I have two NVIDIA GeForce 6800 cards running SLI. For gaming, I have to reboot the system to enable SLI mode. SLI mode only allows one monitor enabled at a time, and I have a dual monitor setup.
So yes, being able to do a change to something in the driver without rebooting would be infinitely useful.
I wonder what would happen if someone submitted a story about Roland to kuro5hin, and got enough votes to make it on the front page.
The problem right now is that complaints about him end up only in the comments. Maybe if there's enough external attention, the powers at VA might reconsider their policies.
I've come to realize that everything on slashdot seems to be either slashvertisement, Microsoft Bashing, Google Glorifying, and stuff that should otherwise be on Bash.org.
Now on that slashvertising bit... I guess I'm a whore too. Who's looking for some hosting / design / programming work done? </sarcasm>
See, the first amendment, and all the amendments for that matter, are rights which protect the people from censorship from the government.
Unfortunately, privately run corporations are exempt from this, since they themselves aren't held to the first amendment the way the government is.
See the story of the Dead Kennedys on this one. The government's attempt at censorship in this case wasn't done on the legal level, but instead pressure was put on private industry (read RIAA) to do censorship themselves. The show trial against them served as a warning to the RIAA to control content.
So, in this case, a government maintaining control of the net in this regard is actually safer, since there's no intermediary group that can be pressured to self-censor. Funny huh?
Most of my internet traffic goes through at least three firewalls. Is that too paranoid?
One router, and one software firewall constitutes two firewalls. If he wanted his home office network to be separated by his family's computers, having a third firewall makes sense.
After all, if his kids inadvertently get a virus, why let it spread on the network? (depending on the virus, of course)
Sometimes I have a "Password Day" where I change every password I own on the same day, just in case someone might happen to have one of my passwords. I frequently change my passwords after traveling.
Fair enough. If you have something like keepass, going down the list of passwords isn't too hard. Then again, I wouldn't change the password of something stupid and insignificant (like a dating site account) very often, especially if it's a strong password that I don't use anywhere else.
I use very long passwords for everything, even with the lamest accounts I have.
If you have keepass, why not?
I require my kids to use at least 14 character passwords on our home network and I'm considering issuing them smart cards. No one else, not even my wife, knows my network password.
Why the hell not? Shouldn't you be teaching your children good security practices anyway?
I don't just throw out shredded documents; I spread the shredded bits into my garden to use as mulch.
Oh yeah... Just what I want... my backyard to be flooded with little bits of paper. Lovely.
I used to tell my clients to set files in their web content directories to read only. Some thought this was too extreme and too much of a hassle, but then along came a worm named Code Red that failed on all the clients who followed my advice.
And linux people have known this for how long?
I use a unique, secret e-mail address for each sensitive online account I have. I have always done that. I guess this would look paranoid to most people, but when I get e-mails from my bank, I can check the address the e-mail address they used to see if they sent it to the secret address.
Does this matter? The only real concern here is phishing. If your bank sends you an email, you TYPE IN THE URL YOURSELF. That is good security.
Plus, he doesn't mention who his emails are with? A hotmail or yahoo account? Bad choice. If you're really serious about mail security (and not spam), why not have one email account on its own dedicated machine... running qmail... with iptables blocking all incoming ports but 25 and 22 (but limit port 22 to your private IP). Check your mail locally using pine, so that POP3 or IMAP isn't open.
I keep my PC's turned around so I can tell if anyone has installed a hardware keylogger.
If you're running keepass, you don't need to worry about that for sniffing of passwords. Just copy and paste your password in.
I never check in luggage when I fly.
Does this matter if your laptop is WITH you?
I do my Internet browsing from a locked down VMWare box that has no rights on my network.
If your office documents are important enough, why not? If you work from home, if you have the money and the space, why not do work on a separate machine with limited rights / access? Or the other way around?
I use terrafly.com to see what others might be able to see about my home.
Crackheaded. If someone knows your address, there's a lot more they can find out about your house than what's on an aerial map.
It takes five passwords to boot up my laptop and check my e-mail. One of those passwords is over 50 characters long.
BIOS, OS, Email Account? What are the other two? Also, passwords should be out of the range of brute force crackers. Not insanely unreachable. 20 characters should do it.
I guess nobody saw the sarcasm in my post... Oh well.
