And how do you explain to the authorities why you are paying for an overseas VPN account with a fake name and a pre-paid Visa? Granted, none of those things are technically illegal in the US AFAIK(the fake account details might be a problem with the Patriot Act though), but it might be suspicious enough to have a search warrant issued and your computer taken for analysis. This is the same problem with encrypting your hard drive and border searches, they are going to assume the worst even if you only do it because you expect reasonable privacy.
Considering you have to pay them somehow, won't the authorities be able to extradite the client information that way? Granted, The Pirate Bay claims they won't log your activity, but having an account with them might put you under scrutiny.
So you are basically saying censorship is okay as long as they only block things you are opposed to? Sounds hypocritical to me. In all honesty, would you be equally opposed to them blocking, say, a pro-abortion website with pictures of something equally "offensive"? Maybe pictures of women dying from back-alley abortions? I find it abhorring that they would block an anti-abortion site and I am pretty firmly on the other side of the fence on the issue. In the famous words attributed to Niemöller:
"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
This is a very slippery slope that the Australian government seems dead-set to rocket downward.
AFAIK, the MBR is its own chunk at the beginning of the drive that is not part of any partition. Installing grub puts some code into the MBR that reads your/boot partition. All the code in the MBR needs to be able to do is read, I don't think it needs to be able to write. So, if I am getting this correct, your boot happens like this:
BIOS POSTs and finds a bootable device, like a hard disk with an MBR and launches this. The MBR (which contains most of the grub executable code IIRC) loads/boot and uses its own config there to bring up the boot menu. User selects an OS or it uses the configured default and initializes the kernel and initrd.
From what I have read, ext4 is being implemented as "ext4, non-journaled" file system. I have no clue if this would affect GRUB support or not.
Are you talking about the kernel release notes? I believe those are stating that there is now a "no journal mode" included for ext4, which has had normal support for a while now.
So does that mean this is causing corruption even without a crash or power failure? If I understand what you are saying, a file write is called and then a rename of that file is called. If ext4 calls the rename first because it thinks it will improve performance, will it then do the write to the renamed file or to the original? I am not a programmer, so I may be looking at rename() to be doing something completely different than it really is.
PS. if you have isos on the server to make your admin life easy... DONT. get all install software OFF the servers. a BSA audit will flag those. And they win in that argument.. you will never win.
What? How does having the installer on a server violate a license? Haven't you ever deployed software before? If you are referring to CD/DVD images specifically, I thought legally you are allowed to make a backup copy. Besides, many software companies don't even send CDs anymore, you just sign in to their website and download them.
I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software that does not have at least have full-feature demo that is time-limited. Even if they don't have it on the website, you can normally contact the sales department for a trial key and a download link.
You can usually guarantee that if there isn't a full-featured trial, then the software is probably not all its cracked up to be.
Lastly, I would DOCUMENT everything, and let the Bossman know you are documenting everything, including the conversations you have regarding your findings and the solutions you're offering. That is professional.
Could you name a product that does this? That sounds like a programmer would have to go completely out of their way to implement that dependency and I can see no good or even stupid reason for it.
Where I live some lights only allow five or six cars to get through on the green turn signal. That means if you don't make the turn, then after five cycles you've got a whole extra cycle of backup. If the cycle is three minutes, you get two extra cycles of backup every half hour until rush hour ends.
grub2 currently supports ext4 and a google search will find you some patches to add it to older versions. I don't know if any distros include an ext4 compatible grub yet though, well aside from maybe gentoo;)
Bridge does only do layer 2 switching between the 2 NICs and would not provide DHCP or routing. However, if you use "Internet Connection Sharing", it turns the computer into a basic NAT router. Very basic. Although, since you are sharing over ad-hoc, I don't think you can use WPA or WPA2 (could be wrong about that). More than one client can access the ad-hoc network. However, they have to support ad-hoc mode. For example, the Nintendo DS only supports infrastructure mode and will not connect to an ad-hoc network.
I do miss the days of removable BIOS chips though. If it was hosed you could order a replacement and swap it in.
Some still are, although good luck getting them from the manufacturer. At my last job, we did tech support and RMAs for a hardware company(Sorry, can't specify until my NDA expires). We kept updated BIOS chips handy for cases where the customer needed an upgraded BIOS for a new proc and didn't have an older proc handy to do the update. We would email the customer a shipping label, they would send it in, and often the day we get it the new chip would be swapped in and the board shipped back out the next day.
