in lost sales annually.
I guess now that there's no more warez, we'll have to rely on juarez for our pirated software?
Erm, I wanted to stick with the dist that was heading towards becoming stable.
Sid, on the other hand, is never going to become stable, so the overall stability of the distibution is never going to change. Sure, individual packages will be fixed, but there'll always be problems.
I would be happy about having a problematic distribution for a while, that was going to improve over time. I didn't realise that they were going to make the change. I personally think they would have been better leaving unstable as it was, and giving the new branch a new name.
Just my 2c, anyway.
When sid was released, I was using woody, and had 'unstable' in my sources.list line. I ran my regular apt-get upgrade, and lo and behold, I suddenly had sid, without asking for it.
This was a concern at first, but sid hasn't given me any major problems.
In response to your question, when potato moved out of unstable, it went to frozen, then to stable. Woody was released as the new unstable dist very shortly afterwards, iirc.
I think this is perfectly acceptable: Quake 3 is the biggest game out there on Windows, and if ATI has invested a little extra time into pumping a few extra (meaningless) frames out of your Radeon 8500, is this really an act of treachery?
This isn't what they've done, though. They haven't optimised it for Quake3; they've crippled the card for every single other game out there. If they have made improvements to their drivers to make the Quake 3 engine run faster, surely this wouldn't depend on text strings inside the executable, or the name of the filename?
Feel free to flame me if I'm wrong. =)
I'm still on my old Palm III. I don't really care about the colour, or the PalmOS version. Bluetooth, afaik, is pointless in .nz, as is wireless. The only issue I have with my Palm III is the amount of ram.
However, were I looking at buying a new PDA, I'd go with an Ipaq or a Journada. For roughly the same price, the storage is far bigger, the applications are far, far better (Hmm.. Useless notes program, or pocket word?), and the processor is much faster (I don't see any palm devices playing mpeg video any time soon)
That's my tree fitty, anyway.
Hmm. It doesn't happen on any other network card I've tried it on.
In any case, someone else decided we were going to use Sundance cards in our servers here.
I downed all the servers, and put them in. The netware machines came up fine, but all of a sudden we had no internet connection and no incoming/outgoing email. I put the old cards back in, and everything went fine.
The part that annoys me is that I had specifically asked for tulip chipset cards, because I know they work fine. =)
The kernel module for Alta Sundance 100 meg cards drops any packets it receives that are > ~1500 bytes.
I'm pretty sure it isn't user error; and it's happened on several different machines I've tried it on.
I can do a ping -s 1465 (The number is something like that, but that's not exact), and it'll work fine... increase it to ping -s 1466, and no replies come back.
That's true, I suppose.
We need some of those vaporware solid state storage devices... mmm... 100 petabytes on a disk the size of a small slice of cheese.
The case looks nice, but are there any crusoe notebooks out there with larger screens?
If I were looking for a notebook right now, that's the main thing I'd be looking for. A 20 gig hard disk on a notebook would be wasted on me - I'm barely using 5gig out of the 10 on my compaq armada e500, and there's 1.5 gig or so of mp3s on there =)
But, it's got a nice 13.3" screen.
On the other hand, a silver case would be nice.... *drool*
And one of them was assaulted.
Peanut.
By far the coolest case I've seen in a while =)
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http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?threadi
I already have more hits for codered II than I did for the original.
Does it spread differently / attack more often?
Or is the random number generator better than in the original?
root@beethoven:/usr/local/apache/logs# grep default.ida access_log | wc -l
254
root@beethoven:/usr/local/apache/logs# grep NNNNNNNNNN access_log | wc -l
119
root@beethoven:/usr/local/apache/logs# grep XXXXXXXXXX access_log | wc -l
135
The genuine IBM ones with the huge metal cases?
//e and the aforementioned laptop, but the XT was mine.
... brought it up from 256k to 640k, but made the memory check take about a minute. =)
that was *my* first computer =)... my parents had a
I pulled it out a few years ago, and tried to make it go again, and one of the capacitors on the mfm controller burst into flames.
I remember my father found a ram expansion card for it
I have a PCjx sitting in my room... small black desktop case, tiny cga screen, etc... looks really cute.
.. they're really rare even on new PCs. On the other hand, the keyboard had to be pointing straight at the screen, and you occasionally got garbage if the connection was cut.
