Wrong. If you think that after they rip apart the "bigger" threat, namely deCSS they will not home on retail chains that sell non-region compliant DVD players you are wrong.
RPT:
The entire deal in deCSS is not about pirating. You can happily copy an encrypted DVD bit by bit and play it.
The deal is about regioning. If ol'e boyz network says though are not to see this movie until we done the advertising for it though ain't seeing this movie. Most of the profit nowdays comes from advertisements (30 min before the movie) and merchandise. The marketing for these is 100% regional. How dare you question the MPAA piece of bread.
There is no such thing as a region free player. Most players are intentionally left hackable by manufacturers and hacked by small repair/tune outlets before they go into sales in the big stores. But they are actually being hacked. Ask an insider at your closest high street store if you do not believe this. Or search slashdot or the register.
Smaller Bay/Cisco routers have problems running a serious routing protocol (BGP, OSPF, anything worth running on a big WAN link) as well as NAT on 1.5m circuits
I would skip Bay as something I dunno, but err, do you have an idea of what Cisco puts as CPU in any of their boxen. If you had you would not have wondered why they have some "problems" NATing a T1.
On the contrary even a whimpy pentium with BSD or Linux can NAT at 10MB.
Err, That is not the only thing to suck (TM). If you haven't noticed the proxy is CyberPatrolled by default. As the romans said "O tempora, o mores". Slashdot advertising an appliance with network censorship reconfigured...
As you have noted. Linux has the most flexible and inconsistant look you can actually have in a graphic system. This is absolutely correct. But this is what it is good for.
So your sysadmin can create a standard build for your department, section, group or your personal sorry a... that fits your exact needs.
Asking about what should we standartize globally is either:
Not understanding the system
Having a very bad/underpaid BOFH. Or not having one at all
Next thing you know, they'll be porting it to those old DEC boxes that all the universities have laying around.
Been there, done it;-)
Most of them run NetBSD with ease. I have actually used some of them as file servers and despite their pathetic CPU power (around a 286-386) they stuff a 10MB ether to the point of congestion (unfortunately there are no higher speed interfaces for them).
They suck for web servers, DNS or whatever else where latency and execution speeds are crucial but they make damn good fileservers after you replace the hard drives with a recent SCSI. And after such surgery they just work. Boot them once and forget them forever.
What about the allegations of possible GPL violations by LINEO. Discussed even on linux-kernel? They have neitehr posted source, nor disclosed quite a lot their stuff the last time I had a look.
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A very old joke says:
Definition1: A pessimist is a well infromed optimist.
Definition2: An optimist is a well instructred pessimist.
You have missed a very important thing. What are all these pins for? They are more than on a P6. And considering that the north bridge is integrated on chip they actually should be less. Somethings's strange here...
Good point. Though the sandwich should be replaced by a baseball bat dipped in glue and broken glass a few times.
Continuing my previous post on SMUTSITE-miniHOWTO which was kind of vague. The following cause a well defined smut site to be greperitus resistant:
These are only antipattern matching HTML techniques. Pure networking intentionally omitted:
The discussion on Java script injection in HOTMAIL on Bugtraq is a very good guide on masqing characters. Specifying a character as an escaped HEX, specifying it by HTML code, specifying it inside JavaScript Function, etc ad naseum. In order to match these the search engine will have to start interpreting HTML as a browser. Guess how much resources does this take.
Though brilliant the BUGTRAQ discussion is highly limited. Javascript is more sensistive than pure HTML to bastardizing. In order to bastardize HTML the following options are also available: insert non-breakable spaces, tabs, backspaces, etc through their HTML encoding equivalents.
Best of all use a pattern matching algorithm yourself and whenever you find smut in a page you shall display replace all "offending" f...oids, s...oids, etc with a mixture of randomly selected escaped alternatives. Ala stealth virus techniques.
And best of all make your smut site to operate via post style CGI's filling form values via JavaScript. There is no robot designed for these. And it is least likely to be designed beacuse this will require the robot to go as far as running javascript.
If smut filter vendors had a clue on how evasive their subject is they would have been in a different business by now.
Applix blows up like there is no tomorrow on many windows documents. Its import filters are really bad. If they fail to import properly the entire thing goes on holiday.
On this point even AbiWord beats Applix. It may not import most of the stuff properly and break most of the layout, but it does not blow up. Also, it does not work for half an hour before blowing up. It does not take X windows on a 192MB machine with it when it goes down on a failed import.
I would suggest you extend your tests with a proper selection of MS antidocs. Especially the ones produced by non-release Word versions. I mean those that MS word has sometimes problems reading.
