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  1. Nvidia Driver Code is the reason, not hardware on GeforceFX (vs. Radeon 9700 Pro) Benchmarks · · Score: 3, Insightful


    Has anyone ever seen Nvidia Driver code? It is littered with benchmark/Game specific code. // if Quake is running, done do these transforms...

    So basically what Nvidia has done is do as little processing as possible when certain apps are running, or optimize for those specific apps.

    So there benchmarks are good if you are running those apps, but bad if not.

    www.mycal.net

  2. bbs telecom on Suggestions for Home PBX/Key System? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    has 2 inexpensive pbx's, somtimes under $100 on ebay.

    The low end unit has 3 outside lines and 8 inside, the other 4 outside and
    16 inside.

    I use it with a voiceworks voicemail system I got for $300 on ebay.

    It does have caller ID support and RS232 out, so you could do some call filtering there, but it is not as clean as a PC based would be.

    I do really like it, I got it when I built my office and guesthouse and had to have an easy way to share phonelines and intercom. The side result is I only get about 1 telemarketer call every 3 months now, since they never dial through the greeting, and everyone has there own voicemail box. People at my company can also call me at 11PM at my office and not wake the house, totally cool.
    I have 2 outside lines and 1 VOIP line plugged into the outside which works
    well for all.

    The great thing about it is that it uses regular phones and cool keyphones, your choice, and it is analog, so modems and fax machines work well on the inside.

    This is definatly the way to go on a budget. Under $500 you should be good to go.

    mycal

  3. attack feasablity 0% in most cases on TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis · · Score: 1

    While ISN spoofing can be a problem, it really isn't in 99% of the machines in use today.

    ISN spoofing requires that the target machine runs .rhost or other IP based authentication. Without this, this attack cannot be utilized. Also you need to be able to muzzle the spoofed machine during the attack, much easier a few years ago than today as things like SYN floods are much less effective.

    In the old days this type of authentication was commonly used, but not much anymore. An the argument about windoz boxes being insecure as ISN spoofing, really doesn't mean a thing since there not going to be running IP based authentication.

    It is a fun problem to talk about, but there is much better ways to solve it than tossing compute cycles on strong hashes ala RFC1948.

    mycal

  4. Re:GPL: Intellectual Theft? on The Owner-Builder Book · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of course this is a troll, and nothing he says about GPL is true, you knew that though right?

    The application guy doesn't have anything to worry about with GPL unless he bases his application on another application that is allready GPL. In the latter case you'd have the same problem with Microsquishy.

    Microsoft Lacky, you know only microsoft wants Linux to change from GPL, so it can swipe all the internals for its piss poor OS without paying/giving away the sources, much like it has done with BSD. All the good parts of windows OS are from souce code copied from BSD.

    BTW, I've used token ring with linux since 1993. So I don't know what the trolls problem is.

    Oh I see what egg tolls problem is, snipped from one of his previous posts:

    "I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming."

    He does kernal level programming with VB. Yea thats going to happen.

    Can we mod this guy down any further?

    -M

  5. Re:/Cringly? & did you read the article? on WiFi, Light Bulbs, And The FCC · · Score: 1


    Plus Cringly has been known to "bend" the truth, some of his actions have been pure fantacy.

    His 2.4Ghz passive repeater seemed to bend the laws of physics and he wouldn't answer questions about it but the nocat guys seem to think it was a hoax.

    So take what Cingly says as entertainment, nothing more.

    -M

  6. What? no starship troopers? on The Wired Top Twenty Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1


    Got to love the military socity and how people seem to
    have total equality.

    -M

  7. They need time to change the past on States Drop Planned Presentation of Modular Windows · · Score: 1

    Snapshot that embedded XP release, 10 to 1 they pullit and revamp it to
    change the past, thats why they need time. They totally would sacrafice
    a product to win a court case.

    I've just run into somthing similar as reguards to winsock direct, they've
    pulled all the docs and sample driver away because they are going to change
    it and don't want developers to develop for it in there advertized DDK way.

    They don't want to admint they totally messed up, so they are covering it up,
    revamping it and re-releasing it.

    mycal

  8. Re:Sorry to take the corporate side, but... on Intel Puts The Squeeze On ... A Yoga Foundation? · · Score: 1


    How would you like it if microsoft went after all the window guys in your town?

    Anderson windows, quick windows, mike's windows....

    Lots of these companies are new, lots of them old, is it fair for the new
    window installer in your town to piggyback on "microsoft widnows" the operating
    system for his "glass" window shop?

    I think intel has nothing "inside" to stand on.

    mycal

  9. Re:FP!! on Intel Puts The Squeeze On ... A Yoga Foundation? · · Score: 1

    As I understand the intent, there should be no problem calling somting:

    slashdot windows -or- slashdot word

    I know this is not how the law works in practice, but it is how the tradmark law it is written.

    Thats why you usually see tradmarks using made up words, or combinations of words, since you should not be able to trademark common words.

    mycal

  10. Re:Want to arrest me for rape? on NOA to Sue for Flash Advance Linkers · · Score: 1


    These flash linkers do have a legitimate purpose, you can use them to burn your own games, ones that you and others on the internet have developed.

    I've done this, infact lots of people have done this, copying games is just one thing you can do with these.

  11. Script kiddy scripts have been available since sat on Wu-ftpd Remote Root Hole · · Score: 1

    Good thing Redhat released fast, sploits for this have been running since last saturday.

    Two scripts I've seen, once overwrites /sbin/init

    the other just loads a lkm

    Check stealthed processes and your /sbin/init

    Nmap won't show the open port, sploit is controlled by ICMP Arp request payload.

    http://www.chkrootkit.org/ will detect it.

    mycal