What's really kind of funny, in a way, is that a -1 post can inspire a whole lot of +5 posts. In all honesty, wouldn't the point of a moderation system be to reward posts that are a) interesting/funny/etc, and b) inspire responses that are?
I'm really tempted to try incorporating the score of child posts into the parent's overall standing. That way, some of the more interesting comments wouldn't be blackholed down near -1.
At the April 4 meeting, Smith told members of GLEAM, the gay and lesbian employees group at Microsoft, that the company had switched its official stance to "neutral" on the bill, and took personal responsibility for the decision.
Followed by
An Apple a day keeps the bigot away?
As much as I am for civil rights and gay marriage, this is inflammatory. Just because Microsoft changed their stance from pro to neutral (not against), this makes them bigoted? I don't buy that. I don't buy that at all.
This is the same kind of black and white reasoning that George W. Bush uses. "You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists." Just because someone wants to back away from the battle, doesn't mean all of a sudden that they're on the side of the religious right.
I know it's in-fashion to bash Microsoft on this site, but the fellow who wrote this article takes any sort of GBLA equality achievements with a grain of salt. Kind of like giving a donation to a charity the first time around, and being called stingy for not doing so every time.
Sure, it's disappointing that they backed off. Sure, I hope they change their mind, and I hope plenty of people call them. But to call them bigoted for turning neutral (and not against) is simply going too far.
I can't help but wonder if after a certain point, that instead of taking classes where there's an actual lecturer, that instead a tape of the lecturer from a previous course is instead used for a class.
On top of that, actual questions could be answered from TAs, or perhaps the professor himself or herself.
It makes you think about what is happening to education, and if this is a good or bad thing.
But you don't, right? Why not? Because you're willing to take the risk that your MySQL login won't get swiped. So where's the acceptable level of risk? Michael seems to think that Linux has good enough security to make running as root not that big of a deal.
It depends entirely on what I'm doing. The general policy for anything I do is to grant it the least amount of privileges necessary to do what I want to do with it. Is something like this really so bad?
In any case, what's so bad about "locking" files? One of these days I think I'm going to write a sudo program that changes user ownership to root, and grant read access to my groupname.
Any exploitable program you run as another user will still need a local escilation exploit in order to do anything harmful. Running something like apache as root, and any vulnerability in programs such as phpMyAdmin will make your whole server go poof.
rm -Rf / as nonroot will make you give a sigh of relief. As root will be your nightmare.
ActiveX and a lot of spyware is contained in windows when running as non-administrator. It's running as admin (like most people do), that cause the majority of problems with things.
This kind of talk is pandering to the lowest common denominator of user. Honestly, I feel users SHOULD learn a little bit about privileges before being handed the machine, and clicking on that file attachment.
I know Slashdot attempts to soundbite things just like any other modern news media, so I'll quote:
Here's why: What's the most important thing on your desktop? It's the data. If someone gets access to your libraries or whatever, who cares? Your data is the most precious thing on your computer. And whether you log in as root or log in as user, you have access to that data, technically anyone who's compromising your account has access to your data as well.
MySQL, for instance, runs as a separate user. If I so desired, I could limit the login / password for my MySQL account to only allow row INSERTs and SELECTs, but no DELETEs or DROPs. If someone were to break into my account, they could see my data, but at least they couldn't delete from the table. As root, they could stop and start the actual service, and wipe out the whole directory for that matter.
I generally see what he's saying about data being king. But if your data is that important, you'll have other safeguards for protecting it, typically via (dun dun dun), user management! For instance, keep your accounting files under a different user, home directory chmodded to 700. Stuff like that.
Then you could say "Well, it's not really about your data, it's that people could accidentally mess things up!". Well, you could accidentally drive into a wall as well, it doesn't mean we should make all cars drive at 10 miles an hour. So, I don't see the added benefit.
Cars happen to have seat belts. Roads also have speed limits, so this analogy is flawed.
The best way for Linux to break into the market isn't to emulate windows entirely. The best way is to take the best of what windows has to offer, and augment it with the best of what Linux has to offer. After all, look at Firefox. Firefox didn't choose to adopt ActiveX, or adopt Microsoft's proprietary style transitions, or render CSS in the same broken way, right? Neither should Linux, or in this case, Linspire.
I see you didn't read through the code and see what the script does.
