This is always an issue, as memory costs money. The global routing table has just passed the RAM barrier a few months ago for many routers; most Cisco routers holding that table now require 512MB minimum route memory. (of course it also depends on what else the router has running, but as a general rule, the mark was hit.)
While the addresses itself gets longer, the routing tables will become easier. Because it can be consistent routing, i.e all that has 3ffe: goes in that direction, d4ae:f9821: goes in that direction. So I guess you'll se less change in routing table size than you guess. Remember, one of the goals with ipv6 was to minimize routing tables.
Yep, it probably has those switches. The Lexmark ones where later sold with IBM computers, branded as IBM keyboards. But the Original Model/M did not have those drain channels. However, I think they're a plus. But anyway, lots of water should clean you out of most trouble:)
Those spill channels was added by Lexmark, they were not on the original Model/M!
But yeah, I agree. I wash mine once a year in the dishwasher... Works quite fine. Bake it in the oven for 5-6 hours @ 50C afterwards!
No, I tought so. I'm still clacking away at my old IBM Buckling Spring keyboard. This keyboard has lasted since 1987, and is the best one I've ever came by to write on. So it's such a pity that they can't make new keyboards, with all the fashionate hotkeys, and loose keys (yes, I know this keyboard has loose keycaps) and such, with proper Buckling Spring switches under each key.
Sure, it'd cost twice as much, but maybe I for once would get a new keyboard? Ok, I'm not the target group for this new keyboard, but still. If I found a new and attractive keyboard (which I find all the time, like logitech's wireless), but with real buckling spring, I'd buy it at once, even if it'd cost a few hundred dollars.
Those rubber-dome keyboards is just shitty to write on! So if anyone knows of a black keyboard, that ain't so deep as the Model M, has some hotkeys and has real Buckling Spring mechanism, I'll buy it at once.
The thing that is needed is that the teachers has a ability to trust the pupils. Without this fundamental trust, everything goes titsup! There should be no reason at all to spy on the pupils, and I myself would quite clearly either demand that spyware removed, or I'd refuse to use the laptop.
The last year, I've been in school into electronics. I've been trusted with handling systems, out of the idea that I have not done harm so far, and if I do, it will be logged. Sure, normal workstations on school has been locked down. But on the electronics course, we need full access to our boxes, so we get to install whatever we want. Our it-guy had no problems with me running linux on it, nor with me doing snmpwalk on his switches. Because he was confident in that the setup on the switches did not crash due to a snmpwalk, nor that I would in any way try to abuse it.
School also has a 802.11b network. This is for teachers only, so encrypted. I and a few friends put up a laptop to crack it. We was fully open about it, and did it to demonstrate for the it-admin that encryption was close to useless. No, he didn't even change the encryption, because he was confident in us not sharing it with the rest of school.
It all falls back to basic trust! If IT can't trust the pupils, they should be more self confident. A porn filter on the schools line is OK, but if pupils want to surf porn at home?
Noscript allows you to only run javascript at trusted sites, and untrusted sites do not get to run javascript...I can't see any reason for slashdot running 3 javascripts, so therefor I deny them. Gmail use it purposefully, so I allow them.
Recomended.
Oh, and it is a firefox extension:)
Now there's been two reviews in a few days, from blogs. The first one was Acrylic, and now this. I think it is time that the/. editors review the reviews. Bad stuff like this will only come back to harm slashdot...
So please, do a sanity check. None of those two reviews has revealed anything new. It is common knowledge that OO.org makes smaller documents than MSOffice.
Re:Dumbest thing I've read all week...
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Well, yes, it sounds like a modified spamassassin with bayesian filtering. It should be possible to modify spamassassin to do what the article describes...
Now I starts wondering if he's written it in perl...
How does they measure the damage done by a single person. 1 billion sounds awful, and if it is this single person that has done so much damage, one must ask how he can do that.
I have a feeling it falls back to relaxed security, lazy sysadins and such.
And how does they compute how much damage he has done? I guess some corps use the chance to do changes when restoring, so they might in fact get a lot new, which might be incorporated into the costs. Also, destroying a solution that costed $1M to make does not mean it'll cost $1M to reimplement it... So my guess is that those costs is a bit bogus, at best.
