Does anybody know why they stopped putting Talkback into the OS X pre-release versions since 1.6 alpha? I thought that was supposed to help them find crashing bugs. Kind of hard to do when you forget to put it in there in the first place.
The worm overwrites data on the first few sectors of the victim's hard drive, making the machine virtually u[n]bootable . ..
This is a bad thing? It seems to me this is the best way to get all those spam-proxy infected machines off the net. I'm sure any box hit by this probably also has at least one or two other infections already active.
Who killed the 2.88 Mb floppy? The designers. As I recall, there was some incompatibility with them reading (or maybe writing) older disk formats. That's the best way to kill a new format.
And if it wasn't the designers fault, then it was CD-ROM, since now manufacturers could distribute 650 megs on a single disk that cost under a dollar in quantity, and was more reliable too.
Another way in through the door
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Seal those up and the find another way in through the door.
"Encyclopedia salesman!"
Seriously, that's what e-mail viruses are turning into these days. Now they're encrypting zip attachments and expecting the idiots to remember a five-digit number for more than a few seconds. And it's actually working.
The real barrier is going to be whether or not it'd be dangerous if it breaks or if it's cut.
I think the question is what happens when it gets cut. A few have mentioned there are satellites in LEO, and the cable has to cross their orbital altitides.. Well, guess what, satellites in LEO that aren't in an equitorial orbit cross the equator twice per orbit. Usually in a different place relative to the surface of Earth. In fact, I think it would be hard to come up with an orbit that always crosses the equator at the same place on Earth every orbit, if only because of the Earth's rotation on its axis.
What I'm trying to say is that everything in orbit below geosynchronous is going to cross the path of the cable eventually, and there's nothing you can do about it. I know the cable is very narrow, but most of the things in orbit that could hit it can't just be steered out of the way.
I'm now rather doubtful that a space elevator is going to be a good idea after all. I can't believe I'm the first one to think of this, so someone point out the hole in my logic, OK?
The first thing needed to achieve remote maintainability on the order of space probes is some way to access a machine remotely when it's not running the full OS. A KVM switch isn't going to work over long distances. The BIOS needs a way to run over the network. Same for the kernel boot messages. Whether it's through a serial console and SSH server, or through the BIOS running TCP/IP, what we have now isn't enough. A separate console server could also control a power cycle/reset switch circuit.
There also needs to be a way to load bootstrap code remotely. For instance, having a TCP/IP enabled BIOS be able to run TFTP or some other protocol to load a netboot floppy image. Then you could give it a LILO command instructing it where to find a boot image, preferably one on a server in the same hosting center.
The vanilla BitTorrent client is also fine, but lacks important options like setting bandwidth caps, seeding ratios, etc.
Did you even read my message completely? I said you've got to click the widget on the right side of the window title bar, and nobody bothered to f***ing document it, so it was months before I found it!
For those of us who haven't been watching the stars all night and just woke up, could we have a few jargon definitions here? ATM got explained, but what's a DOB?
It's a bit slow to load the whole page, and the picture is the last one on the page. I'm sure his bandwidth will thank you.
Re:Is it Down or is it 'down'?
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(thanks for the tip of trying linuxupdate.sco.com)
traceroute to www.sco.com (216.250.128.12), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
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4 bb1-p5-2.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.243.13) 20.902 ms 22.986 ms 20.92 ms
5 bb2-p6-0.rcsntx.swbell.net (151.164.191.122) 20.957 ms 20.977 ms 20.878 ms
6 ex1-p11-0.eqdltx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.191.229) 24.012 ms 22.046 ms 20.96 ms
