Hum, I think people are confusing letters here. The K in 4K refers to the Kilo prefix, as in 4 thousands. The P in 1080p refers to "Progressive" (full scan) compare to say, 1080i "Interleaved", which is really just 540 pixels resolution.
Like a previous poster said, they used the horizontal number because it's higher, but please don't start bringing in P or other things to muddle up the issue even more.
I think it's a reasonable assumption that one cannot design anything that has more chances to pass natural selection than its creator, so our creations will always be bounded by our own intellect.
I think that's a very big assumption to make. So far, we've been constrained by our physical bodies, and our intelligence evolved with it. We're getting to the point where we can design new "bodies", biological or not, to support new "brains" (once again, biological or not). I don't see why it would be impossible for us to create an organism or machine that can provide much more energy to its brain than what our bodies are able to do now. Once we figure out how to accurately simulate neuron interaction, we should be able to create a brain much more intelligent than ours.
I'm thinking it's inevitable that, in the long run, we'll create an intelligence much beyond ours.
The point you're missing with this is that, without copyright, anyone could get the source from an employee or just decompile it and re-create the source files and they could be used. Without copyright, a single Microsoft employee could leak the Windows source code and anyone could just compile it and make their own version. Without copyright, you just don't need the GPL (well not entirely true, it still leaves patents and trademarks...)
Not to nitpick, but you can configure the prompt option to fall back to the simple "Access denied" with a simple GPO change. Most workplaces find it useful though because you can have a tech go and just type the credentials if needed (useful for some shell functions where you can't use runas...)
- iptables rulesets that allow all outbound from all systems. Allow ICMP everywhere, etc.
As a network admin, I have violent fantasies of driving hot nails through the privates of the "Let's block all ICMP by default" admins whenever I come up at a new client's site to troubleshoot some complex networking issues. If you block ICMP echo, you better have an extremely good reason for it. If it's from a public WAN link facing the internet, then *maybe* you might have a case (but most often not). If it's on a web server or other public-facing services, you PROBABLY DON'T HAVE A VALID REASON. If you block traceroutes from anywhere except edge firewalls, you are a clueless idiot. And even then, requests coming from inside interfaces should be let through. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE OVER MPLS AND Site-to-Site VPN LINKS!
Whew, that felt good. Seriously, blocking icmp doesn't do *anything* for security. If you are getting flooded by icmp packets, just configure a flood threshold. These days, any icmp DoS flood that is bad enough to actually interrupt services very likely doesn't need the extra "reply" traffic to work. And if your clever "security" of not replying to pings on anything that has ports open is stupid, as a simple port scan will reveal the host.
Please, for the sake of every network admin's sanity, leave ICMP alone. Thank you.
I know some of our older RSA cards on our IBM servers don't work with anything over (IIRC) Java 6.3. So we have to keep machines around with older Java version to get the remote-control feature working.
I've also seen some doc sharing sites one of our client is using (pharmacology related) that are sensitive to which Java version you run.
I know I've seen other instances which I can't recall right now. Java's portable and compatible with everything, except when it isn't:P .
That's remarkably ignorant. The possibility of reclaiming those class A addresses has been studied and put aside, as it would be too costly and, assuming we get every single class A back, would only give us about 1.5 more years. This is too much cost for too little gain, so the efforts were focused on migrating to IPv6 instead.
LucasArts actually made a sequel in the same genre as XvT, called X-Wing Alliance. It will run fine on modern Windows systems (it uses Direct 3D), and you can even download fan-made high resolution texture packs for it to make it look better on newer systems. You only get to play the alliance side (at least in single player), but the campain is even longer than XvT's. There are also more varied ships than just fighers (Correlian Transports, shuttles, etc).
The game follows the story of the Azameen family shorty after the evacuation from Hoth. You'll be playing several family missions, eventually joining the Rebel Alliance. From there you'll be staging Alliance missions, stationed in a variety of capital ships as the story progresses. There are also still family-related missions when you take leaves from the Alliance, which makes thing even more interesting.
If you liked XvT, you'll love X-Wing Alliance. I wish they would make another of those games so much, but they are too complex to fit in today's "shoot everything that moves" paradigm.
Sorry for the double-reply, but thinking about your situation, wouldn't it be easier to add a static route on your default gateway (whatever it is) and have it route to the other subnets? Having lots of clients each with their own routing table seems like a fairly weird setup to me.
That was actually interesting, guess I should have googled it before making the snarky comment.