While on the same topic a good test is also reading exported "compatible" formats. For example Corel Word fails on importing something written by StarOffice in an MSWord format. Applixware blows up, etc...
That is not enough, but the checklist to make sure that your site never hits the morons checklist is:
Start with a fresh new domain
Make sure your robots.txt file says not to scan the entire site. Quite a lot of them ignore the file so this is not enough.
Disable any unknown user agents. If your site is 100% PHP or PERL it is an elementary function in the beginning of the script.
Rewrite all texts replacing a dictionary of smut-words (the posted ones are a good example as their quoted or escaped equivalents. The smut checkers are where virus checkers were 10 years ago. They do only elementary pattern matching. This will also help against stream scanning sofwtare.
Keep an eye on your logs. If you see that someone is crawling check who they are. Firewall or ban the IP range if necessary.
Firewall all IP ranges belonging to known anti-smut software vendors.
Have fun if you have brains. If you do not you shall be filtered. Resistance is futile. Isn't technology wonderful?
Almost forgot - the described technologies do not consititute reverse engineering and as such do not fall under the provisions of the UCITA and the DMCA.
But they have grown even further when they do not need to.
They are the market. They dictate how things are done. Look at the meeting rate increase in all industries and correlate it with Microsoft Exchange sales. No wonder NASA used to land its equipment on mars before and cannot nowdays...
Or read Parkinson's laws chapter 2 (If I recall correctly) on meetings and commitees...
It is not the real interview, but quite a lot of things there are damn right.
Only Java beats C++ in its capability to water and obfuscate code.
Do not understand me wrong, C++ can be great and it can do what it was intended to - organize, structure, drive big projects. At the same time it can also promote job security by complete code obfsucation, it can promote complete ignorance in the workings of the underlying OS by abstracting the interfaces and providing the "standard library". Whoever obejct, please try to read multithreaded C++ code... Ughhh... Also, Not like our best beloved Blue Screen of Devotion is not mostly C++...
Well, Holywood is not always bad oriented. "Intrusion", "Hackers", "Matrix" do not depict the hackers as the bad side. Actually just the opposite. The movies where the hackers were "the bad guys" never got a big audience. Which should actually be a good cluestick by itself to the media.
Depicting the hacker as evil (no matter how clueless the movie is) for some unknown reason does not actually work. Actually the reason is well known - sticking the attribute "evil" to the hacker in general is unreal. Some of them are evil, but this is evil as people not hacker=evil.
So, do not blame holywood for now, It is the mass media that needs a beating over the head with a cluestick. With the nails left in.
Linux is an Internet OS. All the info is on the net. If you know how to ask google you will get the answer immediately because google indexes an insane number of copies of the lkm, linux-net, etc archives. The relevant results will come up immediately because it will have a very high relevance coefficient.
This is light years ahead of MSDN. In terms of both technology and speed at which you obtain results.
Having a quick look into my.sig generator... Aha, here it is:
@*** Torquemada's Law ***
When you are sure you're right, you have a moral duty to impose your will upon anyone who disagrees with you.
This has been a cornerstone of almost any religion. It is actually thy cornerstone. If you assume that others may be right how the hell are you supposed to be the follower of thy right way
I would have carried on with the rant quoting "The polemics" of Ciceron. He used to have a very good "dialog" with the ch... but I would rather suggest you pick them up from the library and read them. If some moral prick has not banned them (I am not kidding they are banned in some US libraries).
WTF is encrypting/challenge-response to an anonymous recipient?
You either know who is on the other end of the line doing challenge response or you do not. If you do not you do MPAA/DeCSS.
It is an either or. MP3 does not keep your exact name and snail mail address. So make sure you use a good mail filter on a proper mail account and write an anonymizer proxy for the protocol and run it from a shell account somewhere (Not like they are not going to get youor IP when you request streaming data).
They have showed that you can actually implement a secure sale of media content and how to do it.
Something Mr Valenti and the MPAA/RIAA crowd have yet to understand. If you want to use challenge response and/or encryption it makes sense if and only if it is personal. Period. Otherwise it will always get cracked. And the moment it gets cracked everybody gets it.
The most important fact in this article is that even after successfully reverse enginering beamer you cannot steal CD's from MP3.com and violate the (C) laws.
A good lesson to MPAA on how to design your marketing and protocol specs properly.
Some idiot may mark this as OT or flame or troll, but I would say you do have a point. The MSDos 4 tech reference used to hang around the bathroom at home for quite a while...