7 asn2828-xo-eqdltx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.248.14) 23.907 ms 23.2 ms 23.912 ms
8 p5-2-0-3.rar1.dallas-tx.us.xo.net (65.106.4.197) 23.96 ms 22.868 ms 23.999 ms
9 p0-0-0-1.rar2.dallas-tx.us.xo.net (65.106.1.42) 24.063 ms 22.648 ms 23.905 ms
10 p1-0-0.rar2.denver-co.us.xo.net (65.106.0.41) 38.954 ms 37.252 ms 47.928 ms
11 p0-0-0-2.rar1.denver-co.us.xo.net (65.106.1.81) 38.88 ms 37.841 ms 38.944 ms
12 p4-0-0.mar1.saltlake-ut.us.xo.net (65.106.6.74) 50.949 ms 49.296 ms 50.948 ms
13 p0-0.chr1.saltlake-ut.us.xo.net (207.88.83.42) 50.886 ms 49.851 ms 50.774 ms
14 205.158.14.114.ptr.us.xo.net (205.158.14.114) 53.912 ms 52.526 ms 51.004 ms
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traceroute to linuxupdate.sco.com (216.250.128.241), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
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4 bb1-p5-2.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.243.13) 20.947 ms 20.046 ms 20.905 ms
5 bb2-p6-0.rcsntx.swbell.net (151.164.191.122) 20.919 ms 29.145 ms 20.855 ms
6 ex1-p11-0.eqdltx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.191.229) 20.951 ms 22.991 ms 23.963 ms
7 asn2828-xo-eqdltx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.248.14) 23.945 ms 22.989 ms 23.894 ms
8 p5-1-0-3.rar1.dallas-tx.us.xo.net (65.106.4.193) 23.955 ms 25.426 ms 24.013 ms
9 p0-0-0-1.rar2.dallas-tx.us.xo.net (65.106.1.42) 26.979 ms 62.002 ms 27.099 ms
10 p1-0-0.rar2.denver-co.us.xo.net (65.106.0.41) 38.821 ms 37.981 ms 38.89 ms
11 p0-0-0-2.rar1.denver-co.us.xo.net (65.106.1.81) 38.789 ms 38.094 ms 38.888 ms
12 p4-0-0.mar1.saltlake-ut.us.xo.net (65.106.6.74) 51.054 ms 50.024 ms 50.811 ms
13 p0-0.chr1.saltlake-ut.us.xo.net (207.88.83.42) 51.001 ms 49.886 ms 50.934 ms
14 205.158.14.114.ptr.us.xo.net (205.158.14.114) 53.903 ms 53.136 ms 53.841 ms
15 c7pub-216-250-136-254.center7.com (216.250.136.254) 50.937 ms 51.759 ms 50.787 ms
16 linuxupdate.sco.com (216.250.128.241) 51.004 ms 52.438 ms 50.988 ms
traceroute to ftp.calderasystems.com (216.250.128.13), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
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4 bb1-p5-2.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.243.13) 20.892 ms 20.06 ms 23.887 ms
5 bb2-p6-0.rcsntx.swbell.net (151.164.191.122) 21.051 ms 19.935 ms 21.034 ms
6 ex1-p11-0.eqdltx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.191.229) 23.82 ms 23.095 ms 23.868 ms
7 asn2828-xo-eqdltx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.248.14) 23.987 ms 23.063 ms 20.829 ms
8 p5-2-0-3.rar1.dallas-tx.us.xo.net (65.106.4.197) 23.989 ms 22.84 ms 23.934 ms
9 p0-0-0-1.rar2.dallas-tx.us.xo.net (65.106.1.42) 24.086 ms 25.935 ms 23.877 ms
10 p1-0-0.rar2.denver-co.us.xo.net (65.106.0.41) 38.916 ms 38.112 ms 38.925 ms
11 p0-0-0-2.rar1.denver-co.us.xo.net (65.106.1.81) 38.603 ms 38.096 ms 38.94 ms
12 p4-0-0.mar1.saltlake-ut.us.xo.net (65.106.6.74) 50.947 ms 49.871 ms 50.914 ms
13 p0-0.chr1.saltlake-ut.us.xo.net (207.88.83.42) 50.944 ms 49.782 ms 51.008 ms
14 205.158.14.114.ptr.us.xo.net (205.158.14.114) 50.836 ms 53.072 ms 53.935 ms
15 * * *
So either they're being merely slashdotted or they "accidentally on purpose" kicked www.sco.com's router power plug out of the wall. According to ARIN, they're all on the same/20 network, so they're probably not on a different final link from XO. They're certainly not being DoS'ed for bandwidth.
I think the the G4 Powerbooks and snow iBooks are all single-board units. The previous generation Lombard and Pismo G3 models did have a separate board for all the back panel connectors. I've never seen the insides of a "toilet" iBook.
Don't forget the Powerbook hinge problems. Fortunately for me, I skipped directly from a PB 145 to a Pismo. But remember, those were Apple's sucky years. I also managed to go from a IIci to a PowerTower Pro 225 to a Windtunnel, so I also missed most of that era, except as used machines. Boy those 6100s were crap. Not the falling apart kind of crap, just the underperforming kind of crap. In fact, the most ironic thing was the name "Performa", because anything with that name certainly didn't.
The weird second connector on the middle box doesn't look like anything to do with DV. It looks more like a very short version of the mini SCSI-2 connector. Since that box has an optical out, I'll bet the weird connector goes to a breakout cable for component video. Maybe RGB too.