I don't think the Javascript extensions will be used very much. Personally, I'm coding Javascript that will work in most browsers, which means I have to specifically exclude this new Javascript unless IE et al also implement it (and even then, older browsers still won't like it). Not to be anti-Mozilla, but this does sound a bit like embrace and extend to me. (Yes, I know it's open source and others can read the specs.)
This mainly depends whatever any other browser picks it up.
Compare this with last story, about a new browser war.
Clearly the firefox developers have to keep a very sharp focus at extending and develeoping mozilla/firefox to keep up against IE7.
Only thing I hope is that it won't lead to the spagethi-code-era once again...
One thing I'm wondering is if there is a single standard for javascript. Wikipedia has a entry about javascript, mentioning ECMA-script. How does those addons fit into the standards?
What would be the problem with using one really strong password everywhere? Rather than many strong (or semi-strong) passwords that have to be written down, or one really weak password? Why wouldn't a person choose one good password, and only one, and keep it?
Because ONE security breach would compromise all services? Yes, that sounds right.
Also a single malicious administrator could emtpy your bank accounts, take your ID, book a few flights and so?
Do you trust the admins of slashdot enough? There has been breaches in past, there will be in future.
They're free to fine a US based company for doing so. They probably can't deny i.e India to advertise in space, but they can deny a american company trough fines, and it will have to be launched from outside USA.
I have a 1.3 Ghz g4 laptop sitting next to a 1.8 Ghz P4-M laptop.
You can't compare HW like that. What RAM technology (IE bandwith), what disks, the internal structure of the cpu, how efficient it is at different tasks and so on. So mere frequency says nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Either it will be so easy to cash out, that anyone will do it all the time, and noone will use this system of that sole reason.
The other thing that can happend is that it is so hard to cash out this money, that noone will bother, since it'll be likely to take twice the time of hitting delete, or the sum has to be big enough to be worth the hassle ($1?) which agains brings us to the first point, people will cash out on every email.
The interesting thing is that supposedly Google is interested in the power of OpenOffice. This could maybe lead to online creation of office documents, emailing them through GMail, and storing them in Google webspace. It starts to kill the use of Windows apps.
I guess this might be reallity in a few years. The challenge for google would be to switch the corporate marked, not the private market. But microsoft get most money from the corporate market in the office-land. So, if every single person switched to openoffice, while corporates stuck with office, it'd be relatively harmless to microsoft. But imagine if google comes with Glinux! That'd be very interesting, and as connections is getting faster, they might even run it as thin terminals. Google has the infrastructure for running a few million thin clients...
Well, why not use Gaim then.
It can handle both MSNmsnger and YIM.
"The One IM To Rule then all"
Why not use Jabber? Jabber can use gateways to reach other IM protocols. One of the better jabber-providers is jabber.org.uk. They have msn, aim, yahoo, icq and irc gw.
Oh, and it is free software!
Now, I admit that this is purely hypothetical, but surely a better guide to browser usability is how well it renders the morass of dodgy XML/HTML that gets sent to it every single day.
There is where the "quirks mode" comes in. The browser should (and is) able to detect whenever something is written after the standard, or not. If it is written in a standard compliant manner, it should be rendered the same everywhere. If it is in quirks mode, it should be rendered different, and the page will behave different.
As compared with existing 32-bit versions: 64-bit Windows will handle 16 terabytes of virtual memory, as compared to 4 GB for 32-bit Windows. System cache size jumps from 1 GB to 1 TB, and paging-file size increases from 16 TB to 512 TB."
One question. Who is it that has that kind of boxen, and run Windows on it? Ok, 4GB of RAM is small, and so is 1GB of system cache. But 16TB of mem? And 512TB page-file? No way it is needed. It is simply not a market for windows on the really really boxes. Like The 64-way Itanic's from SGI. They run a Unix/Linux-flavour, and I bet they always will.
Re:Power distribution efficiency
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Superconductivity will be a great boon to efficient power distribution.
Well, what will matter most for the average/.'er is that we can have CPU's wastly more efficient than today. No transport loss equals lower core voltage, and lower current.