There were some references about Qantas. The taiwanese OEM that does the Dell laptops as well as a few other well known "brands". But these folks do not have a web site and it took me more than 45 min digging with google to manage to get this info.
It is still pretty much unknown.
The following factors are in place: 1. Qantas always manufactures for someone else (they do not sell themselves). 2. None of the vendors for whom Qantas manufactures seems like a likely candidate. 3. Crusoe itselfs is manufactured by IBM who has strong appetite to very low power apps in mobile phones, PDAs and laptops.
So from the data in hand it looks like either one of the following:
1. Transmeta will market them themselves after being manufactured by Qantas. 2. They will be manufactured by IBM who makes Crusoe anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
Ask your favourite site to use ssl. It cannot be filtered in transit so just make sure it does not get blacklisted.
RPT:
The entire deal in deCSS is not about pirating. You can happily copy an encrypted DVD bit by bit and play it.
The deal is about regioning. If ol'e boyz network says though are not to see this movie until we done the advertising for it though ain't seeing this movie. Most of the profit nowdays comes from advertisements (30 min before the movie) and merchandise. The marketing for these is 100% regional. How dare you question the MPAA piece of bread.
There is no such thing as a region free player. Most players are intentionally left hackable by manufacturers and hacked by small repair/tune outlets before they go into sales in the big stores. But they are actually being hacked. Ask an insider at your closest high street store if you do not believe this. Or search slashdot or the register.
All JDKs prior to 1.1.something are not leap year compliant.
.com...
That puts a nice DOT in
I would skip Bay as something I dunno, but err, do you have an idea of what Cisco puts as CPU in any of their boxen. If you had you would not have wondered why they have some "problems" NATing a T1.
On the contrary even a whimpy pentium with BSD or Linux can NAT at 10MB.
Err,
That is not the only thing to suck (TM). If you haven't noticed the proxy is CyberPatrolled by default. As the romans said "O tempora, o mores". Slashdot advertising an appliance with network censorship reconfigured...
So your sysadmin can create a standard build for your department, section, group or your personal sorry a... that fits your exact needs.
Asking about what should we standartize globally is either:
Been there, done it ;-)
Most of them run NetBSD with ease. I have actually used some of them as file servers and despite their pathetic CPU power (around a 286-386) they stuff a 10MB ether to the point of congestion (unfortunately there are no higher speed interfaces for them).
They suck for web servers, DNS or whatever else where latency and execution speeds are crucial but they make damn good fileservers after you replace the hard drives with a recent SCSI. And after such surgery they just work. Boot them once and forget them forever.
What about the allegations of possible GPL violations by LINEO. Discussed even on linux-kernel? They have neitehr posted source, nor disclosed quite a lot their stuff the last time I had a look.
Definition1: A pessimist is a well infromed optimist.
Definition2: An optimist is a well instructred pessimist.
You have missed a very important thing. What are all these pins for? They are more than on a P6. And considering that the north bridge is integrated on chip they actually should be less. Somethings's strange here...
Good point. Though the sandwich should be replaced by a baseball bat dipped in glue and broken glass a few times.
Continuing my previous post on SMUTSITE-miniHOWTO which was kind of vague. The following cause a well defined smut site to be greperitus resistant:
These are only antipattern matching HTML techniques. Pure networking intentionally omitted:
- The discussion on Java script injection in HOTMAIL on Bugtraq is a very good guide on masqing characters. Specifying a character as an escaped HEX, specifying it by HTML code, specifying it inside JavaScript Function, etc ad naseum. In order to match these the search engine will have to start interpreting HTML as a browser. Guess how much resources does this take.
- Though brilliant the BUGTRAQ discussion is highly limited. Javascript is more sensistive than pure HTML to bastardizing. In order to bastardize HTML the following options are also available: insert non-breakable spaces, tabs, backspaces, etc through their HTML encoding equivalents.
- Best of all use a pattern matching algorithm yourself and whenever you find smut in a page you shall display replace all "offending" f...oids, s...oids, etc with a mixture of randomly selected escaped alternatives. Ala stealth virus techniques.
And best of all make your smut site to operate via post style CGI's filling form values via JavaScript. There is no robot designed for these. And it is least likely to be designed beacuse this will require the robot to go as far as running javascript.If smut filter vendors had a clue on how evasive their subject is they would have been in a different business by now.
On this point even AbiWord beats Applix. It may not import most of the stuff properly and break most of the layout, but it does not blow up. Also, it does not work for half an hour before blowing up. It does not take X windows on a 192MB machine with it when it goes down on a failed import.
I would suggest you extend your tests with a proper selection of MS antidocs. Especially the ones produced by non-release Word versions. I mean those that MS word has sometimes problems reading.