I went to a Randall's once a few years back for a caffiene emergency (heh) and looked at their sign-up form. I bitched because there was a clause that said (if I recall correctly) they would have the right to withdraw money from my checking account at any time. Um, excuse me? "Duhhh, that's so you can pay with a check" (or something like that) Um, I don't pay for groceries with checks? (and hate people who do because that archaic system with little fraud protection is freaking slow!)
He used the cashier card, I got out of there, and never came back.
The only information I gave them was my address and phone number
You give them information on your shopping habits every time you use your card. You also give them information on when you've been to the store, and how often. Where were you on the evening of July 15, anyhow?
And your name, address, and phone number (you gave them your name too, right?) are enough to correlate with credit records.
They may or may not all be owned by the same company, but they definitely are all on the same discount card network. By the way, I think you can add Tom Thumb to that list.
And good luck trying to use that card in San Antonio. HEB is the 800 pound gorilla of San Antonio. Safeway never opened there because of them, and one by one the other major chains disappeared due to their own internal reasons, usually having to do with labor issues. Which is fine with me, because "card prices without the card" is one of HEB's advertising points.
At least he probably had good thermal conductivity. There's no way he could have what happened to me, where the heat sink mounting nub on the socket broke, and the heat sink fell off. The blue screen was almost instant, and shut down was a few seconds after that. Another Athlon bites the dust. If I had used JB Weld, the heat sink would have stayed on, although the remaining attachment point would have eventually pulled the CPU out of its socket.
I've heard silver may have some anti-bacterial properties, so while a bit expensive, may not be a bad material to have in toothpaste. Most people prefer to put tin in toothpaste instead. (Ever heard of 'stannous flouride'?)
It's probably got some other nasty stuff in it, so I wouldn't recommend using heat sink compound as toothpaste on a regular basis. And definitely don't swallow it, but then you know you're not supposed to swallow regular toothpaste either, right?
Anything works better than those stupid silly-putty thermal pads that you get standard with a "retail" CPU kit. I know someone whose new computer (which presumably he had to install the fan and CPU into) was loud as hell with a high-pitched whine. He took it apart, got rid of the crappy putty pad, put real heat sink compound on it, and when he put it together again it sounded much better, and ran cooler too. It also probably helped with the sound that he didn't re-install the fan 180 degrees backwards like he had the first time.
It's as much of a necessity to CPU cooling as it is to speaker wire. Not much at all.
Though it may conduct heat well, I wouldn't be surprised if the benefit of silver isn't much more than just getting the heat sink compound on properly in the first place, with good physical contact and all.
And then there are the idiots who think that heat sink compound is like cake icing. And blow their Athlon because they covered all those nice little test points on the top of the chip, what with silver being a very good electrical conductor and all. They're a little more dangerous than the audiophile idiots who pay $300/meter for "oxygen free silver" audio cables.
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Does anybody know why they stopped putting Talkback into the OS X pre-release versions since 1.6 alpha? I thought that was supposed to help them find crashing bugs. Kind of hard to do when you forget to put it in there in the first place.
This is a bad thing? It seems to me this is the best way to get all those spam-proxy infected machines off the net. I'm sure any box hit by this probably also has at least one or two other infections already active.
Do a google search for "new madrid earthquake". I don't recommend that you make long-term plans to live in Memphis.
And if it wasn't the designers fault, then it was CD-ROM, since now manufacturers could distribute 650 megs on a single disk that cost under a dollar in quantity, and was more reliable too.
"Encyclopedia salesman!"
Seriously, that's what e-mail viruses are turning into these days. Now they're encrypting zip attachments and expecting the idiots to remember a five-digit number for more than a few seconds. And it's actually working.
I think the question is what happens when it gets cut. A few have mentioned there are satellites in LEO, and the cable has to cross their orbital altitides.. Well, guess what, satellites in LEO that aren't in an equitorial orbit cross the equator twice per orbit. Usually in a different place relative to the surface of Earth. In fact, I think it would be hard to come up with an orbit that always crosses the equator at the same place on Earth every orbit, if only because of the Earth's rotation on its axis.
What I'm trying to say is that everything in orbit below geosynchronous is going to cross the path of the cable eventually, and there's nothing you can do about it. I know the cable is very narrow, but most of the things in orbit that could hit it can't just be steered out of the way.
I'm now rather doubtful that a space elevator is going to be a good idea after all. I can't believe I'm the first one to think of this, so someone point out the hole in my logic, OK?
