Also the Matrox display drivers (I reported it to matrox and their response was 'so what, it's beta'... expect lots of unhappy users when SP2 goes gold).
I *really* hope the wayback machine fubared that page up... it's even worse than the new one.
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It's unlikely you'd get an explosion (you can design them so at the first sign of trouble the control rods shut them down... even something as simple as a spring loaded mechanism).
The problem would be uranium spread over a large area... even that would be mitigated by the fact that a battery maybe a foot across spread over 100 miles isn't going to change the overall radioactivity of the area much.
We got one of the clever ones nearby... for a week it was great... you pushed the button, and it saw you were actually there and stopped the traffic.. plus if you could cross before it automatically cancelled itself.
The next week they completely disabled the sensors and put it in 'don't stop traffic make the buggers wait' mode*, where it's stayed. Nice to know where my council tax is being wasted...
* This mode refuses to change to let pedestrians cross *even if there isn't any traffic for miles*, meaning you cross anyway, then 5-6 minutes later hear the beeps in the distance as it decides to turn red whilst there's nobody actually wanting to cross.
I remember NT SP6 where they screwed up the NTFS format somehow and several machines (luckily only test machines) rebooted to the 'couldn't load NTLDR' screen.
Various 'hotfixes' that have cause apps to crash or behave oddly - some of which have been subsequently withdrawn and reissued fixed layer.
I tend to agree... XML has its place on documented interfaces but dropping it randomly onto mailservers is just asking for crappy implementations...
To get any working speed out of an XML document basically requires a custom parser (and they're a bitch to write... I've done half a dozen of them so far). Next down in speed is something like libexpat which is still 10* slower than the custom solution... don't get me started on the microsoft version (crappy interfaces, and performance that means it's unusable for anything but the smallest amounts of data).
I prefer the SPF solution myself.. much easier to parse.
I won't be sad the see the back of mcafee... their code quality is even worse than MS (there are crashing bugs in their AV that were reported ~4 years ago and still exist).
Symantec and their 'active' filesystem scanning that makes your system run at a crawl (and breaks some fundamental assumptions, like if a file is closed, it's actually, um... closed?)... dump 'em I say.
However I'm not sure at all that MS can do a better job - most of their stuff is pretty mediocre and only succeeds because of their monopoly. Competition is good...
Also, the hijacked machine isn't likely to have a private key for the domain it's spoofing, so it'll fail the verification.
The sendmail/yahoo thing doesn't rely on the mailserver telling the truth... that would be stupid. What it does it check that the signature is correct according to the published public key of the domain. Essentially it fubars any attempt to spoof domains... you'll still get spam, but you'll know exactly who sent it.
Basically forging email addresses is going to have to stop, just like using open relays had to stop years ago. SMTP AUTH has been around for years & every mailserver supports it.
I first heard about it about 7 or 8 years ago. They actually ran a trial a few miles away from me, but abandoned it because the bandwidth sucked (they could only get ~10mb across it reliably and that had to be shared between all customers... it cost more to run the service than you could possibly get back in online charges).
You can get the ISP out of the IP (via whois), then with an accurate time, it's possible to get the ISP to give you an address (law enforcement use this method all the time).
If you're on static IP it's even more trivial... you don't even need the time.
Indeed, with 3G phones now readily available I'm not sure I see the point of making the old land lines do it... My next phone will be a 3G probably (purely for the fast internet access, rather than the video, but it's a cool bonus).
You can only have one stargate per coordinate, but it's possible a planet could be large enough to have two (depends on the granularity of the gate address I suppose, which isn't really specified).
Actually thinking about it since the gould have stargates on their ships, they're not coordinates... maybe you could program two stargates with different addresses and put them next to each other???
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AMD64.
You can run 32bit binaries on it, but the drivers must be 64bit. However ATI won't support 64bit so you can't run 3d games on an AMD64 with an ATI.
Even nvidia fubared this one up by making their 64bit drivers require 64bit OpenGL.
SP4 changed the NTFS format and rendered a number of machines unbootable. Also because of the format change you couldn't uninstall it either...
Also the Matrox display drivers (I reported it to matrox and their response was 'so what, it's beta'... expect lots of unhappy users when SP2 goes gold).
Plus Mozilla & Digiguide.
OK for interpreters...
But Mozilla? Digiguide?
Both of these apps break due to NX on SP2...
I *really* hope the wayback machine fubared that page up... it's even worse than the new one.
It's unlikely you'd get an explosion (you can design them so at the first sign of trouble the control rods shut them down... even something as simple as a spring loaded mechanism).