About that Cisco comment though, have you considered buying used? No support, but we have a few smaller clients that went this way and without the whole SmartNET support fees, Cisco gear can be had for fairly cheap. For example, you can get a 24 port 100MB switch for about $120 and a Cisco ASA for around $400, and it's going to be way more stable than any smoothwall box running on generic hardware. Cisco 871 routers can be had for $407 new (I know: I just got a quote for a client who wants to connect multiple stores through VPN), I'd assume that on eBay they'd be even cheaper. Sure it's a bit more expensive than a D-Link router you can get at Wal*Mart, but you do get considerable flexibility out of it.
Anyway, thanks for pointing that DHCP option to me. I don't think I've ever met anyone using that before.
Erm, maybe my certifications are out of date, but how exactly can DHCPv4 advertise routing information (such as your example?). The only routing info you can set through DHCP is the default gateway, which works well even with IPv6. If you need dynamic routing, you'll have to use a routing protocol, and AFAIK, OSPF, RIP, EIGRP and BGP all support IPv6 just fine.
I can't figure if you're a troll or not, but if you are serious, this is one of the most stupid comment I've ever read on slashdot. The consequences of such a system are immediatly obvious: nobody would ever want to risk their own lives to defend anyone accused of a serious crime, even for cases where the accused is almost certainly innocent (why risk it at all?).
Your best bet might be buying a more expensive monitor that has a really high resolution, and then cut it to 1/4. For example, my 30" has 2560x1800. If you set it to 1/4 (ie, you won't lose any precision due to pixels not fitting), you can do 1280x800, which is pretty close to what you'd like. To lose so much resolution makes me cringe inside though. As other posters already mentionned, Windows 7 will scale all apps when you adjust DPI, and for example, my Firefox is set to a default zoom of 130%. This is because otherwise most sites are a thin 20% bar in the middle of the screen!
Of course, the problem with FAT32 is that it cannot accommodate file sizes larger than 4GB. In this day and age, carrying a few DVD ISOs around is quite common, so FAT32 doesn't quite cut it. What is needed is some kind of file system that doesn't use any permission, but is a bit more modern than FAT32.
I know it kind of defeats the purpose of changing your password, but if you're using Windows servers, there's nothing stopping you from just appending a sequential digit to your password and it's going to pass the checker. For example, if you password is passW0rd!, you can use passW0rd!1, passW0rd!2, etc.
It's not quite as bad as just having it on a post-it note.
We're using Zabbix at work and I'm doing daily backups of the database with a simple mysqldump command. Since the tables are InnoDB and not MyISAM, you can use the --single-transaction switch. That way, it takes a virtual snapshot of the db at the start of the backup process and the writes can still keep going (they are still happening but they aren't commited until the transaction finishes). Granted, our DB isn't that big (10GB only), but it's been working fine and restore tests also seem to work fine.
The FSF's centerpiece, the GPL, depends wholly on copyright for enforcement.
I've always found that argument incredibly funny. I think it's a prime example of people not thinking things through. Yes, the GPL is relying on copyright laws to enforce the sharing of source code upon distribution. However, the GPL itself, without copyright laws, would be completely unnecessary. If source code could not be copyrighted, anyone could just publish it without fear of legal repercussions.
Without copyright, if a Microsoft employee decided to anonymously publish the source code to Windows, there's nothing that Microsoft could do to stop people from using the code. Thus the GPL would be completely unnecessary. Even if the employee gets caught, only that person will have to face the legal consequences (NDA breach, giving away trade secrets, etc). Anyone could still use the source code however they wanted.
Did they remove the laugh tracks? I downloaded a few episode to check it out a few years ago and I found the laugh tracks so annoying that I couldn't watch the first episode all the way through. Whoever came up with the idea of laugh tracks should locked in a cell for a few weeks with one on perma loop.
$0.16/GB is what you'd pay to serve content at pretty huge volumes. If they published it on any other website, they'd probably pay more.
Are you sure? I admit I'm not in the hosting business, but that cost seems extremely high to me. I don't even pay that much for my home connection ($29.95 with a 200GB quota, $10 per 100GB slice over). I would assume that, for those huge upstream pipes, the cost will be much lower (2 or 3 cents per GB maybe?). Maybe someone who works for a big content provider can correct my WAG?
I think Sony is shooting itself in the foot with those prices. Their online offering is already inferior to Microsoft's, penalizing companies for putting up content and making the PS3 more attractive seem counterproductive to me. I guess we'll see how it goes.
Laches only applies to "equitable relief", ie, compensation. Basically, you can't let someone sell your stuff for 10 years (knowingly) and them hit them for all the money they've made distributing it since they started. However, it will not in any way invalidate your copyright. You can still stop them from redistributing your works, you just can't go after them for a zillion dollars.
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Hum, I think people are confusing letters here. The K in 4K refers to the Kilo prefix, as in 4 thousands. The P in 1080p refers to "Progressive" (full scan) compare to say, 1080i "Interleaved", which is really just 540 pixels resolution.