It looks at the RSS that Ocremix exports. JUST OCremix. Nowhere else. Not multi-gigabyte files. JUST Ocremix files that are 5-10 meg in length.
If all I wanted was something that appended URLs to a download list, to download later, yes I could do something like that.
Your scripts would be perfectly convenient if I wanted to manually go to the site, fetch the URL, then add it. Instead, I'm parsing XML because OCremix has pages like this:
The script will go through, find the next download on the list, and download it. Pretty much, it'll fetch all the mp3s that are available. Running it once a week will download all new releases.
I shuffle an array with two elements so that... Guess what? So it's easy to add mirrors in the future! Go figure.
Sometimes OCremix spits back an error instead of an mp3. 100,000 is a reasonable magic number, since most likely they won't be posting an mp3 of that size on there.
I'm not saying that people should be able to code "as well as me," but I'm setting a prereq for people to use this thing. I figure anyone who can get the DB working won't be asking me stupid questions about it.
Comments like this are annoying, because you glazed over the code and what it does. I mean, what? You want me to parse through OCremix's XML file without a parser? Should I have used sed with a regex?
Oh yeah, there's a query class that I regularly use for something like this. But then again, if you can't figure out at least the SQL query code to see what it's doing, you suck, and shouldn't be using this period.
Consider it an Exercise for the Reader to rewrite this using Pear:DB
Finally, I recommend inserting a row into the table, representing the highest file ID of what you have, so that you don't end up going and redownloading all their music, one by one.
Thanks OCremix guys for making your pages into RSS feeds! It makes stuff like this a lot easier to do!
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Bart: But we want... More asbestos! MORE ASBESTOS!
So yes, being able to do a change to something in the driver without rebooting would be infinitely useful.
But I'm part of a small crowd.
The problem right now is that complaints about him end up only in the comments. Maybe if there's enough external attention, the powers at VA might reconsider their policies.
I'm becoming cynical.
I've come to realize that everything on slashdot seems to be either slashvertisement, Microsoft Bashing, Google Glorifying, and stuff that should otherwise be on Bash.org.
Now on that slashvertising bit... I guess I'm a whore too. Who's looking for some hosting / design / programming work done? </sarcasm>
See, the first amendment, and all the amendments for that matter, are rights which protect the people from censorship from the government.
Unfortunately, privately run corporations are exempt from this, since they themselves aren't held to the first amendment the way the government is.
See the story of the Dead Kennedys on this one. The government's attempt at censorship in this case wasn't done on the legal level, but instead pressure was put on private industry (read RIAA) to do censorship themselves. The show trial against them served as a warning to the RIAA to control content.
So, in this case, a government maintaining control of the net in this regard is actually safer, since there's no intermediary group that can be pressured to self-censor. Funny huh?
I must be in some bizzaro world...
Just don't give turtle-face batman a peanut. He's allergic
(reference for those who didn't get it)
I want to hear how much it incredibly sucks ass... That way, when it ends up being completely awesome, that I'm blown away, not expecting it.
That they post duplicate stories to get a rise out of us slashizens?
That poor spelling is just them thumbing their noses at our poorly spelled comments?
That inserting opinions into the articles will sucker people into flamebait?
That not rendering correctly on firefox is really them buckling down to Microsoft advertising on their site?
Now hold on... my tin hat isn't strapped on correctly.
Yup, I'm a winner. Just like everyone else here.
D'oh, that wasn't supposed to be anonymous... Heh.
My apologies, but how often do you actually have to fend off slashdot geeks like this?
One router, and one software firewall constitutes two firewalls. If he wanted his home office network to be separated by his family's computers, having a third firewall makes sense.
After all, if his kids inadvertently get a virus, why let it spread on the network? (depending on the virus, of course)
Sometimes I have a "Password Day" where I change every password I own on the same day, just in case someone might happen to have one of my passwords. I frequently change my passwords after traveling.
Fair enough. If you have something like keepass, going down the list of passwords isn't too hard. Then again, I wouldn't change the password of something stupid and insignificant (like a dating site account) very often, especially if it's a strong password that I don't use anywhere else.
I use very long passwords for everything, even with the lamest accounts I have.
If you have keepass, why not?
I require my kids to use at least 14 character passwords on our home network and I'm considering issuing them smart cards. No one else, not even my wife, knows my network password.