Can you say "bullwhip the size of a planet"? I would NOT want to be beneath the path of that thing if it broke. The tsunamis would be interesting too.
There also needs to be a way to load bootstrap code remotely. For instance, having a TCP/IP enabled BIOS be able to run TFTP or some other protocol to load a netboot floppy image. Then you could give it a LILO command instructing it where to find a boot image, preferably one on a server in the same hosting center.
Write it up, then. You've still got a month and a half left.
Did you even read my message completely? I said you've got to click the widget on the right side of the window title bar, and nobody bothered to f***ing document it, so it was months before I found it!
But would you pay for it? Or would you just warez it?
For those of us who haven't been watching the stars all night and just woke up, could we have a few jargon definitions here? ATM got explained, but what's a DOB?
http://www.heffernans.org/gifs/scope6.jpg
It's a bit slow to load the whole page, and the picture is the last one on the page. I'm sure his bandwidth will thank you.
traceroute to www.sco.com (216.250.128.12), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets .
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4 bb1-p5-2.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.243.13) 20.902 ms 22.986 ms 20.92 ms
5 bb2-p6-0.rcsntx.swbell.net (151.164.191.122) 20.957 ms 20.977 ms 20.878 ms
6 ex1-p11-0.eqdltx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.191.229) 24.012 ms 22.046 ms 20.96 ms
7 asn2828-xo-eqdltx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.248.14) 23.907 ms 23.2 ms 23.912 ms
8 p5-2-0-3.rar1.dallas-tx.us.xo.net (65.106.4.197) 23.96 ms 22.868 ms 23.999 ms
9 p0-0-0-1.rar2.dallas-tx.us.xo.net (65.106.1.42) 24.063 ms 22.648 ms 23.905 ms
10 p1-0-0.rar2.denver-co.us.xo.net (65.106.0.41) 38.954 ms 37.252 ms 47.928 ms
11 p0-0-0-2.rar1.denver-co.us.xo.net (65.106.1.81) 38.88 ms 37.841 ms 38.944 ms
12 p4-0-0.mar1.saltlake-ut.us.xo.net (65.106.6.74) 50.949 ms 49.296 ms 50.948 ms
13 p0-0.chr1.saltlake-ut.us.xo.net (207.88.83.42) 50.886 ms 49.851 ms 50.774 ms
14 205.158.14.114.ptr.us.xo.net (205.158.14.114) 53.912 ms 52.526 ms 51.004 ms
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traceroute to linuxupdate.sco.com (216.250.128.241), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
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4 bb1-p5-2.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.243.13) 20.947 ms 20.046 ms 20.905 ms
5 bb2-p6-0.rcsntx.swbell.net (151.164.191.122) 20.919 ms 29.145 ms 20.855 ms
6 ex1-p11-0.eqdltx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.191.229) 20.951 ms 22.991 ms 23.963 ms
7 asn2828-xo-eqdltx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.248.14) 23.945 ms 22.989 ms 23.894 ms
8 p5-1-0-3.rar1.dallas-tx.us.xo.net (65.106.4.193) 23.955 ms 25.426 ms 24.013 ms
9 p0-0-0-1.rar2.dallas-tx.us.xo.net (65.106.1.42) 26.979 ms 62.002 ms 27.099 ms
10 p1-0-0.rar2.denver-co.us.xo.net (65.106.0.41) 38.821 ms 37.981 ms 38.89 ms
11 p0-0-0-2.rar1.denver-co.us.xo.net (65.106.1.81) 38.789 ms 38.094 ms 38.888 ms
12 p4-0-0.mar1.saltlake-ut.us.xo.net (65.106.6.74) 51.054 ms 50.024 ms 50.811 ms
13 p0-0.chr1.saltlake-ut.us.xo.net (207.88.83.42) 51.001 ms 49.886 ms 50.934 ms
14 205.158.14.114.ptr.us.xo.net (205.158.14.114) 53.903 ms 53.136 ms 53.841 ms
15 c7pub-216-250-136-254.center7.com (216.250.136.254) 50.937 ms 51.759 ms 50.787 ms
16 linuxupdate.sco.com (216.250.128.241) 51.004 ms 52.438 ms 50.988 ms
traceroute to ftp.calderasystems.com (216.250.128.13), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
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4 bb1-p5-2.rcsntx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.243.13) 20.892 ms 20.06 ms 23.887 ms
5 bb2-p6-0.rcsntx.swbell.net (151.164.191.122) 21.051 ms 19.935 ms 21.034 ms
6 ex1-p11-0.eqdltx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.191.229) 23.82 ms 23.095 ms 23.868 ms
7 asn2828-xo-eqdltx.sbcglobal.net (151.164.248.14) 23.987 ms 23.063 ms 20.829 ms
8 p5-2-0-3.rar1.dallas-tx.us.xo.net (65.106.4.197) 23.989 ms 22.84 ms 23.934 ms
9 p0-0-0-1.rar2.dallas-tx.us.xo.net (65.106.1.42) 24.086 ms 25.935 ms 23.877 ms
10 p1-0-0.rar2.denver-co.us.xo.net (65.106.0.41) 38.916 ms 38.112 ms 38.925 ms