While on the same topic a good test is also reading exported "compatible" formats. For example Corel Word fails on importing something written by StarOffice in an MSWord format. Applixware blows up, etc...
Have fun if you have brains. If you do not you shall be filtered. Resistance is futile. Isn't technology wonderful?
Almost forgot - the described technologies do not consititute reverse engineering and as such do not fall under the provisions of the UCITA and the DMCA.
The endless meeting considered to be productive culture developed by MS and enforced by MS Exchnage and Outlook should go. Than, yes.
- They have grown beyond the size to adjust - true.
- But they have grown even further when they do not need to.
They are the market. They dictate how things are done. Look at the meeting rate increase in all industries and correlate it with Microsoft Exchange sales. No wonder NASA used to land its equipment on mars before and cannot nowdays...Or read Parkinson's laws chapter 2 (If I recall correctly) on meetings and commitees...
Only Java beats C++ in its capability to water and obfuscate code.
Do not understand me wrong, C++ can be great and it can do what it was intended to - organize, structure, drive big projects. At the same time it can also promote job security by complete code obfsucation, it can promote complete ignorance in the workings of the underlying OS by abstracting the interfaces and providing the "standard library". Whoever obejct, please try to read multithreaded C++ code... Ughhh... Also, Not like our best beloved Blue Screen of Devotion is not mostly C++...
Depicting the hacker as evil (no matter how clueless the movie is) for some unknown reason does not actually work. Actually the reason is well known - sticking the attribute "evil" to the hacker in general is unreal. Some of them are evil, but this is evil as people not hacker=evil.
So, do not blame holywood for now, It is the mass media that needs a beating over the head with a cluestick. With the nails left in.
Especially ABC and a few other news networks.
Linux is an Internet OS. All the info is on the net. If you know how to ask google you will get the answer immediately because google indexes an insane number of copies of the lkm, linux-net, etc archives. The relevant results will come up immediately because it will have a very high relevance coefficient.
This is light years ahead of MSDN. In terms of both technology and speed at which you obtain results.
Evolution:
Corel -> RedHat -> Debian
Time to evolve, I guess.
Having a quick look into my .sig generator... Aha, here it is:
@*** Torquemada's Law ***
your will upon anyone who disagrees with you.
This has been a cornerstone of almost any religion. It is actually thy cornerstone. If you assume that others may be right how the hell are you supposed to be the follower of thy right way
I would have carried on with the rant quoting "The polemics" of Ciceron. He used to have a very good "dialog" with the ch... but I would rather suggest you pick them up from the library and read them. If some moral prick has not banned them (I am not kidding they are banned in some US libraries).
You either know who is on the other end of the line doing challenge response or you do not. If you do not you do MPAA/DeCSS.
It is an either or. MP3 does not keep your exact name and snail mail address. So make sure you use a good mail filter on a proper mail account and write an anonymizer proxy for the protocol and run it from a shell account somewhere (Not like they are not going to get youor IP when you request streaming data).
They have showed that you can actually implement a secure sale of media content and how to do it.
Something Mr Valenti and the MPAA/RIAA crowd have yet to understand. If you want to use challenge response and/or encryption it makes sense if and only if it is personal. Period. Otherwise it will always get cracked. And the moment it gets cracked everybody gets it.
The most important fact in this article is that even after successfully reverse enginering beamer you cannot steal CD's from MP3.com and violate the (C) laws.
A good lesson to MPAA on how to design your marketing and protocol specs properly.
Some idiot may mark this as OT or flame or troll, but I would say you do have a point. The MSDos 4 tech reference used to hang around the bathroom at home for quite a while...
He did. By putting it in public domain. The relevant people read the public domain. If they do not they just imitate to be relevant.
Let's face it security on most of the Internet sites is bad and on some has gone worse as their corporativism/size has increased. Nothing unexpected.
There were some references about Qantas. The taiwanese OEM that does the Dell laptops as well as a few other well known "brands". But these folks do not have a web site and it took me more than 45 min digging with google to manage to get this info.
It is still pretty much unknown.
The following factors are in place:
1. Qantas always manufactures for someone else (they do not sell themselves).
2. None of the vendors for whom Qantas manufactures seems like a likely candidate.
3. Crusoe itselfs is manufactured by IBM who has strong appetite to very low power apps in mobile phones, PDAs and laptops.
So from the data in hand it looks like either one of the following:
1. Transmeta will market them themselves after being manufactured by Qantas.
2. They will be manufactured by IBM who makes Crusoe anyway.
This is all hypothetical anyway...