Instructions on a lot of install CDs specify that if the setup does not launch automatically, the user should go to Start->Run and type D:\setup.exe assuming D: is the CDROM drive).
Well, I have installed IE7 on my other PCs, including my laptop and there it is slower than IE6 (that was before I installed 7). While it may be slower with JavaScript, at least it feels like it loads static pages faster. On the other hand, I have never timed it.
Well, IE6 is slightly faster than 7, don't know about 8, but knowing the trend, 8 would be slower than 7. And IE6 is good enough for those sites that need it.
Because the original poster said that he/she had a Win98 machine in the DMZ. Windows 98 is currently more secure than XP, because no new worms are being written for it. And, Windows 98 can still be used if what you do with the PC hasn't changed. Windows 98 still runs MS Office (don't know which version is the last that runs on 98) and Opera (latest version). So, if you only browse the internet and create/edit Office documents, you can use Windows 98.
In other words - there is no need to upgrade the PC or OS if the old one is still good enough.
Windows XP - yes, though with firewall you have a chance. Windows 98 - well, most of new worms wouldn't even run on Win98 and old ones are easier to get rid of. Nobody's writing new and improved worms for Windows 98 for the same reason they are not making them for Linux - too few PCs use it.
well, 320GB drive for the download PC. My fileserver has 2TB and I also have additional 750GB drive. And I use LTO1 tapes for archiving (ised to use DVDs). My total storage currently is 4.5TB (860GB - DVD; 2.48TB - HDD, 1.16TB - LTO1; 52GB - DDS4 (temporary, will move it to LTO someday)
Periodically, as the cache fills up, the router could wake up a computer, transfer finished files to it and put it back to sleep. This wouldn't be hard - any proper geek could write a script to do this.
That's great if you don't seed.
I mean, every house already has a running device with an ARM processor: their router!
Well, my ADSL modem maybe has ARM CPU, but my router has x86:).
Also, I usually download several series or seasons at once, if the torrents are slow and part of my connection is left unused. And don't forget torrents that have the whole show and are usually very large, with those I can't download a part of it, move it to another HDD then download another part or I will not be able to seed effectively. So the whole, say, 60GB stays until I download the last file and seed it for some time (not always to 1.0 ratio; if the torrent has a lot of seeds I better use my limited upload to seed less popular torrents).
2GB memory card - not nearly big enough. My torrent PC has 320GB hard drive which sometimes is too small.
A nice idea though. Now add a IDE or SATA port to it and make it autonomous, well, like a PC with the torrent software, so that I can:
1.set up the network, load the.torrent files, disconnect it from my PC, connect it to a battery and leave it somewhere to download. The ability to change MAC address would be useful. 2.If it is used as a network card - the small CPU should still work and download files so that if the host PC freezes or has a BSOD the downloads continue.
The difference is, if I do not sleep 36 hours in a row, it's because I want to (have something else to do), so, this does not mean torture. If some girl wants to be thin and does not eat, it's her choice and not a torture (for her, a torture may be force-feeding).
This changes, if you do it to another person against their will. Or would you like being starved and locked in a room with a sound you do not like being played at 110dB SPL over and over again? Or maybe you would like being chained to a bed and have water drops fall on your head for a few days?
So, what you are saying is that you would IP ban those who spam. OK. Why is IPv6 necessary? Oh, you don't want to ban entire networks that are behind NAT? OK, but IIRC, with IPv6 you can change the IP of the computer at will (well, part of the IP anyway), so you would still need to ban entire networks (using the part that does not change) or the bot will just change IP of the machine...
Why not just actually give up the misbelief that you're anonymous on the Internet?
Because even if the government knows who I am and where I live, the other internet users do not (or I hope so). There is one thing if the government comes after me if I do something they do not like, but it's worse if any psycho can come after me with an axe just because I said something he did not like.
Since I am not a programmer, I would pick a program that would better suit my needs. I do not really care about the availability of the source code (I wouldn't be able to understand or modify the program, unless it was written in Delphi7).
So, modern designs incorporate the lessons learned from those disasters and are safer even if the operators don't really know what they are doing. Good. But, while the old design requires highly skilled operators, it's not like the reactor decided to blow at random (or some error in design made it so that over time some part wore out and then the reactor blew).
What happened at Chernobyl was human error. Yes, the reactor design is bad and unstable, but it can work safely as long as you don't make any silly mistakes (like reduce the power too fast). The same as a car - it can work safely, as long as you do not make silly mistakes (like falling asleep while driving or driving drunk).
Would it be possible to somehow use Google as a tracker? Say, like encrypt the IP addresses of peers and post them somewhere where it gets indexed by Google (along with a hash of the torrent), now, the.torrent has a decryption key (which is unique for each torrent, decrypting IPs with the wrong key results in valid IPs, but not the ones that matter). This would probably be very slow, but still. Now, you can't find a.torrent file by its hash, but you can find the peer list. If you have the.torrent and the list, you can decrypt the list and connect to the peers, if you only have the list, you can't do anything with it.