Like a previous poster said, they used the horizontal number because it's higher, but please don't start bringing in P or other things to muddle up the issue even more.
Not sure what you're talking about, but there is no time limit on "offline mode" for steam. Or at least, if there is one, it is several years long.
I think it's a reasonable assumption that one cannot design anything that has more chances to pass natural selection than its creator, so our creations will always be bounded by our own intellect.
I think that's a very big assumption to make. So far, we've been constrained by our physical bodies, and our intelligence evolved with it. We're getting to the point where we can design new "bodies", biological or not, to support new "brains" (once again, biological or not). I don't see why it would be impossible for us to create an organism or machine that can provide much more energy to its brain than what our bodies are able to do now. Once we figure out how to accurately simulate neuron interaction, we should be able to create a brain much more intelligent than ours.
I'm thinking it's inevitable that, in the long run, we'll create an intelligence much beyond ours.
The point you're missing with this is that, without copyright, anyone could get the source from an employee or just decompile it and re-create the source files and they could be used. Without copyright, a single Microsoft employee could leak the Windows source code and anyone could just compile it and make their own version. Without copyright, you just don't need the GPL (well not entirely true, it still leaves patents and trademarks...)
What can change the nature of a computer?
Not to nitpick, but you can configure the prompt option to fall back to the simple "Access denied" with a simple GPO change. Most workplaces find it useful though because you can have a tech go and just type the credentials if needed (useful for some shell functions where you can't use runas...)
- iptables rulesets that allow all outbound from all systems. Allow ICMP everywhere, etc.
As a network admin, I have violent fantasies of driving hot nails through the privates of the "Let's block all ICMP by default" admins whenever I come up at a new client's site to troubleshoot some complex networking issues. If you block ICMP echo, you better have an extremely good reason for it. If it's from a public WAN link facing the internet, then *maybe* you might have a case (but most often not). If it's on a web server or other public-facing services, you PROBABLY DON'T HAVE A VALID REASON. If you block traceroutes from anywhere except edge firewalls, you are a clueless idiot. And even then, requests coming from inside interfaces should be let through. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE OVER MPLS AND Site-to-Site VPN LINKS!
Whew, that felt good. Seriously, blocking icmp doesn't do *anything* for security. If you are getting flooded by icmp packets, just configure a flood threshold. These days, any icmp DoS flood that is bad enough to actually interrupt services very likely doesn't need the extra "reply" traffic to work. And if your clever "security" of not replying to pings on anything that has ports open is stupid, as a simple port scan will reveal the host.
Please, for the sake of every network admin's sanity, leave ICMP alone. Thank you.
I know some of our older RSA cards on our IBM servers don't work with anything over (IIRC) Java 6.3. So we have to keep machines around with older Java version to get the remote-control feature working.
I've also seen some doc sharing sites one of our client is using (pharmacology related) that are sensitive to which Java version you run.
I know I've seen other instances which I can't recall right now. Java's portable and compatible with everything, except when it isn't :P .
That's remarkably ignorant. The possibility of reclaiming those class A addresses has been studied and put aside, as it would be too costly and, assuming we get every single class A back, would only give us about 1.5 more years. This is too much cost for too little gain, so the efforts were focused on migrating to IPv6 instead.
You might want to read the wikipedia article about it : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion
LucasArts actually made a sequel in the same genre as XvT, called X-Wing Alliance. It will run fine on modern Windows systems (it uses Direct 3D), and you can even download fan-made high resolution texture packs for it to make it look better on newer systems. You only get to play the alliance side (at least in single player), but the campain is even longer than XvT's. There are also more varied ships than just fighers (Correlian Transports, shuttles, etc).
The game follows the story of the Azameen family shorty after the evacuation from Hoth. You'll be playing several family missions, eventually joining the Rebel Alliance. From there you'll be staging Alliance missions, stationed in a variety of capital ships as the story progresses. There are also still family-related missions when you take leaves from the Alliance, which makes thing even more interesting.
If you liked XvT, you'll love X-Wing Alliance. I wish they would make another of those games so much, but they are too complex to fit in today's "shoot everything that moves" paradigm.
Sorry for the double-reply, but thinking about your situation, wouldn't it be easier to add a static route on your default gateway (whatever it is) and have it route to the other subnets? Having lots of clients each with their own routing table seems like a fairly weird setup to me.
That was actually interesting, guess I should have googled it before making the snarky comment.
About that Cisco comment though, have you considered buying used? No support, but we have a few smaller clients that went this way and without the whole SmartNET support fees, Cisco gear can be had for fairly cheap. For example, you can get a 24 port 100MB switch for about $120 and a Cisco ASA for around $400, and it's going to be way more stable than any smoothwall box running on generic hardware. Cisco 871 routers can be had for $407 new (I know: I just got a quote for a client who wants to connect multiple stores through VPN), I'd assume that on eBay they'd be even cheaper. Sure it's a bit more expensive than a D-Link router you can get at Wal*Mart, but you do get considerable flexibility out of it.