The problem would be uranium spread over a large area... even that would be mitigated by the fact that a battery maybe a foot across spread over 100 miles isn't going to change the overall radioactivity of the area much.
We got one of the clever ones nearby... for a week it was great... you pushed the button, and it saw you were actually there and stopped the traffic.. plus if you could cross before it automatically cancelled itself.
The next week they completely disabled the sensors and put it in 'don't stop traffic make the buggers wait' mode*, where it's stayed. Nice to know where my council tax is being wasted...
* This mode refuses to change to let pedestrians cross *even if there isn't any traffic for miles*, meaning you cross anyway, then 5-6 minutes later hear the beeps in the distance as it decides to turn red whilst there's nobody actually wanting to cross.
XP SP2 is going to be a bundle of laughs...
I remember NT SP6 where they screwed up the NTFS format somehow and several machines (luckily only test machines) rebooted to the 'couldn't load NTLDR' screen.
Various 'hotfixes' that have cause apps to crash or behave oddly - some of which have been subsequently withdrawn and reissued fixed layer.
SMTP AUTH...
I tend to agree... XML has its place on documented interfaces but dropping it randomly onto mailservers is just asking for crappy implementations...
To get any working speed out of an XML document basically requires a custom parser (and they're a bitch to write... I've done half a dozen of them so far). Next down in speed is something like libexpat which is still 10* slower than the custom solution... don't get me started on the microsoft version (crappy interfaces, and performance that means it's unusable for anything but the smallest amounts of data).
I prefer the SPF solution myself.. much easier to parse.
I won't be sad the see the back of mcafee... their code quality is even worse than MS (there are crashing bugs in their AV that were reported ~4 years ago and still exist).
Symantec and their 'active' filesystem scanning that makes your system run at a crawl (and breaks some fundamental assumptions, like if a file is closed, it's actually, um... closed?)... dump 'em I say.
However I'm not sure at all that MS can do a better job - most of their stuff is pretty mediocre and only succeeds because of their monopoly. Competition is good...
Why 'short of blocking anything with microsoft attachments'? That's basic mailserver configuration these days.
.zip files these days.
You still need AV though as there are some that package themselves in
Also, the hijacked machine isn't likely to have a private key for the domain it's spoofing, so it'll fail the verification.
The sendmail/yahoo thing doesn't rely on the mailserver telling the truth... that would be stupid. What it does it check that the signature is correct according to the published public key of the domain. Essentially it fubars any attempt to spoof domains... you'll still get spam, but you'll know exactly who sent it.
This has been rehashed a million times...
Basically forging email addresses is going to have to stop, just like using open relays had to stop years ago. SMTP AUTH has been around for years & every mailserver supports it.
??? every single alternative mailserver (except MS Exchange..) has a filtering API.
amavisd-new + postfix is a pretty powerful combination too.
I first heard about it about 7 or 8 years ago. They actually ran a trial a few miles away from me, but abandoned it because the bandwidth sucked (they could only get ~10mb across it reliably and that had to be shared between all customers... it cost more to run the service than you could possibly get back in online charges).
Why not? Pretty crappy time travel machine if it was artificially limited like that...
How would you know you'd invented it? It wouldn't work unless you waited a couple of years....
Mozilla doesn't work in Linux with the NX protection on either... it's doing some really dodgy self modifying stuff when it starts up I think.
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SP2 will break a *lot* of code and it's well worth downloading the beta and testing your stuff with it - your boss will thank you for it
It's been implemented in Linux since about 6 months ago, at least on the amd64 branch.
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http://www.x86-64.org/lists/discuss/msg03469.ht
Windows uses ring 3 and 0, ignoring 1 and 2.
IIRC rings 1 and 2 are pretty useless anyway.
Tried the XP2 beta on an amd64? Both Digiguide and Mozilla get burned...
:)
Amusingly, IE6 starts falling over randomly too
True.
It's a bitch parsing CSV files produced in some european countries....
You can get the ISP out of the IP (via whois), then with an accurate time, it's possible to get the ISP to give you an address (law enforcement use this method all the time).
If you're on static IP it's even more trivial... you don't even need the time.
Indeed, with 3G phones now readily available I'm not sure I see the point of making the old land lines do it... My next phone will be a 3G probably (purely for the fast internet access, rather than the video, but it's a cool bonus).
You can only have one stargate per coordinate, but it's possible a planet could be large enough to have two (depends on the granularity of the gate address I suppose, which isn't really specified).
Actually thinking about it since the gould have stargates on their ships, they're not coordinates... maybe you could program two stargates with different addresses and put them next to each other???