Or maybe it is possible to somehow encrypt multiple lists of IPs so that you can decrypt with different keys and get different valid results (like CDMA).
Maybe a stupid idea but at the moment it seems to me like a way to make Google into TPB2...
No, scratch that. Better encrypt the IPs of trackers and post it there. This way, Google becomes a second level tracker (and tracker IPs wouldn't change so often).
But had we looked at what other publishers have said, we would have known that itâ(TM)s not unusual for there to be hundreds of thousands of warez copies in use. And if we had, we could have simply had the retail version not have any HTTP calls in it and instead just had an update button on the main menu to check for updates and voila, problem solved.
And yes, I agree with you about using the servers. And usually the creators make so that only legal copies can access the servers to play or update. Then the pirates either use their own servers or only play the single player mode (if the game has one). Just look at Valve games and non-Steam servers. If you have a pirated copy of some Valve game, you have to use non-steam servers and get your updates from somewhere else. No load on official game and update servers.
Except that patents expire quite fast (compared to copyrights) or we would still be paying Tesla for AC generator and Edison for the light bulb. I don't think that society would progress very far if it was like that.
Well, I have a little problem with Usenet - since I have to pay to be able to access the content, that means they are making profit off others work and I do not support that.
Though I have used Usenet before - I had a very asymmetrical connection (2048/128) so I paid torrent trackers not to ban me for low ratio and I used Usenet. Now I have a better connection (4096/768) and I don;t use Usenet anymore and keep good ratio so I don't have to pay the trackers anymore.
If ABC can't control the merchandising of the show Lost -- like, if they were to produce it, and someone downloaded it and started selling DVD's of it at Target -- ABC wouldn't produce TV shows, and I happen to like Lost, thank you very much.
Easy solution. Copying is illegal only if you profit from it. Make a copy for your friend - OK, download it from the 'net for free - OK. Make copies and sell them - NOT OK.
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Instructions on a lot of install CDs specify that if the setup does not launch automatically, the user should go to Start->Run and type D:\setup.exe assuming D: is the CDROM drive).
Well, I have installed IE7 on my other PCs, including my laptop and there it is slower than IE6 (that was before I installed 7). While it may be slower with JavaScript, at least it feels like it loads static pages faster. On the other hand, I have never timed it.
Well, IE6 is slightly faster than 7, don't know about 8, but knowing the trend, 8 would be slower than 7. And IE6 is good enough for those sites that need it.
Because the original poster said that he/she had a Win98 machine in the DMZ. Windows 98 is currently more secure than XP, because no new worms are being written for it. And, Windows 98 can still be used if what you do with the PC hasn't changed. Windows 98 still runs MS Office (don't know which version is the last that runs on 98) and Opera (latest version). So, if you only browse the internet and create/edit Office documents, you can use Windows 98.
In other words - there is no need to upgrade the PC or OS if the old one is still good enough.
Windows XP - yes, though with firewall you have a chance. Windows 98 - well, most of new worms wouldn't even run on Win98 and old ones are easier to get rid of. Nobody's writing new and improved worms for Windows 98 for the same reason they are not making them for Linux - too few PCs use it.
I'm the same. I use Opera and Firefox for almost all sites and use IE6 only for those sites that do not work with Opera or FF.
well, 320GB drive for the download PC. My fileserver has 2TB and I also have additional 750GB drive. And I use LTO1 tapes for archiving (ised to use DVDs). My total storage currently is 4.5TB (860GB - DVD; 2.48TB - HDD, 1.16TB - LTO1; 52GB - DDS4 (temporary, will move it to LTO someday)
Periodically, as the cache fills up, the router could wake up a computer, transfer finished files to it and put it back to sleep. This wouldn't be hard - any proper geek could write a script to do this.
That's great if you don't seed.
I mean, every house already has a running device with an ARM processor: their router!
Well, my ADSL modem maybe has ARM CPU, but my router has x86 :).
Also, I usually download several series or seasons at once, if the torrents are slow and part of my connection is left unused. And don't forget torrents that have the whole show and are usually very large, with those I can't download a part of it, move it to another HDD then download another part or I will not be able to seed effectively. So the whole, say, 60GB stays until I download the last file and seed it for some time (not always to 1.0 ratio; if the torrent has a lot of seeds I better use my limited upload to seed less popular torrents).
so, if you are using 1 unit of electricity, 50x would be 50 units (50 x 1 unit). Using 50x LESS would mean 0.02 units so that (0.02 x 50 = 1).
2GB memory card - not nearly big enough. My torrent PC has 320GB hard drive which sometimes is too small.
A nice idea though. Now add a IDE or SATA port to it and make it autonomous, well, like a PC with the torrent software, so that I can:
1.set up the network, load the .torrent files, disconnect it from my PC, connect it to a battery and leave it somewhere to download. The ability to change MAC address would be useful.