A cpu that only wastes power in transistors would be a great improvement. Remember, AMD and Big Blue changed from Aluminium Interconnects to Copper Interconnects in their CPU's to reduce heat output... So imagine what a super conductor (that is, 0 Ohm) would do to power consumption...
As I'm sure you know, AdBlock doesn't "block" ads from being downloaded to your local browser's cache, it just blocks them from being displayed by your browser.
Yes it does. You can choose in the options window whatever you want them hidden or removed.
I'm using Firefox with Adblock extension. This blocks out unwanted images, and in addition, I block out certain elements of my internet banking provider, like uneeded images, and such. This speeds up browsing, as I'm on 56K modem. I don't see how browsing with images turned off or having privoxy or adblock do blacklisting is different from this new service... Seriously, it is not that kind of stuff that is needed. Modem is fine for surfing the web, but not for downloading. So if they want a ISO, loband won't help at all...
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I built it without soldering...
Ehh, that link was dead. I guess it was a hoax... Phishbait sounds smells somewhat fishy...
While the addresses itself gets longer, the routing tables will become easier. Because it can be consistent routing, i.e all that has 3ffe: goes in that direction, d4ae:f9821: goes in that direction. So I guess you'll se less change in routing table size than you guess. Remember, one of the goals with ipv6 was to minimize routing tables.
Yep, it probably has those switches. The Lexmark ones where later sold with IBM computers, branded as IBM keyboards. But the Original Model/M did not have those drain channels. However, I think they're a plus. But anyway, lots of water should clean you out of most trouble :)
Those spill channels was added by Lexmark, they were not on the original Model/M! But yeah, I agree. I wash mine once a year in the dishwasher... Works quite fine. Bake it in the oven for 5-6 hours @ 50C afterwards!
No, I tought so. I'm still clacking away at my old IBM Buckling Spring keyboard. This keyboard has lasted since 1987, and is the best one I've ever came by to write on. So it's such a pity that they can't make new keyboards, with all the fashionate hotkeys, and loose keys (yes, I know this keyboard has loose keycaps) and such, with proper Buckling Spring switches under each key.
Sure, it'd cost twice as much, but maybe I for once would get a new keyboard? Ok, I'm not the target group for this new keyboard, but still. If I found a new and attractive keyboard (which I find all the time, like logitech's wireless), but with real buckling spring, I'd buy it at once, even if it'd cost a few hundred dollars.
Those rubber-dome keyboards is just shitty to write on! So if anyone knows of a black keyboard, that ain't so deep as the Model M, has some hotkeys and has real Buckling Spring mechanism, I'll buy it at once.
Me wants a real keyboard!The thing that is needed is that the teachers has a ability to trust the pupils. Without this fundamental trust, everything goes titsup! There should be no reason at all to spy on the pupils, and I myself would quite clearly either demand that spyware removed, or I'd refuse to use the laptop.
The last year, I've been in school into electronics. I've been trusted with handling systems, out of the idea that I have not done harm so far, and if I do, it will be logged. Sure, normal workstations on school has been locked down. But on the electronics course, we need full access to our boxes, so we get to install whatever we want. Our it-guy had no problems with me running linux on it, nor with me doing snmpwalk on his switches. Because he was confident in that the setup on the switches did not crash due to a snmpwalk, nor that I would in any way try to abuse it.
School also has a 802.11b network. This is for teachers only, so encrypted. I and a few friends put up a laptop to crack it. We was fully open about it, and did it to demonstrate for the it-admin that encryption was close to useless. No, he didn't even change the encryption, because he was confident in us not sharing it with the rest of school.
It all falls back to basic trust! If IT can't trust the pupils, they should be more self confident. A porn filter on the schools line is OK, but if pupils want to surf porn at home?
Noscript allows you to only run javascript at trusted sites, and untrusted sites do not get to run javascript...I can't see any reason for slashdot running 3 javascripts, so therefor I deny them. Gmail use it purposefully, so I allow them. Recomended. Oh, and it is a firefox extension :)
Now there's been two reviews in a few days, from blogs. The first one was Acrylic, and now this. I think it is time that the /. editors review the reviews. Bad stuff like this will only come back to harm slashdot...
So please, do a sanity check. None of those two reviews has revealed anything new. It is common knowledge that OO.org makes smaller documents than MSOffice.