Why the hell not? Shouldn't you be teaching your children good security practices anyway?
I don't just throw out shredded documents; I spread the shredded bits into my garden to use as mulch.
Oh yeah... Just what I want... my backyard to be flooded with little bits of paper. Lovely.
I used to tell my clients to set files in their web content directories to read only. Some thought this was too extreme and too much of a hassle, but then along came a worm named Code Red that failed on all the clients who followed my advice.
And linux people have known this for how long?
I use a unique, secret e-mail address for each sensitive online account I have. I have always done that. I guess this would look paranoid to most people, but when I get e-mails from my bank, I can check the address the e-mail address they used to see if they sent it to the secret address.
Does this matter? The only real concern here is phishing. If your bank sends you an email, you TYPE IN THE URL YOURSELF. That is good security.
Plus, he doesn't mention who his emails are with? A hotmail or yahoo account? Bad choice. If you're really serious about mail security (and not spam), why not have one email account on its own dedicated machine... running qmail... with iptables blocking all incoming ports but 25 and 22 (but limit port 22 to your private IP). Check your mail locally using pine, so that POP3 or IMAP isn't open.
I keep my PC's turned around so I can tell if anyone has installed a hardware keylogger.
If you're running keepass, you don't need to worry about that for sniffing of passwords. Just copy and paste your password in.
I never check in luggage when I fly.
Does this matter if your laptop is WITH you?
I do my Internet browsing from a locked down VMWare box that has no rights on my network.
If your office documents are important enough, why not? If you work from home, if you have the money and the space, why not do work on a separate machine with limited rights / access? Or the other way around?
I use terrafly.com to see what others might be able to see about my home.
Crackheaded. If someone knows your address, there's a lot more they can find out about your house than what's on an aerial map.
It takes five passwords to boot up my laptop and check my e-mail. One of those passwords is over 50 characters long.
BIOS, OS, Email Account? What are the other two? Also, passwords should be out of the range of brute force crackers. Not insanely unreachable. 20 characters should do it.
I also delete unused services on my server
No more Super Mario Land default theme! I'd say that's a step forward.
Stop posting my password on Slashdot, Zonk!
What's really kind of funny, in a way, is that a -1 post can inspire a whole lot of +5 posts. In all honesty, wouldn't the point of a moderation system be to reward posts that are a) interesting/funny/etc, and b) inspire responses that are?
I'm really tempted to try incorporating the score of child posts into the parent's overall standing. That way, some of the more interesting comments wouldn't be blackholed down near -1.
Wonder if a system like that would work.
I can't help but wonder... The MPAA is actually paying police officers to handle crime...
Wouldn't it be kind of cool if the Police would do that with the issues that have been bugging me over the past bit of time.
The guy next door's music too loud? Have the police take care of him, give the cop a tip.
I get calls from telemarketers even though I'm on the do not call list? Have the cops look into it, give them a tip for busting the company.
But wait, we don't want the MPAA to have this kind of power, do we? Nooooo!!! What ever shall we do without our bootleg Star Wars movies?
If only we could put those dupes on ice...
So does this mean they're still doing bugfixes? Or they're doing testing? Or it's going to come out any moment?
Or does it mean that they're no longer implementing new features, which means they're in beta. If that's the case, we knew that much already.
Followed by
An Apple a day keeps the bigot away?As much as I am for civil rights and gay marriage, this is inflammatory. Just because Microsoft changed their stance from pro to neutral (not against), this makes them bigoted? I don't buy that. I don't buy that at all.
This is the same kind of black and white reasoning that George W. Bush uses. "You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists." Just because someone wants to back away from the battle, doesn't mean all of a sudden that they're on the side of the religious right.
I know it's in-fashion to bash Microsoft on this site, but the fellow who wrote this article takes any sort of GBLA equality achievements with a grain of salt. Kind of like giving a donation to a charity the first time around, and being called stingy for not doing so every time.
Sure, it's disappointing that they backed off. Sure, I hope they change their mind, and I hope plenty of people call them. But to call them bigoted for turning neutral (and not against) is simply going too far.
And it goes to New Delhi...
Wow, those google people are so smart.
On top of that, actual questions could be answered from TAs, or perhaps the professor himself or herself.
It makes you think about what is happening to education, and if this is a good or bad thing.