2.If it is used as a network card - the small CPU should still work and download files so that if the host PC freezes or has a BSOD the downloads continue.
The difference is, if I do not sleep 36 hours in a row, it's because I want to (have something else to do), so, this does not mean torture. If some girl wants to be thin and does not eat, it's her choice and not a torture (for her, a torture may be force-feeding).
This changes, if you do it to another person against their will. Or would you like being starved and locked in a room with a sound you do not like being played at 110dB SPL over and over again? Or maybe you would like being chained to a bed and have water drops fall on your head for a few days?
Don't forget tablet PCs with their touch screens. In that case the mouse pointer is jumping from point to point.
no, it's actually the same number of steps:
multiplication:
1.get a calculator
2.type first number (a)
3.press *
4.type second number (b)
5.press =
division:
1.get a calculator
2.type first number (a)
3.press /
4.type second number (b)
5.press =
See, 5 steps for both.
So, what you are saying is that you would IP ban those who spam. OK. Why is IPv6 necessary? Oh, you don't want to ban entire networks that are behind NAT? OK, but IIRC, with IPv6 you can change the IP of the computer at will (well, part of the IP anyway), so you would still need to ban entire networks (using the part that does not change) or the bot will just change IP of the machine...
Why not just actually give up the misbelief that you're anonymous on the Internet?
Because even if the government knows who I am and where I live, the other internet users do not (or I hope so). There is one thing if the government comes after me if I do something they do not like, but it's worse if any psycho can come after me with an axe just because I said something he did not like.
Since I am not a programmer, I would pick a program that would better suit my needs. I do not really care about the availability of the source code (I wouldn't be able to understand or modify the program, unless it was written in Delphi7).
So, modern designs incorporate the lessons learned from those disasters and are safer even if the operators don't really know what they are doing. Good. But, while the old design requires highly skilled operators, it's not like the reactor decided to blow at random (or some error in design made it so that over time some part wore out and then the reactor blew).
What happened at Chernobyl was human error. Yes, the reactor design is bad and unstable, but it can work safely as long as you don't make any silly mistakes (like reduce the power too fast). The same as a car - it can work safely, as long as you do not make silly mistakes (like falling asleep while driving or driving drunk).
Would it be possible to somehow use Google as a tracker? Say, like encrypt the IP addresses of peers and post them somewhere where it gets indexed by Google (along with a hash of the torrent), now, the .torrent has a decryption key (which is unique for each torrent, decrypting IPs with the wrong key results in valid IPs, but not the ones that matter). This would probably be very slow, but still. Now, you can't find a .torrent file by its hash, but you can find the peer list. If you have the .torrent and the list, you can decrypt the list and connect to the peers, if you only have the list, you can't do anything with it.
Or maybe it is possible to somehow encrypt multiple lists of IPs so that you can decrypt with different keys and get different valid results (like CDMA).
Maybe a stupid idea but at the moment it seems to me like a way to make Google into TPB2...
No, scratch that. Better encrypt the IPs of trackers and post it there. This way, Google becomes a second level tracker (and tracker IPs wouldn't change so often).
And the creators themselves said that they made a mistake making the game update automatically.
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But had we looked at what other publishers have said, we would have known that itâ(TM)s not unusual for there to be hundreds of thousands of warez copies in use. And if we had, we could have simply had the retail version not have any HTTP calls in it and instead just had an update button on the main menu to check for updates and voila, problem solved.
And yes, I agree with you about using the servers. And usually the creators make so that only legal copies can access the servers to play or update. Then the pirates either use their own servers or only play the single player mode (if the game has one). Just look at Valve games and non-Steam servers. If you have a pirated copy of some Valve game, you have to use non-steam servers and get your updates from somewhere else. No load on official game and update servers.
Except that patents expire quite fast (compared to copyrights) or we would still be paying Tesla for AC generator and Edison for the light bulb. I don't think that society would progress very far if it was like that.
Introduce replicators into a country and...
get sued by factories because your product helps others "steal" their products.
Well, I have a little problem with Usenet - since I have to pay to be able to access the content, that means they are making profit off others work and I do not support that.
Though I have used Usenet before - I had a very asymmetrical connection (2048/128) so I paid torrent trackers not to ban me for low ratio and I used Usenet. Now I have a better connection (4096/768) and I don;t use Usenet anymore and keep good ratio so I don't have to pay the trackers anymore.
GPL requires you to share any derivative works that you create and sell
So, without copyright everyone could share everything that is being sold and GPL would not be needed.
If ABC can't control the merchandising of the show Lost -- like, if they were to produce it, and someone downloaded it and started selling DVD's of it at Target -- ABC wouldn't produce TV shows, and I happen to like Lost, thank you very much.
Easy solution. Copying is illegal only if you profit from it. Make a copy for your friend - OK, download it from the 'net for free - OK. Make copies and sell them - NOT OK.