I was one who was mislead that fsync() is the solution to issue. Before I go on another incorrect rant, am I correct in that the actual issue is when writing many small files, like in the GNOME and KDE configurations, the rename() operations leaves the both the original file and the new file with a size of zero until the next fsync() or until the filesystem forces a sync? And thus if there is power loss or crash, both the original file and the new file are basically lost?
CMOS reset jumper shouldn't erase the EEPROM, it should only reset the BIOS settings stored in CMOS RAM, which is volatile memory kept alive by the battery. What you are talking about might be a dual BIOS, or it could be that there is enough space on the EEPROM so that multiple versions of the BIOS can be stored, so if a flash fails it will revert to the backup. I have seen this feature before, but it does not protect against a BIOS malware or corruption of that EEPROM chip. I have worked with the latter many times, but I've never seen the dual BIOS feature before. Several other replies to my post seem to indicate that ASUS and Gigabyte do have boards with this feature. I do hope the feature becomes popular and other manufacturers adopt the technique.
The last laptop I've needed to do maintenance on either had a dead CMOS battery or didn't have one at all because when the regular battery died, it stopped storing BIOS settings and the clock kept resetting whenever unplugged from power.
That is a good point, how are you supposed to reset BIOS settings on a laptop normally? Or is that something they expect you to send it in for? I normally don't do any hardware work on laptops just because they can be such a pain in the ass and I end up in much deeper shit if I fuck it up and have to replace something.
Sorry, my mistake then, at least when it comes to that website. Others still claim similar photographs to be of early-term. But that is going even further off-topic. Those types of pictures are still not shown in any news station or paper that I have seen. They are proudly displayed in public at Planned Parenthood protest marches. It is still deemed "offensive" by the Australian government and thus is blocked, and this is the price of filtering anything because it is "offensive" or "illegal". It is a slippery slope when the public allows the government to censor things, and it will only get worse.
Then install your own BIOS, like coreboot or openbios. The problem you are talking about is malware coming from the manufacturer. I was talking about a way for manufacturers to redesign their products to have a fallback in case of the attack in this article. Obviously if the manufacturer is malicious or incompetent then it won't work.
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And how do you explain to the authorities why you are paying for an overseas VPN account with a fake name and a pre-paid Visa? Granted, none of those things are technically illegal in the US AFAIK(the fake account details might be a problem with the Patriot Act though), but it might be suspicious enough to have a search warrant issued and your computer taken for analysis. This is the same problem with encrypting your hard drive and border searches, they are going to assume the worst even if you only do it because you expect reasonable privacy.
Considering you have to pay them somehow, won't the authorities be able to extradite the client information that way? Granted, The Pirate Bay claims they won't log your activity, but having an account with them might put you under scrutiny.
Why get a racing muffler? Just duct tape a larger pipe over the one that's already there. It seems to work for most Civics in my area, anyway.
Fuck, I just invoked Godwin's Law.
So you are basically saying censorship is okay as long as they only block things you are opposed to? Sounds hypocritical to me. In all honesty, would you be equally opposed to them blocking, say, a pro-abortion website with pictures of something equally "offensive"? Maybe pictures of women dying from back-alley abortions? I find it abhorring that they would block an anti-abortion site and I am pretty firmly on the other side of the fence on the issue. In the famous words attributed to Niemöller:
"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
This is a very slippery slope that the Australian government seems dead-set to rocket downward.
AFAIK, the MBR is its own chunk at the beginning of the drive that is not part of any partition. Installing grub puts some code into the MBR that reads your /boot partition. All the code in the MBR needs to be able to do is read, I don't think it needs to be able to write. So, if I am getting this correct, your boot happens like this:
BIOS POSTs and finds a bootable device, like a hard disk with an MBR and launches this. The MBR (which contains most of the grub executable code IIRC) loads /boot and uses its own config there to bring up the boot menu. User selects an OS or it uses the configured default and initializes the kernel and initrd.
From what I have read, ext4 is being implemented as "ext4, non-journaled" file system. I have no clue if this would affect GRUB support or not.
Are you talking about the kernel release notes? I believe those are stating that there is now a "no journal mode" included for ext4, which has had normal support for a while now.
That has never stopped any Gentoo user that I know. Although I guess that would satisfy my "not currently included" statement.
So does that mean this is causing corruption even without a crash or power failure? If I understand what you are saying, a file write is called and then a rename of that file is called. If ext4 calls the rename first because it thinks it will improve performance, will it then do the write to the renamed file or to the original? I am not a programmer, so I may be looking at rename() to be doing something completely different than it really is.