11 p0-0-0-2.rar1.denver-co.us.xo.net (65.106.1.81) 38.603 ms 38.096 ms 38.94 ms
12 p4-0-0.mar1.saltlake-ut.us.xo.net (65.106.6.74) 50.947 ms 49.871 ms 50.914 ms
13 p0-0.chr1.saltlake-ut.us.xo.net (207.88.83.42) 50.944 ms 49.782 ms 51.008 ms
14 205.158.14.114.ptr.us.xo.net (205.158.14.114) 50.836 ms 53.072 ms 53.935 ms
15 * * *
So either they're being merely slashdotted or they "accidentally on purpose" kicked www.sco.com's router power plug out of the wall. According to ARIN, they're all on the same /20 network, so they're probably not on a different final link from XO. They're certainly not being DoS'ed for bandwidth.
I think the the G4 Powerbooks and snow iBooks are all single-board units. The previous generation Lombard and Pismo G3 models did have a separate board for all the back panel connectors. I've never seen the insides of a "toilet" iBook.
Don't forget the Powerbook hinge problems. Fortunately for me, I skipped directly from a PB 145 to a Pismo. But remember, those were Apple's sucky years. I also managed to go from a IIci to a PowerTower Pro 225 to a Windtunnel, so I also missed most of that era, except as used machines. Boy those 6100s were crap. Not the falling apart kind of crap, just the underperforming kind of crap. In fact, the most ironic thing was the name "Performa", because anything with that name certainly didn't.
The weird second connector on the middle box doesn't look like anything to do with DV. It looks more like a very short version of the mini SCSI-2 connector. Since that box has an optical out, I'll bet the weird connector goes to a breakout cable for component video. Maybe RGB too.
Except there's only one guy on Slashdot who's qualified for reversing the polarity.
He used the cashier card, I got out of there, and never came back.
You give them information on your shopping habits every time you use your card. You also give them information on when you've been to the store, and how often. Where were you on the evening of July 15, anyhow?
And your name, address, and phone number (you gave them your name too, right?) are enough to correlate with credit records.
And good luck trying to use that card in San Antonio. HEB is the 800 pound gorilla of San Antonio. Safeway never opened there because of them, and one by one the other major chains disappeared due to their own internal reasons, usually having to do with labor issues. Which is fine with me, because "card prices without the card" is one of HEB's advertising points.
At least he probably had good thermal conductivity. There's no way he could have what happened to me, where the heat sink mounting nub on the socket broke, and the heat sink fell off. The blue screen was almost instant, and shut down was a few seconds after that. Another Athlon bites the dust. If I had used JB Weld, the heat sink would have stayed on, although the remaining attachment point would have eventually pulled the CPU out of its socket.
It's probably got some other nasty stuff in it, so I wouldn't recommend using heat sink compound as toothpaste on a regular basis. And definitely don't swallow it, but then you know you're not supposed to swallow regular toothpaste either, right?
Anything works better than those stupid silly-putty thermal pads that you get standard with a "retail" CPU kit. I know someone whose new computer (which presumably he had to install the fan and CPU into) was loud as hell with a high-pitched whine. He took it apart, got rid of the crappy putty pad, put real heat sink compound on it, and when he put it together again it sounded much better, and ran cooler too. It also probably helped with the sound that he didn't re-install the fan 180 degrees backwards like he had the first time.
It's as much of a necessity to CPU cooling as it is to speaker wire. Not much at all.
Though it may conduct heat well, I wouldn't be surprised if the benefit of silver isn't much more than just getting the heat sink compound on properly in the first place, with good physical contact and all.
And then there are the idiots who think that heat sink compound is like cake icing. And blow their Athlon because they covered all those nice little test points on the top of the chip, what with silver being a very good electrical conductor and all. They're a little more dangerous than the audiophile idiots who pay $300/meter for "oxygen free silver" audio cables.