Well, yes, it sounds like a modified spamassassin with bayesian filtering. It should be possible to modify spamassassin to do what the article describes... Now I starts wondering if he's written it in perl...
How does they measure the damage done by a single person. 1 billion sounds awful, and if it is this single person that has done so much damage, one must ask how he can do that. I have a feeling it falls back to relaxed security, lazy sysadins and such. And how does they compute how much damage he has done? I guess some corps use the chance to do changes when restoring, so they might in fact get a lot new, which might be incorporated into the costs. Also, destroying a solution that costed $1M to make does not mean it'll cost $1M to reimplement it... So my guess is that those costs is a bit bogus, at best.
This mainly depends whatever any other browser picks it up. Compare this with last story, about a new browser war. Clearly the firefox developers have to keep a very sharp focus at extending and develeoping mozilla/firefox to keep up against IE7. Only thing I hope is that it won't lead to the spagethi-code-era once again...
One thing I'm wondering is if there is a single standard for javascript. Wikipedia has a entry about javascript, mentioning ECMA-script. How does those addons fit into the standards?
Because ONE security breach would compromise all services? Yes, that sounds right. Also a single malicious administrator could emtpy your bank accounts, take your ID, book a few flights and so?
Do you trust the admins of slashdot enough? There has been breaches in past, there will be in future.
They're free to fine a US based company for doing so. They probably can't deny i.e India to advertise in space, but they can deny a american company trough fines, and it will have to be launched from outside USA.
You can't compare HW like that. What RAM technology (IE bandwith), what disks, the internal structure of the cpu, how efficient it is at different tasks and so on. So mere frequency says nothing. Absolutely nothing.
The other thing that can happend is that it is so hard to cash out this money, that noone will bother, since it'll be likely to take twice the time of hitting delete, or the sum has to be big enough to be worth the hassle ($1?) which agains brings us to the first point, people will cash out on every email.
I guess this might be reallity in a few years. The challenge for google would be to switch the corporate marked, not the private market. But microsoft get most money from the corporate market in the office-land. So, if every single person switched to openoffice, while corporates stuck with office, it'd be relatively harmless to microsoft. But imagine if google comes with Glinux! That'd be very interesting, and as connections is getting faster, they might even run it as thin terminals. Google has the infrastructure for running a few million thin clients...
No, random is when there is a equal chance that either of the elements are picked, and there is no way to determine what was picked afterwards.
Why not use Jabber? Jabber can use gateways to reach other IM protocols. One of the better jabber-providers is jabber.org.uk. They have msn, aim, yahoo, icq and irc gw. Oh, and it is free software!
There is where the "quirks mode" comes in. The browser should (and is) able to detect whenever something is written after the standard, or not. If it is written in a standard compliant manner, it should be rendered the same everywhere. If it is in quirks mode, it should be rendered different, and the page will behave different.
Besides, these look damn nice, take small space, uses little power and is sexy? But yes, I did not pay for HW. Nor did I get it.
One question. Who is it that has that kind of boxen, and run Windows on it? Ok, 4GB of RAM is small, and so is 1GB of system cache. But 16TB of mem? And 512TB page-file? No way it is needed. It is simply not a market for windows on the really really boxes. Like The 64-way Itanic's from SGI. They run a Unix/Linux-flavour, and I bet they always will.
Well, what will matter most for the average /.'er is that we can have CPU's wastly more efficient than today. No transport loss equals lower core voltage, and lower current.
A cpu that only wastes power in transistors would be a great improvement. Remember, AMD and Big Blue changed from Aluminium Interconnects to Copper Interconnects in their CPU's to reduce heat output... So imagine what a super conductor (that is, 0 Ohm) would do to power consumption...
Yes it does. You can choose in the options window whatever you want them hidden or removed.
I have proxy server logs as proof :)
I'm using Firefox with Adblock extension. This blocks out unwanted images, and in addition, I block out certain elements of my internet banking provider, like uneeded images, and such. This speeds up browsing, as I'm on 56K modem. I don't see how browsing with images turned off or having privoxy or adblock do blacklisting is different from this new service... Seriously, it is not that kind of stuff that is needed. Modem is fine for surfing the web, but not for downloading. So if they want a ISO, loband won't help at all...