What? How does having the installer on a server violate a license? Haven't you ever deployed software before? If you are referring to CD/DVD images specifically, I thought legally you are allowed to make a backup copy. Besides, many software companies don't even send CDs anymore, you just sign in to their website and download them.
I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software that does not have at least have full-feature demo that is time-limited. Even if they don't have it on the website, you can normally contact the sales department for a trial key and a download link.
You can usually guarantee that if there isn't a full-featured trial, then the software is probably not all its cracked up to be.
But you just said:
Lastly, I would DOCUMENT everything, and let the Bossman know you are documenting everything, including the conversations you have regarding your findings and the solutions you're offering. That is professional.
So do you tell him or not?
Could you name a product that does this? That sounds like a programmer would have to go completely out of their way to implement that dependency and I can see no good or even stupid reason for it.
Sounds like the Chicago area to me.
http://grub.enbug.org/CurrentStatus?highlight=(ext4)
grub2 currently supports ext4 and a google search will find you some patches to add it to older versions. I don't know if any distros include an ext4 compatible grub yet though, well aside from maybe gentoo ;)
Bridge does only do layer 2 switching between the 2 NICs and would not provide DHCP or routing. However, if you use "Internet Connection Sharing", it turns the computer into a basic NAT router. Very basic. Although, since you are sharing over ad-hoc, I don't think you can use WPA or WPA2 (could be wrong about that). More than one client can access the ad-hoc network. However, they have to support ad-hoc mode. For example, the Nintendo DS only supports infrastructure mode and will not connect to an ad-hoc network.
Won't someone please think of the pixels?!
I do miss the days of removable BIOS chips though. If it was hosed you could order a replacement and swap it in.
Some still are, although good luck getting them from the manufacturer. At my last job, we did tech support and RMAs for a hardware company(Sorry, can't specify until my NDA expires). We kept updated BIOS chips handy for cases where the customer needed an upgraded BIOS for a new proc and didn't have an older proc handy to do the update. We would email the customer a shipping label, they would send it in, and often the day we get it the new chip would be swapped in and the board shipped back out the next day.
I was one who was mislead that fsync() is the solution to issue. Before I go on another incorrect rant, am I correct in that the actual issue is when writing many small files, like in the GNOME and KDE configurations, the rename() operations leaves the both the original file and the new file with a size of zero until the next fsync() or until the filesystem forces a sync? And thus if there is power loss or crash, both the original file and the new file are basically lost?
CMOS reset jumper shouldn't erase the EEPROM, it should only reset the BIOS settings stored in CMOS RAM, which is volatile memory kept alive by the battery. What you are talking about might be a dual BIOS, or it could be that there is enough space on the EEPROM so that multiple versions of the BIOS can be stored, so if a flash fails it will revert to the backup. I have seen this feature before, but it does not protect against a BIOS malware or corruption of that EEPROM chip. I have worked with the latter many times, but I've never seen the dual BIOS feature before. Several other replies to my post seem to indicate that ASUS and Gigabyte do have boards with this feature. I do hope the feature becomes popular and other manufacturers adopt the technique.
No, the beak is the horrific facial deformity.
The last laptop I've needed to do maintenance on either had a dead CMOS battery or didn't have one at all because when the regular battery died, it stopped storing BIOS settings and the clock kept resetting whenever unplugged from power.
That is a good point, how are you supposed to reset BIOS settings on a laptop normally? Or is that something they expect you to send it in for? I normally don't do any hardware work on laptops just because they can be such a pain in the ass and I end up in much deeper shit if I fuck it up and have to replace something.
Sorry, my mistake then, at least when it comes to that website. Others still claim similar photographs to be of early-term. But that is going even further off-topic. Those types of pictures are still not shown in any news station or paper that I have seen. They are proudly displayed in public at Planned Parenthood protest marches. It is still deemed "offensive" by the Australian government and thus is blocked, and this is the price of filtering anything because it is "offensive" or "illegal". It is a slippery slope when the public allows the government to censor things, and it will only get worse.
According to the same chart, almost 50% of their power production is hydro.
Then install your own BIOS, like coreboot or openbios. The problem you are talking about is malware coming from the manufacturer. I was talking about a way for manufacturers to redesign their products to have a fallback in case of the attack in this article. Obviously if the manufacturer is malicious or incompetent then it won't work.