Thoughts?
It depends entirely on what I'm doing. The general policy for anything I do is to grant it the least amount of privileges necessary to do what I want to do with it. Is something like this really so bad?
In any case, what's so bad about "locking" files? One of these days I think I'm going to write a sudo program that changes user ownership to root, and grant read access to my groupname.
- Any exploitable program you run as another user will still need a local escilation exploit in order to do anything harmful. Running something like apache as root, and any vulnerability in programs such as phpMyAdmin will make your whole server go poof.
- rm -Rf / as nonroot will make you give a sigh of relief. As root will be your nightmare.
- ActiveX and a lot of spyware is contained in windows when running as non-administrator. It's running as admin (like most people do), that cause the majority of problems with things.
This kind of talk is pandering to the lowest common denominator of user. Honestly, I feel users SHOULD learn a little bit about privileges before being handed the machine, and clicking on that file attachment.I know Slashdot attempts to soundbite things just like any other modern news media, so I'll quote:
Here's why: What's the most important thing on your desktop? It's the data. If someone gets access to your libraries or whatever, who cares? Your data is the most precious thing on your computer. And whether you log in as root or log in as user, you have access to that data, technically anyone who's compromising your account has access to your data as well.
MySQL, for instance, runs as a separate user. If I so desired, I could limit the login / password for my MySQL account to only allow row INSERTs and SELECTs, but no DELETEs or DROPs. If someone were to break into my account, they could see my data, but at least they couldn't delete from the table. As root, they could stop and start the actual service, and wipe out the whole directory for that matter.
I generally see what he's saying about data being king. But if your data is that important, you'll have other safeguards for protecting it, typically via (dun dun dun), user management! For instance, keep your accounting files under a different user, home directory chmodded to 700. Stuff like that.
Then you could say "Well, it's not really about your data, it's that people could accidentally mess things up!". Well, you could accidentally drive into a wall as well, it doesn't mean we should make all cars drive at 10 miles an hour. So, I don't see the added benefit.
Cars happen to have seat belts. Roads also have speed limits, so this analogy is flawed.
The best way for Linux to break into the market isn't to emulate windows entirely. The best way is to take the best of what windows has to offer, and augment it with the best of what Linux has to offer. After all, look at Firefox. Firefox didn't choose to adopt ActiveX, or adopt Microsoft's proprietary style transitions, or render CSS in the same broken way, right? Neither should Linux, or in this case, Linspire.
It looks at the RSS that Ocremix exports. JUST OCremix. Nowhere else. Not multi-gigabyte files. JUST Ocremix files that are 5-10 meg in length.
If all I wanted was something that appended URLs to a download list, to download later, yes I could do something like that.
Your scripts would be perfectly convenient if I wanted to manually go to the site, fetch the URL, then add it. Instead, I'm parsing XML because OCremix has pages like this:
http://www.ocremix.org/detailgame.php?gameid=438 &style=xml
The script will go through, find the next download on the list, and download it. Pretty much, it'll fetch all the mp3s that are available. Running it once a week will download all new releases.
I shuffle an array with two elements so that... Guess what? So it's easy to add mirrors in the future! Go figure.
Sometimes OCremix spits back an error instead of an mp3. 100,000 is a reasonable magic number, since most likely they won't be posting an mp3 of that size on there.
I'm not saying that people should be able to code "as well as me," but I'm setting a prereq for people to use this thing. I figure anyone who can get the DB working won't be asking me stupid questions about it.
Comments like this are annoying, because you glazed over the code and what it does. I mean, what? You want me to parse through OCremix's XML file without a parser? Should I have used sed with a regex?
Damnit!
By the way, I'm using a mysql database for this. The table looks like so:
Oh yeah, there's a query class that I regularly use for something like this. But then again, if you can't figure out at least the SQL query code to see what it's doing, you suck, and shouldn't be using this period.
Consider it an Exercise for the Reader to rewrite this using Pear:DB
Finally, I recommend inserting a row into the table, representing the highest file ID of what you have, so that you don't end up going and redownloading all their music, one by one.
Thanks OCremix guys for making your pages into RSS feeds! It makes stuff like this a lot easier to do!
http://seventhcycle.net/ocremix/download.phps
I would have posted it here, but Slashdot's junk filter sucks. CENSORSHIP! :D