2x 3.5" 360k(not a typo) floppy drives, infrared keyboard, 2x rom cartridge drives
I'm amazed at the infrared keyboard though
but it was still a cool toy, until my cousins borrowed it and broke the screen somehow. I keep meaning to open it up and fix it, but haven't gotten around to it yet. It'd probably be hard to replace, too... it's a 15 pin joystick-sized plug, rather than the ordinary 9pin cga type.
ah well.
I was at the Microsoft WinME pre-release seminar here in .nz last year
It was aimed at OEMs, and they were promoting the 'legacy-free pc', which would have no parallel, rs232 or isa connectors. They had a whole lot of "case studies" in the courseware stuff we got about people whose lives had been made so much harder by having isa devices and parallel ports (oh please), and how firewire, usb and pci were the golden future.
They claimed then that they were not going to support "legacy" devices such as these in Windows XP (it was still whistler then, though)
I couldn't imagine it happening then, and sure enough, when I tried a beta of XP, my 33k6 isa modem worked fine.
Really? I've never used one =)
.. it was too long ago) drive that it had =)
It doesn't make sense... 300 / 9 = 33.333 (8 data bits + one stop bit)
it wouldn't have been higher latency, for some reason, rather than typing faster than the modem?
[ot] there used to be a bbs 'round here running on a C64, with a 300 baud modem. Apparently the modem was faster than the floppy (or maybe tape
I work at a school that gets donated quite a lot of old hardware. We've had 3 or so laptops given to us, a compaq 386 sx25, some kind of old toshiba, and an 8086 laptop, the brand and model of which I've forgotten.
.. I learnt batch file programming and all that jazz on it =)
The only one still working is the 8086 one. The only reason it stands out in my memory is that my father had one when he was working at mobil, and it was the first PC I actually used
They don't make 'em like they used to?
"The fastest modem connection the Tandy can support is 19,200 bps, sluggish compared with today's DSL and cable modems. (It comes with something even more pokey: a built-in 300-bps modem that sends text more slowly than the average person can type.)"
;]
I dunno about you guys, but I sure can't type 33 characters per second
(assuming an N81 connection)
true .. but I nslookup'ed www.slashdot.org and slashdot.org, and got the same ip for both.
*shrug*
it seems to be working fine now =)
why not just fricken run apache on unix?
....
Just pretend to be professional for a second and use unix...
Personally, I prefer linux to any other operating system I have tried. But in my experience, it's quite hard to convince a business running more established platforms to change to an 'alternative' operating system. I've managed to convince the school I work at to replace one of the Netware servers with a linux machine running samba, but it wasn't easy.
The reason I asked the question in the first place was that I don't know the dis/advantages of using IIS or apache under win32.
I've never really used IIS .. I've never really felt the need, so I don't know what its good points are.
My question is, why not run apache on Windows NT/2000? Does IIS have any major advantages over apache and the wide range of addons which are available for it?
New Zealand's 'lovely' telco has brought out a flat-rate 128k ADSL service called JetStart. However, you must purchase your own DSL modem. I don't know whether or not the ones you have would be compatible ... I don't really know how DSL works. .nz based auction site, are quite sought after. It might be worth a try. =)
However, I've heard that DSL modems sold on trademe, a
Did samba 2.0.x not do this, though? I'm sure I had my win2k professional machine at home logging into a samba-controlled domain. I'm running 2.2.0a2 now, and it works sweet =). I guess I'll have to upgrade now. ;p
I've also used 2.0.7 to move a novell netware server at work over to linux, handling domain logons from 5 or so client machines, and serving cds, etc. these are only win98 machines, though.
The only problem I've had with it though, is occasionally the client machines will say the password has been rejected. If I look in the samba log, it has 'connection reset by peer' mesages. I've searched on google, and have found other people with the same problem, but no solution. Has this been fixed in 2.2?
Cheers =)
I don't know what physical malfunction caused the click of death, but my guess is that it was some instrument scraping against the media within the disk.
this page has a good description of what you're talking about.
I got an internal scsi drive back in '98, and I'd only had it for a bit over a year when I got the problem. I didn't bother getting a replacement, because I wasn't using it much, and I threw the drive out. I'm now wishing I hadn't, because at the university I'm at, the student computing machines all have zip drives. Being on dialup, copying big files onto zipdisk would be a lot easier than emailing them around =)
I did hear recently that you can get dsl even if you have a saturn phone line. I hadn't been told otherwise, but I assumed it wouldn't be possible.
The service still comes from Telecom, but at least they're co-operating =)