Anyway, thanks for pointing that DHCP option to me. I don't think I've ever met anyone using that before.
Erm, maybe my certifications are out of date, but how exactly can DHCPv4 advertise routing information (such as your example?). The only routing info you can set through DHCP is the default gateway, which works well even with IPv6. If you need dynamic routing, you'll have to use a routing protocol, and AFAIK, OSPF, RIP, EIGRP and BGP all support IPv6 just fine.
I can't figure if you're a troll or not, but if you are serious, this is one of the most stupid comment I've ever read on slashdot. The consequences of such a system are immediatly obvious: nobody would ever want to risk their own lives to defend anyone accused of a serious crime, even for cases where the accused is almost certainly innocent (why risk it at all?).
Your best bet might be buying a more expensive monitor that has a really high resolution, and then cut it to 1/4. For example, my 30" has 2560x1800. If you set it to 1/4 (ie, you won't lose any precision due to pixels not fitting), you can do 1280x800, which is pretty close to what you'd like. To lose so much resolution makes me cringe inside though. As other posters already mentionned, Windows 7 will scale all apps when you adjust DPI, and for example, my Firefox is set to a default zoom of 130%. This is because otherwise most sites are a thin 20% bar in the middle of the screen!
Nvidia also has 67% of the desktop video card market share, compared to about 30% for ATI. It's normal that you see more crashes from Nvidia drivers.
First google search link : http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2009/04/30/nvidia-increases-market-share/1
I know it was for comedic effect, but chock in french is actually shorter, spelled choc ;)
Like the parent said, that only applies to trademarks and not to copyright.
Of course, the problem with FAT32 is that it cannot accommodate file sizes larger than 4GB. In this day and age, carrying a few DVD ISOs around is quite common, so FAT32 doesn't quite cut it. What is needed is some kind of file system that doesn't use any permission, but is a bit more modern than FAT32.
I know it kind of defeats the purpose of changing your password, but if you're using Windows servers, there's nothing stopping you from just appending a sequential digit to your password and it's going to pass the checker. For example, if you password is passW0rd!, you can use passW0rd!1, passW0rd!2, etc.
It's not quite as bad as just having it on a post-it note.
We're using Zabbix at work and I'm doing daily backups of the database with a simple mysqldump command. Since the tables are InnoDB and not MyISAM, you can use the --single-transaction switch. That way, it takes a virtual snapshot of the db at the start of the backup process and the writes can still keep going (they are still happening but they aren't commited until the transaction finishes). Granted, our DB isn't that big (10GB only), but it's been working fine and restore tests also seem to work fine.
Here's the daily cron:
mysqldump -u blah -pblah --single-transaction --opt --skip-lock-tables zabbix | gzip > /backup/zabbix_db.sql.gz
I've always found that argument incredibly funny. I think it's a prime example of people not thinking things through. Yes, the GPL is relying on copyright laws to enforce the sharing of source code upon distribution. However, the GPL itself, without copyright laws, would be completely unnecessary. If source code could not be copyrighted, anyone could just publish it without fear of legal repercussions.
Without copyright, if a Microsoft employee decided to anonymously publish the source code to Windows, there's nothing that Microsoft could do to stop people from using the code. Thus the GPL would be completely unnecessary. Even if the employee gets caught, only that person will have to face the legal consequences (NDA breach, giving away trade secrets, etc). Anyone could still use the source code however they wanted.
Did they remove the laugh tracks? I downloaded a few episode to check it out a few years ago and I found the laugh tracks so annoying that I couldn't watch the first episode all the way through. Whoever came up with the idea of laugh tracks should locked in a cell for a few weeks with one on perma loop.
Are you sure? I admit I'm not in the hosting business, but that cost seems extremely high to me. I don't even pay that much for my home connection ($29.95 with a 200GB quota, $10 per 100GB slice over). I would assume that, for those huge upstream pipes, the cost will be much lower (2 or 3 cents per GB maybe?). Maybe someone who works for a big content provider can correct my WAG?
I think Sony is shooting itself in the foot with those prices. Their online offering is already inferior to Microsoft's, penalizing companies for putting up content and making the PS3 more attractive seem counterproductive to me. I guess we'll see how it goes.
Laches only applies to "equitable relief", ie, compensation. Basically, you can't let someone sell your stuff for 10 years (knowingly) and them hit them for all the money they've made distributing it since they started. However, it will not in any way invalidate your copyright. You can still stop them from redistributing your works, you just can't go after them for a zillion dollars.